(male announcer) In the criminal justice system,
sexually-based offenses
are considered especially heinous.
In New York City, the dedicated detectives
who investigate these vicious felonies
are members of an elite squad
known as the Special Victims Unit.
These are their stories.
Multiple stab wounds. Neck snapped.
Pervert's at it again.
[sirens]
It's about time the canine unit got here.
Detectives, got another Jane Doe.
Same M.O. as the others.
Judging from rigor, been dead maybe 20 minutes.
Killer could be one of the looky-loos.
Perp gets off watching us clean up his mess.
Go get him, Angus.
Come on, find the scent.
Hey, bloody corpse over here.
Stupid mutt can't even hit his mark.
Cut!
Reset!
Tony, find what's-his-name, the trainer.
His dog just ruined my shot.
I need a 20 on the dog wrangler.
What's up with this dog?
[barking] Where the hell's he goin'?
Hey c'mon, get outta here.
What are you howling at, boy? Get away.
Jessie?
Jess, you okay?
Jessie!
Franco Marquez,
executive producer of Girl, Undercover.
That's Jessie. She's my star.
What happened?
Looks like the perp bashed her head
into the kitchenette and raped her.
(Fin) She gonna be okay?
Pupils are reactive.
She's responding to painful stimuli,
but the ER will have to scan her.
What just happened?
(Marquez) I found her lying right here on the floor.
Who has access to Jessie's trailer?
Just the crew.
Security has strict orders.
No one's allowed on the set unless they work for me.
Anyone on the crew have a problem with Jessie?
No, we've been together for three seasons.
I know it sounds cornball, but we're like family.
(Fin) What's all this?
Jessie the Slut? Teen Tramp?
Rag magazines.
They have a field day
any time that Jessie wears something slinky.
She ain't wearing much of anything here.
"Jezebel Jessie"?
It's just words.
Sticks and stones, right?
(Stabler) "The world will be a better place
once we're rid of Jessie Dawning."
Sticks and stones, huh?
Tox screen found enough opiates in her system
to knock out Lennox Lewis.
Any chance she took those pills herself?
Well, she didn't give herself the contusion.
Okay, so he drugs her,
maybe she starts to come to,
then he puts her down for the count.
(Jessie) I don't want to talk to them!
Started yelling the minute she woke up.
For a second there,
I thought her head was gonna start spinning.
Why are you doing this to me?
I don't know!
Ms. Dawning. Detective Stabler--
I don't remember anything, okay?
I went to take a nap in my trailer,
next thing I know, I wake up here.
You have anything to drink before you fell asleep?
Just a diet soda with lemon on the set.
Who gave it to you?
I don't know.
It was just by my chair.
Where the hell are my shoes?!
Jess, listen,
you have to talk to the police.
I've gotta go.
We have, like, no time before the entire world finds out.
Please, I just want to go home.
Now, she's 16 years old.
She can't sign herself out of a hospital
without her parents' consent.
They're in California.
Jessie was emancipated when she was 14,
so they could stop blowing through her money.
She doesn't need their permission.
Where were you when Jessie was raped?
I know how this works. I write this for a living.
I'll give you a DNA sample,
and so will everyone else on the crew.
You write this for a living, you should know
that you can't compel them to do that.
They're like her big brothers.
Last week, a couple of nut bags egged Jessie's trailer.
The grips were on them like the Secret Service.
Who were these nut bags?
Carolyn Spencer and her anti-smut brigade.
They're always picketing our set.
What do they have against your show?
They think that Jessie
is corrupting the morals of our youth.
You know that quote about getting rid of Jessie?
Spencer's the one who said it.
The world will be a better place
once we're rid of Jessie Dawning?
Did you say that, Mrs. Spencer?
I didn't mean it literally.
So how did you mean it?
Just that I wish my daughter
had better role models than Jessie Dawning.
Jim, where's that one of her in her underwear?
This is what young girls aspire to today.
Not this--this is what they'd kill to be.
A half-naked size two.
Mom, we're running late.
I don't think we're gonna make the bus.
Danny, I'm busy today.
I can't drive you.
Dad would.
Well, then, go live with him.
I can take them.
School's on my way to work, anyway.
Thank you, Mr. Willoughby.
I don't see what makes Jessie such a bad role model.
She's young, successful. What's wrong with that?
