In New York City's war on crime,
the worst criminal offenders are pursued
by the detectives of the major case squad.
These are their stories.
Eames, his dog. He lost his dog.
Oh, sorry.
I tell you what, it's not that easy
making a body disappear.
I had this dog Tucker.
One summer, he ran into the salt marsh
next to our house.
We looked for him for months.
Three years later a fisherman found his collar
in the marsh, nothing else. Tucker was history.
And like my dad says, no body, no case.
He's talking aboutdropping a body in a marsh.
A salt marsh, next to their country house.
They have a house in the Berkshires.
There are no salt marshes up there.
He lost the dogwhen he was a kid.
They used to have a homein East Hampton.
There's a satellitepicture.
-Look at that. -Right there.
Alongside the road.
A salt marsh.
Conducting a search in full view
of the multi-million dollar beachfront mansions
here in celebrity-studded East Hampton.
[female news reporter Are using powerful pumps
to drain these ocean-fed marshes.
Charlie, what are you seeing?
Just a lot of people getting wet.
I'll let you know.
We've searched the fourmost accessible
vehicle entry points.
They wouldn't have gotten faron foot.
Paddy, we've got something on Little Merrick Pond.
Rodger that.
All right, guys, let's go.
They found her!
Hair! Make-up!
Hair!
She was suffocated.
Probably smothered.
Tox found ecstasy, cocaine...
and enough scotchto float the Intrepid.
She had sex?
No semen, no DNA.
But preservativesfrom sheepskin condoms.
Just like Tiana.
Well, this timeour culprit mixed it up.
There was lubricant consistentwith a latex condom
in her vagina and rectum.
Latex.
You know, the key, he wouldn't put it in my hand.
I was wearing latex gloves.
The M.E. found that both latex
and sheepskin condomswere used on Bethany Lunden
the night she was killed.
Okay.
What am I looking at here?
It's Ethan's intake report when he got processed
into Rikers.
He resisted thecavity search.
Who can blame him?
It's the reason he resisted.
Latex gloves.
He told the medical officer that he was allergic
to latex.
He wouldn't have used a latex condom.
He wasn't the only one who had sex
with Bethany that night.
There was a second shooter.
I was at home on Thursday.
I didn't go to Ethan's.
Anybody with you?
Uh, no. No, my parents were out.
Stuart, look, it's a fact that
Ethan and Bethany were not alone that night.
It's also a fact that
you and Ethan, you liked to share
the spoils of war.
So that's two facts.
And you have the "Home alone"alibi thing going.
Who do you think wins?
Okay, my parents were home.
They had one of their fights.
You know, their knock down drag-out...
I was looking after my sister.
We'll have to checkwith your mom.
Just don't show her those.
Why?
This girl go to school with you?
Her? No, she's an escort.
Hey, we don't need to pay for it.
Ethan's dad got her for him
for his 16th birthday.
Judge Garrett? Are you sure?
Or did Ethan just tell you that?
Judge Garrett was there at the house
when she showed up.
Mm-hmm. How long did he stay?
The whole time. He went upstairs.
After she did Ethan,
she went up and did his old man.
Well, how did Ethanfeel about that?
Well, I was grossed out, but...
he thought it was the coolest thing.
Jeez, all I gotfor my birthday
was a transistor radio.
A father and son tag team.
It may not stop at escorts.
Nail down where Judge Garrett was
that Thursday night.
So who told you, another judge?
So much for judicial discretion.
From what we hear,your affair with Garrett
isn't all that discreet.
Look, we don't need to knowthe details.
We just need to knowif you saw the judge
that Thursday.
We met for drinks at the St. Regis.
And after, you went upstairs?
That was Harold's plan.
What was yours?
Harold is very retro.
As long as he's getting what he wants,
you could be asleep for all he cares.
So after a few months of feeling like
a hole in a mattress, I had enough.
So you dumped him.
Oh, yeah.
