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(male narrator)
In the criminal justice system...

the people are represented by two separate yet equally
important groups:

the police
who investigate crime...

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

Where's the regular guy? He sick?
| don't know.

His mother didn't give me a note. These boxes
are not regulation.

He owes me $5 on the Knicks.
You have to replace them.

1 do? | look like
| own the building?

[intercom buzzing]

Mailman. Package.
Tell your boss.

(Florence)
Be right there--

Sure. As soon as | tell him to replace the lock, ten
40-year-old refrigerators...

a dozen faucets, and give me that raise
that he promised--

Yeah, tell him to repaint the hall.
Give it some color.

Here you go.
Thanks.

So, what time you finish?
See you later.

You want to see the neighborhood?
I've seen the neighborhood.

Yeah, but have you seen it
with an Italian?

[glass shattering]

(Sanders) The victim is
Florence Manning, 48.

They took her to St. Mary's
in bad shape.

Burns?
That's the least of it.

Looks like she opened up an explosive package
with a letter opener.

Blew into her neck.
What do we got?

Confetti.

[police radio chattering]

Piece of the stamp.
A young Elvis.

That might be
the postmark.

Yeah, Grand Central Station.
That's gonna be a big help.

(Sanders) She delivered the package
an hour ago.

You remember anything about it?
It didn't fit into the box.

| was bending it. It could've gone off.
A return address?

Do you know
how much mail | carry?

[telephone ringing]

Yeah?

Okay.

Yeah. Thanks.

Your route just got one stop shorter. Florence Manning
didn't make it.

One of the nurses called me at work. She said
Florence asked her to.

| figured if my sister
was talking...

She gave them my number.
She must've been awake.

Has anybody spoken to you
since you got here?

She's dead.

| mean, how can things
change so fast?

Look, | know it's not much consolation,
Mr. Rossi ..

but we do want to catch
whoever did this.

I'll kill him.
You catch him, I'll kill him.

Him. You have some idea?

[woman chattering
on PA system]

It's got to be some psycho.
| don't know.

Did anyone ever threaten your sister?
Harass her?

She taught third grade.
She collected recipes.

How about her personal life’?
She live alone?

She got separated from her husband
about a year ago.

Where can we find him?
Hudson Polytech.

He's a big deal over there.
Edward Manning.

She was going
to move out to...

the West
when the school year ended.

She hadn't wanted to come to New York
when | got this appointment.

When did you
last speak to her?

Three weeks ago.

We spoke mostly through lawyers.
We were getting divorced.

And how was that going?

Divorce is painful. Ours was as amicable
as could be expected.

What do you do here.
Is it doctor or professor?

I'm a high-energy
physicist.

Director of the nuclear reactor
laboratory here.

Reactor? Like in Chernobyl?

No, like a hundred safe ones
you never heard of.

Do you have any idea who killed my wife?
Do you, Professor?

| thought no one used regular mail
for packages anymore.

| guess the junk mailers are still loyal.
Yeah. So are the Mad Bombers.

What, you think it's a nut? How about
a scrambled egghead?

The husband?

Listen to this, courtesy of
the University Press Service:

"Prof. Edward Manning,
BA, Cornell, PhD, MIT...

"when he was 26, co-discovered
the omega-minus particle.

"Beginning in 19871...

"led an experiment seeking evidence
of proton decay...

"which, if established,
would demonstrate. ..

“that all matter in the universe will
eventually disintegrate.”

Yeah, but who's that lady
| saw him with last night?

Guy like this
could commit a murder...

then jump in the time machine
to cover his tracks.

Let's start with our kind of science.
Go see Forensics.

The explosive
was plastique. RDX.

Military stuff?

Once upon a time. Now about as hard to get
as illegal guns.

(Hines) From the radius of the damage,
I'd say it was a small charge.

A lot of smoke
but not much power.

Tell that to Florence Manning. The letter opener
was a fluke.

By rights, the bomb should
only have wounded her.

And scared the hell out of her.
So our bomber got lucky, huh?

Or unlucky, depending on whether he felt like
being a murderer.

Firing pin? Yeah. Opening the package
released it.

Allowing a spring to push the nail
against a metal plate...

completing an electrical circuit,
and Merry Christmas.

Classic design.
Handsomely executed.

Your man has some
technical sophistication.

Like maybe a physicist?

Experimental or theoretical?

| never liked the guy.

| mean, unless you could talk
about nuclear molecules. ..

he'd treat you
like a moron.

