All language subtitles for Law & Order s20e12 Blackmail.eng

(male announcer)
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.

The are their stories.

- You would be
a totally anonymous source.

- I know, I--

I just don't really see
the point in talking about it.

- I wouldn't have to
use your name.

- Yeah, but how hard would it be
to figure out?

Look, I have a new job.

I'm not widely considered
a slut.

Things are just fine
the way they are.

- It's not right.

You know it.

And it keeps happening
over and over again.

- Let me think about it.

I'll let you know.

- [scoffs]

- Developer ran out of money.

One day he's selling
the greatest new project

Since rockefeller center,

And the next he's selling
the fixtures.

- When did construction end?

- Maybe six months ago.

Security's half-assed.

- Junkies, homeless,
who called it in?

- [chuckles]

911 call from a pay phone.

Caller forgot to leave
his name.

- Yeah, he was probably
scavenging.

Pulled back this sheet
of metal.

- And voila.

- Bruises on her neck.

No blood.

Anybody find a purse?

- No. No cell phone,
no I.D.

Hey, you think maybe
a working girl?

She brought a john up here?

- Her clothes are clean,
no track marks on her arms,

No chips in her manicure.

- She could have been here
forever

Before somebody found her.

- I think that was the plan.

- Well, she's fresh.
Died sometime last night.

Cause of death
is definitely strangulation.

The bruises look hand-shaped.

I'll put her in the fridge

And see if I can get
more definition.

- Any signs of sexual assault?

- There's no vaginal tearing
and there's no semen in her,

So she hadn't had sex
within 72 hours

Or she used a condom.

But...I did find this.

A pubic hair from
her upper inner thigh,

And it isn't hers.

- Wrong color.

- No, wrong gender.

Find the penis it belongs to
and you'll have a lead.

- We'll get right on that.

- Lieutenant,
we got a hit.

- What would you think
m.R.S. Stands for

On a hospital bill?

- What?

- M.R.S. On a hospital bill.

- Mrs.?

- It costs $89 and it's not
covered by insurance.

- Well, then that's definitely
not mrs.

- Mucous recovery system.

A box of tissues.

- [laughs]

- All right. One second.
These...

These I fight,

These I got 30 days.

Okay. All right.
You have something.

- Yes.

Our jane doe's name
is megan kerik.

Her fingerprints
matched a set

In the pentagon's database.

- She was a soldier.

- No,
a freelance journalist

Who accompanied a uso troupe
to afghanistan.

The pentagon,
they take their prints and dna

In case they're blown up
by an I.E.D.

- That's thoughtful.

- They also list next of kin.

I just got off the phone
with ms. Kerik's sister

In san diego.

They weren't very close,
but she said

Megan wasn't married,

She'd never heard
of any boyfriend,

And our victim spent
most of her time

Writing for a website
called citysmear.Com.

- Is that what it sounds like?

- Digs up dirt
on celebrities and others.

And the more embarrassing,
the more they like it.

- You'd better find out
who ms. Kerik

Had been embarrassing
lately.

- Megan kerik.
She's been murdered.

- We were hoping
you could help us out.

- Has this been reported
anywhere yet?

- You're looking for
a scoop?

- It depends what
she was working on.

Derek.

- Yeah.

- What was megan kerik
working on?

- I don't know.

Just that thing about

The big environmental
movie star

Who sent her cocker spaniel
to paris, why?

- These are police.

Megan's been killed.

- Has it been reported
anywhere yet?

- It doesn't matter.

Megan wasn't working
on anything for us

That could get her killed,
if that's what you're asking.

- You figure the cocker
spaniel's in the clear, then?

- That's--

[chuckles]

- How well did you know
ms. Kerik?

- She was a freelance
contributor.

We have hundreds.

- She have a desk?
We'd like to take a look.

- No, as far as I know,
she worked from home.

- Shopping list.

Yogurt, coffee,
ink cartridges, cupcakes.

- Yeah, a freelancer's diet.

This place is neat and tidy.

If she was killed here,

She didn't put up
much of a fight.

- The ink cartridges
would be for the printer here.

