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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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Upstairs neighbor
complained about the smell.
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Don't worry, Max. There's
just three more flights.
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( sirens wailing )
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Didn't somebody
fry the coffee yet?
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Whoa!
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( indistinct voices )
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Yo, Profaci.
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Hey, Mikey.
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( indistinct voices )
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Holland, Bobby, 26, 27.
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Shot in back
of the head.
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Probably two days.
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Ask me,
he was probably a dealer.
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Weapon?
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Still looking.
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Who shoots in the head
besides dealers?
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A robber who gets surprised?
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A burglar so surprised,
he leaves behind a full wallet?
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Needs a paint job.
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The guy's dead.
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If they had
downstairs...
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I'm below him, in 2a.
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You ever talk to him?
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He listened
to sad music.
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Piano stuff, Gershwin.
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Left early.
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Came home late.
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See anybody with him
Saturday night?
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Saturday night
about 1:30
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I'm coming back
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from Symphony Space.
This guy tears past me.
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Did you get
a good look at him?
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1:00 a.m., guy goes running
down the steps in this city?
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I've learned not to look.
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Brownstones?
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They're invitations
to get robbed.
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How many sets of prints
have you got?
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We got partials from about
a dozen people.
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It's what you'd expect,
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unless somebody
wiped the place down.
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You run them?
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No match.
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None of his friends
had records.
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Neither did he.
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What'd they used to say?
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Live fast, die young,
leave a beautiful corpse.
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Whoever shot this one didn't
care much about beautiful.
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You should have seen
the apartment.
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More trashed
than the victim.
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Not to boil your coffee
or anything
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but a guy fights
with a burglar...
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He gets
banged up.
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Not the late Mr. Holland.
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Not a bruise, not a mark,
not a scratch on the body.
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Just a nice, clean
.38 entrance wound.
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Close range?
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A foot, maybe 18 inches.
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Powder burns...
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Stippling.
You check both hands?
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Clean, not a
trace of powder.
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The guy didn't shoot himself,
that's dead certain.
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WOMAN:
Bobby was big. He...
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When he was born,
he was over 11 pounds.
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He's always been big.
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They don't attack big people.
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I read it in the Post.
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Could you tell us
about your son's friends--
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places he used to hang out?
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He kept to himself a lot.
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He didn't have a lot of friends.
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I should go get his mail.
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Bobby have any brothers,
sisters?
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After Bobby,
we didn't have any more.
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He was a very difficult birth,
and I had...
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well, there were just...
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there were no more children.
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And now we've lost him.
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We lost him when he moved
over the bridge.
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( moans )
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GREEVEY:
Personal possessions.
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Things they found on him
when he was brought in.
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Would you sign
for them, please?
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Took the watch, huh?
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An Omega.
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Big, heavy job, steel.
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High school graduation.
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It cost me a week's pay.
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The band?
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It had links, tight,
steel, too.
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He wore it to work
without worry.
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When he first moved
to the city
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I bought him a gun.
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A pistol?
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.38. It was licensed.
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I told him to keep it
next to the bed.
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Why didn't he
defend himself?
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You got a big, tough guy,
big enough to toss
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most people around
like a pillow.
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There's always somebody bigger.
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Captain, the apartment
looked like Beirut.
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And our vic,
not a bruise
or a cut lip.
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Now, you fight
with a crackhead
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you're going to get hit,
something.
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A bullet in the head.
Isn't that something?
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How did the perp
get in?
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Fire escape?
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Nope. One door,
no fire escape.
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Well, then, maybe we're talking
about a friend here.
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A friend with
a grudge?
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You got something better?
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Maybe you should go out,
shake up the ground
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a little bit,
see who he knew.
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MAN:
Lock it down, tie it off!
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, right there,
right there. Hold up.
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I hope to God
you get who did it.
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Bobby was a good man.
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Women problems?
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Bobby didn't cat around.
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Gambling?
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Not even
a football pool.
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Did Bobby Holland hang out
after work?
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Didn't even come
to union meetings.
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Mr. Massacio, come on, he must
have hung out with somebody.
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Go ask Suarez. Angel.
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Sometimes they
had lunch together.
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Thanks.
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Angel Suarez?
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Detective Logan,
Sergeant Greevey.
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I already heard about Bobby.
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You a friend of his?
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I knew him.
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Real broken up, huh?
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If I knew who did him,
I'd let you know.
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Where were you
Saturday night?
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In San Juan,
visiting my parents.
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I got back Sunday night.
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You want to see my plane ticket?
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We're talking murder here.
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Look, the night Bobby got it
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he was having a drink
with a friend, Lois Rivera.
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She has a gourmet sandwich cart
up on Upper Westside.
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If you guys find the killer
and want to save the state
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the price of the trial,
give me a call.
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Thanks.
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That night
before I met my sister,
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I had a drink
with Bobby.
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We talked a while,
about nothing really.
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I just told him I thought he
should go back to school.
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City College,
part-time.
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Bobby was real smart.
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He knew a lot about music,
he read a lot of books.
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Would anybody
want to hurt him?
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No.
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Nobody I can think of.
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Where did he go
after he left you?
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It's Lois, right?
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Listen.
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Somebody blew your boyfriend's
brains out with a .38, okay?
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He went to a bar downtown.
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Paradise Lost.
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Look,
I really wasn't Bobby's girl--
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just a good friend.
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Bobby was gay.
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You couldn't miss the guy.
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Why not?
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The kind of crowd we get.
You know, average guys.
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Construction workers,
grad students from
N.Y.U., easy mix.
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Neighborhood.
So here's this character
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dressed kind of charivari.
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Black t-shirt,
gray silk jacket.
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You know the look--
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"I'm cool and you're not."
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You ever seen him
with Holland before?
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Bobby doesn't come in
a lot lately.
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More like,
after work for a Michelob.
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The silk jacket and Bobby
were sitting over there.
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Couldn't hear them.
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Then they were gone.
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Silk jacket...
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want to know the truth?
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I thought he was a hustler.
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Something about him.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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LOGAN:
So he was rough-trade.
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So they do their thing.
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Mr. Silk jacket
does it all.
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Sex, kills the guy
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then trashes the place
looking for something to take.
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Yeah. Any odds
on finding him?
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About as good as finding
true love at Paradise Lost.
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I don't know.
His parents, his boss,
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his co-workers,
his neighbors...
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no one knew this guy was gay.
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If they're out there,
I don't see them either.
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Think a lot of cops are gay?
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No way, man.
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The department's
got a special test.
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They look you in the eye.
If your left eye blinks
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before your right eye,
they know you're gay.
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They say
one in ten, max.
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That's a lot.
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They just fade in.
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Silk jacket?
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Five to one
he's not in any of these.
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Good news and bad news.
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Let me guess.
The good news is,
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somebody just walked in
and confessed?
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The good news
is they found the gun.
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Empty lot, six blocks away.
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Bad news? Wiped clean.
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GREEVEY:
Registration?
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You're going to love this.
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Your vic, Bobby Holland.
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Terrific.
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Bobby was always popular
with the girls.
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He was a halfback
on the football team.
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He was on the student council.
He was king of the prom.
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He hid his magazines
under the mattress.
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Playboy.
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My son was not homosexual.
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She knows.
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She just can't admit it.
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And you?
Bobby had everything
going for him.
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Any girl he wanted.
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His friends would
come over, hang out
in the yard,
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just to be around him.
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Have him throw the football...
like that.
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When he dropped
his high-school girlfriend...
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a beauty.
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She was a beauty.
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Gorgeous.
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He moved
to Manhattan.
