All language subtitles for Law and Order S02E18 Cradle to Grave.DVDRip.NonHI.en.UNVSL

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

by two separate yet
equally important groups...

The police who
investigate crime,

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

Dr. Silverman, please
report to radiology.

Dr. Silverman to radiology.

Bypass triage. Straight to ER.

Exam room six.

Exam room three. Don't
forget your paperwork.

Exam room five, please.

Nurse Lacotter to Admissions.
Nurse Lacotter to Admissions.

Gunshot wounds
before sprained ankles.

Go on, sit down. Go on.

Rhonda,

Luther Vandross. Next
week at the Garden.

Oh, Lucas, your
mother's gonna love that.

You're missing something
wonderful, Rhonda.

I know, the concert.

Nurse James, did you
send me a myocardial?

- Who else is gonna send him?
- He's got indigestion.

Huh-uh. Not for
two days he don't.

Now you run on back there
and stick him on the EKG.

Now.

Mr. Hagerty, please
report to nurses' station 12.

Mr. Hagerty, please
report to nurses' station 12.

Rhonda!

Oh my God!

Call the code.

Code Blue, ER.
Dr. Orton, exam area, stat.

Code Blue, ER.
Dr. Orton, exam area, stat.

- Man #1: Let's move it.
- Man #2: Get Dr. Bardon.

This baby's stone cold.

Dr. Herrera, you're
needed in maternity.

Dr. Herrera, you're
needed in maternity.

Phil.

Somebody left the box after
10:30, janitor's last sweep.

And you got a perfect ID, right?

Yeah, "I saw a white guy
put the box down at 11:00."

"I saw a woman put it at 10:30."

She was tall and he was
a midget. You know what.

Well, we got prints off the
box. Maybe we'll get lucky.

The chart. Body's
ready to pick up.

What do you think, Doc?

I'm an intern,
not a pathologist.

Hazard a guess.

I been in ER for a week.
Don't quote me on this.

He froze to death.

That doesn't make sense.

This is a clean,
well-dressed baby...

- Not a homeless kid.
- How do you know?

You can't keep a kid clean, dress him
in clean clothes if you don't have a home.

Otherwise healthy,
no signs of exposure.

He must've been covered.

What's a kid like that
doing out in the cold?

What's any kid
doing out in the cold?

Maintenance, please
call nurses' station five.

There are no babies
reported missing.

The prints on the
box were partials.

And smudged.

Don't they take
babies' footprints?

They put them on the birth certificates.
Something cute for the parents.

The hospital keeps them a couple
of months, throws them away.

Great.

So somebody walked in there,

left a box with a baby in it
and we got no witnesses?

You don't go to the ER
to watch the scenery.

That baby was left on the floor
like trash. Nobody even noticed.

Okay.

You got a photo of the kid?

Let's assume whoever left
him lives in the neighborhood.

We could start with day care. There's
three churches, two community centers.

Talk about a haystack.

It beats ringing every doorbell
on the Lower East Side.

Oh, yeah. We used to take
babies before the federal cutbacks.

- What do you call these?
- Toddlers.

So you tell me.

Better to pay for a
few more fighter planes

or to take care of kids?

What about the churches?

Well, there is a church...
St. Julia's over on East 12th,

they had a day care for babies.

But let me ask you something,

do you know a woman
who doesn't work?

I mean, what are we
supposed to do with our kids?

I'll see you tomorrow.

This kid asleep or dead?

Do you recognize the face?

What a beautiful world. This the one
they found under the West Side Highway?

Could you just take a closer
look at the picture, ma'am?

We put them on the
waiting list at this age but...

I'm not gonna be able
to recognize a face.

I got to check out these kids.

I turn around five seconds,
somebody'll snatch one of them.

So what do we got?

We got the baby, the
box and the clothes.

Let's check out the bunny suit.

Cragen: Okay, so
where does that leave us?

Bunny suits were manufactured
and shipped from Taiwan

to a single wholesaler. It
was last year's big item.

All right, so the one the baby
was wearing, was that new?

Wholesaler had 30
cartons left from last season.

Went to a job lot
guy on Warren Street.

Job lot shipped 20
cartons all over Jersey.

One carton each to 10
different stores in the city

and three to the
Lower East Side.

There's only a
dozen suits to a box.

