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the people are represented
by two separate
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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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They want all cops
to live in the city.
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On our salaries?
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I don't think
this is beef, man.
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( yelling in Cantonese )
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Somebody didn't want
to pay for dinner.
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It's too greasy.
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Officers, please.
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Restaurant bills--
we don't get involved.
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Go to small claims court.
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No, no.
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Downstairs, I push buzzer.
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No answer.
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Lady walk out,
I walk in.
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They owe $26.
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I very sorry I
come in, but $26.
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( repeating figure
in Cantonese )
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( speaks Cantonese )
I no touch anything.
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I no take anything.
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Tell him to shut up.
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Captioning sponsored by
NBC/UNIVERSAL
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The order
was called in at 9:05,
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and the delivery boy
found them at 9:40.
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( fly buzzing )
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Close the door.
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It's the smell.
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The flies will come in
for the blood.
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Close the door.
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Well... silver, jewelry,
cash untouched.
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This is a Con Ed bill.
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Mr. And Mrs. Edward Cullen.
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Young wife.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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Four closets
with his clothes.
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One closet with hers?
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No wallet, no purse,
no credit cards?
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Come on.
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It's the strangest marriage
I've ever seen.
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Two of them?
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What... what did you say?
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Ed and Melanie,
they're getting divorced.
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She doesn't live here anymore.
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Is she blonde,
about 30?
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Blonde, but if Melanie's 30,
I'm Vanilla Ice.
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Who?
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It wasn't the wife.
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Where we can find
Mrs. Cullen?
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( voice breaks ):
We were, uh...
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we were separated
for 15 months.
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That doesn't mean
that I stopped loving him.
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Take your time.
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We just want to find out
who did this.
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Did your husband
have any enemies?
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You know, I mean
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business or anything?
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Eddie owed people money
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but not enough
for somebody to kill him.
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Your husband, Mrs. Cullen--
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when is the last time
you saw him?
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Three...
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four months ago
with the lawyers.
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Not a friendly divorce?
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It was amicable.
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People change.
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Did you know
your husband's friend?
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She was blonde, about 30.
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A woman was shot
with your husband
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in the bedroom.
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Uh-uh.
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Could you tell me
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what you were doing tonight,
Mrs. Cullen?
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I was married to him
for 25 years.
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Do you think
I could shoot him?
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I was here...
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with Jamie, our... my son.
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He went home
a half hour ago to study.
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Would you give us his address.
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Do you mind
if I call him first?
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Let me tell him
his father's dead.
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Of course.
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Everybody liked him.
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CERRETA:
Construction is not always
a friendly business, Jamie.
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Are you saying my dad
was some kind of gangster?
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Why would anybody kill him?
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You work with your father?
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Yeah.
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Um... putting up frames.
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He wanted me
to get into law school.
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Course for the law boards.
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Who was your father's
girlfriend?
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I didn't know
he had a girlfriend.
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You guys had to tell my mother?
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You were with her tonight?
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Um... I have dinner with her
a couple times a month.
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She still can't get used
to... living alone.
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When did you leave,
about 10:00, right?
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About 11:00.
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I guess it's, uh...
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I guess it's your job
thinking these things, you guys,
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but it's crazy.
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My mother wouldn't kill
my father.
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Six slugs.
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Talk about coitus interruptus.
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You bring me a .38?
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It's out there somewhere.
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Only seven... 800,000
of them around.
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You're looking for an old one,
heavy rifling.
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Run Melanie and
Edward Cullen.
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Done.
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No registrations New York,
Connecticut,
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Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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She does card tricks, too.
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Try this trick.
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Go through every
.38 slug you got
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and if that doesn't work,
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start with our
friends in Hoboken
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and Long Island City and
work your way east and west.
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Sure, but it's a big haystack.
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The wife and the kid
may be telling the truth.
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Yeah.
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Or the kid's lying
to cover for her.
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Or she's lying to cover for him.
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Or maybe they got up
after the lasagna,
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cabbed it to 73rd Street
and whacked
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the happy couple
together.
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You know, we do have
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other people in this town.
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Have you considered
anybody else?
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Well, there's no mob angle
because, as you know,
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they use .22s, not .38s.
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So? You figure Cullen got
up at a delicate moment
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let the killer in and then
hopped back in the sack?
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I figure somebody
had a key.
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Phil, I know it
looks obvious,
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but before we
sentence the wife,
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remember we do have
two victims here
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and one of them
is still wearing
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a tag on her
toe-- Jane Doe.
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Maybe she had
an enemy.
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Maybe she had a name.
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Middle-age guy has
a babe like that,
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he spreads the news.
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Ask at the office.
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I always told Ed,
"Stick to your core business.
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Residential in Queens,
commercial in Manhattan."
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No. He wants to do condos,
First Avenue.
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You his partner?
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Sales manager.
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And I know what sells.
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He wants to leave Melanie.
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I said, "She's Brooklyn.
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"You're Brooklyn.
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That's your core."
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You think it was the girlfriend?
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No, she came later.
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You know, mid-life crisis.
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Business goes bad.
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He wants a divorce.
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He cons Melanie
into moving out.
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Promises he's going
to sell the apartment.
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This dead boss of yours
sounds like a real charmer.
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Only bad guys
leave their wives?
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Every guy who knew Ed Cullen
thought he was terrific.
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Alexandra Beckett--
what is that, with two "T's"?
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One or two--
I never met her.
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He kept her mostly secret.
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You happen to know
where she lived?
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No.
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But she worked
at Christie's.
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Oh, God.
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It's Alexandra.
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This was her big sale.
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Could we go downstairs?
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Yeah, sure.
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Did you know
her boyfriend?
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Mm-hmm.
Doug Phillips.
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How many boyfriends
did she have?
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Oh. You mean Edward.
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You said boyfriend.
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She broke up with him
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when she started
seeing Edward.
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In other words,
she traded in a boy for a man?
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Um, he... Doug dropped out
of Wharton.
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He dropped out
of Yale architecture.
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Edward was solid.
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He knew what he wanted.
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What he wanted was Alexandra?
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He adored her.
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Doug must have been thrilled.
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He have a temper?
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Oh, no, no, no, no.
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Doug would have never
have killed Alexandra.
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But he might
have killed Cullen.
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There... there was a scene
in a restaurant.
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With Cullen?
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Uh, Edward was there
with Alexandra at Vicenzo's
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and, uh, Doug walked in, drunk,
and he punched him.
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P-H-I-L-L-I-P-S.
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First name Douglas.
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Run him for his
prints, will you?
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And his phone--
message unit details.
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Hey, Bobby. Bobby.
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Get a subpoena for
his MUDs, all right?
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Got you.
BOBBY:
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( phones ringing )
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Usage details.
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Phillips called
his girlfriend's apartment
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00:11:03,664 --> 00:11:08,233
and Cullen's apartment 50 times.
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00:11:08,235 --> 00:11:09,685
There's no gun
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00:11:09,686 --> 00:11:11,136
registered to Phillips
in New York
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and there's no match
yet on the slugs.
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00:11:12,839 --> 00:11:14,239
Yeah, but he called
Cullen's apartment
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the night of the murder.
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00:11:15,809 --> 00:11:17,342
Yeah. Keep checking
the other states
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00:11:17,344 --> 00:11:20,078
and keep looking
for a match.
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00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,113
The kid had an altruistic phase.
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Taught public school one summer.
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00:11:24,251 --> 00:11:25,784
So you got his prints?
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They match a set
in Cullen's apartment.
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00:11:28,722 --> 00:11:30,522
You're welcome.
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And may I suggest
a search warrant?
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Yeah. Mm-hmm.
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I didn't kill her.
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I wanted to marry her.
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Did she want to marry you?
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What was she doing at Cullen's?
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Shopping for her trousseau?
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Are these yours?
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Hers. Spares.
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She was my girlfriend.
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She used to sleep here.
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00:11:51,411 --> 00:11:53,244
( sighs )
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00:11:53,246 --> 00:11:55,113
We'd like you to come
down to the precinct.
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Just to ask
a few questions.
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I want to call a lawyer.
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So he slugged him once
weeks ago.
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00:12:02,289 --> 00:12:03,888
That's not murder.
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00:12:03,890 --> 00:12:07,292
He was a sleaze in a
thousand-dollar suit.
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With a nicer apartment
than yours.
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00:12:10,731 --> 00:12:13,298
Alexandra had a weakness
for older men
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which is a joke if
you know her father.
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What are you saying here,
am I a suspect?
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LOGAN:
Hey, listen, everybody's a
suspect until they're cleared.
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But let's just say
that you didn't kill Cullen.
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Have you ever been
in his apartment?
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Once. A cocktail party
with Alexandra
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four or five months ago.
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He was trying to get
on the board of a dance company.
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Pathetic.
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They wanted his money
and his view.
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00:12:43,396 --> 00:12:47,265
Your girlfriend liked
a lot more than the view.
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Up yours, pal.
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Do I have to
take this crap?
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CERRETA:
Nice work.
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Bait him. Calm him down.
Rev him up again.
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LOGAN:
You talk to Alexandra
the night she was killed?
