1 00:00:01,034 --> 00:00:02,775 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:02,836 --> 00:00:06,716 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:06,773 --> 00:00:08,650 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,708 --> 00:00:11,450 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,511 --> 00:00:12,819 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,347 --> 00:00:15,485 (SIREN WAILING) 7 00:00:15,548 --> 00:00:16,959 (BARKING) 8 00:00:19,085 --> 00:00:20,962 It came from down there, Officer. You call it in? 9 00:00:21,021 --> 00:00:23,092 Yes, sir. On my cellular. I'm Russell Lehrman. 10 00:00:23,156 --> 00:00:24,760 How many shots? Just one. 11 00:00:24,824 --> 00:00:26,735 Scared the hell out of my dog. You see anybody run out? 12 00:00:26,793 --> 00:00:28,170 No. Nobody. 13 00:00:28,695 --> 00:00:29,867 (DOG BARKING) 14 00:00:30,597 --> 00:00:31,871 (CRICKETS CHIRPING) 15 00:00:32,432 --> 00:00:34,343 (WOMAN CHATTERING OVER POLICE RADIO) 16 00:00:49,382 --> 00:00:50,656 Over here. 17 00:00:54,254 --> 00:00:57,133 2-0, Peter to Central, signal 10-54. 18 00:00:57,190 --> 00:01:01,070 We got a male down. Possible DOA. 80th and Riverside. 19 00:01:01,461 --> 00:01:02,963 Oh, man, Wally. 20 00:01:04,431 --> 00:01:06,069 Look at this. 21 00:01:08,601 --> 00:01:11,445 OFFICER: The victim is Detective First Grade Bill Morino. 22 00:01:11,504 --> 00:01:13,677 Worked sex crimes out of the third precinct. 23 00:01:13,740 --> 00:01:16,186 We found his car parked half a block down on Riverside. 24 00:01:16,242 --> 00:01:18,381 We'll want to look at it. Any witnesses? 25 00:01:18,445 --> 00:01:20,391 Mr. Lehrman and his dog. That's all. 26 00:01:20,447 --> 00:01:22,927 Get a team to canvas the buildings across the street. 27 00:01:22,982 --> 00:01:26,259 Maybe somebody else was taking their dogs out for a squirt. 28 00:01:28,621 --> 00:01:33,070 One hit. In the front, out the back. Powder burns on the face. 29 00:01:33,793 --> 00:01:35,932 It's like he walked right into it. 30 00:01:36,129 --> 00:01:38,507 CSU's looking for a shell casing and a weapon. 31 00:01:38,565 --> 00:01:39,976 What about his? 32 00:01:40,033 --> 00:01:43,537 Holster's empty. They left his wallet. 33 00:01:46,072 --> 00:01:48,678 11 bucks? That's about right for a cop. 34 00:01:48,741 --> 00:01:50,880 Anybody know what he was doing here? 35 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:54,084 Put a call in to his partner. He was home in bed. 36 00:01:54,481 --> 00:01:56,688 Good place to be at 2:00 in the morning. 37 00:02:01,387 --> 00:02:03,697 Mike? What's the matter? 38 00:02:05,158 --> 00:02:06,865 Better call his wife. 39 00:02:06,926 --> 00:02:08,997 What, you know this guy? 40 00:02:09,996 --> 00:02:12,806 Yeah. Billy Boy Morino. 41 00:02:14,033 --> 00:02:16,707 I grew up with him. Three stoops down. 42 00:03:09,989 --> 00:03:11,024 WOMAN ON PA: Doctor Richards... 43 00:03:11,090 --> 00:03:13,764 Yeah. Okay, that'll work. Thanks a lot. 44 00:03:13,826 --> 00:03:15,362 Extension 25. 45 00:03:16,296 --> 00:03:18,435 His partner will meet us at the third precinct. 46 00:03:21,067 --> 00:03:22,102 Judy... 47 00:03:25,605 --> 00:03:26,606 I'm sorry. 48 00:03:27,574 --> 00:03:29,417 Can you talk to us a minute? Yeah. 49 00:03:30,243 --> 00:03:32,052 How you holding up? Okay. 50 00:03:32,111 --> 00:03:34,853 They said there were some forms I had to fill out. 51 00:03:34,948 --> 00:03:37,451 A PBA person will come over, they'll walk you through it. 52 00:03:39,252 --> 00:03:40,492 My partner, Lennie Briscoe. 53 00:03:40,553 --> 00:03:41,793 Mrs. Morino. 54 00:03:41,955 --> 00:03:46,768 We're trying to put together what Billy was doing in Riverside Park. 55 00:03:47,527 --> 00:03:50,235 He was working. His partner will know. 56 00:03:50,496 --> 00:03:52,442 We thought maybe your husband might've said something. 57 00:03:53,533 --> 00:03:54,637 I was out with the kids. 58 00:03:54,701 --> 00:03:57,272 I came home, there was a message on the machine from Billy 59 00:03:57,337 --> 00:03:58,873 saying he was gonna work late. 60 00:03:58,938 --> 00:04:00,713 Did he say what time he'd be home? 61 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,318 No. He just said not to wait up. I was used to that. 62 00:04:06,813 --> 00:04:08,952 Look, I gotta get home before the kids wake up. 63 00:04:09,649 --> 00:04:10,855 Thanks. 64 00:04:14,821 --> 00:04:17,461 If he was working a case last night, he didn't check in with me. 65 00:04:18,591 --> 00:04:20,400 Nothing in the command log, either. 66 00:04:20,460 --> 00:04:23,168 Riverside Park's got to be a natural for your line of work. 67 00:04:23,229 --> 00:04:26,369 Yeah. Rapes, muggings. In season, it gets busy. 68 00:04:26,432 --> 00:04:28,878 But come wintertime, the perps look for warmer quarters. 69 00:04:29,335 --> 00:04:31,781 Well, Morino was there. We'd like to know how he got there. 70 00:04:32,105 --> 00:04:36,952 We're open to suggestion. I mean, a meet with a snitch, a bad habit to feed... 71 00:04:38,845 --> 00:04:40,654 What? I said something wrong? 72 00:04:40,713 --> 00:04:42,954 Only bad habit he had was his work. 73 00:04:43,549 --> 00:04:48,020 We cleared 82% of our cases. Our conviction rate's 91%. 74 00:04:49,188 --> 00:04:50,929 That holds up to anybody's record. 75 00:04:52,558 --> 00:04:53,662 Anybody's. 76 00:04:55,695 --> 00:04:57,470 His service piece hasn't turned up. 77 00:04:57,530 --> 00:04:59,840 Zip for a shell casing. They're still looking for the slug. 78 00:04:59,899 --> 00:05:02,709 In that park? Good luck. What about his car? 79 00:05:02,769 --> 00:05:05,272 Nothing. Just his prints and his wife's. 80 00:05:05,405 --> 00:05:08,852 We emptied his desk and his locker. We checked his notebooks. 81 00:05:08,908 --> 00:05:11,616 Whatever he was up to, he didn't tell anybody about it. 82 00:05:11,778 --> 00:05:13,724 A secret hobby he wasn't proud of? 83 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:15,259 Not according to his partner. 84 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:17,921 Not according to anybody Lennie. I knew the guy since kindergarten. 85 00:05:17,984 --> 00:05:19,759 He made the tough calls. He was solid. 86 00:05:19,819 --> 00:05:21,628 Mike. What? 87 00:05:22,355 --> 00:05:25,928 You want to know about his hobbies? Work and family, family and work. Period. 88 00:05:25,992 --> 00:05:28,438 Right. Right. Mr. 82% case clearance. 89 00:05:28,494 --> 00:05:31,373 It's a nice average. Makes for a lot of angry defendants. 90 00:05:31,664 --> 00:05:34,304 See if any of that 82% came back to visit. 91 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:35,572 (PHONE RINGING) 92 00:05:36,536 --> 00:05:40,177 VAN BUREN: Yeah. Mike. I'll tell him. 93 00:05:41,874 --> 00:05:45,617 Anti-corruption task force wants to talk. Cragen's office. 94 00:05:51,651 --> 00:05:53,562 Yeah. I saw Morino take a bribe. 95 00:05:54,053 --> 00:05:56,329 The counterman at Skouros' comped him a piece of pie. 96 00:05:56,389 --> 00:05:57,527 You gonna dig him up and arrest him? 97 00:05:57,590 --> 00:05:59,069 Just answer the question, Mike. 98 00:06:01,494 --> 00:06:04,407 He worked sex crimes. That's not exactly a gold mine, okay? 99 00:06:04,464 --> 00:06:06,774 And before that he worked narcotics at the 1-5. 100 00:06:07,033 --> 00:06:09,639 A lot of guys at the 1-5 drive home in Corvettes. 101 00:06:10,937 --> 00:06:13,008 Morino drove a five-year-old Dodge. 102 00:06:13,072 --> 00:06:14,517 When was the last time you talked to him? 103 00:06:15,408 --> 00:06:17,547 Couple of weeks ago. He called me. 104 00:06:17,610 --> 00:06:19,283 Just like that, out of the blue? 105 00:06:19,345 --> 00:06:21,882 Yeah, just like that. He found the cure for the common cold. 106 00:06:21,948 --> 00:06:25,657 Look, I was busy. We talked maybe a couple of minutes. It was a nothing call. 107 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:29,333 What's going on here? Was Morino under investigation or what? 108 00:06:29,389 --> 00:06:31,665 We're talking to anybody who ever hung a coat at the 1-5. 