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Narrator:
In the criminal justice system,
the people are represented

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by two separate yet
equally important groups--

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the police
who investigate crime,

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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

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These are their stories.

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So, I testify
on a couple of RDOs.

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What's the difference to him?
It's not out of their pocket.

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Everybody gets one, Jack.
You'll get yours.

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Hey, I need 'em.
She's dropping cash
like it's on fire.

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Every card is jacked full.

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( yelling )
"A horse is a horse,
of course, of course."

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"My kingdom for a horse!"

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Look at this--
the next De Niro.

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En garde.

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Woman: Hey!

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Hey, you guys want to give
that stuff back to Costume, please?

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(snaps fingers)

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Youth:
Jason, give me a hand here.

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Hey, Graham.

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I think this is it.

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Sorry, I didn't know
you were waiting for them.

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Priscilla, you decent?

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(dial tone beeping )

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"No need praying, Prissy."

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Reviews can't hurt us now.

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Hey, what if David Merrick's
trying to call?

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-( croaking )
- Oh God.

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- Cop
Where are the damn paramedics?
- I radioed-- they're coming.

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Hold on, honey.

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( weakly )
I didn't... want to do it.

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I didn't want to...

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( door opens )

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All right,
let them through.

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All right, we got her.

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Nurse on PA:
Dr. Kipper, report
to the solarium.

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Dr. Kipper
to the solarium, please.

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- This your run?
- We got there first.

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19. Her name
was Priscilla Blaine.

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You got a cause
of death?

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Narcon's response
was positive. She OD'd.

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- Who found her?
- Classmates at the Academy
of Dramatic Arts.

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Closing night party.

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"No business
like show business."

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Am I hearing this wrong
or something?

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If she OD'd,
what do you need us for?

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When she died--
over and over--

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"I didn't want to do it,
I didn't want to do it."

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She didn't want
to do what?

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Hey, you're wearing
the suits.

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( door bangs )

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Nurse on P.A.:
Security, please report
to the cafeteria.

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Security, please report
to the cafeteria.

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( theme music plays )

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Amitriptyline.

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Amitriptyline?
Never heard of it.

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Psychiatrist "scrip"--
anti-depressa nt.

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How much did she
take of them?

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About 200 milligrams.
Probably do a small elephant.

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Was there any physical trauma?
Any bruises? Anything suspicious?

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She did have an Ace bandage
on her right ankle.

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Nothing wrong with it.

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No visible bruising or contusion
about the ligament.

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- Is it an old injury?
- No blood in the joint space.

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Fashion statement?

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Priscilla wasn't on drugs.

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I would have known
if she was on drugs.

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Mrs. Blaine, would you
happen to know

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if Priscilla was seeing
a psychiatrist?

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See, the reason
I'm asking is,

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the drug in her system
was an anti-depressant.

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She wasn't depressed.

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You mind if we take this?

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We were going to have
new headshots taken next week.

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Patti, did your sister
happen to mention

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anything about seeing
new people lately?

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I wouldn't really know.

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I remember the first day
she got into the Academy.

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They took 50
out of 1,500.

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Ever since she could talk,
she wanted to be a performer.

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They just would have
slowed her down.

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You think she was happy?

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Yeah, she was.

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I guess.

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Woman:
Anything for anyone.

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It's just not her.

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What do you mean?
The drugs?

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Mm-hmm.
She didn't believe in them.

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I thought she'd be hit
by lightning

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before she would
die like that.

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The officer who was here last night
said she kept on repeating,

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"I didn't want to do it,
I didn't want to do it."

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- Do you know
what that was about?
- No.

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Is it possible that somebody
could've pressed her into
taking the pills?

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No one's really
into that around here.

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Yeah, there was a lot of drinking
because it was closing night.

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I don't know.

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Did she have a boyfriend?

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We broke up a few months ago.
It was getting weird.

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Was she depressed
by the break?

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Not quite--
she dumped me.

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Roger, when you
and Pricilla were together,

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did she like to party
a lot? You know--

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No, Pricilla
didn't do drugs.

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The only pills she took
were birth control.

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God only knows why.

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You mean the intimacy
level was a little...?

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It was great at first,
but then, I don't know,

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five, six months ago
she weirded out.

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Holding hands
became a big deal.

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Did you ever
talk about it?

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She said she was
seeing someone about it.

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Shrink?
She started seeing one
before we broke up.

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- A lot of good it did.
- Do you know who he was?

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Uh... Seliger, up at P and S.

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Unfortunately, it falls under
the category of privilege.

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( Logan scoffs )
Whose? I mean, the girl's dead.

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Privilege does survive
the death of a patient.

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Does that include
prescription history, Doctor?

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Priscilla asked me
for something a few weeks ago.

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I told her I didn't think
that it was necessary.

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Yeah, because her friends
are telling us she didn't even
like painkillers.

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I'd say that was
an accurate assessment.

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Really...

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I wish I could help.

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Doctor, we understand that.
Now, bottom line,

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we just want to know
who can waive that privilege.

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If the court appoints
a personal representative,

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they'd have the authority to sign
a waiver on Priscilla's behalf.

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Ah.

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It would probably be...
her mother.

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Mrs. Blaine:
I just don’t understand.

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If Priscilla had problems,

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she knew she could
come to me.

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Mrs. Blaine, as parents
we all want to feel that way.

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But I've got five,
and I've learned my lesson.

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They all have things
they don't want to tell us.

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I used to brush her hair
every night.

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She'd tell me about her day.

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All the little details.

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A hundred strokes.

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She had hair
like Rita Hayworth.

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Did she cut it recently?

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Sometimes children don't
appreciate what they have.

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Mrs. Blaine...

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Dr. Seliger may be
the only person

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who can tell us if Priscilla's
death was accidental or not.

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But he can't tell us anything

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unless the administrator
of Priscilla's estate

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waives the patient/doctor
confidentiality.

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Maybe it's not anybody's business
what they talked about.

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She didn't want me to know
when she was alive,

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I don't see any reason
to change that now.

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My mother got pregnant
with me when she was 17.

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I kind of put the brakes
on her career.

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She was an actress?

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She was a pretty woman
with a fair voice,

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whose main claim to fame
was "Eliza Doolittle"

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at the Bloomfield
Community Playhouse.

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We haven't spoken
in two years.

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Until this.

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Why the rift?

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Well, 12 years of dance class
three times a week

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and acting class twice a week
is a bit wearing.

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My mother couldn't decide
if I was Martha Graham or Helen Hayes.

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And which were you?

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I was Patti Blaine,

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And Priscilla?

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Since she was three.

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Lessons, agents--

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kind of like a last hope.

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She never even knew
she had a choice.

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Your mother's a sales clerk,
isn't that right?

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- Mm-hmm.
- This Academy must be
pretty expensive.

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Well, Priscilla helped
with the tuition.

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Oh?

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Our father died
when we were young
and he left us some money.

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Ah.
You and your sister
stay pretty close?

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We talked a couple times
a month.

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Just, "Hi, how are you?"
Nothing big.

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When was the last time?

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About a week ago.

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It never sounded
like anything was wrong.

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I'm not much
of a big sister.

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Who did she talk to?

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Probably Jasmine.
They grew up together.

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Maybe none of us
really knew her.

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Some of the stuff she pulled
was pretty confusing.

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Like what?

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Like she faked
hurting her ankle to get
out of some big show.

