All language subtitles for Law.and.Order.Criminal.Intent.S01E15.WEB-DL.x264-ION10

In New York City's war on crime

the worst criminal offenders
are pursued

by the detectives
of the Major Case Squad.

These are their stories.

Bus to the city--
where do I catch it?

She moved.

Said she wanted to be
closer to work.

What?

She got a new job?

A jewelry store.

She sent us a spoon
for the baby.

It came in a fancy
blue and gold box.

Blue and gold box, huh?

I don't know about those
fancy jewelry stores.

They're all up
on Fifth Avenue.

The buyers are coming
in the morning.

I really do need those
brochures by tomorrow.

Okay.

What I really
want to know is

what leader of
the free world

did your mystery man
have lunch with today?

The president of Harvard,
Lawrence Summers.

I've heard that name before.

No, I'm thinking of
Donna Summers.

Anyway, at least one of us
is leading an exciting life.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow. Taxi!

Well, we did get a day
outside Nairobi

to visit the old
coffee plantations.

It nearly made up for
the seminars.

"Realistic Debt
Consolidation."

We met with...

oh, that rock star--

the one who's campaigning
to cancel Third World debt.

Oh, Gerry, your work
is so interesting.

You're lying, but I love it.

(giggles)

Gerry...

have you thought
any more about

taking our relationship
to the next level?

Oh, Charlotte...

You know how
I feel about you

but I also believe that sex
is a sacrament of marriage.

Tonight could be
so special.

I can't. I promised
Larry Summers

I'd meet him for dessert
at the Waldorf.

He's having a bunch of
the old gang

from the London School
of Economics over, and...

I'll go with you.

Oh, no, it'll be so boring.

I want to meet
your friends.

Just let me go home and change.

CHARLOTTE:
Give me five minutes.

Hey, hey, hey, what...?

Shut up!

You must be the boyfriend.

Who are you?

Never mind about that.
Just drive.

Something the matter,
Ms. Fielding?

Did someone come in
and leave a message for me?

No, no messages.

So now I'm eating
like primitive man, right?

Lamb and fish,
lots of kale and broccoli--

all the cruciferous
vegetables.

It's awesome. It's like...

Check it out.

I'm calling 911.

Body was discovered at
the Botanical Gardens.

Frank Raymond Caspari.

Pulled out of Sing Sing
two days ago.

Did six years
for armed robbery.

I thought since Major Case
handled that back then

you'd do me a favor
and catch this one, too.

That's what
I live for, Valdez--

to make your life easier.

I take it you'll be by later
to wash my car.

Multiple stab wounds
to the chest.

A knife was recovered
in the bushes.

Only fingerprints
were Caspari's.

Killed with his own knife.

Caspari and two accomplices

jacked an OTB
for 1.2 million bucks.

400 grand each.

The money was never recovered.

And the two accomplices?

Caspari never
gave them up.

The body was dumped off
a service road.

Very isolated.

No foot traffic.

100 bucks.

Smells like perfume.

No, that's Barbicide--

the blue stuff they use

to disinfect combs
in barber shops.

He's got a new haircut.

It's not prison issue.

Fresh manicure.

Maybe a friendly barber
lent him the money.

He's got scuff marks
on the back of his shoes.

He was dragged to where
they killed him?

No defensive wounds.

Here-- in 1995

Caspari was arrested
for fencing stolen jewelry

out of the back
of a barber shop

owned by Benny Franconi.

If Caspari owed you
a few bucks

we might be able
to see you get it back.

It was about 1,000 bucks.

It was 50 bucks.

It was $100, missy,
and not a penny less.

Came by yesterday.

Said he was
going to pay me back.

He was always good about
that sort of thing.

Pay you back from
his share of the OTB job?

That's none of my business.

If Frank being murdered is
not your business

what kind of friend are you?

What are you talking about?

We think his accomplices
on the OTB job killed him.

He kept his mouth shut
for six years.

This is the thanks he gets?

Mikey Squiers, Dave Vonder.

One's doing life
at Five Point.

The other OD'd on junk
two years ago.