You see a computer?

- Nope.

- Somebody took it.

This file drawer's unlocked.

There's a big gap inside.

- The killer took her purse.

He had her keys.

- She was working on something
or he thought she was.

- What?

- Look, it's sara.

I'm sorry, but I really don't
want to talk about this.

I think you should just
forget the story.

It's just going to upset
a lot of people for no reason.

- What did megan want from you,
exactly?

- I only met her
that one time.

She emailed me
out of the blue

And said she wanted
to interview me for a story.

- A story about what?

- People who sleep with
their bosses.

Which I did.

- And didn't want
to talk about.

- I have a boyfriend.

I have parents.

I have a new boss, I...

I really didn't need
for them to know.

- Yeah, but megan was going
to do the story anyway.

- I don't know.

I never talked to her again.

- If you'd never
met her before,

How did she know about
your history?

- She said that
she talked to a woman

Who used to work
where I used to work

And had the same...
Position before I did.

- That would be your position
with the boss.

- No one lasted
more than a few months.

- Sara, we're going to need
to talk to this guy.

- Uh, that's just the thing.

It's not a he.

- What?

Well, maybe that's what
you'd advise

A teenage daughter, bella.

Uh, remind me never to send
my kid to talk to you.

But seriously,
I think we can all agree

That communication
with our children...

- Vanessa carville.

- Megan kerik
wasn't writing an article

About women sleeping with
their bosses.

She was writing about
women who were sleeping with

Vanessa carville.

- And that may have included
megan.

It turns out that
before she reduced herself

To digging up gossip
for citysmear,

She was a production associate
on the sisters.

- I love this show.

It's a great way of turning off
your brain for an hour.

- Well, would you love it
as much if you knew

Vanessa carville
was plowing through

Her female employees?

- Uh. She's married.
She has a family.

- Yeah, if she caught wind
what megan was writing about...

- Go see her.

You know, if it were
for anything else,

I'd ask you to get me tickets
to the show.

And one more thing:

You know, I don't know
what kind of downtown look

You guys are going for
with the stubble and all,

But it's not working.

- [chuckles]
for downtown or for you?

- Both.

Have you looked in the mirror
lately, detective?

You're not in karachi
anymore.

All right?

- Mm-hmm. Okay.

- ...Of the trust
that people have in you.

And you know in the end
it always comes down to trust.

Am I right, ladies?

Who's with me?

Can I get a what-what?

- You ever watch her show?

- Sure, when I'm not
knitting booties for my cat.

There she is.

- You think one of those guys
is her husband?

- Well, this could be awkward.

- Well, that's why we get paid
the big bucks.

Ms. Carville.

- Yes.

- Mr. Mccoy.

- Detectives.

You must be mind readers.

I was just going to call
one p.P.

You may know vanessa carville,
by reputation, anyway.

She just came to me
with her attorney

To report a crime.

She's being blackmailed.

- I leave for the studio
early.

I like to read the papers
before anyone else gets there.

So it was about 6:00 a.M.

I came out of my house
and nearly tripped over it.

- "personal and confidential."

- I'd say that was
an understatement.

- Did you see who left it?

- No. My driver pulled up
just then.

I had brought it
into the back seat with me

And took a look.

What I saw?

Let's just say I didn't need
a second cup of coffee.

- Emails, diary entries,
photos,

Messages,
you with various women.

Are they authentic?

- Does that matter?

- It probably does.

- They're real.

But I'd rather deal with it,
all of it,

Than pay $3 million
to some blackmailer.

- The cover letter asks
for $3 million

Or this will all be published
in a book.

Ms. Carville is supposed
to stand by at home

For a phone call today
at noon

To arrange payment.

- A lot of this concerns
a woman named megan kerik.

- I'm aware.

Things with megan
ended rather...Awkwardly.

It's occurred to me
this might be

Some sort of attempt
at revenge.

- Megan kerik was murdered
two nights ago.

- Oh, god.

- And before she died,
she was interviewing women

For a proposed article
about this.

- So I'm a suspect.

- Vanessa--
- I have to be.

- Did you know she was
working on that article?

