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NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,
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the police
who investigate crime
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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Honey, your leashing
is too slack. Shorten up.
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I said shorten, Ryan.
That's better.
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Never had any complaints
about my leashing before.
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(CHUCKLING) Don't worry. I'm a master
at teaching old dogs new tricks.
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(DOG BARKING)
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(GASPING) Oh, my God!
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Decedent is a female, blond, early
30s, name of Karin Burdett.
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Looks like she fell, or
jumped from the building.
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Her place on the 18th
floor has a balcony.
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Who ID'd her?
The doorman.
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Says her husband is president
of some drug company.
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Did he see her fall?
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He says he was on a break.
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CURTIS: Excuse me,
is Mr. Burdett around?
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I called upstairs right when it happened.
He wasn't in.
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What time was that?
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11:45 or so.
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He might have slipped back in while
I was on my break. I better check.
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You notice what time
he went out this morning?
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No, I must have missed it. I might
have been on a break then, too.
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Three breaks in one morning? You
must have one hell of a union.
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What I have is a prostate condition.
Oh, wait, there he is.
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Let him in,
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CURTIS: Mr. Burdett,
we're with the police.
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Yes, what's wrong?
What happened here?
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I'm afraid it's about
your wife, sir.
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My wife? I was just at the
pharmacy getting her prescription.
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Karin!
Take it easy, Mr. Burdett.
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There's nothing
you can do for her now.
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Take it easy.
All right.
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All right.
Sit over here.
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Come on.
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We got you.
You're gonna be okay.
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All right,
you just try to relax.
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We're gonna come back and talk
to you in a minute. All right?
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Guy is president
of a drug company,
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and he still has to schlepp to the
drugstore like the rest of us.
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What do you think she needed?
Happy pills?
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I hope he got some for himself.
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It's Desyrel. An anti-depressant.
Karin had a bad night.
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What time did you
leave this morning?
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About 10:00.
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The pharmacy doesn't deliver?
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They said it would
take two hours.
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Was your wife
expecting anybody?
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No. She'd taken
some sleeping pills.
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She was groggy. She was in
no shape to see anyone.
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Mr. Burdett, did she ever
talk about suicide?
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No.
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Clemente, what have you got?
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Latent pulled some
nice prints off the door,
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and over here on the railing.
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This where she went off?
Uh-huh.
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Looks like she stumbled around,
knocked over these pots.
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CURTIS: Hey, Lennie.
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Well, we got sleeping pills,
broken flower pots...
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And we got this.
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Parlodel?
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It's used to stop lactation.
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So where's the baby?
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(KNOCK AT DOOR)
CURTIS: Mr. Burdett,
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these Parlodel for your wife. Do
you know why she was taking them?
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(SIGHING)
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She gave birth to a girl
three weeks ago.
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Is the baby staying
with someone else?
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We gave it up for adoption.
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Well, how did Mrs. Burdett
feel about that?
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(SIGHING)
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It was understood
when we were married
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I didn't want
any more children.
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I have a teenage son
by my first marriage.
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When Karin got pregnant,
we discussed it again.
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In the end it just
didn't make sense.
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She had two partially digested
Halcion tablets in her stomach.
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She was feeling pretty good.
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Good enough to make
it over a railing?
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She might have managed it.
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You said she was
taking Parlodel?
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That's right.
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The panel didn't pick
up any in her blood.
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She hadn't taken it
for at least three days.
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It takes that long
to clear the system.
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So she stopped taking them. Maybe
they were upsetting her stomach.
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Or she was getting ready
to take the baby back.
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What's that?
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You're jumping ahead.
It's an abraded contusion.
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Back of her right wrist.
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From the fall?
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From having her arm
twisted, hard.
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He's fifty-seven
years old, Lennie.
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How would you like to
do diaper duty again?
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Yeah, if that happened to me,
I'd jump off the roof.
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Look, she would have fought back.
There'd be marks on him.
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She was too doped up to fight.
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You talk to Burdett's pharmacy?
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They remember he was there, but they
don't know when or for how long.
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Still, it's a ten minute trip
he says took him an hour.
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One vote she was pushed,
one vote she jumped.
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(PHONE RINGING)
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Van Buren.
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Could you hold on?
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See if forensics
can break the tie.
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And could you
close the door please?
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Boyfriend?
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Mrs. Van Buren?
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No. I heard she took the Captain's exam.
Usually means a transfer.
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Just when I was getting used
to her sunny disposition.
