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[Crickets chirping]

[Intense music]

[Phone keypad beeping]

[Phone line ringing]

(Woman on phone) '911.
What is your emergency?'

(male #1) 'We've been
attacked... Stabbed.'

(woman on phone) 'Sir, stay
calm. What is your address?'

w-we need an ambulance now!

(Woman on phone) 'Okay, take a
deep breath and tell me your address.'

[groans] Um, 3756 wilcom road.

My wife... Sarah..

There's blood everywhere.

[Siren wailing]

My wife's not breathing.

She needs O2 and
compressions. I'm a doctor.

I need you to let
go of your wife

and let us take
care of you both.

- How badly are you hurt?
- Forget about me.

Treat her. Help her!

Sir, please, I need your help.

Treat her, please.

Treat her. No. No.

Oh, god.

'Sarah..'

[siren wailing]

[Instrumental music]

[Indistinct chatter]

[Music continues]

(Male #2) 'The prints
match the victim's account.'

'we've got a suspect in custody.
His name is Austin Jackson.'

just turned 19, he's
already got a rap sheet

for a stolen car, drugs

and possession with
intent to distribute.

That kid did everything
but sign the crime scene

and have it notarized.

We found a knife with
both the victims' blood on it

'and Austin's prints on it'

in the bushes
outside the back door.

- Is that a steak knife?
- Yeah.

It matches a set from
the towers' kitchen.

Our theory is, Austin
broke in the backdoor

got caught mid-burglary

attempted to kill
all the witnesses.

Do the towers have kids?

Uh, two boys, uh, 15 and 16.

But luckily they were
spending the night

at their grandmother's house.

Was this random,
or did the suspect

know these people?

Austin was part of an
at-risk teen program

at a community center that
Sarah towers volunteered.

These photos are
fairly gruesome.

He slit her throat
open from ear to ear.

What about the doctor?

He ended up with
multiple stab wounds

and a collapsed left lung.

And he still
managed to call 911?

He's a trained surgeon.
He knew not to panic.

The evidence against
Mr. Jackson is overwhelming.

Almost too overwhelming.

Well, sometimes things are
exactly what they look like.

Okay, let's arraign
Austin Jackson

for one count of murder,
one count of attempted murder

in the commission of a burglary.

(Male #3) 'Mr. Jackson, do you
understand the charges against you?'

- I didn't kill anybody.
- Austin, just answer yes or no.

Mr. Jackson, do you
understand the charges?

Yeah, I understand

you want my ass off the
street, but I didn't do it.

- Bailiff, remove the defendant.
- I didn't kill anybody!

I didn't kill anybody! Come on.

I didn't kill anybody!
Why y'all doing this to me?

The people request
that Mr. Jackson be held

without bail.

So ordered.

Okay, people, let's
get this party started.

Maureen, where do we
stand on the towers case.

Dr. Towers is
still hospitalized.

He's recovering
well from his wounds.

Is the accused still
on suicide watch?

Yeah, but it's probably
just a defense stunt

to try and influence
his competency hearing.

What do we know
about Austin Jackson

aside from his rap sheet?

High school dropout, broken home

according to his
latest probation officer.

How many probation officers
has this young man had?

Two, one in junior high

after a car theft
arrest, which sounds

more like a joy
ride than anything.

And another his sophomore
year of high school

for the drug charges.

But he hasn't been in trouble

for the last three years.

Probation officers

and all his high school
counselors agree

Austin's problems began

when his family split up.

His mother is Mia.

His father threw him out
of the house last summer.

Still, he was
staying out of trouble

and making a lot of
improvement in the youth program.

With mitigating circumstances,
a jury might have a hard time

sentencing him to death.

Okay, check with Austin's pd.

Let's offer him life in
exchange for a guilty plea.

Let's see if we can
save the taxpayers

a million dollar trial.

I'm deposing Dr. Towers

and his family this morning.

Danny, I'm going to need
you to man a camcorder

and take some
depositions for me.

I'm up for that.

Dr. Towers?

[Groans] You must
be the prosecutor.

This are my sons.
Alex and Jacob.

- Hi. I'm annabeth chase.
- I'm Danny robel.

- Hey.
- We're so sorry for your loss.

We're gonna do our best
to keep these interviews

as brief as possible.