How about where
Frank was staying?

I don't know.

He used to see
a girl in Queens

named Connie Moran.

Asked me a couple of times
about a jewelry store

that used blue and gold boxes.

Figured he had a date.

Last time I saw Frank

there was a piece of glass
between us.

That was six years ago.

I haven't cared since.

Don't make me come up there!

So what's Frank done now?

He got killed two days
after he got out.

Oh, jeez, Frank.

Guess I care now, don't I?

You fell hard for him.

He was a crook, but
he made me feel special.

And six years in jail
was too long a wait.

I would have waited.

Problem was, I had company.

He had a girl
on the side?

Yeah, the secretary
at his lawyer's office

told me he was writing
letters to this other woman.

Do you know her name?

Charlotte. Charlotte Fielding.

I'm baking cookies
and schlepping them

up to Sing Sing every week,
and he's writing her letters.

Do you know where we could
find her?

No. Why does it matter?

Frank's share of the OTB heist
is still missing.

I wish he left it with me.

I don't know a Frank Caspari.

He wrote letters
from prison

to a Charlotte Fielding.

You're the only Charlotte
Fielding in the phone book.

My number isn't listed.

It is in
our phone book.

You made a mistake.

Now, I'm going to be late.

Frank Caspari was murdered
a couple of days ago.

So now you do know him?

I did, a long time ago

but I lost contact with him.

This was an intimate
relationship?

It was very short-lived.

I was slumming.

He wrote to you
from prison.

He wanted my help.

To talk to the right people

get a better lawyer.

He thought you had
those kind of connections

with influential people.

Well, friends.
Husbands of friends.

You went to school
with those people?

Grew up with them?

Well, yes.

What school?

Brearley? Spence?

Brearley.

Are you wearing
those invisible braces?

Because you keep
running your tongue

over the back of
your teeth.

Yes, I am.

I'm thinking about
getting my teeth fixed.

Are they
comfortable?
You get used to it.

Now, please, I...

Those are
lovely earrings.

Are they
family heirlooms?

They're from Harry Winston.

The place that uses
the blue and gold gift boxes.

I work in their
corporate sales.

The day he was killed

Caspari was asking about
blue and gold gift boxes.

Sounds like he was
trying to find you.

Well, he didn't.

Her and Caspari--
I don't see it.

Maybe it wasn't
as big a step down

as she'd like us to think.

Her teeth.

Brearley girls get
their teeth fixed
when they're 14.

Not 34.

They asked
all sorts of questions.

Why didn't you tell me
Frank was dead?

GERRY:
I didn't know.

I told you, he jumped
in the car, he had a knife.

He told me to drive around.

A cop car pulled up next to us
and he jumped out.

I could have been killed!

I really need to see you.

Couldn't you take
a later flight?

I can't. I'm pulling into
the airport now.

I have to go.

I'll call you from Rome, okay?

I already miss you.

I'll call you, I promise.

Dad!

Hey, look who's here.

Hey, what's in the bag?

It's candy from the
Turkish Minister of Finance

but I told him my children
don't like candy.

You can each have one piece
before dinner.

Now, go wash your hands.

How's my best girl?

She's just happy
you're home.

I missed you so much today.

Autopsy came in.

We have two types
of stab wounds:

deep ones through
the heart and lungs

and shallow ones
barely penetrating the skin.

Hesitation marks.

EAMES:
Killer didn't know how much
force to use-- first timer.

Tox screen was negative
for drugs.

And here's why Caspari
didn't put up a fight.

Burns from a stun gun.

High on his left thigh.

He might have been sitting
in the passenger seat of a car

the driver reached over
and zapped him.

Oh... from the Office
of Public Records.

Until seven years ago, Charlotte
Fielding was Charlene Caspari

Frank's little sister.

A legal name change

right after Frank was arrested
for the OTB heist.

She was trying to outrun
his notoriety.

Looks like she was trying
to outrun him.

She had an apartment
on Jane Street.

And then three months ago

she unlisted her phone number

and moved to a sublet
at the Wendicott.

Three months ago is when Frank
found out he was being paroled.