Look at this.
16-year-old done up like a hooker.
We don't want that marketed to fifth graders.
Let the network move the show to 10:00,
I'll shut up.
People think they can't do anything about this trash.
I'm proof that one person can make a difference.
Last season, the FCC fined the network twice
just for content.
They listen to my group now.
Were you and your group
picketing Jessie's set yesterday?
Yeah, 'til about 3:30.
Why are you asking?
Did something happen to Jessie?
Is she okay? She's fine.
We just need to know which of your members were there.
I'll get you my membership list.
Neighbors Investing
in Clean Entertainment.
Well, they've got over 800 members.
Its stated mission is to protect the children.
In their newsletter it says,
"A 12-year-old girl was raped in California,
walking home in leather bra and panties."
It was her Halloween costume.
She was dressed up as Girl, Undercover.
This website has got over 100,000 hits.
It's not just about Jessie.
There's a list of dirty movies,
music, radio shows.
"Click here to complain
"to the FCC.
"Click here to learn which corporate sponsors
to boycott."
Click here so your children will never again be exposed
to the mind-warping trauma of a nipple on television.
Olivia, the Extradition Express leaves in half an hour.
You miss that plane, you're gonna be on the red-eye.
I'm out.
Okay, what are the chances
that a member of this NICE group
had anything to do with Jessie's rape?
Looks like all they do
is write letters and picket.
Crime scene report from Jessie's trailer.
CSU lifted her prints off the soda she was drinking
before the rape.
It wasn't spiked.
They found these--
a dozen different pain killers and sleeping pills.
Oxycontin, Vicodin, Percocet.
All these were refilled the day of the rape.
(Stabler) You knew Jessie was taking pills.
Why did you lie?
Well...it's been a tough season.
How Jessie gets through it is between her and her doctor.
Jessie goes undercover as a stripper...
as a lifeguard, as a lingerie model.
You know, maybe the kid wouldn't have such a hard time
if you didn't make her run around
half-naked every week. You know--
Oh...
There's my star.
Shouldn't you be home taking it easy?
I didn't feel like being alone.
Can I just sack out on your couch?
Well, they're just giving me a lack-of-progress report.
Give me two minutes.
We've been through enough.
I don't need you bitching about how Jessie
is playing inappropriate material.
Look, pal, basically, you got her stripping for money.
And sleeping with the teacher?
It's called drama.
It's called pimping out a 16-year-old
to jack up your ratings.
The average girl loses her virginity by 16.
Now, what's the responsible thing to do?
Pretend it doesn't happen?
Or show a girl in charge of her sexuality?
A 16-year-old girl
may be having sex,
but she ain't in charge of squat.
You don't know Jessie.
You wanna see how in-charge she is?
Watch the show.
And then do your job,
and go find the son-of-a-bitch that raped her!
(TV announcer) She may look like the girl next door.
but this is no ordinary girl.
She's smokin' hot.
But she's just 16.
You can look,
but you better not touch.
This girl has a badge
and a black belt.
Redlight to central, we have a problem.
I broke another heel.
(announcer) Jessie Dawning is:
16-hour days pretending to be a hooker,
and the other eight pretending to be a grown-up.
No wonder the kid knocks herself out with pills.
No parents, no friends.
Everyone from her doctor to her boss
lined up to get something out of her.
68 DNA tests--every man on the Girl, Undercover crew.
No matches to the fluids found inside Jessie,
but I got a cold case hit off the DNA.
One of the crew members, wanted for grand larceny
and aggravated assault.
Franco Marquez.
No way! I didn't do it!
Well, DNA puts you at the scene.
It's--it's not my DNA.
Whose is it?
This out-of-work actor that I know.
I paid him for his sample.
I gave him a studio ID badge with my name on it,
and drove him to the ME's office.
I wonder why you'd fake your DNA.
I want to make my phone call now.
(Cragen) I'm sorry about this, but the law says
we can't keep him from calling anybody he wants,
even his victim.
(Stabler) We'll make sure he doesn't bother you anymore.
What did he tell you?
He clammed up pretty quickly,
but, uh, he's in trouble.
He's just trying to protect me.
He knows it'll kill my image if he tells the truth.
The truth about what?
Lucky for me my folks'll do anything for a buck.
A marriage license.
