All language subtitles for Law & Order s20e20 The taxman cometh.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.

- Hey, you!
You work here?

Dead soldiers.
Take 'em, replace 'em.

- I've had enough, randy.
I wanna go.

- You're so down tonight.
You wanna go home with that guy?

He looks like
he's into depressed chicks.

It might cheer you up.

- I just wanna go home.

- Okay.

Okay.

Phil. Yeah,
bring the car around.

- Last stop, princess.

- No wounds, no trauma...

Except a fresh needle puncture
in her left forearm.

- Couple old tracks.

Heroin amateur.

- Tox screen'll
tell the story.

My money's on an o.D.

Limousine, private townhouse.

She could afford
to buy the good stuff.

- A little too much of it.

- It was drugs, wasn't it?

- Oh, we won't know
for a while, Miss Douglas.

The deceased...
She was your niece?

- Yeah.

Annie was living
in the house with me.

I thought I could
keep an eye on her.

- Her parents couldn't?

- Her mother's dead and...

Her father, my brother,
is in belize with...

Uh...His fourth wife,
I think.

Oh, god.

- She was with
her cousin Randy.

They, uh, hit a couple
clubs downtown.

Took off for home
about 3:00 a.m.

With one stop, uh...
90th and Lex.

- Hit another club?
- Not that I could see.

Randy got out of the car,

Came back about
ten minutes later.

They sat for a few minutes,
then...Randy told me

To drop him at his place
and take Annie home.

- You see what they did when
they were sittin' in the back?

- No. The privacy glass
was up all night.

I couldn't see a thing.
For all I know,

They get back there,
have orgies, fly kites...

Run chariot races.

- Did you take anything
from the backseat

Once you found the body?
Chariots...Anything?

- I didn't touch a thing.
- Okay.

Why don't you
hang out for a minute?

No drugs, no works-
nothing back there.

- Cousin Randy cleaned up.

He scores the dope,
they shoot up,

His cousin is dying...

- And he sends her home
with jeeves.

- Nice guy.
Can't wait to meet him.

Sub by Adriano_CSI

- Mr. Colwyn doesn't deny

That he was with
his cousin last night,

But he has no knowledge
of what she did

After he left her.

- Okay. Does Mr. Colwyn
have any knowledge

Of what he did on Lexington
Avenue and 90th Street

At 3:00 a.m.?

- My client told me
he needed to urinate.

- The driver said
that you were out

For a good ten minutes.

You have a problem
with your bladder?

- No. I was getting some air.

The, uh, car was stuffy.

- Hmm. And you thought
a little heroin

Would improve the atmosphere.

- You have your answer,

And now Mr. Colwyn must leave

To be with his family
while they grieve.

- Grieve, my ass.

He left her dying there
in that car-

Or already dead.

- Well, did you get a line
on his dealer?

- No calls on his cell.

Either he had
a standing appointment,

Or his dealer's open 24/7.

- This dead girl...

She was found in a townhouse
owned by Henry Douglas?

- That was her grandfather,
you know,

The super-rich guy that died
of cancer last year.

She was living there
with her aunt.

- The Henry Douglas
Cancer Pavilion.

I've been there for tests.

Douglas's name
is all over the place.

- He endowed the hospital
with his money

While his grandkids
spend theirs on heroin.

- At least he didn't live
to see this.

Find out where cousin Randy
does his shopping.

- All right, so randy
got out of the limo at 3:00 a.m.

Right here-
where did he score?

- Well, if he walked into
a building

Where a doorman saw him,

His lawyer wouldn't
let him lie about it.

- Right.

That place,
on the other hand...

Hey.

'scuse me.

- Oh, man, hey...
She's lying, okay?

Whatever she said,
she's lying.

- That's the exact thing
I told my partner.

No credibility.

Now, maybe you can do us
a favor back.

You see this man
in the building?

- So you-
you never talked to her.

- Nope. But we can.

Have you seen that guy?
- No.

- Did anybody in the building
have late-night customers?

People coming and going?

- What are you talking-
hookers, dope?

- Well, damn, what do you have
in there, a department store?

- I hear things.
I don't see 'em.

I'm here mornings.
- Hey, this doorbell

Doesn't buzz-it just makes
the phones ring, right?

- Yeah, so?
- So it's a phone.

There'll be records
of its calls.

3:00 a.m. I was sleeping.

- Yeah? Then you were
sleep talking.

