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NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,
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the police
who investigate crime
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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My baby, I can't wake him.
He's not breathing.
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Was he choking?
I don't know.
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I came to change his diaper,
and he wouldn't wake up.
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ANDERSON:
This kid wears diapers?
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He's a quadriplegic.
Help him!
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Get an airway.
CARSON: Right.
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Can I get a hand with the O2?
CARSON: Got it.
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Here we go.
Pupils fixed.
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You got a...
No, nothing.
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This kid's blue.
Temp is way down.
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Mom, what's wrong with Mikey?
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I don't know, honey.
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This kid's gone.
Still nothing.
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You're not giving up!
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We're not stopping.
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Three, four, five.
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There's something wrong here.
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I think you need
to call Homicide.
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Increasing the rate.
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Are you guys the detectives?
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We're undercover.
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Special jaywalking
duty on 14th Street.
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He's got writer's cramp.
Must've given out 20 tickets.
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What's this about?
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Michael Sutter, 12. His mother says
he was paralyzed from the neck down.
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She's the one that
called 911 at 5:17.
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The paramedics
pronounced him dead.
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So a sick kid dies.
Why call us?
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Ask him.
HOWE: Check his lips.
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Blue tint.
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Cyanosis. Kid's got
micro-hemorrhaging in both eyes.
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Suffocated?
Looks that way.
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LOIS: No, you're wrong.
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You must be wrong. Nobody
could have done that.
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I was alone with him
all afternoon.
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Why don't you take Mrs. Sutter and
her daughter to the living room?
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Did I just hear a confession?
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Michael used to be all straight As.
Played soccer.
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But then Dad took him
skiing two years ago.
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They were driving back,
and hit some ice.
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There was only
one airbag. Dad's.
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Was anybody else here when
your mother found Michael?
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Just Mom. We don't
get a lot of company.
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What about your dad?
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He was working.
On Long Island.
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He's a landscape engineer.
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And where were
you this afternoon?
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After school, I hung
out with some friends,
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and then I had to
pick up some groceries.
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Then I came home, and...
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And he was...
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Michael's care is your
mother's responsibility?
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The insurance stopped covering
the health care worker,
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so Mom had to quit
her counseling job.
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Your mom
get along with Michael?
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Nobody gets along with Michael.
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His brain was like a baby's.
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We were at the hospital today.
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Every Tuesday
he goes for dialysis.
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We came home around 3:00.
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He fell asleep on
the way back in the van.
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And from 3:00 until you found
him, did you check in on him?
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Do you do this kind of questioning
after every family tragedy?
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Only when we need answers.
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So you never went out
for coffee or anything?
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I went to pick up the paper.
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I wasn't gone more
than five minutes.
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And nobody dropped by?
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Nobody.
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You take care of your son by yourself.
You gave up your career?
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It was no sacrifice.
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You were holed up with
your kid for two years.
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You couldn't have
been too happy about it.
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What are you saying?
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You think I killed him?
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Michael was my son.
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He was a sick little boy.
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He just died. God just
took my boy away!
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Kid was a quadriplegic.
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Could he have just
stopped breathing?
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The M.E. says that if somebody
hadn't suffocated him,
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he would've kept on breathing
for another 60 years.
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And there were no marks? No
abrasions around his mouth or nose?
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No. It wouldn't have taken much pressure.
Probably a pillow.
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M.E.'s preliminary report sets the
time of death around 3:30, 4:00.
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Well, the call to
911 came in at 5:17.
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That gives Mom plenty
of time to clean up.
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So the mother
might have tampered
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with evidence that
might have existed.
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Unless somebody came in while
she was out getting the paper,
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and did her the favor of
killing the kid.
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Well, so far, she's the only one
with the boy all afternoon.
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Did he get any kind of insurance settlement?
Maybe in trust?
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Single car accident.
Nobody to sue.
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The insurance covers most of the
medical bills, but that's it.
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What's the daughter think?
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That Mom's not a happy camper.
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See if Mr. Sutter agrees.
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And, guys, about this
jaywalking assignment,
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it came from the top.
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It's all about my
lawsuit. I'm sorry.
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It's not natural, picking
out a casket for your son.
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Salesman starts telling me
about mahogany and hardware,
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like I'm comparison
shopping or something.
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We appreciate how
hard this is for you.
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(SIGHS)
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Mrs. Sutter,
she was the one
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who usually took
care of Michael?
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Well, I did what I
could on the weekends.
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Was your wife resentful
about being stuck at home?
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You know, Lois warned
me about you guys.
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Look, if she were happy
about it, she'd be a fool.
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She quit being a social worker,
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I quit going for overtime,
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which has made us practically
broke, as I'm sure you know by now.
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Mr. Sutter,
we're trying to be fair.
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But your wife was home,
and your son was murdered.
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I don't believe that.
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Well, can you think of anyone else
who would want to hurt Michael?
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Nobody wanted to hurt Michael.
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I mean, maybe somebody broke
in when Lois stepped out.
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Tried to rob the place.
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There was no sign of that.
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I mean, you didn't find
anything missing, right?
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Anyone outside of your family
have a key to your apartment?
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There's our neighbors,
the Hodges.
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I think they still have a key. But
they didn't kill Michael, either.
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He was a nice boy.
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You know, Joe blamed himself for
what happened, driving so fast.
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Next drawer over.
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Joe saved the boy's life.
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Gave him CPR for half an hour.
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Could the key be missing?
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No, no, no.
It's in here someplace.
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Did you see any of the
Sutters Tuesday afternoon?
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I said hi when Lois brought
Michael home from the hospital.
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I was on my way out.
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Tuesdays it's ceramics,
and today it was art class.
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I tried to encourage
Lois to do that.
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Bridge, book club, something.
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I know she started going to a dance
studio right around the corner.
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She needs to get out. No one
should have such tsuris.
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Here it is.
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She was pretty bitter, huh?
Alone with Michael all day?
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She seemed happier lately.
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That's the makeup. She started
painting her face again.
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Can't change the inside,
you change the outside.
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(SLOW INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
PLAYING)
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Would you two like to
be fixed up with partners?
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No, we're together. You have
a student named Lois Sutter?
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Lois? Yes. Yes. She comes
every Friday afternoon.
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How long she been coming here?
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About three months now.
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Quite talented. She's
moved up to intermediate.
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I mean, really, she's a
natural at salsa and tango.
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Any particular student
she's friendly with?
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I couldn't say.
I teach beginners.
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Mr. Gilbert teaches the Latin
steps, but he's off today.
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I'm sure he'd know.
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He sometimes shares
a cab with her.
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Excuse me. Something I really
have to put a stop to.
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She shares a taxi for
a half-a-block ride?
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I'm guessing Gilbert's bedroom's
a little further away.
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(MUSIC PLAYING) Who I share a taxi
with is none of your business.
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And I haven't done anything
improper with any of my students.
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Maybe we should get them all
together for a teacher evaluation.
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Yeah, women are a
little harder to charm
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when they find out they're
number 12 in the conga line.
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I teach dance. It's sensual.
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It's only natural that bonds would form.
(MUSIC STOPS)
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With Lois Sutter?
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Mr. Gilbert, we're not the press
corps, and you're not the President.
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We need an honest answer.
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It's not what you think.
We've grown very close.
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Close enough she'd share
confidences about her family?
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Yes. I'd say her husband
doesn't understand her,
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but Lois's husband
doesn't even know her.
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CURTIS: What about her son?
She talk about him, too?
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Husband, son, her daughter.
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She wanted out
of that situation.
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She told you that?
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Foreplay generally consisted of
letting her vent for half an hour.
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When she was here on Tuesday,
it was the same drill.
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This Tuesday? What time?
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She came by mid-afternoon,
around 3:30.
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She left at 4:40.
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You seem pretty sure
about the time.
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Well, she looked at her watch.
She said she had to go.
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Anybody see you two together?
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Well, the whole point
was not to be seen.
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She checked her watch, huh?
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Guess you couldn't
have been all that good.
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LOIS: Please don't
tell my husband.
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It'll just kill him.
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Tell him what?
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About Gilbert, or
that you killed your son?
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I did not kill Michael.
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No, you were too busy doing
the horizontal cha-cha.
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Yes.
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It's a nice alibi,
but we're not buying it.
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You wanted out of your marriage.
No.
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You couldn't stand sleeping next to a guy
who'd turned your son into a potted plant.
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As long as Michael
was still alive,
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you didn't have
the guts to walk out.
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No. No, please.
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How'd you do it? With a pillow?
A blanket?
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Michael just died.
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Here's the Medical Examiner's report.
Read what it says right here.
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"Hemorrhaging in
his eyes, cyanosis,"
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"depleted oxygen
in his blood stream."
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You know what that means?
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That can't be Michael.
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"Michael B. Sutter."
That's your son.
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"Death by
manual asphyxiation."
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No, it can't be.
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That's impossible.
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It's right there
in black and white.
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She couldn't have.
Who?
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I can't believe she'd hurt him.
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Who'd hurt him?
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I left him with Stephanie.
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Your daughter?
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(SOBBING) Oh, God.
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I don't care what you
say, I wasn't home,
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and Mom was watching Michael.
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Your mother spent the
afternoon with her boyfriend.