Down from 1,000 doorbells to
10 stores. I call that progress.

Unless, of course, it's a
gift from an aunt in Jersey.

It's unbelievable.

The lady at the church asks,

"Is this the one from
the West Side Highway?"

This wants to know if this
is the kid from Battery Park.

How many kids died this weekend?

Well, we got one
more store down here.

This baby, I don't remember.

Wait, wait, wait a minute.

Come on. You looked at
this picture all of two seconds.

You want to take a good look?

You had one carton. How many?

Six blue? Six pink? You
sure he didn't get one?

You remember the lady.

No, I don't, Fernando.

She bought the playpen, right?

We don't remember,
Fernando. Nothing!

You know, we got a
baby that's frozen to death,

I don't need your attitude.

Now, what about the playpen?

I took it home for her.

3rd Street, between
A and B, two flights.

She said she was
sorry she couldn't tip me.

3rd Street. Do you
remember the number?

No, a lot of iron
gates on both sides.

Tenement. A real pit.

Thank you.

Logan: You understand
what I'm saying?

The woman with the baby. Okay?

Hermana... no, that's sister...

Hermana, y niño ¿como se llama?

Ward. Ward.

Uh, first name? Primo? Primo?

Yo no sé.

You want to try
for a description?

I'm doing the best I can
with seventh grade Spanish.

Hey, Ward, es young,
old, blanca, negra?

Si. Negra, veinte,
veinte y uno. 2B.

Black, 20, 21. She lives in 2B.

It's a romance language.

Leave me in this wind
tunnel, I'd freeze, too.

Left in a hurry.

They got out in a hurry.
What are we looking at here?

Crackhead? I don't know.

Your guess is as good as mine.

The baby dies, she
dumps it, just clears out.

Like it was nothing.

Anyone else home? In casa?

The lady in 3B.
Fourth floor, nobody.

Oh, now you habla
Inglés well, huh?

No. Not very good English.

Vamos.

I don't know nobody named
Ward and I don't want to.

She lives right beneath you.

I knew the lady who used
to live there, Mrs. Loftus.

I didn't like her either.

Noisy people and they had
a noisy baby. Cried at night.

Well, that's what babies do.

Oh, tell me about it.
I've had five of my own.

I'm sure they were very devoted.

- Anybody live over there?
- It's empty.

- What about there?
- No home.

But somebody lives there?

Aquí está, Mr. Turner.

Is there a problem?

Should there be?

You don't look like
you're from Con Ed.

Mr. Turner, Sergeant
Cerreta, Detective Logan.

We're looking for
a neighbor of yours.

A woman by the name of Ward?

I'm not your
neighborly kind of guy.

You mind if we come in
and just have a little chat?

You look like real nice
people but it's kind of a mess.

I'd only invite my friends in.

Okay. The woman downstairs

on the second floor with
the baby, have you seen her?

Lot of people took the buyout.

Landlord's offering four or five
grand to leave. It's a real good deal.

Well, it's obviously
not that good.

Oh, me? I'm on
disability, bad back.

I pay $248.65 a
month, rent controlled.

Logan: Bad back, huh?

Must give you trouble
in the gym, right?

Oh, no. I like to
work on myself.

Develop... what do you call
them? Compensatory muscles.

The 248, where do you send it?

Corman Equities.
Over on 1st Avenue.

I'd let you in to get
the exact address but...

Yeah, we know. You only invite
your friends into the inner sanctum.

Remember the old song? "Where
have all the investment bankers gone?"

Two bedrooms renting
for the price of one.

Ward, Ward, Ward.

There's none here.
Which building?

736 East 3rd, apartment 2B.

Oh, that building.

I was offering buyouts.

Figured I'd renovate

and get those hip Upper West
Siders who want to live downtown.

But the way the
economy is... you know...

You're looking for
tenants with style?

That. A lot of cash.

Adele Loftus. 2B.

This lease goes
back to the '50s.

We're looking for a young
woman named Ward.

What can I tell you?

What can you tell me?

Loftus has a bargain,
$230 a month.

Yeah, that building, bargain.

Thanks for your
time, Miss Corman.

The Medical Examiner
guarantees the kid was dead

at least two hours before
anybody put him on the floor.

So what do we got?

A lease from the '50s,
different last names,

are we going to turn
up Miss Ward or what?

