1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,770 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:02,830 --> 00:00:06,710 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:06,770 --> 00:00:08,580 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,450 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,540 --> 00:00:13,250 These are their stories. 6 00:00:15,110 --> 00:00:17,850 Unbelievable. God, you never learn. 7 00:00:17,910 --> 00:00:20,620 Well, they were different. They shaded. They omitted. 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,660 They lied. Just like Robert lied. 9 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:23,820 Ugh, I forgot my hairdryer. 10 00:00:23,890 --> 00:00:26,260 Uh-uh, I will buy you a new one. 11 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,130 You're not going back to his apartment. 12 00:00:28,190 --> 00:00:31,070 I mean, he told me he hadn't seen her in months, and... 13 00:00:31,990 --> 00:00:33,270 Oh, my God. 14 00:00:33,330 --> 00:00:35,900 Come on! I swear, everything is gonna be okay. 15 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:37,570 No, it's not. Look. 16 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,280 (EXCLAIMS) Give me your cell. Quick! 17 00:00:44,310 --> 00:00:46,720 (CHATTER ON POLICE RADIO) You recognize her from the neighborhood? 18 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:48,520 I live uptown. 19 00:00:48,580 --> 00:00:49,680 You? 20 00:00:49,750 --> 00:00:52,820 My boyfriend, my ex... Well, I mean, not for sure... 21 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,090 Whatever. 22 00:00:54,150 --> 00:00:55,320 Anyway, his place is down the block, 23 00:00:55,380 --> 00:00:56,660 but I've never seen her before. 24 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,490 You hear anything last night? 25 00:00:58,550 --> 00:01:00,030 No. Sorry. 26 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,070 What's her story? Not a pretty one. 27 00:01:05,130 --> 00:01:07,040 Bruised face, bruised neck, bruised knuckles. 28 00:01:07,260 --> 00:01:08,430 What killed her? 29 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:10,440 Strangled, I think. Too bad. Good-looking girl. 30 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:11,530 You find ID? 31 00:01:12,070 --> 00:01:16,240 Nah. No purse, no wallet. But over here we got the heel of her shoe. 32 00:01:16,310 --> 00:01:18,650 Up here we got a piece of the coat snagged on the gate. 33 00:01:18,710 --> 00:01:20,620 Huh. She got tossed around pretty good. 34 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,560 Yeah. Not that anybody around here noticed. 35 00:01:23,650 --> 00:01:25,590 All right, bag her hands and roll her. 36 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:20,470 Death by strangulation sometime between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. 37 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:23,240 Lab found wool fibers on her neck and coat. 38 00:02:23,310 --> 00:02:25,050 Not from anything she was wearing. 39 00:02:25,110 --> 00:02:28,210 We ran her prints. One arrest for disorderly conduct. 40 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,520 According to this file, her name's Lotus Blossom. Can't be her real name. 41 00:02:32,580 --> 00:02:34,530 How can you tell? 42 00:02:34,580 --> 00:02:35,960 Rape? No. 43 00:02:36,020 --> 00:02:38,260 Scarring on her fallopian tubes. 44 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,270 Past pelvic inflammatory disease. Prostitute? 45 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,600 Stripper. Spent the night in jail two years ago. 46 00:02:44,660 --> 00:02:47,770 Got swept up in a raid at a club called Lavish Buffet. 47 00:02:47,830 --> 00:02:48,900 You call over there? 48 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,440 Nobody's seen her since the bust. 49 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:53,380 No forwarding address, no Social Security number. 50 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,180 And I don't suppose Lotus Blossom's in the white pages. 51 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,180 Have LaMotte check the topless bars. 52 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:59,380 He'll be thrilled. 53 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,290 And you get to check out the address on the arrest file. 54 00:03:06,420 --> 00:03:09,400 Lotus Blossom? She Asian-American? 55 00:03:09,450 --> 00:03:10,790 Yes. You know her? 56 00:03:10,850 --> 00:03:12,630 Could be my daughter Lorraine. 57 00:03:12,690 --> 00:03:14,790 Ever since she got into the adult entertainment business, 58 00:03:14,860 --> 00:03:16,800 she's had all kinds of names. She live here? 59 00:03:16,860 --> 00:03:19,070 I kicked her out eight years ago. 60 00:03:19,130 --> 00:03:21,900 Broke her mother's heart her working in that business. 61 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:23,270 What's she done now? 62 00:03:23,330 --> 00:03:27,610 This woman was found murdered in the city. 63 00:03:33,010 --> 00:03:34,040 Lorraine. 64 00:03:35,010 --> 00:03:36,490 Had you heard from her lately? 65 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,050 No. How did... 66 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:41,390 It was strangulation. 67 00:03:43,390 --> 00:03:44,520 (SIGHS) 68 00:03:44,590 --> 00:03:45,790 BRISCOE: Do you know where she was living? 69 00:03:46,460 --> 00:03:47,800 Maybe a phone number? 70 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:50,930 She showed up about a year ago when her mother died, 71 00:03:50,990 --> 00:03:53,340 made a big deal about paying for the funeral. 72 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,570 I haven't seen her since. 73 00:03:56,630 --> 00:03:58,130 ED: Do you know any of her friends? 74 00:03:58,200 --> 00:03:59,800 I wouldn't know any of her crowd. 75 00:03:59,870 --> 00:04:02,040 Which funeral home took care of your wife? 76 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:03,550 Park Lawn in Fort Lee. 77 00:04:07,380 --> 00:04:09,150 Lorraine wasn't a bad kid. 78 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:11,650 I just don't get what happened to her. 79 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,830 "One hundred percent anti-allergenic." 80 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,520 Yeah. You wouldn't want granny breaking out in a rash. 81 00:04:19,090 --> 00:04:22,560 Haruki Shelby, interred August last year. 82 00:04:22,620 --> 00:04:24,230 Paid for by her daughter Lorraine. 83 00:04:24,290 --> 00:04:25,400 Credit card? 84 00:04:25,460 --> 00:04:26,560 Cash. 85 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:28,700 She also took care of the arrangements 86 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,840 for another deceased three months ago. 87 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:31,930 Who? 88 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,710 May Sheng. A Chinese girl, died of pneumonia. 89 00:04:37,110 --> 00:04:39,020 We did a Buddhist cremation. 90 00:04:39,070 --> 00:04:41,110 Any address for Lorraine Shelby? 91 00:04:42,210 --> 00:04:43,380 No. I'm sorry. 92 00:04:43,450 --> 00:04:45,980 Who signed the death certificate on the Chinese girl? 93 00:04:47,580 --> 00:04:50,060 The girl came in. Both lungs were filled with fluid, 94 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,860 she was running a fever of 105. 95 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,200 I called the ambulance, but she was dead before they got here. 96 00:04:56,260 --> 00:04:58,570 Anybody with her? A woman brought her in. 97 00:04:58,630 --> 00:05:00,570 Lorraine Shelby? Yes. 98 00:05:01,430 --> 00:05:03,240 You treat a lot of Lorraine's friends here? 99 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:04,540 Why? 100 00:05:05,030 --> 00:05:07,980 She was found dead the day before yesterday six blocks from here. 101 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:09,480 (SIGHS) Dead as in murdered. 102 00:05:10,370 --> 00:05:13,510 I can't say I'm surprised, considering the business she was in. 103 00:05:13,580 --> 00:05:15,280 Prostitution? Yes. 104 00:05:15,340 --> 00:05:16,650 Same as her friends. 105 00:05:16,710 --> 00:05:18,520 ED: You ever make house calls on Lorraine? 106 00:05:18,580 --> 00:05:19,820 At my age? 107 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,230 Medical calls. We just need to know where she lived. 108 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:23,790 Not far from here. 109 00:05:24,390 --> 00:05:27,960 West 11th, 575-A, second floor. 110 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,770 There it is. Short commute to work. Nice. 111 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:37,140 Looks like she spent a lot of time looking out the window. 112 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:38,640 ED: The show's in here. 113 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:42,610 Everything for the accomplished ecdysiast. 114 00:05:44,310 --> 00:05:46,050 Yeah. The rug's been matted down. 115 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,850 Something was moved out of here recently. A desk, maybe? Boxes? 116 00:05:50,910 --> 00:05:52,820 No personal papers, no address book. 117 00:05:53,420 --> 00:05:55,400 Somebody's been through here already. 118 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,320 Out of where? The apartment above the massage parlor. 