All language subtitles for Law & Order s20e06 Human Flesh Search Engine.eng

In the criminal
justice system,

The people are represented by two
separate Yet equally important groups

The police
who investigate crime

And the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories..

- All right,
a little bit more.

Come on, Allie, come on.
You can do better than that.

Let yourself go.

Nice.
Oh, my god.

Give me a pout.
Come on.

Feel the clothes
against your skin, baby.

There you go.
That's it.

Think nasty thoughts.
I love it. It's beautiful.

Hey. Hey!

We're trying to
sell clothes here, man.

These are for billboards.
You gotta think big.

- I got it, Sid.
I got it.

[laughter]

- Who are they?
- I don't know.

- If I'm not paying you
to be here, get the hell out.

[laughter]

Am I paying you?

- I'm the dj.

I spin records
at one of your stores.

- Oh, so you
put this song on?

You're fired!

You know what?
In fact, everybody, get out!

Everybody, let's go!
Come on, out! Okay?

Not you, baby.
Everybody else.

I'll finish the shoot myself.
Thank you.

Out!

Come on, baby.
That's it. Okay.

Oh, my god!
I love it!

Oh, yeah, that's it.

- D.O.A.'s
name is Sid Maxwell.

The neighbor came home
at 3:00 a.M.

And saw the door
propped open.

Almost had a heart attack
when he saw the body.

- What do we got,
a sex mishap?

- If it was erotic asphyxia,
he miscalculated.

No fluids.
He lost consciousness too soon.

- The guy could've saved himself
just by standing up.

- Pushing the limits
is part of the thrill.

But if you take it
a little too far...

- No happy ending.

These look like tights.
Double-knotted.

He's supposed to have
done this himself?

- He could've tied his hands
in front,

Then stepped over them,
like this.

I'm just speculating.
It's not from experience.

- Good.

There was a photo shoot
going on?

- [exhales]
tripod, no camera.

Here's
the photographer's name.

- Yeah.

Looks like he missed
the best shot.

- I gotta get going.

We just caught a fresh one.

- I'll alert the criminals
you're on your way.

- May be
no criminals involved.

Just solo sex
gone horribly wrong.

- Solo sex?

That has to be wrong.

- Well, here we go.

First day of the new me.

What do you think?

- I always had a thing
for Grace Jones.

You're beautiful.

- Sid seemed fine yesterday.

Manic.
Total prick, like always.

You can be that way
if you're rich, I guess.

- How did he get rich?

- By starting
skintight apparel.

He was the sexy underwear king
of the lower east side.

He threw everybody out
around 6:00, including me.

- He threw the photographer
out of a photo shoot?

- Sid liked to
do things himself.

- Yeah. So we gather.

- The girl
stayed behind, though.

- The model?

- Model, hooker, girlfriend,
employee of the month.

It was kind of
a fluid position.

- Uh-huh.

- Sid and I met
when I was working three jobs

And sharing a loft
with six roommates.

He hired me on the spot.

- Hired you
to do what, exactly?

Hold up.

- Anything Sid wanted.

Working in the store,
modeling.

- Spotting for him
during s & m sessions?

- Sid said he wanted
to try something new.

I didn't want to
seem like a prude.

He just wanted me
to watch.

- So did you?

- I told him I had to go get
cigarettes at the store.

I was weirded out.
I just went home.

- So you just
left him hanging there

With his hands
tied behind his back?

- No.

His hands were not tied
when I left.

- Did any of his staff
have complaints?

- Yeah, there was one girl.
She got pretty freaked out.

I think she sued him.

- That son of a bitch.

He pulled my top off
at a photo shoot

At the
st. Patrick's day parade.

No warning.
Just, "oops, you're naked."

- And that was more
than what you bargained for?

- My job description didn't say
"get raped by leprechauns."

Sid's lawyers said
I should have understood

I was working in a
highly-sexualized environment.

- Well, it sounds like
you had a good case.

- We'll never know.

Sid's lawyers buried my guy
in so many motions,

I couldn't afford
to keep going.

I lost.
Sid won.

- When was the last time
you saw Mr. Maxwell?

- I don't know.
Six months.

- No contact after that?

- I told myself
the one good thing

Was I'd never have to
hear his voice again.

