1 00:00:01,848 --> 00:00:03,589 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:03,650 --> 00:00:07,496 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:07,554 --> 00:00:09,431 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:09,489 --> 00:00:12,265 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:12,325 --> 00:00:13,531 These are their stories. 6 00:00:15,061 --> 00:00:17,837 The regular doorman always lets me deliver to the front door. 7 00:00:17,897 --> 00:00:19,342 Too bad he's not on duty today. 8 00:00:19,399 --> 00:00:20,901 Hey, look, I'm running a little late here. 9 00:00:20,967 --> 00:00:23,243 Well, then you're gonna have to hurry around to the service entrance. 10 00:00:23,303 --> 00:00:25,374 Come on, I'm trying to make a living here. MAGGIE: Leave me alone! 11 00:00:25,438 --> 00:00:27,042 So am I. (CRASHING) 12 00:00:27,106 --> 00:00:28,107 WOMAN 1: My God! 13 00:00:31,077 --> 00:00:32,215 MAN 1: Get an ambulance! 14 00:00:34,514 --> 00:00:37,256 I just heard the crash. I didn't see anything before that. 15 00:00:37,517 --> 00:00:38,587 Okay. 16 00:00:38,651 --> 00:00:40,927 She shot out in front of me, scared-like. 17 00:00:42,589 --> 00:00:44,535 Scared, huh? Yeah. Looking behind her. 18 00:00:44,591 --> 00:00:46,730 Looked like she was running away from somebody. 19 00:00:46,793 --> 00:00:47,965 Did you see anybody with her? 20 00:00:48,027 --> 00:00:50,234 I barely saw her till I hit her. 21 00:00:50,296 --> 00:00:51,900 Take a look at who it is. 22 00:00:51,965 --> 00:00:53,535 Margaret Abbott. 23 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,375 The Margaret Abbott? Maggie Abbott. 24 00:00:55,435 --> 00:00:57,813 Oh, my God. I killed Maggie Abbott. 25 00:00:57,871 --> 00:01:00,613 Found this button on the sidewalk. It was torn off her sweater. 26 00:01:00,673 --> 00:01:03,415 Aside from the expected bruises and broken bones, 27 00:01:03,476 --> 00:01:06,252 she had a contusion around her wrist. Like somebody grabbed her. 28 00:01:06,312 --> 00:01:07,382 Mugging... 29 00:01:07,447 --> 00:01:10,155 She was still wearing a diamond tennis bracelet on her other wrist. 30 00:01:10,216 --> 00:01:13,527 Pocketbook was found on the sidewalk. Credit cards, 20 bucks. 31 00:01:13,586 --> 00:01:16,260 Hudson University Law faculty card. 32 00:01:16,322 --> 00:01:18,165 She was just appointed to the appellate court. 33 00:01:18,858 --> 00:01:20,531 Looks like she ran out of appeals. 34 00:02:10,944 --> 00:02:13,254 WARREN: I talked to Maggie just after lunch. 35 00:02:15,281 --> 00:02:18,751 We'd made plans to go out to the island early this weekend. 36 00:02:20,253 --> 00:02:21,391 (SIGHS) 37 00:02:22,822 --> 00:02:25,098 She just walked in front of a car? 38 00:02:25,158 --> 00:02:26,296 It was a cab. Right. 39 00:02:26,359 --> 00:02:28,771 The driver thinks she may have been chased into the street. 40 00:02:29,929 --> 00:02:32,910 Somebody deliberately what? 41 00:02:32,966 --> 00:02:36,140 Somebody killed Maggie? 42 00:02:36,202 --> 00:02:37,545 We don't know. 43 00:02:37,604 --> 00:02:39,811 Mr. Abbott, the police are canvassing the area. 44 00:02:39,872 --> 00:02:41,909 They're doing everything that can be done. 45 00:02:41,975 --> 00:02:44,114 Your brother's taking the first flight out of Heathrow. 46 00:02:44,177 --> 00:02:45,656 Did you reach Annie? No. 47 00:02:45,712 --> 00:02:47,919 I left a message at the senator's office. 48 00:02:47,981 --> 00:02:48,982 Okay. 49 00:02:49,849 --> 00:02:50,919 I'm sorry. 50 00:02:51,784 --> 00:02:53,627 If the D.A.'s office can be of any help... 51 00:02:53,686 --> 00:02:54,892 (WHISPERS) Thank you. 52 00:02:54,954 --> 00:02:57,400 Mr. Abbott, if you don't mind, 53 00:02:57,457 --> 00:02:59,164 there's a couple of things we'd like to clear up. 54 00:02:59,692 --> 00:03:00,693 All right. 55 00:03:00,927 --> 00:03:03,601 Was your wife having any problems? At work? At home? 56 00:03:03,663 --> 00:03:06,337 She was busy. It's the end of the school year. 57 00:03:07,066 --> 00:03:09,945 And then there's the whole circus surrounding her nomination. 58 00:03:10,003 --> 00:03:13,109 Has she received any threats? Strange calls? 59 00:03:13,172 --> 00:03:15,914 You mean, did she have any enemies? 60 00:03:15,975 --> 00:03:19,388 Detective, pick up a copy of the New York Ledger. The Press. 61 00:03:19,445 --> 00:03:20,981 The right wing nuts in this town 62 00:03:21,047 --> 00:03:22,754 were determined to block her appointment. 63 00:03:22,815 --> 00:03:25,762 But do I think they would have killed her? No. 64 00:03:26,185 --> 00:03:27,823 BRISCOE: What about your marriage? 65 00:03:27,887 --> 00:03:29,525 If the people who hated her didn't kill her, 66 00:03:29,589 --> 00:03:31,296 then the people who loved her did? 67 00:03:31,357 --> 00:03:33,166 Is that what you're asking? 68 00:03:33,226 --> 00:03:36,503 We're sorry, Mr. Abbott, but we have to ask these kind of questions. 69 00:03:36,562 --> 00:03:38,303 So, you were here at work all day? 70 00:03:38,364 --> 00:03:40,037 Except for lunch, yes. 71 00:03:40,099 --> 00:03:41,442 BRISCOE: Where'd you go for lunch? 72 00:03:41,501 --> 00:03:42,775 The Yale Club. 73 00:03:43,569 --> 00:03:45,344 Forgive me, but I want to see my daughter, 74 00:03:45,405 --> 00:03:48,113 so she doesn't hear what happened from someone else. 75 00:03:48,508 --> 00:03:49,851 BRISCOE: Thank you. 76 00:03:51,611 --> 00:03:53,352 In just 30, 40 minutes, 77 00:03:53,413 --> 00:03:56,917 this guy's assistants called every area code in the northern hemisphere. 78 00:03:56,983 --> 00:03:58,428 Well, when you're through being impressed, 79 00:03:58,484 --> 00:04:00,054 can you connect him up to this? 80 00:04:00,119 --> 00:04:01,496 At the time his wife was killed, 81 00:04:01,554 --> 00:04:02,897 he says he was at the Yale Club. 82 00:04:02,955 --> 00:04:04,866 They confirm he came in. Had a salad. 83 00:04:04,924 --> 00:04:07,268 Couldn't pinpoint the time or how long he stayed. 84 00:04:07,326 --> 00:04:08,703 And the wife? 85 00:04:08,761 --> 00:04:11,367 As far as we know, she was on her way home from Hudson Law. 86 00:04:11,431 --> 00:04:14,002 She put up a fight? Anything under her fingernails? 87 00:04:14,067 --> 00:04:15,603 M.E.'s still working it up. 88 00:04:16,369 --> 00:04:19,942 Maggie Abbott. This one's going to be a mess. 89 00:04:23,076 --> 00:04:24,214 Lennie. 90 00:04:25,511 --> 00:04:26,512 How you doing? 91 00:04:29,882 --> 00:04:31,327 It doesn't get better. 92 00:04:31,984 --> 00:04:33,122 I can imagine. 93 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:35,321 Thanks. 94 00:04:41,594 --> 00:04:43,631 Marrying into that family, you know you're going to be the focus 95 00:04:43,696 --> 00:04:45,733 of a certain amount of attention. 96 00:04:46,265 --> 00:04:47,835 But recently it seemed to be getting to her. 97 00:04:48,267 --> 00:04:50,247 We heard she liked to stir the pot. 98 00:04:50,303 --> 00:04:53,512 Even people who violently disagreed with her respected her. 99 00:04:53,573 --> 00:04:57,350 What about her relations with the students, the other faculty? 100 00:04:57,643 --> 00:04:59,418 Romantic attachments? 101 00:04:59,479 --> 00:05:01,789 She wasn't the kind of person to make that kind of mistake. 102 00:05:01,848 --> 00:05:03,623 What kind of mistake would she make? 103 00:05:03,683 --> 00:05:04,991 Maggie had a good marriage. 104 00:05:05,251 --> 00:05:07,754 She was ambitious. Had big plans. 105 00:05:07,820 --> 00:05:10,266 Best legal mind I've come across in 40 years. 106 00:05:10,623 --> 00:05:14,799 You said that it started to get to her. Anything in particular? 107 00:05:15,061 --> 00:05:18,770 I don't know. She just didn't seem like her old self. 108 00:05:21,134 --> 00:05:23,580 "Maggie Abbott, feminist hypocrite." 109 00:05:23,636 --> 00:05:25,172 Small potatoes. How about this? 110 00:05:25,238 --> 00:05:27,548 "Bloody Maggie attacks pro-life rally." 111 00:05:27,607 --> 00:05:28,608 "Bloody Maggie-" 112 00:05:29,275 --> 00:05:33,018 Maggie at the opera. Leaving some fashion show. 113 00:05:33,980 --> 00:05:35,653 Even at her kid's school play. 114 00:05:36,149 --> 00:05:38,595 Here's a shot of her skinny dipping off their yacht. 115 00:05:38,651 --> 00:05:40,824 Imagine, everywhere you go, everything you do. 116 00:05:41,354 --> 00:05:43,391 And if her name was Maggie Jones? 117 00:05:43,456 --> 00:05:45,060 Here's something different. 