All language subtitles for Law.and.Order.S03E05.Wedded.Bliss.1992.DVDRip.x264-TVV_track3_[eng]-en

(narrator)
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.

[sea gulls crying]

Hey, you're scaring
my dinner away!

Go play somewhere else!

[ship horn blowing]

[police radio chattering]

(Logan)
What do you think
he was fishing for?

(Steinmetz)
In the Hudson?

I don't want
to breathe near it,
let alone eat from it.

Well,
what have we got?

A floater. Female.

Weighted with
concrete blocks.

Must have been more,
they fell off.

Handcuffed behind her back.

[policemen chattering]

You thinkin' a cop?
Forget it.

Cuffs are Grenadiers,
not our brand.

Been in the water
maybe eight weeks.

Hispanic, Italian.

Lamp cord
around her neck.

Probably strangled,
then dumped.

Steinmetz, you've seen
your share of floaters.

How old do you think
she is?

Post-mortem decomposition,
tough call.

My guess?
She never saw sweet 16.

I don't need this.

That kid's the same age
as Linda.

You know Lopez
in the one-nine?

No.

He's a good cop.

He had a case.

Male Hispanic teenager.
Floater, East River.

StrangIed, electric cord,
handcuffed.

He said
all he could think about

was the kid was so small

he didn't fiII
haIfthe body bag.

Concrete blocks?

Fire bricks.

They never got an ID.

This ain't a pro.

Our friends in silk suits
weight them
so they never come up.

Which leads us where?

Oh, boy! Oh, boy!

A kid that age,
doesn't she have parents?

Cousins? I mean,
somebody who's gonna
notice that she's missing?

The ME says
she's probably Hispanic.

Eleven girls
were reported missing.

Seven have
already turned up.

The other four don't match
in terms of hair
or color of eyes.

So, what do you think?

I mean, I know what we do
with our handcuffs,

but obviously,
some people have other uses.

Well, it's hard to tell
if she was raped.
I talked to Sex Crimes.

They have ropes,
dog leashes,

but no homicides
with handcuffs.

Yeah, I appreciate that.
I'll call if we need more.
Thank you.

Grenadier ships
40,000 cuffs a year.

Big market
with the fringe crowd.

Survival catalogues,
adventure stores,

you know,
Ollie North country.

Direct sales to cops
in California, Montana,
and Missouri.

Why don't I think
this was a cop from Missoula?

Wouldn't find him
if it was.

The lot number
on the ones we got,
9,000 pair.

We got a serial perv.
And from what the FBI says,

they don't leave breadcrumbs.

Forensics.

Uh, they got a,
you know, uh...

She studies bodies
and faces.

An anthropologist.

So?

So wouldn't it be nice
to have an ID on the girl?

Last month, they identified
a body from a picture.

Matched up a face
and a skull.

What if they reverse that?

Start with the skull
and work out. Make us a face.

Oh, Ithink
I saw that movie.

Well, see it again.

The march of technology,
Phil. Sometimes it works.

And the boy
from the other case,
where's he buried?

(Logan)
Potter's field.

(Cragen)
Get an order,
have him exhumed.

Maybe we can get
a face on him, too.

(Cerreta)
Is it possible?

Who said the accidents
ofthe possible

were the future
ofthe probable?
Was it Einstein?

I don't think
we're the ones to ask.

This is the boy
you had exhumed.

I took all the aspects
ofthe facial structure.

Based on my measurements,

my sketch artist
has worked up a face.

Now I'm refining it.

[beeping]

How close is that going to be
to what he looked like?

You'll know
when somebody identifies him.

I'm working on the girl.

[phone ringing]

Dr. Sacks.

It's for you.
Missing Persons.

You asked for
floaters 14 to 17, strangled.

Don't tell me
you found another one.

Almost.

Male, 49, Caucasian,
found belly down

in the Hudson
offthe Spuyten Duyvil.

Uh, strangled
with his own necktie.

Ira Bender.
Missing six weeks,

inspector for the
Apparel Industry Task Force.

Investigated sweatshops.

He surfaced last month.

We get water.
We get strangled.

But not often,
and never together.

Who's the lead detective?

Markson, two-seven.

Yeah, I called.
He's expecting you.

Hmm.

Thank you.

[police radio chattering]

(Markson)
Bender? Oh, yeah.
We're talking Mack Truck.

This guy made me look
like an anorexic.

First I thought
he was just bloated
from the river.

Hey, look,
it's a dead-end case.
Forget it.