119 00:05:58,390 --> 00:06:00,160 Somebody moving stuff out. 120 00:06:00,260 --> 00:06:02,630 Yeah, Wednesday night. Nine-ish. 121 00:06:02,690 --> 00:06:05,830 A couple of guys took out some computers, 122 00:06:05,890 --> 00:06:07,570 cardboard boxes, put them in a van. 123 00:06:07,630 --> 00:06:09,510 What kind of a van? It was a white van, 124 00:06:09,630 --> 00:06:11,630 and they took stuff out of the massage parlor, too. 125 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:13,200 It's about time they closed it down. 126 00:06:13,270 --> 00:06:15,750 Did you get a look at these guys? Not really. 127 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,580 What about a license plate on the van? 128 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:19,590 No. Who cares? 129 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,620 The place is a whorehouse. This is a residential neighborhood, you know? 130 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,780 Lot of people been trying to close the place down. 131 00:06:24,850 --> 00:06:26,050 A lot of people like who? 132 00:06:26,110 --> 00:06:27,960 Hey, decent folks, you know. 133 00:06:28,020 --> 00:06:30,760 We had to hound the cops just to get them to raid the place. 134 00:06:30,820 --> 00:06:32,320 When was this raid? 135 00:06:32,390 --> 00:06:34,890 Couple of months ago, and what good did it do? 136 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,270 The next day the place was back in business. 137 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,300 Thanks. 138 00:06:43,060 --> 00:06:45,740 Yeah, we sent an undercover, but the girls made him. 139 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,800 My guys decided to bring them down to the station anyway to check their IDs. 140 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:51,320 You let them go? No choice. 141 00:06:51,370 --> 00:06:53,380 Anyway, it's all shut down now. 142 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,010 You bring Lorraine Shelby in? 143 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,680 The alleged madam? 144 00:06:56,780 --> 00:06:59,020 Apparently she ran things from her place upstairs. 145 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,030 Since she wasn't in the rub room itself, we couldn't touch her. 146 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:03,390 And since then? 147 00:07:03,450 --> 00:07:05,450 We've been keeping up a presence. 148 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,900 Any units sitting on the place the day she was killed? 149 00:07:07,990 --> 00:07:10,090 We don't have the budget for 2417. 150 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,200 Lot of complaints from a Derek Fedder. 151 00:07:12,860 --> 00:07:15,670 Guy's got kids, lives two doors from the place. 152 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:17,610 Maybe he got tired of complaining. 153 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:22,380 I'm sorry she's dead. But if that's what it took to close that sewer down... 154 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:23,970 Yeah, that's what it took. 155 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,320 So where were you early Wednesday, say around 5:00 am.? 156 00:07:28,140 --> 00:07:30,090 With my three-year-old She was sick. 157 00:07:30,150 --> 00:07:31,890 Uh-huh. Where was your wife? 158 00:07:31,950 --> 00:07:33,930 In Richmond, visiting her parents. 159 00:07:33,980 --> 00:07:35,590 You think I killed that woman? 160 00:07:35,650 --> 00:07:38,220 Like you said, it's what it took to close the place down. 161 00:07:38,290 --> 00:07:40,460 (SCOFFS) You guys are nuts. 162 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,900 So, what, you just resigned yourself to living next door to a whorehouse? 163 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:45,230 No. 164 00:07:45,290 --> 00:07:47,830 I couldn't get rid of the hookers, maybe I could get rid of the johns. 165 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:49,170 At least the ones that drive up. 166 00:07:49,230 --> 00:07:50,400 BRISCOE: And how'd you do that? 167 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:51,970 Wait by their cars. 168 00:07:52,030 --> 00:07:54,310 If they come out, I tell them I got their plate numbers. 169 00:07:54,370 --> 00:07:55,440 It do any good? 170 00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:56,640 Not much. 171 00:07:56,710 --> 00:07:58,240 ED: You ever see a white van? 172 00:07:58,940 --> 00:08:01,250 I've seen a lot of white vans. 173 00:08:01,310 --> 00:08:02,690 You want their plates? 174 00:08:03,310 --> 00:08:04,650 Okay. Thank you. 175 00:08:05,210 --> 00:08:07,090 Starting with the vans that showed up regularly, 176 00:08:07,150 --> 00:08:09,920 we got one registered to Happy Days Plumbing. 177 00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:12,930 Plumbers. Babydoobeedoo Diaper Service. 178 00:08:12,990 --> 00:08:15,090 (LAUGHS) Serious? Seriously. 179 00:08:15,220 --> 00:08:19,760 And an expired registration on Enchanting Imports, 9199 West Street. 180 00:08:19,830 --> 00:08:21,140 Sounds promising. 181 00:08:24,070 --> 00:08:25,840 NYPD. Anybody home? 182 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:27,000 Nobody's allowed in here. 183 00:08:27,070 --> 00:08:29,140 Guess again. Who're you? 184 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,080 Watchman. What're you watching? 185 00:08:31,140 --> 00:08:32,170 Nothing. 186 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,190 What's in here? Nothing. 187 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,310 Oh, I guess you won't mind us taking a look at nothing. 188 00:08:38,410 --> 00:08:39,620 ED: Aw, man! 189 00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:41,090 Are people living in here? 190 00:08:41,150 --> 00:08:43,220 I don't know. What about that one? What's inside? 191 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:44,700 I don't know. 192 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:50,930 (WOMEN CHATTERING IN PANIC) 193 00:08:50,990 --> 00:08:52,300 ED: Oh, man! 194 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,370 Do me a favor, try to run! Cuff him! 195 00:08:57,430 --> 00:08:58,710 OFFICER: This way, paisan! 196 00:08:58,770 --> 00:09:01,080 All right, all right. Come on, come on. 197 00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:03,840 (CHATTERING IN CHINESE) 198 00:09:07,380 --> 00:09:10,820 Some Chinese guy hired me. I get paid every Friday, that's all I know. 199 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:12,590 You knew those women were in that shipping container. 200 00:09:12,650 --> 00:09:13,790 Yeah, the guy that dropped them off 201 00:09:13,850 --> 00:09:15,160 told me I should take care of them. 202 00:09:15,220 --> 00:09:16,630 The Chinese guy? 203 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:18,360 No, some white guy. I don't know who he is. 204 00:09:18,420 --> 00:09:20,090 He was here, talking to Mr. Chang. 205 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:21,660 Then who's Chang? 206 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,100 He runs the place, I think. 207 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:24,540 Lent the white guy his van. 208 00:09:24,590 --> 00:09:26,570 How can we get in touch with him? You can't. 209 00:09:26,630 --> 00:09:29,630 Right after he talked with that guy, he left for China. Said he wouldn't be back. 210 00:09:29,730 --> 00:09:32,510 (SIGHS) When did the white guy drop these girls off? 211 00:09:32,570 --> 00:09:34,210 Wednesday, late afternoon. 212 00:09:34,300 --> 00:09:37,410 He was driving Mr. Chang's van, how should I know anything was wrong? 213 00:09:37,470 --> 00:09:38,640 Let's see. 214 00:09:39,270 --> 00:09:41,310 A dozen women stuffed into a shipping container 215 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:43,620 with a bucket in the corner to pee in. 216 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:46,490 I swear, I didn't know anything was wrong! I want a lawyer. 217 00:09:46,550 --> 00:09:47,820 (DOOR OPENS) 218 00:09:48,780 --> 00:09:50,230 Get anything? 219 00:09:51,350 --> 00:09:52,760 Not from this moron. 220 00:09:52,820 --> 00:09:53,890 Translator's here. 221 00:09:57,590 --> 00:10:00,970 She paid $10,000 to a smuggler in Hong Kong, 222 00:10:01,030 --> 00:10:04,370 she was put in a container with 15 other girls. 223 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:05,940 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 224 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,740 After two months at sea, 225 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,310 they started running out of food and water 226 00:10:10,370 --> 00:10:11,820 and couldn't breathe. 227 00:10:12,770 --> 00:10:14,850 It took them three months to get to New York. 228 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:17,460 Four girls died. 229 00:10:17,510 --> 00:10:19,080 ED: What happened once they got to New York? 230 00:10:19,150 --> 00:10:21,420 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 231 00:10:25,390 --> 00:10:27,300 They were forced to work as prostitutes. 232 00:10:27,990 --> 00:10:29,090 Does she know this woman? 233 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:30,730 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 234 00:10:31,890 --> 00:10:33,070 Boss lady. 235 00:10:33,460 --> 00:10:34,940 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 236 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,340 Oh, this woman told the girls what to do. 237 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:38,810 Anybody else? 238 00:10:38,870 --> 00:10:40,680 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 239 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:45,770 Yes. White man. Eugene. Balding. 