All language subtitles for Law and Order S02E19 The Fertile Fields.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.

It's a damn Indian winter.

That's summer, genius.

No such thing as Indian winter.

Yeah? When it's this
cold this late in the year

it is definitely, definitely
somebody's fault.

Ah, so blame it on
the Native Americans?

You got somebody
else better to blame?

The problem with
the world today...

Crap doesn't just happen.
It's gotta be someone's fault.

Yeah, well it keeps
us in business.

Makes a lot of lawyers rich.

Early morning jog?

Five to two they did something.

It's too cold to find
out exactly what.

Look at this.

It's freezing outside.
What harm could it do?

There's smoke,
maybe there's fire.

Could be a medal
of honor in this.

- Hey, you coming?
- In and out. In and out.

How am I supposed to
finish my morning coffee?

Next lifetime I'm
coming back as a CPA.

No outdoor work... No
work at all before 9:00 a.m.

Come on, Bobby,
it's a damn trash fire.

Bobby: Trash my
ass. That's a body.

Man: So far, not a whole lot.

The flame burned evenly...
Hardly touched the skin.

Multiple bruises, fractures,

all from a blunt object.

Still, your clothes are on fire,

you're going to be
doing a rain dance.

This guy was probably
dead before they torched him.

We've also got a
mess of footprints.

See if you can size it.

You caught it?

Just saw the
flames from the car.

- You got any witnesses?
- None standing in line
to be interviewed.

He's beaten, then burned. He had
to scream. Somebody had to hear.

Look, I don't know if
this means anything,

but a minute or two
before we found the body,

we saw four or five black
kids run by heading uptown.

Yeah, could you pick 'em out?

The victim's name is Ezra Shore.
He lives on Columbus Avenue.

I thought this crap only
happened in Brooklyn.

Come again? You didn't tell him?

The dead guy, he was wearing one
of those... those Jewish beanie things.

Son, that's called a yarmulke.

He wasn't just beaten,
he was brutalized.

Listen, the smoke clears on this it's
gonna be Crown Heights revisited.

There is no evidence that this
is any kind of a hate crime, Mike.

Did you get a look
at these photographs?

Two uniforms on the scene
said a bunch of black kids...

Run across the street.

Come on, you've seen
this play out before.

We jump to conclusions,
the press follows our lead,

the waters get so muddy
we never see the bottom.

What do you want to
do, treat it like a mugging?

No, I want to treat
it like a homicide.

We play the usuals.

Family, friends, business...

But we're just spinning
our wheels we go that way.

Maybe not, Mike.

As you said, Ezra
was brutalized.

That means there
should be blood all over.

But CSU didn't find blood
spatters anywhere near the scene.

So they killed him someplace
else and dumped him in the alley.

Right, but hate crimes
are crimes of fear.

They're spontaneous. The
bodies usually don't get moved.

- And the fire?
- Destroying evidence.

Or sending a message.

You know what
might be helpful here?

If we could find out
a little something

about the departed Mr. Shore.

It wasn't the fire that killed
him. It was the beating.

Blood-oxygen analysis, he was
dead before they torched him.

You think there
were more than one?

Angle of blows to the head,

chest... broken vertebrae in
the spine... yeah, I'd say so.

Yeah, that or a Mack truck.

Did he put up a fight?

He didn't go gentle.

Defensive wounds
on the hands and arms.

Fingernail scrapings...
We got some dried blood.

Enough to tell a story?

Not enough to DNA, sorry.

But one of them was type AB.

Hey, that narrows it down.

Well, this is just a
preliminary, Mike.

Ezra called me from the store.

It must have been around 6:00.

That was the last
time you talked to him?

He said he would be
working late with Isaac.

"Go ahead," he said.

Eat without him.

- Isaac?
- His brother.

What business is your
husband in, Mrs. Shore?

Jewels... diamonds mostly.

He has his own store
on West 47th Street.

Was business good?

I don't understand.

Well, sometimes if there's
a problem with cash flow,

one might be induced to borrow
money from the wrong people.

My husband did
very well, Detective.

