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Okay, everybody, hop to it.

You're not missing the bus like
yesterday.

Stop fussing over me. I'm fine.

Stop fussing over me. I'm fine. I do not
sound like that. You totally do, Mom.

I don't. You kind of do, huh? Oh, wait,
wait. I can do Dad, too.

I teach history class in high school,
and I'm a total geek.

Ow. Do you have band practice today?

I have it all week.

The competition's on Saturday.

John, will you get that? I have a soccer
game on Saturday. Don't worry.

Different times. We can make both. Dad?

Yeah. Glenn Sellard.

You're under arrest for the murder of
Maria Kovacs.

Hands behind your back.

Oh, my God.

Mr. Sellers, you have the right to
remain fine.

Anything you say, Cannon will... Thank
you.

Can you come to my gig tonight?

No.

Thank you. Kevin, I enjoy our time
together.

I really do.

The yoga, even the tofu. I mean, you
brought...

so many things into my life that
wouldn't otherwise be there, but the

I'm waiting to hear about a murder
suspect, and I can't make any promises

I know something.

Thank you.

Deal.

Excellent.

So, can you come to my gig tonight?

Fine.

Oh, sweet, who dreams? The Knicks pulled
it.

Yeah, but Stoudemire mangled that pass
to Curry.

Get out of here. He catches like a girl.

Like a girl can't catch.

Hey.

Are you freaking kidding me? Why didn't
the DA call us?

Yeah, of course they want a perp walk
because they're on a case.

Okay, on my way.

What's up, Katie?

No courage to call before you arrest my
client.

Why is it, Jimmy, that the guilty ones
always have your number on speed dial?

Come on, the DA is way off on this.
Sellers couldn't kill a cockroach. It's

incredible how you're always so sure of
people's innocence. Because you're

always so sure of their guilt.

And you're really wearing red sneakers
to arraignment?

Yeah, why not?

My kids approve.

I worry about your kids, Jimmy.

Are you kidding? They love me.

See, everybody loves me. We're not
including your ex -wife in this, I

All right, one bad apple.

Ego alone.

Oh, says the girl is too good to date
men her own age.

Are we still on for that NYU panel on
the 20th? Yeah, if you're still talking

me after what I do to your client. My
client will be sending you roses by

Pass me a dick butt, Timmy. Game on,
Katie, bring it.

Maria Kova, just 17 years old, the only
child of a devoutly religious family.

Glenn Sellers is loved by one and all.

Students. family, you name it. In fact,
it had been her family's dream that she

would one day devote herself to a
religious life. Instead, her desecrated

was found in the alley behind the school
where Glenn Sellard teaches history.

He also takes care of his wife, Corrine,
who was undergoing her third round of

chemotherapy at this time, Your Honor.
Due to the abhorrent nature of this

crime, we request that the defendant be
remanded without bail. Because he has no

criminal record, we ask that Glenn be
released to his family at this time.

does not regard the defendant to be a
flight risk.

Bail is set at $200 ,000.

All right, take it easy, please.

Take it easy. What do you call that?
What do you call that?

Why are they calling it the Abbott and
Maria case?

There is no way my father killed Maria
Covert. I will be that. I will suffer

what he's done. You got me and
everything in my toolbox to defend you

this witch hunt. Listen to me. I will
use every legal means in my power to

convict your daughter's killer.

Mr. Covert.

Times. News day. Later.

Starving. Food.

Comfort food.

Comfort food.

Hey. Comfort food. Cookies.

Mr.

and Mrs. Cobus are here.

Oui, Maria is silver crucifix for her
quinceañera.

The killer stole it.

A demon took our angel.

Mr. and Mrs. Kovos, if the death penalty
were available to me, I would seek

it. If I could publish Glenn Sellers'
address on the front page of the Post, I

would do it.

I do not have access to such recourse. I
have only the law.

But I love the law.

It is the only thing I am good at. Just
ask anybody who's unfortunate enough to

be involved in my personal life, and I
swear to you, on everything I hold dear,

we will convict this particular demon.

Please.

Maria was all we had.

So good.

Everything she did, never trouble.

Just joy.

Miss Peele, I have proof that Glenn
Feller hates Latinos.

Would that help you? Yes.

We could.

Okay, here's the case. Glenn Sellers was
obsessed with Maria Kovas.

