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The bidding is closed.

(sirens wailing)

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BLACKWELL:
The victim's name is Peter Dewhurst.

Single dad, kid in second grade.

Found his body this morning in a
classroom at Archer Elementary.

Coroner puts the
time of death between 10:00 and 11:00 last night.

Near the end of the annual
school fund-raiser.

Head trauma,
blow from a blunt object.

Subject's in custody,
Archer parent named Sally Marin.

The blunt object?

Children's art project chair.

The murder weapon was
a class art project? Mrs. Marin won

it at the silent auction.

Paint flakes, head wound
all match up with the chair.

Blood on the chair and on the
dress she was wearing,

same type as the victim.

The lab's working up
definitive DNA.

We got skin from under
the victim's nails.

We're running that, too.

What do we know
about Mrs. Marin?

Married, eight-year-old
daughter, second grade.

BLACKWELL:
Typical soccer mom.

Except for the homicidal
tendencies.

There was a note
in the victim's wallet.

Mrs. Marin's
stationary.

"Thank you for being you.
You are my rock.

You've opened my eyes
to the nightmare I've been living."

Sounds like an affair.

If she was having

an affair, why aren't we looking
at the husband?

Mr. Marin has an iron-clad
alibi-- a seminar 90 miles away

with 50 other people.

Were victim and suspect seen
together last night?

The security camera time
stamped 9:55 p.m.

just before the murder.

Looks like a lover's
quarrel to me.

MAN:
Annabeth.

Casey, how's
private practice?

The credit cards
are paid off, and my mortgage is up to date.

(laughs)
Life's grand. How's that baby?

Cute as a button?
Cuter.

16 months next week.
Oh, yeah?

You must be gearing up for
that preschool frenzy.

What frenzy?
Are you kidding me?

My wife has us on
every list in town.

Uh, Phoebe's what, like
not even a year old?

But you got to get a jump
on these good preschools.

We called Little Red Wagon
from her hospital bed.

(laughing):
Seems excessive.

What's the rush?

Annabeth, you apply
when they're one

so you get in
when they're three.

Are you serious?

If I were you, I'd
make that appointment.

Now, could she look
any more innocent?

Funny, in our
justice system,

looking innocent
doesn't actually count for anything.

They quarreled.

She struck Mr. Dewhurst
with a chair.

I never even went in that
classroom last night.

The chair was out
in the hallway.

I-I picked it up
and took it home.

A guilty person would have
destroyed the evidence.

She just paid $2,000 for it. She
wasn't just gonna throw it away.

Wipe off the chair,

take the dress to the cleaners,
everything's back to normal.

Except Peter Dewhurst is dead,

and his eight-year-old
son is an orphan.

I would never do anything
to hurt Peter or his son.

What were you and Mr.
Dewhurst fighting about?

Fighting?

Just before 10:00
in the hallway.

A security camera caught it.
You were arguing vehemently.

He grabbed your arm,
and you stomped off.

That doesn't prove anything.
It was nothing.

School stuff, trivia.

We were just exhausted
last night from working on the auction.

Peter and I,
we were very close friends.

Very close friends?

Yes.

He was your rock?

What?

"...the nightmare
I've been living."

Your marriage?

My marriage is fine.

It was something else,
a personal situation.

You and Mr. Dewhurst
were having an affair.

No!

This situation

is the nightmare.

I'm innocent.

Talk to your client.

She tells the truth, we can talk
about a plea.

Otherwise, I'm charging
her in the death

of her very close friend.

Think it over, Mrs. Marin.

www.1000fr.com present

?? it to ruin my week

by arresting the city's most
popular soccer mom?

Had a few calls?
You know, I thought

dealing with the mayor
and the governor was tough.

They're nothing compared
with the parents

of the Archer
Elementary School PTA.

So what do we
have on the victim?

Peter Dewhurst, widower,

single father to a
second grader at Archer.

The lone dad on the PTA
executive committee,

and according to his
legion of female fans,

Peter was a PTA
rock star.

All the moms loved him.

Loved him how much?

Ms. Marin obviously had some
kind of relationship with him.

They called each other
10 to 15 times a day,

and exchanged thousands of
emails. It'll take us days

to go through them.

