1 00:00:03,303 --> 00:00:07,640 The story you're about to see was inspired by actual events. 2 00:00:07,674 --> 00:00:10,210 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:10,243 --> 00:00:16,649 {\an8}* 4 00:00:16,683 --> 00:00:19,185 It was Thursday morning, 4:00 AM. 5 00:00:19,219 --> 00:00:21,254 It was warm in Los Angeles. 6 00:00:21,287 --> 00:00:23,089 My partner and I were roused from our beds 7 00:00:23,123 --> 00:00:25,859 for the swing shift out of robbery/homicide. 8 00:00:25,892 --> 00:00:28,395 The call came in from Hollywood division. 9 00:00:28,428 --> 00:00:32,098 Male, Caucasian, stabbed above the sunset strip. 10 00:00:32,132 --> 00:00:33,366 The bars and clubs were closed. 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,301 The nightlife had all gone home. 12 00:00:35,335 --> 00:00:38,304 Legend calls it the fabled Sunset Blvd. 13 00:00:38,338 --> 00:00:40,273 Part of the fable is death. 14 00:00:40,306 --> 00:00:41,875 John Belushi died here. 15 00:00:41,908 --> 00:00:43,476 So did River Phoenix. 16 00:00:43,510 --> 00:00:46,279 Another rising star died tonight. 17 00:00:46,312 --> 00:00:47,514 My name's Friday. 18 00:00:47,547 --> 00:00:48,348 I'm a cop. 19 00:00:48,381 --> 00:00:50,183 Kid's going to their car found him. 20 00:00:50,216 --> 00:00:51,451 They recognized him. 21 00:00:51,484 --> 00:00:53,319 Actor, Eric Barton. 22 00:00:53,353 --> 00:00:55,321 No kidding 23 00:00:55,355 --> 00:00:56,589 Oh my God. 24 00:00:56,623 --> 00:00:58,525 Yeah, that's him. 25 00:00:58,558 --> 00:01:00,627 Saw a trailer for this big movie he's in. 26 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:02,128 I saw him in something on HBO. 27 00:01:02,162 --> 00:01:03,396 He was good. 28 00:01:03,430 --> 00:01:05,565 Fame and the famous, how fleeting. 29 00:01:05,598 --> 00:01:06,566 Who said that? 30 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:08,168 Marcus Aurelius. 31 00:01:08,201 --> 00:01:09,135 Any sign of a weapon? 32 00:01:09,169 --> 00:01:10,503 Grid searching, haven't turned up a knife. 33 00:01:10,537 --> 00:01:11,504 Well, run him through DMV. 34 00:01:11,538 --> 00:01:13,139 Maybe we can get an address. 35 00:01:13,173 --> 00:01:15,408 Detectives, we walked the whole neighborhood. 36 00:01:15,442 --> 00:01:16,509 One witness. 37 00:01:16,543 --> 00:01:19,346 Guy in that apartment heard a fight around three. 38 00:01:19,379 --> 00:01:21,614 That-- that's Stowe, with an "E". 39 00:01:21,648 --> 00:01:23,350 S-T-O-W-E. 40 00:01:23,383 --> 00:01:24,751 Brian with an "I". 41 00:01:24,784 --> 00:01:26,653 You were awake at three o'clock in the morning? 42 00:01:26,686 --> 00:01:28,722 Yeah, um, studying. 43 00:01:28,755 --> 00:01:30,724 Premed courses, I'm-- 44 00:01:30,757 --> 00:01:34,627 I'm really a writer, but I'm an actor too. 45 00:01:34,661 --> 00:01:36,262 The altercation outside? 46 00:01:36,296 --> 00:01:38,231 I, uh, heard some guys arguing 47 00:01:38,264 --> 00:01:40,934 and I looked out the window for a sec. 48 00:01:40,967 --> 00:01:42,702 I saw a guy running down the street. 49 00:01:42,736 --> 00:01:44,471 Didn't really think anything of it. 50 00:01:44,504 --> 00:01:45,605 Till I saw the lights. 51 00:01:45,638 --> 00:01:47,207 Was he white? 52 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,609 Latino, black? 53 00:01:49,642 --> 00:01:51,511 Didn't really notice. 54 00:01:51,544 --> 00:01:53,246 I guess he was white. 55 00:01:53,279 --> 00:01:55,648 Um, he was short. 56 00:01:55,682 --> 00:01:57,250 Not short, small. 57 00:01:57,283 --> 00:01:58,451 Notice what he was wearing? 58 00:01:58,485 --> 00:02:01,488 Didn't really pay that much attention. 59 00:02:01,521 --> 00:02:06,259 You hear an argument, you might think to call the cops. 60 00:02:06,292 --> 00:02:08,261 This close to the strip? 61 00:02:08,294 --> 00:02:10,597 If I called the cops every time a fight woke me up, 62 00:02:10,630 --> 00:02:13,733 I'd be up all night. 63 00:02:13,767 --> 00:02:15,301 Sad. 64 00:02:15,335 --> 00:02:17,370 Dying like that. 65 00:02:17,404 --> 00:02:19,606 Detective, Detective! 66 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:20,974 They were out in force. 67 00:02:21,007 --> 00:02:22,208 The press. 68 00:02:22,242 --> 00:02:26,513 A celebrity gets murdered the world goes crazy with curiosity. 69 00:02:26,546 --> 00:02:28,782 In a way, we're like the ancient Greeks. 70 00:02:28,815 --> 00:02:30,984 We need our gods to be human. 71 00:02:31,017 --> 00:02:33,553 We want to know bad things happen to them too. 72 00:02:33,586 --> 00:02:34,621 Just like the rest of us. 73 00:02:34,654 --> 00:02:36,556 Victim's wallet in the gutter. 74 00:02:36,589 --> 00:02:37,991 Credit cards, cash gone. 75 00:02:38,024 --> 00:02:39,559 They left license and registration. 76 00:02:39,592 --> 00:02:41,428 Lived in a bungalow up the hill. 77 00:02:41,461 --> 00:02:42,429 Robbery turned bad? 78 00:02:42,462 --> 00:02:44,297 - Maybe. - Why's he go for a walk? 79 00:02:44,330 --> 00:02:45,331 Could've gone down to Sunset. 80 00:02:45,365 --> 00:02:46,499 We'll canvas in the morning. 81 00:02:46,533 --> 00:02:48,335 Found dealer's bag with a white powder under the body. 82 00:02:48,368 --> 00:02:49,669 Lab, ASAP. 83 00:02:49,703 --> 00:02:50,704 Why do a drug deal on the street? 84 00:02:50,737 --> 00:02:51,738 He lives just up the hill. 85 00:02:51,771 --> 00:02:55,642 Joe, Frank, something here. 86 00:02:55,675 --> 00:02:56,576 We're wrapping him up. 87 00:02:56,609 --> 00:02:58,745 I noticed bruises on his left arm, fresh. 88 00:02:58,778 --> 00:03:01,014 For lividity, I think he was punched. 89 00:03:01,047 --> 00:03:03,350 Then I see faint scratches on the left side of his neck. 90 00:03:03,383 --> 00:03:04,751 You normally see this kind of thing in a domestic. 91 00:03:04,784 --> 00:03:05,885 Seal this. 92 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:07,721 Nothing out of the coroner's ending up in the papers. 93 00:03:07,754 --> 00:03:09,022 Done. 94 00:03:09,055 --> 00:03:10,290 Well, that narrows it down. 95 00:03:10,323 --> 00:03:11,658 Does it? 96 00:03:11,691 --> 00:03:14,394 It's either A) Robbery gone bad 97 00:03:14,427 --> 00:03:15,628 or B) Domestic Dispute. 98 00:03:15,662 --> 00:03:16,663 Uh-huh. 99 00:03:16,696 --> 00:03:18,865 Or C) Drug deal turned violent. 100 00:03:18,898 --> 00:03:19,866 Pick one. 101 00:03:19,899 --> 00:03:21,568 I don't like any of them. 102 00:03:21,601 --> 00:03:23,603 I vote for D. 103 00:03:23,636 --> 00:03:27,340 None of the above. 104 00:03:27,374 --> 00:03:37,350 {\an8}* 105 00:03:37,384 --> 00:03:57,370 {\an8}* 106 00:03:57,404 --> 00:04:17,390 {\an8}* 107 00:04:17,424 --> 00:04:19,492 The Hollywood Hills don't look fancy. 108 00:04:19,526 --> 00:04:22,495 Like most things in life, looks can be deceiving. 109 00:04:22,529 --> 00:04:25,465 A little place here could run four grand a month. 110 00:04:25,498 --> 00:04:27,867 We found Eric Barton's door unlocked. 111 00:04:27,901 --> 00:04:29,836 They say LA's a friendly town. 112 00:04:29,869 --> 00:04:32,339 It is, but not that friendly. 113 00:04:32,372 --> 00:04:34,507 Either Mr. Barton left in a hurry, 114 00:04:34,541 --> 00:04:36,476 or someone was here after he went out. 115 00:04:36,509 --> 00:04:37,410 He was moving some stuff 116 00:04:37,444 --> 00:04:39,546 either in here or out to somewhere else. 117 00:04:39,579 --> 00:04:42,782 Clothes, coffee cup, books, razor, electric toothbrush. 118 00:04:42,816 --> 00:04:43,917 Bed's been used recently. 119 00:04:44,984 --> 00:04:46,019 Not just for sleeping. 120 00:04:46,052 --> 00:04:47,520 Make sure to bag the sheets. 121 00:04:47,554 --> 00:04:49,122 I wonder where she went. 122 00:04:49,155 --> 00:04:52,025 That's if she's not a he. 123 00:04:52,058 --> 00:04:55,795 Most probably a she. 124 00:04:55,829 --> 00:04:58,798 That's right, I remember now. 125 00:04:58,832 --> 00:05:00,934 That's Kate Randall, his fiancée. 126 00:05:00,967 --> 00:05:02,068 And you would know that because? 127 00:05:02,102 --> 00:05:04,371 It was in People. 128 00:05:04,404 --> 00:05:06,806 I guess we gotta break the news. 129 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:07,841 I'm sorry. 130 00:05:07,874 --> 00:05:10,377 The shock, Kate saw it on CNN. 131 00:05:10,410 --> 00:05:11,878 She's in no condition. 132 00:05:11,911 --> 00:05:13,013 We'd hate to make her feel worse. 133 00:05:13,046 --> 00:05:16,149 Everyone who's anyone in Hollywood has a gate keeper. 134 00:05:16,182 --> 00:05:19,953 {\an8}Eric Barton's fiancée Kate Randall was a rising young star. 135 00:05:19,986 --> 00:05:22,022 {\an8}She had a manager named Deborah Larson. 136 00:05:22,055 --> 00:05:24,924 {\an8}With an assistant named Brad Lee in tow. 137 00:05:24,958 --> 00:05:26,559 {\an8}Professional hangers-on. 138 00:05:26,593 --> 00:05:29,396 {\an8}Miss Larson, cases like this, time is of the essence. 139 00:05:29,429 --> 00:05:30,830 Who is it, Deb? 140 00:05:30,864 --> 00:05:32,432 Baby, it's the police. 141 00:05:32,465 --> 00:05:34,034 Oh. 142 00:05:34,067 --> 00:05:36,970 Of course, um, please come in. 143 00:05:39,506 --> 00:05:40,640 We had dinner in Arcadia. 