1 00:00:01,523 --> 00:00:04,004 In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:04,091 --> 00:00:07,137 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:07,224 --> 00:00:09,009 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:09,096 --> 00:00:11,924 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:14,362 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,449 --> 00:00:17,539 Stop! Stop! Give me that! 7 00:00:18,279 --> 00:00:19,628 Somebody hold the guy! 8 00:00:19,715 --> 00:00:20,977 Hey, you! 9 00:00:21,064 --> 00:00:22,631 Get him! This guy stole my purse! 10 00:00:22,718 --> 00:00:24,198 We're gonna get you! 11 00:00:25,503 --> 00:00:28,811 Hold it right there! Come back here! 12 00:00:30,943 --> 00:00:33,511 Hey! Stay where you are! 13 00:00:36,123 --> 00:00:38,038 I tell you to stop and you stop. 14 00:00:38,125 --> 00:00:39,300 I was trying to catch a cab. 15 00:00:39,387 --> 00:00:41,215 Yeah, well, we'll give you a ride. 16 00:00:41,302 --> 00:00:43,434 He put it in there. I saw him. 17 00:00:45,828 --> 00:00:47,395 Are you Sharon Lasko? 18 00:00:47,482 --> 00:00:49,788 No, I'm Mrs. Dubinsky. That's not mine. 19 00:00:52,313 --> 00:00:53,618 That's mine. 20 00:00:53,705 --> 00:00:55,620 Ah! Looks like you've been a busy boy. 21 00:00:55,707 --> 00:00:59,059 Central, we've got a 10-22 on 6th Avenue and Spring Street, 22 00:00:59,146 --> 00:01:00,973 with a male in custody. 23 00:01:01,061 --> 00:01:05,282 Do you have a previous 10-22 with a complainant named Lasko, Sharon, 24 00:01:05,369 --> 00:01:06,588 white female, 23? 25 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:08,024 Checking. 26 00:01:09,243 --> 00:01:10,418 Sir, this looks like blood. 27 00:01:10,505 --> 00:01:11,897 I want to press charges. 28 00:01:11,984 --> 00:01:14,248 Do I have to go down to the police station? 29 00:01:14,335 --> 00:01:17,860 Lasko, Sharon. Reported missing three days ago. Some kind of model. 30 00:01:18,991 --> 00:01:20,210 Where is she? 31 00:01:20,297 --> 00:01:21,385 I don't know anything about that. 32 00:01:21,472 --> 00:01:23,518 I was in rehab till last night. 33 00:01:23,605 --> 00:01:28,349 And I see they did an excellent job. Where'd you get the wallet? 34 00:01:28,436 --> 00:01:31,352 Okay, so exactly when? And exactly where? 35 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:32,918 I got out of the clinic about 6:00. 36 00:01:33,005 --> 00:01:35,182 We haven't checked that.But we did. 37 00:01:35,269 --> 00:01:36,444 I came over here to hang around. 38 00:01:36,531 --> 00:01:38,402 What? To meet somebody? 39 00:01:38,489 --> 00:01:41,318 I needed to clear my head. That rehab really messes it up. 40 00:01:41,405 --> 00:01:45,235 All right. So you're out here breathing the clean, fresh air. Then what? 41 00:01:45,322 --> 00:01:46,976 It was around here somewhere. 42 00:01:47,063 --> 00:01:48,282 You want me to call CSU? 43 00:01:48,369 --> 00:01:51,676 No, let's spread out a little bit. 44 00:01:51,763 --> 00:01:55,680 Now, you're sure you never met this model someplace else before? 45 00:01:55,767 --> 00:01:57,856 Yeah, I was at the model's ball. 46 00:01:57,943 --> 00:02:00,381 That's why I'm still wearing my tuxedo. 47 00:02:00,468 --> 00:02:01,991 Hey, Lennie. 48 00:02:04,211 --> 00:02:06,343 I got a jacket over here. 49 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,216 With more blood. 50 00:02:09,303 --> 00:02:10,826 Lots more blood. 51 00:02:10,913 --> 00:02:12,697 Monogrammed Sharon. 52 00:02:12,784 --> 00:02:15,744 If she's lucky she'll just catch a cold. 53 00:03:03,357 --> 00:03:07,491 Sharon Lasko's agent reported her missing three days ago. 54 00:03:07,578 --> 00:03:10,059 She didn't show up for a meeting with an advertiser 55 00:03:10,146 --> 00:03:13,193 who was considering using her for some big commercial. 56 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,020 So what did Missing Persons get? 57 00:03:15,107 --> 00:03:18,633 These. Her agent brought them in. Her first calendar. 58 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,202 A still from her commercial for Green Apple Fizz 59 00:03:22,289 --> 00:03:24,508 and these are called headshots. 60 00:03:24,595 --> 00:03:26,075 That's it? 61 00:03:26,162 --> 00:03:28,295 Well, plus the message on her answering machine 62 00:03:28,382 --> 00:03:30,079 said she was on a photo shoot. 63 00:03:30,166 --> 00:03:32,516 But her agent checked the agencies that use her, 64 00:03:32,603 --> 00:03:34,170 and no one knows about any shoot. 65 00:03:34,257 --> 00:03:35,911 You tend to remember somebody who looks like this. 66 00:03:35,998 --> 00:03:37,869 That's got to help when you go knocking on doors. 67 00:03:37,956 --> 00:03:40,481 Well, Missing Persons wouldn't know. 68 00:03:40,568 --> 00:03:42,744 They told me they've been a little backed up. 69 00:03:42,831 --> 00:03:45,399 What? Missing Persons is too backed up to investigate a missing person? 70 00:03:45,486 --> 00:03:49,446 Well, they figured a 23-year-old model, she runs with a fast crowd. 71 00:03:49,533 --> 00:03:52,232 Her agent said last year she went off for a week 72 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:54,495 with a Saudi Arabian prince. 73 00:03:54,582 --> 00:03:55,887 Any family? 74 00:03:55,974 --> 00:03:57,454 Parents. In Astoria. 75 00:04:02,154 --> 00:04:07,029 She won a Miss Schoolgirl contest when she was in the third grade. 76 00:04:08,030 --> 00:04:10,946 Her talents were singing and tap. 77 00:04:11,033 --> 00:04:13,035 I called that guy at Missing Persons. 78 00:04:13,122 --> 00:04:15,951 He acted like she was some party girl running around. 79 00:04:16,038 --> 00:04:18,127 When did you talk to Sharon last? 80 00:04:18,214 --> 00:04:20,434 It's been a couple of weeks. 81 00:04:20,521 --> 00:04:22,566 She's been so busy with work. 82 00:04:22,653 --> 00:04:24,438 Do you know where? 83 00:04:24,525 --> 00:04:27,702 I think she was doing a catalog. 84 00:04:27,789 --> 00:04:31,445 She used to call us every time she got a job, 85 00:04:31,532 --> 00:04:33,011 but she's so successful now. 86 00:04:33,098 --> 00:04:35,449 Yeah. They tend to drift away a little. 87 00:04:35,536 --> 00:04:36,885 She comes to dinner at least once a month. 88 00:04:36,972 --> 00:04:39,540 But she only eats vegetables now. 89 00:04:39,627 --> 00:04:41,150 They have to be so thin, you know. 90 00:04:41,237 --> 00:04:42,673 It's a full-time job. 91 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,588 The diet, the exercise, the make-up. 92 00:04:44,675 --> 00:04:46,547 How about her friends? Do you know any of their names? 93 00:04:46,634 --> 00:04:49,332 She used to room with Monica Wickes. 94 00:04:49,419 --> 00:04:52,509 You see her picture everywhere now. 95 00:04:52,596 --> 00:04:55,773 Wait. Here. Here, here she is with Sharon 96 00:04:55,860 --> 00:04:59,777 when they did a Value Bin ad. They were just starting out. 97 00:05:01,083 --> 00:05:06,697 Detective, find her for us. Please? 98 00:05:10,353 --> 00:05:11,485 What do you mean she's missing? 99 00:05:11,572 --> 00:05:13,269 Nobody's seen her for a few days. 100 00:05:13,356 --> 00:05:14,662 Her parents are worried. 101 00:05:14,749 --> 00:05:16,011 We understand she's done this once before. 102 00:05:16,098 --> 00:05:17,273 Some Arab prince? 103 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,580 Ahmad. 104 00:05:19,667 --> 00:05:23,453 He met her backstage at a Bernilli show. Took her to Prague for a weekend. 105 00:05:23,540 --> 00:05:25,063 Is he still in her life? 106 00:05:25,150 --> 00:05:26,978 Not after that Monday. 107 00:05:27,065 --> 00:05:29,938 He's a charter member of the Model of the Week Club. 108 00:05:30,504 --> 00:05:32,680 Uh... 109 00:05:32,767 --> 00:05:34,943 Well, could he have given her name to another member? 110 00:05:35,030 --> 00:05:36,423 I wouldn't know. 111 00:05:36,510 --> 00:05:38,207 Her parents said you used to be roommates. 112 00:05:38,294 --> 00:05:39,817 One room in Chelsea. 113 00:05:39,904 --> 00:05:41,645 We were running around from agency to agency 114 00:05:41,732 --> 00:05:44,039 with portfolios we had taken in Queens. 115 00:05:44,126 --> 00:05:45,954 Why'd you split up? 116 00:05:46,041 --> 00:05:48,870 We started making enough money to afford our own apartments. 117 00:05:48,957 --> 00:05:50,828 Sharon always wanted one with a balcony. 118 00:05:50,915 --> 00:05:53,178 So when's the last time you saw her? 119 00:05:53,265 --> 00:05:56,878 A couple of weeks ago. I was out dancing with friends. 120 00:05:56,965 --> 00:06:00,316 She was with a girl named Amber. 121 00:06:00,403 --> 00:06:02,666 I talked to her on Thursday. 122 00:06:02,753 --> 00:06:05,234 She wanted to borrow my aqua silk shoes. She was going to a party at Psycho. 123 00:06:05,321 --> 00:06:06,583 And that would be? 124 00:06:06,670 --> 00:06:08,585 The nightclub. 125 00:06:08,672 --> 00:06:10,761 What's the matter? She didn't have enough shoes of her own? 126 00:06:10,848 --> 00:06:13,808 My thinking exactly. I mean, she's Miss Green Apple Fizz 127 00:06:13,895 --> 00:06:17,377 and I'm still pushing Femme Elegante for a day job. 128 00:06:17,464 --> 00:06:21,772 Look, I'm on commission here. If either one of you is interested... 129 00:06:21,859 --> 00:06:22,947 Hmm. 130 00:06:23,774 --> 00:06:25,602 What's the fragrance? Radishes? 131 00:06:25,689 --> 00:06:27,691 You like it? I've got it in after-shave. 132 00:06:27,778 --> 00:06:29,780 Do you splash it on personally? 