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I was home.
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00:13:02,149 --> 00:13:03,248
You call anybody?
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00:13:03,250 --> 00:13:07,285
Anybody call you?
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00:13:07,287 --> 00:13:10,488
You called Cullen's apartment
an hour before he died.
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00:13:10,490 --> 00:13:12,357
The call lasted six minutes.
267
00:13:12,359 --> 00:13:13,525
Not another word.
268
00:13:13,527 --> 00:13:14,893
Let's go. That's it.
269
00:13:14,895 --> 00:13:16,161
Interview's over.
270
00:13:16,163 --> 00:13:18,296
You charge him
or you let him go.
271
00:13:26,406 --> 00:13:29,307
Prints, motive,
opportunity.
272
00:13:29,309 --> 00:13:31,876
Those prints could have been
five months old.
273
00:13:31,878 --> 00:13:33,378
Or 96 hours.
274
00:13:33,380 --> 00:13:34,546
How did he get in?
275
00:13:34,548 --> 00:13:36,314
Kid had a key to
the girl's apartment.
276
00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:37,448
She had a key
to Cullen's.
277
00:13:37,450 --> 00:13:39,184
I'm figuring one
plus one equals two.
278
00:13:39,186 --> 00:13:40,451
The girl was shot first.
279
00:13:40,453 --> 00:13:42,520
He's gonna kill them,
he'd pop the guy first.
280
00:13:42,522 --> 00:13:44,189
Come on, Mike, he's
angry enough to shoot her
281
00:13:44,191 --> 00:13:45,323
but not angry enough
to shoot her first?
282
00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:46,858
I wish we had a gun.
283
00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:49,327
I wish I had a
girlfriend named Lola.
284
00:13:49,329 --> 00:13:51,863
( chuckles )
285
00:13:51,865 --> 00:13:53,832
What do you think, Counselor?
286
00:13:53,834 --> 00:13:56,868
We've gotten indictments
on a lot less.
287
00:13:56,870 --> 00:13:59,070
They don't sell hot guns
at Brooks Brothers.
288
00:13:59,071 --> 00:14:01,271
I am telling you, this twerp
wouldn't know where to get one.
289
00:14:01,274 --> 00:14:03,274
Come on, Phil,
even rich jerks
290
00:14:03,276 --> 00:14:07,412
can get a .38
in this town.
291
00:14:15,188 --> 00:14:17,422
Douglas Phillips,
you're under arrest
292
00:14:17,424 --> 00:14:21,292
for the murder of Edward Cullen
and Alexandra Beckett.
293
00:14:21,294 --> 00:14:23,494
You have the right
to remain silent...
294
00:14:25,966 --> 00:14:27,165
Not guilty.
295
00:14:27,167 --> 00:14:29,267
Your Honor,
these are vicious murders
296
00:14:29,268 --> 00:14:31,368
committed by a privileged young
man who considers himself
297
00:14:31,371 --> 00:14:34,105
beyond the norms
of society.
298
00:14:34,107 --> 00:14:36,041
The people request
substantial bail.
299
00:14:36,042 --> 00:14:37,976
Your Honor, Mr. Phillips
has never been arrested before.
300
00:14:37,978 --> 00:14:40,979
He has strong family
roots in New York City.
301
00:14:40,981 --> 00:14:43,114
His grandfather
sat on the bench
302
00:14:43,116 --> 00:14:45,416
where Your Honor
now presides.
303
00:14:45,418 --> 00:14:48,386
I hope he worked shorter hours
than I do.
304
00:14:48,388 --> 00:14:50,154
200,000.
305
00:14:50,156 --> 00:14:53,992
JUDGE:
I'll be back in ten.
306
00:14:53,994 --> 00:14:55,894
What? What are we doing here?
307
00:14:55,896 --> 00:14:57,896
No gun, no witness,
no record...
308
00:14:57,898 --> 00:14:59,998
He'd have a record
if Cullen had called the cops
309
00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,666
after he slugged him.
310
00:15:01,667 --> 00:15:03,333
You want to make a case,
he'll plead to assault.
311
00:15:03,336 --> 00:15:06,471
How about manslaughter one,
crime of passion?
312
00:15:10,377 --> 00:15:11,943
LOGAN:
Here you go.
313
00:15:11,945 --> 00:15:13,978
Best hot dog
in the city?
314
00:15:13,980 --> 00:15:16,047
86th and Third,
the Papaya Place.
315
00:15:16,049 --> 00:15:18,082
There may be hope
for you yet.
316
00:15:19,219 --> 00:15:21,286
Ptomaine city.
317
00:15:21,288 --> 00:15:22,553
You want this?
318
00:15:22,555 --> 00:15:24,022
Yeah.
319
00:15:25,525 --> 00:15:28,026
What's around here?
320
00:15:28,028 --> 00:15:29,394
Antonio's.
321
00:15:29,396 --> 00:15:31,129
Go get some calamari.
322
00:15:31,131 --> 00:15:33,431
Listen, Phil, I don't eat
anything that squirts ink, okay?
323
00:15:38,038 --> 00:15:40,038
"Mrs. Cullen thanked the police
324
00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,441
for apprehending
her husband's killer."
325
00:15:43,443 --> 00:15:46,177
What, did she
send you a note?
326
00:15:46,179 --> 00:15:47,979
You tell me.
327
00:15:50,050 --> 00:15:52,317
How did Phillips get in?
328
00:15:54,321 --> 00:15:56,054
Cragen could be right.
329
00:15:56,056 --> 00:15:57,956
He lifted the girl's key.
330
00:15:57,958 --> 00:15:59,290
You buy it?
331
00:16:02,128 --> 00:16:04,095
You don't think
he did it?
332
00:16:04,097 --> 00:16:05,363
The Cullen kid--
333
00:16:05,365 --> 00:16:07,966
spent a lot of time
with his father.
334
00:16:07,968 --> 00:16:10,101
Yeah. He probably
had a key.
335
00:16:10,103 --> 00:16:12,003
Remember what he said?
336
00:16:12,005 --> 00:16:13,604
He said, "My mother
wouldn't kill my father."
337
00:16:13,606 --> 00:16:15,606
He was with her
at the time of the murder.
338
00:16:15,608 --> 00:16:22,981
Why didn't he say, "My mother
didn't kill my father"?
339
00:16:22,983 --> 00:16:24,048
You want to reopen
340
00:16:24,050 --> 00:16:26,484
'cause the kid used
the wrong tense?
341
00:16:26,486 --> 00:16:27,986
It's not just that.
342
00:16:27,988 --> 00:16:29,504
These snot-nosed rich kids--
343
00:16:29,505 --> 00:16:31,021
you look at them funny,
they fall apart.
344
00:16:31,024 --> 00:16:32,590
Phillips-- he didn't break.
345
00:16:32,592 --> 00:16:34,025
This a conspiracy?
346
00:16:34,027 --> 00:16:35,259
You guys in on this together?
347
00:16:35,261 --> 00:16:36,561
Cullen and the girlfriend
348
00:16:36,563 --> 00:16:37,628
are shacking up
for four months.
349
00:16:37,630 --> 00:16:39,097
The wife never
heard of her?
350
00:16:39,099 --> 00:16:40,232
The son never noticed?
351
00:16:40,233 --> 00:16:41,366
Come on, her clothes
are in his apartment.
352
00:16:41,368 --> 00:16:43,101
The son go blind?
353
00:16:43,103 --> 00:16:44,635
The son has no motive,
354
00:16:44,637 --> 00:16:46,637
the wife has an alibi.
355
00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:51,109
What about the alibi's alibi?
356
00:16:55,115 --> 00:16:56,547
Jamie Cullen.
357
00:16:58,551 --> 00:17:00,218
Excuse me, dear.
358
00:17:04,090 --> 00:17:08,559
Hmm, looks like he'll be back
for another try.
359
00:17:08,561 --> 00:17:13,398
Checks out the review tapes,
but his test exams... marginal.
360
00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,133
Very.
361
00:17:15,135 --> 00:17:17,635
Have his scores dipped lately?
362
00:17:17,637 --> 00:17:19,303
Bad and steady.
363
00:17:19,305 --> 00:17:24,142
We set him up in a study group,
seven other students...
364
00:17:24,144 --> 00:17:26,144
Oh, look at this.
365
00:17:26,146 --> 00:17:28,479
He missed class Thursday night.
366
00:17:28,481 --> 00:17:33,351
You got the names of those kids,
the ones in the study group?
367
00:17:33,353 --> 00:17:35,153
I'm trying to get
into law school
368
00:17:35,155 --> 00:17:38,189
because my father told me that
education is wasted on women.
369
00:17:38,191 --> 00:17:39,690
Jamie wants to go
370
00:17:39,692 --> 00:17:43,561
because his father wanted him
to make something of himself.
371
00:17:43,563 --> 00:17:45,596
Did he have a problem
with his father?
372
00:17:45,598 --> 00:17:49,434
Jamie has a problem
with the law boards.
373
00:17:49,436 --> 00:17:51,436
He liked his father.