Signed by Mom and Dad.
Cost me a couple of Porsches.
I figure it's a small price to pay
to sleep with my husband.
Marquez is 40. Jessie is 16.
It's legal pedophilia.
So she had consensual sex.
She took a fistful of knockout pills,
fell, and hit her head.
But the ME report says Marquez
isn't the only one who had sex with Jessie.
The rape kit turned up a pubic hair.
DNA doesn't match Jessie, Marquez,
or anybody on the crew.
We're gonna base a whole rape investigation
on a single pube?
We don't even know if she was raped here.
It's the best evidence we got so we're gonna run with it.
She could have picked up that hair
during one of her costume changes.
I don't think they change their panties, Elliot.
We gotta find out who else was on the set that day.
Bunch of paparazzis.
Couple of tabloids today have pictures of Jessie
being taken away in an ambulance.
Third one went a little bit further.
What kind of bottom feeder
sneaks into a girl's hospital room
and takes her picture?
Same kind that sneaks into her trailer and rapes her.
I'll get a subpoena for the hospital security cameras.
You two talk to Marquez and Jessie.
See if they saw anybody hanging around
outside her room.
I spent the whole night by Jessie's bed.
I didn't see anyone but doctors and nurses.
Here's the ledger photograph.
Now, the hospital monitor
says the photo was taken at 5:08.
Your chair is empty.
Why would he take the stupid picture?
I went to get some coffee around 5:00.
He must have taken it then.
These photos were taken right outside Jessie's set.
You know by who?
Probably the same losers
who are camping outside of our house right now.
You know any of their names?
There's, like, a million of them.
I can't sneeze,
it doesn't end up in the tabloids.
Jessie walks her dogs, Jessie buys a tampon.
It's three years now they've been stalking her.
Couple of weeks ago, I go to pick my car up from the valet,
and this guy just jumps in.
I think he's a carjacker.
All he does
is take my picture and run off.
What did he look like?
He looked like a big flash going off in my face.
(Fin) You tell the police?
Yeah, they wrote down a bunch of crap
and then asked for my autograph.
[cell phone rings]
The cops said there wasn't much
you can do about invasion of privacy.
It would have been a different story
if he would have touched her.
Guess it's a different story now, huh?
(Fin) All right, thanks for the information.
Captain checked out the surveillance tape
from the hospital.
Guess who checked in on Jessie at 5:08.
You violated a patient's privacy.
I was pre-rounding.
I checked her IV and her vitals,
and then I moved on to my other patients.
You were the only one in Jessie's room
when this picture was taken.
You know the trouble I'd get in for that?
I'd lose my job, probably my license.
Why would I risk it?
People do a lot of stupid things for money.
What'd they pay you? 20 grand, 30?
No.
We got you on the security camera.
I owe $90,000 in student loans.
This photographer offered me 50.
Look, if you don't want your picture taken,
be a school teacher, not some international superstar.
You have no right questioning me.
We're not done here. Just relax, okay?
Where were you Tuesday afternoon...
Say about 4:30?
I don't get off on raping 16-year-olds, okay?
Prove it to us.
I was trying to get a shot of Jessie.
On the set. I'll show you.
Okay.
All my photos are time stamped.
Not that I got anything.
She is pretty good at dodging us.
Maybe if you stopped stalking her,
she wouldn't have to run.
She needs us as much as we need her!
I'll tell you something, the minute someone
stops taking your picture,
that's the minute you become a has-been.
Here ya go, right here, all right?
4:28. I was outside the set.
Who are these guys?
Couple of morons.
Security caught them sneaking on set.
What about this guy, with his back turned to us?
I don't know.
Maybe the third moron got in.
All we wanted was a pair of Jessie's panties.
It was just a prank.
Security says you told them
it was to get on the BJ Cameron radio show.
Yeah, BJ wants to know
if she wears a thong in real life
like she does on the show.
And if you can prove that they're her panties,
he'll put you on the air.
That's what shock jocks are up to these days, huh?
They tell their listeners to steal an actress' panties?
BJ's pretty wild.
You should check out the show sometime.
I like my comedy funny.
There was a third kid with you.
Where is he?
No clue.
We met him there that day, hanging out.
Told him about the panty raid, said he wanted in.
Then he wienered out at the last minute.