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CLEMENTE: We'll do
another drop,
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but so far we keep getting
the same results.
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If we just drop the dummy,
it lands in the water,
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56 inches short of where
your victim landed.
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CURTIS: What if she had pushed
off the rail when she jumped?
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Gets her maybe a foot
closer to the target.
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She needed a nice big shove
to land where she did.
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So much for
May-December romances.
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It's enough to make me a cynic.
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You know, Lennie, Karin
Burdett's obstetrician
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was the one who prescribed
the anti-depressant.
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She must have gotten an
earful about the adoption.
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I spent a grand on a malpractice
seminar in Cura?ao.
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Besides finding out
I'm too old for Mai Tais,
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I learned never to
talk out of school.
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Your patient is dead,
Dr. Frieder.
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I doubt she'd mind if you
violate her privilege.
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Her estate might.
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You mean her husband?
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He's the murder suspect.
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BRISCOE: Well, if it makes
you feel any better, Doc,
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patient chit-chat
isn't privileged.
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That includes anything non-medical
she might have said to you
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about wanting to
revoke the adoption.
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She had been very ambivalent all
along about giving it away.
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She had 30 days after the
adoption to change her mind.
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I don't know if she
took any legal steps.
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Did she tell you how her
husband felt about it?
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No. But I don't think
he was very supportive.
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He didn't even show up
for the ultrasound.
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Too much going on at work.
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Do you know which adoption
agency they used?
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They went through a baby broker.
I don't know his name.
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Well, who did you hand the baby
off to after the delivery?
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I wasn't at the delivery.
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What, another
surf-and-sand seminar?
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I was right here. They were in
Trenton, New Jersey. At City Hospital.
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A public hospital?
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Sure, I remember the Burdetts.
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Our patients don't usually
pay with a platinum card.
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And a very close,
loving couple they were.
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While she was delivering the
baby, he's on a cell phone.
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Half an hour after
that baby's born,
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a lawyer shows up in a
limo and signs it out.
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So you'd have his name and
number in the Burdetts' file.
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Yes. That's where we keep
confidential information.
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Oh, come on. You show me his
number, and I'll show you mine.
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And I guarantee, you'll
have more fun with me
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than I'm gonna have with him.
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I don't think so, Romeo.
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Last week, a young woman came in here
wanting to get in touch with the Burdetts.
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Who was she?
I don't know,
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but she didn't get
anything out of me either.
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And she was a whole lot cuter than you.
Excuse me.
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I knew it.
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So what do you think?
The adoptive mother?
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Well, if she got word Karin
Burdett was making a move
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to get the kid back...
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Remember Baby M?
That got very nasty.
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Yeah, but they don't give
babies back to dead people.
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We got to find these parents.
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We can try to get the
adoption papers unsealed.
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By then, the kid will be getting
her first hickey. Oh, Miz.
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Our lawyer said that no one was
supposed to know who we were.
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How did you guys...
BRISCOE: His car service.
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They drove him here
with the baby.
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And the hospital told us you tried
to contact the biological parents.
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I didn't know we were
breaking any laws.
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Why were you looking for them?
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We waited five years
to get a child.
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I wrote them
a letter to thank them,
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and to let them know that
Maggie was in a good home.
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Mr. Tooley wouldn't
pass it on to them.
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So I found out
where Maggie was born.
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Did you ever talk
to the parents?
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No. The hospital wouldn't
give me their name.
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Where were you last
Sunday morning?
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We were at a friend's house in
Astoria Park with Ellen's parents.
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They were visiting
from Indiana.
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We'll need to talk
to your friend.
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Why? What's going on?
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(SIGHING) The baby's mother
was found dead last Sunday.
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Oh, my God.
What happened?
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CURTIS: We're not sure.
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Anyone ever tell you that she
wanted to revoke the adoption?
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No.
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I can't believe this.
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(BABY CRYING)
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Excuse me.
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Do they want Maggie back?
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CURTIS: The mother
might have.
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We don't know about the father.
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Well, 12 more days and it's official.
She's ours.
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I don't think you have anything
to worry about, Mr. O'Brien.
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We can't even remember what life
was like without her. It was...
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Isn't she beautiful?
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Hello, baby.
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CURTIS: It explains
a lot, Mr. Burdett.
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The hospital in Trenton, the
lateral pass to the baby broker.
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Whatever difficulties
Karin and I had,
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we worked out
like civilized people.
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Let me get this straight.
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Your wife cheats on you with...
