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In the city of Los Angeles,

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.

- But I thought the house
we're buying was in foreclosure.

- Look, the, um-the bank
messed up the paperwork.

They're supposed
to call me today.

- I'm sorry.
I can't stay, Mr. Vela.

I have to get
to my church picnic.

- Don't forget to buy
my raffle ticket.

- What about the other house-
the one with the red shutters?

We can swing the payment-
- yeah, for the first year.

Yeah, but then you'll be in over
your head before you know it.

Look...

Just be patient, okay?

You'll get the house you want,

and it won't keep you up
at night.

That's her job.

- Oh, sweetheart.

Mr. Vela is right.

We don't want
those kinds of worries.

- I just want zuleima to have
her first birthday

in her ownackyard,
you know?

Lots of balloons,
a big pi�ata.

You'd like that,
hey, beautiful?

Hola.

Yeah, sure, hold on.

It's Mr. Vela.
He wants to talk to both of us.

- Go ahead, Mr. Vela.
- Good news-

I just called the bank officer
at home.

The foreclosure
got straightened out.

The house is yours,
muchachos.

- Oh!

- What's all that-

Oh, no, no, no, no.

Dios mio, dios mio.

Get in here, quick!
Shut the d-

What do you want?

No!

- Mr. Vela.

Mr. Vela.

- The 911 call came in
just after 4:00.

Six dead.

We got empty purses,
wallets and watches missing.

- 9-millimeter casings
by the front door-

suspect came in shooting.

It's not your typical m.O.
For a stickup.

People were on the phone
with the owner, Mr. Vela,

when they heard it go down.

Mr. Vela's been doing business
here 14 years.

He's got a good rep
in the neighborhood.

- Any indication how the suspect
got in the building?

- My guys found
the doors downstairs locked.

Building manager says they keep
them locked on the weekends.

- Hey.

Somebody's bad habit's probably
what let the suspect in.

Same brand as the victim's.

Shooter was watching
the place,

figured somebody'd be coming out
for a cigarette break.

- And they followed the smoker
back in before the door closed.

It's not a great part
of the neighborhood.

- No, but it looks like
the people in Mr. Vela's office

were doing well.

- Maybe somebody up there

didn't like having
their nose rubbed in it.

Big shots.
Practically every day, I hear them leave

in their fancy cars,

racing their engines.

- Did you hear anything today
around 4:00?

Yeah.
Pop, pop, pop.

Then I heard a door slam.

I looked out
and saw someone running

between the buildings.

- What did this person
look like?

- Sorry.
My eyes are going...

Because of the diabetes.

- Look, I'm telling you,

I didn't see nothing,
all right?

I was out all afternoon.
- Come on, miss.

I know you got something
for me.

You were just down
in the laundry room.

You heard people talking.

All right,
broke-ass Eddie ramos-

he never has two nickels
to rub together.

He's flashing
a big roll tonight.

He's asking out every other girl
in the neighborhood.

- All right.

- Un doble cinco alli.

Otro mas.

- Hey, Eddie ramos.

You stay.
The rest go.

- Come on, man.
What's up with this?

Soon as I got a little ahead,
you guys show up.

- Don't sweat it, Eddie.

Just wondering where you got
the stake

to get in the game
in the first place.

- I got
a little business going-

washing cars
around the corner.

- Too bad you forgot
to wash the blood

off those bills.

- Hey, man.

It was like that
when I found it, all right?

- Yeah, you better
show us where.

Let's go.

- That bag right there.

Huh?

I found it here
when I was taking a leak.

Yeah, that's it.

- I count five wallets
and four watches.

- I didn't touch no wallets.

I just took the cash
that was loose.

- And that nice watch
on your wrist.

- Yeah.

T-that too.

- I'm not feeling it
with Eddie.

His story holds,
plus witnesses saw him

out on the corner
most of the afternoon.

- So what are we thinking-

suspect dropped the swag
by mistake?

Or the whole stickup angle
is a misdirect?

- I go with the misdirect.

The suspect tried to throw us
off the scent.

- Yeah, the mortgage office
was a mess-

files everywhere, like somebody
worked out their anger

with a 9-millimeter.

- Well, who can tell us what
there was to be angry about?

