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NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,
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the police
who investigate crime
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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If you could raise me
$20 a week, then...
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You know how my business is, Bella.
Has my phone been ringing?
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Mr. Kopinsky said
he'd raise me $20 if you did.
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If he's so flush, why do I have to match?
I haven't had a raise since I started here.
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He can afford to raise you if I
can, but if I can't, he can't.
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My son wants a computer.
Does that even make sense?
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Hey, Mr. Rockefeller,
you're spoiling the help.
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I'll make the coffee.
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WIGGINS: Bella!
Bella, come here!
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(GASPING)
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Call 911.
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Doesn't look like a robbery. There's
no sign of a struggle here.
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Yeah, except the bullet hole in his head.
You got a time of death?
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Full rigor. Body's cool. Yesterday
afternoon, early last night.
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Drive safely.
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Gee, who'd wanna kill a lawyer?
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Excuse me.
Those files are privileged.
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You need a waiver from each of
Mr. Kopinsky's clients to look at them.
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Are you Mr. Kopinsky's partner?
We just shared office space.
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But I was his lawyer.
The lawyer's lawyer, huh?
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Litigious times. Sir?
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Don't tell me. His date
book's privileged, too?
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Now, his last appointment
yesterday, 6:00 p.m. Mr. Tanaka.
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Either one of you see him? I was
taking a deposition in White Plains.
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I showed him in.
When I left he was still here.
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How were he and Mr. Kopinsky
getting along?
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Fine.
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Are you all right, ma'am?
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Mr. Kopinsky
was going to give me a raise.
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Thank you.
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This cost her money.
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When we find the shooter, she can
have the other lawyer sue him.
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The foot traffic is here.
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The city wants
to move me around the block.
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There's nobody over there.
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That's why
you hired Mr. Kopinsky?
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His ad said if he doesn't win
your case, you don't pay.
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Was he winning yours?
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He hadn't started yet. Yesterday
was our first meeting.
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Mr. Tanaka, as far as we know, you
were the last person to see him alive.
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No, I wasn't. When I left his
office a man was coming in.
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Did you get a good look at him?
Tall. Wearing glasses.
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Give me a skinny cap.
No lead.
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Decaffeinated cappuccino.
With skimmed milk.
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What's the point?
$3.75.
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Look, the tall guy with the glasses,
do you remember anything else?
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I stopped at the men's room
in the hall.
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When I came out he was still in
Mr. Kopinsky's office, shouting.
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About what?
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About what a son of a bitch
Mr. Kopinsky was.
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Nicer than his office. Dead people.
They're full of surprises.
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Who are you? How did you get in?
LOGAN: Police. Who are you?
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I just got off the phone
with Arthur's secretary.
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I was going to call you.
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And you are? Arthur's roommate.
Frank Rosebrock.
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Detective Logan.
Detective Briscoe.
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Please, come in.
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So you and Arthur are...
Live here. 19 years.
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I can't believe he's gone.
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He was shot? BRISCOE: We're
sorry for your loss.
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You can't know. Arthur is a...
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Arthur was a wonderful man.
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Do you know what happened?
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Mr. Rosebrock,
were you here yesterday?
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No, I was in Phoenix.
On business. I just got back.
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Look, we have to ask.
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Can you think of anybody who
might have been angry at Arthur?
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Oh, one man
called here several times.
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Arthur was working on his case
day and night.
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He sounded crazy. He threatened Arthur.
He threatened even me.
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Do you remember his name? How
could I forget? Carl Piselli.
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Cleans and Dirties.
I invented the product.
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Magnets. You put one
on top of the other.
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Clean pig, clean dishes.
Dirty pig, dirty dishes.
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(nos BARKING)
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You put this
on a dishwasher, huh?
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A husband's compulsive. He rinses
the dishes before he puts them in.
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Wife comes along, takes a look,
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thinks they're clean, puts
dirty dishes on the shelf.
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With these, no problem.
And they're cute.
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And these are why you
hired Mr. Kopinsky? Yes.
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I submitted these six
months ago to Empire Gifts.
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Big sales rep firm.
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They could sell
a product like this.
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I tried selling them myself.
It doesn't work.
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Mr. Piselli, could be there's just
not a market for products like this.
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Oh? Empire said, "No, thanks."
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Three months later they come
out with Neats and Nasties.
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Their pig wears a dress instead of a suit.
They sold 60,000. Thieves.
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Yeah, we understand
that you weren't too happy
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with the way Mr. Kopinsky
was handling your case.
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He took my retainer
and didn't do a damn thing.
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You wanna tell us,
just for the record,
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where you were last night
about 7:00?
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Listening to the Hudson Jazz Orchestra.
Summer stage. Central Park.
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You got a ticket stub?
Free concert.
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The only show in town
that doesn't rip you off.
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Yes, Carl Piselli. He claimed
he invented Neats and Nasties.
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Then last year he claimed that
he invented Killer Bee Honey.
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The year before that it was
Singing Sam's Shower Songs.
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I'm afraid I missed that one.
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Oh, waterproof lyric cards
for singing in the shower.
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It does very well
on Father's Day.
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You know, all this stuff.
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Ceramic kittens.
Flatulence, The Game.
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This is a business?
Yes. It's a good one.
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And so Piselli's claims are groundless?
You came up with all this stuff?
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Detective, if Marconi and Tesla can
independently invent the radio,
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is it so hard to believe
that two people
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thought of putting magnets
on dishwashers?
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But you did meet Mr. Piselli?
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That buzzer on the door.
The security camera.
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They are there because I meet
people like Carl Piselli.
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He came in here.
He made threats.
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Did you ever hear him
threaten Mr. Kopinsky?
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Several times. I'm sure Kopinsky
was sorry he ever took the case.
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Forget becoming president.
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The real American dream is
inventing the next pet rock.
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Yeah, well, Piselli fits the bill.
He wears glasses and he's mad.
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One of my husband's customers comes
in the hardware store twice a week
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to buy parts for an automatic
toilet-seat drop he's inventing.
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Did he hire Kopinsky?
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He says it'll reduce the
conflict between the sexes.
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Yo, did you get anything
from the cappuccino king?
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I showed him the picture.
He wasn't sure.
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I say we bring in
Piselli anyway.
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Show him
some of our new products.
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Check his alibi first.
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What, a free concert in Central Park?
You're talking about thousands of people.
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One who might have been
Mr. Piselli.
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There were thousands
of people here.
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Humor us.
We're humoring a lieutenant.
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Plus it was night
so it was dark.
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Would you just
look at the picture?
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Oh, I remember him.
You do?
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He had a blowup
with the ushers.
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They wouldn't let him come in
with his yapping dog.
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So did he leave early?
No. He put a muzzle on it.
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I wish we'd had one for him.
Thanks.
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Maybe Piselli's telling the
truth about the magnets, too.
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(PAGER BEEPING)
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Kincaid.
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Since when are prosecutors allowed
to look at lawyers' files?
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There are some
criminal cases in there.
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I thought Kopinsky
only handled civil cases.
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Arthur was a rarity.
A legal generalist.
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Anything for a buck, huh? We have
a search warrant, Mr. Wiggins.
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It specifies we can't use
privileged material about any crime
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except the murder
of Mr. Kopinsky.
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May I see it?
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Did you stay on top of what
Kopinsky was working on?
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He held things pretty close.
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I was just his attorney for the
record, a matter of convenience.
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This seems to be in order.
Happy hunting.
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You think someone killed him
over a shoplifting beef?
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He settled a medical
malpractice claim for $15,000.
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His fee was one-third.
The doctor's insurance paid.
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I never realized the law was
such an exciting profession.
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I get to work with you guys.
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"Piselli v. Empire Gifts."
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BRISCOE: Yeah,
we've been down that road.
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"Willard Tappan"?