One shouldn't be saying Yizkor

for a man of 45.

It's the prayer for the dead.

Do you have any idea who...?

Well, there was something.

Every now and then
they hassled me and Ben

on the way back from
school... These black kids.

It's no big deal.

- The police should know
everything, Caleb.
- Now they do.

Now, is there a possibility

that your husband was carrying
the jewelry on him, when...?

Anything that would
relate to the business,

you would have to ask Isaac.

He's probably at the shop

closing up right now.

Our father died 15 years ago.

Ezra never missed a beat.

He took over the business?

Yes. I was independent.

I thought I didn't
need the family.

I learned the hard way.

Six years ago, Ezra took me in.

Rachel said that you were
here with him last night.

Went over inventories

till maybe about 8:00.

And then?

I left.

If I knew it was going
to be the last time...

We had words.

Had a disagreement over...

purchase orders.

Did he ever carry
the stones on him?

Sure.

He signed out lot 492.

Six stones...

worth probably...

10... 12,000.

I'm sure he had a
late sales meeting.

He often visited
clients after store hours.

You telling me he'd walk around
with that much in his pocket?

In a briefcase.

It's the way we do business.

- Do you mind if I look?
- Please.

The meeting...

You know where it
was or with whom?

Ezra lived for his work.

He often visited four or
five clients in an evening.

Your brother use
this car service?

Yes, Miracle Limo.

They're over on 10th.

Used to be you flip
through a couple of pages...

Takes two seconds. Now you've
got to boot the damn machine.

Whatever the hell that is.

Here you go, Shore Diamonds.

Yesterday, pick up 9:15 p.m.,

26th West 47th.

- Cerreta: And you dropped him?
- 21st and 7th.

That's a lot of real estate.
You got anything more specific?

Hey, you're lucky I got
the machine turned on.

Yeah, we're lucky.

Ezra got here at
the earliest at 8:30.

So it has to be
somebody who works late.

See what we got.
Interior design firm,

temp employment agency,
public relations company.

It's a lot of doctors.

Bringing 10 Gs worth of diamonds
to a check-up? I don't think so.

- An accountant?
- Flannigan. Nah.

Here we go, Summers
Estate Sales. 7th floor.

Cerreta: Top floor, Near East
Gems. Joe Tashjian, President.

Oh my God. He was a nice man.

I guess I should
call on the family.

Yesterday, Mr. Tashjian, did you
have a meeting with Ezra Shore?

A meeting, no. A battle, yes.

You don't talk to Ezra
Shore, you butt heads.

He showed up quarter to 10:00.
Haggled for maybe two hours.

So you bought his diamonds?

I'm an importer, Detective. I
buy abroad, I sell domestic.

Ezra bought sapphires
and rubies from me.

Bargained me down to 15 Gs.

- And he left here with them?
- Sure.

- You want a copy?
- Maybe.

Did Ezra say where he was
headed when he left here?

Tried calling his car service
but he couldn't get through.

Said he'd hail a
cab on the corner.

The jewels, they
weren't on the body?

I don't want to be
crude or anything

but the sapphires and the
rubies... They weren't paid for yet.

$10,000 in diamonds,

another 15 in
sapphires and rubies,

and this guy travels
around unprotected?

Do you prefer
he'd carry a piece?

I'd prefer he traveled
by armored car.

Wouldn't have mattered. You rob
someone, you take the money and run.

You don't hang out for a
beating and a barbecue.

My call is they were after Ezra.

The diamonds were gravy.

Whatever. They took the jewels.

We find the jewels,
we find our guys.

We got some lines
out on the local pawns.

13 wedding rings,
half-a-dozen watches,

some gold earrings.

No sapphires, no rubies,
no unmounted diamonds.

Did Ezra Shore have
a kid named Caleb?

- Yeah, why?
- He's in holding.

Seems he did quite a number
on some homeboy's face.

Says here you went
after one Reginald Beggs,

black, 15 years old.

What happened, Caleb? Hmm?

Is this one of the kids
who bothered you before?

Yeah, sure.

Problem is two witnesses
say you were all over him.

