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- In the criminal justice system,

the people are represented

by two separate, yet equally important groups:

the police, who investigate crime,

and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

- Cameron, you're having a hell of a rookie season--

number one draft pick, second only to Caitlin Clark

in scoring, and after the big win tonight,

made New York first in the division.

How do you feel?

- I'm just so grateful to be here.

Shout out to my teammates for always having my back.

I--I couldn't think of a better organization

to be a part of.

- Cameron! - Cameron!

- Right here.

Any comment on the scuffle between you and Nia Moore?

- I don't waste my time thinking about her.

My focus is on winning a championship.

- It seems like you two really don't like each other.

- I have no comment on that.

- Anyone have any questions about the game?

- Here, here.

When Moore threatened to, and I quote, "end you"--

- As I said, I have no comment. - We're done here.

Thank you.

[reporters shouting]

- Hey, you killed it tonight, girl.

Get home safe. - Yeah, you too.

See you tomorrow. - Yeah.

- All right, that's it for me.

[laughs]

Hey. - Hi!

- Oh!

- Oh! - Cameron!

- Thanks for coming to the game!

Bye! Take care!

Hey! [laughs]

[gunshot]

- Shooter! - What?

- Shooter! [screaming]

[tense music]

* *

- A single gunshot wound to the chest.

- The killer used a 9 millimeter.

- Jesus.

I mean, there must have been a ton of witnesses down here.

- Dozens.

Problem is everyone thought it was a mass shooter.

People started running and ducking.

- But only one victim, right?

- Yep, just her.

- And the witnesses couldn't give you anything?

- Just that the shooter was hooded up and wore a mask.

- Good thing there's no shortage of cameras in here.

- Cameron Adler.

It's a hell of a player, man.

I mean, a real generational talent.

- I didn't peg you as a WNBA fan.

- Oh, my daughter's a huge fan of hers.

I mean, like, loves her.

We watch all the games together.

And the only time she's not glued to her phone

is when Adler is on the court.

Speaking of which, did we get her wallet and phone?

- Yep. They were in her purse.

- She had a hell of a game tonight.

Hit the winning shot.

- At least she went out on top, huh?

[dramatic music]

* *

- So, uh, this is what we've got so far.

The shooter enters from the East Hall.

- Do the cameras track his movements after that?

- Yeah, he, uh, went through a maintenance hallway here.

And then through the laundry room.

And then out an employee entrance.

So whoever this was, he knew exactly what he was doing.

- Did the cameras pick him up outside the stadium?

- No, negative--but my team did find a matching hoodie

that was trampled on just outside that entrance.

- So he ditched the hoodie, and he disappeared into the crowd?

- Yeah. Yeah. - Smart.

- And that hoodie, it was worn by, like,

half the people in attendance tonight.

- Has anyone threatened Adler? - No. No, no, no.

We keep a list of known and potential threats

to our players and coaches,

and none of them tried to enter the arena tonight.

- And you're sure about that? - Yeah, yeah.

Look, we use facial recognition software.

This thing is state of the art.

So it scans every single face

and processes the biometric data

and matches that against our list.

So even if you're wearing a disguise or something,

it'll know it's you.

- So you have the biometric data of everyone

who entered the stadium tonight?

- Yeah, at the moment.

But the system does purge any non-pertinent information

after 24 hours. - All right, well,

let's make sure that doesn't happen tonight.

Recovered hoodie went to the crime lab,

but they haven't been able to pull any DNA off of it.

- What I don't understand is how somebody

could get a gun through all those metal detectors

and bag checks.

- Well, according to the security guy,

flu has been going around, so they were short-handed.

But even so, with all the checkpoints,

it would be pretty difficult for your average fan

to get access to the players' tunnel.

- So that narrows it down.

Our killer's most likely an employee

or someone with a VIP pass?

- Or a player.

Adler got into an altercation with Nia Moore,

her rival on the opposing team last night.

- Yeah, I saw that.

I mean, that kind of thing happens all the time.

Players get emotional.

- Yeah, but this one owns a gun.