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Why? Didn't she want
to dance anymore?

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I don't know. I mean...

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she always thought everyone
was better than she was.

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- Logan: Were they?
- Priscilla was good.

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She had to work
at everything she got.

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And her sister was the natural.

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She did everything better
than Priscilla with half the effort.

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She just shined it on.

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She didn't want it.

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Maybe in a weird way,
she had more guts
than Priscilla.

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Did Priscilla give you
any indication that
she was unhappy?

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I don't think Priscilla
knew whether or not
she was unhappy.

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She was probably happiest
when she was pleasing
her mother.

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- And lately?
- Lately she just
wasn't herself.

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Pressured, absent-minded...

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she even left her backpack here
a couple of times,

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and that's certainly
not like her.

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This one?

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Logan:
She spends her whole life
trying to replace her sister.

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She couldn't take the pressure,
downs a handful, checks out.

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Okay, then why is she found
kneeling by an unhooked phone

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moaning, "I didn't want
to do it" over and over?

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She changed her mind or she's
talking about that show biz stuff.

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But not about the drugs?
You have the same notes I do.

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She'd do anything
to please other people.

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Are you saying
she got talked into partying?
She’s much too anti-drugs.

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- She would have drawn a line.
- Maybe, maybe not.

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How anxious
was she to please?

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A kid when I was growing up,
in Little League, his old man every game

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was behind the backstop, yelling,
screaming orders at him.

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- So?
- Game before the playoff,

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the kid hits a dink to shortstop,
pulls a "Ron Hunt"--

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dives head first right into first base--
dislocated his shoulder.

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And you're saying a 10-year-old
intentionally hurt himself?

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I'm saying it's subconscious.
The point is, he couldn't take
the pressure.

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When I was a kid,
my mother hounded me
to practice the piano.

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To this day, I wish
I had learned.

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Are you gonna make your kids
do things they don't want to?

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From the moment
they're on the planet.

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"Brush your teeth,
do your homework,
you're grounded--"

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- Come on, Phil, that's different.
- It's just a matter of degree.

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- What the hell is that?
- Unlabeled.

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Yeah.

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- Right here.
-( moaning )

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Logan:
That’s her.

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Your girl
had a shadow life.

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Good bet on where
the drugs came from, huh?

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- Cragen: Who knows about it?
- Logan: Jasmine? The boyfriend?
Maybe none of them.

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See what you can find out
about this company--

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"Candlelight Productions."

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No one knows
anybody anymore.

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We may know one thing--

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what "I didn’t
want to do it" means.

243
00:15:06,605 --> 00:15:09,631
Candlelight Productions
went out of business six weeks ago.

244
00:15:12,611 --> 00:15:13,908
What?

245
00:15:13,946 --> 00:15:17,643
She's been meeting someone
named "JZ" two or three times a week.

246
00:15:19,752 --> 00:15:21,879
It could be a nickname
for "Jasmine."

247
00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:25,254
I don't think so.
It only shows up six months ago.

248
00:15:25,291 --> 00:15:28,055
Before that, nothing.

249
00:15:29,962 --> 00:15:32,294
I never heard
of anyone named "JZ"

250
00:15:34,133 --> 00:15:36,294
Logan:
She never mentioned anything?

251
00:15:36,335 --> 00:15:39,361
Six months,
two, three times a week

252
00:15:39,405 --> 00:15:41,930
and you didn't know
anything?

253
00:15:42,908 --> 00:15:45,103
Jasmine, Priscilla is dead.

254
00:15:45,177 --> 00:15:48,010
Any secrets she had
are no longer worth keeping.

255
00:15:53,652 --> 00:15:56,382
He owns a club in Chelsea--

256
00:15:56,422 --> 00:15:58,413
"Flashdancers."

257
00:15:58,457 --> 00:16:02,325
The strip joint?
It's not a "dirt palace."

258
00:16:02,361 --> 00:16:05,694
Just businessmen,
yuppies out for a good time,

259
00:16:05,731 --> 00:16:07,722
that kind of thing.

260
00:16:07,766 --> 00:16:09,893
Look, I was the only one
who knew.

261
00:16:09,935 --> 00:16:12,062
Knew what?
That she worked there?

262
00:16:12,104 --> 00:16:15,733
It was good money.
Really good money.

263
00:16:15,774 --> 00:16:19,005
She was trying
to earn enough to move out.

264
00:16:20,446 --> 00:16:24,473
JZ:
Whatever she did,
I don't want to know about it.

265
00:16:24,516 --> 00:16:26,575
- Trucker: Thanks, bud.
- Cerreta: She give you
a lot of trouble?

266
00:16:26,618 --> 00:16:29,587
They all do.
Some weeks it's like babysitting.

267
00:16:29,621 --> 00:16:32,181
Come on, girls!
Come on, come on.

268
00:16:32,224 --> 00:16:36,684
This one, though,
she could really shake it.

269
00:16:37,563 --> 00:16:39,929
When did she stop working?

270
00:16:39,965 --> 00:16:42,092
I haven't seen her in
about three or four months.

271
00:16:42,134 --> 00:16:44,932
She was getting some
film interest. I don't know.

272
00:16:44,970 --> 00:16:48,770
The good ones,
they're tough to hang on to. Suddenly,
they don't show up.

273
00:16:48,807 --> 00:16:51,867
Yeah, and when they do,
they're lit, right?

274
00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:54,470
I mean, you gotta figure,
there are a lot of drugs
in and out of here.

275
00:16:54,513 --> 00:16:57,004
Like I said,
whatever the girls do...

276
00:16:58,150 --> 00:17:02,553
What kind of film interest
was Priscilla getting?
Do you know the people?

277
00:17:02,588 --> 00:17:04,886
Well, we're not talking
Cecil B. DeMiIIe.

278
00:17:04,923 --> 00:17:07,391
They're around all the time.
I don't associate with them.

279
00:17:07,426 --> 00:17:09,519
It's not my trade.

280
00:17:10,529 --> 00:17:12,656
JZ, help us out here.

281
00:17:12,698 --> 00:17:15,667
You must know somebody
we can talk to who might
know these people.

282
00:17:17,603 --> 00:17:19,867
Yeah, there's a guy--

283
00:17:19,905 --> 00:17:24,035
his name is Ed Zakaris.
He's a pig.

284
00:17:24,076 --> 00:17:28,513
Candlelight Productions?
Never heard of them.

285
00:17:28,547 --> 00:17:30,538
Maybe it went
by a different name.

286
00:17:30,582 --> 00:17:32,573
Hey, if I didn't
hear of them...

287
00:17:32,618 --> 00:17:34,609
Look, we saw the tape,
all right?

288
00:17:34,653 --> 00:17:36,712
Yeah?
Wouldn't be surprised.

289
00:17:37,956 --> 00:17:39,947
How did it
get past you, Ed?

290
00:17:39,992 --> 00:17:42,392
These businesses
are fly-by-night.

291
00:17:42,428 --> 00:17:45,659
They grab some jerk,
he invests in their flick,

292
00:17:45,697 --> 00:17:48,860
they make it, they close,

293
00:17:48,901 --> 00:17:52,393
they open up next week,
new name.

294
00:17:52,438 --> 00:17:56,568
"Candlelight,"
"Flashlight," whatever.

295
00:17:56,608 --> 00:17:58,769
What about this director,
Franklin Frome?