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That's the savings and loan
king who went down in flames.
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Yeah, what'd he get? A couple of
years in the federal Club Med?
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The guy should've got life for
all the people he swindled.
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Kopinsky was trying
to help them.
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Here's a letter
to one of Tappan's victims.
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"I may be able to collect
your judgment," he says.
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Kopinsky wrote this guy that he had a
lead on some money hidden by Tappan.
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It says he just needs three grand for
research expenses to track it down.
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There must be about
50 of these letters in here.
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If Tappan hid some money away
and Kopinsky was on to it,
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that gives Tappan
a nice motive for murder.
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Willard Tappan's Savings and Loan
opened a branch in my neighborhood.
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Borough president
cut the ribbon.
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I had some friends who lost years'
worth of savings. It destroyed people.
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Well, the question is,
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do you think Tappan's the type of guy
to graduate from fraud to homicide?
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If his money's at stake, yes.
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Isn't he in federal prison?
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He was moved to a halfway house
in Manhattan last month.
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Make my day. Nail that son
of a bitch for murder.
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Kopinsky? You know, I had a racehorse
named Prince Korinsky once.
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The government took him,
along with everything else.
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I suppose Chelsea's riding him now.
He was a lawyer.
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He told people he had a lead
on some money you hid away.
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My famous hidden money.
It doesn't exist.
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You cost the taxpayers, what,
half a billion dollars?
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Maybe you put some away
for a rainy day.
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You know, that's what the United
States Government thought.
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That's what my creditors'
attorneys thought.
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They scoured the world searching
for my buried treasure.
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They found nothing.
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It was on the front page
of The Wall Street Journal.
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Maybe Kopinsky
didn't read that issue.
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Excuse me.
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You know, last year,
in Chicago,
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a lawyer went to jail for telling
people he'd found my hidden money.
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All he needed to get it was
a modest retainer up front.
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You'll excuse me. I'm off to
rake leaves in Central Park.
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Part of my rehabilitation.
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When Willard Tappan's Savings
and Loan went in the crapper,
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I represented
its major creditors.
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We seized
the corporate lodge in Aspen
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where Tappan took his friends
and prostitutes,
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the corporate jet
he used for his golf outings,
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the corporate apartments
in Miami and London.
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Sounds like quite a haul.
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Everything turned out
to be mortgaged elsewhere,
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sometimes two or three times.
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Did any of your clients ever
hear from Arthur Kopinsky?
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Financial institutions.
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They lose a few million,
it's not the end of the world.
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It's people who lost
a few thousand,
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who only had a few thousand, who'd
be vulnerable to that kind of thing.
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Why'd they lose out?
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I mean, weren't their
accounts insured?
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Their accounts, yes, but a lot
of them went in to buy CDs,
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and Tappan's people sold them bonds
in the Savings and Loan instead.
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They became
unsecured creditors.
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They got nothing.
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My husband worked 32 years
for Con Edison on pipes.
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Saved $60 a week.
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He was going to buy us a place in
South Carolina when he retired.
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But Tappan cleaned him out?
Tappan killed him.
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Coronary. He was never sick before.
Just gave out.
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00:13:14,027 --> 00:13:16,507
The day after he went down,
so did I.
233
00:13:16,562 --> 00:13:19,270
And Mr. Kopinsky told you
he'd get you your money back?
234
00:13:19,332 --> 00:13:25,749
Right. If I gave him $3,000 to check
on some bank records in the Caribbean.
235
00:13:26,973 --> 00:13:29,249
Where am I to get $3,000?
236
00:13:29,676 --> 00:13:31,656
So you never
got involved with him?
237
00:13:31,711 --> 00:13:36,091
I rounded up $600 from my
sister and her daughter.
238
00:13:36,616 --> 00:13:41,656
He took it as a down payment.
Then he asked for $600 more.
239
00:13:42,255 --> 00:13:46,294
He said he was this close
to tracking down my money.
240
00:13:46,359 --> 00:13:49,932
But he never quite did.
I know.
241
00:13:50,697 --> 00:13:54,474
If I'm not the biggest fool on
earth, I don't know who is.
242
00:13:57,270 --> 00:14:00,114
Some guy loses
his lifesavings to Tappan,
243
00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:03,817
then Kopinsky comes along
and licks the plate.
244
00:14:04,210 --> 00:14:05,917
I'd wanna kill him, too.
245
00:14:05,979 --> 00:14:07,549
So, what, you wanna be
reassigned to a squad
246
00:14:07,613 --> 00:14:10,890
that tracks down murderers
you don't sympathize with?
247
00:14:12,185 --> 00:14:15,496
Same old cliche.
The little guy gets screwed.
248
00:14:15,555 --> 00:14:18,126
That lawyer's rich clients
get some of their money back,
249
00:14:18,191 --> 00:14:21,035
and I guarantee you
he collected his fee.
250
00:14:21,594 --> 00:14:24,165
Listen, I've saved up some
money for my retirement.
251
00:14:24,230 --> 00:14:27,734
I keep it split up between three banks
and two different mutual funds.
252
00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,338
If you don't trust one that
much, then nobody can hurt you.
253
00:14:31,771 --> 00:14:35,150
What's that, financial advice
or marriage counseling?
254
00:14:39,746 --> 00:14:41,817
CURREN: You're here
about Mr. Kopinsky?
255
00:14:41,881 --> 00:14:43,690
Your mother's name
was on a list of people
256
00:14:43,750 --> 00:14:45,991
he solicited
about Willard Tappan.
257
00:14:46,152 --> 00:14:49,065
Yeah, so was I. He was trying
to get our money back for us.
258
00:14:49,122 --> 00:14:53,298
$830,000.
Everything my husband left me.
259
00:14:54,260 --> 00:14:56,797
We lived on Beekman Place.
260
00:14:56,863 --> 00:14:59,742
After my husband died,
Johnny used to visit me there
261
00:14:59,799 --> 00:15:02,177
and we'd walk
to Madison Avenue.
262
00:15:03,069 --> 00:15:04,377
Now.
263
00:15:04,771 --> 00:15:06,182
Here.
264
00:15:06,239 --> 00:15:08,549
We don't even have privacy.
265
00:15:09,075 --> 00:15:12,545
Do you think the Tappan business had
something to do with the murder?
266
00:15:12,612 --> 00:15:15,957
BRISCOE: We don't know. Poor man.
He was our last hope.
267
00:15:16,015 --> 00:15:20,486
We were just wondering, did Mr. Kopinsky
ever ask you for money for his expenses?
268
00:15:20,553 --> 00:15:22,897
Yes, he asked for $3,000.
269
00:15:22,955 --> 00:15:26,198
I didn't have that much,
so I just gave him $1,000.
270
00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:29,069
I sent him a check
just the other day.
271
00:15:29,128 --> 00:15:31,608
Do you know who's taking over
his cases?
272
00:15:31,664 --> 00:15:36,306
We're not sure. Mr. Curren,
had you seen Kopinsky lately?
273
00:15:36,369 --> 00:15:40,112
No. He said he'd call
if he had anything to report.
274
00:15:42,909 --> 00:15:45,583
We talked to a dozen people
on Kopinsky's list.
275
00:15:45,645 --> 00:15:48,421
It was a con all right, but half
of them don't even know it yet.
276
00:15:48,481 --> 00:15:52,054
He collected tens of thousands
of dollars for research.
277
00:15:52,385 --> 00:15:56,060
He never showed anyone any hard evidence
that he'd found Tappan's money.
278
00:15:56,122 --> 00:15:59,695
What a guy. Swindling people
who'd already been swindled.
279
00:15:59,826 --> 00:16:03,774
You gotta hand it to him. They all
had proven track records as victims.
280
00:16:03,830 --> 00:16:05,275
(PHONE RINGING)
281
00:16:05,565 --> 00:16:06,976
Van Buren.
