Previously on the Betty Broderick Story...
She's my wife. We are separated.
I have an order of protection
keeping her off of this property.
We had nothing, but we were young and smart and ambitious,
but I was a good girl. I followed the rulebook.
You don't lie. You don't cheat.
You don't steal.
The rulebook only works if your husband follows it too.
Given Mrs. Broderick's disregard for the court,
I'm ready to rule in her absence,
and the divorce is hereby granted.
Try to remember that actions have consequences.
I can remember that if you can.
I have a great memory.
I can't make him wake up.
You can't because he's dead, right?
I'm amazed it only took one bullet
to kill Dan Broderick.
San Diego PD, homicide unit
there's six teams.
A team is four detectives and one sergeant
on call at different times.
I was on call that morning, November 5, 1989.
Approximately 8:15, I got the call.
They told me 1053 Cyprus Street
in the Hillcrest Marston Hills area
a fatal shooting.
Hold fire!
Elisabeth Anne.
You need to go home, now.
Leave the rifle.
What is this? Why are you home?
Father Luke said to leave.
Why? What did you do?
I don't know. He just said go.
Ugh, don't whine. Think.
I was in Phys Ed.
We were shooting guns.
I
Come with me.
Don't move.
Oh, my God.
Okay, uh, the clips go in the front and the back,
and then you put the belt on first,
and then you pin the sanitary pad to the clips.
Or don't, or just stay here.
That's everything, Betty.
I have the whole serving set now.
Yes.
I remember when you gave me my first spoon.
I thought I would be so old
when I finally had the whole set.
Old enough for your own family.
Young man, did you just Be very careful.
Silver is so soft. It will scratch.
You're gonna be the girl
with boys on the phone all hours now?
What?
I don't
who did they say that they were?
What have you been getting up to?
Nothing.
I can't help if people look up this number and call it.
And you can't help once people think you're a slut.
There's no coming back from something like that.
Are you a slut, Betty Anne?
No. No more boys calling here.
I can't stop them. Try.
I'm gonna get us all another pitcher.
Okay, we'll be here.
How many times are you going to let him
explain the rules of football before you tell him
you know them?
Some people dream about Paris.
My dream is to go anywhere overnight
without my parents,
and because of your brother, I'm finally able to do that,
so he can explain football to me as much as he would like.
South Bend is your Paris.
Exactly.
No one has ever been happier to be in Indiana than me.
Just control your joy,
or my aunts will think we're up to something.
Are those your chaperones?
They're not hovering, so they must trust you
to make smart decisions, unlike your dates.
I mean, leaving you two alone
like candy in a room full of babies?
That's not smart at all.
Does anybody have a pen?
Thank you.
You know that's fabric, not paper?
Yeah.
Daniel T. Broderick III.
MDA? What is an MDA?
Medical doctor, almost.
Starting Cornell medical school.
Cornell I'm from New York.
Not Ithaca, Bronxville,
but I'm going to college there myself.
Mount Saint Vincent You're perfect.
I mean, uh, that's perfect.
I got there around 8:45.
I was briefed on the situation by officers Shea and Jankovic.
They had secured the scene.
They told me the home belonged to a Daniel Broderick.
And then, the homicide unit, we took over from there.
She told me she didn't know what had happened
because the drapes were drawn, and it was completely dark.
I was asking her if she'd heard anyone
or if there was screaming or blood or anything like that.
She said she didn't know that she had hurt Dan
because he sat up and said,
"You shot me.
I'm dead."
This is a lot of space, which we need
for filing, records storage,
but also to house this elite army of legal minds.
Well, this mostly elite army of legal minds, I mean,
but, with all of your Ivy degrees,
we figure you'll compensate
for Terry here being dead weight,
and Fred who should've been shot
and turned into dog food by now.
I'll do what I can, Martin.
Attaboy. Incredible.
And I get to take you to lunch.
The firm's treat.
Do you like mai tais?
Betty doesn't want to go to the tiki place, Vonne.
She wants to come see our amazing law library,
right, Betty?
Do they have Jacqueline Susann?
Wayne, have you met have you met Dan Broderick?
He is a doctor who went to Harvard Law,
so today is your last day.
Come on.
Oh, come on, there you go, Martin.
Oh, boy. I'm telling you,
this guy's gonna give you a run for your money.
How you doing? Hey, nice to meet you.
The lounge because it's fabulous.
You canyou can smile and laugh about it.
