All language subtitles for Law and Order S02E20 Intolerance.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.

Your mom's paying
for an AP prep course?

- Yeah.
- You don't need it.

I need a five,

but she thinks
it's the best way.

The best way is not
to worry so much.

That's easy for you to say.

- What did he say?
- Lo-fan.

Barbarians.

They don't want Tim
hanging around white people.

Katie.

Your family still doesn't
want to meet me, do they?

Why don't you take me
home with you right now

and introduce me to your mother?

You handled that real well.

- Kate, what are you doing?
- Walking.

If I didn't know any better,

I'd say you're an
insensitive jerk.

If I didn't know better, I'd
say it's none of your business.

You know, both you
and Tim are real mature.

- What was that?
- Man: It's down there.

Oh my God!

No!

All right, let me
get this straight.

It's the middle
of the afternoon,

- you got three shots,
but you got no witnesses?
- Noisy street.

Maybe people thought
it was a car backfiring.

This is a freaking
echo chamber in here.

It must have sounded
like the Fourth of July.

It didn't happen on the street.

What do you want, somebody who
saw two stray dogs near the body?

Hey, no problem. A dog did it.

Officer: Coming through.

Okay, kid still had
his wallet on him.

Get this, $1,000 laptop
computer in his knapsack.

He was a star physics
student at Manhattan Science.

All right, dead end,
no way out the back.

Kid leaves his friends on
the way back from school.

Why does he walk in here?

Someone was waiting
for him, called him in?

- Or he was expecting somebody.
- Maybe.

So have CSU check the grounds.

- Every inch, okay?
- Right.

Have you seen the
Jade Squad report?

Three Chinese gang hits
in the past two months.

We're going to take
you to the precinct

and you can call your parents.

He'd still be alive if I'd
just kept walking with him.

You just never think that something
like this would happen to people like us.

Somebody ought to tell them

bullets don't recognize your IQ.

Kate: They just drove by.

Tim said something in Chinese

- and then they were gone.
- Here.

These boys in the car,
these were Tim's friends?

She told you, she
hardly saw them.

Mrs. Silver, would you
let your daughter talk?

Tim didn't talk about his
friends from growing up.

So you didn't
recognize any of them?

They weren't from school.

They had those leather
jackets with those metal rings...

Looked like they were in a gang.

I am sure Tim wasn't in a gang.

- He did live in Chinatown.
- And what does that mean?

Mom.

Mr. Borland, you know
something about the boy's family?

I do business with the Chinese.

They live in a different world.

For God's sake, they're
from Canal Street, not Mars.

3:30 in the afternoon and
nobody sees this thing?

There were six uniforms there,
they didn't turn up anybody.

So we canvassed
and we got nothing.

It's the back of an apartment
house. A dead-end courtyard.

- Not a lot of people there.
- Yep.

We can't even be sure if it
was the Chinese kids in the car.

Well, that's great.
What can we be sure of?

If you grow up in Chinatown,

you're either a member of a
gang or you got troubles with them.

Fine. Any indications of gangs?

CSU found three shells.

Ballistics says a
380 Tanfoglio Titan.

Now that seems to me a rather expensive
weapon for an ordinary street kid.

Okay, I'll buy that. Let's see
what the family has to say.

Great, I can't wait.

"Sorry about your son. By the way,
was he running any protection rackets?"

I'm sure you can find a more
diplomatic way of putting it.

Whatever you do, please, don't
mention that in front of my mother.

My brother wasn't in a gang.

Maybe he had a run-in with one.

Miss Chong, we're
trying to find a motive.

I would have known.

All due respect, you know you're
a little bit older than your brother.

- You don't live down here...
- My mother would've known.

She paid more attention
to Tim's life than her own.

All Tim wanted was
to get out of here.

He was going to MIT.

Policemen, Mother.

Tim not in gang.

Sometimes when children
are away from home...

He told her everything.

Not about his girlfriend.

Cerreta: Did Tim
ever seem upset?

Did he ever come home
looking like he'd been in a fight?

All the time after
every drug deal.

He spent his
weekends at the library.

Miss Chong, you're brother must've
had some friends in the neighborhood.