He was investigating
sweatshops.

Maybe he tried
to close somebody down?

What, an inspector?
He couldn't close a closet.

You can give a summons.

The garment business,
you know, it's still 1930.

You got 5,000 sweatshops,

you got 50,000 immigrants
at sewing machines.

Most ofthese places,
they got eight, nine people,
lots ofthem kids.

They get paid crap
ifthey get paid at all,

and nobody complains,

because they're
all illegal anyway.

And the Feds,

they don't even inspect
with less than 10 workers.

But the city does.

Yeah, so give them
a summons.

Child labor,
locked windows, you know.

They tear it up,
they move to a new hellhole.

It's like
a floating crap game.

What about Ira Bender?

The day he disappeared,
six stops.

He shows up at all six,
not one summons

and even if he gave one,

who'd kill him
for a $600 fine?

Thanks.

Two Hispanic teenagers.

You got better candidates
for a sweatshop?

I'll grant you,
but the inspector
makes no sense.

If anybody really cared
about people working

for slave wages,
it would've stopped.

They got half the city scared
about parking tickets.

You read the ME's report
on the girl?

Scars, cuts on her fingers.

Same as the boy
when they found him.

They didn't get that
making fruit salad.

They were cutting fabric.

All right, let's see
what Forensics has
on the girl's face.

(Sacks)
Move the left eye
in about 2 cm.

[computer beeping]

Good. Print it.

[printer whirring]

Ithinkthe girl's
more accurate than the boy.

With the picture of her face,
we had more to work with.

Here they are.

So, what do you think?
Puerto Rican, Dominican?

From the nose
and the cheekbones,

I'd say more likely
Mezzo-American. Mexican.

Ira Bender.

Remember his last stop
the day he disappeared?

The Bronx.
Tremont in the Bronx.

Our newest
immigrant paradise.

Mexicans.

[chuckling]
They could be anybody,
these kids.

You sure they don't resemble
somebody you've seen?

[people chattering]

Where's the nearest
high school?

What country
you in, man?

Nobody go to school.

Where do the kids hang out?

The club.
El Tampequefio.

Ask for Rudy.
He teaches them
how to play.

I said,
do you recognize them?

I don't see too good.

Oh, you blind?

I'll smack that hairdo
right off your head!

(Cerreta)
Mike! Mike!

Amigos, what's the problem?

What can we do for you?

Rudy Armandariz.
It's my place.

Hey, you said Rudy left.
He wasn't coming back.

[laughing]
Hector, tough guy, huh?
Be nice, huh?

We don't see cops too much,
you know. Just Immigration.

Hey, we gonna make friends,
I'm sorry, you don't
make top ofthe list.

How do you know
we're not Immigration?

With those shoes?

La miga, they get paid
a little better, I think.

[speaking Spanish]

Beers for our friends.

No, no, no, no, thanks.
Have you seen these kids?

Ah, kids!

They think New York is gold
in the streets.

They come here to make money,
send it home.

Better they stay in Mexico.

Prostitution, drugs,
then they disappear.

Does that mean
yes or no?

We don't know those kids.

You could've
broken that kid's arm.

He threatened me
with that pool cue.

[hawkers chattering]

This case is
pushing my buttons.

The next button
it could push

is the one
at the Civilian Review Board.

[speaking Spanish]

You see 'em?
You recognize 'em?

[speaking Spanish]

He speak English.

[speaking Spanish]

[speaking Spanish]

What? What? Come on.

I know Eduardo and Maria,
his cousin.

You know, on the street.

I haven't seen them.

They have family?

In Acufia.

They worked making dresses

so they could bring their
brothers and sisters here.

Where did they
make the dresses?

[horn blaring]

[dog barking]

Okay? I'm finished now?

Yeah. Gracias, okay.

Well, this is
progress, huh?

Those kids worked here.

Ira Bender was
investigating a sweatshop

in this building
before he disappeared.

You want to think
about a warrant?

[door rattling]

You need a warrant
for this?

Well, I guess
we're not really breaking in.

[door creaking]

[clattering]

Phil!

[police radio chattering]

So, what are you
saying to me?

They had people here
who were slaves?

Handcuffs.

And they weren't
playing cops and robbers.

In Texas,
with migrant workers, maybe.

But here...

So this Insp. Bender,
he's looking around,
he walks in on this.

They ain't gonna buy him off
with a few dresses
for his wife.

A belt buckle
and a zipper.

Tough to trace,
but this clothing label.

