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NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system
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the people are represented
by two separate
yet equally important groups,
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the police
who investigate crime
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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Table 10 asked
for medium rare.
These are still grazing.
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And the bar's
out of wine glasses!
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I get glasses.
Now!
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Learn how to do your job
or you're fired!
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Sorry.
Sweep it up
and get it out of here.
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All right, sarge,
where's the guest of honor?
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Over here.
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No wallet, no ID.
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ED: Uh... Stabbing.
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That's a hell
of a chest wound.
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Blood still hasn't
tightened up.
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Can't be more than
an hour old.
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Oh, this guy's hands
are filthy.
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Yeah, well,
I think personal hygiene's
the least of his problems.
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Let's check the dumpsters,
and the sewers.
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See if we can
turn up a weapon.
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Who found him?
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Dishwasher.
You, come here.
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I can go back to job now?
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Yeah. Let me ask you
a few questions first.
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Did you notice anybody
hanging around here
earlier this evening?
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Sorry?
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Can we get an
interpreter over here?
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All right.
Wait over there.
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Over there!
ED: Hey, man, take it easy.
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Why can't these people
learn some English?
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And you think yelling
is gonna help the situation?
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All right, sarge,
do me a favor,
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you want to canvass a couple
of the buildings over there.
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When's this guy
gonna learn he's the
minority in this city.
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The shrinking minority
at that.
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(CAMERA CLICKING)
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RODGERS: Your John Doe's
awhile male,
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around 50, 55
on the outside,
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about 75 under the hood.
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Johnny didn't take
his vitamins?
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Steatosis of the liver,
enlarged spleen,
black pigments on the lungs.
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This guy drank, smoked,
you name it.
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You can't make that
chest wound his fault.
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Did he put up
any kind of a fight?
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Yeah, there's bruising
around his neck and wrists.
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What about his hands?
We noticed they were stained.
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Shoe polish.
Found it under the nails
and on his clothes.
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Guess we know
what he did for a living.
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Detective Briscoe.
Shine 'em up for court?
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No. We're working
a case, Ralph.
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Uh-oh, what did I do?
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No, we got some information
that this guy might be
in your line of work.
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Figured since
he was in the area,
you'd recognize him.
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This guy got no stand
around here.
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You're sure?
That's probably not
his best side.
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Well, I'm sure.
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How about freelance?
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I heard about a guy
over at Foley Square.
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Takes away some
of my federal clientèle.
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Well, if this is the guy,
your business is
about to pick up.
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Thanks.
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Yeah, that's him.
What the hell happened?
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He got stabbed.
We found him last night
over in Tribeca.
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So what can you
tell us about him?
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He comes around here
most everyday.
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He seemed a little EDP to me.
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Emotionally disturbed,
like, he had enemies?
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Like the type of guy
you ask how it's going
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and you get
a 20-minute answer.
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Some of the people that
work over in the courthouse
complained a few times.
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So what'd you do?
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Moved him away
from the building.
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He didn't seem too dangerous
and he had a license on him.
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Where'd you move him to?
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Across from the deli
on the corner.
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His name was Joe.
It's too bad.
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You wouldn't happen to know
his last name?
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Nah.
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I was wondering
where he was this morning.
He usually comes in by 8:00.
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Comes in?
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Yeah. I let him keep
his shine box here.
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Saves him the trouble of
lugging it back and forth.
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Back and forth from where?
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Queens, I think.
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You mind if we take
a look at the box?
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I got no use for it.
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That was very nice of you
to let him keep it here.
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I had a soft spot
for the guy.
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Alcohol problems.
I know what that's like.
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I tried to tell him
it's never too late.
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Polish. Rags. Cigarettes.
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I guess he didn't take
your advice to heart, huh?
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These look new.
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Pretty strong prescription.
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"Morgenthal
Frederics Optical."
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Folly silver,
spring loaded hinges.
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I love these frames.
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They were just introduced
this season.
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They sound expensive.
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350 for the frames,
200 for the aspheric lenses.
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(SCOFFS)
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Budget doesn't fit
with our guy.
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Uh, is there any way
you can tell
who bought that pair?
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There are
two possibilities.
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My wife picked them out.
She's convinced I lost them
on purpose.
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When did you lose them?
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Must have been Tuesday.
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I was coming back from court,
stopped off for a shine.
I must have put them down.
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I saw this man
the day he died then
didn't I?
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I take it
you didn't know his name.
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He just shined my shoes.
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But I do remember him
telling me that he'd
just been mugged.
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He still had the bruises.
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ED: Did he say by who?
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He said a gang of
Chinese kids jumped him,
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that he'd been laid up
for awhile.
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Guess they thought
he should've stayed
home permanently.
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Thanks.
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We got an ID
on this guy yet?
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Joe from Queens.
His prints aren't
in the system.
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Beat cop thinks
he might've been an EDP.
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Was there a collar?
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No, relocated him.
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Apparently the guy showed
him a vendor's license.
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Cordova's getting a list
from Consumer Affairs,
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see how many
"Joes" there are.
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What about missing persons?
Nothing.
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My feeling is whatever
family this guy had,
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gave up on him
a long time ago.
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Autopsy report looks like
he gave up on himself.
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We did find
a customer who says
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he mentioned being mugged
recently by some Asian kids.
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So we make this
a robbery by one
of the Chinatown gangs?
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Asian gangs usually
pick on their own,
on their own turf.
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But it could have
been one of those
initiation things.
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While Cordova's working
the vendor's license,
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it might be worth checking
back in the neighborhood
on that gang theory.
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The guy at the deli
told me what happened.
Any ideas who killed him?
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Hey, any gang kids
ever come over here
to buy booze?
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I always check ID.
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Hey, we're not after
your license, pal.
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We just want
some information.
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Yeah, we were
just thinking that
some restless youths
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from Chinatown might've
drifted over this way.
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They're a pain in the ass.
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What are you
talking about?
Take a look.
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The Mott Street Ghost Shadows.
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Couple of stores
down the block got
the same treatment.
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I stopped scrubbin' it off
about a year ago.
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Any other problems
besides them tagging
your gate?
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They hassle the customers
once in awhile.
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And this girl who used to
work register for me.
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One night when she got off,
they pulled a knife on her.
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Any arrest made?
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Tell you the truth,
I don't think
she reported it.
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Carla was pretty shaken up,
decided she couldn't
work here anymore.
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There were three guys.
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One of 'em pulled a knife
and took my money.
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I just got on the train
and came home.
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Why didn't you go
to the police?
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Well, they followed me
from work.
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The last thing I needed
was them coming after me.
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Miss Burns, if everybody
takes that attitude,
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how are we ever
gonna catch them?
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We're not asking you to
file charges against them.
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We just want you to help us
identify who they are.
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What if I have to go to
court or something?
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All you have to do
is look at a mug book.
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Come on,
we'll even buy you lunch.
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They're all starting
to look the same.
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I didn't mean it like that.
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There's just so many,
it's hard to...
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Can I take a break?
Sure.
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Why don't you try
and relax a little bit.
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You want a soda
or something?
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I'm okay.
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Hey, any of these guys have
a history of rob twos?
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With the Ghost Shadows,
that falls into the category
of recreational activity.
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This is the one
with the knife.
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He had a scar like this
through his eyebrow.
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Kenny Eng.
He's a Ghost Shadow?
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Two years.
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Are you sure he's the one?
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Positive.
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ED: Wanted for robbery
and assault.
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When's the last time
you went out for him?
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Not for a few weeks.
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But if you really like him
for this homicide,
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I can cash in a chip
with one of my Cl's.
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On my mother, man,
I did not do this.
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Whoa! On his mother, Ed.
I guess we gotta let him go.
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What about the girl in
the liquor store, Kenny?
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We got a witness who says
that this guy told him
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that he took a beating
from some Asian kids.
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Do I look Asian to you?
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If you run
in this neighborhood,
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there's no way
you don't know this guy.
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ED: You're going down
for something, Mr. Eng.
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How big a package
is up to you.
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Okay, so maybe
I've seen him.
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Seen him or killed him?
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I didn't mess with that guy.
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Oh, 'cause you got
respect for people.
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No, 'cause he was bugging.
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One time he sees
some of my boys
taggin' a van,
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he comes
right at them, man.
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They had to give him
a beat down.
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Yeah. Three or four guys
against one old drunk.
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Ain't nothin', man.
That dude could throw down.
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Came at them
like a crazy man.
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Jury's gonna
love this, Kenny.
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I'm tellin' you, man,
we didn't mess with him
after that.
