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ANNABETH:
Why'd you call us so soon?

Don't you need to finish
your investigation?

Oh, we didn't know
what to do with him.

Wanted some guidance from
the prosecutor's office.

She was in the car?

Mother's on her way
to pick her up.

Guy gets into a fight
with his kid in the car.

Where is this genius?

He's in with his attorney.

A cop on the scene said
his first call was 911,

second was his wife.

And third was his lawyer.

So who is he?

Greg Paulson.

English professor,
Central Indiana.

English professor?

This guy killed someone
in a fight?

Road rage.

Says the other driver
attacked him.

He fought back.

Looks like a lover,
not a fighter.

Alcohol?

He did a voluntary
Breathalyzer at the scene.

Not a drop.

Who's the victim?

According to his
driver's license,

Mark Riggs.
Coroner's prelim

blunt force trauma,
fractured skull,

broken right forearm.

Defensive wound.

That'd be my guess.
Weapon?

Bloody crowbar
next to the body.

Who's crowbar?
Probably the victim's.

There were some loose tools
in his pickup, a hard hat.

A construction worker,
carpenter.

Anything else?

Passenger side window
of Paulson's minivan was smashed.

Few pieces of glass
in the kid's car seat.

Lucky she wasn't cut up.

Witnesses?
It was dark,happened fast.

In other words...
We're working on it.

There's nobody
helpful yet. (knocking on door)

Annabeth...

so glad you're here.

My client's ready to talk.

You're letting
a client talk, Paul?

That's a novel strategy.

Well, you know
the adage, Annabeth.

The truth will set you free.

Do I look like the kind of guy
who'd start a fight?

Or finish one?

I teach Chaucer
for God's sake.

I just wanted to get home
with my daughter

and have dinner
with my wife.

Guy cut me off.

Did you provoke him in any way,

flip him off, honk your horn?

Not until he swerved
in front of me.

He blocked the road,
wouldn't let me pass.

I honked.

I got out to talk to him

and... he just wentoff on me.

Why didn't you back up
and drive away?

I would have.

But there was a car behind me.

I got blocked in.

You left your three-year-old
in the car, Mr. Paulson.

I just wanted to talk to him.

I had no idea that he was going
to attack me with a crowbar.

Where did he get
the crowbar?

He must've grabbed it
from the back of his truck.

All right, walk me through
exactly what happened

when you and Riggs
got into this.

Is that what his name was?

Mark Riggs.

Oh.

He pushed me.

He started yelling.

And you pushed back.

Just to keep him away from me.

Why not get back
in your car?

Mr. Paulson wasn't the
aggressor here, Ms. Chase.

Under Indiana law,

he had no duty
to retreat.

I waed to, believe me.

Then suddenly he's brandishing
a crowbar,

slamming it
at Courtney's window.

He shattered it
into a million pieces.

I mean, thank God
for safety glass.

At that point, I had no choice,

I had to protect her,
fight back.

How did you get the
crowbar away from him?

I don't know how.

I just went berserk.

Into another zone.

Managed to wrestle it
away from him.

And then?

I told him to back off.

He just kept coming, so, uh...

I hit him.

How many times?
Once.

Just once?

Mm-hmm, in the head.

And then he just collapsed.

I just wanted to keep him
away from Courtney.

Ms. Chase...

Hi.
Sarah Paulson.

Hi, Mrs. Paulson.

Are you releasing Greg?

Not tonight.

It wasn't his fault.
He said that man attacked him.

We're looking
into his story.

Mrs. Paulson, there's some
things we need to clear up.

Please, just let him
come home with me.

With us.

I'll talk to my boss
in the morning

and we'll decide then how to
handle your husband's case.

Then you'll let him go?

We have 72 hours to decide

whether to charge him
or release him.

Come on, sweetie.

You notify Riggs' family?

Yeah, we're looking for
his next of kin.

Contact number in his wallet.

Linda Miller.

Just two guys driving home, huh?

Yeah, should've stayed
in the car.

Yeah, he should've.

Let me know when you get
the forensics.

An English professor
with a nice wife

and a little kid.
I know.

It's easier when they're scum.

They were pushing and shoving,

using the worst language.

Did you see either man
with a weapon?

No, just their hands.

Then what happened?

I went back inside
to call 911.

When I came out again,
it was all over.

As I pulled up, they were
getting out of their cars.

You know, bring it on.

Who got out first?

The guy in the
pickup, I think.

But both of them were
raring to go,

yelling, cursing.
"What the hell are you doing?"