"Wedded Bliss Fashions.
The finest wedding gowns
in the world."

This is one of ours, yes.

Brides, bridesmaids,
flower girls.

Thank God people
are getting married again.

Must take a lot of work
to make one ofthese, eh?

Every stitch
made for a lifetime.

And made in America.

At Third-World wages.

Oh, I don't know
that's the case at all.

You work in a sweatshop,

you don't get to wear
one of these at the altar.

I admit. I get a rush order,
I use contractors.

Piecework, veils.

I go with the lowest bid.
Something wrong with that?

Depends on
the working conditions, sir.

Be realistic.

We're competing
with Singapore.

Do contractors
use immigrants?

I'm sure they do.

That suit on your back,
you know who sewed it?

You sure whoever
sewed the buttons
got minimum wage?

We are interested in the name
ofthe contractor
who sewed this label.

Ever hear of
the Hot Goods Statute?

It forbids the shipping
across state lines

of any product
made in violation
of federal labor laws.

In this case
we're also talking
murder and kidnapping.

My God, I wouldn't think...

This one,
it would be Royalty Fashions.

Used to be in the Bronx,
Manhattan now.

Ave. D, Alphabet City.

[sewing machines whirring]

[woman chattering in Spanish]

(Betty)
They like working here.

We have milk for the child,

and we save the mother money
on a babysitter.

If it wasn't for us,
they'd be on the street,
starving or selling crack.

(Betty)
We treat 'em like our family,
like our kids.

And it pays off.

They work hard.

They're wonderful people,
devoted to their children.

I'm touched. I didn't know
there were people
like you in the world.

How much do you pay them?

(Betty)
We pay them by the piece.

Ifthey work fast,
they make $7 an hour.

It's better than the $4 a day
they'd make in Nogales.

And it's twice
the minimum wage.

322 E. Tremont Ave.
That was your last address?

That was two places ago.

Several contractors
have used it.

The place wasn't
in good condition.

There were break-ins, rats.

Have these kids
ever worked for you?

Oh.

They look much too young,
don't they, Ellis? No.

We've been inspected.
We have fire extinguishers.

The windows are never locked.

We're just trying
to make a living.

The girl we found
in the river, Maria Carranza,

we got a DNA match with blood
from the mattress on Tremont.

And the flower vendor,
the kid?

From his description,
there is no doubt

that those kids
worked for the Drakes.

Can we prove
who these kids are?

Because we're not
gettin' fingerprints
from Mexico.

They don't exist.

Ijust don't get this.

I mean, why chain them up?

They're not makin'
that much anyway.

Oh, you got seven
or eight immigrants
making $250 a week.

You handcuff 'em,
they are saving
$100,000 a year.

And that is the difference
between being in business
and not.

Those green cards,
one of 'em had to be bought.

And one ofthose kids
is not old enough
to go to high school.

So call Social Welfare.
You got nothing specific.

They'll get there
in a month?

Maybe they're underage.

Maybe they're illegal.

Maybes will not
get you a warrant.

Doesn't the Drakes'
yellow sheet

give us a little bit
of leeway here?

[sighing]
Do you see murder
and kidnapping here?

Health and safety,
non-payment of wages,

endangering the welfare
of a child.

The state took their books,
closed them down
a dozen times.

Drove 'em
out of business.

Endangerment. What's that,
a Class A misdemeanor?

That must've shook 'em up
for 30 seconds.

Well, our case
couldn't shake dirt
from a dust mop.

Name ajudge, I'll call him.

As long as I can hang up
before he starts screaming

we interrupted his dinner.

Okay, let's call the State.

I want to look
at the Drakes' books.

They ordered Bing Crosby's
Christmas Album.

The CD.

"Third notice,
East Orange Savings and Loan."

Behind on the mortgage.

What are we
lookin' for, anyway?
A check for handcuffs?

How about a check
to the State Liquor Authority?

For a permit.

I didn't notice an open bar
at the sweatshop.

Do you think they own
a nightclub on the side?

Let's find out
who got the permit.

The liquor license. Si.

Uh, Mr. and Mrs.--

Drake.
Uh-huh.

They are like
mother and father,
and they take Rudy in

and he works for them
and they buy him a present.

This boy and girl also worked
for the Drakes.

(Rudy)
Amigos.

Oh.

You here so often,
take a membership.

Get a game free.

Yeah, well, last time
we were here,

you didn't
recognize those kids.

(Cerreta)
What about your wife?