296
00:17:58,811 --> 00:18:00,802
He used to be one
of the great ones.

297
00:18:00,846 --> 00:18:04,338
Yeah, he won the "Best Actor
award in a group scene"-- 1975.

298
00:18:04,383 --> 00:18:08,843
That's terrific.
"Mr. Olivier's" address.

299
00:18:08,887 --> 00:18:10,912
Did she work in
one of your films?

300
00:18:10,956 --> 00:18:13,584
Yeah, sure,
the one with the mother.

301
00:18:14,993 --> 00:18:17,120
You know her mother?

302
00:18:18,530 --> 00:18:20,555
Elizabeth.

303
00:18:20,599 --> 00:18:24,057
Are you saying Mrs. Blaine knew
Priscilla was working for you?

304
00:18:24,103 --> 00:18:26,162
She set it up.

305
00:18:26,205 --> 00:18:28,765
Wait a minute.
I thought you found
Priscilla at "Flashdancers."

306
00:18:28,807 --> 00:18:32,243
Yeah, I gave her my card.
Next thing, her mom
gives me a call.

307
00:18:33,245 --> 00:18:35,236
Did she know what kind
of films you make?

308
00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,113
Dropped her off every day.
Occasionally watched a shoot.

309
00:18:38,150 --> 00:18:40,812
Must have had a cooling
effect on the set, huh?

310
00:18:40,853 --> 00:18:42,878
No, she kept her distance.

311
00:18:42,921 --> 00:18:45,321
Didn't even want her kid
talking to the other actresses.

312
00:18:47,292 --> 00:18:49,988
What about when Mom
wasn't around?

313
00:18:54,133 --> 00:18:56,931
It's just so hard
to believe.

314
00:18:57,936 --> 00:19:00,530
I mean, I was the one
that was supposed to die.

315
00:19:01,573 --> 00:19:03,871
I tested positive
last month.

316
00:19:10,682 --> 00:19:14,448
It's the cost of business.
I made a thousand bucks a day.

317
00:19:14,486 --> 00:19:16,579
Did Priscilla make
that kind of cash?

318
00:19:16,622 --> 00:19:18,715
No.

319
00:19:18,757 --> 00:19:22,557
No, she was just foreplay.
She never went all the way.

320
00:19:22,594 --> 00:19:25,392
Her mom wouldn't let her.

321
00:19:25,430 --> 00:19:27,898
Girl's in a prestigious school
like that, why did she do porno?

322
00:19:27,933 --> 00:19:31,232
It wasn't her, it was her mom.
Can you believe that?

323
00:19:31,270 --> 00:19:35,263
I mean, just pushing
and pushing, you know?

324
00:19:35,307 --> 00:19:37,400
Priscilla was shy.

325
00:19:37,442 --> 00:19:39,501
It was hard for her.

326
00:19:39,545 --> 00:19:43,276
I mean, a few times
she got so nervous, she cried.

327
00:19:43,315 --> 00:19:45,442
Some of the actresses
when they got nervous like that,

328
00:19:45,484 --> 00:19:47,748
would they drop something?

329
00:19:47,786 --> 00:19:50,414
Well. I did
when I was working.

330
00:19:50,455 --> 00:19:52,514
It made me forget
what I was doing.

331
00:19:52,558 --> 00:19:55,789
- What was it? Amitrip--
- Amitriptyline.

332
00:19:55,827 --> 00:19:59,285
"Trips."
I couldn't go on without it.

333
00:19:59,331 --> 00:20:01,765
Did Priscilla use this?

334
00:20:02,801 --> 00:20:06,794
- I told her it would help her relax.
- You gave her the drugs?

335
00:20:06,838 --> 00:20:09,739
Well, I said never
to take more than one.

336
00:20:09,775 --> 00:20:12,141
She took eight.

337
00:20:14,813 --> 00:20:18,271
Well, she must have
been freaked-- I mean...

338
00:20:18,317 --> 00:20:21,514
it was this new flick
she was going to be starring in.

339
00:20:21,553 --> 00:20:25,216
"Starring," huh?
You mean no more "foreplay"?

340
00:20:25,257 --> 00:20:27,725
Her mother knew
what she was gonna have to do?

341
00:20:27,759 --> 00:20:31,752
She had been on set,
so she knew people didn't pay

342
00:20:31,797 --> 00:20:34,595
to see the stars hold hands.

343
00:20:34,866 --> 00:20:37,061
Angel admitted to giving
Priscilla the drugs?

344
00:20:37,102 --> 00:20:40,196
- You want to hit her
with a drug charge?
- Let's cut her a deal.

345
00:20:40,239 --> 00:20:42,230
She'll testify
that "Mommy Dearest"

346
00:20:42,274 --> 00:20:44,265
forced her daughter
into pornography.

347
00:20:44,309 --> 00:20:47,904
Wait a minute, do I follow here?
You want to charge the mother
with murder?

348
00:20:47,946 --> 00:20:50,414
- It was a suicide.
- That was brought on
by the pressure

349
00:20:50,449 --> 00:20:52,747
of doing porno,
which the mother forced her into.

350
00:20:52,784 --> 00:20:54,877
"I didn't want to do it,"
over and over again.

351
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,320
Come on, Mike.
"I didn't want to do it"
can mean a lot of things.

352
00:20:57,356 --> 00:21:01,224
The most probable being
she was freaked out by the porno.

353
00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:03,854
It was her dying utterance.

354
00:21:03,895 --> 00:21:07,353
It's admissible, but only
for what it's worth.

355
00:21:07,399 --> 00:21:09,697
So, what do you think?

356
00:21:09,735 --> 00:21:13,193
We could take a run
at "depraved indifference
to human Iife"--

357
00:21:13,238 --> 00:21:15,638
suicide was the inevitable
consequence.

358
00:21:17,909 --> 00:21:20,173
You don't believe
she's guilty, do you?

359
00:21:20,212 --> 00:21:23,875
Of being a rotten mother? Yes.
Yes, I do. But there has to be a line.

360
00:21:23,915 --> 00:21:26,884
A kid goes out and robs a bank,
you put the parents in jail?

361
00:21:26,918 --> 00:21:29,887
Maybe, if there
was cause and effect.

362
00:21:29,921 --> 00:21:33,880
She was 19,
she could have left home.
She did not have to kill herself.

363
00:21:35,427 --> 00:21:37,554
Maybe she did.

364
00:21:40,966 --> 00:21:43,799
( bolts click )

365
00:21:47,506 --> 00:21:51,169
Mrs. Blaine, you are under arrest
for the murder of Priscilla Blaine.

366
00:21:51,209 --> 00:21:53,234
What?

367
00:21:58,283 --> 00:22:00,581
The charges are murder
in the second degree,

368
00:22:00,619 --> 00:22:02,780
manslaughter in the first
and second degree,

369
00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:05,654
and criminally negligent
homicide.

370
00:22:05,691 --> 00:22:07,921
How does
the defendant plea?

371
00:22:09,094 --> 00:22:11,119
Not guilty.

372
00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:14,064
Your Honor, The People
are asking $500,000.

373
00:22:14,099 --> 00:22:17,364
Judge, my client is mourning
the loss of her child.

374
00:22:17,402 --> 00:22:19,870
Judge:
Violins, Mr. Pollard.

375
00:22:19,905 --> 00:22:23,033
Bail is set at $250, 000.