374
00:17:51,438 --> 00:17:54,238
You took him his notes
after class.
375
00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,240
For what it's worth.
376
00:17:56,242 --> 00:17:58,676
Well, what time
did you get there?
377
00:17:58,678 --> 00:18:02,713
About... 9:00, 9:10.
378
00:18:02,715 --> 00:18:04,649
You leave them
at the door?
379
00:18:04,651 --> 00:18:07,718
No. I gave them to Jamie.
380
00:18:11,591 --> 00:18:13,724
You're sure about the time?
381
00:18:13,726 --> 00:18:15,526
I'm positive.
382
00:18:18,465 --> 00:18:20,465
So you arrested somebody,
right?
383
00:18:20,467 --> 00:18:22,467
Why are you asking me this?
384
00:18:22,469 --> 00:18:23,734
( sighs )
385
00:18:23,736 --> 00:18:25,169
It's a slow day,
and I don't know,
386
00:18:25,171 --> 00:18:26,604
we thought
we'd kill some time.
387
00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:30,475
Jamie, you weren't
with your mother.
388
00:18:30,477 --> 00:18:32,477
I had dinner with her.
389
00:18:32,478 --> 00:18:34,478
What do you think this is,
some kind of a schoolyard game?
390
00:18:34,481 --> 00:18:35,546
No, I didn't.
391
00:18:35,548 --> 00:18:37,849
Yes, you did.
392
00:18:37,850 --> 00:18:40,151
You want us to prove it,
we will prove it.
393
00:18:44,524 --> 00:18:46,157
Okay.
394
00:18:46,159 --> 00:18:47,391
I was with her.
395
00:18:47,393 --> 00:18:49,660
I was there until about 8:30.
396
00:18:49,662 --> 00:18:51,362
She called me up.
397
00:18:51,364 --> 00:18:52,663
She was scared.
398
00:18:52,665 --> 00:18:54,665
She said you accused her.
399
00:18:54,667 --> 00:18:56,467
Did she tell you to lie?
400
00:18:56,469 --> 00:18:59,704
She didn't kill my father.
401
00:19:03,643 --> 00:19:05,343
We're barely out the door,
402
00:19:05,345 --> 00:19:08,379
she's already on the horn
telling the kid to lie.
403
00:19:08,381 --> 00:19:10,381
The good news: Great
Neck, four years ago.
404
00:19:10,383 --> 00:19:12,316
Your .38 hit a burglar.
405
00:19:12,318 --> 00:19:14,252
You're not going to ask?
406
00:19:14,254 --> 00:19:15,453
The dog ate it?
407
00:19:15,455 --> 00:19:17,622
Stolen-- three years ago.
408
00:19:18,691 --> 00:19:20,725
Stolen from who?
409
00:19:20,727 --> 00:19:23,327
Right out
of my apartment, man.
410
00:19:23,329 --> 00:19:26,497
Somebody must have come in
the fire escape.
411
00:19:26,499 --> 00:19:27,765
I reported it.
412
00:19:27,767 --> 00:19:29,767
Where were you
working then?
413
00:19:29,769 --> 00:19:31,502
What, three years ago?
414
00:19:31,504 --> 00:19:33,771
I don't remember,
and that's the damn truth.
415
00:19:33,773 --> 00:19:35,773
Your boss says it was
a construction site
416
00:19:35,775 --> 00:19:37,175
in Nassau County.
417
00:19:37,177 --> 00:19:38,409
Well, if you say so.
418
00:19:38,411 --> 00:19:40,061
I do say so.
419
00:19:40,062 --> 00:19:41,712
How long you been a
security guard, George?
420
00:19:41,714 --> 00:19:43,548
14 years.
421
00:19:43,550 --> 00:19:45,283
For 14 years?
422
00:19:45,285 --> 00:19:47,185
The state of New York
says in 14 years
423
00:19:47,187 --> 00:19:48,519
you had three registered
guns, two of them stolen.
424
00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:50,421
You're a hell
of a security guard, George.
425
00:19:50,423 --> 00:19:52,390
You ought to hire a guard
to watch your guns.
426
00:19:52,392 --> 00:19:54,292
Look, I live
in a rough neighborhood.
427
00:19:54,294 --> 00:19:56,727
Your last stolen gun
has two bodies on it.
428
00:19:56,729 --> 00:19:59,197
You sold that, it's a felony.
429
00:19:59,199 --> 00:20:01,465
Maybe you like accessory
to murder better?
430
00:20:01,467 --> 00:20:03,201
Hey, do you think
431
00:20:03,203 --> 00:20:05,203
we can't find out what
happened to your guns?
432
00:20:05,205 --> 00:20:06,370
We'll tear your
life apart.
433
00:20:06,372 --> 00:20:08,239
Or you tell us,
plead to a misdemeanor,
434
00:20:08,241 --> 00:20:10,408
find yourself
a new career.
435
00:20:10,409 --> 00:20:12,576
He said he couldn't
get a license.
436
00:20:12,579 --> 00:20:13,778
He carried a lot of cash
437
00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:15,813
and he needed a gun
for protection.
438
00:20:15,815 --> 00:20:17,215
He gave me $500.
439
00:20:17,217 --> 00:20:19,450
He? Are you trying
to annoy me?
440
00:20:19,452 --> 00:20:20,585
Is that what
he's trying to do?
441
00:20:20,587 --> 00:20:21,819
He's trying to get
on my nerves, right?
442
00:20:21,821 --> 00:20:23,754
The boss, Mr. Cullen.
443
00:20:25,592 --> 00:20:27,458
His own gun.
444
00:20:27,460 --> 00:20:28,693
I love this.
445
00:20:28,695 --> 00:20:31,295
So he killed the girl,
killed himself
446
00:20:31,297 --> 00:20:32,530
and then threw the gun
out the window.
447
00:20:32,532 --> 00:20:34,666
CERRETA:
Come on.
448
00:20:34,667 --> 00:20:36,801
He had the gun in the apartment
for three years.
449
00:20:36,803 --> 00:20:38,402
The wife
didn't know about it?
450
00:20:38,404 --> 00:20:39,537
The kid didn't know about it?
451
00:20:39,539 --> 00:20:41,739
But how would
Doug Phillips know?
452
00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:43,474
The wife's alibi isshot.
453
00:20:43,476 --> 00:20:45,576
You have means
and opportunity.
454
00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:47,445
What about motive?
455
00:20:47,447 --> 00:20:48,879
Try blonde and 30.
456
00:20:48,881 --> 00:20:50,581
Not to mention money.
457
00:20:50,583 --> 00:20:51,882
She says he was broke.
458
00:20:51,884 --> 00:20:53,818
He sure didn't live
like he was broke.
459
00:20:53,820 --> 00:20:57,421
Go rattle her chain.
460
00:20:57,423 --> 00:20:59,890
MELANIE:
Why would I need a lawyer?
461
00:20:59,892 --> 00:21:03,761
CERRETA:
Because you're a suspect
in the murder of your husband
462
00:21:03,763 --> 00:21:06,330
and Alexandra Beckett.
463
00:21:06,332 --> 00:21:09,867
I told my son to lie
because I was afraid.
464
00:21:09,869 --> 00:21:11,535
Afraid your husband
465
00:21:11,537 --> 00:21:13,871
was going to leave you
without a dime?
466
00:21:16,843 --> 00:21:19,577
We were married for 25 years
467
00:21:19,579 --> 00:21:23,714
and I haven't had a job
since I got engaged.
468
00:21:23,716 --> 00:21:27,351
I was a salesgirl
at B. Altman then
469
00:21:27,353 --> 00:21:30,921
and now I don't even know
what category to look under.
470
00:21:30,923 --> 00:21:34,925
How about "housewife from
Kings Highway, Brooklyn"?
471
00:21:37,764 --> 00:21:41,399
There's nothing wrong with being
a housewife from Kings Highway.
472
00:21:41,401 --> 00:21:43,734
Unless your husband wants
a hostess from Georgetown.
473
00:21:45,672 --> 00:21:48,539
Ever see something like this?
474
00:21:48,541 --> 00:21:49,540
Yeah.
475
00:21:49,542 --> 00:21:52,376
On TV.
476
00:21:52,378 --> 00:21:53,778
Your husband had one of these.
477
00:21:53,780 --> 00:21:55,813
Do you know where he kept it?
478
00:21:55,815 --> 00:22:00,918
I haven't been in that apartment
for a year.
479
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,355
The gun's been there
for three years.
480
00:22:10,330 --> 00:22:12,396
I just buried my husband.
481
00:22:16,369 --> 00:22:18,903
Is this one solid?
482
00:22:18,905 --> 00:22:20,838
She lied about
her alibi.
483
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,707
She lied about the gun, too.
484
00:22:22,709 --> 00:22:24,842
We lifted her prints
off the photo of the gun.
485
00:22:24,844 --> 00:22:27,712
They matched the prints
on Cullen's doorknob.
486
00:22:27,714 --> 00:22:30,648
Hard to believe
they stayed there over a year.
487
00:22:30,650 --> 00:22:32,817
And ten-to-one, she lied
about knowing the girlfriend.