Three months ago, Moore bought and registered

a 9 millimeter SIG Sauer.

- I bought it for protection.

The league's got a lot more fans these days,

but that also means a lot more creeps.

But I've never fired it, and I would never kill Cam.

We were friends.

- We all saw the fight the two of you got in

during the game last night.

- It wasn't that big a deal. - No?

You've been talking trash about her for a while, right?

Saying that she was a joke,

that you were gonna kick her ass.

- Come on, man. It was just talk.

- Look, I get it.

I mean, the league was built on the backs

of talented Black women like yourself.

And then these white girls come along, right?

Cameron Adler, Caitlin Clark, and they're instant superstars.

Everybody's saying they put the league on the map.

- And they're getting all the endorsements and sponsorships.

Yeah, it's messed up.

- You've gotta admit there's something special

about her game, though, right?

- Yeah, she's white.

But I hear you. Cam could play.

I had a lot of respect for her.

- Really?

Just didn't look that way.

- Come on.

It was a big game.

We're both really competitive, and we got into it.

But that was it.

We even talked after the game for a bit--cleared the air.

- Yeah, so she was good with that elbow

you threw at her face?

- I wouldn't say she was good with it,

but she joked that it was good for the game,

that it would get us lots of media coverage.

- Well, all the same,

where were you last night at 11:45 p.m.?

- On the team bus back to the hotel.

I left right after the game.

The driver and the other girls can back me up.

- Would you be willing to turn your gun into us--

let us test it?

- All right. Just one last thing then.

Do you know anyone who would wanna hurt Cameron?

- I know she got into a huge fight yesterday

with her girlfriend, Rachelle.

- Thank you very much.

- I can't believe she's gone.

- Listen, we heard you guys got into a fight yesterday.

- Yeah, but, um, it was nothing like--

oh, God, you don't think I would actually hurt Cam?

- What was the fight about?

- The last few weeks, she's been playing up

this rivalry with Nia Moore.

- Yeah, I noticed that.

- I mean, I knew what she was trying to do,

but I didn't like it.

- How come?

- The public has an inherent bias--

white hero, Black villain.

Playing into that narrative only stokes the flames.

It reinforces the racism.

- So you two got into it over that?

- I mean, I wanted her to send a different message,

to let the people know how supportive and inclusive

the league is, that it's a safe space for all women,

regardless of race or sexuality.

But I would never, ever hurt Cam.

- Still, I've gotta ask you.

Where were you last night at 11:45 p.m.?

- At work.

I'm an associate at a law firm at Skadden.

Late nights are part of the deal.

- Can anyone confirm that?

- Two other associates were there too.

I mean, you could ask them.

- Okay. We will.

Thank you.

- Adler's parents just landed from Texas.

- Brady's gonna meet them.

- I remember when we moved her into this place.

She was just starting her career, her life.

The whole world was ahead of her.

- I'm very sorry for your loss.

Can I ask, when was the last time

you spoke to your daughter?

- Day before yesterday.

We were very close.

Even though her life had become so full and busy,

she never went more than a few days without checking in.

- And do you have any idea why someone might wanna hurt her?

Or was she having problems with anybody?

- No.

From what I could tell, everyone loved her.

- Wait. Greg.

[suspenseful music]

- Who's Greg?

- Greg Dawson, Cameron's ex.

He was the last guy she dated before--

- Before she started dating Rachelle.

- And how did that breakup go?

- Not well. [phone buzzes]

- Yeah, but Greg still lives back in Fort Worth.

He's a sports reporter at our local TV station--

- Yes, but he's here to cover the game.

- He was at the arena?

- Cam told me he texted her he was coming--

wanted to see her.

She said he sounded like he still wasn't over the breakup.

- Okay.

Thank you. I'll check it out.

- Greg Dawson?

NYPD, I'm Detective Riley.

I need to ask you some questions.

- About what? - About Cameron Adler.

- I have nothing to say about her.

- Well, I know that you were supposed

to meet up with her yesterday, and she blew you off, right?

- Whatever. It was no big deal.

- No big deal. Really?

I saw the texts you sent her, man.