- Maybe the three brokers who
weren't working this afternoon.

- Mortgage brokers aren't
the most popular people

these days.

But our office was different.

Mr. Vela helped a lot of people
get into their first homes.

- Well, he had most of the staff
working on a Saturday.

Was there a problem?

- No, we just had a lot

of time-sensitive applications
to get out the door

because
of the foreclosure mess.

- And you just happened
to not be there?

- Hey...

Those people were my friends.

- All right, just answer
the question, Mr. Pe�a.

- Well, I was on my way back
fromeeing a client.

The traffic on the
pomona freeway was backed up,

so I hopped off,
grabbed some lunch,

and went home.

- I didn't have
as many deals closing

as the other brokers did,

so I went home early.

Otherwise, I'd...

Be dead
like the rest of them.

- Lot of people trying to hold
on to their homes

in this market.

Some customers
must get pretty emotional.

- Yeah.

We get the occasional hothead.

- You're thinking of one
right now.

- Last Friday,
when I was out at lunch,

everyone was talking
about this Asian guy.

He went off on Mr. v.

- He was a Korean businessman.

He tried to borrow money
to buy a strip mall.

You could hear him shouting
even with the door shut.

- Did he make
a specific threat?

- I didn't hear.

All I know is that after,

Mr. v. Told us to warn him
if Danny choi showed up again.

- I trusted him.

I had a chance to buy a corner
strip mall in el sereno.

I thought it'd be easy
through Vela, but I was wrong.

The bank rejected
my application.

When I asked Vela why,
he wouldn't tell me.

And that's when I started
to get mad.

I didn't shoot him.

I was here all day.
Everybody saw me.

- Yeah, we'll ask them.
What'd you do after you got mad?

- I went to the bank
to ask what happened.

They said they had trouble
with applications

from Vela's office.
- What kind of trouble?

- They said
the mortgage applications

were filled with lies.

I proved to them
that my application was okay.

They said it didn't matter.

They weren't doing business
with Vela anymore.

- Whatever I told Mr. Choi
is beside the point.

You'll have to go
through corporate in Missouri.

We're not just gonna open up
our approval process.

- Hmm, well, it'd be
great publicity for their banks.

Slowing down
a homicide investigation

with six victims.

- Why did you stop
doing business with Vela?

- Five of their applications
came up tilt-

inflated income,
hidden debt.

It looked like someone
was trying to defraud us

of over $2 million.

- Borrowers?
- I don't think so.

I told Mr. choi that even though
his application was fine,

we just couldn't take
the chance.

- So who are you pointing
the finger at-

Vela or someone in his office?

- All I know is
that's not how we do business.

I stamped the applications
rejected,

and I sent them back.

That's the last I heard
from Mr. Vela.

- My old man used to say

when it's sunny out,
banks will give you an umbrella.

But the second
it starts raining,

they'll take it back.

- That's why I'm happy renting.

- I'm not finding
the rejected applications

from the bank.

- They're not in here either.

Maybe it's what
the shooter was after.

- Loan fraud.

Only the nine people
in this office

could have worked
on those applications.

- And six of them are dead.

A two millions
dollars loan fraud?

- We don't know who prepared
the bogus applications

or who the borrowers were.

- Well, if all
the shooter wanted

were those applications,
why didn't he just break in?

But shooting
all those people-

this guy's got
a big-time grudge.

- Yeah, that argues
for the coworkers.

We've got al Hayes.

He was the rookie,
worked there less than a year,

said he was home
when the shootings happened.

Then we got Debbie Beltran-

said she went to a church picnic
and then home.

- You don't hear
about too many women

shooting up their workplace.

- Felipe Pe�a's alibi
is that he was stuck in traffic

on the pomona freeway.

Then he went home
to his wife and kids.

- The problem
is that that freeway

was clear that afternoon.

But there was a sig alert
on the 605 connector

between the 10
and the pomona freeway.

- Hmm, Debbie Beltran.

She lives in el monte,

right where the connector
feeds into the 10.

- I'm not lying.

I went home
after the picnic.

- Debbie, we have
cell phone records

that prove that Felipe
called his home

from your house
just after 3:00.

- I don't see how that's
any of your business.

