1 00:00:01,370 --> 00:00:03,201 In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:03,272 --> 00:00:06,969 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: 3 00:00:07,043 --> 00:00:08,942 The police who investigate crime 4 00:00:09,010 --> 00:00:11,774 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,847 --> 00:00:13,542 These are their stories. 6 00:00:15,150 --> 00:00:16,549 Sounds like Desert Storm. 7 00:00:16,618 --> 00:00:17,812 No, it's Con Ed. 8 00:00:17,886 --> 00:00:19,854 They're smarter than Saddam. 9 00:00:19,921 --> 00:00:22,411 Work all night, wake everybody up. 10 00:00:22,823 --> 00:00:24,723 We turn on the lights, the tube... 11 00:00:24,825 --> 00:00:27,316 And they get to bill everybody for 24 hours. 12 00:00:27,394 --> 00:00:29,521 You see what I mean? It's a conspiracy. 13 00:00:36,536 --> 00:00:38,333 I'll start up on two. 14 00:00:42,542 --> 00:00:44,908 Oh, my God. Ferguson, get up here. 15 00:00:49,348 --> 00:00:51,976 This door shouldn't be open. 16 00:00:57,155 --> 00:00:58,678 Call the cops. 17 00:01:03,895 --> 00:01:05,920 Dr. Walsh? Fay? 18 00:01:06,931 --> 00:01:09,559 She's been on the... the faculty 12 years. 19 00:01:09,867 --> 00:01:12,960 Well, some people have their priorities a little bit screwed up. 20 00:01:13,036 --> 00:01:16,005 I knew they were idiots taking cases of rats. 21 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,034 But I never dreamed they were dangerous. 22 00:01:20,110 --> 00:01:21,771 You heard from them before? 23 00:01:21,845 --> 00:01:24,369 Well, one thing about lunatics, they make a lot of noise. 24 00:01:24,446 --> 00:01:26,209 We've had our share of demonstrations. 25 00:01:26,282 --> 00:01:28,375 These lunatics, you know any of their names? 26 00:01:28,450 --> 00:01:30,247 I- I'm the Dean of Students. 27 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:32,378 You'd have to ask someone in the Biology Department. 28 00:01:32,454 --> 00:01:36,412 Look, if you don't mind, I've been trying to contact her husband. 29 00:01:39,394 --> 00:01:40,622 How's it go? 30 00:01:40,728 --> 00:01:42,821 "No more pencils, no more books?" 31 00:01:42,897 --> 00:01:45,297 Professor here took one in the back. 32 00:01:45,366 --> 00:01:47,800 Large entry wound, large caliber. 33 00:01:48,136 --> 00:01:50,035 Dead no more than a couple of hours. 34 00:01:50,103 --> 00:01:52,230 You'd think with all the students around the campus, 35 00:01:52,306 --> 00:01:53,671 somebody would've noticed. 36 00:01:53,740 --> 00:01:55,367 Con Ed, late shift. 37 00:01:55,442 --> 00:01:58,502 We got here, you couldn't hear Axel Rose. 38 00:02:00,247 --> 00:02:02,806 Hey, Flynn, you know, to catch the bad guys, 39 00:02:02,882 --> 00:02:05,043 we're gonna need some evidence. 40 00:02:05,117 --> 00:02:07,915 Couple of witnesses wouldn't hurt, either. 41 00:02:07,987 --> 00:02:09,477 Well, we got 42 00:02:09,555 --> 00:02:11,546 plenty of witnesses, Lennie. 43 00:02:12,992 --> 00:02:16,119 And with a hunk of cheese, maybe they'll talk. 44 00:03:39,805 --> 00:03:42,205 I should have made her come along. 45 00:03:46,944 --> 00:03:49,970 Cape May, Jersey shore. We have a house there. 46 00:03:50,882 --> 00:03:53,180 But it was always work with Fay. 47 00:03:55,218 --> 00:03:59,052 She hadrt left the lab for six months, except to sleep or eat. 48 00:03:59,122 --> 00:04:01,352 These animal rights people... 49 00:04:01,558 --> 00:04:04,026 They're the animals, Detective. 50 00:04:05,529 --> 00:04:08,622 Were the rats in your wife's experiments killed? 51 00:04:10,399 --> 00:04:13,300 Before you step on the sympathy train, Detective 52 00:04:13,369 --> 00:04:16,361 think about the countless people, real live human beings 53 00:04:16,472 --> 00:04:18,872 who would benefit from her work. 54 00:04:23,344 --> 00:04:26,370 I pleaded with the university to add security. 55 00:04:26,548 --> 00:04:28,539 She got threats recently? 56 00:04:29,217 --> 00:04:33,346 A five-minute spot on Frontline 57 00:04:33,420 --> 00:04:36,218 and Fay became a target for the lunatic fringe. 58 00:04:36,857 --> 00:04:38,757 Picketing, hate mail. 59 00:04:42,062 --> 00:04:44,292 When I got home this morning, 60 00:04:44,998 --> 00:04:47,488 there's this message on the machine. 61 00:04:47,867 --> 00:04:50,097 Do you mind if we listen to it? 62 00:04:50,169 --> 00:04:52,330 It was so profane, I erased it. 63 00:04:53,005 --> 00:04:55,098 I didn't wanna upset Fay. 64 00:04:57,610 --> 00:05:00,203 We got four or five like that a month. 65 00:05:03,181 --> 00:05:04,671 You'd think 66 00:05:05,851 --> 00:05:08,183 people would have better things. 67 00:05:10,689 --> 00:05:13,555 You wouldn't have saved any of that mail? 68 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,452 Yeah. 69 00:05:22,767 --> 00:05:25,030 How'd you like to live there, Detective? 70 00:05:25,101 --> 00:05:27,126 Yeah, well, it's not exactly the Waldorf. 71 00:05:27,203 --> 00:05:28,670 You're being generous. 72 00:05:28,738 --> 00:05:31,070 If the minks survive their own cannibalism, 73 00:05:31,141 --> 00:05:33,006 the ranchers choose between electrocution, 74 00:05:33,076 --> 00:05:34,907 gassing or breaking their necks. 75 00:05:34,978 --> 00:05:38,037 And voila, a fur coat for the wife. 76 00:05:38,113 --> 00:05:40,206 So what are you doing to stop it? 77 00:05:40,282 --> 00:05:43,217 We demonstrate, write letters, organize boycotts. 78 00:05:43,285 --> 00:05:46,254 Anything to draw attention to the cause of non-humans. 79 00:05:46,321 --> 00:05:47,913 What's anything? 80 00:05:49,457 --> 00:05:51,152 Fay Walsh, right? 81 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:54,125 We figured we'd be on your Top 10 list. 82 00:05:54,228 --> 00:05:56,287 Somebody did sign your name on the wall. 83 00:05:56,364 --> 00:05:57,763 It's not the first time. 84 00:05:57,832 --> 00:06:00,562 I didn't like what Dr. Walsh was doing, Detective, 85 00:06:00,635 --> 00:06:02,261 but I believe in life, 86 00:06:02,335 --> 00:06:04,098 and that includes human life. 87 00:06:04,171 --> 00:06:06,469 Well, maybe some of your members aren't as generous. 88 00:06:06,573 --> 00:06:08,200 You think we could get a list of them? 89 00:06:08,275 --> 00:06:10,106 You have a briefcase? 90 00:06:10,944 --> 00:06:13,469 We have over 10,000 members. 91 00:06:15,681 --> 00:06:18,149 They got 2,000 members in Manattan alone. 92 00:06:18,250 --> 00:06:19,911 I didn't know we had that many animals. 93 00:06:19,985 --> 00:06:21,714 You ought to ride the subways. 94 00:06:21,787 --> 00:06:24,415 Maybe we can narrow it down to a couple of hundred with yellows. 95 00:06:24,490 --> 00:06:26,753 Uh, yeah, maybe I can save you some time. 96 00:06:26,891 --> 00:06:29,416 Last year, Brooklyn, the, uh, research facility 97 00:06:29,494 --> 00:06:31,962 of B & C Pharmaceuticals was firebombed. 98 00:06:32,030 --> 00:06:34,794 Yeah, let me guess, they used animals in their experiments. 99 00:06:34,866 --> 00:06:38,302 Yeah, the parking lot, somebody painted "Innocent Victims" in red. 100 00:06:38,369 --> 00:06:39,835 Did anybody stake a claim? 101 00:06:39,903 --> 00:06:41,734 Yeah, they arrested a Dirk Chesney 102 00:06:41,805 --> 00:06:45,605 founder of some underground organization, "The Animal Rights Crusade." 103 00:06:45,676 --> 00:06:49,840 Boys in the Six-Four did a heck of a workup, but not enough to go to trial. 104 00:06:51,148 --> 00:06:52,546 For an underground organization, 105 00:06:52,615 --> 00:06:54,845 they got a higher profile than Cher. 106 00:06:54,917 --> 00:06:57,579 Hmm, the Animal Rights Crusade has been connected 107 00:06:57,653 --> 00:07:00,019 with three laboratory bombings since '89. 108 00:07:00,122 --> 00:07:02,352 Every time, signed their name in red paint. 