109 00:06:31,724 --> 00:06:33,101 Well, does that include their friends? 110 00:06:33,292 --> 00:06:37,707 Okay. What do you say you guys go sharpen a few pencils here, huh? Let's go. 111 00:06:38,798 --> 00:06:39,799 (CLEARS THROAT) 112 00:06:40,833 --> 00:06:43,677 Internal Affairs, Mike. They never heard of Dale Carnegie. 113 00:06:43,736 --> 00:06:46,910 Look, I've been to Morino's house a couple of times a year. Okay? 114 00:06:46,973 --> 00:06:48,850 I never saw anything that made me think twice. 115 00:06:48,975 --> 00:06:51,683 Well, that's good. That confirms everything I saw in his file. 116 00:06:51,744 --> 00:06:52,916 Then what am I doing here? 117 00:06:52,979 --> 00:06:55,619 Because it's about to hit the fan at the 1-5. 118 00:06:55,681 --> 00:06:58,025 Maybe somebody thought Morino'd be a liability. 119 00:07:00,386 --> 00:07:02,297 Are you saying another cop whacked him? 120 00:07:04,123 --> 00:07:06,797 My 14-year-old plays spin the bottle on a computer. 121 00:07:06,859 --> 00:07:08,429 I'm telling you, anything's possible. 122 00:07:11,330 --> 00:07:14,243 So we just step aside and let Internal Affairs get into it, huh? 123 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:16,439 Well, they would like that. But I can tell them to take a hike. 124 00:07:17,470 --> 00:07:21,748 Now, listen, here's a list of the people we're looking at, at the 1-5. 125 00:07:21,908 --> 00:07:25,219 Any of those names come up in connection with Morino, you let me know. 126 00:07:25,711 --> 00:07:28,715 And Mikey, this could get hot and heavy. 127 00:07:28,848 --> 00:07:31,658 So you keep that famous temper of yours in your pocket, huh? 128 00:07:32,618 --> 00:07:33,619 See you. 129 00:07:33,953 --> 00:07:35,364 This is a waste of time. 130 00:07:35,721 --> 00:07:38,759 If Morino was having lunch with the old gang from the 1-5, 131 00:07:38,825 --> 00:07:41,203 he wouldn't be stupid enough to put it in his date book. 132 00:07:41,661 --> 00:07:43,038 He would've been stupid not to. 133 00:07:43,129 --> 00:07:44,938 If I was being squeezed by those slime balls 134 00:07:44,997 --> 00:07:46,908 I would have made a note of it in big letters. 135 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,539 Unless he had as much to hide as they do. 136 00:07:49,702 --> 00:07:52,546 Hey, Lennie, for the last time, Morino was clean. 137 00:07:52,905 --> 00:07:53,975 Got it. 138 00:07:55,541 --> 00:07:56,781 I don't get this. 139 00:07:59,245 --> 00:08:01,725 Morino's precinct command log for the last month. 140 00:08:01,848 --> 00:08:04,226 Three times, he called in off duty to Riverside Park. 141 00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:06,430 So he was either crazy about the neighborhood, 142 00:08:06,486 --> 00:08:08,159 or he had something going on the side. 143 00:08:08,221 --> 00:08:11,964 What on the side? Come on, just spit it out. Hey, Mike. 144 00:08:12,191 --> 00:08:13,864 You want to write Morino's eulogy, 145 00:08:13,926 --> 00:08:15,337 or you want to catch the guy who killed him? 146 00:08:16,662 --> 00:08:17,834 Let's talk to the wife. 147 00:08:19,866 --> 00:08:22,676 Billy never talked about what went on at the 1-5. 148 00:08:24,203 --> 00:08:25,978 I know he wasn't happy there. 149 00:08:27,039 --> 00:08:29,645 Maybe some familiar names came up over dinner? 150 00:08:31,444 --> 00:08:33,446 No. He never mentioned anybody. 151 00:08:34,547 --> 00:08:37,960 Judy, we noticed he was around Riverside Park a few times last month, 152 00:08:38,017 --> 00:08:40,122 but his partner said it wasn't work-related. 153 00:08:40,753 --> 00:08:44,667 On the West Side? We don't have any friends over there. 154 00:08:45,191 --> 00:08:47,933 (CLEARS THROAT) Maybe your husband had a friend. 155 00:08:51,497 --> 00:08:52,567 Now, look... 156 00:08:55,001 --> 00:08:58,881 We're gonna have to ask you this. How was it going between you two? 157 00:09:00,439 --> 00:09:05,184 Fine. Considering we were married 15 years. 158 00:09:06,078 --> 00:09:08,558 You know, Billy had his moods. 159 00:09:08,614 --> 00:09:10,287 What kind of mood lately? 160 00:09:12,451 --> 00:09:15,591 Most nights he was up pacing. He was having nightmares. 161 00:09:17,123 --> 00:09:21,071 I thought it was because of his work, you know, the kind of cases he was getting. 162 00:09:21,394 --> 00:09:23,271 Really sick stuff. 163 00:09:25,464 --> 00:09:29,207 The department has shrinks on the payroll. Could he have been talking to any of them? 164 00:09:29,502 --> 00:09:30,537 I don't know. 165 00:09:31,704 --> 00:09:34,014 I think he was talking to somebody else, though. 166 00:09:34,974 --> 00:09:36,214 I took a message for him 167 00:09:36,275 --> 00:09:40,314 about three weeks ago from a Father Joe. 168 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,454 You know Billy went back to the church after the kids started school. 169 00:09:45,318 --> 00:09:47,059 He wanted me to convert, too. 170 00:09:47,887 --> 00:09:50,367 Are you talking about a Father Joe Krolinsky? 171 00:09:50,856 --> 00:09:52,836 Yeah. You know him? 172 00:09:53,326 --> 00:09:54,361 Yeah. 173 00:09:55,728 --> 00:09:59,141 He was our parish priest when Billy and I were kids. 174 00:09:59,198 --> 00:10:00,404 Did he leave a number? 175 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,110 No. He said he'd try Billy at work. 176 00:10:04,303 --> 00:10:06,146 I was just glad he was getting help. 177 00:10:09,709 --> 00:10:14,681 K-R-Jo.-I-I-N-S-K-Y. Krolinsky. 178 00:10:15,481 --> 00:10:16,789 (PEOPLE CHATTERING) 179 00:10:17,750 --> 00:10:18,888 Joseph. 180 00:10:20,286 --> 00:10:21,697 No, we already checked Queens. 181 00:10:24,590 --> 00:10:26,968 Okay. Thank you. 182 00:10:29,161 --> 00:10:31,232 Archdiocese doesn't have him. 183 00:10:31,297 --> 00:10:32,537 Yes? 184 00:10:33,933 --> 00:10:36,311 All right. Thank you very much, Sister. 185 00:10:37,370 --> 00:10:39,714 He's not pounding the pulpit in New Jersey, either. 186 00:10:40,239 --> 00:10:41,877 What do you want to do, call the Pope? 187 00:10:41,941 --> 00:10:43,545 Gonna start with the DMV. 188 00:10:44,977 --> 00:10:46,388 What? Priests don't drive? 189 00:10:47,747 --> 00:10:50,057 Yes, this is Detective Briscoe of the 2-7. 190 00:10:50,116 --> 00:10:53,325 The color of the day is aquamarine. 191 00:10:54,954 --> 00:10:58,959 Right, I need an address on a Joseph Krolinsky, with a 192 00:10:59,725 --> 00:11:02,365 No, no date of birth. Start with the locals. 193 00:11:04,096 --> 00:11:05,097 Uh-huh. 194 00:11:06,499 --> 00:11:07,739 Say that one again. 195 00:11:10,002 --> 00:11:13,176 Thank you very much. We have a winner. 196 00:11:13,239 --> 00:11:16,413 Joseph Krolinsky, 406 West 78th. 197 00:11:19,078 --> 00:11:21,149 That'd be two blocks from where Morino was shot. 198 00:11:23,115 --> 00:11:24,526 It's good to see you again, Mike. 199 00:11:25,151 --> 00:11:26,494 Can I offer you some coffee? 200 00:11:26,552 --> 00:11:27,860 We're okay, Father. 201 00:11:28,387 --> 00:11:30,867 The only people who call me that are my kids. 202 00:11:31,424 --> 00:11:33,700 I haven't been a priest in nearly 15 years. 203 00:11:35,594 --> 00:11:36,629 Do you have a family? 204 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:37,766 No. 205 00:11:38,330 --> 00:11:40,776 Well, don't wait too long. I nearly did. 206 00:11:42,368 --> 00:11:45,281 And I take it you're not here for a social call. 207 00:11:46,972 --> 00:11:48,918 You phoned Billy Morino a couple of weeks ago. 208 00:11:49,208 --> 00:11:50,346 That's right. 209 00:11:51,143 --> 00:11:52,315 Why the sudden inspiration? 210 00:11:52,378 --> 00:11:53,448 JOE: He called me. 211 00:11:54,647 --> 00:11:58,493 My company transferred me here last year. I ran into Bill's mother on the subway. 