Does your husband
always speak for you?

Lina, oblige the gentlemen.

No.

You get into Manhattan much,
Mr. Armandariz?

Bar, pool tables.

You know, I don't make
what a cop makes.

Special night out,
we hit a few clubs, you know,
we go dancing.

You like to play around
in the clubs on Ave. D?

My friends, Ellis and Betty,
do you know them?

Generous people.
I come from Nogales.

I cut clothes as a boy.

They help me
work my way up.

They took care of me.

You got a liquor license.

You get paid a lot more
than most kids.

I worked harder.

[people chattering]

”[music playing]

Anything else
we can do for you?

Our amigo has
two juvenile arrests,
one with a knife.

Guarding a sweatshop,
he stabbed an inspector.

Mug shot?

Get us a picture? Thanks.

The sweatshop,
was it Royalty Fashions?

Royalty Ready-to-Wear.
Ellis and Betty Drake.

So they took Rudy
offthe streets
to save him, huh?

He was their goon.

If we could tie him
to the cuffs.

Yeah.

[dogs barking]

Well, they could have
bought 'em anywhere.

9,000 Grenadier cuffs.

Twenty-two more shops.
You want to do 'em all?

He could have bought 'em
through the mail.

Or maybe closer to home.

The Bronx?

The Drakes, East Orange.

They sell police equipment
in Jersey, don't they?

New York cops. I sell
to you guys all the time.

How many of your customers
aren't cops
or security guards?

I get the weirdoes.

They want to dress up
in blue or fatigues.

Ankle irons. Keep the wife
chained to the stove.
I don't know.

Not my idea of weekend fun.

So, what can I sell you?

How about ID?

He's not familiar.

This isn't
a Mexican neighborhood.
You wouldn't forget him.

Neighborhood's gone bad,
but Mexicans, not that bad.

No, it got bad
when you moved in.

My Jersey law's
just a little rusty,

but the way
I remember it,

you need ajob reference
for police supplies.

I hope you have records
for everybody
you sold Grenadiers to.

You're on the wrong side
ofthe river.

How fast can we get
a state trooper here, Phil?

(Cerreta)
We're about eight to
ten minutes from the parkway.

Maybe I remember him.
I thought he was a PR.

He looked at cattle prods.

Yeah, I think I sold him
some cuffs.

He bought the cuffs!
A dozen pair!

Handcuffs with
the same lot number.

Which happened
to be attached to a bed

with the same blood
as the dead girl.

They can put the kids
in the sweatshop.

They got a witness
who saw the Drakes.

You can put the kids
and the Drakes there.

You can't prove
the Drakes killed them.

They bought Rudy
a liquor license.

They're paying him
for something!
What do you want?

More dead kids?

(Cragen)
All right,
that's enough, Mike.

This one's got everybody
a little upset, Paul.

Hey, you guys put a stakeout
on somebody named Armandariz?

They said
you wanted to know.

He just parked
on Ave. D.

We have no witnesses,
no convincing Forensics.

I take this
to the grand jury,

I have more holes than
the Internal Revenue Code.

Paul, Rudy Armandariz,
16 years old,
he stabs an inspector.

What the hell
you think he's gonna do

if Ira Bender stumbled
into that backroom?

And ifthose Mexicans
are still working on Ave. D,

they won't be tomorrow.

Okay.

[sewing machines whirring]

Where are they?
Where are the Mexican kids
who were working here?

People come and go.
They probably went home.

Uh, where's your friend,
Mr. Armandariz?

Downstairs? Okay, let's go!

You're under arrest
for the murder of Eduardo
and Maria Carranza.

You have the right
to remain silent.

Cover me on the street!

Halt, Armandariz, hold it!
Get away from...

Don't even think
about it!

You think that
window's bulletproof, huh?

You like to get 'em
around the neck,
don't you, huh?

That way
you can feel 'em die.
Mike!

Did you rape the girl
before you killed her?

How about the boy, huh?
Mike! Mike! Mike!

Rudy Armandariz,
you're under arrest
for murder.

Anything you say
can be used against you
in a court of law.

Do you understand that?

"Docket number 52782.

”The People
v. Rudy Armandariz,
Ellis Drake, and Betty Drake.

"Three counts murder,
second degree,

two counts kidnapping,
first degree."

Everybody's
pleading guilty, right?

Not guilty, Your Honor.

Not guilty.

Not guilty.

Your Honor,
Mr. Armandariz has repeatedly
visited Mexico.