376
00:22:23,075 --> 00:22:24,542
( gavel bangs )

377
00:22:24,576 --> 00:22:28,410
Bailiff:
Next case, docket number 66273.
The People versus Johnson.

378
00:22:28,447 --> 00:22:30,972
Solicitation for purposes
of prostitution...

379
00:22:37,089 --> 00:22:39,216
Adam:
Even if you could prove

380
00:22:39,257 --> 00:22:43,387
that the mother forced the girl
to make the films against her will...

381
00:22:44,396 --> 00:22:46,728
you'll still have a hell
of a time proving

382
00:22:46,765 --> 00:22:49,962
that that was the proximate
cause of the girl's death.

383
00:22:50,001 --> 00:22:52,936
Stone:
Case in Indiana--

384
00:22:52,971 --> 00:22:54,996
a girl is kidnapped,
sodomized, sexually abused.

385
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,031
A year later,
she took poison and died.

386
00:22:57,075 --> 00:23:00,135
The court ruled
that the conduct of her assailant

387
00:23:00,178 --> 00:23:03,147
was the proximate cause
of her death.

388
00:23:03,181 --> 00:23:05,672
Yeah, this isn't Indiana.

389
00:23:05,717 --> 00:23:10,484
In New York, suicide
is an independent intervening act.

390
00:23:10,522 --> 00:23:14,458
Therefore, the mother's actions,
no matter how despicable,

391
00:23:14,493 --> 00:23:17,894
are not the cause-in-fact
of the girl’s death.

392
00:23:17,929 --> 00:23:20,420
Unless we can prove
that Ms. Blaine knew

393
00:23:20,465 --> 00:23:22,524
the films were making
Priscilla suicidal.

394
00:23:25,871 --> 00:23:29,534
Mr. Robinette,
I'm sure you know
that I can't possibly--

395
00:23:29,574 --> 00:23:33,135
I know the difference
between real patients
and hypothetical ones.

396
00:23:36,348 --> 00:23:38,612
All right.

397
00:23:39,651 --> 00:23:42,916
One could argue

398
00:23:42,954 --> 00:23:48,119
that such a hypothetical patient
might be an exhibitionist

399
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,618
and there was nothing
anyone could have done
to prevent her death.

400
00:23:51,663 --> 00:23:54,291
But if she were
forced by someone--

401
00:23:54,332 --> 00:23:58,098
a loved one,
husband, parent...

402
00:23:59,704 --> 00:24:03,470
Being forced into the sordid life
by someone she loved

403
00:24:03,508 --> 00:24:06,375
could be so deleterious
to her mental health

404
00:24:06,411 --> 00:24:12,077
that it had to be a substantial
and contributory cause of her suicide.

405
00:24:13,385 --> 00:24:16,650
And you've dealt
with patients or a patient

406
00:24:16,688 --> 00:24:18,747
who's had pressures
similar to this?

407
00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:23,283
Yes, I have.

408
00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:27,527
He's got a lot to say--
only he can't say it.

409
00:24:29,367 --> 00:24:31,426
Privilege can be waived.

410
00:24:31,570 --> 00:24:33,936
By the administrator
of the decedent's estate.

411
00:24:34,072 --> 00:24:36,939
Mrs. Blaine already applied
for letters.

412
00:24:37,075 --> 00:24:39,942
Priscilla had money
her father left her.

413
00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:43,379
The bank won't release it
without tax waivers signed
by the administrator.

414
00:24:43,415 --> 00:24:45,781
Return date's next week.

415
00:24:47,252 --> 00:24:50,653
Mrs. Blaine is charged
with killing her daughter.

416
00:24:50,789 --> 00:24:55,021
I'd say her interests are adverse
to that of the estate.

417
00:24:55,060 --> 00:24:57,119
There's a sister, isn't there?

418
00:24:59,598 --> 00:25:01,657
You know any good
probate lawyers?

419
00:25:02,667 --> 00:25:04,726
Do you mean I would have
to go to court?

420
00:25:04,769 --> 00:25:08,261
No. Not in the way you think.
You see, surrogate court

421
00:25:08,306 --> 00:25:11,366
merely appoints the administrator
of an estate when there's no will.

422
00:25:11,409 --> 00:25:13,400
And that would give you
the authority

423
00:25:13,445 --> 00:25:15,538
to waive the doctor
and patient privilege.

424
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,443
Robinette:
If Dr. Seliger takes the stand,

425
00:25:17,582 --> 00:25:20,244
it'll be the closest thing
to Priscilla being there herself.

426
00:25:22,888 --> 00:25:25,186
Stone:
This is not easy
what we’re asking, I know.

427
00:25:26,691 --> 00:25:29,683
You want me to testify
against my mother.

428
00:25:29,828 --> 00:25:32,524
It's not a criminal proceeding.
It's a civil hearing.

429
00:25:35,233 --> 00:25:38,259
One thing I learned
growing up,

430
00:25:38,403 --> 00:25:41,497
and that's... you don't
cross my mother.

431
00:25:42,507 --> 00:25:44,907
Priscilla knew that, too.

432
00:25:46,645 --> 00:25:50,081
I can't help but wonder,
if I hadn't have left,

433
00:25:50,115 --> 00:25:52,174
you know,
if I didn't quit, then--

434
00:25:52,217 --> 00:25:55,618
Patti, your leaving is not
the cause of Priscilla's death.

435
00:25:55,754 --> 00:25:58,416
I believe you know
what caused your sister's death.

436
00:25:58,456 --> 00:26:02,153
I'm just asking for the legal
right to get to the truth.

437
00:26:09,367 --> 00:26:11,426
Petition of letters
of administration

438
00:26:11,469 --> 00:26:14,165
in the estate of Priscilla Blaine
filed by Elizabeth Blaine.

439
00:26:14,205 --> 00:26:16,696
Objections have been filed
by Patricia Blaine.

440
00:26:16,741 --> 00:26:18,766
The objection has been
filed, Your Honor,

441
00:26:18,810 --> 00:26:20,971
on the grounds that
the applicant's appointment

442
00:26:21,012 --> 00:26:23,344
would not be in the best
interest of the estate.

443
00:26:23,381 --> 00:26:25,815
Your Honor, the D.A.
is using the proceedings

444
00:26:25,850 --> 00:26:28,842
- to mount a witch hunt
against my client.
- Please, Mr. Pollard.

445
00:26:28,887 --> 00:26:32,482
I am here to represent
Ms. Blaine, Your Honor,
not the District Attorney.

446
00:26:32,524 --> 00:26:34,549
Are the parties prepared
for a hearing?

447
00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:36,458
- Ready, Your Honor.
- Pollard: Ready.

448
00:26:37,662 --> 00:26:39,857
Mr. Robinette,
does the District Attorney's Office

449
00:26:39,898 --> 00:26:42,890
have charges pending against
the petitioner, Elizabeth Blaine?

450
00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:44,526
Yes, we do.

451
00:26:44,569 --> 00:26:47,094
And could you tell me,
what are those charges?

452
00:26:47,138 --> 00:26:49,572
She's been indicted for the murder
of her daughter, Priscilla Blaine.

453
00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:52,042
An indictment is not
a conviction, Your Honor,

454
00:26:52,077 --> 00:26:54,705
and certainly no evidence
of my client's guilt.