He bombarded her with phone calls, then
he sexually assaulted and strangled her

in an alley ten feet below his office
window.

His skin cells and saliva were found on
Maria's breast, and we have an

eyewitness that places both of them in
the alley moments before the killing.

The only people who place him elsewhere
are his wife and daughter, who are no

doubt terrified by the psychotic that
rules their home.

Also... We may have evidence that the
defendant had a thing against Latinos,

which would make this a racially
motivated hate crime. And what's weakest

Hola, Edge.

How was Cabo? I spent a week shooting
tequila with fishermen whose names I

hardly recall.

Nice. And I bought everyone maracas,
though they are at the bottom of my

suitcase. Nice boss?

No? No.

Back to work. Our weakest link is the
forensics. We have post -mortem wounds,

genital trauma. We do not have semen.

Perhaps Sellers was impotent. Wouldn't
be the first rapist. Couldn't get it up

and then killed in a rage because of it.
And how dismaying to be an impotent

rapist. See what you can dig up on
Sellers' medical history. Maria was

Sellers as much as he called her. Was
this a romance?

Her parents say she was a virgin and her
friends corroborate.

Javier Maria, indeed.

Who do you think is the best detective
for this?

Stan Klotz. He can rake in the witnesses
and work with the cops. Take care of

that? Got it. Okay, people. Glenn
Sellard may have gotten Jimmy Brogan to

him, but a dead girl demands justice,
and justice is truth in action.

Clarence Darrow.

No, Benjamin did really, but you're
getting better.

What?

Chad Griffin is our third? How can the
DA let that tiny trust fund tool

near this case?

Basically, I keep the city bad guy free.

Is it hard?

It's way hard.

But in my line of work, hardness rules.

That's something that appeals to you.

Chad, did you lose your phone?

Yo, it's me, buddy.

Thanks.

Uh -oh.

I gotta go.

I don't care where you are. I don't care
what you're doing. When I call your

phone, you answer it. Do we now
understand the relationship between a

and a lead prosecutor?

Totally, ma 'am. Don't call me ma 'am.
Roger that. Don't say Roger that.

Copy.

I just don't want to go back to
misdemeanors. It's a real waste of my

Listen,

Katie, I questioned a bunch of students
who'll testify they saw Glenn Sellers

here in the alley at the time of the
murder.

Excellent. And one of them says the
fellas insert himself into every school

that Maria joined.

That's what stalkers do.

All right, listen, Stan, one more thing.
See if you can find anything that might

support a hate crime charge.

I mean, maybe her parents have
something.

What do?

Edge, the hate crime charge is going to
work.

Okay, let's do it. Just don't let Jimmy
get to you. Oh, please.

He always gets to me.

We took the bar together, you know?

And I snorted no -dos and wept and
prayed.

And he finished an hour early and waited
outside with a tray of Jell -O shots.

That's what's bothering you? No. What's
bothering me is he's too smart to take a

case that he doesn't think he can win.

So what does he know that we don't? How
strong is your hate crime witness?

It's an ESL student of Sellard's. I'm
trusting Chad to look into it against my

better judgment.

The DA wants him working. You throw him
a bone, Katie. See what he does.

Check this.

Sellard's ESL student will testify that
Sellard said, I hate everybody, but

especially Spix. Would it be credible on
the stamp?

He's a she, and she'll be brilliant.
According to whose standards?

Yours. What's her name? Fatima Vences.

Let's enhance Mr.

Sellard's sentence, shall we?

Ms. Peel, how fast may you call right at
this moment?

Hello, Jimmy, I'm calling to add a hate
crime charge.

Yes, I do have enough evidence to
support such a charge.

And thank you for being big about this.
I know how being big about things is

hard for you.

It's good, but we need more.

Then get more.

Stanley Kloss has good stuff.

Sellers Borderville profile says he has
rage issues.

He also was once fired from a private
school in Westport because of an affair

with a 15 -year -old student.

He had prostate surgery last year. He is
now a spermic, which means he can no

longer produce or ejaculate semen. Hence
the lack of semen in Maria's body.

You know, having a wonky wang would
really cramp my style.

Why do guys always have to talk about
their wangs? Well, the women, it's a

little thing. It's got a three -day
stay.

Because they have more important things
to think about?

What's wrong with you?

Me?

You're the one who dragged me to a
pistol range to unwind.