Who called you from the street?
- You know what?

That's a private matter.
I don't have to talk to you.

- Detective Lupo...

I see a suspicious-looking
white powder

On the piano back there.

I'll wait right here until
you get the search warrant.

- You can't see anything.
- Wanna fight about it in court

After we search your place
and find your stash,

Which you won't get back,
no matter what?

Or do you just wanna answer
a few simple questions?

- Like who came to see you
last night at 3:00 a.m.?

- Some rich kid.
Comes in a limo.

Real discreet.

- Him?

What'd he buy?

- Come on.
- Just between us.

Scout's honor.

- Couple glassines
of madman.

And works for two.

- Randy Colwyn
bought the drugs.

He left her dying
in the car.

He cleaned up,
and he lied about it.

- Wouldn't it have been
smarter

To leave the needle
in her arm?

He could have claimed
she was fine when he left her.

- First of all,
he's not that smart,

And second of all, he did
supply her with the heroin.

- Well, best case we can make is
criminally negligent homicide,

Maybe second-degree
manslaughter,

And that's assuming
a grand jury

Doesn't see it
as a tragic accident.

- What if it wasn't negligence?
What if he did it on purpose?

- Why?

- Randy and Annie are cousins,

Both grandchildren
of Henry Douglas,

The zillionaire
that just died.

Might be interesting
to know what's in his will.

- In case a pot of money
goes to his grandchildren

And one less grandchild
means more money for randy.

- Worth lookin' into.

- Mr. Douglas's primary heirs,

Aside from his
charitable bequests,

Are Catherine,
her brother, and her sister.

- And you're what, Mr. Graham,
the executor?

- Coexecutor.

He's my attorney
and accountant.

What does this have to do
with what happened to Annie?

- We're just
wrapping things up.

Did she and the other
grandchildren inherit anything?

- Yes, they inherit per stirpes
behind Catherine

And her siblings.

- They divvy up
a set amount.

The less of them,
the more each one gets.

- You want to know if randy
benefited from annie's death.

- Did he?

Randy...Is a disappointment.

He's not a murderer.

- Let's just get straight
on this one point.

Did he benefit?

- Well, actually,

The way the will
is structured, yes.

- We're only here as a courtesy

To stop this ridiculous
investigation.

- How ridiculous is it
that your client

Would be a million dollars
richer

Because of the death
of his cousin?

- What?

- I have no idea
what you're talking about.

- We're talking about
his grandfather's will.

Come on, Randy.

You're telling me you didn't
know what was in that will?

- No.
- Uh, talk to me.

That will hasn't even
been filed yet.

- Well, that doesn't mean

That Randy doesn't know
what's in it.

- He had the motive
to kill his cousin,

And he gave her the drugs
that did kill her.

Two plus two.

He's looking at criminally
negligent homicide.

- I didn't kill Annie.
It was an accident.

- Randy...
- It wasn't even my idea.

She was just depressed
after granddad Henry died.

She-

She visited him every day
at that Balichek Clinic.

She cried so hard,
they had to sedate her.

So she wanted to forget.

- He gave her the drugs
and cleaned up afterwards.

Consciousness of guilt.

You willing to bet

That a jury won't think
he knew about that will?

- Criminal facilitation.
Probation.

- Hmph.

- Okay on the charge,
but he does a year.

- Six months.

- Deal.

- Six months.

- Trust me,
it was a weak case.

At least he'll see
the inside of a jail.

- Hey, lieu.
- Yeah.

- You ever heard
of the Balichek Clinic?

- No. Why?

- Randy just mentioned that's
where his grandfather died.

- He builds a cancer hospital,
gets cancer,

And goes somewhere else
for treatment?

- And dies,
leaving his heirs a fortune.

- He did die of cancer,
right?

- Colorectal cancer.

You want us to check it out?

- Give it half a day.

Worst case, maybe I'll find
a better doctor.

- Of course Mr. Douglas
came here when he got sick.

He built this hospital.
- But he didn't stay here.

- No. The tumor had penetrated
his bowel wall,

And there was evidence
of metastasis.

- There was nothing
that you could do about it?

- Of course there was.

We have one of the best
survival rates in the nation.

With radiation and chemotherapy,

He could have lived
another year, maybe two.

- Then why did he leave?

- You'd have to ask
his daughter.

She wasn't satisfied
with our plan of treatment,

And she had a lot of influence
over her father.