133 00:06:29,867 --> 00:06:32,304 So this party, was it on Thursday night? 134 00:06:32,392 --> 00:06:36,221 Yeah, I told Sharon I was going myself, wearing those shoes. 135 00:06:36,308 --> 00:06:37,484 So you saw her there? 136 00:06:37,571 --> 00:06:38,920 Her and everybody else. 137 00:06:39,007 --> 00:06:41,052 Lots of models. Some basketball players. 138 00:06:41,139 --> 00:06:42,967 It went pretty late. It was in the VIP room. 139 00:06:43,054 --> 00:06:45,753 Was Sharon with anybody in particular? 140 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:50,235 When I left she was talking to the owner of the club. Something Scannell. 141 00:06:50,322 --> 00:06:51,759 It looked pretty intense. 142 00:06:51,846 --> 00:06:53,282 Frederick Scannell?Yeah. 143 00:06:53,369 --> 00:06:56,416 He likes to hobnob with us beautiful people. 144 00:06:57,547 --> 00:06:59,157 So you know this Scannell? 145 00:06:59,244 --> 00:07:01,246 Yeah, from OCCB. 146 00:07:01,333 --> 00:07:03,597 His file's thick enough to use as a booster seat for my kids. 147 00:07:03,684 --> 00:07:05,686 What? Rackets?Nah! Drugs. 148 00:07:05,773 --> 00:07:08,515 Funnels the money through restaurants, nightclubs, you name it. 149 00:07:08,602 --> 00:07:10,212 On paper he's a major entrepreneur. 150 00:07:10,299 --> 00:07:12,910 So the money's clean. You ever bust him? 151 00:07:12,997 --> 00:07:13,998 Not yet. 152 00:07:17,262 --> 00:07:19,787 Fringe benefit of owning a club, the private parties. 153 00:07:19,874 --> 00:07:21,832 Yeah. Models, athletes. 154 00:07:21,919 --> 00:07:24,705 I hate to be rude, but what do you bring to the table? Drugs? 155 00:07:24,792 --> 00:07:27,447 No drugs allowed here, Detective. They're illegal. 156 00:07:27,534 --> 00:07:28,839 It's my back room my guests like. 157 00:07:28,926 --> 00:07:29,927 They don't have to mess with the rabble. 158 00:07:30,014 --> 00:07:31,102 Just you. 159 00:07:31,189 --> 00:07:32,800 I'm not so bad. 160 00:07:32,887 --> 00:07:34,758 Sharon and I were getting along very nicely. 161 00:07:34,845 --> 00:07:36,891 Yeah. We heard you were having a very intense conversation. 162 00:07:36,978 --> 00:07:39,110 Yeah, I was trying to get into her pants. 163 00:07:39,197 --> 00:07:40,547 That's why I have these parties. 164 00:07:40,634 --> 00:07:42,200 And did you? 165 00:07:42,287 --> 00:07:43,811 No. The guy she came in with, Ken Soames. 166 00:07:43,898 --> 00:07:45,203 The basketball player? 167 00:07:45,290 --> 00:07:47,771 Yeah, decided he wanted to leave the same way. 168 00:07:47,858 --> 00:07:49,686 He interrupted us, rudely. 169 00:07:49,773 --> 00:07:51,645 Yeah, he's slow, but no jump shot. 170 00:07:51,732 --> 00:07:53,734 Warms the bench when he's not home on a drug suspension. 171 00:07:53,821 --> 00:07:55,649 And he's a friend of yours. What a coincidence. 172 00:07:55,736 --> 00:07:57,389 First of all, he's no friend of mine. 173 00:07:57,477 --> 00:08:00,044 Second of all, if I was in drugs, which I'm not, 174 00:08:00,131 --> 00:08:02,743 I wouldn't sell them retail to anyone, let alone a loser like Soames. 175 00:08:02,830 --> 00:08:05,049 If he's such a loser, you must've been pretty upset 176 00:08:05,136 --> 00:08:07,835 when Sharon walked off with him instead of you, huh? 177 00:08:07,922 --> 00:08:09,967 It was only 5:00 a.m. The night was still young. 178 00:08:10,054 --> 00:08:13,710 I ended up with a girl from Cats.Very frisky. 179 00:08:13,797 --> 00:08:15,669 Yo, I gotta get in the tub before this cools off. 180 00:08:15,756 --> 00:08:17,409 This'll just take a minute. 181 00:08:17,497 --> 00:08:19,499 Sharon Lasko was a friend of yours, am I right? 182 00:08:19,586 --> 00:08:22,284 Yeah, we went out for a while. It was pretty fun, but it's over. 183 00:08:22,371 --> 00:08:25,896 We heard you were keeping it alive at 5:00 a.m. at Scannell's place. 184 00:08:25,983 --> 00:08:27,681 Those models, man, they keep hours like Dracula. 185 00:08:27,768 --> 00:08:29,683 I just wanted to go home. 186 00:08:29,770 --> 00:08:32,207 Don't you mean, you just wanted Sharon to go home with you? 187 00:08:32,294 --> 00:08:33,425 Yeah. But she didn't. 188 00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:35,906 We heard she did. 189 00:08:35,993 --> 00:08:38,300 She went as far as the street in front of my building. 190 00:08:38,387 --> 00:08:40,084 I went upstairs. She went to her place. 191 00:08:40,171 --> 00:08:42,913 Did anyone see you go your separate ways? 192 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,176 What is this? You think I did something to her? 193 00:08:45,263 --> 00:08:49,398 Well, your last drug suspension led off with a DUI and a swing at a cop. 194 00:08:49,485 --> 00:08:51,269 I mean, you're hotter off the court than you are on. 195 00:08:51,356 --> 00:08:54,185 Up yours. I went upstairs. She went home. 196 00:08:54,272 --> 00:08:57,406 If you don't believe me, ask the limo driver. 197 00:08:58,886 --> 00:09:01,584 He went up alone, but he wasn't too happy about it. 198 00:09:01,671 --> 00:09:04,108 So they argued? 199 00:09:04,195 --> 00:09:06,197 Well, they were all over each other at first. You know, 6:00 a.m., a little drunk. 200 00:09:06,284 --> 00:09:09,070 Then he was like, "Come on, baby, come on, baby, come on, baby." 201 00:09:09,157 --> 00:09:10,506 And what was she like? 202 00:09:10,593 --> 00:09:11,812 Well, she didn't want to. 203 00:09:11,899 --> 00:09:13,509 He tried to drag her out of the car. 204 00:09:13,596 --> 00:09:15,163 And you, being a good citizen... 205 00:09:15,250 --> 00:09:17,557 I told him I'd call a cop if he didn't lay off. 206 00:09:17,644 --> 00:09:19,689 And? 207 00:09:19,776 --> 00:09:21,517 She took care of it herself. Almost slammed the door on his hand. 208 00:09:21,604 --> 00:09:24,564 Too bad. Might've helped his outside jump shot. 209 00:09:24,651 --> 00:09:26,348 So where'd you take her after that? 210 00:09:26,435 --> 00:09:29,438 Home and then the aircraft carrier with the museum. 211 00:09:29,525 --> 00:09:31,788 The Intrepid?Yeah. 212 00:09:31,875 --> 00:09:34,182 I waited outside her place while she changed. Then it was off to the river. 213 00:09:34,269 --> 00:09:37,315 She was worried about how cold it was. She was just wearing some skimpy dress. 214 00:09:37,402 --> 00:09:40,754 Her message said she had a photo shoot. Did you see a photographer? 215 00:09:40,841 --> 00:09:43,844 No. She just got out of the car. 216 00:09:43,931 --> 00:09:45,367 How the hell am I supposed to remember? 217 00:09:45,454 --> 00:09:46,803 Hey, I'd remember. 218 00:09:46,890 --> 00:09:49,240 You don't take in 1,200 tickets a day. 219 00:09:49,327 --> 00:09:50,590 Hey, Lennie. 220 00:09:53,418 --> 00:09:55,551 Mr. Nakiyama here thinks he saw her. 221 00:09:55,638 --> 00:09:56,987 I sold her a double espresso. 222 00:09:57,074 --> 00:09:58,989 I thought maybe she was Cindy Crawford. 223 00:09:59,076 --> 00:10:01,644 Her name is Sharon Lasko, if this is the woman you saw. 224 00:10:01,731 --> 00:10:04,778 Yeah. I saw her. No milk, four sugars. 225 00:10:04,865 --> 00:10:06,214 I never heard of Sharon Lasko. 226 00:10:06,301 --> 00:10:07,824 Well, maybe you've just seen her face. 227 00:10:07,911 --> 00:10:09,478 Yeah. I saw her here. 228 00:10:09,565 --> 00:10:11,262 Was there anybody with her? 229 00:10:11,349 --> 00:10:12,263 What'd he look like? 230 00:10:12,350 --> 00:10:13,613 We don't know. 231 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:15,136 A man with a camera. 232 00:10:16,050 --> 00:10:17,138 Ah! 233 00:10:17,225 --> 00:10:18,400 He paid for the espresso. 234 00:10:18,487 --> 00:10:19,793 Did you get a good look at him? 235 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:21,229 I don't remember. 236 00:10:21,316 --> 00:10:22,665 Hmm. 237 00:10:22,752 --> 00:10:24,580 So she was either with a photographer 238 00:10:24,667 --> 00:10:26,843 or some tourist taking pictures of the aircraft carrier. 239 00:10:26,930 --> 00:10:30,107 She wouldn't drag herself down to the Hudson after an all-night party 240 00:10:30,194 --> 00:10:32,196 unless it was for a job. 241 00:10:32,283 --> 00:10:34,677 Twenty-three years old. She's into limos, jocks, drug dealers. 242 00:10:34,764 --> 00:10:37,158 I guess you're planning a convent for your girls. 243 00:10:37,245 --> 00:10:38,812 I'm planning to raise them right. 244 00:10:38,899 --> 00:10:41,031 Hey, Rey, I got news for you. 245 00:10:41,118 --> 00:10:43,773 All your advice is optional after the day they buy their first bra. 246 00:10:43,860 --> 00:10:44,948 Yeah, I'll lock them in their room. 247 00:10:45,035 --> 00:10:46,602 Then we'll arrest you. 248 00:10:46,689 --> 00:10:48,386 Hey, look at this. 249 00:10:49,736 --> 00:10:51,128 The Statue of Liberty? 250 00:10:51,215 --> 00:10:53,174 Oh! Is that that thing behind the redhead? 251 00:10:53,261 --> 00:10:56,699 Now, look at this. Lady Liberty again. 252 00:10:56,786 --> 00:11:00,268 Two different models, same photographer. 253 00:11:00,355 --> 00:11:01,312 You see a pattern? 254 00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:03,184 Some guys have favorite places. 255 00:11:03,271 --> 00:11:06,100 Yeah, see who's partial to big boats. 256 00:11:08,885 --> 00:11:12,497 I'm new here. I don't know whether that's under "aircraft carrier" 257 00:11:12,584 --> 00:11:13,716 or "Intrepid." 258 00:11:13,803 --> 00:11:16,153 Boats? Ships?Flat-tops? 259 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,416 Oh, here we are, Intrepid. 