1 00:00:02,730 --> 00:00:06,610 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 2 00:00:06,740 --> 00:00:08,510 the police who investigate crime 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,240 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 4 00:00:11,470 --> 00:00:12,980 These are their stories. 5 00:00:13,910 --> 00:00:16,790 Fifteen people? I cooked enough for 50. 6 00:00:16,850 --> 00:00:18,450 You think anyone eats it? 7 00:00:18,580 --> 00:00:20,180 So concerned if they're gonna fit 8 00:00:20,250 --> 00:00:21,820 into their tiny little clothes. 9 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:23,360 Well, I guess a rehearsal dinner, 10 00:00:23,420 --> 00:00:26,420 Mr. and Mrs. Vance want to make sure they put out a good spread. 11 00:00:26,490 --> 00:00:29,160 Honey, if I had that spread when I was getting married, 12 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:31,640 my man might've stayed just for the leftovers. 13 00:00:31,690 --> 00:00:32,690 (LAUGHING) 14 00:00:34,500 --> 00:00:37,310 Oh! Sweet Jesus! 15 00:00:37,470 --> 00:00:39,280 It's Christy Garrison! 16 00:00:39,330 --> 00:00:41,340 Quick, get Mr. Vance! 17 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:43,910 Christy Garrison, 15. 18 00:00:43,970 --> 00:00:46,250 ID'd by her dad, Michael Garrison. 19 00:00:46,310 --> 00:00:49,120 You read about him? Guy's worth half a billion dollars. 20 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:51,320 Another lesson in what money can't buy. 21 00:00:51,380 --> 00:00:52,790 He the suit or the blue shirt? 22 00:00:52,850 --> 00:00:55,620 Blue shirt. Guy in the suit is Mark Vance, the neighbor. 23 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,320 That the lady who found the girl? 24 00:00:57,390 --> 00:01:00,060 Yeah, Vondie Morris. She's the Vances' cook. 25 00:01:00,190 --> 00:01:02,430 She wrings her hands one more time, they're gonna fall off. 26 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:04,270 Anything in her pockets? 27 00:01:04,330 --> 00:01:06,500 20 bucks. An inhaler, full. 28 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,740 BRISCOE: Ah, asthma. Sex? 29 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:11,070 Don't know. Clothes aren't torn, her nails look fine. 30 00:01:11,130 --> 00:01:12,410 No sign of a struggle. 31 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,240 Yeah, except somebody clocked her against the wall. 32 00:01:15,370 --> 00:01:18,370 Well, no robbery. Her jewelry's still on. 33 00:01:18,670 --> 00:01:20,380 Stick here, Agnelli. Be nice. 34 00:01:21,510 --> 00:01:23,990 Miss Morris, uh, you came outside... 35 00:01:24,050 --> 00:01:26,960 At 7:30. I let Nell in, another maid. 36 00:01:27,020 --> 00:01:28,890 I'm a live-in. Nell, she lives out. 37 00:01:29,020 --> 00:01:31,590 You see or hear anything last night? Early this morning? 38 00:01:31,650 --> 00:01:34,260 No. I was tired. Had an early night. 39 00:01:34,620 --> 00:01:35,690 You knew this girl? 40 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,300 I've seen her time to time. Outside smoking, that's all. 41 00:01:40,230 --> 00:01:42,800 Do you need me? I got breakfast to put on the table. 42 00:01:42,860 --> 00:01:44,170 No. Maybe later. Thanks. 43 00:01:44,270 --> 00:01:45,570 ED: ...doing outside in the middle of the night? 44 00:01:45,630 --> 00:01:46,700 I don't know what she was doing outside 45 00:01:46,770 --> 00:01:48,180 in the middle of the night, Detective. 46 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,410 We all went to bed early. 47 00:01:49,470 --> 00:01:52,010 We had dinner together last night. Our house. 48 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:53,750 Both families. Everyone. 49 00:01:53,810 --> 00:01:55,810 Anybody have a bedroom faces the alley? 50 00:01:56,350 --> 00:01:59,090 Yes, we do. But we didn't hear anything. 51 00:01:59,350 --> 00:02:02,920 You go in, Mr. Garrison. You be with your family. We'll be in shortly. 52 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,520 Is that gate locked all the time? 53 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:06,790 Yes. 54 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,830 Uh, who has access to it from the outside? 55 00:02:11,230 --> 00:02:13,600 Immediate families. Mine, Michael's. 56 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,240 My chauffeur, Sammy. He's the only one with an opener. 57 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:17,440 Could you get him, please? 58 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:19,780 He's not here yet. He was due at 6:30. 59 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,180 He late a lot? 60 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:22,410 Not like this. 61 00:02:22,470 --> 00:02:24,510 He comes, takes the limo out of the garage, pulls it up. 62 00:02:24,610 --> 00:02:26,020 Can we see the limo? 63 00:02:26,070 --> 00:02:27,280 Yes, of course. 64 00:02:28,780 --> 00:02:30,150 Sammy been with you long? 65 00:02:30,250 --> 00:02:32,780 Since the beginning of the year. He's Vondie's son. 66 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,000 Why do I get the feeling Sammy won't be calling in sick? 67 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,240 I haven't seen my son. He doesn't check in with me. 68 00:03:32,310 --> 00:03:34,050 Did you talk to him on the phone? Uh-uh. 69 00:03:34,580 --> 00:03:36,320 Any idea where he is? 70 00:03:36,380 --> 00:03:38,520 Mr. Vance knows where he lives. 71 00:03:38,710 --> 00:03:41,020 We sent a patrol car to his house, Mrs. Morris. 72 00:03:41,180 --> 00:03:42,590 Sammy wasn't there. 73 00:03:42,650 --> 00:03:43,720 Now, where else could he be? 74 00:03:43,790 --> 00:03:44,860 A girlfriend? 75 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,870 I don't know why he's not here. 76 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,330 I don't know why you're so keen on 77 00:03:48,390 --> 00:03:51,860 whoever killed that poor child being my child. 78 00:03:51,930 --> 00:03:55,000 I'm just keen on finding out who did it, Mrs. Morris. 79 00:03:55,060 --> 00:03:59,980 Why is it always some raised-right black boy you got your eye on? 80 00:04:03,270 --> 00:04:04,840 She must have gone outside. 81 00:04:05,470 --> 00:04:07,180 She knew I hated smoking. 82 00:04:08,180 --> 00:04:09,950 I should have let her smoke in here. 83 00:04:10,810 --> 00:04:12,720 Did she know Sammy Morris? 84 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:16,930 I can't see how. 85 00:04:16,990 --> 00:04:18,590 Christy goes to boarding school. 86 00:04:18,890 --> 00:04:20,760 She's just been back two days. 87 00:04:20,820 --> 00:04:22,430 Either of you have dealings with him? 88 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,070 He drove us, Nick and me. 89 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:26,460 Nick is? 90 00:04:26,630 --> 00:04:29,610 Mercedes' fiancé, Nicholas Vance. 91 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:32,580 What's Sammy like? 92 00:04:33,100 --> 00:04:35,600 I don't know. He's just the driver. 93 00:04:35,870 --> 00:04:38,880 The last time either of you saw Christy was what time? 94 00:04:38,940 --> 00:04:41,420 We left the Vances' around 10:00 o'clock. 95 00:04:42,310 --> 00:04:43,690 Mike Vance was tired. 96 00:04:43,750 --> 00:04:46,250 He had, uh, chemo for prostate cancer. 97 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,620 So, it was right after that, 98 00:04:51,750 --> 00:04:54,460 maybe 10:30, when my angel went to bed. 99 00:04:56,690 --> 00:04:58,330 The last time I saw her. 100 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,600 Mark leaves before I'm awake. 101 00:05:02,930 --> 00:05:04,670 I rarely see Sammy. 102 00:05:05,030 --> 00:05:07,070 He seemed a nice enough young man. 103 00:05:07,340 --> 00:05:08,510 How about you two? 104 00:05:08,570 --> 00:05:10,850 He sometimes drives me when Dad doesn't need him. 105 00:05:10,910 --> 00:05:12,750 He's a pretty friendly guy. 106 00:05:12,810 --> 00:05:14,580 Friendly with the neighbors? 107 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,320 If Christy was outside, I'm sure he would have talked to her. 108 00:05:18,310 --> 00:05:19,350 You ever talk to him? 109 00:05:19,410 --> 00:05:21,920 No. Dad won't let him drive me. 110 00:05:21,980 --> 00:05:23,890 Ethan doesn't need a driver. 111 00:05:24,220 --> 00:05:26,600 Caught him outside smoking a joint one morning. 112 00:05:26,820 --> 00:05:29,100 Said something about it, and he just told me to shut up. 113 00:05:29,220 --> 00:05:30,460 Any other problems? 114 00:05:30,530 --> 00:05:33,900 A week ago my father said he had to set Sammy straight. 115 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,600 Set him straight? 116 00:05:35,660 --> 00:05:36,870 MERCEDES: Nick. 117 00:05:38,770 --> 00:05:40,440 BRISCOE: Excuse me. I hate to intrude, 118 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:43,420 but your father had to set Sammy straight about what? 119 00:05:43,470 --> 00:05:46,010 He was using the limo's car phone for personal calls. 120 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:47,480 Who was he calling? 121 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,050 Sounded like a girlfriend. 122 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:51,280 You know who she is? No, sir. 123 00:05:51,350 --> 00:05:53,020 Do you have the cell phone bills? 