That type of a thing.

You didn't stick around?

Didn't seem that serious.

Just a couple of jerks

blowing off steam at
the end of a hard day.

I did call 911.

I was listening to the news
on the radio

and I heard a car window
being smashed.

We've had some break-ins here
recently,

so I found my glasses
and I went outside.

How long would you
say it took you to find your glasses?

Few minutes.They were upstairs.

I don't need them for the radio.

And then?When you went outside?

One man was laying
on the ground,

another man was standing
over him, holding a crowbar.

The man on the ground
wasn't moving.

So where are you
with the appeal?

Which?

The vehicular homicide,

the guy who killed
Annabeth's husband.

Trent Bishop.

Bishop.

I'm working on the reply brief.

Is it a formality

or does Bishop really
have a chance?

Afraid so.

Breathalyzer hadn't
been recalibrated.

You're kidding.

Plenty of precedent
for granting him a new trial.

Does Annabeth know?

She asked me to keep her
in the loop.

I'll show her the draft
when I'm done.

Hopefully, we can get
this thing thrown out.

I'd hate for her
to have to relive

this whole ugly experience
over a technicality.

The professor
versus the carpenter.

So, self-defense
or something else?

Eyewitnessed testimony
is inconclusive.

No one saw either man
take the crowbar

from the back of Riggs' truck.

Paulson claims Riggs attacked
him, smashed in his car window,

but forensics don't match.

Riggs' fingerprints
aren't on the crowbar.

But Paulson's are.

Yeah, what
you'd expect.

But he also struck Riggs twice.

The first blow broke Riggs' arm,
trying to defend himself.

Paulson didn't need to strike
the second lethal blow to the head;

he was no longer in danger.

If he had ever been.

We'll see how he defends himself
against a murder charge.

Street fights, road rage,
not great witnesses,

wouldn't manslaughter be
an easier charge to make?

Charge high, leave yourself
some room to negotiate.

We may need it. Our victim,
Riggs, had a record.

DUI, misdemeanor assault.

Assault?
Yeah, a couple of years ago.

Some kind of scuffle
at the county fair.

He'd pled guilty,
24 hours community service.

Let me guess, Professor Paulson
has no record?

Not even an unpaid
parking ticket.

Sympathetic defendant,
unsympathetic victim.

Paulson may
be sympathetic,

but the evidence says
he's lying.

The second blow,
the fingerprints.

Professor Paulson
claims self-defense against a guy who's bigger than him,

has a record of assault
and driving under the influence,

who cuts him off in traffic,
confronts him on the street.

The jury might find
that persuasive.

This case is going to
come down to character.

Riggs v. Paulson.

From what I just heard,

Paulson's got it hands down.

???? son, how do you plead?

Not guilty, Your Honor.

The defendant was acting
in self-defense and to protect his child.

We ask he be released
on his own recognizance.

This is a murder charge,
Your Honor,

not a moving violation.

We ask the defendant
be remanded.

Mr. Paulson has no
criminal record,tenure at the university,

strong ties to the community.

Bail is set at $200,000.
Cash or bond.

Thank you,
Your Honor.

I'll see you downstairs.

So, why so adamant,
Annabeth?

Paulson's hardly public
enemy number one.

Mr. Paulson left a child he was
supposedly trying to protect

in the car alone while
he confronted Mr. Riggs.

That's what this is about?
Leaving the kid in the car?

Forensics indicate
Mr. Paulson was the aggressor.

He also lied to the police
and this office

about what happened that night.

He didn't lie.

He gave contradictory statements
under stress.

The lack of prints and the
crowbar doesn't mean anything.

It will to a jury.

Your client picked up
that crowbar, Paul.

He struck Mr. Riggs twice,
not once.

The second time
after disabling him.

There's no way
this was self-defense.

Broken window in the mini-van?

Paulson broke
the window himself.

Anyone see him do it?
Didn't think so.

When you're ready
to be reasonable, call me.

You'd be open
to a deal?

Well, if it involves
dropping the charges.

Have a nice day.

We need to paint a picture
of these two men for the jury.

I'll take
the dead guy, Riggs.

Let's talk to the guy he
assaulted at the county fair.

See if his testimony
will hurt us with the jury.

We ever reached
that emergency contact?

DRUMMER:
Linda Miller, his ex-wife.

See if she has anything
nice to say about him.

His ex? I'm sure she won't have
nice things to say about him.

Mine does.

I didn't know
you've been married.