260 00:11:20,984 --> 00:11:22,856 Looks like a popular site. 261 00:11:22,943 --> 00:11:26,207 Well, actually, a lot of these are done by the same guy. 262 00:11:26,294 --> 00:11:27,338 Ew! 263 00:11:27,425 --> 00:11:29,427 Not your favorite? 264 00:11:29,514 --> 00:11:32,561 Well, I've been here long enough to hear of him. Rick Kasteler. 265 00:11:32,648 --> 00:11:33,867 We don't represent him anymore. 266 00:11:33,954 --> 00:11:37,000 What'd he do? Screw up his f-stop? 267 00:11:37,087 --> 00:11:38,523 F-stop is right. 268 00:11:38,610 --> 00:11:41,265 A model he was working with sued the agency. 269 00:11:41,352 --> 00:11:45,400 Said he got up close and personal with more than his lens. 270 00:11:45,487 --> 00:11:48,708 We noticed how often you like to shoot at the Intrepid, Mr. Kasteler. 271 00:11:48,795 --> 00:11:53,713 Yeah. Well, it's just something about long legs against those big gun barrels. 272 00:11:54,278 --> 00:11:55,497 It works. 273 00:11:58,282 --> 00:12:02,243 Cindy, the nose. They can't get me a kid without a cold? 274 00:12:02,330 --> 00:12:03,897 When was the last time you shot there? 275 00:12:03,984 --> 00:12:05,072 About three days ago. 276 00:12:05,159 --> 00:12:06,334 With Sharon Lasko? 277 00:12:06,421 --> 00:12:07,335 Yes. Why? 278 00:12:07,422 --> 00:12:09,511 She's missing.Missing? 279 00:12:09,598 --> 00:12:11,556 Yeah. Have you seen her? 280 00:12:12,557 --> 00:12:14,255 Let's take a break. No. 281 00:12:14,342 --> 00:12:17,345 You seem to be the last person to see her. 282 00:12:19,086 --> 00:12:21,741 Except for whoever saw her after I left the Intrepid. 283 00:12:21,828 --> 00:12:23,046 When might that have been? 284 00:12:23,133 --> 00:12:25,222 It was about 2:00 in the afternoon. 285 00:12:25,309 --> 00:12:27,094 And what? You just left her sitting there among the big gun barrels? 286 00:12:27,181 --> 00:12:29,183 I was late to meet my wife and son. 287 00:12:29,270 --> 00:12:31,359 He was in a school play, Peter and the Wolf. 288 00:12:31,446 --> 00:12:34,275 Yeah, well, the thing is, Rick, we can't seem to find anybody 289 00:12:34,362 --> 00:12:36,973 who remembers hiring you to do a shoot with Sharon. 290 00:12:38,496 --> 00:12:41,108 Nobody hired me. I was doing her a favor. 291 00:12:41,195 --> 00:12:43,414 What kind of favor? 292 00:12:43,501 --> 00:12:47,070 I know how to get these girls' composites ready for TV and movie people. 293 00:12:47,157 --> 00:12:48,768 Sharon was looking to get into that area. 294 00:12:51,553 --> 00:12:53,555 Curtis.BRISCOE: And these kids? 295 00:12:53,642 --> 00:12:55,992 You're advancing their careers with the Mister Mittens campaign? 296 00:12:56,079 --> 00:12:58,734 You never know, Detective. You never know. 297 00:12:58,821 --> 00:13:00,780 Okay, we're on our way. 298 00:13:03,043 --> 00:13:05,393 They just found Sharon Lasko. 299 00:13:06,916 --> 00:13:09,832 Carters unload dumpsters here. That's probably how she traveled. 300 00:13:09,919 --> 00:13:11,312 Dumpsters from where? 301 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:13,401 East Side, West Side, all around the town. 302 00:13:13,488 --> 00:13:15,664 This guy's pooch uncovered the body. 303 00:13:15,751 --> 00:13:17,448 How messed up is she? 304 00:13:17,535 --> 00:13:18,885 A little banged up. 305 00:13:18,972 --> 00:13:20,974 But there's a bloody dent in her skull. 306 00:13:21,061 --> 00:13:23,672 I'm willing to bet that's pre-mortem. 307 00:13:26,893 --> 00:13:29,069 Diet, exercise, make-up. 308 00:13:34,422 --> 00:13:36,380 How do you like the photographer?Not much. 309 00:13:36,467 --> 00:13:38,426 He makes his living shooting runny noses, 310 00:13:38,513 --> 00:13:42,169 but he says Sharon Lasko expected him to help make her a star. 311 00:13:42,256 --> 00:13:45,041 He must've done a hell of a sales job on her. 312 00:13:45,128 --> 00:13:47,087 Maybe it included a private session. 313 00:13:47,174 --> 00:13:49,524 He gets too friendly with Sharon, she gets mad. 314 00:13:49,611 --> 00:13:51,700 You think his career could handle another lawsuit? 315 00:13:51,787 --> 00:13:56,009 Well, find out exactly how he earned the last one. 316 00:13:56,096 --> 00:13:59,012 He offered to take some intimate portraits, no extra charge. 317 00:13:59,099 --> 00:14:00,491 Said they'd really open doors. 318 00:14:00,578 --> 00:14:02,754 The only door he wanted open was mine. 319 00:14:02,842 --> 00:14:04,452 Did he get physical with you? 320 00:14:04,539 --> 00:14:06,367 It started out he was touching me. 321 00:14:06,454 --> 00:14:10,153 He said the camera would pick up my glow. Then it got too personal. 322 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,199 And he wouldn't stop? 323 00:14:12,286 --> 00:14:14,244 No, he thought I was enjoying it. 324 00:14:14,331 --> 00:14:15,550 I had bruises to prove it. 325 00:14:15,637 --> 00:14:17,247 Well, sounds like you had a criminal case. 326 00:14:17,334 --> 00:14:19,336 A body model topped up with silicone, 327 00:14:19,423 --> 00:14:21,512 alone with a cheesy camera-jockey shooting nudes? 328 00:14:21,599 --> 00:14:24,428 A jury adds that up and says it was my fault. 329 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:26,256 So where'd he take you? His place? 330 00:14:26,343 --> 00:14:29,607 No, he usually works out of his house, but his wife was around. 331 00:14:29,694 --> 00:14:33,785 He had the key to an apartment an ad agency lets its visiting clients use. 332 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:35,918 Hmm. Yum! 333 00:14:36,005 --> 00:14:37,267 After you've finished, they're gonna count all of these, Jenner. 334 00:14:37,354 --> 00:14:39,356 Yeah. Don't forget to search my shorts. 335 00:14:39,443 --> 00:14:42,577 How long are you gonna be here? I've got a friend coming over. 336 00:14:42,664 --> 00:14:44,927 Yeah. Well, you might want to make a call and cancel her. 337 00:14:45,014 --> 00:14:47,147 Now was this place cleaned up when you first got here? 338 00:14:47,234 --> 00:14:49,801 Not really. I wasn't due to come in until tomorrow 339 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:51,891 and I would have waited, I didn't know you guys were coming. 340 00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:53,980 Well, you stand there, you don't touch anything else. 341 00:14:54,067 --> 00:14:55,068 Can I put my clothes on? 342 00:14:55,155 --> 00:14:57,287 Yeah. Please. 343 00:14:59,202 --> 00:15:01,248 Swell place for a party. 344 00:15:01,335 --> 00:15:03,903 Yeah. The PBA ought to make R and R facilities like this an item 345 00:15:03,990 --> 00:15:05,208 in the next negotiation. 346 00:15:05,295 --> 00:15:06,731 Yeah. I'd settle for a raise. 347 00:15:06,818 --> 00:15:08,298 Will you lighten up? 348 00:15:08,385 --> 00:15:10,387 Come on, picture this, "Detective Rey Curtis 349 00:15:10,474 --> 00:15:13,042 "on his afternoon break in a Jacuzzi with a hooker." 350 00:15:13,129 --> 00:15:18,221 Yeah. Picture me lying dead in an alley with my wife standing over me. 351 00:15:18,308 --> 00:15:20,702 Hey, what do you know? A bucket of trash. 352 00:15:20,789 --> 00:15:23,487 Cigarette butts. Now, do we know, did Sharon smoke? 353 00:15:23,574 --> 00:15:27,143 Most of them do. Two ticket stubs. Adult admissions. 354 00:15:28,014 --> 00:15:30,451 The Intrepid Museum. 355 00:15:32,192 --> 00:15:37,197 So you're still absolutely sure you left Sharon Lasko on that ship? 356 00:15:37,284 --> 00:15:39,068 Yes. I already told you. 357 00:15:39,155 --> 00:15:41,375 And you went right from the ship to the school play? 358 00:15:41,462 --> 00:15:43,333 Yes. 359 00:15:43,420 --> 00:15:46,815 You sure you didn't stop at an apartment on East 52nd? 360 00:15:48,382 --> 00:15:50,993 Has your wife ever been to that apartment? 361 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,257 I bet she'd really like that double tub. 362 00:15:54,344 --> 00:15:56,433 I don't know anything about what happened to Sharon. 363 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:57,782 I didn't even know that she was missing. 364 00:15:57,869 --> 00:15:59,697 Come on, Kasteler. How'd it go down? 365 00:15:59,784 --> 00:16:02,309 Were you trying to make her glow for the camera? 366 00:16:02,396 --> 00:16:04,615 You know, you can stop lying about being there. 367 00:16:04,702 --> 00:16:07,357 Forensics found your fingerprints and the fingerprints of Sharon Lasko 368 00:16:07,444 --> 00:16:09,185 at that little ad agency playpen. 369 00:16:09,272 --> 00:16:11,840 So what? I'm married. I don't advertise. 370 00:16:11,927 --> 00:16:14,712 You got her there, right? You got her out of her clothes. 371 00:16:14,799 --> 00:16:16,627 You got out the champagne. 372 00:16:16,714 --> 00:16:19,326 So what's my motive? I was having too good a time? 373 00:16:19,413 --> 00:16:21,763 Maybe she wanted you to stop. 374 00:16:23,069 --> 00:16:24,113 She would have gone all day. 375 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:25,767 Would have? 376 00:16:25,854 --> 00:16:27,812 So she did pull the plug on your little party, huh? 377 00:16:27,899 --> 00:16:29,292 No. She'd been up all night. 378 00:16:29,379 --> 00:16:30,685 She said she needed some coke to keep her going. 