But please remember,
that you'll be under oath

so everything you
say will become

part of the official
court record.

I woke up around midnight.

And I knew someone
was in the room.

- 'Austin Jackson?'
- Yes.

And he was drunk,
or on something.

And I told him to get out.

Then we argued,
and he stabbed me.

And actually..

I felt the knife
before I even saw it.

Where were you
when he attacked you?

Well, I got up. Uh, I
was fighting him off.

Standing up or sitting?

Yeah, I stood up.
W-We were face-to-face.

[Grunts] Grappling,
and he-he stabbed me

here... here... and here.

Where was your
wife during all of this?

Um, Sarah takes sleeping pills.

And so, she was out of
it, she was sound asleep.

Um..

[Exhales] See, and when he
stabbed me, I fell down on my knees

and so, by the
time I got to Sarah..

He had already..

[Sobbing]

He cut her throat.

It... it was horrific.

I'm so sorry.

I hate Austin.

Is there anything
else you wanna say?

I wish he was dead.

You're absolutely certain
that the man who attacked you

and killed your wife
was Austin Jackson?

Yes. Without a doubt.

You know, Sarah..

She was never very
good with boundaries

and she was always bringing
her work home with her.

She... she'd invite Austin

over the house on the
weekend because she thought

it was good for him to be in
a stable family environment

and... until he
started stealing things

showing up high.

And so, we finally
had to tell him

that we didn't want him around.

- How did he react?
- He was livid.

When was this?

The weekend before
he broke into our house

and attacked us.

(Alex) 'They were all
arguing in the kitchen'

so mom and dad just told
Austin to get out and stay out.

And that's when Austin
just went kind of haywire.

Like, he started crying
and saying he didn't do it.

'It was freaky.'

but I never thought that Austin
would come back with a knife.

I'm sorry about your mom.

He slit her throat.

Sarah was the only
person who gave me

the benefit of the doubt.

She believed in me
when no one else did.

Pushed for me to
finish high school.

She did more for me
than my own mother.

I'd kill myself
before I'd kill her.

(Maureen) 'Then how did your
fingerprints get on the knife?'

don't answer that.

I don't know.

Mr. Jackson, we are prepared
to take the death penalty

off of the table in
exchange for a confession.

How many years
are we looking at?

It depends upon
what he tells us.

- Okay, I'll confess.
- 'Austin.'

I confess to being
in my apartment

the night that Sarah
was murdered.

I confess to being nowhere near
their house when it happened.

I confess to never stealing
anything from that family.

I confess to being a
screwup when I was a kid

but I didn't kill Sarah,
and I didn't stab the doctor!

(Lou) 'How long have you
and Austin lived together?'

I just split the rent with him.

We're not gay or
freaky or anything.

Would you answer
my question, please?

Uh, since fall semester started.

I go to community college

I'm sort of on academic
probation though.

Were you at home 12:30,
the night of the sixth?

You mean the night
of the stabbing?

Yeah, I was here
and Austin was, too.

- All night long?
- Yeah.

You sure about that?

I would've heard him
if he went anywhere.

'I sleep on the couch.'

he would've had to walk by me.

He was here.

We were watching TV.

You willing to testify to that?

Sure. Why not?

You know what the
penalty for perjury is?

Yeah. What?

Perjury.

It's lying under oath.

'It's a felony.'

now I'm gonna talk
to your neighbors.

I'm gonna ask you one more time.

Austin was home all night.

[Intense music]

I was the trauma surgeon on duty

the night Lee towers
came into the er.

I was shocked to see
these terrible stab wounds.

Dr. Towers' assailant has
been charged with felony murder

and I'll ask for the
maximum sentence

but to get it, I need
to convince a jury

that this was a vicious crime.

Lee had already lost
three pints of blood.

Another few minutes, he would've
suffered massive heart failure

or bled to death.

Would you be willing
to testify to this?

Absolutely.

Lee towers is an
outstanding member

of this medical staff.

I trust him with my life.

Thank you, doctor.
We'll be in touch.

Excuse me. I couldn't
help overhearing.

Do you mind if we talk
somewhere private?

Well, none of his
neighbors saw Austin

leave the apartment that night.

Dr. Towers called 911 at..

"12:21 in the morning"

and not too many people
are awake at that hour.

Still..

