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SHORE: Previously on "The Practice"...

PAUL: Brenda Wilbur, who I believed you know,

she's dead. What?

The police are out there. I was there.

I had made love to her earlier

and now they're here to ask me questions.

I need money, Alan.

So much so I sometimes see it in my dreams.

I especially saw it at 10:30 last night

when I saw Paul Stewart

coming out of Brenda's house.

How are we arranging to pay her off?

I cannot bribe this witness.

I'm not letting my only child go to prison.

SHORE: Wives don't statistically leave their husbands

over infidelity.

You cannot walk out that door now.

Maybe I do think he's guilty of murder.

Did he do this?

People change.

If you only knew what I've become.

When you were 16,

you slept with your best friend's mother.

How have you changed, Alan?

PAUL: I miss her.

Somebody you love has died.

You're allowed to grieve.

VICTORIA: I'd like you to stay away from him.

WILSON: I'm sorry?

I fear he's becoming attached.

I think a little distance is in order for you,

Ms. Wilson.

This girl ended up in some very unlikely places.

You, of all people know that.

Meaning?

Was she ever with you?

Are you out of your mind?

Whatever you share with me here,

it stays confidential between two old friends.

TOM: Two old friends having a beer.

You have my word.

It happened once.

I've been subpoenaed by the prosecution.

Why? He came here

the night of the murder.

Paul?

TOM: He said that he needed to confess.

PAUL: I needed to speak with my priest.

I didn't go to confess murder.

Well, this doesn't look good, Paul.

You're seen leaving the victim's house,

then seen minutes later

rushing to a priest ostensibly to confess.

PAUL: They have no witnesses

to my leaving the house. SHORE: You hope.

CATHERINE: I saw Paul Stewart leave Brenda Wilbur's house

around 10:30 the night of the murder.

Paul's mother paid me $600,000

not to come forward.

But I have no doubt he killed that woman.

KEVIN: Personally, I think

it's a mistake to hire Alan Shore.

People in Dedham remember him and, well...

I won't call him a liar,

but let me put it this way,

if he went out to feed the pigs,

you'd have to get somebody else to call them.

(laughter)

SHORE: (laughing)

That was very funny, Kevin.

I demand you stop referring to this man as witless.

Come on, Alan.

CLARKE: We will present evidence of the affair.

You will hear from a witness

who places the defendant at the scene.

You will hear from scientific experts

who establish hair, body oils, semen,

on or in the victim,

all coming from the defendant.

Clothing taken from the defendant's home

with blood spatterings from the victim.

Ladies and gentlemen, in short, the evidence,

all of it,

eyewitnesses, forensics, motive,

every bit of it points to one suspect

and only one suspect.

Paul Stewart.

Isn't it exciting?

A murder...

right in our own town.

The delicious kind, too.

One of our own dead, one of our own charged,

one of our own prosecuting,

and best of all,

one of our own defending, me.

My name is Alan Shore

and I assure you I'll be doing everything I can

to make this proceeding all about me.

The prosecution will no doubt take delight in that,

because you see, I'm a terrible person.

Paul Stewart, on the other hand, is a good man.

A kind one, innocent, too,

and they make for lousy defendants.

Justice...

it works better when you get bad guys,

not the innocent ones.

And we here in Dedham--

is it time for a break yet, Judge,

or shall I keep going?

Keep going.

We here in Dedham know all about travesty, don't we?

Dedham, this very courtroom, in fact,

is ground zero for one of the worst miscarriages

of justice in American history.

Two innocent men,

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti,

were convicted, where we stand,

for crimes they didn't commit.

Why?

Because the police needed

these murders solved.

Because they-- MARCUS: Mr. Shore...

I'm going to instruct you

to stick to this trial.

This trial...

in a way...

is about a second chance for Dedham.

In that other case, the one

the judge doesn't want me to talk about,

we had Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw,

Justice Felix Frankfurter, the pope even--

the pope, all writing letters to Dedham

begging for justice.

Pleading that we set those two innocent men free.

Dedham didn't do that.

On August 23, 1927,

Sacco and Vanzetti were put to death.

Dedham didn't get it right.

Today, we have, yet again,

an innocent man on trial,

and this time,

we need Dedham to get it right.

(music playing)

KEVIN: Her eyes were open and vacant

when we got there,

and her head was like all...

bashed in and mushed.

We found the defendant's semen in her vaginal area,

we found strands of his hair on her person,

and we found his oil secretions on her person.