212 00:11:58,551 --> 00:12:00,053 I used to counsel her when I was a priest. 213 00:12:00,820 --> 00:12:02,891 Anyway, she told me how well Bill was doing. 214 00:12:03,589 --> 00:12:05,193 Thought I'd like to hear from him. 215 00:12:05,257 --> 00:12:07,134 Did you? Of course. 216 00:12:08,127 --> 00:12:10,573 But I haven't talked to him. We traded phone calls. 217 00:12:10,629 --> 00:12:11,630 Why, what happened? 218 00:12:13,065 --> 00:12:17,013 Detective Morino was killed Tuesday night, a couple of blocks from here in the park. 219 00:12:17,737 --> 00:12:19,080 Oh, my God. 220 00:12:20,239 --> 00:12:23,118 Did he ever come by the house, maybe when you were out? 221 00:12:23,542 --> 00:12:26,989 No. My wife would've told me. 222 00:12:28,147 --> 00:12:29,285 KATE: Joe. 223 00:12:30,149 --> 00:12:31,321 The kids want to say good night. 224 00:12:31,383 --> 00:12:32,589 I'll be right there. 225 00:12:34,420 --> 00:12:35,626 You'll excuse me. 226 00:12:35,688 --> 00:12:37,099 BRISCOE: Yeah. Sure, go ahead. 227 00:12:37,857 --> 00:12:40,929 One more thing, Father. Where were you Tuesday night? 228 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:46,202 I was right here with my family. Why? Am I a suspect? 229 00:12:46,932 --> 00:12:48,036 It was just a question. 230 00:12:53,072 --> 00:12:55,609 Father Joe was in charge of the altar boys. 231 00:12:57,610 --> 00:12:58,782 He... 232 00:13:01,113 --> 00:13:02,990 He had a reputation... 233 00:13:03,048 --> 00:13:04,686 And? 234 00:13:07,853 --> 00:13:09,059 Look, I... 235 00:13:11,423 --> 00:13:13,630 I haven't even told Lennie about this. 236 00:13:17,296 --> 00:13:19,606 Father Joe put the moves on me once. 237 00:13:25,871 --> 00:13:28,408 Billy had some involvement, some of the other kids, too. 238 00:13:29,041 --> 00:13:30,611 What? Nobody reported him? 239 00:13:30,943 --> 00:13:35,756 No, we were just kids. I mean, he was a big deal. Our parents loved him. 240 00:13:36,615 --> 00:13:38,754 What are kids gonna do against a parish priest? 241 00:13:39,385 --> 00:13:40,659 CRAGEN: What're we saying here? 242 00:13:42,555 --> 00:13:46,628 Morino heard Krolinsky's back in town. He knows he likes kids. 243 00:13:47,293 --> 00:13:49,933 Then what? Fill in the blanks, Mike. 244 00:13:51,096 --> 00:13:52,200 I can't. 245 00:13:59,905 --> 00:14:02,442 Look, Mike, I'm here for you, and you know that. 246 00:14:03,108 --> 00:14:06,146 But you are gonna have to bring in Lennie and Van Buren, okay? 247 00:14:07,079 --> 00:14:09,650 Now, what does this Krolinsky do for a living? 248 00:14:10,182 --> 00:14:12,788 Senior Accounts Supervisor at Dominion Life. 249 00:14:13,152 --> 00:14:17,567 He's got the package deal. Nice job, nice home, nice family. 250 00:14:18,624 --> 00:14:22,629 So it'd be a shame if somebody were to come along and upset that apple cart? 251 00:14:24,029 --> 00:14:27,010 Especially if that somebody had their hand out. 252 00:14:35,374 --> 00:14:36,478 We checked Krolinsky's IUDs. 253 00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:40,217 Two calls from his office, one call to Morino, one call to his precinct. 254 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:42,816 And no calls to Krolinsky on Morino's IUDs. 255 00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:45,055 It bears out what Krolinsky told you. 256 00:14:45,117 --> 00:14:49,395 Well, don't put him up for sainthood yet. Because I called up his yellows. 257 00:14:49,455 --> 00:14:53,198 One arrest in '68, third-degree sexual abuse. No disposition. 258 00:14:53,259 --> 00:14:56,866 Sex abuse three. Catch-all for everything, including a pat on the ass. 259 00:14:56,962 --> 00:14:58,441 Anything more recent? 260 00:14:58,497 --> 00:15:00,738 Well, no. 261 00:15:01,333 --> 00:15:04,007 We got... The archdiocese sent us stats. 262 00:15:04,069 --> 00:15:06,606 1969, he was assigned to a parish in Ohio. 263 00:15:06,672 --> 00:15:09,949 Then five more parishes over the next 12 years. 264 00:15:10,075 --> 00:15:11,850 Last parish was in Buffalo. 265 00:15:12,111 --> 00:15:15,058 Two years later, he hangs up his collar and moves to Jersey. 266 00:15:15,447 --> 00:15:17,654 According to the computer, he kept his nose clean. 267 00:15:17,716 --> 00:15:20,322 So this reputation could've been all talk. 268 00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:24,794 Hey, I was there. I didn't imagine it and neither did Morino. 269 00:15:24,857 --> 00:15:26,996 He was in Krolinsky's neighborhood for a reason. 270 00:15:27,126 --> 00:15:28,901 Because of Krolinsky. 271 00:15:28,961 --> 00:15:30,736 Yeah, but he's not around to tell us. 272 00:15:33,966 --> 00:15:36,276 Maybe he told some of the others from the old parish. 273 00:15:37,236 --> 00:15:40,706 He called me before he died. Maybe he called them. 274 00:15:45,511 --> 00:15:48,117 Even after he said his name, it took me a while to make the connection. 275 00:15:48,580 --> 00:15:49,957 Billy Boy Morino. 276 00:15:50,916 --> 00:15:53,123 First kid on the block to grow a mustache. 277 00:15:53,619 --> 00:15:56,896 I don't hear squat from him in 20 years, and all of a sudden he wants a sit-down. 278 00:15:57,823 --> 00:16:01,532 Right off the bat, he gets into it. Father Joe. 279 00:16:02,094 --> 00:16:03,869 One name I had no problem remembering. 280 00:16:03,929 --> 00:16:05,067 Why is that? 281 00:16:07,333 --> 00:16:09,711 Come on, Mike. You know what I'm talking about. 282 00:16:11,737 --> 00:16:12,841 Pretend I don't. 283 00:16:15,908 --> 00:16:18,149 Father Joe molested me when I was 11. 284 00:16:18,344 --> 00:16:21,689 A lot of other kids, too. Billy was pretty worked up. 285 00:16:22,381 --> 00:16:24,327 Said we should do something about what he did to us. 286 00:16:24,616 --> 00:16:26,459 Take him to court, sue him. 287 00:16:26,518 --> 00:16:28,623 That might not be a bad idea. 288 00:16:29,221 --> 00:16:31,098 It happened a long time ago, Mike. 289 00:16:31,557 --> 00:16:33,696 I had some problems in my marriage, but I got help. 290 00:16:34,293 --> 00:16:38,742 I settled up with Father Joe in my head. I told Billy that's all I needed to do. 291 00:16:39,865 --> 00:16:43,642 I can't get over it. I just talked to him a couple of weeks ago. 292 00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:46,817 Yeah. Well, getting back to that conversation, Mr. Scully... 293 00:16:46,872 --> 00:16:49,318 It was about that sick bastard, Father Joe, 294 00:16:50,109 --> 00:16:52,316 whatever he calls himself these days. 295 00:16:52,945 --> 00:16:54,788 Morino said he'd been keeping tabs on him. 296 00:16:54,847 --> 00:16:56,053 Meaning what? 297 00:16:56,615 --> 00:16:59,221 Meaning Morino's in the business of busting perverts. 298 00:16:59,952 --> 00:17:02,125 Father Joe certainly qualifies. 299 00:17:02,187 --> 00:17:04,189 Billy said he wanted to take him to court. 300 00:17:04,590 --> 00:17:06,592 He told me he had a talk with Father Joe. 301 00:17:08,293 --> 00:17:10,603 Son of a bitch offered him money to go away. 302 00:17:12,364 --> 00:17:13,934 Billy asked me what I thought about it. 303 00:17:13,999 --> 00:17:15,137 Well, what did you think? 304 00:17:15,334 --> 00:17:16,870 Told him I'd get back to him. 305 00:17:16,935 --> 00:17:18,573 I already know what I want to do to Father Joe, 306 00:17:18,637 --> 00:17:20,310 taking his money isn't part of it. 307 00:17:22,508 --> 00:17:24,920 Now that we got the death penalty back, I know who's got my vote 308 00:17:24,977 --> 00:17:26,081 for the grand opening. 309 00:17:26,145 --> 00:17:27,624 Hey, you want to get even with Krolinsky, 310 00:17:27,679 --> 00:17:30,387 put him in the shower room at Ossining for five minutes. 311 00:17:30,449 --> 00:17:32,224 Yeah, it's Logan. 312 00:17:32,584 --> 00:17:33,756 You beeped me. 313 00:17:35,421 --> 00:17:39,164 Anyway, it sounds like Morino was looking for a more rewarding payback. 314 00:17:39,224 --> 00:17:41,932 Krolinsky offered him the money. I didn't hear that Billy took it. 315 00:17:41,994 --> 00:17:43,439 Well, maybe he never got the chance. 