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Now, we don't know what she
told you she was doing,
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but she told us that you were
at home covering for her.
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You killed your brother.
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She... She said that?
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Why'd you do it, Stephanie?
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Were you jealous of all the attention he got?
All the trouble he caused?
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No.
Come on.
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The whole family was falling
apart because of him.
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Okay, take it easy,
take it easy.
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You're a minor, your
family has big problems.
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The judge is
gonna be sympathetic.
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You just have to
tell us what happened.
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I mean, your brother was
barely living anyway, right?
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I wasn't there. I was with
Kara from my bio class.
246
00:11:21,884 --> 00:11:24,091
Your mom's a better liar
than you are, Stephanie.
247
00:11:24,586 --> 00:11:25,724
It's the truth.
248
00:11:25,788 --> 00:11:28,530
My mom was always
sticking me with him.
249
00:11:28,891 --> 00:11:30,802
I mean, all he ever did
was lie in bed.
250
00:11:31,060 --> 00:11:33,836
And all he ever cared about
was watching TV, eating,
251
00:11:33,896 --> 00:11:35,432
and crapping his pants.
252
00:11:36,298 --> 00:11:38,175
So as soon as my mom left,
253
00:11:40,002 --> 00:11:41,504
I ditched him.
254
00:11:42,071 --> 00:11:46,019
I'm sorry. I just couldn't
stand to be with him anymore.
255
00:11:47,610 --> 00:11:50,022
KARA: Hooked up with Stephanie
around a quarter after 3:00.
256
00:11:50,079 --> 00:11:51,285
Where'd you go?
257
00:11:51,347 --> 00:11:53,327
The Asteroid Palace,
down on Broadway.
258
00:11:53,416 --> 00:11:54,588
We played video games.
259
00:11:54,650 --> 00:11:55,890
How long were you there?
260
00:11:55,952 --> 00:11:57,989
I don't know, about an hour.
261
00:11:58,054 --> 00:12:00,034
She have anything to
say about her brother?
262
00:12:00,089 --> 00:12:03,366
Steph's always got something
to say about the vegetable.
263
00:12:03,426 --> 00:12:04,837
That's what she called him.
264
00:12:04,894 --> 00:12:06,168
He's a pain in the ass.
265
00:12:06,229 --> 00:12:08,300
Why? She used
to trip over him?
266
00:12:08,364 --> 00:12:10,810
Steph and I were gonna go
away to college together.
267
00:12:10,867 --> 00:12:12,710
Not anymore. No money.
268
00:12:12,935 --> 00:12:14,972
Stephanie was pretty
angry about that, huh?
269
00:12:15,037 --> 00:12:17,017
Look, Stephanie's
not a bad person.
270
00:12:17,073 --> 00:12:19,019
Just nothing ever
seems to go her way.
271
00:12:19,809 --> 00:12:21,811
What was her mood
Tuesday afternoon?
272
00:12:21,877 --> 00:12:23,857
I don't know.
She was fine.
273
00:12:23,913 --> 00:12:27,053
She seem nervous?
Distracted?
274
00:12:27,617 --> 00:12:29,392
Yeah, she was distracted by one
275
00:12:29,452 --> 00:12:31,454
of those guys that
gives you the quarters.
276
00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:33,557
I think he was
hot for me, though.
277
00:12:34,891 --> 00:12:37,633
Couple of the arcade workers
confirm the girl was there.
278
00:12:37,694 --> 00:12:38,832
Yeah, and in high spirits.
279
00:12:38,895 --> 00:12:41,000
Her brother's dead, all
her problems are solved.
280
00:12:41,064 --> 00:12:43,544
That's pretty cold-blooded. Is
that the kind of girl she is?
281
00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,204
I didn't see a lot
of ice in her veins.
282
00:12:45,268 --> 00:12:48,340
She walked out on her brother. She's cut
from the same iceberg as her mother.
283
00:12:48,404 --> 00:12:50,611
So the boy was alone
from 3:00 to 5:00,
284
00:12:50,673 --> 00:12:52,584
which is when he got murdered.
285
00:12:53,109 --> 00:12:56,215
Go back to the M.E. Nail
down the time of death.
286
00:12:58,448 --> 00:13:00,985
Forget the time
he actually died.
287
00:13:01,050 --> 00:13:02,620
He was poisoned
two hours before that.
288
00:13:02,685 --> 00:13:03,857
Poison?
289
00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,799
When you called, I had the
lab pull out all the stops.
290
00:13:06,856 --> 00:13:09,462
Kid's tox screens
spiked for nicotine.
291
00:13:09,526 --> 00:13:11,267
I knew he was a
12-year-old quadriplegic,
292
00:13:11,327 --> 00:13:13,000
so I figured
he wasn't a smoker.
293
00:13:13,062 --> 00:13:15,042
Unless somebody was holding
the cigarette for him.
294
00:13:15,098 --> 00:13:17,100
I checked
the intestinal contents.
295
00:13:17,167 --> 00:13:22,173
What we thought were carrots tested
positive for coniine. Hemlock root.
296
00:13:22,238 --> 00:13:25,048
Poison hemlock? Isn't that
what Socrates died from?
297
00:13:25,108 --> 00:13:26,883
Forensics says
the stuff grows wild.
298
00:13:26,943 --> 00:13:29,014
Not just in ancient Greece.
299
00:13:29,078 --> 00:13:31,558
Paralyzes the muscles,
and finally the lungs.
300
00:13:31,915 --> 00:13:33,986
Already paralyzed, nobody'd
notice he was dying.
301
00:13:34,050 --> 00:13:36,792
Nobody'd notice because
no one was watching him.
302
00:13:36,853 --> 00:13:39,390
The kid had lunch at the
hospital with his mother.
303
00:13:39,455 --> 00:13:40,456
Thanks.
304
00:13:42,193 --> 00:13:43,763
SEMENKO: Michael
Sutter came in at 9:30
305
00:13:44,028 --> 00:13:45,632
and was discharged at 2:15.
306
00:13:45,697 --> 00:13:46,971
He was in this room.
307
00:13:47,565 --> 00:13:49,442
It's okay,
you don't have to get up.
308
00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:50,945
So you talked
to Mrs. Sutter?
309
00:13:51,002 --> 00:13:52,379
Yes, about Michael.
310
00:13:52,670 --> 00:13:55,913
Unfortunately, nothing had
changed since the accident.
311
00:13:55,974 --> 00:13:58,978
Mr. Blake, you're not feeling
too dizzy this afternoon?
312
00:13:59,711 --> 00:14:00,815
Good.
313
00:14:01,946 --> 00:14:03,653
Michael was a real trouper.
314
00:14:03,715 --> 00:14:06,525
The kind of damage he
suffered is terribly tragic.
315
00:14:06,584 --> 00:14:09,258
More than Mrs. Sutter
could deal with?
316
00:14:10,221 --> 00:14:13,464
You can't imagine the pressure
this puts on a family.
317
00:14:13,524 --> 00:14:16,971
If Mrs. Sutter did do something
to help end her son's pain,
318
00:14:17,028 --> 00:14:19,372
nobody can fault her for
feeling the way she did.
319
00:14:19,430 --> 00:14:21,341
Did she fix his lunch?
320
00:14:21,399 --> 00:14:23,606
Michael was supposed to
have a hospital lunch. Why?
321
00:14:23,668 --> 00:14:25,238
The meal may have
been tampered with.
322
00:14:25,303 --> 00:14:28,182
Anyone other than Mrs. Sutter
have access to it?
323
00:14:28,239 --> 00:14:31,948
That I don't know. I wasn't
in the hospital at lunchtime.
324
00:14:32,009 --> 00:14:35,286
Oh. Here we go. Michael had
his usual meal at 1:00.
325
00:14:35,346 --> 00:14:37,792
One of the candy stripers
would've delivered it.
326
00:14:38,216 --> 00:14:41,629
My school's vocational program
lets me work here two days a week.
327
00:14:41,686 --> 00:14:43,097
I hope I'm not in any trouble.
328
00:14:43,154 --> 00:14:44,656
No, no trouble, Martha.
329
00:14:44,722 --> 00:14:48,067
Did you keep an eye on your
food cart last Tuesday?
330
00:14:48,426 --> 00:14:49,564
I don't watch it all the time,
331
00:14:49,627 --> 00:14:52,107
but I just leave it
alone in the corridor
332
00:14:52,163 --> 00:14:54,268
for a sec when I'm
in the patient's room.
333
00:14:54,332 --> 00:14:57,142
Do you remember bringing
a food tray to Michael Sutter?
334
00:14:57,201 --> 00:14:59,772
Michael? Sure. Nice family.
335
00:15:00,204 --> 00:15:02,047
Who'd you hand the tray to?
336
00:15:02,106 --> 00:15:03,414
I don't remember.
337
00:15:03,741 --> 00:15:05,812
I might have just put
it on his bed table.
338
00:15:05,877 --> 00:15:08,483
Did you happen to notice if his
mother did anything to his food?
339
00:15:08,546 --> 00:15:10,787
No, I don't remember
seeing her.
340
00:15:10,848 --> 00:15:12,054
Okay. Thanks, Martha.