You're smiling.
So before you dumped him, you let him know
what he'd be missing?
Where we were sitting...
the tablecloths were very generous.
You mean, uh...
you got him all worked up and then you just
left him there?
T minus ten seconds and holding.
We'll ask you again.
Who was in your house that night?
I got home around 1:00.
Ethan was asleep in his room, alone.
You were outwith your husband?
No.
I was at a fund raiserfor a ballet company
in the Bronx.
Hal was already home.
Was he asleep when you got in?
I don't know.
I saw his briefcasein the foyer.
And the door to his den was closed.
So I assumed he was in there.
In here.
He came up to bed later?
No. He falls asleep in there.
I don't know what, watching TV?
TV's in here?
What about the next morning?
I made breakfast for Ethan and then the two of us
drove up to the Berkshires.
And the judge, he was asleep in here?
I didn't see him.
I don't think he'd want you in here.
He plays vinyls, huh? Nice.
Everything's in mint condition.
He's a collector, huh?
It was his father's.
Sinatra at the Sands with Count Basie.
Original pressing.
So he put the needle down,
sits on here,puts the headphones on.
Lays back, listens to Frank.
Drinks himself to sleep.
Harold to a T.
You can leave now?
The Chairman's Chairman.
His girlfriend left him at 9:30
with his head ready to pop off.
Which put him home around 10:00
to find a half-naked,drugged, 16-year-old
partying with his son.
Who would be only too happy to share.
It's a repulsive scenario, but it doesn't tell us
who killed Bethany.
Mrs. Garrett said Ethan was asleep
when she got home.
She didn't see her husband.
Her husband was the one with the motive.
If he had sex with Bethany, it's statutory rape.
Except he's the judge,he knows the system.
He wouldn't panicand kill her.
Well, he's a degenerate.
He's only concerned with his immediate needs.
So's his son, and the kid's got a quick switch.
Flies off the handle.
So the girl pisses him off and then...
Then he would walk away.
Like he walked away from Tiana.
Because Ethan's a coward.
It's equally believable they did it together.
You're ready to make a deal with one of them?
Who's the lucky winner?
Ethan's the one we havethe most leverage on.
We have him on tape admittinghe let Tiana Peterson die.
So Mr. Carver...
Tiana becomes leverage to get a conviction
for the murder of a white girl?
Dude, you should have seen her.
Her head bounced off that guardrail
like a beach ball.
This tape's a violation of my client's
right to counsel.
His cellmate was acting as an agent for the police.
This is no time for posturing.
Now with my son's future.
We're listening, Mr. Carver.
We're offering your son one to three years
on a plea of criminally negligent homicide
for Tiana's death.
In return, we want his testimony
about the night he brought Bethany Lunden home.
Ethan, tell themwhat happened.
Don't--
Don't tell me what to do, all right?
I didn't kill her.
Maybe we should just ask the other person
who was with you.
He might decide to save his own skin
and implicate you in the murder.
Are you worried?
Is that because you're not sure
he wouldn't do it?
Because you never felt safe around him?
You know, that's what happens to kids.
To sons whose parents...
Well, whose fathers don't give them love.
Unconditional love.
That they're entitled to.
My father loves me.
Oh, Ethan...
If you know your father loves you,
then why do you debase yourself
to get his attention?
You dedicated this to him,
the Chairman's Chairman.
You emulate him.
You do that, what, to earn the love
of a man who is incapable of love.
It's true, Ethan.
If dad's so horrible, Mom...
then why don't you divorce him?
Because he's a judge.
And all of his friendsare judges.
And if I left him,
he'd make sure that we had nothing.
He'd take care of me.
No, sweetheart.
I couldn't even get himto hold you as a baby.
And he won't hold you now.
He's gonna let you go.
He's gonna put Bethany's death on you.
Ethan, tell them what happened.
I was, uh...
I was in the kitchen with her...
making something to drink, and dad got home.
