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This is Justice in America.

And I'm Madeline McBride.

It has been 73 days
since the murder

of 11-year-old Kaylee Nagle.

Kaylee was found sexually
assaulted and stabbed to death

in her Westchester,
New York home.

And while the police
have yet to make an arrest,

there is one suspect from whom

we never hear.

I'm talking about
Kaylee's stepfather,

Jeremy Brennan.

According to Jeremy's
statement to the police,

he picked up Kaylee after school

at soccer practice
and returned home.

And while Kaylee's
mother was at work,

Jeremy claims he
went on a bike ride

and returned less
than an hour later to find

his stepdaughter dead
on the kitchen floor,

her soccer jersey ripped open,

her shorts pulled
down to her ankles,

and a kitchen knife

buried in her chest.

Well, apparently, the police
are running out of ways

to get this man to
talk, and that is why

I am asking you, for
the 22nd night in a row,

to let Jeremy Brennan know
that you need to hear from him.

You want answers.

And he can't hide!

Let's keep up the pressure.

Let's bombard this
man with our tweets.

Let's demand that
he come forward

and answer some questions.

@JeremyBrennanRealty.

Dr. Bull, Mr. Colón.

I appreciate you
braving the pandemic

to meet me this morning.

For the record, I
get tested every day.

The room is
disinfected every night.

So feel free to
leave your masks on

or take them off as you see fit.

You gentlemen
know why you're here?

I'm guessing it's because

you have a Madeline
McBride problem.

She's being sued by
that family of the little girl

who was murdered.
And they want her

to stop encouraging her
viewers to harass the stepfather

on social media.

Please.

Well, you know... this
Madeline McBride issue.

She's picking a fight
with someone who,

who might be the guilty
party, but also someone

who could certainly be
perceived as the victim,

in that his stepdaughter was

the person who died.

Can't pay them off...
they don't want money.

Can't ask Madeline to
stop what she's doing

without doing irreparable
harm to her brand,

which, as you know, is

the tough-talking, acerbic,

defender of those
denied justice.

Yada, yada, yada.
Long story short,

we're going to court,
whether we want to or not.

So you think the jury

just might side with the
family of the dead girl?

Our whole business is based

on the assumption that
the First Amendment gives

our air personalities the
right to express themselves

without fear of retribution.

And I don't want to
give the courts or a jury

any reason to second-guess that.

I'd just love to shut this
down sooner rather than later.

If you two were inclined
to lead the fight for us

I'd certainly make
it worth your while.

You ever watch that lady's show?

I have caught a little
of it here and there.

It's hard to believe that's
what the founding fathers

had in mind when they were
cooking up the Constitution.

Are you trying to tell me
you'd rather not be involved?

Madeline McBride is part
of this culture of evisceration

that takes over cable
television every night.

Whether it's politics
or celebrity stalking

or true crime, it's just

it's just mean, man.

Well, it might be mean,
but Madeline McBride

and WNN are on the right
side of this thing legally.

It's the First Amendment.

And the problem is

if you don't stand up for the
people you don't agree with

when they're being
silenced, there might not be

a right to free speech
when they come after

the people that
you do agree with.

Right? No less a figure
than George Washington said,

"If freedom of speech is taken
away, then dumb and silent

we may be led like
sheep to the slaughter."

Your Honor, the law
of the state of New York

is very clear... an injunction
can only be granted

if there's proof that
the party in question

is doing irreparable harm.

Counsel is correct
on that point.

Is your client suffering
irreparable harm?

Without question, Your Honor.

Jeremy Brennan is suffering
indescribable mental anguish

because of Madeline
McBride's relentless

and very public attacks.

To be clear, she's accusing

my client of the murder
of his stepdaughter

on national television,
virtually every night

for over a month now.

All this while he and his wife

are dealing with the
anguish of having lost

their only child in

as gruesome and savage

a rape and murder

as I can ever recall.

She is using her bully pulpit

to urge her viewers

to call him out
via social media.