- This is
a murder investigation.

Everything is our business.

We know about the bad
loan applications, Debbie.

- That was a mistake.

And it was only
that one time.

- Keep talking.

- I was trying to refinance
my own house.

And I-I couldn't get the numbers
to work, so I fudged it.

Felipe caught it.

And, well...

He showed me how
to work the numbers

so I could get the loan.

- Why would he do that?

- Because...

He's helping me pay
my mortgage.

- She told you all that?

Man, that's why you can't put
women in charge of the C.I.A.

They talk too much.
- Well, let's talk about you.

You pay a mortgage
on your house.

You're helping Debbie
with hers.

That's a big nut every month.
- I'm good at what I do.

I close a lot of deals.

- You know how
to work the numbers.

A magician
is what Debbie called you.

- I follow industry standards.

- Yeah, what about the loans

that got rejected
by southland pacific bank?

- I never had
any loans rejected,

because I made sure my loans
never went to southland pacific.

Those guys make a federal case
if you drop a comma.

- We're gonna check that.

So, again,
for the record,

where were you between 3:00
and 4:15 last Saturday?

- In Debbie's bed.

You don't have to tell
my wife, do you?

- A man with two wives
loses his soul.

A man with two houses
loses his mind.

- Tell me about it.

The timing here
is pretty tight.

He made two calls on his cell
from Debbie's house

at 3:05 and 4:25.

An hour and 20 minutes

from el monte
to el sereno and back?

- It's doable.
- Barely.

Before we take this
to the D.A.,

nail down that Felipe
was the one who prepared

the rejected loans, okay?

- We need to talk
to the borrowers.

They could tell us.

- Well, the first thing they do

when you apply for a loan
is check your credit report.

There's got to be a list
of all the reports

the mortgage office pulled.

- You saw how bad
my credit report is?

I was ready to say
forget it.

But the mortgage broker
wouldn't let me quit.

- Who was your broker?
- Al Hayes.

- Did you ever deal
with a Felipe pe�a?

- No, mm-mm,
just Mr. Hayes.

I swear he needed that
loan approval worse than I did.

- Why do you say that?
- He kept saying it was hard

for folks like us to get loans
past his boss.

- Folks like you?
- Black people.

He said the deck was stacked.

So he had to add seasoning
to my loan package

to make me look better.

- Yeah, how'd that work out
for you?

- The bank turned me down.

When I spoke with Mr. Hayes,

he said if his boss,
Mr. Vela, called,

I shouldn't talk to him.
- He say why?

- He just said
he'd handle everything.

He was always
handling everything.

He even had me get
mortgage insurance

from his girlfriend.

- A lot of people
in Mr. Vela's office

referred business to me,
not just al.

I lost a lot of friends
that afternoon.

And I'm just
thankful that al didn't...

- You saw him that day.
- Yes, of course.

I was having lunch
at my parents'

when I saw the news
on the tv,

and I called him right away.

- He wasn't with you
at your parents'?

- No, he stayed home.

They don't like
that he's divorced with kids.

- Hmm.
I know that feeling.

Did al ever complain
about how the office was run?

- No.
He got along with everyone.

But it was rough on him
in the beginning,

him being
the odd man out.

- Odd man-
why, because he was new?

- You mean because he's black?

- It's embarrassing to hear
my own people act like racists.

- Something happened.

- At the office barbecue
last summer,

I heard someone refer to him
as a mayate.

- Did something happen
to your shredder?

- It got jammed up
a few days ago.

- Did al know people
were calling him names

behind his back?
- No, I didn't tell him.

He was already frustrated,

thinking that they were keeping
the good leads from him.

But it had all gotten
so much better lately.

- How's that?

- Well, he has a lot
of closings coming up.

And just the other day,
before all this happened,

he said he was about ready
to start his own firm

and that then maybe
we can finally get married.

- So, while Hayes' loans
are being rejected by the bank,

he's telling his fianc�e
he's starting his own business.

- Flight into fantasy.

He was probably
about to get canned.

Excuse me, sir.

If you're gonna throw that away,
we'll take it.

- Knock yourself out.
- All right.

Yellow and green-
look familiar?

The shreds in the machine
match the folders

in Vela's office-

same material,
same color.