144 00:05:40,674 --> 00:05:43,977 It's one of our favorites. 145 00:05:44,010 --> 00:05:46,479 We went back to Eric's. 146 00:05:46,513 --> 00:05:48,581 And I left around 12. 147 00:05:48,615 --> 00:05:51,851 I was due on the set at six today. 148 00:05:51,885 --> 00:05:54,054 And would he have expected anyone later? 149 00:05:54,087 --> 00:05:56,556 I don't think so. 150 00:05:56,589 --> 00:05:59,059 {\an8}He had a spinning class at seven this morning. 151 00:05:59,092 --> 00:06:01,027 You and Mr. Barton, last night, 152 00:06:01,061 --> 00:06:03,530 did you have intimate relations? 153 00:06:03,563 --> 00:06:05,432 What kind of-- 154 00:06:05,465 --> 00:06:06,700 Why would you ask that? 155 00:06:06,733 --> 00:06:11,705 Just part of the investigation, ma'am. 156 00:06:11,738 --> 00:06:15,542 We didn't, no. 157 00:06:15,575 --> 00:06:18,211 He was the most... 158 00:06:18,244 --> 00:06:23,083 Loving, good-hearted person I have ever known. 159 00:06:23,116 --> 00:06:24,551 I talked to his mom. 160 00:06:24,584 --> 00:06:28,021 {\an8}She had the TV on at breakfast. 161 00:06:28,054 --> 00:06:31,157 {\an8}She was so proud of him. 162 00:06:31,191 --> 00:06:34,160 {\an8}Would Mr. Barton have any reason to walk down toward the strip? 163 00:06:34,194 --> 00:06:35,929 {\an8}I don't know. 164 00:06:35,962 --> 00:06:39,499 {\an8}Sometimes he'd walk just for exercise. 165 00:06:39,532 --> 00:06:41,668 If... 166 00:06:41,701 --> 00:06:44,671 If I'd have been there, he wouldn't have gone out. 167 00:06:44,704 --> 00:06:47,574 This wouldn't have happened. 168 00:06:47,607 --> 00:06:49,943 Did your fiancée have a problem with illicit drugs? 169 00:06:49,976 --> 00:06:51,644 No, not Eric. 170 00:06:51,678 --> 00:06:54,481 Not everyone in Hollywood is Kurt Cobain. 171 00:06:54,514 --> 00:06:55,448 If you know who that is. 172 00:06:55,482 --> 00:06:57,951 He's from Seattle, not Hollywood, Mr. Lee. 173 00:06:57,984 --> 00:07:00,587 Could Mr. Barton have been using drugs without your knowledge? 174 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:02,155 You already asked her that. 175 00:07:02,188 --> 00:07:06,593 Deborah, stop. 176 00:07:06,626 --> 00:07:09,996 What does it matter now? 177 00:07:10,030 --> 00:07:12,132 {\an8}* 178 00:07:14,134 --> 00:07:16,503 {\an8}* 179 00:07:16,536 --> 00:07:18,672 Rebecca Barton had driven down from Oxnard 180 00:07:18,705 --> 00:07:21,241 to see her son's lifeless body. 181 00:07:21,274 --> 00:07:24,077 In situations like these, we hear the grief, 182 00:07:24,110 --> 00:07:26,513 we listen for something else. 183 00:07:26,546 --> 00:07:29,049 She gave us a picture of the child she knew. 184 00:07:29,082 --> 00:07:31,584 Was it a picture of who he really was? 185 00:07:31,618 --> 00:07:34,054 Fairly often, the truth turned out to be different. 186 00:07:34,087 --> 00:07:36,089 We talked yesterday. 187 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:38,992 He was so happy. 188 00:07:39,025 --> 00:07:40,660 Strange. 189 00:07:40,694 --> 00:07:42,095 It was unusual? 190 00:07:42,128 --> 00:07:43,530 No, no, no. 191 00:07:43,563 --> 00:07:45,732 He was always happy, it was his temperament. 192 00:07:45,765 --> 00:07:48,101 I was the moody one. 193 00:07:48,134 --> 00:07:51,671 His father always said that... 194 00:07:51,705 --> 00:07:52,572 that there was-- 195 00:07:52,605 --> 00:07:57,310 well, everything had to have a reason. 196 00:07:57,344 --> 00:08:01,147 Some greater purpose. 197 00:08:01,181 --> 00:08:04,117 Eric said that the other people around him 198 00:08:04,150 --> 00:08:06,619 were so ambitious and... 199 00:08:06,653 --> 00:08:09,155 always worried. 200 00:08:09,189 --> 00:08:13,126 And he was so happy to have been raised on the ranch. 201 00:08:13,159 --> 00:08:17,030 That it gave him a sense of... 202 00:08:17,063 --> 00:08:18,164 his place in the world. 203 00:08:18,198 --> 00:08:23,703 {\an8}* 204 00:08:23,737 --> 00:08:25,338 Anything else in the blood? 205 00:08:25,372 --> 00:08:27,741 No drugs at all, thanks. 206 00:08:27,774 --> 00:08:30,343 Toxicology on the victim: no drugs in the bloodstream. 207 00:08:30,377 --> 00:08:31,411 Try this. 208 00:08:31,444 --> 00:08:33,580 Those little bags of white powder he was buying? 209 00:08:33,613 --> 00:08:34,714 Cocaine. 210 00:08:34,748 --> 00:08:36,049 Now, how do you figure this? 211 00:08:36,082 --> 00:08:37,250 Those little bags? 212 00:08:37,283 --> 00:08:39,019 - No prints on 'em. - What? 213 00:08:39,052 --> 00:08:41,354 Couple of smudges, nothing usable, like they were wiped. 214 00:08:41,388 --> 00:08:43,857 No prints on the wallet, except the victim's. 215 00:08:43,890 --> 00:08:46,593 How many dealers you know wipe their prints? 216 00:08:46,626 --> 00:08:49,729 So, the team found no blood in the victim's house, right? 217 00:08:49,763 --> 00:08:51,598 - Nothing. - They're wrong. 218 00:08:51,631 --> 00:08:53,733 I'm not surprised, I almost missed it myself. 219 00:08:53,767 --> 00:08:56,269 You saw this in the victim's bedroom. 220 00:08:56,302 --> 00:08:57,303 You missed it too. 221 00:08:57,337 --> 00:09:01,274 They were about to dust when I saw that spot. 222 00:09:01,307 --> 00:09:03,343 I thought coffee, maybe chocolate. 223 00:09:03,376 --> 00:09:04,811 But it's blood. 224 00:09:04,844 --> 00:09:07,814 There's another drop here in the corner. 225 00:09:07,847 --> 00:09:09,182 Fresh blood. 226 00:09:09,215 --> 00:09:12,085 Maybe not last night, but fresh enough. 227 00:09:12,118 --> 00:09:13,286 Well, maybe he cut himself. 228 00:09:13,319 --> 00:09:14,287 Dripped some blood on the box. 229 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,355 No, I doubt it. 230 00:09:15,388 --> 00:09:18,291 I ran a spectro. 231 00:09:18,324 --> 00:09:20,093 Cocaine in the blood. 232 00:09:20,126 --> 00:09:21,194 If you had this much coke in your blood, 233 00:09:21,227 --> 00:09:22,228 you'd be dead of a heart attack. 234 00:09:22,262 --> 00:09:23,096 Now, wait a minute, 235 00:09:23,129 --> 00:09:24,864 the victim had no drugs in his body. 236 00:09:24,898 --> 00:09:25,899 So, how long does it take cocaine 237 00:09:25,932 --> 00:09:27,100 to leave the bloodstream? 238 00:09:27,133 --> 00:09:28,168 Twelve to 24 hours. 239 00:09:28,201 --> 00:09:29,269 How recent is this blood? 240 00:09:29,302 --> 00:09:30,370 Twelve to 24 hours. 241 00:09:30,403 --> 00:09:31,771 Alright, maybe I'm missing something. 242 00:09:31,805 --> 00:09:34,641 Same timeframe, same blood. 243 00:09:34,674 --> 00:09:36,276 Coke in one place and not the other? 244 00:09:36,309 --> 00:09:37,877 Is there any explanation? 245 00:09:37,911 --> 00:09:40,347 He has a twin who left some blood behind. 246 00:09:40,380 --> 00:09:42,882 I'll take that to mean no. 247 00:09:42,916 --> 00:09:45,385 The Chief would appreciate your paying a visit to the studio. 248 00:09:45,418 --> 00:09:47,220 I'm thinking someone called the Chief. 249 00:09:47,253 --> 00:09:48,922 - Was it the Mayor? - The Mayor? 250 00:09:48,955 --> 00:09:50,223 We live in a Company Town. 251 00:09:50,256 --> 00:09:51,791 These executives raise substantial amounts 252 00:09:51,825 --> 00:09:53,360 for the Mayor's campaign. 253 00:09:53,393 --> 00:09:55,328 You know how to talk to these movie people. 254 00:09:55,362 --> 00:09:56,930 Yeah, you blow smoke up their asses. 255 00:09:56,963 --> 00:09:57,931 This is a courtesy call. 256 00:09:57,964 --> 00:09:59,833 They just want to know we're doing our best. 257 00:09:59,866 --> 00:10:00,900 We're trying to find who killed this kid. 258 00:10:00,934 --> 00:10:02,302 Ah, we'll do it, no problem. 259 00:10:02,335 --> 00:10:03,703 What's this studio guy's name? 260 00:10:03,737 --> 00:10:05,338 Carey, Peter Carey. 261 00:10:05,372 --> 00:10:08,675 Try to be polite. 262 00:10:08,708 --> 00:10:10,443 Polite, what does she think I'm gonna do? 263 00:10:10,477 --> 00:10:11,444 Pee in his wastebasket? 264 00:10:11,478 --> 00:10:12,445 I heard you did that once. 265 00:10:12,479 --> 00:10:13,847 A courtesy call, come on. 266 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:15,749 It's not a courtesy call. 267 00:10:15,782 --> 00:10:17,183 Why would a busy studio executive 268 00:10:17,217 --> 00:10:18,785 like Peter Carey want to see us? 269 00:10:18,818 --> 00:10:20,186 He wants to know what we know. 270 00:10:20,220 --> 00:10:21,187 Meaning? 271 00:10:21,221 --> 00:10:22,455 He's got something to hide. 272 00:10:22,489 --> 00:10:23,857 I loved this kid. 273 00:10:23,890 --> 00:10:24,824 I miss him already. 274 00:10:24,858 --> 00:10:26,726 We were wondering if he was in any trouble. 275 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,362 I first met him, he was still in graduate school. 276 00:10:29,396 --> 00:10:32,832 Philosophy, something useless. 277 00:10:32,866 --> 00:10:34,701 I took him to dinner, and we walk in, 278 00:10:34,734 --> 00:10:35,902 people can't even see him yet. 279 00:10:35,935 --> 00:10:37,404 Heads turn anyway. 