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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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There's a reason you have an alarm clock.
I'll take the subway to school.
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Not by yourself, you're not.
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Just sign for it right here,
ma'am.
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Nice day, huh?
You don't have a 13-year-old daughter.
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This, too, shall pass. Before you know
it, you'll be crying at her wedding.
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No doubt. Thanks.
You bet.
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Do we know a Mary Johnson?
Who?
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Vick name is John Byrne. Just delivered
a package to this brownstone.
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On the way back to his truck,
somebody blew him away.
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A robbery?
Wallet's still in his pocket,
along with the keys to his truck.
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Anybody see anything?
Woman that lives here called it in.
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A Louise Hamilton.
That's her up on the stoop.
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Okay, get a canvass going on the block.
We'll get her statement.
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You got it.
Thanks, Sarge.
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Mrs. Hamilton,
what can you tell us?
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I was making breakfast for my daughter.
I opened the door to sign for the package.
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I went back inside, and the next
thing I know, I hear gunshots.
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Scared me to death.
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Did you notice anybody hanging out
around here while you were at the door?
I wasn't really looking.
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Tell them about the package, Mom.
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First of all, I don't even know
the woman who sent it to me.
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Second, the envelope?
It was empty.
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Somebody had opened it?
No, it was sealed.
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Where's the envelope now?
We're gonna need to take it with us.
Sure.
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It's right inside.
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That's pretty strange. Guy delivers an
envelope... there's no letter in it.
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Something tells me
the message was for him.
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Victim was shot twice with a
.38-caliber revolver, not recovered.
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No eyewitnesses
and nothing taken from the truck.
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A random shooting?
Well, that or a setup.
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What makes you think that?
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John Byrne worked for RME Express
for six years.
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He was on his regular route.
The package he delivered was empty.
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They knew where he'd be
and what time he'd be there.
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Ed's checking with the company
about the package right now.
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Have you told him yet?
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Ah, I just haven't found
the right moment.
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So what's it been for you and me, 11 years?
Something like that.
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That's the longest
I was ever with any woman.
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Now, that's pitiful.
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The sender was listed
as a Mary Johnson.
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- The return address on the airbill does not exist.
- What a surprise.
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Did Latent get any prints
off the envelope?
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Just Byrne's and the recipient.
It was sent from one of their
retail locations in the city.
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So maybe they could track a payment
or give us a description
of this Mary Johnson.
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You don't need an account or a
credit card to send an RME package.
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Nice to know someplace
still takes greenbacks.
You don't require I.D. either, right?
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Right.
So no questions asked.
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Nope.
Just like the post office.
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Except we get it there faster.
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Now, maybe you remember
this woman... Mary Johnson.
That doesn't 't ring a bell offhand
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Let me see the tracking number.
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Monday. Busiest day of the week.
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We had over 400 walk-ins
at this location.
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Tell you the truth, the only thing
I remember is this guy who spilled
coffee all over the floor,
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And this knock-out blonde...
knee-high boots, fishnets.
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I should really call her.
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She gave you her number?
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Got it off her package.
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Ah, the male libido knows no bounds.
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The dude I used to partner with
when I was a rookie?
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If he saw a hot girl in a car,
he'd run her plates to get her number.
That'd go over big with the I.A.B.
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Anyway, cash payment,
fake address, fake name.
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This is sounding more and more
like a textbook case of how to set up
an RME delivery guy.
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When you absolutely, positively
have to kill somebody overnight.
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It's unbelievable.
Just a day like any other.
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Then the call comes.
Whole world changes.
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We're real sorry about your husband, Mrs. Byrne.
Thank you.
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How long have you been married?
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Seven years.
Happily?
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Very.
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Any financial problems
or romantic ones?
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Romantic?
You know, seven-year itch?
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No. Just the usual married stuff.
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Whose parents we were gonna visit
over the holidays.
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Nothing serious.
Can you think of anybody
that would want to hurt your husband?
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I can't imagine.
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John was the sweetest guy, really.
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Everybody loved him.
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- John owe anybody any money?
- No, of course not.
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Uh, just our car payments.
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I mean, we weren't exactly on easy street.
We both had to work.
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You work for RME also?
Parks Department.
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You work for the city.
We know what that's like.
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John had to put in a lot of overtime
for us to make ends meet.
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He worked so hard.
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Byrne was a real decent guy.
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Everybody liked him, got along good.
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As a worker, not the best,
not the worst.
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You sound like you had some reservations
Nothing like that.
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Just a tad lazy. You know the type.
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Calls in sick when he gets the sniffles,
can't wait to punch the clock
every afternoon.
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Wait a minute. His wife told us he
worked his share of overtime.
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Overtime? There's no such thing here.
You're either on the early shift or the late.
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Who was he tight with?
I mean, somebody he might have
hung out with after work.
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Joe Rodriguez.
He's out on his route now.
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I can get you his 20
if you wanna talk to him.
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You get the guy who did this to Johnnie?
We're working on it, man.
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Do me a favor... when you
pick him up, give me five minutes
with the son of a bitch.
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You two were close, huh?
I'm carrying the casket at his funeral.
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Me and some
of the other drivers.
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Maybe you can tell us what he was
doing in his spare time after work.
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What are you talking about?
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We know he was involved in
some extracurricular activity that he
was keeping a secret from his wife.
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Really? News to me.
Come on Mr. Rodriguez
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If you're serious about helping us
find your friend's killer, step up,
tell us what you know.
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Johnnie always played his personal life
pretty close to the vest,
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but I know he had a definite thing
for one of the girls on his route.
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One of the girls on his route?
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One of the secretaries
where he made a pickup every day
You know her name?
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Gloria.
The Kent Foundation.
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And they were getting it on?
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Wednesdays and Fridays... whew...
Johnnie couldn't wait to get off work.
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Can I help you gentlemen?
We're looking for Gloria.
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Is she here today?
Yeah.
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Gloria, can you come up here
a minute, please?
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- What's this about?
- It's just routine.
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- Yeah?
- This is about John Byrne.
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- John Byrne?
- Delivery guy, RME Express.
He's here every day.
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Oh, yeah. John.
What about him?
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He was shot yesterday.
He's dead.
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Oh, my God.
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Could we go somewhere else?
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- Where did this happen?
- On his route.
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From your reaction back there,
I guess he was delivering
more than packages.
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You don't have to be crude
about it.
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So you were seeing him?
For a while.
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We'd go to a motel after work
a couple of days a week.
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We're gonna need the name
of the motel. You married?
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Yeah. Uh, look,
I'm not proud of what I did.
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- Where was your husband yesterday morning?
- In Atlanta, on business.
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And he doesn't know, okay?
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Besides, I stopped seeing John
two months ago.
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Let me guess... the guilt finally
won out over the excitement?
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Not exactly.
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I loved Johnnie, but he was a dog.
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I found out he had another girlfriend.
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And who would that be?
I have no idea.
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But I know that the scratch marks
on his back weren't mine,
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and from the way Johnnie talked
about his wife,
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I know they weren't hers.
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I turn the same room around
four, five times a day. How am I
supposed to remember anybody?
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This guy was probably a frequent flyer.
No, I don't recognize him.
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And I don't suppose
you require I.D. to check in, huh?
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Does this look like the Plaza?
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Okay, your security cameras on the landings...
do they work?
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My rooms might be inexpensive,
but I run a safe establishment.
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Do you keep the tapes?
Ninety days.