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Besides, I think
he was connected.
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BRISCOE: Connected to what?
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Couple of suits
he was talkin' to.
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ED: You mean his customers.
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Ain't no one getting
a shine I saw, man.
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They started conversatin
and what not,
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shoe shine man
got in their car.
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When was this?
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I'd have to check
my palm pilot.
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Okay, it was Tuesday.
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ED: Did you see the ride?
225
00:09:50,723 --> 00:09:52,862
Phat Benz.
Four door sedan.
226
00:09:52,926 --> 00:09:54,701
What color?
Dark blue.
227
00:09:55,195 --> 00:09:56,469
What'd these people
look like?
228
00:09:56,529 --> 00:09:59,100
One I got a good look at
was a white guy.
229
00:09:59,165 --> 00:10:02,078
Old, like him.
A little fatter.
230
00:10:02,135 --> 00:10:03,546
Other guy I couldn't
get a good look at
231
00:10:03,603 --> 00:10:05,344
'cause he was on the
other side of the car.
232
00:10:05,405 --> 00:10:06,884
You best hope
this checks out.
233
00:10:08,007 --> 00:10:10,647
Cops, man.
You're always blaming
Asians for everything.
234
00:10:15,815 --> 00:10:17,817
Do we believe this story
about the Mercedes?
235
00:10:17,884 --> 00:10:21,593
Well, Eng refused to
name any associates,
so we can't confirm it.
236
00:10:21,654 --> 00:10:23,099
It seems like if he's
gonna make up a story
237
00:10:23,156 --> 00:10:25,158
he should make up something
a little bit more plausible.
238
00:10:25,225 --> 00:10:27,865
All right, let's process him
on the old robbery warrant.
239
00:10:27,927 --> 00:10:30,965
Let him sweat it while we
check out the murder.
240
00:10:31,998 --> 00:10:34,274
The vendor list
from Consumer Affairs.
241
00:10:34,334 --> 00:10:37,076
Sixteen "Joe"s or "Joseph"s,
none of them in Foley Square.
242
00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:38,673
But there was
a permit issued
243
00:10:38,738 --> 00:10:41,412
to a Joseph Eastman of
Sutter Avenue in Ozone Park.
244
00:10:41,474 --> 00:10:43,010
That's in Queens,
that's near JFK.
245
00:10:43,076 --> 00:10:45,249
Actually, he could've
used it anywhere in the city.
246
00:10:45,311 --> 00:10:47,018
Why, he a friend of Rudy's?
247
00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,424
Guy had an exemption.
He was a war veteran.
248
00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:56,323
He was behind a month
in his rent.
249
00:10:56,389 --> 00:10:58,335
Probably spent it all
on housekeepers.
250
00:10:58,391 --> 00:11:00,564
Or he drank
and smoked it all away.
251
00:11:01,361 --> 00:11:03,238
Does he have a whole lot
of people coming in and out?
252
00:11:03,296 --> 00:11:05,776
No family, no friends,
no nothing.
253
00:11:05,832 --> 00:11:08,472
The man preferred
to be lonely.
254
00:11:08,535 --> 00:11:10,105
I didn't even see a phone.
255
00:11:10,170 --> 00:11:11,410
Who he gonna call?
256
00:11:11,471 --> 00:11:15,351
Hey, Ed. From H. Eastman,
Patchogue, New York.
257
00:11:15,408 --> 00:11:17,445
That came
almost a month ago.
258
00:11:17,510 --> 00:11:19,751
I put it inside
for him myself.
259
00:11:19,812 --> 00:11:21,485
He never opened it.
260
00:11:24,017 --> 00:11:25,928
Family photos.
261
00:11:28,288 --> 00:11:30,325
Army dogtags.
262
00:11:30,857 --> 00:11:32,200
Whoa.
263
00:11:32,825 --> 00:11:34,361
Purple Heart.
264
00:11:36,196 --> 00:11:37,766
And a Bronze Star.
265
00:11:37,831 --> 00:11:39,139
Is that the real McCoy?
266
00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:44,676
"For meritorious
or heroic achievement,
Joseph Eastman."
267
00:11:45,505 --> 00:11:47,985
Shoe shine Joe
was a war hero.
268
00:11:52,712 --> 00:11:55,522
Joey and I spoke
about twice a year.
269
00:11:56,316 --> 00:11:59,229
You know, happy holidays,
things like that.
270
00:11:59,285 --> 00:12:00,923
BRISCOE: You were
the only family he had?
271
00:12:00,987 --> 00:12:03,797
Yes. My brother
and his wife
272
00:12:03,856 --> 00:12:07,303
died in an auto accident
long time back.
273
00:12:08,061 --> 00:12:12,134
But his parents
gettin' killed just about
broke his spirit.
274
00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,843
How about lately?
Do you know if he was
in any kind of trouble?
275
00:12:18,638 --> 00:12:21,175
Like I said,
we weren't that close.
276
00:12:21,641 --> 00:12:23,882
What about that package
you sent him?
277
00:12:23,943 --> 00:12:26,184
Yeah,
that surprised me, too.
278
00:12:26,813 --> 00:12:30,386
See, Joey never liked talking
about his tour of duty.
279
00:12:31,150 --> 00:12:33,061
Some guys you know,
they'll go on forever.
280
00:12:33,419 --> 00:12:35,456
Not Joey.
I know the type.
281
00:12:35,521 --> 00:12:37,797
And he could've,
believe you me.
282
00:12:38,191 --> 00:12:39,898
My nephew was
awarded the Bronze Star.
283
00:12:40,326 --> 00:12:41,737
Yeah, we saw it.
284
00:12:41,794 --> 00:12:46,402
Anyway, he calls me one day
about a month ago,
out of the blue,
285
00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:49,102
tells me to send him
all his stuff.
286
00:12:50,870 --> 00:12:53,248
After all these years.
Did he say why?
287
00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,481
I guess him being sick
had somethin' to do with it.
288
00:12:57,977 --> 00:12:59,820
You see, last October
289
00:13:00,546 --> 00:13:03,254
Joey got diagnosed
with cancer.
290
00:13:04,083 --> 00:13:07,462
Said a doc at the VA
gave him a year tops.
291
00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:14,837
Joseph Eastman was diagnosed
with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,
October 18th.
292
00:13:14,894 --> 00:13:16,771
Who was the
treating physician?
293
00:13:17,163 --> 00:13:18,335
According to the computer,
294
00:13:18,398 --> 00:13:21,072
Mr. Eastman never appeared
for his referral to Oncology.
295
00:13:21,134 --> 00:13:24,513
And it looks like
someone from Psych Services
also tried to contact him.
296
00:13:24,570 --> 00:13:25,913
Psych Services?
297
00:13:26,439 --> 00:13:28,510
After you called,
I pulled his chart.
298
00:13:28,841 --> 00:13:32,812
His last admit
wasn't to Oncology,
it was a psych admit.
299
00:13:33,379 --> 00:13:36,883
He was with us three days,
signed himself out.
300
00:13:36,950 --> 00:13:38,930
Given a prescription
for Ativan.
301
00:13:38,985 --> 00:13:40,157
Antidepressant.
302
00:13:40,219 --> 00:13:44,998
Looks like there were
six admissions
over the last few years.
303
00:13:45,258 --> 00:13:48,432
What's this name,
Nolan Tinsdale?
304
00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:50,671
An emergency contact number.
305
00:13:50,730 --> 00:13:54,268
ED: Did anybody
reach this Tinsdale
about the lymphoma?
306
00:13:56,169 --> 00:13:57,842
I'm not showing that.
307
00:13:58,705 --> 00:14:01,686
All right.
Can you do us a favor,
and write down that number?
308
00:14:02,342 --> 00:14:06,222
Once upon a time,
if Uncle Sam wanted to
find you, he found you.
309
00:14:10,016 --> 00:14:12,963
I didn't realize that
Joe was still using me
as a contact.
310
00:14:13,019 --> 00:14:15,158
So, the hospital never tried
to reach you then?
311
00:14:15,221 --> 00:14:16,495
No, they didn't.
312
00:14:16,556 --> 00:14:18,035
You say he had cancer?
313
00:14:18,091 --> 00:14:20,037
Yeah. It was lymphoma.
314
00:14:20,093 --> 00:14:22,198
There probably wasn't
anything you could've
done anyway.
315
00:14:22,261 --> 00:14:24,867
How do you two know
each other, Mr. Tinsdale?
316
00:14:25,231 --> 00:14:26,676
We served together
in the Army.