- So Catherine Douglas
took her father

To this Balichek Clinic.

- She wanted
an experimental therapy

She'd read about somewhere.

- Why didn't you do it here?
- Because we don't offer it.

- Why not?
- Because it doesn't work.

'scuse me.

- The medical establishment-

They always do
what they always do,

And they always get
what they always get.

- Which is?
- Moderate success

With easy cancers.

- I didn't know there were
any easy cancers.

- Oh, sure...If you brutalize
them into submission.

Chemotherapy-it's destroying
the village to save it.

- What do you do differently?
- Hormonal therapy,

Augmented by nutritional
supplementation.

Most of the advances
come from independent clinics

In Germany and Switzerland.

If you had six months,
I could explain them to you.

We have techniques
for curing cancers

That establishment medicine
can only retard.

- You didn't cure
Henry Douglas.

- He came here too late.

Please, leave your passes
at the front desk,

And don't forget
to sign out.

- The guy's controversial,
to say the least.

The way the mainstream
literature describes it

His cancer therapy consists of
fairy dust and magic potions.

- He's been sued
for malpractice a dozen times.

The ama have him
on their watch list.

- But the patients
keep coming, right?

There's nothing like
the diagnosis of terminal cancer

To get people looking
for a magic potion.

- Lately, check out
which people.

Those are recent
death certificates

Filed by dr. Balichek's
clinic.

- Dot-com billionaire.
Widow of a real estate mogul.

- They all left
high-end places

Like the Douglas
Cancer Pavilion

To go to the Balichek Clinic.

- And die there.

- It's a roach motel
for millionaires, lieu.

They check in...
But they don't check out.

- Doctors gave my mother
a year to live-

A death sentence.

No discussion
of alternative therapies,

No attempt
to find another way.

She was my mother.

The least they could have done
was lie to me.

- So you put her into
dr. Balichek's care,

And she died six weeks later.

- That's right,
but she went down fighting.

She was given a chance.

- The original doctors

Opposed the move
to the Balichek Clinic.

- Well, they would,
wouldn't they?

- They said you influenced
her decision to move there.

- Dr. Balichek
offered us hope.

I would do it again.

- Last fall,
my father was diagnosed

With stage three
pancreatic cancer.

His doctors gave him
a month at the outside.

They made arrangements
to ship him to a hospice.

we just
weren't ready to let him go,

So I did some research
and found dr. Balichek.

He gave my dad six months

That we never thought
we would have.

- Your father survived longer

Than his original doctors
thought.

- He had time.

Time to say good-bye.

We all did.

It was a blessing.

- Right. Well, thank you
for your time.

- we're sorry
if we upset your wife.

- No, it's...
It's all been hard.

Those last few months
were hell.

- Hell and...A blessing.

- The old man's last months
at balichek's clinic

Weren't my idea
of a blessing.

Tubes stuck in everywhere.

So many meds,
he couldn't think straight.

When my time comes,
just pull the plug.

please.

- If we were thinking
some kind of murder scheme here,

That last case
pretty much scotched it.

- Dr. Balichek kept the patient
alive longer than expected.

So unless we're gonna charge
him with anti-homicide...

- No, no, no.
It's perfect.

They all died in 2010, right?
- Mm-hmm.

- So the ones who had
longer life expectancies

Got cut short,

And the one who was supposed
to die in 2009

Was kept alive into January.

- Right...

- Right.

- You see, there is
a leftover loophole

From the Bush Tax Laws.

There's no estate tax
in 2010.

- So if a rich person dies
in 2009 or 2011...

- Your heirs pay millions
to uncle sam.

But die in 2010,
and they keep it all.

- My accountant
explained that to me.

Not that my heirs will have
much to worry about.

- okay, so there is
a money motive to kill,

And what,
these loving sons and daughters

Ship their old folks off
to dr. Balichek to do the deed?

- What's in it for balichek?

There has to be
some kind of payoff.

- These family members
inherited fortunes.

There's plenty of loose change
to kick back to the doctor.

- Well, I'll call Rubirosa
for a subpoena.

- Why is this necessary?

Miss douglas was happy
to answer your questions.

- A different area,
Mr. Graham.

We're looking at payments
from any of her accounts.

- To whom?
Her nephew, her niece?

- Dr. Balichek.

- She didn't make
any payments to balichek.

Her father paid
all his own bills.