Neither does she.

I'll look into Paulson,
see if I can find out

what kind of family man
he really is.

The kind who gets into a fight
with his kid in the car.

We know why
she was with him?

He just picked her up
from day care in his way home.

All right, I'll check that out.

Mrs. Paulson, it would be nice
if one of you could talk to her.

She and Annabeth already
had a run-in, so I'll go.

Why would she even
open the door?

She left her daughter's
blanket at the precinct.

I know,
it's a long shot.

Well, it might work.
At least it's a reason to knock.

WOMAN:
As fathers go,

he was pretty involved.

Picked up Courtney almost
every day after work.

That day, what kind
of mood was he in?

Foul. He was
running late.

It was getting dark.

I was anxious
to lock up and go home.

He seemed stressed.

Courtney was cranky,
she wanted to go home.

He raised his voice at me

like it was my fault
she was the last here, not his.

Is he usually bad-tempered?

A lot.
With everyone.

Huh. Seems so mild mannered.

Used to be.

He really changed a lot
after his little boy died.

He lost a child?
About a year ago.

Andrew. Three.

Beautiful boy.

Hit by a car right
in front of their house.

Man, that's tough.
Yeah.

Ever since that happened,

Mr. Paulson's just been
mad at the world.

I would be.

Me, too. No question.

BLACKWELL:
So tell me exactlywhat happened that day with this guy Riggs.

You're at the fair...

In line to get ice cream.

My kids are goofing around.

You know, not misbehaving,
just rambunctious.

Suddenly, this guy's going off on me.

Yelling, telling me
to control my kids.

Poking me in the chest with his finger.

The kids start
screaming and crying.

It was a scene. Spoiled the day.

So you pressed charges.

I thought twice
about it.

I heard he pled
to a misdemeanor,

so tempers stay
in the tea pot, huh?

You say you
thought twice about it.

His ex-wife called me,
asked me to cut the guy a break.

Said he'd been going
through a rough time.

She say why?

No. I didn't ask.

My husband's lawyer says I
shouldn't talk to you people.

Mr. Boscoe's right.

We can't compel you to talk
to us about anything

your husband might
have told you that night.

It's privileged.

But I thought you might
want to talk about Greg in general.

Why would I want to do that?

We've been told your husband's

been mad at the world
since your son died.

He's been upset. I have, too.

We just... deal with it
differently.

I thought you might want to soften the picture
of him a little.

Why would you want to?

You're prosecuting him
for murder.

We're not monsters,Mrs. Paulson.

We want to know what really
happened that night.

Maybe this whole tragedy doesn't
have to end with a trial.

MRS. PAULSON:
Greg has been depressed.

Distant.

I can understand how people
think he has a temper.

He is angry,but not at the world.

He... blames himself
for what happened.

Why? What happened?

I wasn't home.

I had taken Courtney
and gone shopping.

They were out
in the yard playing.

Andrew ran into the street.

I'm so sorry.

I can't imagine what
that must feel like.

There are mornings
you don't think

you can get out of bed
and face the day.

But... we have Courtney,
so we have to.

I mean, it's good.

She gives us both
a reason to go on.

The day after he died,
I hadn't read the paper,

no one phoned me yet.

So I picked up
the telephone

to ask him to come over
and help the trim the hedges.

You stayed close,
even after your divorce?

Closer, actually.

We'd spent yearswatching Jenny die.

That's not an experience
anyone can ever understand.

Jenny?
Our daughter.Leukemia.

She was five when she got sick
and nine when she died.

After she died, I went
to bed for five months

an

Right.

Anyway, ever time
I looked at Mark,

all I could see was Jenny,

When did you two...?

After the divorce,
Mark got involved

with a support group
for grieving parents,

pulled himself together.

He called me to see
how I was doing,

and we started talking again.

We heard he had some trouble--

DUI, scuffle
at the county fair.

All that was the year

after Jenny died,
but he'd changed.

This group
had really helped him.

That's why I was so surprised

to hear he had been
in this fight.

You know where this
support group meets?

Over at St. Stevens.

Jesse Abrams,
he's the leader.

I was sick when I heard
what happened to Mark.

You knew him

We spoke at length probably
four times a week

for the past year and a half.

I got to know Mark
inside and out.

His ex says you really
helped turn him around.

She gives me
too much credit.

Mark turned
himself around.

Threw himself into this
work, heart and soul.

His way of mourning Jenny.

Threw himself into it?