My client receives
over a thousand

tweets a day...
all of them hostile,

many of them threatening...
And all of them mention.

Ms. McBride and
her program by name.

Furthermore, Mr. Brennan
is a real estate agent.

His name... is an integral
part of his business.

Bus benches with
his name and photo

are being defaced with
the words "pedophile"

and "killer."

Mr. Brennan can't even
go out in public anymore.

And let's start with the fact

that my client has never

been arrested or charged

with any crime. None.

Furthermore, there
is clear evidence

that someone else is the killer.

There was unidentified
DNA and skin cells

present under
Kaylee's fingernails.

Something Ms. McBride doesn't
even mention on her show.

Your Honor, the DNA
found underneath the victim's

fingernails could come
from anyone, anywhere.

Possibly even

one of her friends
on the soccer field.

And isn't this ultimately

about the First Amendment?

No less a figure than
George Washington declared,

"If freedom of
speech is taken away,

"then dumb and silent,

we may be led like
sheep to the slaughter."

Mr. Colón knows good and well

that not all speech

is protected by the
First Amendment.

The Supreme Court has
been very clear on that.

There's a reason
you can't yell fire

in a crowded theater.

Respectfully, Your Honor,
you can if there's smoke.

Personally, going
forward, I would encourage.

Ms. McBride to show
a degree of sensitivity

to Mr. Brennan, who,
as Mr. Godford points out,

has not even been charged
with a crime at this point.

However, I am bound
by the State of New York

as well as the United
States' Constitution.

Madeline McBride has a
guaranteed First Amendment right

to state her opinion.

Therefore, I am denying
the request for an injunction.

Court dismissed.

Nice job, gentlemen.

I told you we were
in good hands.

That George Washington
quote was very moving.

We barely said hello,
but I'm very grateful

for what you did here today.

And

I know that Kaylee is, too.

Hi, hi, sorry!

Forgive me for ambushing you.

It's just that your place
was locked, but then

the guard downstairs
recognized me

and he said that I
could wait here for you,

so...

What can I do for
you, Ms. McBride?

I got a phone call
about an hour ago.

Jeremy Brennan,
Kaylee Nagle's stepfather,

he.

He killed himself last night.

Hello?

Yes, this is she.

Sorry, what hospital is this?

No, no, there must
be some mistake.

You're, like, three
blocks away from me.

My father lives in Louisiana.

Has for the last 15 years.

Wait, he what?

Tonight?

Day 42... no response

from Jeremy Brennan
or his attorneys

regarding his
availability or willingness

to appear on this show.

No response from Westchester PD

as to what their plans
are moving forward

in regards to the
Kaylee Nagle case.

No response from the mayor.

No response from
the county supervisor.

And that is why I've
applied for a permit

for an organized
rally across the street

from the Brennan home.

The scene of Kaylee's death.

And if you live in
the tri-state area,

I do hope that you will
come down and join me

as we let the world know
that we have some questions.

And we want some answers!

Our client concluded
her broadcast,

this broadcast, at 9:59.

According to the Brennan cable
box, the program was viewed

in both the bedroom
and the family room.

Jeremy's widow tells
us she watched it alone

and fell asleep
shortly thereafter.

Apparently her late husband
never made it upstairs to bed.

Sometime between
2:00 and 3:00 a.m.,

he entered the garage,
climbed into his car,

started the engine,

but never opened
the garage door.

Just sat in the front seat and
waited for the carbon monoxide

to do its job... no texts,
no note, no nothing.

Let's talk law... the
other side is gonna have

to prove Jeremy Brennan's
suicide was uniquely

a result of Madeline
McBride's on-air provocations.

And as disturbing as
what we just saw was,

that's gonna be a very,
very difficult thing to prove.

And yet, the six people
sitting in judgment of all this

may have a hard time
separating what Madeline did

from who Madeline is,
or who she appears to be.

Taylor, you have those Q scores?

"Q score"?

They measure the
likeability and familiarity

of a celebrity.

Madeline McBride
has an extraordinarily

high Q score, actually.