317
00:14:26,733 --> 00:14:28,770
And you've kept in touch
all these years?
318
00:14:28,835 --> 00:14:30,314
No, not really.
319
00:14:30,370 --> 00:14:32,714
A few years ago,
I ran into Joe on the street.
320
00:14:32,772 --> 00:14:35,309
I barely recognized him.
He was a wreck.
321
00:14:35,375 --> 00:14:37,355
Booze, drugs, no job.
322
00:14:37,777 --> 00:14:39,484
I took him to
the VA hospital
323
00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:41,582
and I convinced him
to have himself admitted.
324
00:14:41,647 --> 00:14:42,955
And since then?
325
00:14:43,015 --> 00:14:45,552
Well, I gave him my card
and every so often he'd call.
326
00:14:45,618 --> 00:14:48,121
I'd take him for coffee,
give him some money.
327
00:14:48,187 --> 00:14:50,030
When was the last time
you saw him?
328
00:14:50,723 --> 00:14:52,225
A few months ago, I guess.
329
00:14:52,558 --> 00:14:56,301
Can you think of anything
Joe might have been involved
with that got him killed?
330
00:14:57,130 --> 00:14:59,167
Well, the first thing that
comes to my mind is drugs.
331
00:14:59,232 --> 00:15:01,735
Our medical examiner
says that he was clean.
332
00:15:02,668 --> 00:15:03,874
Glad to hear that.
333
00:15:03,936 --> 00:15:07,509
Well, we saw that he'd been
awarded the Bronze Star.
334
00:15:07,573 --> 00:15:10,452
Yes. He got that
while he was in my unit
in Vietnam.
335
00:15:11,677 --> 00:15:13,679
We were out
on a routine patrol.
336
00:15:13,746 --> 00:15:17,888
We stumbled onto
an enemy encampment
that wasn't on our maps.
337
00:15:18,451 --> 00:15:19,828
We took it out
in a firefight.
338
00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:24,058
His uncle told us
that he didn't talk
about his service much.
339
00:15:25,825 --> 00:15:27,429
It was a tough
adjustment for Joe.
340
00:15:27,493 --> 00:15:29,871
ED: You seem to have
adjusted just fine.
341
00:15:30,596 --> 00:15:33,304
Lot of work, Detective.
Lot of work.
342
00:15:33,366 --> 00:15:36,813
Well, we won't take up
any more of your time,
Mr. Tinsdale.
343
00:15:36,869 --> 00:15:38,075
I told my wife
I'd be home for dinner.
344
00:15:38,137 --> 00:15:39,946
This way I can get
a jump on the traffic.
345
00:15:40,006 --> 00:15:41,349
You drive to work?
346
00:15:41,407 --> 00:15:42,852
Sometimes.
347
00:15:42,909 --> 00:15:44,786
What kind of car
do you drive?
348
00:15:45,111 --> 00:15:46,181
A Range Rover. Why?
349
00:15:46,245 --> 00:15:48,919
Oh, it's just something
that a witness mentioned.
350
00:15:49,315 --> 00:15:51,420
Well, look, if I can
be of any help
just let me know.
351
00:15:51,484 --> 00:15:52,963
Thanks.
352
00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:55,458
Tinsdale seemed all right.
353
00:15:55,521 --> 00:15:58,627
Sometimes you can't
help people unless they're
willing to help themselves.
354
00:15:58,691 --> 00:16:00,967
And we can't find anyone
else who knew him?
355
00:16:01,027 --> 00:16:03,166
Not anybody
with a $100,000 Benz.
356
00:16:03,229 --> 00:16:05,402
So, he knows he's dying,
357
00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:07,411
refuses medical treatment,
358
00:16:07,467 --> 00:16:10,744
but takes the time
to ask his uncle for
his service medals.
359
00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:12,214
He was getting
his house in order.
360
00:16:12,271 --> 00:16:14,114
Or revisiting his past.
361
00:16:15,341 --> 00:16:18,413
You ever keep in touch
with any of your buddies
from the service?
362
00:16:18,478 --> 00:16:19,752
A couple.
363
00:16:19,812 --> 00:16:24,124
So, maybe Eastman
kept in touch with
someone besides Tinsdale.
364
00:16:24,183 --> 00:16:27,995
Why don't you ask the Army
if they can point you
to someone local?
365
00:16:33,092 --> 00:16:35,333
You say Joe Eastman's dead.
366
00:16:35,394 --> 00:16:38,170
ED: His body was found in
an alley near a dumpster.
367
00:16:39,532 --> 00:16:41,273
Awful sorry to hear that.
368
00:16:41,701 --> 00:16:44,739
When you called though,
I wasn't quite sure
how I could be of help.
369
00:16:44,804 --> 00:16:46,078
Well, the picture we got
370
00:16:46,139 --> 00:16:49,780
was of a guy who'd had
a real tough time of it
after the war.
371
00:16:49,842 --> 00:16:52,448
I suppose that's true.
I really don't know.
372
00:16:52,511 --> 00:16:54,218
Yeah, well,
from what we've learned
373
00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:56,385
right near the end there,
he wrote to an uncle
374
00:16:56,449 --> 00:16:58,588
and asked him
for his service medals.
375
00:16:59,085 --> 00:17:01,190
I don't understand.
I thought he was mugged.
376
00:17:01,254 --> 00:17:03,256
ED: Well, it turns out
he had terminal cancer.
377
00:17:03,322 --> 00:17:05,768
And the Army tells us
that you served with him.
378
00:17:05,825 --> 00:17:08,237
That you received
the same commendation.
379
00:17:08,694 --> 00:17:11,436
Yeah, that's right.
Service above and beyond.
380
00:17:11,964 --> 00:17:14,137
ED: Did he ever reach out
to you, Mr. Fletcher?
381
00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,907
Mayor Fletcher, and no.
382
00:17:15,968 --> 00:17:18,209
I mean,
why would Joe Eastman
reach out to me?
383
00:17:18,271 --> 00:17:20,376
BRISCOE: Well,
sometimes the only people
you can talk to
384
00:17:20,439 --> 00:17:21,713
are the ones who were
there with you.
385
00:17:21,774 --> 00:17:24,618
Your old lieutenant
had contact with Mr. Eastman
over the years.
386
00:17:24,677 --> 00:17:25,815
Nolan?
387
00:17:26,112 --> 00:17:27,147
Didn't know that.
388
00:17:27,213 --> 00:17:29,716
BRISCOE: And you're sure
you didn't talk to
Mr. Eastman recently?
389
00:17:29,782 --> 00:17:30,817
Quite sure.
390
00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:33,056
I'm sorry I have to
cut this short,
391
00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,066
there's a Town
Council meeting
I really have to attend.
392
00:17:37,290 --> 00:17:40,965
No problem.
If we think of anything else,
we'll give you a call.
393
00:17:44,030 --> 00:17:45,475
Mandy.
394
00:17:46,465 --> 00:17:48,308
Get a card
from the detectives.
395
00:17:49,101 --> 00:17:50,876
It was nice
meeting both of you.
396
00:17:55,174 --> 00:17:57,245
Do you know how to get
back on the highway?
It's kind of tricky.
397
00:17:57,310 --> 00:17:59,017
Oh, don't worry,
we'll find it.
398
00:17:59,078 --> 00:18:00,352
Hey, Lennie.
399
00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:03,451
That's the Mayor's unit
from Vietnam.
400
00:18:03,516 --> 00:18:06,190
Scores big points
with his constituents
who come in here.
401
00:18:06,252 --> 00:18:07,663
He ever talk about it?
402
00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,462
The war? It's only
like his favorite subject.
403
00:18:10,523 --> 00:18:12,867
There's Nolan Tinsdale.
404
00:18:14,660 --> 00:18:17,402
Does Mayor Fletcher see
any of these guys ever?
405
00:18:17,463 --> 00:18:19,807
Well, Mr. Tinsdale,
of course.
406
00:18:19,865 --> 00:18:21,469
They're in touch a bunch.
407
00:18:21,534 --> 00:18:24,344
I really don't know much
about the others.
408
00:18:24,403 --> 00:18:27,816
When's the last time
Mayor Fletcher saw
Mr. Tinsdale?
409
00:18:28,207 --> 00:18:29,982
They had dinner
two weeks ago.
410
00:18:30,042 --> 00:18:32,044
I made the
reservations myself.
411
00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:34,113
Do you know what kind of car
the Mayor drives?
412
00:18:35,014 --> 00:18:37,119
One of those big Mercedes.
413
00:18:37,183 --> 00:18:39,163
BRISCOE: Really?