316 00:17:43,695 --> 00:17:46,835 Maybe Krolinsky figured he's gonna be on the hook to this guy forever. 317 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:48,879 And he solves his problems with one bullet. 318 00:17:48,934 --> 00:17:52,006 Yeah, where? Okay. 319 00:17:52,738 --> 00:17:54,183 Speaking of, they got the slug. 320 00:17:55,874 --> 00:17:58,320 CSU found it on the ground with a metal detector. 321 00:17:58,377 --> 00:18:00,721 70 yards from where Morino was shot. 322 00:18:00,779 --> 00:18:02,781 We're lucky it didn't catch the uptown bus. 323 00:18:02,848 --> 00:18:04,725 A .38 semi-wad cutter. 324 00:18:04,783 --> 00:18:06,228 Are you ready for this? 325 00:18:06,485 --> 00:18:10,490 I matched it to Morino's service revolver. We had his lands and grooves on file. 326 00:18:10,556 --> 00:18:11,864 That can't be right. 327 00:18:11,924 --> 00:18:14,063 There's the microscope. Help yourself. 328 00:18:15,127 --> 00:18:18,506 Did anybody check Morino's gloves for powder residue? 329 00:18:18,564 --> 00:18:19,668 Let me look. 330 00:18:22,301 --> 00:18:24,747 The answer's no. The gloves were in his pocket. 331 00:18:26,138 --> 00:18:28,448 Well, just for the hell of it, check them anyway. 332 00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:36,389 You read our report. It's all there in black and white. 333 00:18:36,715 --> 00:18:37,887 Well, my reading skills aren't 334 00:18:37,950 --> 00:18:40,191 what they used to be. Why don't you walk us through it? 335 00:18:41,753 --> 00:18:43,960 We came down the hill, found him lying there. 336 00:18:44,723 --> 00:18:46,703 His gloves, were they on or off? 337 00:18:47,593 --> 00:18:49,903 He wasn't wearing any. They were in his pocket. 338 00:18:50,696 --> 00:18:54,872 We can't figure out how powder residue got on his right glove. 339 00:18:55,634 --> 00:18:59,605 It's all here in the report, fellows, in black and white. 340 00:19:00,205 --> 00:19:01,240 (SIGHING) 341 00:19:01,306 --> 00:19:02,944 Those lab guys are amazing. 342 00:19:03,775 --> 00:19:06,517 They found a slug and matched it up to Morino's piece. 343 00:19:07,246 --> 00:19:12,218 Now either they're wrong, or your report isn't what I would call comprehensive. 344 00:19:12,417 --> 00:19:15,455 Maybe you'd like to pencil in a few adjustments? 345 00:19:17,656 --> 00:19:21,126 Look, we were just trying to do right by the guy's family. 346 00:19:23,495 --> 00:19:26,066 Just try doing right by regulations. 347 00:19:28,233 --> 00:19:30,839 We found him with his service piece in his right hand. 348 00:19:30,903 --> 00:19:35,545 He was a suicide, no question. We ditched the gun, took his gloves off. 349 00:19:37,142 --> 00:19:40,248 What in hell crossed your mind to do something like that? 350 00:19:40,579 --> 00:19:43,389 He goes on the books as a suicide, the widow gets what, 351 00:19:43,749 --> 00:19:45,558 a lousy 50 grand payout? 352 00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:48,592 If he gets written up as "killed in the line of duty," 353 00:19:48,654 --> 00:19:50,600 it rates a couple of hundred grand, minimum. 354 00:19:50,923 --> 00:19:54,370 Yeah, I mean, come on, guys, he was a cop. 355 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,271 We gotta take care of each other, am I right? 356 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,813 I talked to McCoy. We won't be pressing charges against the officers. 357 00:20:05,070 --> 00:20:08,517 The department'll handle it. At most, they'll draw a 30-day suspension. 358 00:20:08,574 --> 00:20:11,748 Great. They can use the time to raise money for the widows and orphans' fund. 359 00:20:12,077 --> 00:20:14,387 I don't get it. Billy just wasn't the type. 360 00:20:14,780 --> 00:20:18,455 Yeah, well, we'll save the post-game wrap-up for the shrinks. 361 00:20:18,517 --> 00:20:19,825 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 362 00:20:19,985 --> 00:20:22,727 We talked to four people who were molested by Krolinsky. 363 00:20:22,955 --> 00:20:24,332 And those are just the ones we know about. 364 00:20:24,389 --> 00:20:26,198 Thirty-year-old crimes, Mike. 365 00:20:26,258 --> 00:20:28,363 That's 25 years past the expiration date. 366 00:20:28,427 --> 00:20:29,599 He left the state. 367 00:20:29,661 --> 00:20:32,164 Doesn't that stop the clock on the statute of limitations? 368 00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:34,677 Only for five years. Krolinsky's in the clear. 369 00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:35,905 And Morino might be dead 370 00:20:35,968 --> 00:20:37,879 because of what he did to him. You're gonna let him walk? 371 00:20:38,837 --> 00:20:42,216 We don't have a choice. His record's clean. 372 00:20:42,274 --> 00:20:44,652 Except for a sex abuse arrest in '68. 373 00:20:45,043 --> 00:20:46,750 Which was never prosecuted. 374 00:20:46,812 --> 00:20:48,792 Claire, the guy belongs in a box. 375 00:20:53,585 --> 00:20:57,761 You know what, Mike? Talk to the sex-abuse victim. Find out what really happened. 376 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,998 I was 10 years old. 377 00:21:04,796 --> 00:21:08,175 My dad sold plumbing supplies so he was on the road a lot. 378 00:21:09,401 --> 00:21:11,278 Father Joe picked up the slack, you know. 379 00:21:12,838 --> 00:21:14,078 And he got me into the choir. 380 00:21:14,139 --> 00:21:15,743 He helped me with my homework, stuff like that. 381 00:21:18,343 --> 00:21:20,653 My mother thought he walked on water. 382 00:21:20,712 --> 00:21:22,817 She didn't catch on, right? 383 00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:27,158 Nah. Neither did I. 384 00:21:29,254 --> 00:21:31,666 It wasn't like he was sending a dozen roses every day. 385 00:21:32,858 --> 00:21:34,963 Well, after the big build-up, what happened? 386 00:21:39,464 --> 00:21:40,465 (CLEARS THROAT) 387 00:21:43,235 --> 00:21:46,341 He asked me to stay after choir practice one Saturday. 388 00:21:47,239 --> 00:21:49,014 It was this little room at the school. 389 00:21:51,710 --> 00:21:53,986 He started asking me a lot of questions like, 390 00:21:55,647 --> 00:22:00,221 you know, did I have a girlfriend. And they got more and more personal, 391 00:22:00,285 --> 00:22:02,731 and then it was, "Show me yours and I'll show you mine." 392 00:22:06,558 --> 00:22:09,061 It's okay, Mr. Waller. You're doing just fine. 393 00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:13,165 (CLEARS THROAT) 394 00:22:16,868 --> 00:22:18,370 He put his hand in my pants. 395 00:22:20,706 --> 00:22:22,743 Gray flannel pants I got for Christmas. 396 00:22:26,578 --> 00:22:28,216 And when it was over, he... 397 00:22:32,384 --> 00:22:34,330 He made a mess on my new pants. 398 00:22:37,856 --> 00:22:38,857 (EXHALES) 399 00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:44,200 He started crying and he said that we'd sinned and if I told anybody, 400 00:22:44,262 --> 00:22:46,105 God would punish both of us. 401 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:50,211 But you did tell somebody? 402 00:22:50,268 --> 00:22:51,713 Because of the pants. 403 00:22:53,638 --> 00:22:55,948 I hid them in the basement, and my dad found them. 404 00:22:56,308 --> 00:22:59,517 At that time, did you tell the police what you just told us? 405 00:23:01,246 --> 00:23:02,418 No. 406 00:23:04,149 --> 00:23:08,097 My mother was very pious. She burned the pants. 407 00:23:09,955 --> 00:23:11,628 My father wanted to kill him. 408 00:23:13,425 --> 00:23:14,927 And they had a big argument. 409 00:23:16,228 --> 00:23:18,504 And I was told that all I was allowed to say was, 410 00:23:18,563 --> 00:23:20,565 Father Joe touched me through my clothes. 411 00:23:21,967 --> 00:23:23,446 And what happened after he got arrested? 412 00:23:24,069 --> 00:23:25,070 (SCOFFS) 413 00:23:27,005 --> 00:23:31,818 You know, I'm really not sure. Man, I was young. 