109 00:07:02,458 --> 00:07:03,925 Hunting season last year 110 00:07:03,993 --> 00:07:07,086 Chesney led some protestors through the woods in Pennsylvania. 111 00:07:07,162 --> 00:07:08,424 They chased away the deer. 112 00:07:08,496 --> 00:07:11,795 Talk about stupid, Chesney was shot through the calf. 113 00:07:11,967 --> 00:07:14,367 Maybe he should've stayed in school. 114 00:07:14,936 --> 00:07:19,372 Chesney dropped out of Manattan Institute of Technology in 1979. 115 00:07:19,907 --> 00:07:22,967 Hey, wonder if he kept his student ID. 116 00:07:23,043 --> 00:07:26,012 You know, Judge Beame spends his vacations deer hunting. 117 00:07:26,113 --> 00:07:29,048 I bet he thinks we have enough for a warrant. 118 00:07:31,684 --> 00:07:34,312 Yeah, my wife wanted to hold out for a clean-cut type. 119 00:07:34,387 --> 00:07:36,719 I told her, you can't judge a book, you know, by its cover. 120 00:07:36,789 --> 00:07:40,816 Chesney never bothers anyone, never asks for anything, pays rent on time. 121 00:07:42,028 --> 00:07:43,995 Jeez, the lease says no pets. 122 00:07:44,529 --> 00:07:46,554 What's it say about a zoo? 123 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,934 I'm gonna call my lawyer. 124 00:07:51,136 --> 00:07:54,435 Whers the last time this guy cleaned the litter box? 125 00:08:01,979 --> 00:08:03,776 Animal Watch. 126 00:08:08,351 --> 00:08:10,148 "No Future For Fur." 127 00:08:13,223 --> 00:08:15,123 He's got some library. 128 00:08:15,191 --> 00:08:16,954 The Anarchist's Guidebook, 129 00:08:17,027 --> 00:08:19,120 Handbook to Civil Disobedience, 130 00:08:19,195 --> 00:08:21,128 Discourses on Dissent. 131 00:08:21,196 --> 00:08:24,256 Just wastes a lot of paper to keep saying the same thing. 132 00:08:24,333 --> 00:08:26,164 What will the Tree People say? 133 00:08:29,738 --> 00:08:31,501 Dirk Chesney? 134 00:08:32,741 --> 00:08:34,173 Hey, come here! 135 00:08:34,242 --> 00:08:35,300 Let me go. 136 00:08:35,376 --> 00:08:37,105 Put your hands up! Put your hands up! 137 00:08:37,178 --> 00:08:38,645 I didn't do anything! 138 00:08:38,713 --> 00:08:41,841 Oh, yeah? What's your hurry, then, huh? 139 00:08:45,953 --> 00:08:48,547 I suppose you didn't do anything with this, huh? 140 00:08:48,622 --> 00:08:51,716 I think Mr. Chesney'd be more comfortable down at the station. 141 00:08:51,792 --> 00:08:53,259 I know I would. 142 00:08:56,630 --> 00:08:58,290 The measure of a society 143 00:08:58,364 --> 00:09:00,696 is the way it cares for its helpless members. 144 00:09:00,766 --> 00:09:04,224 And you're raising human consciousness by murdering scientists? 145 00:09:04,303 --> 00:09:06,168 You have a better way? 146 00:09:06,305 --> 00:09:07,897 Is that a confession? 147 00:09:08,107 --> 00:09:09,540 Yeah, it is. 148 00:09:10,276 --> 00:09:14,541 I confess to being a member of the most murderous race in history. 149 00:09:14,713 --> 00:09:17,614 Savages aren't in the jungles, they're in the laboratories. 150 00:09:17,716 --> 00:09:19,946 Does that include the Manattan Institute? 151 00:09:20,051 --> 00:09:22,383 There are victims, and there are victimizers. 152 00:09:22,454 --> 00:09:24,614 So you're a hero to every rat. 153 00:09:24,722 --> 00:09:27,623 Over the past 10 years, Manattan Institute 154 00:09:27,725 --> 00:09:31,491 has slaughtered shore birds, rabbits, dogs. 155 00:09:31,595 --> 00:09:34,962 They're animals, not specimens to be used and killed. 156 00:09:35,099 --> 00:09:37,293 What comes around goes around. 157 00:09:37,734 --> 00:09:41,101 And what goes around for murder is life in a little cage. 158 00:09:41,170 --> 00:09:42,933 But no one comes to let you out. 159 00:09:43,006 --> 00:09:45,031 I didn't kill that woman. 160 00:09:45,174 --> 00:09:47,642 But don't expect a sympathy card. 161 00:09:47,910 --> 00:09:50,776 Okay, so what picket line were you on Sunday night? 162 00:09:50,846 --> 00:09:52,905 Try Dr. Arnold Chen. 163 00:09:53,648 --> 00:09:55,741 And what animal was he torturing? 164 00:09:55,817 --> 00:09:58,809 Me. Dr. Chen is my acupuncturist. 165 00:10:11,665 --> 00:10:14,394 If you wanna keep him, you better find a different gun. 166 00:10:14,467 --> 00:10:16,697 Fay Walsh was shot with a. 410. 167 00:10:17,937 --> 00:10:20,303 Someone tiptoes through the campus gates 168 00:10:20,373 --> 00:10:22,637 with a shotgun, and nobody notices? 169 00:10:22,776 --> 00:10:25,438 You know, the. 410 is the smallest gauge shotgun made. 170 00:10:25,512 --> 00:10:28,503 Somebody's got a pretty strange sense of humor. 171 00:10:28,747 --> 00:10:30,578 It's the gun of choice for museums. 172 00:10:30,649 --> 00:10:32,844 They use it to collect scientific specimens. 173 00:10:32,918 --> 00:10:34,078 Like bird specimens? 174 00:10:34,153 --> 00:10:35,279 Yeah. 175 00:10:35,354 --> 00:10:37,879 Well, maybe no one took that gun through the campus gates: 176 00:10:37,956 --> 00:10:40,287 Maybe the gun was already there. 177 00:10:42,460 --> 00:10:47,420 Dart gun, 20-gauge, cyanide jars, .410 shotgun. 178 00:10:48,499 --> 00:10:50,592 Nobody's signed it out since '89. 179 00:10:50,668 --> 00:10:53,101 Needed some gulls for a pollution experiment. 180 00:10:53,170 --> 00:10:57,163 I don't think anybody at the Institute had anything to do with it. 181 00:10:57,374 --> 00:10:58,466 There you go... 182 00:10:58,542 --> 00:11:00,635 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 183 00:11:07,483 --> 00:11:10,077 I can almost see my face in the shine. 184 00:11:15,124 --> 00:11:18,388 Smells like someone forgot to sign it out last week. 185 00:11:23,031 --> 00:11:26,023 Didrt anyone clue these people in about firearm safety? 186 00:11:26,134 --> 00:11:27,726 It was locked in the closet. 187 00:11:27,869 --> 00:11:29,461 We got some prints on the door. 188 00:11:29,537 --> 00:11:30,628 And the gun? 189 00:11:30,704 --> 00:11:32,569 The only thing in there that's been cleaned 190 00:11:32,639 --> 00:11:34,004 since the Jets won Super Bowl. 191 00:11:34,074 --> 00:11:36,372 Prints don't match Chesney's. 192 00:11:36,743 --> 00:11:40,577 And Dr. Chen confirmed he had 25 needles in his can Sunday night. 193 00:11:40,681 --> 00:11:42,910 So it wasrt the loony bird. 194 00:11:42,982 --> 00:11:45,075 Well, someone wanted the professor dead. 195 00:11:45,151 --> 00:11:48,450 Yeah, someone with access to the equipment locker. 196 00:11:51,491 --> 00:11:53,083 What's the difference between 197 00:11:53,159 --> 00:11:55,490 a Stalin purge and a Walsh midterm? 198 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,586 Stalin tried to re-educate you before he killed you. 199 00:11:58,864 --> 00:12:00,331 Graduate sense of humor. 200 00:12:00,398 --> 00:12:03,492 I don't think Fay won any Professor of the Year awards. 201 00:12:03,568 --> 00:12:05,229 Did any of these Henny Youngmans 202 00:12:05,303 --> 00:12:06,736 have a key to the equipment room? 203 00:12:06,805 --> 00:12:08,931 Sure, we gave them keys so they wouldn't wake up 204 00:12:09,006 --> 00:12:10,701 the professors after midnight. 205 00:12:10,774 --> 00:12:13,265 Lab Hell. It certainly would put me over the edge. 206 00:12:13,377 --> 00:12:15,709 Listen, you get some sleep, you take the C. 207 00:12:15,779 --> 00:12:17,007 You don't kill the teacher. 208 00:12:17,081 --> 00:12:19,675 You take a C, you don't get your graduate degree. 209 00:12:19,750 --> 00:12:22,149 If you're coming from Beijing with your family honor 210 00:12:22,218 --> 00:12:24,482 riding on that piece of paper. 211 00:12:24,954 --> 00:12:28,219 Oh, I think Fay might have ticked some people off. 212 00:12:28,725 --> 00:12:30,818 Really? You got some names? 213 00:12:30,927 --> 00:12:33,190 I think you'd have to look at her grade book. 214 00:12:37,766 --> 00:12:41,031 Still feels strange being inside a teacher's office. 