Just school friends.

Do you think we could
see your brother's room?

Maybe get a picture of him?

If she didn't know
about the girlfriend,

maybe she didn't know
about his friends on the street.

Chairman Mao,

Albert Einstein,
and Patrick Ewing.

What do you think
they got in common?

One 17-year-old Chinese kid.

Phil, look at this.

"Timothy Chong, winner of
the NASA Science Competition."

This kid had everything.

So why is he dead?

I got a better question.

Why did he go to
a plastic surgeon?

"Removal of tattoo."

- Gang insignia?
- Maybe the ME can tell us.

First I want to talk to
someone on that Jade Squad.

A tiger tattoo? That's
the White Tigers.

Yeah, but this kid went
to Manhattan Science.

- That tiger on his arm
wasn't a fashion statement.
- He has no record.

Half the smack in the
country blows through here.

You seen a lot
of arrests lately?

- Maybe they're paying you off.
- Yeah, millions.

My mortgage is a front.

- You got nobody on the inside?
- I had one.

You got a medium,
you can talk to him.

We found him in little
pieces on Hester Street.

Listen...

how bad do you
want to break this?

I know a kid in the
Tigers who will talk to you.

If there's any hint
they did it, you'll know.

Tim Chong. I
seen it in the paper.

Rumor has it he
was a White Tiger.

- Yeah, for five seconds.
- Was it a happy divorce?

We don't shoot
people, all right?

My lawyer, he
advises against it.

Yeah, you always take
your lawyer's advice?

Why would we want the kid dead?

Tim Chong buys that American
dream crap, we didn't care.

See that kid over there?

Kid sells smack. Yeah.

What some stiff at IBM makes in
a year, he could do in one week.

Billy, no matter
how much you make,

it's hard to spend it in Attica.

- We didn't do Tim Chong.
- All right, listen.

A wagon, you know, like
a Jeep or Blazer? Yellow.

- Who drives it?
- I don't know.

I don't know. If I
knew I'd tell you.

We didn't want the kid hit.

So much for the
American dream, huh?

Did everything right,

wound up dead anyway.

Ballistics compared
the slugs from Chong

to every Chinese gang
killing in the past three years...

- No match.
- This kid is 17 years old.

- How many enemies
could he have?
- Wait a minute.

This kid was getting bagged
for having white friends.

The wind only blows
in one direction?

If somebody did this at
school, there's gonna be talk.

Maybe we ought to take a run at
the girlfriend. Without the mother.

Cragen: I don't know,
that's kind of risky.

Turns out she's involved
in any way, whatever

she says is useless
without a parent there.

Her mother's around,
everything she says is useless.

Most of Tim's
friends were white.

Yeah, but he's an American, so
that wouldn't be a problem, right?

Some of my friends,
they call me an egg.

White on the outside,
yellow on the inside.

- Calling names is one thing,
but does it go beyond that?
- This isn't like most schools.

- It's not violent
or anything like that.
- No fistfights?

Nobody breaks into a locker?

The worst it gets,
somebody sprayed graffiti...

It said "slant-eyes" on
the door of the 1600 Club.

It's a study group
for the SAT's.

1600's a perfect score.

The club's about half Chinese.

So Tim wasn't having
any trouble with anybody?

I'm really not sure. We weren't
communicating very well.

Who would he talk to?

Maybe Mr. Steinman,
our physics teacher.

He knew Tim pretty well.

Tim Chong was the
best student I ever taught.

How long you been teaching?

Long enough not to exaggerate.

Last year he won the NASA award.

This year he was a shoo-in
for the Hellmuth competition.

Other kids give him grief
for screwing up the curve?

Students are sophisticated here.

They compete to get in.

What about after they get in?

Getting in is the start
of the race, not the end.

This science competition,
you call it the Hellmuth?

Do you have anybody
else who might win it?

What are you getting at?

Was there any
prize money for it?

$20,000, but it isn't the point.

It's the Nobel
Prize of high school.

Who's the also-ran?

Any number of people.

Are you betting
on any favorites?

Okay.

He was with Tim
when he was shot.

Borland kid? Carl.