- No.

I hadn't talked to megan
in over a year.

This is awful, just...

Worse and worse.

So what do we do now?

- It can't be a coincidence
that the blackmail

Comes at the same time
as the murder.

We play along with
the blackmailer,

If you're up to it.

Are you?

- Well, I've gotta get to
the studio,

But I'll be home before noon.

- Well, I'd like
to get my people in before that.

- I'll arrange for it.
Jack.

Thank you.

- What do you think?

- Well, if she killed
megan kerik to keep her quiet,

Coming forward with
a bogus blackmail story

Would be a pretty smart way
to throw us off.

- I find that hard
to believe.

But just in case...

- This blackmailer,
whoever he is,

Is probably the murderer,
right?

- It's possible.

- Half the stuff in
that envelope came from megan.

The rest could have been
stuff she gathered.

So he got it from her,

Maybe she tried to back out...

- That's a theory.

- And the other theory is
that I did it?

- That's a theory.

- No more sandwiches
for you.

It's nearly 1:00.

He said he was gonna call
by noon.

- Has that bastard called yet?

- Not yet.
- Why not?

I mean,
what's he waiting for?

- You don't need to be here,
wayne.

They're...Handling it.

- I don't know.

My wife's affairs
with other women,

$3 million.

It's a little more interesting
than anything

Happening in the office
today.

- I'm heading for the studio.

You can stay if you want to.

All of you.

- Just us guys.

- He never called.

- Did he know you were there?

Maybe he was watching
the house.

- We were careful.
There was a service entrance.

- So he's leaving
$3 million on the table.

- Maybe he's reformed.

- Or maybe vanessa carville
made the whole thing up.

- She didn't make this up.

"I see you behind the monitor
and all I can think about

Is licking the sweat
rolling towards your nipple."

A message from carville
to megan kerik.

Have you seen the stuff
in this blackmail package?

- I'd have paid
the $3 million.

- Here's one
from megan's diary.

"I was nervous at first,

"but we split
one of her vicodins

"and a bottle of wine.

And then bliss."

Hey, lupes.

Look at this.

What do you see?

- That picture.
- Mm-hmm.

- It's in sara bradley's
apartment.

- Yeah, the girl who said
she didn't cooperate

With megan kerik's research.

- So how did that picture

End up in the blackmail
surprise?

- Yeah, I took that.

But I never gave it to megan.

I never gave megan
anything, I told you.

- Well,
then how did she get it?

- I don't know.
What does it matter?

- Did you give it
to anybody else?

- No, like who?

- The person who got it
might be the person

Who murdered megan.

If you have any involvement
with him,

You should tell us now.

- [scoffs]

What, like I'm an accomplice?

That is ridiculous.

I never gave megan anything.

I never gave anyone
anything,

And I definitely--

My hard drive.

- Your hard drive?

- I kept some old photos
on a backup hard drive.

A couple of weeks ago,
my apartment was broken into

And that was one of the things
that was stolen.

- Okay, did you file
a police report?

- Yeah.
[cell phone ringing]

Is that why somebody
broke into my apartment?

Just to get that picture?

- Lupo.

All right, we'll set it up.

Carville got the call.
It's a go.

Excuse us.

- I got her.

- Got ya.

Ms. Carville,
can you hear us?

- Yeah. Loud and clear.

I haven't been this nervous
since I interviewed dick cheney.

- [chuckles]

You're doing great.

Take a seat on the bench
right there.

He's late. Again.

- Visual on a male
in a black overcoat.

40 feet and closing.

- I got him.

- Oh, god.
- Okay.

Stop talking to us now.

- It's dipalma.
Megan's editor.

- Yeah, the one who said
he had no idea

What she was working on.

- Well, I guess he lied.

- Did you bring the check?

- Who are you?

- Did you bring it or not?

- Why are you doing this?

- What the hell is she doing?

- I'm not the one paying
to keep dirty secrets.

- Conducting an interview.

- When do I get the originals
of the things in that envelope?

- As soon as I know
your check is good.

- Oh, I'm supposed
to trust you?

- Vanessa!