Yeah, if he left the
heist money with her...

maybe she wasn't eager
to give it back.

She got somebody to kill him;
first timer.

A boyfriend.

One thing this
line of work teaches us

is that guys will do
anything for love.

And money.

MAN:
No, I never seen this guy.

No way.

You ever seen
Miss Fielding
with other men?

I never saw Miss Fielding
with a guy

but, yeah, she goes out
every other week.

Comes back
in a good mood usually.

Last Tuesday night?

Yeah, she went out
all dressed up.

She came back ten seconds later.
She was pissed.

She asked me if somebody
had left her a message.

She got stood up.

She friends with
anybody in the
building?

Frank Caspari?

No. She never mentioned
the name.

I really don't know
Charlotte very well.

I met her at the gym. We had coffee.
She seems to be from good family.

Bouillabaisse.

Yeah, for my
husband's birthday.

I gave the cook

the night off, but my
culinary skills are
challenged

to say the least.

You just need
to reduce the stock.

My, what do
they teach you

at the Police Academy?

Your doorman thinks
she has a boyfriend.

Uh, if you can call him that.

Apparently he travels a lot.

I've heard that
excuse before.

Charlotte's very protective
of him.

I barely got his first name
out of her.

I've never even
seen a photo of him.

Do you know what he does
for a living?

He's some sort
of an economist.

I think at the U.N.

At least he can
help her balance
her checkbook.

He's doing a little more
than that.

She gave him
her savings to invest.

She's brave.
How much money are
we talking about?

Substantial, I think.

She said it's family money.

Here, try this.

The only money
I ever got from my family

was the 50 bucks my Dad gave me
for my prom dress.

Is that the same year

you were selling apples
in front of City Hall?

It was matchsticks,
and it was snowing... Yes?

Okay. Thank you.

No sign of Frank's loot.

Charlotte's savings account
stayed put at four grand

for the last five years.

Her phone records.

Talk about mishegoss.

I just got off the
phone with the U.N.

They're going to need more
than a first name

before they open up
their employment rolls.

I'm not seeing any calls here

to anyone named Gerry
or to the U.N.

Same here.

But the night Frank was killed

she made a dozen calls to a
pager registered under her name.

She was paging herself?

Well, let's find out.

This is Detective Robert Goren

of the New York City
Police Department.

We're curious
why Charlotte Fielding

would call this pager number

on the night Frank Caspari
was killed.

If it's not
too much trouble

could you call us back

at 555-0146?

Thank you.

EAMES:
You ready?

Yeah.

Let's play, huh?

Here she comes.

Oh, you're early.

No. They told me 1:00.

Oh...

Oh, my, uh...

Watch.

It stopped. Come in.

Sit down.

I'm sorry we had
to play phone tag

the last couple of days.

It's just been
crazy around here.

And now you're here.

You have our
full attention.

First of all, I want you
to stop interrogating
my neighbors.

I live in
a very conservative building.

We tried to be discrete.

And I want to know how you
got my pager number.

It's just one of these
things we're able to do

when we're
investigating
a murder.

I told you, I have not
seen nor heard

from Frank Caspari
in years.

Look, I believe you.

I come from a
family of cops.

But why did you
call your own pager?

I lent it to a married friend.

She uses it
so her boyfriend can call her.

That Tuesday night
you called it 11 times.

This friend--
this married friend

had set me up on a blind date.

I was stood up.

And I was upset.

I'm sure you can understand.

Everything okay?

Yes, I, um...

You weren't supposed
to see this.

Uh...

Well, now you know we know.

Charlene "Cookie" Caspari.

Frankie's little sister.

Actually, he was the first
one to see through your act.

It's your teeth.

(chuckles)

Well...

Charlotte Fielding would have
had them fixed 20 years ago.

You had your nose fixed.

And you had really
big hair back then.

Screw you.

Ooh...

Well, you can take the
girl out of Bensonhurst

but take the Bensonhurst
out of...

I bet that you
had a vocal coach.

I don't have anything
to prove to you.

We're not putting
you down, Cookie.

Stop calling me that.