Your sister keep up her end
of the conversation okay?

For the first 20 years,
| guess.

You think Edward did it? He said the divorce
was amicable.

Sure. Like a weekend
in Bosnia.

Florence was a little more open with me than you, honey.
Frank has a temper.

(Rossi) Open about what?
Edward's mid-life crisis.

He decided to recapture his youth
by sleeping with one.

Before they separated?

He told Florence
he wanted to marry the girl.

How did Florence like being tossed out
with the garbage?

After following him around
like an army wife?

This university, that university.
Son of a bitch.

He took her to Geneva
once for two years.

The scientists he worked with spoke English, not the
people in the stores.

She spent the whole time
feeling lonely and miserable.

So | guess she felt she deserved a little more
than an honorable discharge?

He wanted a divorce.

She made it as long, as complicated,
as expensive as possible.

(Manning) There are no secrets
in a divorce.

My personal situation is documented in a stack
of court filings this high.

You did say
it was amicable.

No, | said it was as amicable
as could be expected.

Your girlfriend,
she one of your students?

Does she have to be
involved in this?

No secrets in a murder investigation,
either, Professor.

She's a chemist.
Avery bright young woman.

(Logan) And your wife was keeping you
from this bright young woman?

Florence and |
were married 22 years.

Because | wanted a divorce doesn't mean
that | hated her.

And it certainly doesn't mean
| killed her.

Look at it from our side.
She was Killed by a bomb.

Physicists make bombs.

Given enough time and money, | could possibly build you
an atomic bomb.

| Know nothing
of conventional explosives.

[alarm buzzing]

Our reactor is behind this wall.
A shield is being lowered...

in order to conduct a diffraction experiment
on that target.

I'm going to leave before I'm bombarded
with neutrons.

| suggest you do the same.

(Cynthia) We talked about marriage
at one point.

But | don't see him
right now.

Did you change your mind when the first Mrs. Manning
went up in flames?

Please. Do you know
what kind of man Edward is?

The things that
he's working on?

Well, we know he's working on
getting a new wife.

He's investigating the fundamental nature
of matter.

How the universe began.
How the universe will end.

Well, we're just a couple of simple city boys,
Miss Thomas...

but we know that you and Edward were
planning on getting married...

and Florence was standing in the way.
| told you that's on hold.

Yeah, that's because Florence Manning
put it on hold.

| didn't realize how complicated
divorce could be.

| thought it'd be over
a long time ago.

You give him a message,
"It's now or never"?

No, it wasn't that simple.

And the delay gave us some time to think about
what we really wanted.

He still gives the impression
of really wanting you.

Yeah, well...

| guess he thought if
the divorce went through...

You know, we did stop by Florence's apartment
a couple of weeks ago.

He had some papers
for her to sign...

and | waited in the car
and there was this man...

who was looking through
ohe of her windows.

Aman?
With a beard.

| don't know,
maybe she has a boyfriend.

Or maybe
she had a peeping Tom.

He went to ring the bell
as Edward was coming out...

and | couldn't hear what they were saying, but it looked
as if they started to argue.

Did Edward tell you who he was?
No.

He just said he was some nut.

(Briscoe) Now, if Florence Manning
did have a boyfriend...

it'd be the best news
her husband ever had.

He would've sent champagne,
not a bomb.

What's the matter,
you hungry?

What's that guy working on?
The end of the universe?

Life. It's here, everything falls apart,
and it's over.

You actually think
the universe is gonna end?

Usually I'm just hoping
the week'll end.

Well, | mean, if it's all
just gonna disappear...

what does it matter if you make Sergeant
or what kind of car you drive?

| mean, all the things
we worry about?

You wanna tell Florence Manning's brother it doesn't
matter if we find her killer?

You think Van Buren will buy it?
Let's go see Manning.

Aman with a beard?

| really don't remember.

Your girlfriend remembers him pretty well. And she's not
the one whose face he got in.

There might have been someone.
A street person.

(Logan) You remember if he said
anything to you?

Spare change?

He didn't say anything about your wife?
Come on.

Your wife didn't mention
that she was expecting anybody?

A bum?

I'd help you if | could. This is the first time
you haven't accused me.

Nobody? Never?

Yeah. She would've
told you, right?

Okay, thank you.

Florence Manning never told her sister-in-law about
any new man in her life.

No boyfriends, no stalker,
no psycho.