455
00:26:54,746 --> 00:26:58,705
The grand jury is nothing more
than the District Attorney's puppet--

456
00:26:58,750 --> 00:27:00,741
Enough, Mr. Pollard.

457
00:27:00,785 --> 00:27:03,549
The court takes judicial notice
of the indictment.

458
00:27:03,588 --> 00:27:06,751
Patti:
When we were little,
she had us both taking lessons,

459
00:27:06,791 --> 00:27:08,782
trying to get an agent.

460
00:27:08,827 --> 00:27:11,387
- Melnick: How old were you?
- Patti: Five.

461
00:27:11,429 --> 00:27:15,365
- And Priscilla?
- She was three.

462
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,630
And was this something
you both enjoyed?

463
00:27:19,604 --> 00:27:21,697
I didn't.

464
00:27:21,740 --> 00:27:24,800
Melnick:
And your sister, Priscilla?

465
00:27:26,211 --> 00:27:28,406
It was harder for her.

466
00:27:28,446 --> 00:27:33,247
I left, and after that Priscilla
was expected to fill that void.

467
00:27:33,284 --> 00:27:37,015
I see. And what did these
expectations entail?

468
00:27:37,055 --> 00:27:39,922
Well, when she was five

469
00:27:39,958 --> 00:27:43,086
she had dance class
three times a week after school

470
00:27:43,128 --> 00:27:45,596
and on Saturdays
from 1:00 to 5:00.

471
00:27:45,630 --> 00:27:48,963
Melnick:
Patti, did Priscilla
ever express to you

472
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,731
that she was unhappy with the way
your mother had planned her life?

473
00:27:53,738 --> 00:27:58,072
Once she lost an audition
for "The Nutcracker Suite."

474
00:27:59,077 --> 00:28:01,136
My mother was very upset.

475
00:28:01,179 --> 00:28:04,148
It was always like that.

476
00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:06,275
And that night
when we got home,

477
00:28:06,317 --> 00:28:10,276
Priscilla asked me, did I think
Mom didn't love her anymore?

478
00:28:10,321 --> 00:28:12,221
Objection.
Hearsay.

479
00:28:12,257 --> 00:28:14,157
Sustained.

480
00:28:16,928 --> 00:28:19,488
Patti, tell the court
why you would like

481
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:22,193
to be appointed administrator
of your sister's estate.

482
00:28:24,569 --> 00:28:28,005
Because, in my opinion,
my mother is unfit.

483
00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:33,644
Melnick:
Do you believe that your mother
was responsible for Priscilla’s death?

484
00:28:36,614 --> 00:28:38,673
Yes, I do.

485
00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:42,346
Thank you.
No further questions.

486
00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:58,627
Aside from when Priscilla
was a five-year-old,

487
00:28:58,670 --> 00:29:03,130
did she ever tell you that
your mother treated her badly?

488
00:29:03,174 --> 00:29:05,642
No.

489
00:29:05,677 --> 00:29:08,009
Did Priscilla ever tell you
your mother forced her

490
00:29:08,046 --> 00:29:10,037
to make pornographic films?

491
00:29:10,081 --> 00:29:12,311
We didn't discuss--

492
00:29:12,350 --> 00:29:14,341
Did she ever tell you
your mother made her

493
00:29:14,385 --> 00:29:16,376
do anything she didn't
want to do?

494
00:29:16,421 --> 00:29:20,323
- No, not in those words.
- In fact... when you told her

495
00:29:20,358 --> 00:29:22,849
that you thought your mother
was pushing her too hard,

496
00:29:22,894 --> 00:29:25,055
she got angry at you,
isn’t that true?

497
00:29:25,096 --> 00:29:27,360
- Yes, but she--
- Patti...

498
00:29:27,398 --> 00:29:31,391
who will receive Priscilla's money
if your mother is convicted?

499
00:29:34,539 --> 00:29:37,099
- I will.
- I see.

500
00:29:39,878 --> 00:29:42,847
And how long has it been
since you've seen your sister?

501
00:29:42,881 --> 00:29:45,645
Well, we talked
every couple of weeks.

502
00:29:45,683 --> 00:29:47,674
When was the last time
you saw her?

503
00:29:49,721 --> 00:29:52,485
It's been about two years.

504
00:29:52,524 --> 00:29:54,992
So you were very devoted.

505
00:29:55,026 --> 00:29:57,017
You came to her funeral,

506
00:29:57,061 --> 00:29:59,188
and you came to collect
an inheritance.

507
00:29:59,230 --> 00:30:01,528
- Objection, Your Honor!
-( gavel bangs)

508
00:30:01,566 --> 00:30:04,535
Mrs. Blaine:
She wanted to be an actress.

509
00:30:04,569 --> 00:30:06,628
I did too
when I was her age,

510
00:30:06,671 --> 00:30:10,004
only I didn't have someone
to encourage me.

511
00:30:10,041 --> 00:30:12,737
I wanted it to be
different for her.

512
00:30:13,878 --> 00:30:16,210
But why these films?

513
00:30:16,247 --> 00:30:18,715
She wanted to act
for the cameras.

514
00:30:18,750 --> 00:30:20,911
They weren't giving her
that in school.

515
00:30:20,952 --> 00:30:23,045
There's a difference
between acting, though,

516
00:30:23,087 --> 00:30:25,749
and acting
in a pornographic film.

517
00:30:26,925 --> 00:30:29,894
All she did was take off
her clothes.

518
00:30:31,429 --> 00:30:33,488
Did Priscilla ever do
anything more

519
00:30:33,531 --> 00:30:35,522
than undress in front
of the camera?

520
00:30:35,567 --> 00:30:38,058
No. It never went
further than that.

521
00:30:38,102 --> 00:30:41,094
- I made sure of that.
- Thank you, Mrs. Blaine.

522
00:30:58,456 --> 00:31:01,687
Mrs. Blaine, Priscilla
was going to star

523
00:31:01,726 --> 00:31:03,956
in an upcoming film
with the same director,
wasn’t she?

524
00:31:03,995 --> 00:31:07,158
- Yes.
- And as the star
in that film,

525
00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:09,393
she would have to do more

526
00:31:09,434 --> 00:31:11,493
than just take off her clothes,
isn't that true?

527
00:31:11,536 --> 00:31:14,027
They told Marilyn Monroe
that nude calendar

528
00:31:14,072 --> 00:31:16,199
would ruin her career.

529
00:31:16,241 --> 00:31:18,300
It made her a star.

530
00:31:18,343 --> 00:31:22,370
Ahem-- would you tell us,
please, Mrs. Blaine,

531
00:31:22,413 --> 00:31:25,905
was Priscilla nervous about
starring in a pornographic film?

532
00:31:25,950 --> 00:31:29,750
All actresses are nervous
before a big part.

533
00:31:29,787 --> 00:31:32,051
Yes, but when your daughter
came to you

534
00:31:32,090 --> 00:31:34,752
and told you she was nervous,
what did you say to her?

535
00:31:34,792 --> 00:31:38,626
I told her she should talk
to her friend, Angel--

536
00:31:38,663 --> 00:31:41,325
she had made
a lot of films.

537
00:31:41,366 --> 00:31:43,391
Mrs. Blaine, did it never
occur to you

538
00:31:43,434 --> 00:31:45,595
that starring
in a pornographic film

539
00:31:45,637 --> 00:31:47,662
might not be in your daughter's
best interest?

540
00:31:47,705 --> 00:31:50,697
Priscilla was an adult.
She made her own decisions.

