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Okay, boy. Ready?
Go get it.
Go on.
That's it.
Come on.
Yeah. Bring it down here, Shultzy.
Good boy.
Good boy.
Okay, Shultzy. You ready to go deep?
Where'd you get this, boy?
Okay, we've got upper torso to the left, lower extremities to the right. You can
leave your textbooks in there. You won't need them here. Keep the earth samples
separate, please.
We don't want any contamination. This is not the L .A. crime lab.
Deposition 10 degrees, tightly flexed. Excellent.
Okay, could you get the camera, please?
Carter. Just a minute, Jimmy.
Who are all these people? Grad students from Madison.
I asked the anthro department to send me over doctoral candidates with a
background in field excavation.
Giving strict instructions on forensic procedure.
Voila. So they're volunteers, right?
Well, I vouch for their expenses.
You did?
It's the least the county can do, Jimmy.
Somebody here order a bulldozer? Yeah.
Anywhere. Bulldozer?
Elevated scraper, actually.
Thank you. Standard procedure.
We don't know what we're dealing with here, Jimmy. Historical burial site,
random accident, serial killer.
Whatever happened to pickaxes and shovels?
In the middle of winter?
All right, so what do we got?
I won't even hazard a guess.
You said you were close.
Minutes away, you said. Hey, there are rigid parameters for the excavation of
skeletal remains, Jimmy.
Cataloging, filing, morphologies, depositions.
I won't be rushed into premature speculation.
Somebody labeled this. It's never stopped you before.
I won't even dignify that with a response. So what do I tell the
This has gone over the wire service. What do I tell them? Tell them to kiss
sacroiliac.
Sheriff Bronson. Can you tell us how old they were?
For the bones of a man or a woman. Your husband's buried in Hogan County,
Lorraine. No, no, no, no, no. I donated his eyes and now he wants them back.
Lorraine, how can he be back if he can't see where he's going?
Oh, good point.
Oh, good point, Kenny.
Well, thank you. Thank you, Kenny.
Okay. Anytime.
All this hoopla were a bunch of bones. You know, I bet it's a hiker that froze
to death years ago.
I guess it's a Viking.
You know, Leaf the Lucky, Eric the Red. You been in the fingerprint ink again,
Skeeter? No, no. See, I study this stuff.
Vikings used floating funeral pyres.
North Atlantic current picks one up, drops him here.
Bingo.
It's a theory, you know.
Those bones belong to us.
I'm not saying they don't, Joe. The Chippewa have held those lands sacred
generations.
Those remains were placed there long before your people arrived.
The bones are Chippewa. Actually, they aren't.
Discriminant function analysis suggests the bones belong to the European
population cluster.
The victim was a 6 '1 male in his late 20s, left -handed, walked with an
external gait due to a buoying of the right tibia. Wait a minute. You said
victim? That's right. This man was murdered, Jimmy.
What? You can tell this from bones?
Bones and this knife tip lodged in the thoracic vertebrae.
And 30 yards away, we found this.
So the guy was stabbed in the Highland woods.
Wrong. He was killed somewhere else.
I detected traces of clay by the feet, more like what we find near town.
My guess is he was stabbed here, then taken to the woods and buried.
How long has he been there?
Can't be sure without radiocarbon dating, but not long, archaeologically
speaking. I'd say 50 years, give or take five.
50 years ago.
How come no one found him before?
Harlan Woods was in the middle of nowhere until they started cutting it
development. Whoever killed this guy wasn't worried about visitors. The body
only buried a few feet deep. Over the years, frost heaves brought it to the
surface. I want a full investigation.
I really should be deputized on this one, Jimmy. Really.
You won't regret this.
I want a positive ID on those bones.
How do you handle a 50 -year -old murder anyway? Oh, the same as any other
investigation. There's no statute of limitations on homicide.
But finding someone who can help, I'm not optimistic about that.
It's quite the mystery.
Yeah. See, Carter, short of a UFO landing in his backyard, this is as
as it gets.
Matthew.
Louie White said the dead guy's Jimmy Hawk.
He's called the National Globe.
Well, Louis White has a very active fantasy life.
Well, in a few days, the panda will give birth in a zoo somewhere, and it will
all be forgotten.
Hot off the presses.
Get out. You made the paper?
It's for Paige. Oh, look at that.
That's a good picture. Hey, Schultz, you never look better.
So, you think I should get an agent?
What?