Yeah, Manning's girlfriend saw the guy on the 21st
about 10:00 a.m.

Florence Manning's datebook.

"Toast and coffee,
115 calories.

"9:30, manicure.

"Noon, lunch with Anna."
She kept a very neat diary.

Yeah.

She'd be upset to see what a mess
her place got into.

What now? Another insight into the nature of time
and matter?

Maybe. Look at that.

Is that on the negative? Something twisted,
like a spring.

Like the spring
in that bomb.

[electric crackling]

(Willoughby)
It's radioactive.

When the spring was collected
at the crime scene. ..

it must've been placed in a bag next
to the unexposed film.

See?

Its image was imprinted
before the picture was taken.

Is it safe
to stand here?

If | was a man, | wouldn't carry any of this
in my front pocket.

What is it, uranium?
Nope. Steel.

My car is steel. It doesn't set off
a Geiger counter.

This stuff didn't start off
radioactive, either.

Some of its atoms
must have been converted . .

to unstable isotopes by exposure
to high-energy particles.

Suppose the bomb was built or stored in a room
next to a nuclear reactor?

That could do it.

You got any suspects with nuclear reactors
in their basements?

As a matter of fact
we do.

So now you suspect me
of murdering my wife...

because the bomb that killed her
was radioactive?

Our expert says it was stored near a source
of high-energy particles.

Like those things that chased us
out of here yesterday.

Can | assume that the bomb components
were steel?

See, our point is, Doc, maybe you don't have
to assume. Maybe you know.

I'm assuming.

If they're steel and
they're going radioactive...

then you're probably talking
about cobalt 56

Did your expert take
a gamma ray spectrum?

Well, the Geiger counter
was pretty convincing.

I'll make it simple for you.

This reactor could not
irradiate that bomb.

I'm afraid that's a little
too simple, Professor.

The iron atoms in steel
are converted to cobalt 56. .

by collision with
high-energy protons.

A reactor like this one produces low-energy
neutrons...

nothing above
2 5 million electron volts.

We're going to need
some documentation on that.

I'll lend you
a freshman physics textbook.

You didn't bother to run
the super-framistan test...

or whatever the hell it is, and we end up
looking like idiots.

It's a gamma-ray analysis,
and you didn't ask for it.

Since when do we tell you
how to do your job?

Since every time
you walk in here.

[computer keys clicking]

[computer beeps]

The energy signatures
of the isotopes in the bomb.

These are the spectrum lines from cobalt 56.
Multiple peaks.

Then there's no way Manning's gizmo
could make this stuff?

No.

Buta
particle accelerator can.

There is one in the area,
at Manhattan University.

That's why we call it an accelerator, Detective.
It accelerates protons.

So when one of them slams into an iron atom, it
automatically becomes cobalt 56?

Sometimes. | didn't know the police investigated
particle interactions.

You know Edward Manning over at Hudson Polytech?
He ever come over here?

Dr. Manning? This is one of the last places on Earth
he'd set foot.

No scientific cooperation? He never drops by
to borrow a cup of protons?

(Chandler) Our director
is Arthur Stedman.

Twenty years ago, he and Manning were both chasing
a new nuclear theory.

Manning proved it
two weeks after Stedman did.

Stedman got the Nobel Prize.
And Manning got sore.

There's no prize
for second place.

Where do these accelerated protons
run free around here?

In the accelerator chamber, where the researchers
set up the experiments.

These researchers, we're gonna need
2 list of their names.

Well, | don't really like
going down there at night.

| mean, it's all locked up and everything,
but, you know....

Any other grad students
work late?

| don't know, Barry Ramsey.
He practically lives there.

He's always doing
something with the tools.

What tools are those?

Well, they're supposed to be just
for the experiments but...

Was something stolen?

Did Barry know a woman
named Florence Manning?

The woman that was killed?
Did he know her?

| don't think Barry Ramsey has noticed that
people come in two sexes.

He calls me "fella."

(Ramsey)
This is the way it is, fella.

If don't finish my thesis this year,
I'm ruined.

The accelerator's
a quiet place to work.

Cocoa?
No, thanks.

You need tools
to write a thesis?

No. | use a laptop computer
to write a thesis.

| use tools
to fix my VCR, my toaster.

Any other night owls at the accelerator?
Not really.

Except when it's running,
then everybody's there.

And Max Weiss.

Max Weiss.
He's not on the list.

No. He's not on staff anymore.
His post-doc ran out.