379 00:16:30,772 --> 00:16:32,774 I didn't have any.So she said stop. 380 00:16:32,861 --> 00:16:34,558 You got frustrated, right? You got mad. 381 00:16:34,645 --> 00:16:36,865 No. I got on the phone to a drug dealer I know. 382 00:16:36,952 --> 00:16:40,912 I got his machine. By then it was time to get to my kid's play. 383 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,873 Look, Sharon was in the shower when I left. I swear to God. 384 00:16:51,097 --> 00:16:53,360 She had intercourse within a few hours before she died. 385 00:16:53,447 --> 00:16:54,535 Any signs of rape? 386 00:16:54,622 --> 00:16:57,364 No. No tearing. No bruising. 387 00:16:57,451 --> 00:16:59,844 Just enough to kill her. 388 00:16:59,931 --> 00:17:02,760 Well, standard rape MO doesn't include breaking the victim's skull with a bottle. 389 00:17:02,847 --> 00:17:05,894 There was glass in the wound and some bruises on the neck. 390 00:17:05,981 --> 00:17:07,722 He tried to strangle her first? 391 00:17:07,809 --> 00:17:09,115 She went down fighting. 392 00:17:09,202 --> 00:17:11,595 There was skin under her nails. 393 00:17:11,682 --> 00:17:15,947 A different blood type than the semen. Whoever had sex with her didn't kill her. 394 00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:18,080 You're sure of that? 395 00:17:18,167 --> 00:17:20,256 Sorry. You're gonna have to catch the guy that actually did it. 396 00:17:20,343 --> 00:17:22,737 Thanks for the tip. Anything else? 397 00:17:22,824 --> 00:17:25,653 Yeah. There was cocaine in her system. 398 00:17:26,219 --> 00:17:28,090 Thanks again. 399 00:17:28,177 --> 00:17:31,789 Kasteler said he didn't have any, and the rest of his story checks. 400 00:17:31,876 --> 00:17:33,791 So what'd she do? Go back to Scannell? 401 00:17:33,878 --> 00:17:36,098 Well, if he did have drugs, he would've scored with her at the party. 402 00:17:36,185 --> 00:17:38,144 But she walked out with Soames. 403 00:17:38,231 --> 00:17:41,147 Who is also no stranger to the world of controlled substances. 404 00:17:41,234 --> 00:17:44,454 I told you, I never saw her again. I'm clean now anyway. 405 00:17:44,541 --> 00:17:46,717 Oh, yeah, and I can slam-dunk. 406 00:17:46,804 --> 00:17:48,458 Look, man, look, when I first came into the league 407 00:17:48,545 --> 00:17:50,286 things were pretty crazy, okay? 408 00:17:50,373 --> 00:17:51,896 But I finally decided I'd rather keep making 409 00:17:51,983 --> 00:17:54,377 a million bucks a year than inhale cocaine. 410 00:17:54,464 --> 00:17:55,987 I mean, you find that so hard to believe? 411 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:58,251 So where were you making your money Friday afternoon? 412 00:17:58,338 --> 00:18:00,601 Right here. Practicing. 413 00:18:00,688 --> 00:18:02,820 But you're still the guy who would know where a girl could score some blow. 414 00:18:02,907 --> 00:18:06,259 Look, Sharon wouldn't come to me. She knew I was out of it. 415 00:18:06,346 --> 00:18:07,651 So who? 416 00:18:10,567 --> 00:18:11,786 That limo driver, Johnny. 417 00:18:11,873 --> 00:18:13,396 The one who drove you home from the party? 418 00:18:13,483 --> 00:18:15,224 Yeah. The team uses that service. 419 00:18:15,311 --> 00:18:17,574 Johnny's always trying to suck up. 420 00:18:17,661 --> 00:18:19,663 Sharon and I did lines in the back seat once. 421 00:18:19,750 --> 00:18:22,797 He told her if she ever wanted some more, just give him a call. 422 00:18:22,884 --> 00:18:24,973 How come you never mentioned this before? 423 00:18:25,060 --> 00:18:27,976 What? I'm just gonna start talking to a couple of cops about drugs? 424 00:18:28,063 --> 00:18:31,806 Look, I didn't even know this had anything to do with Sharon getting murdered. 425 00:18:31,893 --> 00:18:35,766 Passengers ask me for drugs, they ask me for prostitutes. 426 00:18:35,853 --> 00:18:37,551 One guy even asked where he could buy a gun. 427 00:18:37,638 --> 00:18:39,683 We're not talking about the asking, Johnny. 428 00:18:39,770 --> 00:18:41,729 We're talking about the getting. 429 00:18:41,816 --> 00:18:43,905 Ken Soames used to pack his nose 430 00:18:43,992 --> 00:18:46,342 during any ride that lasted longer than three minutes. 431 00:18:46,429 --> 00:18:47,822 I don't know where he got his stuff. 432 00:18:47,909 --> 00:18:50,433 What about a pretty girl like Sharon Lasko? 433 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:51,913 If she wanted some? 434 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,698 I'm sure she could get it. But not from me. 435 00:18:54,785 --> 00:18:57,788 Some people think it helps them perform. I think it screws them up. 436 00:18:57,875 --> 00:18:59,399 You were worried about her career? 437 00:18:59,486 --> 00:19:02,445 She rode in my car a few times. We talked. 438 00:19:02,532 --> 00:19:05,753 She said she was having trouble getting work after the Apple Fizz campaign. 439 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,972 What about Friday? 440 00:19:08,059 --> 00:19:10,366 You see her again after you dropped her off at the aircraft carrier? 441 00:19:10,453 --> 00:19:14,675 No, no. I headed out for an airport run, I got caught in a jam on the Van Wyck. 442 00:19:14,762 --> 00:19:16,894 You know, you guys are wasting your time talking to me 443 00:19:16,981 --> 00:19:19,941 when the guy who killed Sharon is still running around. 444 00:19:22,552 --> 00:19:26,687 Kasteler's waiting for a written apology. Just don't mail it to his wife. 445 00:19:26,774 --> 00:19:29,559 The basketball player's alibi stands up. 446 00:19:29,646 --> 00:19:31,561 What about the limo driver? 447 00:19:31,648 --> 00:19:33,520 He would have been an easy way for Sharon to feed her habit. 448 00:19:33,607 --> 00:19:35,652 Traffic on the Van Wyck always sucks. 449 00:19:35,739 --> 00:19:38,438 Five will get you ten he knows a shortcut through Brooklyn. 450 00:19:38,525 --> 00:19:40,570 Yeah, he seemed a little funky. 451 00:19:40,657 --> 00:19:42,833 Why would he kill her? 452 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,314 It sounds like Sharon Lasko was a girl that was fun to do drugs with. 453 00:19:45,401 --> 00:19:47,621 Hey, here we go. 454 00:19:47,708 --> 00:19:50,450 Three outgoing calls while Kasteler was at the ad agency pad with Sharon. 455 00:19:50,537 --> 00:19:53,192 Kasteler said he called a drug dealer. 456 00:19:56,107 --> 00:19:58,719 Answering machine. Jerry. 457 00:19:58,806 --> 00:20:00,938 Give that to Narcotics. 458 00:20:03,463 --> 00:20:07,858 Yeah, Imperial Palace? How's your mu shu? Okay. 459 00:20:08,685 --> 00:20:10,731 He says it's very, very good. 460 00:20:10,818 --> 00:20:13,342 Kasteler really knows how to treat a girl. 461 00:20:13,429 --> 00:20:15,518 Oh, I'm sorry, wrong number. 462 00:20:17,303 --> 00:20:19,392 East River Limo Service. 463 00:20:19,479 --> 00:20:21,045 The one Johnny drives for. 464 00:20:22,308 --> 00:20:24,571 All right. Keep on it. 465 00:20:24,658 --> 00:20:26,312 Two guys out with the flu. 466 00:20:26,399 --> 00:20:29,706 A busted tranny. And my mechanic was deported. 467 00:20:29,793 --> 00:20:31,404 His papers looked kosher to me. 468 00:20:31,491 --> 00:20:32,666 This was Friday afternoon. 469 00:20:32,753 --> 00:20:36,626 Yeah, yeah, here we are. Let's see. 470 00:20:36,713 --> 00:20:37,758 Uh... 471 00:20:37,845 --> 00:20:40,108 Okay. 472 00:20:40,195 --> 00:20:43,633 Yeah, no. If a Sharon Lasko got a ride in a limo, it wasn't one of ours. 473 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,156 Around 2:00. She called you. 474 00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:47,550 Hey, everybody who rides, it's in the book. 475 00:20:47,637 --> 00:20:49,900 Well, she might have been looking for Johnny Stivers. 476 00:20:49,987 --> 00:20:51,162 Johnny? 477 00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:54,557 This was a model? Good-looking? 478 00:20:54,644 --> 00:20:56,951 Right. Not one of those ugly models. 479 00:20:57,038 --> 00:21:00,911 I picked up a call from a girl. She sounded so bad she must've been gorgeous. 480 00:21:00,998 --> 00:21:02,957 But she's not in the book? 481 00:21:03,044 --> 00:21:05,786 Right. She wanted to talk to Johnny directly. 482 00:21:05,873 --> 00:21:08,267 I told her he was busy. Airport runs back to back. 483 00:21:08,354 --> 00:21:09,442 You're sure of that? 484 00:21:09,529 --> 00:21:10,530 Hey, it's in the book. 485 00:21:10,617 --> 00:21:11,835 So who drove the girl? 486 00:21:11,922 --> 00:21:13,489 Nobody. 487 00:21:13,576 --> 00:21:14,969 I just forwarded the call to Johnny's cellular. 488 00:21:15,056 --> 00:21:16,275 Where's Johnny now? 489 00:21:16,362 --> 00:21:18,015 Far as I know, he's home. 490 00:21:18,842 --> 00:21:20,148 And his car? 491 00:21:21,541 --> 00:21:23,673 It's out there. I'll show you. 492 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,329 A normal good washing would've still left plenty, 493 00:21:27,416 --> 00:21:29,897 but this seat was steam cleaned. 494 00:21:29,984 --> 00:21:31,855 You're not gonna find anything off the surfaces. 495 00:21:31,942 --> 00:21:33,814 One point for Johnny.Ah! 496 00:21:33,901 --> 00:21:37,905 But we do not stop at surfaces. 497 00:21:38,732 --> 00:21:40,821 They do tune-ups, too. 498 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,173 Glass. 499 00:21:45,260 --> 00:21:47,567 That's enough to compare with what we found in Sharon Lasko's head. 500 00:21:47,654 --> 00:21:51,832 Yeah. Now let's see how this baby likes UV light. 501 00:21:59,579 --> 00:22:01,320 Glass and blood. 502 00:22:08,457 --> 00:22:10,329 What is it? 503 00:22:10,416 --> 00:22:12,461 I thought you were done with me?Oh! It's just starting. 