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I want to thank you guys
for all the cool videos.
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Hey, anything interesting?
There's a couple of things so far.
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There's our boy John Byrne.
Dog!
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Can we go in tighter on that?
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- Can we print that?
- Wait. Here's where it gets exciting.
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Nine minutes later...
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Nine minutes? These young guys
have no staying power.
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On, look at the happy couple.
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Can you freeze
on where she's kicking him?
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Yeah, back it up.
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Now, how close can you get
on her shoes?
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What's the big deal with the shoes?
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Those are Dada Vipers.
They're limited-edition sneakers.
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The only place you can get them here
is on Amsterdam in the 70s.
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Now I know
where all your overtime goes.
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We have an exclusive deal
with Dada.
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There was a line around the block
when the Vipers came in.
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We sold out of those puppies
in a day.
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You recognize her?
Yeah, that's Blair. Boy, she looks pissed!
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She one of your customers?
She works here. She's in the back.
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Yo, Blair.
Uh, was Blair working here Tuesday morning?
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We don't open till noon.
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What?
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We need to talk to you
about your kicks.
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You want to talk about my shoes?
We want to talk about who you
were kicking with them.
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I don't know what you mean.
John Byrne.
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You know, the dude
that you were wrestling with
at the Twilight Motel.
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What'd he say about me?
He didn't say no thing. He's dead.
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What? Dead? How?
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Somebody shot him.
So what was the melodrama about
at the motel?
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How do you know so much about this?
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That bitch follow us?
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What bitch?
His wife.
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Whoa, wait a minute.
His wife knew about the two of you?
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What do you think me and Johnnie
were fighting about?
Why don't you tell us?
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Adele called my house.
She was off her freaking rails.
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I told Johnnie about it
that day at the motel...
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that I wasn't gonna keep doing him
if that psycho ever contacted me again.
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That charming little story leads me to ask,
where were you Tuesday morning?
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- I was getting a bikini wax.
- Okay.
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So she called you. What'd she say?
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She said I'd better
stay away from her husband.
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And if I didn't, she was gonna
do something about it.
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The shoe salesgirl
copped to sleeping with Byrne,
but we had to cut her loose.
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Her alibi panned out?
In a manner of speaking.
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Turned out she was getting a bikini wax.
It was something called a Sphinx.
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Don't ask. I wish I hadn't.
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The upshot is Byrne's wife lied to us
about the state of her marriage.
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- Said it was all hearts and flowers.
- Which moves her up to the top of your list.
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Number one, with a bullet.
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Don't bring her in just yet.
Soft-sell it, see if you can
lock her into a story.
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I'm sure there are more lies
where the first one came from.
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Mrs. Byrne!
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Are you making any progress,
Detectives?
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- It's still early, but we got
some leads we're working on.
- A suspect?
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A pretty good candidate.
Really? Who?
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- On, your husband know
a woman named Blair?
- No.
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Is she somebody John worked with?
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Somebody he knew.
Is she your suspect?
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Well, it's a little too soon to tell.
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- You said you were working
the day your husband was shot?
- That's right.
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Where were you exactly?
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Doing grounds maintenance
here in Riverside Park,
around 81 st Street. Why?
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- That's where you were when you
got the call about your husband?
- My supervisor came and found me.
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We're gonna need his name
so we can verify that.
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Do you mind if I ask why?
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Our lieutenant's a stickler
for paperwork.
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By the way, do either you
or your husband own a gun?
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No.
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I guess that about covers
everything for now.
We may need to talk to you again.
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You think of anything else,
you give us a call, all right?
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Adele was definitely at work
the day her husband got shot.
I remember that.
226
00:14:19,388 --> 00:14:21,737
Where was she
around 10:00 that morning?
227
00:14:21,795 --> 00:14:24,714
Working on one of the ball fields
up here by the boat basin.
228
00:14:24,771 --> 00:14:27,188
I got a call that the cops
wanted to talk to her,
229
00:14:27,246 --> 00:14:29,561
rode up there,
brought her back to the office.
230
00:14:29,620 --> 00:14:34,740
- How'd she take it?
- How do you think? Pretty damn hard.
Wouldn't stop crying.
231
00:14:34,803 --> 00:14:37,653
Was anybody working with her
at the ball field?
232
00:14:37,712 --> 00:14:40,061
No. The way it works is
my crew fans out in the morning.
233
00:14:40,119 --> 00:14:42,765
They each do their assignments,
and then they move on to the next one.
234
00:14:42,828 --> 00:14:46,944
If somebody wanted to play hooky
for an hour or two, there's nobody
watching the classroom.
235
00:14:47,008 --> 00:14:50,360
I suppose,
but Adele's Miss Dependable.
236
00:14:50,418 --> 00:14:54,273
Besides, earlier that morning,
about 8:30, 8:45,
237
00:14:54,331 --> 00:14:58,082
I cruised by the field she was working on
with a new valve for one
of the water fountains.
238
00:14:58,143 --> 00:15:01,427
I saw her out there,
grooming the infield.
239
00:15:01,487 --> 00:15:03,437
Okay. Thanks, man.
240
00:15:03,494 --> 00:15:06,344
If she did it herself,
she'd have had to be on
a pretty tight timetable.
241
00:15:06,403 --> 00:15:10,416
Tight, but not impossible.
Or maybe she found somebody
that had a more flexible schedule.
242
00:15:10,482 --> 00:15:14,267
What, a hired hit?
Let's check her financials.
243
00:15:14,327 --> 00:15:16,676
These people led
the all-American life.
244
00:15:16,735 --> 00:15:19,985
Two paychecks every two weeks,
rent payments, utilities.
245
00:15:20,045 --> 00:15:22,223
No two and a half kids
and a dog.
246
00:15:22,286 --> 00:15:26,003
- They didn't need a dog.
The husband was one.
- I can't wait till you get married.
247
00:15:26,064 --> 00:15:31,081
Seeing as how we answer
each other's phones, you'll probably
find out about that before I will.
248
00:15:31,147 --> 00:15:33,759
There is nothing unusual
in these bank statements.
Yeah.
249
00:15:33,822 --> 00:15:36,934
There's not much in the Byrnes'
credit card records either.
250
00:15:36,999 --> 00:15:40,043
She eats three times a week
at Gardner's Café.
251
00:15:40,108 --> 00:15:42,286
He goes bowling every Sunday...
252
00:15:42,349 --> 00:15:46,602
and buys his underwear
from a sporting goods catalogue.
253
00:15:46,662 --> 00:15:48,669
Wait a second.
254
00:15:48,736 --> 00:15:53,388
Gas station charges on her account
up and down I-91, three days apart.
255
00:15:53,450 --> 00:15:57,839
Could have been visiting friends.
Or making a down payment
on a hit man.
256
00:15:57,898 --> 00:16:02,914
There's a $500 cash advance
from a private A.T.M.
in Bennington, Vermont.
257
00:16:02,980 --> 00:16:05,797
Be nice to find out
to who, what and where.
258
00:16:05,856 --> 00:16:10,542
Vermont's a four-hour drive.
Not if we go lights and sirens.
259
00:16:16,490 --> 00:16:19,842
You sure this is the right place?
50 West Main Street.
260
00:16:19,901 --> 00:16:22,683
Home of Murray's World of Guns.
261
00:16:22,743 --> 00:16:25,251
Of all the A.T.M.'s in the world,
she picks one in a gun shop.