215 00:12:42,137 --> 00:12:43,229 Oh. 216 00:12:45,740 --> 00:12:47,731 Well, this is typical Fay. 217 00:12:47,808 --> 00:12:49,435 She hadrt even looked at the exams, 218 00:12:49,510 --> 00:12:51,910 and the grades are due in next week. 219 00:12:51,979 --> 00:12:54,379 Wort be the same around here without her. 220 00:12:54,448 --> 00:12:56,973 She ever mention any trouble with the students? 221 00:12:57,051 --> 00:12:58,517 She was a scientist. 222 00:12:58,585 --> 00:13:00,450 Teaching was a necessary evil. 223 00:13:00,554 --> 00:13:02,852 She couldn't even tell you the name of a student. 224 00:13:02,923 --> 00:13:05,221 Oh, still, she filled up a classroom. 225 00:13:05,292 --> 00:13:07,419 Yeah, well, with the boom in biotech, 226 00:13:07,494 --> 00:13:09,485 everybody wants a piece of the pie. 227 00:13:09,563 --> 00:13:12,998 There's really that kind of money in patenting genes? 228 00:13:13,065 --> 00:13:15,761 Fay had venture capitalists taking her out to dinner. 229 00:13:15,834 --> 00:13:18,064 So why didn't she hire a stockbroker 230 00:13:18,137 --> 00:13:20,935 instead of Riggs Investigative Services? 231 00:13:28,246 --> 00:13:30,942 Fay Walsh. Smart lady. 232 00:13:31,583 --> 00:13:33,107 Tsk, a shame. 233 00:13:33,952 --> 00:13:36,419 Yeah. Well, your client checks out, 234 00:13:36,486 --> 00:13:37,851 you don't think about callir us? 235 00:13:37,921 --> 00:13:39,286 Ex-client. 236 00:13:39,790 --> 00:13:41,917 After six months of runnir around in circles, 237 00:13:41,992 --> 00:13:43,584 you start to get dizzy. 238 00:13:43,660 --> 00:13:45,924 Closed the account a couple of weeks ago. 239 00:13:45,996 --> 00:13:48,657 What was it, somebody sneakir into her laboratory? 240 00:13:48,764 --> 00:13:50,061 Try her bedroom. 241 00:13:50,132 --> 00:13:51,861 She thought her husband was cheatir? 242 00:13:51,934 --> 00:13:54,266 Hey, infidelity's my specialty. 243 00:13:55,738 --> 00:13:57,296 This guy's good. 244 00:13:57,373 --> 00:13:59,034 Translation, you never caught them. 245 00:13:59,108 --> 00:14:01,268 Never caught 'em in the act. 246 00:14:02,277 --> 00:14:05,838 Hell, I never even saw them have a cup of coffee together. 247 00:14:05,914 --> 00:14:07,939 But there were other signs. 248 00:14:08,016 --> 00:14:10,814 Letters, lot of telephone hang-ups. 249 00:14:10,919 --> 00:14:12,784 Did you at least get a name? 250 00:14:12,854 --> 00:14:14,047 Susan Boyd. 251 00:14:14,121 --> 00:14:15,952 Redhead, administration. 252 00:14:16,023 --> 00:14:17,820 And not bad-lookir. 253 00:14:18,025 --> 00:14:19,686 How did she sound? 254 00:14:21,161 --> 00:14:24,255 Please, Donald, you promised me. 255 00:14:24,665 --> 00:14:26,598 You know that until we're rid of Fay, 256 00:14:26,666 --> 00:14:28,531 we can't be together completely. 257 00:14:28,635 --> 00:14:30,535 So the sooner the better. 258 00:14:33,439 --> 00:14:35,737 There's no reason to be afraid, sweetheart. 259 00:14:35,808 --> 00:14:37,708 I love you. 260 00:14:38,111 --> 00:14:39,634 I'm with you. 261 00:14:40,479 --> 00:14:43,277 Three weeks ago she left that on his answering machine, 262 00:14:43,348 --> 00:14:46,909 only she didn't know his phone was beir tapped by Riggs. 263 00:14:46,985 --> 00:14:47,952 Any others? 264 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:49,282 Nothing incriminating. 265 00:14:49,354 --> 00:14:50,844 The way I see it, the professor 266 00:14:50,922 --> 00:14:52,718 finally found his nerve. End of story. 267 00:14:52,790 --> 00:14:54,553 Come on, she was talking to a machine, 268 00:14:54,625 --> 00:14:56,456 and I didn't hear Walsh say anything. 269 00:14:56,527 --> 00:14:58,586 He didn't have to. It's evidence of a step 270 00:14:58,663 --> 00:15:00,290 in furtherance of conspiracy. 271 00:15:00,364 --> 00:15:04,061 A conspiracy to do what? I didn't hear her say anything about murder. 272 00:15:04,135 --> 00:15:06,329 Hey, you don't need a Ph. D. To read between the lines. 273 00:15:06,403 --> 00:15:08,496 He had a key to the building and equipment room, 274 00:15:08,571 --> 00:15:10,163 which means he had access to the gun. 275 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,232 He also had access to a divorce lawyer's phone number. 276 00:15:13,343 --> 00:15:17,039 The wife's patents hit, and she's drivir to work in a new Mercedes. 277 00:15:17,146 --> 00:15:20,513 But if they're divorced, hubby is stuck ridir a bus. 278 00:15:23,052 --> 00:15:25,247 Okay, talk to him. 279 00:15:26,522 --> 00:15:28,251 Susan Boyd? 280 00:15:29,258 --> 00:15:31,555 Sure, I've talked to her. She's in my department. 281 00:15:31,659 --> 00:15:33,684 But anything more than that is ridiculous. 282 00:15:33,761 --> 00:15:37,253 We have a tape that implies you were on intimate terms. 283 00:15:38,032 --> 00:15:40,694 I have no idea of what you're talking about. 284 00:15:40,768 --> 00:15:43,201 Your wife hired an investigator. 285 00:15:46,606 --> 00:15:48,005 Oh, my God. 286 00:15:53,947 --> 00:15:56,005 For someone so brilliant, 287 00:15:56,082 --> 00:15:58,846 Fay could be pretty foolish sometimes. 288 00:16:01,187 --> 00:16:04,418 I loved my wife, Detective. 289 00:16:05,591 --> 00:16:08,753 Every time I looked at her, I could still see the grad student 290 00:16:08,860 --> 00:16:11,124 that walked into my classroom 15 years ago. 291 00:16:11,229 --> 00:16:14,426 And what did you see when you looked at Susan Boyd? 292 00:16:14,532 --> 00:16:16,056 I won't dignify that. 293 00:16:17,369 --> 00:16:20,337 Look, this Boyd woman made it embarrassingly clear 294 00:16:20,404 --> 00:16:22,167 that she was attracted to me. 295 00:16:22,239 --> 00:16:23,433 Did you do anything about it? 296 00:16:23,507 --> 00:16:24,997 I ignored it. 297 00:16:27,911 --> 00:16:29,708 I don't know, eight months ago, 298 00:16:29,780 --> 00:16:32,714 Fay received an unsettling phone call from her. 299 00:16:32,782 --> 00:16:35,376 She confronted me, and I reassured her. 300 00:16:35,451 --> 00:16:37,351 I told her it was an infatuation. 301 00:16:37,420 --> 00:16:39,388 And did you confront Ms. Boyd? 302 00:16:39,455 --> 00:16:42,390 Fay and I discussed that, and we thought that 303 00:16:42,558 --> 00:16:45,220 if we just let it be, it would go away. 304 00:16:46,328 --> 00:16:47,852 But, uh, apparently not. 305 00:16:47,929 --> 00:16:49,453 Takir a trip? 306 00:16:54,302 --> 00:16:58,260 I'm scheduled to lecture in Boston tomorrow. 307 00:16:59,206 --> 00:17:02,175 My friends tell me to get on with my life. 308 00:17:03,043 --> 00:17:05,068 I'm not sure that I can. 309 00:17:07,248 --> 00:17:10,842 Hardly a day in mourning, and he's back on the lecture circuit? 310 00:17:10,917 --> 00:17:12,248 When my Uncle Eddie died, 311 00:17:12,318 --> 00:17:13,785 Aunt Ruthie bought a Great Dane 312 00:17:13,853 --> 00:17:15,445 and started knitting sweaters for it. 313 00:17:15,522 --> 00:17:16,989 There's no rules about grief. 314 00:17:17,056 --> 00:17:19,923 Bobby? Yeah, it's Mike. So what you got? 315 00:17:21,961 --> 00:17:23,121 Yeah. 316 00:17:24,663 --> 00:17:27,962 You're kidding. Okay, thanks a lot. 317 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:29,767 LUD's from Susan Boyd. 318 00:17:29,835 --> 00:17:32,633 The night of the murder, she talked to Walsh five times 319 00:17:32,738 --> 00:17:34,330 for a total of 26 minutes. 320 00:17:34,406 --> 00:17:35,566 What about after the murder? 321 00:17:35,641 --> 00:17:39,701 The next day she calls the Marymount Hotel in Boston. 322 00:17:40,077 --> 00:17:42,045 Guess who happens to be staying there? 323 00:17:42,113 --> 00:17:43,580 The grieving professor. 324 00:17:43,648 --> 00:17:48,607 The day after Mrs. Walsh was killed, a Mrs. Walsh calls the hotel 325 00:17:48,685 --> 00:17:51,654 says she'll be joining Mr. Walsh for the trip. 326 00:17:51,755 --> 00:17:54,656 Doesrt sound like a schoolgirl crush to me. 327 00:17:55,091 --> 00:17:57,491 That's crazy. He's a married man. 328 00:17:57,928 --> 00:17:59,919 Don't waste your breath and my time. 329 00:17:59,996 --> 00:18:01,986 Fay Walsh hired an investigator. 