We were pretty messed up.
We went in the den.
He started playing some records.
And mixing us some drinks.
They started making out.
And, uh, she was laughing.
I started feeling a little dizzy.
Queasy.
Thought I was gonna puke,
so I went up to my room and I passed out.
And what happened to your father?
And Bethany?
I left them in the den.
I don't know what happened to them.
I woke up the next morning,
just Mom was there.
So, you're home.
Ethan's tired.
He needs to go to sleep.
Sleep? Isn't there something you want to tell me, Ethan?
Leave him alone.
I heard a rumor of a deal with the D.A.
--What'd you tell them? -Don't touch him. -Don't touch him.
-Look at me when I speak to you! -I'm your father!
Traitor!
You Iago! Iago!
Iago.
An arrest warrant for Judge Harold Garret.
"Hot Tub Harry"?
There's circumstantial evidence
and a statement from his son.
Eh, this won't do.
At all.
Arthur--
Arresting a judge for murder in an election year...
it's not peanuts.
If the district attorney is going to arrest
a sitting judge of the Supreme Court in New York,
the signature of the District Attorney damn well better be
on the warrant.
Arthur Branch Esquire.
Now that'll be worth two points on election day.
It's not enough to do good,
you gotta be seen doing good.
Sorry to pull you outof your hot tub, Your Honor.
Ethan's statement doesn't implicate Judge Garrett
in either rape or murder.
He saw the judge groping the girl.
Have you seen the Internetdiary he keeps?
Heck of an imagination.
What you're saying is your son is a liar.
I'm saying,
he'd be very malleable in thehands of a skilled interrogator
with a personal agenda.
-Personal agenda. -Like what?
I presided over police brutalitytrials in the '90s.
Be quite a feather in somebody'scap to knock me down.
Grandiosity.
Paranoid overtones. Persecution complex.
Two can play that game, detective.
I'm putting you all on notice,
I will defend myself vigorously.
You're on a fool's errand.
And you can thank that man behind the glass.
Mr. Carver botched hislast case in my court.
A rapist went free because of his incompetence.
This is his pathetic attempt to rehabilitate himself
in the eyes of his superiors.
My witness got arrested
for an outstanding traffic ticket.
On the morning of his court date,
Garrett dismissed the case.
Still, sounds like he justdrew his line in the sand.
Let's ,make sure we draw ours with hard evidence.
I'm checking to seewhich ones are fresh.
They must love you in the produce section.
-A dragonlet. -The light.
Keno, uh, excuse me.
Can you takea picture of this?
I found a seaside dragonlet.
They only live by salt marshes.
It was probably attracted to the light
when the trunk was open.
My father used to use those for bait when he went fishing.
Look at this.
There was a tarp on the floor here.
Garrett probably used it to line the trunk
to transport the body.
Yeah, Logan.
Say what? You're kidding me.
Now?
It was filed this morningon behalf of 17 plaintiffs.
The suit alleges civil rights violations,
including the use of excessive force.
Going back to 1993.
This is crap.
These were all investigated and dismissed
by the review board.
All except the last one. Gregg Sanchez.
He alleges you threatened him with a pool cue,
and tried to drag him to a bathroom.
Oh, yeah, him.
-Defense. -I never actually threatened him.
Mr. Sanchez named Detective Barek as a witness.
Nobody talked to me about it.
If they had, I would've said I saw a smart detective
use the power of suggestion
to get life-saving information
from a known criminal.
Okay, you guys go back to work.
You see this?
-Yes. -Timing's no coincidence.
Judge Garret got a lawyerto put this together.
He's going after the copsinvestigating him.
Judge Garret is setting the table for his trial.
I got an email from a friend in Washington.
Hey, thanks for saying that.
Don't thank me. That's what I saw.
Well, hey, thanks for seeingwhat you saw.
I got word someone pulled your FBI personnel file.
What'll they find?