Her counseled
other parents,

did outreach work for us
at local hospitals...

He was good
at it?

He'd been through it himself.

He could talk to parent
who'd just been told his or her child had died.

That's not easy.

What would he tell them?

He'd stay with them,
comfort them,

contact them a few days
or weeks later,

tell them about the group,

ask them if they'd like
to come to a meeting.

You keep records
of those meetings?

Regular members
and guests.

I can fax it to you.

What about the people
he counseled?

That list I can
give you right now.

I'll be damned.

Greg Paulson?

Riggs counseled him after his son died.

So Paulson lied
about knowing Riggs.

He's been lying
from the get-go.

They certainly weren't
total strangers.

After they met
at the hospital,

Riggs invited him
to the grief group.

June of last year,

Paulson went to two
meetings at St. Stevens.

I pulled a police report
on the accident.

Paulson and his son were playing hide-and-seek
on the front lawn.

He lost sight of his son
for a few seconds

and the kid ran out into the
street and got hit by a car.

Sad story.

Think they might try
to use it with the jury?

How is that relevant
to a self-defense claim?

State of mind.

However, if he did...

They might take pity
on him and forgive him

for the inconsistencies
in his story. Inconsistencies?

Under those circumstances,

going in front of a jury
could be dodgy.

Maybe we could use the lie
to leverage Paulson

to take
a manslaughter plea.

We haven't
even scratched the surface here.

Why would Paulson kill a guy

who was trying to help him
mourn his son's death?

If we could find out

what they were really
fighting about that night,

we'd have a motive to support
the murder charge.

If we could, we might
or we might not.

Offer Paulson
voluntary manslaughter and let's put this to bed.

Your client
lied to us, Paul.

He knew Mark Riggs.

You can keep
accusing him of that.

He didn't lie, just
didn't mention it.

How is it relevant?

It's still
a road rage incident,whether they knew each other or not.

I thought we were here to talk about
a plea.

Voluntary manslaughter,
ten years.

Four suspended for
mitigating circumstances.

Voluntary man, ten years,
two suspended.

Eight years, Greg.

Make parole,
you'll be out in four.

Done.

Tell me what
happened that night.

We knew each other from
the grief group, that's true.

But I hadn't seen
Mark in months.

When he got out of the car,
he looked familiar,

but I barely remembered him.

It was dark and it wasn't
until afterwards

that I realized that it was him.

What were you and Riggs
fighting about?

Well, it happened
like I said.

He cut me off.
I don't know why.

You're still claiming this
was a traffic altercation?

Maybe he was irate

because I honked my horn at him.

All I know is that he
came at me with a crowbar

and smashed my window.

I had to defend myself
and my daughter.

You told us you hit him once.

The coroner's report
is irrefutable.

I don't remember hitting him
the second time.

I was in a state,
I was fighting for our lives.

You were enraged.
I was scared to death?

Even if that were true,
Mr. Paulson,

your first blow broke his arm.

You were in no danger when
you struck the lethal blow.

I didn't know that.

I don't believe you.
You're a liar.

Annabeth,
that's uncalled for.

You've lied to us from the
beginning and you're lying now.

That's my story.

That's the story
that I've told all a long,

and that's the only story
that I'm going to tell.

Really?
Well, then, we have a problem,

because I'm not going
to let you lie to the judge.

Annabeth, please,
we can make this deal.

Last chance, Mr. Paulson.

I already told you.
If that's a challenge,

I'll take it.

And you'll be sorry I did.

????

I thought his proffer
was line,

I didn't think Judge Lathrop
would accept it.

He would have accepted it.

I accepted it,
Paulson accept it.Everyone but you.

I don't feel comfortable settling with no idea
of what really happened.

Your job isn't to know
what really happened.

Your job is to accurately
assess the strength of case.

Ambiguous evidence,
inconclusive witnesses,

sympathetic defendant,
semi-sympathetic victim.

This wasn't road rage.

They were fighting about
something more important.

You don't know that.
I'm trying to find out.

We got permission from Riggs'
ex-wife to search his apartment.

Ed and Ray can
go over there right now.

You have two days
to show me something,

otherwise we go back to Boscoe
and we make the deal.

Two days.

Okay.

?????They look like they were happy.

Family pictures
always look happy.

Right-- who
hangs the ones where everyone looks miserable?

His daughter dies,his whole life changes.

The death
of a child rocks your world.

Drinking,assault arrest,
losing his wife.

It's like a punishment.

What did he do other than have
a kid who got sick? Nothing.