330 00:18:02,064 --> 00:18:03,554 Then he must have been confused. 331 00:18:03,632 --> 00:18:06,066 Dr. Walsh and I worked together, that's all. 332 00:18:06,135 --> 00:18:08,968 You were under surveillance for six months. 333 00:18:09,271 --> 00:18:11,068 Well, you pay somebody enough money, 334 00:18:11,140 --> 00:18:13,472 they tend to see things that aren't there. 335 00:18:13,542 --> 00:18:16,066 I get paid by the city, Susan. 336 00:18:16,144 --> 00:18:18,806 I heard the tape of your message to him loud and clear. 337 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,610 I don't know what you're talking about. 338 00:18:22,484 --> 00:18:24,782 Let me put it to you this way. 339 00:18:26,054 --> 00:18:28,681 The jury's gonna hear the same tape I heard. 340 00:18:29,189 --> 00:18:31,180 They catch you in a lie, believe me, 341 00:18:31,325 --> 00:18:33,350 they're gonna go the distance on this. 342 00:18:33,460 --> 00:18:35,826 25 years to life. 343 00:18:39,832 --> 00:18:41,094 All right, 344 00:18:45,371 --> 00:18:48,966 Donald and I were seeing each other. 345 00:18:50,510 --> 00:18:54,036 But I swear to you we had nothing to do with killing Fay. 346 00:18:56,314 --> 00:18:57,611 So why the lie? 347 00:18:57,949 --> 00:18:59,610 Isn't it obvious? 348 00:19:00,185 --> 00:19:03,882 We knew you'd draw the wrong conclusions, and we were right. 349 00:19:05,089 --> 00:19:07,649 On the tape you said you wanted to get rid of Fay. 350 00:19:07,725 --> 00:19:10,455 I was talking about divorce, not murder. 351 00:19:11,328 --> 00:19:13,228 We're civilized people. 352 00:19:14,598 --> 00:19:18,158 Ask as many times as you like, Detective, I can only tell you the truth. 353 00:19:18,234 --> 00:19:21,670 I have never and will never have anything to do with Susan Boyd. 354 00:19:21,738 --> 00:19:23,865 I suppose you werert gonna have anything 355 00:19:23,940 --> 00:19:26,465 to do with her in a hotel in Boston? 356 00:19:26,743 --> 00:19:28,301 What the hell are you talking about? 357 00:19:28,378 --> 00:19:30,811 Reservations for two at the Marymount. 358 00:19:30,879 --> 00:19:33,006 I reserved a room for myself, alone. 359 00:19:33,081 --> 00:19:36,016 And Susan Boyd changed it to a room for two. 360 00:19:36,084 --> 00:19:37,813 And I knew nothing about it. 361 00:19:37,886 --> 00:19:39,786 If you don't mind, Detective. 362 00:19:39,855 --> 00:19:41,982 I spent 10 years as a professor of law. 363 00:19:42,057 --> 00:19:44,388 Groupies come in all shapes and sizes. 364 00:19:44,458 --> 00:19:46,426 This situation is hardly unique. 365 00:19:46,527 --> 00:19:48,927 It is when somebody winds up dead. 366 00:19:49,263 --> 00:19:51,788 Donald stopped loving Fay years ago. 367 00:19:52,333 --> 00:19:53,561 But he didn't wanna hurt her. 368 00:19:53,634 --> 00:19:55,999 That's why he put off the divorce. 369 00:19:56,069 --> 00:19:58,196 That must have made you very angry. 370 00:19:58,271 --> 00:20:00,603 Of course it upset me. 371 00:20:00,941 --> 00:20:02,932 But I was willing to wait. 372 00:20:03,009 --> 00:20:04,237 The night of the murder... 373 00:20:04,311 --> 00:20:06,871 We were together, in my apartment. 374 00:20:07,580 --> 00:20:10,048 We often were when Fay worked late. 375 00:20:11,483 --> 00:20:14,384 It was a kind of an anniversary. 376 00:20:15,287 --> 00:20:16,686 Three years. 377 00:20:17,523 --> 00:20:19,047 He gave me this. 378 00:20:19,124 --> 00:20:20,590 Anyone see you? 379 00:20:20,692 --> 00:20:23,354 No, we fell asleep on the couch. 380 00:20:25,029 --> 00:20:26,792 We didn't kill Fay. 381 00:20:28,132 --> 00:20:29,895 Well, if you were together, Susan, 382 00:20:29,968 --> 00:20:32,027 why did you call him at his apartment? 383 00:20:32,103 --> 00:20:34,593 Well, that wasrt me, that was Donald. 384 00:20:34,771 --> 00:20:37,296 He called Fay before she went to the lab. 385 00:20:37,774 --> 00:20:40,868 See, she thought he was calling from out of town. 386 00:20:41,144 --> 00:20:42,873 It's not a story, for crying out loud. 387 00:20:42,946 --> 00:20:44,709 I spent the weekend alone. 388 00:20:45,215 --> 00:20:47,478 Well, then explain this to me, Professor. 389 00:20:47,583 --> 00:20:51,041 If you were at the house at the shore, and your wife was at the lab, 390 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:53,054 who was in your apartment in Manattan 391 00:20:53,122 --> 00:20:56,250 to answer five phone calls from Susan Boyd? 392 00:20:56,325 --> 00:20:59,191 When I got home, there were obscene phone calls 393 00:20:59,260 --> 00:21:00,591 on my answering machine. 394 00:21:00,662 --> 00:21:02,721 I thought they were from the animal rights people. 395 00:21:02,797 --> 00:21:04,628 Had I known they were from this Boyd woman, 396 00:21:04,699 --> 00:21:06,291 don't you think I would have told you? 397 00:21:06,368 --> 00:21:08,996 Not if you conspired with her to kill your wife. 398 00:21:09,070 --> 00:21:11,663 I loved my wife. I did not kill her! 399 00:21:12,606 --> 00:21:15,871 Wes, help me. You gotta do something here. 400 00:21:16,777 --> 00:21:18,244 Tell me, Detective, 401 00:21:18,312 --> 00:21:22,180 does Fay's investigator have any photos of my client with this woman? 402 00:21:22,416 --> 00:21:24,940 Well, private eye working by himself, 403 00:21:25,018 --> 00:21:26,747 it's pretty tough to cover his apartment 404 00:21:26,819 --> 00:21:29,583 her apartment, and the house at the beach. 405 00:21:29,656 --> 00:21:31,487 Susan Boyd has never been 406 00:21:31,557 --> 00:21:34,185 in my apartment or my beach house 407 00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:36,955 and I certainly haven't set foot inside her apartment. 408 00:21:37,029 --> 00:21:39,827 What a shame. There goes his alibi. 409 00:21:39,998 --> 00:21:41,795 What, she copped to the affair? 410 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:44,597 She said they spent all night together in her apartment. 411 00:21:44,670 --> 00:21:46,535 He's making a lot of noise to the contrary. 412 00:21:46,605 --> 00:21:47,936 Yeah, maybe too much. 413 00:21:48,006 --> 00:21:49,495 Even if they're sleeping together, 414 00:21:49,573 --> 00:21:51,165 doesn't mean they're murderers. 415 00:21:51,242 --> 00:21:54,268 We're talkir about Bonnie and Clyde. 416 00:21:54,345 --> 00:21:56,813 Ten days ago, a woman bought a box of. 410 slugs 417 00:21:56,881 --> 00:21:58,644 at Frank's Guns 'r Stuff, Cape May. 418 00:21:58,716 --> 00:22:01,843 Jersey requires a driver's license and a signature. 419 00:22:01,951 --> 00:22:02,975 Susan Boyd? 420 00:22:03,053 --> 00:22:04,384 Fay Walsh. 421 00:22:04,888 --> 00:22:07,789 What, she bought the slugs that killed her? 422 00:22:07,857 --> 00:22:09,620 Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. 423 00:22:09,693 --> 00:22:11,456 The professor said his wife hadrt been 424 00:22:11,528 --> 00:22:13,553 out of the city in six months. 425 00:22:13,630 --> 00:22:17,497 A C-note says the store owner ID's our Ms. Boyd. 426 00:22:18,133 --> 00:22:20,966 Arrest both of them. Hunting seasors over. 427 00:22:26,274 --> 00:22:27,605 If I ever go back to teaching, 428 00:22:27,675 --> 00:22:30,701 I'll use this in my Trial Practice class, Ben. 429 00:22:30,812 --> 00:22:33,144 Prime example of how to get a dismissal 430 00:22:33,214 --> 00:22:35,478 after the prosecution presents its case. 431 00:22:35,550 --> 00:22:37,415 Unless they rewrite the textbooks, Wesley, 432 00:22:37,518 --> 00:22:40,611 uh, circumstantial evidence can go a long way toward a conviction. 433 00:22:40,687 --> 00:22:42,917 Circumstantial evidence, yes. 434 00:22:42,989 --> 00:22:45,423 A footlocker full of non sequiturs? 