240 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,150 Every week he came by to pick up the receipts. 241 00:10:49,210 --> 00:10:51,160 Was he there the night the boss lady got killed? 242 00:10:51,210 --> 00:10:53,160 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 243 00:10:57,750 --> 00:10:58,890 She doesn't know. 244 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,570 Was there any bad blood between Eugene and the boss lady? 245 00:11:01,620 --> 00:11:03,500 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 246 00:11:06,260 --> 00:11:07,260 No. 247 00:11:08,060 --> 00:11:09,740 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 248 00:11:11,170 --> 00:11:14,740 Last week, your victim and another man 249 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,080 had a knock-down drag-out 250 00:11:17,810 --> 00:11:19,790 with a white man. 251 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,290 Mustache. They were yelling in English. 252 00:11:22,340 --> 00:11:23,620 Does she know the man's name? 253 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:25,090 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 254 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:27,850 Sorry. 255 00:11:28,220 --> 00:11:29,890 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 256 00:11:31,350 --> 00:11:34,270 She wants to know what's gonna happen to her and the others. 257 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,500 They'll be turned over to the INS. After that... 258 00:11:39,330 --> 00:11:40,860 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 259 00:11:43,030 --> 00:11:45,910 ED: Parent company of the massage parlor is called Asian Novelties, 260 00:11:45,970 --> 00:11:48,810 shipping warehouse is leased by Enchanting Imports. 261 00:11:48,970 --> 00:11:50,240 They related? 262 00:11:50,310 --> 00:11:53,340 Who knows? They're both a tangle of DBA's, LLC's. 263 00:11:53,410 --> 00:11:54,790 Immigration pick up the women? 264 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,950 INS and a Vice team searched the massage parlor. 265 00:11:58,010 --> 00:12:01,690 Fourteen cubicles and a back room where the women slept. 266 00:12:01,750 --> 00:12:02,780 All in one room? 267 00:12:02,850 --> 00:12:04,920 Wall to wall mattresses. 268 00:12:04,990 --> 00:12:07,230 They find a clue who Eugene is? 269 00:12:07,290 --> 00:12:09,390 'Cause I'd really like to nail this bastard. 270 00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:10,800 VAN BUREN: He's not listed? 271 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:12,600 No corporate officers listed. 272 00:12:12,660 --> 00:12:16,300 Some lawyer prepared these and filed them, find out who. 273 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:23,640 Yeah. Yeah, I filed these papers. 274 00:12:23,710 --> 00:12:25,740 Asian Novelties. Who for? 275 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,080 A client. 276 00:12:28,140 --> 00:12:29,780 Yeah. Guy named Eugene? 277 00:12:30,780 --> 00:12:33,690 Assuming you've heard of attorney-client privilege. 278 00:12:34,850 --> 00:12:38,850 This is a shipping container, 15 women lived in it for three months. 279 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:40,800 BRISCOE: A slow boat from China. 280 00:12:41,390 --> 00:12:42,420 Look... 281 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,870 ED: See those buckets there? That was their bathroom. 282 00:12:44,930 --> 00:12:46,670 They were told they'd be seamstresses. 283 00:12:46,730 --> 00:12:48,710 Your client made them work as prostitutes. 284 00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:51,040 Look, I swear, I didn't know. 285 00:12:51,330 --> 00:12:52,680 Now you know. 286 00:12:57,340 --> 00:13:00,180 I just prepared and filed the corporate documents. 287 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,280 That's the only job lever did for him. 288 00:13:03,650 --> 00:13:04,780 Eugene Miller. 289 00:13:06,950 --> 00:13:08,830 All right, everybody up. Let's go. 290 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,660 OFFICER: Come on. Get out of here. 291 00:13:14,390 --> 00:13:15,830 Eugene Miller? Yeah. 292 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,870 You're under arrest for kidnapping and false imprisonment. 293 00:13:18,930 --> 00:13:21,700 Anything else, Lennie? Yeah, pimping and pandering. 294 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,570 What the hell? Your lawyer can explain it all to you. 295 00:13:24,630 --> 00:13:27,110 Meantime, you have the right to remain silent. 296 00:13:27,170 --> 00:13:30,620 Anything you do say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 297 00:13:31,070 --> 00:13:32,710 I don't know any Lorraine Shelby. 298 00:13:32,770 --> 00:13:34,690 Don't even try it. 299 00:13:34,740 --> 00:13:37,220 Come on, Ed, let's just give him to the Feds, 300 00:13:37,810 --> 00:13:39,550 they've got enough to put him down for life. 301 00:13:39,610 --> 00:13:43,430 Hey. Hey, what, you sleaze-bag? 302 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,120 You want him to cooperate or not? 303 00:13:45,490 --> 00:13:47,560 Show us what it looks like. 304 00:13:48,660 --> 00:13:50,640 I don't know who killed her, okay? 305 00:13:50,690 --> 00:13:51,930 I heard about it on the news, 306 00:13:51,990 --> 00:13:53,630 I just went and got stuff out, that's all. 307 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:55,680 What stuff? Files and equipment. 308 00:13:55,730 --> 00:13:57,680 Why? 'Cause they're mine. 309 00:13:57,730 --> 00:14:00,340 Yours? They were in her apartment. 310 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,440 They're her files. Where are they? 311 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:05,850 You have no probable cause to poke around in his files. 312 00:14:05,910 --> 00:14:09,080 I've got plenty. I've got 15 girls in a container. 313 00:14:09,140 --> 00:14:12,850 Your client removed evidence from the murder victim's apartment. 314 00:14:12,910 --> 00:14:15,520 The night watchman at your warehouse already ID'd you. 315 00:14:15,580 --> 00:14:17,490 Chang leased that, not me. 316 00:14:17,550 --> 00:14:20,030 Far as I know, those girls are independent contractors. 317 00:14:20,090 --> 00:14:21,620 You're joking. COUNSELOR: He already told you 318 00:14:21,690 --> 00:14:23,860 he knows nothing about the murder. 319 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,360 Okay. Where were you Wednesday morning, say 4:00 or 5:00? 320 00:14:28,430 --> 00:14:31,770 I was going over the books at my other massage parlor, the one you found me at. 321 00:14:31,830 --> 00:14:34,040 ED: Anybody with you? My accountant. 322 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,240 You got an accountant who works at 4:00 am.? 323 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:38,580 It's not a 9-to-5 business, okay? 324 00:14:39,110 --> 00:14:40,780 Jay Kogen. You want his number? 325 00:14:42,210 --> 00:14:44,210 Good. You'll check his alibi. 326 00:14:44,810 --> 00:14:46,290 Now about the other charges... 327 00:14:46,350 --> 00:14:48,550 You got a lost cause, Counselor. 328 00:14:48,620 --> 00:14:51,930 His trip's already booked. It can go easy or hard. 329 00:14:51,990 --> 00:14:53,490 You cooperate or you don't. 330 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,000 The stuff's in unit 64 at U-Store-It in Soho. 331 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,810 I deserve some consideration here, I'm cooperating. 332 00:15:04,870 --> 00:15:06,680 You force women to have sex 333 00:15:06,730 --> 00:15:09,770 with every loser that walks in with $20 in his sweaty hands. 334 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,820 What's the difference between you and a rapist? 335 00:15:12,870 --> 00:15:14,750 Put a leash on this guy, all right? 336 00:15:15,180 --> 00:15:17,420 Yeah, we gave up. He keeps chewing through them. 337 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,790 Miller's alibi checked out, so he's not our murderer. 338 00:15:23,850 --> 00:15:26,630 Four girls are dead because of his smuggling deal. 339 00:15:26,690 --> 00:15:28,100 Federal jurisdiction. 340 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:29,640 What're they gonna do, slap him on the wrist 341 00:15:29,690 --> 00:15:31,360 because his girls didn't have green cards? 342 00:15:31,430 --> 00:15:33,500 Well, at least we got him on state kidnapping. 343 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,170 What'd you find at his storage unit? 344 00:15:35,230 --> 00:15:37,510 Well, some video equipment, file cabinets 345 00:15:37,570 --> 00:15:39,770 and 17 boxes of video tapes. 346 00:15:39,830 --> 00:15:42,280 Dirty movies? See for yourself. 347 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,020 VAN BUREN: Eugene Miller didn't tell you about the hidden cameras? 348 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:56,930 We went back to Rikers and asked him. 349 00:15:56,980 --> 00:15:58,790 He said he didn't know about it. 350 00:15:58,850 --> 00:16:00,360 You watched all these tapes? 351 00:16:00,450 --> 00:16:03,230 We fast-forwarded through some of them. They were all the same. 352 00:16:03,790 --> 00:16:05,400 Well, one of the Chinese women told you 353 00:16:05,460 --> 00:16:08,630 Lorraine Shelby had an argument with a mustached man. 354 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:11,230 Yeah, if he was one of the customers, he's probably on the tapes. 