No provocation, nothing.

Caleb, all you have
to do is tell us the truth

and we can help you
out. It's as simple as that.

You know you can't go beating
on every black kid in the city.

What do you want?
The guy killed Dad.

He told you this?

It's all over the neighborhood.

Those guys were laughing
about Dad dying in an alley.

Laughing doesn't
mean he killed him.

The son of a bitch said
he liked burning him.

He said I was next. What
do you want me to do?

You hassling me and it's
my face that's busted up.

- You're just a perfect
angel, ain't ya?
- You got that!

Caleb Shore says it was you
who did the number on his old man.

Oh, so I must be lying then.

Well, tell me this, Reg,

the guy's gonna pop
you for no reason?

You look at them guys?
They look normal to you?

Look, like I said, I was just
hanging. Next thing you know,

my head's being smashed into the sidewalk
and my nose ain't attached to my face.

Tuesday morning, who
were you hanging with?

I was here with my sister...

studying! I'm gonna be a lawyer.

That's some picture, Reg.

- You had a nice smile.
- Yeah, before he busted up my face.

You mind? I got a choice?

Used to be you want to stay
alive, you stay below 86th Street.

Nowadays somebody's just looking
to step into something up there.

This one of the kids
you guys saw that day?

We weren't really looking.

Well, what about
clothes? Anything?

They were running. Sorry.

That deli on the corner of 93rd.

Guys like to hang there.

They don't bother me... My
customers. I let them hang.

Mm-hmm. Is this one of them?

Two packs a day. Tries
to get me to sell him beer.

- The day of the murder?
- Couldn't say.

- You believe that stuff?
- We can be convinced.

It's talk. All these kids
are looking for juice.

- 15 and they need a rep.
- Did you hear Reggie admit to it?

Yeah, that and 25 other things.

Okay, thanks a lot.

Well, it corroborates
Caleb's story.

It might just be talk.

At least we know Reggie
hangs in the neighborhood.

We got nothing to put him
in that alleyway, though.

Maybe we do.

What size shoe do
you think Reggie wears?

Let's talk to the
man about a warrant.

Yo, you can't be serious, man.

Yo, you can't take
my Michaels, man.

Not both of them,
son, just the left one.

Yo, I got rights.

And we got a warrant.

So give us the shoe now

or you come downtown,
we run it through some tests

and you're out of there.

- With my shoe?
- Depends what we find.

You see this here?
It's kind of blurry...

Lighter than over here.

Whoever wears this shoe
over-pronates when he walks.

It's worn away... uneven.

Similar wear patterns here.

Unfortunately they're
not fingerprints.

What's this?

Running shoes tend
to pick up more pebbles,

glass, et cetera, et cetera.

Now, is it possible
these two prints

are from the same shoe? Yes.

Is it probable? I
can't say for sure...

Which means I wouldn't
be a very good witness.

Reggie doesn't know that.

Can I borrow these two?

Yo, you're only doing
this because I'm black.

This one was
lifted out of the alley

the day that Ezra Shore
was murdered, Reggie.

So what you want me to do?

I want you to look at this one.

It's from your shoe.

Logan: They're the same.

It proves you were in the
alley at the time of the murder.

Man, go ahead with that.

We have two people who
swear you were bragging about it.

So? That don't prove nothing.

Yeah, it proves you
stepped in something, Reg.

And it stinks real bad
and it's not going away.

What'd you do? You
killed him for the jewels?

Or 'cause he was Jewish?

Yo, I ain't do anything.

You know what, Reggie? I
personally don't believe you.

Yo, talk to the deli guy.

I was in there
buying cigarettes.

I didn't know what
was going down.

Who was it, Reggie?

I am talking to you.

Fontaine, man.

Yo, crazy, man.

And Cyrus and Harley.

I came out the store,

they was lighting
him on fire, man.

And beating the
living crap out of him?

What was it?

Baseball bats? Bricks?

How'd it feel when
you crushed his skull?

Yo, that's bull, man.

To hell with this punk.

25 years is too short for him.

Yo, look...

yeah, but I just watched, man.