- [chuckles]

You don't have a choice.

Now you've got about
ten seconds.

- Just give him
the damn check.

- [scoffs]

- You should be
ashamed of yourself.

- He's got it.

- Hey, remember me?
Turn around.

Let's go.

- My client has nothing
to say.

- Your client just got caught
red-handed

Committing larceny
by extortion.

He needs
to help himself out here.

- It was a simple
misunderstanding.

- Yeah.

For megan kerik, it was.

She brought you
her big story, didn't she?

She wanted you to publish it,
but you had a better idea.

A way of making
some real money.

Then what happened?

She disagree?

- I had nothing to do with
what happened to megan.

- Dennis.
Don't say anything.

No more questions.
Should I try that in french?

- Just one more.

Does you client
want to give us a key

To his apartment,
or would he prefer

We take the door off
its hinges?

The search warrant
is on its way.

- What did the police find?

- Enough to nail
dipalma on the blackmail

Ten times over.

Megan kerik's notebooks
and diaries,

The originals of all
the blackmail material,

The stolen computer
hard drive.

- How about for the murder
of megan kerik?

- The pubic hair found
in dipalma's sheets

Matches the hair found
on her body.

- So they were lovers.
And?

- Well, it seems pretty obvious
what happened.

Megan felt burned by
her relationship with carville.

She was expecting
a promotion, at least.

Instead, got dumped for
the next flavor of the month

And then laid off.

It's all in her diaries.

She wanted to get even.

- And dipalma
hijacked her article

And turned it into blackmail.

Can you prove that?

- That wasn't in her diary.

- So what have you got
on the murder?

- Enough to nail dipalma
on the blackmail

Ten times over.

- It's better than nothing.

And it could be a lever
to shake something loose.

Move on it.

- Case 34321,
people v. Dennis dipalma.

Attempted grand larceny
in the first degree.

- The defendant enters a plea
of not guilty.

- People request remand,
your honor.

In addition to the crime
he's charged with here today,

Mr. Dipalma is the key suspect
in a related homicide.

- Says who? Based on what?

That's completely irrelevant
to the issue of bail

On this charge.

- This is
the attempted extortion

Of that television
personality?

For $3 million,
is that correct?

- That's the charge,
but mr. Dipalma is innocent.

- You mentioned that.

Meanwhile for bail,
why don't we pick a number

That is relevant
to this case.

$3 million.

[bangs gavel]

[reporters shouting questions]

- In this case so far,

We've only heard
one side of the story,

Ms. Carville's side,

Which the police
and district attorney

Have swallowed whole.

But this case isn't
just about the motive,

Intent, and conduct
of dennis dipalma,

It's also about the motive,
intent, and conduct

Of vanessa carville.

Mr. Dipalma looks forward
to telling

The full story in court,

And if in defending
his reputation

Other people's are damaged,
well,

It's just the way
it's gotta be.

I for one have a few questions
for ms. Carville.

Actually, more than a few.

- Now the real blackmail
begins.

- It's only fair,
your honor.

Mr. Dipalma has the right to get
his side of the story out.

- This is rather a long list
of material you're seeking.

- All of which is likely
to lead to credible

And relevant evidence
for the defense.

- Ms. Carville's tax returns
for the past ten years.

- To see if she's taken
any business deductions

For the purchase
of embarrassing material.

- What, you think she itemized
previous blackmail attempts?

- I want to know
if she's bought any material

Similar to that offered her
by mr. Dipalma.

- He wasn't selling her
a book.

He was committing larceny
by extortion.

- Actually, he was conducting
a journalistic sting.

Mr. Dipalma was going
to publish an expose

Of ms. Carville's behavior
on his website.

- Well, then why didn't he?

Why demand a $3 million check
not to publish it?

- He was never gonna cash
that check.

He was gonna post of a photo
of it on his website

As proof that
she had something to hide.

- We are straying
into absolute fantasy here.

- Really?

What kind of blackmailer
asks for payment by check?

- A dumb one.

This isn't
an intelligence test.

This is a criminal proceeding.