355 00:16:11,630 --> 00:16:14,270 Well, get her back in here, see if she can find him. 356 00:16:33,420 --> 00:16:35,200 This one says "insurance." 357 00:17:06,820 --> 00:17:08,960 This must be the raid from two months ago. 358 00:17:10,020 --> 00:17:11,800 That one there. Wasn't he the guy getting the hummer? 359 00:17:11,860 --> 00:17:14,000 BRISCOE: Guy's got some explaining to do. 360 00:17:15,660 --> 00:17:17,230 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 361 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,640 The older man, the one on the right, 362 00:17:21,740 --> 00:17:23,880 is the one who had the fight with the victim. 363 00:17:23,940 --> 00:17:25,780 That guy's a cop. Is she sure? 364 00:17:25,970 --> 00:17:27,280 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 365 00:17:28,140 --> 00:17:29,140 That's him. 366 00:17:29,810 --> 00:17:32,590 The cop who got the lube job was setting up the bust. 367 00:17:36,180 --> 00:17:37,990 ED: He's looking for the marked bill he used. 368 00:17:38,450 --> 00:17:40,260 Doesn't look like he's finding it. 369 00:17:46,790 --> 00:17:48,710 You can't find it, plant it. 370 00:17:51,870 --> 00:17:55,640 The story we got from your lieutenant was your partner went in undercover 371 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:57,770 and the girls figured him for a cop. 372 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:58,840 Yeah. 373 00:17:59,370 --> 00:18:02,290 So what happened, you lie to your lieutenant or he lie to us? 374 00:18:02,810 --> 00:18:03,850 Watch who you call a liar. 375 00:18:04,810 --> 00:18:09,090 Yeah, okay, here's your partner with his pants down. 376 00:18:10,150 --> 00:18:13,860 And, oh, here he is getting serviced. 377 00:18:14,060 --> 00:18:16,930 So when exactly did they figure out he was a cop, huh? 378 00:18:17,630 --> 00:18:19,870 How many cops in your precinct knew about this, Renato? 379 00:18:19,930 --> 00:18:21,200 I want a PBA lawyer. 380 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:23,730 Oh, this is just a friendly chat. 381 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,040 You'd rather have it with Internal Affairs? 382 00:18:26,170 --> 00:18:29,550 Oh, here's your partner looking for the marked bill he used. 383 00:18:29,940 --> 00:18:31,540 He doesn't find it, does he? 384 00:18:32,270 --> 00:18:34,250 Yeah. Here's you donating one. 385 00:18:34,910 --> 00:18:37,120 No lawyer, I'm a clam. 386 00:18:38,050 --> 00:18:39,680 Interesting choice of words. 387 00:18:40,580 --> 00:18:43,990 So what happened, Lotus Blossom tell you she had you on tape? 388 00:18:44,050 --> 00:18:46,500 One of you taking advantage of the services 389 00:18:46,550 --> 00:18:48,860 while the other one phonies up evidence? 390 00:18:49,260 --> 00:18:50,530 What'd you fight with her about? 391 00:18:53,830 --> 00:18:55,270 Why'd you kill her? 392 00:18:58,770 --> 00:19:00,750 Guess I'll be looking for a new career. 393 00:19:01,370 --> 00:19:02,640 I guess so. 394 00:19:05,170 --> 00:19:06,810 Want to help yourself? 395 00:19:08,580 --> 00:19:10,080 Neighbors kept complaining. 396 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:15,120 They sent me in undercover with a marked bill. 397 00:19:15,180 --> 00:19:17,660 When we raided the place, we couldn't find it. 398 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,430 So your partner planted one? 399 00:19:19,490 --> 00:19:22,800 We were frustrated, okay? We wanted to shut her down. 400 00:19:22,860 --> 00:19:25,030 So why didn't you? You had your marked bill. 401 00:19:27,090 --> 00:19:29,700 After we took the girls in, Lotus Blossom told me and Tony 402 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,270 she had us on tape planting the bill. 403 00:19:32,330 --> 00:19:34,310 So you let it drop. Sure we did. 404 00:19:34,370 --> 00:19:35,400 The girls hadn't been booked yet. 405 00:19:35,470 --> 00:19:37,680 We just told Lieutenant Wreston we made a mistake. 406 00:19:37,740 --> 00:19:39,270 He believed you? Yeah. 407 00:19:39,540 --> 00:19:41,250 Tony's good at blowing smoke. 408 00:19:42,210 --> 00:19:45,420 Your partner had a big fight with Lorraine Shelby a week before she died. 409 00:19:46,510 --> 00:19:50,860 She had us rousting drunks out of her place, you know, watching over her. 410 00:19:51,020 --> 00:19:54,520 Renato had enough. He wanted the tapes, she laughed in his face. 411 00:19:54,590 --> 00:19:56,500 Well, that's pretty naive of him. 412 00:19:57,090 --> 00:19:58,930 He's two years from his pension. 413 00:19:59,430 --> 00:20:01,030 He was worried it was gonna get out. 414 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:02,770 Worried enough to kill her? 415 00:20:03,330 --> 00:20:04,870 I don't know. 416 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:06,910 I don't know. 417 00:20:06,970 --> 00:20:09,240 Okay, man? We were just trying to make a bust. 418 00:20:17,580 --> 00:20:19,750 How widespread's the corruption? 419 00:20:19,810 --> 00:20:23,790 IAB thinks it's just the five cops who raided the place. 420 00:20:24,690 --> 00:20:26,630 Did Detective Renato kill Ms. Shelby? 421 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,290 The victim had him in a bind. 422 00:20:29,790 --> 00:20:32,930 She was demanding protection, he got tired of giving it. 423 00:20:33,330 --> 00:20:36,240 His partner says Renato was afraid of losing his pension. 424 00:20:36,730 --> 00:20:38,610 A motive. Any witnesses? 425 00:20:39,170 --> 00:20:40,440 Not that the cops have found. 426 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:42,210 Evidence? Not yet. 427 00:20:42,940 --> 00:20:44,470 Want to make it three for three? 428 00:20:44,540 --> 00:20:46,350 We don't know about opportunity. 429 00:20:46,910 --> 00:20:49,550 He's not feeling cooperative enough to give us an alibi. 430 00:20:49,610 --> 00:20:50,880 ADAM: What've you charged him with? 431 00:20:50,950 --> 00:20:52,360 Obstruction of justice for now. 432 00:20:52,410 --> 00:20:53,820 Worried about his pension? 433 00:20:54,350 --> 00:20:56,760 Explain to him that's the least of his problems. 434 00:20:58,190 --> 00:21:00,630 (SIGHS) I was at home with my wife and my kids. 435 00:21:00,690 --> 00:21:03,730 He lives in Hauppauge, hour and a half drive from the city. 436 00:21:03,790 --> 00:21:06,770 Anybody else in Hauppauge see you besides your wife and your kids? 437 00:21:06,830 --> 00:21:09,210 I got off the expressway, exit 37, 438 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,010 got gas at a Shell station about 5:00, 5:15. 439 00:21:12,570 --> 00:21:13,740 Pay with a credit card? 440 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,780 Yeah, and the attendant knows me. 441 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,410 We'll check it. What'd you argue with Ms. Shelby about? 442 00:21:18,470 --> 00:21:20,380 COUNSELOR: Let's hear the deal first. 443 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,010 Probation on the obstruction charge. 444 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:23,650 His job and pension aren't up to me. 445 00:21:23,710 --> 00:21:26,720 Not good enough, you've got a murder charge in your back pocket. 446 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,220 Convince me he didn't do it. 447 00:21:29,050 --> 00:21:30,220 I didn't do it. 448 00:21:31,150 --> 00:21:32,430 The argument? 449 00:21:34,590 --> 00:21:35,930 I had enough, I wanted out. 450 00:21:35,990 --> 00:21:37,800 What exactly did you do for her? 451 00:21:37,860 --> 00:21:39,340 (SCOFFS) Protection. 452 00:21:40,230 --> 00:21:41,970 Her line of work attracts a lot of weirdoes. 453 00:21:43,530 --> 00:21:45,030 Any weirdo in particular? 454 00:21:47,270 --> 00:21:50,440 She had this one guy that she was chatting up on the Internet. 455 00:21:51,670 --> 00:21:56,450 She had a sideline. Talking dirty to guys online for a couple bucks a minute. 456 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,010 This one guy spooked her. 457 00:21:59,610 --> 00:22:01,720 She asked me to check him out. Did you? 458 00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:03,560 I wouldn't know how. 459 00:22:04,620 --> 00:22:09,970 She talks to me about e-mail and chats and screen names. 460 00:22:11,130 --> 00:22:12,800 How the hell am I supposed to know about that crap? 461 00:22:13,390 --> 00:22:15,840 What name did this weirdo use on the computer? 462 00:22:17,430 --> 00:22:18,600 Hotrod. 463 00:22:20,630 --> 00:22:21,870 Hotrod. 464 00:22:22,570 --> 00:22:25,850 No e-mails from Hotrod. No saved e-mails at all. 465 00:22:26,270 --> 00:22:28,910 But she does have lots of saved chat files with him. 466 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:30,150 Pull them up. 467 00:22:32,180 --> 00:22:35,520 "Bounce them for me, baby. No, go faster." 468 00:22:35,620 --> 00:22:37,120 BRISCOE: This hump was watching her do it? 469 00:22:37,180 --> 00:22:39,130 Check the settings for a T-3 line. 470 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,230 Yeah. Catch me up. 471 00:22:43,290 --> 00:22:44,860 ED: She was running a live-camera website. 472 00:22:44,930 --> 00:22:47,430 You type in your request, watch the action on the monitor 473 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:48,670 and then charge it to your credit card. 474 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,470 Print the chats from Hotrod. 475 00:22:50,530 --> 00:22:53,210 And we're gonna need his user profile and his credit card information. 476 00:22:53,270 --> 00:22:56,250 No can do. Your girl used a host company. 477 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:57,910 A host company? 