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[male announcer]
In New York City's
war on crime,

the worst criminal offenders
are pursued

by the detectives
of the major case squad.

These are their stories.

It's all set.

Simon Fife is in custody of
the Ho Chi Minh City police.

They'll hand him over to us
at gate three in ten minutes.

Then what's our suspect doing
up there?

Is that live?

Do you know
where that is?

[speaking Chinese]

[reporters
shouting questions]

[Goren]
Pardon us.

Excuse us.

Mr. Fife, did you kill
Amberleigh Harner?

Amberleigh
is still with us

if we're pure enough
to hear her.

[reporter]
Why did you
kill Amberleigh?

She died...

inadvertently...

in a moment
of intense love.

Why did you?

[Goren]
Excuse us.

Out of the way!

Mr. Fife, tell us
about your love...

NYPD!

Look, folks,
move out of the way.

There's
no more questions now.

Did he kill her?
Are you sure?

Simon Henry Fife?

NYPD.

He's in
our custody now.

[reporter]
Simon,
are you ready?

How are you feeling? [Goren]
Back off!

Autumn in New York?

It's time I go home.

[reporters shouting]

Let's go.

[Goren]
Out of the way.

Keep this on ice.

Simon.

Simon?

You must not fly much.

You haven't taken your eyes
off the window.

I've flown many times.

I just haven't numbed myself
to the miracle.

Sit down,
or I'll throw you off.

[Fife]
Reporters.

No shame.

The pain
they caused Beth.

Beth.

Amberleigh's mother?

Mr. Nate Royce helped me
understand the pain

she went through.

Nate Royce.

That's their
next door neighbor.

Beth's protector,

and my email confidante
for the last three months.

He turned me in,
didn't he?

The DA didn't brief us.

We found out
about this thing

an hour before
we got on the plane.

The time had come.

Sorry, time?
To confess?

The time the world
heard the story

of a pure love,
and of a world so corrupt,

it had to force that love
into darkness.

Where it perished.

[Faith Yancy]
They all look sweet
when they're sleeping.

But this
is one sick puppy.

He is Simon Henry Fife,

and tonight he is
in NYPD custody.

After 14 years,

the Halloween murder
of Amberleigh Harner--

this angel,

killed in the basement
of her Brooklyn home--

has at last been solved.

Bethany Harner,

Amberleigh's mother,
are there any words?

I have waited so long
for justice, Faith.

She was...

my star.

Your neighbor,
Mr. Nate Royce,

led them
to the killer.

Without
your perseverance,

Fife would still be
in Vietnam.

If you haven't
lost your lunch yet,

here's another photo.

Nate, how did you trap
this predator?

He emailed me
about three months ago.

Because of your book?

[Nate]
He wasn't the first sicko
to reach out,

but something
in his emails unsettled me.

I wonder what it was.

I stopped reading
when I got to Fife's line

about how he
made love to Amberleigh

while commingling
their blood.

There was no blood
in the basement,

except for Amberleigh's.

How much champagne
did you let him drink?

Hope you got something good
out of him.

Well, he idealizes children,
he demonizes adults.

He was most likely abused
by a parent.

I don't suppose you asked him
if he was in Brooklyn

on Halloween night, 1992?

Well, that's not exactly
a first interview question.

Detective, I don't care
about Fife's childhood pain

or his world view.

Brooklyn homicide
botched this case--

I was just trying to
gain his trust--

That's why
it was kicked to us.

Before Fife lawyers up--

What do you want me to do,
go old school,

slap him around
with a phone book

until he confesses?

[Ross]
I want the same thing
you want,

to be absolutely sure
he killed Amberleigh.

[Shankly]
Oh, he killed her.

The detail in his emails,
his knowledge of her home...

[Eames]
Amberleigh's become an icon
since her death.

There's a lot
of information out there.

Yes, I know, Detectives.

And hundreds of people
confessed to killing

the Lindbergh baby,
but Hauptmann did it.

[Ross]
Okay, fine.

Is there anything linking Fife
to the scene of the crime?

NYPD never secured
the crime scene.

