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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.

[car horn honking]

Ladies and gentlemen,
| am not a criminal.

| just need some money
for my medicine.

So help me
not break the law.

Thank you.

Change?

Can you spare some-- Hey, thank you, buddy,
thanks a lot.

Spare some change?

How about you, sir?
You got some change?

Excuse me,
can you spare some change?

Oh, yeah. That's right, just turn your back,
ignore me, walk away, huh?

What, you think I'm not gonna
go anywhere, Mr. Rockefeller?

Well, | got news for you.
| got no place to go!

Change?

Excuse me, sir,
can you spare some change?

You know, | got a right
to be here, too!

[truck engine accelerating]

[truck horn blasting]
Oh, my God!

[tires screeching]

[body thudding]

[truck brakes hissing]

[police radio chattering]

Six months until my pension. Now it's gonna be spent
in a courtroom.

Let's get a little head start
on your statement.

Hey, what's to say?

| mean it's rush hour.
I'm on my way downtown...

a guy dives off the curb
in front of my rig.

He wants to kill himself. What does he gotta
use me for?

How compassionate.

I'm the one who's gotta
take all the blood tests.

It ain't like
| could've turned away.

(Elvira) The guy was a maniac. | know
he pushed him deliberately.

One of our homeless hordes
was hassling the commuters.

I'm gonna
need a description.

He had on a dirty blue coat
and a plaid scarf.

And he was filthy.

Well, that narrows it down. Look, did you get
a look at his face?

Who wants to look?

Good luck.
Thanks.

(Lillian) Well, he was begging
for change.

| work for a living. I'll be damned
if | give it away.

You remember anything
about him?

We tried to get away.
He couldn't take a hint.

Maybe we should have
given him something.

He shoves a cappuccino cup
from Bon Matin in my face.

That's $3 a throw. He doesn't
need my quarter.

(officer)
Hey, Logan!

Mr. Keeley was standing
next to the victim.

How you doing? I'm Det. Logan. Did you get a look
at this homeless guy?

| saw him coming
and turned my back.

So you didn't actually see
anybody get pushed?

No, | heard the guy scream.

All right, we'll call you if we need you.
Thank you.

Not easy to read the ID.

Renkmeyer, Harry. Thirty-two.

| guess he should've
given the guy a quarter, huh?

[patrons chattering]

We give the second cup free...

so these bums lift a paper cup out of the trash
and come in for a refill.

You ever see one
wearing a plaid scarf?

Oh, yeah. You mean
Bruce Springsteen.

Some kind of musician, plays the air guitar.
Between gigs...

he uses the scarf
to wash car windows.

So he's a regular around here?
Yeah, couple of times a week.

He lives
in the neighborhood. Lucky us.

Where in the neighborhood?

Well, he did invite me
back to his place once...

but | didn't go.

The guitar-playing
squeegee man?

[laughs]

Yeah, that'd be Rudy.

He has a part-time job in the psycho ward
at Bellevue.

And the rest of the time
he lives here?

You ever been
in Bellevue?

Well, | think it's time
for Rudy's monthly checkup.

Is this his crib?

Yeah, but you're gonna have to come back
at night.

During the day
they're all out working.

Working?

Hey, that's what
they call it.

All right, we'll come back
for the night shift.

Come on, let's go pay a visit to the late
Mr. Renkmeyer.

(Rodgers) There's not much
of him to see.

Without the driver's license you couldn't even
give him a name.

Next of kin ID him?
Yeah, she called.

We wanna wait until we glue him back together
and make sure it's really him.

(Briscoe) You can't tell from the face
and the ID?

You try playing speed bump
to an 18-wheeler.

We'll x-ray the body, look for fillings,
surgical pins.

It's a hell of a way
to go, huh?

Well, he took something
with him.

Under his fingernails,
ripped blue fibers.

Blue fibers?

So he grabbed onto the guy
who pushed him?

You better get this to
Forensics.

You think Rudy, the guitar player,
is back from work?

(Brown) Welcome to
Strawberry Fields West.

(Briscoe) The berries are smelling
a little ripe.

Hey, old-timer,
you know a guy named Rudy?

Guess hot.

[man shoring]

(Logan)
| should sleep so well.

(Briscoe) Well, he puts in
a longer day than you.

JJ7[Rudy imitating
electric guitar]

J Hey, now, baby J

S [imitating electric guitar]

| Getinto my J

JJr[imitating
electric guitar]

(Logan)
Rudy! Hey, Rudy!