478 00:22:58,040 --> 00:22:59,540 Yeah, they run the site for you. 479 00:22:59,610 --> 00:23:02,520 Takes customer information, handles billing. 480 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,620 I doubt they can match the credit card user 481 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,990 to the name he made up for the chat room. 482 00:23:07,050 --> 00:23:08,220 Great, a dead end. 483 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,590 No, not a dead end, just a lot more work. 484 00:23:13,750 --> 00:23:18,970 Hotrod says he's 38, rich, drives a Porsche, and he's well-endowed. 485 00:23:19,030 --> 00:23:20,530 And he couldn't get a real date? 486 00:23:20,590 --> 00:23:23,700 At first, he's just telling her what he wants to see her do. 487 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,270 That goes on for about six weeks. 488 00:23:26,330 --> 00:23:28,570 Then he wanted her to meet him somewhere. 489 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,810 She strung him along without saying yes, and he started threatening her. 490 00:23:31,870 --> 00:23:33,580 "Don't say you love me, you slut, 491 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:34,850 "if you loved me, you'd meet me. 492 00:23:34,910 --> 00:23:37,250 "You're just using me." Duh. 493 00:23:37,310 --> 00:23:39,590 "If I have to come after you, it'll be to kill you." 494 00:23:39,650 --> 00:23:41,060 Gets worse as it goes along. 495 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:43,150 I don't get why she didn't block him out. 496 00:23:43,220 --> 00:23:44,460 $2.99 a minute. 497 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,690 Got the credit card user profiles from the host company, 498 00:23:46,750 --> 00:23:48,930 and times everybody was logged on. 499 00:23:48,990 --> 00:23:50,470 Let's match them up. 500 00:23:51,630 --> 00:23:55,130 BRISCOE: Okay, March 17, 3:16 a.m., 501 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,140 Hotrod was chatting with the victim. 502 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:58,900 Don't these people ever sleep? 503 00:23:59,430 --> 00:24:03,040 Wait a minute. I've got two people logged onto that site at that time. 504 00:24:03,540 --> 00:24:05,980 Yeah, lollipop@tbl.com 505 00:24:06,770 --> 00:24:09,910 and plantman@jointaccess.com. 506 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,020 That's the second time Hotrod was chatting with her 507 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,360 at the same time Plantman's credit card was being used. 508 00:24:14,420 --> 00:24:16,900 So we've found Hotrod? Maybe. 509 00:24:16,950 --> 00:24:19,930 Plantman first registered with the host company in March. 510 00:24:19,990 --> 00:24:22,130 Hotrod was accessing the website before then. 511 00:24:22,190 --> 00:24:24,670 Too bad Renato's alibi checks out. 512 00:24:24,790 --> 00:24:26,500 You know, if this is the future of police work, 513 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,800 I'm gonna start thinking about retirement. 514 00:24:28,860 --> 00:24:30,340 More coffee? 515 00:24:31,770 --> 00:24:33,040 So who's Plantman? 516 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:34,410 Um... 517 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:37,250 Lance Vernon, used his City Mutual card. 518 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:40,110 Four grand in one week telling a stripper how to take her clothes off. 519 00:24:40,210 --> 00:24:41,650 You guys are such suckers. 520 00:24:43,340 --> 00:24:45,020 I don't know what you're talking about. 521 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,790 A porno website. $4000 charged to your credit card. 522 00:24:48,850 --> 00:24:50,090 What? When? 523 00:24:50,150 --> 00:24:52,220 Three weeks ago. Oh, my God. 524 00:24:52,290 --> 00:24:54,890 Where were you March 23, about 5:00 a.m.? 525 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:55,960 What the hell's going on? 526 00:24:56,020 --> 00:24:57,560 Where were you, Mr. Vernon? 527 00:24:57,630 --> 00:24:59,500 I was in Nova Scotia looking at trees. 528 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,900 Look, I gotta go and call my credit card company. 529 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,600 Does anyone else have access to your card? No! 530 00:25:04,670 --> 00:25:05,910 Do you use it a lot? 531 00:25:05,970 --> 00:25:09,470 It's my back-up card, I've only ever used it once. Damn. 532 00:25:10,140 --> 00:25:11,910 All my friends have been telling me to shop online. 533 00:25:11,970 --> 00:25:15,610 It's great, don't worry about security. I'm such an idiot. 534 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,420 Okay. Where'd you use it? 535 00:25:18,580 --> 00:25:23,930 I bought a book. One lousy book from oldbookworms.com. 536 00:25:25,220 --> 00:25:27,220 FLETCHER: Eight weeks ago, our firewall was breached. 537 00:25:27,290 --> 00:25:29,060 This hacker calls himself Leapfrog. 538 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:30,530 He stole our customer files. 539 00:25:30,590 --> 00:25:31,800 How do you know? 540 00:25:31,860 --> 00:25:33,240 He e-mailed them back to us 541 00:25:33,290 --> 00:25:36,100 with a demand for a quarter million dollars, or he'd sell them on the web. 542 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,270 Did you call the police? 543 00:25:37,330 --> 00:25:38,400 Yeah, we're coordinating with them, 544 00:25:38,470 --> 00:25:40,970 we're trying to track the guy through phone lines. 545 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,980 He must be leaving footprints. 546 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,350 He's pirating other people's e-mail addresses. 547 00:25:45,410 --> 00:25:47,010 Go to the last page of that file. 548 00:25:47,070 --> 00:25:48,350 That came in this morning. 549 00:25:48,410 --> 00:25:50,580 We have till 10:00 a.m. tomorrow to wire the money 550 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,350 to Direct Money Express under the name Chris Roberts. 551 00:25:53,410 --> 00:25:54,720 Which Direct Money Express office? 552 00:25:54,780 --> 00:25:57,060 Doesn't matter. I mean, he could go into any office. 553 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:58,820 There's 96 in Manhattan alone, 554 00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:00,300 he could be in Bangkok for all we know. 555 00:26:00,350 --> 00:26:02,770 Well, I'm looking at him for a murder in Soho, Mr. Fletcher, 556 00:26:02,820 --> 00:26:04,730 so let's take a flyer he's local. 557 00:26:04,790 --> 00:26:07,800 He says he'll call you tonight at midnight for your answer. 558 00:26:07,860 --> 00:26:09,470 Gives us time to put a tracer on the call. 559 00:26:09,530 --> 00:26:12,270 There's no point. He said he'd know immediately if we did that, 560 00:26:12,330 --> 00:26:14,210 he'd publish the numbers all over the Internet. 561 00:26:14,270 --> 00:26:15,840 We can't take that risk. 562 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:18,470 Okay. Tell him the money will be there tomorrow. 563 00:26:18,810 --> 00:26:21,790 But we can't... Lie to him. We'll take it from there. 564 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,050 I've been waiting for 20 minutes. 565 00:26:24,110 --> 00:26:27,420 I'm sorry, miss, the system's overloaded, it should be back up soon. 566 00:26:31,250 --> 00:26:33,130 Hey, wait your turn. I don't think so. 567 00:26:33,190 --> 00:26:35,130 We thought we'd leapfrog over you. 568 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,360 I'm not in the mood to do much of anything for her, Mr. Watkins. 569 00:26:39,430 --> 00:26:41,430 We've got her dead on extortion. 570 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:44,740 I wasn't really gonna do anything, I swear. 571 00:26:45,970 --> 00:26:49,310 I just wanted to show them they need to tighten their security. 572 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:52,710 Someone has been using at least one of the credit card numbers you stole. 573 00:26:52,770 --> 00:26:54,680 If it wasn't you, who was it? 574 00:26:54,740 --> 00:26:57,280 I'm still not hearing an incentive to cooperate. 575 00:26:57,340 --> 00:27:00,220 Theft, blackmail, extortion. 576 00:27:00,710 --> 00:27:02,920 Whoever used that card is a murderer. 577 00:27:02,980 --> 00:27:04,460 Well, I didn't use it. 578 00:27:06,220 --> 00:27:08,330 I sold some of them. CARMICHAEL: Who to? 579 00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:11,530 I don't know. Lance Vernon. Plantman. 580 00:27:12,660 --> 00:27:14,900 Who did you sell his credit card number to? 581 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,640 Some guy, I don't remember his name. 582 00:27:17,830 --> 00:27:20,280 He sent me a money order, I faxed him a credit card number. 583 00:27:20,330 --> 00:27:21,440 You still have his fax? 584 00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:23,310 Yeah. Sure. 585 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:28,510 ED: Excuse me. 586 00:27:29,210 --> 00:27:31,160 Is Kevin Malone here? 587 00:27:31,250 --> 00:27:33,230 Why do you ask? We need to talk to him. 588 00:27:34,780 --> 00:27:37,320 Kevin. What's this about? 589 00:27:39,250 --> 00:27:41,560 What's going on, Mom? BRISCOE: You Hotrod? 590 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:45,600 (EXCLAIMS) Let go of me! 591 00:27:45,660 --> 00:27:47,500 Shut up, all right? You're not rich, 592 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,410 you're not 38, and that's not a Porsche. 593 00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:52,470 I bet if we check under the hood, you'll be 0 for 4. 