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Hmm.
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I'd go to visit him in the city.
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Sometimes I'd just stare.
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He looked like everybody else.
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He talked like everybody else.
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Do you know if he
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brought people home a lot?
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I told him
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"You don't know what kind
of nuts you're meeting.
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There's all kinds
of loonies out there."
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That's when
I bought him the gun.
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What about
boyfriends?
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He ever tell you anything
about any of them?
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What do you want to hear?
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Want to rub my nose in it?
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He mentioned one guy.
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Angel.
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Angel somebody.
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Danny Massacio in there?
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What do you think he'd say?
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You told him Bobby was gay.
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Or that you are.
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He'd never believe it.
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He'd laugh.
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And that's how I want it.
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What about you
and Bobby Holland?
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I used to hate being gay.
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00:13:43,390 --> 00:13:46,157
I used to make
fag jokes all the time.
267
00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:49,394
You know, the way blacks
call each other "nigger."
268
00:13:49,396 --> 00:13:52,897
Anyway, Bobby would never
let me get away with it.
269
00:13:52,899 --> 00:13:55,366
I was in love with Bobby.
270
00:13:56,503 --> 00:13:58,903
So you take a weekend
out of town
271
00:13:58,905 --> 00:14:01,406
and he picks up
somebody else, huh?
272
00:14:01,408 --> 00:14:04,876
Six, eight weeks ago,
he started seeing somebody new.
273
00:14:04,878 --> 00:14:06,411
Um... we were over.
274
00:14:06,413 --> 00:14:08,847
Anyway, I don't know
what this guy had for him
275
00:14:08,849 --> 00:14:10,248
but they met at the gym.
276
00:14:10,250 --> 00:14:11,883
You know his name?
277
00:14:11,885 --> 00:14:14,352
He lives somewhere
on the Eastside.
278
00:14:14,354 --> 00:14:16,287
Jack.
279
00:14:16,289 --> 00:14:18,256
I don't know his last name.
280
00:14:21,428 --> 00:14:23,895
Gray silk jacket
named Jack?
281
00:14:23,897 --> 00:14:25,029
Great.
282
00:14:25,031 --> 00:14:26,497
Bullet to the head.
283
00:14:26,499 --> 00:14:29,300
This case,
I heard about it before.
284
00:14:29,302 --> 00:14:31,402
What are you,
a psychic now?
285
00:14:31,404 --> 00:14:34,305
Month ago, maybe two,
same kind of killing.
286
00:14:34,307 --> 00:14:35,857
Gay bashing?
287
00:14:35,858 --> 00:14:37,408
I read about it
in Time, Newsweek.
288
00:14:37,410 --> 00:14:39,377
Last week or week before.
289
00:14:41,615 --> 00:14:45,383
You sure you didn't read
about this in your dreams?
290
00:14:45,385 --> 00:14:47,485
California.
291
00:14:47,487 --> 00:14:49,387
Redwoods.
292
00:14:49,389 --> 00:14:51,356
Michelle Pfeiffer.
293
00:14:53,426 --> 00:14:55,927
One of them interests you.
294
00:14:55,929 --> 00:14:57,595
Earthquakes...
295
00:14:59,466 --> 00:15:01,666
And murder.
296
00:15:05,972 --> 00:15:08,539
GREEVEY:
No prints here either.
297
00:15:10,977 --> 00:15:13,978
Gun was found
in an empty lot wiped clean.
298
00:15:13,980 --> 00:15:15,947
Burglary?
299
00:15:17,984 --> 00:15:19,684
Uh-huh.
300
00:15:19,686 --> 00:15:22,353
Ripped the place apart.
301
00:15:22,355 --> 00:15:25,556
A week later, another one just
like it in L.A.
302
00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,361
The vic's address book?
303
00:15:30,363 --> 00:15:32,497
Can you fax it?
304
00:15:32,499 --> 00:15:36,434
212-555-8342.
305
00:15:39,272 --> 00:15:41,005
Yeah. All right.
306
00:15:41,007 --> 00:15:42,440
Thanks.
307
00:15:44,611 --> 00:15:46,277
He's faxing it.
308
00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:49,380
Call Sheriff's Homicide
in L.A.
309
00:15:49,382 --> 00:15:53,518
Lead investigator's name
is Sam White.
310
00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,587
They're not as friendly
in Los Angeles.
311
00:15:56,589 --> 00:15:59,290
Too much sun
makes them crazy.
312
00:15:59,292 --> 00:16:02,410
Am I sure
it's a similar case?
313
00:16:02,411 --> 00:16:05,529
Look, I'm as sure
as I can be not looking
at the bodies, okay?
314
00:16:05,532 --> 00:16:06,965
Right. Uh-huh.
315
00:16:06,967 --> 00:16:08,533
The victim had
no address book.
316
00:16:08,535 --> 00:16:12,036
Just a lot of phone numbers
on scraps of paper.
317
00:16:12,038 --> 00:16:13,404
Copies?
318
00:16:13,406 --> 00:16:15,707
Oh, an open
homicide investigation?
319
00:16:15,709 --> 00:16:20,144
What do you think we're doing,
getting cats out of trees?
320
00:16:20,146 --> 00:16:23,147
Huh? Look, we link the victims,
we got a case, okay?
321
00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:25,416
Now if you can just send us...
322
00:16:25,418 --> 00:16:28,152
Nobody's asking
for the originals, huh?
323
00:16:28,154 --> 00:16:30,688
Just fax us
whatever you got, okay?
324
00:16:30,690 --> 00:16:32,023
What?
325
00:16:32,025 --> 00:16:34,325
Hey, fax you, okay?
326
00:16:34,327 --> 00:16:35,693
( scoffs )
327
00:16:35,695 --> 00:16:37,996
"In an open investigation,
we do not release evidence
328
00:16:37,998 --> 00:16:40,065
under any circumstances."
329
00:16:40,066 --> 00:16:42,133
You know how some people got
to give you a hard time
330
00:16:42,135 --> 00:16:44,535
just to feel
like they're alive.
331
00:16:44,537 --> 00:16:47,472
Let's give them
a hard time back.
332
00:16:47,474 --> 00:16:50,475
Look, do they want an arrest,
or what?
333
00:16:50,477 --> 00:16:53,611
Put the fire out
and I'll settle this thing.
334
00:16:53,613 --> 00:16:54,746
Yes, yes, Captain.
335
00:16:54,748 --> 00:16:56,714
Mm-hmm.
336
00:16:56,716 --> 00:16:59,650
Yeah, if it's
their collar.
337
00:16:59,652 --> 00:17:02,203
Well, of course
we understand.
338
00:17:02,204 --> 00:17:04,755
Well, Detective Logan
has been under a little pressure
339
00:17:04,758 --> 00:17:06,357
on this case.
340
00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:07,759
Pressure?
341
00:17:07,761 --> 00:17:09,594
Yes.
342
00:17:09,596 --> 00:17:12,563
Yes, we would appreciate that
very much.
343
00:17:12,565 --> 00:17:14,399
A courier?
344
00:17:15,435 --> 00:17:17,502
Well, the city is bankrupt
345
00:17:17,504 --> 00:17:21,205
but yes, yes, I think we could
spring for a courier.
346
00:17:21,207 --> 00:17:22,373
Uh-huh.
347
00:17:22,375 --> 00:17:23,775
Yeah.
348
00:17:23,776 --> 00:17:25,176
No, no, thank you, Captain.
349
00:17:25,178 --> 00:17:26,644
Do you believe that?
350
00:17:26,646 --> 00:17:30,148
They don't want to lose
even a copy of this stuff.