Show's over, baby.

Hey, this is my encore.

(Logan) Come on, Elvis, let's go. (man)
Get out of here!

J Where have
all the flowers gone? J'J

I'll tell you, man, lawyers, bankers--
Indian chiefs.

It's the system, man. It's only as strong
as its weakest member.

And you're looking at him.

| bet that really gets
your blood going.

I'm on fire, man.
| see them every day.

They spend more on one suit than I've made
in the last 10 years.

And when | ask them for change
they just turn their backs.

And you give them
a little push?

You guys think | did it?

[chuckling]

No way, man.

We got a whole crowd of people
who saw you there, Rudy.

You know, it's funny.

They don't notice me when my hand's out
asking for change.

So you're saying you didn't
shove anybody into traffic?

Hey, some guy gets squashed
on my corner...

they say | did it, huh?

| mean, it's bad for business.
Think about it.

No, you think about it.

And we got a semi-private cell
for you to think about it in.

You guys can't arrest me.
What's the charge?

Singing off-key.

My client
wants to go home.

Home?
It's wall-to-wall rats.

I'm not here to defend his home furnishings,
just his rights.

You haven't got anything on him
in this murder.

He just happened
to be in the vicinity.

And he was
hassling pedestrians.

He was talking to
pedestrians.

Did anyone see him
push anybody?

[telephone ringing]

The fabric under the victim's nails doesn't match
the suspect's coat.

(Van)
So go back to square one.

He definitely
got run over by a truck.

Brilliant, Rodgers.
We already noticed that.

The truck didn't kill him.
He was already dead.

Heart attack.

What attacked Mr. Renkmeyer's heart
was a small piece of lead.

(Briscoe)
He was shot?

X-rays found an anterior entry wound
in the upper-left quadrant.

Straight through the heart, then it lodged
in the spine, .32.

Thought you might want it.

I'll call CSU, tell them
to start looking for a shell.

(Joan) | don't understand.
What can | tell you?

Well, we're trying to find out who killed your husband,
Mrs. Renkmeyer.

He was killed by a crazy,
homeless person.

(Briscoe) It seems we were wrong about
how your husband died, ma‘“am.

He was shot.

By a homeless man?
We don't know.

Had your husband been
threatened by anybody?

Harry? Of course not.

(Logan) Mr. Renkmeyer worked for
a company called Nature's Way?

(Joan) He was
Chief Financial Officer.

They make baby food.

Had he been having any problems?
Acting oddly in any way?

You think someone
killed him on purpose?

Why?

[police radio chattering]

What's up? (Newman)
Detective.

You ever hear the story of the farmer's daughter and
the needle in the haystack?

I'm just glad our guy
didn't use a revolver.

We opened the grating,
picked through the gutter.

Crap people throw
oh the street.

They don't throw away
shell casings.

But they do when they use
an automatic gun.

| would say a .32. And | would say
very recent.

(Ann)
When you called, | thought...

you should talk
to both me and my partner.

Harry worked very closely
with both of us.

Steve Green,
Detectives Briscoe and Logan.

Gentlemen, sit down.

You want some coffee?
No, thanks.

So what's your thinking
on this?

The bum who shot Harry
was stalking him?

We're thinking
it wasn't the bum.

(Ann) Are you saying somebody
wanted him dead?

Harry? | don't think so.

Well, we're wondering, did Mr. Renkmeyer
have any bad habits?

When | started this company, | wanted someone
dependable in accounting.

No one was better
than Harry Renkmeyer.

And Mr. Renkmeyer was happy
working here?

We're a growing company.
He was well paid.

He was also in charge of the money. Did he ever
want more than he earned?

Maybe he had
a gambling problem...

a couple of girlfriends?

No. Harry was so conservative. We used to make fun
of his button-down shirts.

How about enemies
in the business?

Did he fire anybody?

(Ann)
Just the usual.

He let go of a bookkeeper about a year ago.
He said she was incompetent.

It was personal.

That's what he said.

There'd been something
between them.

Steve?
You didn't know.

They asked about girlfriends.

We worked together
for three years, and nothing.

We were closing out the fiscal year,
putting in late hours.

You know how these things go.
Yeah.

You get together for a
couple of drinks after work...

and pretty soon it's your place
or mine, right?

Harry didn't look it,
but he liked a good time.

We had some fun.