414 00:23:34,346 --> 00:23:37,759 Father Joe left the parish, and my parents never brought it up again. 415 00:23:42,254 --> 00:23:43,631 I was a happy kid. 416 00:23:46,057 --> 00:23:47,798 And I loved my parents. 417 00:23:51,463 --> 00:23:53,636 That scum took all that away from me. 418 00:23:56,968 --> 00:23:58,345 So the man's a criminal. 419 00:23:58,637 --> 00:24:01,379 How does that get us past the statute of limitations? 420 00:24:01,573 --> 00:24:04,520 We can re-file the charge as a felony and still be within the limits. 421 00:24:04,576 --> 00:24:06,249 He was charged with a misdemeanor. 422 00:24:06,478 --> 00:24:09,220 Only because the police were never told what actually happened. 423 00:24:09,314 --> 00:24:11,021 You know it's a stretch. 424 00:24:11,082 --> 00:24:13,722 Jack, Mr. Waller never had his day in court. 425 00:24:19,491 --> 00:24:20,868 Pick up Krolinsky. 426 00:24:22,894 --> 00:24:24,032 Mike, what's going on? 427 00:24:24,095 --> 00:24:25,938 You mind stepping outside, Mr. Krolinsky? 428 00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:30,541 Joseph Krolinsky, you're under arrest for aggravated sexual abuse. 429 00:24:30,602 --> 00:24:31,910 You have the right to remain silent. 430 00:24:31,970 --> 00:24:34,644 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 431 00:24:34,706 --> 00:24:35,741 Joe? You understand that? 432 00:24:35,807 --> 00:24:37,150 Get back inside, Kate. 433 00:24:37,209 --> 00:24:39,815 You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be... 434 00:24:42,247 --> 00:24:46,252 Thirty-year-old misdemeanor, and you puff it up into a felony arrest. 435 00:24:46,618 --> 00:24:49,599 He's lucky the statutes keep me from bringing more charges. 436 00:24:49,754 --> 00:24:53,099 Based on what? Stewart Waller's book of fairy-tales? 437 00:24:53,258 --> 00:24:55,033 They believed him 30 years ago. 438 00:24:55,093 --> 00:24:59,166 And they didn't prosecute because they saw it for what it was, 439 00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:01,637 the imaginings of a vindictive child. 440 00:25:01,733 --> 00:25:03,576 I told Stewart he couldn't be 441 00:25:03,635 --> 00:25:06,138 in the choir anymore. He wasn't good enough. 442 00:25:06,605 --> 00:25:09,586 He ran home and told his parents this crazy story. 443 00:25:09,674 --> 00:25:13,349 A lot of other people tell similar stories. Are they all being vindictive? 444 00:25:13,411 --> 00:25:16,255 Neighborhood gossip. That's your case? 445 00:25:18,083 --> 00:25:22,088 Let me spare you the egg facial. Motion to dismiss. 446 00:25:23,855 --> 00:25:24,959 Pleasant reading. 447 00:25:28,927 --> 00:25:31,771 Even if you attach credence to Mr. Waller's accusations, 448 00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:34,640 the boat sailed 25 years ago, Your Honor. 449 00:25:34,699 --> 00:25:37,942 The People are doing an end run around the statute of limitations. 450 00:25:38,003 --> 00:25:41,473 Mr. McCoy, this offense was filed as a misdemeanor when I was in high school. 451 00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:43,315 Why bring it back as a felony now? 452 00:25:43,375 --> 00:25:45,719 We believe it's only the tip of the iceberg. 453 00:25:45,777 --> 00:25:50,351 That's nonsense. This case sat in someone's drawer for 30 years. 454 00:25:50,415 --> 00:25:51,985 It was dismissed once. 455 00:25:52,217 --> 00:25:53,924 To let Mr. McCoy proceed now 456 00:25:54,019 --> 00:25:56,863 not only violates the spirit of the statute of limitations, 457 00:25:56,922 --> 00:25:59,095 it violates my client's right to a speedy trial. 458 00:25:59,157 --> 00:26:02,866 He violated Stewart Waller in the most heinous manner imaginable. 459 00:26:03,028 --> 00:26:06,032 The People had their bite at the apple 30 years ago, Mr. McCoy. 460 00:26:06,531 --> 00:26:09,842 I don't see how stretching the statute serves the interest of justice. 461 00:26:10,735 --> 00:26:12,646 The charges are dismissed. 462 00:26:13,038 --> 00:26:15,245 Well, it was a noble effort. 463 00:26:16,441 --> 00:26:20,548 I called Stewart Waller to tell him. It wasn't easy. He had his hopes up. 464 00:26:20,612 --> 00:26:21,955 He's suffered plenty. 465 00:26:23,014 --> 00:26:25,324 The statute of limitations doesn't help him. 466 00:26:25,550 --> 00:26:28,724 Long as Mr. Krolinsky's been behaving himself all these years. 467 00:26:29,154 --> 00:26:30,565 He just hasn't been caught. 468 00:26:31,323 --> 00:26:35,772 I've prosecuted pedophiles before, Adam. They defy rehabilitation. 469 00:26:35,827 --> 00:26:39,866 Even golfers retire. Is there any evidence that he's still active? 470 00:26:40,065 --> 00:26:43,979 No. But he moved from parish to parish the last 30 years. 471 00:26:44,736 --> 00:26:46,215 Makes you wonder why. 472 00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:48,279 Let's ask the people who moved him. 473 00:26:55,780 --> 00:26:59,751 I pulled together Mr. Krolinsky's personnel file, works and all. 474 00:26:59,918 --> 00:27:03,991 It doesn't say very much for our success in dealing with his problem. 475 00:27:04,789 --> 00:27:06,598 The church knew what he was doing? 476 00:27:06,758 --> 00:27:11,298 Yes. We had reports from other priests, from parents, starting in the late '60s. 477 00:27:11,363 --> 00:27:13,400 Well, what were you waiting for? Polaroids? 478 00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:16,742 Of course not. Mr. Krolinsky was relieved of his duties. 479 00:27:16,868 --> 00:27:18,973 He was ordered to seek medical care. 480 00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:23,108 Once the doctors pronounced him cured, he was sent to a new parish. 481 00:27:23,308 --> 00:27:25,379 How often was he pronounced cured? 482 00:27:25,543 --> 00:27:29,992 The church tried everything, Mr. McCoy. We sent him to our treatment centers. 483 00:27:30,081 --> 00:27:33,358 We thought faith and prayer would be enough to rehabilitate him. 484 00:27:33,418 --> 00:27:34,522 We were wrong. 485 00:27:34,819 --> 00:27:36,730 The church had him for 20 years. 486 00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:41,835 I'm amazed you allowed him to slip through the cracks for so long. 487 00:27:44,129 --> 00:27:46,575 We dealt with him as best we could, 488 00:27:46,631 --> 00:27:49,612 based on what we knew then about his sickness. 489 00:27:50,635 --> 00:27:54,640 Now we put people like Mr. Krolinsky in your hands. 490 00:27:56,641 --> 00:28:00,145 It's incredible. There must be 100 reports of molestation in here. 491 00:28:01,312 --> 00:28:03,815 And only one of them ends up on a police blotter. 492 00:28:06,051 --> 00:28:10,295 When Krolinsky was sent to a parish in Buffalo in 1980, 493 00:28:10,388 --> 00:28:14,302 nobody even bothered to warn them. They made him supervisor of the altar boys. 494 00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:20,434 Krolinsky's last documented victims were in '81. Still puts him out of our range. 495 00:28:23,001 --> 00:28:26,210 Hand me the police interviews with Detective Morino's friends. 496 00:28:29,941 --> 00:28:34,287 One of them mentions a conversation between Krolinsky and Morino. 497 00:28:38,583 --> 00:28:39,687 Here. 498 00:28:42,921 --> 00:28:45,197 Krolinsky offered him money to leave him alone. 499 00:28:45,490 --> 00:28:47,367 And Morino was a police officer. 500 00:28:47,826 --> 00:28:50,705 Do you want to arrest Krolinsky for attempted bribery? 501 00:28:50,895 --> 00:28:54,968 Say money did change hands. Bribery is an element of a conspiracy. 502 00:28:56,067 --> 00:28:57,569 A conspiracy to do what? 503 00:28:57,635 --> 00:28:59,012 To molest children. 504 00:29:00,105 --> 00:29:03,416 It extends from the time he molested the kids in the '60s, 505 00:29:03,908 --> 00:29:05,751 right up to the present where he bribed Morino. 506 00:29:05,810 --> 00:29:07,289 We can get him for everything. 