124 00:05:54,420 --> 00:05:57,020 Regina isn't here. What's she done? 125 00:05:57,090 --> 00:05:59,290 We're after her boyfriend, Sammy. 126 00:05:59,390 --> 00:06:01,630 She left with him last night. What time? 127 00:06:01,690 --> 00:06:03,430 I heard them. Five something in the morning, 128 00:06:03,490 --> 00:06:05,160 they're dressed, going out the door. 129 00:06:05,230 --> 00:06:06,710 Any idea where they might have gone? 130 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,770 She said they were going to her sister Evelyn's in Queens. 131 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:11,070 I hope they stay there. 132 00:06:11,170 --> 00:06:13,040 I can get some sleep for a change. 133 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:14,410 You got the sister's address? 134 00:06:14,470 --> 00:06:16,010 Yeah. I'll get it. 135 00:06:19,810 --> 00:06:21,050 I come home after the night shift, 136 00:06:21,110 --> 00:06:22,590 the wife and kids are gone. 137 00:06:22,980 --> 00:06:24,980 Bitch takes the suitcase, the kids' clothes. 138 00:06:25,050 --> 00:06:27,120 Any idea where they'd go that time of night, Mr. Jasper? 139 00:06:27,180 --> 00:06:29,060 That time of night, I expect my wife flat 140 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,030 on her back in bed, legs spread. 141 00:06:31,690 --> 00:06:33,890 Her busy-body sister, Reggie, she must have put her up to this. 142 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,090 Yeah, well, leaving you in the lurch and all. 143 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,570 My point. So, you're gonna get my kids, right? 144 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:39,760 Bring my wife back? 145 00:06:39,900 --> 00:06:42,930 Well, we'd love to help you out, Mr. Jasper, but we don't know where they are. 146 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,270 Well, where'd she go? It'll only be her mother's in Jersey. 147 00:06:46,940 --> 00:06:49,940 This time, I want you to arrest my no-good husband. 148 00:06:50,070 --> 00:06:52,680 Well, actually we're looking for Sammy Morris. 149 00:06:52,870 --> 00:06:54,320 You're Regina Cobb? 150 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,910 Reggie. What do you want with Sammy? Man's a hero. 151 00:06:58,050 --> 00:06:59,790 Sure. Where's the hero now? 152 00:06:59,850 --> 00:07:01,830 My sister calls last night. 153 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,630 Says Frankie the Fist beat on her before going to work. 154 00:07:04,690 --> 00:07:06,790 Come get her. I call Sammy. 155 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,060 He says he'll get the limo, come over, get me, go to Queens, 156 00:07:10,130 --> 00:07:11,830 we'll get my sister, the kids. 157 00:07:11,890 --> 00:07:13,840 So, he stole Mr. Vance's limo? 158 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:14,900 Borrowed. 159 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:16,600 He brought us by here. 160 00:07:16,670 --> 00:07:18,840 And then what? He just vanishes? 161 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,010 Brady threw up again. 162 00:07:23,070 --> 00:07:25,710 These men don't need to know your brother's business. 163 00:07:25,770 --> 00:07:27,310 Your little brother got sick? 164 00:07:27,410 --> 00:07:30,290 In the car. Uncle Sammy was mad. 165 00:07:30,350 --> 00:07:32,220 He gotta get the car washed. 166 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,830 So, where's the nearest car wash? 167 00:07:36,380 --> 00:07:38,060 Sammy Morris? 168 00:07:39,050 --> 00:07:41,090 Yeah. We need you to come with us. 169 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:42,600 What for? Borrowing the car? 170 00:07:42,660 --> 00:07:44,760 For the murder of Christy Garrison. 171 00:07:44,830 --> 00:07:46,670 What, the sister? She's murdered? 172 00:07:46,930 --> 00:07:48,640 You're kidding me. If I was kidding you, 173 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:50,640 I'd be wearing a fez and no pants. 174 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:53,010 I didn't do anything, man. I swear for God. 175 00:07:53,070 --> 00:07:55,740 School ID. Christy Francis Garrison. 176 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,840 Lipstick inside, pocket mirror, palm pilot. 177 00:07:58,970 --> 00:07:59,980 Let's go. 178 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,240 I was bringing the limo back. 179 00:08:03,550 --> 00:08:06,320 Accident in the tunnel held us up, Brady got sick. 180 00:08:06,450 --> 00:08:07,720 I had to wait for the car wash to open. 181 00:08:07,780 --> 00:08:09,460 I couldn't bring the limo back like that. 182 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,590 Yeah, right. Compared to offing the neighbor, 183 00:08:11,650 --> 00:08:13,690 messing up the boss's car is a big no-no. 184 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,960 I had nothing to do with what happened to that girl. 185 00:08:16,020 --> 00:08:17,590 Lab found semen in the back seat, 186 00:08:17,660 --> 00:08:19,570 Sam, next to Christy's disco bag. 187 00:08:19,630 --> 00:08:21,200 You have nothing to do with that? 188 00:08:21,460 --> 00:08:23,170 What, you think I'm gonna hop in the back seat, 189 00:08:23,330 --> 00:08:25,870 have a go at my girlfriend, her sister and kids in the car? 190 00:08:25,930 --> 00:08:28,210 Actually, that's not what we were thinking. 191 00:08:29,970 --> 00:08:31,420 Is my mom okay? 192 00:08:31,470 --> 00:08:33,820 BRISCOE: Your mom's fine, kid. She's the true believer. 193 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:35,980 I didn't do anything. That's why she believes me. 194 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,620 Well, she's the only one holding down the fort. 195 00:08:38,780 --> 00:08:41,320 You ask Mr. Vance. He knows I had nothing to do with it. 196 00:08:41,420 --> 00:08:42,550 How would he know? 197 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,960 I get along with him. He gives me my props. 198 00:08:46,020 --> 00:08:48,830 And Christy Garrison? She disrespect you? 199 00:08:48,890 --> 00:08:50,130 I don't know her. 200 00:08:50,230 --> 00:08:52,800 But the rest of her family, they got more money than manners. 201 00:08:52,890 --> 00:08:55,000 Right. So, you figure you make friends with Christy, 202 00:08:55,060 --> 00:08:58,170 get close to that money, and maybe some of it falls in your pocket. 203 00:08:58,230 --> 00:09:01,010 Around those people, I keep my hands in my pocket. 204 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:04,040 All right, so if you're straight with this, you'll volunteer some blood. 205 00:09:04,110 --> 00:09:05,580 We can test it against the semen. 206 00:09:05,870 --> 00:09:08,290 Do it. So, my mom won't get in trouble. Go ahead. 207 00:09:10,380 --> 00:09:14,490 No jackpot, gentlemen. Lab says Sammy's blood doesn't type with the semen. 208 00:09:14,580 --> 00:09:16,430 Lot of traffic in that limo. 209 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,330 The M.E. put the time of death between 3:00 and 5:00 in the morning. 210 00:09:20,490 --> 00:09:22,560 So, who came knocking at her back door last night? 211 00:09:22,620 --> 00:09:24,040 I found something. 212 00:09:24,090 --> 00:09:25,770 It's a handwritten note in her palm pilot. 213 00:09:25,860 --> 00:09:29,000 "It's the bomb. Call me." And it's signed Kelly. 214 00:09:29,060 --> 00:09:32,140 There's a phone number and a time, 12:30 last night. 215 00:09:32,230 --> 00:09:35,010 Maybe Christy went out, brought someone back with her. 216 00:09:35,070 --> 00:09:38,480 Her parents said the little angel went to bed at 10:30. 217 00:09:39,010 --> 00:09:40,110 You were never a kid? 218 00:09:40,180 --> 00:09:42,160 Allspice didn't take his ginkgo. 219 00:09:43,310 --> 00:09:45,660 I met Christy down at Club Isis, on Avenue B. 220 00:09:45,710 --> 00:09:47,220 She with anybody, Kelly? 221 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,130 Everybody. She was wasted. Coming on to everyone. 222 00:09:50,190 --> 00:09:52,290 BRISCOE: What's this note "It's the bomb" mean? 223 00:09:52,350 --> 00:09:53,530 It means it's cool. 224 00:09:53,590 --> 00:09:55,190 What was cool? The whole scene. 225 00:09:55,260 --> 00:09:57,790 So, you met her, you hung out a little while, then what? 226 00:09:57,860 --> 00:09:59,170 She had trouble breathing. 227 00:09:59,230 --> 00:10:01,400 I think she ran out of her asthma medication or something. 228 00:10:01,460 --> 00:10:03,370 She left with some guy. ED: You know him? 229 00:10:03,930 --> 00:10:05,040 You remember what he looked like? 230 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:06,100 WOMAN: Kelly. I don't know. 231 00:10:06,170 --> 00:10:08,010 Look, I gotta go help a customer. 232 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:09,240 No, you gotta help us. 233 00:10:09,370 --> 00:10:12,440 Now, what did the boy at this cool scene look like? 234 00:10:12,510 --> 00:10:16,010 He was cute. Just a general impression. It was dark, you know? 235 00:10:16,110 --> 00:10:17,850 He wearing anything you remember? 236 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:19,280 No. 237 00:10:19,910 --> 00:10:22,920 Okay, go ahead. Thanks for all your help. 238 00:10:22,980 --> 00:10:26,760 CSU found a full inhaler in Christy's pocket at the scene, 239 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:28,770 but her inhaler was empty at the club. 240 00:10:28,860 --> 00:10:31,800 There's a 24-hour drugstore on First and Avenue A. 241 00:10:32,930 --> 00:10:36,500 Yeah, I remember her. Pretty girl. Pretty sick. 242 00:10:36,830 --> 00:10:40,140 She came in with a boy, showed me her inhaler, and, uh, wanted a refill. 