282
00:16:09,469 --> 00:16:12,006
Does one of you have a
girlfriend in a nursing home?
283
00:16:12,071 --> 00:16:14,108
No, that would be Lennie.
284
00:16:15,374 --> 00:16:21,154
Mrs. Curren and her son lied to you boys.
I can't stand liars.
285
00:16:21,214 --> 00:16:23,251
Well, we appreciate
your help, ma'am.
286
00:16:23,516 --> 00:16:26,429
So what if she lived
on the East Side?
287
00:16:26,853 --> 00:16:30,892
You'd think it was Buckingham
Palace, her attitude.
288
00:16:32,024 --> 00:16:35,335
We don't get to choose
our roommates here, you know.
289
00:16:35,928 --> 00:16:38,602
Mrs. Greenfield,
what was this lie?
290
00:16:38,664 --> 00:16:43,909
Well, Johnny, her son, came to visit her
the night before that lawyer was killed.
291
00:16:44,403 --> 00:16:46,508
She told him she had good news.
292
00:16:46,572 --> 00:16:49,348
A surprise.
A surprise?
293
00:16:50,042 --> 00:16:54,457
She'd heard from that lawyer. He
was going to get her money back.
294
00:16:54,514 --> 00:16:58,326
She'd sent him a check.
Johnny was furious.
295
00:16:59,051 --> 00:17:03,727
He said the lawyer was a confidence man.
He'd taken Johnny's money, too.
296
00:17:03,789 --> 00:17:07,703
And Johnny didn't tell his mother this?
He hadn't wanted to upset her.
297
00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:12,402
But when he heard that his mother
had sent him her last $3,000,
298
00:17:12,865 --> 00:17:17,075
Johnny said he would get it
back no matter what it took.
299
00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,313
What do you think?
300
00:17:22,375 --> 00:17:24,286
I think she enjoyed
double-dating with us
301
00:17:24,343 --> 00:17:26,380
a lot more than some
nursing-home attendant,
302
00:17:26,445 --> 00:17:29,085
and she doesn't like
Mrs. Curren much.
303
00:17:29,148 --> 00:17:31,856
I don't think she's making
up a story like that.
304
00:17:31,918 --> 00:17:34,956
It's making her life a lot
more interesting, isn't it?
305
00:17:35,121 --> 00:17:37,965
What's interesting
is Kopinsky's phone log.
306
00:17:38,457 --> 00:17:41,438
The day he was shot, John
Curren called three times.
307
00:17:42,295 --> 00:17:46,175
Three messages.
"Please call. Urgent."
308
00:17:46,232 --> 00:17:48,178
Kopinsky was ducking him.
309
00:17:49,101 --> 00:17:51,103
Some people don't like that.
310
00:17:53,973 --> 00:17:55,008
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
311
00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:57,520
Okay, you guys,
we need the living room here.
312
00:17:57,577 --> 00:17:59,318
Nintendo off.
313
00:18:06,352 --> 00:18:08,832
What are you saying?
Mr. Kopinsky lied to us?
314
00:18:08,888 --> 00:18:12,097
He was milking you and about 50
other people with a phony story
315
00:18:12,158 --> 00:18:14,297
about finding Tappan's money.
316
00:18:15,695 --> 00:18:18,471
Oh, my God. It's all right.
We'll be okay.
317
00:18:18,531 --> 00:18:23,207
We're thinking maybe this didn't come as
a complete surprise to you, Mr. Curren.
318
00:18:23,269 --> 00:18:26,876
Of course it does. We were counting on him.
We were going to move.
319
00:18:27,173 --> 00:18:28,709
You didn't tell her?
320
00:18:30,142 --> 00:18:33,021
Well, maybe I suspected he wasn't
doing everything he said he was.
321
00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:35,992
I didn't see any reason
to worry everybody.
322
00:18:36,349 --> 00:18:41,128
Maybe you were a little upset about your
mother sending him her last $3,000?
323
00:18:41,454 --> 00:18:43,331
Your mother did? When?
324
00:18:43,656 --> 00:18:47,035
You said you were waiting
for Mr. Kopinsky to call,
325
00:18:47,093 --> 00:18:49,232
but you called him
three times the other day.
326
00:18:49,295 --> 00:18:52,742
Yeah, well, my mother was involved. I
wanted to see how things were going.
327
00:18:52,798 --> 00:18:55,005
Okay, then, you wouldn't mind
coming down to the precinct
328
00:18:55,067 --> 00:18:57,240
for some identification
procedure, would you?
329
00:18:57,303 --> 00:18:59,943
You don't think Johnny might
have killed that man?
330
00:19:00,006 --> 00:19:02,987
If he didn't,
he'll be back here in an hour.
331
00:19:09,882 --> 00:19:13,853
TANAKA: I didn't see him very long. VAN
BUREN: Take your time, Mr. Tanaka.
332
00:19:20,126 --> 00:19:22,538
I'd think number four.
You think?
333
00:19:24,397 --> 00:19:25,842
Number four.
334
00:19:26,799 --> 00:19:28,779
VAN BUREN:
Thank you, Mr. Tanaka.
335
00:19:32,605 --> 00:19:34,209
Curren didn't want a lawyer.
336
00:19:34,273 --> 00:19:37,413
Yeah, I guess after
Kopinsky he had his fill.
337
00:19:37,977 --> 00:19:42,153
Think that ID will hold up?
To get a search warrant, yeah.
338
00:19:43,115 --> 00:19:44,890
When's my husband coming home?
339
00:19:44,950 --> 00:19:48,864
He's just answering a few questions for us.
Does your husband own a gun?
340
00:19:48,921 --> 00:19:52,130
A gun?
I won't keep one in the house.
341
00:19:53,526 --> 00:19:56,939
Oh, Willard Tappan
on his 100-foot yacht.
342
00:19:57,496 --> 00:20:01,672
Tappan rents the Temple of Dendur
for his daughter's debutante ball.
343
00:20:02,034 --> 00:20:04,446
Tappan named to the
Businessman's Hall of Fame.
344
00:20:04,503 --> 00:20:08,144
Your husband collect these?
That man stole all our money.
345
00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:12,952
It was the same year Johnny lost his job.
He was unemployed for 14 months.
346
00:20:16,849 --> 00:20:18,294
What's that?
347
00:20:18,684 --> 00:20:23,633
Your mother-in-law's check
to Mr. Kopinsky for $3,000.
348
00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:29,232
You really have to see it from
our point of view, Johnny.
349
00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:34,769
You said you hadn't seen
Kopinsky for a while,
350
00:20:36,302 --> 00:20:38,543
but our witness saw you go in.
351
00:20:39,472 --> 00:20:41,247
Heard you shouting.
352
00:20:43,142 --> 00:20:45,486
You know that phone call
I just had?
353
00:20:47,279 --> 00:20:50,852
My partner found the check
your mother wrote to Kopinsky.
354
00:20:55,021 --> 00:20:57,228
It was in your jacket pocket.
355
00:21:05,297 --> 00:21:07,038
How'd it get there?
356
00:21:12,872 --> 00:21:16,319
How did it get from Kopinsky's
office to your apartment?
357
00:21:17,877 --> 00:21:19,515
What, did it fly?
358
00:21:21,647 --> 00:21:23,251
Come on, Johnny.
359
00:21:24,617 --> 00:21:26,893
You found out Kopinsky
was fleecing your mother
360
00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:30,297
after he had already fleeced
you, and you got mad!
361
00:21:30,356 --> 00:21:32,461
Hell, I would've gotten mad.
362
00:21:33,392 --> 00:21:37,135
May I please call my wife? As
soon as we're finished here.
363
00:21:37,663 --> 00:21:39,836
Let's just wrap this all up.
