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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.