Okay.

Will you stop?

Why are you knocking it? Because you are
driving everyone around you crazy.

The staff hates me, don't they? No, just
terrified of you.

Well, you know, underneath this
terrifying exterior, there's a very

person trying to get out. She just
doesn't sleep well when bad people win.

are you so mad about this case?

I know this girl.

I was this girl.

Strict family, very religious,
everybody's pride and joy.

Not as much fun as it sounds.

Amy?

Yeah. Ms. Peel, you might be interested
to know I just watched a video that

makes your Alvin Murray case start to
look like a Hail Mary pass.

But a few high schoolers go blabbing at
the rest of it. Who needs a death in

their seatbelt now?

What is it?

It's what Jimmy knows that we don't.

We're screwed.

Smile a little bigger after seeing
Catherine Peele. Rongo, Ronda. To me,

just an over -caffeinated grind doing
the government's dirty work.

The Post, the Times, Newsday. All right,
let's burn through these. Enough press.

Time to strategize.

This is why I love you, Alejo Salazar.

Lena! These charges are bull caca. Glenn
Sellers is an easy mark.

He takes care of a sick wife. He teaches
10 hours a day. He tutors ESL students

on the weekend.

There's no room in his schedule for
murder.

So why is the DA's office targeting
Glenn and not a hundred other better

suspects? Because they're lazy and
effectively stupid?

Only faculty had access to the area
where Maria's body was found, and Glenn

would sneak cigarettes there. So
circumstantial, I'm disgusted.

Many calls between Glenn and Maria.

Sounds like a love thing.

No way. Lena, you meant her students
should call him up.

So his phone records just show calls
from students, right? And to his wife's

doctors, and to anyone in St.

Claude's, and his kids' teachers.

An eyewitness places Glenn and Maria at
the murder site.

Eyewitnesses are wrong more times than
they are, right?

Tell Larry Combs to sniff out this one
paltry witness.

What do they got for DNA?

Glenn's skin, cells, and saliva were
found on the victim's breasts. In

trauma means possibility of rape.

Ooh, that's not good.

There's no semen. Nothing says the
trauma was caused by Glenn. Last I

skin and saliva DNA do not a rape make.

Glenn could have sneezed on it, for
God's sake. What about the Ave Maria

Maria was a teenage girl in New York
City that teases his mommy.

They come at us with the DNA, we give
them students to put Glenn and Maria

within sneezing distance. We discredit
their eyewitness. We come up with six

other worthier suspects, Dunn, Dunn, and
Dunner. So let's hightail it out to

Glenn's house and start prepping this
thing. Rock and roll, people!

Where's your wife? She's lying down.

What's up, Jimmy?

There are a lot of calls between you and
Maria. Any reason? Well, she was

nervous about college.

I mean, Maria was...

You know, fragile in a certain way. Then
tough as nails, too.

And what about your sex life?

We don't want to be caught unaware if
there's any indiscretion. Well, my wife

and I haven't had sex in almost a year,
you know, due to her illness. But

I love her with all my heart.

She loves me.

And I witnessed places you and Maria at
the crime scene at 6 .30 p .m., the

approximate time of the murder.

Oh, that's impossible.

As my wife and daughter told you, I was
home by then.

Okay, here's the biggie. Skin and saliva
containing your DNA were found on

Maria's body. Any reason why it would be
there?

I mean, Maria and I, we saw each other
at debate club, you know, the day she

died. I'm the faculty moderator, and
when I conduct vocal exercises, I...

I stand close to the students and see if
they're doing them correctly. So this

happened with students other than Maria
as well? Of course, yeah.

What's all that?

Oh, last year I taught a little bit
about Chinese history.

These are Chinese characters my students
did for me.

Maria did this one.

It means friend.

Jimmy, how worried should I be?

Look, Glenn, when you and Corrine came
to me about your defense, I was honored.

I am who I am because of hard -working,
underpaid, beyond -the -call -of -duty

teachers like you, which is exactly what
makes you a bullseye target for a DA

off the rails.

Do not worry.

My whole team is all over this.

I've got to meet somebody.

Leo, take it from here.

Thanks.

Where did you find out Larry Combs?
Maria's mother called child services

year on her husband.

Esteban Cova's threatening to kill
Maria.