Over 80% of adults who
are between the ages

of 18 and 49 know who she is.

Additionally, two out
of three of those 80%

admit to watching her at
least three times a month.

Okay. She's popular.
We knew that.

Here's the fascinating part.

Two-thirds of that subset that
says they watch her,

admit they don't like her.

They find her shrill,
hysterical, judgmental, unfair.

"She's not a nice person."

And therein lies the problem.

That is our potential
jury pool, which is why

we have to make sure
this case doesn't devolve

into a referendum on
our client's personality.

Now, the other side's
gonna have their hands full

trying to prove causation,
which I'm fairly sure

we will be able to
defend against, but

if this case becomes
about what that jury thinks

about McBride's behavior as
a TV personality, we will lose.

We can't play defense and win.

We have to make sure
this jury understands

this is much bigger than
a cable news TV show.

This better be important.

What can I do for you?

Any progress in the
Madeline McBride of it all?

Still in the midst.

Actually, I had a startling
revelation a little while ago.

Our client

is the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

People see her...

They're appalled, but
they're also fascinated.

Same way they feel
about the Hunchback.

They can't look away.

So, what the novel
does, what the movie does

is it humanizes this person

that people find so
frightening, so terrifying.

It makes them care about him.

That's what we need
to do with Madeline.

Any idea how?

Not a clue.

Something will come to me.

But I suspect that is not
why you came to my office.

Actually, I was hoping

to get a couple of minutes
with the other Dr. Bull.

The psychologist.

What's going on?

My father passed
away last night.

COVID.

I'm so sorry. No, it's fine.

I'm fine.

Didn't even know he was sick.

Haven't seen or spoken
with him in almost 15 years.

I thought he was

in New Orleans this whole time.

Turns out he was living four
subway stops away from me.

Is that what you wanted
to talk to me about?

No. No.

Um, I wanted to talk about me.

So, I got the call at
3:00 in the morning.

Hung up, went straight to sleep.

Didn't cry.

Just slept.

Then I got up, came to work.

Still haven't cried.

Is that crazy?

Well, there's a
lot I don't know,

but my suspicion is

you're not reacting
yet to what happened.

And there's two reasons.
One, you're in shock.

And two, your father
already left you 15 years ago.

So, I suspect you've
been mourning him

on and off for years.

That makes sense.

Thank you, Dr. Bull.

Danny?

Sooner or later, you will cry.

I don't know.

He is my father.

And it's not like I don't
have any good memories.

But in a lot of ways,
he was a really bad guy.

I'm just telling you,
it could be tomorrow,

could be years from now.

You'll be walking
down the street,

and suddenly, it hits you.

I just want you to
know it's coming.

Okay.

I've been warned.

And when did

the two of you become
aware that Madeline McBride

was implicating your husband

in the death of your child
on national television?

Were you regular
viewers of her program?

No, I had never seen it
before, I'd-I'd never heard of her.

Um, I'm guessing the
first time she mentioned it,

it was a Friday night,
because I remember

it was a Saturday morning
when we first got the tweets.

Um, my husband

had his own Twitter account for,

for his work.

And he woke me up to show me the

ugliest messages.

Um, and as I said, it
was a Saturday morning,

which are always the hardest,

because Saturdays
were Kaylee's days.

It was soccer and
sleepovers, and then

there were just these long days

that we had to
fill by ourselves.

And how did your life change

as Madeline McBride began

her nightly campaign
against your husband?

After she insinuated
on national television

that Kaylee's stepfather
was a pedophile and a killer?

My husband was vilified.

At the grocery store,

at his office,
everywhere he went.

They would call him names,

tell him to stop hiding.

And

did you and
Mr. Brennan ever feel

that you were in any real
danger because of Ms. McBride?

We did, and we were.

In fact, the night before
Jeremy took his own life,

someone threw a brick
through our front window.

Your Honor, we
would like to introduce

into evidence the
aforementioned brick

that came through
the Brennans' window.

Objection, Your Honor.

