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In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate

equally important groups. The police who investigate crime and the district

attorneys who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

Hey, it's me.

Listen, I really need... I just need to talk to you. Call me back. Please.

Cause of death is a single gunshot to the head.

Recovered a 9mm casing on the floor.

You know her victim's name?

Natalie Wallace.

She owns the Brownstone. According to neighbors, she was single, lived alone.

Neighbors the one who called it in?

Negative. Shot spotted device detected the sound of a gunshot and alerted

central. Car was dispatched, saw the front door open and found the body.

AI gets it right for once.

MLI recovered several strands of hair on the victim's body.

Alright, well let's make sure we get those to the lab.

Looks like we got signs of forced entry. Anything indicating a robbery?

Not that we can tell.

Phone and wallet are present and accounted for.

All right, Walker, anything up here?

Plenty easy to grab electronics laying around.

Laptops, speakers, whatever that thing is.

Dude, it's a 3D printer.

Oh.

Well, whatever our Vic did for a living, looks like she made some pretty good

money. According to LinkedIn, Natalie Wallace is a chief engineer for a

called Utomnia.

Yeah, surveillance software.

We use those guys to get geofencing warrants. They're like Big Brother. They

eyes and ears everywhere.

Okay, so as soon as she's good at her job, her killer should be easy to find.

We got your message. What's up? We've been processing your crime scene, and

there's something I need to show you.

We attempted to access the data from Natalie Wallace's own security cameras.

Okay, is there something I'm missing here?

Yeah, about three hours worth of footage from last night, deleted from her hard

drive and the cloud backup.

Let me guess, the missing footage overlaps perfectly with the time she was

murdered, huh? She called us down here to show us you got nothing to show us?

It's not just her security system, her tablet, her smart fridge, her Bluetooth

speakers. Every piece of data from last night has been scrubbed.

I've never seen anything like it. And it's not just in her house. Even the

street cams on her blocks were wiped.

Wait, how is that even possible?

Well, it looks like whoever did it gained access to the city's mainframe by

exploiting a backdoor glitch that until now we didn't even know was there. So

whoever murdered her was either an expert hacker or paid someone who is to

their tracks. Looks like finding a killer is not going to be so easy after

We were able to recover her text from the cloud.

All right, so the last text she sent was to a Vanessa Barrett only a few minutes

before she was killed.

Call me ASAP.

I need to talk to you.

Sounds urgent.

We worked together at, uh, Utomnia.

I was the chief technology officer.

Thank you.

Technically, I was her boss, but, um, it should have been the other way around.

She's really talented.

Looks like you got out of the security game.

Yeah. I, uh, sorry.

I came over here a year ago to take the CTO position.

We are a startup trying to create efficiencies in the women's healthcare

space. You and Natalie stayed in touch?

Yeah, we're friends, good friends.

Do you have any idea what that text might have been about?

No.

She left me a voicemail, too, saying the same thing.

That uh that she needed to talk to me and had a chance to respond I was flying

home from a conference in Sweden I am I landed late last night.

You aware of any problems. She was having anyone who might have wanted to

her She did go through a bad breakup a few months ago with a guy

Named Patrick he works in

cybersecurity. She dumped him. I guess he didn't take it well, and she told me

that he said some pretty terrible things.

When was the last time you spoke to her?

Three months ago.

She asked me to leave her alone, and I respected her wishes.

Truth is, she had major trust issues with men, but she came by them honestly.

What does that mean?

Before she worked for Utomnia, Natalie was a video game designer.

A few years back, she got a lot of hate online.

Gamergators? Yeah.

Help me out here. A bunch of video game bro -types started going after prominent

women who worked in the industry, attacking them online.

You know about this stuff, huh?

I'm a single man in their 30s. I play a lot of video games.

I did some digging online, found a Reddit thread of Gamergate dudes still

trolling our Vic.

All these years later, these guys are still mad? Why?

Because ladies like to play video games too?

A bunch of grown -ass men hanging out a sign on their clubhouse that says, girls

not allowed.

I mean, it's the lamest thing I've ever heard. Yeah, some of these women had to

change their identities, move to new towns. How does it even get to that

Incels, getting on their headsets, hyping each other up.

These are your people, huh?

I play solo, dog.