364
00:21:42,435 --> 00:21:45,473
So you went downtown to get
your mother's money back.
365
00:21:47,006 --> 00:21:49,885
What happened?
Did Kopinsky stall you?
366
00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:54,352
No.
Did he laugh at you?
367
00:21:57,049 --> 00:21:58,585
No.
368
00:22:00,352 --> 00:22:02,923
I give up. What happened?
369
00:22:03,622 --> 00:22:05,431
He gave me the check back.
370
00:22:05,491 --> 00:22:08,961
You went down to Kopinsky's, and
he gave you the check, huh?
371
00:22:11,497 --> 00:22:13,340
That's what happened.
372
00:22:13,999 --> 00:22:15,535
Well, you know,
373
00:22:16,302 --> 00:22:20,444
that's just not the kind of
fellow we heard he was, Johnny.
374
00:22:21,507 --> 00:22:23,748
How ever did you persuade him?
375
00:22:25,444 --> 00:22:27,549
He just gave it back to me.
376
00:22:33,385 --> 00:22:34,523
I think...
377
00:22:35,821 --> 00:22:38,267
I think
I'd like to see a lawyer now.
378
00:22:43,129 --> 00:22:45,166
Do you believe it?
No.
379
00:22:46,165 --> 00:22:48,202
That's good enough for me.
380
00:22:50,703 --> 00:22:54,845
VAN BUREN: John Curren, you're under
arrest for the murder of Arthur Kopinsky.
381
00:22:54,907 --> 00:22:56,511
You have the right
to remain silent.
382
00:22:56,575 --> 00:22:59,749
Anything you say or do can
or will be used against you...
383
00:23:00,579 --> 00:23:04,026
"Docket number 65473.
People v. John Curren."
384
00:23:04,083 --> 00:23:05,892
"Murder in the second degree."
385
00:23:05,951 --> 00:23:09,763
Mr. Curren pleads not guilty. The
People seek high bail, Your Honor.
386
00:23:09,822 --> 00:23:10,857
The crime was violent.
387
00:23:10,923 --> 00:23:13,995
The defendant sought to elude
capture by lying to the police.
388
00:23:14,059 --> 00:23:16,767
The victim is Arthur Kopinsky?
389
00:23:18,430 --> 00:23:19,602
I knew Kopinsky.
390
00:23:19,665 --> 00:23:20,905
Perhaps Your Honor
should recuse himself
391
00:23:20,966 --> 00:23:22,411
from setting bail in this case?
392
00:23:22,468 --> 00:23:25,745
If anything, Miss Bell, I'd be
biased in favor of your client.
393
00:23:25,805 --> 00:23:27,978
Your Honor, this man
is charged with murder.
394
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,384
Don't worry, Counselor.
Bail, $100,000.
395
00:23:31,477 --> 00:23:33,081
This won't even get to trial.
396
00:23:33,145 --> 00:23:36,922
Mr. Curren was deprived of an attorney
at his lineup and interrogation.
397
00:23:36,982 --> 00:23:40,191
The police have to offer him a lawyer,
not force one down his throat.
398
00:23:40,252 --> 00:23:43,825
I'm sure I know how the police couched their offer.
You know how they operate.
399
00:23:43,889 --> 00:23:47,200
Get off your soapbox, Sally.
You're blocking the view.
400
00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:50,502
So what are you offering? A fair
trial by a jury of his peers.
401
00:23:50,563 --> 00:23:52,304
Oh, a jury's gonna feel
sorry for him.
402
00:23:52,364 --> 00:23:55,470
He was swindled by Tappan. He
was swindled again by Kopinsky.
403
00:23:55,534 --> 00:23:58,572
Kopinsky needed to be disbarred,
not shot in the head.
404
00:24:02,608 --> 00:24:06,556
Johnny's face turned red.
He paced around the room.
405
00:24:07,413 --> 00:24:11,486
"Kopinsky, Kopinsky."
He kept saying the name.
406
00:24:11,550 --> 00:24:13,655
What did he say about
Mr. Kopinsky?
407
00:24:13,719 --> 00:24:16,723
He said he'd get his mother's money back.
He promised her.
408
00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:19,429
Thank you. Nothing further.
409
00:24:23,529 --> 00:24:27,477
So, Mr. Curren was angry?
Yes. Very angry.
410
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,947
You'd seen Mr. Curren angry before,
hadn't you, Mrs. Greenfield?
411
00:24:31,003 --> 00:24:34,678
Yes, I have.
I didn't like it then, either.
412
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,850
This was when the nursing home wanted
to move his mother to another room.
413
00:24:37,910 --> 00:24:40,288
He was sometimes late
paying her bill.
414
00:24:40,379 --> 00:24:42,518
Well, he got very angry
at the director, didn't he?
415
00:24:42,581 --> 00:24:43,924
I remember.
416
00:24:45,017 --> 00:24:48,760
Did he kill the director?
No. Of course not.
417
00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:50,798
Thank you.
418
00:24:51,223 --> 00:24:53,066
And how did Mr. Curren sound
419
00:24:53,125 --> 00:24:56,265
during his phone calls to
Mr. Kopinsky the day of the murder?
420
00:24:56,328 --> 00:24:58,035
He was definitely upset.
421
00:24:58,097 --> 00:24:59,770
Did he raise his voice?
422
00:24:59,832 --> 00:25:02,745
He said my boss was a crook
and I was a crook, too.
423
00:25:02,801 --> 00:25:06,078
Why were you a crook?
I don't know. He was upset.
424
00:25:06,538 --> 00:25:07,812
What else did he say?
425
00:25:07,873 --> 00:25:12,288
He said he wanted to know what
stop we were on the Broadway IRT.
426
00:25:18,050 --> 00:25:22,089
Did you receive any other angry phone
calls for Mr. Kopinsky that day?
427
00:25:22,154 --> 00:25:24,430
There was always somebody
upset about something.
428
00:25:24,490 --> 00:25:28,267
Well, you'd heard other clients call
Mr. Kopinsky a crook, hadn't you?
429
00:25:28,327 --> 00:25:30,568
He cut some corners.
430
00:25:30,629 --> 00:25:34,702
In a typical week how many angry phone
calls would Mr. Kopinsky receive?
431
00:25:34,767 --> 00:25:35,802
Maybe a dozen.
432
00:25:35,868 --> 00:25:38,314
That's two or three
angry phone calls a day.
433
00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:40,441
Oh, yeah. At least that.
434
00:25:42,941 --> 00:25:47,412
BELL: Miss Huntley, your company, Empire
Gifts, was being sued by Arthur Kopinsky?
435
00:25:47,479 --> 00:25:51,052
Yes. On behalf of a man
named Carl Piselli.
436
00:25:51,116 --> 00:25:52,561
And the police
came to question you
437
00:25:52,618 --> 00:25:54,791
during their investigation
of Mr. Kopinsky's death?
438
00:25:54,853 --> 00:25:55,888
Yes.
439
00:25:55,955 --> 00:25:58,435
Did they indicate to you they
had a suspect in the murder?
440
00:25:58,490 --> 00:25:59,992
Objection, Your Honor.
Relevance.
441
00:26:00,059 --> 00:26:02,471
If someone other than Mr. Curren
killed Arthur Kopinsky,
442
00:26:02,528 --> 00:26:04,007
I would say
that's highly relevant.
443
00:26:04,063 --> 00:26:05,974
If Miss Bell wants to know
what the police thought
444
00:26:06,031 --> 00:26:08,136
about this case at various
points in ancient history,
445
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,338
she ought to ask them.
446
00:26:09,401 --> 00:26:12,382
Now? After they've circled their
wagons around Mr. Curren?
447
00:26:12,438 --> 00:26:14,941
Your objection is overruled,
Mr. McCoy.