For the TV rights.
Yeah, right.
This could be my 15 minutes.
For God's sake, Carter, what the hell's going on here?
Hear me out, Judge.
Is that a hand on my piano? Only partially. I'm missing the upper middle
phalanges. Get it out of here.
You're upset, aren't you? Get it out of here. Get it all out of here now. My
problem at the morgue, Judge.
Bunsen burner set off the sprinkler system. I thought I'd bring a little
home until... That's my poker table. You won't even know that I used it, except
for the acetic acid stain, which is so infinitesimal, really.
What stain?
Where? I've been deputized, Henry.
It's my responsibility to ID the victim.
50 -year -old murder case.
I can break it. Justice for this man may ride on my shoulders.
All right.
We have the poker game on Saturday.
I don't want any upper middle phalanges in the bean dip.
Thank you.
Fifty years ago, you say?
More or less.
Seems I recall something about a man disappearing here.
It was during the war, a German fellow.
And it was in the Hogan County Herald.
This is completely ridiculous.
Don't believe it, Jimmy. Not a word. What are you talking about?
You mean he hasn't been here yet? Who? Jimmy.
Oh, him.
I've got it. The idea of the victim and the murderer. I was having breakfast
till this nut interrupted me. Shut up. I can't shut up in the face of insanity.
The dental records check out, Jimmy. The victim was one Gustav Braun, age 24.
A Nazi.
Technically, he wasn't a Nazi. He was a member of the German -American... A
Nazi. Out.
All right, all right. I'll be good.
I'll be good.
Maybe.
Apparently, Braun and his friends were into some pretty ugly things, Jimmy.
Harassing Jews, hate -mongering. Oh, lovely people.
Braun's group was suspected in the beating of an old Polish butcher named
Levine, but a case couldn't be made.
Levine's son, Jacob, vowed revenge. He was arrested subsequently for assaulting
one of Braun's friends.
A few nights later, Braun didn't come back from work. That was 53 years ago.
Was there an investigation in this?
Police interviewed Levine. Sure, blame it on the Jews. What else?
But there was no body, no murder weapon, and Jacob had an alibi. He was with
friends. So what do you want from him? He's an old man.
But now we have the body, the weapon, the motive, and we have this.
Fingerprints. What?
You lifted 50 -year -old prints off that knife.
Fairy tales. It's the X -Files.
Took the knife to the Wausau Crime Lab. We used laser technology to lift several
prints. Ran them through the AFIF database, which had Levine's prints on
from his earlier arrest.
Perfect match, Jimmy. The prints on that knife belong to Jacob Levine.
You certain of that?
Dead certain.
Conjecture. Speculation.
The man's still alive.
Jimmy.
No comment. All I can tell you is that Jacob Levine is innocent.
He put me in jail, thug. Don't worry, I'll handle it. I didn't do anything.
I'll have you out in a few hours, Jacob.
They're putting me in jail.
Shame on you.
A 70 -year -old man with a bad heart on circumstantial evidence, no less. I just
spoke with the new DA. He says we have a solid case.
Oh, really? So where is this pillar of social justice? I'd like to tell him
I think of this case.
Hey, you, Mr. Big Shot.
David.
Hiya, Pop.
It's a mockery, a sham, I tell you. Shut up. He should be disqualified. Any
precedent you want to cite?
Yes, I was here first. Kick him out. Dad, I was assigned the case.
You could have refused.
I didn't know you were defending.
Now you do. Drop out. Why? It's a solid case.
A conflict of interest.
Whose interest?
Yours. It should be anyway.
Wombaugh. Yes?
Just what I need.
Stereo Wombaugh's.
Douglas, I don't see any conflict of interest here.
The state is free to appoint whomever it wants.
Except him.
Why? Because I'm a Jew?
Or because I'm your son?
If you're so concerned about compromising your client's interest,
should remove yourself, Doug. Never.
Levine deserves the best.
So you admit we have a case?
Case, Mace.
A publicity campaign, that's what you got.
Cardinal's son returns to stick it to his father.
Is that what you think?
Wambaugh. What?
Both of you, get out.
Didn't know I was defending, right? Okay, but that's not why I took the
Why did you?
Because it was an opportunity.
Opportunity for what? To betray your people?
Oh, come on, Pop. I'm not betraying anybody. It's a murder case, plain and
simple. If that's what you think, then I failed you. Dad. It's a Pandora's box
you've opened.