Ah, mon ami, that's good pizza. Look
into his alibi. If he hasn't got one, he

might be able to toss the jury another
suspect.

Ms. Peel, how fascinating you should
call right at this moment.

Hello, Jimmy, I'm calling to add a hate
crime charge.

You sure you have enough for a hate
crime charge?

Yes, I do have enough evidence to
support such a charge.

Mm -hmm.

No, she's just trying to bury us under a
mountain of charges.

I've got to try to bring this up, but
Glenn Sellers once worked up in a school

in Westport.

They fired him for screwing a student.

I heard you might be here.

Hey, crime charges bogus.

Glenn was tutoring Spanish -speaking
kids for the last decade for pocket

And he's no racist.

I've got to figure out what Katie's up
to.

I do have good news.

The student Glenn allegedly had the
affair with, she had emotional problems.

Glenn failed her as she struck back with
an accusation.

The dean will testify on Glenn's behalf.

I'm off on the job. I'm already getting
my money's worth with you.

Glad you feel that way, because I want
to second -seat you on this. Oh, Leah's

my second.

Jimmy, the victim's a young woman of
color. And Latin, like Alejo. The

like me, and the prosecuting attorney
and half the jurors. But what's

is you need me next to you at trial,
Jimmy.

I know it.

Glenn called again about testifying.
Beckham, wait. We got motions coming up.

Give me everything we got.

All right. Many emails between Glenn and
his students, but Maria was the only

one that he talked to on the phone. That
sucks.

No debate club student remembers vocal
exercises the day Maria died. That

too. Three witnesses placed Maria's
father at work at the time of the

he can't be a suspect.

Okay.

Sucks. Sucks. How can we use his wife to
call the child services?

I say introduce it. It puts Maria in a
climate of violence that points away

Glenn. Or it makes us look like creeps
for airing a family's dirty laundry. I'm

just suggesting there are better
suspects out there. You're risking jury

sympathy. Guys, I don't mind you two
sharpening your teeth on each other, but

let's go easy, okay?

If getting the DNA dismissed is rape
-related, that's most important. What is

the holdup with the DA's evidence
anyway? We need that ME report. I'll

Edgecombe again.

Why don't I call this time?

Just another voice might help.

Good idea.

Get on it.

I like how she thinks.

You like how she walks.

Simmer down, buddy. We're becoming the
go -to firm for criminal defense right

now. We need to build on that with
somebody of her caliber.

Larry Combs just called, and hang on to
your hat.

Turns out Maria Kovath had a secret sex
buddy.

Does he have a name?

Todd Engler.

So, Todd, how much pot were you holding
when the cops picked you up?

She bounces.

Look, I didn't hurt Maria Kovacs, okay?

Me and her were hitting it, but no way.

Why so quiet about the relationship?

That would have killed.

I would have got a stick of it on my
cell phone. I think you guys might like.

I know my friends did.

What, you think it's funny?

No. For sure as hell ain't no Javier
Maria story.

Jimmy.

Miss Peele, you might be interested to
know I just watched a video that makes

your Alvin Murray case start to look
like a Hail Mary pass.

Of course, it might not make it into
evidence, but once a few high schoolers

blabbing to the press about its sexual
nature, well, my work will be done for

me.

Who needs to fasten their seatbelt now?

Known about Todd Engler. No one knew
about Engler but a handful of stoners.

Turns out that Maria has some secrets
herself.

Hey, shouldn't we check into where Todd
Engler was the day of the murder?

I mean, everybody's all, he's the new
defense witness, but maybe he's the new

defense suspect.

You just said something intelligent.

Todd Engler, witness or suspect?

His alibi is tight, so I vote witness.
DA's evidence list. There's no ME

Katie's nervous about forensics, so now
we talk to our forensics expert. We find

out Katie's weak spot.

Listen up, people. Motions. We get the
cell phone video in.

We keep the cell phone video out.

We get Maria's mother's call to child
services in. We argue that Todd Engler

called a deal to be a witness in return
for bail. We tell the judge the DA

refuses to hand over the ME report, and
we request sanctions.

We secure the hate crime witness and
argue the existing forensics.

Since when did you start wearing dresses
to court?

Three, two, one.

Mr. Hill, I'd like to compliment you on
your comportment.

Mr. Brogan.

Perhaps you might wear more appropriate
footwear at trial.