351
00:17:30,150 --> 00:17:31,682
What's with them?
352
00:17:31,684 --> 00:17:34,102
You know, fellows,
353
00:17:34,103 --> 00:17:36,521
at what this courier
is going to cost the city
354
00:17:36,523 --> 00:17:37,822
I hope this works.
355
00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,829
LOGAN:
You can cross out Jack E.
in San Francisco.
356
00:17:44,831 --> 00:17:47,665
Still lives there.
Hasn't left town.
357
00:17:50,437 --> 00:17:53,438
That's all the Johns,
Jays, Jacks--
358
00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:57,141
all the last names
with no first initials.
359
00:17:57,143 --> 00:18:00,478
Anybody in San Francisco,
L.A. or New York.
360
00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:01,679
I got San Francisco.
361
00:18:01,681 --> 00:18:04,182
Start with
Holland's address book.
362
00:18:04,184 --> 00:18:06,684
Read me off
the last four digits
363
00:18:06,686 --> 00:18:10,121
of any of the ones
with telephone numbers.
364
00:18:10,123 --> 00:18:13,624
Albano, 4512.
365
00:18:13,626 --> 00:18:17,161
Altman, 1763.
366
00:18:17,163 --> 00:18:20,431
Berry, 9808.
367
00:18:20,433 --> 00:18:22,500
Curry, 4212.
368
00:18:22,502 --> 00:18:23,534
Dorman, 78...
369
00:18:23,536 --> 00:18:24,669
Wait a minute.
370
00:18:24,671 --> 00:18:25,870
Hold it.
371
00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,640
That's Holland's J. Curry.
372
00:18:37,584 --> 00:18:41,552
San Francisco's got John C.,
373
00:18:41,554 --> 00:18:46,858
who lives in New York
and has the same phone number.
374
00:18:49,129 --> 00:18:51,796
Yeah.
375
00:18:51,798 --> 00:18:54,832
And L.A.'s got...
376
00:18:59,239 --> 00:19:03,708
J.R.C., New York...
377
00:19:08,748 --> 00:19:10,648
Same number.
378
00:19:12,619 --> 00:19:14,519
You got the odds
on three murder victims
379
00:19:14,521 --> 00:19:18,689
knowing the same guy?
380
00:19:18,691 --> 00:19:22,326
He was in San Francisco and L.A.
when the others were killed.
381
00:19:22,328 --> 00:19:23,261
Same days?
382
00:19:23,263 --> 00:19:25,763
And one on either side.
383
00:19:25,765 --> 00:19:28,166
And all three of them had his
name in their address book?
384
00:19:28,168 --> 00:19:32,870
Not to mention, Bobby Holland's
new boyfriend's name is Jack.
385
00:19:32,872 --> 00:19:35,339
Enough?
386
00:19:35,341 --> 00:19:36,874
Pick him up.
387
00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:43,514
Bust the door
and then stand back.
388
00:19:43,516 --> 00:19:45,183
My partner and I
will go in first.
389
00:19:45,185 --> 00:19:48,953
It's our collar.
390
00:19:48,955 --> 00:19:51,322
( classical music plays )
391
00:19:51,324 --> 00:19:52,623
That's funny.
392
00:19:52,625 --> 00:19:55,626
I figured Def Leppard,
maybe Motley Crue.
393
00:19:55,628 --> 00:19:56,627
Ready?
394
00:19:56,629 --> 00:19:57,695
Go.
395
00:19:58,231 --> 00:19:59,864
Police!
396
00:19:59,866 --> 00:20:02,633
Which one of you
is Jack Curry?
I'm Jack Curry.
397
00:20:02,635 --> 00:20:04,936
You're under arrest
for the murder
of Bobby Holland.
398
00:20:04,938 --> 00:20:07,805
Put your hands on
top of your head! Now!
But I...
399
00:20:08,641 --> 00:20:10,575
Check it out.
400
00:20:10,577 --> 00:20:12,777
Get up. Get up.
401
00:20:12,779 --> 00:20:15,613
Spread your legs!
402
00:20:15,615 --> 00:20:16,914
You have the right
to remain silent.
403
00:20:16,916 --> 00:20:18,316
Anything you say
may be used
404
00:20:18,318 --> 00:20:19,650
against you
in a court of law.
405
00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:20,952
Hands down.
Get your hands down!
406
00:20:20,954 --> 00:20:22,787
You have the right
to an attorney.
407
00:20:22,789 --> 00:20:24,322
If you cannot afford
an attorney
408
00:20:24,324 --> 00:20:26,624
one will be provided for you
at no cost.
409
00:20:26,626 --> 00:20:28,893
Let's go.
410
00:20:31,464 --> 00:20:33,798
His lawyer's already here.
411
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:35,233
Julia Debakey.
412
00:20:35,235 --> 00:20:36,500
Great.
413
00:20:36,502 --> 00:20:37,868
What? Who's she?
414
00:20:37,870 --> 00:20:39,303
Probably the toughest
civil rights lawyer
415
00:20:39,305 --> 00:20:41,372
since William Kunstler.
416
00:20:42,542 --> 00:20:44,408
Paul Robinette.
Julia Debakey.
417
00:20:44,410 --> 00:20:46,911
Your cops put my client
in a holding cell
418
00:20:46,913 --> 00:20:48,946
with a bunch
of drug addicts.
419
00:20:48,948 --> 00:20:50,982
Geez, we tried to get him
a private suite.
420
00:20:50,984 --> 00:20:53,284
Eh, he looks like
he survived.
421
00:20:53,286 --> 00:20:54,885
Well, it isn't my
business, Counselor,
422
00:20:54,887 --> 00:20:57,321
but this case, it isn't
exactly your ball game.
423
00:20:57,323 --> 00:20:58,956
How wrong you are,
Mr. Robinette.
424
00:20:58,958 --> 00:21:03,027
We're building a whole
new ball park with this one.
425
00:21:03,029 --> 00:21:05,863
I'll allow my client
to answer questions,
426
00:21:05,865 --> 00:21:08,299
but I may cut this off
at any time.
427
00:21:08,301 --> 00:21:09,433
Let's start with
the wristwatch, Jack--
428
00:21:09,435 --> 00:21:11,969
engraved to Bobby Holland
on the back?
429
00:21:14,007 --> 00:21:16,807
Bobby gave it to me
as a present.
430
00:21:16,809 --> 00:21:18,743
Just before you
blew his head off.
431
00:21:18,745 --> 00:21:20,444
To thank me
432
00:21:20,446 --> 00:21:23,014
for helping him
to shoot himself.
433
00:21:23,016 --> 00:21:25,549
You want to run that
by us again?
434
00:21:25,551 --> 00:21:29,987
Bobby wanted help
to commit suicide.
435
00:21:29,989 --> 00:21:32,857
Look, he had AIDS.
436
00:21:32,859 --> 00:21:35,893
He wanted it to look
like a robbery
437
00:21:35,895 --> 00:21:38,529
so his mother
wouldn't know.
438
00:21:38,531 --> 00:21:42,533
And when you went to visit
Uncle Joe in Los Angeles?
439
00:21:42,535 --> 00:21:45,403
And Aunt Millie
in San Francisco?
440
00:21:52,345 --> 00:21:54,412
You know about them.
441
00:21:57,850 --> 00:22:00,051
Uh, look...
442
00:22:00,053 --> 00:22:04,355
if you commit suicide,
you don't get the insurance.
443
00:22:04,357 --> 00:22:05,589
Those men...