280 00:10:37,437 --> 00:10:38,938 I don't know what that is. 281 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:40,707 You can't buy it, you can't learn it. 282 00:10:40,740 --> 00:10:43,276 You either have it or you don't. 283 00:10:43,309 --> 00:10:44,878 And Eric had it. 284 00:10:44,911 --> 00:10:46,246 Peter, they want to know about-- 285 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:49,249 I know what they want to know. 286 00:10:49,282 --> 00:10:51,384 He had his head on straight. 287 00:10:51,418 --> 00:10:52,919 This movie Eric was in of ours 288 00:10:52,952 --> 00:10:56,222 would've made him a star. 289 00:10:56,256 --> 00:10:58,158 He wasn't interested in being a star. 290 00:10:58,191 --> 00:10:59,826 That puts him in a small minority. 291 00:10:59,859 --> 00:11:02,195 Did he ever have any problems with drugs? 292 00:11:02,228 --> 00:11:04,731 Drugs, once, a very short period of time. 293 00:11:04,764 --> 00:11:06,166 He went into a rehab. 294 00:11:06,199 --> 00:11:07,734 Now, I knew why we were here. 295 00:11:07,767 --> 00:11:09,469 He liked the question about drugs. 296 00:11:09,502 --> 00:11:11,171 It gave him what he wanted. 297 00:11:11,204 --> 00:11:13,006 A topic he could handle. 298 00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:14,841 That meant there was something else. 299 00:11:14,874 --> 00:11:16,776 Something he didn't want us to know. 300 00:11:16,810 --> 00:11:18,478 He wasn't using now. 301 00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:19,713 He was clean, right? 302 00:11:19,746 --> 00:11:23,383 He had the standard insurance medical exam, he passed it. 303 00:11:23,416 --> 00:11:26,286 You think this is all hype, but I'm telling you the truth. 304 00:11:26,319 --> 00:11:27,921 This was a good kid. 305 00:11:27,954 --> 00:11:32,859 Wouldn't be very good for your movie, if he wasn't. 306 00:11:32,892 --> 00:11:34,494 Do us a favor. 307 00:11:34,527 --> 00:11:36,896 Don't mention drugs. 308 00:11:36,930 --> 00:11:40,033 He deserves better. 309 00:11:40,066 --> 00:11:43,336 The mention of rehab took us back to the victim's fiancée. 310 00:11:43,370 --> 00:11:45,338 She'd said he'd had no drug problem. 311 00:11:45,372 --> 00:11:47,240 I don't know if I believe in God or anything. 312 00:11:47,273 --> 00:11:48,908 I just... 313 00:11:48,942 --> 00:11:51,945 Try to think that Eric's up there. 314 00:11:51,978 --> 00:11:53,913 I need to believe that. 315 00:11:53,947 --> 00:11:55,315 Everyone needs to believe in something 316 00:11:55,348 --> 00:11:57,884 higher than themselves. 317 00:11:57,917 --> 00:12:00,453 Eric said it didn't matter if God existed or not. 318 00:12:00,487 --> 00:12:03,423 He said, we just had to live as well as we could 319 00:12:03,456 --> 00:12:04,791 in a difficult world. 320 00:12:04,824 --> 00:12:06,459 Might be hard at doing your business. 321 00:12:06,493 --> 00:12:07,894 You said Eric wasn't involved with drugs, 322 00:12:07,927 --> 00:12:09,963 yet the studio mentioned he was once in rehab. 323 00:12:09,996 --> 00:12:13,266 Have you ever lost anyone? 324 00:12:13,299 --> 00:12:14,267 Don't do this to him. 325 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:15,402 Miss Randall. 326 00:12:15,435 --> 00:12:17,504 Do you know anyone he might have bought drugs from? 327 00:12:17,537 --> 00:12:20,006 Look, his mother will go into a store 328 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:21,841 and read about it in The Enquirer. 329 00:12:25,311 --> 00:12:27,347 Eric mentioned him once. 330 00:12:27,380 --> 00:12:31,584 This dealer who sold to people in the industry. 331 00:12:31,618 --> 00:12:33,253 Pinky something. 332 00:12:33,286 --> 00:12:34,220 Pinky Wilson? 333 00:12:34,254 --> 00:12:36,389 - We've heard of him. - That's right, Wilson. 334 00:12:36,423 --> 00:12:38,358 Eric said he had drug problems of his own. 335 00:12:38,391 --> 00:12:41,261 He said he was a scary guy. 336 00:12:41,294 --> 00:12:44,064 {\an8}* 337 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:47,600 The movie people thought Pinky Wilson was a scary guy. 338 00:12:47,634 --> 00:12:51,504 To us, he was just another lowlife drug dealer. 339 00:12:51,538 --> 00:12:52,539 Yeah, who is it? 340 00:12:52,572 --> 00:12:54,941 Mr. Wilson, LAPD. 341 00:12:54,974 --> 00:12:55,942 I'll be right there. 342 00:12:55,975 --> 00:12:59,846 {\an8}* 343 00:12:59,879 --> 00:13:00,880 Mr. Wilson? 344 00:13:01,915 --> 00:13:02,882 He's flushing the dope. 345 00:13:02,916 --> 00:13:14,461 {\an8}* 346 00:13:14,494 --> 00:13:15,462 Hey! 347 00:13:15,495 --> 00:13:16,996 Hey, whoa, stop. 348 00:13:17,030 --> 00:13:19,099 Police, hold it there! 349 00:13:19,132 --> 00:13:21,334 Heading west down the alley. 350 00:13:21,368 --> 00:13:22,335 Get him. 351 00:13:22,369 --> 00:13:23,336 Get over there. 352 00:13:23,370 --> 00:13:26,306 {\an8}* 353 00:13:29,909 --> 00:13:31,311 Don't move. 354 00:13:31,344 --> 00:13:32,645 Stay down. 355 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:34,881 Never run from the cops. 356 00:13:34,914 --> 00:13:39,052 {\an8}* 357 00:13:39,085 --> 00:13:41,621 You're a dumb son of a bitch, we just wanna talk to you. 358 00:13:41,654 --> 00:13:43,623 You're under arrest for possession of narcotics. 359 00:13:43,656 --> 00:13:45,525 Up yours, read me my rights. 360 00:13:45,558 --> 00:13:46,593 I want a lawyer. 361 00:13:46,626 --> 00:13:54,901 Yeah, you're gonna need one. 362 00:13:54,934 --> 00:13:56,169 What is this crap? 363 00:13:56,202 --> 00:13:58,071 Four grams of coke to start, then we'll talk about homicide. 364 00:13:58,104 --> 00:13:59,039 Him? 365 00:13:59,072 --> 00:14:00,240 He could no more kill anyone than I could. 366 00:14:00,273 --> 00:14:02,075 - What homicide? - Eric Barton. 367 00:14:02,108 --> 00:14:03,610 First of all, that drug bust is crap. 368 00:14:03,643 --> 00:14:05,512 No warrants, no exigent circumstance. 369 00:14:05,545 --> 00:14:06,579 He ran, that's exigent. 370 00:14:06,613 --> 00:14:08,114 He had coke, that's possession. 371 00:14:08,148 --> 00:14:10,517 Pinky, where were you Thursday, 1:00 AM? 372 00:14:10,550 --> 00:14:11,584 I'll tell you exactly where I was. 373 00:14:11,618 --> 00:14:13,553 Shut up, what do you got? 374 00:14:13,586 --> 00:14:14,454 He's known to the victim. 375 00:14:14,487 --> 00:14:15,522 His prints were in the victim's house. 376 00:14:15,555 --> 00:14:18,158 A desk, a chair, two thumbs and an index finger. 377 00:14:18,191 --> 00:14:19,993 - Oh God. - Will you shut up? 378 00:14:20,026 --> 00:14:21,327 Fingerprints last for years. 379 00:14:21,361 --> 00:14:23,029 You got his prints on the victim? 380 00:14:23,063 --> 00:14:24,164 The murder weapon? 381 00:14:24,197 --> 00:14:25,231 You got a witness? 382 00:14:25,265 --> 00:14:27,300 Yeah, we got a witness. 383 00:14:32,172 --> 00:14:33,440 Tell 'em where you were. 384 00:14:33,473 --> 00:14:35,642 Just to get one thing straight, I ain't seen Barton in years. 385 00:14:35,675 --> 00:14:37,210 Wednesday night, Thursday morning. 386 00:14:37,243 --> 00:14:38,978 Wednesday night, Catalina Island. 387 00:14:39,012 --> 00:14:39,879 Making a delivery. 388 00:14:39,913 --> 00:14:42,182 Don't need no PHD to know what it was. 389 00:14:42,215 --> 00:14:43,950 I missed the 10:15 ferry. 390 00:14:43,983 --> 00:14:47,320 Last one out of Avalon by like 30 seconds, and made a stink. 391 00:14:47,354 --> 00:14:49,589 The idiot Dock Master ought to remember. 392 00:14:49,622 --> 00:14:52,258 Seeing I can't swim Catalina Bay, I stayed the night. 393 00:14:52,292 --> 00:14:53,259 Where'd you stay? 394 00:14:53,293 --> 00:14:54,260 We're gonna hold that one. 395 00:14:54,294 --> 00:14:55,261 He's looking at murder one. 396 00:14:55,295 --> 00:14:57,230 I said, we're gonna hold it. 397 00:15:03,069 --> 00:15:04,037 Is he our guy? 398 00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:06,206 I don't know, maybe. 399 00:15:06,239 --> 00:15:09,142 Your witness is here. 400 00:15:09,175 --> 00:15:10,643 Alright, let's go through it again. 401 00:15:10,677 --> 00:15:12,345 Take your time. 402 00:15:12,379 --> 00:15:13,380 Then, look carefully. 403 00:15:13,413 --> 00:15:15,215 {\an8}* 404 00:15:15,248 --> 00:15:17,717 In the lineup, it's not about the people behind the glass, 405 00:15:17,751 --> 00:15:19,386 it's about the witness. 406 00:15:19,419 --> 00:15:21,221 How does he react? 407 00:15:21,254 --> 00:15:23,223 What I saw was strange. 408 00:15:23,256 --> 00:15:25,158 His eyes went to number five, 409 00:15:25,191 --> 00:15:29,095 then moved across the others. 410 00:15:29,129 --> 00:15:30,263 Maybe number four? 411 00:15:30,296 --> 00:15:33,333 Then straight back to number five again. 412 00:15:33,366 --> 00:15:37,003 Our witness wasn't deciding if he recognized Pinky Wilson. 413 00:15:37,037 --> 00:15:38,772 He recognized him. 414 00:15:38,805 --> 00:15:41,775 He was deciding whether to tell us. 415 00:15:41,808 --> 00:15:43,143 Maybe number five. 416 00:15:43,176 --> 00:15:44,277 Number Five, step forward. 