He and Tim were always
number one and number two.

- Since when always?
- Since freshman year.

Drove Carl's mother crazy.

I don't know how bad it was,

but parent-teacher's night,

Carl's parents up in the front,

Tim's mother in the back.

The boys were friends.

Parents never even said hello.

Yeah, I remember that night.

Mrs. Borland couldn't
even look at us.

Weren't Tim and Carl friends?

Carl's a nice boy.

His mother is not a well woman.

What does this
have to do with Tim?

Two kids are friends, usually
the parents at least say hello.

She said hello when she called

and said we weren't
real Americans.

Why should Tim get the prizes?

Carl's older
brother called, too.

You're not saying...

My mother wants to know,

are you suggesting
that Tim was killed...

so a Chinese kid wouldn't
win the scholarship?

Come on. What
are you telling me?

Every parent would like
his kid to be number one.

Every parent doesn't make
threatening phone calls.

You talked to the
Chong kid's girlfriend...

What, twice, three times?

Trouble like this, you don't
think she would've mentioned it?

She was a wreck. She
probably would have told us.

We're talking
about $20,000 here,

and the biggest science
prize in the whole country.

There's no getting
over the fact that Marian

Borland is wired
about her little boy Carl.

I'm no expert here,
but it looked to me like

the father was
playing with a full deck.

Maybe this is a dumb idea,
but why don't we pay her a visit,

punch a few buttons,
and rule her out?

- Is that okay with you?
- That's okay with me.

We were all shocked.

Tim's murder is horrible.

Maybe we should raise
our children in the suburbs.

Guess it's as bad there.

So, what does this
have to do with me?

Claudia Chong said you made
some unpleasant phone calls.

I love my son.

Maybe sometimes...

I go to far.

How far is that?

Oh, this is ridiculous.

Tim was a lovely kid,

but the boys were very
competitive. It wasn't healthy.

Do you have children?

You know how hard
it is being a parent.

Yes, but I don't make
phone calls to other parents

when their kids get better
grades than mine do.

I admit I was inconsiderate.

Did you tell the Chongs that you
thought Chinese shouldn't win prizes?

Of course, I didn't!

At 3:30 on the afternoon
that Tim Chong was shot,

can you tell us
your whereabouts?

This is unbelievable.

- The idea that I would...
- Mrs. Borland,

look, we got to ask you.

It was Thursday?

My shift ends at 3:30.

Randy, my oldest boy, picks
me up and takes me home.

Maybe one of the other
employees saw you when you left.

I change in the back. I don't
know who would have seen me.

- Where can we find Randy?
- Fulton Fish Market.

- He works with his father.
- Thank you.

You know, this hasn't
been easy on any of us.

Right.

Every Tuesday and
Thursday I get her.

My dad doesn't like
her on the subway.

Anybody here when
you left to pick her up?

Nobody comes till late.

You guys.

My mom told me
what you're thinking.

Really? We just left
her 20 minutes ago.

Yeah, she called.

Lunch hour, she's under
pressure. She's working.

- You coming in like that.
- You picked her up at 3:00?

3:30. I dropped her at home.

Look, maybe my mom
said some dumb things.

You called the
Chongs too, right?

My mom wouldn't kill anybody.

What happened after
you dropped her at home?

The Y, 23rd Street.

Shot some hoops.

Regular game, 4:00.

I get back, there's
a note from Dad.

- He went to take care of Carl.
- Didn't that worry you?

I'm sorry about the Chinese kid,

but somebody's
got to run the stall.

I got to get some ice.

So, I mean, how upset was she?

You think she called Randy
just to make herself feel better?

She called Randy to make
sure he got the time right.

Yeah, did you notice that he wasn't
exactly an aerospace engineer?

I also noticed he's not
her favorite son, either.

Mm-hmm.

Well, if she lied, he lied.

If he's lying, where did they
go after he picked her up?

She didn't go home.
He didn't shoot hoops.

You're praying
at the right church.

You gonna read that
to us, or fan us with it?

Borland, Ronald.

296 South Street,

dba R. Borland & Son Fresh Fish.

Carry permit. 380
Tanfoglio Titan.