That building is half empty.

It's a dump. Why does
it need a full-time super?

I don't know, Phil.
Copper plumbing.

I mean, a couple of junkies could strip a
brownstone faster than they could shoot up.

No Adele Loftus in
the five boroughs.

Why do I doubt anyone in that
building used an assumed name?

I checked Social Security.
She died a year ago.

According to the
city death certificates

she's buried at St.
Stephen's, off of the BQE.

Well, if only the
dead could talk.

They don't need to. Unless, God
forbid, someone moved the body.

Somebody's paying
to maintain the grave.

I've always liked graveyards.

Don't tell me... A
quiet, peaceful place

where you can contemplate
your own insignificance.

No. Every spring my mother used to take
us out to Grandma and Grandpa's grave.

It's an Old World thing.

She would plant flowers
and wash the stone,

then she'd spread a
tablecloth and we would have

a beautiful picnic with
Grandma and Grandpa.

- You'd picnic on their graves?
- What're we gonna picnic
on some stranger's graves?

Maintenance for Adele Loftus

was paid for by Charlayne
Ward, Long Island City.

- Thank you.
- And if you'd like
to pay your respects,

Miss Loftus is buried
in quadrant G-7.

I've marked it right
on the map here.

- Thanks. Thanks a lot.
- Okay.

Cerreta: Who is Adele Loftus?

Adele Loftus was our grandmama.

My sister Jackie took
care of her before she died.

Your sister have any kids?

A little boy... Henry.

Now, Charlayne, here
we are, two police officers,

we're asking you about your sister and
her son, and you don't seem too worried.

You don't even ask why.

When's the last time
you talked to Jackie?

Jackie don't have no
phone... Couldn't pay the bill.

Look, man, we ain't
talked to her, okay?

Hell, we haven't even seen her.

Mike, did we ask
if he'd seen her?

And she doesn't call? If I was in trouble,
I'd want to talk to my only sister.

Look, man, Jackie
did not call, okay?

Okay, here's what we can do.

I can leave
Detective Logan here.

I'll go get a warrant, and when I
come back we'll search the place.

Yeah, yeah, you know,
we can pass the time.

Two, three hours, watch some TV,
whatever. Does that sound like fun to you?

Or you can make it easy and
just let us look around now.

You're about as far into my
home as you're gonna be,

so why don't you just go
on and get your warrant?

Jackie!

It's all right, Charlayne.

I did the wrong thing, so
where else am I gonna go?

Does she look like
she'd let her own son die?

Cerreta: She left him
alone in that apartment.

I didn't... I...

In other words, you sat there
and watched him freeze to death.

Detective...

I had to go to work...
Mrs. Hilliard in the Village.

I was servin' at
one of her parties

and Serena Price, the neighbor
girl, she comes right after school.

Henry's never alone for long.

- Long enough
to freeze to death.
- Where's the father?

Truck driver, killed
in an accident.

I thought Serena would be there.

I get home, I don't know,

around midnight,

and the apartment
is dark, freezing cold

and Henry, he wasn't movin'.

- I took him right to the hospital.
- And you left him there.

I was outta my head, okay?

I didn't mean to
leave him there.

He was...

he was... he was so cold.

I kept hopin', ya know?

I didn't know what to do.

Gentlemen, can we...?

She's responsible for that
baby's death. Open and shut.

The only thing open and
shut around here is your mind.

Let's be realistic.

The DA might go for
endangering the welfare of a child.

The law says she has to
exercise reasonable diligence.

The law says she had to
knowingly, or intentionally,

or recklessly, or
negligently cause harm.

I don't think any
of those apply.

At the very least, we can hand
the DA a solid case for negligence.

Has she talked to the
babysitter since the boy died?

She was scared. She panicked.

We'll check her story.

With your busy schedule,

maybe you could squeeze
it in before you indict her?

I'll talk to the DA.

Meantime she stays at Central
Booking. Look, it beats Rikers.

She's a good mother.
She loves Henry.

Were you supposed
to be there, Serena?

I got stuck... The
subway comin' uptown.

It's not her fault. She
feels bad enough as it is.

Serena: Jackie said she might have
to leave. I have a key to the apartment.

The super says there's no way he
opens the front door for a stranger.

Like that place is
somethin' to protect.

You'd been there before?