504 00:22:12,548 --> 00:22:14,681 John Stivers, you're under arrest for the murder of Sharon Lasko. 505 00:22:14,768 --> 00:22:16,857 You have the right to remain silent. 506 00:22:16,944 --> 00:22:18,859 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 507 00:22:18,946 --> 00:22:21,165 Hey, where are you going? 508 00:22:21,252 --> 00:22:23,951 You also have the right to have incriminating evidence in your apartment. 509 00:22:24,038 --> 00:22:26,736 A bloodstained suit would be nice. 510 00:22:27,955 --> 00:22:28,956 Rey. 511 00:22:33,134 --> 00:22:35,832 A shrine to the late Sharon Lasko. 512 00:22:48,802 --> 00:22:52,371 You'd think the murder rate was at an all-time high, 513 00:22:52,458 --> 00:22:54,982 instead of the lowest in 10 years. 514 00:22:55,069 --> 00:22:59,073 Pretty model, 15 minutes of fame tragically cut short. 515 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,293 So is our budget. This have to go to trial? 516 00:23:02,381 --> 00:23:04,121 It won't be a long one. 517 00:23:04,208 --> 00:23:06,210 She called Johnny Stivers for a ride just before she got killed. 518 00:23:06,297 --> 00:23:09,692 Blood's in his car and we know he was infatuated with her. 519 00:23:09,779 --> 00:23:12,129 An obsessed fan. 520 00:23:12,216 --> 00:23:17,308 What was his motive? Trying to get her autograph and he slipped? 521 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,310 The evidence is overwhelming that he killed her. 522 00:23:19,398 --> 00:23:20,834 I don't mind letting a jury guess 523 00:23:20,921 --> 00:23:23,053 what it was he wanted from her and didn't get. 524 00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:25,012 Hormones. 525 00:23:25,099 --> 00:23:28,755 Offer to knock off a couple of years off the sentence. 526 00:23:28,842 --> 00:23:30,713 He'll take a plea. 527 00:23:31,671 --> 00:23:34,674 Twenty-to-life instead of 25? 528 00:23:34,761 --> 00:23:36,240 It's a gift. 529 00:23:36,327 --> 00:23:38,155 It is? 530 00:23:38,242 --> 00:23:41,594 What do you give your girlfriends on Valentine's Day, Jack? 531 00:23:41,681 --> 00:23:43,813 Jewelry made out of twigs? 532 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:47,164 Do you really want to go to trial, Deirdre? 533 00:23:47,251 --> 00:23:51,473 Her blood was in his car. His blood was under her fingernails. 534 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,170 He can do the full term. 535 00:23:53,257 --> 00:23:57,610 Actually, I was thinking of man one, say, three-to-nine. 536 00:23:57,697 --> 00:23:59,263 Three years for a brutal murder? 537 00:23:59,350 --> 00:24:01,527 That's not thinking. That's hallucinating. 538 00:24:01,614 --> 00:24:03,006 We'll see. 539 00:24:03,093 --> 00:24:06,793 Here's my notice of our affirmative defense. 540 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,969 Extreme emotional disturbance. 541 00:24:09,056 --> 00:24:11,841 You walk in on your wife in bed with a lover, 542 00:24:11,928 --> 00:24:14,148 that's extreme emotional disturbance. 543 00:24:14,235 --> 00:24:16,803 Not the violent act of some kind of obsessed fan. 544 00:24:16,890 --> 00:24:20,807 That's not what it was. Sharon and I had a relationship. 545 00:24:20,894 --> 00:24:23,505 That's right. You were her driver. What happened? 546 00:24:23,592 --> 00:24:26,160 Did you get upset because she made you give up a parking space? 547 00:24:26,247 --> 00:24:30,512 She was doing it with that photographer. I loved her. She loved me. 548 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:34,385 She did? I'm not aware there were any photos of you above her bed. 549 00:24:34,473 --> 00:24:35,778 Read the statute. 550 00:24:35,865 --> 00:24:39,042 The reasonableness of a defendant's emotion 551 00:24:39,129 --> 00:24:43,960 is to be determined by the circumstances as he perceived them to be. 552 00:24:44,047 --> 00:24:48,051 It's irrelevant whether or not his perceptions are correct. 553 00:24:48,138 --> 00:24:51,533 Is there any indication that Sharon Lasko and Johnny Stivers 554 00:24:51,620 --> 00:24:53,492 were more than passenger and driver? 555 00:24:53,579 --> 00:24:56,582 Well, the police never looked. They didn't have a reason to. 556 00:24:56,669 --> 00:24:58,453 Well, we do now. 557 00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:01,587 Does it really matter? Even if he mistakenly believed 558 00:25:01,674 --> 00:25:03,458 they had a serious relationship, 559 00:25:03,545 --> 00:25:06,809 he still qualifies for extreme emotional disturbance. 560 00:25:06,896 --> 00:25:09,246 Mistakenly, not idiotically. 561 00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:11,684 If there are no grounds for his alleged beliefs, 562 00:25:11,771 --> 00:25:14,295 the jury will see he's just lying. 563 00:25:15,862 --> 00:25:17,864 We're not very close, but he is my little brother. 564 00:25:17,951 --> 00:25:20,736 I'm not gonna say anything to hurt him. 565 00:25:20,823 --> 00:25:23,434 He told us he killed her, Ms. Stivers. 566 00:25:24,131 --> 00:25:25,262 He said that? 567 00:25:25,349 --> 00:25:27,003 Yes. 568 00:25:27,090 --> 00:25:29,832 The only question we have is why. 569 00:25:29,919 --> 00:25:32,008 I don't know why he does anything. 570 00:25:32,095 --> 00:25:34,184 I only see him a couple times a year. 571 00:25:34,271 --> 00:25:36,883 I moved out of the house when he was still a kid. 572 00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:39,625 Would you know if he had a girlfriend? 573 00:25:39,712 --> 00:25:41,627 Me and the rest of the world. 574 00:25:41,714 --> 00:25:44,412 If Johnny had a girlfriend it would lead off the 6:00 news. 575 00:25:44,499 --> 00:25:47,458 Not exactly Mr. Popularity? 576 00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:50,810 When he was in high school he used to try out his lines on me 577 00:25:50,897 --> 00:25:55,684 to work up the nerve to... For the real girl. 578 00:25:55,771 --> 00:25:58,818 "I'm Johnny, can I buy you a cup of coffee?" 579 00:25:58,905 --> 00:26:00,863 "Did anyone ever tell you, you have nice eyes?" 580 00:26:00,950 --> 00:26:02,473 He saw that one in a movie. 581 00:26:05,607 --> 00:26:09,611 He talked about her all the time. He drove her once in a while, you know. 582 00:26:09,698 --> 00:26:11,395 What did he say about her? 583 00:26:11,482 --> 00:26:12,875 That she was a good person. 584 00:26:12,962 --> 00:26:15,269 Not stuck-up. That she liked him. 585 00:26:15,356 --> 00:26:17,184 Even though he was just a limo driver? 586 00:26:17,271 --> 00:26:19,403 Hey, I'm a limo driver, I do great. 587 00:26:19,490 --> 00:26:20,927 No offense. 588 00:26:21,014 --> 00:26:22,581 It just seems he was starstruck about her. 589 00:26:22,668 --> 00:26:26,715 Yeah. We were in a bar once, watching this ball game, 590 00:26:26,802 --> 00:26:28,630 her commercial came on. 591 00:26:28,717 --> 00:26:31,633 He went nuts, telling everybody to shut up and watch. 592 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,896 Do you think they were intimate? 593 00:26:33,983 --> 00:26:35,594 I don't think so. 594 00:26:35,681 --> 00:26:37,030 Did he say he did? 595 00:26:37,117 --> 00:26:39,293 He said it was gonna happen. 596 00:26:39,380 --> 00:26:43,427 He had taken her on a date to the Ginger Club, said she got pretty hot. 597 00:26:43,514 --> 00:26:47,388 He said he took her to the Ginger? Sure. He took her there and dropped her off. 598 00:26:47,475 --> 00:26:49,433 So there was nothing going on between them? 599 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,087 Mmm. 600 00:26:51,174 --> 00:26:53,089 She might have made nice with the guy once in a while. 601 00:26:53,176 --> 00:26:55,265 Made nice? 602 00:26:55,352 --> 00:26:56,527 Talked nice. 603 00:26:56,615 --> 00:26:57,877 I've seen the guy. He's homely. 604 00:26:57,964 --> 00:26:59,792 So she wasn't interested? 605 00:26:59,879 --> 00:27:02,490 Look, there was one interesting thing about that guy. 606 00:27:02,577 --> 00:27:05,449 He had good cocaine, and he gave it to her for free. 607 00:27:05,536 --> 00:27:07,930 Could he have believed that she loved him? 608 00:27:08,017 --> 00:27:10,106 Hmm? 609 00:27:10,193 --> 00:27:12,718 Did you ever want something from a guy you weren't interested in? 610 00:27:12,805 --> 00:27:14,023 Sure. 611 00:27:14,110 --> 00:27:15,982 Smiled when you asked him for it? 612 00:27:16,069 --> 00:27:18,637 Let his arm brush against your boob? 613 00:27:18,724 --> 00:27:20,987 She led him on for drugs? 614 00:27:22,249 --> 00:27:24,425 No. She wouldn't have gone to bed for it. 615 00:27:24,512 --> 00:27:27,428 But I think she made a little sweet conversation. 616 00:27:27,515 --> 00:27:31,214 It was pathetic. He never had a chance with her. She was using him. 617 00:27:31,301 --> 00:27:34,217 When he finally realized that, it must've made him angry. 618 00:27:34,304 --> 00:27:36,698 If you'll pardon my ignorance, isn't your theory of the case 619 00:27:36,785 --> 00:27:39,005 getting to be a little like theirs? 620 00:27:39,092 --> 00:27:41,572 They say he was an outraged boyfriend 621 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:44,358 and you say he was an outraged would-be boyfriend. 622 00:27:44,445 --> 00:27:47,622 There's a world of difference between a jealous lover 623 00:27:47,709 --> 00:27:50,364 and some horny bastard who's mad he can't get to first base. 624 00:27:50,451 --> 00:27:53,062 Eloquent. Can't wait for your closing argument. 