Hundreds of phone calls,
thousands of emails?

And they saw each other
every day.

What could they have to talk
about? It had to be an affair.

Clearly, you've never been
on a PTA committee.

And you have?

No, but my ex-wife was.

I was going to say, you don't
look like the PTA type.

Does Mrs. Marin have
a criminal history?

None.

Forensics?

Uh, recovered a plastic
fragment from the rug

in the kindergarten classroom,

apparently off the bottom
of a woman's satin heel.

Are we checking Mrs.
Marin's wardrobe?

Yes, and we're still
waiting on DNA

from skin under
the victim's nails.

Let's hold off charging her
until we get the results, huh?

Okay. In the meantime, I will
talk to the suspect's husband.

And Ed is canvassing some of the
mothers who were at the auction.

Well, hopefully
he's wearing his Kevlar.

Did you notice any
tension between

Sally Marin and Peter
Dewhurst that night?

Definitely. They were
barely speaking all night.

Well, it's understandable.
That event was insane.

All the committee people,
they work so hard.

They love it.
They're all addicts.

FEMS.

What's a FEM?

Formerly Employed Moms.

That is so mean.

They quit working to be
stay-at-home moms.

But they still need
adult stimulation.

So now they just run
their kids' lives instead.

You think Sally Marin and Peter
Dewhurst were having an affair?

Oh, gosh, no.

I mean, I can't
even imagine...

Peter was a babe.
I would have jumped him.

(giggling):
Andrea.

The truth is, if they'd
been sleeping together,

I think we would have known.

When Miss Heather and the
science teacher hooked up,

the whole school knew in a week.

Then again, I mean, if you're
not in the inner circle,

I bet we don't know
the half of it.

Inner circle?

PTA is like
anything else.

You've got the movers
and the shakers,

and then you've
got the worker bees.

And you're worker bees?

Definitely.

Well, I'll need the buzz on that
inner circle.

(laughs)

Hello.

I'm Maureen Scofield with
the Prosecutor's Office.

I'm here to see Mr. Marin.

Oh, uh, yes, just
hold on one second.

Hey, Lily.

Go finish your soup.

I don't feel so good.

I know, but eat your soup.
It'll make you feel better.

Okay.

Kelsey, keep her company.

But Mom?

Kelsey?

(laughing):
I'm sorry.

Poor Lily. She has been
so upset about her mom.

I'm sorry. Are you a
neighbor, or a relative?

I'm Caroline Cummings.
I'm Sally's best friend.

I'm just helping out Kevin and
Sally until this gets resolved.

May I ask you a question?

Sure.

You're her best friend?

Yes.

Did she confide in you
about her relationship

with Mr. Dewhurst?

I don't understand.

We think they were
having an affair.

Peter and Sally?
That is ridiculous.

No, they were friends.
We were all friends.

Look, this whole thing has
just been a terrible mistake.

It's a tragedy, and you
people have compounded it by arresting Sally.

When are you going
to let her go?

I'm sorry, that's not up to me.

Well, she did not kill Peter.

There's a lot of evidence
that she did.

Mr. Marin is this way.

Thank you.

We think Peter Dewhurst
and your wife

were having an affair.

You're wrong.

They called each other every
day, all day long,

emails, text messages.

They were doing the auction.

Is that all they were doing?

You're right.

She was cheating on me.

All right?

But not with Peter Dewhurst.

With the PTA.

Of course it bothered me
she was spending so much time with him.

11:00 at night in bed,
IM-ing Peter on her laptop.

What are the best juice boxes to
buy for the May Fair?

Who's working the bake sale,

the Pecan Festival...?

I... I'd had it.

I wanted out.

Out of the marriage?

Out of the school.

How did your wife
feel about that?

Sally was upset, begged me to
change my mind.

She loves Archer,
but I insisted.

I told her I want
my family back.

The blow fractured his skull,
causing a subdural hemotoma.

I'd say the attacker was
close to the same height

as the victim,
at least 5'8".

Mrs. Marin is
not that tall.

She's like 5'3",
5'4" at the most.

She could have been
standing on something--

a step, a riser.

No, there was
nothing like that

in the crime
scene report.

What about
the DNA results?

The skin under
the victim's nails

is not a match
for the suspect.