The record of somebody who was very unhappy.
I was on loan to them for two years after 9/11.
I wanted to talk to somebodyacross the hall,
I had to clear itwith three supervisors.
I--those people couldn'tstop an asthma attack.
Hmm.
There's no evidence Bethany was in the car.
No fluids or hair.
But we got the dragonlet.
All that proves is that the carhas been near the ocean.
We gotta do better.
What are you working on?
It's Garrett's sexual kinetics.
We haven't found evidence
that he had intercourse with Bethany,
but if we knew how he would've--
I'll guess "Hot Tub Harry's" got a hell of a repertoire.
His range of motion is very limited.
He's got a torn rotator cuff in one arm.
He's got tennis elbow in the other.
He'd have problems supporting his weight
in the missionary position.
If he was on the bottom?
He's got a double scrotal hernia.
Supporting the girl's weight, that would be painful.
And then kneeling behind...
that's out of the question,
because he's got, um, rheumatoid arthritis
in both knees.
He--basically, he'd have to stand up.
But she was too stonedto stay on her feet.
Yeah.
Well, then he bent her over something, I guess.
Oh, like a chair.
Or a desk.
This pattern looks familiar.
Look at the pattern on her arm.
They knocked over the ink bottle during sex,
and she put her arm in it.
Caramel Ridge Center. How may I direct your call?
Uh, one moment, please.
I'm her to see oneof your residents.
Frances Goren?
Are you a family member?
I, uh, I grew upwith her son, Bobby.
We wentto the Academy together.
Our mothers were good friends.
Don't tell me she's fine. Look, my--
You don't understand. My mother doesn't have--
My mother's friend doesn't have a son.
No, I'll be there tonight.
I wanna talk to Dr. Shimowhen I get there.
Your mom gonna be okay?
What's this?
Uh, it was ink on her arm.
It matched the ink...blot.
Bobby--Somebody got into see my mother.
Okay? He asked hera lot of questions.
She got agitated.
She had a psychotic break.
They restrained her.
And they sedated herfor a long time.
They know who it was?
It's Garrett. He hired a privateinvestigator or something.
Bobby, let me get the captain.
This is my mom, okay?
Bobby--
Get me Ron Carver. This is urgent.
What do you wanna know, huh?
You send an ex-cop to terrorize an old woman.
Tell me what you wanna know. You gotta ask or something?
Ask me!
Get out of here, Detective.
Do you know what they did to her?
They strapped her down to a bed.
They pumped her full of drugs.
Get him out of here.
How could you do that? By what right?
What, because you have one of these?
You think you can tricksome helpless old woman?
Or that you can rape a young girl?
You think you can wage war on me,
my good name, turn my family against me?
And I'll just take it? Huh?
Mr. Carver.
You have any idea what kind of unbalanced personality
you've entrusted your case to?
Hmm? I have it right here.
From his own mother, whom he keeps locked up
in a psych ward.
This is a man who is still full of spite for his dead father.
A man who will not lift a hand
to help his gambling addict brother.
Judge, this isn't necessary.
-It's all right. -Let him talk.
You go ahead, Mr. Carver.
You pursue your reckless prosecution.
-You'll see what I'm capable of. -I'll show you.
What are you gonna show us?
That your not a broken buffoon?
That you're more than the sumof your infirmities?
Huh? With your bum kneesand your herniated groin--
How dare you!
Is that why your girlfriends
don't have patience for you anymore?
Is that why you bring hookers home?
To flatter you?
And young girls like Bethany.
Because they don't know any better.
They won't laugh at you while you're fumbling around!
Stop it! Get 'em drunk. That's even better.
You can just flop 'em on your desk.
They won't remember anything.
They won't remember how young and strong Ethan felt.
How--how he made them feel better.
I made her feel better.
She threw herself at me.
She didn't want a boy. She wanted a man.
That's what she got, and she loved it.
Oh, he heard, all right. All the way from his room.