262
00:16:25,318 --> 00:16:28,271
Let's see what 500 bucks
buys in Vermont.
263
00:16:28,327 --> 00:16:33,116
Her name is Adele Byrne.
She came up here from New York.
She used your A.T.M. a few months ago.
264
00:16:33,175 --> 00:16:36,528
A lot of people drop in
just to use the cash machine.
265
00:16:36,586 --> 00:16:38,536
I don't pay much attention.
266
00:16:38,592 --> 00:16:40,907
Well, start focusing.
Her husband was shot.
267
00:16:40,967 --> 00:16:45,517
I couldn't sell to a New York
resident even if I wanted to.
268
00:16:45,581 --> 00:16:47,531
Vermont law.
269
00:16:47,587 --> 00:16:51,065
Then you don't mind if we take a look
at your sales records for that day?
270
00:16:51,132 --> 00:16:53,173
You guys got a warrant?
No.
271
00:16:53,239 --> 00:16:58,028
But we can get one.
Ed, where do you think the A.T. F.
regional office is around here?
272
00:16:58,087 --> 00:17:00,436
See, Murray, it's not us
you have to worry about.
273
00:17:00,495 --> 00:17:04,452
An illegal gun sale
could get you a federal charge.
274
00:17:04,508 --> 00:17:06,458
What day was this?
275
00:17:06,514 --> 00:17:08,520
March 17.
276
00:17:15,208 --> 00:17:18,424
I sold a Smith & Wesson .38 to myself.
277
00:17:18,485 --> 00:17:21,472
As a cutout for her?
Yeah.
278
00:17:21,527 --> 00:17:25,210
I wouldn't do something like this
if she had a record, you know?
279
00:17:25,272 --> 00:17:28,192
I told her I'd buy the gun
in my name,
280
00:17:28,249 --> 00:17:32,297
but she still had to wait a couple of days
till I did a background check.
281
00:17:32,362 --> 00:17:34,643
A lot of good that did.
282
00:17:34,703 --> 00:17:37,919
Can you give us the serial number
for that gun, please?
283
00:17:39,651 --> 00:17:42,263
This is ridiculous.
It's the middle of the night.
284
00:17:42,326 --> 00:17:44,332
Funny. That's the same thing
the judge said.
285
00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,650
I don't know what you think you're gonna find.
How 'bout the gun you bought in Vermont?
286
00:17:47,710 --> 00:17:50,218
Why didn't you just ask?
It's not here.
287
00:17:50,285 --> 00:17:53,033
Don't be insulted
if we don't take your word for that.
288
00:17:53,093 --> 00:17:56,047
Lennie, the place is clean.
You told us you didn't own a gun.
289
00:17:56,103 --> 00:17:58,783
I don't.
The gun I bought was stolen.
290
00:17:58,845 --> 00:18:02,665
Somebody grabbed my handbag.
I reported it to the police.
291
00:18:04,295 --> 00:18:07,306
She filed a report with the 1-8
a month before her husband was shot.
292
00:18:07,372 --> 00:18:10,849
She said a kid came out of nowhere,
snatched her purse and took off.
293
00:18:10,917 --> 00:18:13,425
She didn't say anything
about a gun being in it.
294
00:18:13,491 --> 00:18:17,345
Yeah, and just by coincidence,
there were no witnesses to this event.
295
00:18:17,404 --> 00:18:19,354
It doesn't mean it didn't happen.
296
00:18:19,410 --> 00:18:21,918
You also said she was working
the day of the shooting.
297
00:18:21,984 --> 00:18:26,568
Yeah, and her work
is roaming around Riverside Park
by herself all day blowing leaves.
298
00:18:26,632 --> 00:18:28,639
Riverside Park.
299
00:18:28,706 --> 00:18:32,160
If she ducks out to take care of business,
you know where she ditches the gun.
300
00:18:32,216 --> 00:18:34,930
The Hudson River.
301
00:18:34,992 --> 00:18:38,345
Underwater metal detectors.
302
00:18:38,403 --> 00:18:43,192
Back when I got my gold shield,
there weren't even such things
as fax machines or cell phones...
303
00:18:43,251 --> 00:18:45,257
or even computers.
304
00:18:45,325 --> 00:18:48,939
Did everything
with your own two eyes.
Checked ballistics, fingerprints.
305
00:18:49,004 --> 00:18:53,257
And a microscope
like we used to have
in junior high chemistry class.
306
00:18:53,317 --> 00:18:56,065
Think I've stayed on this job
just to see what comes next.
307
00:18:56,126 --> 00:18:59,273
I hear we're getting
blackberries next year.
308
00:18:59,336 --> 00:19:01,342
Yeah, next year.
309
00:19:02,613 --> 00:19:04,654
What is up with you?
310
00:19:06,926 --> 00:19:09,172
I'm putting in my papers, Ed.
311
00:19:11,842 --> 00:19:15,160
What?
It's time.
312
00:19:15,219 --> 00:19:18,172
Wha... Really?
What are you gonna do?
313
00:19:18,228 --> 00:19:22,584
I don't know. Play golf, shoot pool,
lay around in the sun.
314
00:19:22,642 --> 00:19:25,184
If I get bored,
maybe I'll try the D.A.'s office,
315
00:19:25,250 --> 00:19:27,862
pick up an investigation
here and there.
316
00:19:27,925 --> 00:19:30,206
Ahh.
317
00:19:30,266 --> 00:19:32,342
Damn, Lennie, you...
318
00:19:32,406 --> 00:19:34,412
Hey!
319
00:19:36,820 --> 00:19:40,675
Same serial number as the one
she bought in Vermont.
320
00:19:42,772 --> 00:19:44,722
Three spent shells.
Wow.
321
00:19:44,778 --> 00:19:48,393
She hit him two out of three.
Not bad for an amateur.
322
00:19:55,746 --> 00:19:59,200
Adele Byrne.
You're under arrest
for the murder of john Byrne.
323
00:19:59,258 --> 00:20:02,542
What the hell is going on?
She'll take this to go.
324
00:20:06,781 --> 00:20:10,464
Just because my husband
slept with somebody
doesn't mean I would kill him.
325
00:20:10,526 --> 00:20:13,034
"Slept with somebody”
doesn't 't do it justice.
326
00:20:13,101 --> 00:20:16,385
Your husband had sexual narcolepsy.
He kept falling into bed.
327
00:20:16,445 --> 00:20:20,560
You found out what he was up to;
then you took that little road trip
to Vermont to buy that gun?
328
00:20:20,625 --> 00:20:24,170
- I bought that gun
because I didn't feel safe.
- So why did you buy it illegally?
329
00:20:24,236 --> 00:20:27,748
The same reason anybody does.
An ordinary person can't get
a gun permit in this city.
330
00:20:27,814 --> 00:20:30,494
What about the spent shells
in the cylinder?
331
00:20:30,556 --> 00:20:32,506
I don't know who used the gun.
332
00:20:32,562 --> 00:20:35,743
Probably the kid who stole my purse.
It wasn't me.
333
00:20:35,806 --> 00:20:39,090
You lied to us about your marriage.
You didn't tell us about your husband's affairs.
334
00:20:39,149 --> 00:20:41,658
Because I knew you'd bring me
down here and accuse me of this.
335
00:20:41,725 --> 00:20:45,647
And you lied about the gun.
You asked me if I had a gun.
I told you I didn't.
336
00:20:45,703 --> 00:20:49,558
Right. It was stolen by some mystery punk,
so you could cover your ass.