If Austin has an alibi

that means Dr. Towers is lying.

I'm checking out
the roommate's story.

And from what I can tell so far

I have no reason
not to believe him.

Well, I think a jury
would take the word

of a respected
physician over the word

of a high school dropout's
roommate any day.

I'm a trauma nurse in the er.

We see a lot of stab victims.

Um, maybe I shouldn't
be telling you this

but it's been weighing
on my mind all week.

I'm listening.

Knife wounds are messy

especially when the
assailant attacks in rage.

They're not precise.

Dr. Towers' wounds were.

I don't understand.

He was stabbed
twice in the abdomen.

But it was in the
fleshiest part of the torso

and missed vital organs.

Uh... his lung was
only partially collapsed.

It was barely punctured.

So what are you saying?

I think Dr. Towers' wounds
might have been self-inflicted.

[Intense music]

Alright, lemme
get this straight.

You're saying that Dr. Towers

slit his wife's throat

and, then, because he knew

the police would
assume that he did it

he stabbed himself, not once

not twice, but three times..

And then devised this
story about a troubled kid

attacking them both?

I know, it's kind of a stretch.

Kind of?

You got to admit
it's a smart cover-up.

If a woman is
murdered in her bed

and her husband's in the bedroom

he's a logical suspect.

Despite the fact that he's
a pillar of the community.

But stabbing himself? I
mean, that's gotta hurt.

- That's really gotta hurt.
- He's a surgeon.

He's got the guts and
the know-how to do it

without causing major damage.

I thought Austin
Jackson's fingerprints

were on the knife,
not the doctor's.

Well, we don't exactly
have an answer for that yet.

I do. The answer
is Austin did it.

Or... maybe the doctor
was wearing surgical gloves.

What? He somehow got
Austin's fingerprints on the knife

put on gloves, and
then took said knife

and slit his wife's throat and
stabbed himself three times

to create a plausible cover-up?

Maybe.

That is beyond premeditation

that is just evil-genius stuff.

I mean, that is sick.

Do you have any evidence
whatsoever to support that?

We don't know yet.

[Sighs] What does the
blood evidence say?

The blood evidence
isn't talking.

The crime scene was
trampled through by emts

and freaked out police officers

and most of all, by
the doctor himself

who was allegedly
trying to save his wife.

Look, if there is any
chance the doctor did this

we have an
obligation to look into it.

[Sighs] Alright.

If you can get an
expert to confirm

that the doctor's
wounds were self-inflicted

then proceed with caution.

If this guy is this sneaky,
we got to be sneakier.

Right.

What about Austin?

Let's leave him in
custody and proceed it

as if he's our man.

He's in an isolation cell

with a death-penalty charge

over his head, Steve.

As far as I'm concerned

this self-inflicted wound theory

is just that, a theory.

Mr. Jackson is a long
way from being cleared.

[Exhales]

Okay, what am I looking for?

Actually, it might be better
if you tell me what you see.

Ah, I love a mystery.

This guy a drinker?

I don't think so. I
don't know, actually.

I'm just asking.

The liver looks
a little enlarged

which makes him
extra lucky, since this..

- Stab wound?
- Yeah.

The stab wound
just misses his liver.

This one just misses his spleen

and comes within an
inch of the large intestine

which, believe me, is one place
you don't wanna get stabbed.

Anything else?

Uh, the wounds appear
to be very straight

almost plunges.

Any chance the victim
was lying on his back?

He says he was standing,
facing his attacker.

Well, if that's the case, then
the wounds would typically have

an upward thrust,
and-and lying on your back

there's more space
between the internal organs

which would help
explain the near misses.

Hypothetically, let's say you

as a doctor, were gonna
self-inflict these wounds..

Ooh, the plot thickens.

That's not a question
I've ever been asked.

Easy answer though,
I would lie on my back

with a mirror in my left
hand and the knife in my right

to make sure I got the
precise position for each thrust.

And this would result
in a straight wound?

If I'm any good.

How would I go about finding
out why his liver's enlarged?

I could run a toxicology
screen for you.

If the patient
ended up in the er

then they drew blood on him.

And by the way, if I was
planning on stabbing myself

I'd want to be plenty medicated.

Hmm.

Ms. Chase, do you mind telling
me what this is really about?

I mean, you've already
taken their statements.