And I didn't.

And now I never will.

- Huh. This guy
had a way with women.

All sex all the time.

- His company sells
five-Dollar t-shirts for $40.

Sex is part of the brand.

- And his model-slash-
girlfriend-slash-whatever

Was fine with that?

- According to her.

- The building's
surveillance camera

Shows her leaving
Maxwell's place at 10:00.

Then it stopped working.

- Well,
that's a coincidence.

- She left
the apartment door ajar

So she could get back in.

The building door
had a keypad lock.

Maxwell gave her the number,

But she took off for brooklyn
instead.

- Where an atm saw her
withdrawing cash at 10:30.

Time of death
was after midnight.

- Sag paneer, loo?

- Oh, no thanks.

Me and food aren't
getting along that great.

- "you are a hideous pig."

Uh, it's, uh,
"I heard your lawyer quit.

Now how are you going to pay
for the boob job you need?"

It's a text message between
Sid Maxwell and Bonnie Allman,

The girl who sued him.

- She said she hadn't heard
from him in six months.

- She said she hadn't
heard his voice.

Maxwell sent this
to her last Monday.

Yeah. Tuesday,
Maxwell filed a complaint.

His car was vandalized.

- Bonnie Allman
strikes back?

- "text this, scumbag!"

- Yeah.
"love, Bonnie"?

- She saved the ten cents
it would cost to reply by text,

And this was
so much more satisfying.

- The car doesn't
look like it's been driven

Since the incident.

The driver's window
is smashed,

With shards of glass
embedded in the seat.

Whoever did this
used some force.

- Yeah. Somebody cared.

- I've got some prints
where the basher

May have leaned in
to slash the upholstery.

I'll get them
over to latents.

- No match.

The prints on the car
don't belong to Bonnie Allman.

- Do they match
anyone we know?

- Got a dozen hits
for a guy named Todd bissell.

He's a perp
that was arrested

For public lewdness
12 years ago.

- Okay.
B-I--two ss?

- Yeah.
- All right.

Mr. Bissell.

Am I nuts, or is that
Sid Maxwell with a moustache?

- 12 years ago,
lean and hungry.

He must have
changed his name

When he became
the underwear king.

- Okay. Let's see what else
he was up to as Todd bissell.

- What's that?
- "flashposse.Net.

A site dedicated
to righting social wrongs."

- Is he typing on that
with both hands?

- Yeah,
and flashposse is mad.

"this idiot veered into my lane
on the fdr today.

He was texting while driving.
I could have been killed."

Look at this one from
Freddy-six in long island.

"somebody needs to kill him
before he does kill someone."

- How'd they know
who it was?

- Hmm, "I identified
the car and model

"from its dashboard and then
hacked into dmv records

"for every '79 Mercedes
that color in New York,

"New Jersey
and Connecticut.

"I found one
that is registered

To someone
named Todd bissell."

- Mm-hmm.

- They posted his address.

"326 bowery,
apartment 11a,

"in case anybody
wants to drop by

And teach this jerk
some manners."

- Somebody did.

- It's not a blog.

It's a forum for
corrective social action.

- Yeah, well, it struck me
like a well-chummed shark tank.

- Look, if somebody lets
their dog crap on the sidewalk,

That's an offense to everybody
that walks by, right?

This is just a way
of striking back.

- So you take a picture
of the owner,

Find out who they are,

Post their address
and phone number.

- So people can tell them
what they think.

If they shove dog crap
in our faces,

They can take a phone call.

- Hmm. How do you get
this information?

- Flashposse.Net
has thousands of visitors.

Between us, we have
a lot of expertise,

A lot of connections.

- In China they call it
a human flesh search engine.

- Yeah,
there was a woman there,

She posted a video
of herself

Stepping on a kitten
and killing it.

Just her shoe
and the kitten.

People blew up the video,

They found out
where the shoe came from,

They identified a building
in the background.

- They found out
who it was.

She lost her job,
she had to go into hiding.

- Do you feel bad for her?
I don't.

- We're here about a man
named Todd bissell,

And as far as I know,
he didn't massacre any cats.

- Bissell's just as bad.

Do you know how dangerous
texting while driving is?

- Yeah.
"somebody should kill this guy."