Check it out.

A user named Tanner Lavelle threatened Natalie three days ago.

According to his profile, he lives in Queens.

Calls himself a master hacker.

We'll be right back.

We get it?

NYPD, turn around and put your hands in the air. Yeah, put your hands up!

Drop that weapon!

Don't shoot, it's not a weapon!

Yo, what the hell, man?

Natalie Wallace walks around thinking she knows what's up.

Let's see how mouthy the bitch is when she feels the cold metal of my Glock on

her forehead.

You own a Glock, Tanner?

No.

Not a real one.

You posted this three days ago.

Last night, Natalie was shot and killed.

Wait, what?

That wasn't me. We know that you hated her, Tanner. We've already been through

your Reddit.

She worked for the company that made my favorite game.

She talked some nonsense about the depiction of women being offensive.

She doesn't even work for the company anymore, man.

Yet you still targeted her. Why?

Is it because she posted this photo of you?

Oh, I love this.

This is a real man the way a chihuahua is a real guard dog. I mean, that's

funny. Must be why it got over 30 ,000 likes. She humiliated you, huh?

Owned you in front of your incel buddies. No, we know that you knew where

lived, Harry. You posted it online, you piece of crap. Okay, okay!

But I never went there.

Really? No.

I wanted to.

Look, look. I hated that slut. Hey, watch yourself.

Every time when I tried to work up the nerve to even go, I couldn't.

I chickened out.

Where were you last night around 1130?

I was playing in the Magic, the gathering tournament.

I made it to the last round and I didn't get out until after midnight.

Spoke to the tournament organizer.

Tanner Lavelle's alibi is legit.

Got tracks.

While you were doing that, the lab results came in.

The hair on the Vic belongs to a Caucasian male.

So we're looking for a white guy.

Uh, guys?

Something's happening.

What's going on?

I was going through the Vic's emails when all of a sudden a bunch of them

started disappearing.

Look.

What's happening right now? I think someone might be remotely deleting them.

Can you stop it?

No, I tried.

Can you recover them from the trash?

They're not there either.

Is there any pattern as to which emails are being deleted?

Yeah, it looks like it's all the ones with the purple label.

That's her work tab.

So someone's working overtime to scrub Natalie's email of anything related to

you, Tanya.

Email deletions are standard protocol.

The system is in place to protect company trade secrets.

Well, it's impeding a murder investigation.

I don't know what to tell you.

The system is set up to automatically sweep an inbox once an employee is

as no longer working at the company.

Why all the secrecy?

Well, there's a lot of corporate espionage in this industry.

Detectives Marius Cole, my office told me you were here.

I'm sorry about the emails, but I can't imagine that Natalie's murder had

anything to do with her work product.

That's for us to determine.

Of course.

Thank you, Jabari. I'll take it from here.

The last thing I want to do is hinder an investigation.

Natalie was amazing, brilliant, truly one of a kind. Believe me, any way that

can help, just say the word. What was Natalie doing for you specifically?

Again, I'm sorry. Unless you have a specific warrant for something, it would

irresponsible of me to divulge any company secrets.

Although I can tell you that we recently had to fire somebody on her team.

He was...

caught leaking sensitive company data to the press.

He was furious, and he blamed Natalie.

She blocked me from doing the public a service.

The stuff Utomnia is up to is terrifying, and people need to know.

Really? Like what?

Iris scanning, facial rec, phone hacking, location data scraping.

That stuff's existed for years, man.

Sure. But Utomnia is consolidating all the information into one giant database,

powered by AI, and selling the data to the highest bidder.

Marius Cole is completely eradicating the basic concept of privacy and people

don't even realize it. So you see yourself as a whistleblower?

I tried, but Natalie caught me.

So because of Natalie, you're facing some pretty stiff penalties, huh?

I wouldn't hurt Natalie for God's sake. I'm the good guy here, not the villain.

Oh, people who say that make me nervous.

I didn't blame Natalie.

She was a total techno -optimist. She truly believed that if it were harder

bad people to hide, the world would be a safer place.

All that being said, where were you two nights ago?

I was at a concert at Madison Square Garden.

The amount of surveillance in that place, you can verify that a hundred

different ways.

Okay, we will be in touch.

Oh, wait.