We just wanna make sure
your kids are prepared for the trial

in case they're
deposed by the defense.

And I suppose you want
to speak with them alone?

They'll be less
inhibited that way.

'I know your mom and
dad argued with Austin.'

'did they ever argue
about anything else?'

well, all married
people argue, right?

What sort of things
did they argue about?

Just, you know,
normal stuff like

what restaurants to go
to, what movies to see.

Look, why don't you just ask
us what you really wanna know?

[Sighs] Austin's attorney is
gonna pry into your home life.

So, we need to know what kind
of relationship your parents had.

My dad's a doctor,
he's never home.

My mom did volunteer work.

What kind of relationship
do you think they had?

Shut up.

Do you know if they
talked about splitting up?

Wh-why are you asking us this?

Yeah. Only they didn't
wanna talk about it.

Mom got herself a lawyer.

- Jacob.
- Nah, dude, she did.

She also made my
dad go see a therapist.

Well, she made us all go to
that stupid therapist, not just dad.

Yeah, but you know why?
Because dad wouldn't go by himself.

Sounds like they were trying
to work out their problems.

Mom was.

You know, I..

Dad was, too, you know, I-I
know they loved each other.

(Alex) 'Dad took us
on vacation last year.'

we all had a really good time.

Florida. Miami.

(Maureen) 'I've got a friend
who only does divorces.'

it was a one phone call.

And he knew right
away who was handling

Mrs. Towers' divorce claim?

Well, he knew who would know.

So, I guess,
technically, it was..

Two phone calls.

Huh.

Sarah towers was going
to divorce her husband

but only if she could get
sole custody of the kids.

Why did she want sole custody?

Well, a lot of
parents fight for it

especially in an ugly divorce.

Actually, in my experience

most parents want joint custody

unless there's a
compelling reason

to keep the kids away
from their spouse.

So, what was Dr. Towers
doing to make Sarah think

he was an unfit parent?

I was her attorney

and everything we
discussed was privileged.

The privilege
belongs to the client

and your client
has been murdered.

Actually, privilege
extends beyond death.

Sarah's only
interest at this point

is in prosecuting her murderer.

That's your opinion, and I
may actually agree with it

but it's not black letter law.

If she wanted to take her
sons away from their father

she had to have a good reason.

Are those boys in danger?

[Intense music]

I can get a court
order if necessary.

I will tell you this.

I advised Mrs. Towers to
keep a contemporaneous record

a detailed log
of all her reasons

for wanting sole custody.

And... to the best of
my knowledge, she did.

When was the last time
she came to see you?

About a month before
she was murdered.

[Music continues]

I'm Sarah's mother. I would
know if she wanted a divorce.

You saw the boys,
you saw Sarah's home.

Did it look to you like
she was unhappy?

Nobody's marriage is perfect.

I just want to give the
jury an accurate picture

of the situation.

Well, when he was, uh..

Under a lot of pressure at work

Lee sometimes got a
little short-tempered.

But they've been happy
together for 20 years.

I have every reason
to protect my grandsons

and if there was a
serious problem... I'd know.

Jekyll and Hyde, Dr. Towers
could have been one way

in public, and
another in private

and Sarah could
have hidden that fact

from everybody for years.

Hid it from her own mother?

Are you kidding me?

Especially from her mother.

So, what's the motive here?

Things had reached
a breaking point.

'Sarah was gonna leave him'

and expose the dirty
laundry of their marriage.

Dr. Towers murdered his wife
to keep that from happening.

So we're supposed to
believe the doctor orchestrated

this elaborate plan
to kill his wife to avoid

the public humiliation
of a troubled marriage?

[Chuckles] The divorce
rate is reaching 60%, people.

Some men choose to
brutally murder their wives

rather than go
through a divorce.

'It makes the killer
into the victim.'

everybody feels sorry for them

they get to be the
grieving widower

instead of the
self-centered jerk

who deserted his wife and kids.

Scott Peterson. And
that-that hacking fellow.

What was his first name?

I'm just saying.

What do we know about
the towers' marriage?

Well, we know that
Sarah took sleeping pills.

We know Dr. Towers
made beaucoup bucks.

We know he was never home,
and rarely paid attention to her.

And, according to
her divorce attorney

Sarah towers was willing
to risk losing everything

'in order to keep her children
away from their father.'