341
00:15:12,116 --> 00:15:13,151
CURTIS: Any visitors?
342
00:15:13,217 --> 00:15:14,560
NICHOLLS: I don't know.
People come, people go.
343
00:15:14,619 --> 00:15:15,757
I don't much notice.
344
00:15:15,820 --> 00:15:16,890
What about the food cart?
345
00:15:16,954 --> 00:15:18,297
You notice anybody
messing with it?
346
00:15:18,356 --> 00:15:20,666
Nobody. That I'd notice. Excuse me.
(PHONE RINGING)
347
00:15:23,195 --> 00:15:25,675
The girl doesn't remember seeing
Mrs. Sutter near the food.
348
00:15:25,731 --> 00:15:27,210
Well, somebody
had to feed the kid.
349
00:15:27,266 --> 00:15:29,007
And somebody had
to see them do it.
350
00:15:29,067 --> 00:15:31,308
There are two beds in the room.
351
00:15:32,204 --> 00:15:35,242
I've had too many
difficult days lately.
352
00:15:35,307 --> 00:15:38,754
Dialysis once a week
for two years.
353
00:15:39,445 --> 00:15:41,288
Just like the Sutter boy.
354
00:15:41,346 --> 00:15:43,383
Last Tuesday,
he was in your room
355
00:15:43,449 --> 00:15:46,089
at Hudson Terrace,
the next bed.
356
00:15:46,585 --> 00:15:48,155
Plays his TV too loud.
357
00:15:48,220 --> 00:15:50,200
You recall you both ate lunch
in your room that day?
358
00:15:50,255 --> 00:15:54,397
I certainly do.
Meatloaf. Too dry.
359
00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,231
I hate dietetic pudding.
360
00:15:58,463 --> 00:16:01,740
You know, Michael can't
even wipe his own chin.
361
00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,370
On Tuesday, you remember seeing
362
00:16:03,435 --> 00:16:05,108
Michael's mother
feed him his lunch?
363
00:16:05,170 --> 00:16:06,547
No, I don't.
364
00:16:07,873 --> 00:16:09,614
His father fed him.
365
00:16:10,175 --> 00:16:12,655
He cared enough
to bring something
366
00:16:12,711 --> 00:16:15,351
with a little taste
to put on the food.
367
00:16:15,814 --> 00:16:17,521
Lord knows, it needs it.
368
00:16:18,250 --> 00:16:20,992
The stuff he put on the food,
what did it look like?
369
00:16:21,587 --> 00:16:25,262
I couldn't really see it.
He said it was cinnamon.
370
00:16:27,428 --> 00:16:29,305
CASHMAN: Hemlock? What's that
got to do with Joe Sutter?
371
00:16:30,097 --> 00:16:31,405
Well, it grows wild.
372
00:16:31,465 --> 00:16:32,910
You're in
the landscape business.
373
00:16:32,967 --> 00:16:33,968
He works for you.
374
00:16:34,034 --> 00:16:35,104
Yeah, for nine years.
375
00:16:35,169 --> 00:16:36,546
Helped turn my business around.
376
00:16:36,604 --> 00:16:37,947
Nobody worked harder than Joe.
377
00:16:38,005 --> 00:16:39,848
Worked? When did he
stop working hard?
378
00:16:39,907 --> 00:16:42,854
His kid's condition made it impossible
for him to pull a full week.
379
00:16:42,910 --> 00:16:44,583
He resent that?
380
00:16:44,645 --> 00:16:45,783
I resented that.
381
00:16:46,614 --> 00:16:49,060
(SIGHS) When I heard
the kid died,
382
00:16:49,116 --> 00:16:50,993
part of me
actually felt relief.
383
00:16:51,051 --> 00:16:53,827
I get Joe back,
he gets his life back.
384
00:16:53,888 --> 00:16:55,868
Well, if I had a kid
like Michael,
385
00:16:55,923 --> 00:16:57,834
I wouldn't want
to see him suffering.
386
00:16:57,892 --> 00:16:59,872
Is that how Joe felt?
Who wouldn't?
387
00:17:00,728 --> 00:17:03,868
One time, after work,
Joe hoisted a few too many.
388
00:17:03,931 --> 00:17:06,571
Said he wished he'd never
breathed air into his kid.
389
00:17:06,634 --> 00:17:09,046
Said he didn't save Michael,
only pieces of him.
390
00:17:09,770 --> 00:17:13,013
So the hemlock, would
Joe know where to find it?
391
00:17:13,073 --> 00:17:14,814
Any one of us could find it.
Why?
392
00:17:14,875 --> 00:17:17,446
We're gonna need a list of Sutter's
last few projects, all right?
393
00:17:17,511 --> 00:17:18,512
Yeah.
394
00:17:18,646 --> 00:17:22,287
You're backed up against a wall.
Your life's falling apart.
395
00:17:22,550 --> 00:17:26,327
It was somebody else.
The hospital.
396
00:17:26,954 --> 00:17:28,831
I mean, they kept
changing the nurses,
397
00:17:28,889 --> 00:17:31,563
and then they stuck us
with this doctor, Semenko.
398
00:17:31,625 --> 00:17:32,626
I mean, they didn't give a damn.
399
00:17:32,893 --> 00:17:36,739
They had no reason to want
to see him dead. You did.
400
00:17:36,797 --> 00:17:38,743
Look what's happened
to your beautiful family.
401
00:17:38,999 --> 00:17:40,979
Your wife's sleeping
with some dance teacher,
402
00:17:41,035 --> 00:17:43,174
your daughter's one step away
from living on the street,
403
00:17:43,237 --> 00:17:45,513
and you have no money,
and all because of that kid.
404
00:17:45,573 --> 00:17:46,643
You don't know me.
405
00:17:46,707 --> 00:17:48,311
If you knew me, you would see.
406
00:17:48,375 --> 00:17:49,615
I know you.
407
00:17:50,211 --> 00:17:51,246
If you had the stones...
408
00:17:51,312 --> 00:17:53,883
You don't know
this man, Lennie.
409
00:17:54,715 --> 00:17:56,422
Look, this isn't about
money or adultery
410
00:17:56,483 --> 00:17:58,326
or anything like that,
is it, Joe?
411
00:18:03,557 --> 00:18:05,434
My wife's got MS.
412
00:18:08,329 --> 00:18:11,936
I picture her life 10 years
from now and it kills me
413
00:18:13,434 --> 00:18:14,845
because it might
not be a pretty picture.
414
00:18:16,737 --> 00:18:18,739
You see your boy,
he used to be strong.
415
00:18:18,806 --> 00:18:20,717
Played soccer, yeah?
Yes.
416
00:18:21,308 --> 00:18:23,720
My wife used to run three
miles every morning.
417
00:18:27,881 --> 00:18:32,330
Did you imagine Michael at
20 years old? Forty years old?
418
00:18:33,387 --> 00:18:38,427
Still in that same room,
same bed, same tortured pain?
419
00:18:38,492 --> 00:18:39,596
Yeah.
420
00:18:40,928 --> 00:18:42,168
Me, too.
421
00:18:43,597 --> 00:18:46,544
And you want to know the worst thing?
I know why it's happening.
422
00:18:48,202 --> 00:18:49,476
It's my fault.
423
00:18:50,137 --> 00:18:52,117
God is punishing her because
of something I did.
424
00:18:52,373 --> 00:18:55,115
No. No, see, you cannot
think like that.
425
00:18:56,644 --> 00:18:58,681
I tell myself that, but...
426
00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,526
Every time I look at
her, I feel the guilt.
427
00:19:03,284 --> 00:19:04,729
Every time I think of her,
428
00:19:04,985 --> 00:19:08,228
every time I think of my daughters
and what they're going to lose.
429
00:19:08,956 --> 00:19:11,266
Someone you love is suffering.
430
00:19:13,961 --> 00:19:15,599
They have no hope.
431
00:19:16,263 --> 00:19:18,743
What can you do
to help this person?
432
00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:22,144
I mean, how often have you
asked yourself this question?
433
00:19:22,202 --> 00:19:23,943
When you bathe him?
434
00:19:25,406 --> 00:19:27,909
Every time
I kissed him good night.
435
00:19:28,842 --> 00:19:31,550
And you knew there
was only one answer.
436
00:19:33,781 --> 00:19:35,351
You had to do it.
437
00:19:35,716 --> 00:19:37,753
You had to do it
because you loved him.
438
00:19:39,887 --> 00:19:41,298
(SOBBING)
439
00:19:42,923 --> 00:19:44,266
Let it go.
440
00:19:47,328 --> 00:19:49,467
It was an act of love, Joe.
441
00:19:52,700 --> 00:19:54,338
I loved Michael.
442
00:19:58,005 --> 00:19:59,814
All right, maybe I...
443
00:20:04,478 --> 00:20:07,322
But I didn't do this.
444
00:20:09,951 --> 00:20:11,453
I didn't kill him.
445
00:20:13,121 --> 00:20:14,862
I thought Curtis had him.
446
00:20:14,923 --> 00:20:15,958
VAN BUREN:
Three months ago,
447
00:20:16,024 --> 00:20:20,200
Sutter spent a week replanting the
median on the Southern State Parkway.
448
00:20:20,262 --> 00:20:22,071
Forensics surveyed the area.