Which model, do you know?
414
00:18:39,218 --> 00:18:40,959
An S500.
415
00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:45,063
Oh, I love those.
Especially that dark blue
four-door sedan.
416
00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:46,994
That's what the Mayor has.
417
00:18:47,326 --> 00:18:48,634
No kidding.
418
00:18:53,099 --> 00:18:55,807
You want me to believe
that a mayor from a town
in Jersey
419
00:18:55,868 --> 00:18:59,441
drove into New York City,
stabbed an ex-Army buddy,
420
00:18:59,505 --> 00:19:01,178
and then went home
to his wife and kids?
421
00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,345
The car matched
Eng's description.
422
00:19:03,409 --> 00:19:05,650
Any theories on who
the second man was?
423
00:19:05,711 --> 00:19:08,487
His secretary said
he and Tinsdale had
dinner together
424
00:19:08,547 --> 00:19:10,185
about a week
before the murder.
425
00:19:10,249 --> 00:19:12,627
Now, I thought Tinsdale
was in the clear with you?
426
00:19:12,685 --> 00:19:14,494
That might've been
a little premature.
427
00:19:14,553 --> 00:19:16,191
And what could be the motive?
428
00:19:16,255 --> 00:19:18,166
An old Army grudge,
who knows.
429
00:19:18,224 --> 00:19:22,639
Hey, we could put Fletcher
and Tinsdale in a line-up,
and see if Eng can ID 'em.
430
00:19:22,695 --> 00:19:26,575
(CHUCKLES) You really think
I'm gonna drag a mayor
into the house
431
00:19:26,632 --> 00:19:28,236
on the word of
some gang banger?
432
00:19:28,301 --> 00:19:31,339
I didn't know
mayors from New Jersey
had diplomatic immunity?
433
00:19:31,404 --> 00:19:35,875
Lennie, listen,
even if Eng can make an ID,
we need a motive.
434
00:19:35,941 --> 00:19:38,820
Otherwise the D.A.'s gonna
laugh in your faces
435
00:19:38,911 --> 00:19:40,686
when you ask him
to write this one up.
436
00:19:40,746 --> 00:19:45,286
Now, if you think it had
somethin' to do with the Army,
then run it down.
437
00:19:46,819 --> 00:19:48,628
You know,
I hate to admit it,
but she's right.
438
00:19:48,688 --> 00:19:50,463
She does that
every now and then.
439
00:19:50,523 --> 00:19:53,060
Let's see,
this guy was admitted
into the psych ward
440
00:19:53,125 --> 00:19:55,537
a few weeks
before he was killed.
441
00:19:55,594 --> 00:19:57,870
Maybe he told
his shrink something.
442
00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:03,173
He signed himself
into our In-patient Unit
for three nights.
443
00:20:03,235 --> 00:20:04,942
I was the consulting.
444
00:20:05,004 --> 00:20:08,451
He presented as confused,
agitated, slightly delusional,
445
00:20:08,507 --> 00:20:10,487
with some suicidal ideation.
446
00:20:10,543 --> 00:20:12,216
He talked about
killing himself?
Mmm-hmm.
447
00:20:12,278 --> 00:20:13,586
Did he say
what that was about?
448
00:20:13,646 --> 00:20:16,388
It was an acute admission,
Detective. I wasn't looking
for any bogeymen.
449
00:20:16,449 --> 00:20:18,952
Well, I'm sorry, Doc,
but we are.
450
00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:20,858
(SIGHS)
451
00:20:22,154 --> 00:20:24,725
He was diagnosed
with post-traumatic
stress disorder.
452
00:20:24,790 --> 00:20:27,293
We were originally
told that he was
admitted several times.
453
00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:30,239
PTSD's a chronic condition
that can last a lifetime.
454
00:20:30,296 --> 00:20:32,401
I treated his symptoms,
and he signed himself out.
455
00:20:32,465 --> 00:20:34,206
He must have talked
to you about something.
456
00:20:34,266 --> 00:20:36,303
At least told you why
he wanted to off himself.
457
00:20:36,369 --> 00:20:39,407
All I could get was
it had something to do
with Vietnam.
458
00:20:39,472 --> 00:20:42,078
I had a sense
there was a big load
he was carrying around.
459
00:20:42,141 --> 00:20:44,485
Six admissions over
the course of 25 years.
460
00:20:44,910 --> 00:20:46,412
But nothing specific?
461
00:20:47,980 --> 00:20:50,426
He mentioned a village
over there.
462
00:20:50,483 --> 00:20:51,655
I can't remember the name.
463
00:20:51,717 --> 00:20:53,993
You might want to
take a closer look
at his service record.
464
00:20:54,387 --> 00:20:56,367
Sorry,
it's the best I can do.
465
00:20:58,190 --> 00:21:00,727
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
DAVIS: Joseph Eastman.
466
00:21:00,793 --> 00:21:04,935
We drafted him after
he graduated from
Canarsie High School in 1968.
467
00:21:06,098 --> 00:21:09,545
Trained at Fort Benning,
volunteered with
Special Forces,
468
00:21:09,602 --> 00:21:11,081
one tour in Vietnam.
469
00:21:11,137 --> 00:21:14,311
Served under
Lieutenant Tinsdale in
the 81st Infantry Division.
470
00:21:14,373 --> 00:21:15,545
I can get you a list.
471
00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:17,884
Is there anything in
Eastman's service record
472
00:21:17,943 --> 00:21:19,923
about the missions
he carried out?
473
00:21:19,979 --> 00:21:21,981
Not that I can access
in this database,
474
00:21:22,048 --> 00:21:25,086
other than the commendation
relating to his Bronze Star.
475
00:21:25,151 --> 00:21:28,189
Tinsdale said
it was a firefight.
A routine patrol.
476
00:21:28,254 --> 00:21:29,824
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
477
00:21:30,222 --> 00:21:33,260
Heroic achievement on
the night of May 3rd,1969.
478
00:21:33,325 --> 00:21:36,636
While on a probe
for an arms cache
in Ba Pho secret zone.
479
00:21:36,695 --> 00:21:38,675
Alpha team encountered
armed Viet Cong aggressors
480
00:21:38,731 --> 00:21:42,679
on the outskirts of
the village of Cai Binh.
25 enemy killed.
481
00:21:42,735 --> 00:21:46,148
Alpha team extracted from
Cai Binh without casualties.
482
00:21:47,573 --> 00:21:50,486
Every member of his squad
was awarded the Bronze Star
for this operation.
483
00:21:50,543 --> 00:21:53,114
Doesn't sound
so routine to me.
484
00:21:55,047 --> 00:21:56,685
Wait a minute. This is odd.
485
00:21:56,749 --> 00:21:59,093
A new entry from
about a month ago.
486
00:21:59,752 --> 00:22:03,325
It looks like
Corporal Eastman tried to
give his Bronze Star back.
487
00:22:06,625 --> 00:22:07,797
Two Army buddies
meeting for dinner
488
00:22:07,860 --> 00:22:09,703
doesn't sound like
much of a conspiracy.
489
00:22:09,762 --> 00:22:11,742
It wasn't just
the two of them.
490
00:22:12,097 --> 00:22:13,405
Stephen Morehouse.
491
00:22:13,465 --> 00:22:15,376
Now, we pulled
Mayor Fletcher's IUDs,
492
00:22:15,434 --> 00:22:18,938
there were several calls to
Morehouse in Somerville, Mass.
493
00:22:19,004 --> 00:22:21,610
And Morehouse was in
Tinsdale's unit, too.
494
00:22:21,674 --> 00:22:23,745
The waitress that served
Fletcher and Tinsdale
495
00:22:23,809 --> 00:22:25,846
ID'd him as being in
the restaurant with 'em.
496
00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:27,447
We ran
all their credit cards.
497
00:22:27,513 --> 00:22:29,789
Morehouse checked into
a hotel, in the city,
498
00:22:29,849 --> 00:22:32,796
the day before the murder,
checked out the night of.
499
00:22:32,852 --> 00:22:35,856
We've left half a dozen
messages for him.
He hasn't called us back.
500
00:22:35,921 --> 00:22:37,901
VAN BUREN: And we have
a witness in custody
501
00:22:37,957 --> 00:22:42,167
who puts the victim
getting into a car
identical to Fletcher's.
502
00:22:42,228 --> 00:22:43,901
What does the Mayor
say about it?
503
00:22:43,963 --> 00:22:47,638
He told us he hadn't
spoken to Eastman recently
and he cut off the interview.