He opened the door for me once.

But now he says he
doesn't know me from Adam.

See, I told him about Henry, but
he said Jackie and Henry were gone.

I thought Jackie
must have been mad,

that she'd never
want me to come back.

A black girl...
negra señorita...

She's tryin' to get
into the building.

- Yo no sé.
- Here we go again.

Jackie Ward's babysitter...
She lives in the neighborhood.

She's a young black
girl, about 16 years old.

Her name is Serena Price.

Excuse me.

Ohh, Mike...

look at this... he bought
out the whole hardware store.

Pretty cold, huh? Hace frío?

No heat. Since when?

The morning. I fix it tonight.

Yeah.

Six space heaters, and the
furnace just went out this morning?

Maybe it goes out a lot.

If Jackie's telling the truth,
it was off two days ago.

First time we were
here... Was the heat on?

It felt like that, but the
old lady on the third floor

had her hat and her coat
on inside the apartment.

The building's half
empty, the place is a wreck,

the landlady wants to renovate.
You get a message from that?

The message I get is the landlord
would be thrilled if her tenants left.

Maybe the heat was off
accidentally on purpose.

736 East Third.

Owned by Iris Corman,
Corman Equities.

Yeah, you got a contract on it?

Thank you.

Any changes in the amount
over the last six months?

Thanks a lot. Listen, I'll be gettin'
back to ya, okay? Thank you.

Petrillo Oil.

Contracted to
service the furnace,

no reports of
trouble. But get this...

In the last six months, no
change in oil consumption.

Colder in February
than September.

You shut it down once in a
while, you burn a lot less oil.

We prove harassment, Jackie Ward's
behavior's gonna look a lot better.

You wanna make this stick?

Find somebody
who was driven out.

The Department of Housing
and Community Renewal...

They keep the leases on
computer for four years.

And talk to Jackie Ward again,

'cause if she knew the heat
was off she is still on the ropes.

Logan: Tell us
about the building.

There was never
that much heat ever.

Sometimes it was
off an hour or two

and they just said it
was an old furnace.

Did you complain?

It wasn't my lease. It
was my grandmother's.

I complain, they find out she's
dead, they'd get me out in a minute.

The law changed.

You lived there when she was
alive, you're entitled to a lease.

I didn't know that.

I was scared we'd
end up in a shelter.

What about the other tenants, the
ones that left? Did they complain?

- What am I hearing?
- I kept to myself.

All I know is, the
Spanish guy takes over...

The new super...
And it gets worse.

He wouldn't do nothin'.

The heat was off intentionally?

We're trying to
establish whether or not

the heat was turned
off to harass the tenants.

Wait, wait, wait.

Wait.

You mean to tell me that
they did this on purpose?

Iris Corman... what a gem.

We got a whole desk
devoted to complaints on her.

Hampton, cops are
asking about Iris Corman.

Sweet Iris. Scum Landlord of
the Year, three years running.

Lock her up and
throw away the key.

Better yet, lock her in
one of her own buildings.

No water, broken
windows, floods.

Textbook on how
to empty a place.

Is she trying to empty the
place on East Third Street?

Look, I'm a city employee...
For me to accuse her...

Why don't you take the records,
make your own conclusions?

Moved out, September.

Really bad problems.

Water's coming down
the bathroom walls.

The super turns the water off.

Two days later, the
flood's gone, no hot water.

Do you think it was intentional?

Come on, I went down,

I tried to turn the water on.
The basement was locked up.

A lot of buildings keep
their boiler rooms locked.

Never before.

I took the buyout.

I had as much as I could take.

The lock on my door was broken.

I told the super, Tirado, he
pretended he didn't understand.

- He's got trouble with English.
- The trouble is he's alive.

I put a chair against the door,
middle of the night, boom...

The door's down and that creep
Turner, he's in my living room.

Now is he angry with the
whole world, or is it just you?

Come on, that guy is a tenant
like I'm the Queen of England.

I never saw him at night... what,
like he's sleeping somewhere else?

The heat goes off, I
try to get it back on,

I gotta get past Turner.
He's a thug, pure and simple.

This is Turner's sixth
building for Iris Corman.

He clears out tenants.
That's what he does.

He's got three priors...
Assault and menacing.

Tenants trying to get heat.

We were thinkin' maybe depraved
indifference, homicide, murder two.