594 00:27:52,530 --> 00:27:54,310 What's going on? What are you doing to my son? 595 00:27:54,370 --> 00:27:56,640 He's under arrest for the murder of Lorraine Shelby. 596 00:27:56,700 --> 00:27:59,310 Lotus Blossom to her close virtual friends. 597 00:27:59,370 --> 00:28:01,380 You have the right to remain silent. 598 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:05,220 Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law... 599 00:28:08,580 --> 00:28:11,620 You don't have a shred of evidence my client killed this woman. 600 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:18,000 JACK: He threatened her, graphically and repeatedly. And he knew where to find her. 601 00:28:18,060 --> 00:28:20,230 Because she gave him the address of the massage parlor 602 00:28:20,290 --> 00:28:22,470 and told him to "come on down, big boy." 603 00:28:23,060 --> 00:28:25,070 It's not the behavior of a threatened woman. 604 00:28:25,130 --> 00:28:27,310 She knew they were playing a game. Where's the crime? 605 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,850 Using a stolen credit card, making threats... 606 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:31,640 COUNSELOR: So why are you holding him on suspicion of murder? 607 00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:33,080 He was home that morning. 608 00:28:33,140 --> 00:28:34,710 I pulled him out of bed myself. 609 00:28:34,780 --> 00:28:37,020 I'll pay restitution on the credit card he used, 610 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,080 and we'll redirect his energies. 611 00:28:39,150 --> 00:28:42,460 He's not a killer. My son's a decent boy. 612 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,360 This is your decent boy. 613 00:28:46,150 --> 00:28:49,900 "I want you so bad all the time. I'm so hard for you." 614 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:50,960 That's private! 615 00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:52,330 COUNSELOR: They're just words, Ms. Carmichael. 616 00:28:52,390 --> 00:28:56,000 "I have to have you." Repeated for a full page. 617 00:28:56,060 --> 00:28:58,100 A month later he says, "I'm going to have you. 618 00:28:58,170 --> 00:29:00,440 "I want you on your hands and knees." Stop it! 619 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:02,480 "You'll see me or I'll kill you." 620 00:29:02,540 --> 00:29:07,250 My client was merely exercising a vivid imagination in cyberspace. 621 00:29:07,310 --> 00:29:09,310 A jury will see these for what they are. 622 00:29:09,380 --> 00:29:12,410 Vile threats against a woman who was then brutally murdered. 623 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:13,690 By your client. 624 00:29:13,750 --> 00:29:16,820 Virtual threats, Mr. McCoy, made in virtual reality. 625 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,800 Against a woman who is now more than virtually dead. 626 00:29:22,990 --> 00:29:24,530 Motion in limine. 627 00:29:26,460 --> 00:29:28,410 No jury ever sees those chat logs. 628 00:29:32,330 --> 00:29:34,900 JACK: If Kevin Malone had delivered his threats by US mail, 629 00:29:34,970 --> 00:29:38,140 they'd be part of the People's evidence, no questions asked. 630 00:29:38,210 --> 00:29:42,090 COUNSELOR: But they weren't delivered, not in any meaningful sense of the word. 631 00:29:42,140 --> 00:29:45,450 These were lines in a nasty little theater piece 632 00:29:45,510 --> 00:29:47,890 with Kevin and Ms. Shelby in the starring roles. 633 00:29:47,950 --> 00:29:51,730 Counsel wants this court to see these words as mere masturbatory fantasy. 634 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:52,860 COUNSELOR: They're less than that. 635 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,300 Desires lived out at the moment in some place that isn't even a place. 636 00:29:57,090 --> 00:29:59,200 I've read the transcripts of the chats. 637 00:29:59,290 --> 00:30:03,470 How do I know they're anything more than defendant's flights of sexual fancy? 638 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,600 Isn't that a question of fact for the jury, Judge? 639 00:30:05,670 --> 00:30:07,770 It's a complex problem, Ms. Carmichael, 640 00:30:07,870 --> 00:30:10,110 open to more than one interpretation. 641 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,010 Your Honor, Kevin Malone stated his intent, 642 00:30:13,070 --> 00:30:16,350 "See me or I'll kill you," page after page and then he followed through. 643 00:30:16,410 --> 00:30:18,360 A jury is entitled to hear these threats. 644 00:30:18,810 --> 00:30:21,160 My client also wrote that he's 38 and rich. 645 00:30:21,550 --> 00:30:22,720 It's all role-playing, Your Honor. 646 00:30:22,780 --> 00:30:24,690 She was worried enough to ask for help. 647 00:30:24,750 --> 00:30:27,930 Her paranoia has nothing to do with my client's intent. 648 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:30,700 I tend to agree. 649 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,000 Removed from their context, these transcripts are too prejudicial. 650 00:30:34,060 --> 00:30:35,230 They're out. 651 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:37,140 If you'll excuse me, I'm due in court. 652 00:30:39,870 --> 00:30:43,280 Without those chats, we can't connect Kevin Malone to the murder. 653 00:30:43,340 --> 00:30:46,320 We'll just have to find some other route. Talk to his friends. 654 00:30:48,740 --> 00:30:52,420 I can't believe Kevin killed anybody. He's just so not the type. 655 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,290 You talk to him a lot lately? 656 00:30:54,350 --> 00:30:57,350 Not so much. He's been hanging out at home mostly. 657 00:30:58,090 --> 00:31:00,220 He tell you about this girl he was chatting with? No. 658 00:31:00,790 --> 00:31:04,100 Maybe he was spending way too much time online, but so what? 659 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,260 So he had a problem. 660 00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:07,910 Yeah, I guess. 661 00:31:08,630 --> 00:31:10,110 He fell off the face of the earth. 662 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,870 Stopped playing sports, stopped going to parties. 663 00:31:12,930 --> 00:31:15,610 Really bummed me out to see what was happening to him. 664 00:31:15,870 --> 00:31:17,440 I think it bummed his dad out, too. 665 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:19,980 Mr. Malone knew what Kevin was doing? 666 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,820 I don't know, but he called me up 667 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,860 asked me to set Kevin up with one of my sister's friends. 668 00:31:24,910 --> 00:31:26,450 You know, get him out of the house. 669 00:31:26,510 --> 00:31:28,650 And what happened? Nothing. 670 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,130 Kevin said he couldn't afford to take anybody out. 671 00:31:31,620 --> 00:31:32,620 Did he say why? 672 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,260 He said he had major bills to pay or his dad was gonna kill him. 673 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,690 Kevin Malone had been going online with Ms. Shelby 674 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,540 for a little over three months. 675 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,800 First month, a $368 charge on one of his father's credit cards. 676 00:31:46,470 --> 00:31:49,000 $2.99 a minute, a little over two hours. 677 00:31:50,070 --> 00:31:51,570 Hardly excessive. 678 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,210 Month two, triple it. 679 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,610 Six hours in a month? Still far from being obsessed. 680 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,710 Month three, close to $50,000. 681 00:31:59,780 --> 00:32:01,920 He maxed out six of his parents' cards. 682 00:32:01,980 --> 00:32:04,330 What does that come to? Ten hours a day. 683 00:32:04,380 --> 00:32:05,620 That rings the bell. 684 00:32:06,250 --> 00:32:10,130 I haven't met the kid face to face, but I'd say he's an Internet addict. 685 00:32:10,620 --> 00:32:12,190 Everything's an addiction now. 686 00:32:13,590 --> 00:32:14,900 His grades go down, 687 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:17,300 he's stepping back from his friends, 688 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,240 and he's hunched over a keyboard ten hours a day. 689 00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:21,070 What do you call it? Stupid. 690 00:32:22,540 --> 00:32:27,380 Internet addiction is as devastating as alcoholism or compulsive gambling. 691 00:32:27,540 --> 00:32:28,920 Divorce rate's up because of it, 692 00:32:28,980 --> 00:32:30,790 it's causing a host of physical ailments. 693 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,880 Like what? Backache, eye strain, 694 00:32:33,950 --> 00:32:36,260 all the problems attendant on sleep deprivation. 695 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,260 It's not an excuse for murder. 696 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,760 Yeah, that's what they said about Twinkies until a jury bought it. 697 00:32:42,060 --> 00:32:43,730 So what am I up against? 698 00:32:43,790 --> 00:32:45,240 Standard addiction defense, 699 00:32:45,290 --> 00:32:48,000 compulsive behavior, loss of judgment, 700 00:32:48,060 --> 00:32:51,370 plus, in this case, confusion between fantasy and reality. 701 00:32:51,470 --> 00:32:52,710 (LAUGHS) You might as well say, 702 00:32:52,770 --> 00:32:54,640 "Playboy made me do it." It's ridiculous. 