1 00:00:01,102 --> 00:00:01,935 In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:03,337 --> 00:00:06,607 sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:08,776 In New York City, the dedicated detectives 4 00:00:08,809 --> 00:00:10,778 who investigate these vicious felonies 5 00:00:10,811 --> 00:00:12,313 are members of an elite squad 6 00:00:12,346 --> 00:00:14,148 known as the Special Victims Unit. 7 00:00:14,182 --> 00:00:16,650 These are their stories. 8 00:00:18,352 --> 00:00:20,488 This apartment's not scheduled till 1:00. 9 00:00:20,521 --> 00:00:22,356 We get in trouble, I'm blaming you. 10 00:00:22,390 --> 00:00:25,459 We clean the place early, we go home early. 11 00:00:25,493 --> 00:00:27,428 Lady's gonna be pissed if she walks in 12 00:00:27,461 --> 00:00:28,796 and we scare the crap out of her. 13 00:00:28,829 --> 00:00:30,231 That's the beauty of it. 14 00:00:30,264 --> 00:00:31,432 The lady got a new job. 15 00:00:31,465 --> 00:00:33,734 She'll be gone all day. 16 00:00:33,767 --> 00:00:35,636 How do you know? 17 00:00:35,669 --> 00:00:38,106 Janey cleaned this apartment last week. 18 00:00:38,139 --> 00:00:41,242 Ew! This bathroom is disgusting. 19 00:00:41,275 --> 00:00:42,210 No wonder. 20 00:00:42,243 --> 00:00:44,812 That lazy bitch always does a half-assed job. 21 00:00:44,845 --> 00:00:45,813 Oh, my God! 22 00:00:45,846 --> 00:00:47,181 What? 23 00:00:47,215 --> 00:00:48,582 Oh, my God! What? 24 00:00:48,616 --> 00:00:49,683 Oh, she's dead! 25 00:00:49,717 --> 00:00:50,651 She's dead! 26 00:00:50,684 --> 00:00:52,753 Call the cops. Get an ambulance right now! 27 00:00:52,786 --> 00:00:54,855 Ma'am? Ma'am? 28 00:00:54,888 --> 00:00:56,624 Lady? Lady? 29 00:00:56,657 --> 00:00:58,659 Ma'am? Ma'am, can you hear me? 30 00:00:58,692 --> 00:00:59,727 Ma'am? 31 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,263 She's not breathing! 32 00:01:02,296 --> 00:01:04,265 Lady, come on, wake up. 33 00:01:04,298 --> 00:01:07,501 Ma'am? 34 00:01:07,535 --> 00:01:09,203 Name's Christina Nerrit. 35 00:01:09,237 --> 00:01:12,106 Unconscious, but EMS said she was breathing 36 00:01:12,140 --> 00:01:13,707 on her own the whole way in. 37 00:01:13,741 --> 00:01:15,109 We know what made her unconscious? 38 00:01:15,143 --> 00:01:16,877 Cleaning woman found her handcuffed 39 00:01:16,910 --> 00:01:19,113 with a plastic bag taped over her head. 40 00:01:19,147 --> 00:01:20,881 We don't know how long she was deprived of oxygen. 41 00:01:20,914 --> 00:01:22,750 We're doing an EEG to assess brain activity. 42 00:01:22,783 --> 00:01:23,751 Rape kit? 43 00:01:23,784 --> 00:01:26,354 Negative for hairs and fluids. 44 00:01:26,387 --> 00:01:29,590 And the paramedics say her hair was soaked when they found her. 45 00:01:29,623 --> 00:01:31,359 As soon as I know more, I'll call you. 46 00:01:31,392 --> 00:01:32,726 Victim was wet. 47 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,328 Perp must have tried to clean her up. 48 00:01:34,362 --> 00:01:36,697 So much for trace evidence. 49 00:01:36,730 --> 00:01:39,099 M.E.'s office. Urgent. 50 00:01:40,434 --> 00:01:42,403 Crime Scene sent urine samples from the toilet 51 00:01:42,436 --> 00:01:43,537 in the victim's bathroom. 52 00:01:43,571 --> 00:01:45,206 Even you can't get DNA back that fast. 53 00:01:45,239 --> 00:01:47,675 No, but I ran other tests. 54 00:01:47,708 --> 00:01:49,843 Urine's got high levels of creatinine 55 00:01:49,877 --> 00:01:51,545 and blood urea nitrogen. 56 00:01:51,579 --> 00:01:52,813 Both by-products of protein. 57 00:01:52,846 --> 00:01:53,947 What does that mean? 58 00:01:53,981 --> 00:01:58,519 Your victim or your perp is dying of kidney failure. 59 00:02:02,756 --> 00:02:07,228 Captioning sponsored by UNIVERSAL NETWORK TELEVISION 60 00:02:50,238 --> 00:02:50,804 Neighbor down the hall said 61 00:02:51,605 --> 00:02:52,506 the victim was some kind of artist. 62 00:02:52,540 --> 00:02:53,441 How did you guys do? 63 00:02:53,474 --> 00:02:54,808 Middle of the day, hardly anyone around. 64 00:02:54,842 --> 00:02:56,344 The maids didn't hear or see squat. 65 00:02:56,377 --> 00:02:57,511 And unfortunately, this building 66 00:02:57,545 --> 00:02:58,712 doesn't have security cameras. 67 00:02:58,746 --> 00:03:01,515 So all we've got is a perp that may have kidney failure. 68 00:03:01,549 --> 00:03:04,518 The urine I sent to the M.E. came from two spots I found 69 00:03:04,552 --> 00:03:05,786 on the rim of the bowl. 70 00:03:05,819 --> 00:03:07,488 What makes you so sure it's the perps? 71 00:03:07,521 --> 00:03:08,789 The victim's a woman living alone. 72 00:03:08,822 --> 00:03:09,823 The toilet seat was up. 73 00:03:09,857 --> 00:03:10,824 Some guys never learn. 74 00:03:10,858 --> 00:03:13,527 Soap's wet, so your theory that the perp made her 75 00:03:13,561 --> 00:03:15,296 take a shower holds water. 76 00:03:15,329 --> 00:03:17,331 I'll check the drain for hairs. 77 00:03:17,365 --> 00:03:19,333 The only thing that doesn't make sense is the bed. 78 00:03:19,367 --> 00:03:20,401 What about it? 79 00:03:20,434 --> 00:03:22,370 Guy goes to all this trouble to cover his tracks, 80 00:03:22,403 --> 00:03:24,672 leaves his sheets. Why? 81 00:03:24,705 --> 00:03:26,540 Cash and credit cards are still in her wallet, 82 00:03:26,574 --> 00:03:27,908 along with this receipt from this morning. 83 00:03:27,941 --> 00:03:29,443 Restaurant at the Hotel Kennedy. 84 00:03:29,477 --> 00:03:31,745 70 bucks. Had to be at least two people eating. 85 00:03:31,779 --> 00:03:34,415 So, Christina buys him breakfast, 86 00:03:34,448 --> 00:03:36,450 he rapes her for lunch. 87 00:03:38,986 --> 00:03:41,255 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember her. 88 00:03:41,289 --> 00:03:42,523 Breakfast rush. Table ten. 89 00:03:42,556 --> 00:03:44,458 She with anyone? 90 00:03:44,492 --> 00:03:45,426 Uh, some suit. 91 00:03:45,459 --> 00:03:47,828 You know, custom shirt, hundred-dollar tie. 92 00:03:47,861 --> 00:03:50,698 Wish I'd had the balls to spill something on it. 93 00:03:50,731 --> 00:03:52,400 Bad tipper? 94 00:03:52,433 --> 00:03:54,001 Guy takes one bite of his potatoes, 95 00:03:54,034 --> 00:03:56,937 spits them out and starts screaming, he told me no salt. 96 00:03:56,970 --> 00:03:58,339 He had a health problem. 97 00:03:58,372 --> 00:03:59,773 Yeah, or a mental problem. 98 00:03:59,807 --> 00:04:01,609 I mean, I write everything down. 99 00:04:01,642 --> 00:04:02,776 He never said no salt. 100 00:04:02,810 --> 00:04:03,844 Remember anything else? 101 00:04:03,877 --> 00:04:07,281 Woman seemed a little PMS, mood-wise. 102 00:04:07,315 --> 00:04:09,450 I bring out the coffee, she's all happy and smiley. 103 00:04:09,483 --> 00:04:10,784 When I come back with the entrées, 104 00:04:10,818 --> 00:04:11,785 she's bawling like a baby. 105 00:04:11,819 --> 00:04:12,920 About what? 106 00:04:12,953 --> 00:04:14,855 I don't stand around eavesdropping. 107 00:04:14,888 --> 00:04:17,057 You didn't happen to hear the guy's name either? 108 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:19,627 No. You know, but I can get it for you. 109 00:04:19,660 --> 00:04:20,961 It's not gonna be there. 110 00:04:20,994 --> 00:04:22,296 She paid for breakfast. 111 00:04:22,330 --> 00:04:24,632 Yeah, but he had a bar tab. 112 00:04:24,665 --> 00:04:28,802 Couple Bloody Mary's while he was waiting for her. 113 00:04:28,836 --> 00:04:30,971 Yeah, that's it. 114 00:04:31,004 --> 00:04:32,940 Guy named Brooks Harmon. 115 00:04:32,973 --> 00:04:35,976 Corporate credit card, Blossner House Publishing. 116 00:04:37,478 --> 00:04:39,980 I just hired Christina as Director of Medical Illustration. 117 00:04:40,013 --> 00:04:40,914 Will she be okay? 118 00:04:40,948 --> 00:04:42,750 We're waiting to hear from the hospital. 119 00:04:42,783 --> 00:04:43,817 I had a feeling something was wrong 120 00:04:43,851 --> 00:04:45,886 when she didn't show up for the 11:00 staff meeting. 121 00:04:45,919 --> 00:04:47,888 I tried her cell phone, but it went right to voice mail. 122 00:04:47,921 --> 00:04:50,458 Did Christina tell you where she was going after breakfast? 123 00:04:50,491 --> 00:04:51,392 Home to pick up a few things. 124 00:04:51,425 --> 00:04:52,993 And then she was coming right back here. 125 00:04:53,026 --> 00:04:54,294 Anything bothering her? 126 00:04:54,328 --> 00:04:56,864 Not that I know of. We were celebrating her new position. 127 00:04:56,897 --> 00:04:57,865 Really? 128 00:04:57,898 --> 00:04:59,833 'Cause we heard she was crying. 129 00:04:59,867 --> 00:05:01,669 Christina is our best freelance illustrator. 130 00:05:01,702 --> 00:05:02,736 She has no management experience; 131 00:05:02,770 --> 00:05:05,005 she was anxious about being able to handle the job. 132 00:05:05,038 --> 00:05:06,940 Do you have a problem handling salt, Mr. Harmon? 133 00:05:06,974 --> 00:05:08,842 No. I just don't like the whole shaker 134 00:05:08,876 --> 00:05:10,310 being poured over my breakfast. 135 00:05:10,344 --> 00:05:11,879 What does it have to do with Christina? 