417 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:48,415 {\an8}* 418 00:15:48,448 --> 00:15:51,351 Yeah, it-- it could be him. 419 00:15:51,384 --> 00:15:52,419 I can't be sure. 420 00:15:52,452 --> 00:15:54,087 Step back. 421 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:55,121 Thank you for your help. 422 00:15:55,155 --> 00:15:56,189 An officer will drive you home. 423 00:15:56,222 --> 00:15:59,159 {\an8}* 424 00:15:59,192 --> 00:16:00,126 Did you see what I saw? 425 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,295 He recognized Pinky, didn't want to ID him. 426 00:16:02,328 --> 00:16:03,763 Could anyone have gotten to your witness? 427 00:16:03,797 --> 00:16:05,265 Could anyone even know you had one? 428 00:16:05,298 --> 00:16:07,334 No, we said witness and shook him up. 429 00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:10,337 Good news and bad news. 430 00:16:10,370 --> 00:16:12,405 The good news, Dock Master can't remember Pinky, 431 00:16:12,439 --> 00:16:14,274 so his alibi sucks. 432 00:16:14,307 --> 00:16:16,176 Bad news, canvas on the strip? 433 00:16:16,209 --> 00:16:19,112 They hit gas stations, anything open at two in the morning. 434 00:16:19,145 --> 00:16:20,613 No one saw Eric Barton. 435 00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:23,049 I'd better let the DA know, we're nowhere. 436 00:16:23,083 --> 00:16:24,117 Don't forget the Mayor. 437 00:16:24,150 --> 00:16:26,720 That's not funny. 438 00:16:26,753 --> 00:16:29,189 Time of death, approximately 2:33. 439 00:16:29,222 --> 00:16:30,457 Young man led a healthy life 440 00:16:30,490 --> 00:16:33,326 which has come to quite a bad end. 441 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,095 Knife penetrated seven inches. 442 00:16:35,128 --> 00:16:36,629 A sharp single-edged blade. 443 00:16:36,663 --> 00:16:37,831 Not a hunting knife? 444 00:16:37,864 --> 00:16:40,400 My guess, kitchen carver. 445 00:16:40,433 --> 00:16:42,669 You think he was stabbed standing on the street? 446 00:16:42,702 --> 00:16:44,137 - Yes. - Maybe. 447 00:16:44,170 --> 00:16:45,138 Maybe? 448 00:16:45,171 --> 00:16:47,207 What about the blood on the pants and shoes? 449 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,742 Yeah, saw that. 450 00:16:48,775 --> 00:16:53,213 That's a problem. 451 00:16:53,246 --> 00:16:55,248 He gets stabbed here. 452 00:16:55,281 --> 00:16:56,783 He falls. 453 00:16:56,816 --> 00:16:58,752 The victim's on the sidewalk, 454 00:16:58,785 --> 00:17:00,687 his head is higher than his feet. 455 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,790 When the heart stops, the blood flows to the lowest point. 456 00:17:03,823 --> 00:17:06,159 The blood should pool here quickly. 457 00:17:06,192 --> 00:17:07,160 And it didn't? 458 00:17:07,193 --> 00:17:08,428 No. 459 00:17:08,461 --> 00:17:09,662 The abdomen. 460 00:17:09,696 --> 00:17:12,699 Which tells me the victim was sitting when he got stabbed 461 00:17:12,732 --> 00:17:15,402 and then a half hour or so later, he was moved. 462 00:17:15,435 --> 00:17:16,836 So he was sitting on the curb? 463 00:17:16,870 --> 00:17:18,004 Or in a car. 464 00:17:18,038 --> 00:17:21,241 Your best professional opinion, Sanjay, make it stick. 465 00:17:21,274 --> 00:17:22,242 Who am I saying this to? 466 00:17:22,275 --> 00:17:23,843 Pretend you're in court. 467 00:17:23,877 --> 00:17:25,745 It's likely the body was moved. 468 00:17:25,779 --> 00:17:28,715 Thanks. 469 00:17:30,417 --> 00:17:32,252 Play it back from the beginning. 470 00:17:32,285 --> 00:17:33,820 - From the body? - From the witness. 471 00:17:33,853 --> 00:17:36,256 He heard a loud argument on the street. 472 00:17:36,289 --> 00:17:38,892 How many apartments in that building face the street? 473 00:17:38,925 --> 00:17:40,894 Mm, six or eight. 474 00:17:40,927 --> 00:17:42,395 But it was three in the morning, they were all asleep. 475 00:17:42,429 --> 00:17:44,297 Yeah, well, I read the division report 476 00:17:44,330 --> 00:17:46,433 there were two who were not asleep and they heard nothing. 477 00:17:46,466 --> 00:17:49,502 But our guy heard a loud fight, now. 478 00:17:49,536 --> 00:17:53,340 His windows, when we walked in, open or closed? 479 00:17:53,373 --> 00:17:55,342 Closed. 480 00:17:55,375 --> 00:17:57,143 Dammit. 481 00:17:57,177 --> 00:17:59,245 I was younger, my timing was better. 482 00:17:59,279 --> 00:18:01,815 When you get old, all your timing gets bad. 483 00:18:01,848 --> 00:18:04,150 {\an8}* 484 00:18:04,184 --> 00:18:05,251 Alright, his window's were closed. 485 00:18:05,285 --> 00:18:07,721 But it was open when he heard the argument, right? 486 00:18:07,754 --> 00:18:09,456 Goes to the window, sees a guy running by. 487 00:18:09,489 --> 00:18:10,457 He closes it, why? 488 00:18:10,490 --> 00:18:11,491 Argument's over. 489 00:18:15,762 --> 00:18:17,530 This you, John? 490 00:18:17,564 --> 00:18:20,266 Yeah. 491 00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:22,469 Alright, I appreciate that. 492 00:18:22,502 --> 00:18:23,470 Thank you. 493 00:18:23,503 --> 00:18:25,405 I was waiting for this one. 494 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:27,340 Our victim's credit card, never used. 495 00:18:27,374 --> 00:18:29,542 Robbery, cards are gone, no one used them. 496 00:18:29,576 --> 00:18:30,810 That doesn't make any sense. 497 00:18:30,844 --> 00:18:32,479 Suppose there was no robbery. 498 00:18:32,512 --> 00:18:34,247 There was no argument, no dope deal. 499 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,348 The witness recognized the guy. 500 00:18:35,382 --> 00:18:36,783 You getting this? 501 00:18:36,816 --> 00:18:39,352 It's a setup. 502 00:18:39,386 --> 00:18:42,489 I don't like it. 503 00:18:42,522 --> 00:18:44,491 You're asking me to approve warrants 504 00:18:44,524 --> 00:18:46,860 based on filing false police report. 505 00:18:46,893 --> 00:18:48,061 A little hard evidence would help. 506 00:18:48,094 --> 00:18:49,963 You got a bunch of theories here and not very good ones. 507 00:18:49,996 --> 00:18:51,931 Can we absolutely prove it, no. 508 00:18:51,965 --> 00:18:53,833 Could a DA run with it, maybe. 509 00:18:53,867 --> 00:18:54,768 Let's be honest. 510 00:18:54,801 --> 00:18:57,203 You don't want a DA to try this witness. 511 00:18:57,237 --> 00:18:58,772 You want to arrest him to scare him. 512 00:18:58,805 --> 00:18:59,873 You recall the Mitchell case? 513 00:18:59,906 --> 00:19:01,207 Lousy probable cause. 514 00:19:01,241 --> 00:19:05,311 We broke a homicide. 515 00:19:05,345 --> 00:19:07,280 Gimme. 516 00:19:07,313 --> 00:19:10,784 Arrest, search. 517 00:19:10,817 --> 00:19:11,785 Thank you. 518 00:19:11,818 --> 00:19:18,224 {\an8}* 519 00:19:18,258 --> 00:19:20,360 Detectives, what are you guys doing here? 520 00:19:20,393 --> 00:19:21,494 You lied to us Brian. 521 00:19:21,528 --> 00:19:22,629 You didn't hear a fight that night. 522 00:19:22,662 --> 00:19:23,563 No. 523 00:19:23,596 --> 00:19:24,330 I don't know what you're talking about. 524 00:19:24,364 --> 00:19:27,467 You tell us now or it gets worse. 525 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:29,903 You're under arrest for filing a false police report 526 00:19:29,936 --> 00:19:32,405 and obstruction of justice. 527 00:19:32,439 --> 00:19:34,374 Don't move around too much. 528 00:19:34,407 --> 00:19:37,877 Those cuffs will cut into your wrists. 529 00:19:37,911 --> 00:19:38,912 You want to scare him? 530 00:19:38,945 --> 00:19:39,913 He's scared. 531 00:19:39,946 --> 00:19:43,016 {\an8}* 532 00:19:43,049 --> 00:19:43,983 What do you want me to say? 533 00:19:44,017 --> 00:19:45,919 You seem like a good guy, Brian. 534 00:19:45,952 --> 00:19:47,954 Telling the truth would be a good place to start. 535 00:19:47,987 --> 00:19:49,856 Let me read you something. 536 00:19:49,889 --> 00:19:51,491 "I was studying. 537 00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:53,927 I looked out, he ran down the hill." 538 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,263 That's what you said just after we got to your apartment. 539 00:19:57,297 --> 00:20:00,300 "If I called every time a fight woke me up, 540 00:20:00,333 --> 00:20:01,534 I'd never get any sleep." 541 00:20:01,568 --> 00:20:03,503 You said that just before we left. 542 00:20:03,536 --> 00:20:04,471 So, which is it? 543 00:20:04,504 --> 00:20:06,673 You were studying or the fight woke you up? 544 00:20:06,706 --> 00:20:08,274 Who told you to lie? 545 00:20:08,308 --> 00:20:12,345 How did they get you to do it? 546 00:20:12,379 --> 00:20:16,282 You said I had the right to a phone call. 547 00:20:16,316 --> 00:20:19,686 I'd like to make it now. 548 00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:20,687 Who is this kid? 549 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,422 His lawyer's Jack Schneider. 550 00:20:22,455 --> 00:20:24,424 You don't pick him out of a phone book. 551 00:20:24,457 --> 00:20:25,859 Obstruction charges will never stick. 552 00:20:25,892 --> 00:20:26,760 I know. 553 00:20:26,793 --> 00:20:27,894 Kid'll be getting out in a few hours. 554 00:20:27,927 --> 00:20:29,596 In the meantime, let him sit in his cell for awhile, 555 00:20:29,629 --> 00:20:31,398 think about going to prison. 556 00:20:31,431 --> 00:20:32,432 This isn't like you. 557 00:20:32,465 --> 00:20:33,967 Brian Stowe's clean, no record. 