703 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,940 With magazines you have fantasies. This kid was having sex. 704 00:32:59,010 --> 00:33:01,710 No more real than a Playboy-induced daydream. 705 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,850 Daydreams are solitary. This was two real people having virtual sex. 706 00:33:06,380 --> 00:33:07,720 This is interesting. 707 00:33:08,380 --> 00:33:11,800 Letters between Mr. Malone and his various credit card companies. 708 00:33:12,650 --> 00:33:15,790 First he wants them to disallow the charges his son made 709 00:33:15,860 --> 00:33:18,560 and then he asks for the name of the woman who got the fifty grand. 710 00:33:19,090 --> 00:33:21,040 Say what he was planning to do with the information? 711 00:33:21,090 --> 00:33:23,270 Wanted to talk to her, get his money back. 712 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:25,770 Then he threatens to sue them if they don't tell him. 713 00:33:25,830 --> 00:33:27,000 Did they? 714 00:33:27,070 --> 00:33:29,670 "Please be advised we've forwarded your letters to our legal department. 715 00:33:29,740 --> 00:33:32,220 "If you wish to pursue your stated course of action, 716 00:33:32,270 --> 00:33:34,150 "please address all further correspondence," etc. 717 00:33:35,380 --> 00:33:37,320 What's the date of the last letter? 718 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:39,920 Eight days before the murder. 719 00:33:41,180 --> 00:33:44,420 He could've found the address of the massage parlor on his son's computer. 720 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,660 We didn't ask him where he was at the time of the killing. 721 00:33:47,290 --> 00:33:48,790 No point in asking him. 722 00:33:50,990 --> 00:33:52,560 You know that Kevin had the address 723 00:33:52,630 --> 00:33:56,130 of Ms. Shelby's business because she gave it to him? 724 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,240 She tried to lure him into that... 725 00:34:00,430 --> 00:34:01,740 Where she worked. 726 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:03,980 He's just a boy. 727 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,710 She didn't know that, Mrs. Malone. 728 00:34:05,770 --> 00:34:08,880 To her he was a 38-year-old stud with a wad of money. 729 00:34:10,310 --> 00:34:12,260 When did you and your husband find out 730 00:34:12,310 --> 00:34:15,160 that Kevin had the address in the computer? 731 00:34:15,950 --> 00:34:17,660 A few days before she... 732 00:34:18,790 --> 00:34:22,160 Please, don't you understand what that woman was? 733 00:34:22,590 --> 00:34:24,470 What she did to my son? 734 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,030 What about what he did to her? 735 00:34:26,090 --> 00:34:28,300 I told you, Kevin was at home. 736 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,900 Ms. Shelby was killed at 5:00 a.m. You were awake that early? 737 00:34:32,370 --> 00:34:36,810 No, but I was at 6:00, and I woke Kevin at 6:15. 738 00:34:36,870 --> 00:34:38,750 Could he have just sneaked back into bed? 739 00:34:39,340 --> 00:34:41,620 (SIGHS) He was out to the world. 740 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,450 Can your husband corroborate that? 741 00:34:45,510 --> 00:34:49,190 He may have looked in on Kevin before he left, he usually does. 742 00:34:49,250 --> 00:34:51,460 What time was that? I'm not sure. 743 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,020 So he wasn't there when you got up? 744 00:34:54,090 --> 00:34:56,570 No, he went to work early that day. 745 00:34:58,630 --> 00:35:01,400 (STAMMERS) He wanted to beat traffic into the city. 746 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,240 One other person from his office was in early that morning. 747 00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:07,440 She says she didn't see Malone there. 748 00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:10,070 Did you ask Mr. Malone about it? He won't talk to us. 749 00:35:10,140 --> 00:35:12,740 The police searched the house again this morning 750 00:35:12,810 --> 00:35:15,790 with a warrant specifying Mr. Malone's clothes. 751 00:35:15,910 --> 00:35:17,510 (PHONE RINGING) 752 00:35:18,780 --> 00:35:20,420 Schiff here. 753 00:35:20,950 --> 00:35:22,360 Detective Briscoe. 754 00:35:23,650 --> 00:35:25,060 Lennie. 755 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:29,060 Okay, thanks. 756 00:35:30,290 --> 00:35:33,570 They found a pair of Mr. Malone's wool gloves, torn, 757 00:35:33,630 --> 00:35:35,900 same color as the fibers found at the scene. 758 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,770 They match? Lab says yes. 759 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,680 ED: We asked Mr. Malone where he was at the time of the murder, 760 00:35:45,740 --> 00:35:48,350 he said he was in the city, working at his office. 761 00:35:48,410 --> 00:35:49,910 Did you check his alibi? 762 00:35:49,980 --> 00:35:53,510 Yes. We spoke to a co-worker who was in the office at 5:00 a.m. that morning. 763 00:35:53,580 --> 00:35:55,790 She told us she didn't see Mr. Malone. 764 00:35:55,850 --> 00:35:59,890 Did you subsequently ask Mr. Malone to account for the discrepancy? 765 00:36:00,020 --> 00:36:02,000 He said he was there, that his door was closed. 766 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:03,930 But we checked with building security. 767 00:36:03,990 --> 00:36:05,260 They hadn't seen him either. 768 00:36:05,390 --> 00:36:08,700 And his entry key card hadn't been used in the elevators or the office suite. 769 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:10,830 Thank you, Detective. 770 00:36:12,570 --> 00:36:17,140 Did you talk to anyone who saw Mr. Malone at all that morning? 771 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:20,110 Yes. A waitress at a coffee shop in Queens. 772 00:36:20,170 --> 00:36:22,180 She said he got a cup of coffee to go. 773 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,890 She could remember a casual customer from two months before 774 00:36:26,950 --> 00:36:28,520 but she couldn't say if he was wearing gloves? 775 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,250 That's what she said. 776 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,020 Anyone else? 777 00:36:32,090 --> 00:36:37,060 Maybe someone who put Mr. Malone closer to the crime scene than Queens? 778 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,570 There were no witnesses on the street 779 00:36:38,630 --> 00:36:40,660 at the crime scene at the time of the murder. 780 00:36:40,730 --> 00:36:42,600 That wasn't my question, Detective. 781 00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:46,810 No one we found saw the defendant again 782 00:36:46,870 --> 00:36:49,640 until 9:00 a.m. that day at his office. 783 00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:52,950 In investigating this crime, did you find that the victim 784 00:36:53,010 --> 00:36:55,180 had been arrested on any occasion? 785 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:58,120 Yes, a raid at a strip club. 786 00:36:58,450 --> 00:36:59,950 Objection. Relevance. 787 00:37:00,010 --> 00:37:02,290 The victim's character is often relevant, Mr. McCoy. 788 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,430 I'll allow it. 789 00:37:05,490 --> 00:37:08,190 Did you find she was a prostitute? 790 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:09,960 Yes. 791 00:37:10,020 --> 00:37:12,230 Did you find that she was enslaving other women 792 00:37:12,290 --> 00:37:14,930 and forcing them to perform sex acts with men? 793 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,000 Yes. 794 00:37:16,060 --> 00:37:17,510 Did you learn what percentage 795 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,670 of the other women's earnings Ms. Shelby confiscated? 796 00:37:20,730 --> 00:37:21,970 ED: Eighty percent to the house. 797 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:23,640 Eighty percent. 798 00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:27,310 Was there a standard charge for, say, oral sex? 799 00:37:27,740 --> 00:37:28,950 $20. 800 00:37:29,010 --> 00:37:34,620 So $4 out of every 20 went to the women who were forced to do the real work. 801 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,290 Did they get to keep the $4? 802 00:37:36,350 --> 00:37:38,990 They said Ms. Shelby charged half for room and board. 803 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,600 And were they allowed to seek other accommodations? 804 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,100 Not according to what they told us. 805 00:37:44,490 --> 00:37:46,370 Thank you, that's all. 806 00:37:49,660 --> 00:37:51,700 So he smeared the victim, what else is new? 807 00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:55,410 "My client didn't do it, but the victim deserved to die." 808 00:37:55,470 --> 00:37:58,350 And by the time Clayborn was finished, the jury thought so, too. 809 00:37:58,410 --> 00:38:01,150 Who is the first defense witness? Mrs. Malone. 810 00:38:01,210 --> 00:38:05,660 Mrs. Malone? She can't violate spousal privilege, what's her contribution? 811 00:38:05,710 --> 00:38:08,250 Probably broken hearts and violins. 812 00:38:08,310 --> 00:38:10,850 Oh, cut her some slack, her whole family's been destroyed 813 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,960 by a tidal wave of hardcore smut crashing into her home. 814 00:38:14,020 --> 00:38:17,090 It's not illegal. First amendment, Abbie. 815 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,340 Oh, I seem to remember something about "socially redeeming value." 