337
00:20:49,616 --> 00:20:53,504
You know something?
I don't want to say anything else
until I talk to a lawyer.
338
00:20:53,561 --> 00:20:55,910
The woman's got an answer
for everything.
339
00:20:55,970 --> 00:20:58,820
Well, there's one thing
she won't be able to squirm out of...
340
00:20:58,879 --> 00:21:00,863
ballistics.
341
00:21:00,918 --> 00:21:02,868
The police spoke to Adele Byrne's supervisor.
342
00:21:02,925 --> 00:21:05,878
She was at work the day of the murder.
All morning?
343
00:21:05,934 --> 00:21:07,884
He thinks so.
It's not ironclad.
344
00:21:07,940 --> 00:21:10,894
She may have had a window
to slip away unnoticed.
345
00:21:10,950 --> 00:21:13,903
And wait for her husband
to deliver the phony package.
346
00:21:13,959 --> 00:21:17,209
What about the gun
the cops fished out of the river?
It's hers.
347
00:21:17,269 --> 00:21:20,485
She made a special trip out of state
to get it through a straw buyer.
348
00:21:20,546 --> 00:21:22,359
And the motive evidence is solid.
349
00:21:22,419 --> 00:21:24,370
It's the oldest one in the book...
a cheating spouse.
350
00:21:24,426 --> 00:21:27,379
She denied knowing
anything about it to the police,
351
00:21:27,435 --> 00:21:30,685
but the girlfriend says
that Adele threatened her and Adele's
cell phone records show several calls.
352
00:21:30,745 --> 00:21:33,231
More than enough to charge her.
353
00:21:33,287 --> 00:21:35,202
Southerlyn.
354
00:21:36,196 --> 00:21:38,146
I'll be right there.
355
00:21:38,202 --> 00:21:40,551
Ballistics.
This should sew it up.
356
00:21:40,610 --> 00:21:43,620
We got a problem.
I don't understand. It's her gun.
357
00:21:43,686 --> 00:21:47,141
Okay. Now, here's
the Smith & Wesson .38 you gave me.
358
00:21:47,197 --> 00:21:51,153
It couldn't have been in the river
more than a couple days at most.
It's still operative.
359
00:21:51,209 --> 00:21:53,661
This is a bullet
I test-fired from it.
360
00:21:53,718 --> 00:21:57,674
Five lands and grooves with a right twist.
Standard on a Smith &Wesson.
361
00:21:57,730 --> 00:22:01,687
And this is one of the bullets
taken from John Byrne's chest,
also five right.
362
00:22:01,743 --> 00:22:04,856
So it's our murder weapon.
Look at the striations.
363
00:22:07,026 --> 00:22:08,977
They don't match.
364
00:22:09,033 --> 00:22:11,986
Which means this gun
wasn't used to kill Mr. Byrne.
365
00:22:12,042 --> 00:22:14,996
Are you 100% sure?
Look, striations don't lie,
Ms. Southerlyn.
366
00:22:15,052 --> 00:22:18,837
Odds are the murder weapon
was a Smith & Wesson .38.
367
00:22:18,897 --> 00:22:21,041
Just not this one.
Right.
368
00:22:22,141 --> 00:22:25,094
You have your doubts now?
Don't you? Adele Byrne's got a solid alibi.
369
00:22:25,150 --> 00:22:29,369
Her gun isn't the murder weapon.
Maybe she got another .38
we ain't found yet.
370
00:22:29,431 --> 00:22:32,715
Why would she travel out of state to
buy a gun if she already had one?
371
00:22:32,774 --> 00:22:35,727
Three spent shells in the cylinder.
Somebody fired at something.
372
00:22:35,783 --> 00:22:37,733
Or someone.
373
00:22:37,790 --> 00:22:40,800
Any other shootings
in that part of town recently?
We'll check it out.
374
00:22:42,137 --> 00:22:44,087
Later.
375
00:22:44,143 --> 00:22:48,100
Hey. Ed Pachuco. He just got
transferred to Manhattan South.
He should be able to hook us up.
376
00:22:48,156 --> 00:22:50,607
You mind running
that one down by yourself?
377
00:22:50,663 --> 00:22:53,617
I got some paperwork at One P.P
I gotta take care of.
Don't worry about it. I got it.
378
00:22:53,673 --> 00:22:57,093
Sorry to duck out on you.
Don't even worry about it, man.
Go and do what you gotta do.
379
00:22:58,087 --> 00:23:01,907
We've got drawers full of open cases.
Depends on how far back you wanna go.
380
00:23:01,966 --> 00:23:04,919
The gun we're looking at
was purchased three months ago.
381
00:23:04,975 --> 00:23:07,426
That should narrow it down.
382
00:23:07,483 --> 00:23:09,935
All right, here we go.
383
00:23:09,991 --> 00:23:12,944
This guy was capped
during a drive-by.
384
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,855
Gunned down with a Tech-9.
Dealer named Ramon Padilla.
That's not it.
385
00:23:16,913 --> 00:23:21,668
A 33-year-old black male
shot three times
while jogging in Central Park.
386
00:23:21,728 --> 00:23:24,578
What'd the shooter use?
A .38 revolver.
387
00:23:24,637 --> 00:23:26,587
Vic's name is Randall Gardner.
388
00:23:26,644 --> 00:23:29,095
Gardner. Gardner.
You know anything about him?
389
00:23:29,151 --> 00:23:31,636
He was loaded.
He was into real estate.
390
00:23:31,692 --> 00:23:34,144
His wife runs some kind
of high-end coffee shop
as a hobby.
391
00:23:34,201 --> 00:23:36,151
Yeah. Gardner's Café.
Right.
392
00:23:36,207 --> 00:23:38,692
You look at her?
The first thing we thought of.
393
00:23:38,749 --> 00:23:41,702
But she was alibied real tight,
and we could not make it a for-hire.
394
00:23:41,758 --> 00:23:43,639
Let me get a look at the ballistics.
395
00:23:43,697 --> 00:23:46,149
So, you familiar
with this Belinda Gardner?
396
00:23:46,205 --> 00:23:48,656
Yeah. We arrested our suspect
in her coffee shop.
397
00:23:48,713 --> 00:23:51,724
I'll fill you in, but I gotta
give the D.A. a heads-up.
398
00:23:54,397 --> 00:23:57,351
My husband and I left together that morning.
399
00:23:57,407 --> 00:24:00,691
I went to my yoga class
Randall went running
in Central Park.
400
00:24:00,751 --> 00:24:05,335
When I came back home,
the police were waiting for me.
It was awful.
401
00:24:05,399 --> 00:24:08,785
Did he run the same time every morning?
That's right.
402
00:24:08,843 --> 00:24:13,928
I already told all of this
to the police, Ms. Southerlyn.
Three or four times, in fact.
403
00:24:13,992 --> 00:24:17,311
There was a woman
who was arrested at your café.
404
00:24:17,370 --> 00:24:19,320
Adele Byrne.
405
00:24:19,376 --> 00:24:21,326
Did you know her very well?
406
00:24:21,382 --> 00:24:24,963
Not outside the cafe.
She's a regular customer.
407
00:24:25,027 --> 00:24:26,738
We chat.
408
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,750
She lost her husband too.
Yes.
409
00:24:28,806 --> 00:24:32,786
I gather the police
think she might have had
something to do with his death.