507 00:29:08,046 --> 00:29:11,425 It takes two to commit conspiracy. Who did he conspire with? 508 00:29:13,618 --> 00:29:15,029 The Roman Catholic Church. 509 00:29:16,154 --> 00:29:17,599 What've you been inhaling? 510 00:29:18,123 --> 00:29:20,569 You want to name the Catholic Church as a co-conspirator? 511 00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:23,071 An unindicted co-conspirator. I see. 512 00:29:23,862 --> 00:29:27,674 We don't charge them with conspiring to molest kids, we just say they did. 513 00:29:28,166 --> 00:29:30,077 That's gonna be a great relief to the Archbishop. 514 00:29:30,135 --> 00:29:31,808 We don't even have to go that far. 515 00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:34,716 Under People v. Villetto, we can convict Krolinsky 516 00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:37,253 even though the church never intended to conspire with him, 517 00:29:37,308 --> 00:29:38,719 nor commit the underlying crime. 518 00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:39,847 That's very slick. 519 00:29:40,378 --> 00:29:43,359 But you still need an overt act by the co-conspirator. 520 00:29:43,414 --> 00:29:45,451 The church played a shell game with Krolinsky. 521 00:29:45,517 --> 00:29:48,430 They foisted him on one unsuspecting parish after another. 522 00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:51,226 Adam, this isn't an indictment of the church. 523 00:29:51,289 --> 00:29:53,963 It wasn't a priest who did this, it was a pedophile. 524 00:29:54,993 --> 00:29:57,974 If we want to get him, this is the only way. 525 00:29:58,029 --> 00:30:00,839 All right. I'll talk to the Archbishop. I'll let him know what's coming. 526 00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:04,045 And we still have to prove Krolinsky bribed Morino. 527 00:30:04,269 --> 00:30:05,873 Start with the financial records. 528 00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:10,047 Unindicted co-conspirators. 529 00:30:10,575 --> 00:30:13,488 My aunt who says the rosary every morning's gonna have a conniption. 530 00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:16,682 The church should've dropped a dime on this guy 30 years ago. 531 00:30:16,881 --> 00:30:18,019 Oh, yeah. Right. 532 00:30:18,082 --> 00:30:20,824 Because they're the only people in the world who scratch each other's backs. 533 00:30:20,885 --> 00:30:23,798 Unlike politicians and cops, just to name two. 534 00:30:24,189 --> 00:30:27,261 If it's any comfort to your aunt, we have the Archbishop's blessing. 535 00:30:27,725 --> 00:30:32,333 Hey, unless Krolinsky's supporting his local bookie, I think I have something. 536 00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:37,136 $50,000 cash withdrawal. The week before Morino died. 537 00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:39,308 If it turns up on Morino's account... 538 00:30:39,370 --> 00:30:41,850 The corruption task force already went through Morino's books. 539 00:30:41,906 --> 00:30:43,214 We're not gonna find anything they didn't. 540 00:30:43,441 --> 00:30:46,047 Has anyone bothered to look into his wife's finances? 541 00:30:47,412 --> 00:30:49,392 It's bad enough what Billy did to himself. 542 00:30:49,447 --> 00:30:51,723 Now you want to say that he was taking a bribe? 543 00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:55,088 You bought T-bills a couple of weeks ago, Mrs. Morino. 544 00:30:55,153 --> 00:30:57,895 $50,000 worth in your children's names. 545 00:31:00,592 --> 00:31:04,096 Judy, we have to know where that money came from. 546 00:31:04,662 --> 00:31:08,405 If it came from Krolinsky, we got him. That's what Billy wanted. 547 00:31:10,301 --> 00:31:14,272 I found the money in an envelope a week after Billy died. 548 00:31:15,006 --> 00:31:17,043 Was there anything else in the envelope? 549 00:31:17,108 --> 00:31:19,782 Yes. A note. 550 00:31:20,778 --> 00:31:23,759 Billy said I was supposed to use the money to take care of the kids. 551 00:31:28,653 --> 00:31:31,862 I didn't give him a dime. I told you, I never talked to him. 552 00:31:32,023 --> 00:31:34,025 Then what did you do with the money? 553 00:31:35,426 --> 00:31:37,269 Take some Boy Scouts on a field trip? 554 00:31:37,328 --> 00:31:40,775 Mr. McCoy, unless you have actual questions for him, we're done here. 555 00:31:40,832 --> 00:31:44,678 He can start by answering for 30 years of sexual abuse. 556 00:31:47,338 --> 00:31:50,785 We have all the names and dates and locations. 557 00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:51,979 Where did you get this? 558 00:31:52,744 --> 00:31:55,691 The archdiocese. They want him behind bars as much as we do. 559 00:31:56,281 --> 00:31:57,624 LOGAN: Where do you want to start, Father? 560 00:31:59,050 --> 00:32:00,688 At the top of the pile or the bottom? 561 00:32:01,085 --> 00:32:02,723 That won't be necessary. ZINNS: Joe... 562 00:32:02,787 --> 00:32:04,425 No, I want to do this. 563 00:32:05,990 --> 00:32:09,938 I was a very sick man. That's why I left the priesthood. 564 00:32:11,062 --> 00:32:15,636 You're blaming the church? They didn't molest kids. You did. 565 00:32:15,733 --> 00:32:17,303 I'm a different man now, Mike. 566 00:32:17,735 --> 00:32:20,716 You should be happy how I've turned out. I have a wonderful family... 567 00:32:20,772 --> 00:32:23,912 No. No. I can't listen to this crap. 568 00:32:23,975 --> 00:32:26,649 I don't think a jury will be very much interested, either. 569 00:32:26,844 --> 00:32:28,721 You'll never prove where Morino's money came from. 570 00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:31,420 I'll let 12 mothers and fathers make the connection. 571 00:32:37,322 --> 00:32:38,733 Give us a minute, Mr. McCoy. 572 00:32:49,033 --> 00:32:51,104 That son of a bitch is lucky I didn't smack him. 573 00:32:52,804 --> 00:32:53,942 So are we. 574 00:32:54,005 --> 00:32:56,007 There's people like him in every neighborhood. 575 00:32:56,174 --> 00:32:59,348 Could be the little league coach, your kid's favorite teacher. 576 00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:01,984 It's too bad they don't glow in the dark. 577 00:33:13,691 --> 00:33:16,695 It's a matter of law that a payment between accomplices 578 00:33:16,761 --> 00:33:18,536 isn't an element of a conspiracy. 579 00:33:19,030 --> 00:33:22,307 Meaning such payment does not extend the life of the conspiracy. 580 00:33:22,367 --> 00:33:24,540 Meaning you have no case. 581 00:33:24,602 --> 00:33:26,843 What accomplice are you talking about? 582 00:33:29,574 --> 00:33:31,349 Back when I had my illness, 583 00:33:34,212 --> 00:33:36,852 Billy Morino used to invite boys to visit with me. 584 00:33:38,249 --> 00:33:40,229 ZINNS: To put it bluntly, Morino was his pimp. 585 00:33:40,818 --> 00:33:43,890 My client gave him the $50,000 as a belated gratuity. 586 00:33:51,262 --> 00:33:54,675 He's unbelievable. He molested these kids. 587 00:33:55,533 --> 00:33:57,444 And now he's trying to blame one of his own victims. 588 00:33:58,703 --> 00:34:00,182 Unfortunately, it may work. 589 00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:04,513 If they prove Morino was getting boys for Krolinsky 25 years ago, 590 00:34:04,575 --> 00:34:07,385 the jury can infer that the payment was for services rendered. 591 00:34:07,445 --> 00:34:10,449 Therefore your case ended back in the '70s somewhere. 592 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:13,355 Krolinsky can put whatever spin on the facts he wants. 593 00:34:13,418 --> 00:34:16,456 A jury won't take the word of an admitted child molester. 594 00:34:16,521 --> 00:34:18,967 Unless his victims confirm Morino's involvement. 595 00:34:19,023 --> 00:34:23,165 I spoke to them. They say that Morino was not part of the equation. 596 00:34:23,361 --> 00:34:27,002 And of course, they wouldn't lie just to convict Krolinsky. 