448
00:26:15,007 --> 00:26:18,284
If you wish, you can bring
on the police to rebut.
449
00:26:20,145 --> 00:26:23,354
Did the police indicate to you
they had a suspect, Miss Huntley?
450
00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:25,258
Yes. Carl Piselli.
451
00:26:25,317 --> 00:26:28,696
Not John Curren?
No. They didn't mention him.
452
00:26:29,721 --> 00:26:34,067
Did you yourself ever hear Mr. Piselli
make any threats against Mr. Kopinsky?
453
00:26:34,126 --> 00:26:35,196
Yes.
454
00:26:35,461 --> 00:26:38,499
He said that Mr. Kopinsky was
cheating him by taking his money
455
00:26:38,564 --> 00:26:41,408
and not pursuing
his case against me.
456
00:26:41,467 --> 00:26:44,414
Would you consider Mr. Piselli
a violent man?
457
00:26:47,206 --> 00:26:52,781
Two times he came into my showroom and
yelled at my staff and smashed things.
458
00:26:54,013 --> 00:26:55,356
Thank you.
459
00:26:56,415 --> 00:26:58,691
Miss Huntley,
you don't know anything
460
00:26:58,750 --> 00:27:03,256
that would indicate that Mr. Piselli
killed Mr. Kopinsky, do you?
461
00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:06,360
No.
And you don't know anything
462
00:27:06,425 --> 00:27:09,872
that would indicate that Mr. Curren
didn't kill him, do you?
463
00:27:11,363 --> 00:27:12,398
No.
464
00:27:13,732 --> 00:27:15,075
Thank you.
465
00:27:15,634 --> 00:27:19,275
Miss Bell, if you have no redirect,
we'll recess until tomorrow.
466
00:27:21,273 --> 00:27:23,048
(GAVEL BANGS)
467
00:27:29,114 --> 00:27:33,460
Still won't give a girl a break, huh, Jack?
It's all smoke, Sally.
468
00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:35,021
The jury won't buy any of it.
469
00:27:35,087 --> 00:27:38,432
I think the jurors start with
a very reasonable reluctance
470
00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:40,128
to believe anything you say.
471
00:27:40,192 --> 00:27:41,796
Me personally?
No, the system, Jack.
472
00:27:41,860 --> 00:27:44,966
It's wrong so often.
Which reminds me.
473
00:27:47,166 --> 00:27:49,669
It's an addition
to my witness list.
474
00:27:55,774 --> 00:27:57,447
What do you do, Miss Maney?
475
00:27:57,509 --> 00:28:00,217
I'm an assistant manager
of Security Central Bank.
476
00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:01,314
The branch in Inwood.
477
00:28:01,380 --> 00:28:03,986
Where Mr. Curren and his mother
maintain checking accounts?
478
00:28:04,049 --> 00:28:07,553
That's right. He has power
of attorney over hers.
479
00:28:07,619 --> 00:28:11,123
Did you see Mr. Curren the morning of
the day Mr. Kopinsky was murdered?
480
00:28:11,190 --> 00:28:15,195
Yes. He came in and stopped payment
on a check his mother had written.
481
00:28:20,966 --> 00:28:22,809
This check,
People's exhibit four,
482
00:28:22,868 --> 00:28:25,906
made out to Arthur Kopinsky
for $3,000.
483
00:28:26,472 --> 00:28:27,542
Yes.
484
00:28:27,606 --> 00:28:31,053
He said the person had cheated his
mother and she didn't want to pay him.
485
00:28:31,109 --> 00:28:35,888
So, Mr. Curren had no reason to
kill anyone to retrieve this check?
486
00:28:36,348 --> 00:28:37,725
It was worthless.
487
00:28:37,783 --> 00:28:40,093
Mr. Curren knew that?
Of course.
488
00:28:40,152 --> 00:28:42,758
I took care of the paperwork
while he waited.
489
00:28:42,821 --> 00:28:44,630
No further questions.
490
00:28:46,225 --> 00:28:50,230
Was Mr. Curren at all upset that
this person had cheated his mother?
491
00:28:50,295 --> 00:28:52,798
Yes. Very.
What did he say?
492
00:28:55,167 --> 00:28:58,910
He said the man was dishonest
and he ought to be arrested.
493
00:29:07,613 --> 00:29:10,560
I'm beginning to think the defense
case is rather convincing.
494
00:29:10,616 --> 00:29:13,893
A smart lawyer can always find holes.
Holes, yeah.
495
00:29:13,952 --> 00:29:16,057
You never found
the murder weapon.
496
00:29:16,121 --> 00:29:20,069
You don't have a witness to this shooting.
You don't even have a motive anymore.
497
00:29:20,125 --> 00:29:23,436
Even if the check was stopped, Curren
still had a grudge against Kopinsky.
498
00:29:23,495 --> 00:29:25,031
A grudge? Yeah.
499
00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:28,635
It sounds like everyone in New York
City had a grudge against this man.
500
00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:32,807
Are you sure that that's the murderer
sitting there at the defense table?
501
00:29:33,872 --> 00:29:38,082
Right. Get a continuance.
Start at square one.
502
00:29:38,143 --> 00:29:40,987
Either prove you got the right
man or prove you don't.
503
00:29:41,046 --> 00:29:42,650
Have a nice day.
504
00:29:44,283 --> 00:29:47,196
Everything Kopinsky was working
on the last month of his life.
505
00:29:47,252 --> 00:29:49,357
The Tappan stuff is there.
506
00:29:50,088 --> 00:29:52,125
"Piselli v. Empire Gifts."
507
00:29:52,991 --> 00:29:54,766
You go through
this one already?
508
00:29:54,826 --> 00:29:58,433
The police already investigated
Piselli and cleared him.
509
00:29:58,497 --> 00:29:59,840
Pretty fat.
510
00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:03,708
Wasn't Piselli complaining that
Kopinsky wasn't doing anything?
511
00:30:03,769 --> 00:30:04,975
Yes.
512
00:30:06,238 --> 00:30:10,311
But Kopinsky's roommate told the police
he was working on it night and day.
513
00:30:10,942 --> 00:30:14,287
Interrogatories, deposition
notices, subpoenas.
514
00:30:14,947 --> 00:30:16,984
Why didn't he tell Piselli
what he was doing?
515
00:30:17,049 --> 00:30:20,121
He hadn't even gone to trial,
let alone got a judgment.
516
00:30:20,719 --> 00:30:25,099
He was already examining the gift
company's assets. Bank records.
517
00:30:30,529 --> 00:30:34,170
And he hired a private investigator
to follow Alice Huntley.
518
00:30:35,367 --> 00:30:40,339
Surveillance log. Circled in red.
Three visits to West End CCC.
519
00:30:42,341 --> 00:30:47,552
Community Correction Center. That's
Willard Tappan's halfway house.
520
00:30:51,883 --> 00:30:55,126
LEONARD: Kopinsky didn't tell
me his secret hopes and dreams.
521
00:30:55,187 --> 00:30:58,566
He just asked me to follow her.
You have no idea why?
522
00:30:58,624 --> 00:31:02,538
When I saw her bumping butts with
Willard Tappan at the halfway house,
523
00:31:02,594 --> 00:31:04,596
the light began to dawn.
524
00:31:05,764 --> 00:31:08,404
"Bumping butts"?
Pardon my French.
525
00:31:09,067 --> 00:31:12,276
While I was pretending to look for
my brother in the guest book,
526
00:31:12,337 --> 00:31:15,113
I saw Tappan
sneak her upstairs.
527
00:31:15,173 --> 00:31:18,120
I didn't think he was gonna
show her his stamp collection.
528
00:31:18,176 --> 00:31:20,178
How long
has this been going on?
529
00:31:20,245 --> 00:31:23,624
I dug up some old personnel
files from Tappan's bank.