Waits for us to get busted,
and then sneaks past while security's distracted.
Ass clown.
You remember his name or what he was wearing?
He said his name was Speed,
like that's not made up.
He looked like a regular kid.
Kind of full of himself, though.
Kept bragging that if he didn't get Jessie's panties,
that he was gonna take a picture of her trailer
to get on BJ's show.
It's all talk.
I don't tell them to actually do anything.
No, of course not,
then you'd be liable for their actions.
Well, legally, I could do a whole lot more.
But with Big Brother all up in my business,
I don't wanna get fined.
Did you suggest that your fans rape Jessie?
Rape ain't funny.
The panty thing I said to piss off the uptight bitch.
She's 16 years old.
Why are you trying to piss off a kid?
She comes on my show,
only wants to talk about her craft,
like I could give a rat's ass.
I say let's hear about your titty job.
She walks off mid-interview,
I have to fill up the rest of the hour
with a call-in show.
About Jessie the uptight bitch.
Yeah, callers were totally pissed off at her.
I said she needed a good banging
to loosen her up.
That sounds like another one of your suggestions to me.
I didn't say rape her.
On in five, Beej.
Listen, I don't like Jessie,
but I do like ragging on her.
It's good for ratings.
Doesn't mean I wanna see her hurt.
The BJ Show is back with two of New York's finest,
talking about the bangtastic Jessie Dawning.
Put on some headphones, fellas!
[laughs]
Anyway, let's hear it for...
You want mail, we got it-- threat mail, fan mail,
hate mail, not to mention thousands of emails.
A lot of people write in about Jessie?
Yeah, especially since she walked off the show.
Ton of guys fantasizing about doing dirty things to her.
Okay, we'll take everything you've gotten
in the last month.
Yeah? Happy to help the fuzz.
You guys know BJ's harmless, right?
He's just playing.
It only takes one crazy.
"Roses are red, violets are blue,
when Jessie's dead, her corpse I will"--
You get the rest, and there are hundreds of them like this.
This BJ guy really brings out the best in people.
And we got a transcript from the BJ show.
"I'd like to break Jessie down like a shotgun
and fill her full of slut shot."
This is BJ talking, not some fan.
This guy makes a living demeaning women.
And two million rabid fans
tune in every day to hear him do it.
They want sex and violence. Why not give it to them?
He's encouraging people to rape.
What, "Jessie needs a good banging.
Go out and give it to her."
This guy knows his law, though.
He's protected under Brandenburg,
unless his intent is to go out and produce
an imminent and probable lawless act.
I mean, he could say to you,
"Elliot Stabler, I command you to rape Jessie Dawning."
You wouldn't have a case against him.
How is that possible?
He doesn't really mean for you to do it.
It's a joke.
Except this time,
someone really went out and did it.
Well, there's your bad guy, not BJ.
They're both just as bad.
Elliot, you're "O" for 3.
There's no intent, no imminent act,
and no likelihood that his words
would be taken seriously.
Our rapist took BJ seriously. He e-mailed him.
(Stabler) "To BJ, your wish is my command."
Hair's in her face, but that's Jessie
in the same clothes she was wearing when she was raped.
Her couch and her trailer.
Couple of more pictures were attached to the same e-mail.
That's the NICE picket line. Carolyn Spencer.
And this.
Who's that?
Carolyn Spencer's son,
Danny.
Mrs. Spencer, this is an arrest warrant for your son Danny.
What? W-wait, you can't just barge in--
What are you talking about?
He raped Jessie Dawning Tuesday afternoon.
That's ridiculous.
No, he comes home from school every day
and goes right to his room.
This is wrong. You've made some mistake.
You thought he was home Tuesday.
Here he is with Jessie. What is this?
Your son took that with his camera phone
and sent it to The BJ Cameron Show.
He's a shock jock. I know who he is.
Go back to your room.
Daniel Spencer, you're under arrest
for the rape of Jessie Dawning.
What? I didn't rape anybody.
It's okay, honey. It's all a mistake.
No mistake.
That look like a mistake to you?
What did you do? Tell me, what did you do?
I didn't do anything.
I was just trying to get on The BJ Show.
That show is not allowed in this house!
You promised! Mom...
You have the right to remain silent.
It's all right, honey. It'll be all right.
I didn't rape her.
Then explain these.