444
00:22:05,591 --> 00:22:06,590
Forrest?
445
00:22:06,592 --> 00:22:08,359
Dodge?
446
00:22:08,361 --> 00:22:11,495
Yes. They pulled
the triggers themselves.
447
00:22:11,497 --> 00:22:13,431
And you just wiped the gun
clean?
448
00:22:13,433 --> 00:22:17,101
My client has nothing
to say about those cases.
449
00:22:17,103 --> 00:22:19,970
What about Bobby Holland?
450
00:22:19,972 --> 00:22:22,473
Do you know
what AIDS looks like?
451
00:22:22,475 --> 00:22:25,076
Have you seen Kaposi's sarcoma?
452
00:22:25,078 --> 00:22:27,978
You know what pneumocystis does?
453
00:22:27,980 --> 00:22:30,815
What it's like
when you can't breathe?
454
00:22:30,817 --> 00:22:33,351
Dodge won a silver medal
in Seoul.
455
00:22:33,353 --> 00:22:36,587
Forrest used to be
a professor out at U.C.L.A.
456
00:22:36,589 --> 00:22:38,456
Ph.D. in linguistics.
457
00:22:38,458 --> 00:22:42,393
The last month of his life,
he forgot how to tell time.
458
00:22:42,395 --> 00:22:45,096
Did you shoot Bobby Holland?
459
00:22:45,098 --> 00:22:48,032
Bobby didn't want to waste away.
460
00:22:48,034 --> 00:22:51,035
Who pulled the trigger?
461
00:22:52,538 --> 00:22:55,439
I held the gun.
462
00:22:55,441 --> 00:22:58,609
Bobby wrapped his hand
around mine.
463
00:22:58,611 --> 00:23:01,112
He said he wanted to die.
464
00:23:01,114 --> 00:23:04,482
I helped Bobby
do what he wanted.
465
00:23:07,854 --> 00:23:09,653
I didn't...
466
00:23:09,655 --> 00:23:11,655
I didn't want to do it,
467
00:23:11,657 --> 00:23:14,091
but I wasn't considering myself.
468
00:23:14,093 --> 00:23:16,627
It's called mercy killing.
469
00:23:16,629 --> 00:23:20,965
You have 48 hours to arraign him
or let him go.
470
00:23:20,967 --> 00:23:22,933
Ask the medical examiner
if Holland did have AIDS.
471
00:23:22,935 --> 00:23:24,435
You'll get answers
faster than I will.
472
00:23:24,437 --> 00:23:25,903
And if Holland did?
473
00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:29,540
Find out about the victims
in L.A. and San Francisco.
474
00:23:29,542 --> 00:23:32,043
What if they
had AIDS, too?
475
00:23:32,044 --> 00:23:34,545
We'll need answers to questions
we haven't even thought of.
476
00:23:34,547 --> 00:23:35,880
The guy's jive,
I'm telling you.
477
00:23:35,882 --> 00:23:37,615
Yeah? Well, the jury
might not think so.
478
00:23:37,617 --> 00:23:39,717
Yeah, well, what's the jury
gonna think when they hear
479
00:23:39,719 --> 00:23:41,452
that Holland
never even touched the gun?
480
00:23:41,454 --> 00:23:43,654
No powder residue
on his hands.
481
00:23:44,590 --> 00:23:45,923
Holland had AIDS.
482
00:23:45,925 --> 00:23:48,125
So did San Francisco
and L.A.
483
00:23:48,127 --> 00:23:51,095
So Curry's telling the truth.
Or part of the truth.
484
00:23:51,097 --> 00:23:53,597
You say it's a mercy killing,
you don't do 15 to life.
485
00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:56,133
Because someone has AIDS doesn't
mean he can't be murdered.
486
00:23:56,135 --> 00:23:59,003
But where does that get us?
He's killing these AIDS
patients for kicks?
487
00:23:59,005 --> 00:24:02,206
I hated Bobby being that way.
488
00:24:02,208 --> 00:24:04,141
I hated the people
he hung out with.
489
00:24:04,143 --> 00:24:06,644
I hated the way
he lived his life,
490
00:24:06,646 --> 00:24:10,948
but this guy Curry--
you shouldn't put him in jail.
491
00:24:10,950 --> 00:24:12,516
He shot your son.
492
00:24:12,518 --> 00:24:15,920
You read the articles?
Newspapers?
493
00:24:15,922 --> 00:24:18,489
Not an easy way to go.
494
00:24:21,928 --> 00:24:23,928
Bobby wanted to die.
495
00:24:23,930 --> 00:24:26,063
You can't be sure of that.
496
00:24:28,034 --> 00:24:31,936
Yes, I can.
497
00:24:31,938 --> 00:24:36,073
Bobby asked me
to shoot him first.
498
00:24:38,945 --> 00:24:42,646
I knew Bobby was gay.
499
00:24:42,648 --> 00:24:47,618
We just couldn't talk
about it.
500
00:24:47,620 --> 00:24:51,021
I'll never
have that chance now.
501
00:24:51,023 --> 00:24:55,759
That bastard Curry
killed my son.
502
00:24:55,761 --> 00:24:58,662
You have to put that man
in jail.
503
00:24:58,664 --> 00:25:02,266
The defense is going to make
a very strong case
504
00:25:02,268 --> 00:25:05,135
that your son
intended to die.
505
00:25:08,074 --> 00:25:10,808
I've been getting Bobby's mail.
506
00:25:10,810 --> 00:25:12,276
This letter--
507
00:25:12,278 --> 00:25:15,079
"Gay Men Allied Against AIDS."
508
00:25:15,081 --> 00:25:18,082
Bobby had an appointment
with someone
509
00:25:18,084 --> 00:25:20,251
to talk about
taking A.Z.T.
510
00:25:23,256 --> 00:25:25,623
My son wanted to live.
511
00:25:27,693 --> 00:25:31,061
JUDGE:
The charges are murder
in the second degree
512
00:25:31,063 --> 00:25:35,599
conspiracy in the first degree,
manslaughter in the first degree
513
00:25:35,601 --> 00:25:39,303
criminally negligent homicide,
promoting a suicide attempt
514
00:25:39,305 --> 00:25:41,305
and reckless endangerment
in the second degree.
515
00:25:41,307 --> 00:25:44,074
Does the defendant
wish to enter a plea?
516
00:25:44,076 --> 00:25:46,210
Yes, Your Honor, not
guilty on all counts.
517
00:25:46,212 --> 00:25:49,580
Do the people have a bail
recommendation, Mr. Stone?
518
00:25:49,582 --> 00:25:51,933
This case is a
homicide, Your Honor.
519
00:25:51,934 --> 00:25:54,285
Despite the circumstances,
we feel that some
bail is necessary.
520
00:25:54,287 --> 00:25:56,554
Personally, I'm uncomfortable
521
00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:58,822
releasing any
homicide defendant
without substantial bail,
522
00:25:58,824 --> 00:26:03,827
but I do not feel this defendant
is a major flight risk.
523
00:26:03,829 --> 00:26:05,596
$50,000,
short date.
524
00:26:05,598 --> 00:26:07,097
( gavel bangs )
525
00:26:08,701 --> 00:26:11,602
Our government is killing us
through neglect.
526
00:26:11,604 --> 00:26:14,104
The mayor, the governor,
the president,
527
00:26:14,106 --> 00:26:15,773
they have blood on their hands.
528
00:26:15,775 --> 00:26:19,310
While we're dying,
they're prosecuting Jack Curry.
529
00:26:19,312 --> 00:26:22,112
Take the money
from the district attorney
530
00:26:22,114 --> 00:26:24,615
and give it
to the health department.