The old man showed him how it's done.
I did nothing to hurt her.
I did not hurt her!
Now he's admittedraping her.
I think we're ready for trial. Nice work, Detective.
We still haven't received item18 on the bill in demand.
I'm sure it was sent over.
Probably a clerical error.
We'll get you another copy.
Careful, Ms. Buckley.
Mr. Carver's prone to errors.
For a man who admitted having sex with a 16-year-old
murder victim, arrogance isn't the best defense.
Are you the only one who doesn't get it?
This is a show trial for the voters.
If Arthur really wanted to convict me,
he'd put a bureau chief in charge.
I am serious about convicting him.
And I'll promote you to bureau chief right now.
No need, Arthur.
I've never seen myself as management.
She's back.
Jury selection starting tomorrow
in the trial of "Hot Tub Harry".
With a nickname like "Hot tub Harry",
why did the prosecutors take so long
to charge him with murder?
I keep thinking of Madame DeFarge.
In The Tale of Two Cities.
She sat near the guillotineand knitted.
And mocked those poor souls as they were getting
their heads chopped off.
As long as it's not my head on the block.
Well, it is, my friend. It is.
And then he said,
"She didn't want a boy, she wanted a man.
And that's what she got, and she loved it."
Thank you.
No more questions.
You testified that you were present
when Ethan Garrett was encouraged by your partner,
Detective Goren, to implicate--
Objection to the word, "encourage".
I'll rephrase.
When under questioning
by Detective Goren, Ethan implicated his father?
Yes. I was there.
Didn't Detective Goren tell Ethan,
"You never felt safe around your father.
Your father is incapable of love"?
Yes, but--
And isn't it true that Detective Goren's
own father abandoned his family when he was a child?
Objection. Relevance?
Subject to connection, Your Honor,
-I'll allow it. -Answer the question.
Yes, that happened.
And wouldn't you agree that Detective Goren's
experience with his father has led him to mistakes
in judgment?
I'm not qualified to answer that.
Isn't it fair to say that Detective Goren
has a special vendetta
against imperfect fathers?
That he'll bend the truth to implicate them in crimes
they're innocent of?
No, that's not fair.
You're saying you trust his judgment?
Yes, I do.
Then maybe you'd care to...
explain this.
Do you recognize it, Detective Eames?
Yes, it's a letter...
I wrote to my superior officer five years ago.
Please summarize the contents.
It's a request for a new partner,
but I withdrew my request.
Please...read the highlighted passage.
"Detective Goren's erratic and antisocial behavior...
"his volatile and bizarre interrogation techniques...
"lead me to have serious doubtsabout his judgment
and mental stability--"
I want to explain--
Thank you.
No more questions.
Redirect, Your Honor?
Detective Eames,
please explain why you withdrew
your request.
I was used to working with more conventional detectives.
Detective Goren's style is definitely unique
and...an acquired taste.
Over time I came to see that
his approach was based on...
deep understanding of human behavior.
I came to appreciate him as an ethical person
and an effective police officer.
Thank you.
No further questions.
We mitigated the damage.
You did fine.
I'm sorry, Bobby. I should have told you.
I am an acquired taste.
I'm lucky youwithdrew your letter.
I'm...a drunk.
I'm sickened by my behavior.
I...took advantage of a defenseless girl.
I...shamed my family.
I betrayed the public trust.
So I have resigned my office...
surrendered my license to practice law.
I've entered a 12-step program.
But one thing I am certain of.
No matter how degenerate my actions,
I did not kill Bethany London.
The police say the killer carried Bethany's body
down to your garage.
Loaded her into the car.
And then carried her to Little Merrick Pond.
You're sayingyou didn't do that.
No! How could I?
I'm a wreck.
Torn rotator cuff.
Rheumatoid arthritis.
Hernias.
I break out in a sweat just getting myself out of bed.
No further questions, Your Honor.