243 00:10:40,270 --> 00:10:42,080 You give it to her? Oh, yeah. Standard procedure. 244 00:10:42,140 --> 00:10:44,240 I gave her one from behind the counter to hold her. 245 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:47,120 Got her doc's phone number, went to call for a refill, 246 00:10:47,180 --> 00:10:49,210 and when I got back, they're gone. 247 00:10:49,310 --> 00:10:51,020 Can we see your security camera tapes? 248 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:52,650 Yeah, sure. 249 00:10:55,180 --> 00:10:56,180 Okay. 250 00:10:57,250 --> 00:10:58,250 There. 251 00:10:58,390 --> 00:10:59,800 Time stamp's in the corner. 252 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:03,460 BRISCOE: 12:56 a.m. There's Christy. 253 00:11:06,830 --> 00:11:07,830 Who's that? 254 00:11:09,730 --> 00:11:11,800 BRISCOE: That's Ethan Vance. 255 00:11:12,070 --> 00:11:14,710 Another angel who went to bed early. 256 00:11:20,810 --> 00:11:22,450 She called me just before midnight, 257 00:11:22,510 --> 00:11:23,820 and she said she wanted to go to a club. 258 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:25,150 ED: How'd she sound? 259 00:11:25,210 --> 00:11:28,320 She was up for going out. A witness at the club said she was wasted. 260 00:11:28,380 --> 00:11:30,450 Look it, I didn't give her anything, okay? 261 00:11:30,550 --> 00:11:34,160 Look it, you lied to us, okay? Believing you isn't at the top of our list. 262 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:35,630 I don't like your tone, Detective. 263 00:11:35,690 --> 00:11:37,860 I was trying to protect her reputation. 264 00:11:37,990 --> 00:11:39,990 She gonna get a rep for wheezing? 265 00:11:41,230 --> 00:11:42,730 So, you brought her home. Then what? 266 00:11:43,130 --> 00:11:46,040 I stayed with her while she had a smoke, and I went to bed. 267 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:47,200 BRISCOE: What time? 268 00:11:48,070 --> 00:11:50,070 Uh, I don't know It was before 2:00. 269 00:11:50,140 --> 00:11:53,420 You didn't take her out for a quick spin around the back of the limo? 270 00:11:53,980 --> 00:11:54,980 No. 271 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,420 ED: We heard she was at the club flirting with anything with a heartbeat. 272 00:11:58,880 --> 00:11:59,880 Yeah. So? 273 00:11:59,950 --> 00:12:00,950 That make you jealous? 274 00:12:02,180 --> 00:12:03,180 That was kid stuff. 275 00:12:03,250 --> 00:12:04,920 Well, at 15, she was a kid. 276 00:12:04,990 --> 00:12:06,360 Maybe you should have thought of that before 277 00:12:06,420 --> 00:12:08,420 you took advantage of her condition. KAUFER: That's enough. 278 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:10,600 He admits to being with Miss Garrison, 279 00:12:10,660 --> 00:12:12,100 not to having sexual relations. 280 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,110 Fine. Then let him volunteer his blood. 281 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,200 KAUFER: Absolutely not. ED: Sammy Morris gave blood. 282 00:12:16,260 --> 00:12:17,970 He isn't Sammy Morris. 283 00:12:19,130 --> 00:12:21,140 You said you'd cooperate. 284 00:12:21,340 --> 00:12:23,440 We have. But on this point, 285 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:25,420 I have to listen to our attorneys. 286 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,810 All right. We'll have to let the district attorney handle it. 287 00:12:30,310 --> 00:12:32,620 KAUFER: Besides invading the privacy of an individual 288 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:34,490 who hasn't been charged with any crime, 289 00:12:34,550 --> 00:12:36,620 a DNA match would prove nothing. 290 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:38,030 It would certainly place him with the victim 291 00:12:38,090 --> 00:12:39,720 at the approximate time she was killed. 292 00:12:39,850 --> 00:12:41,990 You have any other supporting evidence for a murder charge? 293 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,160 They have nothing except sleazy innuendo. 294 00:12:44,230 --> 00:12:45,900 Which even if true, is evidence of nothing. 295 00:12:45,990 --> 00:12:47,970 It might be evidence of rape. 296 00:12:48,030 --> 00:12:49,870 There is no evidence of forcible sex. 297 00:12:49,930 --> 00:12:51,040 Statutory rape. 298 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:52,440 Oh, go on. Your Honor, 299 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:54,980 this is simply an attempt to embarrass a prominent family. 300 00:12:55,070 --> 00:12:58,950 Miss Carmichael, I have to weigh Mr. Vance's privacy rights against 301 00:12:59,010 --> 00:13:01,420 the chance you'll establish a fact, 302 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,150 which isn't even evidence of a substantial crime. 303 00:13:04,310 --> 00:13:05,920 Motion denied. But Your Honor... 304 00:13:05,980 --> 00:13:08,960 Until you have actual evidence of murder, 305 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,290 take no for an answer, hmm? 306 00:13:13,590 --> 00:13:15,590 ED: The girl was a walking drugstore. 307 00:13:15,660 --> 00:13:22,170 Tox panel shows cocaine, GHB, marijuana, liquor, Xanax, albuterol, Ativan, aspirin. 308 00:13:22,230 --> 00:13:24,440 We're still waiting on the other autopsy test results. 309 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:25,500 So far, that's it? 310 00:13:25,570 --> 00:13:28,710 So far, we got some rich folks running interference for their brat. 311 00:13:28,770 --> 00:13:30,220 You got a problem with rich people? 312 00:13:30,310 --> 00:13:31,480 Other than the fact that they're trying 313 00:13:31,540 --> 00:13:33,520 to buy their way out from under a murder charge? 314 00:13:33,570 --> 00:13:34,780 They're just trying to protect their kid. 315 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,980 With or without a platinum card, they're still parents. 316 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,060 Parents who have their names on a wing at the public library. 317 00:13:40,110 --> 00:13:42,090 So, they impressed a judge. 318 00:13:42,150 --> 00:13:43,650 Find something more impressive. 319 00:13:44,950 --> 00:13:48,090 I don't see how you can be right about this. 320 00:13:48,420 --> 00:13:50,630 I mean, the Vances are practically family. 321 00:13:50,730 --> 00:13:52,830 They're the best people. Well, the parents, maybe. 322 00:13:52,890 --> 00:13:54,970 No, even their boys. 323 00:13:57,300 --> 00:14:01,010 Ethan admits to taking your daughter to a club at 1:00 in the morning. 324 00:14:01,170 --> 00:14:04,480 Ever know Ethan to lose his temper? Get violent? 325 00:14:05,070 --> 00:14:06,480 No. No. No. 326 00:14:06,740 --> 00:14:08,550 Did Christy have a thing going with him? 327 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,620 No. They were like brother and sister, ever since we moved in. 328 00:14:11,710 --> 00:14:13,690 ED: When was that? Two years ago. 329 00:14:14,350 --> 00:14:17,520 Ever get the impression Ethan wanted to be more than a big brother? 330 00:14:18,390 --> 00:14:20,230 No. Never. 331 00:14:20,290 --> 00:14:21,490 BRISCOE: I don't get it. 332 00:14:21,660 --> 00:14:23,660 The kid takes your daughter out for a night on the town, 333 00:14:23,730 --> 00:14:26,260 and you're not the least bit suspicious of him? 334 00:14:26,330 --> 00:14:28,140 You don't understand. 335 00:14:29,630 --> 00:14:32,540 The Vances have gone out of their way to make us feel at home. 336 00:14:32,630 --> 00:14:34,480 So? You're rich, they're rich. 337 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:36,380 Why shouldn't they make you feel welcome? 338 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,420 (EXHALES) The Vances, as you very well know, are old money. 339 00:14:41,740 --> 00:14:43,950 And the ink isn't dry on your dough. 340 00:14:44,510 --> 00:14:46,860 People like the Vances often don't let you forget it. 341 00:14:46,910 --> 00:14:49,290 Mark and Marianna have been awfully decent to us. 342 00:14:49,350 --> 00:14:51,130 It is hard to believe that their son could 343 00:14:51,190 --> 00:14:54,000 have anything to do with Christy's death. 344 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,290 VONDIE: You apologize all you want. 345 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:58,890 That won't get my boy his job back. 346 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,460 Look, Sammy cooperated. We hope you will, too. 347 00:15:01,530 --> 00:15:03,600 So, I tell you stories out of school, 348 00:15:03,660 --> 00:15:05,770 then I'll be looking for a job, too. 349 00:15:05,830 --> 00:15:07,040 We just want the truth. 350 00:15:07,100 --> 00:15:09,910 The truth is that little girl wasn't such a good girl. 351 00:15:09,970 --> 00:15:12,040 Why do you think they sent her to boarding school? 352 00:15:12,110 --> 00:15:14,810 We know she had bad habits. What about Ethan? 353 00:15:16,340 --> 00:15:19,020 Look, you have to talk to us, Mrs. Morris. 354 00:15:19,210 --> 00:15:22,350 Ethan did a little drinking. All boys do that. 355 00:15:22,450 --> 00:15:23,990 He ever get violent when he drank? 