488
00:22:32,819 --> 00:22:34,385
You need a scorecard
489
00:22:34,387 --> 00:22:36,520
to keep track of the lies
with this broad.
490
00:22:36,522 --> 00:22:38,723
They convinced me.
491
00:22:38,725 --> 00:22:42,727
Okay. We'll dismiss
on the boyfriend.
492
00:22:42,729 --> 00:22:44,995
Pick her up.
493
00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:49,567
MAN:
in the second degree
494
00:22:49,569 --> 00:22:53,671
and manslaughter
in the first degree.
495
00:22:53,673 --> 00:22:57,608
Is the defendant ready
to enter a plea?
496
00:22:57,610 --> 00:22:59,577
Not guilty.
497
00:22:59,579 --> 00:23:00,611
Your Honor, this was a vicious
double murder...
498
00:23:00,613 --> 00:23:02,446
JUDGE:
What is this?
499
00:23:02,448 --> 00:23:04,482
Déjà vu all over again?
500
00:23:04,484 --> 00:23:05,983
Didn't I hear this speech
two weeks ago
501
00:23:05,985 --> 00:23:07,651
with a different defendant?
502
00:23:07,653 --> 00:23:09,587
The people have rectified
their error.
503
00:23:09,589 --> 00:23:11,589
LEHRMAN:
Your honor, they're
compounding their error.
504
00:23:11,591 --> 00:23:14,558
There's no predicting
who they'll arrest next.
505
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,727
Mrs. Cullen
is a grief-stricken widow...
506
00:23:16,729 --> 00:23:18,396
Save it, Counselor.
507
00:23:18,398 --> 00:23:19,930
Same crime, same bail.
508
00:23:19,932 --> 00:23:22,133
200,000.
509
00:23:22,135 --> 00:23:23,968
LEHRMAN:
Murder two?
510
00:23:23,970 --> 00:23:26,971
Why even have it
on the menu?
511
00:23:26,973 --> 00:23:28,973
This isn't murder.
512
00:23:28,975 --> 00:23:30,741
It's manslaughter.
513
00:23:30,743 --> 00:23:32,576
You're admitting
she killed them.
514
00:23:32,578 --> 00:23:33,644
No.
515
00:23:33,646 --> 00:23:34,712
But if she killed them,
516
00:23:34,714 --> 00:23:36,514
it was extreme
emotional disturbance.
517
00:23:36,516 --> 00:23:37,548
That's manslaughter.
518
00:23:37,550 --> 00:23:40,484
I get it.
She wasn't there,
519
00:23:40,486 --> 00:23:42,586
and if she was,
she didn't kill them,
520
00:23:42,588 --> 00:23:44,572
and if she did,
she didn't mean to,
521
00:23:44,573 --> 00:23:46,557
and if she did mean to,
it was because she was upset.
522
00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:48,692
Cute.
523
00:23:48,694 --> 00:23:50,628
The murder charge is inflated.
524
00:23:50,630 --> 00:23:54,064
If she killed in the heat of
passion and you can prove it?
525
00:23:54,066 --> 00:23:57,001
Her husband was in bed
with another woman.
526
00:23:57,003 --> 00:23:59,103
Juries tend to be sympathetic.
527
00:23:59,105 --> 00:24:00,638
They also tend to sympathize
528
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,107
with people who have been shot
six times.
529
00:24:03,109 --> 00:24:05,643
Criminally negligent homicide.
530
00:24:05,645 --> 00:24:07,211
She does no time.
531
00:24:07,213 --> 00:24:09,680
No time.
532
00:24:09,682 --> 00:24:12,683
Why don't we throw her
a ticker tape parade?
533
00:24:12,685 --> 00:24:16,053
Manslaughter one--
8-1/3 each count.
534
00:24:16,055 --> 00:24:20,758
It's called plea-bargaining,
not plea-scalping.
535
00:24:23,729 --> 00:24:25,062
Pass.
536
00:24:28,668 --> 00:24:30,701
The jury is not going to convict
on murder.
537
00:24:30,703 --> 00:24:32,736
Take a deal.
538
00:24:32,738 --> 00:24:33,771
Manslaughter one.
539
00:24:33,773 --> 00:24:35,072
Four years.
540
00:24:35,074 --> 00:24:36,707
ROBINETTE:
That's all she'll get anyway.
541
00:24:36,709 --> 00:24:38,209
This kind of case,
judges are lenient.
542
00:24:38,211 --> 00:24:40,678
In this kind of case, if it
really is a case of passion,
543
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,546
a woman is weeping
into the barrel of a gun
544
00:24:42,548 --> 00:24:43,681
as the cops drive up.
545
00:24:43,683 --> 00:24:44,849
She doesn't run,
hide the gun,
546
00:24:44,851 --> 00:24:47,751
lie to the police,
fake alibis.
547
00:24:47,753 --> 00:24:49,753
Yeah, and all the
jury's going to see
548
00:24:49,755 --> 00:24:52,156
is a middle-aged
widow who snapped.
549
00:24:52,158 --> 00:24:53,190
Some widow.
550
00:24:53,192 --> 00:24:54,792
She's barely a wife.
551
00:24:54,794 --> 00:24:57,695
A few months,
the legal separation is up.
552
00:24:57,697 --> 00:24:59,096
Two signatures,
they're divorced.
553
00:24:59,098 --> 00:25:00,264
Which they weren't.
554
00:25:00,266 --> 00:25:01,599
Which means she inherits.
555
00:25:01,601 --> 00:25:02,666
That's another
motive entirely.
556
00:25:02,668 --> 00:25:04,235
Cullen was supposedly broke.
557
00:25:04,237 --> 00:25:06,070
STONE:
I need every scrap of paper
from the crime scene,
558
00:25:06,072 --> 00:25:08,239
Cullen's office,
Mrs. Cullen's apartment
559
00:25:08,241 --> 00:25:09,874
and every witness
reinterviewed.
560
00:25:09,876 --> 00:25:14,044
Give you five to one all you're
going to get is eyestrain.
561
00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:16,580
All the detectives are going
to get is sore feet.
562
00:25:16,582 --> 00:25:18,749
You're going to end up
exactly where you started.
563
00:25:18,751 --> 00:25:21,752
Wife shoots husband
in bed with lover.
564
00:25:21,754 --> 00:25:23,787
Take a deal.
565
00:25:23,789 --> 00:25:26,790
CERRETA:
Cullen sure got
a lot of mail.
566
00:25:26,792 --> 00:25:28,058
Here's your motive.
567
00:25:28,060 --> 00:25:30,628
Cullen won a million bucks.
568
00:25:30,630 --> 00:25:32,696
Right from Ed McMahon.
569
00:25:32,698 --> 00:25:36,600
Here's something from the office
of the attorney-general.
570
00:25:40,306 --> 00:25:42,773
Notice of sales tax violation.
571
00:25:42,775 --> 00:25:43,841
Hmm.
572
00:25:43,843 --> 00:25:45,309
Did he jaywalk, too?
573
00:25:45,311 --> 00:25:47,728
It's a jeweler.
574
00:25:47,729 --> 00:25:50,146
They don't go after people
for nickels and dimes.
575
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,886
Eight and a quarter
percent tax.
576
00:25:55,888 --> 00:25:59,790
On $14,000,
that's over 1,100.
577
00:25:59,792 --> 00:26:02,192
My customer says to me,
"Ship a dummy box to Jersey
578
00:26:02,194 --> 00:26:03,794
or I'll buy my stones
in Palm Beach."
579
00:26:03,796 --> 00:26:05,629
What am I supposed to do?
580
00:26:05,631 --> 00:26:08,699
Tell them our jails are
nicer than Florida's.
581
00:26:08,701 --> 00:26:11,702
The state hit me
with a $100,000 fine.
582
00:26:11,704 --> 00:26:12,836
I love New York.
583
00:26:12,838 --> 00:26:13,837
Looks like
you're surviving.
584
00:26:13,839 --> 00:26:15,673
The record on
that necklace.
585
00:26:15,675 --> 00:26:17,207
Is this really important?
586
00:26:17,209 --> 00:26:18,909
My customer comes in again,
I want his business.
587
00:26:18,911 --> 00:26:20,744
If your customer
comes in again,
588
00:26:20,746 --> 00:26:22,146
call Geraldo.
589
00:26:22,148 --> 00:26:26,250
He's dead, and this is
a murder investigation.
590
00:26:32,291 --> 00:26:34,692
Mr. Cullen
paid cash, right?
591
00:26:34,694 --> 00:26:38,963
And the necklace was sent
to an Alexandra Beckett?
592
00:26:38,965 --> 00:26:40,731
Just barely.
593
00:26:40,733 --> 00:26:43,901
Mr. Cullen had bought
several pieces for his wife
594
00:26:43,903 --> 00:26:45,135
over the years--
595
00:26:45,137 --> 00:26:46,987
smaller pieces.
596
00:26:46,988 --> 00:26:48,838
There was a cretinous
new shipping clerk
597
00:26:48,841 --> 00:26:51,208
who called Mrs. Cullen
by mistake.