531
00:26:24,617 --> 00:26:28,052
Mr. Gordon, do you think
the prosecution is hostile
to people with AIDS?
532
00:26:28,054 --> 00:26:31,088
GORDON:
If Bobby Holland was dying of
Alzheimer's and Jack Curry
533
00:26:31,090 --> 00:26:32,823
wasn't gay, would they charge
him with murder?
534
00:26:32,825 --> 00:26:35,059
( shuts off TV )
535
00:26:35,060 --> 00:26:37,294
Every gay activist in
the country's gonna be after us.
536
00:26:37,296 --> 00:26:39,630
I understand, Adam, but
gay-straight is not the issue.
537
00:26:39,632 --> 00:26:42,199
Murder masquerading as assisted
suicide is the issue.
538
00:26:42,201 --> 00:26:44,168
Now, let's say we drop
all the charges
539
00:26:44,170 --> 00:26:46,070
and we just go
for a misdemeanor.
540
00:26:46,072 --> 00:26:47,671
We're not ignoring the
gay-straight question;
541
00:26:47,673 --> 00:26:49,206
we're making it
the only question.
542
00:26:49,208 --> 00:26:50,841
You know what that is?
543
00:26:50,843 --> 00:26:52,176
Good politics.
544
00:26:52,178 --> 00:26:53,677
Yes, and bad law.
545
00:26:53,679 --> 00:26:55,279
It is not compassion.
546
00:26:55,281 --> 00:26:58,649
It's pity for gay people,
and pity is one step away
547
00:26:58,651 --> 00:27:00,317
from ridicule.
548
00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:03,320
Now what if Bobby Holland
wanted to die?
549
00:27:03,322 --> 00:27:08,125
How does anybody know what went
through Bobby Holland's mind
550
00:27:08,127 --> 00:27:10,327
five minutes before he died?
551
00:27:10,329 --> 00:27:12,730
Or two minutes? Or 20 seconds?
552
00:27:12,732 --> 00:27:14,198
Or one second?
553
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,635
And Jack Curry,
who's done this twice before,
554
00:27:17,637 --> 00:27:19,670
did he talk him into it?
555
00:27:19,672 --> 00:27:21,739
You can't change the fact
556
00:27:21,741 --> 00:27:24,675
that Holland was gay
and Curry is gay.
557
00:27:24,677 --> 00:27:26,243
What I can't change
558
00:27:26,245 --> 00:27:29,747
is that Jack Curry didn't
bring pills and leave them.
559
00:27:29,749 --> 00:27:32,216
He didn't bring a gun
and leave it.
560
00:27:32,218 --> 00:27:34,284
He pulled the trigger.
561
00:27:36,222 --> 00:27:38,222
MAN:
Gay Men Allied Against AIDS.
562
00:27:38,224 --> 00:27:41,225
Bobby Holland didn't need
an angel of death.
563
00:27:41,227 --> 00:27:43,127
He wasn't that sick yet.
564
00:27:43,129 --> 00:27:44,662
Did he want to die?
565
00:27:44,664 --> 00:27:47,131
Look, you're H.I.V.-positive.
566
00:27:47,133 --> 00:27:51,168
You think you'll hang around
till you get sick.
567
00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:52,803
You start to feel lousy,
568
00:27:52,805 --> 00:27:56,173
it's hardly unusual
to think about suicide.
569
00:27:58,744 --> 00:28:00,744
Bobby wanted to kill himself.
570
00:28:00,746 --> 00:28:02,212
I told him not to.
571
00:28:03,449 --> 00:28:04,782
And?
572
00:28:04,784 --> 00:28:07,251
He said he'd think about it--
573
00:28:07,253 --> 00:28:09,453
going on A.Z.T.,
trying experimental drugs.
574
00:28:09,455 --> 00:28:13,223
I saw Conrad
Gordon on TV.
575
00:28:13,225 --> 00:28:15,859
Anybody want
to call Jack Curry a hero
576
00:28:15,861 --> 00:28:17,828
I tell them to look at me.
577
00:28:17,830 --> 00:28:19,396
I was diagnosed
578
00:28:19,398 --> 00:28:23,000
with AIDS when it was still
called "GRID," for God's sake.
579
00:28:23,002 --> 00:28:24,435
I'm still here.
580
00:28:25,938 --> 00:28:32,409
Curry had no right
to shoot Bobby Holland.
581
00:28:33,379 --> 00:28:35,345
Okay, thanks.
582
00:28:41,020 --> 00:28:43,287
You're saying Bobby Holland
might have reconsidered?
583
00:28:43,289 --> 00:28:45,823
If he'd reconsidered,
my client wouldn't be here.
584
00:28:45,825 --> 00:28:47,424
You don't know that,
I don't know that.
585
00:28:47,426 --> 00:28:49,493
And even you don't
know that, Mr. Curry.
586
00:28:49,495 --> 00:28:51,428
You were involved
in those cases in California.
587
00:28:51,430 --> 00:28:54,965
Do you have a stake
in getting these people to die?
588
00:28:54,967 --> 00:28:57,401
No, Mr. Stone, I don't.
589
00:28:57,403 --> 00:28:59,770
Did you try
to talk Bobby Holland out of it?
590
00:28:59,772 --> 00:29:02,372
Several times
over several hours.
591
00:29:02,374 --> 00:29:05,375
He didn't want
to turn into a zombie.
592
00:29:05,377 --> 00:29:08,312
What if it were your son,
Mr. Stone?
593
00:29:08,314 --> 00:29:11,482
If it were my son, I'd take him
to every hospital in America
594
00:29:11,484 --> 00:29:13,383
to try to save him.
595
00:29:13,385 --> 00:29:16,353
We'll plead
to promoting a suicide.
596
00:29:16,355 --> 00:29:17,788
You'll plead
597
00:29:17,790 --> 00:29:19,356
to manslaughter one.
598
00:29:19,358 --> 00:29:21,391
We'll drop the other charges
599
00:29:21,393 --> 00:29:24,294
and we'll make
a sentencing recommendation.
600
00:29:24,296 --> 00:29:26,497
Bobby Holland intended
to shoot himself.
601
00:29:26,499 --> 00:29:30,801
Manslaughter one is an admission
my client intended to shoot him.
602
00:29:30,803 --> 00:29:33,871
He didn't shoot him
full of penicillin.
603
00:29:35,808 --> 00:29:37,875
We're finished here, Jack.
604
00:29:39,779 --> 00:29:41,278
Mr. Stone...
605
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,915
I hope you never have to face
these choices yourself.
606
00:29:44,917 --> 00:29:47,484
I hope you never
see anybody dying
607
00:29:47,486 --> 00:29:49,820
the way I've seen
people die.
608
00:29:49,822 --> 00:29:53,090
But if you do,
I hope you have the courage
609
00:29:53,092 --> 00:29:56,426
to do whatever has to be done.
610
00:30:08,107 --> 00:30:11,575
DEBAKEY:
And what is your position
at the hospice, Mr. Wellman?
611
00:30:11,577 --> 00:30:13,510
WELLMAN:
I counsel people
with AIDS.
612
00:30:13,512 --> 00:30:15,412
Over the past year
613
00:30:15,414 --> 00:30:17,581
how many people
have you counseled?
614
00:30:17,583 --> 00:30:20,384
Short-term, over 100;
long-term, perhaps two dozen.
615
00:30:20,386 --> 00:30:23,453
And how long
have you worked there?
616
00:30:23,455 --> 00:30:25,055
Eleven years.