But he still hangs around,
plays with the atoms?

He still has a desk.
He's a good scientist.

He just hasn't found a new job yet.
He's working on something.

Does he ever work alone?
Sure.

Nights | play Mah Jongg, but | haven't seen him
in three or four days.

Maybe he got a job.

Maybe he finished one.

Okay, listen, you be good, okay? And you go in there
and watch TV. ..

and take your little sister, all right? Okay,
there you go.

And | promise I'll come in
and read you a story.

When Max is here, he likes to read to them,
but Max is always at work.

(Briscoe)
At the llab?

What is this about? It's just a routine inquiry.
He can tell you.

Is ita security check?

He applied for a job at Los Alamos,
and that would be--

I'm sorry,
the FBII does those.

| see.

Is this your husband?
Yes.

Well, | don't think they're hiring, anyway.
Budget cuts.

| think my husband was born
about 20 years too late.

For the arms race?

Well, to get the kind of job
doing the work he likes.

And you said he was
working now, right?

Yes, he is at work.
It's just in another field.

Can you excuse me
for a minute? I'm sorry.

[baby crying]

(man)
Good night, Max.

(woman)
Thank you.

You went to my apartment?

Well, we didn't know to look for you here. We thought
you were a scientist.

|! am a scientist...

who has to support five people
without a permanent position.

Did you know Florence Manning?

| read about her.
Yeah, but did you know her?

I've heard of her husband.

Did you ever have words with him in front of
his wife's building?

| don't think | can help you. (Logan)
Actually, you can.

If you don't mind, we'd like you to
come down to the precinct.

Take part in a line-up.

Do | have to? It really might be
in your best interest.

| don't think | have to.

Just keep your eye
on the door.

Tell us if you see the man you saw outside
Mrs. Manning's apartment.

It was a couple of weeks ago,
you know.

Do the best you can. And | didn't really
get a close....

The man with the beard.
Is that him?

You're supposed to tell us.
| don't...

No, | don't know. Listen, | got to get home
by 5:00, okay?

Don't worry,
we'll give you a lift home.

Wait a minute.
That's him, the doorman.

Only he wasn't
dressed like that.

(Chandler) Excuse me, we're getting ready
to run an experiment here.

Hey, Ramsey.
How's your toaster?

We have a warrant to search any premises
occupied by Max Weiss...

including any storage areas
pertaining thereto.

| think it would be in your best interest
to show us what's his.

I'm not sure
| can do that.

Okay, we're going to have to take this
whole room apart...

including the accelerator and you can have Gyro Gearloose
here glue it back together.

He uses that drawer.

Locked.

(Ramsey)
Wait, fella.

There.

Well.

Recognize that wire?
Merry Christmas.

You think Max Weiss was planning to re-grout
his bathroom tiles?

| think we better call
the Bomb Squad.

| want you to run the scientific method
on these, Dr. Weiss.

A: The plastic explosive
found in your drawer...

matches the explosive in the bomb
that killed Florence Manning.

B: The wire in your drawer...

matches the wire in the bomb
that killed Florence Manning.

C: You were seen
acting a little strange...

outside
Florence Manning's apartment.

Am | under arrest?
We can't afford a lawyer.

If you want a lawyer and can't afford it, one will be
provided at no charge.

That is what they said at the college clinic.
There's a $20 deductible.

Do you want a lawyer,
Dr. Weiss?

| don't know what to do.

(Weiss)
| just don't know what to do.

(Logan)
Do you want a lawyer?

This guy plotted a bombing?
The evidence nails him.

But no motive.

Yeah, you want motive, the husband's loaded with it,
but no evidence.

What about putting the two together?
It's worth a shot.

Meanwhile, what do we do
with Albert Einstein here?

Arrest him.

(Briscoe)
We looked for connections.

Manning told us
he never heard of Weiss.

Weiss told us he read about Manning
in the newspaper.

But Weiss got his PhD at
the University of Wisconsin.

Until five years ago, Manning taught there.
It's a big campus.

Weiss called Manning's office eight times in
the last four months.

Before or after the bombing?
Before. And three weeks ago...

Weiss, who if he had a nickel,
it would die of loneliness. ..

deposited $3,500
in his checking account.

Manning hired Weiss
to kill his wife?

| Know of one way to find out.

(Connors)
| think it's clear. ..

Mr. Weiss does not wish
to make a statement.

(Logan)
Yeah? Well, we do.