- We assume Miss Douglas
is aware

That because her father
died in 2010

There's no tax on his estate.
- Everyone's aware of that.

It's been on the front page
of the wall street journal

A dozen times.

- She never expressed
any particular interest.

- No, she didn't.
What are you accusing her of?

- We'll have these back
as soon as we're done.

- No payments to Balichek.

But she is redecorating
with italian marble.

- Yeah. And drinking
french wine at $500 a pop.

- Her father died
February 10th, right?

- Yeah.

- From her personal account.

There's a check to Amanda Green
for 300,000, February 12th.

- Amanda Green.

Yeah.
Her name's on the visitor's log

At the Balichek Clinic.

- A go-between?

- That money was for me,
not dr. Balichek.

- Do you mind telling us
what it was for?

- I guess not.

It was a settlement
of our joint financial affairs.

- You and Catherine Douglas
were in business together.

- In life together.

Up until a few months ago,
we were lovers.

We lived together,
traveled together.

Owned property together.

- But you do know
dr. Balichek.

- I met him at his clinic
when I visited henry.

- So you were friends with
your ex-girlfriend's father?

- The rest of
Catherine's family

Wouldn't acknowledge
I existed.

But Henry and I...

We both loved gardening and...

The Master and Commander
novels.

The others, they...

I never saw any of them
visit him.

Except Annie.

They were just
waiting for him to die.

Waiting for his money.

- What was your impression
of the care he was getting?

- I'm not a doctor, but...

It was clear he was dying.

I know he had some hope
that dr. Balichek would...

You think he wasn't
getting good care?

- His original doctors
thought he could have lived

For another year or two
if he had stayed with them.

But catherine...
- Oh, god.

I thought she was kidding.

- About what?

- Catherine was never close
to her father,

And she just milked him
for all she could.

She didn't understand
why I liked him.

- You thought she was
kidding about what?

- Well, last year,
she came home from a meeting

With her accountant,

And he told her about
some estate tax thing...

That if her father died
in 2010,

There'd be
a lot more money.

And she was laughing
about it.

She said, "if the old
son of a bitch has to go,

He might as well do it
in 2010."

I thought she was kidding.

- The ex-girlfriend
will testify

That Catherine Douglas wanted
her father to pass in 2010.

- That still could be
a coincidence.

People die.

- Oh, yeah?
You think that's a coincidence?

Bruce Graham is Catherine
Douglas's accountant.

He also worked for
Roger Weil and Louise Casey.

- Those are the other two people
whose parents died

At the Balichek Clinic.

- Yeah, they died in 2010,

And they were crying
their eyes out-sons of bitches.

- It's Graham. He's in
the middle of all of this.

He worked
for dr. Balichek too.

He signed off on several
payments for malpractice claims.

- So he knows the good doctor

Has a habit of killing
his patients.

- Graham tells his clients
about this tax loophole

And about dr. Balichek,

And they send their moms
and dads to the Balichek Clinic

Where they kick
right on schedule.

- And the heirs save millions.

But what's in it for Graham?

- Well, all three heirs
named him

Executor of the estates.

Estates that big,
they get huge fees.

- My first accountant
serial killer.

I believe it.
How do we prove it?

- There's the ex-girlfriend's
testimony.

- That's good, but not enough.

I need one of these people
tell the story to a jury.

- Let's bring 'em in.

They'll be shocked
we even suspect 'em.

Somebody'll crack.
- Maybe.

What if we really shock 'em?
Arrest 'em.

- Which ones?
- All of them.

- This is outrageous.
- Uh-huh.

- Dr. Balichek-you too?

- I don't understand
any of this.

I'm trying to reach my lawyer.
- Nobody say a word.

Nobody say anything.

- It's getting
kind of crowded in there.

- Where do you want these two?
- Chain 'em to the Coke machine.

Let's go. This way.

People v. Catherine Douglas,

Bruce Graham,
Vincent Balichek,

Roger Weil,
and Louise Casey.

Charges are...Three counts
of murder in the second degree

As to defendants
Graham and Balichek.

One count each,
murder in the second degree,

As to defendants
Douglas, Weil, and Casey.

- All plead not guilty.

- Quite
the distinguished group.

I feel like we ought to be
serving canapes.

- They don't belong here,
Judge.

The District Attorney
is putting on a show.

It's no show. Three
people are dead.

- Of cancer.
Why not indict the grim reaper?