541
00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:52,733
I did nothing wrong!

542
00:31:52,777 --> 00:31:54,904
No, you merely encouraged her
to prostitute her--

543
00:31:54,946 --> 00:31:58,438
I encouraged her to do
exactly what she wanted to do!

544
00:32:08,826 --> 00:32:10,885
Be seated.

545
00:32:14,732 --> 00:32:17,724
The particulars of this case
are repugnant to me.

546
00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:21,535
Frankly, I don't think
either of the applicants

547
00:32:21,572 --> 00:32:25,736
are fit administrators
of Priscilla Blaine's estate.

548
00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:28,712
It's also clear
the prosecutor's office

549
00:32:28,746 --> 00:32:31,613
is using this proceeding
to reach its own goals.

550
00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:35,078
However, I cannot
in good conscience

551
00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:37,952
ignore the criminal charges
against the applicant.

552
00:32:40,391 --> 00:32:42,450
I'm going to sign an order
issuing letters

553
00:32:42,493 --> 00:32:45,428
to the objectant,
Patricia Blaine.

554
00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:47,988
( bangs gavel )
This hearing is adjourned.

555
00:33:11,389 --> 00:33:14,017
What are some of the effects
of amitriptyline?

556
00:33:14,058 --> 00:33:17,926
Man:
Alleviates nervous tension,
symptoms of depression.

557
00:33:17,962 --> 00:33:20,021
And in larger dosages?

558
00:33:20,064 --> 00:33:23,192
Reduced inhibitions,
may evoke a state of euphoria.

559
00:33:23,234 --> 00:33:25,634
What is the usual
prescribed dosage?

560
00:33:25,670 --> 00:33:27,729
25 milligrams,
three times a day

561
00:33:27,772 --> 00:33:30,639
to a maximum of 150
milligrams as necessary.

562
00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:33,803
- There are 25 milligrams
to each tablet?
- Yes.

563
00:33:33,845 --> 00:33:37,212
How much of this drug
did Ms. Blaine take
the night she died?

564
00:33:37,248 --> 00:33:40,547
- Over 200 milligrams.
- So, that's at least
eight tablets?

565
00:33:40,585 --> 00:33:42,052
Man: Yes.

566
00:33:42,086 --> 00:33:44,077
Was there any physical
evidence to indicate

567
00:33:44,122 --> 00:33:47,888
whether or not Ms. Blaine
was an habitual user of drugs?

568
00:33:47,925 --> 00:33:50,393
The corrosive appearance
of the stomach lining

569
00:33:50,428 --> 00:33:52,726
and the presence
of partially digested tablets

570
00:33:52,764 --> 00:33:55,460
suggest her system
didn't easily absorb the drug.

571
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:58,594
If I'm a vegetarian
all my life,

572
00:33:58,636 --> 00:34:00,661
and one night
I eat a steak,

573
00:34:00,705 --> 00:34:02,832
my body has a hard time
digesting it, right?

574
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:04,933
Something like that.

575
00:34:04,976 --> 00:34:08,343
So, it's more probable
than not that Ms. Blaine
was not an abuser?

576
00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:09,846
Man:
That’s correct.

577
00:34:09,881 --> 00:34:11,974
Stone:
And if she had wanted
an extra kick,

578
00:34:12,016 --> 00:34:14,883
- 50 milligrams
would have sufficed?
- That's correct.

579
00:34:16,020 --> 00:34:18,011
So, in your expert opinion,
Doctor,

580
00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:20,422
why would Ms. Blaine
have taken eight tablets?

581
00:34:22,126 --> 00:34:24,117
To die.

582
00:34:25,963 --> 00:34:28,488
I told her never
to take more than one.

583
00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:30,524
Had Priscilla ever asked you
for drugs before?

584
00:34:30,568 --> 00:34:33,537
No. And I had never
offered them.

585
00:34:33,571 --> 00:34:35,869
Did she say why she wanted
the amitriptyline?

586
00:34:35,907 --> 00:34:38,705
She was nervous
about the new film.

587
00:34:40,244 --> 00:34:42,872
- The one she was
going to star in?
-Yes.

588
00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:45,109
Why was she nervous?

589
00:34:45,149 --> 00:34:47,379
She didn't think she could
go through with it.

590
00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:49,477
Stone:
Go through with what,
Ms. Greer?

591
00:34:50,922 --> 00:34:53,390
Having sex in front
of a camera.

592
00:34:53,424 --> 00:34:56,621
So, she needed the drugs
to help her do that?

593
00:34:56,661 --> 00:34:58,891
Yes.

594
00:34:58,930 --> 00:35:01,831
Thank you.
No further questions.

595
00:35:07,872 --> 00:35:10,136
You and Priscilla
were good friends?

596
00:35:11,375 --> 00:35:14,742
- We were friendly.
- Just friendly?

597
00:35:14,779 --> 00:35:17,680
Well, her mom didn't want us
getting too close.

598
00:35:17,715 --> 00:35:21,845
In fact, didn't Mrs. Blaine
discourage Priscilla

599
00:35:21,886 --> 00:35:24,081
from spending any time
with you at all?

600
00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:26,818
- Yes.
- Why was that, Angel?

601
00:35:28,726 --> 00:35:30,853
She knew that I took drugs.

602
00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:34,826
And she didn't want
Priscilla associating

603
00:35:34,866 --> 00:35:37,494
with people who took drugs,
isn't that right?

604
00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:40,929
Yes.

605
00:35:44,442 --> 00:35:47,036
When did Priscilla Blaine
start working for you?

606
00:35:47,078 --> 00:35:49,069
I believe
it was late February.

607
00:35:49,113 --> 00:35:52,514
And how many of these films
did she appear in?

608
00:35:52,550 --> 00:35:54,541
Four-- no, five.

609
00:35:54,585 --> 00:35:57,520
Was she featured
in any of these?
No.

610
00:35:57,555 --> 00:36:00,183
Yet she was going to,
and I quote,

611
00:36:00,224 --> 00:36:02,658
"star in your next film."
Is that correct?

612
00:36:02,693 --> 00:36:04,320
Yeah.

613
00:36:05,696 --> 00:36:07,789
Did Mrs. Blaine
know about that?

614
00:36:07,832 --> 00:36:11,393
Did she know?
She wanted script approval,
the whole bit.

615
00:36:12,870 --> 00:36:15,338
In your new film,
was Priscilla Blaine

616
00:36:15,373 --> 00:36:17,568
expected to perform sex acts
on screen?

617
00:36:17,608 --> 00:36:19,803
Tastefully, yes.

618
00:36:23,447 --> 00:36:25,506
Did Mrs. Blaine
know that her daughter

619
00:36:25,550 --> 00:36:28,075
was expected to perform
sex on screen?

620
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:30,246
She'd been watching us shoot
for months. She knew.

621
00:36:30,288 --> 00:36:32,381
And when did your film
go into production?

622
00:36:32,423 --> 00:36:34,789
We were supposed to start
shooting June 3rd.

623
00:36:34,825 --> 00:36:37,123
The morning after
Priscilla Blaine died?

624
00:36:37,161 --> 00:36:39,595
Yes.

625
00:36:39,630 --> 00:36:42,224
Thank you.
No further questions.

626
00:36:44,735 --> 00:36:47,101
Ahem... Mr. Frome,

627
00:36:47,138 --> 00:36:50,767
did you approach Priscilla
about starring in this new film?