449
00:20:22,130 --> 00:20:25,475
"Conium maculatum. Hemlock,
two acres scattered growth,"
450
00:20:25,534 --> 00:20:28,037
"30 meters east of
construction site."
451
00:20:28,103 --> 00:20:30,049
Not exactly a smoking gun.
452
00:20:30,105 --> 00:20:33,211
We've got motive,
access to the exact poison,
453
00:20:33,275 --> 00:20:36,415
a witness to the feeding.
They can't all confess.
454
00:20:41,650 --> 00:20:42,685
Can I leave now?
455
00:20:43,085 --> 00:20:45,065
Not for about another 30 years.
456
00:20:46,788 --> 00:20:48,233
You're under arrest for
the murder of your son.
457
00:20:48,290 --> 00:20:49,633
You have the right to
remain silent.
458
00:20:49,691 --> 00:20:52,535
Anything you do say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.
459
00:20:52,594 --> 00:20:54,471
You have the right to an attorney.
If you cannot afford one...
460
00:21:00,469 --> 00:21:01,675
Mr. Sutter's
not a flight risk.
461
00:21:01,737 --> 00:21:03,546
His only family's
here in New York.
462
00:21:03,605 --> 00:21:05,778
He's charged with killing
a member of that family.
463
00:21:05,841 --> 00:21:07,787
Even if we accept
the People's allegations,
464
00:21:07,843 --> 00:21:10,289
Mr. Sutter can't be considered
a threat to the community.
465
00:21:10,779 --> 00:21:12,918
Bail is set at $100,000.
Next case.
466
00:21:14,049 --> 00:21:15,221
(GAVEL POUNDS)
467
00:21:16,318 --> 00:21:19,060
CLERK: "Docket number
661254..."
468
00:21:19,121 --> 00:21:22,068
Excuse me. Who do I see
about posting bail?
469
00:21:22,124 --> 00:21:23,125
Who are you?
470
00:21:23,191 --> 00:21:24,397
Roy Cash man.
471
00:21:24,459 --> 00:21:25,961
You're posting bail
for Joe Sutter?
472
00:21:26,028 --> 00:21:27,336
Yeah, so what?
473
00:21:27,396 --> 00:21:29,808
I have you down as
a prosecution witness.
474
00:21:29,865 --> 00:21:33,210
You told the police he said he
wished he'd never saved his son.
475
00:21:33,268 --> 00:21:35,646
I never said
anything like that.
476
00:21:35,704 --> 00:21:37,706
Look, I know what
Joe is going through.
477
00:21:37,773 --> 00:21:40,686
I'm not going to help
you put him in jail.
478
00:21:43,211 --> 00:21:44,918
Cashman's going to
testify for Sutter.
479
00:21:44,980 --> 00:21:47,187
Briscoe and Curtis can rebut.
480
00:21:47,249 --> 00:21:50,719
Plus, we've got two others who
confirm Sutter wanted the boy dead.
481
00:21:50,786 --> 00:21:52,959
I spoke to the kid's
doctor, Lyle Semenko.
482
00:21:53,021 --> 00:21:54,500
He's backing off, too.
483
00:21:55,023 --> 00:21:58,630
This father kills his kid, and
the world still loves him.
484
00:21:58,694 --> 00:22:01,334
They think he committed
an act of mercy.
485
00:22:01,396 --> 00:22:05,367
Character witnesses, Cashman,
Semenko, none of it matters.
486
00:22:06,268 --> 00:22:08,179
Who told us his father
spiked the food?
487
00:22:08,236 --> 00:22:10,216
That's your witness
to nail down.
488
00:22:12,041 --> 00:22:14,851
Miss Goring told me I
didn't have to talk to you.
489
00:22:14,911 --> 00:22:17,448
She was wrong.
What did you tell her?
490
00:22:18,781 --> 00:22:21,887
That I was in the room when
Mr. Sutter was feeding Michael.
491
00:22:22,385 --> 00:22:25,559
That he didn't do
anything to the food.
492
00:22:25,621 --> 00:22:29,228
You told her?
Or she told you?
493
00:22:31,761 --> 00:22:35,709
I'm pretty sure about it.
I was in the room.
494
00:22:37,667 --> 00:22:41,114
Mrs. Bing says she saw
Mr. Sutter spike Michael's food.
495
00:22:42,305 --> 00:22:44,148
She also doesn't remember
you being in the room.
496
00:22:44,207 --> 00:22:46,209
Maybe Mrs. Bing's wrong.
497
00:22:47,276 --> 00:22:50,314
Martha, Miss Goring's job
is protecting murderers.
498
00:22:51,147 --> 00:22:52,421
You're helping her do that.
499
00:22:52,482 --> 00:22:54,428
I used to talk to
the Sutters all the time.
500
00:22:54,484 --> 00:22:56,964
I saw the way
they were with Michael.
501
00:22:57,020 --> 00:22:58,158
They loved Michael.
502
00:23:00,857 --> 00:23:03,235
I see Martha McSorley
all the time.
503
00:23:03,292 --> 00:23:05,329
She works hard, but
she cares too much.
504
00:23:05,795 --> 00:23:08,469
Whenever somebody dies,
it becomes personal.
505
00:23:08,765 --> 00:23:11,245
She says she stayed in the
Sutters' room right through lunch.
506
00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:15,043
She's got 30 trays to deliver. You
know how much time that takes?
507
00:23:15,738 --> 00:23:17,547
No way she can hang out
in one patient's room
508
00:23:17,607 --> 00:23:19,382
and deliver all those trays.
509
00:23:19,442 --> 00:23:21,513
No way she could do it, or
you know she didn't do it?
510
00:23:21,577 --> 00:23:24,421
You told the police you saw
her during her rounds.
511
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,482
You're gonna
want me to testify?
512
00:23:26,549 --> 00:23:27,857
That's the idea.
513
00:23:29,218 --> 00:23:31,960
Guess I can't say for sure.
It was quiet.
514
00:23:32,021 --> 00:23:34,297
I snuck out to the
stairwell for a smoke.
515
00:23:34,357 --> 00:23:36,303
Then how do you know nobody
tampered with the food?
516
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:37,804
'Cause nobody could have.
517
00:23:37,860 --> 00:23:41,330
'Cause when I ducked out, there was
a doctor standing by the food cart
518
00:23:41,397 --> 00:23:44,708
doing some paperwork. He was
still there when I came back.
519
00:23:45,234 --> 00:23:47,771
Nobody's gonna mess with trays
while a doctor's right there.
520
00:23:47,837 --> 00:23:49,282
Do you remember which doctor?
521
00:23:49,338 --> 00:23:50,749
Dr. Semenko.
522
00:23:54,043 --> 00:23:55,784
McSorley's definitely lying.
523
00:23:55,845 --> 00:23:58,519
We've got a bigger problem.
Dr. Semenko's lying, too.
524
00:23:59,348 --> 00:24:00,691
The boy's doctor?
525
00:24:00,750 --> 00:24:03,731
An orderly said he saw Semenko
hanging around the food cart
526
00:24:03,786 --> 00:24:05,629
while McSorley
was making her rounds.
527
00:24:05,688 --> 00:24:07,895
Semenko told Briscoe and Curtis
he was out of the building.
528
00:24:07,957 --> 00:24:09,766
You sure he didn't just
forget where he was?
529
00:24:09,826 --> 00:24:11,567
(SIGHS) I just hope we
didn't put the Sutters
530
00:24:11,627 --> 00:24:14,198
through the wringer
for nothing.
531
00:24:14,263 --> 00:24:18,006
Talk to Semenko's boss. Find out
if he's just absent-minded.
532
00:24:21,205 --> 00:24:22,411
LINDROS: Semenko's
a good physician.
533
00:24:22,673 --> 00:24:24,653
Well-liked, hard-working,
responsible.
534
00:24:24,708 --> 00:24:27,416
Even Dr. Schweitzer
had his detractors.
535
00:24:27,778 --> 00:24:31,590
Well, there was one complaint.
About three months ago.
536
00:24:31,949 --> 00:24:34,293
A young woman badly
injured in a car accident.
537
00:24:34,351 --> 00:24:36,729
She'd been here four days,
seemed to be out of danger,
538
00:24:36,787 --> 00:24:38,027
then she just died.
539
00:24:38,088 --> 00:24:39,795
Unexplained respiratory failure.
540
00:24:39,857 --> 00:24:42,030
She was in
Dr. Semenko's care?
541
00:24:42,092 --> 00:24:44,572
She was under the care
of several specialists.
542
00:24:44,628 --> 00:24:46,733
Dr. Semenko wasn't
even her primary.
543
00:24:46,797 --> 00:24:48,242
What was the conclusion?
544
00:24:48,298 --> 00:24:51,336
An investigation determined the
patient died of natural causes.
545
00:24:51,401 --> 00:24:52,880
Stuff like that just happens.
546
00:24:53,237 --> 00:24:55,114
Whose investigation?
Ours.
547
00:24:55,172 --> 00:24:57,948
And you never thought to mention
any of this to the police?
548
00:24:58,008 --> 00:24:59,919
Our counsel advised we were
under no legal obligation.