136 00:05:11,912 --> 00:05:14,915 Can you tell us where you went after the restaurant? Straight back to the office. 137 00:05:14,948 --> 00:05:16,350 You didn't answer my question. 138 00:05:16,384 --> 00:05:17,317 You were the last person 139 00:05:17,351 --> 00:05:19,787 seen with Christina before she was attacked. 140 00:05:19,820 --> 00:05:20,821 That makes me a suspect? 141 00:05:20,854 --> 00:05:23,624 Not if you don't mind letting our medical examiner 142 00:05:23,657 --> 00:05:26,627 take some blood for a DNA sample to rule you out. 143 00:05:26,660 --> 00:05:27,795 No problem. 144 00:05:27,828 --> 00:05:28,829 When? 145 00:05:28,862 --> 00:05:31,632 Tomorrow. We'll set it up and give you a call. 146 00:05:31,665 --> 00:05:33,667 Any time is fine. 147 00:05:33,701 --> 00:05:35,503 Thanks for the help. 148 00:05:35,536 --> 00:05:37,905 That was Cragen. He wants us to recanvass all the tenants 149 00:05:37,938 --> 00:05:39,740 who weren't there when we got there. 150 00:05:39,773 --> 00:05:41,709 What, Munch and Fin taking a personal day? 151 00:05:41,742 --> 00:05:43,911 They're at the hospital. Christina's awake. 152 00:05:45,813 --> 00:05:48,682 I was opening the door to my apartment 153 00:05:48,716 --> 00:05:51,151 when he came up behind me, said he had a gun. 154 00:05:51,184 --> 00:05:53,687 Told me not to scream. 155 00:05:53,721 --> 00:05:57,124 After you got inside, what did he do? 156 00:05:57,157 --> 00:06:01,094 He made me take off my clothes and lie in bed. 157 00:06:01,128 --> 00:06:03,764 He said he'd kill me if I looked at him. 158 00:06:03,797 --> 00:06:04,798 Then he... 159 00:06:10,037 --> 00:06:14,642 ...cuffed me to the headboard and... raped me. 160 00:06:14,675 --> 00:06:15,843 What happened next? 161 00:06:18,178 --> 00:06:20,080 He put the bag over my head. 162 00:06:20,113 --> 00:06:22,082 Thank God the maids found me. 163 00:06:22,115 --> 00:06:24,051 Were you ever able to get a look at him? 164 00:06:24,084 --> 00:06:26,119 No. I was too scared. 165 00:06:31,459 --> 00:06:33,093 Christina... 166 00:06:38,231 --> 00:06:40,768 My sister, Allison. 167 00:06:40,801 --> 00:06:43,103 These men are police detectives. 168 00:06:43,136 --> 00:06:45,973 Here's your laptop, but... 169 00:06:46,006 --> 00:06:47,708 I wish you would just get some rest. 170 00:06:47,741 --> 00:06:49,810 Working will help me forget what happened. 171 00:06:49,843 --> 00:06:52,480 We can give you the names of some counselors. 172 00:06:52,513 --> 00:06:54,147 I'm not talking to any shrinks! 173 00:06:56,550 --> 00:06:57,985 I'm sorry. 174 00:06:58,018 --> 00:06:59,987 I didn't mean to snap like that. 175 00:07:00,020 --> 00:07:02,590 I-I... You're just trying to help. 176 00:07:05,025 --> 00:07:06,226 Couple of big holes in her story. 177 00:07:06,259 --> 00:07:08,529 Christina gets home at 10:00, the maids find her at 11:30. 178 00:07:08,562 --> 00:07:10,998 That means she and the perp were alone for an hour and a half. 179 00:07:11,031 --> 00:07:12,700 It's a long time not to get a look at him. 180 00:07:12,733 --> 00:07:13,701 Doesn't mean she made it up. 181 00:07:13,734 --> 00:07:16,169 This might. She didn't mention taking a shower. 182 00:07:16,203 --> 00:07:17,538 Rapist makes you clean up, 183 00:07:17,571 --> 00:07:19,106 Now, that's a hard thing to forget. 184 00:07:19,139 --> 00:07:20,140 Not to mention the fact, 185 00:07:20,173 --> 00:07:22,142 just happens to sneak out in the nick of time. 186 00:07:22,175 --> 00:07:23,877 Couldn't have had more than six minutes 187 00:07:23,911 --> 00:07:25,145 after he put the bag on her head 188 00:07:25,178 --> 00:07:26,514 or Christina would've asphyxiated. 189 00:07:26,547 --> 00:07:27,681 Anything from the second canvass? 190 00:07:27,715 --> 00:07:30,050 Just that this is the only way in or out of that building. 191 00:07:30,083 --> 00:07:32,686 So, either no one wants to fess up letting a stranger in 192 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,221 or they really didn't see him. 193 00:07:34,254 --> 00:07:36,089 Maybe candid camera did. 194 00:07:36,123 --> 00:07:38,659 Store's got one pointing this way. 195 00:07:39,993 --> 00:07:40,994 I cued it back to 196 00:07:41,028 --> 00:07:44,064 just before 10:00 like you said, zoomed it in. 197 00:07:46,033 --> 00:07:48,969 Christina. Right on time. 198 00:07:49,970 --> 00:07:51,104 Nobody followed her in. 199 00:07:51,138 --> 00:07:53,574 Fast-forward it to 11:30. 200 00:07:53,607 --> 00:07:54,608 I don't have to. 201 00:07:54,642 --> 00:07:55,843 I already dubbed the tape. 202 00:07:57,645 --> 00:08:00,514 Hold it. Look at that. 203 00:08:00,548 --> 00:08:01,381 Brooks Harmon. 204 00:08:01,414 --> 00:08:04,017 He rapes her, but he used a condom. 205 00:08:04,051 --> 00:08:06,053 That's why he gave us the DNA. 206 00:08:07,087 --> 00:08:09,557 So you went in at ten after 11:00, 207 00:08:09,590 --> 00:08:11,692 and you left at 11:30. 208 00:08:11,725 --> 00:08:13,661 What were you doing there, Brooks? 209 00:08:13,694 --> 00:08:15,128 I wanted to make sure she was okay. 210 00:08:15,162 --> 00:08:15,929 Why wouldn't she be? 211 00:08:15,963 --> 00:08:17,998 Because she never came back to work. 212 00:08:18,031 --> 00:08:21,234 I knocked on her apartment door. No answer. 213 00:08:21,268 --> 00:08:22,402 So you stayed for 20 minutes? 214 00:08:22,435 --> 00:08:25,305 At the same time she just happened to be suffocating? 215 00:08:25,338 --> 00:08:26,506 I swear, I had nothing to do with it. 216 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:29,142 You called your office to cancel your 11:00 staff meeting. 217 00:08:29,176 --> 00:08:32,279 Now, that sounds to me like you had someplace to go. 218 00:08:32,312 --> 00:08:37,284 Brooks, I'm going to tell you what I think. 219 00:08:37,317 --> 00:08:39,152 You tried to kill Christina 220 00:08:39,186 --> 00:08:43,924 so your wife wouldn't find out you were banging her. Hmm. 221 00:08:46,226 --> 00:08:48,228 Okay. 222 00:08:51,098 --> 00:08:52,866 We were having an affair. 223 00:08:52,900 --> 00:08:54,134 So why didn't you just tell us that? 224 00:08:54,167 --> 00:08:56,036 I was trying to end it at breakfast. 225 00:08:56,069 --> 00:08:57,605 That's why Christina was crying. 226 00:08:57,638 --> 00:08:59,640 Are you sure that it wasn't because you told her 227 00:08:59,673 --> 00:09:00,974 that you wanted to tie her up? 228 00:09:01,008 --> 00:09:02,175 What are you talking about? 229 00:09:02,209 --> 00:09:04,144 We found your handcuffs, Brooks. 230 00:09:04,177 --> 00:09:05,312 I don't do that. 231 00:09:05,345 --> 00:09:07,014 Toilet seat was up. You do that? 232 00:09:07,047 --> 00:09:08,181 What the hell does that mean? 233 00:09:08,215 --> 00:09:09,717 It means you sprinkled when you tinkled. 234 00:09:09,750 --> 00:09:12,953 Our medical examiner tested the urine you left behind. 235 00:09:12,986 --> 00:09:14,287 You're dying of kidney failure. 236 00:09:14,321 --> 00:09:15,288 That's impossible. 237 00:09:15,322 --> 00:09:19,159 I just... I just had a physical. 238 00:09:19,192 --> 00:09:20,694 I am in perfect health. 239 00:09:22,529 --> 00:09:24,865 Mr. Harmon, I'm Captain Cragen. 240 00:09:24,898 --> 00:09:27,234 There's been a misunderstanding. You're free to go. 241 00:09:27,267 --> 00:09:28,335 I can leave? 242 00:09:28,368 --> 00:09:30,303 With our apologies. 243 00:09:32,239 --> 00:09:34,341 You people are nuts. 244 00:09:37,845 --> 00:09:38,646 Captain... 245 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:40,280 Warner thinks it's somebody else. 246 00:09:40,313 --> 00:09:43,016 I sent Munch and Fin to see her. 247 00:09:44,852 --> 00:09:47,054 I found cervical cells in the urine. 248 00:09:47,087 --> 00:09:49,156 Whoever used the toilet is female. 249 00:09:49,189 --> 00:09:50,257 And it's not Christina. 250 00:09:50,290 --> 00:09:51,992 If her kidneys were failing, it would have shown up 251 00:09:52,025 --> 00:09:53,293 in her blood work from the ER. 252 00:09:53,326 --> 00:09:55,696 Christina's labs all came back normal. 253 00:09:55,729 --> 00:09:57,731 So the person with her was a woman. 254 00:09:57,765 --> 00:09:58,932 Christina's a bisexual? 255 00:09:58,966 --> 00:10:01,234 Harmon knocks on her door, she doesn't answer 256 00:10:01,268 --> 00:10:02,970 'cause she's with her girlfriend. 257 00:10:03,003 --> 00:10:04,104 She makes Christina take a shower, 258 00:10:04,137 --> 00:10:07,174 she cuffs her to the bed and tapes a bag over her head. 259 00:10:07,207 --> 00:10:08,876 But instead of having sex, 260 00:10:08,909 --> 00:10:10,944 bitch leaves Christina to suffocate. 261 00:10:10,978 --> 00:10:13,781 So why's Christina crying rape to protect her? 262 00:10:15,348 --> 00:10:17,317 I don't want to talk about it. 263 00:10:17,350 --> 00:10:19,052 She tried to kill you. 264 00:10:19,086 --> 00:10:20,387 It was, it was an accident. 