625 00:27:53,149 --> 00:27:56,065 Johnny Stivers' motive was garden-variety frustration. 626 00:27:56,152 --> 00:27:59,416 If that qualifies as extreme emotional distress, 627 00:27:59,503 --> 00:28:01,854 then almost any murderer qualifies. 628 00:28:01,941 --> 00:28:04,334 They're all upset about something. 629 00:28:04,421 --> 00:28:08,512 Just be careful they don't have a killer who's more sympathetic than your victim. 630 00:28:11,951 --> 00:28:14,127 We found her body in a landfill. 631 00:28:14,214 --> 00:28:18,653 It had been thrown in a dumpster and carried there in a garbage truck. 632 00:28:19,393 --> 00:28:21,177 Was it bloody? 633 00:28:21,264 --> 00:28:24,093 Yes, the skull was fractured through to the brain. 634 00:28:24,180 --> 00:28:25,312 I see. 635 00:28:27,836 --> 00:28:31,448 And when you first interviewed the defendant about her murder, 636 00:28:31,535 --> 00:28:33,015 did he seem upset by it? 637 00:28:33,102 --> 00:28:37,411 No. He acted as if he barely knew her. 638 00:28:37,498 --> 00:28:41,154 Did Mr. Stivers say that he saw Ms. Lasko on the last day of her life? 639 00:28:41,241 --> 00:28:44,244 Yes, he said he had driven her home from a party 640 00:28:44,331 --> 00:28:47,726 along with a basketball player named Ken Soames. 641 00:28:47,813 --> 00:28:52,034 And did he say what she and Mr. Soames did in his presence? 642 00:28:52,121 --> 00:28:53,644 He said they were all over each other. 643 00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:55,342 In a sexual way? 644 00:28:55,429 --> 00:28:56,517 Yes. 645 00:28:56,604 --> 00:28:58,693 Did he seem upset by that? 646 00:28:58,780 --> 00:29:00,695 No, he didn't. 647 00:29:00,782 --> 00:29:03,959 When you searched Mr. Stivers' apartment after his arrest, 648 00:29:04,046 --> 00:29:06,222 what did you find on the wall of his bedroom? 649 00:29:06,309 --> 00:29:09,269 All kinds of pictures of Sharon Lasko, 650 00:29:09,356 --> 00:29:12,707 ads cut out of newspapers, calendars, you name it. 651 00:29:14,187 --> 00:29:18,017 He didn't just have a photo or two in a silver frame, 652 00:29:18,104 --> 00:29:19,845 like a man might have of his girlfriend? 653 00:29:19,932 --> 00:29:22,021 Objection.JUDGE FILMORE: Overruled. 654 00:29:24,588 --> 00:29:27,635 No, it was a full-out shrine, like somebody obsessed. 655 00:29:27,722 --> 00:29:30,681 Move to strike. The witness is not a psychologist. 656 00:29:30,769 --> 00:29:35,208 Sustained. The jury will disregard the witness' last remark. 657 00:29:35,295 --> 00:29:37,471 I have no more questions. 658 00:29:39,429 --> 00:29:42,215 Detective Briscoe, is this one of the photographs 659 00:29:42,302 --> 00:29:45,522 that you saw on Mr. Stivers' bedroom wall? 660 00:29:45,609 --> 00:29:46,785 Yes, one of the many. 661 00:29:46,872 --> 00:29:49,091 Would you describe it, please? 662 00:29:49,178 --> 00:29:54,140 It's a glossy photo of Sharon Lasko with an inscription on the front. 663 00:29:54,227 --> 00:29:57,012 Please read it. 664 00:29:57,099 --> 00:30:00,494 "To Johnny, my main man in a big car. Love, Sharon." 665 00:30:00,581 --> 00:30:03,410 Like the kind of note a man might get from his girlfriend? 666 00:30:03,497 --> 00:30:04,454 Objection. 667 00:30:04,541 --> 00:30:05,760 He asked the same question. 668 00:30:05,847 --> 00:30:06,805 And you objected. 669 00:30:06,892 --> 00:30:08,154 And he overruled. 670 00:30:08,241 --> 00:30:09,851 Counselors! 671 00:30:09,938 --> 00:30:13,812 The objection is overruled. The witness may answer. 672 00:30:13,899 --> 00:30:14,987 What was the question? 673 00:30:15,074 --> 00:30:16,945 Is that inscribed photograph 674 00:30:17,032 --> 00:30:20,644 the kind of memento a man might get from his girlfriend? 675 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:24,126 Possibly, yes. 676 00:30:27,651 --> 00:30:31,307 Mr. Soames, were you ever in the presence 677 00:30:31,394 --> 00:30:34,136 of Sharon Lasko and Johnny Stivers? 678 00:30:34,963 --> 00:30:38,445 Yes. He used to drive us sometimes. 679 00:30:38,532 --> 00:30:41,883 And what kinds of things would she say to him? 680 00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:47,236 She'd ask him to drive her places. She'd ask him to get her drugs. 681 00:30:47,323 --> 00:30:50,892 And what kinds of things would he say to her? 682 00:30:50,979 --> 00:30:52,546 He'd try to make conversation, 683 00:30:52,633 --> 00:30:55,723 try to impress her by telling her about places he'd been, 684 00:30:55,810 --> 00:30:57,638 celebrities he'd driven. 685 00:30:57,725 --> 00:31:00,206 And how would she react? 686 00:31:00,293 --> 00:31:02,556 When he wasn't around, she'd laugh about him. 687 00:31:02,643 --> 00:31:06,038 She knew he liked her. She thought it was funny. 688 00:31:06,125 --> 00:31:08,214 She didn't think highly of him? 689 00:31:08,301 --> 00:31:09,606 She didn't think anything of him. 690 00:31:09,693 --> 00:31:11,870 And he knew that? 691 00:31:11,957 --> 00:31:13,872 It was pretty obvious. 692 00:31:13,959 --> 00:31:15,134 Thank you. 693 00:31:18,137 --> 00:31:22,445 Mr. Soames, we've heard testimony that on the day Ms. Lasko died, 694 00:31:22,532 --> 00:31:24,578 you and she had sexual contact 695 00:31:24,665 --> 00:31:26,623 in the back seat of Mr. Stivers' car. 696 00:31:26,710 --> 00:31:28,103 It wasn't sexual. 697 00:31:28,190 --> 00:31:30,149 What would you call it? 698 00:31:30,236 --> 00:31:33,413 It was just like some making out, some kissing, some petting. 699 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:36,938 And Mr. Stivers could see you? 700 00:31:37,025 --> 00:31:39,723 If he looked in the rear-view mirror. 701 00:31:39,810 --> 00:31:45,251 Did you and Ms. Lasko have more extensive sexual contact in Mr. Stivers' car? 702 00:31:47,818 --> 00:31:49,603 Yes.What did you do? 703 00:31:51,083 --> 00:31:53,650 After another party once, we had sex. 704 00:31:53,737 --> 00:31:55,130 Sexual intercourse? 705 00:31:55,739 --> 00:31:57,524 Yeah. 706 00:31:57,611 --> 00:32:00,875 And Mr. Stivers could see what Ms. Lasko was doing? 707 00:32:01,658 --> 00:32:02,746 I suppose. 708 00:32:02,833 --> 00:32:04,966 And she performed this act 709 00:32:05,053 --> 00:32:09,536 in Mr. Stivers' presence after she knew how he felt about her? 710 00:32:11,668 --> 00:32:14,454 Yeah, I guess so. 711 00:32:14,541 --> 00:32:19,328 If you were in his place, how would that make you feel? 712 00:32:20,590 --> 00:32:21,809 Objection! 713 00:32:21,896 --> 00:32:23,898 Withdrawn. No further questions. 714 00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:30,731 Well, I think her behavior with Soames should have made things pretty clear 715 00:32:30,818 --> 00:32:32,428 even to Johnny Stivers. 716 00:32:32,515 --> 00:32:34,953 Men have a way of deluding themselves. 717 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,607 I hope you're not speaking from personal experience. 718 00:32:37,694 --> 00:32:40,262 Not recent. I hope. 719 00:32:40,349 --> 00:32:43,135 She was having sex with another man in front of him, 720 00:32:43,222 --> 00:32:45,354 that's not exactly a valentine. 721 00:32:45,441 --> 00:32:47,574 Yeah, but the defense brought it up to make him look like a victim. 722 00:32:47,661 --> 00:32:49,706 She did him wrong. 723 00:32:49,793 --> 00:32:53,232 He was practically a stranger. How could she have done him wrong? 724 00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:54,929 Promiscuous women, Claire. 725 00:32:55,016 --> 00:32:58,324 They still get put on trial even after they're dead. 726 00:32:59,629 --> 00:33:01,936 Whenever I drove her, we talked. 727 00:33:02,023 --> 00:33:05,635 She talked about her career and personal things, too. 728 00:33:05,722 --> 00:33:10,597 Her family, her brother, he was having some trouble at school. 729 00:33:10,684 --> 00:33:13,992 We've heard testimony that she just ordered you around, 730 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:15,167 like a servant. 731 00:33:15,254 --> 00:33:17,430 No. She loved me. 732 00:33:19,084 --> 00:33:20,607 Mr. Soames was wrong? 733 00:33:20,694 --> 00:33:22,870 Well, he wasn't always with us. 734 00:33:22,957 --> 00:33:24,437 She was dumping him anyway. 735 00:33:24,524 --> 00:33:25,829 How did you know that? 736 00:33:25,916 --> 00:33:27,788 She told me. 737 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:29,964 That morning, when I brought them home from the party, 738 00:33:30,051 --> 00:33:32,010 she wouldn't go upstairs with him. 739 00:33:32,097 --> 00:33:33,489 She didn't want to. 740 00:33:33,576 --> 00:33:36,492 Did you think that was because you were there? 741 00:33:36,579 --> 00:33:40,583 Yes. She wanted me to see that things were changing. 742 00:33:40,670 --> 00:33:42,194 She asked me to meet her later. 743 00:33:42,281 --> 00:33:44,500 Did she tell you why? 744 00:33:44,587 --> 00:33:47,721 Well, I had asked her for a coffee. It was kind of a standing invitation. 745 00:33:47,808 --> 00:33:49,375 She said she would. 746 00:33:49,462 --> 00:33:52,334 And she said she wanted me to get her some coke. 747 00:33:52,421 --> 00:33:53,379 What did you do? 748 00:33:53,466 --> 00:33:56,121 I got some for her, as a gift. 749 00:33:56,208 --> 00:33:57,774 I knew she was tired. 