Seems to me, it's the
gun I said it would be.

Let's get a warrant.

What do you mean he said no?

You want me to
try it in Portuguese?

He said, "You cannot
have a search warrant."

Since when is Judge
Feinstein so picky?

Since he got a clerk
who knows about guns.

He said a Tanfoglio
is too common.

Just because Borland has one
doesn't give you probable cause.

Big bunch of crap.

You want some probable
cause, try breaking some alibis.

Okay, do you think
Marian Borland

punches a time clock
at the restaurant?

Randy went to the Y.

Basketball buddies notice
when you're holding up a game.

Good. That's very good.

And next time you
need a warrant,

don't go to Judge Feinstein.

Woman: Everything
is computers now.

So you don't have the records?

I'm looking, I'm looking.

Maybe I have her timecard.

They come back from the service,

sometimes I
remember to save them.

You got cards in here that look like
they might come from World War II.

All I hear is, "They
shortchanged me.

I lost an hour.
They cheated me."

No, not here. Sorry, I
must have dumped them.

Marvin, I can't find it.

My payroll man
doesn't have it either.

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

She clocked out at 2:30.

He won't swear by it. He could
have entered it wrong off the card.

2:30. She said 3:30.

If she entered it wrong,
she would've complained.

- Missing pay, right?
- She don't have the check yet.

Thanks, Marvin. Later.

- Don't tell her we were here.
- You're cops.

Now, if you were
IRS, I might tell her.

Thursdays, 4:00.

It's a great time for Randy.

He works the graveyard shift.

- So, last week,
he was here at 4:00?
- Always on time.

We got the court
for like an hour.

After that, volleyball.

You know Randy pretty well?

High school.

You talk to him today?

No, why?

I'm asking you
questions about him,

but you're not
asking what it's about.

Locker room sign-in sheet.

Randy signed in at 3:51.

Like I said, we play at 4:00.

The computer at the payroll
service... Not a lot of probable cause.

We got to try.

This time we try
Judge Allan Berg.

You better spell it with
two "L's" and two "A's"

or we're never going
to get a warrant.

We want the business,
which is 296 South Street.

And the apartment, which
is 573 East 30th Street.

Detective Logan.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

Can you wait a minute?
I'm gonna put you on hold.

Don't go away.

- Where is it?!
- What?

I got a tip on the
Chong shooting.

Come on. Somebody
give me a tape recorder.

- Batteries... something.
- Get him back on the line. Stall him.

One, two, three.

- Yeah.
- Here you go, Logan.

Yeah.

No, I'm not going
to put you on hold.

Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm listening.

I'd love to know.

Uh-huh.

Well, how do I know
you're on the up-and-up?

You know what I'm saying?

Mm-hmm.

You know what the address is?

What kind of gun am
I going to find there?

Hello, hello, hello?!

380. That's the same caliber.

That voice ring a bell?

Me neither. Any bets?

Friend?

Maybe somebody who
works at that fish market?

What do you want to do?

The address, caliber of gun,

sounds reliable
and credible to me.

- Probable cause?
- If Judge Berg thinks it is.

I should call my dad at work.

If you wanna do that,
I think you should.

Officer: I got this
room covered.

You have a key for this?

Son, I'm going to
have to break into it.

Carl: Okay, okay.

There's nothing in the kitchen.

You sure you haven't seen a gun

lying around the
house, somewhere?

My dad keeps it in the office.

Officer: I think I've
got prints on this.

- That's my mom's good China.
- That's okay.

Officer: Nothing in here.

Mike.

Bingo.

The Italians make nice guns.

It would be nicer
if it's the right gun.

It would be nicer if it
were a clean match.

R7 twist.

I wouldn't say this is close.

I'd say exact.

Yes, Mama.

- Very nice.
- No question... this gun
killed Tim Chong.

One set of prints on the gun.

A good match to Ron Borland

from when he got his permit.

His gun, his prints.

That's a problem?

Considering that he walked
in here an hour after the killing

and didn't even blink?

Why are the mother and son
running all over town fixing alibis?

I thought Randy's held.

Not anymore.

Sign-in sheet from
the Y. Infrared scan.