A few days before I was camped, so about a week ago, I ran into Natalie at a

cafe. She was with a guy, and when I went over to say hi, she got super

Do you know who the guy was?

I didn't recognize him, but something about the vibe was...

Off. I got the security video from the cafe.

All right, good.

So, this is the date and time how a wannabe whistleblower said he ran into

Natalie in The Mystery Man.

Nope, there he is, right there.

And there she is.

Looks like she's crying.

Can you zoom in on the guy's face?

I'll run facial rec.

Sean Morris.

Detective Riley.

This is Detective Walker, NYPD.

We'd like to ask you a few questions about Natalie Wallace.

Oh, good.

I'm glad to hear she went through with it.

Went through with what?

Wait, what is this about?

We're homicide detectives.

Natalie Wallace was murdered two nights ago.

Oh, my God.

I didn't know. I've been at a yoga retreat.

I was with her earlier that day.

Were you two in a relationship?

What? Oh, God, no.

I'm gay.

I'm a trauma counselor at the Midtown Women's Clinic.

I was helping her.

Helping her with what?

Natalie was sexually assaulted.

About a month ago.

And when we last spoke, she said she was going to go to the police.

She said the rape was heard a month prior to her murder.

That's what we were told.

Normally, what we see with a post -sexual assault situation are

abrasions to the posterior foreshed or the fossa vincularis. But because of the

increased blood flow to those areas, naturally, they tend to heal quickly.

Unless the injuries are severe, they usually abate within a week or two.

So you can't tell us one way or the other? Not conclusively, but I was able

perform a secondary examination and found something else.

You see this slight discoloration here and here?

Not really. It's very faint, but it appears to be a chemosis.

That's the yellowing you see at the very final stages of the body, breaking down

hemoglobin pooled under the skin.

So she had bruises? On both wrists and her throat.

Almost completely healed, which is why we didn't catch it initially.

Okay. Anything else? Yes.

She tested positive for hepatitis B.

Appears to be recent, too. According to her medical record, she tested negative

for all STDs at her last checkup three months ago.

All right, thanks, doc. Thank you.

So, a rapist figures out somehow that she was going to report him and kills

before she gets the chance. We don't know when the rape occurred, so we just

need to retrace her steps that day, find out who she was with.

October 17th, you said?

Yeah, according to Natalie's calendar app, you two had dinner that night?

Uh, yeah, yeah. I remember we went to a new Mediterranean place that she'd been

wanting to try. Here you go. Thank you so much.

What? What does this have to do with her murder? What was her mood like that

night? Her mood?

Yeah. Did she seem upset?

Mention any problems she was having?

No. No, we mostly just talked about the reality shows we were watching and

bitched about our jobs.

Did she mention anything about a sexual assault?

What? No.

Why?

Did something happen?

We're not sure.

What happened after dinner that night?

Uh, nothing.

She had to leave early because of some sort of emergency that came up with one

of the projects she was working on.

So she went back to the Utomnia office?

Marius texted her while we were eating.

I don't work at the company anymore, so she couldn't tell me what it was about.

But she had to cut the meal short to go meet up with him.

What the hell is this?

You have no right to. This is completely unwarranted. No, actually, it's

entirely warranted.

Literally. This is an invasion of my privacy. Yeah, it sucks, doesn't it?

Got a prescription here for Lamivudine.

Got your name on it.

What's that for?

That's none of your damn business.

Well, the internet says hepatitis B medication.

Detective, we found a box of ammunition under her bed.

Nine millimeter.

Same caliber used to kill Natalie Wallace.

I want my lawyer.

I'll bet you do. Marius Cole, you're under arrest for the murder of Natalie

Wallace. You have the right to remain silent.

Were the police able to recover the murder weapon?

No, and Marius Cole has never had a firearm registered in his name.

What about motive?

Cole killed Natalie to stop her from reporting him for rape.

Can we prove that he raped her?

I think so.

It's all based on circumstantial evidence, but I think we can get there.

best news of all is that we can place Cole at the murder scene.

DNA tests confirm that the hair recovered from Natalie's body belongs to

It's not a perfect case, but Cole has no alibi for the night of the murder.

Marius Cole's donated millions to various female forward charities. He's

big reputation as a liberal feminist ally.