We think the shredded folders
contained

the bogus loan applications
that Hayes prepared.

- The working theory
is that Hayes felt

he was being singled out
for being the only black guy

in the office.

He thought maybe
he was about to be fired

or even prosecuted
for loan fraud.

So he got angry,
killed his coworkers,

stole the applications,

and shredded them
at his girlfriend's office.

- Love the theory.

Your evidence-
not so much.

Can we prove definitively
that the shredded files

came from al's office?

- No, not yet,
but the lab found blood

on some of the folders-
it might match the victims'.

- Hayes is clean-
no record.

But he's in the database
as a witness

to a robbery at a bank
where he worked two years ago.

And the detective
who worked the case noted

Hayes was very traumatized
by the incident

and asked how he could get
a gun for protection.

- An expressed desire
to obtain a gun.

On top of everything else,
I think we have probable cause

for a search.

- This is crazy.

Al didn't have anything to do
with that massacre.

- Did you have your office keys
with you Saturday?

- No, I left them
in that bowl by the door.

Al, baby, call me back.

The police are still here.

- Hey, winters.
- Yeah.

- 9-millimeter rounds
in the closet.

Half the box is empty.

- Where's al now?
- I don't know.

He was supposed
to pick up his kids

and bring them here,
but he hung up on me before,

and now he's not answering.

- Al, come on, al.

- What's going on, ma'am?
- Al, let me in, please!

- Ma'am?

- My ex-husband is inside
with our kids.

- Mr. Hayes!

- He might have taken them
into the back, in the bedroom.

- Does he have a gun?

- All right, come on, get
against the house-right there.

Here, dial his number.

- Okay.

- Go with him.

- Who is this?

- Mr. Hayes,
this is detective winters.

We talked a couple of days ago.
- I know who you are.

- Yeah, you can call me Rex.

Can I call you al or Albert?

- Albert.

- Okay, Albert,
I'd like to come inside

and make sure
your kids are all right.

- They're fine, all right?
No one's getting in my house!

It's my house!
I paid for it!

- I understand, Albert.

We need to talk

about how we're gonna resolve
this situation.

You know, it doesn't have
to end badly.

- Oh, so now you gonna tell me

that there's a better way
out of this.

I know what you think
I did.

- I won't lie to you, Albert.

I'm sure you had your reasons.

We can talk about that later.

- Why, huh?

I mean, if you got
your mind made up,

there's no point
in talking to you.

- No, there is.
Trust me.

I want to hear
what you have to say.

But it'd be
a hell of a lot easier

if your kids weren't
in the middle of this.

Albert?

Albert, did you hear me?

- Junior, get up.

- Albert?

Albert, did you hear me?

- You know I love you...

Right?

- Albert.

- Boys.
Come on, boys, come here!

- That was
the right call, Albert.

I got a couple of my own.

- Yeah, and I suppose
that makes us brothers now.

Like you could understand
what I've been through.

- You're right.
I don't know.

But I'm here talking to you
as a man.

That's all I've got.

- Well, let me ask you
something.

As a man...

If you're gonna hang
this thing on me,

why shouldn't I just end it
on my terms?

- I don't have a good answer
for you, Albert.

You've got
two beautiful kids here.

If it was me,

I wouldn't want them
carrying around

something like that
for the rest of their lives.

All right,
come on out.

Come on.
Get down on your knees.

Come on, get out!
Get down on your knees!

Hands on your head!

- All right, let's go.

- It's a 22.

Right guy, wrong gun.

- Damn it.

Six counts of muder
in special circumstance,

- how do you plead?
- Not guilty, your honor.

People on bail?

- The people ask
that the defendant be held

witht bail, your honor.

He's facing
the death penalty.

He has no job,

no meaningful ties
to the community.

- Your honor,
Mr. Hayes is deeply bonded

to his children.

- The very same children
he held hostage

when the police came
to question him.

- We dispute that
characterization, your honor,

and I would add
that my client was arrested

with a 22-caliber handgun,

while the murder victims
were shot

with a 9-millimeter weapon.

- The police found
9-millimeter ammunition

in Mr. Hayes' home.

- Nice try, Mr. spicer.

Defendant will be held
without bail.