118 00:05:45,124 --> 00:05:47,331 "Iron Maggie's broken heart." 119 00:05:49,061 --> 00:05:51,735 "The latest appellate court nominee appeals to her husband, 120 00:05:51,798 --> 00:05:53,277 "'Leave the interns alone."' 121 00:05:55,134 --> 00:05:56,545 "Phil Marco's New York." 122 00:05:56,602 --> 00:05:57,740 I never read it. 123 00:05:58,437 --> 00:05:59,677 I bet Maggie did. 124 00:06:01,741 --> 00:06:04,449 Tell you the name of the intern? Are you kidding? 125 00:06:04,510 --> 00:06:06,490 Mr. Marco, we're trying to solve a homicide. 126 00:06:06,546 --> 00:06:08,116 Yeah. Well, solve it without my sources. 127 00:06:08,181 --> 00:06:10,092 You got this item from the intern herself? 128 00:06:10,149 --> 00:06:11,651 Look, I don't have anything to tell you 129 00:06:11,717 --> 00:06:13,287 about the story or the Abbotts, 130 00:06:13,352 --> 00:06:17,823 or the unfortunate death of Mrs. Abbott. Now, I have a deadline. 131 00:06:17,890 --> 00:06:20,564 It's going to be kind of hard to make it from our interrogation room. 132 00:06:20,626 --> 00:06:22,105 Oh, you pull me in for questioning, 133 00:06:22,161 --> 00:06:24,505 and I run tomorrow's column blank 134 00:06:24,564 --> 00:06:27,135 with a headline that it was delayed by a couple of storm troopers 135 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,908 with an uncertain grasp of the constitution. 136 00:06:29,969 --> 00:06:32,108 It'll be a big boost to circulation. 137 00:06:32,738 --> 00:06:34,740 So pull me in, Detective. I would love it. 138 00:06:39,645 --> 00:06:42,091 Oh, I'm sorry. Mr. Abbott isn't in the office today. 139 00:06:42,148 --> 00:06:44,128 I'd be happy to leave a message that you called. 140 00:06:44,183 --> 00:06:46,527 We didn't come here to talk to him. 141 00:06:46,586 --> 00:06:47,997 Well, who would you like to talk to? 142 00:06:48,054 --> 00:06:49,260 We'll start with you. 143 00:06:50,289 --> 00:06:51,427 I don't think so. 144 00:06:51,490 --> 00:06:53,492 This story about Mr. Abbott and the intern... 145 00:06:53,559 --> 00:06:54,629 Look, I'm busy. 146 00:06:54,694 --> 00:06:56,071 CURTIS: What do you know about it? 147 00:06:56,128 --> 00:06:59,109 The day I got this job, the first thing they told me, you know what it was? 148 00:06:59,165 --> 00:07:02,806 Yeah. Don't get pulled in for questioning about your boss's wife's death. 149 00:07:03,769 --> 00:07:07,911 Now, listen to this. You tell us, we don't tell anybody. 150 00:07:07,974 --> 00:07:10,284 You don't tell us, we tell your boss 151 00:07:10,343 --> 00:07:11,913 we have to bring you downtown. 152 00:07:11,978 --> 00:07:13,616 Then you lose your job. 153 00:07:15,381 --> 00:07:17,156 But you can't tell anyone it came from me. 154 00:07:20,486 --> 00:07:23,865 Julianne Lowry. When the news got out, she left. 155 00:07:25,591 --> 00:07:27,093 Thanks. 156 00:07:28,528 --> 00:07:30,474 I don't know how that rumor got started. 157 00:07:30,529 --> 00:07:32,008 How do any rumors get started? 158 00:07:32,064 --> 00:07:33,407 So there was nothing to it? 159 00:07:33,466 --> 00:07:36,743 Mr. Abbott's wife was one of my professors at law school. My mentor. 160 00:07:36,802 --> 00:07:38,839 She got me the internship at Abbott, Mitchell and Crowe. 161 00:07:38,905 --> 00:07:40,816 Then why leave, Miss Lowry? 162 00:07:40,873 --> 00:07:43,046 Mr. Abbott said, given what his wife was going through, 163 00:07:43,109 --> 00:07:45,919 he had to avoid even the appearance of anything improper. 164 00:07:45,978 --> 00:07:48,288 Do you know how his wife took that article? 165 00:07:48,347 --> 00:07:49,417 I've gotta get back to work. 166 00:07:49,482 --> 00:07:52,258 Your new job, clerking for a judge. 167 00:07:52,318 --> 00:07:55,162 That's a pretty big step up for somebody still in law school. 168 00:07:55,221 --> 00:07:57,428 It's part-time, and I'm very good at what I do. 169 00:07:57,490 --> 00:07:59,470 Did Mr. Abbott help you with a recommendation? 170 00:07:59,525 --> 00:08:00,902 If you had an affair with Warren Abbott, 171 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,372 maybe it had something to do with Mrs. Abbott's death. 172 00:08:03,429 --> 00:08:06,000 Maybe you could end up an accomplice. 173 00:08:06,065 --> 00:08:07,567 Did you tell that to Warren? 174 00:08:09,035 --> 00:08:12,346 I didn't think so. You'd better talk to my lawyer. 175 00:08:12,405 --> 00:08:13,850 You have a lawyer? 176 00:08:13,906 --> 00:08:15,351 I'll get one if I have to. 177 00:08:19,478 --> 00:08:20,616 REPORTER 1: There he is! 178 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:21,750 Mr. Abbott? REPORTER 2: Come on. Let's go! 179 00:08:21,814 --> 00:08:22,918 Checking back in? 180 00:08:23,649 --> 00:08:25,424 What are you talking about? The suitcases. 181 00:08:25,484 --> 00:08:26,690 REPORTER 1: Come on, guys! 182 00:08:26,752 --> 00:08:28,925 Reporters were camped outside. 183 00:08:28,988 --> 00:08:30,661 Yesterday I stayed at a hotel. 184 00:08:30,723 --> 00:08:32,361 You sure it wasn't more like two weeks ago? 185 00:08:32,425 --> 00:08:35,133 When the news broke about you and your intern friend? 186 00:08:35,194 --> 00:08:36,969 We can check with the hotel. 187 00:08:37,463 --> 00:08:40,569 Maggie and I both decided to go to a hotel. 188 00:08:40,633 --> 00:08:42,943 You both stayed there? We can check that, too. 189 00:08:43,436 --> 00:08:44,847 You do whatever you have to. 190 00:08:44,904 --> 00:08:47,817 I'm not quite done. About you and this intern... 191 00:08:47,873 --> 00:08:51,150 She's a child, for Christ's sake. Now, I'm done. 192 00:08:52,545 --> 00:08:55,321 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 193 00:08:56,382 --> 00:08:58,487 The staff at the hotel remember Mr. Abbott. 194 00:08:58,551 --> 00:09:00,030 But they don't remember Mrs. Abbott. 195 00:09:00,086 --> 00:09:01,429 Do they remember Miss Lowry? 196 00:09:01,487 --> 00:09:04,832 No. But room service put a couple of dinners for two on his tab. 197 00:09:04,890 --> 00:09:08,736 Unless it was champagne and strawberries, I wouldn't jump to any conclusions. 198 00:09:08,794 --> 00:09:11,035 My hunch is we're looking at a Staten Island divorce. 199 00:09:11,097 --> 00:09:12,974 Wham, bam, no muss, no fuss. 200 00:09:13,032 --> 00:09:14,943 A guy like that? A place that public? 201 00:09:15,001 --> 00:09:16,605 You think he'd take the chance? 202 00:09:16,669 --> 00:09:18,478 It's more private than the Oval Office. 203 00:09:18,537 --> 00:09:20,949 M.E.'s report, nothing under Mrs. Abbott's nails. 204 00:09:21,007 --> 00:09:23,419 But there was chlorine residue on her skin and hair. 205 00:09:23,476 --> 00:09:24,682 Swimming pool? 206 00:09:24,744 --> 00:09:27,281 Well, she had a gym card in her wallet a block from where she was killed. 207 00:09:27,346 --> 00:09:28,416 Hmm. 208 00:09:29,448 --> 00:09:32,224 I can't believe it. She worked out with Matt until 2:00 209 00:09:32,284 --> 00:09:34,730 and then she did her usual 20 laps in the pool. 210 00:09:34,787 --> 00:09:36,698 What happened? She leave alone? 211 00:09:36,756 --> 00:09:39,396 I didn't see her leave, but that weenie from the Ledger, Phil Marco, 212 00:09:39,458 --> 00:09:41,335 was in here looking for her earlier. 213 00:09:41,394 --> 00:09:42,532 The gossip columnist? 214 00:09:42,595 --> 00:09:43,699 We get a lot of celebs. 215 00:09:43,996 --> 00:09:46,203 Last month we found him sleazing around here for a story, 216 00:09:46,265 --> 00:09:48,074 trying to sneak a photographer in here. 217 00:09:48,134 --> 00:09:51,206 When he asked for Mrs. Abbott, did he say why he wanted to see her? 218 00:09:51,270 --> 00:09:54,012 No. But he asked if I'd like a 20 to let him in. 219 00:09:54,340 --> 00:09:56,149 You take it? Of course. 220 00:09:56,208 --> 00:09:58,017 You let him in? Are you kidding? 221 00:09:58,077 --> 00:09:59,750 He was out of here real fast. 222 00:09:59,812 --> 00:10:02,793 Not his choice. I can be very persuasive. 223 00:10:03,983 --> 00:10:05,963 I hope you're finished. MARCO: Just... 224 00:10:08,387 --> 00:10:10,333 A warrant? Am I under arrest? 225 00:10:10,389 --> 00:10:13,063 You're a material witness in the death of Margaret Abbott. 226 00:10:13,125 --> 00:10:14,604 Put that in your column. 227 00:10:17,863 --> 00:10:18,864 All right. Let me get this straight. 228 00:10:18,931 --> 00:10:21,309 I ask to talk to somebody at a gym, 229 00:10:21,367 --> 00:10:23,904 and this somehow makes me involved in that somebody's death? 