His pal fixed it.

Unless you believe in elves.

What, do you think the whole
Borland family killed the kid?

Nothing puts the mother
and Randy at the scene.

But we do have the gun.

We arrest Ron Borland,
maybe something breaks.

Pick him up.

Mr. Borland?

I think you've bothered
my family enough.

Ronald Borland, you're under arrest
for the murder of Timothy Chong.

- You have the right
to remain silent.
- Dad.

- If you choose
to waive that right...
- Go call your mother.

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

I got to my store at 2:00.

I didn't leave till Carl called.

But your gun managed
to kill Timothy Chong.

You fellas have what?

Three open gang shootings?

Maybe your lab had a
little help with that bullet.

I wouldn't try that
with a jury, Mr. Willis.

Why not? Juries
always trust cops?

So, you were at your store,
but nobody saw you there?

I was there for Carl's call.

An hour after Tim
Chong was killed.

40 minutes the way I heard it.

Your wife and Randy
join you in the shooting?

Finito, gentlemen, over.

You're going to
book him, let's do it.

Why? I mean, it makes no sense.

I was back barely two hours.

Willis called.
He'll take man two.

We haven't even started interviewing
witnesses. What's the hurry?

Borland's prints are on the gun.

But Cerreta and Logan are right,

everything else
points away from him.

Yeah. Uh-huh.

Attributed? Thanks.

Tomorrow's "Post" says we're
negotiating a plea. No attribution.

Willis. Dragging
us to the altar.

I don't like shotgun weddings.

I want to know what happened.

So put a vise
around that family.

And I don't care how
hard you squeeze.

I'm glad I don't have your job.

I don't have to talk to you.

Did you hear them plan it, Carl?

I didn't know about it.

I mean, that's not
the way it happened.

Did your mom go with your dad?

Or did she just provoke
him into doing it?

My parents are good people.

They only want
what's best for me.

Killing someone?

Is that how you get the best?

How did your dad know
where Tim would be?

- Did you tell him?
- I'm not going to talk
to you anymore.

Do you know what accessory
to murder means, Carl?

My father didn't kill anyone.

- His fingerprints
were on the gun.
- You don't know anything.

You don't know what
you're talking about!

Even Carl Borland knows
his father didn't do it.

How the hell do you
explain the prints on the gun?

Ben, what the hell
are you trying to pull?

- Why are you talking to Carl?
- Leave my son alone.

- He's a potential witness.
- He's a kid!

You play the media well, Leonard,
get a headline, make us look bad.

You're making it
hard for Carl to study.

- Get them to leave him alone!
- Mrs. Borland, please.

- If you care to sit down...
- It's bad enough what's happened.

My son's life is at stake here.

I thought it was your husband's?

There's a lot at stake here.

Leonard: Let's go, Marian.

Next time you want to see Carl,

do me a favor... call first.

- The family's certifiable, Adam.
- Unlike everybody else.

Who made that
anonymous phone call?

Obviously you don't think
it was an angry employee.

What if Ron Borland
made it himself?

Try this... Borland gets back
from the precinct with Carl.

He sees his wife and Randy,
and he knows they did it.

They're the ones
faking the alibis.

Why didn't Borland
throw the gun away?

Maybe he panics. Cerreta
and Logan are onto them.

So he does something heroic.

Randy belongs to him the
way Carl belongs to his mother.

So he wipes their prints off the
gun, puts his own on, takes the fall.

Yeah. You want to arrest the
mother along with the older son.

And right now you wouldn't
get a conviction for bad thoughts.

I have motive. I have the gun.

If it's not suppressed because
of a questionable warrant.

All right, I don't. I can
tell the jury about it.

- You won't get a conviction.
- If we don't arraign, I can't even try.

Fine. Try.

Can we have a statement?

How many reporters out there?

You trying this in the press?

Well, to quote a
public opinion poll,

my client's are the
salt of the earth.

- So was the victim.
- Ginseng maybe, not salt.

Having a bad week, Leonard?

Judge: Docket number 51423.

The People versus Marian Borland

and Randall Borland.

The charge is
murder in the sec...

What's happening? Didn't I
already see this case on my docket?