He made something
out of it in the end.

The support group.

Look at these.

Recognize the names?

Recognize this one.
Paulson.

Must be the people he counseled.

This is all about
the Paulson's son.

Name, birthday,anniversary of death,

favorite food, toys.

Pictures.

Sarah Paulson.

Maybe Riggs counseled her, too.

Maybe.

He must have.

They went to Calvary
Cemetery together,

where Andrew Paulson's buried.

Almost every Tuesday for the past year.

Almost every week.
Regulars.

What was their
routine?

What would they do?

Go to the gravesite
for a while,

sit, hold hands,
maybe walk around, talk.

Sometimes they'd even pack a picnic lunch,
spend the afternoon.

What was your impression
of their relationship?

Really good.

Better than most
couples grieving a child.

You thought they
were a couple?

The parents?
Yeah. Definitely.

They told you that?

You can tell.

They'd touch,
console each other,

and they always came together.

Together?
A lot of parents come alone.

Grieve separately.

It's too painful
for them to be together.

They blame
each other or whatever.

These two were definitely
helping the other one get through this.

Weekly visits to a
cemetery hardly prove

Mark Riggs and Sarah Paulson
were having an affair.

They talked on the phone
several times a day for months.

And according
to Mark Riggs' calendar,

they also met
in restaurants, coffeeshops,

even his apartment
occasionally.

He was counseling her.

Oh, is that what
they're calling it these days?

Greg Paulson
was so distraught over his son's death,

he temporarily checked out
of the marriage,

and Sarah needed someone
to confide in.

Riggs.

They fell in love.

I'm still not making the leap.

Look at the timeline
of the phone calls.

Riggs meets Paulson
at the hospital

Riggs brings Paulson
to two grief group meetings at St. Stevens.

That's where their relationship
ends.

No more meetings,
no more phone calls.

between Riggs'
and Paulson's office.

But for the first time
a few weeks after that,

Riggs calls up Paulson's home
and talks to someone there for almost an hour.

And you think he talked
to Sarah Paulson, why?

Riggs never calls up
Paulson's home number again,

only Sarah's cell phone,
which he calls all the time.

Until this day,

shortly before the murder,

when the connection between
Sarah and Riggs ends.

One of them broke it off.
Or Paulson found out.

An affair?
What else could it be?

They obviously were trying to
keep their relationship secret from her husband.

And that's what Riggs and
Paulson fought about that night?

I think so.

I want to talk to Sarah,
ask her about it under oath.

All right. Depose her.

I lied because I didn't
want to cause Greg any more trouble.

You were having an affair

with the man your husband
killed, and you knew how that would look.

Could you not call it that,
please?

What would you
call it?

A friendship.

We have phone records, photos
of the two of you together,

notes of the times you met
at the cemetery, his apartment.

I know that it looks like
an affair, but it wasn't.

Well, whatever it was,
how did it start?

Mark called the house,
looking for Greg.

I told him Greg didn't want
to continue going to group.

He said he understood that,

and then he asked
how I was doing.

And that just opened
the floodgates.

We talked about Andrew.

Greg and I weren't talking
about Andrew,

or anything else
for that matter.

And Mark Riggs understood?

He had lost
a daughter and a marriage.

He knew exactly
what I was going through.

That was the beginning.

Did your husband know about
this relationship with Mark?

He knew we were spending
a lot of time together.

He knew Mark and I were close.

He asked me
to break it off with him.

Is that why you stopped seeing
each other?

My relationship with Mark was
so intense.

At a certain point,
I felt I was betraying Greg,

so I told Mark I wanted to tryand get my
marriage back.

What did he say?

He said he was in love with me,

but for Courtney's sake
and for mine...

he hoped that Greg and I
could work things through.

I really thought he
was okay with it.

Do you believe Mark Riggs
confronted your husband that night?

I think when I rejected him,

Mark sought Greg out
and attacked him

and put our
daughter in danger,

and I feel
responsible.

If I hadn't spent
so much time with Mark...

Mark never touched
that crowbar, Sarah.

Your husband is lying to you.

ANNABETH:
We know what your client

and Mark Riggs were really
fighting about that night:

Sarah Paulson.

Ah, yes, Mark Riggs-- Sarah
Paulson's spurned suitor.

(laughing):
Spurned suitor?

Did you pick up
a few new phrases

from one of Professor
Paulson's classes?

Mark Riggs was in love with Sarah, but she
wasn't in love with him. I beg to differ.