549
00:25:00,844 --> 00:25:03,415
And like I said, Semenko
and the others were cleared.
550
00:25:04,014 --> 00:25:06,187
Just this one incident?
How long has he worked here?
551
00:25:06,250 --> 00:25:07,888
A little over six months.
552
00:25:08,018 --> 00:25:10,225
But I think you're
barking up the wrong tree.
553
00:25:10,487 --> 00:25:11,693
Where did
he work before Hudson?
554
00:25:12,189 --> 00:25:15,329
Bergen County Clinical in New Jersey.
He came highly recommended.
555
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:17,937
It was a mutual decision.
556
00:25:17,995 --> 00:25:21,465
We were facing cutbacks. Dr. Semenko
wanted to move to the city.
557
00:25:21,532 --> 00:25:22,909
The fact that
his mortality rate
558
00:25:22,966 --> 00:25:25,242
was 14 times that of
any other staff physician
559
00:25:25,302 --> 00:25:27,179
had nothing to do with your
decision to cut him loose?
560
00:25:27,237 --> 00:25:28,238
How did you know...
561
00:25:28,305 --> 00:25:29,841
I just came from
the County Coroner.
562
00:25:32,342 --> 00:25:35,118
A 61-year-old woman
has gallbladder surgery,
563
00:25:35,178 --> 00:25:37,158
a 17-year-old boy
having back surgery,
564
00:25:37,214 --> 00:25:38,921
and about a half dozen others.
565
00:25:38,982 --> 00:25:40,723
None of them had
life-threatening problems.
566
00:25:40,784 --> 00:25:43,628
All of them were treated by
Dr. Semenko, and now they're all dead.
567
00:25:44,087 --> 00:25:45,964
He was cleared of
any malpractice charges.
568
00:25:46,023 --> 00:25:47,559
We're talking about murder.
569
00:25:48,292 --> 00:25:51,136
He was cleared in each of
the incidents you mentioned.
570
00:25:51,194 --> 00:25:53,333
By your own
impartial review board?
571
00:25:54,131 --> 00:25:57,635
The primary concern of this hospital
is our patients' well-being.
572
00:25:57,701 --> 00:25:59,977
If one of our doctors
is a danger,
573
00:26:00,037 --> 00:26:01,778
we want to deal
with the problem.
574
00:26:02,139 --> 00:26:04,312
By passing it along
to the next hospital.
575
00:26:04,374 --> 00:26:07,480
Dr. Semenko is
a responsible physician.
576
00:26:07,544 --> 00:26:09,421
I've watched him work.
577
00:26:09,479 --> 00:26:11,550
When his patients
suffered setbacks,
578
00:26:11,615 --> 00:26:14,095
he always compiled
complete case studies.
579
00:26:14,151 --> 00:26:15,824
He attended every postmortem.
580
00:26:15,886 --> 00:26:18,059
And yet his patients
kept right on dying.
581
00:26:18,922 --> 00:26:21,562
You can't predict an appendix
patient having an aneurysm.
582
00:26:21,625 --> 00:26:25,004
You can't predict a high school
senior suffering nicotine poisoning.
583
00:26:25,162 --> 00:26:26,869
Nicotine poisoning?
It happens.
584
00:26:27,464 --> 00:26:29,876
There's no way Dr. Semenko
could have known.
585
00:26:29,933 --> 00:26:32,812
The boy's parents didn't
even know he used tobacco.
586
00:26:42,045 --> 00:26:43,854
Nice botany books, Doc.
587
00:26:43,914 --> 00:26:46,394
Anything in here on how
to grow poison hemlock?
588
00:26:46,450 --> 00:26:48,430
I'm surprised you don't
seize my anatomy books
589
00:26:48,485 --> 00:26:50,192
and arrest me on porno charges.
590
00:26:50,253 --> 00:26:53,427
Got stuff here looks like oregano.
Smells like oregano, too.
591
00:26:53,490 --> 00:26:54,594
And is oregano.
592
00:26:54,658 --> 00:26:56,638
If you're making pasta
later, take some.
593
00:26:56,693 --> 00:26:58,695
No other greens except
for some Romaine lettuce
594
00:26:58,795 --> 00:27:00,035
that I can tell you
is for real.
595
00:27:00,097 --> 00:27:03,010
But you can get rid of it.
You got no snap in your stems.
596
00:27:03,066 --> 00:27:04,739
Can I have my home back now?
597
00:27:04,801 --> 00:27:06,337
CURTIS: Hey, Doc,
598
00:27:06,603 --> 00:27:07,707
where do you keep this baby?
599
00:27:07,771 --> 00:27:09,444
We'd like to take
a look under the hood.
600
00:27:09,506 --> 00:27:10,644
I don't own a car.
601
00:27:10,707 --> 00:27:12,414
You just collect the manuals?
602
00:27:12,476 --> 00:27:13,580
I sold that car.
603
00:27:14,411 --> 00:27:16,914
What's this? "Car-Finder."
604
00:27:17,247 --> 00:27:18,885
This one of those satellite
locating systems?
605
00:27:18,949 --> 00:27:21,862
It was an expensive car. I was
concerned about it getting stolen.
606
00:27:22,386 --> 00:27:24,696
Well, why don't we activate the
system, see what turns up?
607
00:27:24,755 --> 00:27:26,029
(DIALING)
608
00:27:27,858 --> 00:27:31,465
Lake Hill Country Club.
Dr. Lyle Semenko.
609
00:27:32,396 --> 00:27:34,034
What, you threw the
clubs in with the car?
610
00:27:34,097 --> 00:27:36,634
Hey, Lennie, what's this?
More oregano?
611
00:27:40,137 --> 00:27:42,413
Wouldn't want to sprinkle
this on my pasta.
612
00:27:42,472 --> 00:27:43,576
Unless you want some.
613
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,176
You're under arrest
for murder, Doc.
614
00:27:45,242 --> 00:27:46,550
You have the right
to remain silent.
615
00:27:46,610 --> 00:27:49,147
Anything you say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.
616
00:27:52,082 --> 00:27:53,186
GILLUM: You've
got no witnesses.
617
00:27:53,250 --> 00:27:54,820
You've got no forensic evidence
618
00:27:54,885 --> 00:27:56,626
linking my client to
Michael Sutter's food.
619
00:27:56,687 --> 00:27:58,758
We've got poison hemlock
in his car.
620
00:27:58,822 --> 00:28:00,597
I'd love to hear his
explanation for that.
621
00:28:01,291 --> 00:28:03,931
You and I both know that
the jury will crucify him.
622
00:28:04,795 --> 00:28:06,866
Murder two. He does 25.
623
00:28:07,698 --> 00:28:09,700
Your client took the life
of a defenseless child.
624
00:28:09,766 --> 00:28:10,801
What life?
625
00:28:10,867 --> 00:28:13,643
That boy was in constant pain.
626
00:28:14,204 --> 00:28:18,050
You want us to start weighing crimes
based on the value of the victim?
627
00:28:19,910 --> 00:28:22,550
I had a 95-year-old
client in Florida.
628
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,022
Shot his agonizing,
cancer-ridden wife to death.
629
00:28:26,950 --> 00:28:28,952
Jury hit him with a $50 fine.
630
00:28:29,853 --> 00:28:32,129
This jury's gonna
know that Dr. Semenko
631
00:28:32,189 --> 00:28:34,430
was acting out of
compassion for the victim.
632
00:28:35,926 --> 00:28:37,803
I think your client's shown
a little too much compassion.
633
00:28:37,861 --> 00:28:40,034
We've looked into
his employment history.
634
00:28:40,097 --> 00:28:44,443
I estimate he's responsible for 17
deaths at four different hospitals.
635
00:28:44,501 --> 00:28:47,744
The hospitals let him skate
by, but the buck stops here.
636
00:28:49,339 --> 00:28:50,841
Get your affairs in order.
637
00:28:51,375 --> 00:28:53,446
We're going to trial.
638
00:28:53,510 --> 00:28:56,320
You're spending the rest
of your life behind bars.
639
00:28:58,548 --> 00:28:59,959
ADAM: Mercy killing.
640
00:29:00,717 --> 00:29:02,628
It worked for Dr. Kevorkian.
641
00:29:02,686 --> 00:29:04,188
This guy's no Kevorkian.
642
00:29:05,822 --> 00:29:07,893
I'm giving you my opinion
without having met the guy,
643
00:29:07,958 --> 00:29:09,369
but he sounds like what we call
644
00:29:09,426 --> 00:29:12,305
a custodial poisoner
or asphyxiator.
645
00:29:12,663 --> 00:29:13,767
ADAM: Plain vanilla
serial killer?
646
00:29:14,731 --> 00:29:16,836
DR. SKODA: A little more
charming than most, but yeah.
647
00:29:18,435 --> 00:29:20,210
He rubbernecked at every
patient's postmortem,
648
00:29:20,270 --> 00:29:22,876
like a kid torturing a
bug and watching it die.
649
00:29:24,241 --> 00:29:28,121
And these deaths. Starts with
ODs on prescription medicines.
650
00:29:28,679 --> 00:29:30,818
Then he gets bolder,
uses poisons.
651
00:29:31,415 --> 00:29:33,691
Stuffs bandages
down some lady's throat.