410
00:24:32,852 --> 00:24:35,201
He was shot the same week
that your husband was.
411
00:24:35,259 --> 00:24:38,338
I know.
Quite a bizarre coincidence.
412
00:24:39,406 --> 00:24:41,687
Turns out her husband
was having an affair.
413
00:24:42,884 --> 00:24:44,834
What are you implying?
414
00:24:44,890 --> 00:24:48,344
Just wondering if that might be
another thing that you share with Ms. Byrne.
415
00:24:50,508 --> 00:24:54,624
My husband was absolutely
faithful to me, Ms. Southerlyn.
416
00:24:54,687 --> 00:24:59,042
Neither of us ever strayed.
We took our vows quite seriously.
417
00:25:01,174 --> 00:25:04,127
Adele Byrne and Belinda Gardner
knew each other from Gardner's Cafe.
418
00:25:04,183 --> 00:25:06,635
Their husbands were shot
four days apart.
419
00:25:06,692 --> 00:25:09,645
I take it you think
this can't be a coincidence.
420
00:25:09,701 --> 00:25:11,651
By itself, maybe.
421
00:25:11,708 --> 00:25:16,325
Adele Byrne's gun wasn't the one
that killed her husband.
422
00:25:16,389 --> 00:25:19,342
I had Ballistics run the slug
that killed Randall Gardner.
423
00:25:19,398 --> 00:25:23,651
That slug is a dead-on match.
It definitely came from Adele Byrne's gun.
424
00:25:23,712 --> 00:25:26,164
So Adele Byrne killed Randall Gardner.
425
00:25:26,220 --> 00:25:30,040
A man she didn't know
and had absolutely no occasion
to cross paths with.
426
00:25:30,099 --> 00:25:33,052
I'll bet you all a steak dinner
that Belinda Gardner killed John Byrne.
427
00:25:33,109 --> 00:25:37,362
Two women who don't know each other
meet in a cafe and agree
to kill each other's husbands.
428
00:25:37,422 --> 00:25:39,668
It's something
out of Alfred Hitchcock.
429
00:25:39,729 --> 00:25:43,617
We know Adele's Byrne's motive...
she caught her husband cheating on her.
430
00:25:43,675 --> 00:25:47,187
Why did Belinda Gardner
want Mr. Gardner dead?
431
00:25:47,253 --> 00:25:50,469
That's the part
we haven't figured out yet.
432
00:25:54,141 --> 00:25:57,094
Randall bought me this place
when he flipped the building.
433
00:25:57,150 --> 00:25:59,100
It's pretty cool, right?
434
00:25:59,157 --> 00:26:03,444
Your brother must have been
a very generous man.
He was the best.
435
00:26:03,504 --> 00:26:07,460
Trying to make it as a painter,
but I've sold, like, three pieces.
436
00:26:07,517 --> 00:26:11,473
If it wasn't for Randall,
I'd be living in a rented room
somewhere in bridge-and-tunnel land.
437
00:26:11,529 --> 00:26:14,642
Oh, and studio space?
Yeah. Forget it.
438
00:26:14,706 --> 00:26:17,318
Was he as generous with his wife?
439
00:26:17,381 --> 00:26:19,331
Belinda?
440
00:26:19,387 --> 00:26:21,337
Depends on who you ask.
441
00:26:21,393 --> 00:26:23,674
Doesn't sound like
a ringing endorsement.
442
00:26:23,734 --> 00:26:26,186
I'm sorry. I just never
really liked that woman.
443
00:26:26,242 --> 00:26:28,818
She married Randall for his money.
444
00:26:28,884 --> 00:26:32,840
- How can you be so sure?
- She met him in Vegas
at a real estate developers' conference.
445
00:26:32,896 --> 00:26:35,347
Happy coincidence?
446
00:26:35,405 --> 00:26:37,947
Well, if you ask me,
she targeted him.
447
00:26:38,012 --> 00:26:42,163
For her it wasn't a marriage
so much as it was a business transaction.
448
00:26:42,226 --> 00:26:44,107
Do you think she was unfaithful?
449
00:26:44,165 --> 00:26:48,521
She liked my brother's money too much.
She wouldn't 't risk getting prenuppeed
in a divorce.
450
00:26:48,579 --> 00:26:51,532
She's one of those women
whose real profession is shopping.
451
00:26:51,588 --> 00:26:53,367
Clothing, jewelry?
452
00:26:53,427 --> 00:26:55,708
And when she wasn't
buying $800 sandals,
453
00:26:55,768 --> 00:26:59,725
it was massages, facials, fancy spas.
454
00:26:59,781 --> 00:27:03,258
How did she manage that regimen
and her cafe at the same time?
455
00:27:03,326 --> 00:27:06,712
Randall bought her that place
to keep her out of Bendel's.
456
00:27:06,770 --> 00:27:10,316
When that didn't work, he got fed up
and put her on an allowance too.
457
00:27:10,381 --> 00:27:12,798
Really put a crimp in her lifestyle.
458
00:27:13,858 --> 00:27:17,439
She's gonna walk away with
a big chunk of his estate now.
459
00:27:17,503 --> 00:27:20,981
I'm sure you told all of this
to the police who investigated
your brother's murder.
460
00:27:21,048 --> 00:27:23,499
Believe me, I did.
461
00:27:23,556 --> 00:27:28,037
But she had an ironclad alibi.
Sol guess the bitch just got lucky.
462
00:27:30,311 --> 00:27:32,261
I talked to Randall Gardner's
T&E lawyer.
463
00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:35,771
Belinda stands to inherit half of his estate.
Which is how much?
464
00:27:35,827 --> 00:27:39,613
Her share comes to $13 million
after taxes.
465
00:27:39,674 --> 00:27:42,992
Okay, but it's not like she was cutting
coupons while Gardner was alive.
466
00:27:43,050 --> 00:27:46,972
Despite his best efforts.
He was trying to keep her
on a short leash financially.
467
00:27:47,030 --> 00:27:50,644
So Belinda wanted off the leash,
and Adele Byrne wanted to punish
her cheating spouse.
468
00:27:50,708 --> 00:27:52,659
They solved
each other's problems.
469
00:27:52,714 --> 00:27:54,664
Quid pro quo.
470
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,673
It's a pretty ingenious plan.
I'll be damned
if they're gonna get away with it.
471
00:27:57,730 --> 00:27:59,736
Pick her up.
472
00:28:02,144 --> 00:28:05,428
Jack, why drag me down here
if you're convinced Adele
didn't kill her husband?
473
00:28:05,488 --> 00:28:07,905
That doesn't mean
we're not gonna prosecute her.
474
00:28:07,963 --> 00:28:12,718
She cut a few corners to buy her gun.
Okay, we surrender. What's the fine?
You take credit cards, right?
475
00:28:13,780 --> 00:28:16,733
We're charging your client
with the murder of Randall Gardner.
476
00:28:18,027 --> 00:28:21,208
I didn't even know Randall Gardner.
477
00:28:21,271 --> 00:28:23,654
Why would Adele murder
a man she doesn't know?
478
00:28:23,711 --> 00:28:25,662
She conspired with Belinda Gardner.
479
00:28:25,718 --> 00:28:27,668
They murdered each other's husbands.
480
00:28:27,724 --> 00:28:31,738
The slugs in Mr. Gardner
came from your client's .38.
481
00:28:33,577 --> 00:28:37,088
I've never even met the man.
I don't know anyone named John Byrne.