356 00:15:24,050 --> 00:15:27,090 No. He got sick sometimes, that's all. 357 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:28,960 Ever forget what he did the night before? 358 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,830 I don't know. He's not an alcoholic. 359 00:15:31,890 --> 00:15:33,370 But he drinks enough to get sick. 360 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:35,740 (SIGHS) By accident. 361 00:15:35,830 --> 00:15:37,710 He gets drunk by accident? 362 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:40,180 Yes. Like at Nick's bachelor party. 363 00:15:40,230 --> 00:15:42,510 They carried Ethan home, sick as a pup. 364 00:15:42,570 --> 00:15:46,580 It was because he gave blood that morning at his school and he hadn't eaten. 365 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,210 That was his excuse? He gave blood? Where? 366 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,950 At his school, Langley Prep. 367 00:15:52,210 --> 00:15:53,620 I don't see anything here. 368 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:57,060 Langley Prep. Two weeks ago. Blood drive. Ethan Vance. You have records of that. 369 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,500 We do. And you keep records for public use? 370 00:15:59,550 --> 00:16:03,160 Tracking donors, eliminating AIDS, other blood-transmitted diseases? 371 00:16:03,260 --> 00:16:07,170 Of course. And the donated blood is carefully screened, tracked? 372 00:16:07,230 --> 00:16:09,040 Yes, but it's private information. 373 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:11,580 We're not asking you to tell us if Ethan Vance has any disease. 374 00:16:11,630 --> 00:16:13,480 We just want to know where the blood is. 375 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:15,110 We don't want to drink it. 376 00:16:21,380 --> 00:16:23,880 V-A-N-C-E. Ethan Daniel. 377 00:16:23,950 --> 00:16:25,320 We'd like to know if the blood was used. 378 00:16:25,380 --> 00:16:28,880 No, it was not used. And, no, I can't give it to you. 379 00:16:29,180 --> 00:16:30,990 BRISCOE: You see this? Oh. 380 00:16:31,820 --> 00:16:32,820 Ah. 381 00:16:33,250 --> 00:16:34,760 You see this? 382 00:16:34,820 --> 00:16:38,290 Temporary restraining order. We're prevented from giving up the blood. 383 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:40,240 Who issued this thing? 384 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,200 Judge Walter Schreiber. 385 00:16:43,630 --> 00:16:46,440 So, does this mean somebody comes in here bleeding from every orifice, 386 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:48,000 you can't give it to them either? 387 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:51,850 That means, you're B-positive, Detective, and your head explodes, 388 00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:53,680 I gotta take a pass. 389 00:16:56,510 --> 00:16:57,510 (SIGHS) 390 00:16:57,810 --> 00:16:59,660 CARMICHAEL: Why slap an order on the blood if they aren't 391 00:16:59,710 --> 00:17:01,390 concerned about what the blood will show? 392 00:17:01,450 --> 00:17:04,190 Violation of doctor-patient privilege, pure and simple. 393 00:17:04,250 --> 00:17:06,930 Why Miss Carmichael's insistent on getting her panties in a... 394 00:17:06,990 --> 00:17:08,470 Mr. Eliezer. 395 00:17:09,020 --> 00:17:12,030 Ethan Vance gave the blood away in a school drive. 396 00:17:12,090 --> 00:17:15,100 There was no privilege implied, nor any expectation of it. 397 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,110 There wasn't even a doctor. ELIEZER: Doctor? Nurse? 398 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,040 What difference does it make? It was a medical procedure. 399 00:17:20,100 --> 00:17:23,170 Privilege implies choice about how the blood would be used. 400 00:17:23,270 --> 00:17:26,720 Ethan Vance did not, nor could he, mandate to whom the blood would 401 00:17:26,770 --> 00:17:29,120 be given or in what manner it might be used. 402 00:17:29,180 --> 00:17:31,380 Once he provided it to a federally funded agency, 403 00:17:31,450 --> 00:17:33,120 his blood became public domain. 404 00:17:33,180 --> 00:17:35,680 I think the key words here, Your Honor, are "his blood." 405 00:17:35,750 --> 00:17:39,960 It was blood given up to be used on or for anyone. 406 00:17:40,350 --> 00:17:41,360 It was not a blood test. 407 00:17:41,690 --> 00:17:42,830 SCHREIBER: I agree. 408 00:17:42,890 --> 00:17:46,430 The minute he gave blood, Mr. Vance forfeited his right to privacy. 409 00:17:46,930 --> 00:17:48,430 I'll lift the restraining order. 410 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:50,070 The police can have the blood. 411 00:17:50,830 --> 00:17:53,680 Ethan Vance's DNA didn't match the semen in the limo. 412 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,640 But it matched the semen found in the girl's body. 413 00:17:57,570 --> 00:17:59,640 I thought you already did a rape kit. 414 00:17:59,740 --> 00:18:01,950 This wouldn't have shown up on a rape kit. 415 00:18:02,140 --> 00:18:04,590 Oh, the New York Disco Diet. 416 00:18:04,850 --> 00:18:06,650 She had sex within a half hour of her death. 417 00:18:06,750 --> 00:18:09,390 Different semen. So, there's another player on the scene. 418 00:18:09,450 --> 00:18:11,490 One from the home team. 419 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:15,230 I ran a mitochondrial DNA on the two semen samples. 420 00:18:15,590 --> 00:18:17,660 They're from two related individuals. 421 00:18:19,530 --> 00:18:20,530 (SIGHS) 422 00:18:20,630 --> 00:18:22,540 M.E. says we can count the father out. 423 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,940 With prostate surgery, chemo, she doubts if 424 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,810 he could come up with the goods. 425 00:18:27,070 --> 00:18:29,010 That leaves the groom, Nicholas Vance. 426 00:18:29,070 --> 00:18:30,550 Bring both brothers in? 427 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:32,710 Absolutely. Charge them with murder? 428 00:18:33,270 --> 00:18:36,080 Their lawyers will have that bounced before we can say boo. 429 00:18:36,140 --> 00:18:38,950 Start with statutory rape, and we'll work up the food chain from there. 430 00:18:42,420 --> 00:18:44,790 Ethan Vance, we're gonna need your hands. 431 00:18:44,850 --> 00:18:48,060 Why? You're under arrest for the rape of Christy Garrison. 432 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,090 You can thank me later. 433 00:18:52,990 --> 00:18:54,770 I hope you went for the Ming vase. 434 00:18:54,830 --> 00:18:55,970 What do you want? 435 00:18:56,260 --> 00:18:57,900 We can, uh, talk in my car, huh? 436 00:18:57,970 --> 00:19:01,850 What can you possibly have to tell me in your car that you can't tell me here? 437 00:19:02,540 --> 00:19:04,070 That you're under arrest. 438 00:19:04,340 --> 00:19:06,580 This is ridiculous. For what? 439 00:19:07,110 --> 00:19:09,520 Rape. What? Who? 440 00:19:09,980 --> 00:19:11,890 Mr. Vance, in the car, please. No, no, no, no, no. 441 00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:14,050 Just who did I allegedly rape? 442 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:16,460 Your late future sister-in-law. 443 00:19:17,250 --> 00:19:18,890 I'm sorry, Miss. 444 00:19:25,660 --> 00:19:27,700 A million dollars each? That's ludicrous, Your Honor. 445 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,300 My clients are charged with statutory rape. 446 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:33,310 And forcible rape. They're also suspects in a murder. 447 00:19:33,430 --> 00:19:35,910 They had sex with a 15-year-old within half an hour of her death. 448 00:19:35,970 --> 00:19:38,250 If they had substantiating evidence of murder, 449 00:19:38,310 --> 00:19:40,010 they would have charged my clients with murder. 450 00:19:40,070 --> 00:19:42,550 I want to keep them from running before we can gather that evidence. 451 00:19:42,610 --> 00:19:45,420 These are people of means... And people without means never flee? 452 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,530 Your Honor, Nicholas Vance is engaged to be married. Ethan is a full-time student. 453 00:19:49,580 --> 00:19:50,760 This family is well known. 454 00:19:50,820 --> 00:19:52,990 And well connected enough to facilitate flight. 455 00:19:53,050 --> 00:19:55,160 Two million dollars is simply prohibitive. 456 00:19:55,220 --> 00:19:56,260 They have assets. 457 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,030 The Vances are heavily invested, Your Honor. 458 00:19:58,090 --> 00:19:59,900 They would have to liquidate a large part of their assets. 459 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:00,960 Property, then. Mortgaged. 460 00:20:01,030 --> 00:20:03,770 Some in the process of being sold, others in escrow. 461 00:20:03,930 --> 00:20:05,910 Mr. Kaufer, is this a temporary situation, 462 00:20:05,970 --> 00:20:07,450 or are your clients just poor? 463 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:09,980 Pedal back on the sarcasm, Miss Carmichael. 464 00:20:10,070 --> 00:20:12,020 The charge at present is not murder. 465 00:20:12,210 --> 00:20:15,120 A million each for two counts of rape is not indicated. 466 00:20:15,340 --> 00:20:17,720 Bail is set at $100,000 per. 467 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:18,880 (GAVEL STRIKES) 468 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,120 You can expect our motions on this crap tomorrow. 