- Well, he's outside
the jurisdiction.

But he had help
from these defendants,

As the evidence will show.

People seek remand.

Several of the accused
have multiple residences.

- Which they are willing
to put up to secure bail.

- Cash is always so much
more elegant, don't you think?

1 million per.

Oh, and, um...passports.
Please.

- You might as well be
wearing a sign on your forehead,

Mr. Cutter: "tell us a story,
and we'll let you go?"

- Well, that would depend

On what story
your client has to tell.

- My mother got sick.
My mother died.

That's the story.

- She died at dr. Balichek's
clinic.

You care to tell us
how that came about?

- Dr. Balichek said he could
prolong my father's life-

Which he did.

- Right into 2010

When his estate passed to you
tax-free.

- Even granting
your preposterous assertion,

How is it possibly a crime
to keep someone alive?

- There was a conspiracy
to fix the time of death.

It happened over and over.

- All that happened was that
I gave those people hope.

- Which expired,
in every case, in 2010.

- Sick people die.

Especially when they submit
to the so-called treatments

Of the medical establishment
before coming to me.

- If there are complaints

About the way dr. Balichek practices
medicine, Its a medical review board.

Not a trial for homicide.

- It doesn't have to come
to that

If dr. Balichek will tell us

How he came to treat
so many wealthy clients

Of Mr. Graham.

- Even if Graham did recommend
dr. Balichek, so what?

- He's a licensed physician,
not a mob hit man.

- With a track record that would
make a hit man jealous.

- Your former lover's
testimony

Will help explain
what really happened.

- Really.

What do your former lovers
have to say about you?

- I thought someone would fold.

- Big game like these people,

If you don't bring 'em down
with a single shot,

You're in trouble.

Maybe you shouldn't have
been so quick

To arrest
the entire Upper East Side.

- Oh, like you never
went out on a limb?

Okay. Okay, so we go to war
with the army we have.

There's the testimony
of the ex-girlfriend

That Catherine Douglas
met with Graham

And came home salivating
about her father dying in 2010.

- That's Graham,
the homicidal accountant.

- It all connects
through him.

He sent the heirs
to the doctor

Whose specialty was making sure
people died in 2010,

And he got rewarded
by being named executor.

The jury
will see the pattern.

- Or not.

Motion to sever.

Defense wants
three separate trials.

Gentlemen, your
table is ready.

- He has to work.

- Yeah.

- The premise
of the people's case

Is that all five defendants

Participated
in a common plan.

An understanding
of the pattern of the crime

Requires
that they be tried together.

- The strongest suggestion

That this so-called pattern
exists

Would come from making
these five individuals

Sit together
in front of a jury.

The people are attempting
to establish guilt by proximity.

- Mr. Cutter,

You are alleging
three separate homicidal acts

At three separate times.

- What homicide,
your honor?

As to defendant casey,

The charge is that she
prolonged her father's life

For a mercenary reason.

Now...I I can't
find any statute

That makes it a crime to
prolong a life for any reason.

- She only prolonged
her father's life

Until she saw fit to end it.

- No sale, Mr. Cutter.

Charge against Miss Casey
is dismissed.

- As for the others, judge,
if a juror believed

An allegation
against any defendant,

It might be applied improperly
to them all.

- Ah, save your breath.
I agree.

Motion to sever is granted.

- Maybe it's a blessing
in disguise.

We'll lead
with our strongest case.

- You're happy we just lost?

- The charge against Casey
was never gonna hold.

We don't have a witness
against weil,

So we'll start with
Catherine Douglas.

- All we have is the testimony
of her ex-girlfriend.

That, plus the deaths Of
Weil's mother and Casey's father.

- Were you and I just in
the same courtroom?

- The judge said
we couldn't try them together.

He didn't say a world
about People v. Molineux.

- We can introduce evidence
of uncharged acts

To show a common scheme
or plan.

- Right. So we can bring in
the other deaths

Without needing to prove them.

The ex-girlfriend's
still our star witness, though.

How bitter
was their breakup?

Will the defense be able
to accuse her of lying

Out of spite?

- I can check westlaw and see
if they've ever sued each other.

Catherine...

Douglas...

And Amanda Green.

Oh, my.

Catherine Douglas
wasn't just your lover.

- Only in some
fictitious sense.

- Some legal fictitious
sense.

You are parent and child.

- We were together
for a long time.