You're nailed, Max.
You're going away.

No more bedtime stories
for the kids.

We know you made the bomb small, Max. We don't think
you were trying to Kill her.

And that can work in your favor.
If you tell us what happened.

Did someone hire you to do it?
| would never kill anybody.

Is this train going somewhere?

Max, you told us you didn't even know
Edward Manning.

You called him 12 days ago,
you called him 10 days ago.

He was my thesis advisor
at Wisconsin.

Sure. Did he tell you about his problems? Did he
tell you about the divorce?

| didn't know aboult.. ..

Max, you got one way to help yourself. What did
Manning ask you to do?

Wait a minute.
Just let me think.

(Connors) Will you leave me
alone with my client?

You, too.

[telephone ringing]

[knocks on door]

If | had a client charged with murder
who was willing to testify...

that someone hired him
to commit the crime. ..

what could be worked out for this client?
Manning?

I'm speaking
hypothetically here.

Hypothetically, if your client's testimony was
truthful and productive...

his charge might drop
to Manslaughter One.

Hypothetically,
he might accept.

Manning?
Hypothetically, yes.

| never meant to kill her.
Max.

What's on the table, Ben? (Stone)
You tell me.

We don't need a plea
to convict Mr. Weiss.

The FBI raised saliva
from the stamp on the bomb.

It matches his DNA.

| needed the money.
| only meant to scare her.

Let me get this straight.
Prof. Manning came to you?

| asked him for a job.

At Wisconsin, years ago,
he wanted to hire me...

as part of his
proton decay project.

| was up for a tenure-track position
at Oberlin, | said no.

Then they asked Manning for a reference.
He blackballed you?

He never answered the letter.
| found out about that.

| would have been an associate professor by now,
instead of a....

You know what
they pay post-docs?

Sir, there are other ways
of making a living.

| went to Manning. He knows my work,
he knows I'm good.

Good at what? Good at physics?
Good at murder?

He knew | was in the Army Reserve. That is how
| paid for Wisconsin.

So Prof. Manning hired you
to Kill Florence Manning?

Kill. That's what he said.

Call off your dogs, Ben.

The police are turning Prof. Manning's life
upside down.

(Stone)
He's a murder suspect, Bill.

They're not going to invite him to
a dinner dance.

Max Weiss is looking
at 25 years in Attica, cold.

Anyone would make up
a Story to cut a deal.

The police won't find any evidence to support it
because there isn't any.

The $3,500 dollar deposit to Weiss's account was
a check from your client.

Give me some credit.
| almost won the Nobel Prize.

You think I'd pay
a hired killer by check?

With your attitude, sir, you might think yourself
too smart to get caught.

(Patton) | know
what's going on here, Ben.

The law says you can't convict a man on the
uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.

If you believe that check would stand up
as corroboration. ..

you'd have arrested
Prof. Manning by now.

| hired Weiss to do some research.
| Knew him from Wisconsin.

He was a good man.
| thought he was.

If you Knew him from Wisconsin, why did
you tell the police...

that you didn't recognize him when you saw him
outside your wife's apartment?

He also knew my wife from Wisconsin, too, and |
never thought he killed her.

It didn't seem right
to get him involved.

Awfully kind of Manning to protect Weiss
from the police.

| gather he's not
the kindly type?

His story might explain why he told the police
he didn't know Weiss. ..

but it doesn't explain why he lied to
his own girlfriend.

So, Ben,
do you believe Weiss?

The check is the only evidence
he has to support his story...

aside from the fact that he had no motive
to do it on his own.

He had no motive,
or you haven't found it yet?

Max liked Florence Manning.

Her husband treated his grad students like slaves.
She baked them cookies.

How much did
your husband like her?

What do you mean?

Max and Mrs. Manning
in a lover's quarrel?

Oh, God,
if you knew him at all.

He loves me, and the children,
and subatomic particles.

(Kincaid)
Mrs. Weiss. ..

he's admitted
he sent the bomb.

Well, then he's lying.
| mean, he couldn't have.

He's covering up for someone.
| don't Know, maybe Manning?

| Know my husband.

We've talked to people
who worked with him.

They say he's
been erratic, moody.

Acouple of months ago he got an idea.
A breakthrough idea...

| don't know, don't ask me,
| don't understand it.

He applied for a research grant.
He was so excited.

It was going to launch him,
it was going to save us.

| was just afraid.