A brick thrown by an unknown
perpetrator is not relevant

to statements made
by Ms. McBride,

and any attempt to connect
the two is speculative at best.

Actually, the two are
very much connected,

very much related, Your Honor.

Sorry, Counselor.

I think we need to
see where this goes.

Overruled.

The brick that you're holding...

There's some writing on it?

Would you please
read what it says?

It says, "Stop Hiding Jeremy."

And are you familiar
with that expression?

I certainly am.

"StopHidingJeremy"
was the hashtag

McBride told her audience
to tweet to Jeremy every night.

You okay?

What do you mean?

Well, that had to be
hard to listen to in there.

Well, I'm fine.

I know, and I
think the jury sees,

that this is very
difficult for her.

She invited him into her house.

She invited him into her life.

And now her daughter is
dead, so she's lashing out at me.

It's-it's kind of
classic textbook.

Don't you think?

Do you disagree?

Well, for what it's worth,
that's not what I heard.

I heard her communicate...

And rather effectively,
I might add...

The impact your
show had on her life.

And, by extension,
her late husband's life.

That is what they heard.

Let's not confuse
things, Madeline.

Jury's not here to litigate
her late husband's guilt.

They're here to litigate yours.

I'm guilty of nothing.

I've killed no one.

All I've done is exercise
my First Amendment rights,

and, um, last time I
checked, that's not a crime.

So, don't you confuse things.

And don't forget who
you're here to defend.

Dr. Soto, will you
please tell the court

what it is you do?

I'm a licensed psychiatrist

in the state of New York

in private practice in
Westchester County,

and until his death, I saw
Jeremy Brennan once a week

for the past... just
about four years.

And can you give
the court some idea

why you were seeing
the late Mr. Brennan

these past four years?

Well, without going
into too much detail,

what brought Mr. Brennan
into my office was his struggle

with issues involving
generalized anxiety.

The stresses involved with
running your own business.

Pretty run-of-the-mill stuff.

And can you talk
about the impact.

Kaylee's death had on him?

He was, shattered.

Destroyed.

Wanted to be this
strong anchor for his wife,

who obviously was devastated,

and felt ashamed
that he couldn't do it.

Couldn't function.

And then there was the
whole issue of responsibility.

Tracy was at work,
he was at home.

The way he explained it
to me was, he could have

just as easily been
there, been at the house,

maybe stopped it from happening.

But he was riding his bike.

At one of our last
sessions, he told me

it was an incredibly
beautiful ride.

And at the time, it gave
him enormous pleasure.

And he really had
trouble understanding

how he could experience
so much pleasure

when someone he loved so deeply
was experiencing so much horror.

Your Honor, we
mean no disrespect,

but it's hard to
see the relevance

of any of this testimony,

what bearing it has
on the case at hand.

Your Honor, we
believe it's essential

for the jury to understand

Mr. Brennan's state of mind

before Ms. McBride turned him

into the focus of
her broadcasts,

so they may better understand
the impact she had on him.

I agree,

but I feel confident
that you've done that.

If we could please.

Beg the court's pardon.

If I could just ask
one last question...

Your Honor... about
the days before.

Ms. McBride made him the
centerpiece of her broadcasts?

One.

But keep it brief.

During that period,

immediately after Kaylee's death

but before Ms. McBride
made him topic number one

on her television show, did
he seem at all to you suicidal?

As his doctor,

were you ever really
concerned about his safety?

No.

He was depressed. He was angry.

He couldn't sleep or eat.

But he was also very clear

that he had to be
there for his wife.

I see. And after

he was implicated
by Ms. McBride?

That was the first time I saw

anything even resembling
suicidal ideation.

She was on
television every night

implying awful things.

The unrelenting tweets.

The phone calls in
the middle of the night.

The brick through the window.

This rally she wanted to
have across from his house.

I wish I hadn't been
so timid about it.

I wish I really had pushed

to have him hospitalized.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

Hello, Dr. Soto.

So...

Are you familiar with
the concept of correlation

and how it's often
confused with causation?

I'm familiar with it, yes.