230 00:10:23,969 --> 00:10:28,042 You're involved because you forgot to tell us that you were at the somebody's gym. 231 00:10:28,107 --> 00:10:30,087 You talk to Mrs. Abbott when she came out? 232 00:10:30,142 --> 00:10:31,450 She was dodging my phone calls. 233 00:10:31,510 --> 00:10:34,252 Once more. You talk to Mrs. Abbott when she came out? 234 00:10:34,313 --> 00:10:35,849 No. I left before. 235 00:10:35,915 --> 00:10:37,690 BRISCOE: What'd you want to talk to her about? 236 00:10:37,750 --> 00:10:40,026 I wanted to confirm something I was gonna run in Sunday's column. 237 00:10:40,086 --> 00:10:41,827 CURTIS: What? Look, I don't have to tell you. 238 00:10:41,887 --> 00:10:43,992 Where did you go when you left the gym? 239 00:10:44,056 --> 00:10:46,093 I grabbed a cab, headed down to the Trattoria. 240 00:10:46,158 --> 00:10:49,196 I had a lead on another story. Much bigger, believe me. 241 00:10:49,261 --> 00:10:51,241 You want to tell us about that? 242 00:10:51,297 --> 00:10:54,938 Bebe Vaughn. She was giving a birthday party for her hairdresser's niece. 243 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,105 She'll confirm that you talked to her? 244 00:10:57,169 --> 00:11:01,049 I couldn't get through Bruder. Her manager. Alan Bruder. A real Visigoth. 245 00:11:05,778 --> 00:11:08,725 Marco? Yeah. He slithered in. 246 00:11:08,781 --> 00:11:09,885 CURTIS: What time? 247 00:11:09,949 --> 00:11:14,898 We got there at 2:00, I don't know. It might have been a half hour later. 248 00:11:14,954 --> 00:11:16,024 Sit down. 249 00:11:16,088 --> 00:11:17,158 Can't pin it down, huh? 250 00:11:17,223 --> 00:11:18,258 No. It's a zoo. 251 00:11:18,324 --> 00:11:22,067 Between the fans, paparazzi, and Bebe's people, 252 00:11:22,561 --> 00:11:24,472 a little too busy to watch the clock. 253 00:11:24,530 --> 00:11:27,739 How did Marco seem? Unctuous. Vicious. 254 00:11:29,201 --> 00:11:31,545 He owes me. I saved his life. 255 00:11:31,604 --> 00:11:34,141 Bebe would've torn his eyes out if she'd seen him there. 256 00:11:34,540 --> 00:11:37,714 That popular, huh? He ran a piece she was pregnant. 257 00:11:37,810 --> 00:11:42,054 You know, he'd get something off the Internet, off a toilet wall. 258 00:11:42,648 --> 00:11:44,924 Doesn't bother to confirm anything if it's close to deadline. 259 00:11:44,984 --> 00:11:46,930 He's afraid somebody else will run with it first. 260 00:11:46,986 --> 00:11:49,489 So he seemed okay to you? Nothing out of the ordinary? 261 00:11:49,555 --> 00:11:53,128 Yeah. Except for the piece of tissue paper on his shaving cut. 262 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,835 Doesn't usually wear that on his cheek. 263 00:11:59,098 --> 00:12:00,133 I don't know about you, 264 00:12:00,199 --> 00:12:03,442 but I don't usually shave in a taxi in the middle of the afternoon. 265 00:12:03,502 --> 00:12:05,880 Well, Marco could've gotten scratched by her tennis bracelet. 266 00:12:05,938 --> 00:12:08,441 All those diamonds have sharp edges. (CELL PHONE RINGING) 267 00:12:09,575 --> 00:12:13,182 Curtis. Yeah. Lennie, hold on. It's Mallory. 268 00:12:14,580 --> 00:12:16,355 Yeah? BOY: Hey, mister. 269 00:12:16,415 --> 00:12:17,519 Talk to me. 270 00:12:18,317 --> 00:12:20,820 BOY: Throw here! BRISCOE: Uh-huh. Hmm. 271 00:12:22,521 --> 00:12:23,761 Yeah. Right. Thanks. 272 00:12:24,390 --> 00:12:25,391 What's up? 273 00:12:25,457 --> 00:12:27,562 Mallory's snitch claims that the drug dealer 274 00:12:27,626 --> 00:12:30,334 Danny Jones put out the hit on my daughter. 275 00:12:30,396 --> 00:12:32,342 Tell me something I don't know. 276 00:12:32,398 --> 00:12:33,843 What the hell am I supposed to do? 277 00:12:33,899 --> 00:12:35,276 One step at a time, Lennie. 278 00:12:35,334 --> 00:12:37,211 Yeah. Over the edge. 279 00:12:37,937 --> 00:12:39,644 I cut myself, so what? 280 00:12:39,738 --> 00:12:43,015 We found blood on Mrs. Abbott's bracelet. You want us to go further? 281 00:12:43,876 --> 00:12:46,356 My client wants to cooperate. 282 00:12:46,745 --> 00:12:47,985 We're listening. 283 00:12:48,914 --> 00:12:51,087 I met Maggie Abbott outside the gym. 284 00:12:51,150 --> 00:12:54,324 She was still angry about the piece on her husband and his little intern. 285 00:12:54,386 --> 00:12:55,490 CURTIS: Was it true? 286 00:12:56,121 --> 00:12:57,191 I had a deadline. 287 00:12:58,257 --> 00:13:00,134 We walked, talked. 288 00:13:00,192 --> 00:13:01,262 About what? 289 00:13:01,327 --> 00:13:02,772 An unwanted pregnancy. 290 00:13:02,861 --> 00:13:05,205 You can read about it if I ever get out of here to confirm it. 291 00:13:05,264 --> 00:13:07,039 You talked? Like what, old friends? 292 00:13:07,099 --> 00:13:11,548 Not quite. I told her I was going with the story. That's when she slapped me. 293 00:13:12,171 --> 00:13:14,583 She turns to go. I try to stop her. 294 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,712 I grab her sweater. She pulls free and runs into the street. 295 00:13:18,844 --> 00:13:19,879 Taxi hit her. 296 00:13:20,446 --> 00:13:21,823 And what did you do? 297 00:13:23,782 --> 00:13:25,693 I got scared and ran off. 298 00:13:25,751 --> 00:13:29,255 At worst, my client is guilty of harassment in the second degree 299 00:13:29,321 --> 00:13:31,824 and assault three. Nothing more. 300 00:13:34,793 --> 00:13:36,534 Marco's facilitating himself. 301 00:13:36,762 --> 00:13:40,175 VAN BUREN: Anything else going on between Marco and Mrs. Abbott? 302 00:13:40,232 --> 00:13:43,008 Oh, if she promised him an exclusive and then reneged, 303 00:13:43,068 --> 00:13:44,547 he might have thrown a hissy fit. 304 00:13:44,603 --> 00:13:46,276 So he threw her into traffic? 305 00:13:46,338 --> 00:13:49,444 She was good copy for him. More valuable alive than dead. 306 00:13:49,742 --> 00:13:51,153 So what do we do, take him at his word? 307 00:13:51,210 --> 00:13:52,780 Let him go with a slap on the wrist? 308 00:13:52,845 --> 00:13:56,019 Not necessarily. Look, if there was a pattern of harassment, 309 00:13:56,081 --> 00:13:59,494 if he was stalking her, there might be something we can prosecute. 310 00:14:03,455 --> 00:14:05,560 He's responsible for my wife's death? 311 00:14:05,624 --> 00:14:08,503 BRISCOE: That's what we're trying to determine. If he was stalking her... 312 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:09,937 He was stalking us! 313 00:14:09,995 --> 00:14:12,066 He was in front of the building every other day. 314 00:14:12,131 --> 00:14:13,701 He'd track us down to restaurants. 315 00:14:13,766 --> 00:14:15,609 He must've been paying off waiters. 316 00:14:15,668 --> 00:14:18,114 Once he showed up at one of my wife's classes. 317 00:14:18,170 --> 00:14:19,410 Because of this affair? 318 00:14:19,471 --> 00:14:20,916 Alleged affair. 319 00:14:20,973 --> 00:14:22,680 The Abbott name sells papers. 320 00:14:22,741 --> 00:14:24,414 Dad, I'm home. 321 00:14:24,476 --> 00:14:25,921 Laura! Hi, honey. 322 00:14:27,446 --> 00:14:28,481 I got pizza. 323 00:14:28,547 --> 00:14:31,790 Just stick it in the oven. I'll be right in. As soon as I'm done. 324 00:14:31,850 --> 00:14:33,295 Sorry, Dad. No. It's okay. 325 00:14:34,219 --> 00:14:37,723 Did Marco ever make any threatening remarks to you or your wife? 326 00:14:37,790 --> 00:14:40,168 I took everything he said as a threat to my family. 327 00:14:40,225 --> 00:14:42,637 He told us he was working on a story about a pregnancy. 328 00:14:42,695 --> 00:14:45,198 That's why he approached your wife. An unwanted pregnancy. 329 00:14:46,632 --> 00:14:49,272 Well, whose pregnancy was it? Your wife's? Miss Lowry's? 330 00:14:49,335 --> 00:14:50,643 What a load of crap. 331 00:14:50,969 --> 00:14:52,744 Nothing to it, huh? That's right. 332 00:14:52,805 --> 00:14:54,944 You working for the Ledger now? 333 00:14:55,007 --> 00:14:58,682 Marco was responsible, directly or indirectly, for my wife's death. 334 00:14:59,511 --> 00:15:01,115 What are you going to do about that? 335 00:15:03,015 --> 00:15:04,722 So what if he calls himself a journalist? 336 00:15:04,783 --> 00:15:07,559 He doesn't have a First Amendment right to chase her into traffic! 337 00:15:07,853 --> 00:15:09,264 I admit he's a pest. 338 00:15:09,321 --> 00:15:11,494 A pest? He tore her sweater! 339 00:15:11,557 --> 00:15:13,230 Isn't that assault? JACK: Or self defense. 