I--I snuck into her trailer...
to steal her panties...
so that I could get on The BJ Show.
She was sleeping, so...
I took some pictures.
And then--
You raped her.
He did not rape anybody.
She woke up.
I told her I was a fan.
I read her this poem that I'd written for her.
She--she thought it was nice.
Then we did it.
So you read her a poem,
and then she just said,
"That's nice. Let's have sex."
Let's hear the poem.
It's--it's private.
It's a crock!
What about the cut on her head? How about that?
I don't know--must have happened after I left.
Why are you so surprised?
This girl is a slut.
My son did a stupid thing,
but he is not a criminal.
(attorney) There was no rape.
Just two teenagers having consensual sex.
You believe this poem crap?
(Stabler) We've got to ask.
Why?
Just because I make out with boys on TV
doesn't make me a whore.
A suspect gave us his version of what happened.
It's what his lawyers are gonna say in court.
We need to hear your version.
The only man I've ever slept with is Franco.
Why would I just all of a sudden
sleep with a stranger?
Okay, okay.
Do you recognize the boy who raped you?
No.
Danny Spencer's DNA matches the hair from Jessie's rape kit.
He's our guy.
She still didn't pick him out of the photo array.
Well, if toxicology report confirms her story,
she was too stoned to remember, she was too stoned to consent.
Unfortunately, the tox screen can't specify
her level of awareness.
It just shows she took a whole lot of pills.
So she's a pill head. She's still a rape victim.
Whom the defense will say
is a sexually precocious drug addict
who's prone to blackouts.
She practically had a pharmacy in her trailer.
And her co-star will testify that she threw herself at him.
Either way, Danny Spencer's version of events
isn't a hard-sell.
Especially on the radio.
I was flipping the stations in the car,
and who comes on The BJ Show but Danny Spencer,
talking about his sexual encounter
with everybody's favorite floozy.
(Danny, over head phones) I mean, I don't know where she's been...
The dub will be done in a minute.
(BJ) You rode that cow good, huh?
Did you last the mandatory eight seconds?
What kind of dipstick
goes in front of two million people
knowing they're gonna be humiliated?
Getting ripped on is a badge of honor for BJ's fans.
He's gonna get laid left and right off of this.
How'd Danny get on the show in the first place?
We called him.
Five minutes later, he calls us back and says,
"I'll come on the show if I can sneak out
without my mom knowing."
That's all she wrote.
That's only ten minutes worth.
Where's the rest of the interview?
As far as we got.
The station got so many phone complaints
about our "obscene show,"
they yanked us off the air.
If we're not on the air, we don't roll tape.
It's a shame, too, it got cut off just before the best part.
What, something heavy fell on BJ's head?
No, when Danny told BJ
Jessie was passed out when he did her.
Where is BJ right now?
What possible reason do I have to tell you anything?
16-year-old girl was raped.
Your testimony will put a rapist in jail.
That Danny kid's so screwed up, he'd say anything for a laugh.
What, did he think raping Jessie was funny?
You're not gonna get me to talk about this.
Why not?
Because people like you cut off my show.
Did you get a big happy when the anti-smut crusaders
yanked my show off the air this morning?
(Fin) You were humiliating a rape victim.
Great, take me off the air!
You know what I find offensive? Catcher in the Rye.
Let's find every copy and burn it.
You're pissed off because your show got pulled.
I'm pissed off because a couple of hundred crackpots
want to decide what's appropriate
for two million people to listen to,
and you're letting them win.
We're not trying to shut you down.
We're trying to catch a rapist.
And I'm exercising my right not to speak.
Son of a bitch wants to turn himself
into a martyr for free speech.
Didn't the producer hear Danny admit to raping Jessie?
BJ told him that later,
and his station doesn't record
unless they're broadcasting.
So we can't use the confession unless BJ gives it up.
You subpoena him,
he's gonna turn that trial into a free-speech circus.
BJ likes whining about his freedom of speech.
Let's give him something to really cry about.
I'll take a page out of Carolyn Spencer's playbook.
How do you hurt Howard Stern?
Go after Clear Channel.
So you're gonna put the screws to Entropy Broadcasting?
And their sponsors and their advertisers.
Ask them how they feel about Entropy's star personality
hindering the prosecution of a rapist.