617
00:30:25,057 --> 00:30:27,391
Everyone you care for is dying?
618
00:30:27,393 --> 00:30:30,327
We're all dying, Ms. Debakey.
619
00:30:30,329 --> 00:30:35,399
I mean the people in the hospice
are terminally ill.
620
00:30:35,401 --> 00:30:38,468
Most of those who come to us
will die within a year.
621
00:30:38,470 --> 00:30:41,572
Isn't it true
that many cancer patients
622
00:30:41,574 --> 00:30:44,408
experience excruciating pain?
623
00:30:44,410 --> 00:30:46,343
Yes, that's common.
624
00:30:48,147 --> 00:30:51,448
You ever counseled anyone
to commit suicide?
625
00:30:51,450 --> 00:30:52,850
Objection, Your Honor.
Relevance.
626
00:30:52,852 --> 00:30:55,319
This trial
isn't about the right to die.
627
00:30:55,321 --> 00:30:57,421
It's about whether the defendant
shot Bobby Holland.
628
00:30:57,423 --> 00:30:59,056
The issues surrounding
right-to-die are murky
629
00:30:59,058 --> 00:31:00,591
in this state, Mr. Stone.
630
00:31:00,593 --> 00:31:03,126
The testimony
seems to me relevant.
631
00:31:03,128 --> 00:31:04,862
The witness
will continue.
632
00:31:04,864 --> 00:31:08,932
I've counseled people
on suicide, yes.
633
00:31:08,934 --> 00:31:12,569
We call it "letting yourself
be snowed under."
634
00:31:12,571 --> 00:31:14,037
And what do you
counsel them?
635
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:15,906
Well, we suggest
that they go to England
636
00:31:15,908 --> 00:31:19,176
where doctors have the right to
assist their patients in dying.
637
00:31:19,178 --> 00:31:20,978
Thank you.
638
00:31:22,414 --> 00:31:25,582
Mr. Wellman, have you ever given
to anyone in your hospice
639
00:31:25,584 --> 00:31:28,118
lethal chemicals, a gun,
any device
640
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,654
that might help them
commit suicide?
641
00:31:30,656 --> 00:31:32,389
No.
642
00:31:32,391 --> 00:31:33,590
Why not?
643
00:31:33,592 --> 00:31:37,928
I've been told
it's against the law.
644
00:31:37,930 --> 00:31:40,497
GORDON:
We've established a hot line to
answer questions about AIDS.
645
00:31:40,499 --> 00:31:44,601
How many of those
calls have you answered
personally, Mr. Gordon?
646
00:31:44,603 --> 00:31:45,636
Thousands.
647
00:31:45,638 --> 00:31:48,105
I volunteer
three nights a week.
648
00:31:48,107 --> 00:31:49,940
I've been doing
it for seven years.
649
00:31:49,942 --> 00:31:51,608
Do the callers
ever ask you about suicide?
650
00:31:51,610 --> 00:31:54,077
Frequently.
And what do you tell them?
651
00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:57,581
That dying of AIDS
is a difficult death
652
00:31:57,583 --> 00:32:02,219
and that they have
the right to take their own life
653
00:32:02,221 --> 00:32:05,555
when the pain becomes too great.
654
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,660
Your witness, Mr. Stone.
655
00:32:09,662 --> 00:32:12,195
Mr. Gordon, as a gay activist,
you're familiar
656
00:32:12,197 --> 00:32:14,197
with the current state
of treatment for AIDS?
657
00:32:14,199 --> 00:32:17,167
Reasonably.
And you're aware that A.Z.T.
and other drugs
658
00:32:17,169 --> 00:32:19,569
will prolong
the life of these patients?
659
00:32:19,571 --> 00:32:21,571
Yes.
660
00:32:21,573 --> 00:32:25,575
And that people have lived
with AIDS for several years?
661
00:32:25,577 --> 00:32:27,978
Yes, I know that,
but I also know
662
00:32:27,980 --> 00:32:30,213
that in the end,
it's a gruesome death.
663
00:32:30,215 --> 00:32:34,451
People with AIDS do not
go gently into that good night.
664
00:32:34,453 --> 00:32:36,987
But you also know that some gay
men, out of embarrassment,
665
00:32:36,989 --> 00:32:39,222
might not seek treatment,
and commit suicide instead.
666
00:32:39,224 --> 00:32:40,624
Are you in favor of that?
667
00:32:42,594 --> 00:32:47,597
I'm in favor of gay men
taking power over their lives.
668
00:32:52,037 --> 00:32:55,605
Uh, no more questions,
Your Honor.
669
00:33:09,021 --> 00:33:11,221
Excuse me.
Are you Ben Stone?
670
00:33:11,223 --> 00:33:12,289
Yes, sir.
671
00:33:13,258 --> 00:33:15,759
You gay-bashing
son of a bitch!
672
00:33:15,761 --> 00:33:19,629
Leave us alone
to run our own lives and deaths.
673
00:33:24,503 --> 00:33:26,553
It could get worse.
674
00:33:26,554 --> 00:33:28,604
You think
I need a police guard?
You think it's a joke?
675
00:33:28,607 --> 00:33:30,640
Gay activists
don't shoot people.
676
00:33:30,642 --> 00:33:32,709
I wouldn't be so sure
you're safe, Ben.
677
00:33:34,046 --> 00:33:36,480
Jack Curry has AIDS.
678
00:33:36,482 --> 00:33:39,049
Julia Debakey
just released it.
679
00:33:41,587 --> 00:33:45,055
It's time
to bail out of this.
680
00:33:52,798 --> 00:33:55,799
It just seems like revenge
at this point.
681
00:33:55,801 --> 00:33:57,501
Find us something, anything.
682
00:33:57,503 --> 00:33:59,036
Tonight?
683
00:33:59,038 --> 00:34:01,038
Go back over the evidence.
684
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:05,108
Give us a reason to drop
the charges against Curry.
685
00:34:10,783 --> 00:34:14,718
Anybody got an idea
what we're looking for?
686
00:34:14,720 --> 00:34:16,253
Remeasure everything.
687
00:34:16,255 --> 00:34:18,822
Distance of the body
from the bed.
688
00:34:18,824 --> 00:34:21,124
Blood markings, all of it.
689
00:34:21,126 --> 00:34:23,527
And redust
for prints.
690
00:34:23,529 --> 00:34:26,229
Make a map
of where you get every print.
691
00:34:32,438 --> 00:34:33,670
How's the jaw?
692
00:34:33,672 --> 00:34:35,839
Only hurts
when I prosecute,
693
00:34:35,841 --> 00:34:40,644
so keep me out of court
until the swelling goes down.
694
00:34:40,646 --> 00:34:42,646
Two bookcases
were turned over--
695
00:34:42,648 --> 00:34:43,747
pushed from behind.
696
00:34:43,749 --> 00:34:44,848
Yeah, we redusted.
697
00:34:44,850 --> 00:34:47,818
Full palm prints
on the back of both.
698
00:34:47,820 --> 00:34:51,088
Both sets of prints
belong to Bobby Holland.
699
00:34:51,090 --> 00:34:53,290
Curry's prints weren't on them.
700
00:34:53,292 --> 00:34:56,460
Which means Holland
trashed the place himself
701
00:34:56,462 --> 00:34:58,228
to make it look
like a burglary.
702
00:34:58,230 --> 00:35:01,665
Which means
he wanted to die.
703
00:35:02,634 --> 00:35:04,634
Maybe to us.
704
00:35:04,636 --> 00:35:06,136
Meaning?