598
00:26:51,210 --> 00:26:52,843
She was not expecting
a necklace.
599
00:26:52,845 --> 00:26:54,745
Very embarrassing.
600
00:26:54,747 --> 00:26:56,146
If Mr. Cullen
had found out,
601
00:26:56,148 --> 00:26:57,748
it could have cost
me his business.
602
00:26:57,750 --> 00:27:01,785
It cost him
a lot more than that.
603
00:27:01,787 --> 00:27:03,287
Two motives are better than one.
604
00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:04,788
She knew he had money and she
knew he had a girlfriend.
605
00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:06,774
So she was upset.
606
00:27:06,775 --> 00:27:08,759
That gets her from murder
down to manslaughter.
607
00:27:08,761 --> 00:27:10,928
Really? She got the bad news
608
00:27:10,930 --> 00:27:13,230
two months
before she killed him.
609
00:27:13,232 --> 00:27:16,000
Every court in the state will
call that a cooling-off period.
610
00:27:16,002 --> 00:27:17,801
She can be provoked
more than once
611
00:27:17,803 --> 00:27:19,803
and still say
it's a crime of passion.
612
00:27:19,805 --> 00:27:21,805
Not if she planned to kill him.
613
00:27:21,807 --> 00:27:23,774
She found them in bed.
614
00:27:23,775 --> 00:27:25,742
I know to a jury,
it looks like new provocation,
615
00:27:25,745 --> 00:27:28,345
but what if she wasn't surprised
to see them there?
616
00:27:28,347 --> 00:27:30,948
What if I prove to you
that she went there to kill them
617
00:27:30,950 --> 00:27:33,817
and knew she could pick up a gun
on the way to the bedroom?
618
00:27:33,819 --> 00:27:34,918
Would that satisfy you?
619
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,854
Would that satisfy you?
620
00:27:36,856 --> 00:27:39,289
You're splitting legal hairs.
621
00:27:39,291 --> 00:27:43,794
Do you sincerely believe
that Melanie Cullen went there
622
00:27:43,796 --> 00:27:45,829
with murder in her heart?
623
00:27:45,831 --> 00:27:48,766
If I have any doubts,
I'll plead her down.
624
00:27:48,768 --> 00:27:51,935
If not, she does 25 to life.
625
00:27:51,937 --> 00:27:54,038
We're still collecting
Cullen's mail.
626
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,839
This came yesterday.
627
00:27:55,841 --> 00:27:59,943
"If you wish to make additional
spare copies of the keys
628
00:27:59,945 --> 00:28:01,979
"to your Fournier
securi-proof lock
629
00:28:01,981 --> 00:28:03,380
"discover the convenience
630
00:28:03,382 --> 00:28:05,916
of ordering
directly from the factory."
631
00:28:05,918 --> 00:28:08,018
So he had a key made.
632
00:28:09,321 --> 00:28:12,289
Somebody had a key made.
633
00:28:12,291 --> 00:28:14,024
Locks with thousand-dollar keys.
634
00:28:14,026 --> 00:28:16,393
Invent one.
I'll mint money.
635
00:28:16,395 --> 00:28:17,861
Fourniers,
636
00:28:17,863 --> 00:28:19,063
57 bucks a pop.
637
00:28:19,065 --> 00:28:20,998
The Cullen key?
638
00:28:31,944 --> 00:28:34,078
"Reason: lost original.
639
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,814
Owner: Mrs. Edward Cullen."
640
00:28:36,816 --> 00:28:39,349
Mrs. Cullen?
She had an original key?
641
00:28:39,351 --> 00:28:40,317
Lost original.
642
00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:42,486
But you made her
a copy.
643
00:28:42,488 --> 00:28:44,788
She had the serial number.
644
00:28:44,790 --> 00:28:47,825
And, yes, I called the company
and checked the address
645
00:28:47,827 --> 00:28:48,892
on her ID.
646
00:28:48,894 --> 00:28:51,328
Where do you get
the serial number?
647
00:28:51,330 --> 00:28:52,963
It's on the registration papers.
648
00:28:52,965 --> 00:28:54,832
That's it?
649
00:28:54,834 --> 00:28:59,870
Stamped on the original keys,
but she'd lost them, right?
650
00:28:59,872 --> 00:29:01,338
Where did she get the number?
651
00:29:01,340 --> 00:29:02,823
BEN:
Fournier locks
had three keys--
652
00:29:02,824 --> 00:29:04,307
Cullen had one,
Alexandra Beckett had one.
653
00:29:04,310 --> 00:29:06,110
You think either of them gave
Mrs. Cullen the number?
654
00:29:06,112 --> 00:29:08,078
The son.
655
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,414
He gave it to her,
or she helped herself.
656
00:29:11,984 --> 00:29:16,353
So Cullen was killed by his wife
or by his wife and son.
657
00:29:16,355 --> 00:29:19,123
I don't even want
to think about this.
658
00:29:19,125 --> 00:29:20,824
We pick him up
as an accessory--
659
00:29:20,826 --> 00:29:22,092
maybe even a co-conspirator.
660
00:29:22,094 --> 00:29:23,994
He lied, Adam.
He knows something.
661
00:29:23,996 --> 00:29:28,365
Frank Lehrman won't let you deal
the son against the mother.
662
00:29:28,367 --> 00:29:30,400
And maybe she copied
the number
663
00:29:30,402 --> 00:29:31,535
off her son's key.
664
00:29:31,537 --> 00:29:32,903
He doesn't know.
665
00:29:32,905 --> 00:29:34,004
We bring him the news.
666
00:29:34,006 --> 00:29:36,340
Suddenly sees Mom
in a new light.
667
00:29:36,342 --> 00:29:37,641
Don't arrest him.
668
00:29:37,642 --> 00:29:38,941
I have to scare him.
669
00:29:38,944 --> 00:29:40,694
My office or the
room at Riker's.
670
00:29:40,695 --> 00:29:42,445
The minute you call him,
he's going to call his mother,
671
00:29:42,448 --> 00:29:44,314
she's going to call
Frank Lehrman.
672
00:29:44,316 --> 00:29:45,849
And he's going to demand
673
00:29:45,850 --> 00:29:47,383
that the interview
take place in his office.
674
00:29:47,386 --> 00:29:48,886
You want to scare the kid?
675
00:29:48,888 --> 00:29:51,155
You put Cerreta and Logan
at the water cooler.
676
00:29:51,157 --> 00:29:55,926
If he doesn't break,
then read him his rights.
677
00:29:55,928 --> 00:29:57,361
Gestapo tactics, Stone?
678
00:29:57,363 --> 00:29:59,329
Two cops outside?
679
00:29:59,331 --> 00:30:00,898
Why not rubber hoses?
680
00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:02,866
We have reason
to believe
681
00:30:02,868 --> 00:30:05,569
that you are guilty
of criminal facilitation:
682
00:30:05,571 --> 00:30:07,070
providing your mother
683
00:30:07,072 --> 00:30:10,007
with the means to
murder your father.
684
00:30:10,009 --> 00:30:12,209
What?
685
00:30:12,210 --> 00:30:14,410
This is the minor question
you wanted to ask?
686
00:30:14,413 --> 00:30:16,163
You had a key
687
00:30:16,164 --> 00:30:17,914
to your father's apartment,
didn't you?
688
00:30:17,917 --> 00:30:19,416
So?
689
00:30:19,418 --> 00:30:21,585
She got the serial
number off of your key.
690
00:30:21,587 --> 00:30:25,022
She had it made or
you gave it to her.
691
00:30:25,024 --> 00:30:26,456
I... I didn't...
692
00:30:26,458 --> 00:30:28,892
She didn't have a key.
693
00:30:28,894 --> 00:30:31,428
A sworn statement
from the locksmith.
694
00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:33,397
That's it.
This interview has ended.
695
00:30:33,399 --> 00:30:35,165
STONE:
She didn't tell
you, did she?
696
00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:36,650
You don't have
to answer that.
697
00:30:36,651 --> 00:30:38,134
She had it made because she
planned to kill your father.
698
00:30:38,137 --> 00:30:40,070
No, no, that's not
what she said.
699
00:30:40,072 --> 00:30:42,506
No, come on, that is not
admissible. Shut up.
700
00:30:42,508 --> 00:30:44,408
No, you shut up. You
take your hands off him
701
00:30:44,410 --> 00:30:45,876
or I'll have you up on
hindering prosecution.
702
00:30:45,878 --> 00:30:47,945
I'm this boy's lawyer.
703
00:30:47,947 --> 00:30:49,513
You're his mother's lawyer.
704
00:30:49,515 --> 00:30:50,981
And he and his mother have
different interests.
705
00:30:50,983 --> 00:30:52,182
Isn't that right, Jamie?
706
00:30:52,184 --> 00:30:53,851
When you arrested her,
707
00:30:53,853 --> 00:30:58,021
she told me my dad
let her in. Okay?
708
00:30:58,023 --> 00:30:59,489
She was just going over there
709
00:30:59,491 --> 00:31:01,391
to talk about getting
back together again.
710
00:31:01,393 --> 00:31:04,561
She didn't know that Alexandra
was going to be there.