But you, in fact, suspected Paul Stewart

even before the blood and hair analysis.

Yes, because a witness placed him at the scene.

In fact, the witness placed him at the scene

on many occasions.

We suspected the affair

and when we first went to question Mr. Stewart,

his lawyer just so happened to be there.

I believe Mr. Stewart has a constitutional right

to counsel and I'd remind the court

this is the United States of America.

Forgive me.

I'm sorry, I was thinking about the old America,

sorry.

MARCUS: Mr. Shore, the court does not intend

to tolerate your distractions.

CLARKE: I have nothing further, Judge.

MARCUS: All right, Mr. Shore,

now it's your turn.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Well, detective.

So how are we today?

Fine.

Tell me, would you regard yourself

as a good detective?

Yes. You would.

So all the evidence that exists against my client,

we should figure you to have it.

Well...

you say a witness placed

Mr. Stewart at the scene.

That witness would be Catherine Piper?

KEVIN: Yes.

SHORE: Would you stand, Catherine?

Is this witness the heart of your detectiving?

KEVIN: No, she merely supports my findings.

The heart would be the physical evidence

linking the defendant to the case.

Ah, the physical evidence.

You mean, like, the murder weapon?

Where is the murder weapon, by the way?

We didn't find it.

You didn't find it?

He obviously ditched it.

Ditched it?

Where?

You claim you've been able to plot out

the exact route and timeline.

My client went from Brenda's house,

to church, to his mother's house,

to his own house,

where he stayed till morning.

At which point, he went to his office

and from there the police station.

So, where did he ditch it?

We don't know.

SHORE: You don't know.

That's disturbing.

Let's turn to the victim then.

Brenda Wilbur,

where is she?

The body was inadvertently destroyed

but the autopsy had been completed.

Gee, no body, no murder weapon.

Well, lucky for us we have a good detective.

Objection. SHORE: So let me

get this straight,

by physical evidence, you mean...

For starters, his semen.

I see.

And his semen would explain

a, making love to her or b, killing her

or c, loading zone for passengers only?

It means that he was there.

But he could have been there hours earlier, couldn't he?

His hairs were on her, and his oil secretions.

Tell me, detective, honestly.

You actually found his hair samples

and body oil secretions

right on the victim? Yes.

SHORE: As she lay there dead? Yes.

You're sure. Yes.

Well then...

I can see why you suspected him.

Nothing further.

Oh, I'm curious.

Did you find anybody else's hair

or body oil secretions on the victim?

Say, for example, mine?

Did you find my hair and oil secretions

on the corpse, detective?

Yes, because you fainted on it.

SHORE: Well, why didn't you question me?

I certainly had motive.

I'm the one person in town she didn't sleep with.

Maybe I killed her.

CLARKE: Objection. You think you're funny?

Any of your hair and fibers on her, detective?

Because I helped you up after you fainted.

So there was evidence of you on the victim?

Detective, you led this jury to believe

there was evidence of Paul Stewart

and only Paul Stewart on the body.

That wasn't honest.

I won't call you a liar but who feeds your pigs?

CLARKE: Objection.

SHORE: Sustained.

So, let's see.

I could be a suspect.

How about Catherine Piper?

She hated Brenda.

Stand up, Catherine.

Did you investigate her?

No. You can sit down, Catherine.

Wendy, hi.

Would you stand up, please.

Scorned wife,

she certainly had a motive.

No alibi, I'm told.

Did you check her out?

I'm sure you didn't.

You can sit down.

Thank you, Wendy.

So many suspects.

Let's not forget you, Kev.

Stand up, judge.

Dah, never mind.

But you get my point, don't you, detective?

You really only looked at one person, didn't you?

Three years of fifth grade.

We expected better. Shoddy work, Detective.

Objection. SHORE: Sustained.

I'm very disappointed.

Is that why you wanted me in the room?

So you could point to me as a possible suspect?

I wanted you in the room

to help secure an acquittal for your husband.

We do want that, don't we, Wendy?

CATHERINE: Hello.

I want you to know

I don't mind being a suspect at all.

It gives me edge.

SHORE: Catherine, I'm having a private conversation here.

Well, don't dillydally, dear.

My testimony's up next.

We certainly don't want to miss that.

He would come to her house

at least three times a week.

He'd park on the corner of Milton and Tobey

and then he'd walk a block.

Three times a week?