You were pretty pissed off.

I mean, there were some slurs in there I didn't think

people even used anymore.

Whoa, whoa. What's your hurry? - I have a flight to catch.

- Yeah, that's not gonna happen, Greg.

- You don't understand. - How about this?

How about we take a ride downtown

and you can explain it to me there?

Let's go.

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- I had nothing to do with Cameron getting shot.

- We know you were at the Garden last night.

Your press pass gives you easy access to the players' tunnel.

We've read your texts.

And we know that you were very angry.

- Sending texts isn't illegal.

- In some jurisdictions, these could be hate crimes.

- I'm not proud of that.

But I was frustrated.

Cam and I dated all through college.

Then she just breaks up with me out of the blue.

And ever since she went public with her new relationship,

it's been a nightmare.

People saying I turned her gay--

that kind of thing.

The online trolling is--

it's been rough.

- So you're very angry?

- Yeah.

Bad enough Cam was with a woman,

but that she was also...

- What? That she was also Black?

- I'm not saying I care about that kind of thing,

but where I come from, a lot of people do.

You know, all I wanted was some clarity.

I wanted Cam to tell me if I had done anything--

- Made her gay.

- I just wanted to understand what happened.

I wanted her to look me in the face,

but she blew me off. - And that was the last straw?

So after the game, you headed down into the tunnel and--

- No, I confronted her at her place before the game,

but I didn't get the chance. - Why not?

- Just as I got there, she was coming out

of the apartment building with some dude.

It looked like they were in the middle of a fight.

They got in a car. They drove off.

But I wasn't about to get into it at the arena.

I don't let my personal life affect my work.

And I certainly would never kill anyone.

- Where were you when she was shot?

- I was at the hotel bar--

getting drunk.

[door clicks shut]

- Hey. Dawson's alibi checks out.

Bartender said he was there and very drunk.

- What about the man he claims

to have seen Adler arguing with that afternoon?

- We pulled security footage from the lobby

of Adler's building, and we found this.

- Dude seems to be pretty pissed at her.

- Do we know who he is?

- We ran facial rec, but no hits.

* *

- Well, that doesn't look like a cab, so...

look into Adler's Uber and Lyft accounts.

If you can track down where they went,

maybe we can figure out who our mystery man is.

- According to her Uber account,

this is where they got dropped off.

- What was she doing out here?

- I don't know, man. A drug deal?

- [chuckles]

All right, you go this way, I'll go that way?

- Yeah. - All right.

* *

- Yo, Jalen.

HS, the same symbol that was on the back of her phone too.

* *

- [whistles]

That's a lot of marijuana. - Jesus, I was right.

- Can I help you? - Yeah.

You know this man?

- That's Bruce.

Yo, Bruce!

- Thank you.

- NYPD.

- This is all legal and above board, gentlemen.

We've got a license.

- Yeah, we're not here about that.

- We have some questions about Cameron Adler.

- Oh.

[sighs]

I still can't wrap my head around what happened.

I just--

- What was your relationship to Ms. Adler?

- I'm her business manager.

This is her company.

- What's a top tier athlete like Cameron Adler doing

starting a weed business?

- Smart celebrities know the real money

isn't in endorsements.

It's in starting businesses.

- Sure, but pot?

Seems a little off brand for Cameron.

- Not really, not these days.

She tore her ACL in college,

started experimenting with cannabis.

It helped with the pain, the recovery.

Now that it's legal in New York

and the leagues are lifting their bans,

she saw an opportunity.

Please.

- So things are good between you two?

- Yeah, they were great.

Why?

- It didn't look so great to me.

- We were arguing about the business.

- You're gonna have to give me a little more than that.

- She wanted to target athletes for pain management,

but I wanted to go bigger.

With her appeal, especially with white women,

we could make weed the next pinot grigio.

- Were you at the game two nights ago?

- Yes. I left right after.

I was already on a train back to Connecticut

when Cam was shot.

- All right, we'll check that out.

- Cam was one of my closest friends,

and my ticket to getting rich.

This pot company alone would have made us a fortune.

The last thing in the world I'd wanna do is kill her.