Of being saved?
No. Of what happened.

Of what always happens.

He didn't get the grant.
He was devastated.

You say
he's been moody lately.

He can't support his family doing the work he loves.
How would you feel?

Miss Kincaid, what's
gonna happen to him?

What's going to happen to us?

"Potential Super Symmetric
Models for Higgs Scattering...

"an Experimental Overview
by Max Weiss."

You know what | took for my science requirement?
Physics for Poets.

Geology 101,
Rocks For Jocks.

Weiss's notebooks.
His papers.

If he was doing research for Manning,
here's no indication.

That's good. That means
he's telling the truth.

Not according to his wife.

She swears the only thing on
Weiss's mind lately was this.

"An Alternative Mode
for Proton Decay."

His rejected grant application.
Proton decay?

That's Manning's field.

Edward Manning and his team filled a vat with
1,000 tons of fluid...

containing 100 billion
quintillion protons.

They surrounded it
with detectors, computers.

They studied it for eight years at a cost of
three million dollars...

and they never saw
a proton decay.

Maybe they proved
that protons don't decay.

That's not what
they wanted to prove.

Manning was unfulfilled...

severely.

Last time | talked to him he had some new idea,
some new approach.

Could he be working on it
with Max Weiss?

Weiss has a reputation as a murderer,
but not as a physicist.

He has some new idea
about proton decay.

Applied for a grant from the American Science
Foundation.

Rejected?

No doubt deservedly. | served on the Foundation's
peer review panels.

You should see some of the garbage
that comes in.

Peer review.
Did Manning do that?

Of course. Especially in a field
like proton decay.

It's his specialty.

Weiss applied for a grant to look at old data
from Manning's experiment.

Weiss's theory was that protons had decayed,
but hadn't been detected.

Yeah. And if Weiss was right,
Manning'd look foolish.

Now, Manning headed the panel that reviewed
Weiss's proposal...

and he rejected it.

He's the expert in the field. That's the way
the system works.

The panel's confidential...

but | figure that Weiss put this conflict
of interest together...

and he starts
calling Manning.

By that time, Manning was working on his
new idea about proton decay.

Now, these are
his laboratory logs.

Manning requested copies of the same data
Weiss wanted to look at.

Perfect.

First he torpedoes Weiss's idea,
then he steals it.

(Kincaid) It still doesn't
link to the murder.

Weiss had reason to hate Manning,
not Mrs. Manning.

It's not unheard of to take revenge on a man
by killing his wife.

But Adam,
it doesn't make sense.

This man and wife hated each other.
They were separated.

But maybe Weiss didn't know they were separated.
He hadn't seen them in years.

If Weiss didn't know
that they were separated...

maybe we're wrong about
this case from the beginning.

(Stone) But then we found this
in your apartment.

Last year's Hudson Polytech
Faculty Directory.

Fascinating, Ben.

You find any old phone books? Back issues of
National Geographic?

It lists Prof. Manning's
old address.

The one he shared with
his wife before he moved.

(Stone) You addressed the bomb
to Dr. Manning...

and you didn't know
that he'd moved.

Substitute carrier
didn't know that, either.

I've been to the Foundation. We know what Manning
did to you.

So you killed his wife
by mistake.

But then you realized that you could
still hurt him...

and help yourself by claiming
that he hired you, right?

This interview is over. Max.
We have an understanding.

We don't need his testimony.
Deal's off.

Fine. | prefer
an acquittal, anyway.

Cynthia Thomas's identification
of my client was bogus.

I'm going to get it thrown out, and all
the evidence it led you to.

[knocks on door]

The State's witness did not pick Dr. Weiss out of a
properly constituted line-up.

Your Honor, Dr. Weiss declined to participate
in that line-up.

So the police took
Miss Thomas to a place...

where she could see the defendant
among many other people.

Yes, but those many other people
wore business suits.

My client was dressed like
an organ grinder's monkey.

Does look conspicuous, Ben.
That's a posed photo.

In context, as a doorman, he blends in
with the background.

It's reasonable to assume. ..

that Miss Thomas would have overlooked him
because of that.

In a get-up like this?

There should be a door. In front of a door
he looks like a doorman--

Ben.

How many men with beards
walked out that door?

At least one.

Wow. One.

The witness identification
is excluded.

The identification led to the search warrant which
led to the bomb materials.

It should all be excluded.

(Stone) Your Honor,
I'm sure you realize...

that the police could have obtained that warrant
on other unrelated grounds.