628
00:36:50,808 --> 00:36:53,038
No, she came to me.

629
00:36:53,077 --> 00:36:56,046
Priscilla came to you
and asked if she could
star in the film?

630
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,311
Something like that.
Was her mother with her?

631
00:36:59,350 --> 00:37:01,341
Frome:
No, she was alone.

632
00:37:01,385 --> 00:37:03,444
Do you have
any reason to believe

633
00:37:03,487 --> 00:37:06,650
that Mrs. Blaine forced
her daughter to ask you for the part?

634
00:37:06,691 --> 00:37:09,751
- No.
- Objection. Beyond the scope
of the witness' knowledge.

635
00:37:09,794 --> 00:37:13,321
Mr. Stone, I did
permit you great latitude.

636
00:37:13,364 --> 00:37:15,491
I'll allow it.

637
00:37:15,533 --> 00:37:17,524
She was
legally an adult.

638
00:37:17,568 --> 00:37:19,559
If she didn't want
to do pornography,

639
00:37:19,604 --> 00:37:22,038
why didn't she
just walk away?

640
00:37:22,073 --> 00:37:24,132
Her mother had total control
over her life.

641
00:37:24,175 --> 00:37:26,473
Priscilla was powerless
in that relationship.

642
00:37:26,510 --> 00:37:29,001
She dated a boy
her mother didn't want her to.

643
00:37:29,046 --> 00:37:31,037
She lied to get out
of a performance

644
00:37:31,082 --> 00:37:34,142
and she even began seeing you
without her mother's permission.

645
00:37:34,185 --> 00:37:37,086
She lied because she was
afraid to confront her.

646
00:37:37,121 --> 00:37:39,589
But she was an actress.
Did she really have

647
00:37:39,624 --> 00:37:40,989
that kind of difficulty
expressing herself?

648
00:37:41,025 --> 00:37:43,459
She was so used
to subverting her emotions,

649
00:37:43,494 --> 00:37:45,985
there were days she came
to my office

650
00:37:46,030 --> 00:37:48,521
and couldn't say a word.

651
00:37:48,566 --> 00:37:51,865
She found... other ways.

652
00:37:51,902 --> 00:37:54,063
What other ways?

653
00:37:55,072 --> 00:37:57,700
She had long, lovely hair.

654
00:37:57,742 --> 00:38:00,370
She knew her mother
prized her hair.

655
00:38:00,411 --> 00:38:02,470
A month ago,
she cut it all off.

656
00:38:02,513 --> 00:38:05,812
Not styled-- shorn.

657
00:38:05,850 --> 00:38:08,648
Doctor, this is a transcript

658
00:38:08,686 --> 00:38:12,144
from the time you discussed
that incident with Priscilla.

659
00:38:12,189 --> 00:38:16,387
Would you please read
the highlighted portions out loud?

660
00:38:22,867 --> 00:38:25,961
"Priscilla:
'I started, and I just
kept going.‘

661
00:38:26,003 --> 00:38:28,870
Doctor:
’Why did you do it?’

662
00:38:28,906 --> 00:38:32,842
Priscilla:
’Maybe-- I don’t know,

663
00:38:32,877 --> 00:38:35,675
Mom said my hair
was what sold me or something.

664
00:38:35,713 --> 00:38:38,238
I thought without the hair,
whatever--

665
00:38:39,684 --> 00:38:41,743
maybe she’d get it.

666
00:38:43,721 --> 00:38:48,021
Doctor, would you
characterize that incident
as self-destructive?

667
00:38:48,059 --> 00:38:50,459
Cutting hair,
cutting skin--

668
00:38:50,494 --> 00:38:52,860
it's how some kids
get their point across.

669
00:38:52,897 --> 00:38:54,888
And did you believe
it would lead

670
00:38:54,932 --> 00:38:59,801
- to more serious forms
of self-destructive behavior?
- It usually does.

671
00:38:59,837 --> 00:39:01,964
Dr. Seliger,
did Priscilla Blaine

672
00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:04,600
ever talk to you
about committing suicide?

673
00:39:06,544 --> 00:39:08,637
Indirectly.
How so?

674
00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:10,306
She made a tape
of a monologue

675
00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:12,578
from a play she did
in class.

676
00:39:12,616 --> 00:39:14,709
What did she plan
to do with that tape?

677
00:39:14,752 --> 00:39:18,813
She gave it to her mother.
Said she "hoped she'd understand."

678
00:39:18,856 --> 00:39:20,983
When did she give
the tape to her mother?

679
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:23,152
A week before she died.

680
00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:27,153
Your Honor,
at this time I'd like to play
the tape for the Court.

681
00:39:27,198 --> 00:39:29,189
The Defense
renews its objection.

682
00:39:29,233 --> 00:39:33,294
Mr. Stone is insisting
the death was a suicide,
and is now attempting

683
00:39:33,337 --> 00:39:36,329
to introduce non-relevant
facts into that theory.

684
00:39:36,374 --> 00:39:38,365
Objection's noted,
Mr. Pollard.

685
00:39:38,409 --> 00:39:40,673
I'll allow the tape
for what it's worth.

686
00:39:53,891 --> 00:39:57,292
Mama, you awake?

687
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:02,593
I couldn't sleep.

688
00:40:04,635 --> 00:40:06,762
I haven't slept
in days.

689
00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:16,346
Last night in the dark
I looked at myself in the mirror...

690
00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:21,817
and all I could see
were the whites of my eyes.

691
00:40:25,589 --> 00:40:29,047
And I knew how scared
I really was.

692
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:32,828
Are you dreaming, Mama?

693
00:40:34,765 --> 00:40:37,427
Remember Abilene, Mama?

694
00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:42,330
How the towns clicked by...

695
00:40:43,707 --> 00:40:46,699
and I begged you to stop
the train?

696
00:40:47,912 --> 00:40:52,110
Lexington, Nashville,
Little Rock.

697
00:40:54,351 --> 00:40:57,514
I was sick
for a thousand miles.

698
00:41:03,294 --> 00:41:05,819
And I hated you
for it.

699
00:41:09,733 --> 00:41:13,965
Well, Mama, you sleep.

700
00:41:18,409 --> 00:41:20,104
Me...

701
00:41:21,946 --> 00:41:24,915
I’m getting off
this train.

702
00:41:29,753 --> 00:41:31,812
I'm tired now, Mama.

703
00:41:35,793 --> 00:41:37,852
When you wake up...

704
00:41:39,763 --> 00:41:42,095
don't be angry
that I'm gone.

705
00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:51,364
It's my turn to sleep.

706
00:42:05,556 --> 00:42:08,320
Adam:
So they might believe
the girl committed suicide,

707
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:10,520
but the defense will appeal.

708
00:42:10,561 --> 00:42:13,394
Admission of the tape
was reversible error.

709
00:42:13,430 --> 00:42:16,627
Judge Hale
didn't think the tape
was overly prejudicial.

710
00:42:16,667 --> 00:42:18,658
Even if the girl
did kill herself,

711
00:42:18,702 --> 00:42:20,693
it's tough to prove
that the mother's behavior

712
00:42:20,738 --> 00:42:24,230
was the proximate cause
of her death.

713
00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:26,266
And we're almost there.
The tape went a long way
to prove that.