652
00:29:34,184 --> 00:29:35,720
He didn't get charged
on that one?
653
00:29:36,686 --> 00:29:38,188
Half a dozen of the staff
had access to the patient.
654
00:29:38,255 --> 00:29:39,996
The hospital
just fired them all.
655
00:29:40,290 --> 00:29:42,566
You don't think Semenko
wanted to get caught?
656
00:29:42,726 --> 00:29:43,727
DR. SKODA: No.
657
00:29:44,728 --> 00:29:47,675
No, he got bolder because
he got more confident.
658
00:29:47,731 --> 00:29:49,506
He believed he was
operating above the rules.
659
00:29:49,566 --> 00:29:52,308
When nobody caught him,
everything got reinforced.
660
00:29:52,369 --> 00:29:53,973
We haven't caught him
yet, either.
661
00:29:54,471 --> 00:29:56,007
Motion in limine.
662
00:29:56,506 --> 00:29:58,383
Semenko's lawyer
wants to preclude
663
00:29:58,442 --> 00:30:00,285
any mention of
the other deaths.
664
00:30:00,777 --> 00:30:02,085
Oh, yeah.
665
00:30:04,615 --> 00:30:06,185
GILLUM: A doctor
has a run of bad luck,
666
00:30:06,450 --> 00:30:07,656
but that does not
make him a killer.
667
00:30:07,718 --> 00:30:09,220
JACK: Bad luck had
nothing to do with this.
668
00:30:09,287 --> 00:30:11,096
Mr. Semenko is
a serial killer.
669
00:30:11,155 --> 00:30:13,692
He was never charged
in those other deaths.
670
00:30:14,225 --> 00:30:15,704
Your Honor,
People v. Molineux.
671
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,206
They are prior bad acts. The
evidence is not admissible.
672
00:30:18,262 --> 00:30:19,832
It's not even relevant,
Mr. McCoy.
673
00:30:19,897 --> 00:30:22,673
People v. Mees.
These acts establish motive.
674
00:30:22,733 --> 00:30:25,179
The defendant is trying
to convince a jury
675
00:30:25,536 --> 00:30:27,482
that he acted out of mercy
676
00:30:27,538 --> 00:30:31,111
when he has a track record of
killing perfectly healthy patients.
677
00:30:31,175 --> 00:30:33,815
Molineux, even
as extended by Mees,
678
00:30:33,878 --> 00:30:36,017
allows only
similar prior bad acts.
679
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,991
Not one of these other
deaths involved a patient
680
00:30:38,049 --> 00:30:39,392
who had zero expectation
of recovery.
681
00:30:40,418 --> 00:30:41,726
JACK: This is perverse!
682
00:30:41,953 --> 00:30:46,265
Mr. Gillum is saying that because
this killer never showed mercy,
683
00:30:46,691 --> 00:30:49,797
he should be allowed to argue that
he's a mercy killer this time.
684
00:30:50,261 --> 00:30:52,241
You have a point, Mr. McCoy.
685
00:30:52,296 --> 00:30:55,334
But this doesn't meet
the Molineux exceptions.
686
00:30:55,967 --> 00:30:58,174
And if I have to choose
between an A.D.A.
687
00:30:58,236 --> 00:31:00,409
and the Court of Appeals,
guess who wins?
688
00:31:01,138 --> 00:31:03,379
The evidence is suppressed.
689
00:31:08,646 --> 00:31:11,490
JACK: Michael Sutter was
murdered by the defendant.
690
00:31:13,485 --> 00:31:15,556
This is not in dispute.
691
00:31:18,356 --> 00:31:22,065
The defense will give you reasons
why it's not a bad thing.
692
00:31:23,695 --> 00:31:27,643
They'll tell you that Michael
Sutter had no quality of life.
693
00:31:30,001 --> 00:31:33,244
It's true that Michael Sutter
wasn't going to grow up to be
694
00:31:33,605 --> 00:31:37,451
a teacher or an engineer or
a doctor, like the defendant.
695
00:31:38,644 --> 00:31:40,453
But he liked to watch TV.
696
00:31:41,747 --> 00:31:43,522
He loved his family.
697
00:31:44,883 --> 00:31:46,624
And he was alive.
698
00:31:48,253 --> 00:31:50,756
The defense will tell you
699
00:31:50,823 --> 00:31:54,430
that taking Michael Sutter's life
was the merciful thing to do.
700
00:31:55,260 --> 00:31:58,707
Michael Sutter's family will tell
you that they loved Michael.
701
00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:02,472
They miss Michael.
702
00:32:05,271 --> 00:32:09,651
This case is not a
debate about euthanasia.
703
00:32:11,878 --> 00:32:14,859
It's about a thrill
killing by a monster
704
00:32:14,914 --> 00:32:17,019
masquerading as
an angel of mercy.
705
00:32:20,687 --> 00:32:22,598
Michael Sutter is dead.
706
00:32:25,158 --> 00:32:29,072
He was murdered.
That's all that matters.
707
00:32:38,538 --> 00:32:40,882
Mr. McCoy is right,
the law is simple.
708
00:32:40,940 --> 00:32:42,715
It only sees black and white.
709
00:32:43,743 --> 00:32:45,586
But reality?
710
00:32:45,645 --> 00:32:48,717
Well, reality has all sorts of
shades of gray, doesn't it?
711
00:32:50,850 --> 00:32:53,160
Dr. Semenko didn't
just wake up one morning
712
00:32:53,219 --> 00:32:55,563
and on a whim decide
to kill Michael Sutter.
713
00:32:56,055 --> 00:32:58,365
Michael Sutter's
parents know that.
714
00:32:58,424 --> 00:33:00,461
And although it may be very
hard for them to admit it,
715
00:33:00,526 --> 00:33:02,597
they wanted this death.
716
00:33:02,662 --> 00:33:05,370
And they made that
very clear to Dr. Semenko,
717
00:33:06,399 --> 00:33:10,142
who had the courage, in the
face of an antiquated law,
718
00:33:10,203 --> 00:33:13,673
to act in the best interests
of a suffering child.
719
00:33:15,475 --> 00:33:17,682
The State tries to lock
up people like this.
720
00:33:18,811 --> 00:33:20,119
They have put Dr. Jack
Kevorkian on trial
721
00:33:20,179 --> 00:33:24,423
over and over again, but
he's never been convicted.
722
00:33:24,484 --> 00:33:27,829
Because juries,
juries just like you,
723
00:33:29,489 --> 00:33:31,901
have always
recognized the truth.
724
00:33:33,593 --> 00:33:37,006
Dr. Lyle Semenko
is not a criminal.
725
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,543
He's a hero.
726
00:33:47,875 --> 00:33:50,185
I read him stories every night.
727
00:33:51,245 --> 00:33:53,156
It's funny,
728
00:33:53,213 --> 00:33:55,784
he had the same favorites
he did as a baby.
729
00:33:57,851 --> 00:34:02,163
After all the suffering,
after all the damage,
730
00:34:04,391 --> 00:34:06,894
he was still
the same little boy.
731
00:34:07,227 --> 00:34:09,673
Did you love him,
Mr. Sutter?
732
00:34:10,964 --> 00:34:13,205
You don't stop loving your
son when he gets hurt.
733
00:34:15,202 --> 00:34:17,682
And you don't stop loving
your son when he dies.
734
00:34:18,472 --> 00:34:22,614
Mr. Sutter, did you ever ask
Dr. Semenko to end your son's life?
735
00:34:22,676 --> 00:34:23,677
No.
736
00:34:25,079 --> 00:34:26,888
It's horrifying
737
00:34:27,915 --> 00:34:29,861
that he could blame this on us.
738
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,255
I mean, that anybody
could think
739
00:34:33,487 --> 00:34:35,467
that we wanted this.
740
00:34:43,731 --> 00:34:47,702
Mr. Sutter, Michael's care has cost you
almost a quarter of a million dollars
741
00:34:47,768 --> 00:34:48,940
since the accident, hasn't it?
742
00:34:50,104 --> 00:34:51,174
Whatever it was,
it was worth it.
743
00:34:51,238 --> 00:34:52,273
GILLUM: I understand.
744
00:34:52,339 --> 00:34:54,114
But you had a college
fund for your daughter,
745
00:34:54,174 --> 00:34:55,346
and now that's gone,
isn't that right?
746
00:34:55,409 --> 00:34:56,547
SUTTER: Yes.
747
00:34:57,444 --> 00:35:00,982
And your relationship with
your wife has grown strained?
748
00:35:02,116 --> 00:35:03,686
She was having an affair?
749
00:35:05,386 --> 00:35:08,162
Michael's condition made things
very difficult for all of us.
750
00:35:08,222 --> 00:35:10,429
GILLUM: And he wasn't going
to get any better, was he?
751
00:35:10,491 --> 00:35:11,765
SUTTER: We hoped.
752
00:35:12,459 --> 00:35:13,460
But, no.
753
00:35:13,527 --> 00:35:15,473
In fact, there was only one way
754
00:35:15,529 --> 00:35:16,872
that Michael's suffering
was going to end,
755
00:35:16,930 --> 00:35:18,102
and you knew that, didn't you?
756
00:35:18,165 --> 00:35:19,303
No.