A dozen people tramped
through that basement

before her body was found.

So that's a no?

There was a ransom call
from a phone booth at night.

A woman's voice, right?

"Feminine," I believe,
is the word.

And Fife?
Well, you've met him.

[Eames]
Any proof Fife

ever met Amberleigh,
stalked her?

Our investigators
are looking into it.

In the meantime,
let's arraign him.

[Ross]
In the meantime,
let's not.

He's comfortable
in our custody.

The longer we hold him,
the more he talks,

the better you look
when you convict.

I'd have to talk to--

[Ross]
Go ahead.

We'll wait.

24 hours,
if we're lucky.

A 14-year-old unsolved case,
24 hours to solve it?

Maybe someone close
to Amberleigh can place him.

It won't be easy, the mother
hasn't spoken to NYPD

since the night
of the murder.

And the ex-husband?

[Eames]
Away on business

the night of the murder, remarried,

and moved out west.

[Ross]
Pay a visit
to Amberleigh's mother.

Find out if she had ever

seen Fife
before he crawled out

of his Vietnamese sewer.

[doorbell chimes]

[Nate]
She's away, Detectives.

You're Nate Royce,
the author?

The friend.

And neighbor.

Beth disappears
around Halloween,

too many gawkers
coming by the house.

I'm surprised she
kept this home.

It's been hard for her
to move on.

I think now
she'll be able to.

You mean,
if Fife is guilty.
[scoffs]

[Eames]
Did you ever see Fife
watching Amberleigh?

[Nate]
No, but he knew
about the blood

on the couch,
the open dryer door.

Yeah, but still,
you know, her murder--

This home invasion homicide,
it was bold.

And, uh,
you've been fooled

by his whimsical
child/man character.

You think it's an act,
a persona?

That he might have
created this...

love affair he has
with Amberleigh?

I think he's pathological,
not creative.

[Goren]
Well, you'd know.

He creates characters.

You were a novelist,
weren't you?

I was,
until that awful night.

I...

You found a way
to be of service--

your book, website.

I did what I could
for Amberleigh.

It's been...

It's been hell.

My wife died four years
after Amberleigh,

and I've had to raise
our young son alone.

Well, Beth Harner
is very lucky to have you.

And we need to get
in touch with her.

She won't talk to NYPD,
you know that.[phone rings]

[Goren]
Mr. Royce, we know that

mistakes were made. Eames.

I could try to talk
to her.

She'll be angry
if she knows

I even let you walk
on her property.

It's the captain.

Fife is getting antsy.

He wants to speak to you.

Where's Bobby?
He believes me.

He does, I don't.

You ask me,
you made the whole thing up.

That's crazy.

You said it.

She was my girlfriend.

Right.
And you met her, where?

We met at her school.

I worked as a nurse.

And on Halloween night...

I made love to her.

There were no signs of...

love-making.

[Simon]
You don't believe me.
You want proof?

How about
her stomach contents?

Halloween?

You're gonna guess candy.

Just sesame logs.

She loved them.

I'm checking, checking.

They blacked it out.

[Simon]
She gorged

on sweet honey sesame candy
while I made love to her

on the night...
she left us.

The M.E. confirmed it.

Amberleigh ate sesame candy
in the last hours of her life.

That was kept out
of the autopsy report--

never published,
never leaked.

The Department of Ed confirms
Fife worked as a nurse

at Amberleigh's school
for two weeks that September.

A lot of people worked
at her school.

I told the DA
we'd strengthen her case.

You've done that.

The DA told you
that we had 24 hours.

We haven't been
into the crime scene.

We haven't
interviewed Beth.

[Eames]
You know the DA's office.

This case collapses,
they'll spin it

so everybody thinks
we botched it again.

And this case collapses how?

[Eames]
The ransom demand.

The caller said, "We have
your whore daughter."

Fife thinks he made
gentle love to Amberleigh.

Different fantasy.

Okay.

Keep the clock running.

Get a search warrant
for the Harner home.

Track down the detective who
first responded to the scene.

[Eames]
It wasn't a detective.

It was a rookie,
Linda Bonnardi.