I swear, I didn't have
nothing against that dude.

And Fontaine did?

Yeah.

He said they should go
back where they came from.

Wait a minute here.

He says his buddies did the
number on Ezra in the alley

and we already know
there's no blood there?

His story may not get 100%
on the stink test, but it's a start.

Mike, I've had month-old
flounder that smelled better.

He knew the MO,
the beating, the fire.

Yeah, so maybe he
reads the newspapers.

Granted, his
facts are a little off,

but the bottom line is

he says he saw it go down.

We got two uniforms who saw
four kids running from the scene.

Reggie named three names.

If he's completely innocent,
he keeps his mouth shut.

Sure, sitting in a police
interrogation room without his shoes.

You check out these homeboys?

We ran their names
and they're clean.

What about the diamonds?

He says he never saw the
briefcase. That could be his buddies.

Cragen.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

All right, 3:00.

Okay.

Everybody wants
to join the party now.

Cragen: Yes,
we've got a witness.

Only his facts don't exactly
jive with our forensics report.

How far off-base is he?

With the beating that Ezra took,

there should have been
blood splatters somewhere,

and we found nothing. Zip.

Which means he
wasn't killed in the alley.

Except Mr. Beggs said he saw
the guys do the job on the spot.

Suppose the blood was on garbage

that was destroyed in the fire.

Could be the kid's
telling the truth.

Well, we've
applied for warrants.

Maybe we'll find the
briefcase or the jewels.

Look, this is not the
only dance on my card.

Typical case, your office
wouldn't even be involved yet.

It's not a typical case.

Ben, I want you to
present this to a grand jury.

There's no way we convict.

Even a mediocre
lawyer gets this tossed.

I'm not talking
about a conviction.

I'm talking about an indictment.

We get a bill, at least it looks
like we're doing something.

Politics... controlling
the grand jury process?

This is a political office.

The kid says he's an eyewitness.

We put him at the scene.

This isn't the first time
we get an indictment

and then develop
our case before trial.

You got the names
of these other kids?

Yeah.

Read them their rights.

Turn around!

Fontaine Robinson, Cyrus
Tanner, Harley Monks,

you're under arrest for
the murder of Ezra Shore.

- Who is that?!
- That's harassment!

- Sue us!
- You have the right
to an attorney.

If you cannot afford one,
one will be provided for you.

You have the right to remain
silent. If you waive that right,

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

Take 'em away.

Clerk: Docket number 776761.

People versus Fontaine Robinson,

Cyrus Tanner

and Harley Monks.

One count each, murder
in the second degree.

And one count each,
robbery in the first degree.

Is Legal Aid representing these
defendants just for the arraignment?

I'm in it for the long
haul, Your Honor.

Well, give me a
plea, Ms. Langstrom.

Not guilty.

The people are serving grand
jury notice upon the defense

and filing the same
with the Court.

So noted. What
do I hear on bail?

100,000 on each defendant.

Under the circumstances,
Your Honor,

they're teenagers,
it's excessive.

Would it make a
difference if the state asked

for $50,000, Ms. Langstrom?

Bail is set at $100,000. Next.

Crumbs don't make a loaf, Ben.

Only thing this proves
is that Reggie Beggs

and his high-tops were
in the alley at some point.

And Reggie put
your boys with him.

Fine, at best that would
make him an accomplice...

Meaning you're
short on corroboration.

The blood under the victim's
fingernail matches Harley Monks'.

It also matches me and a
couple million others in Manhattan.

Look, you searched
my client's homes,

you ran their clothing
through the lab,

and you came up
with goose eggs...

No baseball bats, no blood
tracks. All show and no tell.

It's enough for the
grand jury to indict.

And I'll have it dismissed
before your head hits the pillow.

With an eyewitness? I doubt it.

Reggie Beggs went
bragging on the street

that your clients
killed Ezra Shore.

And posturing
constitutes evidence?

Look, you think I don't
know what you're up to?

You and Schiff can put on
your happy faces for the press.

But I'm telling you now,
you go the distance on this,

you can expect a civil
rights suit against the city.