435 00:22:45,659 --> 00:22:47,058 I wouldn't hold my breath. 436 00:22:47,127 --> 00:22:49,789 He had access to the murder weapon, motive. 437 00:22:49,863 --> 00:22:51,762 What kind of motive? 438 00:22:52,331 --> 00:22:53,491 I loved Fay. 439 00:22:53,566 --> 00:22:55,693 Only Susan Boyd tells quite a different story. 440 00:22:55,768 --> 00:22:58,168 Either she's lying or she's crazy. 441 00:22:58,404 --> 00:23:00,770 I swear to you, I never even looked at her twice. 442 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,707 You wife didn't think so, sir, and I doubt if a jury will, 443 00:23:03,776 --> 00:23:06,300 after they've heard the message she left on your machine. 444 00:23:06,377 --> 00:23:09,073 I don't know anything about a message... 445 00:23:09,881 --> 00:23:13,510 First of all, it wasrt a conversation, it was a soliloquy. 446 00:23:14,085 --> 00:23:16,576 Second, the jury will never hear it. 447 00:23:19,923 --> 00:23:21,515 Thursday morning, 448 00:23:22,226 --> 00:23:26,128 we can have cappuccino and biscotti in Judge Bertram's chambers. 449 00:23:27,531 --> 00:23:30,090 Your boys didn't have a warrant, Ben? 450 00:23:30,166 --> 00:23:33,329 Uh, we didn't need one, Your Honor. We didn't make the tape. 451 00:23:33,402 --> 00:23:36,860 It was recorded by a private investigator hired my Mrs. Walsh. 452 00:23:36,939 --> 00:23:39,635 And in case anyone is behind in their reading, 453 00:23:39,709 --> 00:23:43,109 federal law prohibits persons who are not party to a conversation 454 00:23:43,178 --> 00:23:45,112 from secretly recording it. 455 00:23:45,213 --> 00:23:47,340 My client, Ms. Boyd, had no idea 456 00:23:47,415 --> 00:23:49,178 the Walsh's phone line was tapped. 457 00:23:49,251 --> 00:23:51,981 And my client wasrt even a party to the conversation. 458 00:23:52,053 --> 00:23:53,714 So who the hell was she talking to? 459 00:23:53,789 --> 00:23:55,415 The Walsh's answering machine. 460 00:23:55,523 --> 00:23:57,457 Wesley, the Federal Act was intended 461 00:23:57,525 --> 00:23:59,049 to protect privacy, not murderers. 462 00:23:59,126 --> 00:24:01,720 Take your complaints to the Supreme Court, Ben. 463 00:24:01,796 --> 00:24:03,661 They just upheld a California decision 464 00:24:03,731 --> 00:24:05,528 excluding a privately made tape, 465 00:24:05,599 --> 00:24:07,191 even though it revealed a conspiracy. 466 00:24:07,268 --> 00:24:08,928 In the Otto case, neither party knew 467 00:24:09,002 --> 00:24:10,469 their conversation was being taped. 468 00:24:10,537 --> 00:24:13,404 I don't think I dozed off, Counselor. 469 00:24:14,140 --> 00:24:16,267 Didrt our learned colleagues just say 470 00:24:16,376 --> 00:24:18,640 their clients were unaware of the phone tap? 471 00:24:18,745 --> 00:24:21,474 Ms. Boyd may not have known that her call was being taped 472 00:24:21,547 --> 00:24:22,707 by the investigator, 473 00:24:22,781 --> 00:24:25,011 but she certainly knew that the answering machine 474 00:24:25,083 --> 00:24:26,482 was recording her conversation. 475 00:24:26,552 --> 00:24:29,248 As such, she had no right to the expectation of privacy. 476 00:24:29,321 --> 00:24:30,618 That's right, Ben. 477 00:24:30,722 --> 00:24:34,088 She expected one other person to hear it: Donald Walsh. 478 00:24:34,158 --> 00:24:35,887 That's major hair-splitting, Wesley. 479 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,828 It's the kind of personal grooming the Supreme Court loves. 480 00:24:40,965 --> 00:24:42,364 Sorry, Ben. 481 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,067 Tape is out. 482 00:24:45,936 --> 00:24:47,426 Judge Bertram, huh? 483 00:24:48,605 --> 00:24:52,200 He just took his name off Judge Renquist's gift list. 484 00:24:52,275 --> 00:24:55,574 One small step for privacy, a giant leap for conspiracy. 485 00:24:55,745 --> 00:24:58,110 Burke's already calling for a sit-down tomorrow. 486 00:24:58,180 --> 00:24:59,408 What are you gonna do? 487 00:24:59,481 --> 00:25:01,972 Most likely, without the tape, we'll get dismissed. 488 00:25:02,084 --> 00:25:03,073 Well, maybe not. 489 00:25:03,152 --> 00:25:05,211 If Walsh heard what was on the answering machine, 490 00:25:05,287 --> 00:25:06,845 he can testify as to what Susan said. 491 00:25:06,922 --> 00:25:08,253 We cut a deal. 492 00:25:08,324 --> 00:25:10,791 Hard to have an affair with your girlfriend in prison. 493 00:25:10,859 --> 00:25:12,554 Maybe we can convince Ms. Boyd 494 00:25:12,627 --> 00:25:13,958 that Walsh doesn't love her 495 00:25:14,028 --> 00:25:16,360 as much as she thinks he does. 496 00:25:17,432 --> 00:25:19,992 I'd check my diet, Mr. Stone. 497 00:25:20,068 --> 00:25:22,298 Too much sugar, you lose a little clarity. 498 00:25:22,971 --> 00:25:24,801 Without the tape... 499 00:25:25,305 --> 00:25:29,173 Oh, I have a feeling we're gonna do a lot better than the tape. 500 00:25:29,343 --> 00:25:31,675 Why would Dr. Walsh testify? 501 00:25:31,778 --> 00:25:34,542 Maybe he doesn't like the idea of 25 years in prison. 502 00:25:34,648 --> 00:25:36,478 Wesley Burke's smarter than that. 503 00:25:36,549 --> 00:25:38,141 He's got to know there's no case. 504 00:25:38,217 --> 00:25:41,050 And he's got to know about the unpredictability of a jury. 505 00:25:41,153 --> 00:25:43,485 I don't think he wants his client acting like a deer 506 00:25:43,556 --> 00:25:45,547 caught in the headlights of an 18-wheeler. 507 00:25:45,625 --> 00:25:47,149 Donald would never turn on me. 508 00:25:47,226 --> 00:25:49,125 Ms. Boyd, we are talking about a man 509 00:25:49,194 --> 00:25:52,129 who murdered his wife after 15 years of marriage. 510 00:25:52,197 --> 00:25:54,597 I wouldn't count on his loyalty. 511 00:25:56,534 --> 00:25:58,900 Mr. Burke has already called our office. 512 00:25:59,004 --> 00:26:01,301 We're meeting with him tomorrow. 513 00:26:05,009 --> 00:26:08,274 You could go to prison for something you didn't do. 514 00:26:11,081 --> 00:26:14,208 She testifies, you charge her with nothing. 515 00:26:16,085 --> 00:26:17,211 She conspired to... 516 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,220 And you know Walsh's conviction 517 00:26:19,289 --> 00:26:22,122 depends upon what Susan says on the stand. 518 00:26:24,260 --> 00:26:26,057 Let's hear her story. 519 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,569 He talked about it. 520 00:26:46,914 --> 00:26:50,179 You know, wouldn't it be great if she were dead. 521 00:26:52,852 --> 00:26:54,444 And I told him 522 00:26:55,021 --> 00:26:58,218 there's no way I would consider anything like that. 523 00:26:59,626 --> 00:27:01,856 Yet you continued to see him. 524 00:27:07,733 --> 00:27:10,293 You... you think about it afterwards, 525 00:27:12,271 --> 00:27:15,729 you think it's just some sort of joke. 526 00:27:20,645 --> 00:27:24,172 He's just trying to show me how much he loves me. 527 00:27:32,456 --> 00:27:34,424 If I believed that he could kill Fay, 528 00:27:34,491 --> 00:27:37,949 there's absolutely no way I would be involved with that man. 529 00:27:38,829 --> 00:27:40,694 You bought the shells. 530 00:27:43,065 --> 00:27:45,556 He told me they were for hunting. 531 00:27:47,069 --> 00:27:49,663 She had nothing to do with the murder. 532 00:27:50,606 --> 00:27:54,064 You have to tell Donald that they forced me. 533 00:27:56,244 --> 00:27:57,438 Deal? 534 00:28:09,456 --> 00:28:11,583 Fay found notes on his desk. 535 00:28:11,759 --> 00:28:14,956 Said there were a lot of hang-ups when she answered the phone. 536 00:28:15,029 --> 00:28:17,589 She was convinced her husband was seeing another woman. 537 00:28:17,664 --> 00:28:19,893 Did Mrs. Walsh have any idea 538 00:28:19,966 --> 00:28:23,026 who this other woman in her husband's life was? 539 00:28:23,136 --> 00:28:26,663 An administrator in the Biology Department. 