265 00:10:20,420 --> 00:10:21,755 Doesn't look that way. 266 00:10:21,789 --> 00:10:24,291 Did she threaten you not to talk? 267 00:10:24,324 --> 00:10:25,292 No. 268 00:10:25,325 --> 00:10:30,230 Look, I'm not here to judge you, believe me. 269 00:10:30,263 --> 00:10:32,866 But no matter how much you love this woman, 270 00:10:32,900 --> 00:10:35,235 she doesn't deserve your loyalty. 271 00:10:35,268 --> 00:10:39,272 What happened in my apartment was-was not a crime. 272 00:10:39,306 --> 00:10:41,742 Falsely reporting a rape is. 273 00:10:41,775 --> 00:10:42,743 I'm really tired. 274 00:10:42,776 --> 00:10:44,344 I-I'd like to go back to my room. 275 00:10:44,377 --> 00:10:47,447 I need you to tell me what really happened. 276 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:48,682 Don't worry about me. 277 00:10:48,716 --> 00:10:49,683 Are you all right? 278 00:10:49,717 --> 00:10:53,253 Yes, I'm okay now. 279 00:10:53,286 --> 00:10:54,755 I need some help in here! 280 00:10:54,788 --> 00:10:56,924 I need some help now! 281 00:10:56,957 --> 00:10:57,925 Help! 282 00:10:57,958 --> 00:10:59,359 Bring the cart! 283 00:11:10,904 --> 00:11:11,504 Medical examiner's on the way. 284 00:11:12,472 --> 00:11:14,742 We're treating Ms. Nerrit's death as suspicious. 285 00:11:14,775 --> 00:11:15,909 What happened to her? 286 00:11:15,943 --> 00:11:17,778 Severe hypoglycemic shock. 287 00:11:17,811 --> 00:11:19,780 Her blood sugar crashed. 288 00:11:19,813 --> 00:11:21,381 Our doctors did a finger stick 289 00:11:21,414 --> 00:11:23,283 while they were trying to resuscitate her. 290 00:11:23,316 --> 00:11:24,484 She had a glucose level of two. 291 00:11:24,517 --> 00:11:25,986 That sounds low. 292 00:11:26,019 --> 00:11:27,287 Oh, yeah. 293 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:28,355 Normal's around 90. 294 00:11:28,388 --> 00:11:32,860 So, I ran some tests on blood drawn during the code. 295 00:11:32,893 --> 00:11:36,496 Ms. Nerrit's insulin level was five times normal. 296 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:38,365 Are you saying she was murdered? 297 00:11:38,398 --> 00:11:40,801 I can't say anything officially yet, of course, 298 00:11:40,834 --> 00:11:42,069 but someone injected Ms. Nerrit 299 00:11:42,102 --> 00:11:43,771 with a massive dose of insulin. 300 00:11:43,804 --> 00:11:44,872 When? 301 00:11:44,905 --> 00:11:50,077 No more than 15, 20 minutes before seizures began. 302 00:11:50,110 --> 00:11:52,112 Hospital pharmacy went through their inventory. 303 00:11:52,145 --> 00:11:53,814 All their insulin is accounted for. 304 00:11:53,847 --> 00:11:55,448 So someone brought it in from the outside. 305 00:11:55,482 --> 00:11:57,484 Christina have any visitors besides her sister? 306 00:11:57,517 --> 00:11:58,685 Staff didn't notice anyone. 307 00:11:58,718 --> 00:12:00,854 The perp could've been dressed like they work here. 308 00:12:00,888 --> 00:12:01,922 Or the real deal. 309 00:12:01,955 --> 00:12:03,791 Psycho doc or killer nurse, like the guy in Jersey, 310 00:12:03,824 --> 00:12:04,925 gets off watching people die. 311 00:12:04,958 --> 00:12:07,060 Either one would have access to insulin. 312 00:12:07,094 --> 00:12:08,528 You'd better be sure about this. 313 00:12:08,561 --> 00:12:10,297 Hospital pathologist said 314 00:12:10,330 --> 00:12:12,432 Christina was definitely injected. 315 00:12:12,465 --> 00:12:14,768 I get stuck with a needle and die, 316 00:12:14,802 --> 00:12:17,304 my husband and kids get both your pensions. 317 00:12:17,337 --> 00:12:19,039 Now we just have to find the right syringe. 318 00:12:19,072 --> 00:12:20,040 How're we going to know? 319 00:12:20,073 --> 00:12:20,841 That's the easy part. 320 00:12:20,874 --> 00:12:24,177 Hospitals order one brand in bulk. 321 00:12:24,211 --> 00:12:28,782 This one... is different from the others. 322 00:12:29,950 --> 00:12:32,786 Hospital confirms it never used that brand of syringe. 323 00:12:32,820 --> 00:12:35,989 The lab found prints on the cylinder and plunger and traces of insulin. 324 00:12:36,023 --> 00:12:37,224 Injected how? 325 00:12:37,257 --> 00:12:39,526 No needle punctures in Christina's body, 326 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:41,829 so had to be through the port in her IV. 327 00:12:41,862 --> 00:12:44,865 Young, otherwise healthy, about to be discharged. 328 00:12:44,898 --> 00:12:47,000 Angel of mercy usually likes them old and sick. 329 00:12:47,034 --> 00:12:49,536 Hospital hasn't had any suspicious deaths in years, 330 00:12:49,569 --> 00:12:51,939 but we're checking personnel files just in case. 331 00:12:51,972 --> 00:12:53,907 Could be our mystery woman didn't want 332 00:12:53,941 --> 00:12:55,909 to risk Christina ratting her out. 333 00:12:55,943 --> 00:12:57,510 Christina's sister Allison was the last person 334 00:12:57,544 --> 00:12:58,611 seen in the hospital room. 335 00:12:58,645 --> 00:13:00,881 The sister have any reason to want Christina dead? 336 00:13:00,914 --> 00:13:02,049 Christina may have killed herself. 337 00:13:02,082 --> 00:13:03,050 Where did you get that? 338 00:13:03,083 --> 00:13:04,384 Computer Crimes. 339 00:13:04,417 --> 00:13:07,320 They found something very interesting on her laptop. 340 00:13:07,354 --> 00:13:09,122 Gentlemen, your so-called victim 341 00:13:09,156 --> 00:13:10,958 has been doing a little blogging. 342 00:13:10,991 --> 00:13:13,894 That's daily, almost hourly trips to one Web site. 343 00:13:13,927 --> 00:13:15,863 "Catching-the-train-dot-com." 344 00:13:15,896 --> 00:13:17,397 Catching the train where? 345 00:13:17,430 --> 00:13:18,832 Apparently, to the afterlife. 346 00:13:18,866 --> 00:13:20,500 It's a bunch of people talking about suicide. 347 00:13:20,533 --> 00:13:22,169 Listen to this. "Welcome to the station. 348 00:13:22,202 --> 00:13:23,871 "The train's pulling in. 349 00:13:23,904 --> 00:13:25,338 Click here for your ticket 350 00:13:25,372 --> 00:13:26,473 to everlasting peace." 351 00:13:26,506 --> 00:13:27,474 Can you believe that? 352 00:13:27,507 --> 00:13:30,043 Christina Nerrit's handle on this site was C-U. 353 00:13:30,077 --> 00:13:31,178 As in "later." 354 00:13:31,211 --> 00:13:32,379 Who was she writing to? 355 00:13:32,412 --> 00:13:35,115 Mostly someone with the screen name "Conductor." 356 00:13:35,148 --> 00:13:36,383 That's why she was so hot 357 00:13:36,416 --> 00:13:37,985 for her laptop at the hospital. 358 00:13:38,018 --> 00:13:39,953 She wanted to chat with these whackos. 359 00:13:39,987 --> 00:13:42,322 Christina started a thread the day you found her. 360 00:13:42,355 --> 00:13:43,456 Titled it "Still Here." 361 00:13:43,490 --> 00:13:45,292 'Missed the train today.'" 362 00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:47,294 'What happened?'" 363 00:13:47,327 --> 00:13:50,363 'Maids came early and found me. 364 00:13:50,397 --> 00:13:53,333 Ripped the bag off. I'm in the hospital.'" 365 00:13:53,366 --> 00:13:54,367 "Conductor:... 366 00:13:54,401 --> 00:13:55,468 'What..." 'What now?'" 367 00:13:55,502 --> 00:13:57,204 "Christina: 'Something quick 368 00:13:57,237 --> 00:13:59,206 before anyone figures it out.'" 369 00:13:59,239 --> 00:14:01,641 'Hospitals have insulin.'" 370 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:04,144 First time Christina tries to off herself, she lives. 371 00:14:04,177 --> 00:14:06,013 She made sure that wouldn't happen again. 372 00:14:06,046 --> 00:14:08,015 We've got plenty of cases with living victims. 373 00:14:08,048 --> 00:14:10,117 We got to move on if this was a suicide. 374 00:14:10,150 --> 00:14:11,885 Assisted suicide, Captain. 375 00:14:11,919 --> 00:14:13,653 That's second degree manslaughter. 376 00:14:13,686 --> 00:14:15,555 Maybe Christina's mystery girlfriend 377 00:14:15,588 --> 00:14:17,524 with kidney failure is our Conductor. 378 00:14:17,557 --> 00:14:20,527 We can ID her off her ISP. 379 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,363 I found where Christina ordered her insulin. 380 00:14:23,396 --> 00:14:25,966 Online prescription mill. Staten Island. 381 00:14:27,334 --> 00:14:30,203 Police! Stand up, step away from your computers 382 00:14:30,237 --> 00:14:31,671 and do not touch anything. 383 00:14:31,704 --> 00:14:33,907 I'm Marvin Friedman, Chairman and CEO. 384 00:14:33,941 --> 00:14:36,143 You can all wait outside till our lawyers arrive. 385 00:14:36,176 --> 00:14:38,078 This is a search warrant signed by a federal judge, 386 00:14:38,111 --> 00:14:40,213 allowing us to look for evidence your company dispenses 387 00:14:40,247 --> 00:14:41,481 medication without prescriptions. 388 00:14:41,514 --> 00:14:42,482 Everything we do here 389 00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:43,483 is legal. 390 00:14:43,516 --> 00:14:44,284 How did this woman 391 00:14:44,317 --> 00:14:46,253 buy insulin from you to kill herself? 392 00:14:46,286 --> 00:14:48,155 Oh, she probably lied on the questionnaire. 393 00:14:48,188 --> 00:14:50,057 Our doctors won't send anything out 394 00:14:50,090 --> 00:14:52,492 to anyone unless they've signed their medical records. 