340 00:15:13,292 --> 00:15:15,101 He got a cut on the cheek from her. 341 00:15:15,694 --> 00:15:18,834 Reporters and stalkers, the line gets blurred. 342 00:15:18,897 --> 00:15:20,399 There's nothing legit about Marco. 343 00:15:20,466 --> 00:15:21,911 The guy's got a criminal record. 344 00:15:21,967 --> 00:15:24,504 Harassment, criminal nuisance, even breaking and entering. 345 00:15:24,570 --> 00:15:26,345 He hunted Maggie Abbott down. 346 00:15:27,372 --> 00:15:31,115 His lawyer offered a plea of harassment two, assault three. 347 00:15:31,176 --> 00:15:33,884 He'll pay a fine for chasing a woman to her death. 348 00:15:33,946 --> 00:15:37,758 Her choice to run. See if they'll make a deal. First Degree harassment. 349 00:15:37,816 --> 00:15:40,797 B misdemeanor, max he gets 90 days, suspended. 350 00:15:40,853 --> 00:15:42,230 Is that so? 351 00:15:49,828 --> 00:15:51,307 Freedom of the press at any cost. 352 00:15:51,363 --> 00:15:53,070 That should generate some nice editorials. 353 00:15:53,132 --> 00:15:55,009 Can't have too many friends in the media. 354 00:15:55,067 --> 00:15:56,944 Especially at election time. 355 00:15:57,002 --> 00:15:58,413 Lay off. 356 00:15:59,638 --> 00:16:01,584 The attacks on Adam are getting personal. 357 00:16:02,074 --> 00:16:04,816 Feldman accused him of prosecutorial Alzheimer's. 358 00:16:04,877 --> 00:16:06,083 I don't know about you, but I know 359 00:16:06,145 --> 00:16:08,989 I don't want to be working for Gary Feldman come November. 360 00:16:13,385 --> 00:16:17,595 By the time we got to 61st Street, Mrs. Abbott was pretty upset. 361 00:16:17,656 --> 00:16:20,535 She slapped me. Ran into the street. 362 00:16:20,592 --> 00:16:23,402 I grabbed her sweater. I tried to stop her. 363 00:16:24,963 --> 00:16:27,136 She went right in front of the taxi. 364 00:16:28,367 --> 00:16:30,472 I got scared. Took off. 365 00:16:32,704 --> 00:16:35,116 That's it. I'm sorry. 366 00:16:36,809 --> 00:16:37,947 Are the People satisfied? 367 00:16:40,145 --> 00:16:41,146 Yes, Your Honor. 368 00:16:41,780 --> 00:16:43,225 Then, in accordance with the plea agreement, 369 00:16:43,282 --> 00:16:46,161 I'm sentencing you to 30 days suspended sentence, 370 00:16:46,218 --> 00:16:47,959 four weekends community service, 371 00:16:48,020 --> 00:16:51,024 a $5,000 fine, and two years probation. 372 00:16:51,089 --> 00:16:52,693 We're adjourned. 373 00:17:04,169 --> 00:17:06,672 Three shell casings a few feet from the body. 374 00:17:07,606 --> 00:17:08,983 Nine millimeter. 375 00:17:09,041 --> 00:17:11,146 The shooter stood close. He didn't want to miss. 376 00:17:11,210 --> 00:17:12,484 UNI: Where were you going? ZAREM: I was on my way 377 00:17:12,544 --> 00:17:14,387 to Morean's when I heard the shots. 378 00:17:14,446 --> 00:17:16,153 How many did you hear? Three. 379 00:17:16,215 --> 00:17:17,853 POP, pop, pop, like that. 380 00:17:17,916 --> 00:17:18,951 You see the shooter? 381 00:17:19,017 --> 00:17:22,464 By the time I got to the corner, all I saw was Marco, lying there. 382 00:17:23,155 --> 00:17:24,156 BRUDER: Bobby! 383 00:17:24,823 --> 00:17:27,667 (CHUCKLES) Hey, what happened here? 384 00:17:27,726 --> 00:17:29,433 Phil Marco got shot. 385 00:17:29,495 --> 00:17:31,702 Dead? No kidding. 386 00:17:31,964 --> 00:17:33,170 Yeah. 387 00:17:38,904 --> 00:17:40,508 Give the people what they want. 388 00:17:49,882 --> 00:17:51,225 A standing ovation. 389 00:17:51,283 --> 00:17:53,763 Yeah. Don't worry. We took down all their names just in case. 390 00:17:53,819 --> 00:17:54,854 There's an obvious place to start. 391 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,196 Assuming Warren Abbott is that stupid. 392 00:17:57,256 --> 00:17:58,633 Or that angry. 393 00:17:58,690 --> 00:18:01,102 Whoa! Check the box next to stupid. 394 00:18:01,193 --> 00:18:04,663 Nine years ago, Abbott got a carry permit for a nine mil. 395 00:18:04,730 --> 00:18:06,471 That get us a search warrant? 396 00:18:06,532 --> 00:18:09,240 If he's the only citizen with a permitted gun. 397 00:18:09,301 --> 00:18:12,339 Guess you guys will have to find that gun the old fashioned way. 398 00:18:14,339 --> 00:18:16,979 My gun? I haven't seen my gun in the last four years. 399 00:18:17,042 --> 00:18:18,749 Last place being where? 400 00:18:18,810 --> 00:18:20,756 I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it. 401 00:18:20,813 --> 00:18:22,190 Well, why didn't you report it missing? 402 00:18:22,247 --> 00:18:24,853 I didn't say it was missing. It's just misplaced. 403 00:18:24,917 --> 00:18:26,521 CURTIS: Why'd you get it in the first place? 404 00:18:26,585 --> 00:18:29,259 I was litigating a case against Local 904. 405 00:18:29,321 --> 00:18:30,766 I was advised to get some personal protection. 406 00:18:30,822 --> 00:18:32,062 Advised by who? 407 00:18:32,424 --> 00:18:33,926 Local 904. 408 00:18:35,127 --> 00:18:36,800 So where were you last night? 409 00:18:37,796 --> 00:18:40,276 Well, I wasn't outside Morean's shooting Phil Marco. 410 00:18:40,332 --> 00:18:43,176 You know, that's exactly what we thought you were gonna say? 411 00:18:43,235 --> 00:18:44,976 How about telling us what you were doing. 412 00:18:45,337 --> 00:18:46,714 I was at Julianne Lowry's. 413 00:18:46,772 --> 00:18:48,718 The intern you weren't having an affair with? 414 00:18:48,774 --> 00:18:51,277 Makes me a hell of a son of a bitch, huh? 415 00:18:51,343 --> 00:18:53,084 She helping you get over your wife? 416 00:18:53,412 --> 00:18:54,618 Why don't you ask her? 417 00:18:55,981 --> 00:18:58,655 And if I find that gun, I'll be sure to let you know. 418 00:19:01,420 --> 00:19:03,900 He came over about 7:30. We talked. 419 00:19:03,956 --> 00:19:05,629 Until what time? 2:00 or 3:00. 420 00:19:05,691 --> 00:19:07,295 He didn't want to stay all night because of his daughter. 421 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:08,531 She's home from school. 422 00:19:08,594 --> 00:19:10,631 How thoughtful. What'd you talk about? 423 00:19:11,363 --> 00:19:13,570 His wife, us, I don't know. 424 00:19:13,932 --> 00:19:15,570 Phil Marco? 425 00:19:15,634 --> 00:19:16,738 Not really. 426 00:19:16,802 --> 00:19:20,306 About a story Phil Marco was working on? An unwanted pregnancy? 427 00:19:21,139 --> 00:19:23,585 No. Mr. Abbott didn't get you pregnant, did he? 428 00:19:24,009 --> 00:19:25,079 No. 429 00:19:25,143 --> 00:19:27,851 Because that would give him another good reason to shoot Marco. 430 00:19:28,947 --> 00:19:30,255 Look, what Warren likes me to do, 431 00:19:30,315 --> 00:19:32,352 you can't get pregnant from. Okay? 432 00:19:34,019 --> 00:19:35,054 Okay. 433 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:36,599 Now, if you'll excuse me. 434 00:19:39,558 --> 00:19:40,798 Strike two. 435 00:19:40,859 --> 00:19:43,169 Be nice to know who was feeding Marco his info. 436 00:19:47,199 --> 00:19:52,239 The Kennedys, Trump, Madonna, the Giffords, the entire tabloid hit parade. 437 00:19:53,238 --> 00:19:57,277 Here we go. Abbott. Separate folders for Warren, Margaret, 438 00:19:57,342 --> 00:20:00,880 the whole mishpocheh. Not a lot of notes. 439 00:20:00,946 --> 00:20:03,256 Maybe Marco didn't want to be confused by the facts. 440 00:20:03,315 --> 00:20:06,387 Well, he already knew all about Warren's favorite hobby. 441 00:20:06,451 --> 00:20:09,921 What's this entry here? F. Howard and a number. And Laura. 442 00:20:09,988 --> 00:20:12,935 Yeah. Frank Howard. He's married to one of Warren's sisters. 443 00:20:12,991 --> 00:20:14,561 Some kind of tree-hugger. 444 00:20:14,626 --> 00:20:16,503 Oh, yeah. He helped clean up the Hudson. 445 00:20:16,561 --> 00:20:19,041 Maybe he liked to dish the dirt to Marco. 446 00:20:21,033 --> 00:20:23,673 I have no idea why he'd have our number. 447 00:20:23,735 --> 00:20:26,272 Neither Frank nor I would ever take his calls. 448 00:20:26,338 --> 00:20:28,011 Well, somebody did. 449 00:20:28,073 --> 00:20:31,748 His phone records show that he called your number the night he was murdered. 450 00:20:31,810 --> 00:20:35,815 Oh. He called Betty's number. Our daughter. 451 00:20:36,582 --> 00:20:38,323 Why would she talk to Marco? 452 00:20:39,117 --> 00:20:41,597 She was in her room with Laura, Warren's daughter. 