Before gay marriage existed,

A lot of gay partners
adopted each other

To get family rights,

To visit each other
in the hospital,

Own property together,
all kinds of things.

Including financial things.

Did Randy Douglas
know about this?

- No. We didn't tell anybody.

Would have made most of
Catherine's family crazy.

- Ha. It will now.
For sure.

As Catherine's daughter,

You're Henry Douglas's
grandchild.

You have a share
in that part of his estate.

- I never thought about that.

Why is this a problem?

I'll still testify
against catherine.

She's not really my mother.

- Yes, she is.
- Technically, legally.

So what?

- She inherits the largest part
of her father's estate.

But if she's found guilty
of his murder,

That inheritance
gets barred.

She can't profit
from her crime.

It passes to
her next of kin-her daughter.

You.

- All of it?

- You have 50 million reasons
to lie to convict her,

And the defense won't be shy
about pointing that out.

Your testimony
will be worthless unless...

- What?

- You renounce
the inheritance.

- No.

- You want the money

More than you want
to see justice done?

- No, but...I don't
- I don't want to See

that money go to
Henry's other relatives.

They were vipers.
They never appreciated him.

And it...It...

Wouldn't be just for me.

- Well, who would it be for?

- My unborn daughter.

I'm pregnant.

- So you see any more
blessings in disguise?

- No.
- If she doesn't

Renounce that inheritance,
our case falls apart.

- Then we'll just have
to renounce it for her.

You heard what she said.

She doesn't think of
Catherine Douglas as her mother.

- So?
- So the adoption is a fraud.

We'll get it nullified.

- We do things a bit less
formally in family court,

But we are on the record.

- Then we should note
that Miss Douglas

Is here
under false pretenses.

She's trying to protect
herself from a murder charge.

That's why she's opposing
our motion

To invalidate
her adoption of miss green.

- Not so.

My client is here to protect
the right of gay people

To enter into
family relationships.

- Even if Miss Douglas
doesn't have clean hands,

My client does.

Miss Green has no agenda
except for that principle.

- And to preserve her share
of an enormous inheritance.

- That's not why
I'm fighting this, Catherine.

No matter
what you might think.

- It's nice to see you
again too, Amanda.

- People,
let's stay on point.

Uh, Mr. Cutter contends
that your adoption was a fraud.

- Miss Green told us

That she never considered
Miss Douglas to be her mother,

That she considered her
to be her spouse.

- Is that right?

- We couldn't be spouses
legally.

At the time, it was the only
way we could be related.

- But if you could have
married Miss Douglas,

You would have,
wouldn't you?

- Yes.

- Miss Douglas, you too?

So you lived as spouses,
behaved as spouses,

Felt yourselves to be spouses,
not mother and child.

When the relationship ended,
did you consider yourself

Still a part
of Miss Douglas's life?

- No.

- So the marriage,
if you will, was over.

If you had been married,
you would have gotten divorced.

- Your honor,
what is the point of this?

- The point is
that this adoption

Was the equivalent of marriage
in all but name,

So it needs to be accompanied
by the equivalent of divorce.

- I do find that persuasive.

- Your honor-
- you have to consider-

- Your clients
considered themselves married.

The adoption was a sham.

One they were forced into

By the state's shameful
failure to allow gay marriage,

But a sham, nonetheless.

The adoption is invalidated.

I will, however,
take a further step.

As Mr. Cutter
has so eloquently argued,

These two
were essentially married.

I see no reason, therefore,

Why they should not be accorded
the marital privilege.

Uh, Miss Green is barred from
testifying against Miss Douglas

In any criminal proceeding.

- I hear congratulations
are in order.

Your brilliant argument
just made new case law

About the marital privilege.

- Yep. And destroyed
my own case.

They're calling me
"Boomerang Mike".

- That ruling is unsupportable.

The privilege only applies
to legally married

Heterosexual couples.

- That Judge
thinks that's wrong.

- Well, it doesn't matter.

A family court ruling
isn't binding in criminal court.

- Unless the trial judge
says it is.

Who'd you draw?
- Laramie.

- His son got married
to a fine young man

In Massachusetts last year.

Good luck.

- The people are trying
to have it both ways.

They had Miss Douglas's

And Miss Green's adoption
invalidated on the grounds

That their relationship
was really a marriage.

Now they're saying
it's really not a marriage.

I personally defer
to their earlier argument.