You get the feeling we're
scrambling to catch a train here?

Hello?

Uh-huh.

What's up?

All right.

Isaac Shore and his lawyer...

They want to meet with
us before the grand jury.

Now you come to us?

The grand jury
starts in 15 minutes.

Ezra was my brother.
Believe me, I want to help.

But I have to visit my
rabbi before I do anything.

It's a matter of Talmudic law.

There may be a prohibition
against incriminating family members.

Isaac, we've got three teenagers

suspected of
killing your brother.

How in the world
do you expect...

They were also
charged with robbery.

I assume you're going to ask Isaac
about the diamonds Ezra was carrying

when he left the store.

Of course, but what does that
have to do with your client's family?

Let's assume for a moment

that all the required
duties weren't paid

when those particular
diamonds entered the country.

Mr. Shore's heirs could be
liable for substantial fines.

Give me a couple of days,
we'll check with the rabbi.

It's probably much ado anyway.

He's scheduled
as second witness.

He's been subpoenaed.
And if he doesn't testify,

you know I can hold
him for contempt.

Yes, I also know you're
not going to do that, Ben.

We could grant the family
transactual immunity.

That's possible, but...

It means whatever
you say on the stand,

no matter how much
you incriminate them,

they can't be charged.

So even if the
Talmud prohibits it...

You're perfectly in the clear.

Only, tell me, Ben,

are you going to put
Caleb on the stand?

All right, fine.

They both have immunity.

Tashjian: It was
a good two hours

before we settled
on a price... $15,000.

How many stones
were there exactly?

Three sapphires, one carat each.

The rubies were small. Half
carat, maybe four stones.

And what did
Mr. Shore do with them?

He put them in his
briefcase with his diamonds.

Then what did he do?

He left.

I assume he was
going home to his family.

Isaac: I know from the ledger

Ezra signed out lot 492.

What was the value of
the diamonds in lot 492?

Retail, maybe $10,000.

Did your brother often take
diamonds from the store?

If he had business that evening

or early the next morning, yes.

Mr. Shore, do you have any idea

who might have
killed your brother?

Well, I know Ezra
had problems...

in the neighborhood.

Thank you.

It was just Dad, Bennie, and me.

We got to the park on 100th.

We used to cut through,

but since the black kids started
hassling us, we go around.

What happened on
that particular day?

These four guys
were hanging there.

The same guys that
we'd seen before.

And they called us
names. You know, Yid, kike.

Stone: Then what happened?

Caleb: Dad yelled at
them and he said that...

he'd kick their butts
if they didn't lay off.

I was on Amsterdam near 93rd.

I went to this deli to
buy a pack of cigarettes.

And then what did
you do, Mr. Beggs?

I went outside to
look for my friends.

And what were they doing?

They was in a alley.

They were standing
over Mr. Shore.

Cyrus threw garbage on him.

Fontaine lit him on fire.

Now, let's back up
a step, Mr. Beggs.

You left the deli,
you went to the alley.

What was the
first thing you saw?

Like I told you,

they lit him on fire.

Mr. Beggs, you testified

under oath to the police...

that you saw your
friends beat Mr. Shore

and then set him on fire.

I was scared, man.

I didn't know what to do.

Young man, are
you now telling me

that that was a lie?

Look...

I had to tell them something.

I seen Fontaine
start the fire, that's it.

That man was already
dead when I got there.

But you also told Caleb Shore

that your friends
killed his father.

That was just air, man.

You just made this up?

It's like... I was
just trying...

It's about getting juice.

You know, like, people
think you wasted a man,

they step aside
when you walk by.

Do you know what
perjury is, Mr. Beggs?

I'm sorry we lit him up.

I'm sorry I lied.

You don't believe
me, that's up to you.

A witness changes his story
on the stand, I had to withdraw

the murder case from the
grand jury. I had no choice.

You get a bad lie,

you don't pick up the
ball, walk off the course.

There's no way the
grand jury would indict.

Even if I finished presenting,
they'd "no bill" the kid. Then what?