453 00:20:41,653 --> 00:20:43,963 Warren was stuck downtown on business, 454 00:20:44,022 --> 00:20:47,026 God knows what, and he asked if Laura could spend the evening with us. 455 00:20:47,092 --> 00:20:48,162 Did she spend the evening? 456 00:20:48,226 --> 00:20:50,069 She left just before 9:00. 457 00:20:50,128 --> 00:20:52,608 Right after Marco's call. Do you know where she went? 458 00:20:52,931 --> 00:20:55,241 I don't know. She seem upset? 459 00:20:55,300 --> 00:20:58,577 Laura's high-strung. Her mother's death hit her very hard. 460 00:20:58,637 --> 00:21:00,048 I didn't want her to leave. 461 00:21:00,105 --> 00:21:01,209 BRISCOE: Why not? 462 00:21:01,273 --> 00:21:03,446 Two years ago she tried to commit suicide. 463 00:21:03,508 --> 00:21:06,284 I was afraid she might do something to herself. 464 00:21:06,945 --> 00:21:08,481 You know if she's been pregnant? 465 00:21:08,547 --> 00:21:10,049 No. Of course she hasn't. 466 00:21:10,482 --> 00:21:12,018 You're assuming? 467 00:21:12,084 --> 00:21:13,495 She's been on the pill since she was 14. 468 00:21:13,552 --> 00:21:16,055 I think I would have heard something from my daughter. 469 00:21:17,155 --> 00:21:20,830 Laura's on the pill, and dad's girlfriend is a technical virgin. 470 00:21:20,892 --> 00:21:22,428 That brings us back to Mrs. Abbott. 471 00:21:22,494 --> 00:21:24,804 So she had an abortion. No big deal to her. 472 00:21:24,863 --> 00:21:26,240 Who said anything about an abortion? 473 00:21:26,298 --> 00:21:29,507 Well, Marco just said his story is about an unwanted pregnancy. 474 00:21:29,568 --> 00:21:31,570 Do we know if she was pregnant when she was killed? 475 00:21:33,605 --> 00:21:34,777 I spoke to the M.E. 476 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,946 Maggie Abbott had a hysterectomy right after her daughter's birth. 477 00:21:38,010 --> 00:21:39,455 How do we know exactly when? 478 00:21:39,511 --> 00:21:40,785 Well, the procedure that was used, 479 00:21:40,846 --> 00:21:42,689 a Spalding-Richardson, is no longer done. 480 00:21:42,748 --> 00:21:44,352 It's no longer taught. 481 00:21:44,416 --> 00:21:46,487 Last time Rodgers saw it was back in 1982. 482 00:21:46,551 --> 00:21:48,087 And even then it was pretty rare. 483 00:21:48,153 --> 00:21:50,656 So no unwanted pregnancies since. 484 00:21:50,722 --> 00:21:53,601 Are you saying the unwanted pregnancy was the daughter? 485 00:21:53,658 --> 00:21:56,161 Yes. Unwanted if Abbott's not her father. 486 00:21:56,228 --> 00:21:58,401 What's this? Nothing else fits. 487 00:21:58,463 --> 00:21:59,635 Beautiful. 488 00:22:00,265 --> 00:22:04,008 Motive evidence straight out of the tabloids. 489 00:22:04,069 --> 00:22:07,073 And how about means and opportunity? 490 00:22:07,139 --> 00:22:08,709 You getting that from the comic books? 491 00:22:08,774 --> 00:22:10,981 Warren Abbott has an alibi. The girl doesn't. 492 00:22:11,042 --> 00:22:12,817 She had access to her father's gun. 493 00:22:12,878 --> 00:22:15,381 Marco called her, probably told her what he knew. 494 00:22:15,447 --> 00:22:20,294 Right. Keep in mind this is Warren Abbott's daughter. 495 00:22:21,053 --> 00:22:22,760 His friends have deep pockets. 496 00:22:22,821 --> 00:22:25,700 Not a constituency I can afford to alienate. 497 00:22:25,757 --> 00:22:28,761 Make sure he's in the room when you question her. 498 00:22:29,594 --> 00:22:31,972 Have the police pick her up and notify Warren Abbott. 499 00:22:32,030 --> 00:22:33,703 Jamie Ross? Yes? 500 00:22:40,071 --> 00:22:43,382 It's Neal again. He's pulling me into court over Katie's custody. 501 00:22:46,978 --> 00:22:48,218 Marco didn't say much. 502 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,658 Just that he had some information about my mother. 503 00:22:50,715 --> 00:22:52,092 What sort of information? 504 00:22:52,150 --> 00:22:53,493 I don't know. 505 00:22:53,919 --> 00:22:55,125 He said it was important. 506 00:22:55,187 --> 00:22:56,723 Your aunt said you were upset, Laura. 507 00:22:56,788 --> 00:22:59,860 Of course she was upset. Her mother's dead because of that bastard. 508 00:22:59,925 --> 00:23:02,804 Mr. Abbott, we'd rather hear what your daughter has to say. 509 00:23:03,862 --> 00:23:05,569 ROSS: Why were you upset, Laura? 510 00:23:07,032 --> 00:23:09,672 Mr. Marco said we had to meet to talk about my mother. 511 00:23:11,203 --> 00:23:13,706 I didn't want to. I tried to hang up. 512 00:23:15,006 --> 00:23:19,113 But he started to say stuff that was wrong, so I'd try to correct him, 513 00:23:19,177 --> 00:23:20,781 and all of a sudden I was talking to him. 514 00:23:20,846 --> 00:23:22,723 If the son of a bitch weren't dead... 515 00:23:23,448 --> 00:23:24,654 Did you meet with him? 516 00:23:26,651 --> 00:23:29,188 I was going to but I changed my mind. 517 00:23:31,189 --> 00:23:32,224 Why? 518 00:23:35,227 --> 00:23:36,228 I just did. 519 00:23:38,597 --> 00:23:39,701 Where did you go? 520 00:23:39,764 --> 00:23:40,834 I went home. 521 00:23:42,534 --> 00:23:44,411 I watched some videos and then I went to sleep. 522 00:23:44,469 --> 00:23:46,176 She was asleep when I got home. 523 00:23:49,407 --> 00:23:51,045 Did you know that your father owns a gun? 524 00:23:51,109 --> 00:23:53,020 See, that's it. This is exactly what I mean. 525 00:23:53,078 --> 00:23:55,922 Mr. Abbott... This is how you prosecute cases? 526 00:23:55,981 --> 00:23:57,892 By running head games on young girls? 527 00:23:57,949 --> 00:23:59,223 If you want to help your daughter, 528 00:23:59,284 --> 00:24:00,490 encourage her to tell the truth. 529 00:24:00,552 --> 00:24:02,054 Isn't that why you went home, to get the gun? 530 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:03,292 Don't answer that, sweetheart. 531 00:24:03,355 --> 00:24:05,198 Arlen, we're done. We're done. 532 00:24:06,258 --> 00:24:10,502 If you leave now, Mr. Abbott, I will have no choice but to arrest your daughter. 533 00:24:10,562 --> 00:24:11,836 What! On what evidence? 534 00:24:11,897 --> 00:24:13,274 Her whereabouts are unaccounted for 535 00:24:13,331 --> 00:24:15,868 and she had access to the same caliber weapon that killed Marco. 536 00:24:15,934 --> 00:24:16,935 And she had a motive. 537 00:24:17,002 --> 00:24:18,037 What motive? 538 00:24:18,103 --> 00:24:20,743 Marco was about to publish a story 539 00:24:20,806 --> 00:24:22,786 about an affair her mother had... 540 00:24:22,841 --> 00:24:23,911 Stop right there. 541 00:24:23,975 --> 00:24:26,216 I want my daughter to wait outside. 542 00:24:26,278 --> 00:24:28,451 Come on. Go on. It's all right. 543 00:24:30,182 --> 00:24:31,718 My daughter has been traumatized enough. 544 00:24:31,783 --> 00:24:34,093 She doesn't need to find out from you I'm not her real father. 545 00:24:34,186 --> 00:24:35,426 It's true? 546 00:24:36,321 --> 00:24:38,426 There was a teaching assistant at Hudson Law 547 00:24:38,490 --> 00:24:40,163 when Maggie was pregnant with Laura. 548 00:24:40,225 --> 00:24:44,139 Big crush on Maggie. Unrequited. He had a wild imagination. 549 00:24:44,195 --> 00:24:46,266 He started this story. 550 00:24:47,766 --> 00:24:48,904 Laura called me. 551 00:24:48,967 --> 00:24:52,710 She told me Marco wanted to meet with her to discuss these rumors. 552 00:24:52,771 --> 00:24:54,341 I told her to go home. 553 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,811 I shot Marco! I'd do it again! 554 00:25:07,352 --> 00:25:08,763 What if he's covering for the daughter? 555 00:25:08,820 --> 00:25:12,199 He's not covering for his daughter. He thinks he can beat it. 556 00:25:12,257 --> 00:25:13,634 And you're confident he can't? 557 00:25:13,692 --> 00:25:15,000 I have his confession. 558 00:25:15,060 --> 00:25:16,733 Incomplete confession. 559 00:25:16,795 --> 00:25:19,799 And a room full of lawyers who charge $500 an hour. 560 00:25:19,865 --> 00:25:22,243 A plea offer, Adam, for cold-blooded murder? 561 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:24,541 Marco contributed to his wife's death 562 00:25:24,602 --> 00:25:27,640 and he was ready to humiliate what's left of his family. 563 00:25:28,540 --> 00:25:30,213 Murder two, 15-to-life. 564 00:25:30,442 --> 00:25:32,820 ROSS: His friends will be grateful. ADAM: Hope so. 565 00:25:32,878 --> 00:25:35,722 Feldman's talking about an October surprise. 566 00:25:35,780 --> 00:25:37,350 We make this deal and Marco's colleagues 567 00:25:37,415 --> 00:25:39,122 will give Feldman all the press he needs. 