395 00:14:52,525 --> 00:14:54,494 Right, and I'm sure you decline any order 396 00:14:54,527 --> 00:14:56,396 that's may be unnecessary or dangerous. 397 00:14:56,429 --> 00:14:58,065 I don't have to answer that. 398 00:14:58,098 --> 00:15:00,033 I bet these so-called doctors will 399 00:15:00,067 --> 00:15:02,402 once we threaten to take their licenses. 400 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:03,670 What do you want from me? 401 00:15:03,703 --> 00:15:05,505 Check when that order went out. 402 00:15:05,538 --> 00:15:07,240 It went out overnight two days ago. 403 00:15:07,274 --> 00:15:09,977 You keep all these invoices in your head? 404 00:15:10,010 --> 00:15:11,111 She called me. 405 00:15:11,144 --> 00:15:13,280 Frantic because I won't ship it to a post-office box. 406 00:15:13,313 --> 00:15:15,015 Where did she have the insulin sent? 407 00:15:15,048 --> 00:15:16,483 Her home address. 408 00:15:18,251 --> 00:15:19,953 I'm packing up Christina's things. 409 00:15:19,987 --> 00:15:21,688 I guess I'll give most of it away. 410 00:15:21,721 --> 00:15:23,023 What are you looking for? 411 00:15:23,056 --> 00:15:24,391 Any packages that came 412 00:15:24,424 --> 00:15:26,960 after Christina went into the hospital? 413 00:15:26,994 --> 00:15:28,261 Just this. 414 00:15:30,297 --> 00:15:32,332 You know what's in it? 415 00:15:32,365 --> 00:15:34,367 I think it's insulin. 416 00:15:34,401 --> 00:15:36,436 Christina wasn't diabetic. 417 00:15:36,469 --> 00:15:40,373 Allison, we think your sister used insulin to kill herself. 418 00:15:40,407 --> 00:15:43,210 No, that can't be. It's right here. 419 00:15:43,243 --> 00:15:45,678 She couldn't get it, so someone got it for her. 420 00:15:45,712 --> 00:15:47,247 If Christina committed suicide, 421 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,082 then why are the police interested? 422 00:15:49,116 --> 00:15:50,450 Because someone helped her 423 00:15:50,483 --> 00:15:51,684 and that's a crime. 424 00:15:51,718 --> 00:15:55,022 Do any of Christina's friends have keys to the apartment? 425 00:15:55,055 --> 00:15:56,456 Christina didn't have any friends. 426 00:15:56,489 --> 00:16:00,193 Allison, I need to know where you were yesterday. 427 00:16:00,227 --> 00:16:02,362 You think it was me? 428 00:16:02,395 --> 00:16:04,264 I have to ask. 429 00:16:04,297 --> 00:16:06,233 You were the last one seen with her in the hospital 430 00:16:06,266 --> 00:16:07,234 before she died. 431 00:16:07,267 --> 00:16:08,101 I loved her. 432 00:16:08,135 --> 00:16:10,103 I would never help her kill herself. 433 00:16:10,137 --> 00:16:11,371 Sorry to interrupt. 434 00:16:11,404 --> 00:16:14,607 That's okay. 435 00:16:14,641 --> 00:16:16,009 We're done. 436 00:16:16,043 --> 00:16:17,710 I'd like to finish packing. 437 00:16:20,447 --> 00:16:22,982 Computer Crimes found our Conductor. 438 00:16:26,286 --> 00:16:28,088 Dr. Amy Solwey? 439 00:16:28,121 --> 00:16:30,190 Just a second. 440 00:16:32,059 --> 00:16:33,293 These men 441 00:16:33,326 --> 00:16:35,128 are police officers. 442 00:16:35,162 --> 00:16:36,196 Can you help us out here? 443 00:16:36,229 --> 00:16:37,697 Detectives Munch and Tutuola. 444 00:16:37,730 --> 00:16:39,099 We need to talk to you 445 00:16:39,132 --> 00:16:40,500 in private. 446 00:16:41,501 --> 00:16:43,303 My assistant can translate. 447 00:16:43,336 --> 00:16:45,805 Well, this is official business. 448 00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:47,807 We'll call an interpreter down to our precinct. 449 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,078 Fine. Just give me a moment. 450 00:16:53,113 --> 00:16:56,516 Should we call you Dr. Solwey or Conductor? 451 00:16:56,549 --> 00:16:58,218 Conductor on the Internet. 452 00:16:58,251 --> 00:17:00,087 In person, my name is Amy. 453 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,555 So, Amy, how do you know Christina Nerrit? 454 00:17:02,589 --> 00:17:04,191 I'm sorry, I don't. 455 00:17:04,224 --> 00:17:07,827 How about C-U from the catching-the-train Web site? 456 00:17:07,860 --> 00:17:09,529 That's my site. 457 00:17:09,562 --> 00:17:11,164 I know the name. 458 00:17:11,198 --> 00:17:13,266 Did you help Christina Nerrit kill herself? 459 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:15,635 I gave her advice. 460 00:17:15,668 --> 00:17:17,270 Bad advice. 461 00:17:17,304 --> 00:17:19,506 She didn't think so. She was in pain. 462 00:17:19,539 --> 00:17:21,608 And suicide was the cure? 463 00:17:21,641 --> 00:17:24,211 What kind of doctor are you? 464 00:17:24,244 --> 00:17:26,113 Ph.D. I'm an embryologist. 465 00:17:26,146 --> 00:17:29,082 So you help women get pregnant 466 00:17:29,116 --> 00:17:31,518 and in your spare time, you tell them how to kill themselves. 467 00:17:31,551 --> 00:17:33,153 By telling them exactly how to do it. 468 00:17:33,186 --> 00:17:34,854 "If you're using cyanide, mix it with water 469 00:17:34,887 --> 00:17:36,389 "and test the pH. 470 00:17:36,423 --> 00:17:38,791 "Make sure it's not too acidic or alkaline 471 00:17:38,825 --> 00:17:40,593 so it doesn't burn going down." 472 00:17:40,627 --> 00:17:43,130 Your Web site is like "Suicide for Dummies." 473 00:17:46,133 --> 00:17:47,867 My Web site also prevents people 474 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:49,736 from killing themselves. 475 00:17:49,769 --> 00:17:53,140 But it's just talk. You know, free speech. 476 00:17:53,173 --> 00:17:56,176 Where were you two days ago, Amy? 477 00:17:56,209 --> 00:17:57,510 Around lunchtime? 478 00:17:57,544 --> 00:17:58,778 I was at work. 479 00:17:58,811 --> 00:18:01,381 Ask my assistant. 480 00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:04,117 You don't seem too upset about Christina's death. 481 00:18:04,151 --> 00:18:06,486 I'm not. 482 00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:08,221 She's happy now. 483 00:18:08,255 --> 00:18:11,158 I'm sure she called to thank you right after she died. 484 00:18:11,191 --> 00:18:13,726 Christina didn't commit a crime and neither did I. 485 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,396 Now, if that's all, I've got to get back to work. 486 00:18:16,429 --> 00:18:17,530 Thank you. 487 00:18:17,564 --> 00:18:19,199 An officer will drive you. 488 00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:24,371 She's lying. How you know that? 489 00:18:24,404 --> 00:18:25,572 Her coat-- it's Burberry. 490 00:18:25,605 --> 00:18:26,573 I've seen it before. 491 00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:27,640 Where? 492 00:18:29,876 --> 00:18:31,778 There. 493 00:18:31,811 --> 00:18:32,912 You can't seen her face, 494 00:18:32,945 --> 00:18:35,215 but that's Amy Solwey leaving Christina's building. 495 00:18:35,248 --> 00:18:36,883 Two minutes after Christina's boss. 496 00:18:36,916 --> 00:18:38,151 He was banging on the door for 15 minutes. 497 00:18:38,185 --> 00:18:40,920 Amy must've waited until after he left so he wouldn't see her. 498 00:18:40,953 --> 00:18:43,490 Probably helped to put on the cuffs and the bag. 499 00:18:43,523 --> 00:18:45,825 The urine on the toilet belongs to a woman. 500 00:18:45,858 --> 00:18:47,160 It's got to be Amy's. 501 00:18:47,194 --> 00:18:48,295 How do you know that? 502 00:18:48,328 --> 00:18:50,197 She's probably got Alport's syndrome. 503 00:18:50,230 --> 00:18:51,431 It's a rare genetic disorder 504 00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:53,433 that causes deafness and kidney failure. 505 00:18:53,466 --> 00:18:54,901 Is that enough to collar her? 506 00:18:54,934 --> 00:18:56,936 I'd like to connect her to the insulin first. 507 00:18:56,969 --> 00:18:58,671 She works in a doctor's office. 508 00:18:58,705 --> 00:19:00,440 Not all doctors keep insulin around. 509 00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:01,941 Hers would. 510 00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:04,411 It's a fertility clinic and OB/GYN. 511 00:19:04,444 --> 00:19:08,315 They need it for pregnant women with gestational diabetes. 512 00:19:09,549 --> 00:19:11,484 The insulin is stored upstairs. 513 00:19:11,518 --> 00:19:13,520 We have no use for it down here. 514 00:19:13,553 --> 00:19:15,855 The warrant covers the entire office. 515 00:19:15,888 --> 00:19:18,291 Please... you're literally holding 516 00:19:18,325 --> 00:19:20,327 potential lives in your hands. 517 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,195 You must know what that's like. 518 00:19:22,229 --> 00:19:23,330 I got the insulin. 519 00:19:23,363 --> 00:19:24,597 Where did you find it? 520 00:19:24,631 --> 00:19:25,832 Desk in her office. 521 00:19:25,865 --> 00:19:27,267 Amy Solwey, you are under arrest 522 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:28,401 for assisting a suicide. 523 00:19:28,435 --> 00:19:30,237 You have the right to remain silent. 524 00:19:30,270 --> 00:19:31,471 If you give up that right, 525 00:19:31,504 --> 00:19:34,274 anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. 