The pinheads at Entropy
say I gotta testify against Danny Spencer
if I wanna keep my show.
Oh, I know. It's tragic.
Do you wake up every morning and think,
"How can I trample on the first amendment today?"
I wake up and think, "How can I put away a rapist?"
The only reason you don't have a confession
is the thought police took me off the air.
You want me to let a rapist walk free,
so you can stick it to the thought police?
If that's what it takes to protect free speech, yeah.
You know the deal.
You testify or your advertising goes away.
Just tell me when to be there.
I'll even wear a suit.
What do I have to do?
You'll go on the stand first
and then I'll lead you through what happened.
Everything, including how he found me
passed out on my couch?
We can explain that.
You'd been working 16-hour days.
You were exhausted.
Will I have to tell them about the pills?
If the defense asks you, yes.
Great.
They're gonna say I'm a slut and a junkie.
I can't imagine how hard this must be for you, Jessie.
But your testimony will help put your rapist in jail.
Please.
Can you just do this without me?
Carolyn, this is a good offer.
Danny only went on that show to impress BJ.
Danny confessed to rape!
BJ Cameron is the one you should be going after.
Danny wouldn't have done anything
if BJ hadn't egged him on.
Mom! You don't have a say in this.
Actually, he does.
I am his mother. You don't get to decide for him.
You're here as a courtesy, Mrs. Spencer.
This is a one-time offer.
Rape Three-- he does one to three
and tells the court everything he did.
We should consider the deal.
No!
There is no way you can prove he did anything wrong.
It's his word against that junkie tramp.
And who do you think the jury's gonna believe?
I thought you were a role model, Mrs. Spencer.
Whatever happened to teaching kids to tell the truth?
I'm doing what's best for my son.
What's best for her son?
She's all about morals and decency
until it becomes inconvenient.
I can bully BJ onto the stand.
I can present all the evidence that I want.
But without Jessie, I got nothing.
Any chance of talking to Danny
without Carolyn running interference?
And saying what-- ignore your mom?
Listen to me and go to jail?
Okay, well, look...
Maybe the guilt has been eating away at this kid.
Make him face what he's done.
My mom says I can't speak to you without my lawyer.
You don't have to talk. You just listen.
Look--
Jessie.
What are you doing here?
What am I supposed to say to him?
Look...
I'm sure you hate me.
Shut up!
You don't get to defend yourself.
What you did to me...
You think I'm trash, don't you?
No.
No, I don't.
But all those things that BJ said about me
you think are funny.
Breaking into my trailer and stealing my panties.
It was just a stupid prank.
You call raping me a prank?
I wish I could take it all back.
I'm sorry.
You're sorry?
How could you be sorry when you went on the radio
and bragged about what you did to me?!
BJ started making jokes.
I was just trying to keep up.
Was your mom just trying to keep up, too,
because...
she said she wished I was dead.
No, no.
She didn't mean it like that, she was--
She thinks she is so perfect,
but all she does
is give kids somebody to blame
when they do something wrong.
Kids shoot up a high school-- blame Marilyn Manson.
You raped me...
blame BJ Cameron.
Danny...
You're the only one who knows what really happened.
You can own up to it like a man.
Or you can hide behind your mother.
(Judge) Mr. Spencer, do you wish to change your plea?
I do, your honor.
I plead guilty.
And this is a decision you've reached
of your own free will, with no coercion
or undue influence?
Yes, sir.
Ms. Novak.
All that remains to satisfy the terms
of the plea arrangement
is for Mr. Spencer to allocute the details of his crime.
(Judge) Go ahead, Mr. Spencer.
I went to Ms. Dawning's work...
thinking maybe I could steal her underwear
to get on The BJ Cameron Show.
I thought that'd be cool.
I'd maybe even get some girls.
I didn't think she'd be in her trailer.
I almost bolted
when I saw her sleeping.
Then I thought, how cool would it be
to get a picture of her.
So I took one.
And she didn't wake up.
I lifted up her skirt
to take another,
and she didn't wake up.
I pulled down her panties,
and I began to have sex with her.
I was wrong. I was stupid.
She started to wake up a little bit.
I pushed her away, and I ran.
I deserve to go to jail.
I'm sorry.
Are the people satisfied, Ms. Novak?
We are, your honor.
Court officer,
please remand Mr. Spencer into custody
pending a sentencing hearing.