- Wait a minute...
- There's another building.

Old lady gets pneumonia, lack of
heat, she dies three months later.

No charges 'cause they
can't tie 'em together.

I'll admit, charging Jackie
Ward may be pointless,

but Tirado and Turner murder
two? We have to prove intent.

Turner's been
doin' this for years.

Which doesn't prove the heat was cut
off deliberately the day the baby died.

Tirado didn't have six
space heaters for no reason.

- They were all brand new.
- That's a reach.

But maybe Tirado, okay?

Turner, we have no
link to the Ward baby.

- Maybe we do. The babysitter...
- Serena Price.

You remember she said the super wouldn't
let her in, that he didn't recognize her?

- You think Serena speaks Spanish?
- Of course she doesn't.

It wasn't the super who
kept her out, it was Turner.

- She talked to Turner.
- Thank you, it's been
bothering me. Huh?

Jose Tirado, step
outside please.

You're under arrest for
the murder of Henry Ward.

Turn around please. Put your hands behind
your back. I know you've done this before.

- Where's Turner?
- Turner no home.

Woman: Stop! Stop!

Stop!

Turner: The lock is
broke. It has to be replaced.

You're not the super.
You're not replacing it.

Turner: You gotta...

Turner!

Just gimme an excuse.

No way.

You just got nailed.

Joseph Turner, you are under
arrest for the murder of Henry Ward.

You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say will be used
against you in a court of law.

- Do you understand that?
- Yes.

You have the
right to an attorney.

Should you refuse
that right, one will be...

You have to wonder how
these people sleep at night.

The connection between
morality and sleep.

I guess I missed
that in law school.

Tossing little old
ladies into the street.

Going for manslaughter,
very admirable.

But how do you prove intent?

I aim a gun at you.
Is that intent to harm?

It is if the gun goes off.

Why'd they cut off the heat? To
cause harm so people would leave.

That's intent, and
that's manslaughter.

- How do you sell it to a jury?
- Stone: Turner's crimes have
a common scheme.

I get his prior convictions
admitted, the intent to harm is clear.

His record gets
admitted as pattern crime.

On a bad day with a tired
judge we can sell tickets to that.

Robinette: Maybe we get
lucky. Roll the super on Turner,

get Turner's record admitted,
he rolls on the landlord.

This Turner fellow's worked
a long time for Iris Corman.

They hang together
or they don't hang at all.

Thanks for your optimism.

I didn't say don't try.

Where are we,
Cuba? This is justice?

Reckless endangerment one, if
your client testifies against Mr. Turner.

The idea of
responsibility here is not...

You think the charge is inflated?
We're testing it with a jury.

- With no evidence.
- One, Mr. Tirado
has separate heat.

Two, he told police he
ordered a furnace part. No order.

Three, the maintenance contractor said
there was nothing wrong with the furnace.

Okay... just a damn minute.

No, no, no... Tell
him no one'll kill him.

Everybody knows
what "muerto" means.

Reckless endangerment
two, he does no time.

Who turned off the heat?

The feed pipe...
Turner, he pull it.

He say we get these people
out, we get paid more money.

He wanted to fix the furnace.

Turner stopped him.

Obviously, Mr. Tirado is lying.

That illiterate moron.
The idea that I'm in...

Joe, Joe, please, please.

Tirado is so credible?
He's the super.

You make this crime a habit,
Mr. Turner. Two prior assaults, menacing.

A jury sees this history...

Call Bellevue, make a
reservation. You're out of your mind.

You couldn't bribe a
judge to get that allowed.

It's not worth it, Mr. Turner.

Convicted this time, you don't do
one or two years... it goes up to 25.

Oh, heavy. You can
see that I'm terrified.

Marc, tell him
about the facts of life.

- - What, the birds? The
bees? The penal law?

He knows them better than we do.

He has two felony convictions.

One more, he goes up
as a persistent offender.

My first conviction
was appealed.

I didn't serve a day until
after my second conviction.

That counts as
one offense, not two.

You convict me, I get six to 12.

I'm out in two years.

We're submitting a motion
to have your prior convictions

admitted as evidence.

I'll bet it's beautifully
written, Ben.

And it's worthless.

I'll see you in chambers.

You can't allow this.

