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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.

- Hey, you killed it
tonight, girl.

Get home safe.
- Yeah, you too.

See you tomorrow.
- Yeah.

- All right, that's it for me.

Hey.
- Hi!

Cameron!

- Thanks for coming
to the game!

Bye! Take care!

Hey!

- Shooter!
- What?

Shooter!

* *

- 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?

* *

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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?

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.

* *

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.

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!

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.

* *

- 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.

- 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.

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.

* *

- 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.

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.

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?

- 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.

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.

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.

* *

- 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.

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?

- 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?

* *

- 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!

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