We heard forensic testimony
Bethany was splayed out on your desk
when you raped and sodomized her.
Is that how it happened?
Yes, I'm ashamed to say.
After you were done with her,
you just left her passed out in a puddle of ink.
No, I wouldn't do that.
So you carried herto the couch--
That is beyond my capabilities.
Then how did she get off the desk?
She walked?
We heard testimony abouther blood alcohol level.
Yes, and my son gave her drugs.
But with a little help...
she...was able to get to the couch.
With a little help?
Isn't it possible you gave her a little help
down the stairs to the garage?
No.
Isn't it possible you helped her to your car
and suffocated her?
No, I did no such thing!
There'd be no reason to.
You just told us you resigned your office,
surrendered your law license.
Your reputation's in ruins.
All because you got caught having sex
with an underage girl!
Now, wouldn't you have done anything to avoid--
I wouldn't have killed her!
-This girl wasa threat to you. -No!
-You panicked. -No!
You had to get rid of her.
You told her you'd take her home, didn't you?
You coaxed herdown the stairs.
No!
Up the stairs! She went up the stairs.
Up the stairs, to--to your son's room?
Why didn't you mention that before?
My own son?
How could I?
I don't know what happened.
Maybe Ethan got jealous.
Jealous?
Of you?
Well, yeah, she'd just been with me.
Maybe she sang my praises to him.
Your praises?
As a lover?
Well, yes.
Ethan has a very sensitive ego.
Especially when it comes to his old man, you see.
Well...he could have gone off on her.
I-I-I don't know.
I was in the den.
-No more questions, -Your Honor.
No redirect, Your Honor.
The defense rests.
Rebuttal, Mr. Carver?
Yes.
The People...
recall Ethan Garrett.
"Your praises as a lover?
"Well, yes.
"Ethan has a very sensitive ego,
"especially when it comes to his old man, you see.
He could have gone off on her."
Thank you.
Now, Ethan...
Ethan?
Is it true? Did Bethanycome up to your room?
No.
Last time I saw her she was in the den.
My dad was kissing her.
You weren't jealous?
No.
I always looked up to my dad.
I thought he was the coolest guy.
I just wanted to be... one of his friends.
Somebody he'd hang out with.
So your father is wrong,
-even though, in his words, -Bethany threw herself at him.
That didn't make you jealous.
Of him?
There's nothing cool about him.
He hurts people.
He hurt Bethany.
He said he was giving her all that great sex.
He wasn't; he was hurting her.
You--you could hear herfrom your room?
No, but he made her bleed.
From behind.
When he sodomized her, you mean.
Yes, he made her bleed.
He's a pig, he's a freak pig.
No more questions, Your Honor.
The autopsy mentionsthe torn tissue
from being sodomized,
but it doesn'tmention bleeding.
Well, somehow he knew she bled.
Maybe his father told him.
I can think of another reasonthe kid knows.
He saw it whenhe killed her.
The murder case against Harold Garrett
will go to the jury by the end of the afternoon.
That's how long you have to get to the bottom of this.
I don't know where I heard it.
I might have read it somewhere on the Internet.
No, we Googled and doodled, it's nowhere.
It's not even in the autopsy report.
The only person who'd know is somebody who saw Bethany
after your father had sex with her.
Meaning, the person who killed her.
My dad killed her.
I mean, he told meabout the bleeding
when he was--he was drunk.
Yeah, well, even if your father killed her,
somebody had to help him carry the body,
and that's what you did, you helped him.
Yeah, he'd been drinking.
Driving on those roads in the salt marsh,
he would have needed an extra pair of eyes.
No, see, he knows his way around pretty well.
I mean, he used to drive by Little Merrick Pond
all the time on Pine Beach Road.
Um, Pine Beach Road goesto Big Merrick Pond.
Right, right.
-You mean, uh, -Strathmore Lane, right?
Yeah, that's the one. I get 'em confused sometimes.