But I know someone who did.

- So apparently, Adler started Highest Score--

that's the name of her company--

with this guy, Darius Cain, who was her physical therapist

in college after she tore her ACL.

- He's the one that got her started on weed for the pain.

- Nice of her to take him along.

- Yeah, but he also added a lot of value.

He's the one who actually secured the business license

for the marijuana.

- The city actually only gave out a limited number,

and they prioritize people who have been unfairly punished

for weed offenses in the past.

- Like, as reparations? - It's a start.

- It sounds like the beginning of

a wonderful social experiment.

What went wrong?

- His offenses weren't just for weed.

He actually was convicted of aggravated assault

and attempted murder.

- And that did not jive with Cameron's girl-next-door image,

so she bought him out against his will last week.

- Potentially cutting him out of millions of dollars.

We know where this guy is?

- We got an address from his PO.

- Track him down.

- I've gotta be honest.

I really hope this is not our guy.

- What are you talking about?

- Ah, Black felon kills America's white sweetheart?

Not exactly what my people need right now, or ever.

- I get that.

Speak of the devil.

- Darius Cain!

[tense music]

NYPD! Stop!

Cut through! - Got it!

* *

- NYPD!

Do not move!

Do not move! You hear me?

Do not move! Turn around.

Hands behind your back.

Get up against the rail.

You see that?

He had a gun-- threw it in the water.

Darius Cain, you're under arrest.

* *

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- The harbor unit says the water is too cold

for the scuba team to do a proper sweep.

It might be days before they can get in there.

- You sure you saw Cain throw a gun in there?

- Positive.

We called his name. He ran.

He tossed it before we could get to him.

- And you saw a 9 millimeter?

- I think so. - What about you?

- I definitely saw him throw something,

but Vince was ahead of me. He had a better line of sight.

Why? What's Cain saying? - Nothing.

He lawyered up in, like, 10 seconds.

So without the murder weapon,

we don't have enough to charge him.

Why don't you guys get a search warrant,

go over, talk to security at the Garden,

and see if his face got scanned that night.

- Done.

- In the charge of murder in the second degree,

how does the defendant plead?

- Not guilty, Your Honor.

- I'll hear the State on bail.

- Your Honor, the defendant shot and killed Cameron Adler,

a beloved basketball player and pillar of the community,

point blank in the chest as retribution

for being pushed out of one of Ms. Adler's business ventures.

In addition to motive, facial recognition

puts the defendant at the crime scene

and a search of his home turned up a pair of jeans

with the victim's blood on them.

And when detectives tried to question him,

he fled and tossed a gun--

believed to be the murder weapon--

into the East River.

Your Honor, given the severity of the charge

and the defendant's criminal history, we ask for remand.

- Of course the prosecution would bring up

my client's criminal history.

That, along with the color of his skin,

is the only reason he stands here before you today.

Darius Cain had nothing to do with Cameron Adler's murder.

He's merely the victim of a racially biased system,

a series of unlucky, coincidental events,

and an overzealous DA's office

looking to give the public a scapegoat.

- Make the ask, Mr. Lowell.

- Well, given that the People's case

is ludicrously circumstantial,

the just thing would be to dismiss the charge entirely.

Barring that, we ask for a reasonable bail.

- Request denied.

The defendant is hereby remanded.

Next case. [gavel bangs]

- Well, the defense is, obviously,

aiming to make this about race.

- Or hoping to distract the jury from the fact

that we have means, motive, and opportunity.

- Were police ever able to recover the murder weapon?

- Negative.

Divers were eventually able to search the area

where Cain tossed the gun in the water,

but, unfortunately, it was over 48 hours later,

and they came up empty.

- But Detective Riley can testify to seeing him

throw it in the water.

- But we can't prove the gun Cain threw was the one

used to kill Cameron Adler. - Correct.

But we still have a strong case with a strong motive--

Adler pushed Cain out of their new business venture

and he shot her to get revenge.

- Okay.

Just do your best to make the case

with the evidence, not race.

- Well, Cameron knew he'd been in prison before,

but she was the kind of person who always

believed the best in people.