Yes,

to have lascivious sex with her.

CLARKE: Miss Piper, on the day Brenda Wilbur was murdered--

He was there.

CLARKE: When?

CATHERINE: Well...

he came in the afternoon

and then...

I saw him return that night,

before 10:00.

Objection.

On what grounds?

From my...

interview with the witness.

I believe she's misspoken.

No, I haven't.

Could I be allowed to finish?

Sit, Mr. Shore.

CLARKE: You saw him return at 10:00 pm.

CATHERINE: Yes. CLARKE: On the night

Brenda Wilbur was murdered?

Yes.

CLARKE: And when did he leave?

Just after 10:30.

And he was running

like there was something terribly wrong.

CLARKE: Now, Miss Piper,

when the police first questioned you,

you said nothing

about the defendant being there that night.

Because Victoria Stewart, Paul's mother,

paid me $600,000 not to.

We're dead.

CLARKE: The mother of the defendant

paid you $600,000.

And I'm so ashamed to say I took it.

I think that's why Mr. Shore

was expecting me to lie just now.

But my conscience simply got the better of me.

That's why I came to you.

I'm not the noblest of people.

I'm obviously not above extortion,

or even lying,

but I just couldn't lie

to help somebody get away with murder.

No, I can't do that.

Thank you, ma'am.

Hello, Catherine.

Hello.

Tell me, Catherine.

How do you feel about Victoria Stewart?

Why, I loathe her, of course.

As does everyone else in this town.

SHORE: Yes, and in fact,

I bet it occurred to you,

you could get the extortion money

and still bring her down

by going to the police.

Why, yes, that was exactly my thinking.

Just for fun, could you tell us

your opinion of Brenda Wilbur?

She was a godless whore.

SHORE: In fact, you complained to the police

about all the men she entertained.

Tell me, did you ever recognize any of these men?

I don't associate with those kinds of people.

I see, so in reviewing your testimony,

you hated Brenda, you hate Victoria,

and, in fact, extorted her,

you saw a lot of men enter and leave

what eventually turned out to be the murder scene.

But the only one you seem to remember

is my client.

I guess that's pretty much it, right?

You didn't see anybody

commit any crime, did you?

No, but I'm sure he did it.

SHORE: I see.

By the way...

when you and I said hello a few weeks ago,

we shook hands.

You had something on your glove.

Do you remember, what that was?

Dog crap. SHORE: Yes.

Do you remember why

you reached for my hand with dog stool on yours?

Because you put dog stool in a bag

and left in on my doorstep.

And you ruined my fleece slippers.

This happened when?

In 1971.

So you were getting even for a Halloween prank

I pulled when I was 9.

Yes.

You hate godless whores

and you're a fan of vengeance.

I am a Christian, dear.

(church bell ringing)

I'm not breaking any seal.

SHORE: I'm not asking you to.

But you could verify that Brenda Wilbur

was a sexually aggressive woman

who got herself into situations.

How would I know that?

SHORE: Tom, we're desperate.

I may have to ask you-- I'll lie.

No, you won't.

It's not in your character.

You gave me your word.

I realize that.

If I had something to say that would help Paul--

You do. I don't.

The only thing that would come

from my little admission...

is the destruction of my church,

my parish...

and me, and I won't do it.

I will lie

and I'll be believed.

And your case will just look all the more desperate.

I may have to take that chance.

You'll regret it.

I promise you.

There's no reason to panic.

No reason?

The jury just heard that my mother

tried to bribe a witness.

Your mother did, you didn't.

PAUL: I am dead, Tara.

We still have a witness

who thought that he saw a woman.

We still have your testimony--

My testimony--

Not to forget--listen, Paul--

PAUL: Don't handle me, Tara.

You know, I realize that's your assignment here

to handhold the client, but don't.

My assignment isn't...

to handhold the client.

Let me ask you something, Tara.

Do you think I'm innocent?

Yes.

Yes.

Paul...

VICTORIA: Paul?

Could I have a moment with Ms. Wilson, please?

Why?

I'd like a moment.

(sighs)

You and I had a certain discussion.

My son has a family, Ms. Wilson.

Despite this temporary setback,

Paul Stewart is a respected doctor

and family man in this community.

That is the reputation he once had

and will have again,

Ms. Wilson.

I am confident you don't mean to interfere

with that.

TOM: I was actually getting ready to go home

when he came in.

CLARKE: This was around?