The risk of flight
is substantial.

We request that
he be held without bail.

For Mr. and Mrs. Drake,
$250,000 each defendant.

Mr. Armandariz
owns a business

that needs his attention,
Your Honor.

The risk of flight--

Is humongous, Counselor.

The charge is murder,
not spitting on the subway.
No bail.

Mr. Dunlap.

Your Honor, my clients
are innocent victims

of a career criminal

and an ungrateful orphan
they tried to help.

They took him offthe street,
set him up in business,

bought him a house
as a wedding present.

Oh, this isn't
about slave labor.

It's about
a dysfunctional family.

Why don't we send it
to Family Court?

Family values week is over.

The People's request
is granted.

And, Mr. Dunlap, no bond.
All cash.

Beautiful, Charlie.

He made slaves ofthem,
then he kills them?

Did you have
to take this case?

Where's the congregation,
Rev. Stone?

The sermon can't be
for me.

How did you end up with this?
Your office is on Park Ave.

Does Armandariz
even know the zip code?

He reads the Post.

He knows I give people
of color a good defense.

Especially when you try
and plead white people
against him.

Ifthat's a preamble
to a speech

on the racist system,
can we roll it over
till tomorrow?

Man two, one count,
two years.

He testifies
against the Drakes.

Man one, three counts.

I want him deep into old age
when he gets out.

With your case?

It's not circumstantial,
it's atmospheric.

Man two, two counts.

For handcuffing people
to beds and killing them.

May I explain to you
why you won't win
on the cuffs?

Rudy's video rentals.

One of his favorites
shows a woman handcuffed
to a bed.

His wife will testify
that's why he bought 'em.

That'll convince ajury.
A dozen pair?

The jury may find
it's disgusting.

They don't dish out
25-to-Iife on disgust.

(Schiff)
Slavery.

I woke up this morning,
I thought it was
the 20th century.

In some places.

The mayor's appointing
a commission.

Yeah, they'll debate it
for six months,
issue a report.

It will disappear
before anyone reads it.

(Stone)
People chained
to their beds.

Why don't they take
a few dollars

from street cleaning
and hire more inspectors?

In politics, two choices:
do nothing, do something.

Nothing has fewer risks.

I hope we have a case.

A lot of ifs and maybes.

The big problem is,
I have to prove a crime

that nobody wants
to believe happened.

A good couple
with a small business.

Who wants to think
they have Dachau
in the back room?

It's just too horrifying.

Porn movies with handcuffs.

Doesn't even beat possession
by the devil.

It's the big lie, Adam.

Repeat it often enough,
it's the truth.

Charlie Meadow
will sell the hell
out of pornography.

And you'll sell the hell
out ofthose kids

being connected
with all three defendants.

Why can't you
use the Drakes?

Dunlap wants to plead,
but his clients
won't discuss it.

Won't discuss
they're accessories.

Yes, they didn't
strangle those kids,

they didn't dump
an inspector in the river.

But they also
didn't make bail.

And they're in Rikers,
hoping they don't
get their throats slit.

I'd sure want
to discuss a plea.

Dunlap said
the Drakes were victims
of Armandariz.

It's a good tactic,
but his clients
didn't like it.

They're scared of Rudy.

Make 'em scared of you.

(Robinette)
If you're convicted,
Mrs. Drake,

you'll die in prison.

I'm gonna die
in my own bed at home.

With my dear husband
next to me.

Mrs. Drake,
we don't believe

that you killed Ira Bender
or those children.

But if you try
to save Mr. Armandariz,

you'll go down with him.

(Dunlap)
Betty, he's offering 12 years.

You're facing 75-to-Iife.

I'm no lawyer.

You guys would
sell your mother
for a day at the races.

We don't testify
against a boy

we brought up
like our own son.

Mr. Drake?

[alarm buzzing]

I asked them to plead, Ben.

They don't understand
the odds on conviction.

Sophisticated they're not.
That's right.

This lady gets a cold,
she wants to go to Lourdes.

I'll see you in court.

It's a good deal.
Why won't they take it?

Well,
we're missing something.

Do the Drakes
have visitors?

(Jenner)
Just him. The lawyer.

At the end of every day
have the visitor's list
sent downstairs.

I want it faxed
to my office.
Right.

[people chattering]

Ellis Drake's brother, Fred,
has been there six times.

To see his brother?

Only Ellis, not Betty.

I talked to
Fred's bookkeeper.

Fred and Ellis were partners,
garment business.