And these defense subpoenas
are onerous,

Unreasonable,
and designed merely

To harass the victim
of the crime.

I mean, full personnel files
of more than 200

Of ms. Carville's employees
going back to 1992?

- Have any complained
of sexual harassment?

Have any been granted
special treatment

In exchange
for sexual favors?

- Your requests
are extraordinary, mr. Baron.

But I will see
the briefs on this.

- The judge is going
to allow it?

- No, she just hasn't
decided yet.

I can't imagine she'll give him
everything he's asking for.

- But some of what
he's asking for.

- We're using all
of our resources.

The law is on our side.

- I just had a candid talk
with my audience

About this whole situation.

I hoped I would never
have to say anything else.

- Well, you will have to be
a witness at the trial.

- I guess I knew that.

I just didn't...

Things are a little tense
right now

On the home front.

My husband or his attorney
may end up

Sitting at that trial
taking notes

If we end up fighting
over child custody.

The things that could
come out.

- I promise you,
we'll fight to keep the trial

As narrowly focused
as we can.

- The other guy's
the criminal.

Why are we doing
all the fighting?

Oh, boy.

- Child custody?

She's probably wishing
she paid the $3 million.

- Baron's playing a game.

Nothing he's asking for
is relevant.

- That judge might disagree.

- Well, we'll handle it.

Meanwhile, let's shoot down
the claim

That dipalma
was practicing journalism,

Not blackmail.

That check that he was
supposedly never gonna cash.

- Yeah, made out
at his request

To something called
feature literistics.

- Yeah, what the hell is that?

- I'm a little busy.

The owner made me
acting editor

Until this business with dennis
gets sorted out.

- Well, by the looks of things,
you might be acting

For the next eight to ten.

- Oh, no, thank you.

Getting a little tired
of sorting through

Celebrity trash.

But I might be going back
to school, though.

Maybe architecture.

- I just needed to know,

Have you ever heard
of something called

Feature literistics?

- Feature literistics?

Sounds like
a literary enterprise

Named by someone
who can't read.

- Was dipalma involved with
anything with that name--

A publishing house,
a magazine,

Anything with a bank account?

- I gotta tell you,

I think you're
on wrong trail here.

Dennis was never
hard up for money.

He has a nice apartment,
a nice car,

Takes nice vacations.

- Vacations where?

Cayman islands.

- An offshore bank account.

- Opened one month ago
in the name

Of feature literistics,

A corporation registered
to a bahamas post office box.

- Mr. Dipalma went
to a lot of trouble

To create an untraceable account
to deposit a check

That he was never gonna cash.

- Yeah, he was definitely
more interested

In the $3 million
than the pulitzer prize.

But there's more.

He opened the account
in person

During a three-day stay
at a beach resort

With megan kerik.

- Little more pubic hair
transferring going on?

- Apparently.

Either they were doing
the blackmail together

And had a falling out--

- Or she really was
working on an article...

He found out about it,

Decided to go
the blackmail route instead.

She didn't want to go along,
and he kills her.

- Or his accomplice did.

- What accomplice?

- The weekend they were
in the caribbean,

It's the same weekend
sara bradley's apartment

Was broken into,
and her hard drive

With the compromising photos

Showed up in dipalma's
apartment.

The police assumed
that he had stolen it.

- Well, we all did.

- My accomplice to what?
I didn't do anything.

- Mr. Dipalma,

You may have
an opportunity here.

- I don't know what
they're talking about.

- So let him explain.

- As you know,

We're taking this blackmail
charge very seriously.

But murder is always
a higher priority.

- Murder again?

You know and I know
you don't have

A shred of evidence
against mr. Dipalma.

- If another person
was involved,

And mr. Dipalma
can help us find that person,

Then there's always
the possibility

Of a plea negotiation.

- Sara bradley's
computer hard drive

Was found in your apartment
after it was stolen from hers.

How did it come
into your possession?

- That was research
for my expose.

I got it myself.

- You're confessing
to burglary?

- He's not confessing
to anything.

- Well, he's covering
for somebody.

Why?

- Well, I guess we don't have
anything else to say.

Except...