And then we wouldn't
have some Op-Ed wannabe

write that we're choosing sides.

Oh, great. Two weeks ago we
were patsies of the Jewish lobby,

now it's the black caucus.

30 years ago, blacks and Jews were
marching together in Selma, Alabama.

Now it's every man for himself.

You're named as respondent in
this petition for a writ of mandamus.

Force us to re-present
this case to the grand jury.

Who filed it? Isaac Shore.

He also wants us to release
the grand jury transcripts.

He's angry. He wants
justice. Talk him out of it.

There was no conspiracy...
No gentlemen's agreement.

The case simply fell through.

My brother was
beaten and burned.

The police have
the boys that did it!

You let them go! What
am I supposed to think?!

That we didn't have enough evidence.
We relied on the wrong witness.

Or that Ezra was
the wrong victim?

Lawyer: Come on, it's
obviously a whitewash.

Their community leaders
scream louder than ours,

the case mysteriously
disappears.

If and when we get new evidence

we will resubmit
to the grand jury.

Then what? Two days
later you withdraw?

Stone: What's your implication?

It's no implication,
Ben. It's an assertion.

We all know if you wanted an
indictment, you could've gotten one.

- That's nonsense.
- Prove it.

Turn over those transcripts.

Grand jury
proceedings are secret.

Fine, then we'll proceed
with the writ of mandamus.

And you'll lose. The
decision to resubmit

is entirely within
my discretion.

There's a statutory prohibition
against releasing transcripts.

Not if I can prove to the judge

there was prosecutorial
misconduct.

These boys killed my brother.

I will not turn the
other cheek, Mr. Stone.

All right, I'll make the
transcripts available.

Thank you. I'll send
over a messenger.

No, you'll see them
in my office, Mr. Shore.

Mr. Shore has
two families to feed.

We're talking almost a
day's worth of reading.

Who's it going to hurt?

I'll bend the rules for
your client, Mr. Tobis,

I won't break them. You
want to read those transcripts?

Come to One Hogan Place.

The case is summarily
withdrawn from the grand jury.

Isaac's got a legitimate gripe.

Reading the transcripts
is the only way

to convince himself
nothing funny went down.

Exactly, so it shouldn't
matter where he reads them.

Unless someone else
wants to see the transcripts...

The real killers.

Could be this case has
nothing to do with race.

Diamonds. Money.

Greed is always a
good place to start.

Stone: Let's take a look
at the grieving brother.

The past three months,

cash flow reports
show that Shore Jewelry

bought over $3 million
worth of diamonds.

Not bad in a recession.

Only, during the same period,

they only carried 2.2
million in insurance.

- What's this have to do with Isaac?
- I'm getting there.

- They bought more diamonds
than they insured?
- $900,000 more.

- Who prepared
the insurance lists?
- Isaac.

He did the books, too, right?

It could be Isaac was
skimming from the business.

Buying jewels for his own
account with company money.

And Ezra found out?

Isaac killing his own brother?

I don't know if I buy that.

Maybe he's not in this alone?

Hmmm, maybe.

The discrepancies are
too big to be overlooked.

The diamond market
is very complicated.

Inventory is tied to
real market value.

You expect us to
believe you undervalued

your inventory for the
purposes of insurance?

If that's what he says he did.

What I think he did was steal large
sums of money from his brother.

You think Isaac
killed his brother?

Robinette: He had
motive and opportunity.

We can make a case.

Stone: All the evidence
points to you, Mr. Shore.

But we know you
didn't do it alone.

So speak up, and maybe
we can work something out.

Nice try.

Come on, Isaac.

Mike, wait.

I'd like to talk to my
attorney in private.

Almost 20 minutes.

You think Tobis will
let him talk or what?

25 years at Attica, I think
he'll cough up a name.

His lawyer is just
plugging up the loopholes.

I want to say
this for the record.

My client still has immunity

deriving from his appearance
before the grand jury.

Whatever he says,
you can't touch him.

I'm the one, Mr. Stone.

I killed Ezra.

I did it alone.

Mr. Shore, this is a mistake.

You're protecting someone, why?