Okay, sounds like
we have a problem.

Annabeth, you and Ray better
meet me at the crime scene.

This is where they found
the heel fragment?

Yeah, it's from a woman's
Cosomo brand red satin pump.

As opposed to a man's
red satin pump, I guess.

Cosomo, huh?

Is that good?

Very nice,

very elegant, very expensive.

Mrs. Marin

was in black that night.

Right.

Meaning what?

She wouldn't be
wearing red pumps.

She wouldn't?
How would you know?

Unless she tied it in
with something else.

Yeah, like a-a red
belt or a red scarf.

What is this, some kind of rule?

Yes.
Yes.

It's called the
Law of Accessories.

I'm used to a different
kind of accessory,

like... an accessory
after the fact.

We should be
able to find her.

There were 400 parents

at that auction, more
than half of them women.

It's a needle in a haystack.

For you, maybe, but we
have our working theory.

Red belt, red
scarf, red pumps.

There could have been
more than one woman

that night wearing red pumps.

Yes, but red satin
Cosomo pumps?

Not likely.

Here's a red dress.

Would you wear red
heels with that?

I wouldn't.

I'll put it
in the "maybe" pile.

Wrap dress, fur shrug.

Probably vintage
Mary Janes.

Check this
one out with

the peasant
blouse. Not a chance.

Why not?

She's wearing

leopard print and burgundy.

So? She's probably wearing

beaded slippers
or strappy sandals.

Hmm.

Beaded slippers, man.

Get with the program.

Funny, I don't remember

covering formal footwear
at the academy.

I met this woman at
the Marins' house.

Said she was
Sally's best friend.

WILLIAMS:
Caroline Cummings.

She's wearing a red belt.

I'll bet she had red shoes on.

Sure.

Ties the whole look together.

Exactly.

Worker bees
told me

she co-chaired
the auction committee

with Mrs. Marin.

Let's check her out.

I'll get a warrant.

You need probable cause
for a warrant, ladies,

which this is not.

It will be.
How?

We just need
a female judge.

With a sense of style.

Judge Stevenson?

Tres chic.

This is absurd.

Don't pull on that, please.

That's cashmere. Pashmina.

Mrs. Cummings, you could
save us all some trouble

if you just hand over the
clothes you were wearing

that night at the auction.

Fine.

(sighs)

Here.

Happy?

This is short sleeve.

And this is not
the same skirt at all.

Oh, I... I spilled wine
on that outfit.

I had to throw it out.

You do that a lot?
Throw away an expensive dress

instead of taking it
to the cleaners?

Got the shoes.

Red satin pumps.

These look like Cosomos to you?

Yeah. Cosomos, definitely.

You're getting
pretty good at that.

Hey, you're not the only one
with a sense of style.

Oh, and look, there's a little
piece missing off the heel.

Luminol that puppy.

What are you doing?

What are you spraying
all over my shoes?

It'll show us
if there's blood on them.

Well, if there is,
I don't know how it got there.

Bingo.

I am not discussing anything
until we get an attorney.

Wait a minute!

What are you doing?

Sir, step back.

Your wife's under arrest.

Joe, call a lawyer.

Don't worry, honey,
I'll call Jim Thompson.

Call Sally.

Get someone
from her lawyer's firm.

Got it.

Not a criminal mastermind.

She should have
thrown them out

instead of trying
to clean them up.

Oh, shoes like these,
you don't throw out.

Not if you
can help it.

Best friends, huh?

So she said.
She was still going

to let Mrs. Marin take the rap.

We released Sally Marin

and charged Caroline
Cummings with manslaughter.

You got a motive yet?

No, but the
physical evidence

is incontrovertible.

The victim's blood
on her shoe,

heel fragment at
the scene, and DNA.

It was her skin under
the victim's fingernails.

This case, without a motive,

manslaughter's a
stretch for a jury.

Better plead it down
to reckless homicide.

And if I can
find a motive?

Better find
one quick!

Why aren't you
helping him?

E-mail trees,
they're connected.

It's like
an ecosystem.

It's better for one person
to read all of them.

He lost the coin
toss, didn't he?

What can I say?

I've always been lucky.

ANNABETH:
Guys, help me out here.

I need a motive.

Why'd she kill him?