The People's motion charges against
the previous defendant were dismissed.

- The People regret their error.
- Regret?

We're talking about
murder, Mr. Robinette.

You ought to publish an
apology in "The Times."

How do the defendants plead?

Not guilty. Not guilty.

I'll hear a few spirited
words on the subject of bail.

Leonard, it's nice to
see you, please be brief.

Thank you, Judge.
Nice to see you, too.

My clients are
not a flight risk.

They're bound to the community.

- Any high bail
would be a hardship.
- Mr. Robinette?

The People request
$50,000 on each defendant.

Flight is not an issue, but
the severity of the crime...

Go no further. When
you're right, you're right.

Leonard, he's right.
This is murder two.

50,000 each defendant. Next.

You don't even know
who fired the gun.

Stone: Why don't you tell me?

You want to discuss
manslaughter two?

- They do the minimum, two to six.
- Two years?

Why not 30 days with
time off for good behavior?

Man one, they do the max.

Eight and a third to 25.

You're hitting an
elephant with a fly-swatter.

- You don't have a murder weapon.
- Did I miss a hearing?

Has there been a ruling?

The search warrant for
the Borland apartment

should never have been issued.

No jury ever hears
about that gun.

- Cancel the bravado.
- It's too late.

- My career's built on it.
- The warrant was proper.

An anonymous phone call is
probable cause? I don't think so.

You knew Ron Borland never
fired that gun when we arraigned him.

You know if I discuss that
with you, I could be disbarred.

Manslaughter two, last chance.

You lose on the
warrant, no deal.

See you in chambers.

You want to give them man two?

They put three
bullets into that kid.

Willis is offering you a gift.

Judge suppresses that gun,
you don't get a conviction.

The Court of Appeals let a
similar warrant stand in Ashton.

Then they killed it in Johnson.

That was two years
ago. Ashton was last year.

I don't want to be
overturned on appeal.

What are you worried
about? Our closure rate?

I'm worried about the
Borland's not serving a day.

They kill a teenager
over a science prize,

maybe tomorrow they
get angry at the mayor.

There's no way Simon
suppresses the gun.

Simon thinks the ACLU
is too conservative.

- When's the hearing?
- Tomorrow.

You lose on the gun,
you lose the case.

Willis: That search warrant
has no basis in probable cause.

You can't let a jury
hear about that gun.

The informant not only
knew the caliber of the gun,

- he knew where to find it.
- This was an anonymous call.

Let's look at the standard.

Agala-Spinelli calls for a
specific two-prong test...

The informant's reliability

and the basis of his knowledge.

Now, Ben, how
reliable was that tip?

A 380... lots of people
probably knew Borland had one.

And the address you could've
gotten from the phone book.

The Supreme Court is adopting a less
rigorous standard for search warrants.

They oughta be ashamed. They forgot
why we have the Fourth Amendment.

Besides, here in
New York, thank God,

we have a stricter standard.

The Court of Appeals is
moving with the Supreme Court.

The Court of Appeals
changes its mind

more often than I
change my socks.

That permit was for
the Borland business.

The warrant was
for the Borland home.

Any idiot can see the cops
were relying on the phone call.

I'm not even an
idiot, I can see it.

Your Honor, I
respectfully suggest...

You can respectfully
suggest from now to New Year.

The warrant is ruled invalid.
The gun is suppressed.

None of it goes into evidence.

You want to go to trial,
you go without the gun.

When Randy Borland
called, what did he say?

He said the
cops... the police...

Thought he had something
to do with this kid's murder.

They wanted to know
what time he came to play.

And I said I'd say
whatever he wanted me to.

Stone: What else
did he ask you to do?

Man: He said could I
fix the sign-in sheet?

Stone: How do you do that?

I can get behind the desk.

I work part-time checking
membership cards.

I knew some people
that signed in in pencil.

This is People's Exhibit 11.

It's an enlargement of the
sign-in sheet for that day,

subjected to infrared light.

Would you please
describe it for the Court?

Randy's name is signed
over Larry Gordon's.

I erased Larry's.

Down here Larry's name
is written over Randy's.

So you changed the names?