540 00:28:26,773 --> 00:28:28,297 A woman named Susan Boyd. 541 00:28:28,374 --> 00:28:30,035 Thank you. 542 00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:37,504 Mrs. Walsh employed your services for how long, Mr. Riggs? 543 00:28:37,616 --> 00:28:38,776 Six months. 544 00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:41,011 In that time, did you ever see 545 00:28:41,086 --> 00:28:43,384 the defendant and Susan Boyd together? 546 00:28:43,455 --> 00:28:45,116 They worked in the same building. 547 00:28:45,189 --> 00:28:47,953 Sir, can you state beyond a reasonable doubt, 548 00:28:48,059 --> 00:28:50,926 that Susan Boyd and Donald Walsh 549 00:28:51,429 --> 00:28:53,226 were having an affair? 550 00:28:57,934 --> 00:28:58,992 No. 551 00:28:59,602 --> 00:29:00,933 Thank you. 552 00:29:01,905 --> 00:29:03,600 No more questions. 553 00:29:04,541 --> 00:29:07,999 The last 18 years, I have owned Frank's Guns 'r Stuff. 554 00:29:08,445 --> 00:29:11,345 Largest ammunition retailer in a 100-mile radius. 555 00:29:11,447 --> 00:29:14,143 Did you ever sell ammunition to the defendant? 556 00:29:14,216 --> 00:29:17,708 Every hunting season, he'd buy his birdshot for upland game 557 00:29:17,820 --> 00:29:19,481 and goose-shot for waterfowl. 558 00:29:19,555 --> 00:29:21,887 Did he ever purchase .410 slugs? 559 00:29:21,957 --> 00:29:23,947 Not him, but his wife did. 560 00:29:24,058 --> 00:29:25,389 How did you know 561 00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:27,655 that it was Mrs. Walsh, Mr. MacCrae? 562 00:29:27,728 --> 00:29:30,891 State law says we need to see a driver's license. 563 00:29:32,066 --> 00:29:35,467 Is this the woman who claimed to be Fay Walsh, sir? 564 00:29:36,970 --> 00:29:38,232 Yes, sir. 565 00:29:38,538 --> 00:29:42,736 Let the record show that the witness identified a photo of Susan Boyd. 566 00:29:43,410 --> 00:29:44,775 Thank you. 567 00:29:47,247 --> 00:29:50,977 You testified that your store does a very good retail business. 568 00:29:51,050 --> 00:29:54,144 I said we do better than anyone else in the county. 569 00:29:54,220 --> 00:29:57,519 On an average day, how many customers do you see? 570 00:29:59,425 --> 00:30:01,858 25 to 30 during hunting season. 571 00:30:01,926 --> 00:30:04,394 So, excluding Sundays, 572 00:30:04,496 --> 00:30:08,592 that's 180 customers a week, give or take. 573 00:30:09,601 --> 00:30:10,829 Sure. 574 00:30:10,902 --> 00:30:13,665 So, since Fay Walsh came into your store 575 00:30:13,737 --> 00:30:18,333 almost five months ago, you tended over 3,500 customers. 576 00:30:18,408 --> 00:30:20,035 Isn't that right? 577 00:30:20,210 --> 00:30:21,336 Yeah. 578 00:30:21,411 --> 00:30:23,641 So, uh, tell me, sir, 579 00:30:24,681 --> 00:30:26,341 how many times did this woman, 580 00:30:26,415 --> 00:30:29,680 who claimed to be Mrs. Walsh come into your store? 581 00:30:30,186 --> 00:30:32,051 Just that one time. 582 00:30:33,089 --> 00:30:35,785 Thank you. No more questions. 583 00:30:38,261 --> 00:30:41,195 Burke managed to raise reasonable doubt with every witness. 584 00:30:41,263 --> 00:30:42,525 Yeah, that's his trademark. 585 00:30:42,597 --> 00:30:45,691 Takes the clearest picture, jiggles the lens, 586 00:30:45,767 --> 00:30:48,292 everything's out of focus, the jury has to acquit. 587 00:30:48,370 --> 00:30:50,167 Not after they hear Boyd's testimony. 588 00:30:50,238 --> 00:30:52,102 Unless he discredits her the same way. 589 00:30:52,206 --> 00:30:53,195 Prep the girl again. 590 00:30:53,274 --> 00:30:55,037 Adam, we've been over it a dozen times. 591 00:30:55,109 --> 00:30:57,339 With Wesley, 13 is the charm. 592 00:30:59,246 --> 00:31:01,806 I was at Donald's house at the shore for the weekend. 593 00:31:01,916 --> 00:31:03,281 He was going to take me hunting. 594 00:31:03,350 --> 00:31:05,476 We went into town to buy some bullets. 595 00:31:05,552 --> 00:31:07,918 Who purchased the shells, Ms. Boyd? 596 00:31:07,987 --> 00:31:09,352 I did. 597 00:31:09,422 --> 00:31:12,050 He couldn't find his license. We found Fay's in the dresser. 598 00:31:12,125 --> 00:31:13,422 I pretended to be her. 599 00:31:13,493 --> 00:31:14,687 Very good. Paul. 600 00:31:16,229 --> 00:31:19,095 Where were you the night Fay Walsh was killed, Ms. Boyd? 601 00:31:19,164 --> 00:31:21,997 I had dinner at my office, 602 00:31:22,935 --> 00:31:26,063 did a little work, and then I went home. 603 00:31:26,238 --> 00:31:28,798 Uh, Ms. Boyd, we've been over this before. 604 00:31:28,907 --> 00:31:31,704 On cross examination, when the defense asks their questions, 605 00:31:31,776 --> 00:31:33,243 you keep your answers short. 606 00:31:33,311 --> 00:31:36,803 The court only wants to know where you were the night of the murder. 607 00:31:36,914 --> 00:31:38,347 What should I say? 608 00:31:41,018 --> 00:31:42,746 I'll ask the question on direct 609 00:31:42,819 --> 00:31:45,117 and you say you were home alone in your apartment. 610 00:31:45,188 --> 00:31:46,416 All right. 611 00:31:47,624 --> 00:31:49,182 You'll do fine. 612 00:31:55,030 --> 00:31:57,157 Well, he said it many times, 613 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,263 if only he could get rid of Fay, then we could be together. 614 00:32:02,137 --> 00:32:04,697 Did he ever talk about divorcing her? 615 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,432 I begged him to. 616 00:32:07,609 --> 00:32:09,099 But Fay's research. 617 00:32:09,177 --> 00:32:12,010 See, he said that he was entitled to his share. 618 00:32:12,113 --> 00:32:13,842 He taught her everything. 619 00:32:13,915 --> 00:32:15,940 If she were granted the patents after the divorce, 620 00:32:16,017 --> 00:32:19,145 he might not be able to share in the profits, is that correct? 621 00:32:19,220 --> 00:32:21,187 I don't recall the witness being qualified 622 00:32:21,255 --> 00:32:23,223 as an expert in matrimonial law. 623 00:32:23,290 --> 00:32:25,622 Withdrawn. No further questions. 624 00:32:30,964 --> 00:32:34,023 How often did you and Dr. Walsh see each other? 625 00:32:36,168 --> 00:32:37,658 Several times a week. 626 00:32:37,737 --> 00:32:40,604 And where did these rendezvous take place? 627 00:32:43,042 --> 00:32:46,807 In his office, Cape May on weekends, and my apartment. 628 00:32:46,878 --> 00:32:49,039 All that sneaking around, it must've been frustrating. 629 00:32:49,114 --> 00:32:51,082 We didn't sneak around. 630 00:32:51,349 --> 00:32:54,079 Donald is very proud of our relationship. 631 00:32:54,653 --> 00:32:58,247 Then can you tell me why Mr. Riggs, 632 00:32:58,355 --> 00:33:01,654 a trained professional, never once saw you together? 633 00:33:04,695 --> 00:33:06,788 Well, maybe he's not very good at what he does. 634 00:33:06,864 --> 00:33:08,195 Or you're lying about everything. 635 00:33:08,265 --> 00:33:09,391 Objection! 636 00:33:09,466 --> 00:33:11,126 Withdrawn. 637 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,861 True or false, Ms. Boyd, 638 00:33:12,935 --> 00:33:15,403 you told the police that Donald was with you 639 00:33:15,471 --> 00:33:17,598 the night Fay was murdered? 640 00:33:18,374 --> 00:33:19,432 Yes. 641 00:33:19,542 --> 00:33:21,840 But now you're telling us that you were home alone. 642 00:33:21,911 --> 00:33:24,003 Were you lying then, or are you lying now? 643 00:33:24,079 --> 00:33:25,046 Objection. 644 00:33:25,113 --> 00:33:26,478 Overruled. 645 00:33:27,916 --> 00:33:30,146 You're lying now, aren't you? 646 00:33:38,726 --> 00:33:39,954 No. 647 00:33:41,696 --> 00:33:43,857 I was in my apartment alone. 648 00:33:50,870 --> 00:33:52,735 Tell me, Ms. Boyd, 649 00:33:54,541 --> 00:33:56,975 did Mr. Stone tell you to say that? 650 00:33:59,412 --> 00:34:00,504 Yes. 651 00:34:00,580 --> 00:34:01,637 Your Honor... 