469 00:20:24,250 --> 00:20:27,060 Sounds like you're the one with the knot in your shorts. 470 00:20:28,390 --> 00:20:31,730 The firm of Eliezer, Kaufer and Larkin has 500 lawyers. 471 00:20:31,830 --> 00:20:34,240 And all of them must have been working on these last night. 472 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:35,330 ADAM: Yes, right. 473 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,310 They cover the waterfront. Everything from tossing 474 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:39,740 the DNA to changing the color of my lipstick. 475 00:20:39,830 --> 00:20:43,410 They have studies from a Dr. Euclidene of Lucerne, 476 00:20:43,470 --> 00:20:47,150 a lab in the UK, expert witnesses lined up from all points. 477 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,620 They're bringing in the pros from Dover. 478 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,250 Yeah, and the pros will confuse a jury enough to make them think 479 00:20:53,450 --> 00:20:55,520 DNA is a new pop group. 480 00:20:57,020 --> 00:20:58,930 The Vances are spending a lot of money for people 481 00:20:58,990 --> 00:21:02,020 who were pleading poverty at the bail hearing. 482 00:21:02,620 --> 00:21:05,800 Well, I checked their finances. Lots of restructured loans. 483 00:21:05,890 --> 00:21:08,130 The old money seems to be getting a bit arthritic. 484 00:21:08,230 --> 00:21:10,540 Maybe they borrowed a cup of money from their neighbor. 485 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,770 The Vances still have fire power. They will not go gently. 486 00:21:13,830 --> 00:21:16,610 Neither will we. Read and respond. 487 00:21:16,940 --> 00:21:18,780 What about your murder investigation? 488 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,550 Search warrant's already executed on the Vances' house. 489 00:21:22,210 --> 00:21:25,660 The boys' rooms, Ethan's locker at school came up empty. 490 00:21:25,710 --> 00:21:27,820 Any evidence that this was forcible rape? 491 00:21:27,980 --> 00:21:29,020 CARMICHAEL: No. 492 00:21:29,180 --> 00:21:30,630 Then where's their motive for murder? 493 00:21:31,490 --> 00:21:33,730 Ethan had motive. Jealousy. 494 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,700 He has sex with Christy first, and comes back and finds her with Nick. 495 00:21:36,790 --> 00:21:40,200 And Nick slept with his fiancée's under-age sister. 496 00:21:40,260 --> 00:21:43,270 She tells anyone, it might put the kibosh on the wedding plans. 497 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Two motives, 498 00:21:46,730 --> 00:21:48,510 one possible killer. 499 00:21:49,170 --> 00:21:50,170 Pick one. 500 00:21:52,310 --> 00:21:55,310 Nicholas Vance is not Mercedes' former fiancé. 501 00:21:56,110 --> 00:21:57,420 They're still engaged. 502 00:21:58,850 --> 00:22:00,880 I'm sorry? I'm confused. 503 00:22:01,950 --> 00:22:05,060 We have proof he had sexual relations with your sister. 504 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:06,590 I don't believe it. 505 00:22:06,990 --> 00:22:08,330 It's okay, Mercedes. 506 00:22:08,620 --> 00:22:10,300 Nick wouldn't do that. 507 00:22:11,290 --> 00:22:14,760 PEPPER: We're told you can make DNA say anything you want it to say. 508 00:22:14,860 --> 00:22:17,140 Why in the world would we want to... I don't know. 509 00:22:17,570 --> 00:22:20,910 First you picked on this black man, now on the boys. 510 00:22:21,140 --> 00:22:23,210 Maybe rich people are fair game. Mrs. Garrison... 511 00:22:23,270 --> 00:22:26,380 We've had this terrible thing happen to us. 512 00:22:26,870 --> 00:22:28,550 Now, we're just trying to salvage whatever 513 00:22:28,610 --> 00:22:30,950 happiness we can for our only daughter. 514 00:22:32,450 --> 00:22:34,950 Why do you insist on destroying that? 515 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:36,480 Look, 516 00:22:37,650 --> 00:22:40,930 I'm sorry your fiancé is not the man you thought he was. 517 00:22:42,090 --> 00:22:44,040 Only you know what he's capable of. 518 00:22:45,330 --> 00:22:46,960 When you're ready to help us, 519 00:22:47,460 --> 00:22:49,500 you can call me at this number. 520 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,850 Nick? I got nothing bad to say about him. 521 00:22:59,110 --> 00:23:01,050 When you drove Nick around, what did you talk about? 522 00:23:01,110 --> 00:23:04,650 Look, my mom's too old to get another job. 523 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,980 Mr. and Mrs. Vance like her, and she likes them. 524 00:23:07,050 --> 00:23:08,790 I'm not getting in the middle of this. 525 00:23:08,850 --> 00:23:10,560 I don't want to hurt your mother, 526 00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:13,160 and you telling me what you know about Nick can't do that. 527 00:23:13,220 --> 00:23:15,130 I'm saying guy's been good to me. 528 00:23:15,190 --> 00:23:16,400 Good to you? 529 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:18,930 He's the guy who pointed the finger at you 530 00:23:18,990 --> 00:23:21,500 in the first place the morning of the murder. 531 00:23:21,660 --> 00:23:25,170 He told us you were using his dad's car phone to call your girlfriend. 532 00:23:25,530 --> 00:23:27,810 He did? Come on. 533 00:23:27,870 --> 00:23:30,440 How do you think the police found out about Regina? 534 00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:34,150 Man, I was on that phone with her because I was cooling my jets, 535 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,280 waiting while Nick was popping one off with his girlfriend. 536 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,390 You mean, someone besides Mercedes? 537 00:23:39,910 --> 00:23:42,260 Someone way besides Mercedes. 538 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:49,360 He's my lover and he hasn't tried to kill me yet. 539 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,260 How often do you see him? 540 00:23:52,330 --> 00:23:54,240 (CHUCKLES) You know. 541 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,200 No, I really don't. 542 00:23:56,330 --> 00:23:57,870 As often as he wants it. 543 00:23:58,430 --> 00:24:01,310 Sometimes four times a week, sometimes once a month. 544 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:02,980 You know he has a fiancée. 545 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,850 Yeah. Well, we all got someone. 546 00:24:05,970 --> 00:24:08,390 And you still do this? You see him? 547 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,280 Why shut off the faucet? 548 00:24:11,510 --> 00:24:12,920 It's Nick Vance, lady. 549 00:24:12,980 --> 00:24:16,260 Ain't some homeboy named Jo-Jo who brings me a can of beer once a month. 550 00:24:16,450 --> 00:24:18,020 And after he's married? 551 00:24:18,850 --> 00:24:20,530 Why would it stop? 552 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,800 Look, his fiancée's Mercedes Garrison, okay? 553 00:24:23,860 --> 00:24:27,070 I met her once. Some snooty store Nick took me to. 554 00:24:27,630 --> 00:24:30,340 Nick says she has some issues. 555 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:32,600 Issues? With you? 556 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:34,510 Some emotional junk. 557 00:24:35,140 --> 00:24:38,510 You know how rich people are. You can afford a therapist, you see one. 558 00:24:39,170 --> 00:24:40,780 You met her at a store. 559 00:24:41,140 --> 00:24:42,780 You let on who you were? 560 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:44,380 She knows who I am. 561 00:24:44,780 --> 00:24:45,980 Really? 562 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,090 Look, lady, it ain't a big deal. 563 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,190 I'm, like, on his payroll, and she knows it. 564 00:24:52,020 --> 00:24:55,470 When she can't find him, she calls here looking for him, 565 00:24:55,690 --> 00:24:57,930 like I'm an answering service. 566 00:24:59,790 --> 00:25:02,600 I tried asking Mercedes about Nick's girlfriend. 567 00:25:02,930 --> 00:25:04,600 Couldn't get past the front door. 568 00:25:04,930 --> 00:25:07,970 But the IUDS confirm calls from the Garrison house to the girlfriend. 569 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:09,510 Mercedes afraid of Nick? 570 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:10,840 That why she'd put up with him? 571 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:14,280 These people are aliens, Jack. I have no idea what any of them are thinking. 572 00:25:14,340 --> 00:25:15,910 What the hell is this marriage about? 573 00:25:15,980 --> 00:25:18,820 Well, I'm guessing love is not at the top of the hit parade. 574 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,190 So, Carlita says Mercedes knows about her. 575 00:25:21,980 --> 00:25:25,560 We can't ask Mercedes, 'cause she's playing MIA. Who else would know? 576 00:25:25,850 --> 00:25:27,960 Your fiancé's sleeping around, you're gonna tell someone. 577 00:25:28,020 --> 00:25:29,020 Maid of honor? 578 00:25:29,460 --> 00:25:30,560 Do you know who she is? 579 00:25:30,620 --> 00:25:32,400 Maybe the society pages? 580 00:25:34,190 --> 00:25:36,140 Merce hinted Nick played around. 581 00:25:36,230 --> 00:25:37,710 She didn't seem to mind. 582 00:25:37,770 --> 00:25:40,840 I'm having a hard time understanding what Mercedes sees in him. 583 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:43,180 He's Nick Vance, for one thing. 