714
00:42:26,310 --> 00:42:28,301
Mrs. Blaine knew that acting
in those films

715
00:42:28,345 --> 00:42:30,404
was making
her daughter suicidal.

716
00:42:30,447 --> 00:42:32,972
Yeah, but if she doesn't
take the stand,

717
00:42:33,017 --> 00:42:35,986
you got no way of proving
what she knew or didn't know.

718
00:42:36,020 --> 00:42:38,386
And Pollard's no fool.
He's been around.

719
00:42:38,422 --> 00:42:40,549
No way he's gonna
put her on the stand.

720
00:42:40,591 --> 00:42:42,991
No way you're going
to make your case.

721
00:42:43,027 --> 00:42:46,861
What if it wasn't suicide
after all?

722
00:42:46,897 --> 00:42:49,627
At the probate hearing,
Mrs. Blaine said

723
00:42:49,667 --> 00:42:52,761
that when Priscilla was nervous
about starring in a film,

724
00:42:52,803 --> 00:42:55,203
she told her to talk
to Angel about it.

725
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,800
At trial, Angel said Mrs. Blaine
didn't want Priscilla around her.

726
00:42:58,842 --> 00:43:00,833
Maybe she knew Angel
was getting drugs

727
00:43:00,878 --> 00:43:02,869
to get through
the performance.

728
00:43:02,913 --> 00:43:04,904
So Mrs. Blaine
sent Priscilla to Angel

729
00:43:04,949 --> 00:43:07,440
to get the drugs
to help her have sex on camera.

730
00:43:07,484 --> 00:43:10,009
So we change our theory?

731
00:43:10,054 --> 00:43:13,080
Priscilla didn't commit
suicide, she OD'd?

732
00:43:14,725 --> 00:43:19,185
Mrs. Blaine not only
forced her daughter
to have sex on camera,

733
00:43:19,229 --> 00:43:21,288
but she gave her
the drugs

734
00:43:21,332 --> 00:43:24,563
to help her do that.

735
00:43:26,904 --> 00:43:30,396
Ergo, she is guilty
of her daughter's death.

736
00:43:30,441 --> 00:43:32,466
And with her prior testimony,

737
00:43:32,509 --> 00:43:34,534
we don't even need
Mrs. Blaine on the stand.

738
00:43:34,578 --> 00:43:36,603
Now, Ben,
what do you think?

739
00:43:36,647 --> 00:43:38,706
Do you believe this girl
committed suicide?

740
00:43:38,749 --> 00:43:42,048
I do believe that Mrs. Blaine
is guilty of her daughter's death.

741
00:43:42,086 --> 00:43:44,077
I'll do anything to make it stick.

742
00:43:49,026 --> 00:43:51,017
( loudly )
It's prejudicial.

743
00:43:51,061 --> 00:43:52,551
It's inflammatory--

744
00:43:52,596 --> 00:43:55,394
I am not deciding
on decibel level, Lucas.

745
00:43:55,432 --> 00:43:58,595
There is nothing in that transcript
that would prejudice a jury.

746
00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:01,070
What about her right
against self-incrimination?

747
00:44:01,105 --> 00:44:03,596
Mrs. Blaine testified under oath.
She was represented by counsel.

748
00:44:03,641 --> 00:44:05,939
Her rights were fully protected.

749
00:44:05,976 --> 00:44:08,001
"Question:
'What did you say
to your daughter

750
00:44:08,045 --> 00:44:10,172
when she told you
she was nervous?‘

751
00:44:10,214 --> 00:44:14,947
Answer, Mrs. Blaine:
'I told her to talk to her friend Angel.

752
00:44:14,985 --> 00:44:18,182
She made a lot of films."'
Now, what's the problem with that?

753
00:44:18,222 --> 00:44:21,123
He's manufacturing
proximate cause.

754
00:44:23,627 --> 00:44:26,357
A jury could infer
that the defendant

755
00:44:26,397 --> 00:44:29,059
sent her daughter to Angel
specifically to get drugs.

756
00:44:29,099 --> 00:44:32,034
- Still, if the girl
committed suicide...
- Pollard: Exactly.

757
00:44:34,905 --> 00:44:36,304
Your point being...?

758
00:44:36,340 --> 00:44:38,706
We're in agreement
on one major point--

759
00:44:38,742 --> 00:44:42,075
nobody will ever know
what Priscilla's intentions were.
But we do know

760
00:44:42,112 --> 00:44:45,377
that her mother intended to get
that film made no matter what the cost.

761
00:44:45,416 --> 00:44:47,407
That's a sandbag.
He's changing theories
in mid-case

762
00:44:47,451 --> 00:44:49,248
because he hasn't got
anything to stand on.

763
00:44:49,286 --> 00:44:52,813
Oh, Ithink not.
I think if you ask a jury,
they'll tell you

764
00:44:52,856 --> 00:44:54,915
her taped plea to her mother--

765
00:44:54,958 --> 00:44:57,893
the most passionate
performance of that girl's life.

766
00:45:02,533 --> 00:45:04,831
I see no reason
to overrule the motion.

767
00:45:04,868 --> 00:45:08,497
I'll allow Mrs. Blaine's testimony
to be read into evidence.

768
00:45:12,876 --> 00:45:15,367
I'll need 10 minutes
with my client.

769
00:45:16,714 --> 00:45:20,241
So now you're telling me
it was an accident...

770
00:45:22,252 --> 00:45:24,914
and it's still my fault?

771
00:45:24,955 --> 00:45:27,014
Mrs. Blaine,
I'm not a psychiatrist--

772
00:45:27,057 --> 00:45:29,582
I don't know what part
of your psyche made you push

773
00:45:29,626 --> 00:45:32,595
your own flesh and blood
into pornography-- but yes, I do think

774
00:45:32,629 --> 00:45:36,588
Priscilla's death was your fault,
both legally and morally.

775
00:45:40,070 --> 00:45:42,231
But I loved her.

776
00:45:44,074 --> 00:45:46,304
She was my life.

777
00:45:46,343 --> 00:45:50,473
No, she was your daughter.
She had a life of her own.

778
00:45:58,255 --> 00:46:01,224
Criminally negligent homicide...

779
00:46:01,258 --> 00:46:03,818
with a sentencing
recommendation?

780
00:46:03,861 --> 00:46:05,920
An "E" felony?

781
00:46:07,197 --> 00:46:09,290
She's not dangerous, Ben.

782
00:46:13,570 --> 00:46:15,629
Man two?

783
00:46:18,208 --> 00:46:20,267
She does the max.

784
00:46:39,763 --> 00:46:41,924
It was kind of like
a fairy tale, wasn't it?

785
00:46:41,965 --> 00:46:44,024
Which one?

786
00:46:44,067 --> 00:46:46,558
"Mirror, mirror
on the wall..."

787
00:46:49,406 --> 00:46:53,035
She looked at her daughter
and saw herself.

788
00:46:53,076 --> 00:46:55,704
Somehow, I don't think
she'll ever understand
what she did wrong.

789
00:46:55,746 --> 00:46:57,873
No, I suppose you're right,
but it's scary.

790
00:46:57,915 --> 00:46:59,906
What's that?

791
00:46:59,950 --> 00:47:02,510
That an emotion like love
can do so much damage.

792
00:47:02,553 --> 00:47:04,612
( elevator bell rings )

793
00:47:13,697 --> 00:47:15,858
( theme music plays )