- why?
- Jekyll and Hyde.

It had to be something extreme.

We need to get this
contemporaneous diary

her attorney told her keep.

You need to talk to
towers' kids again.

I've already
questioned them twice

they've said everything
they're willing to tell us.

Alright, Lou, draft a warrant,
have your guys search

the towers' house once more.

So, we literally are
looking for a diary?

It's 2006, Lou. Might
wanna check her computer.

Sarah towers was
keeping some sort of log

on her computer..

But it's been deleted.

Sometimes our tech guys

can recover deleted files.

Not this time.

Whoever did this reformatted

the hard drive partition

and used a
military-grade file wipe.

Which means..

They wanted these
files to be gone

and stay gone.

Totally unrecoverable.

When were these files deleted?

Two weeks before
she was murdered.

Which means

either Sarah towers deleted
these files herself, or...

Or her husband
deleted them for her.

Okay. Let's confront
Dr. Towers with the evidence.

See if he can find
a clever way out.

Doctor, if you don't mind,
I'd like you to walk us through

what happened the night of
the attack just one more time.

Walk you through it?

You know, with all due respect

how much more do
you people need?

Austin's prints
are on the knife.

Yes, but according
to the crime lab

they're in the wrong
place on the knife.

Austin held the knife like this

as if he was cutting
a piece of steak.

A frenzied stabbing would
have left smeared prints

all over the knife not
a neat little pattern.

And that's just one of
the many inconsistencies

we found in your story.

[Scoffs] You think
I killed my wife?

'You know, I've traveled
halfway around the world'

to perform surgeries and
provide medical attention

to people in
disadvantaged nations.

Why would I dedicate
my entire career..

To saving lives and then
turn around and come home

and kill the woman that I've
been married to for 20 years?

That's what you were banking on

given your status, your work

we'd never suspect you,
especially not if we found

someone else's
prints on the weapon.

Our theory is, your wife
invited Austin to dinner.

You took the knife he
held while having a meal

in your home and saved it.

Once you succeeded in
turning your family against Austin

you started a round of
antibiotics as if you knew

what was happening
next... Which you did.

The antibiotics were to
help ward off infection.

The hydrocodone, to
help relieve the pain.

You're not only a lawyer,
but you're a doctor, too.

Where'd you go to
medical school, dear?

A trained toxicologist reached

these conclusions, Dr. Towers.

Tell your trained monkey
that I had a bladder infection

and I treated myself
with antibiotics.

According to our monkey

you also treated
yourself with Lidocaine

to numb the area around
your incisions, doctor.

I'm sure that these tactics
might work with the lowlifes

that you usually deal
with, but I know my rights.

Well, the only thing
that I am guilty of

is allowing my wife

to give some hopeless
dropout a chance.

I mean, she practically
took the ged test for him

and Austin was still never
gonna turn out to be anything.

Which doesn't change
the fact that he has an alibi.

Look, if I wanted
to kill my wife

there are a hundred different
ways that I could have done it

and each of them would
have been a hell of a lot easier

than what you're proposing
took place that night, so..

'You know, if you want
me to answer any more'

of your questions

then I'm gonna need
to call my lawyer.

I suggest you do that.

And tell him that
you're about to be

arrested for murder.

[Intense music]

Where's my lawyer?

You don't need a lawyer.

Austin, we're dropping
the charges against you.

You're free to go.

We owe you an apology for
putting you through this ordeal.

You know who killed Sarah?

We do.

We believe it was her husband.

I hope to god
that he pays for it.

Dr. Lee towers
had an enviable life.

He was a highly paid
internist, a respected family man

but his wife
wanted to leave him.

Dr. Towers was
sickened by the thought

of losing his money, his family

his reputation and his image.

So instead of letting
his wife leave him

he planned and executed
a near perfect crime.

The evidence will show
beyond a doubt that Dr. Towers

staged a break-in, that
he slit his wife's throat.

That he then used
his surgical skills

to make it appear as though
he himself had been attacked

'and that he framed an innocent
young man for the crime.'

the evidence will, in fact,
show that Sarah towers

was killed by an assailant

who left fingerprints on a
knife covered with her blood

and her husband's blood.

This assailant broke into their
home, murdered Sarah in her bed

and then viciously stabbed
Dr. Towers three times.