- I've been reviewing
the briefs in this matter

With interest.

But I see no basis
for the defense

To get ms. Carville's
tax records.

And the request to see

The notes of her
marriage counseling sessions

Is out of bounds for about
five different reasons.

- The, uh, personnel files
of ms. Carville's employees

Are likewise privileged
and confidential.

- They're also relevant
and material on their face.

This case is all about
ms. Carville's

Relationships
with her employees.

- Actually, it's about
your client's attempt

To commit blackmail.

If you lost your copy
of the indictment,

You can take a look
at mine.

- The material
mr. Dipalma compiled

Came largely from
a woman named megan kerik.

- Whom we suspect
mr. Dipalma of murdering.

- I didn't see
any mention of that

In the indictment either.

Ms. Kerik
had conducted research

Amongst ms. Carville's
former employees,

Several of whom
are not named.

We need to find these women
to ask them

What ms. Kerik
told them about her project.

- These women
do not want to be dragged

Into the limelight.

- If they can shed
exculpatory light

On ms. Kerik
and mr. Dipalma's intentions,

That's not their choice.

My client has a right
to compel their testimony.

- That's the one point
of your argument

I'll grant, mr. Baron.

But you need to draft
your subpoena more narrowly

To include the files
only of those women

Who might have been candidates
for ms. Kerik's research.

- Very good, your honor,
thank you.

- Former lovers on parade.

I wonder how vanessa carville's
gonna feel about that.

- I'll go talk to her.

[knocking on door]

- How did it go?

- See for yourself.

- Well, I don't know about
the rest of you,

But I've been having
a pretty lousy week.

Yeah, thank you.

[clears throat]

As I mentioned before,

I've done some pretty
kinky things in my life.

I mean, was anybody
really surprised?

[chuckles]

But now, owing
to the wondrous nature

Of our legal system,

The man accused
of blackmailing me

About those things
has been granted the right

To drag a whole lot
of wonderful people

Who've worked for me
through the mud.

[audience jeering]
yeah, I know.

- She's good.

- I know. It's true.

And on some level,
that's fair, I guess,

But...I think it stinks.

And as much as I would like
to see justice done,

I wouldn't be able
to live with myself

If I thought
so many good people,

So many good friends--
many of whom I've already hurt--

Would have their reputations
and lives messed up.

So...I feel I have no choice.

I am going to abandon
my complaint against this man,

Even if it means a blackmailer
goes free.

- Not to mention
a murderer.

- Right.

- The defense motion
to dismiss is premature.

Our evidence hasn't
disappeared.

- Your complaining witness has,
mr. Cutter.

I do read the papers.

- The trial hasn't even begun.

It's a little early to say
that she's not gonna show up.

- She just told 10 million
people she wouldn't.

- Yes.

And that made good television,
didn't it?

We are continuing
communication

With the victim
of this crime--

- And good luck to you.

I won't dismiss for now,

But I'm releasing mr. Dipalma
on his own recognizance.

There doesn't seem to be much
point to keep him in jail

Waiting for a trial
that may never happen.

[bangs gavel]

- Well, that's great.

Now he and his accomplice
can go out for a beer

And have a big laugh
about this whole thing.

- You know what?

That might not be
a bad idea.

[knocking on door]

- Have you seen
what's on the internet?

It says here
dennis dipalma

Just got
half a million dollars

To write a book
about vanessa carville.

- Well, his lawyer

Always said it was
a journalistic project.

He's only $2.5 million
short.

- So far.

There's still paperback,
first serial, movie rights.

This could be as profitable
as what he tried with carville.

- Publishing that material
is perfectly legal,

While threatening
to publish it is a felony.

That doesn't seem
to make sense,

Yet somehow it does.

- Because it's coercion.

- Glad to know we prosecute it
for a reason.

[telephone rings]

- Yeah.

- Feel good to be back?

- What do you think?

- I hear congratulations
are in order.

- Yeah, graduated top
of my class at rikers.

- I just read about
your book deal.

Surprised you didn't call me
to share the good news.

- No one's called me.
It's just publishing gossip.

- Half a million dollars.
I want 250.