I talked to the woman;it's obvious
how she felt about him.

And she told you what?

They were just friends.

Exactly.

Riggs fell in love with
her. It was unrequited.

He attacked my client
in a rage.

My client knew nothing of
Riggs' obsession with his wife

until Riggs attacked him
that night.

Oh, please.

He knew they were having
some kind of relationship.

He asked Sarah not
to continue it.

That in itself
would convince a jury he knew they were having an affair.

You don't believe they
were having an affair.

It doesn't matter
what I believe.

It matters
what Greg Paulson believed,

and if he believed
his wife was having an affair

with Mark Riggs, it explains
y he attacked and killed him that night.

What really
matters is what the jury believes.

Mr paulson told the police

he was attacked by a stranger
with a crowbar.

This is a lie.

In fact, he knew the victim
Mark Riggs quite intimately.

Mr. Riggs had counseled him
over the death of his son,

and then Mr. Riggs
counseled Sarah Paulson.

The evidence
will show that Greg Paulson believed

Mark Riggs was having an affair
with his wife.

Mark Riggs did not attack
Greg Paulson with that crowbar.

It was the other way around.

What Greg Paulson did

was not self-defense.

It was murder.

This case is about one thing:

whether Greg Paulson was legally
justified in defending himself

and his daughter
from Mr. Riggs' attack.

Mr. Paulson wasn't jealous of a love affair between
Mark Riggs and Sarah Paulson

because there wasn't one.

Mark Riggs loved Sarah Paulson,

but she did not love him back,
not in that way.

This isn't about
a jealous husband.

It was Mark Riggs
who was jealous--

jealous
of the Paulsons' marriage,

resentful that a woman he had
cared about and had helped

and had fallen in love with
was not going to leave her husband for him.

You will hear from
Sarah Paulson,

who will tell you about the exact nature of her
relationship with Mark Riggs.

You'll hear
from an expert witness,

who will shed light
on Greg Paulson's state of mind

the night Mark Riggs
attacked him.

And you'll hear
from the one person

who knows exactly
what happened that night.

Greg Paulson will tell you
himself

the fear he felt when Mark
Riggs took that crowbar

and smashed that window,

spraying glass
on his three-year-old daughter.

The question in this case is
not why Greg Paulson responded as he did that night.

It is how we would judge
a father

who did not.

BOSCOE:
What did your husband tell you

when he called you
the night of the incident?

He said Mark had
attacked him.

Did he say why?

He wanted me to
leave my husband.

That's what Greg said.

When did you end your friendship
with Mr. Riggs?

A few days before
he attacked Greg.

So you broke off
your relationship

with Mr. Riggs,
and a few days later,

he attacked your husband
with a crowbar?

Objection.

Sustained.

ANNABETH:
After your son died,

Mark Riggs counseled
your husband.

Briefly.

He went to a
few meetings,

but, um, he wasn't
interested in Mark's help.

But you were.

Mark helped me a lot.

Did the two of you fall in love?

Yes.

Did you have
an affair?

It wasn't an affair.

We became very
close friends.

very close friends

which meant you spent
a lot of time together?

Um, I don't know.

How many times a week
did you see Mr. Riggs? Three or four.

How often did you speak
to him on the phone? Every day.

Every day?

Yes.

Did you ever visit your son's
graveside with Mr. Riggs?

Yes.

Every week, in fact.

You met him in coffeeshops,
bars, at his apartment,

and all behind your
husband's back.

SARAH:
I needed a friend.

Mark helped me grieve,
but that's all it was.

It wasn't an affair.

Do you think it may have been
construed as an affair?

That's what you
seem to have done. What about your husband?

Wouldn't it have looked
like an affair to him?

No.

Well, then,
why keep it a secret?

And when your husband did find out you'd been spending
so much time with Mr. Riggs?

When he found out,

he said
he'd rather I didn't.

He specifically asked you not
to see Mark Riggs anymore?

Yes.

And did you do
as he asked? Yes.

And when you ended the relationship with Mark
Riggs, what was his reaction?

He was disappointed.

He said he was
in love with me.

Sarah, did he seem angry?

No.

What did he say?

He said he hoped
I could save my marriage.

No further questions.

BOSCOE:
Dr. Eaton,

what did you hope to
glean from your interview with Professor Paulson?

An understanding
of his cognitive abilities

and of his personal history
as they might relate

to the night of his conflict
with Mr. Riggs.

And what did
you conclude?