From your website.

I didn't realize
it deserved the death penalty.

- You never heard of
hyperbole, detective?

- It wasn't hyperbole.
Todd bissell was murdered.

- Under his other name,
Sid Maxwell.

- And you think we had
something to do with that?

- We'd like the names
of your members

Who posted threats
against Mr. Bissell.

- No.

- Hmm.

We are the police,
Mr. Leary.

And it's our job to take
"corrective social action."

- No.

- All right,
all right.

- Well, the comments on the
website are pretty intense.

- The comments on that website
are probably free speech.

It's not going to be easy
to uphold a subpoena.

- Is this free speech?
It's from the site.

This is Maxwell's
vandalized car.

- You think the guy
who vandalized the car

Took the picture?

- We can't prove it.

- Neither can I.

Listen, if you can show
the flashposse's hot air

Has real world consequences,
I might be able

To convince a judge
to give us those names.

- Well, that site goes after
a lot of people.

- Find me a good one.

- I thought the worst thing
that could happen

Was when my husband
committed suicide.

Then, a month later,
the phone calls started.

People I didn't know.

They called me a whore.

They said
it was my fault.

The website posted excerpts
from my husband's diary

That it got
from his parents.

They said I had an affair

And that's why Donald
killed himself.

I asked the website
to take them down.

They said they were
providing a public service,

Letting the public decide what
was right and what was wrong.

- It's my understanding that
Mr. Leary offered ms. Davies

The chance to tell
her side of the story.

- I'm supposed to go
on a public website

And tell the world
I had an affair,

But my husband had 20,
and he was clinically depressed?

Isn't that private?
Shouldn't that be private?

Who made you god?

Why don't you
leave people alone?

- Okay, okay.
Thank you, ma'am.

Okay, now what does that
have to do with this subpoena?

- It demonstrates that threats
made on Mr. Leary's website

Have consequences.

- Ms. Rubirosa
is talking about

Constitutionally-protected
opinions.

The subpoena
should be quashed.

- No, I am talking about

Specific threats made
to kill a man

Who soon after was killed.

- That's venting.
It's hot air.

"I could kill that guy
who stole my parking place."

It's a figure of speech.

- Not to Rebecca Davies,
it's not, as we just heard.

- If anyone harassed
that woman, arrest them.

They committed a crime.

But people who expressed
opinions on a website did not.

- I feel sorry for the lady,
ms. Rubirosa. I really do.

But I honestly don't see what
she has to do with Mr. Maxwell.

- Rubirosa just called.
[cell phone rings]

No subpoena for the names.

- Bernard.

- So we find another way.

- Who is this?

Hey, screw you.

- I'm guessing
that wasn't your mother.

- Somebody calling me
a Nazi.

You know, an hour ago,
somebody called,

Telling me that I needed
to go on a diet.

- Maybe
that was your mother.

- No.

[typing]

[computer beeps]

Oh, flashposse.Net.

- "detective Kevin Bernard.

Call and tell him
what you think."

- Oh, they even posted
your cell phone number.

Thoughtful.

- My unlisted number.

Somebody hacked it.

- "corrective
social action."

[computer beeps]

- New post coming in.

"this cop bully should be
ashamed of himself."

- You know, if we were
set up right,

We could trace these messages
as they're posted.

That's when the links
are open.

- So we wouldn't need
a subpoena.

- Just a big juicy target
to get the ranters ranting.

- What about lupo?
He's juicy.

- [laughs]
thank you.

But four years in intel.

We don't want anyone digging
through that.

- Plus, you seem to be the one
they like, detective.

- These guys are good.

They've got
your credit record up now

And police reports.

Were you arrested for speeding
in California in 1996?

- Look, I got a ticket.
I paid the fine.

- Okay,
and here is billyboy14.

"this cop is an outrage.

A policeman's first duty
is to protect our liberties."

And here is our trace
on billyboy.

- Where is he?

- He's in astoria.

- All right,
write him back.

- Okay,
what's my screen name?

- "detective Bernard."

We want them
to know it's you.

- All right.

[typing]

"my first duty
is to arrest criminals

Who hide behind
bogus free speech."

- Hmm, nice.

All right,
looking good.

You know
how to piss them off.