Why do people
kill each other?

WILLIAMS:
Hundreds of reasons.

Money, blackmail,
extortion, drugs.

Well, you guys are
still on the streets.

Think PTA moms
in the suburbs.

I'll take a dealer

with a rap sheet
as long as your arm any day.

Well, something
set her off.

Anything in the e-mail so far?

Well, in the first
5,000 or so I've read,

maybe something
brewing in paradise

between Dewhurst
and Mrs. Cummings.

Like what?

Disagreements
over the auction planning.

What's the theme going to be?

Should we or shouldn't we

have a Deejay?

Exciting stuff.

Don't gloat.

Motive for murder...

I don't think so.

The other parents you
canvassed didn't mention

anything about problems
between those two?

They wouldn't have
necessarily known.

Who would?
I gave my list

of the PTA's
inner circle to Maureen.

She's talking to them for me,

including the ex-PTA president,

who threw up her hands in
disgust over the whole thing.

I can think of someone else
who probably knew something.

You mean the
woman I accused

of killing her
closest friend?

On your way over, you
might want to practice

that apology
in the rearview.

(sighs)

I quit and never
looked back.

Too much work?

Too much drama.

PTA politics
was something else.

I felt like a
U.N. negotiator.

Our kids are at stake,
or so people tell themselves,

but do you think
it really matters

what font we use
on the auction flier?

(laughs)

Now the principal
at Archer mentioned

there was some hostility
between Caroline and you?

Oh, it was between
Caroline and everyone,

but for me, the final straw,

someone sent an
anonymous complaint

about how Peter was
running the meetings.

It was absurd,
and he was mad as hell.

How do you know it
was Mrs. Cummings?

Well, Peter
joked that he

was going to hire a
private investigator,

but I recognized
Caroline's handwriting.

I heard Caroline
threaten him once.

She said it like a joke,
but it sure sounded angry to me.

Mom!

Someone's here for you!

Lily, I can hear you
all the way in the back.

Go play, honey, okay?

Okay.

What are you doing here?

Mrs. Marin, please
accept my apologies.

I made a huge mistake.

I'd like you to leave,
please. Right now.

I need to talk to you
about Caroline Cummings.

You were wrong about me.

You're wrong about her.

We were mistaken about you

and you can hold
it against us,

or you can help us.

We know that she
and Peter Dewhurst

weren't getting along.

That kind of friction
is normal in...

I know I should have called.

Kelsey is in the car and she's
dying to see Lily, so I thought

maybe the girls
could have a play date.

Caroline, this is not

a good time.

What are you two
talking about?

We'll do it some
other time, okay?

I'll call and arrange
something for the girls.

Please.

I'll call you later, sweetie.

She's out on bail for killing
one of your closest friends

and she just drops by like it's
nothing out of the ordinary?

Well, that's Caroline
for you-- nothing fazes her.

Um...

Could we do this
another time, please?

I can't.

This is all starting to hit me.

Hard.

Of course.

So I'm standing

in Sally's living room
and in walks Caroline,

and get this, their living
rooms are exactly the same.

How weird is that?

Same curtains, same shade of
green paint, same furniture,

same photo of
the two of them

wearing the same outfit.

Creepy. I wonder
what it means.

It's like they're leading
doppelganger lives.

Yeah, but who's
copying who?

So I combed through Caroline
Cummings' past.

It took me a few days.

Campus security reports

from 15 years ago are hard
to lay your hands on.

Where was this?

Oregon. Grad school.

She was a T.A.

One of her students accused
Miss Cummings of stalking her.

Said Cummings
started showing up

uninvited to
her apartment,

parties...

Borrowed some of her laundry
and wore it around campus.

She finally asked for a
disciplinary hearing.

Anything come of it?

No. She got sick over
spring break, couldn't fly home.

Guess who shows up
at her front door with soup?

Caroline Cummings?

Student was too out of it

to see straight.
So she lets

her stalker
take care of her.

You got it. She gets better,

she's grateful,
drops the charges.

But what if
this whole thing

was about the two women?

If Caroline was obsessed with
Sally...

Then she kills Peter Dewhurst

because he's coming
between them.

And people think

the PTA is about the kids.

Poor Peter.
I haven't even...

had time to cry over him.