That there was
an aspect

of his personal history that
very well may have induced

in him a reasonable fear
for his life

and for the life
of his child.

And what aspect of his past
are you referring to?

The death of his son Andrew a little more
than a year ago.

Objection. Relevance?

This experience is
absolutely relevant

to Mr. Paulson's claim
of self-defense.

It framed his perception
of the event and what was happening.

Sidebar, Your Honor.

I think chambers instead.

What are you pulling, Mr.
Boscoe?

Marching a dead child
in front of my jury.

That's not my
intention, Your Honor.

What is your
intention?

Establish Mr. Paulson's
state of mind.

How does the child's death
do that?

Mr. Paulson witnessed
his son's death.

When Mr. Riggs drove
that crowbar into the window,

spraying glass on Mr. Paulson's
three-year-old daughter,

his experience shaped
his perception of that act

as a threat
to his daughter's life.

The details of Andrew Paulson's death
are irrelevant.

Allowing Mr. Boscoe
to garnish his defense with them would be improper,

a naked appeal
for jury sympathy.

Brand v. State of Indiana.

A self-defense case
where the court ruled admissible

testimony about prior events
that formed the basis

of the defendant's fear.

In Brand, those events were
things the defendant knew about the victim's past,

not events completely
unconnected to the victim.

They were admitted to establish
the defendant's perception.

That's all that matters here.

If Mr. Paulson is
still taking the stand,

Mr. Boscoe, I
agree with you,

but I will not allow
the jury to hear

theoretical testimony
without hearing about those experiences directly.

He still intends to
testify, Your Honor.

Then I will allow the jury

to hear about his
son's death, solely

as it relates
to his state of mind at the time of the fight.

Lathrop bought that?

Guess he figures
it's better than being reversed on appeal.

It's clearly a bid
for jury sympathy.

The question is
how to counter it.

I'm not sure we do.

Maybe we ignore it.

Let the jury see it
for the cynical text that it is,

and hammer Paulson

with the fingerprints,
the witnesses, the affair,

his own admissions
and inconsistencies.

We have to go right at him.

I mean, who knows how he's going to twist the story
to convince the jury?

Maureen, he's lied
about everything else.

He's probably going
to lie about that.

I've read the police report.????

I'm going to show it
to Ed and Ray.

Have them go over
to the Paulsons

and walk through the accident,
talk to the witnesses.

I'm not letting Paulson
use his son's death like this.

You sure?

Never forget it.

That poor little boy.

And Mr. Paulson?

I didn't see him.

He wasn't there?

Not then.

A few minutes later,
out in the street,

we were all there.

Driver of the car
was crying.

Everybody was calling 911.

We had to call an ambulance.

All right. Thanks, ma'am.

If she was
standing there,

didn't see him
on the front lawn,where was he?

Next-door neighbor
also says

she didn't see him
out in the yard.

It's not much, but
it could be something.

Paulson told the patrol
officer on the scene

he was on the front lawn.

Saw Andrew running
into the street.

But neither of the witnesses
saw Paulson on the lawn

and they both had a clear
view of the accident.

You think he's lying?

Of course he's lying.
Then where was he?

Well, let's assume that Paulson made a mistake

the day his son died
and then lied to the police about it.

If he did, it's a good bet he couldn't
tell his wife the truth.

So how do we prove it
unless he told someone the truth?

Maybe he told Riggs at the hospital immediately
after Andrew's death.

Would Riggs have told anyone?

His ex-wife, maybe?

Jesse Abrams, the grief
counselor at St. Stevens.

But he didn't remember Paulson.

He didn't recognize his picture.

He wouldn't have
to remember Paulson,

he just has
to remember the story.

I can't reveal names.

But, uh, tell me what you know,

I'll see what I remember.
Fair enough.

About a year ago, a man's
playing hide-and-seek on his front lawn with his son.

Boy runs into the street,

father says he watched
him get hit by the car.

Happened out
in Shadyside, right?

Yeah.
I remember Mark

telling me that story.

Do you remember the details?

Of the hide-and-seek story? No.

'Cause that wasn't the story.

What do you mean,
"that wasn't the story"?

That was the lie
the father told people.

He told Mark the truth,
that's why Mark talked to me about it.

People lie to each other about a lot things
when a child dies.

You grabbed the crowbar
from Mark Riggs

I struck him.

How many times?
Twice.

I hit him the first
time, he kept coming.

I hit him again,
he went down.

Why did Mark Riggs
attack you that night?

He said he was in love
with my wife.