597 00:34:27,732 --> 00:34:31,509 But you remind them that we still put people in jail for perjury. 598 00:34:34,105 --> 00:34:39,077 McCoy says Morino took a bribe. The other side says he was a pimp. 599 00:34:40,244 --> 00:34:44,386 Well, that's a hell of a choice. So what is it, column A or column B? 600 00:34:46,951 --> 00:34:48,794 It's just two friends talking, Mikey. 601 00:34:52,657 --> 00:34:57,128 When I was 12, Billy tried to recruit me for a matinee with Father Joe. 602 00:34:58,362 --> 00:35:00,205 What, do you think less of him because of it? 603 00:35:03,434 --> 00:35:06,244 Come on, Mike. You know how guys like Krolinsky operate. 604 00:35:06,571 --> 00:35:09,017 They manipulate these kids. They know what buttons to push. 605 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:10,344 Kid's got no father, 606 00:35:10,408 --> 00:35:12,684 the mother works two jobs, the kid's small for his age. 607 00:35:12,743 --> 00:35:15,986 Yeah, I know. I know. 608 00:35:18,449 --> 00:35:20,486 So, you gonna let McCoy in on this secret? 609 00:35:21,519 --> 00:35:23,863 He's not calling me in as a witness. I begged off. 610 00:35:26,457 --> 00:35:29,700 What, was I supposed to get up in court and put another bullet through Billy's head? 611 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:34,209 Oh, good. So you're off the hook. So long as nobody asks you the question. 612 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,502 Maybe I won't remember. 613 00:35:41,906 --> 00:35:44,910 Krolinsky goes to prison, I wouldn't exactly cry about it, Don. 614 00:35:45,343 --> 00:35:48,256 So you might as well toss that badge of yours in the garbage. 615 00:35:50,481 --> 00:35:51,585 Thanks for the help. 616 00:35:52,250 --> 00:35:54,389 I'm not gonna run to teacher, Mike. You do what you gotta do. 617 00:35:54,452 --> 00:35:56,454 I'm just telling you, you don't owe Morino a thing. 618 00:35:56,521 --> 00:35:57,693 Oh, the hell I don't. 619 00:35:58,289 --> 00:36:00,394 When he tried to recruit me that day, you know what I did? 620 00:36:00,458 --> 00:36:02,938 I decked him. Instead of running to the nearest cop. 621 00:36:05,062 --> 00:36:10,034 The other week when he called me, I had a feeling what it was about, you know? 622 00:36:11,802 --> 00:36:12,837 (SIGHS) 623 00:36:12,904 --> 00:36:16,351 I did the same thing I've been doing for 25 years. I avoided the subject. 624 00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:18,581 I couldn't handle it. 625 00:36:21,112 --> 00:36:25,822 My take? Neither could he. Seeing Krolinsky brought it all back. 626 00:36:26,984 --> 00:36:29,260 Imagine the guilt about all the kids he fed that pervert. 627 00:36:30,288 --> 00:36:32,666 The only problem is, he shot the wrong guy. 628 00:36:34,091 --> 00:36:38,039 Come on, Mike, he never even realized he was the victim. 629 00:36:44,835 --> 00:36:47,941 Billy mentioned this money Krolinsky offered him to leave him alone. 630 00:36:48,973 --> 00:36:51,613 Billy didn't know what to do about it. Neither did I. 631 00:36:53,177 --> 00:36:54,986 And that was the last time I talked to him. 632 00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:56,218 No more questions. 633 00:36:58,749 --> 00:37:02,060 You were friends with Detective Morino when you were kids, isn't that right? 634 00:37:02,253 --> 00:37:03,323 SCULLY: Yes. 635 00:37:03,588 --> 00:37:05,067 ZINNS: You went to ball games together? 636 00:37:05,122 --> 00:37:06,294 Sure, sometimes. 637 00:37:07,425 --> 00:37:09,962 Did you ever sit behind the dugout at Shea? 638 00:37:12,163 --> 00:37:13,301 A couple of times. 639 00:37:13,864 --> 00:37:16,845 At 7 bucks a seat, that's a lot of money for a working-class kid. 640 00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:17,879 Where'd you get those tickets? 641 00:37:17,935 --> 00:37:19,005 I can't remember. 642 00:37:19,270 --> 00:37:23,309 Didn't Billy Morino arrange for you to get them from Mr. Krolinsky? 643 00:37:24,008 --> 00:37:25,385 I don't know. In fact, 644 00:37:25,443 --> 00:37:29,289 didn't Billy Morino tell you, you could get those tickets if you visited Mr. Krolinsky? 645 00:37:29,347 --> 00:37:33,591 No. Billy Morino had nothing to do with it. That bastard abused me... 646 00:37:33,651 --> 00:37:34,755 Move to strike, Your Honor. 647 00:37:34,852 --> 00:37:37,856 Yes. The jury will disregard the witness's last comment. 648 00:37:38,723 --> 00:37:39,861 No more questions. 649 00:37:44,462 --> 00:37:47,068 So I'll call impound and see if the convertible turned up. 650 00:37:49,033 --> 00:37:50,410 Detective Michael Logan? 651 00:37:51,569 --> 00:37:52,877 Yes. 652 00:37:52,937 --> 00:37:54,746 Have a nice day. 653 00:37:59,543 --> 00:38:02,387 A subpoena. What'd you do, run over somebody's toes? 654 00:38:02,613 --> 00:38:06,151 It's from Krolinsky's lawyer. I'm gonna have to call McCoy. 655 00:38:07,652 --> 00:38:08,790 Damn! 656 00:38:14,258 --> 00:38:18,104 Billy was a year older than me. I guess we were good friends. 657 00:38:19,497 --> 00:38:22,376 He lived on the same block, and we went to the same school. 658 00:38:23,501 --> 00:38:24,605 Same church. 659 00:38:25,169 --> 00:38:28,616 And did he make a proposition to you involving Mr. Krolinsky? 660 00:38:30,207 --> 00:38:31,686 I don't understand the question. 661 00:38:33,210 --> 00:38:35,190 ZINNS: Do you want me to speak more slowly, Detective? 662 00:38:35,646 --> 00:38:37,057 Do you want me to answer that? 663 00:38:38,416 --> 00:38:40,487 Your Honor, permission to treat as hostile? 664 00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:41,859 Go ahead. 665 00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:45,191 Detective Logan, did Billy Morino suggest 666 00:38:45,256 --> 00:38:47,429 you have sex with Mr. Krolinsky 667 00:38:47,491 --> 00:38:49,164 in return for baseball tickets? 668 00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:54,942 You're under oath, Detective. 669 00:39:01,038 --> 00:39:02,142 Yes, he did. 670 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,786 Billy was just a kid. No more questions. 671 00:39:04,842 --> 00:39:06,617 Mr. Krolinsky manipulated him... 672 00:39:06,677 --> 00:39:07,815 NOVAK: Mr. McCoy. 673 00:39:12,883 --> 00:39:17,127 No questions at this time. The People reserve the right to recall. 674 00:39:19,557 --> 00:39:20,831 NOVAK: You're excused, Detective. 675 00:39:20,891 --> 00:39:24,065 I remind you you're still under oath, not to discuss your testimony with anybody. 676 00:39:26,931 --> 00:39:28,968 My client has been vindicated. 677 00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:31,104 JACK: All that was missing was the platter from Tiffany's. 678 00:39:31,168 --> 00:39:33,739 Get off my back. This is between me and Morino. 679 00:39:33,804 --> 00:39:35,477 And the District Attorney's Office. 680 00:39:35,539 --> 00:39:38,042 You had an obligation to tell us before the trial. 681 00:39:38,109 --> 00:39:41,818 Wait a minute. Are you telling me that what one scared young kid did 682 00:39:41,879 --> 00:39:44,917 can compare to what that freak did to 100 kids? 683 00:39:44,982 --> 00:39:48,054 My friend's name just got dragged through the mud up there, and for what? 684 00:39:48,586 --> 00:39:50,623 That's a hell of a system you got, Counselor. 685 00:39:53,023 --> 00:39:55,025 Well, I think that was both barrels. 686 00:39:55,559 --> 00:39:58,165 His friend's character's not the issue. Krolinsky's is. 687 00:39:59,830 --> 00:40:02,208 Starting tomorrow, we get to hear from his coworkers 688 00:40:02,266 --> 00:40:04,246 what a fine human being he's become. 689 00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:08,476 Except we won't be hearing from his wife. She hasn't been added to the witness list. 690 00:40:08,973 --> 00:40:11,351 I haven't seen her in the court for the last few days, either. 691 00:40:13,744 --> 00:40:14,916 Find out why. 692 00:40:15,379 --> 00:40:19,919 Logan was in an impossible position. I won't push for disciplinary action. 