- And I personally
would be happy to attend

Miss Douglas's
and Miss Green's wedding.

But this isn't personal.

It's about the laws
of the state of new york.

- The statue says
that a husband or wife

Shall not disclose
a confidential communication

Imparted during their marriage,
but society has changed.

- For better or worse,

Those changes have not been
accepted by legislature.

- For better or worse?

Are you attempting to conduct a
wedding right here, Mr. Cutter?

- Well, I would if I could,
your honor.

- If his commitment
to equal rights is so strong,

Maybe he'd care
to withdraw his motion.

- If this actually were
about equal rights, I might.

But Miss Douglas is only waving
the banner of civil rights

To weaken
our murder case against her.

- Well, it is refreshing

That we're all on the same
side of the moral issue.

But I'm afraid
the legal issue

Compels me
to rule for Mr. Cutter.

Miss Green can testify.

The spousal privilege
does not apply.

- It was about equal rights,

No matter what you said
in there.

- Look, I'm sympathetic.
I really am.

But I need your testimony.

- Well, I'm afraid it's not
gonna be much good to you.

- Why not?

- Because what I told
the police about Catherine

Wasn't true.

I was still mad at her
about our breakup.

- No. It was true.
She got to you.

- I'm just setting
the record straight.

- What-what was it, money?
Some kind of threat or-

- You can call me to the stand,

But I'll have nothing negative
to say about catherine.

- Oh, I see news travels fast.

- I've known these women
for years, Mr. Cutter.

If you're counting on them
for anything, forget it.

They break up, they make up.

They claw each other's
eyes out

Then fly to Barbados
together.

- You've lost Amanda Green
as a witness.

It's time to end
this charade.

- What, so your client
can get back in the business

Of arranging murders?

2010 still has a ways to go.

- The only charge
I am guilty of

Is explaining the tax code.

How much more of your time
and energy do you want to waste?

- We'll keep you posted.

- How much more of our time
and energy do you want to waste?

- Well, if the lesbians
aren't reliable,

We'll go a non-lesbian route.

What else do we have?

- Louise casey.
She's not a defendant anymore.

We could subpoena her.

- The woman whose father
lived longer

Than he was supposed to.

Maybe we've been going
about this backward,

Focusing on the people
dr. Balichek killed.

How, exactly, did he keep
Mrs. Casey's father alive?

- He used chemotherapy.

- And Balichek
hates chemotherapy.

He wrote a journal article
denouncing it as poison.

- He was trying to keep louise
Casey's father alive until 2010.

That's the only explanation.

- He violated
his own principles.

It discredits him.

You can use it against him
at his trial.

- I don't want to use it
against him.

I want to use him
against graham.

- But dr. Balichek
is your hit man.

Isn't that what
you've been saying?

- He was a strange
kind of hit man.

We've been trying to figure out
how he was paid.

- Yeah. We've been through
all the defendants' accounts.

We can't find
a single suspicious payment.

- Maybe he got a bag of cash
in a blind pig in Chinatown.

- Or maybe he did the job
for free.

- A pro bono hit man.

- A hit man who didn't know
he was a hit man.

What if he's sincere,

He believes in his
cockamamie therapies?

And if anybody knew they
didn't work, it was graham.

He wrote the guy's
malpractice checks.

So he sent those patients
there.

- But Balichek had no idea
he was being used that way.

He's guilty,
but he's innocent.

- I'm gonna drop
the charges against him

And make him my witness.
- To say what?

If you're right,
he was a dupe.

He doesn't know anything.

- No, but he knows why
he violated his own principles

And gave someone
chemotherapy.

- Hmm.

- I can't talk to you
without my lawyer.

- Yes, you can.

We've dropped the charges
against you.

- You have?
- You didn't do anything wrong.

You treated henry
Douglas and Roger

Weil's mother to the
best of your ability.

- That's what I've been saying.
- And now we believe you.

- Well, that's very-

- But Mrs. Casey's father
was different.

- He was extremely sick
when he got here.

- He was dying.

The establishment doctors
had given up.

- They always do.

- But you treated him
the establishment way,

With chemotherapy.

Can you tell us why?

- I was just trying
to sustain him.

- You don't believe
in chemotherapy.

You're famous for not
believing in chemotherapy.

Would you like me to read from
some of your journal articles?

- I know what I have written.
- Well, then, why?

Was it something
Louise Casey asked for?

Or Graham?