But the partnering
wasn't very brotherly.

And Fred definitely
wasn't crazy
about his sister-in-Iaw.

See how crazy he is
about his brother
goin' to prison.

I'm not stupid.

I'm not making it easier
to convict my brother.

If your brother's
a pawn of Armandariz,
we'd like to help him.

Oh, sure you would.

And I always put money
in the meter.

(waiter)
More coffee, gentlemen?

Thank you.

If your brother
doesn't cooperate,

you'll be visiting him upstate
the rest of his life.

Money was tight.

This kid Rudy,
sweeping the floors,

says he can get Mexicans
cheaper than Chinese.

Suddenly this psycho
is running the company.

Ellis won't turn on Rudy.

And your sister-in-Iaw?

Oh, sweet Betty?

Yeah, she's like a mother
to Rudy.

Only most mothers
are not that loving.

She do some cooking?

Home cooking.

She didn't even have
the decency to do it
behind Ellis's back.

I begged Ellis,
sell that son of a bitch out.

He said
if it didn't work,

he would have a little trouble
breathing underwater.

You want to use
Armandariz's wife?

We need a witness.

And if Ellis's brother knew
that Rudy was in bed
with Betty,

you'd think
Rudy's wife would know.

And if she didn't,
you'll be glad to tell her.

And that's enough to turn her
against her husband?

Jealousy and anger.

What about loyalty and fear?

How are you gonna handle
spousal privilege?

Spousal privilege
has limits.

And maybe
she won't have to testify.

Maybe she'll lead us
to those missing kids.

Busy signal at
the Armandariz house.

Phone company says
offthe hook.

The Drakes are scared.

She's probably hiding
under the bed.

Go out to East Orange,
take a run at her.

I work at the club.

The wedding gowns,
I never saw that.

The Drakes paid
for your liquor license,
bought this house.

Your husband

was having intimate relations
with Mrs. Drake.

This is true?

You say, "Marry him."
For the Church.

You say God will
strike me down.

You wanted his bed,
you marry him.

I told you, be respectable.

The girl, and the boy,
the ones you found.

Rudy?

Ask your granddaughter.

I don't know.

I wanted to stop Rudy.

They tried to escape,
and he caught them.

He said that
they would go to the police.

He had to kill them.

He had to kill them.

Spouses testifying
against spouses.

I don't like it
under any circumstances.

(Stone)
The privilege in this case

rests with Lina Armandariz,
not her husband.

Judge, what country
is he practicing in?

No court in New York,
trial or appellate,

encroaches on the sanctity
of marriage.

He can't compel her
to testify.

(Stone)
It's not about compelling.

It's about allowing her
to testify.

And if she witnessed
a criminal act uninvited,

and was not a participant,
her husband has no privilege.

Thank you, Ben.
I know the law.

Suppose I whisper
to my wife in bed:

"I hate my brother.
I bought a gun.
I wanna kill him."

The next day
she sees me do it.

Is her witnessing the crime
a result of marital intimacy?

If it is,
then I have privilege.

But, in this case,
we don't know

what Lina Armandariz heard
on the marital bed.

Mrs. Armandariz said
she was there by coincidence.

I'm deeply surprised.

I'm sure you didn't
put words in her mouth.

(Gannon)
Mr. Meadow,
you're in the gutter.

You want to insult
his intelligence, fine.

You will not accuse him
in my chambers
of suborning perjury.

I don't know, Ben.

(Stone)
There's another exception,
Your Honor.

A spouse who witnesses
the planning of a crime
can testify.

Mrs. Armandariz knew
that her husband planned
to kill those kids.

Talk about a hole
you could drive
an army through.

I think he's got
the right army.

Judge, you can't accept--

You bet I can.

If that child wasn't dead
when she got there,

the wife sure saw
a crime planned.

This court rules
the husband has no privilege.

The wife wants to testify,
it's her choice.

It, uh, happened
a couple of months ago.

Maybe, I think, last June.

Did you witness
a struggle

between your husband
and Eduardo Carranza?

Yes, I did.

Did your husband say

that he would have to kill
Eduardo Carranza

to prevent another attempt
at escape?

No.

What did you say?

No, he never say that.

Uh, Rudy let Maria and Eduardo
go back to Mexico.

Mrs. Armandariz,
this isn't what you told me.

Did your husband
threaten you?

Offthe record.

Mrs. Armandariz,
you're making a mistake.

What do you think
he'll do to you anyway

when he gets out ofjail?