584 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:47,650 Mrs. Garrison was turned down for membership to the Merrimont Club three times. 585 00:25:47,780 --> 00:25:50,090 Since the engagement, she's in. 586 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,750 That's so important to Mercedes? 587 00:25:53,510 --> 00:25:55,820 I met her in boarding school in Connecticut. 588 00:25:55,980 --> 00:25:58,830 They had just gotten back from Argentina, where her dad was working. 589 00:25:59,050 --> 00:26:00,760 I think her parents spent their last dime 590 00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:02,600 getting her into St. Bethany's. 591 00:26:02,890 --> 00:26:04,700 I thought her parents were loaded. 592 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,000 Not till Mr. Garrison cashes in his stock options, maybe. 593 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,070 What was her relationship with Christy like? 594 00:26:11,430 --> 00:26:13,470 Big age difference, so they weren't close. 595 00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:16,520 Did you see either of them the Sunday, the day before Christy was killed? 596 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,780 I was supposed to meet them at Taryn Hsu on Saturday, 597 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,720 Merce's final fitting for her wedding gown. 598 00:26:21,010 --> 00:26:24,620 But she called me on my cell, told me change of plans, to meet her at Paillard. 599 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:25,750 Why? 600 00:26:26,450 --> 00:26:28,020 She said Christy wasn't going to join us, 601 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,460 that they had gotten into some kind of fight at the store. 602 00:26:30,650 --> 00:26:32,030 A fight about Nick? 603 00:26:32,250 --> 00:26:33,630 Mercedes didn't say. 604 00:26:33,750 --> 00:26:34,930 She just talked about her dress. 605 00:26:34,990 --> 00:26:36,730 It was being delivered that afternoon. 606 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,490 Did you ask her about the fight? 607 00:26:38,590 --> 00:26:40,770 Yes. She ignored the question. 608 00:26:41,330 --> 00:26:43,100 Whenever she got really anxious or 609 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:44,270 she forgot to take her medication, 610 00:26:44,330 --> 00:26:45,870 she would just freeze you out. 611 00:26:45,970 --> 00:26:47,600 What kind of medication? 612 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:49,310 I don't know. 613 00:26:49,870 --> 00:26:52,150 She's always been on something for something. 614 00:26:52,970 --> 00:26:54,920 I didn't work that Saturday. 615 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,250 I wasn't supposed to work Sunday either. 616 00:26:57,850 --> 00:26:59,650 But the manager called me up at home. 617 00:26:59,710 --> 00:27:01,490 Told me to pick up the dress at the Garrison house 618 00:27:01,550 --> 00:27:03,260 and bring it back for repairs. 619 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:04,760 What kind of repairs? 620 00:27:04,820 --> 00:27:06,420 We had to replace the sleeve. 621 00:27:06,490 --> 00:27:08,470 Somebody spilled something on it and tore it. 622 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:10,140 Is it still here? Yes. 623 00:27:10,190 --> 00:27:11,900 Can I see it? Sure. 624 00:27:13,390 --> 00:27:15,740 Did you speak to the Garrisons when you picked up the dress? 625 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,440 No. The maid, Anna, handed it to me at the door. 626 00:27:20,730 --> 00:27:22,580 Right or left? Left. 627 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,610 Hmm. 628 00:27:26,740 --> 00:27:28,950 Yeah, someone spilled something, all right. 629 00:27:32,250 --> 00:27:33,920 Lab confirmed it's blood. 630 00:27:34,150 --> 00:27:37,460 The rips are bite marks. Bite pattern matches Christy Garrison's. 631 00:27:37,820 --> 00:27:40,860 So, Mercedes tried on the dress at home on Sunday. Mmm-hmm. 632 00:27:41,020 --> 00:27:42,930 Christy bites her for some reason. 633 00:27:43,260 --> 00:27:45,790 Couple of hours later, Christy's dead. 634 00:27:46,130 --> 00:27:47,970 I guess big sister bit back. 635 00:27:54,970 --> 00:27:58,280 I pick up the phone, and some politico on the other end 636 00:27:58,340 --> 00:28:00,340 says he owes Mark Vance a favor. 637 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,850 I turn on the faucet, and someone he plays golf with falls out. 638 00:28:04,910 --> 00:28:07,120 Now never mind the Vance boys. 639 00:28:07,180 --> 00:28:08,920 It's the Garrison girl. 640 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,860 I don't want to stand up with egg on our faces either, Adam. 641 00:28:11,990 --> 00:28:14,230 I'm preparing papers to move on Mercedes. 642 00:28:14,290 --> 00:28:16,290 Can't go near her with nothing more 643 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:18,770 than teeth marks on a wedding dress. 644 00:28:18,830 --> 00:28:21,830 And we stop playing musical suspects. 645 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,280 The clerk from the store said she picked up the 646 00:28:27,330 --> 00:28:29,510 wedding dress from the Garrisons' maid. 647 00:28:30,870 --> 00:28:33,940 The door is closed, but I hear them fighting. 648 00:28:34,170 --> 00:28:35,350 Did you hear what it was about? 649 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,220 No, I hear yelling. I don't get the words. 650 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,190 Then someone screams, and Miss Christy runs out crying. 651 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,280 And Mercedes? 652 00:28:42,350 --> 00:28:46,630 She comes out, too, crying, holding her arm in her wedding dress. 653 00:28:46,950 --> 00:28:50,700 Miss Pepper, she comes, takes Mercedes back into the room. 654 00:28:51,230 --> 00:28:53,230 Was this the first time you saw them fight? 655 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:57,300 The temporary agency sends me for help for the wedding. 656 00:28:57,870 --> 00:28:59,470 Two weeks only I was there. 657 00:28:59,530 --> 00:29:01,910 Then Miss Christy dies No more job. 658 00:29:02,170 --> 00:29:05,380 Anyone else who works in the house might be closer to the girls? 659 00:29:05,970 --> 00:29:08,780 Elyssa Fuegos. She's working there many years. 660 00:29:11,350 --> 00:29:13,790 Hey, the Garrisons' attorney, Peter Behrens, 661 00:29:13,850 --> 00:29:16,350 wants to bring Mercedes in to talk. This should be interesting. 662 00:29:16,420 --> 00:29:17,790 Well, as of three days after the murder, 663 00:29:17,850 --> 00:29:20,730 Elyssa Fuegos has been working at the Garrison villa in Puerto Vallarta. 664 00:29:20,790 --> 00:29:22,100 How nice for her. 665 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,860 She's been working for the Garrisons 666 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,400 on and off for the past 20 years. 667 00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:27,000 She was Mercedes' nanny. 668 00:29:27,330 --> 00:29:29,400 Talk to the Feds. Notify the Mexican authorities. 669 00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:31,500 Let's bring Miss Fuegos back to New York. 670 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,610 It's been brought to our attention that you've been talking to people 671 00:29:38,670 --> 00:29:41,810 at Taryn Hsu and a maid for the Garrisons. 672 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,480 JACK: So what? 673 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,420 We feel the inevitable is coming. 674 00:29:46,780 --> 00:29:48,020 What's inevitable? 675 00:29:49,020 --> 00:29:50,860 Arresting Mercedes. 676 00:29:51,390 --> 00:29:53,160 We prefer to come forward. 677 00:29:53,350 --> 00:29:56,330 As you probably know by now, Mercedes isn't well. 678 00:29:56,390 --> 00:29:58,430 She's been under a doctor's care for years. 679 00:29:58,490 --> 00:30:00,700 Even if she did something, she's not responsible. 680 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,570 You're conceding to an "if" now? 681 00:30:02,660 --> 00:30:04,700 No, I'm conceding nothing. 682 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,810 Dr. Dana Ritchie, attesting to the fact 683 00:30:07,870 --> 00:30:12,150 that she's been Miss Garrison's primary physician for most of her life 684 00:30:12,210 --> 00:30:16,810 and has prescribed different psychogenics and tranquilizers in myriad dosages. 685 00:30:18,010 --> 00:30:23,590 Librium, Ativan, Xanax, Soma, Zoloft, Elavil. 686 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:28,500 Dr. Paul Terino, psychiatrist. Valium. She sleepwalks. 687 00:30:28,590 --> 00:30:33,560 Dr. Leslie Sowers, shrink. Ritalin. She's ADHD. 688 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:39,910 Dr. Sally Kleiman, behavioral specialist. Prozac. She's PPD. 689 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,810 Cut to the chase. 690 00:30:44,270 --> 00:30:46,310 Man two. Diminished capacity, 691 00:30:46,370 --> 00:30:49,120 no jail time, she goes into the GlenAugust Clinic. 692 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,240 CARMICHAEL: GlenAugust? 693 00:30:50,940 --> 00:30:53,250 You're suggesting she killed her sister, 694 00:30:53,410 --> 00:30:56,880 but a few months of rest and a high-fiber diet will make it all better? 