Was he a big spender?

(Inga) No, strictly Dutch treat,
but | didn't mind.

| kept telling myself
it was just for fun but....

(Briscoe)
You got involved.

We made plans.

He was going to get some money together
and divorce his wife.

Miss Torvald didn't seem too happy
about being dumped.

What, you think she carried a grudge
for a year?

Or his wife did.

If she Knew about his definition
of employee relations.

[car lock beeping]
Don't wives always know?

Mine did.

Yours didn't hire a hit man.
Not yet.

We were married nine years.

It wasn't the first time.
| said, "End it."

Harry did.

She told us he was putting money away,
planning a divorce.

He was lying to her.

Look, it changed
after Sam was born.

Harry wanted to stay with me.

And you wanted to stay with him?
Of course | did.

(Briscoe) So everything was perfect.
| don't understand.

If Harry had any problems, they weren't
about our marriage.

Did Harry have any problems?

It was just the aftermath,
the affair, having a baby.

He was restless. He talked about getting
another job. So what?

He was unhappy at work? Did he tell you
what was bothering him?

A couple of weeks ago...

middle of the night,
| heard him in the kitchen.

He was throwing out baby food
he'd brought from the office.

What for?

He just said, "We're not
feeding this to Sam anymore."

He wanted me
to buy another brand.

It's not about the wife.

(Briscoe) Yeah, the horizontal tango
with the bookkeeper was over.

But he was looking
for a new job.

Flip a coin.

| mean, the baby food moguls
say he was happy in his work.

But his wife says
he has réesumeés in the mail...

and he didn't even want to keep their stuff
around the house.

You don't like your job, does it mean you throw away
the product?

Maybe there was something wrong
with the baby food.

Or the company.

Maybe he didn't want the food
around the house ...

‘cause it reminded him
of trouble at the office.

You think your job's not gonna last,
you're gonna look to move on.

(Van)
Let's check their books.

I'll get a subpoena. Get the D.A.'s auditors
over there.

It looks like they were in
the classic start-up squeeze.

This baby food
was walking off the shelves.

Then the money was
pouring in.

That's not the way
it works.

You have to pay for supplies to make
this stuff months before. ..

you get paid for selling it.

The more successful you are, the more strapped
you are for cash.

So you go to the bank, you show them your sales records,
and you borrow money.

Yeah, new ideas
are hard to sell.

Miss Madsen had
a $2 million loan.

But she had to pledge her personal assets as collateral
and pay six points over prime.

That's a sweet deal
for the bank.

Apparently, not sweet enough. They called the loan
six months ago.

| worked very hard to get Ann Madsen
that loan.

The timing was
in our favor.

The bank was under pressure
to help women entrepreneurs.

But not under pressure
to keep on helping them?

| fought our loan committee
on this one for months.

Her accounts were technically out of balance.
We had to call the loan.

Out of balance? You mean
there was money missing?

No, nothing like that. It was just that her
inventory, plus receivables...

fell below
some arbitrary figure.

| tried to save it, but...

(Logan) Well, she must have spent
part of that $2 million.

How did she pay it back?

She get a loan
from some other bank?

She got a new partner. They must have found
the money somewhere.

(Briscoe) Did she say Steve Green
was a new partner?

We didn't ask.

It sounds like they're operating with no visible
means of financial support.

A time like that, where do you go
for $2 million?

You don't go to the neighborhood
loan shark.

And why did her finance guy end up with a bullet
in his heart?

You know, I'm starting to think you're right. These
people are all mobbed up.

| think we should ask
about the investors.

After Harry was killed, we explored,
in our own minds...

any possible connection
to our company.

We looked at the books before we gave them to you.
They were straight.

Well, we heard Mr. Renkmeyer was
looking for a new job.

| can't believe that.
He would have told me.

Do you have any idea why he wouldn't want his baby
eating Nature's Way products?

He took a couple of cartons from the office.
Maybe you can tell us.

What's this have to do
with his being shot?

Mr. Renkmeyer
was in finance.

He must have done a good job, because after
your loan was called...

you've been running this company
on absolutely no money.

Harry took care of that by bringing Steve
into the company.

Steve arranged refinancing. It was part of our
partnership agreement.

| pledged my own assets.
| believe in this company.

There's nothing about that
in your books.

It came from a private venture capital group.
They like to operate quietly.

Okay, where can we find them?

Why, Detective? You have an idea
for a new product?

Where can we find them?