526 00:19:40,380 --> 00:19:40,913 Man two is a stretch. 527 00:19:41,548 --> 00:19:43,516 You're wrong about my client. 528 00:19:43,550 --> 00:19:44,917 Any advice Amy gave to Christina Nerrit 529 00:19:44,951 --> 00:19:47,354 regarding suicide is protected by the First Amendment. 530 00:19:47,387 --> 00:19:48,888 As deplorable as I find her Web site, 531 00:19:48,921 --> 00:19:51,658 if all she did was exercise her right to free speech, 532 00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:52,659 we wouldn't be here. 533 00:19:52,692 --> 00:19:53,760 We can explain 534 00:19:53,793 --> 00:19:56,229 those insulin vials in her office. 535 00:19:56,263 --> 00:19:59,899 After they give birth, our gestational diabetes patients 536 00:19:59,932 --> 00:20:02,802 sometimes bring their leftover insulin back to the office. 537 00:20:02,835 --> 00:20:04,571 Last week a woman gave me hers. 538 00:20:04,604 --> 00:20:06,639 Dr. Solwey got busy, put them in her desk 539 00:20:06,673 --> 00:20:07,607 and forgot about them. 540 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:08,475 Honest mistake. 541 00:20:08,508 --> 00:20:10,677 Nice try, but the syringe used 542 00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:12,612 to inject Christina is the same brand used 543 00:20:12,645 --> 00:20:13,546 in your client's office. 544 00:20:13,580 --> 00:20:15,548 And thousands of other doctor's offices, 545 00:20:15,582 --> 00:20:16,616 clinics and hospitals. 546 00:20:16,649 --> 00:20:18,651 We have her on tape leaving Christina's building 547 00:20:18,685 --> 00:20:20,653 just before she was found. That a coincidence, too? 548 00:20:20,687 --> 00:20:21,854 Christina called me. 549 00:20:21,888 --> 00:20:23,790 Asked me if I could come over. 550 00:20:23,823 --> 00:20:25,325 I met her in the hallway. 551 00:20:25,358 --> 00:20:26,459 She told me her plans. 552 00:20:26,493 --> 00:20:27,660 I tried to talk her out of it. 553 00:20:27,694 --> 00:20:30,830 Really? Doesn't that go against your whole belief system? 554 00:20:32,732 --> 00:20:34,467 You can't possibly understand. 555 00:20:34,501 --> 00:20:35,368 - You're right. - We don't. 556 00:20:35,402 --> 00:20:36,836 Why are we debating this? 557 00:20:36,869 --> 00:20:40,340 Nobody saw Amy enter Christina's apartment or hospital room. 558 00:20:40,373 --> 00:20:42,409 She's innocent, give us blood for DNA. 559 00:20:46,546 --> 00:20:47,980 Dr. Huang's right on the money. 560 00:20:48,014 --> 00:20:49,782 Amy Solwey has Alport's syndrome. 561 00:20:49,816 --> 00:20:50,683 Woman's a scientist. 562 00:20:50,717 --> 00:20:53,286 She's got to know we had something on her. 563 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:54,321 Why agree to a blood test? 564 00:20:54,354 --> 00:20:56,923 Probably because she thought she could fool us 565 00:20:56,956 --> 00:20:58,625 by giving right after dialysis. 566 00:20:58,658 --> 00:21:00,427 But her kidneys are in such bad shape 567 00:21:00,460 --> 00:21:01,428 the dialysis only helped a little. 568 00:21:02,562 --> 00:21:04,364 There's something else. 569 00:21:04,397 --> 00:21:05,398 Tutuola. 570 00:21:05,432 --> 00:21:06,566 Amy's blood has higher 571 00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:07,900 than normal levels of calcium 572 00:21:07,934 --> 00:21:09,101 and parathyroid hormone. 573 00:21:09,135 --> 00:21:12,372 I think she has a condition called renal osteodystrophy. 574 00:21:12,405 --> 00:21:13,373 What's that? 575 00:21:13,406 --> 00:21:14,441 A disorder that causes 576 00:21:14,474 --> 00:21:17,444 severe bone deterioration and eventually death. 577 00:21:17,477 --> 00:21:18,978 Almost always seen in people 578 00:21:19,011 --> 00:21:21,681 who've been on dialysis at least five years. 579 00:21:21,714 --> 00:21:24,617 So what's keeping her alive is also killing her. 580 00:21:24,651 --> 00:21:25,618 Slowly and painfully. 581 00:21:25,652 --> 00:21:28,621 She's in so much excruciating, constant pain 582 00:21:28,655 --> 00:21:30,823 that she might consider suicide. 583 00:21:30,857 --> 00:21:33,593 Crime lab says the print on the syringe plunger 584 00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:34,594 is Christina's. 585 00:21:34,627 --> 00:21:37,063 So that means Christina injected herself 586 00:21:37,096 --> 00:21:38,998 with insulin. 587 00:21:39,031 --> 00:21:41,501 And Amy Solwey definitely brought it to her. 588 00:21:41,534 --> 00:21:43,403 Her print's the one on the cylinder. 589 00:21:45,538 --> 00:21:47,574 Docket ending four-one-four, 590 00:21:47,607 --> 00:21:49,409 People v. Amy Solwey. 591 00:21:49,442 --> 00:21:52,579 One count, manslaughter in the second degree. 592 00:21:52,612 --> 00:21:56,115 I see you've hired a new attorney, Ms. Solwey. 593 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:57,584 Barry Moredock for the defense, Your Honor. 594 00:21:57,617 --> 00:21:58,718 How does your client plead? 595 00:22:01,988 --> 00:22:03,390 Not Guilty. 596 00:22:03,423 --> 00:22:05,024 Bail, Ms. Novak? 597 00:22:05,057 --> 00:22:07,627 Can we approach? 598 00:22:10,463 --> 00:22:12,432 The People believe Ms. Solwey is a suicide risk. 599 00:22:12,465 --> 00:22:13,566 Based on what? 600 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,968 The pain caused by her debilitating bone disease. 601 00:22:16,002 --> 00:22:17,537 So you want to keep an eye on her? 602 00:22:17,570 --> 00:22:18,605 For her own protection. 603 00:22:18,638 --> 00:22:19,906 That's unfair, Your Honor. 604 00:22:19,939 --> 00:22:21,874 What my client needs is continued access 605 00:22:21,908 --> 00:22:23,543 to her dialysis three days a week. 606 00:22:23,576 --> 00:22:26,479 Which she'll have in the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital, 607 00:22:26,513 --> 00:22:29,081 along with three squares a day and indoor plumbing. 608 00:22:29,115 --> 00:22:30,483 Step back. 609 00:22:30,517 --> 00:22:32,519 Defendant is remanded without bail. 610 00:22:34,487 --> 00:22:36,623 Ms. Novak. 611 00:22:36,656 --> 00:22:38,491 I believe in the constitution. 612 00:22:38,525 --> 00:22:39,959 I'll bet you do, too. 613 00:22:39,992 --> 00:22:41,561 You're reaching, Mr. Moredock. 614 00:22:41,594 --> 00:22:43,463 This case is about murder, not free speech. 615 00:22:43,496 --> 00:22:45,465 I disagree. So does my client. 616 00:22:45,498 --> 00:22:47,467 Your client handed Christina Nerrit the weapon 617 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:48,801 she killed herself with. 618 00:22:48,835 --> 00:22:50,637 She didn't force Christina to use it. 619 00:22:50,670 --> 00:22:52,505 The law doesn't make that distinction. 620 00:22:52,539 --> 00:22:54,140 The law in this case is the problem, 621 00:22:54,173 --> 00:22:58,511 not what Amy Solwey did. 622 00:22:59,512 --> 00:23:02,649 Your client's not a violent, cold-blooded killer. 623 00:23:02,682 --> 00:23:04,651 We may be open to a deal. 624 00:23:04,684 --> 00:23:07,153 Oh, we're not interested in a deal, Ms. Novak. 625 00:23:07,186 --> 00:23:09,489 Amy wants her day in court. 626 00:23:09,522 --> 00:23:11,658 She does, or you do? 627 00:23:11,691 --> 00:23:15,495 I represent my client's interests, not my own. 628 00:23:15,528 --> 00:23:17,664 Well, then talk to her. 629 00:23:17,697 --> 00:23:20,533 Don't let her spend what time she has left in prison. 630 00:23:20,567 --> 00:23:21,768 You've already locked her up, 631 00:23:21,801 --> 00:23:23,002 and for no good reason. 632 00:23:23,035 --> 00:23:25,672 I'm sorry. I can't take the chance you're wrong. 633 00:23:25,705 --> 00:23:28,841 Then let your Dr. Huang evaluate her. 634 00:23:28,875 --> 00:23:33,412 He'll tell you Amy's no more suicidal than you or I. 635 00:23:35,548 --> 00:23:39,652 You have Alport's syndrome, 636 00:23:39,686 --> 00:23:41,120 so you've been deaf since you were born. 637 00:23:41,153 --> 00:23:42,689 Was it hard growing up like that way? 638 00:23:42,722 --> 00:23:44,657 No. My father was deaf, 639 00:23:44,691 --> 00:23:47,527 so I've never known anything else. 640 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,196 Even the kidney failure didn't bother me 641 00:23:50,229 --> 00:23:52,599 because I knew it was coming. 642 00:23:52,632 --> 00:23:55,468 What I wasn't ready for was the pain. 643 00:23:55,502 --> 00:23:57,870 Are you on the list for a kidney transplant? 644 00:23:57,904 --> 00:23:59,872 Yeah. 645 00:23:59,906 --> 00:24:02,875 But they haven't found a match for me yet. 646 00:24:02,909 --> 00:24:06,479 The pain is what made me first think about suicide. 647 00:24:06,513 --> 00:24:08,815 Did you talk to a therapist? 648 00:24:08,848 --> 00:24:10,717 Three. 649 00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:12,585 They put me on antidepressants, 650 00:24:12,619 --> 00:24:14,787 but I told them that didn't change the fact 651 00:24:14,821 --> 00:24:16,723 that I was dying of kidney failure, 652 00:24:16,756 --> 00:24:18,658 so I stopped seeing them. 653 00:24:18,691 --> 00:24:19,926 And yet, you're still here, 654 00:24:19,959 --> 00:24:21,994 so you must've found some way to cope. 655 00:24:23,029 --> 00:24:26,065 I started a blog. 656 00:24:26,098 --> 00:24:28,801 People responded. 