We can only hope, Your Honor.

Now, as you both know, I like the
motion's face to be lean, mean.

So let's do the hokey pokey and turn
this around.

I allow the hate crime witness.

I allow the rape.

I allow Todd Engler as a witness. I do
not allow the cell phone video, nor Mrs.

Kovas' call to child services.

I will allow the DNA, but...

The district attorney must turn over the
M .E.'s report, ready or not.

We have a hate crime witness, rape and
DNA, but we have to turn over the M

report. Which is unfortunate because the
M .E. thinks you see some sort of

pattern in the injuries on Maria's body
and he would like some more time to try

to figure out what they are.

Send Jimmy the report as it is. It can
always be amended later.

Okay, let's prep the witnesses. Chad,
you take the ESL student because you're

the interviewer. Thanks.

What am I doing at trial?

Let's not push it.

The M .D.'s report is as weak as we
thought.

Trauma, abrasion, they weren't able to
turn up any more of Glenn's DNA.

And our forensic expert says that the
DNA is present at very low levels on

Maria's body.

Catherine Peele had reasons to be
nervous.

Just the way we like her.

So Lena and I are brainstorming about
how to discredit their hate crime

And there is no way that Glenn used
disparaging language about Latinos.

What should I do?

Well, Glenn's been on me about
testifying on his own behalf.

Head out there. Let's decide this.

Give me

time to

tell. I hope you're right about being
next to me at trial. I want you to

seat.

The new ME report has more clearly
defined photos of the abrasions on

body.

And? And they look to me like
hieroglyphics.

As in from ancient Egypt?

Yeah, kind of.

But how do we connect them to cellards?

Look, you know I can't eat.

sleep or tinkle without you, but I need
Lena as my second seat.

She's a brilliant female lawyer.

She's a climbing recent hire.

Jimmy, if this is about race, I'm Latino
like the victim. I know, but last I

checked, you don't look so good in a
dress.

Listen, Catherine Peele is across the
aisle. The victim was female. We need

female jurors.

It's just growing pains. Hey, that's all
it is.

Damn it.

Rihanna?

What are you doing here?

I didn't see my dad till after seven the
night of the murder.

So I... I lied.

He could have been at home, but I was in
my room doing homework.

The trial starts tomorrow. Why are you
telling me this now?

I found it yesterday.

My dad told his lawyers that he and my
mom don't have sex.

So why does he have this bottle and why
is it half empty?

When I showed it to him, he told me to
lie that I ever saw it.

Why would he lie if he wasn't having sex
with someone?

I'm going to testify against my father.

Jimmy.

You tell me you're not having sex and
you're ordering Viagra online.

I had some past sexual issues and I
wanted to be prepared when my wife's

strength returned.

Half a bottle is enough to prepare you
through next Christmas. Were you having

sex with Maria Kovacs or not? No.

I swear, no.

Okay, you know, there were... There
were...

The night before the trial starts.

Okay.

I need their names. No! Glenn, if I need
to drag every hooker you screwed and

stack them in a pyramid on that stand to
explain away the Viagra, don't think I

won't do it. You said you had my back. I
did, I do, and I will.

But you just made things really tough,
so here's what you need to do, Glenn.

March upstairs, put on something
professorial to wear, take a Valium if

it. That jury is going to be watching
you like a hawk. and they need to see a

confident, relaxed teacher, not some
viagra -pumped hooker chaser. And

me if this sounds heartless, but every
day that your wife shows up, those

will think if that woman can endure this
trial, her husband's got to be

innocent. But I am innocent!

Trust me, from this point forward, it
doesn't matter. The only thing that

matters is what that jury believed.

Miss Peel, I remember when you were
trying token suckers in misdemeanor

I remember when you were bagging
undergrads in off -campus housing.

Well, don't mistake me for someone less
serious.

Not today.

Forewarned is forewarned.

Mr. Azarian, other than you and other
janitorial staff, who had access to the

alley where Maria Covas was killed?

Faculty and office staff.

Students aren't allowed unless
accompanied by a teacher.

But students get into that alley on
their own sometimes, I bet.

From the street now and then, yeah.

They cut like a flap of the fence
sometimes.

Well, when did that happen?

Happened a couple of months back.

So on the day Maria Kovas died, anyone
from the street could have entered that

alley? Objection.

Speculation. I'll allow it.