The police arrested
Austin Jackson.

They started building
a case against him.

Then they hit a roadblock
and they started looking around

for a scapegoat.

This trial is about the
arrogance of the da's office.

They refused to admit they were
wrong, and they would rather see

an innocent man go to jail
than let their high-profile case

go unsolved.

It was a clean slice that
severed both carotid arteries.

The precise nature of the cut

and the lack of defensive
wounds indicates that Sarah towers

was asleep when
her throat was cut.

And how would you describe
Dr. Towers' stab wounds?

Surgical. Thank you.
Precise. Relatively shallow.

Based on the angles

and the fact that each
would miss a major organ

it's my opinion that the
defendant stabbed himself.

Thank you.

Can you prove that Dr. Towers'
wounds were self-inflicted?

That is the most
likely explanation.

Despite the fact

that his left lung collapsed?

Yes.

Despite the fact that he lost

three pints of blood

'went into severe shock'

and according to
the trauma surgeon

at the emergency room

was moments away from death

you still believe

he stabbed himself
with a steak knife?

That is my expert opinion.

- Can you prove it?
- No.

(Patrick) 'You've testified there
were large amounts of hydrocodone'

and Lidocaine in
Dr. Towers' system.

- Yes.
- In layman's terms..

If it were alcohol,
what's the equivalent?

The way you'd feel after
about 12 drinks, I guess.

And would you
guess that Dr. Towers

took these powerful sedatives

before or after he
allegedly stabbed himself?

Well, I'd assume he would
have taken them beforehand

'in order to squelch the pain.'

so, he swallowed the
equivalent of the 12 martinis

and then somehow
managed to stage a break-in

slit his wife's throat

perform extremely
precise surgery on himself

just missing vital organs
by a few centimeters

and then plant the murder weapon
outside in the bushes, call 911

and get to the hospital
just in the Nick of time?

Where's the
question, your honor?

My question is, how in
god's name did he do it?

- Your honor...
- My question is..

Can you determine the exact
time he allegedly took these drugs?

I'd estimate the drugs
were taken before midnight

and they weren't
on his medical chart.

Have you ever known a chart

in an er to be wrong, ever?

It's possible.

The divorce attorney's up next.

Then we might have
a chance to recover

from that last debacle.

If the jury likes her.

Watching lyman
tear witnesses apart

wouldn't be half bad if
we got a shot at towers.

Well, with the way things have
been going they've got no reason

to risk putting
towers on the stand.

Excuse me.

Mrs. Chamberlain,
I'm sure this trial

must be very difficult
for you to sit through.

What's difficult is listening
to your lies and conjecture.

What's difficult is sitting
beside my grandsons

while the two of you ruin
their father's reputation.

Thank you.

Thank you for dragging
our family through hell.

[Intense music]

You were subpoenaed
and forced to appear

as a hostile witness
today, is that correct?

Yes, Sarah towers
was a legal client

and the substance
of our conversations

remains confidential.

The witness will abide
by attorney-client privilege

and strictly limit
herself to the facts.

Is it a fact that Sarah towers
was seeking a divorce?

Yes.

Is it a fact that
she was seeking

sole custody of her children?

Yes.

Is it your opinion that a
court would have granted

her custody requests
had Mrs. Towers lived?

- Objection.
Speculation - overruled.

- 'The witness may answer.'
- 'Yes.'

I believe the court
would have awarded

Mrs. Towers sole custody.

- 'Can you tell us why?'
- Your honor..

I'm not at Liberty to say.

Are you at Liberty to
say why the courts usually

historically, Grant sole custody
to one parent over another?

Usually a court only
awards sole custody

in cases of extreme
spousal or child abuse.

And was that the case
in the towers' house?

Your honor, this speculation..

Was Dr. Towers
abusing his family?

And character assassination
has gone on far enough.

(Maureen) 'Was Dr. Towers
abusing his children?'

'was he abusing his wife?'

I am not at Liberty to say.

No more questions, your honor.

Lyman, lyman.

- You can't do this.
- Yes, yes! I have a right.

- It's not a good idea.
- No, you've gotta do it.

My children have a
right to hear the truth.

Your honor, the defense
will be calling Dr. Lee towers

as our first witness.