504
00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:50,943
When we asked him to come in
for some follow-up questions,
he lawyered up.
505
00:22:51,003 --> 00:22:52,914
You know,
I had my doubts, too,
506
00:22:52,972 --> 00:22:57,045
but there are just
too many coincidences for
it to be anything else.
507
00:22:57,109 --> 00:22:58,281
What about Tinsdale?
508
00:22:58,344 --> 00:23:00,255
He's a little bit
more forthcoming,
but not much.
509
00:23:00,312 --> 00:23:02,849
He said the last time
that he saw Eastman
was a few months ago.
510
00:23:02,915 --> 00:23:05,327
Has he requested a lawyer?
Not yet.
511
00:23:08,888 --> 00:23:11,300
I'm afraid I'm
a little confused about
what you're doing here,
512
00:23:11,357 --> 00:23:13,394
about why you want
to talk to my husband.
513
00:23:13,459 --> 00:23:15,564
My office is
investigating a homicide.
514
00:23:15,628 --> 00:23:17,369
Joe Eastman.
I told you about him.
515
00:23:17,429 --> 00:23:19,568
That you were interviewed
by two detectives.
516
00:23:20,132 --> 00:23:21,873
So why are you here now?
517
00:23:22,268 --> 00:23:24,748
Well, it seems two men
your husband commanded
in Vietnam
518
00:23:24,803 --> 00:23:27,409
were both in the city
the night Mr. Eastman
was killed.
519
00:23:27,473 --> 00:23:29,544
Stephen Morehouse
and Stanley Fletcher.
520
00:23:29,608 --> 00:23:31,986
Why would you think Nolan
would know about that?
521
00:23:32,044 --> 00:23:36,049
Because he had dinner
with Mr. Morehouse and
Mr. Fletcher the week before.
522
00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:38,990
These are both good men.
523
00:23:39,051 --> 00:23:40,291
No one's saying they're not.
524
00:23:40,352 --> 00:23:42,798
But for some reason
Mr. Fletcher's asked
for a lawyer
525
00:23:42,855 --> 00:23:46,132
and Mr. Morehouse
has refused to return
several of our calls.
526
00:23:46,192 --> 00:23:48,297
What do you want
my husband to say?
527
00:23:48,928 --> 00:23:52,205
Was there ever
any animosity between
them and Mr. Eastman?
528
00:23:53,265 --> 00:23:57,577
Stephen Morehouse
carried me out of a jungle
with two bullets in my belly,
529
00:23:57,636 --> 00:24:00,845
through enemy fire to an LZ
where I was medevaced.
530
00:24:01,473 --> 00:24:04,386
He took a round himself
and we got on the chopper.
531
00:24:05,277 --> 00:24:07,086
Eastman and Fletcher
were both there.
532
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,417
It was a long time ago,
Mr. Tinsdale.
533
00:24:11,617 --> 00:24:13,528
Well, they saved my life.
534
00:24:13,585 --> 00:24:15,656
I wouldn't be here
if it wasn't for them.
535
00:24:16,221 --> 00:24:17,825
I'm sorry,
I can't help you.
536
00:24:18,657 --> 00:24:20,364
Can't or won't?
537
00:24:22,461 --> 00:24:25,806
The night this happened
my husband was home
having dinner with me.
538
00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:29,969
Is that true, Mr. Tinsdale?
539
00:24:30,502 --> 00:24:32,482
I just told you
it was true.
540
00:24:33,172 --> 00:24:34,651
Now we'd like you to leave.
541
00:24:42,815 --> 00:24:44,158
Not much of an alibi.
542
00:24:44,216 --> 00:24:46,287
And Fletcher invoked
his right to counsel,
543
00:24:46,352 --> 00:24:49,822
but not before
he had his car detailed
at a local car wash.
544
00:24:51,090 --> 00:24:52,501
What about Morehouse?
545
00:24:52,791 --> 00:24:54,896
He isn't returning
any of our calls.
546
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,633
And your theory
is that this murder
547
00:24:56,695 --> 00:24:59,232
somehow relates to their
military service together.
548
00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:01,444
Mmm-hmm.
It's the only common link.
549
00:25:02,234 --> 00:25:03,941
One that's 30 years old.
550
00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:08,042
Eastman was diagnosed
with terminal lymphoma,
refused any treatment.
551
00:25:08,107 --> 00:25:10,018
In the last few months
he contacted an uncle
552
00:25:10,075 --> 00:25:11,748
he hadn't spoken to
in over a year
553
00:25:11,810 --> 00:25:13,346
and asked for
his Army medals.
554
00:25:13,579 --> 00:25:14,819
What was he awarded?
555
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,621
A Purple Heart
and a Bronze Star.
556
00:25:17,283 --> 00:25:18,353
Impressive.
557
00:25:18,417 --> 00:25:19,919
A few weeks before
Eastman was killed
558
00:25:19,985 --> 00:25:22,591
he contacted the Army
and tried to return
his medal.
559
00:25:22,654 --> 00:25:24,497
The Army produced
this letter.
560
00:25:25,391 --> 00:25:28,702
"I, Joseph Eastman
hereby desire to return
a Bronze Star
561
00:25:28,761 --> 00:25:33,540
"falsely awarded to me
for the events of
May 3rd, 1969."
562
00:25:33,665 --> 00:25:35,406
Mmm-hmm. It goes on
to request information
563
00:25:35,467 --> 00:25:37,242
about where to
return the medal
564
00:25:37,302 --> 00:25:40,146
and how to expunge Eastman's
official service record.
565
00:25:40,439 --> 00:25:41,884
What does the Army
say about it?
566
00:25:42,608 --> 00:25:45,020
That Eastman never got
a chance to tell them why.
567
00:25:45,077 --> 00:25:47,079
At least that's
the official version.
568
00:25:48,313 --> 00:25:50,452
See if we can get
the unofficial version.
569
00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:56,499
With the information
you gave me over the phone
570
00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:58,728
I was able to do
some investigation.
571
00:25:58,791 --> 00:26:01,294
Were you able to find out
anything about Cai Binh?
572
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:04,398
Some of the villages
in that province were
destroyed during the war.
573
00:26:04,463 --> 00:26:06,272
But Cai Binh is still there.
574
00:26:06,765 --> 00:26:09,712
Right here,
about 80 kilometers
up the Mekong River.
575
00:26:09,768 --> 00:26:11,509
Then people still live
in the village?
576
00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:14,278
I had our office
in Ho Chi Minh City
send an attaché there.
577
00:26:14,673 --> 00:26:17,313
Did you find anybody
who was there in 1969?
578
00:26:18,911 --> 00:26:21,414
We spoke with one woman
in her early 50s.
579
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,188
She recalls the incident
that you mentioned.
580
00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:26,126
She remembers the battle?
581
00:26:27,286 --> 00:26:29,493
What she remembers
was not a battle.
582
00:26:29,955 --> 00:26:33,061
It was a massacre perpetrated
by the American soldiers.
583
00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:37,202
The Americans
came to the village.
They killed many civilians.
584
00:26:37,262 --> 00:26:40,573
Our military says
the casualties were
all Viet Cong soldiers.
585
00:26:41,467 --> 00:26:43,378
Our records are quite clear.
586
00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:46,314
Two men, nine women,
and 14 children.
587
00:26:46,371 --> 00:26:49,909
Among the dead
were this woman's mother
and two-year-old daughter.
588
00:26:49,975 --> 00:26:53,252
I doubt one can
ever be mistaken about
something like that.
589
00:26:55,814 --> 00:26:57,225
According to this witness,
590
00:26:57,282 --> 00:27:00,786
Tinsdale's unit
made it into the village
shortly after nightfall.
591
00:27:00,853 --> 00:27:02,696
When they opened fire
with automatic weapons,
592
00:27:02,755 --> 00:27:05,167
she and a few others
managed to escape
into the jungle.
593
00:27:05,224 --> 00:27:07,795
When she returned,
everyone was dead.
594
00:27:09,261 --> 00:27:11,172
Why didn't this ever
come out before?
595
00:27:11,230 --> 00:27:13,938
Because it's not the Army's
version of what happened.
596
00:27:13,999 --> 00:27:15,478
According to them,
597
00:27:15,534 --> 00:27:17,309
Tinsdale and his squad
were given information
598
00:27:17,369 --> 00:27:19,280
about enemy activity
inside the village.
599
00:27:19,338 --> 00:27:21,648
When they approached
they took heavy fire.
600
00:27:21,874 --> 00:27:24,753
For which they were awarded
the Bronze Star.