Court is adjourned.
[gavel strikes]
You did the right thing, Danny.
Get away from him. Hey, take it easy!
Thanks.
BJ walks outside, goes right to the press,
and tells them how happy he is that justice has been served.
A sound bite gets him on the 6:00 news.
His ratings go up. The idiot's loving life.
Not anymore. That was a 2-7.
Somebody just took a shot at BJ outside his radio station.
I'm dyin'! Stupid bitch shot me!
I'm Type "O" Negative. I need a transfusion.
You're gonna be fine. Just take it easy.
What happened?
Took a slug in the shoulder.
Vitals are stable. Not much blood loss.
Who saw what?
At least five bystanders saw what happened.
She walked right up to him and pulled the trigger.
Why did you do this?
I had to.
I couldn't let him ruin another family.
Here's my case.
The attempted murder of BJ Cameron,
memorialized on film by some shutter happy tourist.
You're going to jail. No deals.
We don't want any deals.
Carolyn shot BJ because she was distraught
over what he'd done to her son.
Extreme emotional disturbance isn't gonna fly.
She went to the radio station,
waited for BJ to come out, and then shot him.
He should be dead.
He turned my son into a rapist.
He's ruined Danny's life.
Danny ruined his own life.
He wanted to be a doctor.
He wanted to help people.
Until he started listening to The BJ Show.
Then he decided he didn't want to go to college
because BJ didn't.
How many more kids
do you think this man is gonna ruin?
So you didn't shoot BJ just because of Danny.
You did it to keep him from corrupting other kids.
No mother should see her son go to prison
because some foul-mouth pig thinks rape is funny.
And I'm guessing there's at least one person
out of every twelve who will agree.
Come on, Carolyn.
What did I do?
You don't even say hi to your boss?
Hi. What did I do?
Just wondering why you're taking this Spencer case to trial.
She doesn't want to plea.
Her lawyer's going with some bogus
extreme emotional disturbance defense.
Bogus or not, you take this to court,
you could lose.
Even the candid camera helps her.
You shoot someone in broad daylight,
you're obviously not thinking straight.
Police interview the photographer?
He was gone by the time they got there.
They're still looking, but the paper
won't give up a name without a subpoena.
I'll see what I can do to help.
In the meantime, push harder for a plea.
Carolyn Spencer shot BJ Cameron
because she's a zealot.
We offer her a slap on the wrist,
it's just giving a green light
to every vigilante in the city.
Carolyn will be judged by a jury of her peers.
She's not the only one out there
sick of being surrounded by trash like The BJ Show.
BJ has the right to say what he wants.
Carolyn doesn't have the right to shoot him.
That's the law.
But you get one overprotective parent in your jury,
you got yourself a mistrial.
Did the defendant appear distracted
or even upset when she shot you?
She seemed totally calm.
Walked up to me, pulled a gun,
squeezed the trigger.
Thank you.
Nothing further.
In your show, have you ever directed
any of your listeners to commit a violent act?
No.
I have here some transcripts from your show.
Would you please read from the highlighted passage?
"The Undercover bimbette
"is nothing but an uptight little bitch.
She needs a good banging to loosen her up."
(attorney) And this one.
"Someone needs to throw her down
and nail her like she's never been nailed before."
But, according to you,
these words were never meant to incite violence
toward Jessie Dawning.
No.
They're jokes.
They were meant to be funny.
You see anyone laughing?
I didn't use my funny voice.
No further questions.
Redirect, your honor.
Mr. Cameron,
do you think that the KKK or Aryan Nations are funny?
Only in that they're
the most ignorant bunch of jackasses
in the country.
So you don't agree with their views.
But do you think they should still be allowed
to express them?
They may be hate-mongering idiots,
but they still have the right to speak their minds
like everyone else.
So as much as you dislike their views,
do you think it's okay just to go out and shoot them?
No.
Thank you.
Nothing further.
Danny was-- he was the sweetest kid
before he started listening to The BJ Cameron Show.
And then, all of a sudden,
women were "bitches" and "ho's" and--
Even his little sister.
(defense attorney) Wasn't it your job as his mother
to keep him in line?
Yes, absolutely.
But it was like there was another parent in the house
contradicting everything that I said.
Thank you.
Your witness.