568 00:25:39,184 --> 00:25:40,788 Who reads the papers anyway? 569 00:25:41,620 --> 00:25:45,762 (SIGHS) This looks like fun. Motion to suppress Abbott's confession. 570 00:25:46,691 --> 00:25:47,965 I was expecting that. 571 00:25:48,026 --> 00:25:50,905 That's just the appetizer. Then we have a dozen other motions, 572 00:25:50,962 --> 00:25:52,805 to introduce Marco's employment records, 573 00:25:52,864 --> 00:25:54,844 gossip columns, criminal record. 574 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:56,436 Mostly just throw-away arguments. 575 00:25:56,634 --> 00:25:58,079 A smokescreen. Brief it all. 576 00:25:58,570 --> 00:26:00,174 I got a custody hearing at 1:00. 577 00:26:02,474 --> 00:26:05,216 I'll get started. Go kick Neal Gorton's ass. 578 00:26:10,615 --> 00:26:12,856 There's absolutely no basis for suppression. 579 00:26:12,918 --> 00:26:15,091 Mr. Abbott confessed freely and voluntarily. 580 00:26:15,153 --> 00:26:16,598 At the time he wasn't even a suspect. 581 00:26:16,655 --> 00:26:17,861 His daughter was. 582 00:26:17,922 --> 00:26:19,663 Arlen, if I may... 583 00:26:19,724 --> 00:26:21,635 My daughter was facing a murder charge. 584 00:26:21,693 --> 00:26:24,299 I was desperate to protect her. I spoke rashly. 585 00:26:24,362 --> 00:26:26,740 That goes to weight, Your Honor, not admissibility. 586 00:26:26,798 --> 00:26:30,075 If Mr. Abbott wants to repudiate his confession, let him do it on the stand. 587 00:26:30,135 --> 00:26:33,412 Your Honor, this so-called confession was an off-the-cuff remark, 588 00:26:33,471 --> 00:26:34,609 made in the heat of passion. 589 00:26:34,673 --> 00:26:37,176 If you let it in, we may as well go straight to sentencing. 590 00:26:37,242 --> 00:26:41,019 I'm going to let the jury decide this one, Mr. Levitt. The confession's in. 591 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:42,649 What's the next item on this laundry list? 592 00:26:42,714 --> 00:26:44,216 LEVITT: Mr. Marco's criminal record. 593 00:26:44,282 --> 00:26:45,727 Completely irrelevant to the charges. 594 00:26:45,784 --> 00:26:47,889 As are the victim's work records, his writings. 595 00:26:47,953 --> 00:26:48,988 It's res gestae, Your Honor. 596 00:26:49,054 --> 00:26:51,227 Mr. Marco's own work set the stage for his death. 597 00:26:51,289 --> 00:26:52,563 The jury should hear about it. 598 00:26:53,024 --> 00:26:55,095 How much of his work are you seeking to introduce? 599 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,367 Everything. I want to put his whole career before the jury. 600 00:26:57,429 --> 00:26:59,272 It's a ploy, Your Honor. 601 00:26:59,330 --> 00:27:02,436 The motion papers limited themselves to acts that took place 602 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:04,502 starting two weeks prior to Mrs. Abbott's death. 603 00:27:04,569 --> 00:27:05,946 Now Mr. Levitt wants to extend it. 604 00:27:06,004 --> 00:27:08,848 Your Honor, I should at least be allowed to explain all the circumstances 605 00:27:08,907 --> 00:27:10,215 that led to Mr. Marco's death. 606 00:27:10,275 --> 00:27:11,845 All the relevant circumstances. 607 00:27:11,910 --> 00:27:13,583 Why not let the jury sort it out? 608 00:27:14,412 --> 00:27:15,516 (SIGHS) 609 00:27:16,848 --> 00:27:20,853 Please, Your Honor, give me some chance to defend myself. 610 00:27:22,487 --> 00:27:26,025 This one's yours, Mr. Levitt. I'm granting that request. 611 00:27:27,058 --> 00:27:29,129 That was a gift. (SCOFFS) Whatever. 612 00:27:29,194 --> 00:27:31,333 About your offer of 15-to-life, thanks, but no thanks. 613 00:27:31,396 --> 00:27:32,602 You have another number in mind? 614 00:27:32,664 --> 00:27:35,304 Any time away from my daughter is too much. 615 00:27:35,367 --> 00:27:37,870 You take a plea, the circumstances of her birth 616 00:27:37,936 --> 00:27:40,075 won't be splashed across the tabloids. 617 00:27:40,138 --> 00:27:42,482 Don't be naive. The blood's already in the water. 618 00:27:42,540 --> 00:27:43,678 It's just a matter of time. 619 00:27:43,742 --> 00:27:45,085 It's no plea, Mr. McCoy. 620 00:27:46,010 --> 00:27:47,387 It's your funeral. 621 00:27:49,214 --> 00:27:50,818 REPORTERS: Mr. Abbott... 622 00:27:50,882 --> 00:27:52,259 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 623 00:27:55,453 --> 00:27:58,559 I was Marco's editor ever since he came over to the Ledger. 624 00:27:58,623 --> 00:28:01,103 He wrote a daily gossip and human interest column. 625 00:28:01,493 --> 00:28:03,495 Daily? That's a lot of gossip, isn't it? 626 00:28:03,561 --> 00:28:05,472 Well, the public has an insatiable appetite 627 00:28:05,530 --> 00:28:07,168 for stories about famous people. 628 00:28:07,232 --> 00:28:09,473 You say there was a lot of competition to get the hottest item? 629 00:28:09,534 --> 00:28:10,774 You have no idea. 630 00:28:10,835 --> 00:28:13,441 So Mr. Marco was under a lot of pressure to come up with stories. 631 00:28:13,505 --> 00:28:15,109 That's true of any journalist. 632 00:28:15,173 --> 00:28:17,380 And certain people, certain families, 633 00:28:17,442 --> 00:28:20,821 like Mr. Abbott's family, are targeted, isn't that right? 634 00:28:20,879 --> 00:28:22,358 Targeted is a loaded word. 635 00:28:22,414 --> 00:28:23,825 Well, in the last year didn't your paper 636 00:28:23,882 --> 00:28:28,058 publish 538 stories about Mr. Abbott's family 637 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,363 including his siblings, his spouses, his uncles, his cousins? 638 00:28:32,423 --> 00:28:34,801 And not because they discovered the cure for cancer. 639 00:28:34,859 --> 00:28:37,897 Well, if the public has a particular interest in certain people, 640 00:28:37,962 --> 00:28:39,270 yes, we tend to give them what they want. 641 00:28:39,330 --> 00:28:40,604 LEVITT: Thank you. 642 00:28:40,665 --> 00:28:43,305 Now, in this highly competitive business, 643 00:28:43,368 --> 00:28:47,475 what limits, if any, did you impose on Mr. Marco in his pursuit of stories? 644 00:28:47,539 --> 00:28:50,850 He had to adhere to the accepted standards of journalistic ethics. 645 00:28:50,909 --> 00:28:54,049 Really? Such as following a subject, that's acceptable? 646 00:28:54,112 --> 00:28:55,250 Yes. 647 00:28:55,313 --> 00:28:56,553 And taking pictures, also acceptable? 648 00:28:56,614 --> 00:28:57,820 Yes. 649 00:28:57,882 --> 00:28:59,452 Taking pictures of their children? 650 00:28:59,517 --> 00:29:01,019 If it's newsworthy. 651 00:29:01,086 --> 00:29:03,327 Spying on them in their homes using telescopes? 652 00:29:03,388 --> 00:29:05,390 As long as they don't trespass. 653 00:29:05,457 --> 00:29:07,232 Going through their garbage? Yes. 654 00:29:07,292 --> 00:29:08,771 Invading their privacy? 655 00:29:08,826 --> 00:29:10,965 As I said, as long as they don't trespass. 656 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,279 Defense eight. 657 00:29:17,335 --> 00:29:20,282 This is a deposition 658 00:29:20,338 --> 00:29:22,147 given by a hotel maid in a lawsuit 659 00:29:22,207 --> 00:29:23,515 brought by Mr. Abbott's nephew, 660 00:29:23,575 --> 00:29:26,078 Gregory Abbott, against the Barrington Hotel. 661 00:29:26,144 --> 00:29:28,249 In it, the maid states that Mr. Marco 662 00:29:28,313 --> 00:29:30,384 bribed her to let him into the suite 663 00:29:30,448 --> 00:29:32,291 in which Mr. Abbott's nephew was staying. 664 00:29:32,350 --> 00:29:35,297 Now, did you discipline Mr. Marco for taking such action? 665 00:29:35,353 --> 00:29:36,923 No. No. 666 00:29:36,988 --> 00:29:39,992 Well, then, I ask you again, what limits, if any, 667 00:29:40,058 --> 00:29:43,301 did you impose on Mr. Marco in his pursuit of stories? 668 00:29:45,863 --> 00:29:48,241 Would none be an accurate answer? 669 00:29:51,135 --> 00:29:52,273 Miss Sanger? 670 00:29:52,337 --> 00:29:53,407 It's all right, Your Honor. 671 00:29:53,471 --> 00:29:55,576 She doesn't have to answer. 672 00:30:03,848 --> 00:30:07,887 Miss Sanger, this is a copy of your paper. 673 00:30:09,554 --> 00:30:11,295 From two years ago, yes. 674 00:30:13,091 --> 00:30:14,764 People's 19. 675 00:30:16,828 --> 00:30:20,275 Would you describe Mr. Marco's column from that day? 676 00:30:20,331 --> 00:30:22,004 The highlighted item? 677 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,646 Mr. Marco reported a rumor that a Borough president 678 00:30:26,704 --> 00:30:30,777 had charged the city for an intricately carved mahogany headboard 679 00:30:30,842 --> 00:30:33,914 as a gift to a woman, not his wife. 680 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,757 A rumor? 