711
00:31:07,233 --> 00:31:10,133
She didn't want
to hurt anybody.
712
00:31:10,135 --> 00:31:13,537
She didn't... she
didn't mean to do it.
713
00:31:16,208 --> 00:31:18,208
That's what she said.
714
00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:20,210
That's what...
715
00:31:20,212 --> 00:31:22,613
that's what she said.
716
00:31:29,221 --> 00:31:31,555
MAN:
I'm not his corporate attorney.
717
00:31:31,557 --> 00:31:34,992
I only represented
Mr. Cullen in his divorce.
718
00:31:34,994 --> 00:31:36,493
What was the status
of the divorce
719
00:31:36,495 --> 00:31:38,161
when Mr. Cullen was killed?
720
00:31:38,163 --> 00:31:39,429
LEHRMAN:
Objection.
721
00:31:39,431 --> 00:31:41,965
The attorney-client privilege
survives death.
722
00:31:41,967 --> 00:31:45,002
I'm asking about documents
in the public record.
723
00:31:45,004 --> 00:31:47,437
On that basis only, proceed.
724
00:31:47,439 --> 00:31:49,506
MAN:
The separation period was up.
725
00:31:49,508 --> 00:31:51,441
He signed the document,
she didn't.
726
00:31:51,443 --> 00:31:53,410
She hit him with a dozen motions
727
00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:55,078
about his finances.
728
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,248
In your expert opinion,
what does that indicate?
729
00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:59,449
Your Honor, is my hearing going
730
00:31:59,451 --> 00:32:01,585
or did Mr. Stone say
about six seconds ago
731
00:32:01,587 --> 00:32:04,454
that he'd only ask
about public documents?
732
00:32:04,456 --> 00:32:06,490
Mr. Gruen is an expert
in divorce litigation,
733
00:32:06,492 --> 00:32:09,326
and I am not asking about
discussions with his client.
734
00:32:09,328 --> 00:32:12,596
Your hearing is fine,
Mr. Lehrman. Sit down.
735
00:32:12,598 --> 00:32:16,166
STONE:
What does it generally mean
when one party
736
00:32:16,168 --> 00:32:18,402
in a divorce
makes repeated motions
737
00:32:18,404 --> 00:32:21,538
against
the other party's assets?
738
00:32:21,540 --> 00:32:23,473
She thought he was hiding money.
739
00:32:23,475 --> 00:32:25,442
Thank you.
740
00:32:25,444 --> 00:32:28,545
What did the documents
you gave Mrs. Cullen
741
00:32:28,547 --> 00:32:31,181
say about Mr. Cullen's
financial condition?
742
00:32:31,183 --> 00:32:32,582
They said
he was broke.
743
00:32:32,584 --> 00:32:35,185
Mr. Cullen provided
the documents.
744
00:32:35,187 --> 00:32:37,487
And, uh, how much
were you charging Mr. Cullen
745
00:32:37,489 --> 00:32:39,222
for your expert services?
746
00:32:39,224 --> 00:32:41,091
350 an hour.
747
00:32:41,093 --> 00:32:42,492
Nice work.
748
00:32:42,494 --> 00:32:44,594
How much did you bill him
just before he died?
749
00:32:44,596 --> 00:32:46,363
About $7,000.
750
00:32:46,365 --> 00:32:47,364
Did he pay that bill?
751
00:32:47,366 --> 00:32:48,365
He did.
752
00:32:48,367 --> 00:32:49,499
How?
753
00:32:49,501 --> 00:32:51,635
In cash.
754
00:32:51,637 --> 00:32:54,004
Alexandra Beckett
was my boss
755
00:32:54,006 --> 00:32:56,006
and she was my friend.
756
00:32:56,008 --> 00:32:59,042
Had you ever seen the defendant,
Melanie Cullen, before today?
757
00:33:00,512 --> 00:33:03,613
Yes, about six weeks
before Alexandra died
758
00:33:03,615 --> 00:33:07,317
that woman walked onto our floor
at Christie's.
759
00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:10,287
Alexandra stopped talking
to the customer
760
00:33:10,289 --> 00:33:12,589
and she went into the office.
761
00:33:12,591 --> 00:33:15,592
She told me she didn't want
to talk to her.
762
00:33:15,594 --> 00:33:18,195
Was that the first time
you'd seen the defendant?
763
00:33:18,197 --> 00:33:21,498
She came about two other times.
764
00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:24,234
Once Alexandra
was off.
765
00:33:24,236 --> 00:33:25,602
Once she just hid.
766
00:33:25,604 --> 00:33:26,336
Thank you.
767
00:33:31,210 --> 00:33:34,311
Do you know how Miss Beckett
met Mr. Cullen?
768
00:33:34,313 --> 00:33:36,546
He and his wife bought
some Japanese prints
769
00:33:36,548 --> 00:33:38,548
at one of her sales.
770
00:33:38,550 --> 00:33:41,118
So isn't it possible
that Mrs. Cullen
771
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,420
wanted to speak to Miss Beckett
about upcoming sales?
772
00:33:43,422 --> 00:33:45,422
She was a collector,
wasn't she?
773
00:33:45,424 --> 00:33:48,291
Mrs. Cullen didn't have
any money.
774
00:33:50,662 --> 00:33:52,229
Did the defendant
ask specifically
775
00:33:52,231 --> 00:33:53,663
to see Miss Beckett's apartment?
776
00:33:53,665 --> 00:33:55,665
Yeah. Her, the defendant.
777
00:33:55,667 --> 00:33:58,335
She said she was looking
for a studio.
778
00:33:58,337 --> 00:34:00,203
I say, "I'm the super.
779
00:34:00,205 --> 00:34:02,339
You want the rental agent."
780
00:34:02,341 --> 00:34:04,474
Anyway, there's no vacancies.
781
00:34:04,476 --> 00:34:06,610
She says,
"Here's a hundred bucks."
782
00:34:06,612 --> 00:34:09,212
STONE:
What was the money for?
783
00:34:09,214 --> 00:34:12,282
SUPERINTENDENT:
She wants to see
Miss Beckett's apartment.
784
00:34:12,284 --> 00:34:14,317
Heard she was moving out.
785
00:34:14,319 --> 00:34:17,554
I said, "Maybe, but not
for a couple months yet."
786
00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:19,523
She says, "Here's 200."
787
00:34:19,525 --> 00:34:21,525
I wouldn't show her.
788
00:34:21,527 --> 00:34:23,326
Thank you.
789
00:34:25,230 --> 00:34:28,198
Mr. Kolvino, hasn't anybody
ever paid you
790
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,634
to look at an apartment before?
791
00:34:30,636 --> 00:34:33,570
Sure, but not in this market.
792
00:34:35,107 --> 00:34:36,540
You almost feel sorry for her.
793
00:34:36,542 --> 00:34:38,642
SCHIFF:
I trust the key word
is "almost."
794
00:34:38,644 --> 00:34:40,477
Paul, two months
after my divorce,
795
00:34:40,479 --> 00:34:42,412
I wanted to kill my wife.
I didn't.
796
00:34:42,414 --> 00:34:45,282
SCHIFF:
50% of the marriages
end in divorce.
797
00:34:45,284 --> 00:34:46,450
Everybody starts shooting,
798
00:34:46,452 --> 00:34:48,485
a quarter of the population
is dead.
799
00:34:48,487 --> 00:34:50,220
Don't count on that jury.
800
00:34:50,222 --> 00:34:52,689
But my premeditation case--
halfway there.
801
00:34:52,691 --> 00:34:55,725
The son testifies,
Melanie Cullen is gone.
802
00:34:58,630 --> 00:35:02,232
Two years on the job.
803
00:35:02,234 --> 00:35:03,600
My first murder case.
804
00:35:03,602 --> 00:35:06,736
I said to myself, "The jury will
be out in 30 minutes.
805
00:35:06,738 --> 00:35:08,638
Guilty."
806
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,373
And a day later
807
00:35:10,375 --> 00:35:12,142
they acquitted.
808
00:35:12,144 --> 00:35:14,678
Six days. They convicted.
809
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,546
A lousy six days.
810
00:35:16,548 --> 00:35:19,149
( phone ringing )
811
00:35:19,151 --> 00:35:22,185
Yes?
812
00:35:23,555 --> 00:35:26,156
Tell him he'll call him back.
813
00:35:26,158 --> 00:35:27,757
Thank you.
814
00:35:29,561 --> 00:35:31,661
Lehrman wants to talk.
815
00:35:31,663 --> 00:35:34,664
You get a decent deal, take it.
816
00:35:34,666 --> 00:35:37,567
Manslaughter two. One count.
817
00:35:37,569 --> 00:35:39,503
Two dead bodies. Two counts.
818
00:35:39,505 --> 00:35:41,271
Manslaughter one. 15 Years.
819
00:35:41,273 --> 00:35:44,708
Maybe the jury believes
she was following Miss Beckett,
820
00:35:44,710 --> 00:35:47,744
but she was acting crazy
when she did it.
821
00:35:47,746 --> 00:35:49,546
Six years.