11:00 or so.

Maybe a little bit earlier.

Father, can you describe

the defendant as he entered your church that night?

He seemed agitated.

Agitated?

Did he say anything?

He asked if he could go into the confessional.

CLARKE: Did something seem wrong?

Yes.

Did you go into the confessional?

No.

He saw a member of the cleaning crew.

He seemed to panic

and he ran out of the church.

And this was on or around 11:00 p. m.

the night that Brenda Wilbur was murdered?

Yes.

Thank you, Father.

This agitation, in your opinion,

could it be consistent with Paul

seeing Brenda's murdered body,

a woman he loved,

being emotionally traumatized by what he saw?

Something that made him run to his clergy.

Yes, it could be consistent with all of that.

Father...

Brenda Wilbur led a rather promiscuous life, didn't she?

She was involved with various men,

any number of whom,

could have come to her house that night.

I wouldn't know.

You wouldn't know?

You were her priest, were you not?

I was.

Did she not indicate

her propensity to seduce men?

I cannot break the confessional seal.

I'm bound by canon law.

Were you ever able to observe her

outside the confessional?

Something you could talk about.

No.

Father, may I ask,

were you ever romantically intimate with Brenda Wilbur?

Father, I asked you a question.

I'll need to insist on an answer.

Did you have sex with Brenda Wilbur?

MARCUS: Father...

we need a response.

Yes...

I did.

Was it she who seduced you?

Yes.

Did she ever threaten to expose this

to bring shame upon you and your parish?

No...

she did not.

The other night, I came up here to sit.

I was pretending we were 10 years old again.

With everything ahead of us.

I've always believed life should come

with one free "do over."

Are we gonna win?

Listen,

our defense has shifted a little.

After I call Paul, I'm calling you.

Me?

You need to explain

why you bribed Catherine Piper.

You need to convince the jury

Paul had nothing to do with that.

I thought the idea was to distance me

from the defense. SHORE: Well,

you've made that impossible.

PAUL: We had made love that day.

Evening, really,

it was around 6:00.

I left, returned around 10:00

after I couldn't get her on the phone.

And then I found her.

Dead?

Yes.

Then what did you do?

I was experiencing panic.

Panic?

I'm--

I was a married man,

a family man,

I had a lot riding in this community

that stemmed from leading a life of integrity.

I think I felt my life imploding.

Why didn't you call the police?

Clearly, I should have.

There was nothing I could do to help Brenda.

As I said, I panicked and I ran to Tom.

Father Dugan? PAUL: Yes.

I went to the church,

I think, I guess to...

seek counsel or support.

And then when I got to the church,

I saw somebody from the cleaning crew

and I panicked once again.

I ran to my mother's.

What did you do there?

PAUL: There's a tree house in the woods

out back that I built

as a child with you, actually.

It's a hideout from the world.

I think I went there to seek refuge, I guess.

Paul, how long had you been having

an affair with Brenda?

It was two years.

SHORE: Do you know if there were other men in her life?

I believe there were, yes.

But she would never tell me because...

Because why?

Because she knew I loved her.

Did you kill her?

No.

I was there that night

but I didn't kill her

and I didn't see who did.

CLARKE: You find a loved one

lying in a pool of blood,

you don't call an ambulance,

you don't call the police,

you just leave.

I knew she was dead.

And as for the police, I--

my family name in this town-- Oh, yes,

the family name.

Tell me about this tree house you built?

You're into carpentry, doctor?

It's a hobby.

Hobby?

Funny, we confiscated a toolbox in the trunk of your car.

Couldn't find a hammer.

The toolbox was missing more than just a hammer.

It was also missing several tools--

But, notably, the hammer.

I believe you seized several hammers from my house.

None that matched that set.

PAUL: Look, you traced my moves that night.

If I had tossed or ditched

a weapon-- CLARKE: Where's the hammer,

Dr. Stewart? Your Honor,

I must object to this. It's one thing

not to have evidence, it's quite another to try

to prosecute with that which you do not have.

Well, I tell you, I have a hammer.

It's a hammer of justice,

it's a hammer of freedom.

It's a song about love

between my brothers and my sisters

all over this land.

Except, perhaps, Dedham, Massachusetts.

What?

I have good news and bad news.

SHORE: Bad news first.

My focus group thinks Paul is guilty.

And the good?

They love you.

Splendid.

Alan, we might want to think about a plea.

Okay.

I think not.