Ms. Sagebrook, how far away is the alley
from your window?

A hundred feet.

My four -year -old was staring at
something in the alley, so I went over

what he was looking at. Yeah, a four
-year -old is a handful, boy.

I know from my kids.

He's always six places at once.

So from 100 feet away with a child who's
six places at once, you can identify

two total strangers in a dark alley
across the street?

And what exactly did Mr. Sellard say to
you in class that day, Fatima?

He say,

Especially I don't speak, which in
English means I hate everyone,

but especially... Fatima.

You ever watch any movies in Mr.
Sellers' ESL class?

Yes, American movie, but in Spanish with
the English on

the bottom. We need subtitles so you
could learn the English words?

You ever watch any movies in Mr.
Sellers' class starring Clint Eastwood?

Yes, Magnum Force.

I like that one. What is the point, Your
Honor?

Come to it, Mr. Brogan. On my way, Your
Honor.

Do you realize, Fatima, that I hate
everyone but especially Spix as a famous

line from the Clint Eastwood movie
Magnum Force?

No. Are you absolutely sure then,
Fatima, that Mr. Sellers said it or

he just repeating something Clint
Eastwood said?

I don't know what kind of stranger daddy
pulled to make you an ADA, but you just

lost... That's the hate crime charge.
She never said anything about a movie.

It was your job to fully vet her.

Look, I know how I come up, which is
sometimes bad. I'll let you do one

All right, what's done is done. And
what's also done is Jimmy burned through

eyewitness. Then we jump two steps ahead
to the post -mortem injuries. We land

there, we land hard, we gut someone with
his own twisted handiwork. And we do it

now. The injuries on Maria's thighs were
made post -mortem and indicate to me

the handiwork of someone in tremendous
psychological distress.

Objection, Your Honor.

Really? Let's strike that, please.

Were you able to determine how these
injuries were made?

Some kind of small instrument. And a
pattern was present which seemed to me

be ritualistic in nature.

Objection! Judge, help me out.

I'll allow it.

Complex injuries made post -mortem. This
would take some time, right?

Indicating that the killer must have had
to have felt extremely familiar with

his surroundings in order to...
Objection! Come on! This is not... Miss

you're out of bounds.

It was Viagra, and it had my dad's name
on it.

And Brianna, why did you testify to the
grand jury that your father was home at

6 .30 p .m. on the day of the murder?

To make my mom happy.

She's been so sick and sad, but when I
found those pills...

Let them do some damage.

Maria called our house frequently.

She seemed to ask more of my husband
than the other students.

And your husband's use of erectile
dysfunction medicine?

Yes, I was aware he occasionally used
prostitutes.

But this much I know.

He would never, ever touch a young girl.

Maria was kinky.

Always up for... Objection, Your Honor.

Mr. Brogan, be good.

What was the draw?

Regarding your testimony about your
relationship with Maria, did the two of

ever display affection in front of Mr.
Sellards?

Well, that dude was always up in on a
grill.

He got us in the park once, and I was
like, seriously?

So you're saying he trailed the two of
you? Bunch of times, yeah.

Once he had Maria's crucifix.

He said he found it, but I don't believe
him.

Defense submits into evidence a drawing
made for Glenn Sellers by Maria Kovacs

herself, which shows the Chinese
character for the word friend, which is

Maria considered her teacher to be.

Tarek, you testified for the defense
that you attended debate club with

Did you ever see Maria and Mr. Sellers
alone together?

I saw them alone in room 206, where the
debate club meets. Then I saw them

coming out of Mr. Sellers' office.

And what were they doing?

The first time, just talking.

The second time, Maria borrowed a scarf
from Mr. Sellers, and I saw him, like...

He, um, tucked it into the top of
Maria's shirt.

She looked scared.

And when did this occur?

The day Maria died.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Order.

Terry Coley never mentioned seeing Glenn
alone with Maria.

Because you interviewed him at school
where you didn't want to say anything in

front of his friends.

Can the three of us come together for
the sake of the case?

They got Glenn with his hands down
Maria's shirt. That doesn't mean he

her, let alone killed her.

But he was. He was tucking in the scarf
that she borrowed from him.

I got it.

The defense asks forensic expert Nancy
Kolhas to the stand.

That's Kolhas.

Can DNA be transferred to skin via
clothing?