I've got it.

It's not exactly
Wall Street.

It ain't Little Italy,
either.

[doorbell ringing]

There is no one here, mister.
You must make an appointment.

(Briscoe) Well, who would that
appointment be with?

You leave your name,
pozhaluista, here.

And they call you, okay?
Lady.

That's not the way it works.
| Know nothing.

[speaking Russian]

[speaking Russian]

| don't think these people are gonna exactly give
Citibank a lot of competition.

Well, no wonder Steve Green
didn't want to talk about it.

Well, it was his partner
who gave us the address.

When Harry brought Steve in,
it saved my life.

| was staring at a backlog
of orders | couldn't fill.

The bank was going to take the house | inherited
from my mother.

I'd lose everything. Steve got me all the capital
| needed.

Did you ever meet the people from Brookings
who made this loan?

| was busy
promoting baby food.

Steve handled the whole thing.
All | did was sign papers.

(Logan) | take it
you trust him completely?

He's honest.
He's hands-on.

You know,
hardworking son of immigrants.

Steve Green?

Immigrants from where?
Scarsdale?

His real name is Sasha Gruskov.
He was born in Russia.

What kind of interest
did you pay on this loan?

Twenty-five percent.

That's one point
less than usury.

Didn't that seem kind of high?

Yes, but | had no choice.

Makes sense Steve Green
changed his name.

Gruskov family: extortion, credit card fraud,
prostitution.

The Mafia's taking
lessons from them.

Well, for Gruskov money, 25% was obviously
a family favor.

Hey, they put money on the street
at 20% a week.

And Little Miss Organic doesn't know
who she's dealing with?

Maybe Harry Renkmeyer knew. He brought Steve Green
to the company.

(Profaci)
Report on your print.

For the partial
we had to go with the AFIS...

and they only started to feed cards
into their computer.

How's it stand? One million in,
60 million to go?

Well, lucky for you, they started with
the two-time losers.

Lucky for us, our print belonged to one. Nikolai
Rostov, Brighton Beach.

Assault and more assault.

Brighton Beach.
Gruskov family.

Think he knew Steve Green? Let's pay him a visit
with a warrant.

Look, | don't like this. You should really wait
for him.

Well, don't worry about it,
huh?

Nick must have a good job.

He drives a Camaro.

(Logan)
Oh, yeah?

You seen him
around lately?

(landlord) Sure, | saw him
this morning.

He likes silk suits
to go with his Camaro.

(Logan)
Good for him.

You know what?

Judging by his taste
in ammunition...

he also likes 32s.

| got a pea coat.
Navy issue.

[door opens]

You. Stick around.

[speaking Russian]

Nickie, you're under arrest. You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be used against
you in a court of law.

Do you understand that?

Hey, Nickie, this the flavor
of the week?

(Clerk) "Docket number 96522,
the People v. Nikolai Rostov.

The charge is murder
in the second degree."

Shoots a man,
pushes him under a truck.

I've heard of overkill,
but this is ridiculous.

Can we get a plea here?

Not guilty. (Judge)
Bail application?

My client has strong ties
to the community.

And another community
12,000 miles away.

Your Honor,
my client is a citizen.

"Give us your tired,
your poor, your vicious."

Miss Kincaid?

(Kincaid) Due to the risk of flight,
Your Honor--

Thank you, that's all | need to hear. I'll give
this citizen his rights.

He's remanded
without bail. Next?

Six years the Brooklyn D.A.
has been asking:

"Is Steven Green
part of his family?"

Now we have him.
We have his hit man.

And we're gonna roll him against him until
he does somersaults.

Are we clear
oh the motive?

We assumed Harry Renkmeyer
knew about tainted food.

So we called the USDA.
We were right.

They closed Nature's Way
this morning.

Renkmeyer could've blown
that company apart.

$2 million. That's a big loss
for the Gruskovs.

Killing a man over that. You'd think they have
other means of persuasion.

(Schiff)
The Russians?

They make the Colombians look
like the Von Trapp family.

(Stone) Adam, the Colombians
roll on each other.

The investment bankers do.

But Russian hit men?

Twist him till he's a corkscrew.
Make it work.

My client owns an ice cream parlor
in Brighton Beach.

A front
for the Gruskov family.

| own my business. It's mine.

Nick.

| went cross-town yesterday, watched the witnesses
parade past the lineup.

My client was humber two,
number six was very popular.