Right, I forgot.

She'd just graduated.

Four months out.

A year later,
when I went to the Academy,

they were using her
as an example in class,

to prove that women
were too emotional to be cops.

She left the force
in disgrace.

Find her.

Happy Halloween.

[Bonnardi]
4:00 a.m.--
the mother, Beth,

just totally hysterical.

Said she heard
the kid scream,

ran to her bedroom.

Kid's gone.

Ten or 15 minutes later,
she gets a ransom call.

"We have your whore daughter.
We'll call back at 6:00.

Don't tell anyone."

That's when
she called us.

And you
searched the house?

And Matt interviewed Beth.

[Bonnardi]
Big mistake.

Beth had made
phone calls

before we arrived.

So while I'm searching,
people keep showing up.

People? The Royces.

You mean
Nate and Madeline?

And their kid.

Weird, right?

And you didn't
call for backup?

I thought
it was a prank.

But there was a ransom call.

I didn't believe her.

You get a call
like that,

"We have your whore daughter,
don't tell anybody,"

and you invite
ten friends over?

Mm-hmm,
I see your point.

[Bonnardi]
And the caller,

she said she'd call back
at 6:00.

At 6:00,
Beth is on the phone.

I tell her, "Hang up."

That 6:00 call
shoulda been all

she was thinking about.

Who went into
the basement?

I did, with Beth.

[door opens]

Nothing's changed.

That cellar door
wasn't open,

but it was not
in its locked position.

You noticed that?

No.

Beth did, uh...
right away.

Then I noticed
the dryer door ajar.

The light is on.

I open it...

For a second, I thought
she was sleeping.

[shuts dryer door]

You let Beth
take the body out.

I let her lead me
to the body.

She killed her daughter.

And because of me...

she got away with it.

Thank you.

Don't let her get away
with it this time.

She was a female rookie,
wanted to prove herself,

ended up making it harder
on the rest of us.

Yeah, Beth Harner's behavior
was very, very strange

that morning, but it's
another rookie cop's mistake

to think that strange behavior
equals guilt.

Nate's still on duty.

Mm-hmm, and he's
on the phone.

Wonder who
he's talking to.

No.
There is nothing else.

The DA has copies
of everything.

You're not...

writing a new book
about the case, are you?

I'm just polishing it now, actually.

Put you back
on that bestsellers list.

I am on your side.

Then put us in touch
with Beth Harner.

She would kill me,
if I--

What if I
just hit the "redial"?

Put that down!
Please.

I'm sorry,
I just try to protect her.

Look, she told me
she had never met Fife.

We like to get
our information firsthand.

And you wouldn't
want something

to delay the publication
of your book,

like, say, a subpoena
of your notes?

[knocking on door]

Jamie, I thought
you had a meeting.

Hello to you too, Dad.

Everything okay?

Yes, I'm just helping
these detectives

get in touch with Beth.

I am surprised
you even want my opinion.

The New York Police Department
never believed a word I said.

And that's the guy.

I never saw him
in the schoolyard,

but that's the guy.

[Eames]
You took your daughter
to school?

I took my daughter
to school every day.

Unless, of course,
she was--

Please don't touch anything.

Unless, of course,
she was working.

And then, we would run lines
together for her auditions.

[Goren]
You'd run lines?

You were an actress too, right?

Oh, no, uh, no.

Amberleigh was truly gifted.

I was--well,
I danced in the chorus

of a couple of shows,
and weak knees ended that dream.

Oh, your knees look fine.

And your talent
wasn't wasted.

You gave it
to Amberleigh.

Thank you very much.

But it wasn't just me.

I mean, we had Jenna.

Jenna?

Yes.

Amberleigh's acting coach...

for all
of her commercials,

even the last one
that she did

in September in L.A.

Sep-September?

Yes, right bef--

You know, Amberleigh
loved... acting.

She loved Hollywood.

Sweet and juicy.

Mmm!

Her last commercial,
it never aired.

As you can see,
the camera loved her.

Did she love
the camera?

That's a lot of pressure
on a young girl.

Amberleigh
was a professional.