Believe whatever you want.

It's what happened.

We gave him immunity because he
didn't want to testify about the business.

- We never mentioned the murder.
- The statute covers anything
he talks about.

We gave him immunity as
quid pro quo for his testimony.

He lied. That's got
to break the deal.

- Common sense.
- Common sense has
nothing to do with it.

The man waives his Fifth
Amendment rights by testifying.

Whether he tells
the truth or not.

It doesn't matter. He's
entitled to immunity.

Do you think he
killed his brother?

No, I think he's
protecting someone.

Uh-huh, all right,

then we threaten
him with perjury.

The idea of four years in Attica

should scare the hell
out of him. He'll talk.

The alternative might
scare him a lot more.

I don't think he's
protecting a friend.

- The man's scared.
- I can't say that I blame him.

- He saw what
happened to his brother.
- The man is desperate enough

to steal from his own family.

Subpoena his personal records

and find out who
he owes money to.

Adam, banks kill with a thousand
cuts, not with a whack on the head.

Some lenders are
in a bigger hurry.

Ezra dies, Isaac
gets the business.

It's a very good way to
insure prompt payment.

His bank statements look clean.

No evidence of regular payments
to anyone. No withdrawals.

So it's not about money?

I didn't say that.

Remember the diamonds
Isaac bought but never insured?

They were all purchased
from Joseph Tashjian.

$300,000 worth of sapphires
and rubies each month.

A month later, they
were sold back to Tashjian

at a $10,000 mark-up.

And you don't think Tashjian
is stupid about money?

I don't think the
diamonds exist.

It's all paperwork...
Smoke and mirrors...

With real money shuttling back
and forth through bank transfers.

So it's ready to fluff and fold.

It's a laundry. Dirty
money in, clean money out.

With phony receipts to
make it all look kosher.

They're laundering
over $4 million a year.

The Shore brothers get
$10,000 off every resale?

Their fee for laundering
Tashjian's money.

Tashjian's was the
last place Ezra went.

I'll get a warrant.

Half an hour, my lawyer'll
have an injunction.

- Your butts'll be out of here.
- In a half an hour,

your butt's going to be in a
patrol car if you don't shut up!

Phil.

You want a Rolex?

Or maybe a Cartier
for the missus?

Looks like, feels
like, sounds like.

A warehouse full of felonies.

Mr. Tashjian produced
counterfeit goods

without the benefit of a license
from the copyright holder.

- He smuggled them into the country.
- It has nothing to do
with my client.

It does under federal
conspiracy laws.

Laundering profits
from an illegal enterprise.

That's tax fraud
and racketeering.

You gave me immunity.

State, not federal. You don't
have a patch of ground to stand on.

We know Joseph
Tashjian killed your brother.

You don't realize... my family.

Mr. Shore, what
you don't realize

is we are talking about
racketeering charges here.

You will forfeit
all the proceeds

from your illegal activities.
That's everything, sir.

Cars, homes, cash...

You're blowing smoke,
Ben. You'll never be able

to prove which assets
were bought with bad money.

We don't have to. The
burden of proof is on your client.

We will strip your family bare.

Ezra took me into the business.

He paid me as much as he could.

I don't blame him.

But it wasn't
enough for my family.

So when Joseph Tashjian...

asked me to help
him with his money,

I thought,

"Who could get hurt?"

So your brother Ezra had no idea

the business was
laundering money?

Not for a whole year.

He rarely looked at the books.

He trusted me.

And what did he do
when he found out?

He was furious that I would risk

everything my
father had worked for.

He demanded that
I stop immediately.

He just didn't understand.

What didn't he
understand, Mr. Shore?

He didn't understand...

that I wanted to stop as well.

That Tashjian
wouldn't let me out.

That he had partners...
Dangerous men.

Ezra didn't care.

He wanted to talk
to Tashjian himself.

I warned him. I
told him, "Please!"

I begged him.

Around 9:00 he got a car

and went over to
Tashjian's office anyway.

Stone: And what did you do?

I followed him.

Please tell the
Court what happened

at Joseph Tashjian's.