601
00:27:24,810 --> 00:27:27,120
Doesn't seem like
Eastman saw it that way.
602
00:27:27,579 --> 00:27:28,717
Thirty years later.
603
00:27:28,781 --> 00:27:29,919
According to his
psych record,
604
00:27:29,982 --> 00:27:33,555
Eastman was bothered about
something a long time
before that.
605
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,666
He was drafted.
19 years old.
606
00:27:36,722 --> 00:27:39,566
He was doing things
that would be a nightmare
for any kid.
607
00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:42,834
Don't tell me
we can draw conclusions
from a psych report.
608
00:27:43,562 --> 00:27:46,668
If it wasn't the skeleton
in their closet, Jack,
why else kill Eastman?
609
00:27:46,732 --> 00:27:48,302
Are we absolutely sure
610
00:27:48,367 --> 00:27:50,643
this wasn't a mugging
by the Ghost Shadows?
611
00:27:50,702 --> 00:27:52,841
And Eng just happened to
correctly guess the make,
612
00:27:52,905 --> 00:27:54,714
model and color
of Fletcher's car?
613
00:27:54,773 --> 00:27:58,778
Your witness
only puts two men
at the car, not three.
614
00:27:58,844 --> 00:28:02,223
But we know Morehouse
saw Tinsdale and Fletcher
in New York.
615
00:28:02,281 --> 00:28:05,228
And still, no idea what
they were talking about?
616
00:28:06,318 --> 00:28:09,299
How do you feel
about a road trip
to Massachusetts?
617
00:28:15,828 --> 00:28:19,173
I don't talk to anybody
about Vietnam, period.
618
00:28:20,032 --> 00:28:22,171
I'm afraid you'll have to
talk to us, Mr. Morehouse,
619
00:28:22,234 --> 00:28:25,807
either here, or in front of
a grand jury in New York.
620
00:28:27,372 --> 00:28:29,682
Just brings back
a lot of bad memories.
621
00:28:29,741 --> 00:28:31,982
About the Bronze Star
you were awarded?
622
00:28:33,478 --> 00:28:35,515
We already know
Mr. Eastman wanted
to return his
623
00:28:35,581 --> 00:28:38,061
and that you were in New York
the day he was killed.
624
00:28:39,451 --> 00:28:42,398
You strike me as
an honest, hard-working man,
Mr. Morehouse.
625
00:28:42,788 --> 00:28:43,960
If you were looking
for a chance
626
00:28:44,022 --> 00:28:46,093
to set the record straight,
this is it.
627
00:28:50,929 --> 00:28:53,205
Joe called me,
out of the blue,
a couple months ago.
628
00:28:53,265 --> 00:28:54,505
About what?
629
00:28:55,901 --> 00:28:58,347
He wanted me
to give my medal back.
He wanted all of us to.
630
00:28:58,770 --> 00:29:00,613
Mr. Tinsdale
and Mr. Fletcher?
631
00:29:01,139 --> 00:29:02,550
Why?
632
00:29:03,342 --> 00:29:05,481
(SIGHS) Damn fool threatened
to go to the media.
633
00:29:06,211 --> 00:29:07,656
So they killed him?
634
00:29:07,713 --> 00:29:11,251
We tried to
figure out what to do,
how to approach Joe.
635
00:29:11,316 --> 00:29:13,159
I just had a bad feeling
about the whole thing.
636
00:29:13,218 --> 00:29:17,325
We met at the hotel,
and I told them,
just leave it alone.
637
00:29:17,990 --> 00:29:19,867
I never even left my room.
638
00:29:20,859 --> 00:29:22,463
But they wouldn't listen.
639
00:29:24,229 --> 00:29:26,334
You ever serve
your country, Mr. McCoy?
640
00:29:27,733 --> 00:29:29,713
I wasn't in the war, no.
641
00:29:30,536 --> 00:29:34,985
It's hard to explain
to somebody who wasn't there,
what it did to you.
642
00:29:35,874 --> 00:29:39,481
Especially to a black man
who didn't want to be there
in the first place.
643
00:29:40,145 --> 00:29:42,591
The Army gave us
all those medals for
killing those people.
644
00:29:42,648 --> 00:29:44,286
It's a tough thing
to live with.
645
00:29:46,885 --> 00:29:48,660
Joey never could.
646
00:29:54,826 --> 00:29:57,033
Dockets ending
in "03" and "04."
647
00:29:57,095 --> 00:29:59,166
"People v.
Tinsdale and Fletcher.
648
00:29:59,231 --> 00:30:01,575
"One count of Murder
in the Second Degree."
649
00:30:01,934 --> 00:30:04,380
I'll enter not guilty pleas
on behalf of both defendants,
650
00:30:04,436 --> 00:30:05,847
and I'll hear you on bail,
Miss Southerlyn.
651
00:30:05,904 --> 00:30:08,851
Your Honor,
these defendants voluntarily
surrendered themselves.
652
00:30:08,907 --> 00:30:10,818
They murdered
a former Army colleague
653
00:30:10,876 --> 00:30:13,322
to conceal their actions
during the war in Vietnam.
654
00:30:13,645 --> 00:30:14,680
Vietnam?
655
00:30:14,746 --> 00:30:17,352
They allegedly killed
innocent civilians,
women and children.
656
00:30:17,416 --> 00:30:19,293
GARDNER: My clients
strenuously dispute that.
657
00:30:19,351 --> 00:30:20,625
The only question
in this courtroom
658
00:30:20,686 --> 00:30:22,859
is whether or not
these defendants
pose a flight risk,
659
00:30:22,921 --> 00:30:24,332
and whether you have
a case against them.
660
00:30:24,389 --> 00:30:26,335
A witness places the victim
getting into a car
661
00:30:26,391 --> 00:30:29,099
identical to Mr. Fletcher's
shortly before he was
knifed to death.
662
00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:31,767
This witness is a teenager
with gang affiliations.
663
00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:34,936
Who correctly identified
Mr. Fletcher's vehicle
and then his photograph.
664
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,311
GARDNER: These are
respectable men with
no criminal history, Judge.
665
00:30:38,704 --> 00:30:40,581
Do you really think bail's
necessary, Miss Southerlyn?
666
00:30:40,639 --> 00:30:43,142
I'd say these men
lost whatever claim
they had to respectability
667
00:30:43,208 --> 00:30:45,779
the moment they chose
to end Mr. Eastman's life.
668
00:30:47,212 --> 00:30:49,317
Bail's set in the amount
of$200,000.
669
00:30:49,381 --> 00:30:50,655
(GAVEL BANGS)
670
00:30:52,551 --> 00:30:55,225
What's the position of
the Vietnamese government
on all this?
671
00:30:55,621 --> 00:30:58,295
They'll produce the witness
in New York if we give them
enough lead time
672
00:30:58,357 --> 00:31:00,462
and make the appropriate
diplomatic requests.
673
00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:02,163
How'd the line-ups go?
674
00:31:02,227 --> 00:31:03,365
Pretty much as expected.
675
00:31:03,428 --> 00:31:06,375
The kid from Chinatown
ID'd Fletcher,
but not Tinsdale.
676
00:31:06,431 --> 00:31:09,207
Which still leaves
Morehouse to establish him
at the crime scene.
677
00:31:09,267 --> 00:31:13,272
Yeah, I'm pretty surprised
Gardner hasn't approached us
to discuss a plea.
678
00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:15,548
Maybe that's your answer.
679
00:31:18,510 --> 00:31:20,080
Motion in limine.
680
00:31:20,145 --> 00:31:23,354
He's seeking to
exclude any testimony
relating to Cai Binh.
681
00:31:24,282 --> 00:31:25,761
Peace, with honor.
682
00:31:27,586 --> 00:31:30,328
What happened in that village
30 years ago is irrelevant.
683
00:31:30,389 --> 00:31:34,269
Not with evidence indicating
Mr. Eastman planned to go
public with those events.
684
00:31:34,326 --> 00:31:37,205
So we're gonna sit here
and judge what happened
over three decades ago.
685
00:31:37,262 --> 00:31:39,606
It's not our judgment
that matters,
686
00:31:39,664 --> 00:31:41,940
it's the defendants' effort
to conceal those facts
687
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,673
that goes directly
to their motive.
688
00:31:43,735 --> 00:31:45,772
GARDNER: Judge, testimony
of an alleged massacre
689
00:31:45,837 --> 00:31:48,215
would irreparably
prejudice a jury.
690
00:31:48,273 --> 00:31:51,254
Your clients were
awarded a Bronze Star
for their conduct, Counselor.