You were a good student
at John Jay.

Debating team... volleyball
team, Beauticians Club.

All those people
you fooled...

they must have been very
impressed by your stories.

Like this boyfriend...
Gerry, um...

What-what's his name?

You told them he
was an economist.

Probably a $20-an-
hour bookkeeper.

He's not.

He works for
the United Nations.

You met at an seminar

on Keynesian market theory.

No. At Harry Winston. During our
exhibit of antique cigarette holders.

He's a collector.

Oh, stop!

You really lay it on
thick there, Cookie.

I told you not to...

It must have been quite a shock

when Frankie showed up.

Threatening to blow your cover.

There's no cover to blow.

Cookie doesn't exist.

She's gone and I'm here.

And to prove
I'm no longer

that big-haired,
gum-popping homegirl

is the fact that this man
you morons call my boyfriend

is a successful, intelligent

Columbia PhD., London School
of Economics graduate

who just last week had lunch
with the president of Harvard.

This sophisticated,
cultivated man of the world

loves me and wants to make
a life with me...

Charlotte Fielding,
not Cookie Caspari.

You played me.

Good cop, bad cop.

(Brooklyn accent)
I shoulda remembered...

all cops are bad cops.

(imitating accent):
She should have remembered.

CHARLOTTE:
They didn't ask
about the money

but I'm sure
they suspect something.

I think we're lost.

Do you have
Mr. Annan's phone number?

I'm not calling
the Secretary General

of the United Nations
for directions.

Check the glove box. I think
I have a better map in there.

You didn't tell them
anything about me?

No. They're bound
to find out.

What's this?

I was going
to wait, but...

Oh, Gerry,
does this mean...?

With all my heart.

(laughs)

This person would
have had lunch

with Mr. Summers last week.

He'd be in his
late 30s or 40s

with a PhD from Columbia.

It could have been
New York or Boston.

Is there anyone else
in the alumni office
that I should speak to?

Thanks anyway.

The president of Harvard's
been in Africa

the last three weeks.

Gerry likes to make up stories
about knowing famous people.

(phone rings)

Major Case,
Detective Eames.

Which hospital?

DOCTOR:
She's in a coma.

She's lucky to be alive.

If the State Troopers
hadn't found her...

EAMES:
What's the prognosis?

She could remain
like this indefinitely.

GOREN:
The bruises on the neck?

They're consistent
with manual strangulation.

Perp might have
been interrupted
in the act.

GOREN:
Look, same place
as Frankie's.

I didn't know
what those were.

Stun-gun burns.

Her book only has
his first name.

No address, no home
or office number.

She noted every date
that she had with him

and his itinerary:

"Gerry in Geneva,
Gerry in Milan

Gerry in Hong Kong."

No pictures of him.

Handbook from a conference--

"Realistic Debt
Consolidation
in Nairobi."

My boyfriend went
to Kenya

and all I got
was this lousy brochure.

This guy knows the way
to a girl's heart.

Souvenirs he brought her:

wooden shoes, geisha doll.

What's that?

It's U.N. schedule
of conferences.

So far, they match
Gerry's travel dates

in her Day-Timer.

If we get the list
of attendees

maybe we find Gerry.

The Day-Timer has Gerry
in Johannesburg

for something called
the "Mkunga Conference."

Mkunga is Swahili
for midwife.

What's an economist

doing at a conference
on midwives?

WOMAN:
Maybe our legal office
wasn't clear with you.

I have to contact
the organizing committee

at each conference locale.

Only they have a final
list of attendees.

It could take weeks
if not months.

I was told you could inspire
people to do the impossible.

These are the conferences
we're interested in.

Your economist attended these?

We matched his travel schedule
with a calendar of conferences.

You must have been
working off an old calendar.

There have been amendments.

You should have come to me
sooner.

If I'd only known how charming
the experience would be.

This conference
on trade tariffs--

in December that was moved
from Hong Kong to Shanghai

and this banking conference
in Milan

that was canceled
for security reasons.

The man that we're looking for

gave his girlfriend
this handbook

from a conference in Nairobi
last month.