822
00:35:51,450 --> 00:35:53,750
12 years. End of conversation.
823
00:35:53,752 --> 00:35:56,286
Look, you're not going
to get anyplace...
824
00:35:56,288 --> 00:35:57,687
Melanie...
825
00:35:57,689 --> 00:36:00,290
Please...
826
00:36:00,292 --> 00:36:02,559
12 years in jail?
827
00:36:02,561 --> 00:36:05,395
I'd be an old woman.
828
00:36:05,397 --> 00:36:07,397
That's more
829
00:36:07,399 --> 00:36:09,633
than Alexandra Beckett will be.
830
00:36:09,635 --> 00:36:15,705
I gave him my life
and he just threw it away.
831
00:36:15,707 --> 00:36:21,578
Look, I am not a used piece
of furniture, Mr. Stone.
832
00:36:21,580 --> 00:36:24,614
I'm not some end table
that you replace
833
00:36:24,616 --> 00:36:28,752
because it gets nicks and chips
and the styles change.
834
00:36:28,754 --> 00:36:31,521
And so you shot your husband.
835
00:36:37,596 --> 00:36:40,697
I hadn't planned to kill him.
836
00:36:40,699 --> 00:36:43,366
You know what, Mrs. Cullen?
837
00:36:43,368 --> 00:36:45,869
I don't believe you.
838
00:36:49,374 --> 00:36:52,342
There are women on the jury.
839
00:36:52,344 --> 00:36:54,744
They'll believe me.
840
00:36:54,746 --> 00:36:58,582
I won't be a victim anymore.
841
00:37:04,256 --> 00:37:07,257
STONE:
Did she tell you
how she killed him?
842
00:37:07,259 --> 00:37:11,294
She knew my father's gun
was in the dresser.
843
00:37:11,296 --> 00:37:13,630
STONE:
Did you have a key
to your father's apartment?
844
00:37:13,632 --> 00:37:16,366
Yes.
845
00:37:16,368 --> 00:37:18,768
Did you ever give that key
846
00:37:18,770 --> 00:37:20,437
to your mother?
847
00:37:22,608 --> 00:37:24,341
No.
848
00:37:24,343 --> 00:37:25,709
She had her own.
849
00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:29,913
What?
850
00:37:42,361 --> 00:37:43,793
You are under oath,
Mr. Cullen.
851
00:37:43,795 --> 00:37:47,530
My father told me
to give her the serial number
852
00:37:47,532 --> 00:37:49,599
so she could make a copy
853
00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:52,636
so she could move out
the rest of her things
854
00:37:52,638 --> 00:37:54,337
whenever she wanted.
855
00:37:58,577 --> 00:38:00,343
Recess, Your Honor.
856
00:38:00,345 --> 00:38:01,444
Recess. Ten minutes.
857
00:38:01,446 --> 00:38:02,779
( bangs gavel )
858
00:38:09,488 --> 00:38:10,487
She got to him.
859
00:38:10,489 --> 00:38:11,554
She's his mother.
860
00:38:11,556 --> 00:38:12,922
I don't know
who to slam first--
861
00:38:12,924 --> 00:38:14,691
the kid for perjury
or Lehrman for suborning.
862
00:38:14,693 --> 00:38:16,426
He gave us the gun--
without his testimony,
863
00:38:16,428 --> 00:38:17,878
we didn't have
a murder weapon.
864
00:38:17,879 --> 00:38:19,329
Without the key, we've
got no premeditation.
865
00:38:19,331 --> 00:38:20,931
Look, go easy, Ben.
866
00:38:20,932 --> 00:38:22,532
To the jury, he's half way
to being an orphan.
867
00:38:22,534 --> 00:38:23,700
You're trying
to finish the job.
868
00:38:23,702 --> 00:38:24,801
Please, just get
the deposition.
869
00:38:26,838 --> 00:38:28,838
"I didn't know my mother
had a..."
870
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,807
Louder, Mr. Cullen.
871
00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:33,710
"If she copied my key,
she did so
872
00:38:33,712 --> 00:38:35,612
without my knowledge."
873
00:38:35,614 --> 00:38:36,846
Did you sign that?
874
00:38:36,848 --> 00:38:38,581
I said what you wanted.
You confused me.
875
00:38:38,583 --> 00:38:40,717
Confused you? How old
are you, Mr. Cullen?
876
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,852
Twenty-two.
And when did you
graduate from college?
877
00:38:42,854 --> 00:38:44,421
My father was murdered.
878
00:38:44,423 --> 00:38:45,522
You brought
policemen with you.
879
00:38:45,523 --> 00:38:46,622
You said you were
going to arrest me
880
00:38:46,625 --> 00:38:47,924
if I didn't say
what you wanted to hear.
881
00:38:47,926 --> 00:38:50,860
STONE:
That has nothing to do
with the proceedings.
882
00:38:50,862 --> 00:38:53,463
Now what? You want to put
Cerreta and Logan on the stand?
883
00:38:53,465 --> 00:38:54,931
They're going to say
sure they were there,
884
00:38:54,933 --> 00:38:56,466
they were smiling
the whole time.
885
00:38:56,468 --> 00:38:57,500
I shouldn't have taken them.
886
00:38:57,502 --> 00:38:58,702
You wanted to arrest the kid.
887
00:38:58,704 --> 00:39:00,370
It would look terrific
to a jury.
888
00:39:00,372 --> 00:39:01,955
They'll convict you.
889
00:39:01,956 --> 00:39:03,539
Why if we put Lehrman
on the stand?
890
00:39:03,542 --> 00:39:04,874
He's not the kid's attorney,
891
00:39:04,876 --> 00:39:06,609
and I don't think
he'd perjure himself.
892
00:39:06,611 --> 00:39:07,877
Oh, that's beautiful.
893
00:39:07,879 --> 00:39:10,013
A defense attorney as a witness.
894
00:39:10,015 --> 00:39:11,481
Judge Becky Stein.
895
00:39:11,483 --> 00:39:13,750
Not going to happen.
Let it drop.
896
00:39:13,752 --> 00:39:15,618
Lehrman's changed
his witness list.
897
00:39:15,620 --> 00:39:17,420
Mrs. Cullen's up first.
898
00:39:17,422 --> 00:39:18,939
Oh, great.
899
00:39:18,940 --> 00:39:20,457
Get out your handkerchiefs.
900
00:39:21,026 --> 00:39:24,761
I just went over
to talk to him.
901
00:39:24,763 --> 00:39:27,497
I thought things
were getting better.
902
00:39:27,499 --> 00:39:31,735
I thought we might
get back together.
903
00:39:31,737 --> 00:39:34,771
We had 25 years.
904
00:39:34,773 --> 00:39:37,040
You knew he'd been
seeing someone else?
905
00:39:37,042 --> 00:39:38,775
A little fling.
906
00:39:38,777 --> 00:39:40,477
Men do that.
907
00:39:40,479 --> 00:39:43,513
But you did not know
908
00:39:43,515 --> 00:39:45,415
she would be there?
909
00:39:45,417 --> 00:39:46,516
No.
910
00:39:46,518 --> 00:39:49,052
And then I saw her in my...
911
00:39:52,524 --> 00:39:54,457
in my bed.
912
00:39:54,459 --> 00:39:57,994
She told me to get out
913
00:39:57,996 --> 00:40:00,430
of my bedroom.
914
00:40:00,432 --> 00:40:02,532
And I saw my...
915
00:40:04,803 --> 00:40:07,604
I knew it was all over.
916
00:40:07,606 --> 00:40:08,872
I'd been kidding myself.
917
00:40:08,874 --> 00:40:13,009
Over-the-hill, middle-aged woman
kidding herself
918
00:40:13,011 --> 00:40:17,847
and this young, rich girl
looking at me.
919
00:40:17,849 --> 00:40:20,884
I felt so pathetic.
920
00:40:20,886 --> 00:40:24,754
So pathetic!
921
00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:28,725
I wanted to kill myself.
922
00:40:28,727 --> 00:40:30,927
That's all...
923
00:40:32,497 --> 00:40:35,064
that's all I remember.
924
00:40:35,066 --> 00:40:36,533
I'm sorry.
925
00:40:36,535 --> 00:40:38,635
I'm so sorry.
926
00:40:44,009 --> 00:40:45,775
Your witness.
927
00:40:55,754 --> 00:40:58,688
Mrs. Cullen...
928
00:40:58,690 --> 00:41:01,624
Mrs. Cullen?
929
00:41:01,626 --> 00:41:03,960
How many times
did you shoot them?
930
00:41:03,962 --> 00:41:05,562
I don't remember.
931
00:41:08,733 --> 00:41:13,736
Do you remember asking your son
to lie the night of the murder?
932
00:41:13,738 --> 00:41:15,138
I was afraid.
933
00:41:15,140 --> 00:41:17,607
I'm sorry.
934
00:41:17,609 --> 00:41:22,545
Do you remember asking your son
to lie for you at this trial?
935
00:41:25,016 --> 00:41:28,818
I told him to tell the truth.
936
00:41:33,758 --> 00:41:35,725
Nothing matters.