- My special talent.

- [laughs]
any of these screen names

Match the people
who threatened Sid Maxwell?

- Uh, yeah, one or two.
Hit 'em again.

- "you're cowards
and you're stupid."

[laughter]

- Okay, okay, we are matching,
matching...

Tracing, tracing...

- Wow.
Oh, they hate you, b.

They really hate you.

- I see.

Wow.

- I was just
blowing off steam.

That's not against the law.
- Hey.

"if he can't keep
his hands on the wheel

"and eyes on the road,
maybe he ought to lose them.

Taliban justice."

- It was a joke.

- "this guy should be tied
in the middle of fdr drive

While texting drivers
try to Dodge him,"

Says sly-avenger.

That's you, right?

- Well,
that's not what happened

To him, though,
is it?

- I'm so embarrassed.

Some of the things
I wrote about that man, I--

My language
was inappropriate.

- Well, frankly, ms. Sands,
you don't seem like the type.

- I know.
It's just...

[exhales]

Three years ago,
my daughter was killed

By a taxi driver
who was texting.

- I'm so sorry.

- They never caught him.

And when I saw the photo
of that man texting,

Not even looking
at the road...

Some other child
could have been hurt.

- Maybe I can look into
what happened to your daughter.

- That would be...

Thank you.

- Someone hacked into
the security system

At Sid Maxwell's building
the night he was killed.

You worked as
a security systems engineer.

- So?

- This is a photo
of Maxwell's vandalized car,

Uploaded
from your I.P. Address.

If your prints are found
in his apartment,

You're screwed.

- I'm screwed?

A, I didn't kill anybody.

B, it's not
my social security number

That got posted online
this morning.

- So I should be going.
Is there anything else?

- No, no. We have your--
your name and your address.

- Thank you
for your concern.

- Lieutenant, that information
you requested...

- Ms. Sands,

If you don't mind,

Could you come back
and sit for a minute?

- We checked accident reports
from three years ago,

And there was no report

Involving a taxi
and a child.

- I saw it happen.

- And you do have a daughter,
but she didn't die.

Social services
took her away from you

Because you offered her
to a catholic church

As a human sacrifice.

- I don't believe
in human sacrifices.

- Ms. Sands,

Were you at Mr. Maxwell's
apartment Friday night?

- He was getting messages
from the devil.

- Who was?
Mr. Maxwell?

- Not just him.

- He tells them
whom to kill.

- Uh...

Who tells who
whom to kill?

Mr. Maxwell?
The devil?

- May I please
see a lawyer now?

- Ms. Sands has informed me

That she has nothing else
to say at this time.

- Except that people
who get texts while they drive

Are servants of the devil.

- Except that.

- She already mentioned

That Sid Maxwell
was one of those servants.

- So you say.
I wasn't here.

- Do you want to add
anything else, ms. Sands?

- That man was evil.

If you don't know that,
you shouldn't be a policeman.

- Crazy enough for you?

- Oh, yeah.

Do you have any evidence
against her for the murder?

- So far, just her rants
against Maxwell on the website.

- Well, that and this--it's
enough for a search warrant.

- Wow.

- Texting while driving...
Texting while driving...

Todd bissell...
Todd bissell...

- This must be
Kerry sands' daughter,

The one who isn't
actually dead.

- Ah, yeah, the state
takes her daughter away

And she can't deal with it,
and she comes up with this?

I don't see the connection.

- Hey, check it out.

That's the girl
from the photo session

The night bissell a.K.A.
Maxwell was killed.

Looks like ms. Sands
took a souvenir.

- That would put her
on the scene,

But how did she get in
the building?

- 8-4-2-6.

That's the entry Code,

Right next to a picture
of the keypad.

- And that's Maxwell's
apartment door, propped open.

Looks like
a security camera still.

- Yeah, a camera that
mysteriously went dark.

- She was the one who hacked
into the security system?

- No. The header says
flashposse.Net,

Her friendly neighborhood
social justice website.

- There's no time
or date on this.

If she got this stuff
the night of the murder,

That would
nail things down.

- The flashposse computer would
show when they were posted.

- Hey, can we go find out
with a warrant, please?

- I'm calling my lawyer.