558 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,502 He lies in a homicide investigation, 559 00:20:35,535 --> 00:20:36,503 someone's using him. 560 00:20:36,536 --> 00:20:38,471 Ruth, Detective. 561 00:20:38,505 --> 00:20:40,040 A false police report, obstruction, 562 00:20:40,073 --> 00:20:42,442 you're not backing this. 563 00:20:42,475 --> 00:20:43,643 There's a colorable charge. 564 00:20:43,677 --> 00:20:44,878 Fancy counsel for this kid. 565 00:20:44,911 --> 00:20:45,945 Where'd your client find you? 566 00:20:45,979 --> 00:20:46,846 None of your business. 567 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:48,581 You support perjury, it's my business. 568 00:20:48,615 --> 00:20:49,516 You threaten me Detective, 569 00:20:49,549 --> 00:20:50,517 you'd better be prepared to back it up. 570 00:20:50,550 --> 00:20:53,086 If your client tells us you advised him to lie, 571 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,388 I'll be at your disbarment hearing. 572 00:20:55,422 --> 00:20:58,391 Worse than my Doberman, get him a leash. 573 00:20:58,425 --> 00:20:59,459 Joe. 574 00:20:59,492 --> 00:21:01,961 Lab's got a surprise. 575 00:21:01,995 --> 00:21:02,896 Now you tell us. 576 00:21:02,929 --> 00:21:05,331 Do I look like an X-RAY machine to you? 577 00:21:05,365 --> 00:21:07,600 I cannot read DNA with my bare eyes. 578 00:21:07,634 --> 00:21:09,469 Well, you could've checked the sheets yesterday. 579 00:21:09,502 --> 00:21:12,539 We do work a few cases other than yours. 580 00:21:12,572 --> 00:21:14,908 Sheet's two, pillowcases four, 581 00:21:14,941 --> 00:21:18,011 we typed the semen assuming that it would all be the same. 582 00:21:18,044 --> 00:21:21,381 Him, DNA match, your victim. 583 00:21:21,414 --> 00:21:22,615 Another him. 584 00:21:22,649 --> 00:21:24,517 Two guys. 585 00:21:24,551 --> 00:21:27,387 Anything indicate a woman was also in the bed? 586 00:21:27,420 --> 00:21:30,490 Nope, woman would've left vaginal secretions behind. 587 00:21:30,523 --> 00:21:32,392 Barton was gay? 588 00:21:32,425 --> 00:21:34,127 I guess you can't tell by looking. 589 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,963 My mom thought Rock Hudson was the sexiest man in the world. 590 00:21:36,996 --> 00:21:39,599 Do gay guys leave Playboy lying around? 591 00:21:39,632 --> 00:21:41,134 We could ask the fiancée. 592 00:21:41,167 --> 00:21:44,537 You want to pop this question? 593 00:21:44,571 --> 00:21:45,572 Yeah, I do. 594 00:21:51,177 --> 00:21:53,713 They keep telling me I should work. 595 00:21:53,747 --> 00:21:55,915 It would distract me. 596 00:21:55,949 --> 00:21:58,818 Hard to work at a time like this. 597 00:21:58,852 --> 00:22:01,554 Eric said we work no matter what. 598 00:22:01,588 --> 00:22:03,723 Show must go on, that's what we live by. 599 00:22:03,757 --> 00:22:06,559 You said Eric and you had not had sex that night. 600 00:22:06,593 --> 00:22:09,095 If you had, we'd ask if anyone was with you. 601 00:22:09,129 --> 00:22:10,063 I don't understand. 602 00:22:10,096 --> 00:22:13,900 It appears he was in bed with another man. 603 00:22:13,933 --> 00:22:16,636 Is it possible he was gay? 604 00:22:16,670 --> 00:22:18,972 No, that's not possible. 605 00:22:19,005 --> 00:22:20,807 That's the craziest thing I've ever heard. 606 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:21,808 Well, the forensics evidence-- 607 00:22:21,841 --> 00:22:23,677 Well, I loved this man. 608 00:22:23,710 --> 00:22:25,745 I spent my days and my nights with him. 609 00:22:25,779 --> 00:22:27,914 A woman knows these things, alright? 610 00:22:27,947 --> 00:22:29,783 It might help us find who killed him. 611 00:22:29,816 --> 00:22:32,919 Well-- I suppose, he might've. 612 00:22:32,952 --> 00:22:36,690 The way men looked at him, but it wasn't his looks. 613 00:22:36,723 --> 00:22:39,826 I mean, he was handsome, but... 614 00:22:39,859 --> 00:22:41,928 It was something else, it was something inside. 615 00:22:41,961 --> 00:22:43,963 If you could think of anyone he might have slept with. 616 00:22:43,997 --> 00:22:45,932 Thank you, I don't believe it. 617 00:22:45,965 --> 00:22:47,867 And I don't want to hear it. 618 00:22:53,039 --> 00:22:54,207 Boy, that wasn't fun. 619 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,709 I wouldn't take it personally. 620 00:22:57,977 --> 00:23:00,080 Friday. 621 00:23:00,113 --> 00:23:02,816 When'd this happen? 622 00:23:02,849 --> 00:23:05,018 Okay, we'll handle it. 623 00:23:05,051 --> 00:23:07,821 Deborah Larson was so concerned about her client, 624 00:23:07,854 --> 00:23:09,723 the second we asked if Eric Barton was gay... 625 00:23:09,756 --> 00:23:10,724 She went for the phone. 626 00:23:10,757 --> 00:23:13,126 Guess who she called. 627 00:23:13,159 --> 00:23:15,161 We're in the fantasy business, Detective. 628 00:23:15,195 --> 00:23:17,731 The girls have to want to go to bed with the star. 629 00:23:17,764 --> 00:23:19,699 Which is why gay stars get married. 630 00:23:19,733 --> 00:23:22,135 Like Eric Barton was about to do. 631 00:23:22,168 --> 00:23:26,706 You're Detectives, you see things. 632 00:23:26,740 --> 00:23:28,875 Maybe you've noticed. 633 00:23:28,908 --> 00:23:30,176 I play for the other team. 634 00:23:30,210 --> 00:23:32,045 You're Canadian. 635 00:23:32,078 --> 00:23:34,781 No one cares what I do in bed. 636 00:23:34,814 --> 00:23:35,815 Stars? 637 00:23:35,849 --> 00:23:37,984 Is Redford gay? 638 00:23:38,018 --> 00:23:40,120 Clint Eastwood, no. 639 00:23:40,153 --> 00:23:42,756 But imagine at 25 or 30, 640 00:23:42,789 --> 00:23:44,991 one of them were to come out of the closet. 641 00:23:45,025 --> 00:23:46,960 All those movies they made? 642 00:23:46,993 --> 00:23:49,062 They would have never happened. 643 00:23:49,095 --> 00:23:50,497 You have a movie coming out. 644 00:23:50,530 --> 00:23:52,032 A $35 million dollar romance 645 00:23:52,065 --> 00:23:55,101 with Eric Barton making love to his fiancée on screen. 646 00:23:55,135 --> 00:23:56,670 I think we've made our point. 647 00:23:56,703 --> 00:23:57,671 And here's our point. 648 00:23:57,704 --> 00:23:59,506 This is a murder investigation. 649 00:23:59,539 --> 00:24:02,208 And I don't think you're telling us everything you know. 650 00:24:02,242 --> 00:24:03,910 Now, maybe a grand jury subpoena 651 00:24:03,943 --> 00:24:07,714 will clear your thoughts. 652 00:24:07,747 --> 00:24:09,683 He said you were hostile and rude. 653 00:24:09,716 --> 00:24:11,751 Hostile, maybe, not rude. 654 00:24:11,785 --> 00:24:13,186 This isn't 1950, what do you think? 655 00:24:13,219 --> 00:24:15,055 Studio executives are covering up murders. 656 00:24:15,088 --> 00:24:16,790 Thirty five million dollar movie, 657 00:24:16,823 --> 00:24:18,725 two stars most of us have never heard of, 658 00:24:18,758 --> 00:24:20,126 it goes down, he goes down. 659 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,995 I'm dancing here, what do you want me to do? 660 00:24:22,028 --> 00:24:23,530 Don't dance us onto the front page. 661 00:24:23,563 --> 00:24:25,932 We don't need publicity. 662 00:24:25,965 --> 00:24:27,133 She have a problem? 663 00:24:27,167 --> 00:24:29,836 She wants to enroll us in charm school. 664 00:24:29,869 --> 00:24:31,538 Eyewitness Brian Stowe. 665 00:24:31,571 --> 00:24:33,306 Charges dropped at arraignment. 666 00:24:33,340 --> 00:24:36,710 Check this, SID is searching his apartment. 667 00:24:36,743 --> 00:24:37,944 There's a knock at the door. 668 00:24:37,977 --> 00:24:39,045 A delivery guy. 669 00:24:39,079 --> 00:24:40,947 Brownish hair, about 25. 670 00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:42,749 The return address on the envelope? 671 00:24:42,782 --> 00:24:43,817 Larson Management. 672 00:24:43,850 --> 00:24:44,818 Deborah Larson. 673 00:24:44,851 --> 00:24:45,985 Delivery boy's her assistant. 674 00:24:46,019 --> 00:24:47,153 Awesome, huh? 675 00:24:47,187 --> 00:24:49,789 We arrest this guy and while he's sitting in his cell, 676 00:24:49,823 --> 00:24:52,092 he gets a package from someone he shouldn't even know. 677 00:24:52,125 --> 00:24:54,160 I'll talk to the manager, you talk to Stowe. 678 00:24:54,194 --> 00:24:56,229 Well, hold it, he's lawyer-ed up. 679 00:24:56,262 --> 00:24:58,832 Last I checked, Supreme Court says I can't ask him anything. 680 00:24:58,865 --> 00:24:59,799 Who said ask? 681 00:24:59,833 --> 00:25:01,801 Idle chit-chat, the weather, I don't care. 682 00:25:01,835 --> 00:25:05,905 Find a way to run into him, be nice, he'll talk to you. 683 00:25:05,939 --> 00:25:09,075 {\an8}* 684 00:25:09,109 --> 00:25:11,077 Hey. 685 00:25:11,111 --> 00:25:12,879 Brian. 686 00:25:12,912 --> 00:25:14,748 Detective Smith. 687 00:25:14,781 --> 00:25:16,149 Sorry about this morning. 688 00:25:16,182 --> 00:25:19,886 It's my job, you know. 689 00:25:19,919 --> 00:25:22,122 What are you doing here? 690 00:25:22,155 --> 00:25:24,090 Are you following me? 691 00:25:24,124 --> 00:25:25,158 No. 692 00:25:25,191 --> 00:25:27,027 I just got off duty, I live in the neighborhood. 