530
00:31:24,583 --> 00:31:28,656
She was in his public relations
department. Cute, huh?
531
00:31:29,788 --> 00:31:32,359
You heard my testimony.
I talked to the police.
532
00:31:32,424 --> 00:31:35,894
They hadn't seen your bank records.
But Kopinsky had.
533
00:31:36,528 --> 00:31:39,907
Your company's gross profit
is $300,000 a year.
534
00:31:39,965 --> 00:31:42,411
But you have $5 million
on deposit.
535
00:31:42,467 --> 00:31:46,347
Most of it's a loan from a bank
in the Netherlands Antilles.
536
00:31:46,405 --> 00:31:49,784
I'm planning on expanding.
It's a sound business loan.
537
00:31:49,841 --> 00:31:52,481
You've never made
a single payment.
538
00:31:52,544 --> 00:31:55,889
It comes from a place
with strict bank secrecy laws.
539
00:31:57,049 --> 00:32:02,727
I file full tax returns. I have a
successful legitimate business.
540
00:32:02,788 --> 00:32:04,461
You know what I think,
Miss Huntley?
541
00:32:04,523 --> 00:32:08,198
I think Willard Tappan, your boyfriend,
stashed this money in the West Indies
542
00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:09,830
in his good old days.
543
00:32:09,895 --> 00:32:13,843
And this loan to your company
is just a way of laundering it.
544
00:32:15,167 --> 00:32:17,408
I barely know Mr. Tappan.
545
00:32:20,372 --> 00:32:23,376
Did he just use you for criminal
conspiracy, fraud and sex,
546
00:32:23,441 --> 00:32:26,047
or did he also
involve you in murder?
547
00:32:27,412 --> 00:32:29,323
I don't have time to play
games, Miss Huntley.
548
00:32:29,381 --> 00:32:32,794
I'll just charge you and let
the chips fall where they may.
549
00:32:36,021 --> 00:32:38,968
Did Tappan know
Kopinsky had found his money?
550
00:32:45,163 --> 00:32:49,134
Willard said that
it would never be traced,
551
00:32:50,001 --> 00:32:52,948
because no one knew
that we were involved.
552
00:32:53,005 --> 00:32:56,509
Your bad luck. Kopinsky had a
nose for this kind of thing.
553
00:32:57,209 --> 00:32:59,712
He said he would stall
his clients.
554
00:33:00,479 --> 00:33:05,053
Willard had me give him
$50,000 out of the account.
555
00:33:05,851 --> 00:33:09,389
Then $100,000.
Kopinsky came back for more?
556
00:33:10,722 --> 00:33:13,999
And how did your boyfriend
enjoy being blackmailed?
557
00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:18,304
Willard wouldn't shoot someone.
558
00:33:19,464 --> 00:33:22,104
Are you sure about that,
Miss Huntley?
559
00:33:29,608 --> 00:33:31,349
If I had a secret bank account,
560
00:33:31,409 --> 00:33:33,286
don't you think
I'd use the Cayman Islands?
561
00:33:33,345 --> 00:33:35,382
The laws are so much more
favorable there.
562
00:33:35,447 --> 00:33:38,087
Mr. Tappan was required
to relinquish all his accounts
563
00:33:38,150 --> 00:33:41,029
as a result of his plea bargain
five years ago, and he did so.
564
00:33:41,086 --> 00:33:45,000
That's not what Alice Huntley says.
Miss Huntley is a spurned lover.
565
00:33:45,056 --> 00:33:47,502
Mr. Tappan has recently become
engaged to another woman.
566
00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:49,436
He met her in jail?
567
00:33:49,494 --> 00:33:53,306
No, an old family friend
who has always stood by me.
568
00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:55,871
This whole thing
is very confusing, Mr. McCoy.
569
00:33:55,934 --> 00:33:59,143
Don't you have someone else on trial
for the murder of Arthur Kopinsky?
570
00:33:59,204 --> 00:34:01,013
We got a continuance.
571
00:34:02,407 --> 00:34:04,444
Mr. Tappan, would you mind
telling us where you were
572
00:34:04,509 --> 00:34:06,386
the night Mr. Kopinsky
was shot?
573
00:34:06,445 --> 00:34:08,721
Not at all. I have no idea,
574
00:34:09,414 --> 00:34:12,554
but I'm sure the office staff at
the halfway house can tell you.
575
00:34:12,617 --> 00:34:16,895
They're very efficient
at monitoring our movements.
576
00:34:20,625 --> 00:34:24,004
Every time they leave the halfway
house, they bring back a signed slip.
577
00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:28,511
When Kopinsky was shot, Tappan was
at a pre-release Life Skills class.
578
00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:32,378
Learning how to buy a bus
transfer and use a cash machine.
579
00:34:32,437 --> 00:34:33,677
His alibi is solid.
580
00:34:33,738 --> 00:34:36,412
So we've got Tappan with
motive but no opportunity,
581
00:34:36,474 --> 00:34:38,852
and Curren with opportunity
but no motive.
582
00:34:38,910 --> 00:34:40,856
But what if we
put them together?
583
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:45,224
A pay phone outside Curren's office.
6:00 p.m. The day of the murder.
584
00:34:45,283 --> 00:34:47,923
A 12-minute call
to the halfway house.
585
00:34:48,553 --> 00:34:50,032
Good, Claire.
586
00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:54,293
That day would be
in this book here.
587
00:34:56,628 --> 00:35:00,633
This isn't my usual line of work.
I'm a surgeon.
588
00:35:02,634 --> 00:35:06,275
Medicaid fraud.
Well, here it is.
589
00:35:07,539 --> 00:35:11,248
I remember this call.
What did the caller say?
590
00:35:11,309 --> 00:35:14,153
He was carrying on. I would
have prescribed sedation.
591
00:35:14,212 --> 00:35:17,284
Said he was an old friend of Tappan's,
but he wouldn't give his name.
592
00:35:17,349 --> 00:35:19,295
But you put the call through?
Yeah, why not?
593
00:35:19,351 --> 00:35:22,491
Tappan was playing ping-pong.
I gave him the phone.
594
00:35:22,554 --> 00:35:25,660
What did Tappan say to him?
I don't know.
595
00:35:26,725 --> 00:35:28,796
He must have been
standing right here.
596
00:35:28,860 --> 00:35:33,809
First thing I learned in prison, miss.
Don't eavesdrop on the phones.
597
00:35:35,233 --> 00:35:37,110
The timing is perfect.
598
00:35:37,702 --> 00:35:41,149
Curren talks to Tappan. An hour
later he's in Kopinsky's office.
599
00:35:41,206 --> 00:35:43,618
And that includes a half-hour
ride on the subway.
600
00:35:43,675 --> 00:35:47,350
You think that this call was prearranged?
CLAIRE: Not necessarily.
601
00:35:47,412 --> 00:35:50,757
Curren knew where Tappan was.
It was in the papers.
602
00:35:50,815 --> 00:35:53,659
Curren thought Kopinsky
was a fraud.
603
00:35:53,718 --> 00:35:56,494
He'd lost his last hope of getting
his money back from Tappan.
604
00:35:56,554 --> 00:35:59,626
Maybe he just decided
to go straight to the source.
605
00:35:59,691 --> 00:36:04,197
And ask him for a refund?
Or beg him. Or scream at him.
606
00:36:05,197 --> 00:36:09,077
Or lure him out to be killed. Or
maybe just cry into the phone.
607
00:36:09,134 --> 00:36:11,171
But something Tappan said
608
00:36:11,236 --> 00:36:14,046
sent Curren down to
Kopinsky's office with a gun.
609
00:36:15,774 --> 00:36:20,416
What if Tappan told Curren that Kopinsky
wasn't lying about finding Tappan's money?
610
00:36:20,478 --> 00:36:24,483
That he'd actually found it, but
that he was keeping it from Curren?