691
00:31:51,309 --> 00:31:53,789
I'd think they'd be
eager for a jury to hear
what they'd done.
692
00:31:53,845 --> 00:31:55,722
Their witness is
a Vietnamese National, Judge.
693
00:31:55,781 --> 00:31:58,887
I doubt if a jury is
going to get an unbiased
account of the action.
694
00:31:59,851 --> 00:32:01,330
What about that, Mr. McCoy?
695
00:32:01,386 --> 00:32:03,423
Bias goes to weight,
not admissibility.
696
00:32:03,488 --> 00:32:07,095
If you don't allow
her testimony, the jury
only gets half a truth.
697
00:32:09,094 --> 00:32:10,971
I'm gonna hear
what she has to say,
Miss Gardner.
698
00:32:11,029 --> 00:32:13,509
Judge...
Outside the presence
of the jury.
699
00:32:20,272 --> 00:32:23,481
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
700
00:32:24,576 --> 00:32:25,611
(TRANSLATING)
701
00:32:25,677 --> 00:32:27,418
My name is Hon Trung.
702
00:32:27,479 --> 00:32:29,720
I was born in
the village of Cai Binh.
703
00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,351
I've lived there
all my life.
704
00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:35,526
Could you tell us
what happened on
May 3rd, 1969?
705
00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:38,366
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
706
00:32:43,028 --> 00:32:45,565
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
707
00:32:49,434 --> 00:32:52,176
That night I was in my house
helping my mother.
708
00:32:52,237 --> 00:32:54,979
A boy who lived next door
came running in,
709
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,281
he said the American
soldiers were coming.
710
00:32:57,642 --> 00:32:59,485
What happened
after the boy came in?
711
00:33:02,113 --> 00:33:04,525
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
712
00:33:06,885 --> 00:33:09,729
There was shouting.
Everyone was running.
713
00:33:09,788 --> 00:33:13,600
My mom told me to go to
the main parts of the village
to find my sister.
714
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:15,797
And did there come a time
when you left your home?
715
00:33:15,861 --> 00:33:17,306
(TRANSLATING)
716
00:33:18,597 --> 00:33:21,305
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
717
00:33:22,968 --> 00:33:26,506
Yes. I ran up a path
that led to the village.
718
00:33:27,339 --> 00:33:31,116
Then there was
an explosion over me.
It turned very bright.
719
00:33:33,245 --> 00:33:34,781
Then the shooting started.
720
00:33:35,180 --> 00:33:36,386
JACK: Who was shooting?
721
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,063
The American soldiers.
722
00:33:43,455 --> 00:33:46,925
They were at
the edge of the jungle
firing into our homes.
723
00:33:46,992 --> 00:33:48,335
JACK: What did you do next?
724
00:33:51,396 --> 00:33:54,377
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
725
00:33:57,836 --> 00:34:00,817
I hid in the jungle
until the shooting stopped.
726
00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:04,843
When I returned to my home,
everyone on the floor
was dead.
727
00:34:04,910 --> 00:34:07,186
My little daughter
was in my mother's arms,
728
00:34:07,245 --> 00:34:09,316
on the floor
covered with blood.
729
00:34:13,085 --> 00:34:14,428
Nothing further.
730
00:34:19,224 --> 00:34:21,636
I'm sorry, Mrs. Trung.
I just have a few questions.
731
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,197
(INTERPRETER TRANSLATING)
732
00:34:26,097 --> 00:34:29,203
Where were
the men in the village
at the time this happened?
733
00:34:29,367 --> 00:34:31,005
(TRANSLATING)
734
00:34:32,804 --> 00:34:34,078
(SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
735
00:34:34,506 --> 00:34:36,008
Fighting the Americans.
736
00:34:36,074 --> 00:34:37,815
GARDNER: Where?
737
00:34:38,543 --> 00:34:39,954
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
738
00:34:41,246 --> 00:34:43,749
In the territory
around our province.
739
00:34:43,815 --> 00:34:46,261
And you stayed in the village
helping to feed them,
740
00:34:46,318 --> 00:34:49,094
supply them,
and warn them that
the enemy was coming?
741
00:34:49,221 --> 00:34:51,201
(INTERPRETER TRANSLATING)
742
00:34:54,659 --> 00:34:57,071
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
743
00:35:04,536 --> 00:35:09,212
The Americans came
and told us we must
leave our village
744
00:35:09,274 --> 00:35:11,948
where my family has lived
for hundreds of years.
745
00:35:12,010 --> 00:35:16,152
I helped my mother,
my husband and my father
to fight the Americans
746
00:35:16,414 --> 00:35:18,792
just so we can stay
on our land.
747
00:35:18,850 --> 00:35:20,955
So is it fair to say that
you hated the Americans then
748
00:35:21,019 --> 00:35:22,896
and you still hate them now?
749
00:35:22,954 --> 00:35:24,092
Objection.
750
00:35:24,522 --> 00:35:26,502
You made your point,
Miss Gardner.
751
00:35:35,267 --> 00:35:38,248
When the illumination flare
exploded over your village,
Mrs. Trung,
752
00:35:38,737 --> 00:35:40,808
were you able to see
who was firing?
753
00:35:41,373 --> 00:35:43,614
(TRANSLATING)
754
00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:51,987
Could you see for yourself
who was firing the weapons
into your village?
755
00:35:52,050 --> 00:35:53,893
(INTERPRETER TRANSLATING)
756
00:35:57,022 --> 00:35:58,365
(SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
757
00:35:58,423 --> 00:35:59,902
I did not see it for myself.
758
00:36:00,692 --> 00:36:02,865
Move to strike
the witness's testimony
as hearsay.
759
00:36:03,395 --> 00:36:04,669
JUDGE: Mr. McCoy.
760
00:36:05,197 --> 00:36:08,644
Her testimony establishes
her state of mind,
761
00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:10,907
which is an exception
to the hearsay rule.
762
00:36:11,369 --> 00:36:13,645
From that the jury can infer
whether these defendants
763
00:36:13,705 --> 00:36:15,878
had an incentive to
conceal their conduct.
764
00:36:15,941 --> 00:36:18,421
Judge, this is
a second hand horror story
765
00:36:18,476 --> 00:36:21,457
of how my clients supposedly
massacred her family.
766
00:36:25,884 --> 00:36:29,388
Mrs. Trung, I thank you
for coming all this way.
767
00:36:29,955 --> 00:36:31,628
(TRANSLATING)
768
00:36:32,457 --> 00:36:33,492
(SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
769
00:36:33,558 --> 00:36:34,662
What happened?
770
00:36:34,726 --> 00:36:38,230
I'm sorry, but I can't admit
your testimony into evidence.
771
00:36:43,368 --> 00:36:44,779
(SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
772
00:36:44,836 --> 00:36:45,974
Why not?
773
00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:49,109
Because you didn't
observe these events
with your own eyes.
774
00:36:49,174 --> 00:36:50,312
(INTERPRETER TRANSLATING)
775
00:36:51,610 --> 00:36:53,681
(SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
776
00:36:54,145 --> 00:36:55,556
Do you think
it never happened?
777
00:36:59,150 --> 00:37:00,857
(SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
778
00:37:00,919 --> 00:37:04,765
Do you think that
my mother and daughter
weren't killed by these men?
779
00:37:05,423 --> 00:37:07,494
I'm very sorry, Mrs. Trung.
780
00:37:11,162 --> 00:37:12,573
(SPEAKS VIETNAMESE)
781
00:37:17,535 --> 00:37:20,209
Thirty years and you still
can't tell the truth.
782
00:37:20,271 --> 00:37:22,911
I came all the way here
for nothing.
783
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:30,059
At least we still have
Kenny Eng.
784
00:37:30,115 --> 00:37:32,254
And if Tinsdale or Fletcher
take the stand,
785
00:37:32,317 --> 00:37:34,524
I can always use
Trung's story to cross them.
786
00:37:34,586 --> 00:37:36,122
Mr. McCoy.
787
00:37:36,621 --> 00:37:39,932
General Mark Halston,
Army Office of
Strategic Affairs.
788
00:37:40,492 --> 00:37:41,971
I noticed you
in the courtroom.
789
00:37:42,027 --> 00:37:43,904
I'm up here
to observe the case.
790
00:37:43,962 --> 00:37:46,465
If we'd known,
we would've been
happy to brief you.
791
00:37:48,099 --> 00:37:50,136
Is there somewhere
we can talk?
792
00:37:51,736 --> 00:37:53,841
No one's here to embarrass
the Army, General.