750 00:33:57,861 --> 00:33:59,515 Where did you get it? 751 00:33:59,602 --> 00:34:03,389 Tenth Avenue, in the 40s. It's not very hard to find. 752 00:34:03,476 --> 00:34:06,392 And that afternoon Sharon did call you? 753 00:34:06,479 --> 00:34:09,395 Yeah, I was just finishing up another job. 754 00:34:09,482 --> 00:34:11,179 And I went right over and picked her up. 755 00:34:11,266 --> 00:34:13,225 What happened then? 756 00:34:13,312 --> 00:34:16,271 I asked her if she wanted to have a coffee in Little Italy. 757 00:34:16,358 --> 00:34:19,970 And she said she didn't. She just wanted the coke. 758 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:22,190 Did she tell you why? 759 00:34:22,277 --> 00:34:28,283 Yeah. She said nothing went better with sex than coke, 760 00:34:28,370 --> 00:34:30,981 and she had just had sex with that photographer. 761 00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:32,374 What did you say to her? 762 00:34:32,461 --> 00:34:35,247 I thought we had a date. She laughed. 763 00:34:35,899 --> 00:34:37,814 What else did she say? 764 00:34:39,512 --> 00:34:42,732 "Home, James." And she laughed again. 765 00:34:42,819 --> 00:34:44,299 She was very high. 766 00:34:44,386 --> 00:34:46,345 What happened then? 767 00:34:48,173 --> 00:34:50,827 I got in the back seat with her. 768 00:34:51,872 --> 00:34:54,875 I couldn't understand why she had changed. 769 00:34:56,050 --> 00:34:59,184 She loved me. She told me so. 770 00:34:59,271 --> 00:35:03,623 I tried to kiss her. We did that before, many times. 771 00:35:06,408 --> 00:35:09,455 She slapped me, said that I made her sick. 772 00:35:12,806 --> 00:35:17,027 And I felt my neck starting to get hot 773 00:35:18,812 --> 00:35:21,684 and I hit her with a bottle. 774 00:35:24,252 --> 00:35:27,690 But I never, never wanted that to happen. 775 00:35:30,171 --> 00:35:31,955 I loved that woman. 776 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,183 Quite a performance. 777 00:35:42,270 --> 00:35:46,144 Everything but a chorus of "You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille." 778 00:35:46,231 --> 00:35:49,582 You really think he got that cocaine for Sharon just as a favor? 779 00:35:49,669 --> 00:35:51,149 He thought he was gonna have a party with her, 780 00:35:51,236 --> 00:35:52,324 like all the other guys. 781 00:35:52,411 --> 00:35:54,848 She said no, and he got mad. 782 00:35:54,935 --> 00:35:58,678 Wait a minute. He told the police that he was booked all that day on airport runs, 783 00:35:58,765 --> 00:36:01,376 and he was stuck in traffic on the Van Wyck. 784 00:36:01,463 --> 00:36:04,423 When did he have time to cruise the West Side looking for drugs? 785 00:36:04,510 --> 00:36:06,381 He couldn't have been stuck in traffic too bad. 786 00:36:06,468 --> 00:36:09,558 When Sharon called him, he got right to her. 787 00:36:09,645 --> 00:36:13,562 Maybe he was hanging around waiting for her call. 788 00:36:13,649 --> 00:36:15,216 He was obsessed with her. 789 00:36:15,303 --> 00:36:17,175 So one of the airport runs was a phony? 790 00:36:17,262 --> 00:36:19,481 At least one had to be. 791 00:36:19,568 --> 00:36:21,831 But why book a phony run? He could have just said he didn't have a job. 792 00:36:21,918 --> 00:36:24,921 Because it doesn't create an alibi. 793 00:36:25,008 --> 00:36:26,358 Premeditation. 794 00:36:26,445 --> 00:36:29,099 Which makes his whole defense a crock. 795 00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:31,711 Those airport runs, what do we know about them? 796 00:36:35,149 --> 00:36:38,370 I don't know about those names, the bookings go back a lot of months. 797 00:36:38,457 --> 00:36:41,460 Your accountant doesn't make you keep a paper trail that long? 798 00:36:41,547 --> 00:36:45,377 I have a record of the charges, but the names of the passengers? 799 00:36:45,464 --> 00:36:46,900 I'm sorry. 800 00:36:46,987 --> 00:36:48,554 Who paid for the limo? 801 00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:50,730 It's a corporate account. 802 00:36:50,817 --> 00:36:53,254 Okay, then, I'll take its name. 803 00:36:53,341 --> 00:36:55,735 I don't know, these are confidential business records. 804 00:36:55,822 --> 00:36:58,172 This is a murder investigation. 805 00:36:58,259 --> 00:36:59,304 I can have you subpoenaed. 806 00:36:59,391 --> 00:37:00,696 Murder? 807 00:37:00,783 --> 00:37:02,785 If you don't cooperate, you could go to jail. 808 00:37:02,872 --> 00:37:06,702 Wait a minute. This is just some kind of little tax thing. 809 00:37:06,789 --> 00:37:08,748 What is? 810 00:37:08,835 --> 00:37:10,228 Well, I don't really understand it. 811 00:37:10,315 --> 00:37:11,794 The owner of the agency used to book 812 00:37:11,881 --> 00:37:15,058 a lot of dummy limousine runs with Mr. Stivers. 813 00:37:15,145 --> 00:37:17,191 To do what? 814 00:37:17,278 --> 00:37:20,150 I don't know. That was between him and the owner, Mr. Scannell. 815 00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:22,892 Frederick Scannell was talking with Sharon Lasko at the party 816 00:37:22,979 --> 00:37:25,634 eight hours before she was killed. 817 00:37:25,721 --> 00:37:28,768 The police thought he was trying to pick her up. 818 00:37:28,855 --> 00:37:31,684 Scannell is a major drug dealer. 819 00:37:31,771 --> 00:37:34,469 This Johnny Stivers works for him. 820 00:37:34,556 --> 00:37:37,603 Stivers doles out drugs to Sharon Lasko. 821 00:37:37,690 --> 00:37:41,955 Wild idea, but her death just might have something to do with drugs. 822 00:37:42,042 --> 00:37:44,305 Which means something to do with Scannell. 823 00:37:44,392 --> 00:37:46,655 Get the police back into it. 824 00:37:50,093 --> 00:37:51,660 We know Scannell has a Colombian connection. 825 00:37:51,747 --> 00:37:53,619 We know the stuff lands in the Southeast. 826 00:37:53,706 --> 00:37:55,621 He's been laughing in my face for 10 years. 827 00:37:55,708 --> 00:37:57,492 You can't make a move on him? 828 00:37:57,579 --> 00:37:58,972 We can't even stop him from getting a liquor license. 829 00:37:59,059 --> 00:38:01,409 He's never within 100 miles of the product. 830 00:38:01,496 --> 00:38:05,892 He uses cut-outs, couriers, safe houses rented by other people. 831 00:38:05,979 --> 00:38:09,069 Couriers, a guy in a limo who fits in at the airport, 832 00:38:09,156 --> 00:38:11,463 that's pretty good cover for moving quantities. 833 00:38:11,550 --> 00:38:13,856 Is there any correlation between the dummy runs 834 00:38:13,943 --> 00:38:17,207 Scannell booked Johnny Stivers for and Scannell's activities? 835 00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:20,689 Let's see, January 9th, 836 00:38:21,516 --> 00:38:24,389 Scannell was in Palm Springs. 837 00:38:24,476 --> 00:38:28,915 February 1st, Lake Tahoe, and on and on. 838 00:38:29,002 --> 00:38:30,786 And he worked pretty hard to not be around 839 00:38:30,873 --> 00:38:32,484 while Johnny was running his errands. 840 00:38:32,571 --> 00:38:35,313 The only time he was in the city 841 00:38:36,923 --> 00:38:39,186 was the day Sharon Lasko was killed. 842 00:38:39,273 --> 00:38:41,884 Some sweetheart she picked to get mixed up with. 843 00:38:41,971 --> 00:38:44,670 You think he booked the phony limo run to buy Johnny time to kill her? 844 00:38:44,757 --> 00:38:48,674 He booked the limo. It didn't go anyplace. And Johnny did kill her. 845 00:38:48,761 --> 00:38:50,719 Why? What was Sharon Lasko to Scannell? 846 00:38:50,806 --> 00:38:53,548 He says just a potential roll in the sack who turned him down. 847 00:38:53,635 --> 00:38:56,812 So he had her killed? I know some men who take rejection hard... 848 00:38:56,899 --> 00:38:59,162 There's no evidence she was in the drug business with him. 849 00:38:59,249 --> 00:39:01,426 And she's not in the surveillance.Maybe she was new. 850 00:39:01,513 --> 00:39:03,166 Maybe she was discreet. 851 00:39:03,253 --> 00:39:04,777 Well, the way she ran around the last day of her life, 852 00:39:04,864 --> 00:39:07,257 she doesn't impress me as a very discreet person. 853 00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:10,260 Go back to her friends. Find out what the hell really happened. 854 00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:13,786 Look, I've got closing arguments tomorrow. Okay? 855 00:39:17,616 --> 00:39:20,880 I can't believe you people. I've been reading about this trial. 856 00:39:20,967 --> 00:39:23,622 Why don't you dig Sharon up and kick her around? 857 00:39:23,709 --> 00:39:26,538 Hey, we just want to bury her killer or killers. 858 00:39:26,625 --> 00:39:28,453 Killers? You got that creep. 859 00:39:28,540 --> 00:39:31,238 He was part of a major drug organization. 860 00:39:32,282 --> 00:39:33,762 Oh, God. 861 00:39:37,157 --> 00:39:38,593 Oh, what? 862 00:39:41,466 --> 00:39:43,511 Sharon was doing great. 863 00:39:43,598 --> 00:39:45,034 And part of doing great in this business 864 00:39:45,121 --> 00:39:47,428 is going to the right places and being seen. 865 00:39:47,515 --> 00:39:49,735 And at some of those places, there's drugs involved. 866 00:39:49,822 --> 00:39:52,825 And Sharon didn't know how to just say no? 867 00:39:53,652 --> 00:39:55,436 Look, she had a great look. 868 00:39:55,523 --> 00:39:59,832 But she was insecure, and with the drugs she felt more confident. 869 00:40:01,921 --> 00:40:04,793 And the more confident you are the better you look, 870 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,143 until you start showing up late and looking like hell. 871 00:40:07,230 --> 00:40:10,451 You think drugs led Sharon into bad company? 