The jury hears he
attacked three tenants,

they'll beg you to execute
him in the courtroom.

Relax, Mr. Menaker. We don't
have the death penalty anymore.

Stone: Three cases,
virtually identical,

in which Mr. Turner assaulted tenants
who were trying to restore the heat.

That's my point...

They're assault cases.
They're not about heat.

Let me get this straight.

Making the buildings unlivable

is intent to cause injury...
That's the common scheme?

Yeah, but you're
not gonna allow...

It's a novel
theory... and I like it.

This court rules that
Mr. Turner's previous crimes

may be introduced into evidence.

Thank you. Mm-hmm.

- Robinette: We thought
Turner was a thug.
- He's no saint.

The buildings Iris Corman
owns? Turner owns 'em with her.

Not gonna put her away so quick.

Wants to protect
his investments.

- That's not the only reason.
- They own a house together...

600 grand, Sands Point.

They live in it together?

Love makes the world go 'round.

Also makes plea
bargains difficult.

We convict, maybe he turns on
Corman for a sentencing recommendation.

Yeah, and then she
confesses. I wouldn't count on it.

Woman: Mr. Turner
showed up in August.

I moved out a little
after Christmas.

The incident when
Mr. Turner assaulted you...

How did it begin?

I went to the boiler room,
Turner's there screwin' in a lock.

I try to get into the room,

he smacks me across the face.

Did you sustain any injuries?

He split my lip... I had six
stitches. The vicious jerk!

- Objection!
- Sustained.

The jury will
disregard that remark.

I was standing at the front
door of the building, pounding.

He wouldn't let me in.

Do you see him in
the courtroom today?

Yeah, he's sittin'
right over there.

Would the record show that she is
indicating the defendant Joseph Turner?

Let the record so indicate.

Had you seen the man before?

Yeah, every time I went
to take care of Henry.

I told him Henry was inside,

but this man, he said
he didn't know me.

He said Jackie
took Henry with her.

Thank you.

Your witness.

Ms. Price, how did you
describe Mr. Turner to the police?

Well, I...

I... I didn't.

Is that so?

Didn't you tell them that he
was the building superintendent?

Yes.

But he's not.

Now, if you'd been
there that often,

how come you didn't know that?

How was I supposed to know?

- He's there a lot, so I thought...
- So you didn't know who he was.

Now is it possible that he
didn't know who you were?

Objection... he's asking the witness
what was in another person's mind?

Sustained.

I told Mr. Turner we
had to turn the heat on.

I tried to open the door
to the furnace room.

And what did Mr. Turner do?

Turner said to
leave the furnace off.

I was going to turn it on
but he pulled me away.

Stone: Mr. Tirado, in the past,

did you help Mr. Turner at
all... to harass other tenants?

Translator: Yes, I did.

I thought it would only take
a few minutes, he'd be fine.

How long was Henry alone?

Seven hours.

When you left, what was the
temperature in the apartment?

I had a sweater on, but it
was okay, it wasn't too cold.

And when you returned?

I could see my
breath in the air.

Thank you. No further questions.

Mrs. Ward, I know
this is very difficult,

so I only have a few questions.

Now you testify that you didn't call the
apartment because you had no phone.

Did you think of
calling a neighbor?

I didn't know them too well.

No one in the neighborhood?

No, I pretty much
kept to myself.

Did you think of calling
Serena Price's mother?

I mean, just to make sure
that Serena was, in fact,

taking care of Henry?

I didn't think of that, no.

So then who's really
responsible for Henry's death?

- Stone: Objection!
- Withdrawn.

No further questions.

Will the defendant please rise?

The People versus Joseph Turner,

on the sole count
of the indictment,

the charge of manslaughter in the
second degree, how does the jury find?

We find the defendant guilty.

Judge: I thank the jury for their
service. Short date for sentencing.

Your Honor, the People request
a pre-sentencing conference

at which Mrs. Jacqueline Ward will
be permitted to address the Court.

The Court will consider
the People's request.

The Court is adjourned.

There's a reason
I want you there.

I want you personally
to ask for the max.

It won't affect the sentence.

Whatever Turner and Corman
are paying Marc Menaker,

he's earning every dime.

- What's that?
- A juror, number seven...

He's white, but he
speaks fluent Spanish.

There's some question
about Tirado's testimony...