Yes, my wife had decided
that she needed a break

from our marriage and we
were talking about separating.

Can you tell us why
your wife wanted to leave?

- Were you unfaithful?
- Oh, god, no.

- Was it about money?
- No.

It wasn't about
cheating or money.

It was about protecting her.

I was trying to save
her from herself.

We were separating because..

My wife was addicted
to prescription drugs.

'When did your wife's problem'

'with prescription
medications begin?'

it was four years ago.

Uh, she was suffering
severe back pain

from a pinched nerve.

Did you try to get help?

I made her go to
family counseling.

She didn't want anybody
to know about her

especially the boys.

And, you know, I thought
that we could work through it

because she'd thrown
away all her pills, and she..

She swore that she'd kicked
the habit, and then I, um..

Well, I got very
busy with my work..

And before long, I
realized that she had been..

Getting high behind
my back the whole time.

I caught her forging my
signature on prescriptions.

Oh, my god.

And then I found out that
she was also getting drugs

from Austin Jackson.

The young man
your wife mentored?

Yes. And I told him that
I didn't want him around.

I-I wanted him to just stay
away from my wife and our family.

- How did he take this?
- He was angry, he was hurt.

And less than a week later..

My wife was dead.

'No further
questions, your honor.'

we will reconvene at
9:00 A.M. tomorrow.

Towers is a rat.

First he kills her,
then he blames her

for causing her own death.

You think we should call
towers' son to the stand

and force them to testify

about their parents'
troubled marriage?

If we do that, the
jury will hate us

for tearing the family
even more apart.

Alright, okay. Stop. Breathe.

We need to find out if there's
any truth to what towers said

about his wife
being a drug addict

the coroner must've
run a tox screen

on Sarah's blood, right?

Wrong. Given the fact
that her throat was cut

the cause of death was
a little more than obvious.

Crap.

I'll talk to drummer
about pulling

some of her blood from evidence.

If Sarah was half as strung
out as he says she was

she would've had drugs in
her system at the time of death.

Okay.

[Dramatic music]

We'll need to request
a 24-hour continuance

from the judge to look
into these accusations.

Excuse me, Ms.
Chase. Ms. Scofield.

Jacob.

I'm so sorry you had
to go through this.

Yeah, my, uh, my
grandma was real upset.

But not with you
guys... With, uh, my dad.

You know, I... I
love my dad, but..

When he said those things
about my mom, he's lying.

My dad is lying.

It's okay, Jacob. It's okay.

You know, my mom may
have died because of drugs..

But she wasn't the
one abusing them.

You know, I-I know he's lying

because my dad was the
one using drugs, not my mom.

Is that the real reason your
mother wanted a divorce?

It was the main thing
they fought about.

You know? I mean, she
begged him to quit, you know?

I-I-I thought he had
because he would stop

or at least he would
pretend to stop..

'...for weeks, even
months at a time.'

but now I know
he's using... Again.

How long has he been an addict?

I don't know. Forever.

This is one of those things
that you-you-you start to believe

that it's normal,
you know? I mean..

I mean, you guys have seen
him, he's almost always using

but he never looks
messed up until..

You know, until he's
home alone at night.

I mean, you just assume
that everybody's dad..

He comes home and
he trashes the house

because he's discovered
that mom's flushed his stash.

Jacob, a divorce
attorney told us

that your mother was compiling
some sort of diary of evidence

to use in the
divorce proceedings.

It makes sense

I caught my mom taking
pictures of the bathroom

a couple weeks back.

I thought that maybe
she was just doing

a redecorating project, but..

I don't know, you
know, my dad, he..

My dad, he hides his
pills all over the house.

He hides them in-in-in drawers,
in his desk, in the garage.

He signed himself
prescriptions in all of our names

but none of them
are actually for us.

I don't know how many pills
he takes a day to just, to sleep

to get up, just to function,
you know? I don't, I don't know.

It's-it's..

Like, seriously,
it's like living

with two different people.

Anyway a few days after I caught
my mom taking those pictures..

[Sniffles] My dad
stormed into my room.

And he was waving the
digital camera in my face

and he was asking
if it belonged to me.

You think he discovered your mom

was compiling
evidence against him?

Yeah.

- Yeah, I do now.
- When was this, Jacob?

It was about two weeks or
so before my mom was killed.