This kind of
grief, someone

so close, out of the blue,

it's very hard.

I know.

How can I help you, Miss Chase?

You can tell us in detail what
you know of their relationship.

Were they having an affair?

Lord, no.

How can you be so sure?

He didn't
have the time.

He spent it all with me.

You said you and Peter
weren't...

We weren't sleeping together,
but we were that close,

that intimate emotionally.

We believe Caroline was jealous

of your friendship
with Peter Dewhurst.

She could be
a little possessive.

Was she in love with you?

Caroline?

No, not exactly.

It's hard to explain.

Sally, you're not the first
woman she stalked.

Excuse me?

Caroline stalked another woman
in college.

Uh... Julie Gardner.

Caroline never mentioned her.

Miss Gardner eventually lodged
a formal complaint

with campus security.

We moved here a year ago.

I met Caroline
in line at the market.

She helped me
find a gym,

a baby-sitter...

And I was thrilled that Lily
made a new friend.

Lily's shy.

Changing schools
in midyear was brutal.

Caroline would arrange play
dates for the girls.

It meant the world to me.

So you became friends.

We did.

And then it started
to get weird.

Caroline redid
her living room

to look exactly the same
as mine.

She started

dropping by at all hours.

She was the nightmare
you referred to

in the note to Peter,
wasn't she?

When Peter was killed,

why didn't you tell us
about her behavior?

Who would believe me?

What would I tell the police,

that this PTA mom
was acting like

a teenager?

Hanging around the
market for hours

so she'd accidentally
run into me?

No one would take
that seriously.

Peter...

was my closest friend
in the world.

If...

if Caroline killed him...

She did.

it was because of me

??

She was obsessed
with Sally Marin.

Well, jury's gonna want to know
how and why that night,

what happened
to make her snap.

A psychologist is
coming in today

to look at Sally's
video statement.

Has Ed gotten through
the e-mails yet? He's close.

He's at the point
where she tried

to get Dewhurst kicked off
some PTA committee.

Well, a pattern
of ongoing antagonism

would establish
her existing mental state.

Which would get around
the defense claim that it was sudden heat.

Sudden heat knocks
you back down to reckless homicide.

Which is what you've wanted.

No, it's what's easier.

If you can prove intent,
then you'll get your

manslaughter conviction
That's what I want.

I know.

Caroline started redoing
her living room

so it looked like mine.

She got Kelsey the same
hair clips Lily likes.

(laughs):
I could go on and on.

I tried to pull away, but...

Caroline just got
more and more needy.

Here's where I see
evidence of what is called a girl crush.

Is it sexual?

Not overtly.

It's a passionate friendship,
strictly platonic.

Common in middle
and high school.

Most teenage girls go through
a girl crush phase.

Wendy Wellman, my best friend
in eighth grade.

We sat next to each
other in every class,

and as soon as
I got home from school,

we were on the phone again.

Part of the reason
Mrs. Marin allowed

Caroline's behavior
is because it enabled her

to carry on her emotional
affair with Peter Dewhurst.

So Sally Marin tolerated

Caroline Cummings having
a girl crush on her.

Oh, she knew her relationship

with Mr. Dewhurst
was inappropriate,

but as long as
she could tell herself

it was all under the guise of
handling the Caroline situation,

they could avoid
feeling guilty about

spending so much
time together. Explains why Sally

didn't tell us about Caroline
from the beginning.

A girl crush can be

as passionate
as a love relationship.

So if Sally

rejected Caroline for Peter...

Oh, Caroline could feel
the same kind of jealousy,

anger, feelings of betrayal

as if she'd been rejected
by a boyfriend.

The late-night
phone calls,

bitter recriminations,
screaming,

hysterical fights on prom night.

You sound as if you have
some experience in this area.

I was very intense in my youth.

WILLIAMS:
10,000 e-mail. I read every single one.

Very impressive.
Half the time

the parents are planning
barbecues together,

the other half
slamming each other.

But no outright threats
between Caroline and anyone.

Which means we
can't prove intent,

which means
no conviction.

Can we track any
underlying antagonisms

between Caroline Cummings
and Peter Dewhurst?

Oh, they're all
over the place.