That even if there is

a correlation between
Ms. McBride's actions

and Jeremy Brennan's
depression and mental distress,

well, that doesn't
prove causation.

No one knows for sure
why Jeremy Brennan

did what he did.

You don't know why Mr. Brennan
did what he did, do you?

The witness will answer

- the question, please.
- That's okay,

Your Honor. That's all right.

I-I think the jury gets it.

They know if the doctor,
was certain about any of this,

she would have absolutely
had Mr. Brennan hospitalized.

A-And not just thought about it.

You know, like, done
it. Made it happen.

But she wasn't certain.

Were you?

No.

Okay, so, let's get back to
correlation and causation.

To the best of your
knowledge, did my client

tell Jeremy Brennan
to get on social media?

No, not that I'm aware of.

And, for that
matter, did my client

ever force Jeremy Brennan
to watch her TV show?

No, I-I can't imagine she did.

I can't imagine that, either.

Thank you.

No further questions,
Your Honor.

I need you to answer
the door, Marissa.

What? Answer the door?
What are you talking about?

What door?

Answer the door, Marissa.

Doubt has arrived.

Morning. Um, any way
we could have a chat?

Sure.

What's up?

Um, I need a favor.

My father passed
away earlier this week.

God, I... Danny, I'm so sorry.

Were you close?

I barely knew him.

Well, that's not
true. I knew him.

And I loved him.

But he left us...
my mom and me...

Right before I went
into the police academy.

No goodbye. Nothing. Just,
came home from school one day,

and he was... he was gone.

Took off with some woman.

I haven't spoken
to him in 15 years.

So the point is, um,

I, I hired a-a company

to go into his apartment
and box up all his things.

Get them out of there
so the, the landlord

can get the place
ready for a new tenant.

Anyway,

um, they just called,

and apparently, it's
about 20-some boxes.

And I just don't
have enough room

for all that stuff in my
tiny apartment, so...

Is there any way that I
could store them here,

out of the way?

Judge is on his way
out. We're coming.

After the other
side questions me,

you get to question
me, too, right?

Yes. That's how it works.

Okay. For your last question,

just make sure you ask
me how I got into all of this.

What makes me care so
deeply for victims of crime.

What makes me care so
deeply for people like Kaylee.

No evidence of forced entry.

No real alibi for
the time period

during which Kaylee was
sexually assaulted and murdered.

I mean, he claimed
he went on a bike ride,

but no one actually saw him.

So, he just seemed

like someone that you would
want to get answers from.

You know what they say
about walking like a duck.

Any more questions

for this witness, Counselor?

Yes, Your Honor. Just one more.

So,

Ms. McBride,

we've all

seen you on television.

We've all seen you in action.

So, how did you come to this?

How did you come to
be a champion of justice?

A champion of
victims like Kaylee?

Like a lot of things in life

you never see it coming.

20 years ago,

I was married.

I was living in Indiana.

It was, like

nine or ten weeks after 9/11.

It was Black Friday.

I was doing my patriotic duty

by getting some early
Christmas shopping done.

And my three-year-old,

David...

He was at that in-between age.

You know, they
want to be carried,

and, no, they want
to walk on their own

or they want to hold your hand.

It's like, no, no,
they want to be free.

Anyway, my husband at the time

was in some other
part of the mall.

And I saw out of
the corner of my eye

this robot pet

that was so popular that year.

I mean, it was sold
out everywhere.

And then there it was.

Magically, right in front of me.

So, I grabbed David's hand,

and we walked over
to where they were.

I remember that the aisle

was so very crowded.

People and shopping carts

and winter clothes.

It seems so stupid now.

Anyway.

I grabbed the toy,

and then I realized that I

I didn't want David to see it.

I didn't want him to know

that Mommy was getting
him the toy and not Santa.

So I switched
hands for a second.

And...

And then I looked down.

He wasn't there.

You can figure out the rest.

It was, like, me, my husband,

the police... we
were all over that mall

until they locked the doors

and made us leave.

He was just

gone.

I'm so sorry.