Yeah, which is why we need to bury him.

A wolf in sheep's clothing is going to kill more sheep if you give him the

chance.

Okay.

Charging with murder, too.

Miss Maroon.

Your Honor, the people seek remand. The defendant is a billionaire.

He has access to a private jet. There is no amount of bail that could be set

that could prohibit him from fleeing the country. My client is not going

anywhere, but I'll spare us all the back and forth about bail because it is a

moot point.

The state has no case, and therefore I am immediately filing a motion to

dismiss. On what grounds? We have irrefutable proof that Marius Cole did

commit this murder.

What is it exactly that I'm looking at here, Counselor? Security camera footage

from Marius Cole's apartment that shows he was at home in Tribeca at the time

Natalie Wallace was murdered. And what did?

The timestamps in the corner are supposed to be the proof?

As I detailed in my motion, his brownstone is also equipped with state

-art bioscanning technology that tracks all living beings in the home at all

times. And its logs show with a zero degree of uncertainty that Mr. Cole was

the apartment the entire night.

Your Honor.

Proceeding... with a trial would be a colossal waste of this court's limited

resources. To say nothing of the time and energy of everyone involved, not

of all my client. Marius Cole is the head of the largest and the most

surveillance tech firm in the world. He has the unlimited resources and the know

-how to fabricate all of this so -called evidence.

Given the preponderance of it, there is no way a jury gets around reasonable

doubt. No, they will.

Once I debunk it all, which is why they're trying to have this case tossed

emotion.

I agree with Mr. Price.

You're welcome to present this evidence at trial, Ms. Calhoun, but there's no

way in hell I'm dismissing this case.

I have over 20 years of experience as a consultant in cybersecurity.

And the NYPD brought you in to advise on this case?

Yes. Shortly after Natalie Wallace was murdered, someone hacked into every one

of the devices in her home and erased any data that had been recorded in the

hours surrounding her death. Including video footage from her security cameras?

They also accessed the city's mainframe and wiped the street camera footage from

Ms. Wallace's block.

I was brought in to do a digital forensic investigation to determine who

hacker was.

Were you successful?

No. Whoever did it covered their tracks incredibly well. In your professional

opinion, does the defendant have the skills necessary to have done this?

It's literally a service, Utomnia, his company, offers to his clients. The

of hacking we're talking about here for Marius Cole would be like...

Stephen Hawking doing a Sudoku. What about manufacturing evidence, like video

surveillance footage or digital location data? Is that also something Utomnia

does? I don't think they advertise that, but they certainly have the

capabilities. So, hypothetically, the defendant could create proof for an

that was not real.

Absolutely. Objection. Your Honor assumes facts not in evidence.

Sustained. No further questions.

You have no proof or first -hand knowledge that Marius Cole tampered with

erased any evidence pertaining to this case, do you?

No, but I know he's capable of it. Right, because it's a service his

offers. Do you know how many employees there are at Utomnia?

I do not.

4 ,854.

Presumably, many of them possess the same capabilities.

Yes, presumably.

What about people not employed by any company? In your experience, are there

private citizens that possess the skills necessary to erase the data in

question? Of course.

And you have no knowledge of anything that specifically implicates my client

the murder of Natalie Wallace?

No. So you're here merely to testify to the fact that hacking is something that

exists in the world.

Duly noted.

No further questions.

About halfway through the meal, Natalie got a text. She said it was Marius and

that she had to go back to the office.

Did she say why?

No, some sort of work emergency.

She couldn't give me the details because I didn't work at the company anymore.

Marius is brutal when it comes to enforcing NDAs.

So you left your dinner early, and she told you that she was going to meet with

the defendant.

Yes. Do you remember what day this was?

October 17th.

Thank you. No further questions.

We have no questions for this witness.

You may be excused.

You may call your next witness, Mr. Price.

People call Sean Morris to the stand.

Did Natalie Wallace share any details with you about her sexual assault?

Objection. Hearsay. It speaks to Natalie Wallace's state of mind at the time of

her murder and is not offered for the truth of the matter.

Overruled. The witness may answer.

Yes.

She said that she was raped by someone she knew well, someone she trusted.

She said that he gave her a drink, but after a few sips, she started to feel

funny, so she stopped drinking.