693 00:25:27,060 --> 00:25:31,765 {\an8}* 694 00:25:31,798 --> 00:25:34,768 Man, it's gotta be rough, huh? 695 00:25:34,801 --> 00:25:37,270 If I was you, I wouldn't want to be involved. 696 00:25:37,303 --> 00:25:42,175 And they put my name in the papers, no. 697 00:25:42,208 --> 00:25:44,210 Why would that happen? 698 00:25:44,244 --> 00:25:46,146 Eventually, we'll find who the killer is. 699 00:25:46,179 --> 00:25:48,314 Case'll go to trial. 700 00:25:48,348 --> 00:25:51,885 You're our witness. 701 00:25:51,918 --> 00:25:54,954 What if my testimony wouldn't matter? 702 00:25:54,988 --> 00:25:57,223 What if Eric's murder had nothing to do 703 00:25:57,257 --> 00:26:00,894 with that fight on the street? 704 00:26:00,927 --> 00:26:05,265 Well, then you wouldn't be a witness. 705 00:26:05,298 --> 00:26:08,902 You know it's funny. 706 00:26:08,935 --> 00:26:11,338 You said Eric's murder. 707 00:26:11,371 --> 00:26:13,039 Almost like you sorta knew him. 708 00:26:13,073 --> 00:26:17,110 {\an8}* 709 00:26:17,143 --> 00:26:19,045 Excuse me. 710 00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:21,247 I got class. 711 00:26:21,281 --> 00:26:24,818 Eric's murder has taken its toll on all of us. 712 00:26:24,851 --> 00:26:26,319 We were very close. 713 00:26:26,353 --> 00:26:28,221 You know, I'd represented him for years. 714 00:26:28,254 --> 00:26:31,391 Deborah Larson and her assistant both knew why I was here. 715 00:26:31,424 --> 00:26:33,059 She was composed. 716 00:26:33,093 --> 00:26:35,128 He looked like he'd been caught in the headlights. 717 00:26:35,161 --> 00:26:36,329 Larson was doing her best, 718 00:26:36,363 --> 00:26:38,064 working overtime with her sadness 719 00:26:38,098 --> 00:26:39,833 about Eric Barton's death. 720 00:26:39,866 --> 00:26:42,268 Anything to avoid the question she knew was coming. 721 00:26:42,302 --> 00:26:44,871 How you deal with their ups and downs. 722 00:26:44,904 --> 00:26:46,940 It's like clients are like family, you know. 723 00:26:46,973 --> 00:26:50,076 You love them like your own children. 724 00:26:50,110 --> 00:26:51,678 Please, sit down. 725 00:26:51,711 --> 00:26:52,779 I only need a minute. 726 00:26:52,812 --> 00:26:55,882 Do you have a working relationship with a Brian Stowe? 727 00:26:55,915 --> 00:26:56,850 With an E? 728 00:26:56,883 --> 00:26:58,184 Well, we do business with a lot of people, 729 00:26:58,218 --> 00:27:00,053 I can't say that I know them all. 730 00:27:00,086 --> 00:27:02,355 Could you check? 731 00:27:02,389 --> 00:27:03,890 Sure. 732 00:27:03,923 --> 00:27:05,025 You had to admire her. 733 00:27:05,058 --> 00:27:06,026 She didn't blink. 734 00:27:06,059 --> 00:27:07,394 She hadn't missed a beat. 735 00:27:07,427 --> 00:27:09,963 But her assistant heard every word. 736 00:27:09,996 --> 00:27:12,032 He was scared. 737 00:27:12,065 --> 00:27:13,433 She wasn't. 738 00:27:13,466 --> 00:27:16,102 She'd play this for all it was worth. 739 00:27:16,136 --> 00:27:17,704 Well, we have a small film company 740 00:27:17,737 --> 00:27:19,039 and apparently we've offered him a role 741 00:27:19,072 --> 00:27:20,173 in one of the films we're casting. 742 00:27:20,206 --> 00:27:23,476 Mr. Stowe is a witness in this case. 743 00:27:23,510 --> 00:27:25,145 That's an odd coincidence. 744 00:27:25,178 --> 00:27:29,382 {\an8}* 745 00:27:29,416 --> 00:27:31,251 The assistant was the answer. 746 00:27:31,284 --> 00:27:33,420 We staked out his boss' office at the end of the day 747 00:27:33,453 --> 00:27:35,255 and waited for him to leave. 748 00:27:35,288 --> 00:27:37,490 He would break, I was sure of it. 749 00:27:37,524 --> 00:27:38,992 He wouldn't cover for his boss 750 00:27:39,025 --> 00:27:40,994 if he knew how much trouble he was in. 751 00:27:41,027 --> 00:27:43,063 We just had to hit him fast and hard. 752 00:27:43,096 --> 00:27:44,097 Here we go. 753 00:27:44,130 --> 00:27:46,733 {\an8}* 754 00:27:46,766 --> 00:27:49,069 Mr. Lee, Brad. 755 00:27:49,102 --> 00:27:51,738 I don't have anything to say to you, alright? 756 00:27:51,771 --> 00:27:53,740 You delivered a package to Brian Stowe's apartment? 757 00:27:53,773 --> 00:27:55,075 Your boss said your company hired him, 758 00:27:55,108 --> 00:27:56,276 but you know what we think? 759 00:27:56,309 --> 00:27:57,310 We think you tampered with a witness 760 00:27:57,344 --> 00:27:58,978 in a homicide investigation. 761 00:27:59,012 --> 00:28:00,280 Now it gets messy. 762 00:28:00,313 --> 00:28:02,048 That kind of thing you can go to prison. 763 00:28:02,082 --> 00:28:05,418 {\an8}* 764 00:28:05,452 --> 00:28:07,287 I don't want a lawyer. 765 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,055 Alright, I just want to get out of this. 766 00:28:09,089 --> 00:28:11,024 So what was in the envelope? 767 00:28:11,057 --> 00:28:12,425 Contract. 768 00:28:12,459 --> 00:28:13,993 It was around noon. 769 00:28:14,027 --> 00:28:15,495 Deborah took her call. 770 00:28:15,528 --> 00:28:18,098 Right away, she calls the studio. 771 00:28:18,131 --> 00:28:20,100 Carey, she's got a deal with him. 772 00:28:20,133 --> 00:28:22,002 They send a contract. 773 00:28:22,035 --> 00:28:23,436 It was supposed to be for a role 774 00:28:23,470 --> 00:28:25,405 in some movie Deborah's producing. 775 00:28:25,438 --> 00:28:26,272 She stuck it in an envelope 776 00:28:26,306 --> 00:28:28,975 and told me to deliver it right away. 777 00:28:29,009 --> 00:28:31,411 I don't know anything else. 778 00:28:32,345 --> 00:28:34,247 You are not gonna arrest Brian Stowe again. 779 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:35,515 They sent a contract for a job over 780 00:28:35,548 --> 00:28:37,017 the minute we picked him up. 781 00:28:37,050 --> 00:28:37,917 That's not enough. 782 00:28:37,951 --> 00:28:39,185 The kid practically admitted to Frank 783 00:28:39,219 --> 00:28:40,387 he knew Eric Barton. 784 00:28:40,420 --> 00:28:41,454 Practically admitted. 785 00:28:41,488 --> 00:28:43,189 Walk backwards, indulge me. 786 00:28:43,223 --> 00:28:45,225 Drugs on the crime scene, convenient. 787 00:28:45,258 --> 00:28:47,527 The fiancée named the dealer who also knew the victim. 788 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,030 Also convenient and it almost worked. 789 00:28:50,063 --> 00:28:51,297 They wanted us to find the dealer 790 00:28:51,331 --> 00:28:52,365 and hoped it would stop there. 791 00:28:52,399 --> 00:28:54,234 You skipped a beat, who's they? 792 00:28:54,267 --> 00:28:55,568 Brian Stowe can tell us. 793 00:28:55,602 --> 00:28:57,137 DA's willing to charge Stowe again 794 00:28:57,170 --> 00:28:59,506 and deal down for a misdemeanor. 795 00:28:59,539 --> 00:29:02,542 You already talked to the DA? 796 00:29:02,575 --> 00:29:05,979 We thought you might back us up. 797 00:29:06,012 --> 00:29:08,348 Bring him in. 798 00:29:08,381 --> 00:29:09,582 We're not interested in the deal. 799 00:29:09,616 --> 00:29:10,417 Wake up, Counselor. 800 00:29:10,450 --> 00:29:12,419 You got a client got offered a job. 801 00:29:12,452 --> 00:29:14,054 What do you think it looks like? 802 00:29:14,087 --> 00:29:15,255 What led you to that information? 803 00:29:15,288 --> 00:29:16,256 An envelope. 804 00:29:16,289 --> 00:29:17,257 What got you that envelope? 805 00:29:17,290 --> 00:29:18,391 A bogus search warrant. 806 00:29:18,425 --> 00:29:20,593 Fruit of the poisonous tree, none of it's admissible. 807 00:29:20,627 --> 00:29:22,395 You violated his right to counsel. 808 00:29:22,429 --> 00:29:24,230 You're whistling through your ass. 809 00:29:24,264 --> 00:29:27,100 Non-custodial setting, I didn't ask him a single question. 810 00:29:27,133 --> 00:29:28,501 Brian, you don't want it to go-- 811 00:29:28,535 --> 00:29:29,569 He's not talking, leave him alone. 812 00:29:29,602 --> 00:29:30,370 No, you leave me alone. 813 00:29:30,403 --> 00:29:32,105 - Brian. - I don't want a lawyer, 814 00:29:32,138 --> 00:29:33,373 and I sure don't want you. 815 00:29:33,406 --> 00:29:35,375 Voluntary dismissal of counsel. 816 00:29:35,408 --> 00:29:37,077 Brian, you're making a mistake. 817 00:29:37,110 --> 00:29:38,578 The only mistake I made was doing any of this 818 00:29:38,611 --> 00:29:40,380 in the first place. 819 00:29:50,557 --> 00:29:55,195 I didn't know, they'd offered me that part. 820 00:29:55,228 --> 00:29:57,263 I auditioned for it months ago. 821 00:29:57,297 --> 00:29:58,264 What happened? 822 00:29:58,298 --> 00:30:01,301 {\an8}* 823 00:30:01,334 --> 00:30:05,472 They said they had pictures of us. 824 00:30:05,505 --> 00:30:07,440 Me and Eric. 825 00:30:07,474 --> 00:30:10,210 Naked. 826 00:30:10,243 --> 00:30:13,146 I moved in down the street. 827 00:30:13,179 --> 00:30:16,416 We couldn't live together. 828 00:30:16,449 --> 00:30:18,651 They said Eric had to get married, you know, 829 00:30:18,685 --> 00:30:21,488 that if he came out, he-- 830 00:30:21,521 --> 00:30:24,357 His career would be over. 831 00:30:24,391 --> 00:30:29,129 You were lovers. 832 00:30:29,162 --> 00:30:31,898 She said that, uh... 833 00:30:31,931 --> 00:30:34,501 If I didn't do what they wanted, 834 00:30:34,534 --> 00:30:36,436 she'd give the pictures to the tabloids. 