Yes, I did.

Stone: What effect
did that have?

It makes it look like Randy
got there an hour before he did.

Thank you. No further questions.

Your Honor, permission
to show this to the jury?

Judge: You may do so.

I was given three shell
casings from the crime scene

and three bullets removed
from Timothy Chong's body.

And what type of gun was used?

Based on lands and
grooves on the bullets

and the injector
marks on the casings,

I concluded the gun was a 380
Tanfoglio Titan semi-automatic.

During your investigation,
did you determine whether

Mr. Borland was
licensed to carry a firearm?

- I did.
- What did you find?

Woman: Mr. Borland
is licensed to carry

a 380 Tanfoglio
Titan semi-automatic.

Thank you. No further questions.

Ms. Shrier, do you have any idea

how many licenses the State has
issued for a Tanfoglio Titan 380?

I couldn't say exactly.

If I told you it was
more than a thousand,

would you find that a surprise?

I'm sure that it's
more than that.

And if I told you the actual number
was 2,941, would that surprise you?

No, it wouldn't.

I'm glad.

In your expert opinion,

could another gun

have left the kind of
markings that you found?

Very unlikely.

So you are saying that it could
have been another kind of gun.

Excuse me.

I concluded the
gun was a Tanfoglio

before I knew
Mr. Borland owned one.

That's very cavalier
of you, thank you.

No further questions.

I instruct the jury they
may draw no conclusion

from the fact that a weapon has not
been entered into evidence in this trial.

Cloudy, muddy, murky.

The jury has enough
reasonable doubt

to bottle and sell it.

You can hear
Willis in summation.

"The defendants lied
because they were scared.

Yes, they owned a
gun, but did they use it?"

Marian Borland.

What did she tell the cops?

"The kids were competitive,
it was unhealthy."

The only unhealthy competition
was hers for her son's glory.

Are you prosecuting
or preaching?

She pulled the
trigger. Not physically.

Oh, metaphysically.

She harped about the
Chong kid every day.

Why did Randy kill him?

You kick a dog
long enough, it bites.

You want to try that
in your summation?

- It won't get you a conviction.
- Might get us a deal.

Ron Borland was willing
to go to jail to save his son.

Is he going to watch
Randy go now?

You want him to
pressure his wife?

I make the offer in front of him.
Randy does less time than his mother.

Ron Borland will make
his wife take the deal.

Giving the shooter a better
deal. Is that what you want?

Uh-huh. I just don't
know if it'll work.

We're trying to
arrive at what's fair.

I hope your clients
understand that.

The sentences we have a problem.

That's settled.

Manslaughter two for Mrs.
Borland, she does two to six.

Eight and a third to
25, no playing around.

You said he'd be reasonable.

Marian.

It is unlikely Mrs.
Borland will be convicted.

Let's finish the
trial and find out.

You said a few
years. You said parole.

Be quiet, Marian.

Mrs. Borland, if you're
convicted, you will do 25 to life.

We're offering you much less.

- You said he wouldn't
do this. You said...
- Stop it!

How long will
Randy be in prison?

He pleads to man two,
he does three to nine.

- This isn't right.
- Mom.

- It's not gonna help.
- Why don't we just go outside...

Stop!

He's 23.

He has a chance for a life.

Sit down.

The trial isn't over.

- I don't see why...
- Because he's your son.

I don't believe
we'll be convicted.

I won't do this.

Do you remember, Miss Chong, how
many of these phone calls occurred?

Over the last six
months... Nine or 10.

What did Mrs. Borland say?

She said Carl and Tim
shouldn't be friends.

That Tim was using
Carl, using his brain.

She called my brother...

a Chink.

She said, "You Chinks
aren't real Americans."

And what did Randy Borland say?

He said...

if Tim kept trying to
steal Carl's ideas...

that he'd regret it.

Thank you. No further questions.

Miss Chong, you said that the
Borlands' calls frightened you.

Did you call the police?

No.

So how frightening were they?

In our culture, you
don't call the police.

Your family's friends,
are most of them Chinese?

Objection. Relevance?

The witness
mentioned her culture.

Overruled. The
witness will answer.