I'm actually helping do...
Betty! Betty!
I am late. I am sorry.
II tried shouting your name, but you couldn't hear me.
Were youwere you really just gonna leave?
Well, I didn't know if you were coming.
Of course I was.
Shall we?
All right, good.
I was worried you weren't gonna be here
I almost wasn't.
I tried to take a nap after my final,
but my mom came into my room and dragged me off my bed
by my feet screaming I must be on drugs.
What did your mother think about people who took naps
during the day before she knew about drugs?
Probably that they were exhausted
because they had such loose morals.
Oh, where'd you find that?
Someone left it on the train. And you picked it up.
How come? Are you a feminist now?
I mean, Gloria Steinem's pretty.
But she's so weird. And what is she trying to do?
Did you put that on? It wasn't me.
I mean, I just got here.
Must have been the, uh, universe.
Mmhmm.
Come on.
"All of your friends dream about being you
"the image of the model woman.
"Soon you'll be the favorite teacher
"of classes full of children, and after that,
"perfect wife and mother making the perfect home.
"When I let myself dream,
"I dream about that home being mine.
"Or sometimes my dream is about your legs
that go all the way up to your"
Daniel.
What?
Another pitcher?
I didn't ask for it. They just gave it to me.
I think they are grateful.
Grateful that you filled his bar full of drunk med students?
He's grateful for that? Absolutely.
Heyoh. Oh.
Marry me, Bets.
Okay, time to switch to Irish coffee.
I mean it. You always mean it.
I mean it too.
I'm not getting married until I graduate.
Maybe you're just worried that you'll stop loving me
if we wait till then.
Mmm, I'm not worried that I'll stop.
No, Dan. Dan, come on.
Oh, no, Dan Don't do the turtle.
Okay there, pal?
Dan, no, no, no, not the alligator.
I'm not gonna let you get away, Betty.
Are you all right? You can't do this.
It's as if no one else even exists.
It's unconscionable Well, okaycan't do what?
What's happened? He's gonna ruin it all.
He said he'd wear the formal morning dress.
We'll call the rental house right now.
We'll send someone over to get the right size.
Agostina's son can do it while you talk to Dan.
You tell him
He said that he didn't want to wear rented clothes.
He knew the entire bridal party would be
in morning dress.
He looks ridiculous!
He's my husband.
A man who could do this without a thought for anyone
what wouldn't a man like that do?
Mama.
Oh, thank you.
Well, what should we do today?
The cathedral's supposed to be lovely.
Ooh, and somebody said
that there's a pirate's lookout tower.
Blackbeard's castle.
We'll have to leave the room for a little while, won't we,
not to be in the way of housekeeping?
Uh, they're not coming.
I told the desk not to send them.
We're married now. We wanna be alone.
What, you wanna sleep in an unmade bed?
Why would I have to?
You can make a bed.
Mmm.
All right, here we go. One, two, go!
I need your help.
Okay, one, two, three, go!
Hey!
Yes! All legs!
Betty,
home sweet home.
She was crying.
And then she just started talking.
II couldn't even tell who it was at first.
And she said she had just come from Dan's house,
that she had fired a gun...
but it was dark, and she didn't know
if she had hit anyone.
She, uh, asked me what she should do.
I didn't know what to say,
and I didn't call the police because...
I didn't believe her.
How are you feeling?
I think Mrs. Elliott knows.
There was just a look in her eyes today.
If she knows,
then the assistant headmistress knows too.
Wouldn't she have called you in if she knew?
Might just be taking pity on me.
If they are, they won't for long.
I'm just gonna have to quit before I get fired.
I'm sorry.
But don't be sad. We'll get by.
We'll bewe'll be fine.
I mean, do we need electricity in the apartment
or are we just used to having it?
You ate food today.
You're saying you're gonna want more food tomorrow?
I can pick up another shift.
No, Daniel.
It's not safe for you to drive when you're tired,
and another shift at the lab
will affect your hospital rotation.
I was talking to Lucy Ralston today
about direct sales with Tupperware,
and she was saying that if you meet their targets,
then you can make your own schedule.
I'm good at selling. That's true.
You were great at teaching.
Damn it, I forgot to pick up antacids.
We can stop and get some on the way.
No, we can't.
The latest I can punch in is 3:15.
Come here, you.
Shh, shh, shh.
I know. It's okay.
Look at this stuff that my mother sent me
from St. Philomena bazaar.