Somebody from the DA's office was going to try this case. Why not me?
You didn't build your career taking pro bono cases for little old ladies, as I
recall. I didn't do it by supporting the Nazis, either.
Nice to see you, too.
What kind of son did you raise?
Let's stick to the case, shall we?
Doesn't he understand what went on?
How it was?
Young people today, they'd rather forget.
He should see what they did to my father.
Then he'd change his tune.
They deserved to die.
Not that I killed Braun, understand?
But whoever did, it was a mitzvah.
Jacob, let me have the photo.
Father was never the same after that beating.
Lost a hearing in his left ear.
He died two years later.
Those animals who did this, how come they were never prosecuted?
My father didn't know who jumped him.
He had such a concussion, he couldn't remember anything.
But I knew.
The town knew, but nobody did anything.
It's like Europe.
I had relatives in Cacao.
I knew what was going on.
I knew.
We've been friends for 20 years, Jacob.
How come I never heard you talk about this?
Your parents were gassed in Booking Wall, weren't they?
I've never heard you talk about that either.
You push it down, but it's always there.
The hurt.
The hate.
And it never goes away.
Never.
1 ,400 big ones.
Here you go, Zach.
How's your photo go over in school today?
Oh, fantastic.
My popularity ratings are up four points.
Almost to where it was last year after my stigmata.
We had this big discussion on Schindler's List in Homeroom today.
You know, because of the bones.
Yeah? Yeah, Doris Webster said the Jews made the whole thing up.
What, the movie?
No, the Holocaust.
She said they did it so people would feel sorry for them.
Matthew, that's terrible.
I know. Miss Beckman didn't like it much either.
She made Doris go out for detention.
But I heard some other kids say the same thing.
Pretty crazy, huh?
Miriam.
I know you're very busy, so... Oh, no, no, no. Please sit.
No, I'll just be a moment.
What's the hurry?
Sit down, Miriam.
Come on.
Sit down.
So?
So.
He looks good, don't you think? A bit thin, maybe, but... Well, wait a minute.
What happened to that woman he was living with in New York, the magazine
Well, they broke up. I mean, I think that's why he left New York, partially,
to get over it.
They'd been talking about marriage, you know.
How should I know?
I speak to him twice a year, maybe.
Miriam, did you know he was coming?
Only last week. It happened so quickly and he thought he'd surprise you.
Ambush is more like it. Come on, Douglas.
Out of the blue he gets a call from an old friend of his and then this case
falls into his lap.
What falls?
He jumped at it.
Douglas.
Regardless of what you might think, David's sole purpose in life is not to
you. Could have fooled me. He refuses to join my firm. He moves to New York.
Becomes a prosecutor.
Douglas, he admires you tremendously.
But let's face it, you've never been an easy act to follow and he needed to
spread his wings.
For 20 years, he needed to fly around.
Even pigeons come home eventually.
I think he came back also to make things right with you.
Oh, sure, by opposing me in court, shaming the memory of his grandparents.
Douglas, our son has come back.
Can't you at least be thankful for that?
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
I thought we'd have dinner tomorrow night, the three of us.
Family, huh?
Well, I think we're capable of putting aside our differences for one night.
To be with our son.
You're cooking?
Yes.
I'll come anyway.
People versus Levine. Wave reading?
Yes, your honor.
How does your client plead?
He doesn't. I move for immediate dismissal of all charges.
What? On what grounds?
On the grounds that the people have nothing more than a bag of bones and
wartime gossip.
Objection. Your Honor, there's plenty of circumstantial evidence to support the
charges. So you say. All right, all right.
Motion denied.
What's your plea?
Take a guess.
Not guilty.
Fine.
Question the bail?
Yes, Your Honor. What?
This is a murder case, and the accused presents a flight risk.
What risk?
This man is going to run away on two hip replacements? I'm not finished.
Oh, yes, you are.
Wombo. Is he always like this?
No. It gets worse.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Continue, Mr. Wombo.
Not you.
Him. The defendant could flee the country using not inconsiderable assets.
lived here all his life. Your Honor, would you please shut him up? You're
to deny bail to a 70 -year -old man, and you expect me to shut up?
That's it.
You're both fined $100.
What? For what? If anyone should be fined, it should be him. Breach of
character. That's $200.
Care for more?
I'm warning you both.
I don't know what little family drama is being played out here.
Frankly, I don't care.