652 00:34:01,714 --> 00:34:04,615 And in exchange for this perjured testimony, he dropped all charges 653 00:34:04,683 --> 00:34:06,913 against you, isn't that true? 654 00:34:07,886 --> 00:34:08,978 Yes. 655 00:34:09,088 --> 00:34:11,784 Your Honor, I object to Mr. Burke's depiction of this... 656 00:34:11,857 --> 00:34:13,381 I object, too, Your Honor. 657 00:34:13,458 --> 00:34:15,949 I object to the entirety of this witness's testimony. 658 00:34:17,161 --> 00:34:19,425 Both of you, in my chambers. 659 00:34:20,665 --> 00:34:23,133 She said under oath you told her what to say. 660 00:34:23,234 --> 00:34:24,428 I told her how to say it. 661 00:34:24,502 --> 00:34:26,093 Now who's splitting hairs, Ben? 662 00:34:26,236 --> 00:34:28,033 I want a dismissal. 663 00:34:28,105 --> 00:34:30,369 And then we'll talk about sanctions against Mr. Stone. 664 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:31,839 Cool it, Wesley. 665 00:34:31,908 --> 00:34:34,775 I thought you'd have taken off your blinders when you left academia. 666 00:34:34,845 --> 00:34:36,312 Your Honor, I did not... 667 00:34:36,380 --> 00:34:38,109 I believe you, Ben. 668 00:34:38,415 --> 00:34:41,144 Only your witness's testimony is tainted. 669 00:34:41,951 --> 00:34:44,146 As such, I'm going to instruct the jury 670 00:34:44,220 --> 00:34:47,587 that they may disregard her testimony in its entirety. 671 00:34:53,428 --> 00:34:56,397 Ms. Foreperson, have you reached a verdict? 672 00:34:56,965 --> 00:34:58,728 We have, Your Honor. 673 00:34:59,467 --> 00:35:02,766 On the sole count of the indictment, murder in the second degree, 674 00:35:02,837 --> 00:35:03,996 how do you find? 675 00:35:04,104 --> 00:35:06,629 We find the defendant not guilty. 676 00:35:09,943 --> 00:35:11,877 Congratulations. 677 00:35:21,387 --> 00:35:24,686 Burke dangled the carrot, she bit it off and left you hanging. 678 00:35:24,757 --> 00:35:26,782 She was confused. There was nothing I could do. 679 00:35:26,859 --> 00:35:29,452 You could've gone over her testimony another 100 times. 680 00:35:29,528 --> 00:35:31,962 Ms. Boyd was a bad witness. Nothing could change that. 681 00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:33,292 Or she was a smart witness. 682 00:35:33,365 --> 00:35:34,832 You saying she planned this? 683 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:36,765 She cuts a deal, promises to give us Walsh, 684 00:35:36,835 --> 00:35:39,463 falls apart on the stand, he walks, they live happily ever after. 685 00:35:39,538 --> 00:35:40,562 Nobody's that smart. 686 00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:43,334 If Paul is right, and that woman was lying, her deal is won'thless. 687 00:35:43,407 --> 00:35:45,637 Yeah, and if I'd bought Microsoft at $10, 688 00:35:45,709 --> 00:35:47,677 I'd have a house in Palm Beach. 689 00:35:47,812 --> 00:35:51,270 In the case against the professor, we had the girl's testimony. 690 00:35:51,348 --> 00:35:53,407 In the case against the girl, we have nothing. 691 00:35:53,484 --> 00:35:56,145 And double jeopardy kills any leverage we would have with Donald. 692 00:35:56,219 --> 00:35:58,449 She said she's been seeing him for two years. 693 00:35:58,521 --> 00:36:01,217 She must have told somebody something. 694 00:36:01,724 --> 00:36:03,157 For how long? 695 00:36:04,461 --> 00:36:05,519 Thanks. 696 00:36:07,162 --> 00:36:10,029 Nobody in the Biology Department ever saw them together. 697 00:36:10,098 --> 00:36:12,066 What about her friends outside the Institute? 698 00:36:12,134 --> 00:36:13,863 Her neighbors never saw her with anyone. 699 00:36:13,936 --> 00:36:15,597 I called her parents in Short Hills, 700 00:36:15,671 --> 00:36:18,367 the housekeeper said they were vacationing in the South of France. 701 00:36:21,742 --> 00:36:23,232 Robinette. 702 00:36:25,980 --> 00:36:27,208 Hold on. 703 00:36:27,882 --> 00:36:29,372 It's a Judge Feldman from Newark. 704 00:36:29,450 --> 00:36:31,281 He wants to talk about Susan Boyd. 705 00:36:31,352 --> 00:36:33,512 It seems she does have a history. 706 00:36:36,756 --> 00:36:39,748 You know, it didn't hit me until the papers published her picture. 707 00:36:39,826 --> 00:36:41,817 I knew her as Susan Daly. 708 00:36:41,895 --> 00:36:44,056 Boyd must be her maiden name. 709 00:36:45,664 --> 00:36:47,291 Please, sit down. 710 00:36:49,435 --> 00:36:50,732 She was married? 711 00:36:50,803 --> 00:36:52,065 Widowed. 712 00:36:52,271 --> 00:36:55,365 Married to the second violin at the Philharmonic. 713 00:36:55,441 --> 00:36:57,874 She came to work for me a few months after he was killed 714 00:36:57,942 --> 00:36:59,637 in a car accident. 715 00:37:00,945 --> 00:37:02,537 You look surprised. 716 00:37:02,614 --> 00:37:04,605 I didn't know she was a lawyer. 717 00:37:04,682 --> 00:37:05,979 Yale Law. 718 00:37:06,351 --> 00:37:09,377 Turned down Wall Street for a carrel in our library. 719 00:37:09,454 --> 00:37:12,183 She gave me first-class work, and on time. 720 00:37:12,856 --> 00:37:15,586 Something my other clerks never heard of. 721 00:37:16,593 --> 00:37:20,120 But even a Cray computer blows a fuse every now and then. 722 00:37:23,032 --> 00:37:24,624 She had a breakdown? 723 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:26,668 She was deeply disturbed. 724 00:37:28,137 --> 00:37:30,367 One night we were working late. 725 00:37:30,439 --> 00:37:32,373 Ordered in Chinese to my chambers. 726 00:37:32,441 --> 00:37:34,068 Harmless, right? 727 00:37:34,377 --> 00:37:36,936 Susan took it as a marriage proposal. 728 00:37:37,245 --> 00:37:41,045 She started writing me memos, professing her undying love. 729 00:37:41,583 --> 00:37:44,848 She rented a house down the block, just to be close. 730 00:37:44,986 --> 00:37:46,817 For a while, I thought it was flattering, 731 00:37:46,888 --> 00:37:49,549 but when she started calling my wife... 732 00:37:50,291 --> 00:37:52,885 Nothing happened between Susan and me, 733 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,690 and still it almost cost me my marriage. 734 00:37:58,566 --> 00:38:01,557 Yale Law School never heard of Susan Boyd or Susan Daly. 735 00:38:01,634 --> 00:38:04,296 Not only didn't she graduate, she didn't even apply. 736 00:38:04,404 --> 00:38:06,031 You mean she knew enough 737 00:38:06,105 --> 00:38:08,505 to fool a Superior Court judge for over a year? 738 00:38:08,575 --> 00:38:09,769 It gets better. 739 00:38:09,842 --> 00:38:12,106 On her employment application to Manattan Institute, 740 00:38:12,178 --> 00:38:14,372 she claimed to have a Master's from Cornell. 741 00:38:14,446 --> 00:38:16,676 She faked that, too? What about the marriage? 742 00:38:16,748 --> 00:38:17,976 Pure fantasy. 743 00:38:18,083 --> 00:38:20,074 The only Daly at the Philharmonic is alive 744 00:38:20,152 --> 00:38:21,983 and happily married for the last 25 years. 745 00:38:22,054 --> 00:38:23,612 Maybe Walsh was telling the truth. 746 00:38:23,689 --> 00:38:26,054 If she was smart enough to con Judge Feldman, 747 00:38:26,123 --> 00:38:28,990 my guess is that the whole cross-examination 748 00:38:29,060 --> 00:38:31,085 at the Walsh trial was staged. 749 00:38:31,162 --> 00:38:32,561 They werert having an affair, 750 00:38:32,630 --> 00:38:34,393 but she lies on the stand to protect him? 751 00:38:34,465 --> 00:38:36,729 Yeah, well, one thing both Walsh and the judge agreed on, 752 00:38:36,801 --> 00:38:38,598 is that lady's crazy. 753 00:38:38,668 --> 00:38:40,465 Crazy enough to kill? 754 00:38:42,973 --> 00:38:44,600 The pattern seems to be there. 755 00:38:44,674 --> 00:38:48,303 Disappointing youth, inappropriate phone calls, letters, visits. 756 00:38:48,378 --> 00:38:51,006 It's a psychotic disorder called erotomania. 757 00:38:51,114 --> 00:38:52,512 English, Liz. 758 00:38:52,615 --> 00:38:54,776 She's delusional. My guess: 759 00:38:54,850 --> 00:38:57,580 Susan honestly believes she's having an affair with Walsh. 