- Thank you.

- You just have to look
at the front page

of the poto see
what's happening here.

The police had a Cannon
aimed at their head

and no leads.

So they put the weight
on the one black man

in an all-hispanic office.

Every step of the way,
this investigation was corrupted

by institutional racism,

and we intend to prove it

by filing a pitchess motion
later today

to demand the personnel records
of all the officers involved.

- Mr. Dekker, any comment?

- Did race play a role?

- We have nothing to fear
from Mr. spicer's motion.

This investigation
was led by the evidence,

and the evidence here
is colorblind.

The truth is
Mr. Hayes is a mass murderer

who just happens
to be black.

Thank you.

- Bold words.

- Yeah, let's make sure
I don't have to eat 'em.

- So now all the big guns
are getting wheeled out?

- When a judge grants
a pitchess motion

allowing the defense to examine
police personnel files,

this office takes it seriously.

- This is ridiculous.

How did we get to be
the ones on trial?

- Never mind that.

We already have
evidentiary issues,

not the least of which
is the fact

that we don't have
a murder weapon.

- Look, we're all grown-ups.

We all know the history
of this department.

- And if either one of you
has had a problem,

we need to know about it.

Winters, you were on a job

during the king riots, right?

- Yeah, six weeks
out of the academy.

It's all in my file.

I can stand by anything
I did back then.

- I got nothing
to hide either.

- Anyone who's been
on the street

shouldn't answer that
too quickly.

- Go home and think about it.

Everybody's got something.

- So why isn't the defense
pulling your file, counselor?

- That was some vote
of confidence you gave them.

You know,
maybe we're overreacting.

Spicer's playing the race card
because he's desperate.

- Ms. Stanton, you may have been
in junior high school

during the o.J. Trials,

but Joe and I were here.

Once that card is played,
it infects everything-

this office included.

- Not to mention spicer
just needs to swing one juror.

- So how do you suggest
we stop him?

- Well, if spicer
is using racism

as a shield for his client,

maybe we can use it
as a sword.

We show racism is what drove
Hayes to murder.

- He's facing
the death penalty.

Psychological factors
could make a difference

in sentencing.

- Something happened to al.

I mean, it all started
at his old job,

right before he got robbed.
- At the bank.

That must have been
very traumatic for him.

- He couldn't sleep at night.

He actually had to quit
the bank.

But it didn't help.

He had always been
a little thin-skinned,

but then after that,
I mean,

everything just started
getting to him-

every little insult,
every look.

- He saw racism everywhere.

- Well, it wasn't all paranoia.

I mean, he didn't just imagine
that every Spanish person

got promoted
ahead of him

or that Mr. Vela
gave all the good leads

to everyone but him.

But I said to al,

"yes, it's real,

"but don't let that be
who you are.

Just let it roll
off your back."

- What did he say to that?
- Nothing.

And then he got obsessed
with protecting his family.

- Is that when
he bought the gun?

The.22?

- Yes.

And I started getting afraid.

I wouldn't leave him alone
with the kids anymore.

- You were afraid
he was gonna hurt them?

- I...

Gave him the name
of a therapist,

a friend to go to,
but he would never go.

And after that,

I realized he wasn't the man
I married anymore.

So I changed the locks
and filed the papers.

I'm very sorry.

- You know,
it's so funny, because...

Right before the cops
got here,

he was-he was like
the old al again.

- What do you mean by that?

- He was talking
about how he had been

to Griffith park the other day
at the merry-go-round,

thinking
about all the sweet times

we had together
with the kids.

- Mm.

It sounds like Hayes
might have started

with a legitimate beef.

- Yeah, but he ended it
with a gun.

- Yo, you guys see this?

- So we stopped this car
for driving

with a broken taillight.

And I told my partner,
"this isn't racial profiling.

This is common sense."

So we pulled the car over.

And I made the driver get out.

He didn't match
our description.

In fact, he turned out
to be a teacher.

But once he started giving me
lip, that didn't matter.

All I saw was a black face.

So we proned that guy out,
and we cuffed him,

and we put him in the back
of our cruiser.

And when I saw the scared look
on his face,

I realized
that I liked it.

I felt good.

I felt powerful.

I was a big, bad cop.