But I'm more pragmatic.

And it was my job to look out for her best interests,

which is why I made sure there was a provision

in the contract that gave her the right to buy him out.

- And did she exercise that right?

- Yes, after I learned about Mr. Cain's past

and that it wasn't just minor drug charges

he'd been in trouble for.

- And you shared this with Ms. Adler?

- She finally listened to reason,

agreed that he wasn't someone she should be associating with,

authorized me to pay him the $200,000 he was owed,

and sever the relationship.

- And how did the defendant take the news?

- Well, he was furious.

He flew into a rage in my office.

He threw a vase at me.

I--I had to get security to escort him out.

- When was this?

- About a week before Cam was killed.

- Thank you. No further questions.

- Mr. Theobald, after this scene my client

threw in your office, did you notice anything missing?

- As a matter of fact, yes--

an external hard drive that had been sitting on my desk.

I guess he's a murderer and a thief.

- You never approved of Ms. Adler

going into business with my client, did you?

- I had reservations about his criminal past.

And as it turns out, they were well-founded.

- Yeah, you made up your mind about Darius

before you even met him, correct?

- I just told Cam the truth.

- Are you aware that both his aggravated assault

and attempted murder charges occurred in prison

after he was unfairly incarcerated

for possession of marijuana?

- No, but I don't see what that has to do with anything.

- Surviving in prison requires a certain level of brutality.

He was literally fighting for his life.

- Objection, relevance.

- I'm getting there, Your Honor.

- Overruled. But get there--fast.

- You were the one who originally

pointed the police in my client's direction, aren't you?

- Yes.

- And they came to you because you were a suspect.

Because you and Cameron Adler were seen arguing

on the day she was killed.

- Yes. But I explained what happened.

It was much ado about nothing.

- But that's not true.

- Excuse me?

- It was actually about something.

Something serious.

Cameron had spoken with Darius

and learned about the circumstances

surrounding his prior convictions,

and how you intentionally mischaracterized them to her.

She was incensed and was going to fire you.

That's what you are arguing about the day she was murdered.

- That's a lie! He's just making stuff up.

- Objection.

This entire line of questioning lacks foundation.

- I'm merely asking the witness a question.

He can answer yes or no.

- Overruled.

- Darius Cain had no motive to kill Cameron Adler.

[tense music]

But you did, didn't you?

- That's absurd.

And besides, I was nowhere near the Garden when Cam was shot.

- Of course not.

Because rich, white guys like you in your expensive suits--

you get someone else to do the dirty work for you.

- Objection. - Sustained.

- Nothing further for this witness.

* *

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- Nolan!

I hear the defense lawyer put on quite a show.

- Sure did.

But it was just that, a show.

He had nothing to back up his outlandish claims.

There's no evidence indicating that Cameron Adler

planned to fire her business manager,

or that she wanted to stay in business with the defendant.

- Doesn't mean they haven't created reasonable doubt.

- No, no. We're okay.

The business manager has a rock solid alibi,

and there's no proof whatsoever that he hired some--

what, some hit man?

It's absurd. And the jury will see that.

- I hope so.

Cameron Adler was beloved in this city.

Her fans will wanna see that justice is served.

- And it will be. Trust me!

- I do.

- So the system scans the face of everyone

that enters the arena.

And then we enter those scans into a database of persons

of interest that we have.

It's basically the same way that your phone

knows it's you when you use face ID to unlock it.

So we're able to scan the photo of any potential suspects

and enter it in the system,

and use the AI software to determine if their face

was scanned that night.

- Did you run a photo of Darius Cain?

- We did. It was a match.

- But the defendant claims that he never set foot

in the building that night.

- No, he was there. He's lying.

Our system is 98.6% accurate in its results.

- No further questions.

- Mr. Hennessy, are you aware of the numerous studies

on facial recognition technology

and its inherent racial bias?

- I am not.

- Harvard University, the University of Texas,

the American Civil Liberties Union,

"Scientific American,"

even the federal government of the United States--

may I, Your Honor--

all commissioned studies that came to

the same disturbing conclusion--

that facial rec technology routinely

fails to properly identify people of color.