757
00:35:19,366 --> 00:35:21,073
I could never take...
Now, on December 12th,
758
00:35:21,702 --> 00:35:23,704
did you take Michael to an
appointment with Dr. Semenko?
759
00:35:23,971 --> 00:35:26,247
I took Michael to
many appointments.
760
00:35:26,307 --> 00:35:30,312
And did you say to Dr. Semenko that
Michael didn't deserve to live like this?
761
00:35:30,377 --> 00:35:32,789
Didn't you tell Dr. Semenko
762
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:35,660
that you wished Michael's
suffering would end?
763
00:35:35,716 --> 00:35:37,923
No, I might have said that,
764
00:35:38,018 --> 00:35:39,793
but I didn't mean
I wanted him dead.
765
00:35:40,220 --> 00:35:41,927
GILLUM: Mr. Sutter,
766
00:35:42,356 --> 00:35:43,630
if you had to do
it all over again,
767
00:35:43,691 --> 00:35:48,504
I mean, if you had known how much
Michael was going to suffer,
768
00:35:49,530 --> 00:35:51,203
would you have pulled
him out of that car?
769
00:35:53,567 --> 00:35:55,046
I loved Michael.
770
00:35:55,602 --> 00:35:57,582
I know that, Mr. Sutter.
771
00:35:58,705 --> 00:36:02,209
But would you
have saved his life?
772
00:36:10,718 --> 00:36:12,356
No.
Thank you.
773
00:36:16,758 --> 00:36:18,965
Do you remember coming to the
hospital with your daughter Stephanie
774
00:36:19,027 --> 00:36:21,200
on a Saturday morning
last November?
775
00:36:21,863 --> 00:36:24,537
Michael woke up
with a fever of 103.
776
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,773
It turned out
to be a flu virus.
777
00:36:27,269 --> 00:36:29,510
And did Stephanie want
to come to the hospital?
778
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:31,946
Her brother was sick.
779
00:36:32,007 --> 00:36:34,817
Didn't she tell you that she would
rather be skating with her friends?
780
00:36:34,876 --> 00:36:36,617
Objection. He's leading
his own witness.
781
00:36:36,678 --> 00:36:38,089
Sustained.
782
00:36:38,580 --> 00:36:41,060
GILLUM: Did you fight with
your daughter at the hospital?
783
00:36:41,516 --> 00:36:43,018
I don't recall.
784
00:36:43,085 --> 00:36:45,964
Do you recall Dr. Semenko
being in the room
785
00:36:46,021 --> 00:36:47,967
when you were arguing
with Stephanie?
786
00:36:48,023 --> 00:36:49,969
Objection.
She doesn't recall arguing.
787
00:36:50,025 --> 00:36:52,528
A priori, she can't recall
who might have been present.
788
00:36:52,928 --> 00:36:54,965
Next question, Mr. Gillum.
789
00:36:55,030 --> 00:36:57,340
Your Honor, permission to treat
this witness as hostile.
790
00:36:57,666 --> 00:36:58,906
Go ahead.
791
00:36:58,967 --> 00:37:01,948
Didn't Stephanie tell you that she
didn't give a damn about Michael?
792
00:37:02,004 --> 00:37:04,610
That she had stuff to do?
793
00:37:04,740 --> 00:37:06,344
JACK: Objection. Hearsay.
794
00:37:06,408 --> 00:37:08,479
Offered to show the defendant's
state of mind, Your Honor.
795
00:37:08,543 --> 00:37:11,319
Overruled.
The witness will answer.
796
00:37:13,082 --> 00:37:16,359
She might have said some
things she shouldn't have.
797
00:37:16,419 --> 00:37:18,729
Like calling Michael
a vegetable?
798
00:37:18,788 --> 00:37:21,792
She was angry.
She wanted to hurt me.
799
00:37:22,425 --> 00:37:24,632
Wasn't she worried about
hurting her brother?
800
00:37:25,962 --> 00:37:27,498
He couldn't understand.
801
00:37:27,864 --> 00:37:28,934
Exactly.
802
00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:32,705
He couldn't even understand
when his own sister said
803
00:37:32,769 --> 00:37:35,909
that she wished he
were dead, could he?
804
00:37:35,972 --> 00:37:37,280
She didn't mean it.
805
00:37:38,007 --> 00:37:41,716
She just didn't want to
see Michael suffer anymore.
806
00:37:41,778 --> 00:37:42,984
None of us did.
807
00:37:44,247 --> 00:37:45,282
I know.
808
00:37:46,616 --> 00:37:47,754
Thank you.
809
00:37:48,184 --> 00:37:49,561
(SIGHS)
810
00:37:49,819 --> 00:37:53,266
Mrs. Sutter, did you
811
00:37:53,956 --> 00:37:57,494
ever tell Dr. Semenko
to end Michael's life?
812
00:37:58,094 --> 00:37:59,095
No.
813
00:37:59,362 --> 00:38:00,466
Thank you.
814
00:38:04,934 --> 00:38:07,175
GILLUM: Dr. Semenko, does
Hudson Terrace Hospital
815
00:38:07,236 --> 00:38:09,876
have a policy regarding
assisted suicide?
816
00:38:09,939 --> 00:38:13,352
SEMENKO: Yes. In all New York
hospitals it's strictly prohibited.
817
00:38:13,776 --> 00:38:16,052
And is this ever
a subject of discussion
818
00:38:16,112 --> 00:38:17,614
amongst your fellow physicians?
819
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:18,681
Frequently.
820
00:38:19,215 --> 00:38:21,627
The rules reflect
a wrong-headed view
821
00:38:21,684 --> 00:38:23,425
of dealing with
death and dying.
822
00:38:24,253 --> 00:38:27,564
Do you and your colleagues have
methods to get around these rules?
823
00:38:27,623 --> 00:38:31,366
We physicians risk being charged
with trafficking in drugs
824
00:38:31,427 --> 00:38:34,465
just by providing morphine
to terminal patients.
825
00:38:34,530 --> 00:38:37,204
The State doesn't want us
to turn them into junkies.
826
00:38:38,468 --> 00:38:40,539
And every day, in every
hospital in this country,
827
00:38:40,603 --> 00:38:42,276
a doctor calls for a slow code.
828
00:38:42,505 --> 00:38:44,951
Objection. Contrary to
what the defendant thinks,
829
00:38:45,007 --> 00:38:46,543
he can't possibly
know what goes on
830
00:38:46,609 --> 00:38:48,088
in every hospital
in the country.
831
00:38:48,444 --> 00:38:49,445
Sustained.
832
00:38:50,513 --> 00:38:54,359
Dr. Semenko, would you please
define the term "slow code"?
833
00:38:54,717 --> 00:38:59,029
When a patient is beyond hope and
requires life-saving measures,
834
00:38:59,088 --> 00:39:02,228
a slow code means the staff
just goes through the motions.
835
00:39:02,291 --> 00:39:04,066
They let the patient die.
836
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,299
And this is done according to
the patient's instructions?
837
00:39:06,762 --> 00:39:09,936
No, it's done when, in the
attending physician's opinion,
838
00:39:09,999 --> 00:39:11,376
death would be best.
839
00:39:12,034 --> 00:39:13,638
Michael Sutter wasn't terminal.
840
00:39:13,703 --> 00:39:16,445
He could have lived another,
what, 50, 60 years?
841
00:39:16,773 --> 00:39:18,184
His heart would
have kept on beating,
842
00:39:18,241 --> 00:39:20,517
his lungs would
have kept on breathing,
843
00:39:20,944 --> 00:39:22,753
and the pain would never stop.
844
00:39:25,515 --> 00:39:28,018
Sometimes I have to tell people
845
00:39:28,084 --> 00:39:31,224
the worst news they
think they'll ever hear,
846
00:39:31,621 --> 00:39:33,430
the death of their loved one.
847
00:39:33,790 --> 00:39:38,535
But somehow they wake up the next
morning, and their life goes on.
848
00:39:39,462 --> 00:39:42,466
People couldn't function
if they couldn't move on.
849
00:39:44,067 --> 00:39:48,106
The Sutters couldn't move on.
They needed to move on.
850
00:39:49,339 --> 00:39:52,877
Did the Sutters ask you
to end their son's life?
851
00:39:53,176 --> 00:39:55,213
There was no doubt
about what they wanted.
852
00:39:55,278 --> 00:39:57,315
They knew their son's life,
853
00:39:57,380 --> 00:39:59,621
in any meaningful way,
was over.
854
00:39:59,683 --> 00:40:02,789
I was just the instrument,
doing what they wanted done.
855
00:40:02,852 --> 00:40:05,492
What they couldn't
bring themselves to do.
856
00:40:06,456 --> 00:40:08,732
Thank you, Doctor.
Your witness.
857
00:40:16,399 --> 00:40:17,776
Your Honor,
it's almost 12:00.
858
00:40:17,834 --> 00:40:20,280
I wonder if we could
take our noon recess?
859
00:40:21,505 --> 00:40:24,076
The jury's buying it.
Semenko's hammering us.
860
00:40:24,141 --> 00:40:26,883
He's smart, he's
confident, he's charming.