What's his name?
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I don't know.
She wouldn't tell me.
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Okay, so she gets pregnant.
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Now, you don't kick her out,
you don't slap her around.
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You even let her have the baby.
Because you're so civilized?
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Yes.
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Nobody is that civilized, Josh.
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Yeah, all right, maybe if it was
one of your country club pals.
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But she was sweating up the sheets
with some big good-looking black stud.
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That can really
piss some people off.
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You that kind
of people, Mr. Burdett?
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No.
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If she gets the baby back,
everybody is gonna know.
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Stop it.
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She was playing Scarlett O'Hara
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with Mandingo!
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Enough. That's enough.
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I did not kill Karin.
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Now, I've said
all I want to say.
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I came here voluntarily.
Now, I'm leaving.
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If you want to talk to me
again, contact my attorney.
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This guy could keep
snowflakes in his mouth.
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Well, if he killed her,
it's probably not
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the first time
he laid a hand on her.
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You check with
the local precinct?
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Yeah. No record
of domestic calls.
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We asked the neighbors.
The walls are thick.
242
00:10:46,839 --> 00:10:48,819
They wouldn't have heard him if
he shot her out of a cannon.
243
00:10:48,874 --> 00:10:50,785
She have a job?
Yeah.
244
00:10:51,343 --> 00:10:54,756
Resource Development at the
Shuman Foundation for Women.
245
00:10:54,813 --> 00:10:55,917
It's a charity.
246
00:10:55,981 --> 00:11:00,225
Well, if it's anything like this
place, everybody knows her business.
247
00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:06,562
I do know she and Mr. Burdett were
having some problems over her pregnancy.
248
00:11:06,892 --> 00:11:09,031
You mean, they had arguments?
Physical arguments?
249
00:11:09,094 --> 00:11:12,303
God, no. I didn't mean to give
you the wrong impression.
250
00:11:12,364 --> 00:11:14,366
I just overheard a phone call.
251
00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:15,738
She was pretty furious.
252
00:11:15,801 --> 00:11:17,280
What did she say?
253
00:11:17,336 --> 00:11:19,612
I just heard a little.
She said something like,
254
00:11:19,671 --> 00:11:23,244
"It's your baby. It's damn time
you took responsibility for it."
255
00:11:24,009 --> 00:11:25,511
Maybe not those exact words.
256
00:11:25,577 --> 00:11:27,523
Are you sure she was
talking to Mr. Burdett?
257
00:11:27,579 --> 00:11:29,650
Well, I assumed it was him.
258
00:11:29,715 --> 00:11:31,695
Could it possibly have
been someone else?
259
00:11:31,750 --> 00:11:32,785
No.
260
00:11:33,018 --> 00:11:34,395
You mean...
261
00:11:34,620 --> 00:11:39,035
No, not Mrs. Burdett. I would have
picked up on something like that.
262
00:11:40,159 --> 00:11:43,902
Who would have figured in an office full
of women, she kept her affair a secret?
263
00:11:43,962 --> 00:11:46,568
You'd expect she'd put a
star next to her rendezvous?
264
00:11:46,632 --> 00:11:49,272
Depends how good her boyfriend is.
Here we go.
265
00:11:49,334 --> 00:11:52,008
Ian Fraser, Esquire.
Matrimonial Law.
266
00:11:52,671 --> 00:11:55,083
She was fooling around
with a divorce lawyer?
267
00:11:55,140 --> 00:11:56,676
No, I think this was business.
268
00:11:56,742 --> 00:11:59,348
She had an appointment
with him two weeks ago.
269
00:11:59,411 --> 00:12:01,357
Maybe she chose
the baby over Burdett.
270
00:12:01,413 --> 00:12:06,362
"Morris Keach, Vice President
of RLH Contracting"
271
00:12:06,785 --> 00:12:10,028
"and Co-Chairman of the Saint
Vincent Children's Foundation."
272
00:12:10,689 --> 00:12:14,398
Here he is accepting a $10,000
check from Karin Burdett.
273
00:12:16,061 --> 00:12:20,237
And here he is sharing a cocktail
with her at a Foundation luncheon.
274
00:12:20,566 --> 00:12:23,046
If they were any cozier, he'd
be sharing his pants with her.
275
00:12:23,101 --> 00:12:25,342
And he's the right complexion.
276
00:12:25,704 --> 00:12:29,914
We got friendly last year, when I
solicited her Foundation for a grant.