- Yeah, when you do,

Tell him
"the cop bully" is here

With a search warrant
this time.

- Hey,
you can't take that.

- You'll get it back.

- There's some more gear
back here.

Anything else
you want me to take?

- Ah, let me check.

- This is harassment.
- No.

Calling my cell phone
and telling me I'm a Nazi,

That's harassment.

- Oh, is that what
this is about?

You can't stand
a little heat?

- Look, I'm doing my job.

This is about a murder
and a woman named Kerry sands.

Do you know her?

- The woman whose kid
wasn't killed by a taxi?

Yeah.
We're open to the public.

We take all comers.

- That's it.
You ready to go?

- Yeah.

- Oh.

- Bye.

- Here's the full dump
of material

From the Sid Maxwell section
of flashposse.Net.

- Yeah, the good stuff was
in a password-protected area

For people who had a special
interest in Mr. Maxwell.

- The Code to
his building's front door?

- Right, just in case somebody
wanted to drop by.

Ms. Sands accessed this photo
just after midnight.

A few minutes later,

She takes a car service
to Maxwell's apartment.

- Do you have the driver?
- Mm-hmm.

He remembers her
pretty well.

She told him
she doesn't take taxis

Because of their link
to the devil.

- Hmm.

Arrest her for murder,
and I will apply with the court

For a 7:30 exam.

- I found the police report
you filed

About the taxi
striking your daughter.

- The police
didn't do anything.

They wouldn't do anything.

- The report says
they investigated.

The taxi hit a garbage can.
Nobody was injured.

Why would it say that?

- [sighs]

Do I have to explain
everything to you?

- Do you mind?

- Oh, I don't know.

Will you help me?

- Help you do what?

- Stop the killing.

Stop the evil.

- Like Sid Maxwell?

Was he evil?

- He got a message
when he was driving.

That's when they send
the messages.

They think no one can see.

- What do the messages say?

- Whom to kill.

- So Sid Maxwell
was going to kill someone?

- Isn't that
why we're here?

- And you were supposed to do
something about that?

- There was no point
calling the police.

That report proves that.

No, I had to take care
of that man myself.

So I did.

- She's a pretty well-managed
schizophrenic.

It's not
immediately obvious.

- Unless you start talking about
texting while driving?

- Or about the devil.

He sends messages
to his servants

While they're
in their cars,

Telling them which
pure-hearted people to kill.

- But she tried to have
her own daughter killed

By human sacrifice.

- For purification.

Her delusion was
a little different then.

When the state
took her daughter away,

It rattled her reality.

That same day,

She saw a taxi driver
plow into a garbage can.

The garbage can
became her daughter.

The taxi driver
became evil.

Suddenly everything
made sense.

- Perfectly.

- Is ms. Sands
competent to stand trial?

- No, and if she ever is,
the verdict will be

"not guilty by reason of
mental disease or defect."

She needs to be locked up,
for everybody's good.

- Call judge hiram
and the woman's attorney.

Work out a plan
for institutionalization.

Thank you, doctor.

- I'll book some time
in the grand jury.

- What for?
The woman's insane.

- Not for her. Did you see
the file on flashposse.Net?

- That place
on the world wide web?

- Actually, they don't
call it that anymore.

- Excuse me, should I have said
"wireless telegraph"?

- Flashposse whipped up a frenzy
against Sid Maxwell.

It was a virtual Lynch mob.

- A Lynch mob sitting
at computers, typing things?

- Yeah, things like
"this guy ought to be killed"

And "here's how to get
into his apartment."

All delivered into the hands
of a crazy woman.

- "a person
is guilty of murder

"when they recklessly
engage in conduct

"which creates a grave risk
of death to another person,

And thereby causes
the death of another person."

- I know the law.
- The shoe fits, Jack.

Kerry sands was the bullet;
the website was the gun.

- You really
want to do this?

You'll be pushing the limits,
trying to make new law.

- Like you did
with gun manufacturers

And justice department
torture memo writers?

- So these
flashposse people,

Whom exactly are you
planning to indict?

- All of them.

- All of these people are
parties to this motion?

- Not by choice,
your honor.

For some strange reason,
the district attorney

Has chosen to indict
half of New York city

For the murder
of Sid Maxwell.