- As far as I can tell, none of these studies

were done on this specific program we use.

And it looks like the latest study was done in 2021.

Our system is state of the art.

It's brand new.

- Yeah, but the problem these studies identify

are still present.

The programmers who create the AI utilized by these programs

are largely white and unwittingly

impart their own inherent biases into the code.

- We've been using this software for over a year,

and I have never once seen it misidentify a person.

- But you don't have any actual video footage

of my client at Madison Square Garden that night.

- That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

- Even though you and the NYPD haven't been able to find it.

- Yes, that's true.

- So the fact is you don't have one single frame

that we can all look at with our own eyes and say,

"There he is. There's Darius Cain,"

which means all we really have

is the assurance of a racially biased algorithm

tasked with assessing its own accuracy.

[tense music]

Nothing further for this witness.

- You may call your next witness, Mr. Price.

- As soon as we identified ourselves as police,

he ran toward the water.

We pursued.

And just before we got to him, he reached into his backpack

and tossed what appeared to be a firearm into the river.

- Could you see what kind of gun it was?

- Hard to be 100% sure, but it looked to me like a Glock,

maybe a SIG Sauer.

Whatever it was,

it looked like it was a 9 millimeter,

which is the same caliber as the murder weapon.

- After this, did you execute a search of the defendant's home?

- We did.

We found a pair of jeans similar to the one the killer

was wearing in the security cam footage

with a few drops of blood on them.

- And was that blood tested?

- It was.

The crime lab confirmed that it was,

in fact, Cameron Adler's blood.

- Thank you. Nothing further.

- Detective, there's no way for you to know

when that blood got on my client's jeans, is there?

- No.

- And when it comes to you seeing him toss the gun,

a man in your line of work knows full well

just how unreliable eyewitness testimony can be.

- It was broad daylight, and I was 20 feet away from the man.

- Oh, even in situations seemingly as clear as that,

people often misremember or get the facts about

what they saw wrong, don't they?

- Sure, but I'm not your typical eyewitness.

I have extensive training in observing

and identifying threats, particularly firearms.

- Let's talk about threats.

In the course of your investigation,

did you look into the dozens of people who made online threats

towards Cameron Adler because of her interracial relationship?

- We did. - Mm.

And it wasn't just racists, but homophobes,

fans of rival basketball teams,

gamblers on the wrong side of a sports bet.

A lot of people had publicly

threatened violence against her.

- We did our due diligence, and we determined that

none of them were credible suspects.

- Oh, and you also decided that Bruce Theobald

wasn't a credible suspect, even though,

as we've established, Ms. Adler was planning on firing him.

- Well, you claim that.

I don't know that we established it.

Our investigation was thorough.

And we didn't discover anything that would implicate

Mr. Theobald in the murder.

- Now, according to your own report,

412 arena employees were scheduled to work that night,

but security footage showed that 415 people

entered through the employee entrance.

But you were never able to determine

the identity of those three additional persons.

- That's correct. - One last question, Detective.

My client knew where Cameron Adler lived,

where she worked out, where her office was.

So why would he choose

to shoot her in the tunnel of Madison Square Garden?

[tense music]

- You'd have to ask him.

- The point, Detective, is that he didn't shoot Cameron Adler.

- Objection. - Sustained.

- Nothing further.

- The prosecution rests, Your Honor.

- Mr. Lowell?

- The defense calls Darius Cain.

* *

- When the city announced the reparations program

for marijuana licenses, I was so excited.

But I knew somebody with my record

wouldn't be able to raise enough capital

to actually launch a company.

And then along came Cameron.

- Can you explain her role in launching Highest Score?

- The city can give out licenses, sure,

but there ain't no bank handing out a loan to somebody like me.

But, Cam, she had my back--

wanted to go into business with me.

- How did Cameron's blood get on your jeans?

- Honestly, I don't know.

I've tried to figure it out, but I--I just don't know.

- So did the two of you spend a lot of time together?

- Yeah.

I was her physical therapist, too,

so we were together all the time.