He got mad.

insisted she drink it. So he tried to drug her.

And when that didn't work, he threw the glass against the wall and screamed that

he was in control, that she had to do what he said.

And then what happened?

She tried to leave, but he grabbed her by the throat, tied her hands behind her

back with a belt, and then he raped her.

She said that he whispered in her ear the entire time, saying no matter how

powerful she thought she was, he could do whatever he wanted to her.

And he said other things, things I can't bring myself to repeat.

You develop a thick skin in my line of work, but even I was... Did she tell you

when this all happened?

October 17th.

Did you meet with her on the day that she was killed?

I did.

In our first session, she wasn't ready to report her rapist.

It's common for women in her situation, especially high -powered women in male

-dominated fields.

She was still processing her grief, feeling a sense of shame, of guilt.

But in our last session, she said she was ready to report it to the police.

Did she tell you when she was going to do that?

The next day.

but someone killed her before she got the chance.

No further questions.

Did Ms. Wallace tell you the name of her attacker?

No. She gave you all those details, but left that one out.

Well, like I said, she wasn't ready to report it at first.

And nothing you've shared specifically points to my client being the one who

raped her. In fact, because she never sought medical attention...

There's no factual record that a rape even ever occurred.

I sat with her for hours as she shook with fear and rage

and pain.

I can assure you it happened.

That may be so.

But my client had nothing to do with it.

No further questions.

Hi. You did great back there.

Here.

They always claim mascara is waterproof.

In my experience, there's no such thing.

Thank you.

So embarrassing.

No. It's hard to hear.

Oh, God, I just gave... I... What?

I... I'm the one who hired Natalie to work at Eutonia.

Of course, I didn't know at the time that Mary is... But she was my best

and it's my fault, and I should have tried.

No, don't go there, please.

Easy for you to say.

No. I get it. Trust me.

A similar thing happened to a loved one.

Spent years trying to blame myself.

Darius Cole is the monster here, not you.

And I'm going to do everything I can to put him where he belongs.

Thank you.

But I don't think I can watch any more of this.

Part of my job as the CEO of Utomnia is cultivating new business, which means

whining and dining the people in charge of handing out government and private

defense contracts.

Last year, I had a potential client that wanted to discuss business on a

shooting range.

The range made you purchase ammunition, and I ended up with extra. So that's why

the police found nine millimeter bullets in your home.

Yeah, but I don't even have a gun to shoot them with. I've never fired a

outside of a shooting range.

Marius. Did you rape Natalie Wallace?

God, no.

The prosecution is claiming that was your motive for wanting her dead.

That she was going to report you for assaulting her.

That's insane.

I would never harm a woman.

I have spent real money and time not only in programs supporting women in

but in making sure that my companies are a place where women can feel safe and

have access to equal opportunities.

But your DNA was in her home. And as the prosecution pointed out, you were both

diagnosed with hepatitis B. That's correct.

When I told Natalie about my diagnosis, she was very upset.

She had recently been diagnosed as well, but was afraid to tell me.

What are you saying?

I contracted it from her.

Natalie and I had been seeing each other for a few months before she was killed.

We kept the relationship private.

Which explains why your DNA was in her home.

Were you dating at the time of the murder?

No. I called it off about a week before.

We weren't connecting.

Now I know why.

She didn't tell me she had been raped.

If she had, I never would have... We could have gotten through that together.

I wish more than anything that we had.

Thank you.

No further questions.

If you and Miss Wallace had been seeing each other, as you

claim...

Why not mention that to the police when they first spoke to you?

I didn't think it was relevant.

I had no information about who her killer could have been, and I was

the loss of somebody that I loved.

It was personal, private.

So you loved Natalie?

Did you ever tell anyone that? Did you ever tell them that the two of you were

in a relationship?

No. Oh, it was private, right.

Sorry, how convenient.

But I can provide plenty of data that shows that we were spending nights and

weekends together, messages that we sent each other. Things that we've already

established that you can fabricate. But I'm guessing that not a single person, I

mean a real live person, can actually corroborate your story. A story which

so happens to explain away all the evidence against you, almost as if it

crafted to do exactly that. Plea that.

Objection. Your honor, argumentative. Sustained. Move on, Mr. Price.