695 00:30:59,950 --> 00:31:01,460 I just want... 696 00:31:02,860 --> 00:31:05,500 I did something terrible, 697 00:31:06,690 --> 00:31:08,970 and if I can... It's all right, Mercedes. 698 00:31:13,430 --> 00:31:15,640 Did you know about this, Mrs. Garrison? 699 00:31:15,940 --> 00:31:16,970 No. 700 00:31:17,870 --> 00:31:19,210 No, I... 701 00:31:20,170 --> 00:31:24,320 I thought there was a chance. But no, I wasn't sure. 702 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,890 Okay, I think Mr. McCoy has heard enough. 703 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,090 I don't think so. 704 00:31:30,350 --> 00:31:31,890 Before I agree to any kind of plea, 705 00:31:31,950 --> 00:31:33,590 I want our shrink to talk to her. 706 00:31:33,790 --> 00:31:34,890 Oh, I don't know. 707 00:31:38,590 --> 00:31:40,730 I don't see how we can refuse them. 708 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:46,270 I remember a fight. 709 00:31:49,470 --> 00:31:51,810 I don't remember what the fight was about. 710 00:31:51,870 --> 00:31:53,820 Does that happen to you a lot? 711 00:31:53,910 --> 00:31:55,550 That you can't remember things? 712 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,380 Yeah. 713 00:31:57,780 --> 00:32:00,660 I take so many medications. 714 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,700 And some things I remember, 715 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,230 I'm not sure they really happened. 716 00:32:08,590 --> 00:32:11,900 Your marriage to Nicholas Vance, is it important to you? 717 00:32:13,230 --> 00:32:16,370 Yeah. It's important to our families. 718 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:18,870 I asked if it was important to you. 719 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:21,940 Oh, um... 720 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:23,600 Sure. 721 00:32:25,010 --> 00:32:26,950 I always wanted to be married. 722 00:32:28,010 --> 00:32:29,110 Do you love Nick? 723 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:31,650 Of course. 724 00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:33,620 Even though he has other women in his life? 725 00:32:37,020 --> 00:32:39,090 I know he'll take very good care of me. 726 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,430 What about your sister? 727 00:32:45,860 --> 00:32:47,530 Like her? Hate her? 728 00:32:48,060 --> 00:32:49,340 I loved her. 729 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,840 Uh, I was sent away when she was born, 730 00:32:53,570 --> 00:32:56,810 and when I came back she was already there. 731 00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:00,010 I never got to know her very well. 732 00:33:01,910 --> 00:33:03,410 I regret that. 733 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,820 What was this fight about? 734 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,460 I don't remember what the fight was about. 735 00:33:14,990 --> 00:33:16,660 Was it about Nick? 736 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:18,560 No. 737 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,840 Maybe it was about Nick. 738 00:33:27,270 --> 00:33:28,940 It must have been. 739 00:33:31,470 --> 00:33:34,080 Was there another issue between you and Christy? 740 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,210 No, nothing. 741 00:33:38,610 --> 00:33:39,610 Oh... 742 00:33:40,710 --> 00:33:44,130 She stole some makeup from me when she was 11. 743 00:33:45,450 --> 00:33:48,730 Um, some jewelry two years ago. 744 00:33:49,990 --> 00:33:50,990 Sister stuff. 745 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,970 Yeah, sister stuff. 746 00:33:58,030 --> 00:34:00,030 How did you feel about her having sex with Nick? 747 00:34:07,970 --> 00:34:10,220 Christy had a lot of problems. 748 00:34:12,250 --> 00:34:14,690 But your lawyer said you killed her because 749 00:34:14,750 --> 00:34:17,590 you were enraged when you saw her with Nick. 750 00:34:21,450 --> 00:34:22,460 Yeah. 751 00:34:25,260 --> 00:34:26,460 Do you remember it? 752 00:34:37,270 --> 00:34:40,270 I detected some big ugly critter under a rock, 753 00:34:40,340 --> 00:34:42,220 but I wasn't able to turn it over. 754 00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:45,960 Seeing your sister having sex with your fiancé is big and ugly. 755 00:34:46,210 --> 00:34:48,280 She's conveniently forgotten it? 756 00:34:49,020 --> 00:34:50,890 Or she can't bear to remember. 757 00:34:51,350 --> 00:34:52,350 Or? 758 00:34:52,650 --> 00:34:53,960 She never saw it. 759 00:34:54,090 --> 00:34:55,660 But she did kill her sister. 760 00:34:56,260 --> 00:34:58,530 The signals this girl sends out are so jumbled 761 00:34:58,630 --> 00:35:01,370 I can't tell what she knows, what she imagines, 762 00:35:01,430 --> 00:35:04,530 what she's done, what she's convinced herself she did. 763 00:35:04,660 --> 00:35:06,010 The drugs? 764 00:35:06,170 --> 00:35:07,740 That's just one factor. 765 00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:11,250 This woman's been rewired by a lot of different hands. 766 00:35:11,610 --> 00:35:13,350 So, what do we do with this plea? 767 00:35:15,310 --> 00:35:16,840 I said I'd have our guy look at her. 768 00:35:16,910 --> 00:35:18,250 He looked at her. No deal. 769 00:35:18,310 --> 00:35:21,160 (SIGHS) What are you going for? Jail time? Atrial? 770 00:35:21,210 --> 00:35:23,190 Or are you just going to grind that family into the dirt? 771 00:35:23,250 --> 00:35:25,250 I'm going to do my job. 772 00:35:27,190 --> 00:35:30,030 Elyssa Fuegos is on a plane out of Mexico right now. 773 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,830 Our luck, three more suspects'll pop up before the wheels touch down. 774 00:35:34,460 --> 00:35:36,000 You drag me thousands of miles. 775 00:35:36,060 --> 00:35:37,340 You order me here. 776 00:35:37,430 --> 00:35:39,240 This wouldn't have been necessary if the Garrisons 777 00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:40,780 hadn't spirited you out of the country. 778 00:35:40,830 --> 00:35:42,180 There was no subterfuge. 779 00:35:42,270 --> 00:35:44,610 The Garrisons bought the villa three months ago. 780 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:47,150 They needed Mrs. Fuegos to organize the household. 781 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:49,720 Three days after their daughter was murdered? 782 00:35:50,510 --> 00:35:53,250 You've worked for the Garrisons since Mercedes was born? 783 00:35:53,350 --> 00:35:56,090 Except when they moved for four years to Argentina. 784 00:35:56,650 --> 00:35:58,430 They couldn't afford to bring me along. 785 00:35:58,650 --> 00:36:01,100 They brought me back when they came home with the new baby, Christy. 786 00:36:01,150 --> 00:36:04,400 So, you were there that Sunday when Mercedes and Christy had a fight? 787 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,970 I don't know anything about a fight. 788 00:36:07,730 --> 00:36:09,600 Christy bit Mercedes? 789 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:12,870 I don't know about that. 790 00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:15,440 Have the Garrisons talked to you? 791 00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:19,880 Did they tell you we can put you in prison for perjury? 792 00:36:21,910 --> 00:36:23,950 These are good people. Why are you... 793 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:25,720 Mrs. Fuegos, 794 00:36:26,410 --> 00:36:29,190 they're going to drop you no matter what you do. 795 00:36:29,380 --> 00:36:33,520 You can't protect them. You can't protect Mercedes. You can tell the truth. 796 00:36:33,620 --> 00:36:37,530 Mercedes has been charged with murder. She killed Christy. 797 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,110 What? She confessed. 798 00:36:45,370 --> 00:36:47,370 She didn't do it. I know. 799 00:36:48,340 --> 00:36:49,340 HOW? 800 00:36:50,270 --> 00:36:51,540 I was with her. 801 00:36:51,610 --> 00:36:53,350 She was sick from her pills. 802 00:36:54,010 --> 00:36:55,250 And what time was this? 803 00:36:55,510 --> 00:36:59,010 She called me just after 2:00 in the morning. She was throwing up 804 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,160 I stay in her room all night. 805 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,420 Then I woke her up when the police came. 806 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,560 I can understand why you'd want to protect Mercedes. 807 00:37:06,650 --> 00:37:08,360 How could you say she did it? 808 00:37:08,420 --> 00:37:11,300 She didn't even remember I slept in the room with her. 809 00:37:11,690 --> 00:37:14,140 I called the poison control from her room 810 00:37:14,190 --> 00:37:16,730 because I was concerned about her pills. 811 00:37:17,730 --> 00:37:19,640 What about Mr. and Mrs. Garrison? 812 00:37:20,230 --> 00:37:22,210 Did you hear them get up during the night? 813 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:23,640 No. 814 00:37:25,010 --> 00:37:27,280 Whose idea was it to send you to Mexico? 815 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,280 Mrs. Garrison told me. 816 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,020 She said her and Mr. Garrison wanted 817 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,030 the house ready for after the wedding. 