BJ Cameron's demographics.
200,000 listeners under the age of 16.
Only one rapist.
So why did his show affect your son
differently than the others?
Danny didn't have a male influence in his life
after his father left.
When he found BJ,
he practically worshipped him.
Why didn't you stop him from listening?
I tried.
He bought a radio with his allowance,
and he hid it from me.
I work--I can't watch him 24 hours a day.
Because you were too busy trying to shut down The BJ Show.
Objection! Argumentative.
I'll rephrase.
Do you put your work with N-I-C-E
ahead of raising your children?
No.
My job is about protecting my children.
But isn't it true
that you shot BJ Cameron
not because he ruined your son's life,
but because he made a mockery
of your crusade to rid the world of filth?
People like BJ have taken over television...
the Internet, movies, music.
And you want to silence them.
I want my children to have a childhood.
I'm all alone raising two kids,
and it is almost impossible
to keep that obscenity away from them.
And that justifies shooting BJ?
That man...
took away everything I believe in.
He took away my family.
My baby's future.
And I had to stop him.
I didn't know what else to do.
You lose yet?
I'm working on it.
Told you.
You put Carolyn Spencer next to BJ,
she's gonna look like Mother Theresa.
It's an extreme emotional disturbance case.
I can't object to the defense
painting a picture of the heartbroken mother.
You want to convince the jury Carolyn's guilty,
show them she's responsible for her actions,
just like Danny was.
Wish I could put him on the stand,
but he won't say boo against her.
Maybe he'll change his mind when he hears about this.
Got a hold of Mom's phone records.
Look who his mom was talking to
right before she shot BJ.
Why are we here?
People's exhibits eight and nine.
The defense hasn't gone over those documents.
You will.
We're just waiting on one more person.
And here he is.
Danny...
Hey.
(defense attorney) Why is he here?
So I can convince him to testify against his mother.
I told you no way.
People's Exhibit Eight.
A copy of Carolyn Spencer's LUDS,
showing two phone calls
to NICE vice president James Willoughby
on the afternoon BJ Cameron was shot.
Is there a point to all this?
People's Exhibit Nine.
Copy of the check the New York Ledger
wrote to the same James Willoughby
as payment for pictures of BJ Cameron's shooting.
Mr. Willoughby took those pictures?
You asked him to.
Bet you didn't think anyone would find out, did you?
I don't know what you're talking about.
You talked to him
for twenty minutes that afternoon.
You told him to take pictures of the shooting.
No, I didn't.
We'll see what Mr. Willoughby says on the witness stand.
He'll say the same thing.
You planned it?
Why?
So the whole world would see her
as a martyr for her cause.
It was just a publicity stunt?
No! No, don't listen to her.
I did it for you.
You're so full of it.
I want to testify.
I'll tell them she didn't shoot BJ
because of me.
I'll tell them she just wanted
to get her stupid crusade on the news.
No.
I did it because I love you.
I wanna go back to my cell.
Danny, no!
Wait, Danny, plea-- Danny!
Last chance.
I'll drop the attempted murder
if she pleads guilty to assault.
I didn't do anything wrong.
And this has all
been fascinating,
but it doesn't prove a thing.
Then we'll let a jury decide.
(judge) Mr. Foreman, you've been deliberating for two weeks.
What's the division of votes?
Six to six, your honor.
Is there any chance, with more time,
you could reach a verdict?
We've tried.
We're deadlocked.
Then I have no choice but to declare a mistrial.
Yes!
The defendant's bail is continued
pending the people's decision for a retrial.
[gavel pounds]
How do you deadlock
with a mountain of evidence in front of you?
The jury thought BJ deserved what he got.
He flapped his mouth on the radio.
She picked up a gun and shot him!
There's no question who broke the law here.
No, but after hearing BJ on the stand,
half the jury would have done what Carolyn did.
[knock knock]
Gotta hear this.
BJ's been in full rant mode for the last five minutes.
(BJ, on radio) Carolyn Spencer's not just a bitch with a capital "C,"
she's a fascist who should be tried and fried
for crimes against democracy.
Strap her into old sparky and shoot a million volts
through that Nazi brain of hers!
Think they'll let me pull the switch?
And you wonder why people want that guy to shut up.
No one's forcing them to listen.
(BJ) Let me tell you, that woman is just--
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