This focus group is obviously

trying to tell us something. SHORE: Jamie,

try to understand this.

If we plead out,

I don't get to give my closing.

And I've practiced it, so.

You need to take this seriously.

PAUL: Everybody out now.

Except Alan.

I'm the client, I get to call the occasional shot.

Everybody out now.

(door closes)

Seems like the old days.

You and I getting in all kinds of trouble

and you having the time of your life.

I'm facing prison.

I'm doing the very best I can.

Is there a good deal to be made here?

For a guilty man, I'm sure there's a terrific deal

to be had. For the innocent

it would be despicably unfair.

Which would you like, Paul?

Good or bad?

I didn't kill Brenda.

I know you didn't.

So let's not quit.

I know it was a stupid thing to do.

SHORE: So why did you do it?

I suppose I was afraid that...

my son wouldn't get a fair trial.

I know how people think of me.

SHORE: But, Victoria, if you knew

your son was innocent,

why bribe a witness?

Catherine Piper's so biased.

I was...

concerned that she'd paint

the worst possible picture,

And I--

it was a bad idea.

One that--

I was probably...

blinded a little...

by my love for Paul.

Your love for Paul.

The perception is Paul

is the most precious thing in your life.

Yes.

As Paul's oldest friend,

I've known you a very long time,

haven't I?

Yes, you have.

SHORE: When I was 16 years old,

you and I made love.

Several times, in fact.

(gavel bangs)

(gavel banging)

MARCUS: Mr. Shore,

as riveted as I am and I am,

I'm not sure this

has anything to do with this trial.

I'm afraid it does, Your Honor.

Sleeping with me caused you

a great deal of distress,

didn't it, Victoria?

As I recall, you saw a therapist,

and he opined you were perhaps,

on some unconscious level,

not so much making love to me

but rather to Paul.

Victoria, are you in love with your son?

That's ridiculous. Is it?

I once asked you why you never remarried

after your husband died.

And your response was,

"You know full well why."

Was that an admission to me

you were in love with your son?

I love my son...

the way a mother loves a child.

It was never romantic love.

Did you kill Brenda Wilbur?

Brenda Wilbur was not only compromising your son

with a sordid affair,

she was not only destroying his family,

his reputation,

she was sleeping with the man

you wanted to sleep with.

That is sick.

If I'm gonna be accused of such depravity,

I should like to consult an attorney.

That's all right, Victoria.

I won't accuse you of anything.

Well,

that was wonderful.

I guess, since paying off the witness didn't work out,

why not a little performance.

And that was just wonderful.

I guess we'll leave it at,

you really, really love your son.

MARCUS: Mr. Shore?

Defense rests, Your Honor.

SHORE: Ideally, whenever a crime is committed,

the police should conduct an open,

thorough investigation...

leading to a conclusion.

In the best case scenario,

the truth.

But that presumes having unlimited resources

which clearly we don't.

So, what often happens,

we pick the most likely guy

and exhaust what we've got trying to nail him.

That happened 80-plus years ago

with Sacco and Vanzetti,

it's happening here with Paul Stewart.

Every year,

10,000 innocent people

are convicted in this country.

That's according to one study.

Others say that figure is low.

That's staggering.

It's disgraceful.

Ten thousand

wrongful convictions every year.

Why?

Mainly because juries

don't insist on finding guilt

beyond all reasonable doubt.

When a person is killed,

we want somebody convicted.

It's human nature.

There's closure in saying a crime has been solved.

There's also safety in it.

We like to go to bed at night

thinking the bad guy has been captured,

especially in small towns

where we're desperate to feel safe.

Please, let Paul Stewart be the guy.

He must be the guy.

He's not the guy.

So, who is?

Catherine Piper is a lunatic

who not only derives glee

in making the Stewart family suffer,

she hated the victim as well.

And she just so happened to live

right across the street from her.

Wendy Stewart...

had motive.

She was angry and hurt.

Betrayed wives have certainly

been known to react with violence.

And she has no alibi.

Father Tom Dugan.

He had illicit sex with the victim.

She had a history of committing extortion,

he had everything to lose.

And let's not forget Victoria.

Obsessed with her son's life,

his reputation,

his legacy.

Or simply obsessed with her son.

The point is, people,

there are many

potential suspects in this case.

And that would include all the strangers

in Brenda Wilbur's life.

We know nothing of the nature

and disposition of those relationships,

of the possible jealousies and betrayals

precisely because...

they were never investigated.