[sighs]

You are under oath.
You are committing perjury.

Rudy never killed anybody.

I don't know what happened
to the children.

[bangs on table]

You had to lose your temper.

She lied, Adam.
She denied everything.

With that husband,
who can blame her?

Compared to what
he can do,

you're threatening to take
away her hairdresser.

I'll get a perjury indictment
based on a deposition.

Good. When you go to trial,

invite a couple
of law students
to provide the laughter.

Why I thought
this was winnable.

I assumed we'd have
some kind of witness.

Without one,
we're gonna lose.

Rudy, Mr. Armandariz,

he asked kids to work
in the sweatshop.

Did you personally
hear him ask Maria
and Eduardo Carranza

ifthey wanted jobs
sewing wedding gowns?

Yes, he asked them
in the club.

Did there come a time
when you looked
for Maria and Eduardo

because you hadn't seen them
in the neighborhood?

(Alejandro)
I had a letter

from Eduardo's mother.

She didn't hear from him.

I went to the sweatshop,
the factory.

The boss told me
Eduardo and Maria
went home to Mexico.

Is that man
in the courtroom today?

That man, there.

(Stone)
Let the record indicate he's
pointing at the defendant,

Ellis Drake.

The record will so indicate.

Thank you.
No further questions.

Mr. Lopez,

did you ever go
inside this sweatshop

during the time
when Maria and Eduardo

were supposedly
working there?

No, | didn't.

Well, then you never
actually saw them in there

with Mr. Drake, did you?

No.

How well did you know
Eduardo and Maria?

Just around
the neighborhood.

(Dunlap)
In point of fact, they might
have gone back to Mexico

without your knowing.

No, they would have
said goodbye.

Really?
To a casual acquaintance?

Even ifthey left
in a hurry?

(Medill)
Blood on the mattress
found in the tenement

matches DNA
from Maria Carranza's body

with 90% accuracy.

What accounts for a less
than perfect match?

The body was submerged
in water for several weeks.

Tissue damage
made a perfect match
impossible.

Well, thank you.
Your witness.

90%.

Is that a good match,
in your experience?

Yes, it is.

Is that so?

How many other people would
that blood sample match?

Several thousand.

A hundred thousand?

Possibly.

So that might not be
Maria Carranza's blood at all.

In fact, you don't even know

ifthat's
Maria Carranza's body, do you?

She did work there.

The picture was identified.

The odds of someone else
with so close a match--

Are what, Mr. Medill?

Are you an expert
in population demographics
or forensics?

Never mind.
No further questions.

Each hit by itself
doesn't hurt us,

but you add 'em up...

Suppose we charge
Rudy's wife,

say I'll testify.

Accessory to murder.
She admitted she was there.

To an assistant
district attorney.

You want to take that
to a grand jury?

Call Frank Dunlap.
Let's go out to Rikers.

Did you look
at Ellis Drake?

He turns right,
his wife burns him.

He turns left, he's staring
at the bottom ofthe Hudson.

By now, maybe
he's more angry than scared.

He would've broken by now.

You can't light a fire
without tinder.

Put Rudy in the room.

We might not have
to strike the match.

(Stone)
The boy pointed
at you, Mr. Drake.

If they want
to convict anyone,

it's not your wife
or sonny boy.

Time out. We agreed,
no separate deals.

You think we'd turn
against each other?
We're family here.

Well, cut the family number,
Mrs. Drake.

We all know
who's playing musical beds.

[chuckling]
Hey, I got music in me.
What does that prove?

Stop it! Shut up!
It's bad enough
you were doing it!

She begged for it, man.
She screamed for it.

Mr. Drake, manslaughter one,
two counts.

You only do nine years.

Hold on,
you can't do that. Guard!

We're offering you a deal.

You testify against your wife
and Mr. Armandariz.

I'm leaving.
You've to stop.

You can't talk
in front of my client.

Fine. Guard,
take Mr. Armandariz
to his cell.

Ben, Ben,
this is unethical.

You had to sleep
with him.

The money wasn't enough.

Ellis, keep your mouth shut.

Bought him a house,
rubbed my face in it!

You pathetic wimp!

That's what I am?
Him... You couldn't stop!

I'll do it.

I'm going to jail,
and you're going with me.

(Ellis)
He got these Mexican kids.

We promised to pay them
by the piece.

End ofthe week,
Rudy said don't pay them.

They can't complain.

Did there come a time
when Mr. Armandariz

suggested other ways
of making money?