482
00:28:37,154 --> 00:28:39,435
His wife is a regular customer of yours.
483
00:28:39,494 --> 00:28:41,445
And that's a crime?
484
00:28:41,501 --> 00:28:45,890
You don't have a murder weapon,
and you have absolutely no forensics.
485
00:28:45,948 --> 00:28:50,167
For the last time,
that gun was stolen from me.
486
00:28:50,228 --> 00:28:53,045
You have absolutely no proof
she's the shooter.
487
00:28:53,105 --> 00:28:56,582
Our motion to dismiss will be on
your desk end of business.
488
00:28:59,926 --> 00:29:01,877
This is a house of cards,
Your Honor.
489
00:29:01,932 --> 00:29:05,477
The prosecution against Adele Byrne
is predicated on the one
against Mrs. Gardner.
490
00:29:05,543 --> 00:29:08,998
And the prosecution
against Mrs. Gardner is meaningless
without Mrs. Byrne.
491
00:29:09,055 --> 00:29:11,506
You seem to have
a catch-22, Mr. McCoy.
492
00:29:11,562 --> 00:29:14,516
You can't prove one murder
without proving the other first.
493
00:29:14,572 --> 00:29:17,023
But we can prove them both
at the same time.
494
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,800
C.P.L. 200.40 permits joinder of defendants
where there's evidence of a common scheme.
495
00:29:21,861 --> 00:29:23,812
Two murders, one trial.
496
00:29:23,868 --> 00:29:27,824
You can't consolidate two cases
that couldn't have been
brought individually.
497
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,868
We can if we add a conspiracy
count to both indictments.
498
00:29:30,923 --> 00:29:34,538
Where's the criminal agreement,
Mr. McCoy? Where's your proof?
499
00:29:34,602 --> 00:29:36,951
He has none.
It's all speculation.
500
00:29:37,009 --> 00:29:40,395
- You're gonna dismiss two murders?
- Who said anything about dismissing?
501
00:29:40,453 --> 00:29:43,407
Apart from the defense lawyers,
I mean.
502
00:29:43,463 --> 00:29:48,891
If Mr. McCoy thinks he can prove
one murder independent of the other,
I'm more than willing to let him try.
503
00:29:48,947 --> 00:29:50,691
Separate trials.
504
00:29:50,753 --> 00:29:53,170
- Your Honor...
- Let the games begin.
505
00:29:54,732 --> 00:29:57,686
Can you convict 'em
if you try each woman separately?
506
00:29:57,742 --> 00:30:00,695
I can prove Adele Byrne
shot Randall Gardner.
507
00:30:00,751 --> 00:30:03,704
You can prove somebody
used her gun to shoot him.
508
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:08,719
The bigger problem is the gun
that Belinda Gardner
used to shoot John Byrne.
509
00:30:08,775 --> 00:30:10,726
You don't have it.
510
00:30:10,783 --> 00:30:13,234
Because she did a better job
ditching it.
511
00:30:13,290 --> 00:30:16,004
Which is why I'll try Mrs. Gardner last.
512
00:30:16,065 --> 00:30:19,519
That case will go a lot easier
after Adele Byrne gets convicted.
513
00:30:19,577 --> 00:30:22,530
What if she gets acquitted?
Have you thought about that?
514
00:30:22,586 --> 00:30:26,543
I mean, if you lose
there's not a jury in the world
that'll convict Belinda Gardner.
515
00:30:26,599 --> 00:30:29,552
You think I'm putting
all my eggs in one basket.
516
00:30:29,608 --> 00:30:33,622
Consecutive trials make the first
one an all-or-nothing shot.
517
00:30:34,624 --> 00:30:37,474
So why not try them
simultaneously?
518
00:30:37,533 --> 00:30:40,612
Just explain to me how I can be
in two courtrooms at once.
519
00:30:41,613 --> 00:30:43,494
Keep it as simple as you can.
520
00:30:43,552 --> 00:30:46,506
Adele Byrne's bullets
ended up in Randall Gardner.
521
00:30:46,562 --> 00:30:50,073
What about you?
At least I have a murder weapon.
I have motive and opportunity.
522
00:30:50,139 --> 00:30:52,591
The circumstances
speak for themselves.
523
00:30:52,647 --> 00:30:55,600
Did you notice an Arnold Barker
on their witness list?
524
00:30:55,656 --> 00:30:58,667
The director of the Kent Foundation.
Why is he on their list?
525
00:30:59,736 --> 00:31:02,017
That's where John Byrne's
girlfriend worked.
526
00:31:02,077 --> 00:31:05,429
Belinda Gardner's lawyer's gonna make
an issue out of John Byrne's infidelities.
527
00:31:05,487 --> 00:31:07,438
Create reasonable doubt?
528
00:31:07,494 --> 00:31:10,504
When all else fails,
blame the other woman.
529
00:31:14,550 --> 00:31:18,803
Do you recognize
what's been previously introduced
as People's six, Mr. Gundrozach?
530
00:31:18,863 --> 00:31:22,945
Yeah, that's the gun I sold.
A Smith & Wesson .38.
531
00:31:23,010 --> 00:31:25,963
Is the person you sold the gun to
in the courtroom today?
532
00:31:26,020 --> 00:31:27,970
She's sitting right there.
533
00:31:28,025 --> 00:31:32,449
Let the record reflect the witness is
indicating the defendant, Adele Byrne.
534
00:31:32,506 --> 00:31:35,517
Do you have sales records
reflecting this transaction?
535
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:41,942
Kind of. My records show
that I sold a gun... to myself.
536
00:31:42,003 --> 00:31:44,352
Why did you do that?
537
00:31:44,410 --> 00:31:47,260
She really didn't want to buy it
under her own name,
538
00:31:47,319 --> 00:31:49,270
so I bought it for her.
539
00:31:49,326 --> 00:31:51,276
Did you recommend
this model to her?
540
00:31:51,332 --> 00:31:54,582
She came in asking for that particular gun.
541
00:31:54,642 --> 00:31:56,957
S&W .38.
542
00:31:57,016 --> 00:31:59,399
She was real specific.
543
00:32:00,393 --> 00:32:02,970
Initially, we suspected the victim's wife, Adele,
544
00:32:03,035 --> 00:32:06,285
because she purchased
the Smith & Wesson .38 in Vermont.
545
00:32:06,346 --> 00:32:08,627
But you didn't charge her with Mr. Byrne's murder.
546
00:32:08,686 --> 00:32:11,867
Our ballistics established
that her gun didn't match.
547
00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:15,785
It did, however, match
the bullet found in Randall Gardner.
548
00:32:15,843 --> 00:32:17,793
The husband of the defendant.
549
00:32:17,849 --> 00:32:21,167
How did this change your theory
about John Byrne's murder?
550
00:32:21,226 --> 00:32:25,513
Well, we considered the possibility that
the two wives killed each other's husbands.
551
00:32:25,573 --> 00:32:31,057
What connection, if any, were you able
to establish between the defendant
and Adele Byrne to support that?
552
00:32:31,124 --> 00:32:33,074
Well, one thing is,
553
00:32:33,130 --> 00:32:36,083
Mrs. Byrne goes to
the defendant's café
three times a week.
554
00:32:36,139 --> 00:32:40,757
The other thing is,
the defendant's husband was killed
the same week as Mr. Byrne.
555
00:32:40,821 --> 00:32:42,828
- How?
- He was shot.