760 00:38:57,653 --> 00:39:00,315 So in her mind, she was telling the truth when she testified. 761 00:39:00,389 --> 00:39:03,449 She may act and look normal, but talk to her about the affair, 762 00:39:03,525 --> 00:39:05,992 and you'll probably learn that she's getting coded messages 763 00:39:06,060 --> 00:39:07,550 from the pattern of his ties. 764 00:39:07,629 --> 00:39:10,996 Things as unrelated as his expense report or a song on the radio. 765 00:39:11,065 --> 00:39:12,726 Do the symptoms include violence? 766 00:39:12,834 --> 00:39:14,927 Not usually, but there are cases of the subject 767 00:39:15,003 --> 00:39:16,334 attacking the buffer, 768 00:39:16,404 --> 00:39:18,633 the obstacle to completing their romance. 769 00:39:18,705 --> 00:39:19,831 I.e., Fay Walsh. 770 00:39:19,906 --> 00:39:23,273 Unfortunately, we don't have enough physical evidence to go to trial. 771 00:39:23,343 --> 00:39:26,335 Judge Feldman told me Susan rented a house near his. 772 00:39:26,413 --> 00:39:27,710 Exactly. 773 00:39:27,781 --> 00:39:30,874 Proximity feeds the delusion that she's having a life with him. 774 00:39:33,352 --> 00:39:37,550 Liz, Walsh said that he spent weeks at a time at the Cape May house. 775 00:39:37,623 --> 00:39:40,421 Could Susan stand being away from him that long? 776 00:39:40,493 --> 00:39:43,757 I doubt it. Some erotomaniacs camp outside their object's house, 777 00:39:43,862 --> 00:39:46,831 steal garbage, anything personal, as mementos. 778 00:39:48,333 --> 00:39:51,769 Susan Boyd, 518 Ocean Avenue, Cape May. 779 00:39:51,870 --> 00:39:54,031 Good. Call Briscoe and Logan. 780 00:39:54,105 --> 00:39:56,231 I'll call Judge Scott for a warrant. 781 00:40:05,215 --> 00:40:06,910 Looks like my first place. 782 00:40:06,984 --> 00:40:08,348 Looks like my place now. 783 00:40:10,353 --> 00:40:13,345 The New York Public Library isn't this well stocked. 784 00:40:13,423 --> 00:40:15,118 Law, medicine... 785 00:40:16,459 --> 00:40:19,519 Smart and crazy. That's a helluva pair. 786 00:40:19,795 --> 00:40:21,285 Lennie. 787 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,925 Donald Walsh, this is your life. 788 00:40:31,039 --> 00:40:34,269 You got baby pictures, his high school yearbook. 789 00:40:35,276 --> 00:40:37,107 His socks? 790 00:40:39,714 --> 00:40:42,877 And the shells that killed his wife, .410. 791 00:40:46,086 --> 00:40:49,078 New York State Driver's License, Fay Walsh. 792 00:40:50,223 --> 00:40:52,418 Only, Susars picture's on it. 793 00:40:53,126 --> 00:40:54,753 Pick her up. 794 00:41:00,766 --> 00:41:03,758 Susan Boyd, you're under arrest for the murder of Fay Walsh. 795 00:41:03,836 --> 00:41:05,497 You have the right to remain silent. 796 00:41:05,604 --> 00:41:08,072 Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. 797 00:41:08,140 --> 00:41:09,164 Do you understand that? 798 00:41:09,241 --> 00:41:10,832 You have the right to an attorney. 799 00:41:13,978 --> 00:41:16,674 She already admitted she purchased the shells. 800 00:41:16,748 --> 00:41:18,579 She said Donald used them for hunting. 801 00:41:18,649 --> 00:41:21,675 So she kept a souvenir of a wonderful weekend at the shore. 802 00:41:21,786 --> 00:41:23,912 A wonderful weekend alone. 803 00:41:24,654 --> 00:41:26,747 Are you gonna start this again, Mr. Stone? 804 00:41:26,823 --> 00:41:28,347 Yes, I am, Ms. Boyd. 805 00:41:28,425 --> 00:41:30,052 Well, you're wasting your time. 806 00:41:30,127 --> 00:41:31,992 What Donald and I have is real. 807 00:41:32,062 --> 00:41:34,087 What about Judge Feldman? 808 00:41:35,631 --> 00:41:37,121 That was a mistake. 809 00:41:37,199 --> 00:41:38,791 He took advantage of me. 810 00:41:38,868 --> 00:41:40,563 He says you're disturbed. 811 00:41:40,636 --> 00:41:42,627 What, he's moonlighting as a shrink? 812 00:41:42,705 --> 00:41:44,366 Dr. Walsh agrees with him. 813 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,840 Donald would never deny our love. 814 00:41:51,279 --> 00:41:53,338 Please send in Dr. Walsh. 815 00:42:16,335 --> 00:42:17,859 Tell them, Donald. 816 00:42:18,504 --> 00:42:20,972 Tell them what we mean to each other. 817 00:42:21,474 --> 00:42:25,205 I have never and will never have anything to do with you. 818 00:42:30,715 --> 00:42:33,047 I understand what's going on. 819 00:42:34,085 --> 00:42:36,315 They put you up to this, didn't they? 820 00:42:36,388 --> 00:42:38,685 Nobody put me up to anything. 821 00:42:39,190 --> 00:42:40,953 Very good, Mr. Stone. 822 00:42:41,091 --> 00:42:43,321 You've certainly had your fun. 823 00:42:44,161 --> 00:42:46,254 Now, Donald, the game's over. 824 00:42:46,330 --> 00:42:48,127 Tell them the truth. 825 00:42:49,767 --> 00:42:51,427 You're a lunatic. 826 00:42:54,237 --> 00:42:56,262 I understand. 827 00:42:58,541 --> 00:43:01,533 You don't have to worry about anything, sweetheart. 828 00:43:01,744 --> 00:43:03,302 I forgive you. 829 00:43:09,318 --> 00:43:11,081 He gave me this bracelet. 830 00:43:11,153 --> 00:43:14,247 Now, why would he do that if he didn't love me? 831 00:43:22,096 --> 00:43:24,064 He sent me letters 832 00:43:24,699 --> 00:43:27,031 telling me how much he loves me. 833 00:43:27,835 --> 00:43:31,736 Telling me that if only Fay were dead, then he could be with me. 834 00:43:34,374 --> 00:43:38,105 "To Security. Dr. Fay Walsh will be working late 835 00:43:39,212 --> 00:43:42,908 "in the lab this coming weekend. Because of the recent threats 836 00:43:43,015 --> 00:43:45,347 "by animal activist groups 837 00:43:45,417 --> 00:43:47,908 "please post extra security. 838 00:43:48,454 --> 00:43:50,445 "I will be out of town. 839 00:43:51,190 --> 00:43:53,181 Signed, Donald Walsh." 840 00:43:59,697 --> 00:44:01,255 Thank you, Doctor. 841 00:44:13,543 --> 00:44:16,103 It's obvious she's incompetent. 842 00:44:16,213 --> 00:44:18,374 But she's not legally insane. 843 00:44:18,448 --> 00:44:19,812 Ms. Boyd, 844 00:44:19,882 --> 00:44:22,316 you knew what you were doing when you committed the murder. 845 00:44:22,385 --> 00:44:24,285 I will give you manslaughter one, 846 00:44:24,353 --> 00:44:26,844 provided you get psychiatric treatment. 847 00:44:26,923 --> 00:44:28,447 That's absurd. 848 00:44:29,058 --> 00:44:33,084 There's absolutely no way that I will agree to a plea of insanity. 849 00:44:33,628 --> 00:44:35,562 Do you think for one instant 850 00:44:35,630 --> 00:44:39,259 that Dr. Donald Walsh would love somebody who's insane? 851 00:44:39,334 --> 00:44:42,826 Susan, it's not insanity, it's diminished capacity. 852 00:44:42,938 --> 00:44:45,906 I'm fully aware of the penal law, Mr. Keith. 853 00:44:45,973 --> 00:44:48,635 The implication is that I'm not of my right mind. 854 00:44:48,709 --> 00:44:53,703 Susan, it is the difference between eight years and 25 years in jail. 855 00:44:53,948 --> 00:44:56,280 That's meaningless to me. 856 00:44:56,984 --> 00:44:59,349 This is a conspiracy to keep me from Donald. 857 00:44:59,452 --> 00:45:01,682 Susan, you need help. 858 00:45:02,956 --> 00:45:04,446 You're fired. 859 00:45:06,859 --> 00:45:08,986 Prepare yourself, Mr. Stone. 860 00:45:09,862 --> 00:45:12,193 I'm taking charge of my own case. 861 00:45:21,173 --> 00:45:23,003 Susan Boyd's going for a record. 862 00:45:23,107 --> 00:45:24,699 This is her sixteenth motion. 863 00:45:24,775 --> 00:45:27,141 I doubt we'll ever get to trial. 864 00:45:27,845 --> 00:45:30,279 She uses an out-of-date prison library 865 00:45:30,348 --> 00:45:32,976 and her work is better than anything 866 00:45:33,050 --> 00:45:35,677 I've seen from a Wall Street law firm. 867 00:45:36,853 --> 00:45:40,220 "The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison." 868 00:45:41,691 --> 00:45:43,124 Oscar Wilde? 869 00:45:43,193 --> 00:45:44,717 Charles Manson.