Even when she was unhappy,

she never projected it
on-screen.

Unhappy?

Her mother said
that she loved acting.

Oh, she did.

This is the only time
I heard her complain.

The shoot
kept getting postponed.

She was nervous about missing
the start of school.

Do you happen
to remember the dates?

It's on the box sleeve.

"September 1992."

Amberleigh
was miserable.

But you never saw it
on her face.

Sweet and juicy.

Mmm!

[Amberleigh's voice, echoing]
Sweet and juicy.

Mmm!

I jimmied the lock
on the cellar door.

That's how I got in.

Simon, that door
wasn't jimmied.

The door was unlocked.

No.

That can't be.

I snuck in
through the cellar door.

We'll put that aside
for a moment.

Um...

What do you do,
usually, on Halloween?

I stay home,
hand out candy.

And it must be
your favorite night

of the year,
these little girls,

dressed in costume.

Princesses...

Fairies...

with sparkling wings,
ribbons in their hair.

Your favorite night
of the year.

Why did you go out?

Um...

I mean, you must
have went out.

You said that you were
with Amberleigh that night.

That's right...

Do you remember
what she was dressed as?

She was
a little genie.

[Goren]
You remember everything
about Amberleigh, don't you?

Mm-hmm.

First day of school,
she wore a yellow dress,

and little white ankle socks
with white shoes.

You can see that,
can't you?

I mean, you can see it
in your mind's eye,

the little yellow dress?

Skipping at recess.

So beautiful.

Simon, you and Amberleigh

were never
in that school together.

Amberleigh was
in Los Angeles

for the first
two weeks of school,

and you were fired
before she came back.

She was in Los Angeles?

Mm-hmm.

Then what about
the sesame candy?

I don't know.
Maybe somebody told you.

Maybe you read it.

Oh!

It must have been Beth,

in one of her emails.

Amberleigh's mother
sent you an email?

She made me promise
not to tell anyone.

No one knows,

not Nate Royce,
not the DA.

You won't tell anyone,
will you?

He may not
have murdered Amberleigh,

but I wouldn't let him within
a hundred miles of my nieces.

[Ross]
Well, for what it's worth,

Fife has agreed
to enter a monitored program.

And the A.D.A. says
we ruined her investigation,

so now it's on us
to solve.

We have to ask
Beth Harner

about these emails
she sent to Fife.

Not me.

He's the one she was
making goo-goo eyes with.

What's your takeon her?

Well, she's off, at times,
in her affect.

You know, she smiles
when she's upset...

She craves attention.

You can see why people
made her as a suspect.

A suspect
without a motive.

She was living
through her daughter.

If Amberleigh ever balked
at Beth's dream for her--

[soft drink can pops open]

You said
she craves attention.

Give her some.

You gained Fife's trust,
gain hers.

♪ When me and my Alice
were playin' The Palace ♪

♪ In '45

♪ There wasn't a word of

♪ They hadn't heard
of that thing ♪

♪ Called jive

♪ When we did our dance

♪ There was only one dance

♪ The world,
it was alive ♪

♪ We gave 'em
the old soft shoe ♪

Oh.

[doorbell rings]

Coming!

Welc--

Oh, I wasn't expecting
the both of yous.

Actually, I was just
dropping my partner off.

Yeah, well, maybe next time.

Come in.

Call me, if you need
a ride home.

Bye.

I'm sorry you
haven't had closure.

But the case
will remain open, right?

Yeah, the case
will stay open.

No, I don't mean that.

I mean...
you'll be the one

who calls me,
who tells me things,

who keeps me updated?

Okay.

Okay?

You know,
you seem like a man

who is dedicated
to his work.

Too much maybe.

Like you were
to Amberleigh.

All right, I did it.

I mean,
I pushed her.

But Amberleigh
wanted to stop acting.

A few months
before she died,

she told me that it wasn't
fun for her anymore.

What? The auditions,
watching her weight?

Yes!

Halloween...

How did--how did you
handle the candy?

Amberleigh was allowed
to keep ten pieces

and then she had
to give the rest away.

To her friends.

Oh.