705
00:35:06,138 --> 00:35:08,839
It's convincing emotionally,
but not legally.
706
00:35:08,841 --> 00:35:11,875
The prints could have been
put there a year before.
707
00:35:11,877 --> 00:35:15,112
And as to state of mind,
he could have changed it
708
00:35:15,114 --> 00:35:16,847
the micro-second
before Curry pulled the trigger.
709
00:35:16,849 --> 00:35:18,882
But does it convince you?
710
00:35:23,222 --> 00:35:26,723
Curry's already under
a sentence of death.
711
00:35:26,725 --> 00:35:30,694
That's as much payment
as anyone could ask for.
712
00:35:31,663 --> 00:35:34,197
Drop it completely?
713
00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:36,266
It's the right thing to do.
714
00:35:36,268 --> 00:35:38,335
He pleads
to promoting a suicide.
715
00:35:38,337 --> 00:35:41,171
He does no time.
716
00:35:41,173 --> 00:35:43,206
( buzzer )
717
00:35:46,512 --> 00:35:48,311
( buzzer )
718
00:35:50,249 --> 00:35:51,681
Yeah.
719
00:36:00,259 --> 00:36:01,758
You got a copycat.
720
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,762
A woman from Queens
just shot her retarded son.
721
00:36:05,764 --> 00:36:09,733
She says she got the idea
of a mercy killing
722
00:36:09,735 --> 00:36:12,302
from the Holland case.
723
00:36:19,645 --> 00:36:21,344
Well?
724
00:36:23,749 --> 00:36:25,815
We have no choice.
725
00:36:30,656 --> 00:36:32,956
We keep going.
726
00:36:32,958 --> 00:36:35,959
This morning I was just
another ruthless D.A.
727
00:36:35,961 --> 00:36:38,328
Now I'm running
the inquisition.
728
00:36:40,265 --> 00:36:44,734
Mr. Stone, why do you want
to put a dying man in jail?
729
00:36:44,736 --> 00:36:47,270
Mr. Stone,
if you were dying of AIDS
730
00:36:47,272 --> 00:36:48,972
would you want someone
to end your misery?
731
00:36:48,974 --> 00:36:50,740
Would you comment
on that, sir?
732
00:36:50,742 --> 00:36:53,910
Mr. Gordon asks do I want to put
a dying man in jail.
733
00:36:53,912 --> 00:36:55,679
The answer is no,
but we're asking
734
00:36:55,681 --> 00:36:57,214
a more important question
in this courthouse.
735
00:36:57,216 --> 00:36:58,982
Does Jack Curry have the right,
all by himself,
736
00:36:58,984 --> 00:37:01,585
to put a dying man in his grave?
737
00:37:01,587 --> 00:37:05,422
DEBAKEY:
You allow regular customers
to charge their drinks?
738
00:37:05,424 --> 00:37:07,591
MAN:
Well, not exactly charge.
739
00:37:07,592 --> 00:37:09,759
You got to make a
payment on your tab
every once in awhile.
740
00:37:09,761 --> 00:37:12,395
Did Bobby Holland
pay his bill regularly?
741
00:37:12,397 --> 00:37:13,964
He ran a tab
on and off
742
00:37:13,966 --> 00:37:16,666
for the last two
or three years.
743
00:37:16,668 --> 00:37:18,868
Paid a little on it
now and then.
744
00:37:18,870 --> 00:37:21,404
Never let it
get much over 100 bucks.
745
00:37:21,406 --> 00:37:24,674
Did that change, Mr. Rowan?
746
00:37:24,676 --> 00:37:26,643
Couple...
747
00:37:26,645 --> 00:37:28,745
a couple of weeks
before Bobby died
748
00:37:28,747 --> 00:37:33,817
he comes in,
he lays 120 on the bar
749
00:37:33,819 --> 00:37:36,786
and says this is for the bill
plus a tip for me.
750
00:37:36,788 --> 00:37:38,688
I said
751
00:37:38,690 --> 00:37:40,991
"Bobby, what,
you hit the lottery?"
752
00:37:40,993 --> 00:37:46,663
He said, "No. I just want
to pay my bill."
753
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:52,369
After that, he paid cash.
754
00:37:55,007 --> 00:37:57,274
Your own son.
755
00:37:58,944 --> 00:38:01,778
He handed you the gun.
756
00:38:06,818 --> 00:38:08,785
What did you say?
757
00:38:08,787 --> 00:38:14,924
I told him I didn't think
I could go through with it.
758
00:38:14,926 --> 00:38:16,760
And what did he say?
759
00:38:16,762 --> 00:38:20,330
What words
did he use?
760
00:38:20,332 --> 00:38:23,333
He said, "Dad...
761
00:38:23,335 --> 00:38:27,337
"if you ever wanted
to do anything for me...
762
00:38:27,339 --> 00:38:28,905
do this."
763
00:38:28,907 --> 00:38:31,741
Thank you.
764
00:38:31,743 --> 00:38:34,811
No more questions.
765
00:38:34,813 --> 00:38:37,781
Mr. Holland,
I know this is difficult
766
00:38:37,783 --> 00:38:39,416
so bear with me.
767
00:38:39,418 --> 00:38:42,419
You testified that your son
wanted to shoot himself.
768
00:38:42,421 --> 00:38:44,854
He had a gun.
Why didn't he?
769
00:38:52,331 --> 00:38:54,064
Were his reasons religious?
770
00:38:54,066 --> 00:38:57,400
No.
771
00:38:57,402 --> 00:39:01,504
Was he worried about the pain
he'd cause other people?
772
00:39:02,474 --> 00:39:04,908
No.
773
00:39:04,910 --> 00:39:08,445
Then why do you think your son
was unable to take his life?
774
00:39:10,949 --> 00:39:15,952
He said he was afraid to die.
775
00:39:15,954 --> 00:39:17,787
Thank you, sir.
776
00:39:30,102 --> 00:39:32,969
ROBINETTE:
Debakey's putting Curry
on the stand.
777
00:39:32,971 --> 00:39:35,839
Tough to win the hearts
and minds of a jury
778
00:39:35,841 --> 00:39:38,842
by cross-examining a guy
dying of AIDS.
779
00:39:38,844 --> 00:39:40,910
STONE:
It's still a trial.
780
00:39:43,749 --> 00:39:46,082
DEBAKEY:
And early in the disease,
781
00:39:46,084 --> 00:39:49,085
what symptoms
have you personally witnessed?
782
00:39:49,087 --> 00:39:51,087
Exhaustion, dizziness.
783
00:39:51,089 --> 00:39:53,990
The inability
to hold down food.
784
00:39:53,992 --> 00:39:56,960
Loss of weight
is the most visible symptom.
785
00:39:56,962 --> 00:39:59,028
And later
in the disease?
786
00:39:59,030 --> 00:40:02,966
A friend of mine--
I'd gone to college with him--
787
00:40:02,968 --> 00:40:04,167
he went blind
788
00:40:04,169 --> 00:40:07,504
and then he got pneumonia.
789
00:40:07,506 --> 00:40:10,173
Have you ever heard
what it sounds like
790
00:40:10,175 --> 00:40:13,843
when somebody is drowning?
791
00:40:13,845 --> 00:40:16,112
That's what
he sounded like
792
00:40:16,114 --> 00:40:18,615
for six weeks.
793
00:40:18,617 --> 00:40:22,152
You have been diagnosed
with AIDS, is that correct?
794
00:40:22,154 --> 00:40:23,620
Yes.
795
00:40:23,622 --> 00:40:26,189
What do you hope for?
796
00:40:26,191 --> 00:40:28,858
A cure.