861
00:40:26,944 --> 00:40:28,582
Same pathology that
makes him a serial killer
862
00:40:28,646 --> 00:40:29,784
makes him a hell of a witness.
863
00:40:29,847 --> 00:40:31,849
He must have some weakness.
864
00:40:32,583 --> 00:40:34,460
You ever once hear him
question what he did?
865
00:40:34,518 --> 00:40:36,225
The Sutters needed to move on.
866
00:40:36,287 --> 00:40:38,267
Absolute knowledge.
Absolute certainty.
867
00:40:38,322 --> 00:40:39,562
Some kind of God complex?
868
00:40:39,624 --> 00:40:40,796
His narcissism.
869
00:40:41,358 --> 00:40:43,463
Power to save life,
power to end life.
870
00:40:43,527 --> 00:40:44,733
More fascinated with death.
871
00:40:45,262 --> 00:40:46,866
Jack, somebody that's
in love with himself
872
00:40:46,931 --> 00:40:49,502
isn't going to like having
his opinions challenged.
873
00:40:49,567 --> 00:40:51,240
He'll hate it.
874
00:40:51,702 --> 00:40:53,682
One weakness he does have,
875
00:40:53,738 --> 00:40:55,615
he's not afraid of you.
876
00:40:57,441 --> 00:41:00,547
FILLMORE: Mr. McCoy,
are you ready to proceed?
877
00:41:00,611 --> 00:41:01,783
JACK: Yes, Your Honor.
878
00:41:05,449 --> 00:41:09,659
Michael Sutter isn't the first
severely handicapped patient
879
00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:11,393
you've had in your care, is he?
880
00:41:11,989 --> 00:41:13,366
No. I've had many.
881
00:41:14,592 --> 00:41:15,662
Did you kill them all?
882
00:41:16,193 --> 00:41:17,638
Objection!
883
00:41:17,695 --> 00:41:21,108
Sustained.
Watch your step, Mr. McCoy.
884
00:41:22,466 --> 00:41:23,945
I'll rephrase.
885
00:41:24,001 --> 00:41:27,972
When dealing with other patients
with similar difficulties,
886
00:41:28,038 --> 00:41:31,178
how did you justify allowing
some of them to live?
887
00:41:31,909 --> 00:41:34,355
Every case must be assessed
on its own merits.
888
00:41:34,779 --> 00:41:37,350
By you? No need to
consult the family?
889
00:41:37,815 --> 00:41:40,728
The Sutters had already
made their wishes known.
890
00:41:40,785 --> 00:41:43,197
But ultimately,
it was your decision,
891
00:41:43,354 --> 00:41:44,856
and you weren't
afraid to make it?
892
00:41:44,989 --> 00:41:46,491
I have the training.
893
00:41:46,557 --> 00:41:49,697
The training to decide
who should die, and when?
894
00:41:50,261 --> 00:41:54,641
The training to recognize
when there is no more hope.
895
00:41:54,699 --> 00:42:00,172
And did your training tell you to
use hemlock to kill a helpless boy?
896
00:42:00,572 --> 00:42:04,179
Coniine, the active ingredient,
causes the lungs to shut down.
897
00:42:04,242 --> 00:42:06,017
It's an effective
agent of death.
898
00:42:06,078 --> 00:42:08,888
It causes all muscles
to shut down.
899
00:42:08,947 --> 00:42:11,723
It's a horribly painful
death, isn't it?
900
00:42:12,350 --> 00:42:15,058
My specialty is
spinal cord injuries.
901
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,260
That's why the Sutters chose
me to care for their boy.
902
00:42:19,658 --> 00:42:21,763
Michael's death was
relatively pain-free.
903
00:42:21,993 --> 00:42:23,267
Relatively?
904
00:42:25,964 --> 00:42:31,437
Wouldn't potassium chloride have
been quick and completely pain-free?
905
00:42:33,171 --> 00:42:34,241
The difference is,
906
00:42:34,306 --> 00:42:35,751
that would have
raised red flags
907
00:42:35,807 --> 00:42:38,287
all around the hospital,
isn't that right?
908
00:42:38,343 --> 00:42:41,290
If you're implying that my
medical opinion was compromised
909
00:42:41,346 --> 00:42:43,986
by a desire not to be
detected, you're right.
910
00:42:44,950 --> 00:42:48,955
I would rather be in a hospital
right now, caring for my patients,
911
00:42:49,421 --> 00:42:52,061
than defending
this ridiculous charge.
912
00:42:52,691 --> 00:42:55,331
But Michael Sutter's
death was humane.
913
00:42:55,961 --> 00:42:57,201
You have no doubt at all?
914
00:42:57,262 --> 00:42:59,572
No. It was the
right thing to do.
915
00:43:01,835 --> 00:43:03,746
Then why didn't
you come forward
916
00:43:03,803 --> 00:43:06,044
when Mr. Sutter was
charged with murder?
917
00:43:08,408 --> 00:43:10,081
Come on, Dr. Semenko.
918
00:43:10,443 --> 00:43:13,390
If you have such confidence
in your own goodness,
919
00:43:13,446 --> 00:43:15,756
why let an innocent man
go to jail?
920
00:43:16,116 --> 00:43:17,117
Objection, Your Honor.
921
00:43:17,183 --> 00:43:18,184
FILLMORE: Overruled.
922
00:43:19,052 --> 00:43:21,191
Dr. Semenko,
answer his question.
923
00:43:22,756 --> 00:43:23,791
I don't know.
924
00:43:23,857 --> 00:43:27,134
Is it because deep in your heart
you knew what you did was wrong?
925
00:43:27,193 --> 00:43:29,400
That you had committed murder?
926
00:43:33,466 --> 00:43:34,536
No more questions.
927
00:43:34,601 --> 00:43:36,080
No, I want to answer.
928
00:43:41,007 --> 00:43:43,886
I have confidence
in the judicial system.
929
00:43:44,311 --> 00:43:47,349
I knew Mr. Sutter
would be found innocent.
930
00:43:47,814 --> 00:43:50,090
If I stepped forward,
I'd lose my license.
931
00:43:50,150 --> 00:43:54,621
I'd lose my ability to continue
my work to care for my patients.
932
00:43:57,757 --> 00:43:59,065
(SIGHS)
933
00:43:59,826 --> 00:44:02,830
He's awfully slick.
The bastard.
934
00:44:03,363 --> 00:44:05,400
He said the Sutters chose him.
935
00:44:05,465 --> 00:44:08,935
Joe Sutter told the police the
hospital assigned Semenko to them.
936
00:44:09,002 --> 00:44:12,176
Maybe Semenko's lying,
trying to build himself up.
937
00:44:12,639 --> 00:44:13,982
Check it out.
938
00:44:17,144 --> 00:44:18,714
Has the jury reached a verdict?
939
00:44:18,779 --> 00:44:20,486
FOREMAN: Yes, we have,
Your Honor.
940
00:44:20,748 --> 00:44:22,489
On the first
count of the indictment,
941
00:44:22,550 --> 00:44:25,121
Murder in the Second
Degree, how do you find?
942
00:44:25,186 --> 00:44:27,325
We find the defendant
not guilty.
943
00:44:27,788 --> 00:44:29,790
FILLMORE: On the second
count of the indictment,
944
00:44:29,857 --> 00:44:32,428
Manslaughter in the First
Degree, how do you find?
945
00:44:32,493 --> 00:44:34,973
FOREMAN: We find
the defendant not guilty.
946
00:44:35,029 --> 00:44:37,270
And on the final
count of the indictment,
947
00:44:37,331 --> 00:44:40,141
Manslaughter in the Second
Degree, how do you find?
948
00:44:40,201 --> 00:44:42,545
We find the defendant guilty.
949
00:44:42,603 --> 00:44:43,946
(GAVEL POUNDS)
950
00:44:44,972 --> 00:44:46,007
(WHISPERING)
951
00:44:59,521 --> 00:45:01,831
They're calling Semenko
the next Kevorkian.
952
00:45:01,890 --> 00:45:03,096
Read on.
953
00:45:03,892 --> 00:45:05,599
They've already
received donations
954
00:45:05,660 --> 00:45:07,606
for his appeal
from all 50 states.
955
00:45:07,662 --> 00:45:08,697
Yeah, well, don't be surprised
956
00:45:08,797 --> 00:45:10,640
if the Sutters kick
in a few extra bucks.
957
00:45:10,699 --> 00:45:13,202
The hospital confirmed Joe
Sutter asked for their son
958
00:45:13,268 --> 00:45:14,838
to be transferred
to Semenko's care.
959
00:45:15,537 --> 00:45:16,709
I don't want to hear this.
960
00:45:16,772 --> 00:45:18,718
ROSS: I pulled
Lois Sutter's resume.
961
00:45:19,007 --> 00:45:22,113
Her last job, she spent two days a
week at Bergen County Clinical.
962
00:45:22,177 --> 00:45:24,748
She was there for five of
Semenko's suspicious deaths.
963
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,318
They knew. They put their kid
in front of a loaded gun.
964
00:45:28,383 --> 00:45:29,919
What are you gonna do about it?
965
00:45:30,852 --> 00:45:33,560
You couldn't even convict
Semenko of murder.
966
00:45:34,556 --> 00:45:36,593
Who's joining me for dinner?
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