A mistranslation... I don't
know how serious it is.

Menaker probably
called every juror.

Desperate, but clever.
Asking for a mistrial?

I talked to Judge Barry's
clerk. He'll probably get it.

Son of a bitch!

"Turner said leave
the furnace off.

I was going to turn it on,
but he pulled me away."

That's not an
accurate translation.

Well, how far off is it?
What would be accurate?

I... I misheard. I
got the verb wrong.

It shouldn't have
been "pulled" away.

He said "ordered" away.

Menaker: It's the heart of
the pattern crime issue, Judge.

In previous cases Mr. Turner
was violent, but not this time.

If a juror translated it for them, we
will never know what they thought.

At the worst, it's a
minor linguistic difference.

Judge: Maybe.

Mr. Norman, you discussed
this with the other jurors?

I told them what I heard.

He said "ordered," not "pulled."

Mr. Norman, do you know
why we sequester juries?

Before the trial began,

I said the jury mustn't
consider evidence

not heard in the courtroom.

Now, you told the jurors
something only you heard.

But I only told them
what he really said.

That's true, you did.

No blame here.

It's a mess, gentlemen.

It's a mistrial.

And the People will
have to re-try Mr. Turner.

We got a conviction
once, we'll get it again.

- Every jury is different.
- They're not stupid.

I'll put your client away
and he'll serve the max

if I have to show up for
every parole hearing myself.

If it ever gets that far.

We're not taking a deal,
unless you give us Iris Corman.

Same crime, same
evidence, same conviction.

I'm moving to have Turner's
records excluded from the second trial.

- It won't happen.
- If I were you, I would
take a look

at what the Appellate
Division has been doing lately.

Suppose you win the second
trial... you'll never survive an appeal.

Mr. Turner will take
reckless endangerment two.

Misdemeanor. In his dreams.

What looks better on the news at
6:00? His dreams, or yours, hmm?

It's a bluff. It's a hustle.

And it's a possibility.
Menaker's no fool.

If the jury doesn't hear of Turner's
record, we don't get a conviction.

They will hear Turner's
record. And it'll stand on appeal.

Yeah, I'd like to
play poker with you...

Leave the table
with your clothes.

Six of your jurors
told reporters

that they convicted
because of Turner's record...

Not because they believed
intent to harm the baby.

Court of Appeals
gonna like that?

Maybe we give Turner reckless
endangerment one if Corman'll plead, too.

Great. A child is dead and
you're offering a D felony?

Offer it to Turner
on two conditions:

Corman pleads, they
both sign a consent decree

not to harass
tenants in the future.

It's still a walk. It stinks.

I don't believe this! You
want me to plead guilty?

She hasn't even been charged.

If we don't get a deal,
we'll take Mr. Turner to trial

and work on getting
Ms. Corman indicted.

You have some nerve. I can't even heat a
building for what those tenants are paying.

If the rent laws didn't let people live
there forever, that baby'd still be alive.

- None of us'd be here.
- Iris, please.

I don't believe this. It's not
your fault, it's the rent laws?

For destroying the value
of my property, yeah.

I oughta sue that Jackie Ward.

I mean, I'm sorry
about her baby,

but she wasn't
even a legal tenant.

- The hell she wasn't.
- Okay, that's enough.

- You knew the law
when you bought that building.
- Round one, that's it, over.

You can't believe we
meant to hurt that kid.

Did you care one
way or the other?

You got nothin', and if
Tirado hadn't rolled on me...

Maybe Jose Tirado's memory
won't be so clear this time.

- Iris, enough.
- His testimony's on the record.

- He'll maybe change his testimony.
- Shut up.

- Are you admitting you
threatened a witness?
- No, she is not.

Maybe he'll say that the DA
forced him to make up a story.

That's an E felony,
you know that?

No, she didn't say a
word. They didn't mean it.

None of this happened.

- She blamed the rent laws?
- Stone: For the death of a baby.

You'll be lucky to touch
her and she knows it.

We may have just
drawn inside straight.

For two years, Corman
rings up so many

complaints, they can't
record them fast enough.

A year ago, all of a
sudden, no more complaints.

Attack of bad conscience.

No, their housing
inspector changed.

So?

This new inspector's
pretty generous.

16 complaints against Corman.

All of them
resolved in her favor.

What, bribes?