You know what
I'm talking about.

- Looks like al Hayes found
his racist cop.

The video appears
to be Randy Hawthorne.

It's hard to know
what the lieutenant meant

- without knowing the context.
- What context?

"I saw that scared look
on his face,

and I liked it."

There's nothing ambiguous
about that.

- That video's gonna be all over
the local news in an hour.

The blogger who posted it
on the net,

Randy Hawthorne,

he's had my department
in his sites

for the last two years.

I've directed the press office
to release this statement.

- You're suspending her.

- Putting her
on administrative leave.

- I-it seems a little quick.
Have you talked to her?

- She'll get a hearing
in due time.

- However you decide
to handle it, chief,

this office will support you.

- That's what
I was hoping to hear.

- Thanks, Jerry.
Mr. Dekker.

- I've worked
with lieutenant Gonzales

on more than a dozen cases.

I've never once
even picked up a hint-

- get over it, Joe.

Your case is
in serious trouble.

You got a defendant
crying racism,

and you've got a cop
thumping her chest

about what a big, bad bigot
she is.

- Spicer just hit us
with a motion to traverse.

He's attacking
our search warrant

based on racial bias.

- The video is a hack job.

I was talking about something
I did 20 years ago

when I just got
out of the academy-

something I regret.

- I've watched that video
a number of times,

and I didn't see
a whole lot of regret.

- It's in the rest of the speech
they cut out.

I apologized to that motorist.
I'll give you his name.

- That's all besides the point.

We need to see
that whole speech.

Do you know who recorded it?

- No, I didn't even know
I was being recorded.

- Who was there?
Who organized it?

We'll track it down.
- I'm not giving you that.

I don't have to defend myself.

This case is about the six
people that Hayes killed.

How could you let them make it
about me?

- Lieutenant,
if I have to subpoena you-

- subpoena nothing.

She made that speech
six months ago.

It has zero probative value
to your case.

If you push this,
I can assure you,

on behalf of the union,
we're gonna push back hard.

- Look, lieutenant,
I don't want to fight with you.

But Mr. Hayes' attorney
is claiming

that you planted evidence.

- What evidence?
- The shredded loans papers.

They're claiming
that you tampered with them

while under your control
at rhd.

- That is a fantasy.
- Yeah, well, maybe so,

but Mr. Hayes' attorney

has filed for a motion
to traverse,

and as your lawyer
can explain to you-

- I know what a motion
to traverse is.

I have a law degree.

Before Hayes' lawyer
can do anything,

he has to prove
that the warrant applications

contain statements
that were deliberately false,

and he can't.

- He can.

His proof is that video
and its implied racism.

Look, without the rest
of that speech,

our case can be nowhere
by tomorrow.

- No.
I ran a clean investigation.

We papered that evidence
six ways to Sunday,

and if you can't make it stick,
I don't know where-

- arleen!

- Guess you didn't get
too much out of her.

- She's hiding something.

I mean, you've worked with her.
What do you think?

- Well, we come
from the same community.

We were brought up
with the same mentality, but...

You know, blacks and latinos
have to fight it out

because there's only so much pie
to go around.

We work to let it go.

Some of us do,
some of us...

- We need to hear
the rest of that speech.

- And when I saw the scared look
on his face,

I realized
that I liked it.

I felt good.
I felt powerful.

I was a big, bad cop.

- As the chain of custody
affidavit states,

the paper shredder evidence
was stored

in lieutenant Gonzales' office
for an hour

until the detectives
could deliver it to the lab

for testing.

For one hour,

that evidence
was in the sole control

of the police officer
we just saw on that video.

And this just one day
after that same officer

directed her detectives
to stop investigating

two hispanic suspects
to focus on my client,

the only African-American
employee of Vela mortgage.

Your honor,
the court must draw the line

and remind the police

that lieutenant Gonzales'
toxic bigotry

has no place
in law enforcement.

- Your honor, Mr. spicer
is asking the court

to engage
in wild speculation

based on a cut-and-paste
hack job

created to portray
lieutenant Gonzales

and the L.A.P.D.
In the worst possible light.

- You're not denying
lieutenant Gonzales

said those words, are you?

I'm greatly disturbed
by what I heard.