As they say in law school, Larry, eyewitnesses are
like dessert.

They're nice,
but they're not necessary.

(Kincaid) Mr. Rostov left his thumbprint
on a shell casing...

and fiber from his coat under
the dead man's fingernails.

You didn't mention the slug from the victim. Did they
match it to my client's gun?

| guess not. And | bet you can't match
the lip mark on the shell.

Very hard
with a .32, isn't it?

Keep dancing, Counselor. Your client can start
counting 25 years.

Without motive?

Just one hole in the physical evidence,
he walks.

He had no reason
to kill Mr. Renkmeyer.

Steven Green had motive.

The Gruskov's money.

Oh, you're gonna turn this into a trial
about the Russian mob.

No judge'll let it happen.

(Weaver) You won't even get to order
chicken Kiev for lunch.

So where are we going?

You want to make an offer?
Please, make it.

Manslaughter one, your client
names Steven Green...

as the man who ordered the hit
on Harry Renkmeyer.

(Stone)
You will be convicted, sir...

your lawyer's
two-step notwithstanding.

And, by the way, who is paying
your lawyer's fee?

Whose interest
does he really represent?

Nick, | advise you
to go back to your cell.

[keys jangling]

(Fetzer) About the time Nixon's getting
tossed from the White House...

young Stevie's dad here gets shot, and the kid goes off
to a private school in Maine.

And the cousins build the business.
Yeah.

Are they successful enough to float million-dollar loans
to Steve?

By now?

They could pay the debt
of a Third World country.

(Stone) The shooter, Rostov,
on the lower left,

what do you know about him?

(Fetzer) All right. This guy, a cousin,
we had himin '89.

Truckload of fur. Grand larceny
for the third time.

We turned him,
he was gonna testify.

He's out on bail. They found him
with a slug in his heart.

Put there by Mr. Rostov.

(Fetzer)
We think so, yeah.

And it wasn't the first time.

Two years before that,
we had a withess in Rikers. ..

at the same time as Joe Andreyev,
another friend of the family.

Witness falls off a catwalk.

And if you believe that, I'll introduce you
to the tooth fairy.

What about Steven Green?

Changed his name, moved out of Brooklyn, got an M.B.A,,
and never looked back.

You're not saying
he's clean?

Oh, no.

He looks good in a $1,000 suit,
but it doesn't cover the dirt.

How solid
is this information?

| believe it.
My boss believes it.

Convincing a jury?

We may not be able to mention
the Russian mob. ..

without a better connection
to Rostov.

We still convict him.

Well, that doesn't get us an arrest
of Steven Green.

What about Ann Madsen?

The police are fairly sure
she wasn't involved.

If she's not involved,
what does she bring us?

Whatever didn't seem important to them before
might be important now.

See if you can
get her in. Tonight.

(Ann)
| never knew.

| thought Steve's family
was in real estate.

(Stone) You knew they were Russians
from Brighton Beach.

Please, | grew up
in Westchester.

To me, Brighton Beach is a place
in a Neil Simon play.

Sure, | met Steve's relatives. | Knew they didn't shop
at Brooks Brothers.

| never thought
they were gangsters.

Did you ever see Nikolai Rostov
with Steven Green?

This is really scaring me.

Miss Madsen?

He was in Steve's office
late at night.

The night before Harry....

Before he was shot.

(Kincaid)
You know why he was killed.

The police told you. He wouldn't feed your product
to his own son.

A week
before it happened...

Harry said Steve was buying apricots
from Poland.

They were moldy.

He was afraid kids would
get sick, maybe die.

He was gonna go
to the government.

Steve said
it wasn't true.

He was going to talk
to Harry, reassure him.

A week later
he ends up dead.

It's an odd coincidence.

| asked Steve. .

after the police came, "Did you have anything
to do with this?"

He said | was crazy. Why would he
kill anybody?

| didn't know
about his family.

When they arrested this man, | saw his picture
in the paper.

Steve knows | saw him
in the office.

It's the link
we heeded.

She can put Steven Green
together with his hit man.

(Schiff) Yep, and | can put my barber
on Broome Street together...

with half the hit men
in the city.

One of them slits somebody's throat, you can't
prove the barber ordered it.

What else was Rostov
doing in Green's office?

Selling spring vacation trips
to the Baltics?

(Schiff)
No.

Discussing ice cream
baby food.

You don't have enough
to arrest Steven Green.

The jury can
draw the inference.