I was desperate,

so

I went to the media.

I didn't even know
what the media was.

But

I wanted David's picture

and his name everywhere.

You know, just in case
somebody saw him.

And I-I wouldn't let up.

Not even after my husband

stopped speaking to me.

Not even after he left me.

But.

I just couldn't stop.

My son's

body washed up on the
shore of the Patoka Lake

a few weeks later.

And

I guess everyone figured

that was that.

But not for me.

I went everywhere
there was a microphone.

Radio stations.

Colleges.

I just... I kept pushing

because I wanted the scalp

of the man who kidnapped

my son and murdered him.

And then, finally.

I got it.

The police found him.

'Cause, you know, they
never dared stop looking

'cause I was screaming
from the rooftops.

I got justice.

I speak for the dead.

Like my son.

And like Kaylee.

Told you I knew
what I was doing.

That was quite a
piece of testimony.

Any of it true?

Yeah, step on in.
Close the door?

I'm here to inform you that
WNN is withdrawing from the case.

Excuse me?

Also that our lawyers are on
the phone with your lawyers

negotiating the dissolution

of your contract
with our network.

As of now, you are
off the air, Madeline.

What's going on?

The man who killed Kaylee?

They caught him
about an hour ago.

Confessed to everything.

What are you talking about?

The man who killed
Kaylee was her stepfather.

No, he wasn't.

Look, the word is starting to
get out, and people are starting

to gather in front
of the courthouse.

They're looking for you.

So I'd arrange for
some extra security

to get her out of here? Yeah?

The killer was a man
named Wayne Dixon.

He was working
a construction job

down the street from
the Brennan home.

Dixon had apparently targeted
Kaylee a few weeks earlier.

He was watching the house

and saw Jeremy
ride away on his bike.

Dixon claims he
approached the house,

said he was a friend
of Kaylee's dad,

and she let him in,

which is why there is no
evidence of forced entry.

Is there anything in there

about how the police knew

to question Dixon
in the first place?

How did he come
to their attention?

Well, according to
this, they got a tip.

Dixon's girlfriend. Why?

We're in court at 11:00.

See if you can
find the girlfriend.

See if you can get her
on the phone with me.

Ms. James, stacked
all the boxes downstairs

in that courtroom
like you told me.

Thanks so much
for all your help.

And I almost forgot. The
person who helped pack up

your dad's things wanted
me to give you this.

Thanks.

Have a great day.

Good morning, Ms. Cowley.

Now, could you please
tell the court what it was

that prompted you
to call the police

on your boyfriend Wayne Dixon?

Yeah, I-I don't know.

Um, Wayne was working
construction in Westchester,

and, since he started,

he just seemed
different, distant,

you know, like he
was preoccupied

with something or-or someone.

And then, a few nights later,

I found him out back,
burning his clothes.

I mean, why would
you burn your clothes?

He said he got some type of
toxic chemical on them at work.

But he does framing
and drywall. I-I don't know.

It just... it didn't
seem right to me.

Now, is that when
you phoned the police?

No, no, not yet.

Um, what really got me
thinking was, all of a sudden,

he wanted to start watching
Madeline McBride's show

with me all of a sudden.

Like, he never wanted
to watch that show before.

He did not like her.

No offense.

I'm sorry. I-I love you, and
I love your show so much.

Go,

Quasimodo.Um...

So, anyway, he started
watching it with me.

And whenever she'd
bring up the case,

he'd always say how he was
working in that neighborhood

and he knew the house that
she was talking about, and...

And did you know your
boyfriend was interested

in prepubescent girls?

I don't know.

We never talked about it.

But... whenever we were
at the beach or at the park.

I thought I always
saw him looking.

Then I thought maybe
it was just in my mind.

And what did you tell the
police when you called them?

I knew from her show

that Kaylee had DNA on
her that hadn't been identified.

So, I called them, and I
offered Wayne's hairbrush.

And how did you know to do that?

From her show.

She talked about how DNA
from a hairbrush caught a killer

she was profiling a
couple years back.