I don't, I don't
think he killed her.

You know he's my
dad, he wouldn't do that.

I just..

I just, I-I-I don't want him lying
to everybody about my mom.

Would you be willing to tell
the jury what you've just told us?

No. No.

I don't think you'll need me to.

See... after my-my dad
went off about the camera

my mom, she gave me..

She gave me this memory
stick from our computer.

So she backed up her files.

I haven't looked at it.

All I know is that she told
me to hide it from my dad

and in this family... Hiding
things is what we do best.

Why didn't you tell
us about this before?

Because you're just gonna
use it to put my dad in jail.

(Annabeth) 'Playing hide and
seek with your family is one thing'

but how does a surgeon
at one of the top hospitals

get away with using
drugs all this time?

It happens more than you think.

They cover for each
other, these doctors.

A lot of doctors get
indoctrinated into these drugs

'during residency, when
they have to stay up'

'for long hours
and remain alert.'

in other words, the six
or seven cups of coffee

that became part of
my routine in law school

weren't gonna cut it.

Not when you have easy access

to high-grade pharmaceuticals.

Doctors are the worst at
admitting they have a problem.

They're supposed
to be in control.

Despite all the evidence
we've shown to the jury

evidence your own son
brought to our attention

you still maintain
that your wife was

the prescription
drug addict, not you.

- I covered for Sarah for years.
- We tested Sarah's blood.

The only thing we found in
her system were sleeping pills.

Well, then that was her
current drug of choice.

Did you sedate her
before you killed her?

- Objection.
- Withdrawn.

Why did you write
prescriptions for narcotics

in your children's names?

As I told you, Sarah
forged those prescriptions.

Did Sarah forge
prescriptions for narcotics

in your patients' names, too?

Well, she may have, yes.

Some of these patients are dead.

Some go to other doctors.

And yet, their pain medications
are routinely shipped

to your office through
mail-order pharmacies.

Your honor, the prosecutor
is badgering the witness.

Either ask a question
or move on, counselor.

- Did you kill your wife?
- Absolutely not.

Look, I save lives, I am
the head of internal medicine

at one of the finest
hospitals in this country!

Did you frame Austin
Jackson for her murder?

No, when I woke
up around midnight

Austin Jackson
was in our bedroom.

- He had a knife...
- Dr. Towers..

No, okay, no, I-I mean..

I felt the knife
before I saw it..

- Dr. Towers!
- I loved my wife!

Would you voluntarily
submit to blood and urine tests

to prove to the court you're not
under the influence of narcotics

at this very moment?

I'm not under the
influence of anything.

Would you take a test?

This is blatant disregard

for Dr. Towers'
rights to privacy

'and protection against
self-incrimination.'

this court cannot allow
this line of questioning

and badgering to continue.

Would you take a test?

[Intense music]

Nothing further.

(Judge salter) 'Has the
jury reached a verdict?'

we have, your honor.

The defendant will rise for
the reading of the verdict.

"In the state of Indiana
versus Lee towers

'"we the jury find
the defendant..'

'...guilty of murder
in the first degree."'

[instrumental music]

I know this has been
awful, but thank you, Jacob.

And you, too, Alex. Your mom
would be proud of you both.

I'm so sorry.

You have nothing
to apologize for.

You were just looking
out for your family.

Thank you.

[Music continues]

[Sighs]

Wasn't easy, but I got the
hospital files you wanted.

Oh, did the hospital
administrators

give you a hard time?

Oh, did they?

It was like I was trying to
get them to give me over

some weapons of mass destruction

you're really gonna
review every single surgery

that Dr. Towers performed?

I'm gonna start
with the operations

where somebody
died on the table.

The man was a drug addict
with a scalpel in his hand.

If even one patient
was negatively impacted

by his drug abuse, I
want to know about it.

Okay. Well, you can start on
this box, and I'll review these.

- Thanks, Lou.
- Only on one condition..

You go home... Pour
yourself a glass of wine

and you put your
feet up on a pillow

and enjoy the fact
that you won today.

All this splendor will still
be here tomorrow, so go.

'Go. Go and see your family.'

that is a deal I can
live with, detective.

Uh-uh. These stay.

You go.

Say goodnight, annabeth.

Goodnight, annabeth.

[Instrumental music]

[Theme music]