She must have gotten cut at some point or something.

I don't know.

- Darius, did you run from detectives

when they tried to question you?

- Yeah, I did.

I was scared.

- If you had nothing to do with Cameron's murder,

what did you have to be scared of?

- When Bruce Theobald and I were talking about the buyout,

I saw a hard drive on his desk,

and I thought that it might have documents on there

that could prove that Highest Score was my idea.

- So you took it?

- Yeah. I'm not proud of it.

But this business means everything to me.

So I threw the vase against the wall to create a distraction,

and I snatched it.

- So you thought that was what the police

were coming to talk to you about?

- Yeah. I assumed Bruce reported me.

So that's what I threw into the water.

The hard drive. Not a gun.

* *

- What's wrong?

- I think he's telling the truth.

.

- [sighs] Cain is telling the truth.

Uh, at least about not throwing the gun in the river.

- Why would you say that?

- I was there--I saw him toss something metal

into the river, but it didn't have a barrel,

it didn't have a trigger.

It was flat, it was small, it was rectangular--

like an external hard drive.

- Man, I don't understand.

You said before that you didn't know what you saw.

- Because I didn't know what I saw

until I heard Cain explain about the hard drive.

And--and you were positive that you saw a gun that day.

- I'm still positive.

- Okay, well, why would Cain wait until now to reveal that?

- Exactly-- he's obviously lying.

- It's possible his lawyer told him not to say anything.

Mentioning the hard drive would be admitting to a crime,

and divers never did find a gun.

- Never found a hard drive, either.

- Okay, but what are the chances

that he comes up with a lie

that perfectly matches with what I saw?

- What about what I saw, man?

You think I'm lying? - Of course not.

I'm saying that maybe...

you saw what you subconsciously thought

you were supposed to see.

- So I was hallucinating?

- No.

We knew certain things about Cain

when we approached him.

And maybe some of those things

might've caused your brain to jump to certain conclusions.

- Okay.

Like what?

- Like his animosity towards Adler,

his, uh, his criminal record.

- The fact that he was a Black man.

- I mean, yeah.

Don't take that personal. Come on.

I'm not saying that you're a racist, obviously.

- Uh-huh. - What I'm saying

is that everybody has inherent biases.

It would be impossible not to.

- Okay, okay, um,

is there any way that what you saw was not a gun?

- No, I am positive that I saw a gun.

I had a clear line of sight.

- And I'm positive I did not see one.

- Okay.

We need to notify the defense.

- This doesn't have to be a thing, man.

- Agreed.

- We'll both just do what we have to do

and tell the truth as we know it.

- They're both excellent detectives.

There's no way to know which one's account is correct.

- So what does this do to our case?

- It doesn't help it. That's for sure.

The defense is gonna call Shaw

to rebut Riley's testimony, to say the defendant

threw a hard drive in the water, not a gun.

- Which means you're gonna have to cross-examine Shaw.

- Yeah. It is what it is.

- Isn't there a bigger question here?

I mean, what if Shaw is right?

And if he is, that means there's a chance

we have the wrong guy.

- Uh, I'm not so sure that's true, Sam.

The evidence is pretty substantial.

- But it's all circumstantial.

And the defense has done a good job

of undermining each piece of it.

And if Cain wasn't actually disposing

of the murder weapon--

- Are you suggesting we plead him out to a lesser charge?

- Or drop the charges. - Look.

I agree the evidence is circumstantial,

but there's a lot of it.

The number of coincidences that would have to have occurred

here for him to be innocent--

- It doesn't mean it's not possible.

- It's obvious he's lying.

- Well, it's obvious to you, maybe.

[tense music]

* *

- If Cain didn't kill Adler, then who did?

Because the alternative suspects

the defense has offered up aren't remotely credible.

- It doesn't matter. The burden's on us, not them.

- Yeah, and we put on a good case.

If we knew Shaw disagreed about Cain throwing a gun,

maybe we would have waited for more evidence

before charging him, but that ship has sailed.

Jeopardy has attached.

We drop the charges now, he gets away with murder.