Is there anyway he could have
gotten it

without attending
the conference?

Yes, from our publications
office.

The publications office
got a request

for the handbook
two weeks ago

from someone saying
he was a reporter.

It was left at
the reception desk.

They know exactly what day
it was picked up.

We're looking
at security tapes
of the lobby.

How many candidates so far?

Caucasian males

late 30s to 40s,
about eight.

There's still four hours
of tape.

Once you have other pictures,
where you going to go?

We'll start at
the Botanical Gardens

where the body was dumped.

EAMES:
His first name is Gerry

and he might have been
in the company of this woman.

Wait. Here, this guy.
I've seen him here.

When?

A bunch of times.

You know, he sits
right over there.

Oh, yeah, right.
That's him.

He comes in her
almost once a week.

The weekends?

No, during the week.

Different days.

When's the last time?

It's been at least
a couple of weeks for sure.

MAN:
He spends whole days here.

Usually brings
his sandwich.

He reads the paper
or a book.

Yeah. Sometimes he sits
in the greenhouse snoozing.

You ever talk to him?

Just to say hello,
that's all.

He's not a talker.

I heard him
talking to himself once

out by the rose garden.

Saying what?

I don't know.
He sounded pissed off.

One time, I heard him say
it wasn't his fault.

He said that a few times.

You know how he gets here,
a bus, car?

Car. I've seen him out
in the parking lot.

Silver Volvo.
Had a few years on it.

License plate?

Nah, sorry.

Thanks.

My witnesses did
better than yours.

Jersey plates,
last two numbers are 35.

Looks like the closest
Gerry's been to Kenya

are the African violets
in the greenhouse.

GIRL:
Keep on going.

Careful, turn.

To the right.
Yep, there you go.

Watch out for the...

You're making me very nervous.

Left, left

Okay. Right.

Getting warm.
Getting very warm.

You can look now.

I love it.
What is it?

It's a wall of remembrance

of all the great things
you've done.

Here's where you carried me
home from the hospital

in the snowstorm
when I was a baby.

See, that's where
you saved my cat

when it was up
on the roof.

And that's you and Papa
duck hunting

and that's you flying

around the world
and helping people.

The kids have been working
on it for a month.

Happy birthday, sweetie.

I don't think any father
ever had a better birthday.

Okay. Time for cake.

KIDS:
Yes!

Those kids just adore you.

I'm very proud
of you, son.

Listen, I'm thinking
of taking your mother

on a cruise this summer,
but I have to book it now.

I'm going to need
some money out of our savings.

How much?

Oh, $10,000 should do it.

I don't know, Dad,
isn't a cruise a little risky?

Ah, it'll be fun.

Your mother and I
haven't been away for years.

I'll need the check
by the end of the week.

Okay. I'll have
the bank wire it.

Here's hoping for another
satisfied Volvo owner.
Tessa Rankin?

Yes?

We're from the
New York City police.

We're investigating
an accident

in the city last week.

Do you own a silver Volvo,
license plate number EVZ135?

I think that's ours

but I didn't notice
any damage to our car.

The person driving
might have witnessed
the accident.

Well, my husband
uses the car.

He works in the city.

He has an office there.

If you leave me
your card

I can ask him.

It'd be better
if we asked him.

Where does he work?

At the United Nations

in the office
of Economic Development.

He's an economist.

What's his name?

Gerald Rankin.

Oh, yes, I think
I might have heard of him.

That wouldn't be surprising.

Do you know where,
specifically, he has his office

in the U.N. building?

Well, no.
I don't know what floor.

I've never been there.
It's a high-security area.

Could we have
his office number?

Maybe we can find him
that way.

It just goes to his voicemail.
He's always in meetings.

What about
his secretary?

Oh, Gerry doesn't have one.
He doesn't trust them.

I just leave a message

and he always calls me
right back.

That's a good system.

You do that
when he travels overseas?

Yes, those foreign hotels
are unreliable.

They don't always speak English.

You got that right.

(rings)

We'll call him. Thank you.

GERRY:
What exactly did they say?

Just that there was some kind
of car accident.