556
00:32:42,894 --> 00:32:44,844
Also with a .38.
557
00:32:49,448 --> 00:32:52,060
So, Detective, by your logic,
558
00:32:52,124 --> 00:32:54,575
since I also frequent Gardner's Cafe,
559
00:32:54,631 --> 00:32:58,588
if my wife turns up dead
I can expect a visit from the police.
560
00:32:58,644 --> 00:33:02,327
You can if you purchased
a murder weapon.
561
00:33:02,389 --> 00:33:04,395
Well, did you find the gun...
562
00:33:04,462 --> 00:33:07,643
that you allege my client used
to kill John Byrne?
563
00:33:07,705 --> 00:33:09,883
No.
564
00:33:09,946 --> 00:33:13,629
Oh, so, in other words,
the only evidence that you have
against my client...
565
00:33:13,691 --> 00:33:16,804
is that Adele Byrne bought a gun,
566
00:33:16,868 --> 00:33:19,548
a person who is not
on trial in this courtroom.
567
00:33:20,546 --> 00:33:22,496
Tell me, Detective,
568
00:33:22,552 --> 00:33:25,938
um, did Mrs. Byrne offer
an explanation for that purchase?
569
00:33:25,997 --> 00:33:29,851
She said she bought it for protection.
570
00:33:33,419 --> 00:33:38,140
There's been a lot of stuff in the papers
lately about home invasions, rapes.
571
00:33:38,202 --> 00:33:41,622
John worked late a lot.
I was home alone. I was scared.
572
00:33:41,679 --> 00:33:43,664
Had you ever fired a gun before?
No.
573
00:33:43,719 --> 00:33:48,769
And I still haven't.
The gun was stolen a few weeks after I got it.
I reported it to the police.
574
00:33:48,836 --> 00:33:52,290
The prosecution contends
you used it to shoot Randall Gardner
575
00:33:52,346 --> 00:33:55,527
I never even met the man.
And Belinda Gardner?
576
00:33:55,590 --> 00:33:58,041
Sure, I... I went into her café.
577
00:33:58,098 --> 00:34:01,176
But the only time I ever talked to her
was to order coffee.
578
00:34:01,241 --> 00:34:04,354
Mrs. Byrne, did you conspire with her
to kill each other's husbands?
579
00:34:04,417 --> 00:34:06,230
Absolutely not.
580
00:34:06,290 --> 00:34:10,179
And where were you at the time
Randall Gardner was shot?
581
00:34:10,236 --> 00:34:13,382
I was at work in Riverside Park.
582
00:34:15,452 --> 00:34:17,698
Where the police
found the murder weapon?
583
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,907
It's a big public park,
Ms. Southerlyn.
584
00:34:20,970 --> 00:34:24,949
So it's just a coincidence
that Randall Gardner
was killed with your gun.
585
00:34:25,015 --> 00:34:29,063
It's a violent city.
That's why I bought the gun
in the first place.
586
00:34:29,128 --> 00:34:31,306
The gun that you claim was stolen.
It was.
587
00:34:31,369 --> 00:34:34,049
I filed a report with the police.
588
00:34:34,111 --> 00:34:36,723
Yeah, you covered all of your bases.
Objection!
589
00:34:36,786 --> 00:34:38,792
I don't know what you're talking about.
590
00:34:38,859 --> 00:34:44,253
There's nothing in that report about a gun.
You reported that your purse was stolen.
Why didn't you mention the gun?
591
00:34:44,310 --> 00:34:47,354
I didn't want to admit
that I'd bought a gun illegally.
592
00:34:47,420 --> 00:34:49,563
So that's one felony
you admit to lying about.
593
00:34:49,626 --> 00:34:52,169
Does it get easier the second time around?
Objection!
594
00:34:52,235 --> 00:34:54,048
Sustained.
595
00:34:54,107 --> 00:34:55,852
Manners, Ms. Southerlyn.
596
00:34:57,284 --> 00:34:59,735
Actually, that's not
the only lie you told, was it?
597
00:34:59,792 --> 00:35:03,908
You also told the police
that you didn't know your husband
was being unfaithful to you.
598
00:35:05,142 --> 00:35:09,189
I didn't think John's infidelities
had anything to do with his murder.
599
00:35:09,255 --> 00:35:11,797
Except to give you
a motive to kill him.
600
00:35:11,863 --> 00:35:13,870
Your Honor!
601
00:35:16,745 --> 00:35:20,199
Do you know a woman
named Gloria Regelson, Mr. Barker?
602
00:35:20,256 --> 00:35:23,973
She's a secretary who works with me
at the Kent Foundation.
603
00:35:24,034 --> 00:35:28,322
And, um, what was her relationship
with the victim, John Byrne?
604
00:35:28,382 --> 00:35:32,601
John delivered packages to our office
on a daily basis.
605
00:35:32,662 --> 00:35:36,641
I've since learned that Gloria was
having a romantic relationship with him.
606
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,822
Did you ever see them together,
Mr. Barker?
607
00:35:40,888 --> 00:35:43,339
I saw them leaving the building together once.
608
00:35:43,396 --> 00:35:48,790
I didn't think much of it at the time, but in
retrospect they were acting... rather friendly.
609
00:35:48,846 --> 00:35:54,307
Ah. I, um, want to direct your attention,
Mr. Barker, to April 20.
610
00:35:54,364 --> 00:35:58,047
That's the day after
the victim in this case was murdered
611
00:35:58,109 --> 00:36:01,062
Anything unusual happen
at the Kent Foundation?
612
00:36:01,118 --> 00:36:04,071
A member of our custodial staff
came to me...
613
00:36:04,128 --> 00:36:07,412
and reported that
he'd found a gun in a trash can.
614
00:36:07,472 --> 00:36:11,394
It had been stuffed in the bottom of the can,
wrapped in a brown paper bag.
615
00:36:11,450 --> 00:36:14,734
Did Gloria Regelson have access
to this trash can?
616
00:36:14,795 --> 00:36:19,584
- Of course.
- I see. What, if anything,
did you do with this gun, Mr. Barker?
617
00:36:19,643 --> 00:36:22,995
The only thing I could think to do.
I reported it to the police, and they took it.
618
00:36:23,054 --> 00:36:27,513
Your Honor, at this time the defense moves
to compel the People to produce the gun...
619
00:36:27,568 --> 00:36:30,019
seized by the N.Y.P.D.
at the Kent Foundation.
620
00:36:30,076 --> 00:36:34,033
- Defense hasn't established relevance.
- A simple ballistics test will do that.
621
00:36:34,089 --> 00:36:37,373
However, since I do not have access
to the gun and the police do...
622
00:36:37,432 --> 00:36:41,389
The People will see to it that the gun found at
the Kent Foundation's offices...
623
00:36:41,445 --> 00:36:43,691
will be produced for ballistics testing.
624
00:36:47,799 --> 00:36:51,584
So, where the hell is this gun?
We were able to locate the gun
at the property clerk's office.
625
00:36:51,644 --> 00:36:53,594
A .38 Smith & Wesson.
626
00:36:53,650 --> 00:36:55,600
Great.
What'd the ballistics test show?
627
00:36:55,656 --> 00:36:57,607
Just what the defense wanted.
628
00:36:57,663 --> 00:37:01,551
The gun found at the Kent Foundation
was used to shoot John Byrne.
629
00:37:01,608 --> 00:37:04,653
- Can we tie it to Belinda Gardner?
- Believe me, I tried.