Let's chase the money,
see if we can prove it.

- You got 15 minutes.
- We're both on the same side.

- I live in a small world.
- Don't we all?

Who inspects Iris
Corman's buildings?

Albert Boxer.

Does he take bribes?

I didn't hear that question.

February 1990, you were
covering Corman's buildings.

Why'd you change assignments?

My wife works for Merchant
Bank, she's in at 6:00.

New schedule... I could
take the kids to school.

Iris Corman ever
offer you a bribe?

She hinted.

I stopped her before
she had a chance.

Suppose she pulls out
a couple hundred bucks,

maybe before I know what happens,
I start thinkin' about new snow tires.

Albert Boxer, is he
buying new snow tires?

I don't know you.
I was never here.

Inspector Boxer used to take $100
a week from his checking account.

11 straight months he
didn't withdraw a dime.

That doesn't prove
he took bribes.

His wife paid for groceries
by check for three years.

The past 11 months?
Every week she paid cash.

So they live on cash.
Iris Corman's not stupid.

She's not gonna give him checks.

What if somebody
offered Boxer a bribe?

- And?
- He takes it.

We turn him against Corman.

You got a place to do this?

I'll find one.

Set it up.

Testing, one, two.

Where the hell's Profaci?

Phil, you can play the landlord.

No, we were both at DHCR.
Boxer might have seen us.

Yeah, Stone. Uh-huh.

Oh, great.

Profaci's caught in traffic.

Boxer's on the way.

Paul, take...
take your coat off.

Cerreta: Yeah, and your tie.

- Hey, I can't do it.
- Well, you're all we got.

All right. Great.

Boxer: You don't look
like your name is Gagliardi.

He manages my
building. Home with the flu.

Simpson, Lewis.

Mr. Simpson, Inspector Boxer.

Boxer: You got heat in your
building? We've had two complaints.

Robinette: Boiler's
off... we're having it fixed.

You've been having
it fixed for two days.

I should take a look, I
have to write a summons.

Wait, is that
necessary? A summons?

It is the law.

It'll be fixed tomorrow.

It's not workin' today.

Come back tomorrow.

Maybe I don't have to.

What would stop you?

Boxer: Think of somethin'.

Wait till he asks.

Gimme a general
idea, a suggestion.

I'm sure you're pretty
familiar with the neighborhood.

Ballpark?

500.

Five? 250.

Guess I'm gonna have
to write that summons.

- Three. 300.
- Cash, now.

Albert Boxer, you're under
arrest for bribe receiving.

- Hey, come on, you can't do this.
- You bet your ass we can.

You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you do say can and will
be used against you in a court of law.

- Do you understand that?
- Gimme my coat back, man.

It's entrapment.
You offered a bribe.

You can lead a horse to water,
you can't make him steal it.

He solicited a
bribe, it's on tape.

It's a D felony. Two
years at Clinton.

You look a little outta
shape for two years hard time.

C'mon, Ben, no judge is
gonna give him two years.

Come on, I didn't kill anybody.

So I look the other
way for a few days,

so the temperature
was 50° inside, not 70.

20, not 50.

A baby froze to death.

Stone: I'll make it easy on you.
Here's what you're gonna do.

You're gonna plead
to a misdemeanor,

you're not gonna fight
the city about your pension,

you'll testify against every landlord
and super you ever took a bribe from.

Or you're gonna go to jail.

Who do you want first?

Iris Corman.

Stone: We live in a time...

when greed is glorified.

Anything is acceptable.

We must decide
where to draw the line.

We must decide when greed

has gone far enough
to be called murder.

The People will prove
that the defendants...

Iris Corman and Joseph Turner...

turned off the heat

in an apartment
building they owned.

The People will prove that
their acts demonstrated...

a recklessness...

that led to the death
of a 10-month-old baby.

The People will show

that they willfully, knowingly,

and without a shred of concern

for the consequences
of their acts,

placed the value
of their real estate

above the value of a human life.

A baby died...

A boy named Henry Ward.

And they didn't shoot him,
they didn't strangle him,

they didn't run over
him with their car.

In fact, they never
even met him.

But they did kill him.

Now, putting the defendants

Iris Corman and
Joseph Turner in jail

will not bring Henry
Ward back to his mother.

Putting them in jail, however,

is the only remedy we have.