611
00:36:24,683 --> 00:36:27,289
That would've set him off.
Yeah, sure.
612
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,290
And if that's what happened,
do you think he'd tell you?
613
00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:33,461
He'd be hanging himself.
Tappan knows what he said.
614
00:36:33,525 --> 00:36:37,871
And he can't tell this story without
including the part about his hidden money
615
00:36:37,929 --> 00:36:42,503
which earns him a fresh charge of
fraud and a spanking new jail term.
616
00:36:47,772 --> 00:36:50,776
Take a break, Julio.
All right, Mr. Tappan.
617
00:36:52,444 --> 00:36:55,482
You know, they're talking
about privatizing the park.
618
00:36:55,547 --> 00:36:58,653
A subway token
to enter or $30 a year.
619
00:36:59,417 --> 00:37:03,126
Trump thinks he can run it at a profit.
That's fascinating.
620
00:37:03,588 --> 00:37:07,092
We're here to... You're here
because you have a problem.
621
00:37:07,158 --> 00:37:09,934
I'm talking to you
because I have a problem.
622
00:37:09,995 --> 00:37:12,134
We'll prove you hid
that money, Mr. Tappan.
623
00:37:12,197 --> 00:37:15,269
That'll prolong your study
of institutional dining.
624
00:37:15,333 --> 00:37:17,438
Yes. That's my problem.
625
00:37:17,502 --> 00:37:20,642
Meanwhile, Mr. Curren,
your murderer, will go free.
626
00:37:20,705 --> 00:37:23,743
If you hadn't stolen his money that
murder would never have taken place.
627
00:37:23,808 --> 00:37:24,912
I concede your point.
628
00:37:24,976 --> 00:37:27,388
If things were different,
they wouldn't be the same.
629
00:37:27,445 --> 00:37:29,925
Look, I know
that you've been asking
630
00:37:29,981 --> 00:37:33,394
about a conversation I may
have had with Mr. Curren,
631
00:37:33,451 --> 00:37:37,524
a conversation
I may not be able to recall.
632
00:37:38,290 --> 00:37:40,736
I saw your testimony to the
House Banking Committee.
633
00:37:40,792 --> 00:37:44,171
You couldn't seem to recall the
answers to more than 200 questions.
634
00:37:44,229 --> 00:37:45,731
My memory is dreadful.
635
00:37:45,797 --> 00:37:48,334
Especially when I'm anxious
about the future.
636
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,778
What do you want?
No prosecution on fraud.
637
00:37:50,835 --> 00:37:53,213
We take your money.
You'll take it anyway.
638
00:37:53,271 --> 00:37:55,478
And you would remember what?
639
00:37:55,540 --> 00:38:01,252
It's possible that I spoke with
Mr. Curren, that he was semi-hysterical,
640
00:38:01,312 --> 00:38:06,091
that, to amuse myself, I suggested that
he talk to my attorney, Arthur Kopinsky.
641
00:38:08,286 --> 00:38:10,664
You told him you
were hooked up with Kopinsky?
642
00:38:10,722 --> 00:38:13,328
Kopinsky hadn't exactly
endeared himself to me.
643
00:38:13,391 --> 00:38:15,803
I thought he might enjoy
meeting Mr. Curren.
644
00:38:15,860 --> 00:38:18,773
You hoped Curren would kill
him to end the blackmail.
645
00:38:18,830 --> 00:38:21,674
Heavens to Betsy,
what a dreadful idea.
646
00:38:25,070 --> 00:38:27,209
You think Tappan planned it?
647
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:31,253
Curren was dynamite.
648
00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:35,348
Tappan mailed him to Kopinsky and
hoped somebody would light a match.
649
00:38:35,413 --> 00:38:39,156
And we have to deal with a man like
that to convict a sap like Curren.
650
00:38:39,217 --> 00:38:41,857
Tappan is responsible
for that murder.
651
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,324
Morally, not legally.
We can't arrest him.
652
00:38:46,224 --> 00:38:48,670
I'm a DA.
I can arrest anybody.
653
00:38:50,095 --> 00:38:54,271
Well, Jack, I tell you, I dislike
Willard Tappan as much as you,
654
00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:57,307
but charging him with murder?
655
00:38:57,636 --> 00:39:01,709
Five people committed suicide when
Tappan destroyed their savings.
656
00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:05,953
He's lucky we're only
charging him with one murder.
657
00:39:06,211 --> 00:39:08,350
Well, how do you
propose to do this?
658
00:39:08,413 --> 00:39:10,791
Curren calls Tappan.
He's raging. He's homicidal.
659
00:39:10,849 --> 00:39:13,159
Maybe even says he's got a gun.
660
00:39:13,585 --> 00:39:15,929
He tells Tappan
he was swindled by Kopinsky.
661
00:39:15,987 --> 00:39:19,628
Tappan says, "No, no, no, Mr. Kopinsky
didn't double-cross you."
662
00:39:19,691 --> 00:39:21,796
"He triple-crossed you.
He's got my money."
663
00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:24,841
"Why don't you go see him?
And tell him I said hi."
664
00:39:24,896 --> 00:39:28,207
That's evincing a depraved indifference
to Arthur Kopinsky's life.
665
00:39:28,266 --> 00:39:31,804
And it led to his death. It's statutory.
I understand.
666
00:39:32,470 --> 00:39:34,541
You think you can prove it?
667
00:39:35,707 --> 00:39:37,516
I'd sure like to try.
668
00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:40,450
You want me to testify
about that phone call?
669
00:39:40,512 --> 00:39:42,514
Against Willard Tappan?
670
00:39:42,580 --> 00:39:45,083
We arrested him for the
murder of Arthur Kopinsky.
671
00:39:45,150 --> 00:39:47,687
Excellent. So when does
my client get out of here?
672
00:39:47,752 --> 00:39:51,632
In eight-and-a-third years after he
serves his sentence for manslaughter.
673
00:39:51,689 --> 00:39:53,896
Didn't you just say
that Tappan is your killer?
674
00:39:53,958 --> 00:39:55,665
JACK:
Curren pulled the trigger.
675
00:39:56,428 --> 00:40:00,877
If he doesn't testify against Willard Tappan,
Willard Tappan will testify against him.
676
00:40:00,932 --> 00:40:03,572
That's blackmail.
You would go that low?
677
00:40:03,635 --> 00:40:05,512
Don't you know me by now,
Sally?
678
00:40:08,773 --> 00:40:11,720
I'll do it to get Tappan.
679
00:40:13,378 --> 00:40:17,155
So what was that all about?
What was what all about?
680
00:40:17,215 --> 00:40:21,789
"Don't you know me by now?"
Oh. Sally.
681
00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:25,629
Yes. Sally. Miss Bell,
our opposing counsel?
682
00:40:26,391 --> 00:40:28,234
She was my assistant.
683
00:40:32,297 --> 00:40:35,244
CURREN: I don't even know
why I called him. I just...
684
00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:39,009
I knew where he was, and I
blamed him for everything.
685
00:40:39,070 --> 00:40:42,108
What was Mr. Tappan's
reaction to hearing from you?
686
00:40:42,173 --> 00:40:45,484
He thought it was funny at first.
And then?
687
00:40:45,543 --> 00:40:50,617
Well, I started talking about Kopinsky.
He said that he knew Kopinsky,
688
00:40:50,682 --> 00:40:53,322
that Kopinsky
had found his money,
689
00:40:53,384 --> 00:40:55,386
and now he was planning
to keep it all for himself.
690
00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:58,696
So there'd be nothing left for me.
Nothing left for anybody.
691
00:40:58,756 --> 00:41:01,464
What did you say?
I was stunned.
692
00:41:01,526 --> 00:41:04,769
I had assumed that Kopinsky
was lying about everything.