Well, it's lucky you
watched her show.

Did you know that tips

from Ms. McBride's
viewers have helped

in solving over
one hundred cases

since the show first aired?

No.

I just think she's really smart

and cool.

Just really good at her job.

Sanctuary.

"Dear Danny James, you don't
know me, but my name is Devon.

"Some years ago, I
got to know your father.

"We met and fell
in love in New York,

"and eventually, I convinced him

"to come live with me in
Louisiana where I'm from.

"I did not know at the time
about you or your mother.

"Three months after we
settled down in Louisiana,

"your father confessed to
me about the family he had left.

"Told me that he could
no longer bear the guilt"

"and needed to go back to you."

"I did not stand in his way."

"He told me when
he got to New York,"

"your mother refused
to speak to him."

"Warned him that if he tried
to make contact with you"

"that she would kill him."

"He told me he found
a small apartment

"and got a job working
teaching physical education

"at an art school.

"Even taught himself to sketch.

"Over the years he tried
to build up the courage

"to reach out to you,

"but he told me he
was so filled with guilt

"and shame for leaving you,

"he just couldn't do it.

"And then one day, he
was looking out his window,

"and there you were.

"Walking by.

"He figured you were
probably making your way home

"from the police academy.

"He said he saw you maybe
ten or 20 times from that window,"

"but then, no more."

"I didn't hear from your
father again for many years."

"And then about three
weeks ago, he called"

"to tell me he was very sick."

"I flew to New York,
but by the time"

"I got there he was
already in the hospital."

So I'm writing to let you
know what he told me.

"That he wanted you to
know he was terribly sorry.

"And he wanted you to know

he loved you."

Jeremy Brennan's suicide is

undeniably tragic.

And no one will ever
know with certainty

why he decided
to take his own life.

But you know what we
do know with certainty?

That Kaylee's killer was caught.

And that's, at
least in part, due

to Madeline McBride,

for keeping
Kaylee's story alive.

But she was only able to do it

because her freedom of
speech allowed her to do it.

See, that's the tricky thing
about freedom of speech.

It-it cuts both ways.

See, people have the freedom

to say whatever it
is they want to say.

And everyone else
has the freedom,

not to listen, not to believe

and to do their own research

and come up with
their own conclusions.

I mean, that's what
Carla Cowley did.

You heard her.

She loved that woman.

But she did not let the fact

that for over a month, she heard

Madeline McBride, who
thought that Jeremy Brennan

probably committed the murder,

stop her from
picking up the phone

and calling the police
when she was convinced

my client was mistaken.

Look, I

I get it.

Okay? I get it. She was

she was wrong.

Wrong on the facts.

Unnecessarily harsh.

And there were times
I felt that she took

way too much pleasure

in her ongoing campaign
against Jeremy Brennan.

But you know what?

That is not against the law.

And the problem is

if you don't stand up

for the people you don't
necessarily agree with

when someone is
trying to silence them,

then there might not be
the right to free speech left

when they go after the
people you do agree with.

In the matter ofTracy Brennan v.

Madeline McBrideand the claim

of intentional infliction
of emotional distress

we, the jury, find
Madeline McBride

liable.

And we award Tracy
Brennan damages

in the amount of two and
one half million dollars.

Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury,

thank you for your service.

Court is adjourned.

Ms. McBride. I'm very sorry.

Don't be, you did your best.

But you lost your job.

You're about to get a
boatload of bad publicity.

And today is gonna cost you
two and a half million dollars.

Help me understand.

You seem to have made your peace

with this rather quickly.

Well, two and a half million?

That's why God created
personal liability insurance.

And the boatload of publicity?

I love it.

Good or bad,

it keeps me in the zeitgeist.

And it will come in handy

when I sit down
to cut my new deal.

A new deal?

See, people like me?

People who have
the courage to say

what everyone else is
thinking even if we're wrong?

We always draw a big crowd.

And trust me,

after today

the crowd will only be bigger?

Thank you, gentlemen.

Don't forget to
send me your bill.