But they didn't.
But they could have.

| would have issued one.

The identification is out.
The bomb is in.

(Stone)
Thank you.

So, what?
Dr. Manning...

the link between
Dr. Weiss and your wife...

we lost it.

Now you're the only person
who can testify...

that you saw Dr. Weiss
at your wife's apartment.

And you're also the only person
who can supply a motive.

Can 1? What motive is that?

| don't want to play games with you, sir.
Don't play games with me.

We know what you did
to Dr. Weiss.

| see.

So you want me to announce to the world that I'm a
scientific thief and a fraud.

No, sir, | want you
to tell the truth.

The truth, Mr. Stone, is that I'm near
the end of a career...

that | had the good fortune or misfortune to
begin very brightly.

| used to look around
at meetings in laboratories.

| was always the youngest person
in the room.

Then one day at a conference | looked around, and | was
the oldest person there.

Thirty years
had slipped by.

People were gathered around
one of the stars. He was 29

| was the fourth speaker
on the 5:00 panel.

| Know | have something more
to contribute to physics.

Something you stole
from Max Weiss.

I'll not end
my career in disgrace.

| understand, sir, but the alternative is letting
your wife's murderer go free.

One single human life on the time scale
of the universe.

You and |
have different priorities.

He's an aging boy wonder, and he wants
the glory days back.

And it's no coincidence. .

he picks up
someone else's hot idea. ..

and a young girlfriend
at the same time.

| sure thought he'd testify against the murderer
of his own wife.

We've threatened him with a subpoena,
with contempt...

he swears he'll stand mum.

Scientists have
a star system...

makes Hollywood look
like a socialist love-in.

Only they don't keep score in money or starlets.
It's reputation.

If he's worried about his scientific reputation,
let's attack him there.

Aren't you being
a little inconsistent, Ben?

Unless your client testifies fully and freely,
he'll be indicted.

Haven't you
just finished proving...

Weiss lied about my client
hiring him to kill his wife?

| didn't say he'd be
indicted for murder.

I'm going to indict him
for larceny.

(Patton)
Larceny?

What larceny? Grand Larceny
in the 4th degree.

"Theft of secret
scientific material.

"Any article, device or substance which constitutes,
represents, evidences...

"reflects or records a scientific or
technical process...

"invention or formula."

And that's basically
what Prof. Manning did...

when he stole the idea
from Max Weiss's proposal.

Cute.

You know that law applies
to computer programs.

Secret formulas.

Plagiarism isn't larceny.

I'll let a jury
decide that.

But don't think | won't show that jury
every detail...

of Prof. Manning's deceit.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't a charge
of larceny presuppose...

that the thing allegedly stolen
have value?

Weiss's idea was flawed,
amateurish and worthless.

That's why
| rejected his proposal.

No serious physicist would have wasted
an hour on it.

That's awfully convenient
for you to say that, sir.

Yes, quite convenient.

I'll be happy to
testify about this at length.

I'm the leading authority
in the field.

Ask anyone.

If Manning swears that
the theory is worthless...

you gotta prove that it isn't.

Now,
what the hell's the theory?

That protons
eventually fall apart.

Is this something
| need to be worried about?

It means all matter in the universe will eventually
disintegrate in a certain way.

Terrific. Now all we gotta do
to win a larceny trial...

is prove how
the universe will end.

No, all | do is get my own group
of expert withesses.

Who you going to get,
the Almighty?

Physics professors. That's all Manning is.
Oh, physics professors.

Better get
a jury of insomniacs.

We want an expert
who'll keep the jury awake?

We've already got one.

You got to be kidding.

You want Dr. Weiss to testify
that Manning stole his theory?

(Kincaid)
It's your decision, Dr. Weiss.

He'd be establishing a motive you'd nail him with
at his own murder trial.

He'll be convicted
no matter what he does.

He'd be out of his mind
to help you.

Doctor, you and | both know that no one takes you
seriously as a scientist.

Now, isn't this the only possible chance you have
to make your reputation?

You had an insight into proton decay,
and Edward Manning stole it.

Do you want the rest of the scientific community
to know this or not?

You don't understand.

| don't care about scientific reputation.
| care about science.

Max, this can't help you.
Nothing can help me.

Prof. Manning says your theory is flawed.
| don't care what he says.

Amateurish, worthless. (Weiss)
He has no imagination.

Do you know how
he set up his experiment?