You forced yourself on Natalie, didn't you? No. You raped her, and then you

tabs on her. That's what you do, isn't it, with your spyware and your high

surveillance? You figured out that she was going to go to the police, and so

killed her.

I have never raped anybody in my entire life, and I swear to you, I did not kill

Natalie.

But I would kill the man who did if I could.

How valiant.

No further questions for this witness.

Yeah.

No, no, you've been very helpful.

Thank you so much.

That was the shooting range where Cole claims he bought the ammunition.

Confirmed he was there last spring with a client.

All that proves is that he knows how to shoot a gun and had bullets.

I'm worried that his story is just plausible enough to buy him reasonable

Plus, there's that fake video of him being home all night.

We need to find a way to prove that he is lying.

What we need is another victim.

Guys like this.

They don't just do it once.

I agree, but the police tried to find other victims. They came up empty.

Yeah.

He loves to make people sign NDAs.

Maybe that's how he's been able to keep other victims quiet.

Yeah. I know it's a thing that happens. I do, but as a woman, I can't

imagine letting a known predator continue to operate in exchange for

If it helps at all, it's probably a lot of money.

I don't care how much he offered. How can someone, a woman, live with that

of guilt?

Sam?

What is it?

Cole assaulted you too, didn't he?

No, that's... Where is this... You didn't answer my question.

The answer is no, and I would like you to leave, please.

It's okay, Vanessa.

You can be honest with me.

No, I can't.

Because you signed a nondisclosure agreement?

Well, how much did he pay you to

serve up your best friend?

I didn't serve up anything.

You left her vulnerable.

You didn't warn her.

I don't owe you any explanation.

But it wasn't about the money. I was humiliated.

I didn't want anyone to know. I didn't want to spend the rest of my life being

defined by what he did to me. I wanted it to go away forever.

Leaving him to be the next woman's problem.

No, he swore to me he'd never done anything like that before, and I

him.

I let myself believe him.

So I took the money, I found a new job, and I did everything I

could to put that horrible moment behind me. It is what I

needed to do.

Well, um...

Right now, what you need to do is testify.

No, no, I can't. Don't worry, your money's safe.

NDAs are not enforceable when testifying about a crime. It's not about the

money. If people find out that I didn't come forward, that I took the money, my

career's over.

The press will crucify me. I will be the enemy of all women. I

work. For a company focused on women's health, for Christ's sake, everyone will

look at me the way you're looking at me right now.

Price it be for taking the money, I suppose.

Mm -mm. That is not fair.

All I have done is pay every day, every night.

I took the money because it felt right.

I don't even know how to describe it. When he came to me with that offer, I

was struggling.

He had ripped my life apart.

I was just trying to survive.

You said something like this happened to someone you loved?

My sister.

When it happened to you, were you worried about her?

Or some hypothetical future victim?

We'll subpoena her, force her to take the stand. Even if we have to treat her

a hostile witness, her testimony will likely get us a conviction.

I agree. I understand Ms. Bennett not wanting to be publicly shamed, but we're

talking about putting a murderer behind bars here.

Yeah, I get it.

Respectfully, more than either of you, but I... But what?

I don't know.

I mean, what she said to me was very compelling.

Are we really going to further punish a woman who's already been through so

much?

Marius Cole's a sexual predator and a cold -blooded killer.

We have a duty to protect the public to stop him from victimizing anyone else.

At the expense of someone he's already victimized.

I mean, what about our duty to her?

Sam, come on. You said it yourself. This woman took a payout in exchange for her

silence, and it got another woman killed. I know.

But I think there's another way we can handle this.

We are open to a plea.

No, thank you.

All rise for the Honorable Judge Dillow.

The court is now in session.

You may be seated.

Mr. Price, I understand you have a point of order?

Yes, Your Honor. The prosecution would like to call a rebuttal witness, Vanessa

Barrett.

Man won, and we've got a deal.

We're open to murder, too.

Your Honor, we'd like to request a recess.

Cole agreed to plead guilty to second -degree murder with a recommended

of 20 years.

It's not ideal.

But it guarantees he'll be in his late 60s before he even has a chance to see

the light of day again.

I, uh, I appreciate what you did.

I really do.

What would you have done if Colman's lawyer didn't take the bait?

Just glad it all worked out.