835 00:30:36,469 --> 00:30:40,273 {\an8}* 836 00:30:40,306 --> 00:30:41,341 I wasn't thinking. 837 00:30:41,374 --> 00:30:45,145 If they would really do it, she said they would. 838 00:30:45,178 --> 00:30:46,646 Who? 839 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,450 Deborah. 840 00:30:50,483 --> 00:30:55,088 She woke me up and said that... 841 00:30:55,121 --> 00:30:59,392 I had to tell the cops that I heard an argument. 842 00:30:59,426 --> 00:31:02,595 And then... 843 00:31:02,629 --> 00:31:05,198 I saw that guy. 844 00:31:05,231 --> 00:31:08,601 At the lineup. 845 00:31:08,635 --> 00:31:10,270 I knew who he was. 846 00:31:10,303 --> 00:31:12,339 Everyone did. 847 00:31:12,372 --> 00:31:17,310 {\an8}* 848 00:31:17,344 --> 00:31:19,679 Eric-- Eric hated it. 849 00:31:19,713 --> 00:31:23,183 He hated all the lies 850 00:31:23,216 --> 00:31:27,387 and the straight guy magazines around for the reporters. 851 00:31:27,420 --> 00:31:29,456 He said it wasn't worth it to be a star. 852 00:31:29,489 --> 00:31:33,626 {\an8}* 853 00:31:33,660 --> 00:31:35,495 Oh my God. 854 00:31:35,528 --> 00:31:36,596 I loved him. 855 00:31:36,629 --> 00:31:42,402 {\an8}* 856 00:31:42,435 --> 00:31:43,503 So, who killed him? 857 00:31:43,536 --> 00:31:47,507 {\an8}* 858 00:31:47,540 --> 00:31:49,242 She always knew. 859 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:54,681 {\an8}* 860 00:31:54,714 --> 00:31:56,149 Kate. 861 00:31:56,182 --> 00:32:02,222 {\an8}* 862 00:32:02,255 --> 00:32:04,557 He started... 863 00:32:04,591 --> 00:32:07,694 bringing stuff over from her house, and... 864 00:32:07,727 --> 00:32:10,530 {\an8}* 865 00:32:10,563 --> 00:32:13,767 She'd told him that if he came out, 866 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,171 he'd ruin everything. 867 00:32:18,204 --> 00:32:21,307 He told me she said that she'd kill him. 868 00:32:21,341 --> 00:32:25,211 {\an8}* 869 00:32:25,245 --> 00:32:29,783 If he tried to destroy everything she'd worked for. 870 00:32:29,816 --> 00:32:36,690 {\an8}* 871 00:32:36,723 --> 00:32:38,291 How could they do that? 872 00:32:38,324 --> 00:32:44,264 {\an8}* 873 00:32:44,297 --> 00:32:45,565 Who do they think they were? 874 00:32:45,598 --> 00:32:51,504 {\an8}* 875 00:32:51,538 --> 00:32:53,640 It's all hearsay, you know. 876 00:32:53,673 --> 00:32:55,442 We'll never get her with this. 877 00:32:55,475 --> 00:32:56,443 I know. 878 00:32:56,476 --> 00:33:05,719 {\an8}* 879 00:33:05,752 --> 00:33:07,620 That was the physical evidence we needed. 880 00:33:07,654 --> 00:33:08,621 Well, it's not there. 881 00:33:08,655 --> 00:33:09,622 Where else could it be? 882 00:33:09,656 --> 00:33:10,623 I don't understand. 883 00:33:10,657 --> 00:33:11,758 The victim was stabbed. 884 00:33:11,791 --> 00:33:13,593 Wherever that happened, there'd be blood everywhere. 885 00:33:13,626 --> 00:33:15,662 Well, we found the valet ticket from Arcadia. 886 00:33:15,695 --> 00:33:17,831 Eric Barton and Kate Randall had dinner there that night 887 00:33:17,864 --> 00:33:19,599 and they both left in her Camry. 888 00:33:19,632 --> 00:33:21,768 She let us check her car, not a trace of blood. 889 00:33:21,801 --> 00:33:23,103 And none in the house. 890 00:33:23,136 --> 00:33:24,204 I can't explain it. 891 00:33:24,237 --> 00:33:25,772 How did she respond to the search? 892 00:33:25,805 --> 00:33:27,407 She served coffee and doughnuts. 893 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,143 She was so polite the SID team was apologizing. 894 00:33:30,176 --> 00:33:31,611 If she's guilty, that means she knows 895 00:33:31,644 --> 00:33:32,679 you were looking in the wrong place. 896 00:33:32,712 --> 00:33:33,546 She's guilty. 897 00:33:33,580 --> 00:33:35,648 Wait, what about the girl's manager? 898 00:33:35,682 --> 00:33:36,683 No blood in her house. 899 00:33:36,716 --> 00:33:37,717 No blood in her car. 900 00:33:37,751 --> 00:33:40,120 The manager came over and did the dirty work. 901 00:33:40,153 --> 00:33:41,287 If you're telling me that there's no case, 902 00:33:41,321 --> 00:33:44,824 you're telling me for a reason. 903 00:33:44,858 --> 00:33:46,092 Call the Chief. 904 00:33:46,126 --> 00:33:48,595 We got to bust the Mayor's friend. 905 00:33:48,628 --> 00:33:49,629 Excuse me? 906 00:33:49,662 --> 00:33:50,797 That studio guy Carey. 907 00:33:50,830 --> 00:33:52,165 He sent a contract for a job. 908 00:33:52,198 --> 00:33:54,434 That's witness tampering, we can use him. 909 00:33:54,467 --> 00:33:56,202 Use him how? 910 00:33:56,236 --> 00:33:57,771 You want me to get her on tape? 911 00:33:57,804 --> 00:33:59,239 He wears a wire on Kate Randall. 912 00:33:59,272 --> 00:34:00,640 Cooperate, no prosecution. 913 00:34:00,674 --> 00:34:02,308 Stonewall, multiple charges. 914 00:34:02,342 --> 00:34:04,411 On top of witness tampering, there's accessory. 915 00:34:04,444 --> 00:34:05,445 Obstruction. 916 00:34:05,478 --> 00:34:07,414 This is my life. 917 00:34:07,447 --> 00:34:09,249 I'd never work in this business again. 918 00:34:09,282 --> 00:34:13,853 As you said, your industry forgives a lot. 919 00:34:13,887 --> 00:34:15,321 I can't do this. 920 00:34:15,355 --> 00:34:16,723 Peter, here's my advice. 921 00:34:16,756 --> 00:34:19,726 You'll do it or you'll spend time in prison. 922 00:34:19,759 --> 00:34:22,896 Be honest, do you think you can handle jail? 923 00:34:22,929 --> 00:34:29,836 {\an8}* 924 00:34:29,869 --> 00:34:30,904 Here he comes. 925 00:34:30,937 --> 00:34:34,841 {\an8}* 926 00:34:34,874 --> 00:34:35,909 He's going to the door. 927 00:34:35,942 --> 00:34:39,646 {\an8}* 928 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:40,780 How are you, sweetheart? 929 00:34:40,814 --> 00:34:42,749 - Holding up? - I'm alright. 930 00:34:42,782 --> 00:34:43,917 Well, do you want something, a drink? 931 00:34:43,950 --> 00:34:46,219 - He's good. - Good sound quality. 932 00:34:46,252 --> 00:34:48,455 Yeah, a glass of wine will be fine, what do you have? 933 00:34:48,488 --> 00:34:50,256 Just opened a Cabernet, it's in the kitchen. 934 00:34:50,290 --> 00:34:51,825 Perfect. 935 00:34:51,858 --> 00:34:53,360 Kate, I-- I must tell you. 936 00:34:53,393 --> 00:34:55,362 I had a terrible morning. 937 00:34:55,395 --> 00:34:56,763 I got a call from the cops. 938 00:34:56,796 --> 00:34:58,431 You, why you? 939 00:34:58,465 --> 00:35:01,167 Take it slow, don't scare her. 940 00:35:01,201 --> 00:35:03,370 They-- they think I'm involved. 941 00:35:03,403 --> 00:35:05,271 Involved in what? 942 00:35:05,305 --> 00:35:06,439 You know. 943 00:35:06,473 --> 00:35:07,874 Covering up what happened to Eric. 944 00:35:07,907 --> 00:35:10,810 I don't believe this. 945 00:35:10,844 --> 00:35:12,379 Come on, Kate, don't play games with me. 946 00:35:12,412 --> 00:35:13,913 What the hell are you talking about? 947 00:35:13,947 --> 00:35:15,815 Katie, it was fairly simple to figure out. 948 00:35:15,849 --> 00:35:18,251 You had the same argument you always had. 949 00:35:18,284 --> 00:35:19,419 You lost control, I mean, 950 00:35:19,452 --> 00:35:20,687 it's not like I wouldn't understand 951 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:21,688 if it was my career. 952 00:35:21,721 --> 00:35:22,889 What the hell are you suggesting? 953 00:35:22,922 --> 00:35:23,923 That I killed Eric? 954 00:35:23,957 --> 00:35:25,091 Have you lost your mind? 955 00:35:25,125 --> 00:35:27,394 Katie, this is me you're talking to, not some PR quack. 956 00:35:27,427 --> 00:35:29,229 You have some nerve, get out of my house. 957 00:35:29,262 --> 00:35:30,330 Get out of here right now. 958 00:35:30,363 --> 00:35:31,865 - Come on, Kate. - Goodbye, Peter. 959 00:35:31,898 --> 00:35:36,803 {\an8}* 960 00:35:36,836 --> 00:35:38,304 What the hell are you suggesting? 961 00:35:38,338 --> 00:35:39,305 That I killed Eric? 962 00:35:39,339 --> 00:35:40,473 Have you lost your mind? 963 00:35:40,507 --> 00:35:42,842 Katie, this is me you're talking to, not some PR quack. 964 00:35:42,876 --> 00:35:44,444 You have some nerve, get out of my house. 965 00:35:44,477 --> 00:35:45,812 Get out of here right now. 966 00:35:45,845 --> 00:35:47,313 - Come on, Kate. - Goodbye, Peter. 967 00:35:48,348 --> 00:35:51,818 Play it again. 968 00:35:51,851 --> 00:35:53,353 Well, do you want something, a drink? 969 00:35:53,386 --> 00:35:54,921 Deborah's been bringing food by. 970 00:35:54,954 --> 00:35:56,823 Yeah, a glass of wine will be fine. 971 00:35:56,856 --> 00:35:57,824 What do you have? 972 00:35:57,857 --> 00:35:59,459 Just opened a cabernet, it's in the kitchen. 973 00:35:59,492 --> 00:36:00,460 Terrific. 974 00:36:01,928 --> 00:36:03,229 Kate, I-- I must tell-- 975 00:36:03,263 --> 00:36:04,531 Stop. 976 00:36:04,564 --> 00:36:05,732 Before that silence. 977 00:36:05,765 --> 00:36:06,866 Footsteps to the kitchen. 978 00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:09,302 Drop the footsteps, I want to hear what's underneath. 979 00:36:09,336 --> 00:36:10,303 Loud. 980 00:36:14,941 --> 00:36:15,942 Pencil. 