872 00:40:10,538 --> 00:40:12,148 I don't know. 873 00:40:14,847 --> 00:40:17,415 I had to get her out of my life. 874 00:40:17,502 --> 00:40:19,286 It would really help us to know, 875 00:40:19,373 --> 00:40:22,202 could Sharon have been involved in the drug business? 876 00:40:23,072 --> 00:40:24,204 As a customer. 877 00:40:24,291 --> 00:40:26,641 What about as a courier? Models travel. 878 00:40:26,728 --> 00:40:29,775 Sharon always worked in New York. 879 00:40:29,862 --> 00:40:31,820 Look, as far as I know, 880 00:40:31,907 --> 00:40:34,519 her biggest drug connection was her boyfriend, 881 00:40:34,606 --> 00:40:37,478 that basketball player. 882 00:40:37,565 --> 00:40:41,787 Come on, Soames, we all know her modeling career was circling the bowl. 883 00:40:41,874 --> 00:40:43,266 Look, I knew Sharon, okay? 884 00:40:43,353 --> 00:40:45,355 The last thing she would ever do is sell drugs. 885 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:48,228 Well, the last thing is what people do when they're desperate. 886 00:40:48,315 --> 00:40:51,100 You always had a good supply. Maybe she was selling drugs to you? 887 00:40:51,187 --> 00:40:52,188 That's ridiculous. 888 00:40:52,275 --> 00:40:54,147 Where'd you get your coke? 889 00:40:54,234 --> 00:40:57,672 It's not hard, although I know you guys are working on it. 890 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,632 Smart guy. 891 00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,024 We start poking around in your life 892 00:41:02,111 --> 00:41:03,678 and mail the results to the commissioner, 893 00:41:03,765 --> 00:41:05,375 you'll be hustling basketball on the playgrounds. 894 00:41:05,463 --> 00:41:07,682 What are you fellows coming down on me for? Huh? 895 00:41:07,769 --> 00:41:09,554 I mean, you know I didn't kill Sharon. 896 00:41:09,641 --> 00:41:12,034 You were at a party given by Scannell. 897 00:41:12,121 --> 00:41:14,689 Your girlfriend was in a conversation with Scannell. 898 00:41:14,776 --> 00:41:16,952 The guy that owns the club? So what? 899 00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:18,388 So how well did Sharon know him? 900 00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:20,390 She didn't. She just met him that night. 901 00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:21,479 How do you know that? 902 00:41:21,566 --> 00:41:23,002 She didn't even know who he was. 903 00:41:23,089 --> 00:41:24,917 When we first walked in, she asked me 904 00:41:25,004 --> 00:41:28,094 if he was the spray-on hair guy from the infomercials. 905 00:41:28,181 --> 00:41:30,270 So she had no connection with Scannell? 906 00:41:30,357 --> 00:41:32,272 No. 907 00:41:32,359 --> 00:41:36,058 Look, in her entire life she had that one short conversation with him. 908 00:41:36,145 --> 00:41:37,843 It was about drugs, but it was stupid. 909 00:41:37,930 --> 00:41:39,801 It was about drugs? 910 00:41:39,888 --> 00:41:41,803 It wasn't business. She was drunk, telling him some story 911 00:41:41,890 --> 00:41:43,457 about how some jerk tried to impress her 912 00:41:43,544 --> 00:41:45,633 by showing her a whole trunk full of cocaine. 913 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:47,853 A trunk full of cocaine? 914 00:41:47,940 --> 00:41:50,899 Did Mr. Scannell seem interested in that? 915 00:41:50,986 --> 00:41:54,163 He would have seemed interested to hear her hat size. 916 00:41:54,250 --> 00:41:56,122 He wanted to do her. 917 00:41:56,209 --> 00:41:58,385 Did she say who showed her the cocaine? 918 00:41:58,472 --> 00:41:59,778 I didn't even stop to listen. 919 00:41:59,865 --> 00:42:01,954 I just wanted to take her home. 920 00:42:02,041 --> 00:42:04,391 Was it Johnny Stivers? 921 00:42:04,478 --> 00:42:05,914 A limo driver? 922 00:42:06,001 --> 00:42:07,829 You said he was always trying to impress her. 923 00:42:07,916 --> 00:42:10,963 Yeah, but where would he get that much blow? 924 00:42:15,533 --> 00:42:18,100 Well, I'm glad you've come to your senses, Jack. 925 00:42:18,187 --> 00:42:22,670 Only the price has gone up since my client's appearance on the stand. 926 00:42:22,757 --> 00:42:24,890 Man one. Year, year pro. 927 00:42:24,977 --> 00:42:27,588 The price has gone higher than that. 928 00:42:27,675 --> 00:42:29,764 Our motion to amend the indictment. 929 00:42:32,593 --> 00:42:34,595 Murder one?Killing a witness. 930 00:42:34,682 --> 00:42:35,901 What are they talking about? 931 00:42:35,988 --> 00:42:38,294 Your murder of Sharon Lasko, Mr. Stivers. 932 00:42:38,381 --> 00:42:41,210 It was a crime of passion, like you said. 933 00:42:41,297 --> 00:42:43,952 Only it was Frederick Scannell's passion, wasn't it? 934 00:42:44,039 --> 00:42:45,737 I don't know anybody named Scannell. 935 00:42:45,824 --> 00:42:48,130 Think about it. 936 00:42:48,217 --> 00:42:52,787 If Scannell talks first, he gets the deal, and you get to die. 937 00:42:58,184 --> 00:43:00,012 My client and I have been reading the papers. 938 00:43:00,099 --> 00:43:01,970 Someone else has confessed to this murder. 939 00:43:02,057 --> 00:43:04,973 Someone who worked for Mr. Scannell. 940 00:43:05,060 --> 00:43:07,410 Here it comes again. You guys never give up. 941 00:43:07,497 --> 00:43:09,456 No, we don't. 942 00:43:09,543 --> 00:43:12,328 I think Sharon Lasko had a very important conversation with you 943 00:43:12,415 --> 00:43:14,330 the night before she was murdered.Yeah. 944 00:43:14,417 --> 00:43:15,941 I said, "Do you want to come to my place?" 945 00:43:16,028 --> 00:43:17,638 She said, "Maybe some other time." 946 00:43:17,725 --> 00:43:20,554 She told you someone showed her a trunk full of cocaine. 947 00:43:20,641 --> 00:43:21,729 Did she? 948 00:43:21,816 --> 00:43:23,470 Yes. And I think it was your cocaine. 949 00:43:23,557 --> 00:43:25,385 And that's not very likely. I don't have any cocaine. 950 00:43:25,472 --> 00:43:28,693 And you didn't like hearing that from some dizzy bimbo at a party. 951 00:43:28,780 --> 00:43:30,477 Do you have a theory here, McCoy, 952 00:43:30,564 --> 00:43:32,871 or are you just spraying Cheez Whiz into the wind? 953 00:43:32,958 --> 00:43:35,395 Sharon Lasko was blabbing to strangers 954 00:43:35,482 --> 00:43:38,528 that Johnny Stivers showed her a large amount of cocaine 955 00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:42,837 that belonged to your client, in a vehicle that was regularly used by your client. 956 00:43:42,924 --> 00:43:45,840 So your client ordered Mr. Stivers to kill her 957 00:43:45,927 --> 00:43:47,842 before she blabbed to the wrong stranger. 958 00:43:47,929 --> 00:43:50,453 And you're gonna prove this how? 959 00:43:51,890 --> 00:43:54,022 We have Mr. Stivers. 960 00:43:54,109 --> 00:43:55,981 The guy's about to get off with a slap on the wrist for manslaughter. 961 00:43:56,068 --> 00:43:58,636 You think he's gonna confess to murder one? 962 00:43:58,723 --> 00:43:59,854 They're here. 963 00:43:59,941 --> 00:44:02,291 Let's ask him. 964 00:44:02,378 --> 00:44:03,728 We're leaving now. 965 00:44:03,815 --> 00:44:06,208 That would be a mistake, Mr. Scannell. 966 00:44:06,295 --> 00:44:08,863 You'd miss your only chance to avoid a death sentence. 967 00:44:08,950 --> 00:44:11,213 I thought we had the offer? 968 00:44:12,867 --> 00:44:15,696 First one to talk wins life in prison. 969 00:44:15,783 --> 00:44:17,698 If I'm the master criminal you say I am, 970 00:44:17,785 --> 00:44:20,440 this guy wouldn't stay alive six months in prison if he talks. 971 00:44:20,527 --> 00:44:23,051 Make another threat, you'll leave this office under arrest. 972 00:44:23,138 --> 00:44:24,270 Don't exert yourself. 973 00:44:24,357 --> 00:44:25,663 I don't care if you do kill me! 974 00:44:25,750 --> 00:44:27,316 Shut up.Fred. 975 00:44:27,403 --> 00:44:29,101 He knew I loved her, he thought that made it funny. 976 00:44:29,188 --> 00:44:33,061 You're an idiot. You can still walk out of here. 977 00:44:33,148 --> 00:44:36,369 I got a call to go to a corner on the East Side. 978 00:44:36,456 --> 00:44:38,850 He got into the car with two men. 979 00:44:38,937 --> 00:44:40,721 He said Sharon had to be shut up 980 00:44:40,808 --> 00:44:42,810 and she was so stupid there was only one way to do it 981 00:44:42,897 --> 00:44:46,596 and it was up to me, because it was my fault. 982 00:44:46,684 --> 00:44:51,558 I told him I couldn't kill her, I loved her. 983 00:44:53,168 --> 00:44:56,215 He said fine, then they'd kill her and me. 984 00:44:59,305 --> 00:45:01,916 One of the men took out a gun. 985 00:45:03,526 --> 00:45:05,267 I was very scared. 986 00:45:07,139 --> 00:45:09,315 I'm... I'm so sorry. 987 00:45:17,062 --> 00:45:18,628 Deal, Jack? 988 00:45:24,896 --> 00:45:27,072 Murder two. The maximum. 989 00:45:29,248 --> 00:45:31,206 Now you're gonna die. 990 00:45:32,077 --> 00:45:34,209 I'm doing it for Sharon. 991 00:45:38,953 --> 00:45:43,131 This kid falls in love with a girl he had no chance in the world to get. 992 00:45:43,218 --> 00:45:45,525 And in a stupid, hopeless attempt to impress her, 993 00:45:45,612 --> 00:45:47,527 he shows her $1 million worth of cocaine. 994 00:45:47,614 --> 00:45:51,313 Yeah. I guess etchings don't work anymore. 995 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,577 And as a result, he ends up having to kill her. 996 00:45:54,664 --> 00:45:56,449 It's a story for Sophocles. 997 00:45:56,536 --> 00:45:57,885 Or Larry, Moe and Curly. 998 00:45:57,972 --> 00:46:00,496 Yeah, I always loved those guys.