The names of these kids

that went trick-or-treating
with her, you remember them?

Of course I remember.

Um... Brianna.

Okay.

From down the street.

You know?

She--oh,
she worshipped Amberleigh.

[whispering]
She worshipped Amberleigh.

And the Perlman twins.

And Jamie, Nate's son.

Nate Royce's son,
who lived next door?

He still does.

Okay.

Detective Goren...

I've never told this
to anyone before.

The night that my baby
was murdered,

she wanted to eat
an extra piece of candy,

just one more little piece
of candy.

And I wouldn't let
her have it.

She went to bed,
she was crying.

She was angry with me.

I didn't even
kiss her good night.

There's a book, okay?

It's about grieving.

And I'm sorry, but I can't
remember the name of it,

but it could--
it could help.

I could email it to you.

Thank you.

But I don't have, um...
the Internet.

You don't have
an email account?

No.

If someone wants
to send me a sympathy note

or anything like that,
you know,

they, um, email it, or send it,
or whatever it's called,

to Nate, and then Nate
brings it to me.

Okay.

[all]
Happy Halloween!

Stop, Amberleigh.
Stop tickling me.

[Beth]
Tell us
what your costumes are.

I'm a genie.

And I'm a prince.

[Beth]
Oh, a prince!

Isn't he handsome,
Amberleigh?

Isn't Jamie
a handsome Prince Charming?

Yes.

So Beth told me
she didn't email Fife

about Amberleigh's
stomach contents.

And she didn't know
about Amberleigh's candy binge.

I wonder
if Prince Jamie did.

[Jamie]
I was at Amberleigh's
for the candy swap,

and then my parents
took me home.

What kind of candy

did Amberleigh get
at the swap?

Sesame logs.

She got, like,
30 of them

because nobody else
liked them.

It's Halloween--
the anniversary.

It must hard for you.

Well, it's two anniversaries
for me, so, yeah, I guess.

My mom died
on Halloween too,

four years after,
in a car wreck.

She was drinking,

but she didn't hurt
anybody else.

But that must have hurt
you a lot.

I'm--I'm okay.

I gotta go.

I got a meeting.

Faculty?

Teach? No.

Uh, I'm still a student,

but this is
a meeting, meeting.

AA?

N.A.
Alcohol led to drugs.

How long have you
been sober?

14 weeks.

But I was addicted
for 14 years.

What step are you on?

Fifth.

Five...

to admit the exact nature
of your wrongs,

to stop lying.

Are you ready to do that?

Y-yeah.

Yeah, I am.

Halloween night...

Amberleigh
looked so pretty,

and she kept trying
to tickle me.

I misunderstood.

So that night, later,
I couldn't sleep.

I snuck
into her house.

I said we should
go to the basement

and eat all our candy.

Okay. You ate candy.
Then?

Um, I tried
to kiss her,

and she screamed.

I tried to
cover her mouth,

but I-I hit her noseinstead.

She started to bleed.

She was really crying.

I pushed her face
into the couch

to keep her quiet.

Um...

I was so scared,
you know?

I didn't mean
to kill her.

Then you put her body
in the dryer.

No, I went home.

And there was blood
on my shirt.

And my mom told me to go to bed,
let her handle it.

I thought she was gonna
explain it to Beth.

I waited at my window.

Um, Mom got in the car
and drove off.

She probably went
to make the ransom call.

Why do you think
she did that?

I think she meant
to get rid of the body.

She must've panicked

and hid Amberleigh
in the dryer.

I know you're
gonna tell Beth.

If she'll let me,
I'd like to speak to her.

You care about Beth.

Jamie, why did you

email Simon Fife
pretending to be Beth?

I don't remember
doing that.

But all those years
of drug use, you know,

I have... gaps.

Um, they have meetings
in jail, right?

They do.

Do you think your dad
blames himself

for what happened to you
after Amberleigh's murder?

My dad didn't know

about any of this.

He was asleep.
We never told him.

He thought that I lost it
because of my mom.

Um, she was a bit
of a self-medicator.

I know the type.

Another day,
another confession.

You buy it?

Not the part
about emailing Simon Fife.