You didn't tell me.

There's dozens of silver Volvos
with Jersey plates.

They probably got
the numbers mixed up.

I'll look into it
when I get home.

When's that going to be, honey?
I miss you.

I have to get the money
for Mom and Dad's cruise

then I'll pick up
the kids at school.

Oh, no, you don't have
to do that.

Just come home.

I'll pick 'em up.

Then we'll all come home.

I'll see you soon.

EAMES:
The U.N. doesn't have
a Gerald Rankin

working for any
of its agencies.

The phone number's
for his cell phone

registered under
the wife's name.

The bills go
to a P.O. box.

He did go to Columbia
for eight years

as an economics major,
but he never graduated.

The state tax office says he
hasn't reported any income

for the last 16 years.

He has no bank accounts

no credit cards, no gas cards.

Nothing but the footprints
in the snow.

Hard to believe the guy's
never propped up on our radar.

Three years ago, he testified
at a medical examiner's

inquest into his
father-in-law's death.

Slip-and-fall following
a heart attack.

CARVER:
Yes, I'm still here.

Gerry was alone in the
house with his old man.

They're faxing us
a final report.

CARVER:
Good to hear.

The Essex County D.A.

will issue their own material
witness warrant for Mr. Rankin

and they'll post officers
to watch his house.

However humble
his lifestyle

how did Mr. Rankin manage to
support his family for 16 years?

Frank Caspari's 400 grand's
a good start.

GOREN:
Here's something.

According to the County Clerk
in Essex

his father
and his father-in-law

gave Gerry limited
power of attorney ten years ago.

Limited to what?

Money transfers

purchase of securities
and real estate.

That's interesting.

So he makes up
all these tall tales

just to swindle people?

I haven't figured
the guy out yet.

Medical report on
the father-in-law's
slip-and-fall

right here...

in the bruise
under the right arm.

Those two marks,
what are they?

EAMES:
We're back

this time
with a search warrant.

Wait, you can't just
come into my house.

I'm sorry, ma'am.

Just read the warrant.

Brader... Morelli.

Mrs. Rankin...

Mrs. Rankin, it'll
be all right.

If we could just
sit over here?

Have you spoken
to your husband

since we were here?

Yes. Why?

Did he say
where he was?

Where he was going?

He was, uh, stopping
to get money for his father

and then he was
picking up the kids

and coming home.

He was lending his
father some money?

No. It's for a cruise.

Gerry manages their savings.

Is that what
this is all about?

Gerry said
it was all legal.

What is?

Well... because of his work
at the U.N.

Gerry is able to put money
in a Swiss bank

at a very high rate
of interest.

Does he do that
for a lot of people?

He invested
my father's savings

till Dad dies
three years ago.

That money is for
our kids now.

Uh, before he died

was your father planning on
taking some of the money out?

He was talking about getting
a cottage by the shore.

If Gerry did something wrong
by putting money in that bank

I'm sure he didn't know.

He was just trying
to help the family.

That's the most
important thing for him.

Oh, the children
made that for his birthday.

He's got his whole life up here.

Bringing the baby
home from the hospital.

Columbia...

Gerry was the first one

in his family
to graduate from college.

The kids think
the world of him.

He must feel very loved.

He must feel very loved.

Your kids, how did they
get to school today?

Gerry decided to drive them.

Mrs. Rankin, I need
you to call the school

and ask about your kids.

Why? They're in class.

Please call the school.

Hello, hi, this is Tessa Rankin.

I'm calling about my children
Jason and Natalia.

Oh...

Right.

He said what?

Thank you.

Gerry called them

already this morning

and he told them that
the children had the flu

and that they were
staying home from school.

But they must have
misunderstood.

Oh, God, my children.

What's happening?

What's wrong with Gerry?

What matters are your kids.

You need to call Gerry.

And when he calls back

you need to find out for us
where he is.

Okay? You can't tell
him that we're here.

Look... you have to
ask about your kids.

You have to make sure
you call them by name.

Mrs. Rankin,
he can't know

you suspect
anything's wrong.

(phone ringing)

Yes, sweetheart?