- Only because they all
helped kill him.

- It's preposterous.

A schizophrenic named Kerry
sands murdered Sid Maxwell,

As the state
freely acknowledges.

These people did nothing
but post comments

On a website that ms. Sands
occasionally visited.

- Is that true,
Mr. Cutter?

- "post comments"
is an understatement.

They encouraged ms. Sands

To commit violence
against Mr. Maxwell.

- If I yell "kill the umpire"
and some psychotic does it,

I'm not guilty of murder.

- The website
went beyond exhortations

To kill Mr. Maxwell.

It gave instructions
on how to do it.

Some of its members took actions
that enabled ms. Sands

To enter and leave
his apartment undetected.

- What are
we talking about here,

Exhortations or actions?

- In this case, your honor,
it's a pretty fine line.

- Not to me.

Any comment about Mr. Maxwell,
even negative ones,

Are protected speech
and may not be used

In any way
in your prosecution.

- There is
the first amendment exception

About shouting "fire"
in a crowded theater.

- Were any of these people
in physical proximity

To ms. Sands
or the victim?

- No.

- Then the theater
wasn't crowded.

You are free to proceed
in accordance with my ruling,

If you still have a case.

- Do we?
- We'd better.

If we don't stop them now,
who's next?

- You're lucky the judge didn't
throw your case out entirely.

- She's living
in the 20th century.

Words on the internet
have consequences.

- Actually, she's living
in the 18th century,

When the bill of rights
was written,

Which, on balance,
is a good thing.

- Well, if it weren't for what
people on that website

Said and did,

Kerry sands would have never
murdered Sid Maxwell.

- Yes, but now you'll have to
forget about the "said."

- I'm dropping the charges
against the cheerleaders,

But I'm still moving against
the guy who ran the site

And the people who sent out
the photos and the door Code.

- They'll say they were only
encouraging people

To send Maxwell a message,

That they never intended
for him to be killed.

- They were dealing
with a crazy woman.

They didn't have to intend
for her to kill him.

If they
recklessly disregarded

The likelihood that it
would happen, they're guilty.

- Good luck.

- "thank you for
sharing the information

About this accomplice
of the devil."

That was one of the messages
posted by Kerry sands

On the Sid Maxwell section
of the website.

- And how many messages

Did ms. Sands post there
altogether?

- More than 400.

- And who posted
the second largest amount

Of messages there?

- Someone with
the screen name kewpie-doll.

She posted 22.

- 22 versus 400.

Now did ms. Sands' messages
stand out in any other way?

- No one else
mentioned Satan.

No one else mentioned
that god's angels

Would take vengeance
on Mr. Maxwell

And dance
in his evil blood.

- Would you characterize
her messages as sane?

- Objection.
The witness is a psychiatrist.

Her judgment isn't the same

As that of a layperson
reading those messages.

- I'll sustain that.

- Dr. Olivet, please read some
more of ms. Sands' postings.

- "god's angels
will sing in heaven

"when this man gets
his just reward.

"death shall be answered
with death,

The lord commands us."

- "death shall be answered
with death."

- Pursuant
to a search warrant,

We seized a computer server
from the residence of Mr. Leary

And turned it over
to our computer crimes squad.

- And what did that squad
determine?

- That Mr. Keegan
had hacked into

And manipulated
the security cameras

At Mr. Maxwell's apartment
building,

And Mr. Mason cracked
and posted the Code

To the front door
of his building,

While ms. Sands obtained that
information from the website

Less than an hour before
she murdered Mr. Maxwell.

- Was there any sign

The defendants attempted to
limit ms. Sands' access

To that kind of information

After they saw her hundreds
of messages on the website

About the devil and angels

And death
and doom and blood?

- No.

In fact,
Mr. Leary made a point

Of sending private e-mails
to ms. Sands,

Alerting her whenever
new information was posted.

- Really?

To your knowledge,
detective,

Was Mr. Leary aware of
ms. Sands' delusional condition?

- Yes.

When we executed
the warrant,

I asked him if he knew
ms. Sands, and he said,

"the lady whose kid wasn't
killed by a taxi? Yeah."

- So he knew
she was delusional?

- That's what he said,
yes.

- Thank you.