Half of this stuff has barely even been worn.
Wow.
I did not think a custommade coat would look that good,
but it really does, doesn't it?
Image inspires confidence. Confidence breeds success.
I just wish success bred loving your work,
but I guess success is its own reward.
Hm.
I asked him to make me two more
so you're not up every night spot treating this one.
Well, if we can afford it, buy three
one for when this is dirty and one just in case, right?
Right, but we can't...
afford it.
Well, if we really tighten our belts
for the rest of the month, we can.
And it's a onetime outlay.
The way you'll take care of them,
they'll last for years.
Hm.
What?
I just like looking at you.
All right.
How was the tour? Don't go in there.
It'll make you wanna redo your house.
Speaking of can we redo our house?
Oh, boy.
If you see what Betty's managed
to make this place into on an associate's salary,
you'll think anyone can, but you'd be wrong.
Wait, so decorating isn't just
buying the most expensive one of everything?
Uhoh.
How would I know?
What's your secret?
Being so happy we finally found a home
someplace so beautiful.
Thank you. Among such nice people.
I really think that's what it is.
It's not what I want.
It's not what I thought it would be.
Maybe it never was, and I was working too hard to realize it.
I'm suffocating, Bets.
I'm done.
Okay.
What are we gonna do now then?
Lawyers aren't on call in the middle of the night.
They don't have emergencies.
They can spend time with their families.
You...
You wanna be a lawyer now?
Since when? You know what malpractice is.
Medical malpractice litigation is a chance to do good,
to be creative like you can't be in medicine,
and to make money
as one of the few who's also an MD
maybe only.
And...Harvard must see that
because I applied,
and they accepted me.
Harvard?
Well, that's...wonderful.
But, whatare we gonna move to Boston with a baby?
Two babies? I know.
I know it's a lot, but it's still our plan.
It's just gonna take a little longer to get there,
but it'll be so much more worth it when we do.
We'll have to get a loan.
My father won't subsidize another degree
when he said there's nothing wrong with the first one,
but if you thought we'd be well off on a doctor's salary,
it's nothing compared to what we will be now.
What's better, Bets?
Rich or richer?
What's in it again?
It's strawberries, white sugar,
red wine vinegar...
And gin.
Mmm. And it's called a what?
And is there more of it?
Anything that's not the gin is called a shrub and yes.
Oh, I've heard of that. That's this?
My kids are still somewhere here, right?
I'm just asking.
Uh, still sponge painting.
When they get bored of that,
I've got beads and string?
Should we try and talk about the ball a little?
Assign committees at least before we all forget our names.
Why? We have Betty now.
She whipped up the perfect day on no notice using stuff
she just had lying around the house
and looked like a catalog model while doing it.
Except for her nails.
I know!
I get a manicure, and then I forget,
and I open a tub of PlayDoh
or undo a knot in someone's shoe, and they
I was just teasing you.
I vote we put Betty in charge of the whole gala
and just call it a day.
All in favor say "shrub."
Shrub.
Stop teasing me
and put me on a committee, please.
Don't worry, you are on decorations and arrangements.
Okay. And also invitations.
Mm, and also special effects.
You can pretend that you didn't rule the gala circuit
back east all you want, Betty, but you can't fool us.
All right, in you go.
Ooh, I think the wind is worse here in Boston, huh, kids?
Oh, but never mind that now, girls.
You hear that terrible sound?
It means they finally fixed the heat.
Oh, and there's hot water, and Daddy's home early.
Hooray.
Dawson kept bending my ear. I couldn't get any work done.
Telling me how he's named for his dad
who's named for his granddad,
So he's Trip because he's the third
Trip short for triple.
Does he know that you're Dan Broderick III?
You know, there's so many guys like that at Harvard.
They don't have to worry
about standing out or getting noticed.
Their future's already secure.
Well, what can we do to make sure you stand out here, then?
Well...
Student government elections are coming up.
There's seven reps for 1L one for each section.
But if I won, I wouldn't have time
for workstudy or a parttime job.
Well, it's the best law school in the country,
and you're the smartest one there,
and it's your job to get as much out of it as you can,
and it's my job to help you.
Image, confidence, success, right?
So we'll cut back.
We'll figure it out.
Or you'll lose the election, and it won't matter anyways,
Trip. Oh, Trip.
Doesn't look like we're having a bath tonight, girls.