816 00:38:21,460 --> 00:38:23,770 There's nothing redeemable about murder. 817 00:38:29,270 --> 00:38:31,040 MRS. MALONE: We tried so hard, 818 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:33,240 we even found Kevin a therapist. 819 00:38:33,310 --> 00:38:35,150 He wouldn't go. CLAYBORN: Why not? 820 00:38:35,210 --> 00:38:37,520 He said it wasn't anybody's business but his. 821 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,420 How would you describe your son's obsession, Mrs. Malone? 822 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:43,550 It was like an addiction. 823 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,360 Nothing else mattered to him. 824 00:38:45,420 --> 00:38:46,920 When the police arrested your son, 825 00:38:46,990 --> 00:38:49,560 did you believe he might have killed Ms. Shelby? 826 00:38:50,060 --> 00:38:51,060 Of course not. 827 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,200 And when the police came back again and arrested your husband, 828 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,030 did you think it was possible he killed her? 829 00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:59,870 Not remotely. 830 00:38:59,930 --> 00:39:02,140 How many enemies must that woman have had? 831 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:04,780 Thank you. 832 00:39:11,910 --> 00:39:14,620 Can you shed any light on who killed Ms. Shelby? 833 00:39:15,580 --> 00:39:16,720 No. 834 00:39:16,780 --> 00:39:20,320 Can you give your husband an alibi for the time of the murder? 835 00:39:21,620 --> 00:39:22,760 No. 836 00:39:22,820 --> 00:39:25,830 Did Mr. Clayborn tell you why he wanted you to testify? 837 00:39:25,890 --> 00:39:27,370 Objection, relevance. 838 00:39:27,430 --> 00:39:30,070 This witness knows nothing about the crime, Your Honor. 839 00:39:30,130 --> 00:39:31,800 Her testimony is clearly intended 840 00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:34,900 to tug at the heartstrings of the jury, it's prejudicial. 841 00:39:34,970 --> 00:39:37,070 I ask that it be stricken in its entirety. 842 00:39:37,140 --> 00:39:40,450 JUDGE: I'll consider it. You have any further questions for the witness? 843 00:39:40,510 --> 00:39:43,350 Anything I ask her, she'll just turn it into a sob story. 844 00:39:43,410 --> 00:39:44,720 I take it that's a no. 845 00:39:46,180 --> 00:39:47,520 Witness may stand down. 846 00:39:52,620 --> 00:39:55,120 Did you know where to find Ms. Shelby? 847 00:39:55,190 --> 00:39:58,830 I tried to find out, but the credit card companies wouldn't tell me, 848 00:39:58,890 --> 00:40:00,800 said they only had a corporation name. 849 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,670 Did you try to track down the corporation's address? 850 00:40:03,930 --> 00:40:05,380 It was a PO box. 851 00:40:05,430 --> 00:40:08,500 Did you take any other steps to find Ms. Shelby? 852 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:10,310 I didn't know how. 853 00:40:10,370 --> 00:40:13,280 If you had found her, what were you planning to do? 854 00:40:13,740 --> 00:40:17,350 I was going to beg her to leave Kevin alone. Just... 855 00:40:19,150 --> 00:40:20,920 Leave my son alone. 856 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:22,350 Sir. 857 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,920 Did you kill Lorraine Shelby? 858 00:40:28,220 --> 00:40:30,060 No. Thank you. 859 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,030 The police testified Ms. Shelby's business address 860 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:40,170 was on your son's computer, Mr. Malone. 861 00:40:40,230 --> 00:40:41,340 I didn't know that. 862 00:40:41,630 --> 00:40:43,640 JACK: Did your wife know? Objection. 863 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,550 Mr. McCoy didn't ask Mrs. Malone about this 864 00:40:46,610 --> 00:40:49,140 because he knew it was covered by spousal privilege, 865 00:40:49,210 --> 00:40:51,280 he can't get it in with an end run. 866 00:40:51,340 --> 00:40:53,520 JUDGE: Sustained. Move on, Mr. McCoy. 867 00:40:53,580 --> 00:40:57,260 You said you just wanted to talk to Ms. Shelby, 868 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:01,230 to ask her politely to leave Kevin alone, is that right? 869 00:41:01,690 --> 00:41:02,690 Yes. 870 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,930 Your son had put upwards of $50,000 in her pocket. 871 00:41:06,990 --> 00:41:11,500 What in the world made you think that she would agree to stop seeing him online? 872 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,230 I wasn't thinking straight, I just wanted it to stop. 873 00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:16,640 I thought if I talked to her I... 874 00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:17,980 Why not talk to your son instead? 875 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,540 He was right there, wasn't he? 876 00:41:19,610 --> 00:41:21,640 You didn't have to track him down, did you? 877 00:41:21,710 --> 00:41:24,920 I did talk to him, I took away his modem, his cables, 878 00:41:24,980 --> 00:41:27,460 I had his phone line disconnected, he couldn't stop. 879 00:41:27,750 --> 00:41:33,030 Without a modem and cables and a phone line, he still kept going? 880 00:41:33,350 --> 00:41:35,060 He bought a new modem, new cables, 881 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,500 he tapped into our phone line. 882 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,240 Did you ever take away the whole computer? 883 00:41:39,290 --> 00:41:41,400 Yes, and he borrowed a laptop. 884 00:41:41,460 --> 00:41:43,840 I did everything I could, Mr. McCoy, 885 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:47,500 but I couldn't watch him 24 hours a day. It was her fault. 886 00:41:48,230 --> 00:41:51,240 She destroyed my son and who knows how many others. 887 00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:52,580 She deserved what she got. 888 00:41:52,810 --> 00:41:54,340 And that was your decision to make? 889 00:41:54,410 --> 00:41:55,610 (STAMMERS) I... 890 00:41:56,740 --> 00:42:00,690 Didn't say that, but don't ask me to be sorry she's dead. 891 00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:06,130 If you didn't kill her, 892 00:42:07,350 --> 00:42:12,890 then can you explain how fibers from your gloves were found on the victim's body? 893 00:42:13,090 --> 00:42:15,500 I can only guess the police lab made a mistake. 894 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,200 Isn't it you that made a mistake, Mr. Malone, 895 00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:21,000 when you accosted the victim and struck her 896 00:42:21,070 --> 00:42:22,710 and strangled her until she was dead? 897 00:42:23,140 --> 00:42:24,670 Isn't that why you're here? 898 00:42:24,740 --> 00:42:27,840 Objection. Asked and answered on direct. 899 00:42:30,180 --> 00:42:31,780 I have nothing further. 900 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:39,460 Thank you. 901 00:42:44,490 --> 00:42:48,230 Counsel, the jury's asking permission to consider a lesser charge. 902 00:42:48,290 --> 00:42:50,470 How much less? JUDGE: Man two. 903 00:43:00,110 --> 00:43:02,210 The defense has no objection, Your Honor. 904 00:43:02,410 --> 00:43:03,480 Mr. McCoy? 905 00:43:03,540 --> 00:43:05,580 The standard for man two is recklessness. 906 00:43:05,650 --> 00:43:08,350 How does that apply to deliberate strangulation? 907 00:43:08,850 --> 00:43:10,520 I'm inclined to agree with you, Mr. McCoy. 908 00:43:10,580 --> 00:43:12,150 How do you feel about man one? 909 00:43:12,420 --> 00:43:15,460 I don't think any manslaughter option is appropriate. 910 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,520 The victim didn't die by mistake, 911 00:43:17,590 --> 00:43:19,330 this murder was clearly intentional. 912 00:43:19,390 --> 00:43:22,700 The jury clearly disagrees with the severity of the charge. 913 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,300 Because the defense bent over backwards 914 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,370 to stir up sympathy for a cold-blooded killer! 915 00:43:26,430 --> 00:43:28,410 They should have sympathy for a greedy hooker? 916 00:43:28,700 --> 00:43:29,910 That's enough. 917 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,110 Tell the jury they can consider man one. 918 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,650 Your Honor, you're allowing a compromise verdict, that's not... 919 00:43:37,710 --> 00:43:39,050 Sit down, Mr. McCoy. 920 00:43:39,110 --> 00:43:41,290 You might as well let them nullify. Sit down. 921 00:43:46,750 --> 00:43:49,830 It's now a guaranteed man one conviction and Malone knows that. 922 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,430 Six to twelve on an intentional murder. 923 00:43:52,490 --> 00:43:54,060 Well, it happens sometimes when your victim is 924 00:43:54,130 --> 00:43:56,470 sleazier than your defendant, you know that. 925 00:44:06,340 --> 00:44:07,750 Crime starts somewhere in China, 926 00:44:07,810 --> 00:44:10,220 ends up destroying a family in New York. 927 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,720 Not to mention ruining the lives of dozens of Chinese women. 928 00:44:13,910 --> 00:44:15,650 What's the INS doing with them? 929 00:44:15,780 --> 00:44:18,590 Detained, pending the outcome of deportation proceedings. 930 00:44:18,650 --> 00:44:20,220 They've applied for asylum. 931 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,470 Welcome to the global village.