937
00:41:37,062 --> 00:41:39,562
Nothing matters anymore.
938
00:41:44,536 --> 00:41:46,035
You want to do what?
939
00:41:46,037 --> 00:41:47,770
Juries like to compromise.
940
00:41:47,772 --> 00:41:50,039
If they can choose between
murder two, manslaughter
941
00:41:50,041 --> 00:41:51,774
or acquittal,
they'll choose manslaughter.
942
00:41:51,776 --> 00:41:53,710
Good. She'll go to prison.
943
00:41:55,780 --> 00:41:57,547
For four years.
944
00:41:57,549 --> 00:41:59,148
For two deaths.
945
00:41:59,150 --> 00:42:01,718
If we drop
the manslaughter charge
946
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:03,052
they'll pick murder.
947
00:42:03,054 --> 00:42:04,554
25 to life.
948
00:42:04,556 --> 00:42:05,788
Or they'll acquit.
949
00:42:05,790 --> 00:42:07,056
She's a cold-blooded killer.
950
00:42:07,058 --> 00:42:08,157
She could walk.
951
00:42:08,159 --> 00:42:09,792
My case has made premeditation.
952
00:42:09,794 --> 00:42:11,127
The jury won't let that happen.
953
00:42:11,129 --> 00:42:15,064
Pride goeth before a fall.
954
00:42:15,066 --> 00:42:18,868
I'll send you flowers
in the intensive care unit.
955
00:42:23,942 --> 00:42:25,808
I can't do it, Ben.
956
00:42:25,810 --> 00:42:27,777
The evidence cuts both ways.
957
00:42:27,779 --> 00:42:29,946
It is within
our discretion,
958
00:42:29,948 --> 00:42:32,048
so the people request
the manslaughter counts
959
00:42:32,050 --> 00:42:34,083
not be submitted
to the jury.
960
00:42:34,085 --> 00:42:37,220
You drop manslaughter
and the jury convicts on murder
961
00:42:37,222 --> 00:42:38,721
automatic appeal.
962
00:42:38,723 --> 00:42:40,623
STONE:
Not if you don't object.
963
00:42:40,625 --> 00:42:43,192
I am representing Mrs. Cullen.
964
00:42:43,194 --> 00:42:45,995
If the jury believes her and
the manslaughter counts are gone
965
00:42:45,997 --> 00:42:47,096
she goes home
tomorrow afternoon.
966
00:42:47,098 --> 00:42:49,699
If he accepts this, Ben
967
00:42:49,701 --> 00:42:52,068
I'm going to make it
absolutely clear
968
00:42:52,070 --> 00:42:55,204
they must believe
beyond a scintilla of doubt
969
00:42:55,206 --> 00:42:57,840
that she committed
premeditated murder
970
00:42:57,842 --> 00:42:59,108
or they acquit.
971
00:43:00,979 --> 00:43:03,112
Beyond a scintilla?
972
00:43:03,114 --> 00:43:05,915
A mini-scintilla.
973
00:43:10,689 --> 00:43:13,823
Was Mrs. Cullen confused,
emotional, suicidal?
974
00:43:13,825 --> 00:43:17,026
This is what Melanie Cullen did.
975
00:43:17,028 --> 00:43:19,062
She stalked Alexandra Beckett.
976
00:43:19,064 --> 00:43:22,031
She had a key made
to the new lock
977
00:43:22,033 --> 00:43:24,901
on Edward Cullen's apartment.
978
00:43:24,903 --> 00:43:27,770
She went there after dark
and let herself in.
979
00:43:27,772 --> 00:43:31,174
She helped herself
to the gun
980
00:43:31,176 --> 00:43:32,976
that she knew was there.
981
00:43:34,879 --> 00:43:36,879
She ran away.
982
00:43:36,881 --> 00:43:38,881
She disposed of the gun.
983
00:43:38,883 --> 00:43:42,752
She convinced her son
to give her a phony alibi.
984
00:43:42,754 --> 00:43:45,755
She lied to the police.
985
00:43:45,757 --> 00:43:48,791
She lied to her son.
986
00:43:48,793 --> 00:43:50,860
She lied to you.
987
00:43:52,831 --> 00:43:55,698
She shot and killed two people
988
00:43:55,700 --> 00:44:01,304
in an act
of cold and calculated murder.
989
00:44:04,976 --> 00:44:07,944
Don't let her get away with it.
990
00:44:12,917 --> 00:44:14,250
The question is not whether
991
00:44:14,252 --> 00:44:18,254
the defendant killed
Mr. Cullen and Miss Beckett.
992
00:44:18,256 --> 00:44:20,990
The only question
for you to resolve
993
00:44:20,992 --> 00:44:23,893
is that of her state of mind.
994
00:44:23,895 --> 00:44:28,164
You must find,
beyond any reasonable doubt
995
00:44:28,166 --> 00:44:30,166
that she did not act
996
00:44:30,168 --> 00:44:35,938
under the influence of
extreme emotional disturbance.
997
00:44:35,940 --> 00:44:39,275
You must find that she did
intend with premeditation
998
00:44:39,277 --> 00:44:41,210
to cause the deaths
999
00:44:41,212 --> 00:44:43,846
of two people
1000
00:44:43,848 --> 00:44:46,949
or you must find her not guilty.
1001
00:44:48,787 --> 00:44:53,256
Never seen you
like this before.
1002
00:44:53,258 --> 00:44:57,326
I have never done anything
this potentially stupid before.
1003
00:44:57,328 --> 00:44:59,862
I just pray to god
1004
00:44:59,864 --> 00:45:03,266
that when I get out of here,
I'm not competing
1005
00:45:03,268 --> 00:45:06,002
with Melanie Cullen
for an uptown cab.
1006
00:45:06,004 --> 00:45:10,139
The jury just finished dinner
catered from Walter's.
1007
00:45:10,141 --> 00:45:13,142
Hope you don't have
a lousy six days.
1008
00:45:13,144 --> 00:45:15,878
Well, it's four hours.
It's already lousy.
1009
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:17,113
Good night, gentlemen.
1010
00:45:17,115 --> 00:45:18,247
Good night.
1011
00:45:18,249 --> 00:45:20,316
( phone ringing )
1012
00:45:26,758 --> 00:45:28,858
Stone.
1013
00:45:32,297 --> 00:45:34,030
Just a minute.
1014
00:45:34,032 --> 00:45:36,032
( presses hold button )
1015
00:45:36,034 --> 00:45:37,300
It's Lehrman.
1016
00:45:37,302 --> 00:45:39,769
He's pacing, too.
1017
00:45:39,771 --> 00:45:42,004
He'll take two counts
of man one.
1018
00:45:42,006 --> 00:45:43,873
She'll do
nine years.
1019
00:45:43,875 --> 00:45:44,874
It's more than four.
1020
00:45:44,876 --> 00:45:46,943
Less than 25.
1021
00:45:50,849 --> 00:45:52,281
Your case.
1022
00:45:52,283 --> 00:45:54,383
And my stomach.
1023
00:46:00,425 --> 00:46:02,391
Deal.
1024
00:46:06,164 --> 00:46:08,831
Your role was no less crucial
1025
00:46:08,833 --> 00:46:10,933
because your verdict
was not required.
1026
00:46:10,935 --> 00:46:12,201
I thank you.
1027
00:46:12,203 --> 00:46:13,903
You are excused.
1028
00:46:19,911 --> 00:46:22,912
Your Honor,
move to continue bail
1029
00:46:22,914 --> 00:46:24,413
until sentencing.
1030
00:46:24,415 --> 00:46:26,415
Motion to continue granted.
1031
00:46:26,417 --> 00:46:28,684
( bangs gavel )
1032
00:46:28,685 --> 00:46:30,952
MAN:
Ten minutes later,
it would have been murder.
1033
00:46:30,955 --> 00:46:32,321
We were voting.
1034
00:46:32,323 --> 00:46:35,958
The way she used her son
made us all furious.
1035
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:37,326
If only the kid
hadn't lied.
1036
00:46:37,328 --> 00:46:39,195
If your mother
killed your father...
1037
00:46:39,197 --> 00:46:40,196
I wouldn't have lied.
1038
00:46:40,198 --> 00:46:41,230
What's she up to?
1039
00:46:41,232 --> 00:46:43,065
Rehearsing
for the parole board.
1040
00:46:43,067 --> 00:46:45,067
I don't know what happened.
1041
00:46:45,069 --> 00:46:46,335
I don't remember.
1042
00:46:46,337 --> 00:46:49,071
I went there
to talk to Eddie.
1043
00:46:49,073 --> 00:46:51,941
I thought everything
would be all right
1044
00:46:51,943 --> 00:46:54,377
and that we could
work everything out.
1045
00:46:54,379 --> 00:46:56,946
We were married for 25 years.
1046
00:46:56,948 --> 00:46:59,348
I thought everything
would be all right.
1047
00:46:59,350 --> 00:47:01,884
I've always loved Eddie.
1048
00:47:01,886 --> 00:47:04,020
I've always loved Eddie...
1049
00:47:09,961 --> 00:47:14,130
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