The question
completely surprised him.

Wouldn't be the first time
drugs addled memory.

[Goren]
Well, except that

these emails to Fife were
sent in the last three months,

and Jamie's been sober
that whole time.

Well, if he didn't write them,
maybe his dad did.

I don't see how
a 12-year-old boy

and a drunk mom could have kept
a secret from Nate.

Can you
reach Beth?

Maybe she'll meet
with the kid.

He lied to us
about a few things.

I don't think
he'll lie to her.

I haven't been able
to reach Beth.

She might be having
a bad day.

It's Halloween.

Keep trying.

In the meantime,
we should charge Jamie.

He says he did it,
his mother covered.

You don't
believe a mother

would protect her
12-year-old boy?

There's a piece missing.

Jamie's--maybe he's
protecting his dad.

It doesn't sound like
his dad protected him.

Jamie has a case file

in the Portland, Oregon
Department of Child Services.

He was living on the street
there when he was 16.

The Royces let their son
turn homeless.

Well, his mom
was probably

in her own worldby then.

Nate made a career
out of protecting Beth.

Why wouldn't he
get his son help?

I don't know.

No. He didn't want him
to get help.

I mean, that's--that's
the whole point, isn't it?

Therapy is talk,

right?

A kid goes into therapy,

he ends up talking
about Amberleigh's murder.

When did Nate and Fife
start emailing?

Three months ago.

Jamie told us that he was sober
for 14 weeks.

You know, sobriety,

that must have been
Nate's worst nightmare.

'Cause when his kid
is out of control,

he could control him.

But if his kid's
in a program--

Nate was afraid his son
would end up telling somebody

what actually happened
that night.

All right,
Fife emailed Nate

about his obsession
with Amberleigh.

Nate reeled him in.

Jamie's walking
a fine line,

confessing to his sins,
not his father's.

Jamie won't turn
on his father,

but Nate,
he's loyal to himself.

Rich, can you find
Faith Yancy's producer?

Tell 'em it's, uh...

the DA's office.

Nate Royce,
your own son

has confessed
to this crime.

[Faith]
Did you ever, ever
see this coming?

I really shouldn't
be showing you this.

[Nate] Never in my wildest dreams, Faith.

Thank you.

[Faith] Mr. Royce, I have
some news that...

may shock you.

An anonymous source
at the DA's office

tells me
that they believe your son

sent many emails
to Simon Fife,

pretending to be Beth Harner,

giving him information

that only the killer
would have.

[Nate]
Faith...

My wife Madeline
was a very sick woman,

and I fear that she has
passed that on to my son.

I was looking for him
in the holding cell.

Detective Goren
reached Beth.

She's willing
to meet you.

Tonight.

Tonight?

It's all right,
my baby.

It's over.

It's all over.

Go to sleep now.

I love you.

Mama loves you.

We all miss you, Amberleigh.

Are you ready, hmm?

Yeah.

How dare you come here,
Detective?

Jamie wanted
to pay his respects.

No. No, Beth's had
enough stress.

No, it's all right, Nate.

Come in, Jamie.

Beth...

I'm so sorry.

You were a little boy, Jamie.

I didn't mean to.

It was an accident.

I know.

Oh, you were so young.

You were such
a little boy.

I forgive you.

And so does Amberleigh.
Now, come on.

Come on.

I wish I could take
your place here.

We'll drive you home, Beth.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah,
I'd like to stay,

and--and--and talk
everything over with Jamie.

No, Beth.

It's okay, Dad.

I'm ready to take
responsibility now.

This isn't
about making amends, Jamie.

There are
serious issues here.

He already confessed, Nate.

[Eames]
But you know that.

Faith Yancy told you
all about it on national TV.

Jamie and I watched.

You need help, son.

That's why
I went on television,

so that the public
doesn't turn on you.

[Goren]
Help. He needs help?

He's getting help.
He's sober.

He needed help
14 years ago,

the night
Amberleigh died.

[Nate]
I knew nothing
about that.

My wife
never told me.

[Eames]
Even so.

The drugs,
the alcohol--

you must have seen
your boy was in trouble.