981 00:36:15,975 --> 00:36:17,444 Son of a bitch tipped her off. 982 00:36:17,477 --> 00:36:18,445 Wrote her a note. 983 00:36:18,478 --> 00:36:19,779 Warned her. 984 00:36:19,813 --> 00:36:23,516 Call the DA, tell them to pick him up. 985 00:36:23,550 --> 00:36:26,519 I couldn't let myself believe it was over. 986 00:36:26,553 --> 00:36:27,854 You play it all back. 987 00:36:27,887 --> 00:36:29,989 You look for what you missed. 988 00:36:30,023 --> 00:36:32,258 Did we have anything that didn't fit? 989 00:36:32,292 --> 00:36:33,593 They can still take her to trial. 990 00:36:33,626 --> 00:36:34,928 They'll lose. 991 00:36:34,961 --> 00:36:38,298 No blood in the car. 992 00:36:38,331 --> 00:36:39,366 I called the restaurant again. 993 00:36:39,399 --> 00:36:41,601 Same old story. 994 00:36:41,634 --> 00:36:44,904 Valet says she drove off with Barton in her Camry. 995 00:36:47,307 --> 00:36:49,275 {\an8}* 996 00:36:49,309 --> 00:36:50,343 Give me a loop. 997 00:36:50,377 --> 00:36:52,412 Give me a loop, one of those photographer things. 998 00:36:52,445 --> 00:36:53,880 Come on, I know somebody's got one. 999 00:36:53,913 --> 00:36:56,483 {\an8}* 1000 00:36:56,516 --> 00:36:57,617 Driver's door, inside panel. 1001 00:36:57,650 --> 00:37:04,424 {\an8}* 1002 00:37:04,457 --> 00:37:05,825 Same day as the murder. 1003 00:37:05,859 --> 00:37:07,894 {\an8}* 1004 00:37:07,927 --> 00:37:09,496 She wasn't driving the car. 1005 00:37:09,529 --> 00:37:10,864 It was in the shop. 1006 00:37:10,897 --> 00:37:13,633 Maintenance. 1007 00:37:13,667 --> 00:37:15,902 Came in Wednesday, picked up Friday. 1008 00:37:15,935 --> 00:37:16,903 Is she in some kind of trouble? 1009 00:37:16,936 --> 00:37:17,971 What'd she leave in? 1010 00:37:18,004 --> 00:37:18,972 Loaner. 1011 00:37:19,005 --> 00:37:21,474 Not really a loner, we charge for them now. 1012 00:37:21,508 --> 00:37:22,909 Well, where's the loaner now? 1013 00:37:22,942 --> 00:37:24,310 The loaner, I'd have to look. 1014 00:37:24,344 --> 00:37:29,015 {\an8}* 1015 00:37:29,049 --> 00:37:33,019 Service order, loaner. 1016 00:37:33,053 --> 00:37:34,888 B6392. 1017 00:37:34,921 --> 00:37:35,922 It's out back in the lot. 1018 00:37:35,955 --> 00:37:37,457 What kind of car is it? 1019 00:37:37,490 --> 00:37:41,061 - Uh, Camry. - Camry. 1020 00:37:41,094 --> 00:37:42,328 Last chance. 1021 00:37:42,362 --> 00:37:44,931 Don't get your hopes up. 1022 00:37:44,964 --> 00:37:46,900 Give me some good news. 1023 00:37:46,933 --> 00:37:49,903 Well, it's been washed, 1024 00:37:49,936 --> 00:37:52,839 but you can't get it all out. 1025 00:37:52,872 --> 00:37:54,908 Vinyl and carpets, soaked in blood. 1026 00:37:54,941 --> 00:37:58,411 {\an8}* 1027 00:37:58,445 --> 00:38:00,980 At the end, we were in a familiar place. 1028 00:38:01,014 --> 00:38:03,083 We knew what a good lawyer could do. 1029 00:38:03,116 --> 00:38:06,052 Blood evidence didn't convict OJ. 1030 00:38:06,086 --> 00:38:08,555 But a car sitting in a parking lot for days? 1031 00:38:08,588 --> 00:38:11,091 Definition of reasonable doubt. 1032 00:38:11,124 --> 00:38:13,059 You have one last hope. 1033 00:38:13,093 --> 00:38:14,594 Show them another way. 1034 00:38:14,627 --> 00:38:16,663 Give them a way out. 1035 00:38:16,696 --> 00:38:18,865 I told my partner this should be one on one. 1036 00:38:18,898 --> 00:38:22,002 It only worked when it was personal. 1037 00:38:22,035 --> 00:38:24,437 I hoped I was right. 1038 00:38:24,471 --> 00:38:26,573 You don't think it'll be solved? 1039 00:38:26,606 --> 00:38:29,642 Well, no, we have a suspect, the only question is, 1040 00:38:29,676 --> 00:38:31,945 where's it gonna go from here? 1041 00:38:31,978 --> 00:38:34,447 I-- I don't understand. 1042 00:38:34,481 --> 00:38:35,548 You think you know who did it? 1043 00:38:35,582 --> 00:38:37,484 Yeah, I think we do. 1044 00:38:37,517 --> 00:38:41,988 I think you do too. 1045 00:38:42,022 --> 00:38:43,890 Coriolanus. 1046 00:38:43,923 --> 00:38:45,492 That's a violent play. 1047 00:38:45,525 --> 00:38:48,161 Most tragedies are. 1048 00:38:48,194 --> 00:38:49,729 You go to the theater? 1049 00:38:49,763 --> 00:38:52,499 I, uh, I would've thought you liked movies. 1050 00:38:52,532 --> 00:38:54,934 A kid in my parochial school used to take us. 1051 00:38:54,968 --> 00:38:56,469 Classics. 1052 00:38:56,503 --> 00:38:58,605 Arthur Miller, stuff like that. 1053 00:38:58,638 --> 00:39:02,542 Those years, I remember three acts. 1054 00:39:02,575 --> 00:39:04,177 Two intermissions. 1055 00:39:04,210 --> 00:39:08,982 I got candy twice. 1056 00:39:09,015 --> 00:39:11,051 Sometimes in life, 1057 00:39:11,084 --> 00:39:13,486 like a play, 1058 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,989 last act, 1059 00:39:16,022 --> 00:39:18,558 you see things coming. 1060 00:39:18,591 --> 00:39:22,962 This one could go two ways. 1061 00:39:22,996 --> 00:39:25,398 Yours, ours. 1062 00:39:28,468 --> 00:39:30,036 And what's my way? 1063 00:39:30,070 --> 00:39:31,705 You tell me. 1064 00:39:31,738 --> 00:39:33,039 No. 1065 00:39:33,073 --> 00:39:36,976 You tell me. 1066 00:39:37,010 --> 00:39:39,179 You had an argument. 1067 00:39:39,212 --> 00:39:42,682 Driving back from the restaurant. 1068 00:39:42,716 --> 00:39:45,685 You were losing him. 1069 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:46,686 That maybe your career 1070 00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:48,688 that you thought maybe he would help you with. 1071 00:39:48,722 --> 00:39:51,057 {\an8}* 1072 00:39:51,091 --> 00:39:54,961 You weren't thinking clearly. 1073 00:39:54,994 --> 00:39:58,198 You were scared. 1074 00:39:58,231 --> 00:40:01,134 There was a box. 1075 00:40:01,167 --> 00:40:04,204 He was moving things from your house. 1076 00:40:04,237 --> 00:40:09,075 You found a kitchen knife. 1077 00:40:09,109 --> 00:40:12,979 You didn't mean to use it. 1078 00:40:13,013 --> 00:40:16,116 But you did. 1079 00:40:16,149 --> 00:40:17,684 Why don't you tell it to the DA? 1080 00:40:17,717 --> 00:40:21,554 He'll figure something out. 1081 00:40:21,588 --> 00:40:22,555 I doubt they would be 1082 00:40:22,589 --> 00:40:26,626 as sympathetic as you are. 1083 00:40:26,659 --> 00:40:28,228 Well. 1084 00:40:28,261 --> 00:40:29,696 We're not talking about sympathy. 1085 00:40:29,729 --> 00:40:36,536 {\an8}* 1086 00:40:36,569 --> 00:40:40,573 When you looked up in the sky? 1087 00:40:40,607 --> 00:40:44,044 You know you'd hope that he'd be up there? 1088 00:40:44,077 --> 00:40:46,780 You were very convincing. 1089 00:40:46,813 --> 00:40:48,148 Was I? 1090 00:40:48,181 --> 00:40:51,785 If you weren't telling the truth, you-- 1091 00:40:51,818 --> 00:40:53,620 You're some actress. 1092 00:40:53,653 --> 00:40:55,255 I was telling the truth. 1093 00:40:55,288 --> 00:40:59,559 {\an8}* 1094 00:40:59,592 --> 00:41:04,164 You think I'm a great actress? 1095 00:41:04,197 --> 00:41:05,198 I am. 1096 00:41:05,231 --> 00:41:10,804 {\an8}* 1097 00:41:12,639 --> 00:41:14,808 Kate Randall asked for time to change her clothes, 1098 00:41:14,841 --> 00:41:15,809 fix her hair. 1099 00:41:15,842 --> 00:41:17,177 We said fine. 1100 00:41:17,210 --> 00:41:19,112 She wanted to come in without handcuffs. 1101 00:41:19,145 --> 00:41:20,847 We said no. 1102 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,682 I thought about the choices people make, 1103 00:41:22,716 --> 00:41:26,152 how every step in life can take an unexpected turn. 1104 00:41:26,186 --> 00:41:28,154 Eric Barton made a choice. 1105 00:41:28,188 --> 00:41:30,090 It ended in his death. 1106 00:41:30,123 --> 00:41:33,693 Kate Randall, she was good at what she did. 1107 00:41:33,727 --> 00:41:34,761 At her trial, I figured 1108 00:41:34,794 --> 00:41:36,262 she'd give the performance of her life. 1109 00:41:36,296 --> 00:41:40,900 {\an8}* 1110 00:41:40,934 --> 00:41:43,870 Peter Carey testified for the state of California. 1111 00:41:43,903 --> 00:41:46,773 He entered a plea of obstruction in the second degree, 1112 00:41:46,806 --> 00:41:49,309 and is serving nine months at the State Men's Facility 1113 00:41:49,342 --> 00:41:52,312 at San Luis Obispo. 1114 00:41:52,345 --> 00:41:55,215 Deborah Larson testified for the state of California. 1115 00:41:55,248 --> 00:41:58,084 She entered a plea of accessory to manslaughter 1116 00:41:58,118 --> 00:41:59,586 and is serving four years 1117 00:41:59,619 --> 00:42:03,156 at the State Women's Institution in Frontera. 1118 00:42:03,189 --> 00:42:06,226 Katherine Randall was tried for involuntary manslaughter. 1119 00:42:06,259 --> 00:42:08,828 She testified her fiancée had attacked her 1120 00:42:08,862 --> 00:42:11,097 and she had accidentally killed him. 1121 00:42:11,131 --> 00:42:13,800 The jury was unable to reach a verdict. 1122 00:42:13,833 --> 00:42:14,968 She is currently free on bail 1123 00:42:15,001 --> 00:42:17,771 while the district attorney prepares for a new trial. 1124 00:42:17,804 --> 00:42:24,210 {\an8}* 1125 00:42:24,244 --> 00:42:34,254 {\an8}* 1126 00:42:34,287 --> 00:42:54,274 {\an8}* 1127 00:42:54,307 --> 00:43:01,247 {\an8}* 1128 00:43:03,817 --> 00:43:06,619 {\an8}*