693 00:40:19,984 --> 00:40:22,055 In the meantime, he jammed a stick in your spokes. 694 00:40:23,521 --> 00:40:26,195 Technically, Morino was Krolinsky's accomplice. 695 00:40:26,257 --> 00:40:27,600 The money was not a bribe. 696 00:40:27,658 --> 00:40:30,662 There is no act to extend the life of the conspiracy. 697 00:40:30,728 --> 00:40:32,036 The jury will acquit. 698 00:40:32,196 --> 00:40:35,939 Not if we can convince them that Morino couldn't consent to be an accomplice. 699 00:40:36,167 --> 00:40:37,407 How do you intend to do that? 700 00:40:37,468 --> 00:40:40,210 Every study on pedophilia bears it out. 701 00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:44,352 The adult is always in control. The child can never consent. 702 00:40:44,542 --> 00:40:48,319 Morino was 13. Sounds old enough to me to know right from wrong. 703 00:40:48,379 --> 00:40:52,521 We're talking about a neglected child. Easy pickings for a pedophile. 704 00:40:52,583 --> 00:40:55,063 They know how to play on those weaknesses. 705 00:40:55,152 --> 00:40:57,689 They become the authority figure in the child's life. 706 00:40:57,988 --> 00:41:01,731 Right and wrong doesn't mean anything. All the kid wants is to please the adult. 707 00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:04,068 He doesn't know he's being used as a Judas goat. 708 00:41:04,695 --> 00:41:07,972 So you present our expert here in rebuttal, 709 00:41:08,432 --> 00:41:11,902 and you're sure that the jury draws the right conclusion? 710 00:41:13,070 --> 00:41:17,212 Time to pull your pecans out of the fire and give Krolinsky's lawyer a call. 711 00:41:17,508 --> 00:41:18,612 (KNOCKING AT DOOR) 712 00:41:18,976 --> 00:41:20,046 Yes. 713 00:41:20,110 --> 00:41:21,418 We may be on to something. 714 00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:25,154 Mrs. Krolinsky moved back to New Jersey with her kids three days into the trial. 715 00:41:25,516 --> 00:41:26,517 (SCOFFS) 716 00:41:26,884 --> 00:41:28,056 There you go. 717 00:41:32,523 --> 00:41:35,299 I wanted to get my boys away from all the publicity. 718 00:41:35,359 --> 00:41:38,806 I had to take them out of school. I mean, the things people say, you can't imagine. 719 00:41:39,163 --> 00:41:42,007 You've already heard them said in court, under oath. 720 00:41:42,099 --> 00:41:43,169 It's all lies. 721 00:41:43,434 --> 00:41:46,381 Mrs. Krolinsky, if we could just come in. Go away. 722 00:41:46,570 --> 00:41:47,640 Mrs. Krolinsky... 723 00:41:47,705 --> 00:41:49,810 Please, I'm just trying to protect my boys. 724 00:41:55,713 --> 00:41:57,818 What does she think she's protecting them from? 725 00:41:57,882 --> 00:41:59,828 Now, her neighbors read the same papers we do. 726 00:42:00,351 --> 00:42:03,457 It must've been pretty upsetting hearing those things said about her husband. 727 00:42:04,255 --> 00:42:07,793 She's been married to him 12 years. That's the man she knows. 728 00:42:09,059 --> 00:42:11,266 Maybe that's why she moved out. 729 00:42:12,029 --> 00:42:14,703 But we checked the New Jersey records, no complaints, no charges. 730 00:42:14,899 --> 00:42:17,345 If you had a family matter you wanted handled discreetly, 731 00:42:17,468 --> 00:42:19,709 would you run to the local precinct? 732 00:42:19,770 --> 00:42:22,944 No. But I might go to Family Services. 733 00:42:25,676 --> 00:42:29,590 Mrs. Krolinsky came to my office three years ago. She was in tears. 734 00:42:30,648 --> 00:42:32,423 What did she tell you? The night before, 735 00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:35,293 she walked in on her husband and their nine-year-old son. 736 00:42:35,553 --> 00:42:38,693 Doing something God didn't intend. Her words, not mine. 737 00:42:39,490 --> 00:42:42,403 I started a file, scheduled an interview with the boy. 738 00:42:42,927 --> 00:42:44,338 Did he confirm the story? 739 00:42:44,395 --> 00:42:45,999 Never got a chance to find out. 740 00:42:46,363 --> 00:42:50,243 The next day, Mrs. Krolinsky was back, apologizing to everyone in sight. 741 00:42:50,701 --> 00:42:51,736 You believed her? 742 00:42:51,802 --> 00:42:53,008 Without her cooperation, 743 00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:55,175 an investigation would've been a waste of time. 744 00:42:55,472 --> 00:42:57,918 I kept her file, in case she changed her mind. 745 00:42:58,175 --> 00:43:00,416 I'm gonna need a copy of that. Sure. 746 00:43:00,611 --> 00:43:02,784 I was wondering when you people'd get back to me on this. 747 00:43:03,380 --> 00:43:04,484 Excuse me? 748 00:43:04,548 --> 00:43:08,792 A couple of months ago, I got a phone call from one of your sex crimes investigators. 749 00:43:09,119 --> 00:43:10,621 A Detective Morino. 750 00:43:11,055 --> 00:43:13,763 He said he was doing a work-up on Mr. Krolinsky. 751 00:43:13,824 --> 00:43:16,202 I sent him a copy of the file. Never heard back. 752 00:43:17,861 --> 00:43:21,331 This is wrong. Kate was mistaken. She told them that. 753 00:43:21,398 --> 00:43:23,708 Right or wrong, I don't care. And neither will the jury. 754 00:43:23,767 --> 00:43:25,405 They'll never see it. It's irrelevant. 755 00:43:25,469 --> 00:43:27,039 Not as a motive for bribery. 756 00:43:27,805 --> 00:43:32,550 Detective Morino had this report. That's what he was holding over your head. 757 00:43:33,677 --> 00:43:34,951 That's why you paid him off. 758 00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:45,229 You set aside the conspiracy and bribery. 759 00:43:46,023 --> 00:43:48,765 We're open to a plea of sex abuse one on all the remaining counts, 760 00:43:48,826 --> 00:43:50,203 to serve concurrently. 761 00:43:50,260 --> 00:43:51,898 Two-and-a-half to seven years? 762 00:43:51,962 --> 00:43:56,934 Your client is facing conviction on 19 counts of aggravated sex abuse one. 763 00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:01,742 Tack them together, they'll be planting tomatoes on Mars by the time he gets out. 764 00:44:01,972 --> 00:44:04,213 For God's sake, Mr. McCoy, I have a family. 765 00:44:04,274 --> 00:44:05,685 I feel sorry for them. 766 00:44:05,743 --> 00:44:09,122 No, listen. I want to get help. I'm a sick man, I want to get help... 767 00:44:09,179 --> 00:44:12,649 You're an adult. Your victims are children. 768 00:44:15,953 --> 00:44:18,832 There's nothing you could say that would make me feel sorry for you. 769 00:44:19,289 --> 00:44:21,166 Let's split the difference, Mr. McCoy. 770 00:44:21,825 --> 00:44:24,305 Knock it down to a C felony with concurrent sentences. 771 00:44:31,602 --> 00:44:33,741 He serves the maximum, 15 years. 772 00:44:36,740 --> 00:44:38,151 Consider it a gift. 773 00:44:46,784 --> 00:44:49,731 Before I impose sentence, does the defendant wish 774 00:44:49,787 --> 00:44:51,164 to make a statement? 775 00:44:52,656 --> 00:44:53,691 Yes, Your Honor. 776 00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:05,002 I just wanna say from deep in my heart, 777 00:45:08,038 --> 00:45:11,144 how sorry I am to all those people I've offended. 778 00:45:14,812 --> 00:45:16,086 I'm very sorry. 779 00:45:21,318 --> 00:45:24,094 The defendant has met the conditions of the plea agreement. 780 00:45:24,154 --> 00:45:28,694 In accordance, the court sentences Joseph Krolinsky to a term of 15 years. 781 00:45:29,193 --> 00:45:32,197 The facility to be determined by the Department of Correction. 782 00:45:33,530 --> 00:45:34,668 Court is adjourned. 783 00:45:34,732 --> 00:45:35,733 (GAVEL BANGS) 784 00:45:48,912 --> 00:45:50,323 We called you Father. 785 00:45:53,150 --> 00:45:54,493 How could you do that to us? 786 00:45:57,821 --> 00:45:59,323 You even did it to your own kid. 787 00:46:02,059 --> 00:46:03,436 How could you do that? 788 00:46:07,865 --> 00:46:09,105 They're ready to take him. 789 00:46:09,155 --> 00:46:13,705 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0