Well, he found these
metal beds in a vacant lot.

He said he could
just tie the kids up.

He did it with handcuffs.

(Stone)
Tell the court what happened

when Mr. Ira Bender
came to inspect your factory.

He wanted to see
the backroom.

He opened the door.
Rudy was inside.

He got him around the neck.

He handcuffed him,
pulled his tie up.

And he killed him.

And what happened
to Maria and Eduardo Carranza?

We were trying to move them
and they tried to get away.

Rudy killed them
in front ofthe others.

He said nobody would try
to escape again.

Thank you, sir.

Mr. Drake,

you testified
that you and your wife
and Mr. Armandariz

turned these people
into slaves.

Did you really do that?

It doesn't seem like something
I could've done, but I did.

Why are you testifying today?

We deserve to be punished.
All of us do.

Is that the reason?

Or is it your agreement
with the district attorney

for a reduced sentence?

Nine years instead of 75.

The sentence doesn't matter.

It would matter to me.

Tell us, Mr. Drake,

was your wife
sexually involved
with Mr. Armandariz?

That's not the reason,
either.

But she was.

And you were jealous.
Were you also angry?

What was the effect
of that humiliation?

Is it reason enough
to implicate your wife
and her lover

in crimes that you committed?
You alone?

I never killed
those children.

Oh, well,
you could only enslave them.

Did you pay
for Mr. Armandariz's
liquor license?

Did you buy him a house?

Only because
Betty insisted.

Is that why?

Or were you
buying his silence
to cover up your crimes?

No, that's crazy.

Tell us, Mr. Drake,
why should we believe

that Mr. Armandariz
killed those children?

Why shouldn't we believe
you did it?

It's not a good theory?

If I was on that jury,
I'd believe Meadow.

So he bought him a house.
Come on.

They know Ellis Drake
was terrified.

They also know
he got a deal.

You want to take another run
at Armandariz's wife?

She's more afraid of him
than us.

Who's she more afraid of
than him?

You see her grandmother
in court today?

If my grandmother
had a look like that,

she could fry eggs
with it.

Maybe she's not afraid
of anybody.

I tried, believe me,
but Lina is afraid.

I know she was wrong, too.

What could she do?

Do you know ifthe Drakes
or Mr. Armandariz

own any other property?

A nightclub,
maybe somewhere else.

I don't know.

The other people
who worked at the sweatshop,

if your granddaughter
could tell us what happened.

Not Lina, not now.

IfI never said marry him...

He pretends to love her.

He called me.

Told me to come be with her.

But she can't live
in that house now.

I'll take her to my place.

Mrs. Andon, where did you say
you're planning to take Lina?

To my house in Brooklyn.

You have a house
in Brooklyn?

When did Mr. Armandariz
ask you to take care of her?

After the police
came to the club.

He asked you
to leave your house
and go to Jersey?

He sent a boy
from the pool hall

to cut the grass,
get the mail, he said.

Call Cerreta and Logan.

[speaking Spanish]

He wanted my house.

[policemen chattering]

[police siren wailing]

[police radio chattering]

There's two of 'em.

More underneath.

I'll re-indict.
We'll add seven counts
of murder two.

Bodies are at
the mother-in-Iaw's house.

You had circumstantial,
you have more circumstantial.

Seven bodies?
That's a lot of circumstance.

Ellis Drake
is already guilty.

They could throw it all
on him.

[phone buzzing]

Yes. We're discussing it now.

I'll get back to you.

Brooklyn D.A. wants the case.

The crime started
in Manhattan.

The bodies were found
in Brooklyn.

Their case is
no stronger than ours.

Thank you. I was about
to say that myself.

We could lose it all.

Make a deal with Rudy
and the wife.

Bluff 'em, I don't care how.
Make a deal.

[both chattering]

My client is receptive.

Mine's willing,
with the right circumstances.

Both of your clients
face 10 counts.

Ten times 25,
that's 250 years.

We'll take one count,
murder two.

They both do 25.

Or we show the pictures
of the backyard to the jury.

I don't think
they'll believe Ellis Drake
did that all by himself.

You'll never prove
my client dug that grave.

Or mine.

With Lina's grandmother
on the stand,
I'll take my chance.

You'll have
the plea papers today.

(Stone)
Cons don't like people
who do kids.

Rudy may not live
to get parole.

I think he'll manage.

Bar Association dinner
next month.

Adam's getting an award.

I bought a new tuxedo.

I have to wonder
who made it.

[people chattering]