- You don't like
Mr. Leary, do you?

- I don't like him
or not like him.

- But when he objected to your
investigation of his website,

Didn't he organize people
to call you

And accuse you
of being fat and a Nazi?

- Those people never said
who told them to call.

- Oh, so you didn't know
that your phone number

Was listed on Mr. Leary's
website?

- I knew.

- When you served the warrant
for his computers,

Didn't you complain that
he had been harassing you?

- I might have
mentioned that.

- Did you or didn't you
accuse him of harassing you?

- I did.
And he was.

- So now you're telling us
that this man,

Who was harassing you,
told you and only you

That he knew that
ms. Sands was delusional.

- Yes.

- Aren't you making that up
'cause it makes him look

Like he was
guilty of something?

- No.

- 'cause you want
to get back at the man

Who was harassing you?

- No.

- You're not lying?

- No.

- Really?

Detective Bernard, can you
tell us who's in this picture?

I have a copy
for the district attorney.

- Where did you get this?

- Online, posted by
a classmate of yours

From the police academy

At some kind of
graduation celebration.

That is you in the picture,
isn't it?

- Objection.
What is the relevance of this?

- It goes to the credibility
of this witness,

Which will become apparent
very soon.

- It had better.

Proceed.

- Thank you.

Detective, who is
the young woman in the picture?

- Her name is Rosemary.

- Rosemary Franklin.
Is that correct?

- Yes.

- Did you and she
have a child together?

- Yes.

- And did you sign a child
support agreement with her

Before the baby was born?

- Well, you know everything.
Why ask me?

- Your honor.

- Yes.

- Did you sign an agreement
promising to pay ms. Franklin

$500 a month
to support that child?

And did you fail to send
that money three times

In the first six months?

- There was a question
about paternity.

- Did you promise to pay
and then fail to do so?

- If you lied
to the mother of your child

About supporting your son,

Why should we believe anything
you say to us now?

- You couldn't do something
to stop that?

- No. No, I couldn't.
- Hey, you have a kid?

- Look, I'd just finished
the academy, all right?

I busted loose a little.

There were some cop groupies
at a bar.

Once the blood test came back,
I paid every month.

- Look, we'll bring that out
on redirect.

We have to recoup.

- Look, I don't want to
talk about it!

Hey. Hey!
- B!

- How much trash did your people
have to sort through

To dig this up?

- The photo, the agreement,
the violations,

It's all on the internet.
You just gotta know how to look.

- Yeah, so this is how
you defend yourself, huh?

Dragging people
through the mud?

He's a ten-year-old boy.
- All right, come on, b.

- No, no, no, no, no, no!
You want to play dirty, huh?

Huh?
You want to get personal?

- Detective!

- That didn't help.
- What do you expect?

- That a thin-skinned cop
doesn't destroy my case.

- Mike.

- Look, do you realize

How much his testimony
is worth right now?

- All right, listen.

Leary told him he knew about
Kerry sands and her daughter.

- Yes, but who's
going to believe it?

- I do.
You do.

All we have to do
is find out

How Leary
knew the woman is nuts.

We get that into evidence,
it won't matter

What he did or didn't say
to Bernard.

- Okay, okay, but Leary's
not going to tell us,

And Kerry sands
is in cuckoo-land,

So how are we
going to find out?

- There's got to be
a record somewhere--

A meeting, a conversation,
an e-mail.

- Something somewhere.
Pretty big haystack.

- He was texting
on the fdr drive

And almost ran a car with
three kids in it off the road.

One of our members
analyzed the photo

And determined it was going
73 miles per hour at the time.

Sid Maxwell
deserved to be exposed.

The point was to get him
to change his ways

Before he killed someone.

- But not to kill him?

- We're not murderers.

We spend our days
in front of computers.

We're just a bunch of
well-meaning nerds

Who want to make this city
a better place.

- Thank you.

- So you and your colleagues
don't get out much?

Then why did you post
Mr. Maxwell's address

On your site?

- In case somebody
wanted to write him a letter.

- And the Code
to his building's door?

From your website, uh,

"in case anybody
wants to drop by

And teach this jerk
some manners."

- Some people
feel very strongly

About people
like Sid Maxwell.