Never ask a jury to think.
They want to hear it.

Connect Green with his family, and the jury
will buy the motive.

(Stone) The hit man, defendant Rostov,
was born in Minsk.

As was Mr. Green, and as was Mr. Green's father,
Ivan Gruskov.

Do the People plan to convict my client based
oh a common dialect?

Hold on, Mr. Weaver.

Just because a connection's ephemeral,
who's to say it isn't real?

With the history of the Gruskov family and Mr. Green's
loan to Nature's Way...

the People will show
why Rostov shot Renkmeyer.

(Barry)
Which is?

Renkmeyer was a threat to a $2 million
mob investment.

There's not a scintilla of evidence linking my client
to an alleged Russian mob.

Rostov rents from this family.

Along with hundreds of residents from
the borough of Brooklyn.

Doesn't make him
a hired killer.

What else do you have, Ben?

A string of arrests
dating from the '70s.

Yes, the Gruskovs were implicated
in racketeering...

not Steven Green,
or my client.

Your Honor. ..

allow this,
it's guilt by association.

It is no accident that your client
met with Mr. Green...

the night before
Renkmeyer was shot.

(Barry)
All right.

| understand you need motive, Ben. If this was
about racketeering, okay.

If you could prove Rostov worked for
Mr. Green's family, okay.

But connect this to baby food
based on a single loan?

There'll be no reference to the Russian mafia
at Rostov's trial.

Ludicrous.

Adam, you can't be surprised.

She's being very literal.
Judge Barry?

She thinks that we ought to supply the defendants
with nice clothes. ..

so the jury
won't be prejudiced.

[laughs]

Maybe we have to forget about going after
Steven Green.

Well, we put his hit man away,
he gets another one.

To hell with the branches.
Let's chop down the tree.

The hit man
turned down your deal.

I'm not going lower
than manslaughter one.

What did that cop say about snitches? The ones
that turned on the Gruskovs?

These here are
federal marshals, sir.

And they're here to offer you
protection.

I'm not saying nothing
about Steve Green.

Do you think you'll survive
in prison?

He's a survivor,
always has been.

Mr. Rostov, this is a transfer paper
for Mr. Joseph Andreyev.

Now, he's been moved here,
to Riker's, from Attica.

You ordered it.
You had him moved here.

Mr. Andreyev killed a witness against your family
two years ago.

Suppose he's in the yard, and you're with him,
and he's got a knife?

Ben, this is coercion.

Now, we're prepared to move you to a high-security
federal prison.

If you cooperate.

(Stone)
Or you can stay here.

The offer is
8 and a third to 25.

And you tell us
who ordered the hit.

He has nothing to say.
That's it. We're finished.

Mr. Rostov, you know
what goes down...

with anybody who worries
the Gruskovs.

You know what happened two years ago.
Same thing happened in '89.

[papers rustling]

Gentlemen.
Wait.

Nick.

I'll tell you
what you want.

Who knows? Maybe Steve Green
skipped town.

Costa Rica?

| don't think he's the
surf-and-sand type.

Someplace colder,
maybe, where he can ski.

Colder where he can
make license plates.

There he is.

Sasha Gruskov, you're under arrest for the murder
of Henry Renkmeyer.

The name is
Steven Green.

You're still under arrest. You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be used against you
in a court of law.

Do you understand that?

You have the right
to an attorney.

Steven Green will spend his 60th birthday
in acell.

A little bloodlust,
Ben?

For the truth?
Yes, sir.

Occupational hazard.

(Kincaid)
Ben?

Ann Madsen's here.
You better talk to her.

My phone rang at 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, every hour
on the hour, nobody there.

We're putting you
under protective custody.

| got in acab
to come down here. ..

somebody in a car waved a flashlight
across my face.

You'll be in a witness protection
program.

We'll move you
out of the city.

How did they even know
| was here?

Look, I've done all | can
just talking to you.

| can't testify
against Steve.

Miss Madsen,
listen carefully.

You're gonna have to leave
New York no matter what.

You've got to face the truth that your life will never
be the same.

Don't do this to me.

Aman is dead.

He had a wife and a child, and unless you've changed
your mind...

he was a friend.

Please. Of course
| cared about Harry.

But Steve and his family, now that | know
who they are...

how can | testify?

If you refuse to testify...

you're subject to indictment
for hindering prosecution.

Oh, come on.
Miss Madsen...

anyone who dances with the devil thinks
they can walk away.