Max.
This room...

is about the size of the vat
he used to fill with fluid.

Manning put photomultiplier tubes there,
there, there...

linked to a computer programmed to pick out
signs of proton decay.

But do you know
what he looked for?

One mode only.

Here.

[paper rustling]

A positron track going one way.
The other way...

a neutral pion.

But what if protons don't decay that way,
but into a positron...

and two neutrinos?

Manning's computers
never would have found them...

because they weren't
looking for them.

Protons could have been
decaying every day.

Do you know what that means?

[exhales]

We can synthesize...

three of the basic forces
of the universe.

We would be on the verge...

of reading the mind of God.

He'll testify, won't he?
Yeah, | think he will.

He'll put a noose around his own neck
to defend a theory...

that maybe 500 people
in the world understand.

| don't Know, I'm beginning to think
| understand it.

Our murderer is
one hell of a teacher.

Am | supposed
to be impressed?

Go ahead.
Tear down his theory.

Max Weiss will defend it.

And I'm sure the jury will find it compelling.
| know | did.

He's a scientific nobody.

He's not the only one
who'll testify, sir.

Prof. Stedman is a somebody. We've been rivals
for 30 years.

(Kincaid)
Jacob Munson at Princeton...

finds Weiss's theory
interesting.

So does Chadrasan at Michigan. We're still sending
the documents around.

You're flying in witnesses from all over the country
to prosecute a Class E felony?

If your client doesn't testify in a trial involving
the murder of his wife. ..

I'll fly them in from Jupiter.

And tell him he can't worry about his reputation anymore.
He doesn't have any.

You're ruining me
as a mah of science.

Sir, you did that yourself.

I'm just asking you to tell the jury
how you did it.

| was close to the answer. I'd been working on
proton decay for 10 years.

(Stone) Doctor, isn't that
the reason...

that you were chosen
to chair the panel...

that actually reviewed Dr. Weiss's
research proposal?

I'm acknowledged as
the leading authority.

When | saw his idea,
everything snapped into place.

| believed, | still believe, | would have seen the thing
myself in a week or a day.

(Stone)
So what did you do about that?

| rejected his proposal.
There were some errors in it.

How did Dr. Weiss react?

He called me. He threatened to go to the Office
of Research Integrity.

| told him he'd be wasting his time.
| had status, he had none.

Did he believe that?
It was true.

| sweetened it by saying I'd put his name on the paper
| was writing as co-author.

He'd be able to get a job then. | gave him
some money to tide him over.

Sir, were you gonna
put his name on that paper?

His proposal was a guess.

I'd been working on
the problem for 10 years.

| told him
I'd changed my mind.

So you told the man who came up
with the crucial idea. ..

that he was not going to get
any credit or any recognition.

| didn't think he earned it. How did he react
to that, sir?

He got very angry.

He said he would go to the Office of Research Integrity
and take his chances.

And what did you do?

| Knew his post-doc was up.

He was being considered for
an assistant professorship.

| saw he didn't get the job. Someone in the department
owed me a favor.

If Weiss wasn't on the faculty, then his complaint
would carry no weight.

Did he know
that you'd done that?

He called me.
It was frightening.

What did he say?

That | was starving his children.
That he would make me pay.

Mr. Foreman, has the jury
reached a verdict?

(foreman)
We have, Your Honor.

On the sole count
of the indictment...

Murder in the 2nd degree...

how does the jury find?

We find the defendant,
Max Weiss, guilty.

The jury is excused
with thanks.

Dr. Weiss is remanded
to Rikers Island ...

pending sentencing.

This court is now adjourned.

[gavel bangs]

Your Honor, my client wishes to make a statement
before sentence is imposed.

| want to apologize
to Mrs. Manning's family...

with all my heart.

lam so sorry.

All that's ever mattered to me
is my family and my work.

All | ever wanted to do
was physics.

When | saw | was losing it,
| couldn't stand it.

If | could do it over again...

| would be a bus driver...

an accountant, anything, my whole life
without science. ..

if | could take
that package back.

Yes, Dr. Weiss,
but it's too Ilate.

Your actions were
callous and deadly.

| sentence you to an indeterminate term
of imprisonment...

of from 25 years to life...

to be served at a facility selected by
the Department of Corrections.

But on the other hand, he killed a woman, so |
had to play it by the book.

You feel bad about that?

Twenty-five years.
He's not your typical Killer.

He is. He killed somebody.