657 00:24:28,835 --> 00:24:31,838 Turned into my own little community of support. 658 00:24:31,871 --> 00:24:35,141 Is that how catchingthetrain.com started? 659 00:24:35,174 --> 00:24:38,611 Yes. 660 00:24:38,645 --> 00:24:40,647 One day, someone wrote 661 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,751 that she wanted to kill herself. 662 00:24:44,784 --> 00:24:47,754 She was suffering mentally, not physically. 663 00:24:47,787 --> 00:24:50,256 What did you tell her? 664 00:24:50,289 --> 00:24:52,258 To get help. 665 00:24:52,291 --> 00:24:54,527 That she should be thankful 666 00:24:54,561 --> 00:24:57,096 that she wasn't dying. 667 00:24:57,129 --> 00:24:59,298 She wrote back, and asked me 668 00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:02,268 who was I to assume that her suffering 669 00:25:02,301 --> 00:25:06,305 couldn't be as bad or worse than mine. 670 00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:08,641 Well, how did that make you feel? 671 00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:10,777 I realized that I was judging her 672 00:25:10,810 --> 00:25:13,646 just like the shrinks judged me. 673 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,114 So I wrote back, 674 00:25:15,147 --> 00:25:17,650 and I told her she was right... 675 00:25:17,684 --> 00:25:18,718 that I supported her choice. 676 00:25:18,751 --> 00:25:21,788 But you did more than that with Christina Nerrit. 677 00:25:21,821 --> 00:25:23,623 You helped her die. 678 00:25:23,656 --> 00:25:26,125 She could have been helped to want to live. 679 00:25:26,158 --> 00:25:28,160 You believe that suicide's wrong 680 00:25:28,194 --> 00:25:30,663 because it's your job to save people. 681 00:25:30,697 --> 00:25:31,998 Medicine and psychiatry 682 00:25:32,031 --> 00:25:34,967 are about how to improve the quality of life, 683 00:25:35,001 --> 00:25:36,803 not how to end it. 684 00:25:38,705 --> 00:25:41,340 Antidepressants and therapy never worked for me. 685 00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:43,676 I still think about suicide every day. 686 00:25:43,710 --> 00:25:47,546 But something keeps you from doing it. 687 00:25:49,348 --> 00:25:52,819 Those people on the Internet, 688 00:25:52,852 --> 00:25:56,288 who'd help them if I'm gone? 689 00:25:58,324 --> 00:26:01,127 The irony is that her Web site gives her a reason to live. 690 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,995 Playing god with people's lives. 691 00:26:03,029 --> 00:26:04,764 She's like Kevorkian. 692 00:26:04,797 --> 00:26:06,699 Come on, Munch, all the stuff you whine about, 693 00:26:06,733 --> 00:26:09,669 don't tell me you haven't once thought about hanging it up. 694 00:26:09,702 --> 00:26:11,738 I believe life's worth living. 695 00:26:11,771 --> 00:26:12,805 Amen. 696 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:13,740 I don't know. 697 00:26:13,773 --> 00:26:15,007 If I had something like Huntington's disease, 698 00:26:15,041 --> 00:26:17,877 and all I had to look forward to was a long and horrible death, 699 00:26:17,910 --> 00:26:19,746 I can't say I wouldn't think about suicide. 700 00:26:19,779 --> 00:26:23,315 Moredock going to try and stack the jury with people like you. 701 00:26:23,349 --> 00:26:26,719 He's going to put the assisted suicide statute on trial. 702 00:26:26,753 --> 00:26:28,688 Jury nullifies, precedent's set. 703 00:26:28,721 --> 00:26:30,056 Then the law can be ignored. 704 00:26:30,089 --> 00:26:32,191 Which is exactly what Amy wants-- 705 00:26:32,224 --> 00:26:34,293 the right to take our own lives. 706 00:26:38,030 --> 00:26:42,001 Amy Solwey isn't depressed or mentally ill, 707 00:26:42,034 --> 00:26:43,770 but she is in constant pain, 708 00:26:43,803 --> 00:26:46,873 and she deals with this by spreading the message 709 00:26:46,906 --> 00:26:48,808 that suicide is our right. 710 00:26:48,841 --> 00:26:52,244 As a psychiatrist, how would you assess that view? 711 00:26:52,278 --> 00:26:54,246 Mainstream medicine and psychiatry wouldn't agree. 712 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,816 But Amy wouldn't have a reason to live 713 00:26:56,849 --> 00:26:58,918 if she didn't help people die. 714 00:26:58,951 --> 00:27:00,386 What about Christina Nerrit? 715 00:27:00,419 --> 00:27:01,587 Was she depressed? 716 00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:04,423 Based upon interviews I did with her family and coworkers, 717 00:27:04,456 --> 00:27:05,725 I'd say yes. 718 00:27:05,758 --> 00:27:08,060 Was her disorder treatable? 719 00:27:08,094 --> 00:27:10,029 With therapy, medication and hard work, 720 00:27:10,062 --> 00:27:13,232 Christina probably could have led a full, happy life. 721 00:27:13,265 --> 00:27:14,901 Thank you, Doctor. 722 00:27:16,936 --> 00:27:20,039 What if Christina didn't want to go through your therapy, 723 00:27:20,072 --> 00:27:22,742 had told you she had a plan to take her own life? 724 00:27:22,775 --> 00:27:24,243 What would you have done? 725 00:27:24,276 --> 00:27:27,814 Checked her into a psychiatric facility on a 72-hour hold. 726 00:27:27,847 --> 00:27:29,682 You would deprive her of her liberty 727 00:27:29,716 --> 00:27:31,751 despite the fact that suicide's not illegal? 728 00:27:31,784 --> 00:27:33,252 The intention isn't to imprison her. 729 00:27:33,285 --> 00:27:36,355 It's to protect her from herself. 730 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:39,191 98% of all successful suicides 731 00:27:39,225 --> 00:27:41,928 are committed by people with a treatable mental illness. 732 00:27:41,961 --> 00:27:44,296 And you can cure all of them, isn't that right? 733 00:27:44,330 --> 00:27:45,765 I said treatable. 734 00:27:45,798 --> 00:27:47,700 Not all are curable. 735 00:27:47,734 --> 00:27:52,304 Then sometimes your medication and therapy just don't work. 736 00:27:52,338 --> 00:27:54,340 In severe cases, yes. 737 00:27:54,373 --> 00:27:56,442 The truth is, Doctor, 738 00:27:56,475 --> 00:28:00,346 you can't sit there and say that there's no such thing 739 00:28:00,379 --> 00:28:03,115 as a terminal mental illness, can you? 740 00:28:05,151 --> 00:28:07,787 No. 741 00:28:07,820 --> 00:28:09,822 Christina called me. 742 00:28:09,856 --> 00:28:10,890 She was happy. 743 00:28:10,923 --> 00:28:12,458 Said it was time. 744 00:28:12,491 --> 00:28:16,195 I went to her apartment to give her moral support. 745 00:28:16,228 --> 00:28:18,130 She told me she was using the plastic bag 746 00:28:18,164 --> 00:28:20,299 and the handcuffs so she couldn't rip it off. 747 00:28:20,332 --> 00:28:23,035 What did you do? 748 00:28:23,069 --> 00:28:27,339 Wished her a safe journey and left. 749 00:28:27,373 --> 00:28:29,508 What happened in the hospital? 750 00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:31,243 Christina called again. 751 00:28:31,277 --> 00:28:34,446 Told me she couldn't find any insulin, 752 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,216 and asked me to bring her some. 753 00:28:37,249 --> 00:28:41,120 I filled a syringe and took it to her. 754 00:28:41,153 --> 00:28:43,455 Amy, did you, at any time, coerce 755 00:28:43,489 --> 00:28:47,059 or convince Christina Nerrit to take her own life? 756 00:28:47,093 --> 00:28:48,861 No. 757 00:28:48,895 --> 00:28:51,263 It was her decision. 758 00:28:54,033 --> 00:28:56,502 You're sure about that? 759 00:28:56,535 --> 00:28:58,004 Yes. 760 00:28:58,037 --> 00:29:00,172 The day she tried to suffocate herself, 761 00:29:00,206 --> 00:29:01,841 did Christina tell you that the man 762 00:29:01,874 --> 00:29:04,276 that she'd had an affair with had just dumped her? 763 00:29:04,310 --> 00:29:05,978 I didn't ask. 764 00:29:06,012 --> 00:29:08,280 Did you ever consider 765 00:29:08,314 --> 00:29:11,450 that she might be under strain and not thinking rationally? 766 00:29:11,483 --> 00:29:13,853 We didn't talk about her boyfriend. 767 00:29:13,886 --> 00:29:16,055 Of course not. I mean, you couldn't assess her mental state 768 00:29:16,088 --> 00:29:18,357 because you're not a trained mental health professional. 769 00:29:18,390 --> 00:29:19,892 Objection. Argumentative. Withdrawn. 770 00:29:19,926 --> 00:29:21,160 Do you have criteria? 771 00:29:21,193 --> 00:29:22,161 For what? 772 00:29:22,194 --> 00:29:25,932 Whom you choose to help on their final journey. 773 00:29:25,965 --> 00:29:27,266 I mean, has it only been adults? 774 00:29:27,299 --> 00:29:28,500 Or have there been teenagers, 775 00:29:28,534 --> 00:29:30,136 children, the developmentally disabled? 776 00:29:30,169 --> 00:29:31,370 This is badgering, Your Honor. 777 00:29:31,403 --> 00:29:34,941 I help people who don't want to suffer anymore. 778 00:29:34,974 --> 00:29:36,909 Well, the truth is, you don't know who they are, do you? 779 00:29:36,943 --> 00:29:37,977 They're just names on a computer screen. 