And I'm not sure
Mrs. Marin understood the depth of it.

Turns out...

Peter Dewhurst actually
did hire himself

a private investigator.

After the stunt she pulled

at the PTA meeting?
Dewhurst had a handwriting expert

confirm the anonymous note
was from Mrs. Cummings.

He also looked into getting
a restraining order.

For himself?

For Sally Marin.

No sign she knew.

He was protecting her.

Okay, that's
our approach, then.

We can't point to a specific
e-mail as being threatening,

but the totality of e-mails
paints a picture

of Caroline Cummings's
pervasive hostility toward Peter Dewhurst.

Like the neighbors
who squabble

over the fence for years until
one finally shoots the other one

and claims
it was in sudden heat.

But because they have a history
of fighting...

The sudden heat defense
doesn't apply.

It's the pervasiveness
of their squabbling

that speaks to intent.

Let's hope the judge

sees it that way.

Motion People v.
Caroline Cummings.

Ladies?

Motion to exclude the testimony
of Julie Gardner.

Your Honor,
the defendant stalked and harassed Ms. Gardner.

It goes towards motive
and a pattern of predatory behavior.

12 years ago, in college.

It was an isolated
incident, not a pattern.

Prior acts are
not admissible.

But M.O.'s are.

How is the stalking relevant,
Ms. Scofield?

The stalking shows
the obsessive nature

of the defendant's relationships
with other women.

One other woman 12 years ago.

I agree with the defense.

It's a singular incident,

not a pattern.

The testimony is excluded.
Next.

Your Honor, the defense
would also like

to exclude all of Caroline
Cummings's PTA correspondence.

These e-mails are more
prejudicial than probative.

These e-mails clearly track
Mrs. Cummings'

antagonism towards the victim.
She is not on trial

for being a...

Ms. Brokaw.

Please.
The sum of these e-mails

make it clear--
Mrs. Cummings had a long-running

and pervasive hostility
towards the victim.

McEwing v. State upheld

a pattern of hostility
can be used to prove intent.

Do the e-mails contain

any explicit threats
toward the victim?

There's an undercurrent of rage.

That's your interpretation.

The e-mails
are excluded.

If you find a specific threat,
I'll review it in camera.

Your Honor...

We're done.

Trial starts Friday.

MAUREEN:
First the judge ties our hands,

then he fires
the starting pistol and yells "go."

It's a tough case to make
without the e-mails.

You realize trial
starts tomorrow.

I'll begin with
the ex-president of the PTA

to establish Caroline's
state of mind vis-a-vis Sally and Peter.

This is a truly
twisted triangle.

Caroline and Sally carpooled.

Their kids were friends.

They talked on the phone
several times a day.

Did Caroline appear
to be obsessed with Sally?

Objection. Witness is not
qualified to speak to that.

Sustained.

(sighs)

Did you witness an argument

between Caroline and Peter
on October 12?

In the pickup line at school.

MAUREEN:
Did you hear what the argument was about?

Peter was taking Lily and
his son to the lake house

for the weekend
to help Sally out.

Caroline was angling
to keep Lily,

but no way was Peter
letting that happen.

Then I heard her say,

"I'm so jealous
you're keeping Lily.

You're lucky
I don't slash your tires."

Objection.
Approach?

Your Honor, this is
an eyewitness account

of a threat
made by the defendant.

It was a joke,

not a threat.
If slashing tires

isn't a threat,
I don't know what is.

I'll allow it.

When Caroline said this,
did you think she was serious?

I did-- her tone of voice...

...it was disturbing.

And how did Peter react?

He was shocked.

You thought
he took it seriously.

Very.

Your witness.

I knew Caroline was becoming
too possessive.

She tried to oust Peter
from the PTA,

so we wouldn't... couldn't spend
so much time together.

Did that strategy work?

It backfired, actually.

He and I spent
even more time together.

He became a buffer

between Caroline and me.

I wanted it that way.

You never confronted
Mrs. Cummings. Why?

I didn't want
to hurt her feelings.

And... I thought
I could manage her.

Nothing further.

If you thought Caroline
was an unstable person,

why didn't you break off
your friendship?

I tried to pull away, but...

I'm not
a confrontational person.

I didn't want conflict.

So you tolerated
Mrs. Cummings.