Or are you a hypocrite?

You get people
to your clinic

With the promise
of cutting-edge therapy,

And then you just serve up
the same old establishment junk.

- No.

It was Graham.

He asked me
to keep the man alive

By any means necessary
until January.

He said it was...Something
to do with an inheritance.

And if I didn't do it,

He'd pull out the patients
that he'd already brought me.

It has not been easy here.

My ideas
are not widely accepted.

If I had cured someone
like Henry Douglas,

Do you know what that
would have done for me?

And I almost did it too.

If Douglas had just lived
a little longer.

- How?

- There's an experimental
stem cell therapy.

I needed placental cells
from a close blood relative.

Amanda Green volunteered.

She's pregnant, you know.

- But she's not
a blood relative.

- No. But she conceived
in vitro.

The egg was donated
by Henry's Daughter Catherine.

- If that baby
came from Catherine's egg,

Catherine
has a strong claim to it.

- Pretty big club for her
to hold over Amanda.

No wonder
she changed her story.

- But if Amanda
tells the truth

And sends Catherine
to prison,

Catherine
won't get the baby then.

- Who knows?
It'll be a big fight

With a lot of money
on Catherine's side.

You know,
until we annulled the adoption,

That baby was Catherine's
daughter and her granddaughter.

- She's my sister.
Chh! She's my daughter.

She's my sister. Chh!
She's my daughter.

- Chinatown.
That's nice, jack.

- You know, when King Solomon
had a situation

Involving two women
and one baby,

He resolved it by threatening
to cut the child in half.

- We don't have a sword.

- No. We've got something
better.

- So we all know
what happened, Miss Green,

We know what Catherine told you
About her father dying in 2010.

- I told you
I was lying about that.

- No, you weren't.

She's threatened to take the
baby away from you, hasn't she?

And we know it's her egg.

I assume you did things
this way

So you would share
maternity

So the child
would be both of yours.

But her egg donation
makes it hers.

- Fascinating. I thought
you brought us down here

To offer us a deal.
- I will if I have to.

But I'd rather convince
Miss Green

To testify truthfully.

- But I can't do that.

And I know you think
you know why,

And maybe you're right,
but...

That's all I'm gonna say.

- If Catherine goes to jail,

No judge
will give her the baby.

- But what if my testimony
isn't enough?

What if...
What if she doesn't go to jail?

- Oh, yes, she will.

Even without you,
we can subpoena Mrs. Casey,

Dr. Balichek
has agreed to testify.

And if we have to,
we'll offer a deal to graham

And get his testimony too.

- Graham? You wanted my client
to roll on him.

- Even if she does
go to jail,

She might get
the baby anyway.

She's got money.
She's got lawyers.

No.

- Well, you might be right
about that.

So we've made arrangements.

You all remember
cousin randy, right?

- Aunt Catherine?
- What is he doing here?

- We're working on the paperwork

That would allow him
to serve his sentence

For accidentally killing
your niece under house arrest

So he could take care
of the baby.

- Him?
- Mm-hmm.

Well,
Catherine will be in jail.

Her brother's
out of the country.

Her sister's an alcoholic,

And randy
is the baby's cousin.

And he's available.

- You can't possibly
be serious.

- Oh, completely.

We're prepared to go
to family court tomorrow.

- By the way, Randy.

The baby will be
inheriting a fortune

From your grandfather's
estate.

That will be
under your care too.

- I...

I've always been
really good with kids.

- Good.
So that's settled.

We just wanted to give
the two of you a heads-up.

- What if I do it?

Testify against Catherine.

- For god's sake, Amanda-

- You really want the baby
to go to this idiot?

- Of course not.
- Well, then do something!

- What--
- you do something.

- What if I give you Graham?

- Catherine, you don't
have to do this.

- The whole thing
was his idea...

How we could save money
by making sure

My father died this year.

How dr. Balichek
was sure to kill him

Whether he meant to or not.

I didn't really think
it mattered.

My father was barely conscious.

- All right,
you plead to manslaughter.

You do jail time.

- So what happens
to the baby?

- Stays with amanda.

And, um, when you get out,

Who knows?

- Who knows?

- Catherine gave it up.
Graham saw he was cooked.

He pleaded to a single count.
Took ten years.

- I never would have let you
give the baby

To that idiot cousin.

- And Solomon wouldn't have swung his sword.

It was theater.

- Bravo.

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