I'm sorry.
Strathmore Lane goes to Thorncrest Pond.
If this kid drove to the marsh by himself,
he'd be lost as his dog.
So we're back to the dad.
With maybe the kidin a supporting role.
The dog he lost six years ago...
He would havebeen heartbroken...
The Humane Societyin East Hampton...
I should call.
After closing arguments, the judge called a recess?
I expected to see Ethan waitingoutside the courtroom.
But they told me to come see you.
Well, Ethan's fine. He's here.
There's a problem with his testimony.
I didn't hear anything wrong.
It's what he said about Bethany bleeding.
It's something only her husband
and the killer could possibly know.
But my husband is the killer.
You know that.
I want to see my son.
Please?
They keep asking how he knew about the bleeding.
He won't answer.
I want to speak to him.
We can't allow that.
Look, I-I-I think that your husband was right.
I think that my feelings might have clouded my judgment.
Especially when it comes to Bethany's body
being found in that remote partof the marsh.
I mean, Ethan obviouslyknows the marsh
like the back of his hand.
I don't know how you can say that--
Tucker, his dog.
I mean, he was probablyout there every morning
looking for him.
No.
We wouldn't allow him near the marsh.
He was a child.
Hal looked for the dog.
Every morning, for--for two weeks.
And--and in the evenings.
Really?
With his busy schedule?
Well, Ethan was very upset.
Even Hal was moved to do something.
And you stayed at home, consoling Ethan.
Well, yes.
You've gonna think that we have
nothing better to dowith our time,
but we called The HumaneSociety in East Hampton.
They sent us this...
lost dog report for Tucker.
Um, from six years ago.
Now, the lady there,she remembered Ethan's mother...
coming in every day sunburnedfrom walking the marsh.
Every morning and afternoon
looking forher little boy's dog.
There's even a notation here.
You see, you told heryou heard barking
around Little Merrick Pond.
You were gonna be damned if you'd let that dog
get lost on him, I guess.
Is that because you couldn't give him
a father who loved him?
Like that's the leastyou could do?
What are you gonna do now?
What are you gonna do?
He has knowledge thatimplicates him in the murder.
But if he tells us howhe came by that knowledge...
But that implicates you,doesn't it?
That's not true!
You couldn't resist telling him
how Harold brutalized Bethany.
You knew because you saw her.
Saw her in the den.
Hal was passed out.
She was... ravaged and drugged.
That's when you sawhow young she was.
You saw something else, too, didn't you?
You saw a pieceof Ethan's clothing,
and you knew thathe was involved.
That he'd been swept upin this scandal.
Burned up.
You needed to save him.
Save him from throwing himselfon the bonfire
of his father'sdegeneracies.
Harold. It was Hal.
No, it was you.
You took Bethany away.
You made her disappear.
It was Harold's fault!
Look at him.
What's he gonna do?
He can rat out his mom.
Or he can takethe rap for her.
You know what he'll do.
You know he's just a kidwho wants to be a man so much.
Save him.
Don't let him go.
Yes.
Yes, I killed her.
I'd do anything to protect him!
I owe him that.
I knew Hal wouldn't be any kind of father,
but I just wanted a child.
So much!
It's my fault!
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, sweetheart! I'm sorry!
I'm so sorry!
Elise Garrett.
I have to go back in there
and get the murder charge against her husband dismissed.
The judge is almost done instructing the jury.
But the rape charge stays.
Yes. Justice is a jagged road.
Your Honor, may we approach the bench...
It'll be matching jumpsuitsfor the Garretts this Christmas.
Hair, makeup!
We're going live.
Don't ask me! I don't know what it means!
I don't know what any of it means!
What is going to be your next move?
It means his family took a bullet
that should have been his.
Let's get out of here before the dancing bears show up.
See ya.
Try explaining to them
how a mother could have done this to their daughter.
-Well, they're parents. -They understand.
That's what makes it worse.