- If you believe in the case and the evidence, move forward.

At the end of the day, it's up to the jury.

* *

- Detective Shaw, were you with Detective Riley

when you saw my client throw something into the river?

- Yes, sir, I was.

- And did you see him throw a gun?

- I don't believe so, no.

- Could it have been an external hard drive,

as Mr. Cain has asserted?

- It's possible, yes.

- How do you account for the disparity

between what you saw and what your partner saw?

- I'm not sure.

It all happened very quickly,

and in charged situations like this,

it's not uncommon for eyewitnesses,

including police officers,

who only see bits and pieces of something,

to unconsciously fill in the gaps

and see what makes sense to them.

- In other words, you believe that Detective Riley

saw a gun because that's what he expected to see,

and not because it was what Darius Cain

actually had in his hand?

- That's correct. That's what I believe.

- Thank you.

No further questions.

- Detective.

If it's not uncommon for witnesses

to misidentify things in these types of scenarios,

isn't it just as possible that

you're the one who has it wrong here, not Detective Riley?

- It's possible, but I think the difference is that

you can't argue that my brain was filling in gaps.

What I saw didn't even make sense to me at the time.

- Not just at the time-- for quite a while.

In fact, you made no mention of any of this

in your incident report, and you only brought it up

midway through this trial.

- Right, but I made it very clear in my report

that Detective Riley was the one who saw a gun.

- But you didn't refute his account.

- I wasn't confident at the time

that I understood exactly what I had seen.

- But you understand now?

- I wouldn't be up here otherwise.

- [sighs]

Detective Shaw, isn't it true that you told your partner

you didn't want Darius Cain to be guilty of this murder...

because it would be bad for the Black community?

- [sighs]

[tense music]

- Answer the question, Detective.

- Yes. Yes, I said that.

But that was prior to any of this happening,

and that was just me making a personal observation.

And in no way did that sentiment

affect my objectivity as we investigated him as a suspect.

- Until right now, when you suddenly

remembered what you saw.

- Again, it's not that I remembered.

It's what I finally understood.

- Right.

No further questions.

* *

- Hey. How'd it go?

- "How'd it go?"

That's the question you wanna ask me right now?

- What? What's up?

- What's up is you felt the need to tell Price

that I didn't want Cain to be guilty?

- Yeah.

Look, I wanted to give you a heads up about that, man,

but you're a defense witness.

You know I can't talk to you about that stuff.

- I--I don't need a warning, okay?

I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about the fact that you felt the need

to bring it up at all.

- Price wanted to know what happened that day.

He asked a lot of questions, and I told the truth.

- And you thought it was important to tell him

an offhanded comment that I made to you,

my partner, my friend. - Whoa, whoa.

Look, slow down, man, okay?

I was doing my job.

Price wanted to know what kind of mood

you were in that day, whether you were tired or not,

whether you'd been out drinking the night before.

- You just don't get it, huh? - Get what?

That I told the truth?

I mean, you did say that

you didn't want the guy to be guilty.

- I did. I said that.

But that doesn't change what I saw and what I didn't see.

And what I didn't see was a gun.

- Exactly.

Look, inherent bias works both ways, man.

I see what I see. You see what you see.

And like it or not, the jury does have a right to know

what was on your mind that day.

- Okay.

- Look, I was doing my job, man.

And I am sure that I saw a gun.

- And I'm sure I didn't.

- Then it's up to the jury to decide.

- And see, that right there, that's the problem.

- How is that the problem?

- That jury is gonna take one look at me

and one look at you,

and who do you think they're gonna side with?

* *

- [sighs]

[engine turns over]

- Mr. Foreperson, has the jury reached a verdict?

- We have, Your Honor.

In the charge of murder in the second degree,

we find the defendant, Darius Cain, guilty.

- What?

* *

No. This--this can't be happening!

You've made a mistake.

No. Wait a minute.

No! I'm innocent!

I'm innocent! Please!

No, you can't do this!

You can't do this! No!

I'm innocent! Please!

Please! No!

Please!

No! [doors slam]

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[dramatic music]

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[wolf howls]