Paul Stewart represented

only a small fraction

of this woman's life.

If this jury

is going to insist

on finding guilt

beyond all reasonable doubt,

Paul Stewart must be acquitted.

Nobody witnessed this crime being committed.

The murder weapon was never found,

despite the police tracing

my client's every step.

Prosecution inadvertently destroyed the victim's body

before we could properly examine it.

Of course, there's reasonable doubt.

Reasonable doubt.

I love Paul Stewart as I would a brother.

I grew up with him.

It's one of the reasons I know he's innocent.

He's not infallible,

he had an affair.

It may cost him his marriage,

perhaps the respect of his children.

But he did not--

Paul could not take the life

of another human being.

He simply could not.

This may surprise you.

I love Dedham, Massachusetts.

I grew up here.

I'm offended...

by its legacy of convicting innocent people

because I know that's not who we are.

This time,

let's set the innocent man free.

CLARKE: Rarely do we actually see somebody...

commit the crime.

Typically, criminal cases are circumstantial.

Now, the circumstances here

are that the defendant

had an affair with the victim.

There was evidence that she tried to extort him.

He had incentive to protect his family name,

and his community status.

His hair,

fibers, body oils were found

all over the victim.

His semen was found in the victim.

Blood all over his clothes.

He was spotted leaving the scene.

That is overwhelming

circumstantial evidence, ladies and gentlemen.

And it certainly allows you

to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Now, I suspect the defense counsel

already knows that, which is why

he began finger-pointing elsewhere, everywhere.

Oh, hey, maybe an eyewitness did it.

Oh, perhaps the priest.

Hey, how about the defendant's own mother?

And to compound this blatant attack

on your intelligence,

Mr. Shore buttons his eloquent closing

by appealing to your sense of justice.

This lawyer deliberately fell on the body

to contaminate evidence.

The mother of the defendant

tried to buy a witness.

They staged a performance by mom

to make you think

that she killed the victim out of jealousy.

Now, this would be funny

if it weren't a murder trial.

But it is.

That man picked up a hammer

and bludgeoned a woman to death.

He's asking you to ignore that

because of Sacco and Vanzetti.

The police didn't explore any other suspects,

ladies and gentlemen, because there are

no other suspects.

Paul Stewart is the man

who killed Brenda Wilbur,

which is why he dashed off to his priest

to confess.

(music playing)

At some point, will they send us home?

9:00.

He was really compelling,

the DA.

How many times are you gonna say that?

Well, I said you were good too.

If the news is bad,

do I go into custody right away?

The news isn't gonna be bad.

We're winning.

(music playing)

(indistinct chatter)

Don't they make eye contact when it's an acquittal?

No. Yes.

MARCUS: I'm going to call on the Foreperson

to read the verdict.

And I want decorum

maintained by everyone,

especially the media.

Madam Foreperson,

do you have a verdict?

Yes, Your Honor.

Mr. Stewart,

you may stand up for the reading.

Would you please...

announce your verdict?

FOREPERSON: On the matter of the Commonwealth

vs. Paul Stewart,

on the charge of murder in the first degree,

we, the jury, find the defendant,

Paul Stewart,

not guilty.

(indistinct chatter)

MARCUS: The jury is dismissed.

(gavel bangs) MARCUS: We're adjourned.

(applause)

MAN: Mr. Shore.

(indistinct chatter)

Thank you.

TARA: Paul, Congratulations.

Boo.

Boo.

I don't know what to say.

You owe me a lot of beer.

I just have two questions for you.

Okay.

Who do you think killed her, really?

How in God's name would I know?

It wasn't me.

Did you really love my mother?

I did.

That stuff about her being romantically in love

with me, is any of that...

Trial strategy.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I got a great idea.

When's the last time you smoked pot?

Wow.

Depending on the...

integrity of the container. What are you doing?

Our secret panel in the tree trunk.

I put some good Columbian down there years ago.

It's nailed.

When did it get nailed?

I don't know. It looks like an old nail.

How can you see in this light whether--

Paul, if I were to shine a light down the tree trunk,

what might I see?

I don't want to look down the tree trunk,

do I, Paul?

No, you don't.

I really loved her, you know?

And she didn't.

(sighs)

I really loved her.

(music playing)

(music playing)

BOY: Score! Score! Score! WOMAN: You stinker!

BOY: Oh. (groans)

(music playing)