793
00:37:53,905 --> 00:37:55,111
I understand that.
794
00:37:55,173 --> 00:37:57,949
And I certainly didn't
come here to bully you.
795
00:37:58,009 --> 00:38:01,183
But the Army would
like to see this case
go away quietly.
796
00:38:01,513 --> 00:38:04,153
If a jury convicts based on
what happened in Cai Binh
797
00:38:04,215 --> 00:38:06,161
it's going to open
a Pandora's box.
798
00:38:06,484 --> 00:38:10,330
We don't let
political considerations sway
our decisions, General.
799
00:38:11,389 --> 00:38:13,562
There's an international
criminal court being formed
800
00:38:13,625 --> 00:38:15,866
that's a year away
from hearing cases.
801
00:38:15,927 --> 00:38:19,397
Four Rwandans were recently
convicted of war crimes
in a Belgian court.
802
00:38:19,464 --> 00:38:21,341
Now, I'm not
disputing the merits,
803
00:38:21,399 --> 00:38:23,140
but there's precedent
for other governments
804
00:38:23,201 --> 00:38:26,307
to try to make an example
of these men, and others.
805
00:38:27,839 --> 00:38:29,580
What would you have us do?
806
00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:33,115
Basically, I'm asking you
to cut a deal.
807
00:38:37,048 --> 00:38:38,721
For the good of the nation.
808
00:38:39,717 --> 00:38:41,287
There are a lot of
good soldiers out there
809
00:38:41,352 --> 00:38:43,628
who don't deserve
to be put through this,
810
00:38:43,688 --> 00:38:46,669
who don't deserve to have
their honor questioned.
811
00:38:51,296 --> 00:38:53,776
I've already
told Miss Southerlyn
and I'm telling you,
812
00:38:53,832 --> 00:38:55,834
this case is
going to verdict.
813
00:38:56,234 --> 00:38:57,542
After what
we heard yesterday,
814
00:38:57,602 --> 00:38:59,445
I'd reconsider
if I were you.
815
00:39:00,271 --> 00:39:02,012
There are two sides
to what happened.
816
00:39:02,073 --> 00:39:05,646
If that's the truth,
why were you so afraid of
what Joe Eastman had to say?
817
00:39:05,710 --> 00:39:07,383
I think considering
the circumstances here,
818
00:39:07,445 --> 00:39:09,550
manslaughter's a pretty
generous offer.
819
00:39:11,883 --> 00:39:13,055
Well, I don't know
about Stan,
820
00:39:13,118 --> 00:39:14,654
but I'm not pleading guilty.
821
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,427
This trial's the only chance
I may have for vindication.
822
00:39:19,357 --> 00:39:23,305
I'm afraid you won't
find any vindication here,
Mr. Tinsdale.
823
00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:32,045
My God.
824
00:39:33,405 --> 00:39:34,645
What are you
doing here, Stephen?
825
00:39:35,340 --> 00:39:38,981
I told you guys
to just leave it alone,
but you wouldn't listen.
826
00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:41,823
Mr. Morehouse has agreed
to testify against you.
827
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,053
We've been walking around
with this thing for
far too long.
828
00:39:45,016 --> 00:39:46,461
You son of a bitch.
829
00:39:46,518 --> 00:39:49,431
Come on, man.
Look at where it's got us.
830
00:39:49,788 --> 00:39:52,769
You've already been
divorced three times.
831
00:39:52,824 --> 00:39:54,804
And me? I can't get
a night's sleep,
832
00:39:55,493 --> 00:39:57,905
without washing down
a bunch of pills.
833
00:39:58,463 --> 00:40:01,342
We're no heroes, Nolan.
And that's all Joe wanted,
834
00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:03,879
was for us to stand up
and say so.
835
00:40:04,636 --> 00:40:05,979
I never said I was a hero.
836
00:40:06,137 --> 00:40:08,344
But we took
the medals anyway.
837
00:40:09,808 --> 00:40:11,651
There were
women and children
in that village.
838
00:40:11,709 --> 00:40:13,017
No way we could have
known that at the time.
839
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:14,613
Come on, man,
we had reports.
840
00:40:14,679 --> 00:40:16,681
How many times was
our intel wrong, Stevie?
841
00:40:16,748 --> 00:40:20,161
You expect us to risk
our lives on a piece of paper
that's three weeks old?
842
00:40:20,218 --> 00:40:22,255
We could hear them screaming.
We could've pulled back.
843
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,893
Don't forget
you fired too, Stevie.
You fired, too.
844
00:40:29,294 --> 00:40:31,433
You do what you think
is right, Stephen.
845
00:40:31,996 --> 00:40:33,737
It's all we can do.
846
00:40:35,867 --> 00:40:38,347
I had a split second
to make a decision.
847
00:40:38,770 --> 00:40:40,272
I don't like the way
it turned out,
848
00:40:40,338 --> 00:40:42,682
but I did the job
they sent me to do.
849
00:40:45,477 --> 00:40:49,448
What about Joe Eastman?
Who sent you to do that,
Mr. Tinsdale?
850
00:40:52,884 --> 00:40:56,627
You talk,
we go to prison, Nolan.
Do you realize that?
851
00:40:59,757 --> 00:41:01,998
They're gonna find out
sooner or later, Stan.
852
00:41:07,031 --> 00:41:10,240
Joe called us,
he said he was gonna
853
00:41:10,768 --> 00:41:12,941
send back his Bronze Star,
write a letter to the papers
854
00:41:13,004 --> 00:41:14,984
about what happened
at Cai Binh.
855
00:41:15,039 --> 00:41:16,541
I couldn't let that happen.
856
00:41:16,608 --> 00:41:18,849
Because what Mrs. Trung
testified to was true.
857
00:41:18,910 --> 00:41:22,016
Because it didn't matter
if what she said was
true or not.
858
00:41:23,148 --> 00:41:25,992
I'd been called
a murderer before,
when I came home.
859
00:41:26,317 --> 00:41:29,457
I wasn't about to look
into my son's eyes and
explain it all over again.
860
00:41:30,755 --> 00:41:33,258
So you took matters
into your own hands.
861
00:41:33,324 --> 00:41:35,930
I'd tried for years to
get Joe back on his feet.
862
00:41:36,661 --> 00:41:39,301
I took him to the VA.
I gave him money.
863
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:42,978
Somehow he just...
864
00:41:43,535 --> 00:41:45,845
He could never
make peace with it.
865
00:41:46,638 --> 00:41:49,812
Maybe he was better
than the rest of us.
I don't know.
866
00:41:52,543 --> 00:41:54,784
What happened when
you went to see him?
867
00:42:00,285 --> 00:42:02,697
We just wanted
to talk to him.
868
00:42:02,754 --> 00:42:05,667
We thought maybe we could
get him to change his mind.
869
00:42:05,723 --> 00:42:07,259
JACK: He refused.
870
00:42:09,093 --> 00:42:11,039
After we got him in the car,
871
00:42:11,763 --> 00:42:16,337
he just started to lose it.
So Stan pulled over.
872
00:42:17,135 --> 00:42:19,581
And that's when
Joe pulled the knife.
873
00:42:19,637 --> 00:42:20,775
His knife?
874
00:42:21,673 --> 00:42:24,279
I managed to wrestle it
away from him,
875
00:42:26,044 --> 00:42:28,115
but he just
kept coming at me,
876
00:42:28,179 --> 00:42:31,353
like he didn't care
what happened anymore.
877
00:42:36,454 --> 00:42:41,961
You gotta understand,
there was no chance
to walk away.
878
00:42:57,108 --> 00:42:59,611
Gardner's accepted
our offer of man two.
879
00:42:59,677 --> 00:43:02,123
She intends to ask
the judge for the minimum.
880
00:43:03,548 --> 00:43:06,495
A mayor
and an oil executive.
881
00:43:08,620 --> 00:43:10,531
I'm sure she'll make
a strong case.
882
00:43:11,556 --> 00:43:13,536
I think there were
mitigating factors.
883
00:43:14,659 --> 00:43:17,105
Based on what they did
or who they are?
884
00:43:17,996 --> 00:43:19,566
They were kids.
885
00:43:20,331 --> 00:43:22,777
Kids armed to the teeth,
put in a place
886
00:43:22,834 --> 00:43:24,711
where most of the time
they couldn't tell
887
00:43:24,769 --> 00:43:26,612
who was for them,
and who was against them.
888
00:43:26,671 --> 00:43:28,810
We need to be careful
how we judge.
889
00:44:00,171 --> 00:44:02,549
(SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING)
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