And if I have to go
the extra mile

to remove any taint of racism
from this case, so be it.

I'm granting
Mr. spicer's motion.

The paper shreds are out.

And since those shreds
were largely the basis

for the search warrant,

any evidence found
in Mr. Hayes' home

is out as well.

- The shreds
and the blood evidence are out.

The 9-millimeter ammunition
is out.

I guess we should be thankful
judge Conway

didn't take away
our pens and pencils.

- Just stop.

Be still, regroup, and focus.

Bitching about this judge
isn't gonna get us anywhere.

Now, when Hayes was arrested,
he had a.22-caliber pistol.

- Right.

But the police haven't recovered
the murder weapon.

Why?

- Didn't Hayes' ex-wife
tell you

that the day before he took
his kids hostage,

he went to Griffith park?
- Yeah...

To the merry-go-round.

- All right,
check with the autry museum.

Maybe they have security cameras
in their parking lot.

- Nothing I like better
than starting from scratch.

Have you talked
to the lieutenant?

I'd sure like to hear
her explanation for that video.

- Well, you got a phone.
Call her.

- You don't want to know?

Or are you telling me
you're okay with what she said?

- I've worked with her
for six years.

There's more to her
than a 30-second video.

- Over here!

- What do you got?

- It's a mag
from a 9-millimeter Glock.

Still has a couple rounds
left in it.

- The gun was found in three
pieces in Griffith park.

Hayes' fingerprints were
on the bullets and the mag.

- That gun is only more fruit
of the poisonous tree.

My client made his statements
about Griffith park

under duress
from lieutenant Gonzales'

racially motivated
investigation.

- Independent source,
your honor.

We would have interviewed
the ex-wife

in connection
to the hostage taking anyway.

- Mr. spicer, I'm giving
this one to Mr. Dekker.

The gun stays in.

- Well, then
I want the videotape

of lieutenant Gonzales
admitted into evidence.

I want the jury to see
what was driving this case.

- It's highly inflammatory,
your honor.

It has no probative value.

- You're free to argue that
to the jury, Mr. Dekker.

The video is in.

- Thank you, your honor.

- She's our boss.

Her signature's
on every report we filed,

every request for o.T.

- And then I'll ask
if, um, lieutenant Gonzales

has ever shown
any racial bias

on this case
or any other case.

- As if the word of a white cop
is gonna mean anything.

- A white cop
who's never had

a citizen's complaint
filed against him.

- Come on, counselor,

end of the day,
people want to send a message,

they're gonna send a message.

- I don't understand it,
you know.

She won't talk to me.

She won't tell me
what she said,

who was there,
what the occasion was.

- She's no bigot.

She won't put up with any-
any jokes, any looks.

She won't tolerate it.

- Then why in the hell
is she stonewalling?

Have you talked to her?

- We're done.

- Detective.

The department is about
to run her out on a rail.

They're gonna go
after her pension, everything.

So, if you know something...

You know, normally,
I don't care

about people's personal lives.

But your silence
is killing my case.

I need to put you
on the stand

and have you explain

why you said those things
in that video

and who you said them to.

Six dead people, arleen,
and justice for them-

that's all I care about.

And the truth is that's all
you should care about.

- No, the person
I should care about

is asleep in a room
down the hall.

He's 11 years old.

And he has enough trouble
at school.

He doesn't need
to be bullied

because it's all
over the papers

what his mother is.

- You know what I think?

I think your son
would be proud of you

if you stood up for yourself.

- And when I saw
the scared look on his face,

I realized that I liked it.

I felt good.

I felt powerful.

I was a big, bad cop.

- Lieutenant Gonzales...

Could you explain the context
of what we just heard?

- I was addressing a group
of young police recruits,

about 15 of them

in a private room
at a restaurant.

- And what we just heard-
those were your words.

You weren't quoting someone else
or telling a joke.

- No, those were my words
that night-

some of my words.

- And what was the theme
of your talk?

- It was kind of a pep talk

about what they could look
forward to on the job.

And what I tried to tell them
was that

before we could deal with other
people's prejudices against us

as gay and lesbian
police officers,

we had to first understand
the prejudices in ourselves.

- Just to be clear,

this group were gay and lesbian
police recruits.