Hi, honey.

I just called to see when you
think you'll be coming home.

I don't know.

Well, the school called.

Are Jason and Natalia with you?

Yes, they're here.

Can I say "hi"?

No, they're sleeping now.

This early? Are they sick?

No, we had a big day.
We went skating

and we went swimming downstairs.

They were so tired,
they fell asleep in the room.

Where are you?

Maybe I can come over.

No, I don't think so.

Well, then,
just come home, honey.

I have dinner waiting for you
and Jason and Natalia.

They're very tired.

I'm sorry.
I have to get off the phone.

I won't be able
to talk to you anymore.

No, Gerry, wait.

Gerry, please, for God sakes.

He won't let me talk to them.

Did he say where he was?

In some kind of hotel.

It had a pool.

He seemed to know it.

Probably the
place he stays

when he's supposed
to be out of town.

Did he ever bring any
souvenirs from a hotel?

Soap or...?

Oh, the little
shampoo bottles.

Natalia uses them
on her dolls.

The Paris Park Suites.

It's by the Newark airport.

Get your husband

back on the phone.

Keep him talking
as long as you can.

If he hangs up, call him back.

We can set up a sniper team

but under no circumstance
should they rush this guy.

The need to keep their distance.

Lauren, get me the Jersey
Troopers in Union county.

There's a, uh...
what's his name?

Blundell. Captain Blundell.

Tell him Jimmy Deakins
is calling.

Try him again.

(cell phone ringing)

GOREN:
Gerry? Gerry Rankin?

The maid gave
me a pass key.

I'm Robert Goren.

Go away.

I just want us to talk.

I'm going to...

I'm going to stand
right here, like this.

I've learned a lot
about you, Gerry.

About the events
that brought you here.

How you've been caught up

in the tentacles
of circumstance.

Everything has
been done to you.

None of it has been your fault.

Like when you were at

Columbia...
you-you missed your finals.

You were tired.

You were sick.

Or maybe you just didn't want
to be an economist after all.

And it was too late.

You were carrying
the burden

of your parents'
expectations.

You couldn't
disappoint them.

So you lied to them
about graduating.

It wasn't your fault.

You did it for them.

Right?

I didn't have any choice.

For them and for Tessa who...

who has all her hopes
pinned on you.

You had to invent a
life for all of them.

Pressure of that must
have been unbearable.

And then your father-in-law...

if he hadn't wanted to buy
that stupid little cottage--

you had responsibilities.

You had to do something
to stop him!

It wasn't your fault.

And then Charlotte

and her crooked brother...

if he hadn't wanted
to come after that money.

If he hadn't forced you

to make these
tough decisions.

Like having a relationship
with Charlotte.

Like breaking
your marriage vows.

I mean, you were
pushed into it

by circumstance.

You shut up.

You don't know anything
about me.

Gerry...

No, you don't know.

Just get out of here!

Okay.

I'm going to do this.
Now, get out!

Oh, of course-- of course
you didn't break your vows.

Of course you
didn't sleep with
Charlotte Fielding.

Ah... of course...

My God, Gerry, the one time
that you had a choice to make

you chose the moral thing.

No matter the
sacrifices that
you had to make.

No matter how alone
that you felt.

You didn't give
in to temptation.

You're a hero, Gerry.

You did what
heroes do.

You played the hand
that you were dealt.

Because you wanted the best
for your family.

Because you wanted
to spare them the
disappointment.

Especially with these
two precious children.

The...

the thought of them
looking at you

with anything less
than admiration

would be too much to bear.

But now,
Gerry, now...

they're able to...

to take the true measure of
the sacrifices that you've made.

Nothing you've
done up to now

has been your fault.

If you do what you're thinking

that will be your fault.

Your choice.

No one will
ever forgive you.

No one will ever
love you again.

Okay?

(crying)

So, just let go.

Clear!

Get down!

GERRY:
I didn't hurt them.

I would never hurt them.

Only two shells.

One for each child.

He was planning to walk away.

Charlotte Fielding's lucky.

She'll never know what a worm

her white knight
turned out to be.