Our closest friends are Chinese.

And your brother, did he
belong to a Chinese gang?

- Your Honor!
- I'm going to allow this, Mr. Stone.

He quit. He wasn't really...

And what was the
name of the gang?

The White Tigers.

This is Defense Exhibit Three.

It's an article in last month's
"Crosstown" magazine.

Would you please read
the circled portion aloud?

"The White Tigers,
the most powerful

of the heroin dealing
gangs or tongs,

are fighting a vicious turf war.

Two members have
been shot this year.

No one thinks the war is over."

Willis: Thank you.

No further questions.

You wouldn't vote to convict?

- I'm not on the jury.
- If you were?

Yes?

Mrs. Silver and her
daughter are out there.

Send them in.

My daughter has
something to tell you.

Please, sit down.

Go on, honey.

I didn't want to say anything.

Carl is my friend.

I like his mom and dad.

She feels guilty.

She didn't know where
to put her loyalties.

Katie.

After the gunshots,
we were running.

I must have looked
for just a second...

I saw them.

You saw who?

Mrs. Borland...

and Randy.

You saw them on the street?

In the truck.

That truck must have been going
pretty fast. You sure it was them?

I recognized it.

It was the truck from
the fish business.

You going to put
this kid on the stand?

Yeah, we don't usually
exclude evidence that convicts.

Why did she wait so long?

She and the Borland
kid are friends.

- She was torn apart.
- You should've seen her
at the precinct.

- She didn't hold anything back.
- Are you saying an 18-year-old
kid lied?

I'm saying I think she
reads the newspapers.

Yesterday they were saying you'd need
an act of God to convict the Borlands.

You didn't see
her in our office.

She's not that
good of an actress.

She loved the kid.
They killed him.

How good an actress
does she have to be?

Without anything more specific,
I have to go with my instincts.

Where were you at the time?

Carl and me, we went around
the corner after we heard the shots.

And what did you see when
you came around the corner?

It was sort of a flash...

This white truck.

And it had two people in it.

Randy was behind the wheel

and Mrs. Borland
was sitting next to him.

They were coming towards me,

and I looked down, and
I saw the license plate.

I'd seen it before,

when Carl's brother had
picked him up after school.

What was on the license plate?

It's one of those you
have made special.

It says "Fishhook."

Stone: You've known about
this ever since Tim died.

Why did you wait till
now to say anything?

I tried to forget it.

I didn't even want to
believe it happened.

I told my mom and she
said I had to tell the truth.

Stone: No further questions.

In the People versus Marian
Borland and Randall Borland,

on the sole count of the indictment,
murder in the second degree,

how does the jury find
on Randall Borland?

We find the defendant guilty.

Judge: On the sole count of the
indictment against Marian Borland,

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

We find the defendant guilty.

Hi, Phil. Mike.

What's up?

I'd like to verify something.

The girl's testimony as it's
described here, is this accurate?

Everything in
quotation marks, yes.

Okay, she says she came
running around the corner

and saw the license plate.

Does she have eyes
in the back of her head?

She said the truck
was coming toward her.

The only way she
sees a license plate

is if she stops
dead in her tracks,

turns around, goes
back to the corner,

- and watches the back
of the truck as it pulls away.
- She saw the front plate?

That's been missing for months.

There is no front plate.

Borland ordered a new
one. The State never sent it.

God bless bureaucracy.

We have instincts, too, Ben.

It was a shocking reversal in the
science-prize murder case today.

Marian and Randall Borland,
convicted three days ago

of murdering Timothy Chong,
were released from custody

following the District
Attorney's request for a mistrial.

What do you want to do? Indict
a 17-year-old girl for perjury?

The amount of publicity...

You want a new trial, where
do you find an untainted jury?

Upstate. I don't care if we have
to go to the Canadian border.

Next time we'll get the gun in.

She has admitted
inventing the story.

In a similar, bizarre
incident in California today,

a father was charged
with shooting a boy

who had taken his son's place
on a high school tennis team."

I think I liked it better when the
criminals were doing the killing.

The whole world has gone mad.

"A counselor at the
Board of Education today

said pressure on children
is creating an epidemic..."