780 00:29:38,010 --> 00:29:39,345 Stop! 781 00:29:41,547 --> 00:29:42,514 They're in pain! 782 00:29:42,548 --> 00:29:44,216 I know what pain is! 783 00:29:44,250 --> 00:29:45,885 I live with it every day! 784 00:29:45,918 --> 00:29:48,054 You don't! 785 00:29:48,087 --> 00:29:50,222 How can you judge me?! 786 00:29:50,256 --> 00:29:53,159 How can you judge them?! 787 00:30:05,171 --> 00:30:07,239 This case isn't just about Amy Solwey 788 00:30:07,273 --> 00:30:09,408 helping Christina Nerrit kill herself. 789 00:30:09,441 --> 00:30:11,410 Time and again, the highest court in the land 790 00:30:11,443 --> 00:30:13,479 has ruled our government can't tell us 791 00:30:13,512 --> 00:30:14,847 what to do with our bodies. 792 00:30:14,881 --> 00:30:17,449 Why should suicide be any different? 793 00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:19,518 Ms. Novak will tell you 794 00:30:19,551 --> 00:30:21,387 it's your duty to uphold the law. 795 00:30:21,420 --> 00:30:23,522 But if you convict Amy Solwey, 796 00:30:23,555 --> 00:30:26,325 you're sending a message that the government 797 00:30:26,358 --> 00:30:30,562 can dictate how we live our lives and how we end them. 798 00:30:30,596 --> 00:30:32,431 Our constitutional rights 799 00:30:32,464 --> 00:30:36,002 to privacy and free speech are at stake. 800 00:30:36,035 --> 00:30:39,271 Return a verdict of not guilty. 801 00:30:39,305 --> 00:30:43,409 Send the message that Amy Solwey is right-- 802 00:30:43,442 --> 00:30:45,444 We should all have the choice 803 00:30:45,477 --> 00:30:48,347 to live and die on our own terms. 804 00:30:50,382 --> 00:30:53,152 No one has the right 805 00:30:53,185 --> 00:30:55,254 to kill another human being. 806 00:30:55,287 --> 00:30:57,589 So why should Amy Solwey be allowed 807 00:30:57,623 --> 00:31:00,559 to help Christina Nerrit murder herself? 808 00:31:00,592 --> 00:31:04,130 Now, we'll never know Christina Nerrit's pain. 809 00:31:04,163 --> 00:31:06,498 But what we do know is that many depressed people 810 00:31:06,532 --> 00:31:07,967 who attempt suicide 811 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,103 are later thankful they lived through it. 812 00:31:11,137 --> 00:31:13,505 But Christina Nerrit never got the chance 813 00:31:13,539 --> 00:31:16,308 to get treatment, or be grateful she was alive 814 00:31:16,342 --> 00:31:19,678 because Amy Solwey made it her mission 815 00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:22,014 to help Christina die. 816 00:31:22,048 --> 00:31:25,985 So when you're in the jury room, you ask yourselves: 817 00:31:26,018 --> 00:31:29,521 If your parent, your child, your friend or spouse 818 00:31:29,555 --> 00:31:31,991 was suicidal, what would you want? 819 00:31:32,024 --> 00:31:34,994 Your loved one to get help, 820 00:31:35,027 --> 00:31:41,433 or Amy Solwey telling them it's okay to give up? 821 00:31:56,115 --> 00:31:59,485 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, 822 00:31:59,518 --> 00:32:01,353 is there any chance that with more time 823 00:32:01,387 --> 00:32:02,454 you can reach a verdict? 824 00:32:02,488 --> 00:32:04,356 No, Your Honor. 825 00:32:04,390 --> 00:32:06,658 We're hopelessly deadlocked. 826 00:32:06,692 --> 00:32:09,528 Then I have no choice but to declare a mistrial. 827 00:32:09,561 --> 00:32:12,031 You are dismissed with the thanks of the court. 828 00:32:12,064 --> 00:32:13,665 We're adjourned. 829 00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:27,679 How could they not convict her? 830 00:32:28,314 --> 00:32:29,982 The jury deadlocked 10 to 2. 831 00:32:30,016 --> 00:32:32,151 I underestimated the power of Moredock's argument. 832 00:32:32,184 --> 00:32:33,085 You can't blame yourself 833 00:32:33,119 --> 00:32:35,154 because two people wanted to acquit Amy. 834 00:32:35,187 --> 00:32:37,589 The two holdouts were for conviction. 835 00:32:37,623 --> 00:32:40,259 The majority voted to let Amy walk. 836 00:32:40,292 --> 00:32:44,063 Well, just let me know when you need me for the retrial. 837 00:32:44,096 --> 00:32:45,764 There's not going to be a retrial, John. 838 00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:46,932 Why the hell not? 839 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:50,469 Because the D.A. doesn't want to make Amy Solwey a martyr 840 00:32:50,502 --> 00:32:51,703 for assisted suicide. 841 00:32:51,737 --> 00:32:52,604 Translation: 842 00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:54,706 We lose so we're letting her off the hook. 843 00:32:54,740 --> 00:32:55,841 We'll, we'll get her, 844 00:32:55,874 --> 00:32:58,044 and it's only a matter of time before she does it again. 845 00:32:58,077 --> 00:33:00,379 So we let her help someone else die. 846 00:33:00,412 --> 00:33:02,348 I don't like it either, John. but I don't have a choice. 847 00:33:02,381 --> 00:33:03,215 Well, that's great. 848 00:33:03,249 --> 00:33:06,018 I can't wait to tell Christina's sister. 849 00:33:10,756 --> 00:33:13,359 Maybe if dying's what Christina really wanted, 850 00:33:13,392 --> 00:33:14,426 it's okay. 851 00:33:14,460 --> 00:33:19,531 She never told you she was suicidal, did she? 852 00:33:19,565 --> 00:33:22,134 Not once. 853 00:33:22,168 --> 00:33:23,235 I could have helped her. 854 00:33:23,269 --> 00:33:25,471 Allison, none of this is your fault. 855 00:33:25,504 --> 00:33:26,505 Why couldn't she 856 00:33:26,538 --> 00:33:28,540 just have talked to me? 857 00:33:31,077 --> 00:33:32,511 Maybe she didn't want to burden you. 858 00:33:32,544 --> 00:33:34,713 But now I'm all alone. 859 00:33:34,746 --> 00:33:36,515 She should have thought about that. 860 00:33:39,551 --> 00:33:40,819 People who commit suicide 861 00:33:40,852 --> 00:33:43,322 don't always consider the mess they leave behind, 862 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:46,058 or they think people will be better off without them. 863 00:33:46,092 --> 00:33:48,094 She was wrong. 864 00:33:49,795 --> 00:33:53,299 You have every right to be mad at Christina. 865 00:33:55,167 --> 00:33:58,770 I'm not. 866 00:33:58,804 --> 00:34:03,409 I could have stopped her... 867 00:34:03,442 --> 00:34:05,244 the second time 868 00:34:05,277 --> 00:34:08,480 if I'd listened to the message. 869 00:34:08,514 --> 00:34:09,481 What message? 870 00:34:09,515 --> 00:34:11,317 On her answering machine. 871 00:34:11,350 --> 00:34:17,756 The night after she tried to suffocate herself. 872 00:34:17,789 --> 00:34:20,126 I didn't play it till after the funeral. 873 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:22,161 Do you still have it? 874 00:34:24,163 --> 00:34:26,098 Yeah. 875 00:34:26,132 --> 00:34:27,766 Over here. 876 00:34:32,238 --> 00:34:34,373 Sorry you missed the train, 877 00:34:34,406 --> 00:34:35,841 but this time we'll go together. 878 00:34:35,874 --> 00:34:38,277 I'll bring enough to the hospital for both of us. 879 00:34:38,310 --> 00:34:39,811 Lab's got the actual machine and tape. 880 00:34:39,845 --> 00:34:41,413 They made a dub so you could hear it. 881 00:34:41,447 --> 00:34:42,448 Whose voice is that? 882 00:34:42,481 --> 00:34:44,383 It's a TTY relay operator. 883 00:34:44,416 --> 00:34:46,218 Solwey's LUDS show she made the call 884 00:34:46,252 --> 00:34:47,553 the night before Christina died. 885 00:34:47,586 --> 00:34:48,787 This was a suicide pact. 886 00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:49,788 Pretty one-sided. 887 00:34:49,821 --> 00:34:51,457 I guess Amy changed her mind. 888 00:34:51,490 --> 00:34:54,160 Or lied to Christina to push her over the edge. 889 00:34:54,193 --> 00:34:55,527 Either way, I'm going to ask the D.A. 890 00:34:55,561 --> 00:34:56,728 to let us take another crack at Amy. 891 00:34:56,762 --> 00:34:57,729 What's different now? 892 00:34:57,763 --> 00:34:59,598 The charge. 893 00:35:02,501 --> 00:35:04,136 Second degree murder? Is this the way 894 00:35:04,170 --> 00:35:05,437 you people retaliate? 895 00:35:05,471 --> 00:35:07,139 Simmer down, Mr. Moredock. 896 00:35:07,173 --> 00:35:08,140 It's not personal. 897 00:35:08,174 --> 00:35:09,241 Sure it is. 898 00:35:09,275 --> 00:35:12,178 Your district attorney branch hates losing to me. 899 00:35:12,211 --> 00:35:15,181 You'd better not be wasting my time with politics, Ms. Novak. 900 00:35:15,214 --> 00:35:16,282 I'm not, Your Honor. 901 00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:18,650 We can prove Amy Solwey entered into a suicide pact 902 00:35:18,684 --> 00:35:19,685 with Christina Nerrit. 903 00:35:19,718 --> 00:35:20,852 Ms. Solwey's still alive, 904 00:35:20,886 --> 00:35:23,355 so clearly had no intention of going through with it. 905 00:35:23,389 --> 00:35:25,524 She just wants my client to plead out 906 00:35:25,557 --> 00:35:26,758 to a spurious charge... 907 00:35:26,792 --> 00:35:27,659 Read the statute. 