630
00:37:04,718 --> 00:37:07,466
The trash can where the gun was found...
631
00:37:07,527 --> 00:37:10,480
was in an area open to the public
that got a lot of foot traffic.
632
00:37:10,536 --> 00:37:13,490
So Belinda Gardner
could have planted the gun.
633
00:37:13,546 --> 00:37:16,157
If only I could prove it.
None of the staff remembers seeing her.
634
00:37:16,222 --> 00:37:18,263
I'm sure the gun's untraceable.
635
00:37:18,328 --> 00:37:22,410
The serial number was filed off
Probably bought on the street.
636
00:37:22,474 --> 00:37:27,696
You gotta give these girls credit for one thing...
they sure weren't standing behind the door
when the good Lord handed out the brains.
637
00:37:27,757 --> 00:37:30,711
Gloria Regelson is the perfect patsy.
638
00:37:30,767 --> 00:37:34,986
She had an affair with Byrne,
and now the murder weapon
turns up at her workplace.
639
00:37:35,047 --> 00:37:38,628
A fact that I'm sure you'll address on cross.
For all the good it'll do.
640
00:37:38,692 --> 00:37:40,973
I hope your trial's going better.
641
00:37:41,033 --> 00:37:43,211
It'd be hard for it not to.
642
00:37:43,273 --> 00:37:47,492
How about a continuance
to buy yourself time to prove
that Belinda Gardner planted the gun?
643
00:37:47,553 --> 00:37:51,007
They don't grant continuances
just because you're getting your butt kicked.
644
00:37:51,065 --> 00:37:54,075
It's time for both of you
to face the music.
645
00:37:59,157 --> 00:38:02,577
Mr. Foreperson,
has the jury reached a verdict?
646
00:38:02,634 --> 00:38:04,710
Yes, we have, Your Honor.
647
00:38:04,774 --> 00:38:08,160
We find the defendant,
Adele Byrne, guilty...
648
00:38:08,218 --> 00:38:10,169
of second degree murder.
649
00:38:15,374 --> 00:38:18,327
- Has the jury reached a verdict?
- We have, Your Honor
650
00:38:18,383 --> 00:38:21,165
In the matter of the
People v. Belinda Gardner,
651
00:38:21,225 --> 00:38:24,806
we find the defendant
not guilty on all counts.
652
00:38:33,297 --> 00:38:36,251
I suppose you're about to say
the glass is half full.
653
00:38:36,307 --> 00:38:40,263
You knew it was gonna be
a tough case from the start, Jack.
Don't count me out yet.
654
00:38:40,319 --> 00:38:42,669
I've still got one more at-bat.
655
00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:50,451
The ink on the verdict is barely dry
and here you are gloating.
656
00:38:50,518 --> 00:38:54,269
We're not here for that.
This isn't quite over yet.
657
00:38:54,330 --> 00:38:58,719
You're damn right it isn't.
I've informed Adele she has
numerous grounds for appeal.
658
00:38:58,777 --> 00:39:01,160
I'm hard-pressed
to think of a single one.
659
00:39:01,218 --> 00:39:04,935
The only hope your client has
is leniency at sentencing.
660
00:39:04,997 --> 00:39:08,851
Belinda Gardner, on the other hand,
is celebrating at the Four Seasons.
661
00:39:08,909 --> 00:39:11,759
We're not conceding
any relationship with Mrs. Gardner.
662
00:39:11,818 --> 00:39:13,768
Too bad.
663
00:39:13,825 --> 00:39:16,367
I was hoping to get a question answered.
664
00:39:16,433 --> 00:39:21,051
Specifically, how'd they choose
Belinda Gardner's gun as the one to plant
at the Kent Foundation...
665
00:39:21,114 --> 00:39:24,261
when they could just as easily
have planted Adele's?
666
00:39:25,462 --> 00:39:27,811
How'd that work, Ms. Byrne?
667
00:39:28,872 --> 00:39:33,388
Belinda Gardner gets the patsy,
while the working girl gets 25-to-life?
668
00:39:34,456 --> 00:39:37,068
Does that seem fair to you?
669
00:39:38,135 --> 00:39:40,085
I suppose...
670
00:39:40,141 --> 00:39:43,186
you can always
take your chances on appeal.
671
00:39:54,151 --> 00:39:56,660
What do you want to know,
Mr. McCoy?
672
00:39:58,633 --> 00:40:03,456
Your Honor, this is outrageous.
Double jeopardy protects my client
from further prosecution.
673
00:40:03,514 --> 00:40:06,468
Jeopardy only attached
as to John Byrne's murder.
674
00:40:06,524 --> 00:40:09,477
We're indicting Mrs. Gardner
for the murder of her husband.
675
00:40:09,533 --> 00:40:13,490
Which is even more ridiculous,
considering Belinda Gardner
didn't murder her husband
676
00:40:13,546 --> 00:40:15,997
A jury just concluded Adele Byrne did.
677
00:40:16,054 --> 00:40:19,008
Mrs. Gardner didn't have to pull the trigger.
678
00:40:19,064 --> 00:40:22,518
In fact, we're going to up the ante.
We're charging her with murder, first-degree.
679
00:40:22,574 --> 00:40:26,759
Oh, this should be good
In fact, it'd better be.
680
00:40:26,822 --> 00:40:29,604
First-degree murder
includes murder-for-hire...
681
00:40:29,664 --> 00:40:33,951
and applies to both the shooter
and the contracting party.
682
00:40:34,010 --> 00:40:37,795
Where the murder is for,
and I quote, “pecuniary gain,"
which means money.
683
00:40:37,856 --> 00:40:41,334
Or did the laws change while I was asleep?
684
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,942
People v. American Motor Club,
and I quote:
685
00:40:44,008 --> 00:40:48,900
“The benefit of pecuniary value
need not be money. It includes
any service with monetary value
686
00:40:48,957 --> 00:40:52,937
Oh, so murder-for-hire is a service?
Is that what you think?
687
00:40:53,004 --> 00:40:55,752
No. I've prosecuted enough hit men.
I know for certain.
688
00:40:55,813 --> 00:40:58,264
And there is no requirement
the service be legal.
689
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,601
Contract killings in exchange
for drugs, for example.
690
00:41:00,661 --> 00:41:03,341
I have to agree.
Motion granted.
691
00:41:03,403 --> 00:41:05,786
They've got you, Mr. Solomon.
692
00:41:11,863 --> 00:41:15,580
When Adele Byrne
comes up for sentencing,
we're recommending 20-to-life.
693
00:41:15,642 --> 00:41:17,592
What's good for the goose.
694
00:41:17,648 --> 00:41:19,860
Sure beats life without parole.
695
00:41:23,332 --> 00:41:25,282
Fine.
696
00:41:25,338 --> 00:41:28,189
Twelve people still acquitted me.
697
00:41:28,248 --> 00:41:30,198
Yeah.
698
00:41:30,254 --> 00:41:32,569
That's gotta burn.
699
00:41:35,872 --> 00:41:37,822
Once that guilty verdict came in...
700
00:41:37,878 --> 00:41:40,832
Belinda Gardner had to know that
Adele Byrne was gonna give her up.
701
00:41:40,888 --> 00:41:45,107
That was the fatal flaw in their whole scheme...
they were strangers.
702
00:41:45,168 --> 00:41:47,848
Well, it's nice to go out on a win.
703
00:41:53,527 --> 00:41:55,477
Lieu.