Madeline refused.

I was worried about Jamie,
but she didn't care.

Wait a minute,
that's not true, Jamie.

Your mother--
your mother cared

so much about you.

She was a drunk, Beth.

You know nothing
about my private struggles.

[Eames]
But Jamie does.

When you were
in Portland, homeless,

you had
a case worker--

Wait a minute,
you were--you were--

You told me
he was away at school.

[Eames] Your caseworker
remembers you, Jamie.

Do you know why?

Because your dad
called him

to request that you
not get counseling.

Dad, why would you--

[Goren]
Because he didn't
want to risk

you telling your therapist
your family secret.

Isn't that right, Nate?

When Jamie found sobriety,
you found Fife?

You tricked him, didn't you,
into confessing?

They're lying, Jamie.

[Goren]
Fife had information

about the murder
only the killer could've known.

Fife thought that Beth
was emailing him.

Beth, you weren't emailing him,
were you?

No.

[Nate]
It was Jamie.

He--
he doesn't remember.

I didn't email him, Dad.

Listen, you know
I love you.

I have always protected you.

[Goren]
Protected?

The only one you protected
in all this was yourself.

[Eames] Your son
could have gotten help,

but you told him
he'd do hard time.

Don't listen to them,
listen to me.

Listen to you?

You've been lying to me
for 14 years.

Madeline made
the ransom call.

[Nate]
Tell them, Jamie.

You came home,
Mom panicked.

Tell them, hmm?

Jamie, is that true?

Jamie, Beth needs to know
what really happened.

No.

[Jamie]
It wasn't Mom's plan,
it was Dad's.

They had a big fight.

I watched
from the window

as Mom got into the car
and drove off.

Dad went into the house.

And I saw the light go on
in the basement,

and he was down there
for awhile.

And then
the cellar door opened,

and lights went on upstairs.

Did you turn
the lights on, Beth?

Yes, when I heard
Amberleigh scream

from my bedroom window.

Bedroom window,
which is where?

[Beth]
It's two floors

above the cellar door.

She screamed--
Oh, my God, did she scream.

She was alive, Nate?

No, no, no, no.

She was gone, Beth.

The screams were
from when Jamie was with her.

So, you were there.

Jamie, do you remember
what happened

after the lights
went on?

The cellar door closed,

and a few minutes later,
Dad came out the back door.

He's got it wrong.

This was
his mother's idea

after Jamie
killed Amberleigh.

[Goren]
Jamie, you told me

that you gave Amberleigh
a bloody nose.

Did you hit her hard?

No, I hit her nose
by mistake,

and she sat down
and started crying, and I--

that's when I tried to stop
the noise.

And you
suffocated her.

But her head...

Her head
didn't hit anything.

Amberleigh's autopsy,
it's in your book.

It's all there.

She suffocated.

[Eames] And her brain
had bruising,

front and back
from head trauma.

I didn't hit her head.

All Jamie did
was give her a bloody nose.

He doesn't know
what he did.

[Goren]
No, but you do.

Right?

You saw Amberleigh
in the basement.

You thought she was dead,
just like Jamie did.

You were gonna carry
her body out,

and hide it.

But something happened.

What was it?

Did she wake up?

[Goren]
Did she?

Nate, what did you--
what did you do?

She start crying?

She start cryin', Nate,
is that what happened?

You heard
Beth moving upstairs,

and you panicked,
just like your son did?

But Jamie ran
for help from you.

You smashed her head,

and you threw her body
into the dryer.

Beth, Jamie
didn't kill Amberleigh.

You did.

I never meant...

It was an accident,
and I swear that.

It was an accident, huh?

You sure you weren't
just trying to

weigh your options?

You know, her life,
your reputation?

And then you
decided to finish her off.

I was trying to protect
my son.

[Jamie]
From what?

You told me
it was my fault,

told me to act dumb.

And that's what I did
for the next 14 years!

How could you, Nate?

How could you?

[Beth]
Look at me.

Nate, look at me.

Look at me!

[Goren]
Get him
out of here.

Look at me!

You took everything.