818 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,730 Mercedes still wanted to get married to Nick? 819 00:37:40,150 --> 00:37:44,000 Mercedes never knew what she wanted, except peace. 820 00:37:45,660 --> 00:37:47,300 Thank you, Mrs. Fuegos. 821 00:37:47,790 --> 00:37:50,070 I need to instruct you not to leave the city 822 00:37:50,130 --> 00:37:52,670 and not to discuss what you told us with anybody. 823 00:37:57,140 --> 00:37:58,140 (CLEARS THROAT) 824 00:37:59,970 --> 00:38:03,440 Someone convinced Mercedes to fall on her sword. 825 00:38:03,580 --> 00:38:05,210 Or they convinced her she did it. 826 00:38:05,650 --> 00:38:07,850 Either way, it turns my stomach. 827 00:38:08,550 --> 00:38:10,960 Plead diminished capacity, a couple of months rest 828 00:38:11,020 --> 00:38:14,430 at GlenAugust, and Mercedes is on her way back down the aisle. 829 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:16,760 So, which one? 830 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,170 Mr. or Mrs. Garrison? 831 00:38:19,330 --> 00:38:21,860 Unless we want to give Adam a heart attack, we better pick one. 832 00:38:22,660 --> 00:38:24,140 Let's bring in the whole family. 833 00:38:27,170 --> 00:38:31,050 Elyssa Fuegos said you called her at around 2:00 in the morning. 834 00:38:31,770 --> 00:38:32,940 You remember that? 835 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:35,580 I don't know. 836 00:38:35,810 --> 00:38:38,190 You were sick from your medication. 837 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,580 Miss Fuegos stayed with you until the morning. 838 00:38:41,650 --> 00:38:45,190 Simply put, Miss Garrison, you didn't kill your sister. 839 00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:49,330 Elyssa practically raised Mercedes. 840 00:38:49,390 --> 00:38:50,930 Of course she'd say anything. 841 00:38:51,220 --> 00:38:54,140 She called the poison control hotline on your daughter's phone. 842 00:38:54,260 --> 00:38:57,730 The phone records confirm a call was made at 2:57 in the morning. 843 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,240 We believe her, Mrs. Garrison. Your daughter's innocent. 844 00:39:04,070 --> 00:39:06,050 You told me you saw her do it. 845 00:39:06,470 --> 00:39:08,110 She killed Christy. That's what you said. 846 00:39:08,170 --> 00:39:09,520 Michael, not here. 847 00:39:09,580 --> 00:39:11,560 For God sake, Paula, what could you be thinking? 848 00:39:12,210 --> 00:39:14,690 I wanted it to end. It had to be her. 849 00:39:15,050 --> 00:39:16,050 Why? 850 00:39:16,450 --> 00:39:18,330 Why not that creep, Nick? 851 00:39:19,550 --> 00:39:21,900 We couldn't find a reason Nick would have killed Christy. 852 00:39:24,090 --> 00:39:26,040 Or his brother, or some maniac. 853 00:39:27,790 --> 00:39:28,800 It's you. 854 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:31,570 Mercedes, don't... 855 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,880 You did it. You killed my daughter. 856 00:39:40,810 --> 00:39:43,690 You took her away from me, and now you've killed her. 857 00:39:44,380 --> 00:39:45,750 Mercedes. 858 00:39:46,380 --> 00:39:48,120 Christy was your daughter. 859 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,860 In Argentina, when I was 14. 860 00:39:53,290 --> 00:39:54,820 Mercedes, not in front of strangers. 861 00:39:54,890 --> 00:39:56,700 I needed her to know. 862 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,200 That afternoon, I told her. That's why she was so angry. 863 00:40:00,260 --> 00:40:02,540 We agreed, she was never supposed to know. 864 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:03,840 She had a right to know! 865 00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:05,640 And you had a right to be happy. 866 00:40:07,030 --> 00:40:08,880 She was going to ruin that, darling. 867 00:40:09,870 --> 00:40:10,870 CARMICHAEL: Ruin what? 868 00:40:11,340 --> 00:40:14,280 Your chances of joining the Mayflower Tea Club if they ever found out 869 00:40:14,340 --> 00:40:16,340 your daughter was knocked up at 14? 870 00:40:18,380 --> 00:40:20,050 Is that what Christy threatened? 871 00:40:22,820 --> 00:40:24,690 You saw her outside with Nick and Ethan. 872 00:40:26,420 --> 00:40:28,160 JACK: You confronted her. 873 00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:31,260 That's when she told you she knew? 874 00:40:33,630 --> 00:40:34,730 No. 875 00:40:34,790 --> 00:40:36,300 Oh, my God, Paula. 876 00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:41,580 I am not going to discuss this here. 877 00:40:45,340 --> 00:40:48,580 Michael, we're leaving. Mr. Behrens, tell him. 878 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,280 Mr. Garrison, we should leave. 879 00:40:55,220 --> 00:40:56,460 You, too, Mercedes. 880 00:41:03,990 --> 00:41:06,940 Mrs. Garrison, I suggest you get yourself an attorney. 881 00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:21,920 Briscoe, Green and a bucket of cops have been over that house, Jack. 882 00:41:21,980 --> 00:41:24,250 And? They found a pantsuit of Pepper's. 883 00:41:24,310 --> 00:41:26,760 Elyssa confirms Pepper was wearing it the night of the murder. 884 00:41:26,850 --> 00:41:27,850 Blood splatters? 885 00:41:27,910 --> 00:41:30,050 If we had both parts of the pantsuit. 886 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,500 They found the pants but not the jacket. 887 00:41:33,190 --> 00:41:34,690 Can I see you two in here? 888 00:41:38,290 --> 00:41:41,360 You know the Vances. They have something to say. 889 00:41:43,430 --> 00:41:46,600 What our sons did was inexcusable. 890 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,510 We're dealing with them harshly. 891 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:52,510 You've come to make apologies for your sons? 892 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,380 We've come to tell you who killed Christy Garrison. 893 00:42:01,310 --> 00:42:03,850 That night, we heard Nick come in. 894 00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:06,360 I wanted to know what he'd gotten into this time. 895 00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:08,160 I stopped him on the stairs. 896 00:42:08,220 --> 00:42:13,140 We heard noises outside. Yelling. Our room is over the service alley. 897 00:42:13,530 --> 00:42:15,230 Christy was screaming at Pepper. 898 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:16,930 MARK: Christy was attacking her. 899 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,770 I ran down the stairs, got outside. Christy was sliding down the wall. 900 00:42:20,830 --> 00:42:24,110 Christy was rushing her, striking her. 901 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,510 Pepper didn't have a choice. 902 00:42:26,570 --> 00:42:27,780 Christy was dead. 903 00:42:28,370 --> 00:42:30,350 Pepper was inconsolable. I... 904 00:42:30,740 --> 00:42:33,020 I told her to go inside We'd handle it. 905 00:42:33,250 --> 00:42:37,460 It was an act of cowardice on our parts that we didn't come forward earlier. 906 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,330 You kept silent when your sons were suspected of murder. 907 00:42:41,590 --> 00:42:42,590 Why? 908 00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:45,160 We knew they hadn't done it. That they'd be released. 909 00:42:45,220 --> 00:42:47,230 CARMICHAEL: And when Mercedes was arrested? 910 00:42:47,290 --> 00:42:50,470 She hadn't done it. She's fragile. 911 00:42:50,660 --> 00:42:52,470 MARIANNA: We knew that would come out. 912 00:42:52,730 --> 00:42:56,440 And you good Samaritans come forward now because... All right, Jack. 913 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,910 I'm sorry, Adam. It's just so damned convenient. 914 00:42:58,970 --> 00:43:03,040 Pepper is accused of murder. It was self-defense. We saw it. We can help. 915 00:43:09,020 --> 00:43:10,020 (SIGHS) 916 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,330 You know where to find us. 917 00:43:12,390 --> 00:43:13,990 We'll be of whatever help we can. 918 00:43:23,330 --> 00:43:26,330 I think we can make a case for murder against Pepper Garrison. 919 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:27,880 The case is self-defense. 920 00:43:27,930 --> 00:43:29,680 We can go for it, Adam. 921 00:43:29,740 --> 00:43:31,880 The girl was hopped up on drugs. 922 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,210 Vances are impeccable witnesses. 923 00:43:35,410 --> 00:43:39,410 And Pepper Garrison has a rock-solid affirmative defense. 924 00:43:39,850 --> 00:43:41,760 Never get a conviction. 925 00:43:47,620 --> 00:43:50,230 CARMICHAEL: Society page, the long awaited honeymoon 926 00:43:50,290 --> 00:43:52,860 of Nicholas and Mercedes Vance. 927 00:43:53,330 --> 00:43:54,330 Greece. 928 00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:57,040 Must be lovely this time of year. 929 00:43:58,430 --> 00:43:59,910 Take a look. 930 00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:01,610 Page is marked. 931 00:44:02,470 --> 00:44:05,850 Vance Affiliated Industries announces a huge infusion 932 00:44:05,910 --> 00:44:09,280 of cash and stock from its new partner, 933 00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:11,620 the Garrison Investment Group. 934 00:44:13,710 --> 00:44:15,120 This was a merger. 935 00:44:15,780 --> 00:44:17,490 It was never a marriage. 936 00:44:20,290 --> 00:44:22,200 The laws for the rich are different. 937 00:44:24,390 --> 00:44:26,390 What laws for the rich?