- There's no money.
It's just a rumor.

- Really?

Are you hiding it
in the caymans

Like you were gonna hide
the money from carville?

- There's nothing to hide.

I'm telling you,
I swear.

- Are you sure that's the way
you want to be?

- It worked.
The phony book deal story.

- I thought it might
give dipalma and his friend

Something to talk about.

Do the police know
who the caller is?

- Yeah, derek fanning.

Works on the website.
I met him.

He told me he was thinking about
going to architecture school.

- Guess he's raising
tuition money.

- Yeah, well,
there were two calls

Made after this one.

Fanning kept asking for money,

Dipalma kept saying
there wasn't any,

Fanning kept calling him
a liar.

[cell phone rings]

Hello?

We'll be right over.
Thanks.

It was lieutenant van buren.

The police just found
megan kerik's missing laptop.

- It was dropped off
in the lobby of megan's building

With a note saying that
it had been found abandoned

In a coffee shop.

Megan's address was
on a sticker on the bottom.

- Well, that was very nice
of some good samaritan.

- Oh, you have no idea.

Wait until you see
the video we found on it.

Play it.

[whimpering and struggling]

- A video of dipalma
murdering megan kerik?

- Or having rough sex.

She didn't die.
Not on camera.

[coughing and choking]

- Is there a date on that?

- The day of the murder.

But it's not hard
to fudge the time stamp

If you know what
you're doing.

- This good samaritan,

Do we know who it was?

- The note was unsigned,
and no prints.

- If we arrest dipalma
for murder based on this,

There's a provenance issue.

- Well, that's the least
of it.

You see his right hand?

That ring would leave marks.

The m.E. Didn't find

Any matching marks
on the victim's neck.

- Well, she was still alive.

He took the ring off
before he killed her.

- If he's the one who did.

- There's a reflection
in the alarm clock.

[coughing and choking]

- Someone else
was in the room.

- Okay, so on its face,
this is evidence

That dipalma is a murderer,

But it miraculously shows up
right after

Dipalma's accomplice
demands $250,000

And dipalma tells him
he can't pay.

- The blackmailer
was being blackmailed.

[coughing and choking]

- So what's new?

It's no secret
my client was dating her.

- Dating?

That's what you call it?

- If you thought that
made my client a murderer,

Then he'd already be
under arrest.

- Well, we haven't given up
the thought.

I hope you brought
your toothbrush.

- Something's wrong
with this video,

And you know it,
or we wouldn't be here.

- Well,
we'd like to hear what

Mr. Dipalma
has to say about it,

About everything,

Or this becomes
people's exhibit number one

At his murder trial,
and we can discuss

What's wrong or right
about it there.

- He made me do it.

- Who made you do what?

- Derek fanning.

He showed up while
I was with megan.

With a gun.

- Where was he standing?

- On the side of the bed.

- You knew someone was there.

You knew this video
was fishy.

- What exactly did mr. Fanning
make you do?

- [chuckles]

Pretend to strangle megan.

He--he said he would shoot me.
He was crazy.

- Why would he do that?

- [sighs]

When megan came to me
about vanessa carville,

I thought it was
a great story.

I asked derek to help
with the research.

- And he broke into
sara bradley's apartment

When she wouldn't cooperate.

- He said we shouldn't publish
the story,

That we could make
a lot of money.

And I went along.

I dropped the stuff
at carville's door.

That night, megan figured out
what we were doing.

She said she'd call carville.

She said she'd call
the police, so...

Derek made me do that.

When I left,
megan was alive.

Derek called me later

And said that
he'd "taken care" of her

And that it was safe

To go through with
the blackmail now.

I--I freaked.

I didn't call carville
like I was supposed to.

Derek said that if
I didn't get back into it,

He would send that video
to the police.

So...

I did what he said.

- I think that's the craziest
story I've ever heard.

- So it's gotta be true,
right?

- Case 35924,
people v. Derek fanning,

Murder in the second degree.

- How do you plead?
- Not guilty.

- This is related to that
blackmail case, ms. Rubirosa?