- Yes.

- And you were addressing them

as a lesbian
police officer, correct?

- Yes.

- What, specifically,
did you tell them?

- Objection.
We already heard what she said.

The video speaks for itself.
- The video was edited.

And lieutenant Gonzales
can testify

to the entirety of her speech.

We're also prepared
to present three witnesses

who can corroborate
her testimony.

- Overruled.

Answer his question,
lieutenant.

- I told them about an incident
that happened three months

after I got
out of the academy.

I told them how I had
racially profiled

a black motorist,

exactly as you heard
on the video.

- Well, what else
did you tell them?

- I told them
a couple days later,

I read a story
in the paper

about a hate crime
in New York City.

A young woman
had been attacked

after leaving a gay bar.

And they ran a picture
of her in the paper.

The look on her face,

the scared look...

Was exactly like the look I saw
on the black motorist.

And I didn't like it.

And I didn't like the face
that stared back at me

in the mirror that morning.

- So what did you do?

- I apologized
to that motorist.

I called him.

I wrote him a letter.

I reported the incident
to my commanding officer.

I realized
that I had been practicing

the same discrimination
that I had been a victim of

when members of my family
or my community

wouldn't accept me
for who I was.

- The discrimination
that you faced-

did you share that
with the recruits?

- Yes, I told them
that even though the department

actively recruits
gays and lesbians

that I had been harassed
and even spit on

by other officers.

- Well, since this incident
long ago,

do you still practice
discrimination yourself?

- I try not to.

- So did you direct
your detectives

to target Mr. Hayes
as a suspect

because he's African-American?
- No.

But I did support their decision
to focus on him,

because that is where
the evidence was leading.

- One last question,
lieutenant-

this video aired
two months ago.

Why did you wait until today
to explain its contents?

- Well, I was concerned
with the privacy

of somof the recruits
at the meeting.

Some are out,
and some aren't.

But my main concern

is my 11-year-old son.

After today,
my son's going to...

I have friends-
uh, gay couples-

whose kids get bullied
and beaten up at school.

My son's just a little boy.

I just want to protect him.

- So why did you change
your mind about testifying?

- I realized
whether I testified or not,

he was gonna hear people
call me names.

And I'd rather him hear them
call me a dyke

than a bigot.

- Thank you,
lieutenant Gonzales.

No more questions,
your honor.

- Has the jury reached
a verdict?

- Yes, sir, we have,
your honor.

- On the first count,

as to Armando Vela,
first degree murder,

how do you find?

- We find the defendant guilty.

- On the second count,

as to Nancy jimenez,
first degree murder,

how do you find?

- We find the defendant guilty.

- On the third count,
how do you find?

- We find the defendant guilty.

- The full, unedited video
surfaced on the net yesterday.

And it's everything
she said it was.

- Her come-to-Jesus moment.

No argument there.

- So why hasn't she been
reinstated?

- Jerry, explain
the facts of life to them.

Personally, I don't have
a problem with her.

But I'm getting pushback
from some people

in my department.

They're saying
she's damaged goods.

- Actually, chief...

I have a statement
I'm gonna read

that, uh,
"lieutenant Gonzales

"is as fine and dedicated
a professional

"as anyone I've encountered
in my career

"in law enforcement,

"and I'm looking forward
to continuing

working with her
in the future."

I was hoping that you'd be there
with me when I read it.

Now that "don't ask, don't tell"
has been repealed,

seems like the least
we can do.

Well, I guess
I have to be, then.

Excuse me.

I need to call my press office
and alert them.

- That was old-school
Jerry hardin.

- Well, you have to show
some backbone sometimes.

- I don't know
how else to explain...

My actions.

You grind a man's face
in the dirt long enough,

he won't recognize himself
when he gets up.

- That was convicted murderer
Albert Hayes

testifying at the sentencing
phase of his trial.

Earlier today, judge Conway
sentenced Hayes to death.

- Welcome back.

- Thanks.

Did I miss anything?

- They fixed
the coffee machine.

- Oh.
Life is good.

- It's good to have you
back in the saddle, lieu.

- Winters.

It was you who told Dekker...

Wasn't it?

It's okay.

I'm good with it.