I tried to be nice to her,
as nice as I could be.

Did you trust her?

Not really-- she
was... so erratic.

Then why did you
allow her to take care

of your daughter
when she was sick?

I mean, you frequently
left your daughter in Caroline's care.

In September you left her
with Caroline for... 36 hours.

My mom broke her hip;
it was an emergency.

You more than tolerated
Caroline Cummings.

You relied on her.

I wanted Peter to take
Lily for the weekend.

But Lily got sick

and she couldn't go.

So Caroline pitched in.

So you did, in fact, trust her

with your most
precious possession,

your only child.

Miss Sarah, hi.

It's Annabeth Chase.

Thank you so much for scheduling
an interview tomorrow.

We'll be there at 8:30.

Uh...

no, actually,
he passed away last spring.

So, uh, it's just gonna be
the two of us.

That's okay.

Okay, thanks.
Bye-bye.

(laughs):
Uh, preschools.

Haley has an interview tomorrow.

How do you interview
a toddler?

Good question.

Apparently, if I want Haley
to go to a good feeder school,

I have to start applying now.

It seems prestigious
private grade schools

are harder to get into
than Harvard.

Wait for high school.

Jessie's on the student council,
playing three sports,

and working with food banks
just to bolster her college aps.

And she's got a 4.0.

My two cents:

let 'em have a childhood;
it's over soon enough.

I know.

I heard what happened
with our star witness.

I'm not so sure
we're making our case.

You know,
from where I sit

it's a jump ball,
and I'm sure Becky Brokaw

is as uncertain as to which way
the jury's leaning as we are.

You want me to offer
reckless homicide.

I think it's the smart play,
I really do.

All right.

Go for the max.

Eight years for killing someone?

The jury doesn't know everything
you do about this case.

Start with eight, settle
for what you can get.

We'll take reckless homicide,
two years suspended, no more.

Your client could face 20 years
in prison

if the jury finds her guilty.

If you thought the jury
would come back guilty,

you wouldn't be here.

Is Mrs. Cummings willing
to take the chance?

If she loses,

her daughter will be grown up

and out of the house
long before she gets out.

Okay, four years.

With good behavior,

it will be two, tops.

Annabeth?

Agreed.

We want a confession
for the record.

It was an accident.

My whole life, I've
taken care of people.

When they're sick or when
they need a friend.

I never meant to hurt Peter.

Hey.

How'd the interview at
Pleasant Corners go?

I put it off for
a couple days.

Listen, I've been thinking.

Annabeth, the
sentencing

is next week, you can't undo it.

Just hear me out.

Caroline Cummings
said something.

She takes care of people
when they're sick.

Mm-hmm, a regular
Florence Nightingale.

Sally Marin testified that
when her mother broke her hip,

her daughter was supposed to go
away for the weekend

with Peter and his kid.
Mm-hmm. Lily gets sick

and Caroline takes Lily
for the weekend instead.

Sound familiar?

Just like
her last stalking victim.

Julie Gardner had been trying
to ditch Caroline,

and then she got violently ill,

some intestinal thing she's
never had before or since.

Caroline made her soup,
brought it to her dorm.

Caroline Cummings made Lily soup

the day I interviewed
Kevin Marin.

People in Caroline's life

eventually start to pull away
from her because she's crazy.

And then they get violently ill,
and she magically cures them.

And voila, they're filled
with gratitude

and best friends again.

Maureen, is there a chance she
made them sick on purpose,

so she could cure them?

If I can prove it,
I don't need to undo the plea.

??

This is crazy.

Why can't you just
leave my family alone?

What the hell is this?

A subpoena to depose
your daughter.

She's eight years old.

You want her to testify
against her own mother?

We want her to tell the truth,
and you understand,

if you influence her to lie,
you could go to jail, too.

Then Kelsey would have no one.

You wouldn't do that.

She'll be sentenced
to four years and time served.

On early release
she'll be out in two.

Two years for killing Peter,
doesn't seem right.

No, it doesn't.

I wanted to ask you.

My colleague said Lily's
been ill recently?

Nothing out of the ordinary.

She got sick
when I was arrested.

Some kind of stomach bug.

What do you know
about pin worms?