681 00:30:38,316 --> 00:30:39,693 Yes. At the time. 682 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,626 But it resulted in an investigation, isn't that right? 683 00:30:46,691 --> 00:30:51,037 Yes. It uncovered a systematic abuse of city funds. 684 00:30:51,496 --> 00:30:53,874 The Borough president was forced to step down. 685 00:30:53,932 --> 00:30:58,312 So, a rumor in a gossip column 686 00:30:58,369 --> 00:31:01,578 resulted in serious political consequences. 687 00:31:01,639 --> 00:31:03,949 For the Borough president, certainly. 688 00:31:04,008 --> 00:31:07,114 How did Mr. Marco uncover his story? 689 00:31:07,178 --> 00:31:09,715 He went through the Borough president's garbage. 690 00:31:09,781 --> 00:31:12,352 If we were to operate under a slew of restrictions 691 00:31:12,417 --> 00:31:15,660 all we would ever print would be press releases. 692 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,131 Thank you. 693 00:31:21,326 --> 00:31:23,636 When you have no case, attack the victim. 694 00:31:23,695 --> 00:31:26,767 Especially when the victim represents everything that's wrong with journalism. 695 00:31:26,831 --> 00:31:30,438 The public still remembers a mangled car in a Paris tunnel. 696 00:31:30,501 --> 00:31:32,139 If they don't, Levitt'll remind them, 697 00:31:32,236 --> 00:31:35,274 with Marco's criminal record, his writings... 698 00:31:35,340 --> 00:31:38,048 It should have all been suppressed. 699 00:31:38,109 --> 00:31:39,588 Sorry to do this to you again, Jack, 700 00:31:39,644 --> 00:31:41,590 but I've got to meet my lawyer in 15 minutes. 701 00:31:41,646 --> 00:31:44,286 Neal's driving me up the wall. He claims if I get married, 702 00:31:44,349 --> 00:31:46,351 Katie'll spend more time with David than with me 703 00:31:46,417 --> 00:31:47,555 because of my long hours. 704 00:31:47,618 --> 00:31:48,790 If you get married? 705 00:31:48,853 --> 00:31:53,199 He's got a judge convinced Katie'll be better off with him than with David. 706 00:31:53,257 --> 00:31:56,101 So it's David or the job. No-brainer. 707 00:32:06,004 --> 00:32:08,177 LEVITT: Dr. Neustadt, you hold the Wilson chair 708 00:32:08,239 --> 00:32:10,981 at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, is that right? 709 00:32:11,042 --> 00:32:12,214 Yes, sir. 710 00:32:12,276 --> 00:32:16,315 Are there any generally accepted rules that govern legitimate reporting? 711 00:32:16,381 --> 00:32:18,452 Of course, as there are in any profession. 712 00:32:18,516 --> 00:32:19,824 Could you tell us what they are? 713 00:32:20,785 --> 00:32:23,664 Well, before you file a story, you make sure that any fact 714 00:32:23,721 --> 00:32:26,224 is confirmed by at least two sources. 715 00:32:26,290 --> 00:32:30,033 And if it's a controversial story, at least three or more. 716 00:32:30,094 --> 00:32:31,539 Do you ever pay these sources? 717 00:32:31,596 --> 00:32:33,007 Absolutely not. 718 00:32:33,064 --> 00:32:34,873 What about reporting on private lives? 719 00:32:34,932 --> 00:32:38,311 If it affects the story, yes. Yes, you can go with it. 720 00:32:38,369 --> 00:32:40,178 But if it is just gossip? 721 00:32:40,238 --> 00:32:44,914 Then it's just that. It is gossip. It's not journalism. 722 00:32:44,976 --> 00:32:47,252 Eavesdropping, telephoto pictures? 723 00:32:47,311 --> 00:32:49,416 Some tabloids use these methods, 724 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,653 but they debase the profession. 725 00:32:53,451 --> 00:32:57,922 They create a tendency to focus on trivia like a politician's intimate life 726 00:32:57,989 --> 00:32:59,525 rather than his policies. 727 00:33:00,358 --> 00:33:02,565 That is not news, that's noise. 728 00:33:02,627 --> 00:33:07,235 It's licentious. It corrupts journalists. 729 00:33:08,466 --> 00:33:09,911 Thank you. 730 00:33:15,706 --> 00:33:17,310 Dr. Neustadt. 731 00:33:20,411 --> 00:33:23,119 Who makes the rules governing journalists? 732 00:33:23,181 --> 00:33:25,991 Well, no one makes them. They're customary. 733 00:33:26,050 --> 00:33:30,362 Well, then, who decides when the rules are broken? 734 00:33:30,421 --> 00:33:34,801 Reasonable men and women can agree on reasonable restraints 735 00:33:34,859 --> 00:33:36,770 to irresponsible journalism. 736 00:33:36,828 --> 00:33:40,241 In your courses, do you teach the work of Ida Tarbell, 737 00:33:40,298 --> 00:33:42,869 Lincoln Steffane, Upton Sinclair, 738 00:33:42,934 --> 00:33:44,641 and more recently, I.F. Stone? 739 00:33:44,702 --> 00:33:45,942 Yes, I do. 740 00:33:46,003 --> 00:33:50,349 And isn't it true that all of them published exposes about, 741 00:33:50,408 --> 00:33:53,480 for instance, the meatpacking and oil industries, 742 00:33:53,544 --> 00:33:56,957 which at the time were widely regarded as irresponsible? 743 00:33:57,014 --> 00:33:59,551 Yes, that's right, but history has shown 744 00:33:59,617 --> 00:34:02,530 that these journalists were in fact acting responsibly. 745 00:34:02,587 --> 00:34:03,895 Oh. History. 746 00:34:07,358 --> 00:34:12,034 And how can we be sure that history won't be equally as kind 747 00:34:12,096 --> 00:34:13,507 to a reporter like Mr. Marco? 748 00:34:14,031 --> 00:34:16,705 Well, we can't. 749 00:34:16,767 --> 00:34:19,270 And aren't there generally accepted responses 750 00:34:19,337 --> 00:34:22,045 for someone who doesn't like what he reads in the newspaper? 751 00:34:22,106 --> 00:34:24,609 Letters to the editor? Lawsuits? Yes. 752 00:34:24,675 --> 00:34:28,851 Would you say that murder was one of the generally acceptable responses? 753 00:34:28,913 --> 00:34:29,948 Of course not. 754 00:34:30,014 --> 00:34:36,329 But there are countries where journalists have been shot for what they've published. 755 00:34:36,721 --> 00:34:37,961 Yes, but we have a free press, 756 00:34:38,022 --> 00:34:40,935 and the whole point of the First Amendment 757 00:34:40,992 --> 00:34:43,836 is that no one can control the press. 758 00:34:45,296 --> 00:34:46,673 Thank you. 759 00:34:51,602 --> 00:34:54,105 Defending Marco makes my skin crawl. 760 00:34:54,172 --> 00:34:56,812 Levitt's backed us into a corner. I know how he feels. 761 00:34:56,874 --> 00:35:00,344 Yesterday, The Observer ran a squib about me and Neal. 762 00:35:00,411 --> 00:35:01,446 I feel sorry for Abbott's kid. 763 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,850 "Abbott's secret's out!" 764 00:35:03,915 --> 00:35:06,418 "Abbott's struggle to survive Marco smear." 765 00:35:06,484 --> 00:35:09,658 "Lovesick teacher's aide started wild rumor about Maggie's love child." 766 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:11,597 Let me see that. 767 00:35:13,157 --> 00:35:14,295 What? 768 00:35:14,358 --> 00:35:17,532 Dig up all the clippings you can find about Abbott. 769 00:35:22,833 --> 00:35:27,145 WARREN: My daughter's had counseling, but emotionally she's fragile. 770 00:35:27,205 --> 00:35:32,120 When Mr. Marco called her that night, asking to meet her, she called me. 771 00:35:32,176 --> 00:35:36,318 She was in tears. I went to see Mr. Marco. 772 00:35:36,381 --> 00:35:38,122 My wife was dead. 773 00:35:38,182 --> 00:35:43,564 There was no reason for him to pursue the so-called story of my daughter's birth. 774 00:35:43,621 --> 00:35:48,195 I asked him to leave her alone. He refused. I offered to pay him. 775 00:35:48,793 --> 00:35:51,603 He said that'd make an even better story. 776 00:35:51,662 --> 00:35:55,633 I told him it could drive my daughter to commit suicide. 777 00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:57,270 He didn't care. 778 00:35:58,002 --> 00:36:00,608 He tried to leave. I grabbed him. 779 00:36:00,671 --> 00:36:02,241 He said he'd love for me to hit him. 780 00:36:02,306 --> 00:36:04,946 He said he'd get it on the front page. 781 00:36:06,244 --> 00:36:08,246 That's when I shot him. 782 00:36:08,713 --> 00:36:12,957 I didn't mean to kill him. But, God help me, I wanted to stop him. 783 00:36:13,818 --> 00:36:17,459 I couldn't let him do to Laura what he'd done to Maggie. 784 00:36:17,521 --> 00:36:18,625 Thank you very much. 785 00:36:29,967 --> 00:36:31,708 You recognize this? 786 00:36:33,738 --> 00:36:37,015 Yes. That's an article about my daughter's sweet 16 party. 