693
00:41:06,030 --> 00:41:08,169
And what did Mr. Tappan say?
694
00:41:08,766 --> 00:41:12,213
He said he was sorry
for what he'd done to us.
695
00:41:12,837 --> 00:41:17,445
That he now understood how terrible it
was to steal somebody's lifesavings.
696
00:41:18,910 --> 00:41:24,826
And then he said that he'd pay us back,
my mother and me. Every cent, if...
697
00:41:26,751 --> 00:41:28,025
If what?
698
00:41:32,724 --> 00:41:34,670
If I killed Kopinsky.
699
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,764
What did you do?
700
00:41:40,698 --> 00:41:42,006
I did it.
701
00:41:43,801 --> 00:41:46,145
I went downtown and I shot him.
702
00:41:50,441 --> 00:41:51,784
Thank you.
703
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,350
You hate Willard Tappan, don't you?
Yes.
704
00:42:00,551 --> 00:42:02,827
Wouldn't you lie to hurt him?
705
00:42:02,887 --> 00:42:04,764
No.
Oh, really?
706
00:42:05,590 --> 00:42:08,230
You get off easy for a
murder that you committed,
707
00:42:08,293 --> 00:42:11,240
and the man you hate goes to
jail for the rest of his life.
708
00:42:11,296 --> 00:42:13,572
Isn't that perfect?
Perfect?
709
00:42:15,333 --> 00:42:19,145
Perfect would have been
if I'd never heard of him,
710
00:42:19,204 --> 00:42:20,911
because, you see,
then I would be living
711
00:42:20,972 --> 00:42:23,714
in a three-bedroom house
in a nice neighborhood,
712
00:42:23,775 --> 00:42:28,383
and I would be able to watch my children
riding their bicycles in the driveway.
713
00:42:28,446 --> 00:42:30,983
But Mr. Tappan
took all that away from you.
714
00:42:31,049 --> 00:42:34,963
For him I guess it was just another
zero on a list of numbers.
715
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:36,863
For us...
716
00:42:39,023 --> 00:42:40,696
it was everything.
717
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,601
He went on and on. I was a thief.
I was a monster.
718
00:42:46,664 --> 00:42:48,803
I might have been the devil
himself, I'm not sure.
719
00:42:48,866 --> 00:42:51,938
Did you offer to pay John Curren
to murder Arthur Kopinsky?
720
00:42:52,003 --> 00:42:53,607
Absolutely not.
721
00:42:53,671 --> 00:42:57,209
Did you in any way suggest
that he kill Arthur Kopinsky?
722
00:42:57,608 --> 00:42:58,746
No.
723
00:42:58,810 --> 00:43:01,518
He was raving about Kopinsky
before I said a word.
724
00:43:01,579 --> 00:43:03,889
Kopinsky'd just swindled him.
He'd swindled his mother.
725
00:43:03,948 --> 00:43:06,895
He was deranged about it.
726
00:43:06,951 --> 00:43:10,330
Then Mr. Curren is lying about the
content of your conversation?
727
00:43:10,388 --> 00:43:15,201
He blames me for ruining his life because
he lost money in my institution.
728
00:43:15,260 --> 00:43:17,240
What did you say to him?
729
00:43:17,295 --> 00:43:22,301
His family had lost under a million dollars.
I lost over a hundred million.
730
00:43:23,334 --> 00:43:25,211
I told him to grow up.
731
00:43:26,104 --> 00:43:27,481
Thank you.
732
00:43:28,806 --> 00:43:31,685
How many people
have you swindled, Mr. Tappan?
733
00:43:31,743 --> 00:43:32,881
None.
734
00:43:34,178 --> 00:43:37,557
How many people have you
been convicted of swindling?
735
00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:39,493
14,000.
736
00:43:40,051 --> 00:43:43,294
14,000 people you lied to
737
00:43:43,354 --> 00:43:46,028
when they bought bonds in
North River Savings and Loan?
738
00:43:46,090 --> 00:43:47,865
Objection. Argumentative.
739
00:43:47,925 --> 00:43:50,701
Addresses credibility.
Overruled.
740
00:43:50,762 --> 00:43:53,971
Why should anyone believe
anything you tell them now
741
00:43:54,032 --> 00:43:57,036
since you've been convicted
of lying 14,000 times?
742
00:43:57,101 --> 00:43:59,377
I never lied to those people.
743
00:43:59,437 --> 00:44:03,385
Those bondholders were investors.
Investors take risks.
744
00:44:03,941 --> 00:44:07,286
Nobody complained when my
business was making them money.
745
00:44:07,345 --> 00:44:10,224
John Curren
lost his lifesavings.
746
00:44:10,281 --> 00:44:13,819
Because the real estate
market collapsed, Mr. McCoy.
747
00:44:13,885 --> 00:44:16,024
That was beyond my control.
748
00:44:21,926 --> 00:44:23,496
You didn't make this guy blink.
749
00:44:23,561 --> 00:44:25,939
It doesn't matter. Willard
Tappan will be convicted.
750
00:44:25,997 --> 00:44:28,876
Right. After the judge
reminds the jury
751
00:44:28,933 --> 00:44:31,607
that he's not on trial for
anything he did in the past
752
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:34,809
and orders them
to put it out of their mind.
753
00:44:34,872 --> 00:44:37,819
Adam, you haven't been in a
courtroom in a long time.
754
00:44:37,875 --> 00:44:41,413
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
You didn't see their eyes.
755
00:44:41,479 --> 00:44:42,890
When they get into
that jury room,
756
00:44:42,947 --> 00:44:45,860
the only thing they'll
remember is the 14,000 lies.
757
00:44:45,917 --> 00:44:47,453
Right, sure.
758
00:44:51,255 --> 00:44:54,429
JUDGE MOONEY: And this is most important.
The defendant, Willard Tappan,
759
00:44:54,492 --> 00:44:58,998
is on trial here for the murder of
Arthur Kopinsky, and that crime only.
760
00:44:59,063 --> 00:45:00,542
Anything he did in the past,
761
00:45:00,598 --> 00:45:02,271
anything you may have heard
about his past,
762
00:45:02,333 --> 00:45:06,076
any feelings you may have
about his past activities
763
00:45:06,137 --> 00:45:08,174
are absolutely irrelevant.
764
00:45:08,873 --> 00:45:13,549
In making your decision, therefore, you
are instructed to give them no weight.
765
00:45:20,885 --> 00:45:24,230
JUDGE MOONEY: Mr. Foreman, has
the jury reached a verdict?
766
00:45:24,288 --> 00:45:27,735
We have, Your Honor. On the
sole count of the indictment,
767
00:45:27,792 --> 00:45:30,739
murder in the second degree,
how do you find?
768
00:45:31,496 --> 00:45:34,807
We find the defendant,
Willard Tappan, guilty.
769
00:45:35,199 --> 00:45:37,577
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
770
00:45:51,249 --> 00:45:53,160
Did you know we had it?
771
00:45:54,519 --> 00:45:59,730
Well, between Curren and Tappan,
who's a jury gonna believe?
772
00:46:00,324 --> 00:46:02,065
Who do you believe?
773
00:46:03,394 --> 00:46:06,967
Me, too. Curren's story
was awfully convenient.
774
00:46:07,031 --> 00:46:10,774
But under our original theory
Tappan is still guilty of murder.
775
00:46:10,835 --> 00:46:12,906
He manipulated Curren.
776
00:46:12,970 --> 00:46:15,450
Jack, we made it sound
like he hired Curren.
777
00:46:15,506 --> 00:46:19,386
If you didn't believe that but let
it go on to strengthen our case...
778
00:46:19,444 --> 00:46:22,653
Heavens to Betsy, Claire.
What a dreadful idea.
779
00:46:22,703 --> 00:46:27,253
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