They're like head lice,

one of those things
that go around

even the best schools.

Huge pain in the...
but no big deal.

They're parasites,
easily transmitted,

that cause a full-blown
parasitic infection--

itchy, uncomfortable,
sometimes stomach cramps.

The symptoms often
seem like the flu,

so you might not even
go to the doctor.

What are you getting at?

We found cookies in
Mrs. Cummings' refrigerator.

The frosting contained
live pin worm eggs.

Are you saying...?

She infected Lily deliberately.

Oh, my God.

We think she did the same
thing in college

to a woman she was stalking.

Why? Why would she do
something like that?

To play the hero.

It's a form of Munchausen
syndrome by proxy.

Make someone sick,
and then cure them.

She deliberately made Lily sick?

And then gave her something
to make her better

so you would be grateful to her.

Soup.

There was leftover.

I put it in my freezer.

Lily was not my best friend,
even at all.

She was really annoying.

But if I let her be
my recess buddy,

Mommy lets me paint
my toenails with her.

If Lily asks my mom
for a play date,

I get a cupcake before bed.

Does your mom ask you to keep
secrets with Lily?

Mom sometimes packs special
cookie treats in my lunch

to give to Lily.

Like this one?

Yeah, only I'm not allowed to
have the ones with the ribbons.

Did you tell anyone?

No, because Lily's mom
would take them away.

So I'd take it in
my lunch box to school,

and sneak it to her under
the picnic tables

so the teachers can't see.

We can't share food
at school

because Bethany has
a peanut allergy.

Well, the plea's already
been entered, Annabeth.

You're trying to influence
the judge to throw out our agreement before sentencing.

These are new charges.

Your client deliberately
infected Lily Marin

with an intestinal parasite.

You're manipulating my child.

You're evil.

We tested the cookies,
Mrs. Cummings.

Sally Marin
froze some of her soup.

The lab found a drug in it

that cures pin worms
in one dose.

What's on the table, Annabeth?

Ten years. She pleads
to child endangerment.

Concurrently.

In addition to the four.

14 years?

I have a daughter.

And I feel very sorry for her,
but not for you.

The alternative is
we go to trial

and everybody finds out
what you did

to eight-year-old
Lily Marin.

I'd like a moment
to confer with my client.

Mrs. Cummings, in the charge of
one count of child endangerment

against Lily Marin,
do you accept the charges?

Yes, Your Honor.

But I would like to
make a statement.

Proceed.

Pin worms are not fatal.

They're a very common

childhood ailment,
and they're easily cured.

I always had a supply
of the soup ready, just in case.

JUDGE:
Mrs. Cummings, your lack

of remorse is noted.

In the death of Peter Dewhurst,

do you accept the charge
of reckless homicide?

Yes, but it was not my fault.

Please elaborate.

Peter was the possessive one.

Sally and I were as close
as two people could be.

Then he turned her against me.

He said that she only
put up with me

for Lily's sake.

Somehow he knew that I was
making Lily sick,

so that I could spend time
with Sally.

I told him that I would stop

if he just promised
not to tell Sally.

But when I did, it was like,

he finally had the proof he
needed to ruin our friendship.

He said he was going to tell
Sally what I'd done.

I didn't mean to kill him.

I only picked up the chair

because I was so
hurt and... angry.

JUDGE:
As stipulated in the agreement

between the People of Indiana
and the defendant,

for one count
of reckless homicide,

the Court sentences you
to four years in prison.

For one count of child
endangerment,

the Court sentences you
to ten years in prison.

These sentences are
to be served consecutively

for a total of 14 years.

Bailiff, you can
take the defendant.

This court is adjourned.

(bangs gavel)

ANNABETH:
Okay, great, thank you.

That was Pleasant Corners,
Haley's in.

Congratulations.
Thanks.

But if I hold
off, Magic Meadows might have a spot.

Oh, what are you going to do?

I don't know.
It's overwhelming.

If I make the
wrong choice now,

it could affect the
whole course of her life.

Wait, this is preschool
we're talking about, right?

Three mornings a week.

Yeah.

I think you may be overreacting.

You think?

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess so.

All these decisions,
you know?

I guess I never imagined
I'd be doing all this on my own.

Well, you are.

And you aren't.

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