787 00:36:38,676 --> 00:36:40,155 People's 21. 788 00:36:42,179 --> 00:36:45,922 Did the photographer and reporter sneak into your house? 789 00:36:46,851 --> 00:36:48,922 No. I invited them in. 790 00:36:48,986 --> 00:36:52,229 Why, if you treasure your privacy so much? 791 00:36:52,290 --> 00:36:56,033 It was better than having them climb trees and jump fences. 792 00:36:58,729 --> 00:37:00,208 People's 22. 793 00:37:01,299 --> 00:37:05,770 This profile of you appeared in a national business magazine last year. 794 00:37:07,672 --> 00:37:09,845 You allowed the reporter to observe you 795 00:37:09,907 --> 00:37:12,410 spending an intimate evening at home with your family. 796 00:37:12,477 --> 00:37:14,047 Isn't that right? 797 00:37:14,111 --> 00:37:15,590 Yes. I remember that. 798 00:37:16,314 --> 00:37:18,624 Didn't this article coincide 799 00:37:18,683 --> 00:37:22,893 with the opening of a branch office of your firm in Los Angeles? 800 00:37:22,953 --> 00:37:25,229 Objection, Your Honor. I fail to see the relevance of this. 801 00:37:25,289 --> 00:37:26,666 Objection overruled. 802 00:37:28,326 --> 00:37:30,738 Yes. The article happened to coincide 803 00:37:30,795 --> 00:37:32,866 with the opening of my Los Angeles branch. 804 00:37:32,930 --> 00:37:36,002 Is it fair to say that you've managed the news 805 00:37:36,067 --> 00:37:38,673 and used your private life to advance your career? 806 00:37:38,736 --> 00:37:40,181 Absolutely not. 807 00:37:44,675 --> 00:37:46,211 People's 23. 808 00:37:48,346 --> 00:37:50,189 Do you recognize this? 809 00:37:51,682 --> 00:37:53,684 Yes. It's an article about the smear 810 00:37:53,751 --> 00:37:56,823 directed at my daughter and my late wife's reputation. 811 00:37:57,521 --> 00:37:58,966 An article arranged by you? 812 00:37:59,023 --> 00:38:00,434 Absolutely not! 813 00:38:00,491 --> 00:38:02,129 You had nothing to do with its publication? 814 00:38:02,193 --> 00:38:03,797 Nothing. 815 00:38:07,031 --> 00:38:12,208 The article refers to a rumor started by a lovesick teacher's aide. 816 00:38:13,604 --> 00:38:16,642 Other than you, how many people knew about the origin of this rumor? 817 00:38:16,707 --> 00:38:18,345 I have no idea. 818 00:38:18,409 --> 00:38:20,150 Do you have a publicist? Yes. 819 00:38:20,211 --> 00:38:24,557 I use her to clarify and correct stories that appear now and then. 820 00:38:24,615 --> 00:38:27,755 Isn't it a fact that your publicist contacted 821 00:38:27,818 --> 00:38:29,764 the reporter who wrote this article? 822 00:38:29,820 --> 00:38:32,994 Your Honor, Mr. McCoy has no right to attack me, 823 00:38:33,057 --> 00:38:34,297 to attack my private behavior. 824 00:38:34,358 --> 00:38:35,666 Please, Mr. Abbott. 825 00:38:35,726 --> 00:38:38,036 To be dragging my private life into this. 826 00:38:38,095 --> 00:38:41,167 He's no better than that son of a bitch, Marco. 827 00:38:53,944 --> 00:38:57,687 The right to free speech is not more important than the right to privacy, 828 00:38:57,748 --> 00:39:00,160 the right to be left alone. 829 00:39:00,217 --> 00:39:03,130 Which one of you would like to be secretly photographed while sunbathing? 830 00:39:03,187 --> 00:39:07,465 Or while on your honeymoon? Or coming home with a newborn baby? 831 00:39:07,525 --> 00:39:11,234 Mr. Marco pursued Mr. Abbott's wife, he hunted her down, 832 00:39:11,295 --> 00:39:15,175 until she ran in front of a taxi. And what did the State do? 833 00:39:15,232 --> 00:39:17,838 A rap on the knuckles, and let him go. 834 00:39:17,902 --> 00:39:21,179 Let him go to hunt down Laura Abbott. 835 00:39:21,238 --> 00:39:24,185 He set her in his sights as surely as if he held a gun. 836 00:39:25,743 --> 00:39:27,586 Now, Mr. McCoy has pointed out 837 00:39:27,645 --> 00:39:29,454 that there are ways to respond 838 00:39:29,513 --> 00:39:30,958 to what you read in the press. 839 00:39:31,015 --> 00:39:33,723 Letters to the editor. That's all fine. 840 00:39:34,552 --> 00:39:36,623 But Mr. Abbott was facing life and death. 841 00:39:36,687 --> 00:39:38,894 His daughter's life and death. 842 00:39:39,990 --> 00:39:42,231 No time to write letters. 843 00:39:43,294 --> 00:39:47,538 Mr. Abbott shot Mr. Marco. But he did it in the heat of the moment. 844 00:39:48,699 --> 00:39:53,739 Mr. Marco provoked my client. He drove him to fire that gun. 845 00:40:00,911 --> 00:40:04,859 Of course, people should be protected 846 00:40:04,915 --> 00:40:08,089 against gross invasions of their privacy. 847 00:40:08,986 --> 00:40:11,057 There should be limits. 848 00:40:12,189 --> 00:40:15,227 But there must also be constraints on what a man can do 849 00:40:15,292 --> 00:40:17,772 when his privacy has been invaded. 850 00:40:18,529 --> 00:40:21,476 Even when his family's privacy has been invaded. 851 00:40:23,467 --> 00:40:30,214 Now, you may like Mr. Abbott and sympathize with him. 852 00:40:32,143 --> 00:40:35,716 And you may not like Mr. Marco. 853 00:40:35,780 --> 00:40:38,317 From what I know of Mr. Marco, I don't much like him. 854 00:40:38,382 --> 00:40:40,089 And I don't much like what he was going to do. 855 00:40:40,151 --> 00:40:43,997 But that cannot be a justification for what happened to him. 856 00:40:46,357 --> 00:40:49,338 We may not like tabloid journalism 857 00:40:49,393 --> 00:40:52,499 and the cult of celebrity that it feeds. 858 00:40:54,031 --> 00:40:59,504 The hunger for fame over virtue, for gossip over integrity. 859 00:41:01,105 --> 00:41:05,884 To us it may seem an unpleasant, miserable, disgusting game 860 00:41:05,943 --> 00:41:09,152 with which we would prefer to have nothing to do. 861 00:41:09,847 --> 00:41:14,125 But Mr. Abbott participated in it willingly. 862 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,323 It was only when it turned against him 863 00:41:17,388 --> 00:41:19,800 that he took out his gun and shot Mr. Marco. 864 00:41:20,725 --> 00:41:25,834 We may not want a world in which celebrity and gossip 865 00:41:25,896 --> 00:41:28,103 are all mixed up with news. 866 00:41:29,967 --> 00:41:31,173 It's messy. 867 00:41:34,672 --> 00:41:37,346 But our society can survive the mess. 868 00:41:37,408 --> 00:41:40,480 What it cannot survive without 869 00:41:40,544 --> 00:41:44,856 is the free and easy exchange of information. 870 00:41:44,915 --> 00:41:48,328 All kinds of information. Even if it's unpleasant. 871 00:41:48,385 --> 00:41:51,958 Even if it's irrelevant. Even if it's just gossip. 872 00:41:53,691 --> 00:41:57,138 We sort it out and we blunder on, 873 00:41:57,828 --> 00:42:00,035 but we blunder on free. 874 00:42:00,097 --> 00:42:03,840 The only alternative is a world in which people, 875 00:42:03,901 --> 00:42:07,781 if they're smart enough, rich enough, powerful enough, 876 00:42:08,439 --> 00:42:09,918 likable enough, 877 00:42:11,308 --> 00:42:13,515 can stop the truth from being told. 878 00:42:14,645 --> 00:42:19,719 Warren Abbott shot Philip Marco to shut him up! 879 00:42:22,086 --> 00:42:26,296 With premeditation. In cold blood. 880 00:42:28,492 --> 00:42:32,099 Because he didn't like what Mr. Marco was going to write. 881 00:42:43,974 --> 00:42:45,317 Has the jury reached a verdict? 882 00:42:45,609 --> 00:42:47,486 Yes, we have, Your Honor. 883 00:42:47,544 --> 00:42:50,047 JUDGE: On the first count of the indictment, murder in the Second Degree, 884 00:42:50,114 --> 00:42:51,422 how do you find? 885 00:42:51,482 --> 00:42:55,089 The jury finds the defendant, Warren Abbott, not guilty. 886 00:42:55,152 --> 00:42:56,722 On the second count of the indictment, 887 00:42:56,787 --> 00:42:58,323 manslaughter in the First Degree, 888 00:42:58,389 --> 00:42:59,493 how do you find? 889 00:42:59,557 --> 00:43:02,060 We find the defendant not guilty. 890 00:43:02,126 --> 00:43:04,106 On the third count of the indictment, 891 00:43:04,161 --> 00:43:05,697 manslaughter in the Second Degree, 892 00:43:05,763 --> 00:43:07,538 how do you find? 893 00:43:07,831 --> 00:43:09,833 We find the defendant guilty. 894 00:43:30,221 --> 00:43:31,495 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 895 00:43:31,555 --> 00:43:33,660 Man two, seven years max. 896 00:43:34,925 --> 00:43:37,735 Want to give odds he doesn't do even that? 897 00:43:37,795 --> 00:43:41,868 I see Abbott isn't trying to prevent the press from doing its job today. 898 00:43:41,932 --> 00:43:43,673 Today, it's news.