Absolutely. So the DNA present on
Maria's breasts could have been

there, not by sexual encounter between
Maria and Mr. Sellers, but by something

as innocent as a borrowed scarf.

It's called secondary transfer.

Happens all the time.

Thank you.

Yeah. Glenn would come to me every
couple weeks for a date. I would pop a

blue pill so we could go the distance.

Did he ever mention having an affair
with one of his students?

No.

But he did ask if I could hook him up
with some of my younger girlfriends.

Is that your partner?

Yeah.

We're at the White House.

We've been twice.

Good job today with the scarf.

Thank you.

We need to get over to Glenn's house
ASAP.

I couldn't take it.

It just stopped.

Do you have a minute?

Oh, yeah, all right.

I'm sorry about Mrs. Tellard.

But since the jury is sequestered, I'm
going to argue that her death not be

disclosed to them because it could
confer sympathy on Mr. Sellers that

unfairly prejudice the jury. Okay, okay,
okay. The man is on trial. He just lost

his wife.

A little sympathy is not out of bounds
here. I'm just trying to keep this fair.

Yeah, I'm just trying to remind you that
actual people are involved here. It's

about me.

It's about the case.

Well, how else do I know? But two kids
just lost their mother because of this

trial. We're at trial because a young
girl was murdered.

Ms. Peel will now hear your summation.

Maria Kovas was brutalized beneath the
window of the office of her teacher, the

same teacher that stalked her.

The defendant's own witness corroborated
this. A bunch of times, yeah.

Once he had Maria's crucifix, said he
found it. We heard from another defense

witness that he saw Mr.

Sellers tucking a scarf into the top of
Maria's shirt.

She looks scared.

That's not something any of my teachers
ever did.

Did yours?

And let us reflect on Brianna Sellards,
who admitted that she lied about her

father's whereabouts on the day of the
murder because... because she wanted

to... Make my mom happy.

She's been so sick and sad.

A medical examiner mentioned ritualistic
injuries on Maria's body, injuries

that, when enhanced, bear a remarkable
resemblance...

to the Chinese character for friend.

The same character that Maria drew for
her teacher, Glenn Sellards.

The medical examiner testified that
these wounds were made with a small

instrument. Could it possibly be they
were made with the crucifix that Todd

Engler told us he once saw in Glenn
Sellards' possession?

I mean, the defense wants you to think
another murderer committed this crime.

Could another murderer have carved such
a special signature on his victim?

A signature that had meaning for them
both?

No.

Only Glenn Sellard did this.

Now let us hold him accountable for his
unspeakable acts and exact justice by

demanding an acquittal, which is the
only response to such circumstantial

evidence. Miss Peel tried to tell you
about a hate crime, but her witness

Splat. Magnum force.

I like that one.

Then we heard from Mr. Azarian, who
tells us that kids cut a flap in that

fence allowing anybody access.

Happened a couple of months back.

That is reasonable doubt.

The supposed Chinese character on
Maria's body.

It could have been made by anyone who
has ever taken one of Glenn's classes.

That's several hundred suspects.

Even more reasonable doubt.

To top it off, the crucifix that
supposedly made the character has never

found. The state has not produced one
shred of evidence to show why my client

could have committed such a horrible
crime.

But there is a killer out there.

He should be on trial here, not my
client.

A man loved by scores of students has
had his job, his reputation, and his

beloved wife, Corrine, mother of his
grieving children taken from him. Do not

let the prosecution take anything more.

Think reasonable doubt.

He got in spades.

Madam Forewoman, have you reached a
verdict?

Defendant will please rise.

Please announce your verdict.

We find the defendant guilty.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you
are dismissed.

You're a double scotch with one ice
cube.

Good job, soldier.

You too.

Can I ask you something?

When you took on this case, did you know
something I didn't?

I knew what I always know. Everyone
deserves a defense.

Somebody's got to defend him.

Well, you did it masterfully.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Is that rum DMC?

I don't know why I even bother.

Are we still on for NYU?

Yeah.

I'll pick you up.

Do you remember that day we were
supposed to be prepping for the bar, but

went and saw Chinatown instead?

I remember everything about that day.

Except Chinatown.

No, it's playing at Cinema Village.

Want to check it out?

Yeah, I would love to, but I'm on my way
to a gig.

What? A date? Yeah, something like that.