Leave your differences outside my courtroom, or you'll be arguing this
jail.
50 ,000 cash bail. We're done. Now get out.
Mr.
Womble? Yes?
I wanted to thank you for taking on this case. Well, one does what one can. My
father may not have been a saint, but he's entitled to justice like everyone
else. What?
My mother went to a grave without ever knowing what would become of my father.
I thought it was going to be the same for me.
Oh, forgive me.
I'm Jonathan Braun.
Gusto Braun was my father.
Wrong Wombo. You want him.
David Wombo, acting DA.
And that was?
My father.
He represents the accused.
Oh, I see.
That's confusing.
Isn't it?
Thank you. You're welcome.
Mom, enough.
Come on, a couple more won't hurt you.
Oh, hey, they put in a new traffic light on 3rd Street.
Oh, yeah. When was that? Around May or something? I can't believe I shook his
hand.
Who? That German.
He's got a name, Dad.
Braun. Jonathan Braun. We agreed that we weren't going to discuss it. He also
had three children, but it never knew their grandfather. Well, that's
you have in common with them. Come on, Dad. Come on. It's a bad time to be
attacking Jews is all.
I'm not attacking anybody. I'm representing the state.
Your blood comes first.
Really? I always thought the law came first.
It's bad enough we've always faced eradication from without. Now we face
within. This from the man who was almost booted out of his own congregation?
I never turned to my people.
You take the side of our enemies by building a case on the bones of those
have murdered your grandparents. Our enemies, Dad. The war is over.
I'm sorry about what happened, but that's not going to bring my
back.
Luthor Braun may have been a bad man, but that doesn't mean that...
Somebody has the right to kill him. He deserves justice.
He got his justice. If you had any sense of history at all, you'd know it. I
can't believe I'm hearing this.
They murdered six million Jews.
Dad, come on.
You're a lawyer.
If you defend a hate crime and call it justice, then you're no better than the
Nazis.
The ongoing murder trial of Jacob Levine has galvanized both Jewish activists
and neo -Nazis as the literal skeleton in Rome's closet has risen to resurrect
ancient hatred in small -town America.
Recording live from the Rome Sheriff Department, this is Timothy Malone,
Cable News.
Okay.
I think I'm ready.
Color -coded the lab reports for easy reference. Fingerprints read.
Soil analysis, green, radiocarbon dating blue.
I'm sorry, what?
Color coding for the lab reports.
I'm a little nervous.
You'll do just fine, Carter.
I can't believe what's going on out there. It's like tearing over a rock.
Skinheads, you know.
You live a life in a town.
You think you know the people.
You like to believe it's a good place, a safe place, and then something like
this happens.
They're from all over the state, Jimmy, not just Rome.
I know what you mean.
I wonder if it would have been better if I'd never identified those bones.
Freeze, that's their cut line.
Get out of here, now, all of you.
Keep going.
Hi. Oh, hi, Mom.
Going well?
Oh, we haven't really gotten into the heavy stuff yet.
Oh, well, look, if this is a bad time, I can come back. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
We're on a two -hour recess.
What's on your mind?
Well... David... I'm worried about your father.
And you, too. If it's about last night, that's my fault.
I shouldn't have pushed him. I'm sorry.
No, it's more than just last night. It's the tension between you two. It's the
competition. I can't stand it.
You know, this is a very tough time for your father.
Ever since we separated, he puts on a brave face, but I know he's feeling
There's a... a hole in his heart.
Just as there is in yours, too.
Well, why else did you come home?
There were lots of reasons.
Oh, Dave.
You and your father are more alike than either of you would like to admit.
I know he wasn't the easiest person to grow up with.
But he was the best father he knew how to be. Why do you keep punishing him for
it?
You know why he's acting this way toward you, don't you?
He thinks you don't love him.
Why would he think that, Mom?
I never said that.
You don't have to say it.
It's what he feels.
What... What do you want me to do, Mom? I can't drop the case.
I just wonder when the two of you will finally forgive each
other.
Objection. That's inadmissible.
Goes to motive and intent, Your Honor.
I'll allow it.
Sheriff Brock, what does the police report say?
That in June 1943, Jacob Levine was arrested for attacking a member of the
German -American Bund.
And that was just before the time of Mr. Braun's disappearance?
Yes.
Thank you.
Sheriff Brock.
Was my client ever convicted of that attack?
No, he had an alibi.
Well, was he even charged?