908 00:35:27,693 --> 00:35:28,594 When two people enter into a suicide pact 909 00:35:28,627 --> 00:35:30,729 and one of them pulls out for personal gain 910 00:35:30,762 --> 00:35:31,863 after the other one is dead, 911 00:35:31,897 --> 00:35:32,931 that's Murder Two. 912 00:35:32,964 --> 00:35:34,933 What could Amy Solwey possibly gain 913 00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:36,635 by Christina Nerrit's death? 914 00:35:36,668 --> 00:35:37,869 Validation of her cause. 915 00:35:37,903 --> 00:35:39,305 Which is exactly what she got 916 00:35:39,338 --> 00:35:40,639 when that jury deadlocked. 917 00:35:40,672 --> 00:35:42,308 You're not gonna let her sell you 918 00:35:42,341 --> 00:35:44,276 this bill of goods, are you, Judge? 919 00:35:44,310 --> 00:35:46,312 Don't insult my intelligence, Mr. Moredock. 920 00:35:46,345 --> 00:35:47,879 That's how the law's written. 921 00:35:47,913 --> 00:35:49,815 Unless you can prove Ms. Novak wrong, 922 00:35:49,848 --> 00:35:51,250 we're going back to trial. 923 00:35:57,923 --> 00:35:59,458 How did it go? 924 00:35:59,491 --> 00:36:03,729 Grand Jury took 15 minutes to indict. 925 00:36:03,762 --> 00:36:05,331 You okay? 926 00:36:05,364 --> 00:36:08,234 Amy Solwey deserves to be put away, 927 00:36:08,267 --> 00:36:11,270 but convicting her is not going to change a damn thing. 928 00:36:11,303 --> 00:36:13,472 John... 929 00:36:14,473 --> 00:36:16,242 She broke the law. 930 00:36:16,275 --> 00:36:20,212 Okay. Amy goes to prison, someone takes over her Web site. 931 00:36:20,246 --> 00:36:22,314 More people die who don't have to. 932 00:36:22,348 --> 00:36:24,316 Gotta be some way to shut it down. 933 00:36:24,350 --> 00:36:26,285 Maybe not. I just read 934 00:36:26,318 --> 00:36:28,687 about this Web site where they're teaching young girls 935 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:31,290 how to become anorectic and then hide it from their parents. 936 00:36:31,323 --> 00:36:33,392 Look, there's always going to be hate and racism on the Internet. 937 00:36:33,425 --> 00:36:34,426 What are you going to do about it? 938 00:36:34,460 --> 00:36:35,627 Freedom of speech, man. 939 00:36:35,661 --> 00:36:39,265 Someone talks, there's always somebody there to listen. 940 00:36:39,298 --> 00:36:41,933 You look like you could use a drink. 941 00:36:41,967 --> 00:36:44,236 Wish I had time. I'm headed over to Bellevue. 942 00:36:44,270 --> 00:36:45,871 Thought you might want to come. 943 00:36:45,904 --> 00:36:49,375 Amy Solwey's refusing dialysis. 944 00:36:51,643 --> 00:36:54,280 When Judge Bradley hears about this stunt, 945 00:36:54,313 --> 00:36:55,614 he's gonna blow a gasket. 946 00:36:55,647 --> 00:36:58,317 There's a lot I'd do to win a case, Ms. Novak, 947 00:36:58,350 --> 00:36:59,618 but I'm on your side here. 948 00:36:59,651 --> 00:37:00,952 Why are you doing this? 949 00:37:00,986 --> 00:37:05,357 I would rather die now than in prison. 950 00:37:05,391 --> 00:37:07,526 You mean you'd rather be a martyr, don't you? 951 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:09,328 Stop calling me that! 952 00:37:09,361 --> 00:37:10,862 Or do you finally feel some guilt 953 00:37:10,896 --> 00:37:14,300 over tricking Christina Nerrit into your bogus suicide pact? 954 00:37:15,834 --> 00:37:17,336 I did not trick her. 955 00:37:17,369 --> 00:37:19,538 I thought by saying I would die with her, 956 00:37:19,571 --> 00:37:21,407 it would make her feel more comfortable. 957 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,742 Feel better about her decision. Her decision. 958 00:37:23,775 --> 00:37:25,344 This won't work. 959 00:37:25,377 --> 00:37:27,446 I'll get a court order to force the dialysis. 960 00:37:27,479 --> 00:37:28,580 You know full well 961 00:37:28,614 --> 00:37:30,582 no judge will ever issue such an order. 962 00:37:30,616 --> 00:37:31,617 I can still try. 963 00:37:33,785 --> 00:37:36,355 You can't force me to eat. I'll just starve. 964 00:37:36,388 --> 00:37:38,990 I thought you're all about avoiding pain. 965 00:37:39,024 --> 00:37:44,363 When you don't eat, your body releases endorphins 966 00:37:44,396 --> 00:37:47,633 as it breaks down its own tissue for fuel. 967 00:37:47,666 --> 00:37:51,937 I'm told it's a very pleasant and painless death. 968 00:37:56,775 --> 00:37:59,345 I'm looking for Casey Novak. 969 00:37:59,378 --> 00:38:01,613 Yes. Can I help you? 970 00:38:01,647 --> 00:38:04,983 I'm Dr. Nemarich. Amy Solwey's nephrologist. 971 00:38:05,016 --> 00:38:07,353 I'm sorry, I can't talk to you. 972 00:38:07,386 --> 00:38:09,521 You may want to contact her defense attorney. 973 00:38:09,555 --> 00:38:10,522 I did. 974 00:38:10,556 --> 00:38:11,957 He told me to come see you. 975 00:38:11,990 --> 00:38:13,859 About what? This. 976 00:38:13,892 --> 00:38:19,631 Just faxed over from UNOS-- the National Organ Registry. 977 00:38:19,665 --> 00:38:21,633 They found her a kidney? 978 00:38:21,667 --> 00:38:24,370 We don't have much time. 979 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,709 Coming. I'm coming. 980 00:38:32,644 --> 00:38:33,979 John, what are you doing here? 981 00:38:34,012 --> 00:38:35,481 Why the hell didn't you call me? 982 00:38:35,514 --> 00:38:36,982 There's nothing anyone can do. 983 00:38:37,015 --> 00:38:38,450 Amy's made her choice. 984 00:38:38,484 --> 00:38:39,451 Which is? 985 00:38:39,485 --> 00:38:40,952 Well, if we're just going to put her in prison, 986 00:38:40,986 --> 00:38:41,853 it's a waste of a kidney. 987 00:38:41,887 --> 00:38:44,122 Then plead her out to a lesser charge. 988 00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:45,123 Excuse me? 989 00:38:45,156 --> 00:38:47,426 Don't let her do this to herself. 990 00:38:47,459 --> 00:38:48,727 You're the one who wanted me 991 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,430 to jump through hoops to retry her. 992 00:38:51,463 --> 00:38:52,898 Why are you so invested in this? 993 00:38:52,931 --> 00:38:55,501 Her dying isn't worth it. 994 00:38:55,534 --> 00:38:58,370 If we cave on Amy, it opens the door 995 00:38:58,404 --> 00:39:00,472 for any other perp who wants to force a plea 996 00:39:00,506 --> 00:39:01,640 by threatening suicide. 997 00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:04,075 I can't jump just because she's got a gun to my head. 998 00:39:04,109 --> 00:39:06,077 She's different. 999 00:39:06,111 --> 00:39:07,546 No, she's not, John. 1000 00:39:07,579 --> 00:39:10,549 I'm sorry. 1001 00:39:12,718 --> 00:39:14,520 So am I. 1002 00:39:21,893 --> 00:39:23,128 Can you read my lips? 1003 00:39:24,663 --> 00:39:25,664 Yes. 1004 00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:28,166 Why won't you take this kidney? 1005 00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:30,402 My life. My decision. 1006 00:39:30,436 --> 00:39:31,437 Yeah, well, 1007 00:39:31,470 --> 00:39:33,572 it's the wrong decision. 1008 00:39:33,605 --> 00:39:34,506 Leave me alone. 1009 00:39:34,540 --> 00:39:37,409 Why? So you can die alone in this dump? 1010 00:39:37,443 --> 00:39:39,445 Get out! 1011 00:39:39,478 --> 00:39:41,513 Great way to catch that train, isn't it? 1012 00:39:41,547 --> 00:39:42,781 I don't want to hurt anymore. 1013 00:39:42,814 --> 00:39:44,416 Then let them do the transplant. 1014 00:39:44,450 --> 00:39:45,417 No! 1015 00:39:45,451 --> 00:39:47,519 It'll take away your pain. 1016 00:39:47,553 --> 00:39:48,620 So I can go to prison? 1017 00:39:48,654 --> 00:39:51,790 So you can live. 1018 00:39:51,823 --> 00:39:55,060 What do you care if I live or die? 1019 00:39:55,093 --> 00:39:57,062 Because my father killed himself. 1020 00:40:05,537 --> 00:40:10,442 When I was a kid. 1021 00:40:10,476 --> 00:40:13,011 I thought it was my fault. 1022 00:40:14,913 --> 00:40:16,482 The night before he blew his brains out, 1023 00:40:16,515 --> 00:40:20,519 he punished me for being a wiseass. 1024 00:40:23,054 --> 00:40:26,958 I told him I hated his guts. 1025 00:40:26,992 --> 00:40:29,995 Those were the last words I ever said to him. 1026 00:40:36,535 --> 00:40:39,538 It haunts me to this day. 1027 00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:44,042 You're the only person I've ever told. 1028 00:40:48,647 --> 00:40:50,181 Why me? 1029 00:40:50,215 --> 00:40:51,783 Because 1030 00:40:51,817 --> 00:40:54,820 we're the same. 1031 00:40:57,022 --> 00:40:58,924 I feel guilty my father was suffering 1032 00:40:58,957 --> 00:41:03,562 and I couldn't help him. 1033 00:41:03,595 --> 00:41:07,098 You feel guilty because of what you did to Christina. 1034 00:41:18,309 --> 00:41:20,512 I'm sorry. 1035 00:41:21,747 --> 00:41:23,749 I'm so sorry. 1036 00:41:25,584 --> 00:41:29,154 I know. 1037 00:41:29,187 --> 00:41:32,290 I don't want you to die. 1038 00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:35,894 Help me help you. 1039 00:41:37,796 --> 00:41:39,798 Please. 1040 00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:58,650 Captioning sponsored by UNIVERSAL NETWORK TELEVISION 1041 00:41:58,684 --> 00:42:02,654 and NBC 1042 00:42:02,688 --> 00:42:05,824 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org