Everything got out of hand.

I tried to calm Joe
down, but he was...

He was ranting like a crazy man.

He blamed me.

Said we were trying to
run him out of his business.

Tashjian... took a cane.

He was acting like an animal,

like a savage.

Again and again,

bashing Ezra's head,

his body.

There was so much blood...

and he just kept beating...

and beating...

and I just watched.

He killed my brother
and I just watched.

Mr. Shore, why didn't
you tell the police?

I was scared.

So scared that you would've
let three innocent boys go to jail?

Those black boys,

I thought after a while the
charges would be dropped.

And then when they were,

then you confessed
to the crime. Why?

Because he said he
would hurt the family.

He said he would kill my
children, Ezra's children.

Mr. Stone, my
family, that's all I have.

No more questions.

Who owns Shore's Jewelry?

Ezra. My father gave
him the business.

And how much did Ezra pay you?

$60,000 a year.

And how much money
did you earn last year

from Mr. Tashjian's money
laundering operation?

About $140,000.

And your brother wanted
to take that away, huh?

Must've made you mad.

- Mad enough to kill?
- Objection!

Withdrawn.

Mr. Shore, you admitted
lying to the police.

- Isn't that right?
- Yeah.

- And you lied to your attorney?
- Yes.

- And you lied
to the District Attorney?
- Yes.

And you even lied to the
grand jury, isn't that right?

I was trying to protect my family.
What did you expect me to do?

Do you at all feel responsible
for your brother's death?

- It's possible.
- You confessed to his
murder, didn't you?

If it weren't for you, your
brother would be alive today.

Isn't that correct, Mr. Shore?

Yes!

Robinette: He was very compelling.
What more could they want?

If the jury doesn't
believe your eyewitness,

it's all worthless.

Stone: I think the jury'll
understand Isaac's motive for lying.

They'll see he was scared.
Empathy goes a long way.

And they'll also see
that he neatly avoided

forfeiting all his assets
under RICO by testifying.

You don't believe
I can win, do you?

I believe that you've got a
hell of a mountain to climb

in your summation.

Isaac's lack of credibility

translates into
reasonable doubt.

The jury could find
Tashjian technically not guilty.

We all know he
killed Ezra Shore.

Our knowledge is a
long way from proof.

One witness,

that's all they have.

The victim's brother.

If you fully believe Isaac
Shore is telling the truth,

convict. Why not?

Isaac Shore lied
to the grand jury,

he lied to his family,

he lied to the police,
to the prosecutors...

At one point he
actually confessed...

to having killed him.

Of course, he could
be telling the truth now.

Sure, it's possible

Joseph Tashjian
murdered Ezra Shore.

You may even
think it's probable.

But in that case,

there's only one
thing you can do.

Your duty is clear.

You must return a
verdict of not guilty...

because in this system,

probably is not good enough.

You must be convinced

beyond a reasonable doubt.

Isaac Shore has
told so many lies

that it would be unreasonable

not to doubt his testimony.

Yes, Isaac Shore should
have come forward immediately

and said that, "Joseph Tashjian
savagely murdered my brother."

And he should have
stood up in the grand jury

and said, "Those
three boys are innocent.

Joseph Tashjian's the killer."

But he didn't do that.

Was he immoral? Was he evil?

Isaac Shore was terrified.

He'd eyewitnessed an
unspeakable horror...

The brutalization
of a family member.

And it was his greatest fear

to ever see that happen again.

So why would Isaac Shore

concoct a story like this?

The fears of Isaac Shore,

they don't make his
testimony any the less credible.

And they certainly don't
make Joseph Tashjian

any the less guilty.

Joseph Tashjian is guilty of
murder in the second degree.

On the sole count
of the indictment,

murder in the second
degree, how does the jury find?

We find the
defendant not guilty.

Quiet in the court.

My father is convinced

everyone is motivated by fear.

Mine thinks it's greed.

- What do you think?
- That Isaac fell victim to both.

I got it! I got it!

Man: Calm down! All
right, everybody, enough!

Are you all right?
Is everybody okay?