The pipes are all frozen up again.
Nothing's coming out.
Icome
oh.
You're just tired, Bets.
Oh, I just can't.
All I do is throw up and bleed and hemorrhage down my legs.
And the veins
Just because it is legal does not make it right.
You're just saying that, Dan, but you're not here.
We can hardly afford Tracy and JenJen.
That childthat child is as much our child
as they are. There's no difference.
Yes, there is.
How would we live with ourselves?
I knI know you don't want to do this.
I know.
You just want life to be simple, and it can be.
Okay, we have each other.
I don't have you, Dan.
I have no one.
You will. You will.
II'll be home. I'll be better.
I promise.
I'll take care of you the way you take care of me.
All right? Come here.
We'll get through this together.
All right?
Okay.
Coop keeps lecturing us on Nordic over alpine.
Apparently his father was an Olympic medalist in Nordic.
And McMeel keeps talking about
how Aspen is so much better than Stowe.
Well, you're making good connections.
Do they think that you like them?
Probably.
The skiing's great.
Well, you've never been to Aspen,
now have you, lovey?
Ah, yeah, one sec.
Okay, we're going for dinner now.
I'll probably have to pick up the tab, sorry.
No, no, it's fine. You should.
Image, confidence, success. Love you.
Oh!
Ah!
Police department.
Hi, I'mI'm alone. I'm pregnant.
Something'sI need someone
a ride to the hospital.
Where is he?
Where did they take him?
He's gone.
Where?
I never even saw him.
I didn't get a chance to name him.
You find out where they take him.
You find outyou have to find out, Dan,
where they have taken him. Pleaseno.
No, I don't It's okay.
It's gonna be okay.
No.
She was hysterical.
She kept saying,
"Dan is driving me up the wall, Dad.
"He's driving me crazy.
I feel like committing suicide."
She didn't tell me she was at Jennifer's house
She didn't tell me she had just shot anyone.
I said, "Betty Anne, calm down, calm down."
Before I knew it, she hung up.
Hi.
Oh, babe. It's okay.
Oh. I got you.
Ah. Oh.
God, really?
ComeI gottaall right, I gotta get up.
Get me up. I gotta get up.
Babe
That's not funny.
You're the turtle.
Excuse me, Daniel Broderick, get me up!
I might vomit. Okay, okay, okay.
I can't believe it's over. I know.
I feel like Evelyn and Josie were just arguing
about how classic Hollywood is a stupid theme,
and now the ball's on Sunday.
At least you don't have to worry about us
trashing your house like seagulls anymore.
I loved it. I'm so sad it's over.
Until six weeks from Sunday
when we have to start planning for next year.
What time is Dan getting home?
Uh, I should ask you the same question
since he's probably with Martin.
Yeah, but I'm used to it.
Oh, I'm used to it
all the years of long hours, the pressure,
med school before law school.
Difference is, now he gets paid.
Mm.
But does Dan like it?
The firm. I think so.
We don't really talk about it, exactly.
I can't imagine how hard Martin had to work
to get where he is.
Sure hope he likes it.
Uh, he does. Yes.
When you work so hard for so long
to try and please people, and then, suddenly,
they all have to try and please you,
it's easy to like.
It is easy to convince yourself that you deserve it.
It is the Radcliffe & Nunn sickness.
Eventually, they all catch it.
It makes you greedy and restless and selfish
and the only cure is to, uh, leave.
If you don't, it changes you forever.
Especially if you want it to.
Also I may have been drinking,
which is your fault those amazing gin fizzes.
Should we make coffee? Oh, yes.
No, no, no, I'll do it.
Shh, shh, shh.
Ralph finally settled with Mitchell, Gillis, and Lyons.
He wouldn't let any of us leave.
I would've called, but...
Anybody who calls home is a wimp.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh. Oh, yeah.
Oh, hmm.
That's it. That's the stuff.
Oh, I love it.
You'd think someone like Ralph
who's a partner wouldn't...
Senior partner.
Want the associates out drinking,
even for a celebration.
This stuff is just as important to them
as the rest of it.
They love it.
Ralph, Martin, they all said it.
The law is a mental battlefield,
and Radcliffe & Nunn is the army,
and the fight never stops.
You have to find your adversaries
and show them that no matter
how ready they are,
you're readier and for longer.
You gotta show them wherever you can
the courtroom, the telephone,
the bar if that's where they are.
That's where they usually are.