You can't.

It was only baby food.

Oh, my God,
how did | end up here?

[sighs]

He coerced the witness.

The arrest of Steven Green
is a farce.

What did you do, Ben?

(Packard)
Tell her.

Larry, you were there.

Mr. Packard, please. | speak English.
| can ask the questions.

Ben?

Yes, Your Honor, | did ask for a prisoner
to be transferred.

To make his client
feel threatened?

If his client had nothing to hide, he had nothing
to worry about.

What is this,
semantics?

You told him he'd be knifed
in the yard.

Well, | suggested that.
You said | was bluffing.

You're going to let them proceed
against Steven Green?

This is outrageous.

(Barry)
It's close to the line. ..

but Mr. Rostov felt the threat,
whether it was real or not.

That's his decision.

Let's go to trial.

Our team went to the processing plant after
a call from your office.

What did the
Agriculture Department find?

Our inspectors at Nature's Way sent
samples of 16 lots...

to our lab in Washington.

Of those,
12 contained spoiled food.

(Stone) And what did
the Department do?

We obtained an administration order to shut down
their production line.

Now, these spoiled lots...

do you know what dates
they were processed on?

Yes. The week of March 10th,
this year.

That's the week of
Mr. Renkmeyer's death, right?

Objection.

No, I'll allow it.

Yes, that same week.

Now, if you had found these spoiled lots then,
in March...

what would you have done?

Exactly what we did.
Shut the company down.

Steve had other businesses. He had a lot of visitors
to the office.

(Stone) Did you ever have
the opportunity

to see these people?

Sometimes | saw them,
but | was never introduced.

Now, you've testified that after Mr. Renkmeyer
was killed...

you saw a photo of his accused killer
in the newspaper.

Prior to that date...

had you ever seen
Nikolai Rostov?

No.

Miss Madsen--

| saw his picture
in the paper.

| had never seen him
before in my life.

(Stone) Please, consider
your answer carefully.

Do you recall telling me
that you saw Nikolai Rostov?

Objection.

Asked and answered.

Sustained.

A brief recess, Your Honor?
A moment with my witness?

Any objection, Mr. Packard?

Not at all, Your Honor.
No objection.

| don't have to
talk to you.

| suggest you do.

Do you want to go to jail
to protect these people?

It's better than dying.

You are as well-guarded as any witness
possibly can be.

| don't think they can even
get near you.

Maybe not today.
Where will you send me?

Kansas? lowa?
They'll find me.

Miss Madsen...

you will tell the truth,
or I'm gonna prosecute you.

I'm sorry, Mr. Stone.
I've done all | can.

Officer, the charge
is felony perjury.

(Stone) Take her
to the 5th Precinct.

(Kincaid)
Just a minute, Officer.

Ben, do you want to do this?
It won't change her mind.

Officer, take her away.

Don't tell me
it's required.

She perjured herself
and destroyed this case.

Is that what it's about?

Or is it about you looking foolish
in front of a jury?

It's felony perjury.

How many felony perjury indictments did we file
last year?

She lied.

Without her testimony, there's no motive,
there's no link to Green ...

and there's no corroboration
of Rostov.

The total number of
felony perjury indictments...

we filed last year was four.

And we do this to hardened criminals,
not innocent bystanders.

If she lies, she's no longer innocent, and these people
don't go away.

Are you prepared to testify against her
in front of a judge?

Her word against yours?

And Claire's.

You really want
to prosecute Ann Madsen?

If | have to.

But maybe a few nights
in Rikers. ..

will change her mind.

(Stone) Were you hired
to kill Mr. Renkmeyer?

Hired for money? No.

Let's say | was asked
to do it.

Who asked you?

Steve Green.

He asked you to commit murder, and he wasn't going
to pay you for it?

Why was that?

Steve's family.

When they ask--

Objection.

May we approach?

Approach.

Judge, you ruled
on this.

Your Honor. ..

how the witness was compensated
by the defendant is relevant.

He just said
he wasn't compensated.

Because he was a member
of the Gruskov family.

This is an end run, Ben,
and you know it.

The witness is only testifying to
what he knows.

Why he acted,
who instructed him.

You're linking the witness to the defendant
through his family.

| told you, it's prejudicial,
and | won't allow it.

Your Honor, off the record...

this decision of yours has forced me
to prosecute a woman...

who committed perjury
out of fear for her life.