- Yes, the defendant's
accused of murdering

The source of
the blackmail information

When she threatened
to call the police.

- The people's main witness

Is the former blackmail
defendant.

He's hardly credible.

- We believe he is.

He was as shocked as anyone

By the brutal and cold-blooded
nature of this murder.

- His credibility's
an issue for a jury,

Not a hearing on bail,

Which I'll set at $3 million.

Why break precedent?

[bangs gavel]

- Our analysis of that video
will lend us some support.

- We also found derek fanning's
gun and fingerprints

On sara bradley's hard drive
and in megan's apartment.

- But the jury's still gonna be
skeptical about you.

We'll have to work
to convince them

To trust your testimony.

- Or we could save you
the effort.

Mr. Dipalma's decided
not to appear.

- Excuse me?

- He's decided it's not
in his best interest

To testify.

- Well, we can still
prosecute him

For the murder instead.

- I think that ship
has sailed.

Ms. Rubirosa already told
a judge

That mr. Fanning is
the killer.

It would be pretty easy
to raise reasonable doubt

If you try mr. Dipalma.

- So what is it, huh?

You afraid that fanning'll
be acquitted and come after you?

Is he holding something else
over your head?

- I just don't think
that publicly swearing

I was involved in blackmail
and murder

Is the best
possible career move.

Plus, I could get sued.

The feds could come after me.

I don't see any upside.

- We can give you immunity
and then subpoena you.

If you choose not
to testify,

We can charge you
with contempt.

- Contempt I can handle.

- Well, don't worry.
You already have ours.

- So blackmail
and a brutal murder,

And everybody walks.

Maybe we should go into
another line of work,

Dry cleaning.

- Or we could charge them
together for both crimes.

- And they'll both stay silent
and you'll be pushing

Two rocks up two hills.

What about
your blackmail victim?

She's still on the sidelines?

- Resolutely.

There's something
in those personnel files

She doesn't want the world
or her husband to see.

This blackmail thing,
it really works.

- Maybe we should try it.

- Jack, I'm sorry
it had to be this way.

I know you went the extra mile
on my behalf.

I just couldn't let it
go to trial.

- I know, vanessa.

That's what I wanted
to talk to you about.

- Well, this is a surprise.

What is this, some kind
of shock therapy

To make me change my mind?

- We'd like you to remember
how you felt

When you got that package,
when you saw him

In the park demanding
$3 million.

- What are we doing here,
playing a memory game?

- I remember.

It was awful.

But I can't let innocent friends
get hurt

By him and him
in some public spectacle.

- I understand, vanessa,
so I'm sorry.

- About what?

- We're charging you
with criminal sale

Of a controlled substance
in the fifth degree.

It's a class "d" felony.

- What?

- From megan kerik's diary.

"I was nervous at first,

"but we split
one of her vicodins

And a bottle of wine
and then...Bliss."

- Half a vicodin.

I gave it to her.
I didn't sell it.

- Doesn't matter.

Legally, to sell means
to sell, exchange, or to give.

The law still applies
and so does the penalty.

- You can't possibly
be serious.

- I'm sure the charge
won't do you much good

In a divorce...

Or a fight over child custody.

- You sons of bitches.

You're no better than he is.

- So...
You'll testify?

- Sure. I can't wait.

- Wait a minute.
Can she still do that?

- Yes, the case
hasn't been dismissed,

But I don't think
she ever will.

That's not the plan,
is it?

- Well, now that we have

Ms. Carville's cooperation,

Mr. Dipalma is looking at

Ten years in prison
for blackmail.

- But if he changes his mind

About testifying
against mr. Fanning,

You might let that slide.

- Oh, we could probably
work something out.

He nails fanning
for the murder,

Then takes a plea,
does two years.

- You screwed with me
to screw with him.

- Bank shot.

- You're still
a son of a bitch.

- We have a deal?

- Deal.

- A blackmail daisy chain.

They definitely didn't
teach that in law school.

- Turnabout.
It was only fair.

- So that's the new game plan.

We do what they do.

Next time we try a murderer,
we'll kill somebody.

- I don't know.

We'll have to ask the boss.

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