Apparently not.
Now, Sheriff, did you find any other police reports from that time concerning
vandalism of Jacob Levine's butcher shop?
Yes, there were two reports on file, one for vandalism and the other for stolen
goods. Were any knives listed as missing?
Butcher knives, perhaps?
One report listed several butcher knives and cleavers as stolen, yes.
So then it's possible that the knife used to kill Gustav Brown was in fact
stolen from my client's shop. Yes. Objection. Calls for speculation.
I believe he just answered, Judge.
The defendant's fingerprints were embedded in traces of animal blood
along either side of the murder weapon's handle.
This explains how the prints could survive 50 years wrapped in a newspaper
underground. And was there anything significant about the pattern of prints
found? Yes, there was no thumbprint, suggesting the knife was
gripped thumb over knuckle to make a downward plunging motion.
You can't say when those prints got on that knife, can you, Dr. Pike?
Not exactly. Oh, not at all, you mean.
Now, those prints...
Could have been made a week or even a month before the murder.
That's true, yes.
So it's possible that if the knife was stolen from my client's shop, his prints
could have remained on it even though someone else later committed the murder.
That's a nice theory, but there were no other prints on the knife.
Are you saying those blood traces would have preserved every fingerprint put on
that knife 50 years ago?
They preserved the defendant's. Answer the question, Dr. Pike.
How could you say there was no other prince in that knife at the time of the
murder some 50 years ago?
Well... Ah, you can't say that, can you?
Not to a certainty, no.
Ah, now we're getting somewhere.
Mr. Hostetter, you were a member of the Bund here in Rome, correct?
Yes. And you knew the deceased Gustav Braun?
Very well.
He was our leader.
Ah.
And under his leadership, what kind of things did you do?
Terrible things. We broke windows of Jewish businesses, painted swastikas.
Did you ever beat people?
Objection. Irrelevant.
Overruled?
Yes. More than one person?
A few Jewish people. For example,
Ezra Levine, the accused father.
Did your group beat him up?
Yes. And Gustav Braun, he was at these beatings?
He led them.
Sounds like he made a lot of enemies.
Objection. The point is, any number of people could have wanted Gustav Braun
dead. Objection, Your Honor.
Withdrawn. No more questions.
Mr. Hofstadter, I think the jury would be interested in knowing why you came
forward today.
Why an ex -Bunt member would voluntarily contact the defendant's counsel.
Gustav Braun was a hateful man.
I'm sorry I ever knew him.
After the war, when I took Christ into my heart, I dedicated my life
to making up for all my misdeeds.
And I'm sure we all admire that.
But Gustav Braun didn't have that same opportunity, did he?
Thanks to his murderer, we'll never know if he might have experienced the same
kind of transformation you did.
Is there a question somewhere in the speech?
Mr. Hostetter, do you know who killed Gustav Braun?
No, I don't.
Those people that you said were beaten by Mr. Braun, do you have proof that any
of them killed him?
No. If you...
were beaten by somebody, Mr. Hostetter.
Do you think it would be right to turn around the next day and murder them?
No, of course not.
You yourself were severely beaten shortly before Mr. Braun's
weren't you?
Yes. Somebody jumped you and smashed your face beyond recognition with a
baseball bat.
Isn't that right, Mr. Hostetter?
Yes.
Did you see your attacker?
Yes.
And was that person ever charged with this vicious crime?
No. Why not?
His friends gave him an alibi.
Mr. Hostetter, is that person in this courtroom today?
Answer the question, please.
Yes. Where is he, Mr. Hofstadter?
It's him.
The defendant.
But I forgive him.
I forgive him.
I'll give you some peroxide to keep the sutures clean. I'll want to check them
in a few days, okay?
Okay. Your ribs will be tender for a little while. Do you have a heating pad?
I've got one.
Gentle heat will help that soreness. Doug, you're white as a sheet. Are you
right? I'm fine, fine.
David, let's go.
Here you go.
Thanks, Dr. Brock. Yes, you're welcome.
Thank you, Jill. Come, come, David, come.
I don't recognize this world anymore.
Jews attacking Jews. Just a few extremists, Dad.
Isn't there enough hate in this world already?
We're supposed to be messengers.
Maybe we forgot the message.
I remember asking you when I was a kid.
What's so important about being a Jew?
Remember what you said?
When the world comes looking for Jews, you'll know.
I said that?