And you never negotiate until you're sitting on their chest.
And the only way you can get on their chest
is if you're in their head.
Mm.
Hioh, thank you so much.
Hi. Hello.
Hi.
Thank you very much.
We did it. We did it.
Can you believe it?
Oh, come on. Yeah.
Howard told me tonight that, uh...
Steward Mutual is leaving the firm.
What? Why?
Ugh!
Not that I wanted to represent
a health insurance company,
but with all the work they do give me,
it was the closest thing
to what I got into all this for in the first place,
so I don't know.
$35,000 a year to do the job of three lawyers.
Mm.
Ivy League educated MD, JD
and to be wasted.
Just wasted.
Mm. They love you.
And they're jealous of you.
And they don't want anyone else to have you.
No. And they need you.
But you know what?
You don't need them...
for anything.
So what?
What should I do? Quit?
We did it. We did it!
Can you believe it?
Should I quit?
Mm.
Should I open my own practice?
Huh?
Mmhmm.
Ah!
No, baby!
Yeah, I'm gonna eat you!
Oh, man. Baby, baby, stop!
Oh, babe Oh no, I'm gonna survive.
Oh, my God, I bonked you. It's okay.
I bonked you.
The brass, right?
So much credit. So much credit.
That the bank obviously thinks you will be good for.
The bank believes in you, but you can't?
That corduroy wide wale corduroy.
It's the first regular paycheck I've ever had,
and I walk away from it.
We are leveraged up to our eyeballs.
Shouldn't we be looking
for cheaper office space downtown?
Maybe rent one of these metal desks, filing cabinets
If you want to be a high flier,
you have to look like one before you are one.
Inspire your clients.
Image, confidence, success.
Right?
$500,000 line of credit.
I don't care if we lose the house...
Bets
'Cause I know we won't.
You won't.
Oh, God.
PlaidI think the brass with plaid corduroy.
What?
Mm, mmmm.
Oh
Bet
Look at you.
Wow, Daddy.
I'm so sorry.
I wanted this to be a big celebration,
to kick things off in style.
It's fine. I just wanna get to work.
You think I want a bunch of people spilling champagne
all over the new furniture? Hey, Trace.
Okay. What's this?
Oh, this is just something from us to you
so that people remember to help you remember
what you've done, what you're going to do,
and that I think you can do anything.
Bets. Mmhmm.
If this works, if we pull this off,
there is not a doctor in town
who's gonna wanna have us as a patient.
So I guess that means we have to live forever.
Right?
Good, but also no room for error.
You're gonna have to watch what goes in your mouth
from here till baby.
Yeah. Remind me, you're from
what, Boston? New York.
And my husband Pittsburgh.
And what does he do?
He was with Radcliffe & Nunn,
and now he has his own law practice.
Hm, Broderick.
Daniel Broderick?
If you choose to stay with this office
for the delivery, you will have to legally agree
to deliver by cesarean section that being the method over
which the delivering physician has the most control.
Yes, Doctor?
Can you get me Marianne?
I need her to witness a signature.
Sure.
Dan.
We have two girls and two boys now,
and I get so sick every time, and my veins...
If we're not gonna use... Contraception,
if you're
I wanna get my tubes tied.
Have to find a doctor who isn't Catholic.
Part of me can't believe...
No more babies? What?
But we have our babies.
And now we'll have...
that part of our life together but just
Dan, is that all right?
If that's what you want, Bets.
He picked up our vacation pictures
from the developer.
He never does things like that.
It was a 24 exposure roll,
but there were only 19 photos in the envelope.
Something just kept telling me
he had the other five.
Something just told me to go look for them.
Is it serious?
He says it isn't.
He says he was only with her a few times,
but I don't know if that's better or worse.
I don't think she was the first.
Yvonne.
I keep telling myself the Martin I know
would never do this not to me.
But he did do it.
He's not that Martin anymore.
I don'tI don't know him.
And if I don't know him, I don't know what I know.
You're so lucky, Betty.
You are so lucky.
Elisabeth Broderick fired a total of five rounds.
The first bullet we found embedded in the nightstand.
The second had gone into the wall.
The third, uh, we found on the rug
directly underneath Mr. Broderick's body
when we lifted it up.
Um, the fourth bullet we recovered from under his wife
when we lifted her body off the mattress.
We did not find any other bullets
in Dan and Linda Broderick's bedroom,
but the fifth one was found later