So, he blocked the road
and confronted you.

Yes.
What did you think was happening?

I was scared.

I knew he was angry.

I thought he
was stalking me.

You felt threatened.

Very. We argued.

He smashed the
window of my car.

My daughter was inches away.

How did you react to that?
She was terrified.

I needed to protect her.

I kept having an
image of Andrew...

running into the street.

Right before he was...

struck by a car.

And how is Andrew relevant
to what we're discussing today?

He was killed by
a car last year

when he was three years old.

How did that happen?

We were playing
hide-and-seek in the front yard.

His turn to hide.

I closed my eyes not ten seconds.

And then when
I opened them,

he was running into the street.

And a car was coming
right at him.

I saw it hit him.

I watched my son die.

Why did you think
of this tragedy

when Mark Riggs smashed
the window of your car?

Simple.

I thought I was about
to lose another child.

Mr. Paulson,

you saw the car hit your son.
Is that right?

Yes.
Are you familiar with the police report?

I know there is one. I haven't seen it.

"We were playing hide-and-seek.

"I had my eyes closed
when I heard

"the screech
of the car's brakes.

I opened my eyes and saw
the car hit Andrew."

He wrote it down.
Guess I said it.

Where were you
playing hide-and-seek?

The front lawn.

Is your front lawn visible
from your neighbor's property?

Yes.
Two of your neighbors

witnessed the accident
that killed your son.

They both told the police

they didn't see you
on your lawn that day.

I'm not sure I get your point.

Mr. Paulson, where were you
when Andrew was hit?

On the front lawn.
No, you weren't.

And Mark Riggs knew it.
He knew your secret.

Isn't that why he confronted you that night?

Objection, Your Honor,
facts not in evidence,

badgering the witness,
I could go on and on.

No need, Mr. Boscoe, sustained.

Mr. Paulson, where were you

when your son was killed?

BOSCOE:
Asked and answered.

LATHROP:
Sustained.

You told Mark Riggs,
you were on the phone.

I never told Riggs that.
Jesse Abrams will testify that you did.

We went back and pulled your
phone records from that day.

You were on the phone
at the exact moment

your son was hit by that car.

I...

...I thought it might be Sarah,

so I ran inside to grab the phone.

I-I wasn't gone a minute.

Is that when you heard
the screech of the brakes?

From inside your house?

Yes.

You couldn't tell
your wife the truth, could you?

But Mark Riggs was going to.

Voluntary manslaughter,
ten years.

Mitigation?
That deal disappeared.

Paul, he does all ten.

Do you have kids?

One, daughter.

We have three.

You ever get distracted,
maybe lose sight of her for a few seconds?

Of course.

What happened to him could
happen to any of us.

Yeah.

But how he reacted to it...

that was a choice.

Yeah.

Riggs asked me to tell

Sarah the truth about
Andrew's death.

He said he loved Sarah,

and she deserved to know,

so she could go
forward with her life,

knowing the truth.

That's why he
confronted me that night.

To give me an ultimatum.

Either I tell
Sarah the truth

or he would.

I knew I couldn't.

I was afraid that she would
never forgive me.

I was afraid that
she would leave me for him.

I grabbed the crowbar
from his truck and hit him.

I took Courtney out of the car

and broke the window

to make it look like
he had attacked us.

I'm so sorry.

My reply to the
Bishop brief.

You still want
to read it?

That was our deal, right?

Every painful detail.

The gist of his
appeal: he's claiming

the Breathalyzer
hadn't be calibrated

in over six months,
which violates the statute.

Do we know if that's true?

Police department's having a hard time tracking down

the certificate to
prove otherwise.

If they can't find it,
is Bishop's conviction automatically overturned?

Not automatic,but... likely.

Ed's still chasing
the certificate.

You mind if I read
this like a lawyer?

Just keep in mind
I wrote it like one.

It may be hard to see

Jack's death
reduced to legalese.

I'll try.

How'd the sentencing go?

Lathrop ignored
our recommendation

and gave him six years
instead of ten.

Lathrop doesn't do that.
Sarah Paulson asked him to show mercy,

convinced him her husband was a good person
before their son died.

You're unhappy
with the sentencing.

Mark Riggs was
a good person, too,

before his child died
and when he was killed.

Like Jack.

Like Jack.

It's hard for judges and juries.

They see the living
defendant in front of them,

????

who's a good man,
basically.

Wife, family...

They have a hard time remembering the victim

who's dead and buried.

I remember.

I know.

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