797
00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:32,095
And if one does not
798
00:40:32,097 --> 00:40:33,997
come along soon enough?
799
00:40:33,999 --> 00:40:36,599
Hope I'll be lucky enough
800
00:40:36,601 --> 00:40:41,538
to find someone who will help me
commit suicide.
801
00:40:43,875 --> 00:40:45,175
No more questions.
802
00:40:45,177 --> 00:40:47,577
Your witness.
803
00:40:51,483 --> 00:40:57,120
Mr. Curry, who pulled
the trigger on the gun?
804
00:41:00,091 --> 00:41:03,993
Answer the question, please,
Mr. Curry.
805
00:41:06,932 --> 00:41:08,231
Me.
806
00:41:08,233 --> 00:41:11,935
Did Mr. Holland
have his hand on the gun at all?
807
00:41:11,937 --> 00:41:16,005
No.
808
00:41:16,007 --> 00:41:19,209
No more questions, Your Honor.
809
00:41:19,211 --> 00:41:24,581
JUDGE:
You may step down,
Mr. Curry.
810
00:41:24,583 --> 00:41:27,984
Your Honor,
on the basis of new information
811
00:41:27,986 --> 00:41:30,887
the defense would like to call
an unscheduled witness.
812
00:41:30,889 --> 00:41:32,188
Detective Michael Logan.
813
00:41:32,190 --> 00:41:34,023
Mr. Stone?
814
00:41:34,025 --> 00:41:36,893
No objection, Your Honor.
815
00:41:41,233 --> 00:41:43,600
She has very
good sources.
816
00:41:44,503 --> 00:41:47,036
I'd like to know
who they are.
817
00:41:49,608 --> 00:41:52,208
Do you swear to tell the truth
and nothing but the truth,
818
00:41:52,210 --> 00:41:53,643
so help you God?
819
00:41:53,645 --> 00:41:54,644
I do.
820
00:41:54,646 --> 00:41:55,645
State your name.
821
00:41:55,647 --> 00:41:57,948
Michael Logan.
822
00:41:57,949 --> 00:42:00,250
Your Honor, I would like
Detective Logan treated as
823
00:42:00,252 --> 00:42:02,051
a hostile witness.
So noted.
824
00:42:04,990 --> 00:42:08,625
Tell the jury
your profession, please.
825
00:42:08,627 --> 00:42:11,661
I'm a detective with the New
York City Police Department.
826
00:42:11,663 --> 00:42:16,032
Detective Logan,
shortly after this trial began
827
00:42:16,034 --> 00:42:19,235
did you have a conversation
with Assistant District
Attorney Ben Stone
828
00:42:19,237 --> 00:42:20,937
about this case?
829
00:42:24,209 --> 00:42:26,142
Yes, I did.
830
00:42:26,144 --> 00:42:30,280
Tell us the substance
of your conversation.
831
00:42:30,282 --> 00:42:33,149
Do I have to answer that, Judge?
832
00:42:33,151 --> 00:42:35,585
Yes, you do, Detective.
833
00:42:38,256 --> 00:42:40,256
JUDGE:
Answer the question,
Detective.
834
00:42:40,258 --> 00:42:44,260
Mr. Stone said he thought
continuing the prosecution
835
00:42:44,262 --> 00:42:47,030
seemed like revenge to him.
836
00:42:47,032 --> 00:42:49,165
And what was
his solution?
837
00:42:49,167 --> 00:42:53,136
Mr. Stone directed myself
and Sergeant Greevey
838
00:42:53,138 --> 00:42:55,338
to find a reason
for him to drop the charges
839
00:42:55,340 --> 00:42:57,106
against Jack Curry.
840
00:43:00,178 --> 00:43:02,245
( spectators murmuring )
841
00:43:10,755 --> 00:43:12,689
Will the defendant please rise?
842
00:43:16,661 --> 00:43:19,596
On the first count
of the indictment--
843
00:43:19,598 --> 00:43:22,599
the charge of murder
in the second degree--
how does the jury find?
844
00:43:22,601 --> 00:43:24,067
Not guilty.
845
00:43:24,069 --> 00:43:26,135
( courtroom cheering
and clapping )
846
00:43:29,774 --> 00:43:31,674
On the second count--
847
00:43:31,676 --> 00:43:34,077
the charge of conspiracy
in the first degree--
848
00:43:34,079 --> 00:43:35,278
how does the jury find?
849
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:36,279
Not guilty.
850
00:43:36,281 --> 00:43:38,281
On the third count--
851
00:43:38,283 --> 00:43:39,682
manslaughter
in the first degree--
852
00:43:39,684 --> 00:43:41,284
how does the jury find?
853
00:43:41,286 --> 00:43:42,819
Not guilty.
854
00:43:42,821 --> 00:43:44,387
On the fourth
count, the charge
855
00:43:44,389 --> 00:43:47,090
of criminally negligent
homicide--
856
00:43:47,092 --> 00:43:48,257
how does the jury find?
857
00:43:48,259 --> 00:43:50,777
Not guilty.
858
00:43:50,778 --> 00:43:53,296
On the fifth count--
promoting a suicide attempt--
859
00:43:53,298 --> 00:43:55,798
how does the jury find?
860
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,200
Not guilty.
861
00:43:57,202 --> 00:43:58,701
On the sixth count--
862
00:43:58,703 --> 00:44:00,103
reckless endangerment
in the second degree--
863
00:44:00,105 --> 00:44:02,839
how does the jury find?
Guilty.
864
00:44:02,841 --> 00:44:05,308
That's it?!
865
00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:17,387
Some people aren't going
to be happy.
866
00:44:17,389 --> 00:44:19,689
Depends on
what you want--
867
00:44:19,691 --> 00:44:21,157
vengeance or justice?
868
00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:23,109
Stone! Excuse me.
869
00:44:23,110 --> 00:44:25,060
Did you really think
that I was guilty of murder?
870
00:44:25,063 --> 00:44:27,196
We bring the charges when they
should be brought
871
00:44:27,198 --> 00:44:28,398
and then
let the people decide.
872
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,101
Well, I may not have
a very long life left
873
00:44:32,103 --> 00:44:33,703
but it is my life.
874
00:44:33,705 --> 00:44:35,705
This wasn't a prosecution.
875
00:44:35,707 --> 00:44:38,041
This was a warning,
wasn't it?
876
00:44:38,043 --> 00:44:40,843
To anybody else thinking
about a mercy killing.
877
00:44:40,845 --> 00:44:43,279
What gave you the right
to use me?
878
00:44:43,281 --> 00:44:45,281
Unfortunately, you did.
879
00:44:45,283 --> 00:44:48,184
Not once, not twice,
but three times.
880
00:44:49,754 --> 00:44:51,788
Thanks, Adam.
881
00:44:54,292 --> 00:44:56,292
After all that,
misdemeanor.
882
00:44:56,294 --> 00:44:58,728
Six months suspended
with probation.
883
00:44:58,730 --> 00:45:01,130
No judge will put
Jack Curry
884
00:45:01,132 --> 00:45:03,066
in jail.
885
00:45:03,068 --> 00:45:05,435
If you had gone
only for manslaughter one
886
00:45:05,437 --> 00:45:08,871
the jury probably
would have found him guilty
887
00:45:08,873 --> 00:45:10,873
and he'd
have done time.
888
00:45:10,875 --> 00:45:15,078
I wonder who told a secretary
in your office
889
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,781
to call me about
your conversation with Logan.
890
00:45:18,783 --> 00:45:18,814
I'll have to look into that.