There was a woman in China
who crushed--

- I know.
Crushed a kitten.

So emotions run high?
- They can.

Sometimes people
want to confront

People like that in person.

Sometimes
that's the only way

People like that
get the message.

- "people like that."
including Sid Maxwell?

- Yes, but that
doesn't mean that I,

Or anyone else
on flashposse.Net,

Thought he'd be
physically harmed.

- Not even by Kerry sands,

Who posted 400 messages

About revenge
and the devil and death?

- Have you ever read
the internet, Mr. Cutter?

It's full of ranting and raving
and exaggerated threats.

Everyone says everyone else
should drop dead.

It's just a place
for letting off steam.

- So you thought
Kerry sands

Was just letting off
harmless steam?

- She and 50 million
other people.

- Even though you knew
she was living

In the midst
of a psychotic delusion.

- I didn't know that.

- You told
detective Bernard.

- I never told him that.

Couldn't have.
I didn't know it.

- It's from lupo.

- Mr. Leary,

Were you with Kerry sands
last August 20th

When she physically assaulted
a cabdriver

Who she accused of being
the evil spawn of Satan?

- Uh, your honor,
this is the first we've heard

Of any such
alleged incident.

If the people have
some supposed evidence,

I'd like to see it.

- New information has just
come to our attention.

- Then share it
with the defense.

We'll recess
until tomorrow.

[gavel bangs]

- Now we knew Kerry sands

Had a thing for cabdrivers,
right?

Well, there are cabs around
all the time,

So I figured she might have had
some interaction.

It was just a matter
of checking drivers' logs.

- There are 13,000 taxis
in New York city.

- All right, so it was kind of
labor-intensive.

Now, there were 209

That reported violent behavior
by women in the last year.

102 of those
were on the street

In range of atm
or other security cameras.

- That's hundreds of cameras,
all on different systems.

- Right, so here's
a camera still of Kerry sands

Assaulting a driver
on 42nd street.

I talked to the driver.

He said she was screaming

That the devil told him
to murder her daughter.

- And to find him,
you searched 13,000 taxi logs

And then every security camera
near 209 incidents?

- Sort of.

The driver also told me there
was a man with Kerry sands.

He walked away after she
started getting violent.

This is him, right here.

- All I can see
is the back of his head.

- You see the reflection
in the store window there?

With the right software,
boom.

- Leary.

- Did you have a subpoena
for the cameras

For any of this?

- I'm not the one
who got 'em.

This took a few thousand people
working around the clock.

- The entire nypd?

- Chinese people.
A "human flesh search engine."

I have a friend
in the shanghai p.D.

From my days in intel.

I told him
a cop needed a hand.

- Fire with fire.

Our internet posse
against Leary's.

- And none of these came
from Leary's home or office.

- It's admissible.

- Mr. Leary,
can you tell us

What's happening
in this picture?

- Your honor,
may we approach?

- We're still not satisfied

As to the origin
of this material.

- Why, it came from
a lamppost security camera.

- Where'd the state get it?

There's no record
of any process being served.

- It doesn't matter.

Mr. Leary has
no expectation of privacy

In the middle
of 42nd street.

- Even if he didn't,

There's no context to explain
what's happening here.

- I'll ask him to explain,
and if he can't remember,

Then we'll bring in
the taxi driver.

- That works,
Mr. Margolis.

Mr. Cutter,
you may proceed.

- Now you told us yesterday,
Mr. Leary,

That you had no idea

Kerry sands was violent
or delusional.

Doesn't this picture show us
that you did know?

- That's arguable.

- It was a crazy,
violent outburst

Right in front
of your face.

But you still kept goading her
to go after Sid Maxwell.

- [exhales]

[sighs]

I never told her
to kill anybody.

- The woman was
dangerously out of control.

What did you expect?

What did you
reasonably expect?

- Yeah. All right.

That was cutter.

Leary and the others
took pleas.

They're going away
for manslaughter.

- Good.

- Thank you.
[clears throat]

You know,

If we'd have known...

I mean, I would have

Put myself out there
as the target.

- I never thought
they would dig that up.

- How is the kid?

- His mother and I...

She ended up marrying
her actual boyfriend.

We both decided
that it would be better--

Less confusing--
if I didn't see him.

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