I thought it was a pretty strange thing to say at the time. Not much to build a
life around, anyway.
Maybe I understand a little better today.
You ever think about them, Pop?
Your parents?
I don't remember hearing many stories about them.
I try not to think about it.
Get on with your life, I've always told myself.
Get on with it, Wombo. Get on.
cancels everything but the truth.
And the truth, ladies and gentlemen, lies before you.
Jacob Levine murdered Gustav Braun in cold blood.
The motive?
His father's beating.
The means?
A butcher's knife with Jacob Levine's own fingerprints on it.
And the opportunity?
No alibi from friends, dead or alive, could hold up against the weight of hard
evidence presented in this courtroom.
And yet the defense has insinuated that even if Jacob Levine did commit this
murder, it was somehow justifiable because Gustav Braun was a bad man.
He deserved to die.
So why bother who killed him?
It's a clever argument.
Judge the victim, not the attacker.
Clever.
Very tempting in this case.
And wrong.
It is not Gustav Braun who was on trial here today, but Jacob Levine.
That man there grew up without a father because of what this man did
50 years ago.
And when we allow people to get away with murder, ladies and gentlemen,
regardless of the reason, life everywhere becomes a little cheaper.
We all have to start looking over our shoulders to make sure no one's coming
us.
It is not your place to judge the value of a man's life, but it is your
sacred responsibility.
to determine who took that life away.
The bones of Gustav Braun cry out for justice.
I pray that you hear that cry.
More than bones were buried in this case, my friends.
Ancient prejudices and, yes, evils, too, have been unearthed.
So please save room in your prayers for Ezra Levine, the defendant's late
father, a citizen of Rome, your neighbor, and all others who fell before
the scourge of Nazi hatred.
All right.
Let's examine the prosecution's case.
Motive.
Did the defendant have reason to despise Gustav Braun?
Yes, along with every right -thinking person of this town.
Braun was a violent menace. He preyed upon innocent people, any one of whom
could have wished him dead.
Means.
The prosecution's case comes down to a single piece of evidence, a knife with
Jacob Levine's prints on it.
Yet Sheriff Rock himself has provided room to doubt who plunged that blade
Braun's neck 50 years ago.
Levine's butcher shop was broken into.
And we have every reason to believe the murder weapon was taken at that time
with Jacob's prints already on it.
So why were there no other prints found on the murder weapon?
The fact is, we simply don't know how that knife came to rest in Howland Woods
more than 50 years ago, or whether there are other prints on it that have washed
away by time.
Now nobody...
can put that man on the scene at the night of Braun's disappearance.
Jacob Levine did not have the opportunity to commit murder.
He was out with friends that night, and if they were still alive, they'd tell
you themselves.
Instead, we can rely on Rome Sheriff's Department, which thoroughly
Braun's disappearance and saw no basis to charge Mr. Levine with anything.
If an alibi...
was good then.
Why should it be bad now?
Because the prosecution tells you so?
Because the witnesses are dead?
Let me repeat what the D .A. told you. A phrase from Byron
that I taught him.
Death cancels everything but the truth.
You know the truth about Gustav Braun, and you know the truth about Jacob
Levine.
I implore you, serve the truth.
Relax, Jacob. It could be days.
They wouldn't put me away, would they?
Juror number four, the waitress, she makes me nervous.
I was watching.
You did real good.
I think... I think we got away with it.
Madam foreperson, has the jury reached the verdict?
We have, Your Honor.
Will the defendant please rise?
What say you?
In the matter of the people versus Jacob Levine on the charge of murder in the
first degree, we find the defendant not guilty.
The defendant is free to go.
You rotten hell! What's the matter with you?
My father!
Hi.
Jacob! Is he all right? I didn't mean to... Come on, let's get you out of here
before somebody sticks a knife in you. Come on.
Jacob! Jacob!
Sorry. At least he died with his name intact.
You argued a hell of a case, Dad.
I didn't know until right before the end.
Know what?
I swear I didn't know.
He was guilty.
I'm glad I'm an old man.
I've seen too much craziness.
Pop, I don't know what's right anymore.
I don't know anything anymore.
Well, if it's any consolation, I love you.
I don't know why that's so hard to say.
So we lay Jacob Levine to his final rest. And may his goodness live on
in the lives of those who know him.
And together let us say, Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
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Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
In the words of John, we say, The hour has come for the Son of
Man to be glorified.
Amen. Amen.
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