Whatever happens to her is as much
your responsibility as mine.

Exception noted, Counselor.
Step back.

Mr. Rostov. ..

who directed you
to commit this murder?

Steve Green.

And did he tell you why he wanted
Harry Renkmeyer killed?

The guy was gonna talk.
| don't Know about what.

(Stone)
Nothing further.

Your Honor,
may | be heard in chambers?

A motion to dismiss
is premature.

| have to consider it,
Ben.

The only thing the People have established is that
Mr. Rostov is the killer.

There is no evidence linking my client
to the shooting.

Ben, if that's your last witness,
I'm sorry.

The statute's clear.

You can't convict solely on the basis
of accomplice testimony.

Your Honor, as you well know, my only other witness
won't testify...

because she's been threatened.

Are you implying that I'm involved
with withess tampering?

I'm not implying
anything, sir.

(Barry)
Ben.

| have to make a ruling.

| haven't rested my case,
Your Honor.

In the morning you will.

If you have nothing then,
I'll grant the motion.

| can't do it.

Then we are prepared
to prosecute you.

Come on, Ben, | don't believe you. You'll put her
in jail for a year?

The penalty for conspiracy to commit murder
is 25 to life.

You wouldn't.

This is crazy.

| didn't have
anything to do with it.

Because you say so?

Are you protecting Mr. Green
or yourself?

You don't believe that. You're only trying
to scare me.

There's no evidence my client was involved in the death
of Harry Renkmeyer.

If you're innocent, and you don't do this,
they'll go on killing.

They killed Harry Renkmeyer.
They'll kill you.

Not if | don't testify.

Really?

Will you ever go to a movie and not look
over your shoulder?

Will you ever have a child and be comfortable
sending her to school?

If you testify,
we'll get you a new identity.

You don't, you're on your own.

I'm not a policeman.

I'm not the District Attorney.
It's not my job.

He can't do this, can he?

(Ann)
| don't have to do this.

Don't lie to her.

Ann, I'm an officer of the court. | understand
what you're trying to do...

but it's improper
for me to say it's right.

(Stone)
You are a citizen.

Awitness to a crime.

You don't do this,
the system doesn't work.

| don't care about the system.

| admit, | should have been more suspicious
of Steve Green...

but | don't deserve this.

| made a mistake. That's all.

The mistake you're making
is not telling the truth.

| believed
| could be in business. ..

and make a decent product, and make the world
a better place.

Maybe that's naive,
but that's what | believed.

When you discovered that Mr. Green did not
share your values...

what did you do?

| told him...

we didn't have to save money by risking the health
of children.

[ told him
Harry Renkmeyer was right.

(Stone)
And what did he tell you?

He said he would
discuss it with Harry.

Everything would be
just fine.

Now, we've heard Mr. Nikolai Rostov testify that he killed
Harry Renkmeyer.

Previously, did you say that you had never seen
Mr. Rostov in person?

Yes, | did, but | lied.

And why was that?

| was in fear for my life.

(Stone) Would you please
tell the court now.. .

if you ever saw Mr. Rostov...

before you saw his photo
in the paper?

Yes, | did.

Please, tell us where
and when.

In Mr. Green's office. ..

just past 11:00, the night
before Harry was Killed.

[exhales]

Thank you.

(Barry) In the People
v. Steven Green...

on the sole count
of the indictment...

the charge is murder
in the second degree.

Has the jury
reached a verdict?

(forewoman)
We have, Your Honor.

We find
the defendant guilty.

(Barry) The jury is excused
with the Court's thanks.

The defendant is remanded
into custody until sentencing.

[gavel bangs]
We're adjourned.

[door opens]

Ben?

They were moving Ann Madsen
out of her apartment.

She was shot in the street.

Surrounded by cops?

They shot the guy that killed her.
He had no ID.

They still don't know
who the hell he is.

And she never even made it
to the hospital.

Knowing who you are, Ben...

you didn't have a choice.

[sighs]

| never thought I'd get a letter
of resignation from you.

Thought you'd be here
long after | was gone.

It's not entirely about you.

That's kind of you.
Thank you.

Steven Green
has filed an appeal.

Based on what?

Coercion of a witness.
Ann Madsen.

Considering the witness
is dead. ..

the Appeals Court
should be amused.

[door opens]

I've brought Claire
up to speed on my open cases.

She'll be fine.

And you?

I'm clear as a bell.

[chuckles]