277
00:12:29,975 --> 00:12:31,682
She called me up
and asked me to lunch.
278
00:12:31,743 --> 00:12:34,087
Just like that? Out of the blue?
What did she want?
279
00:12:34,146 --> 00:12:35,181
Best I could figure,
280
00:12:35,247 --> 00:12:38,228
she wanted to talk about my kids.
I have three.
281
00:12:38,283 --> 00:12:41,059
She wanted to know what it's
like raising them in the city.
282
00:12:41,119 --> 00:12:43,429
She was looking for
a good nursery school?
283
00:12:43,488 --> 00:12:46,765
No. Raising them
as African Americans.
284
00:12:46,825 --> 00:12:49,704
What kind of problems
they might run into.
285
00:12:49,761 --> 00:12:52,435
She was thinking of adopting
an African American baby.
286
00:12:52,497 --> 00:12:55,341
Actually, Mr. Keach,
she gave birth to one.
287
00:12:55,534 --> 00:12:56,740
Really?
288
00:12:58,237 --> 00:13:00,808
You think I'm the father?
That's nuts.
289
00:13:00,873 --> 00:13:04,150
Look, Mr. Keach, you got yourself
in a jam We can understand that.
290
00:13:04,209 --> 00:13:06,120
And Karin Burdett wouldn't
let you off the hook.
291
00:13:06,178 --> 00:13:07,851
She expected help
with the baby.
292
00:13:07,913 --> 00:13:09,221
Now I know you're nuts.
293
00:13:09,281 --> 00:13:11,352
CURTIS: Yeah? Where were
you on Sunday morning?
294
00:13:11,416 --> 00:13:14,863
I went running at the reservoir.
This is unbelievable.
295
00:13:15,420 --> 00:13:17,422
I did not sleep
with Karin Burdett.
296
00:13:17,489 --> 00:13:19,765
So prove it to us.
Take a paternity test.
297
00:13:20,259 --> 00:13:21,738
I want to talk
to a lawyer first.
298
00:13:21,860 --> 00:13:23,100
He'll tell you we
can get a warrant.
299
00:13:23,161 --> 00:13:25,505
Well, then get one.
300
00:13:30,902 --> 00:13:33,746
Until the adoption is final, the
O'Briens are a little gun-shy.
301
00:13:33,805 --> 00:13:37,412
That's why they asked me to talk
to you about this paternity test.
302
00:13:37,476 --> 00:13:38,511
It's very simple.
303
00:13:38,577 --> 00:13:41,353
The police think whoever killed
Karin Burdett is the baby's father.
304
00:13:41,413 --> 00:13:44,326
They have a suspect, they'd
like to establish paternity.
305
00:13:44,383 --> 00:13:45,521
What's in it for the O'Briens?
306
00:13:45,584 --> 00:13:46,654
Nothing.
307
00:13:46,718 --> 00:13:49,221
Isn't doing your civic
duty its own reward?
308
00:13:49,288 --> 00:13:50,699
It's a headache
they don't need.
309
00:13:50,756 --> 00:13:53,669
Mr. Brody, we're talking about a
small blood sample from the baby.
310
00:13:53,725 --> 00:13:57,263
So you can determine that her
father murdered her mother?
311
00:13:57,329 --> 00:13:59,866
Little Maggie already has
more baggage than Greyhound.
312
00:13:59,932 --> 00:14:03,345
She's got inherited megaloblastic anemia.
She's got asthma.
313
00:14:03,402 --> 00:14:04,745
The O'Briens' cup runneth over.
314
00:14:04,803 --> 00:14:07,613
We feel badly for them,
but we have a situation.
315
00:14:09,508 --> 00:14:11,579
Well, let me talk to them.
316
00:14:12,010 --> 00:14:14,991
Ross is getting the big
stall from the O'Briens.
317
00:14:15,047 --> 00:14:17,357
Keach's lawyer won't let him
go anywhere near a needle.
318
00:14:17,416 --> 00:14:19,020
Can you bust his alibi?
319
00:14:19,084 --> 00:14:20,654
He was running by himself.
320
00:14:20,719 --> 00:14:23,563
We showed his picture around the reservoir.
Nobody remembers him.
321
00:14:23,622 --> 00:14:27,001
Toss it back to the D.A. Let them
worry about the paternity test.
322
00:14:27,059 --> 00:14:30,336
Actually, there might be another
way to hook up Keach to the baby.
323
00:14:30,395 --> 00:14:34,070
The kid has an inherited medical condition.
Megaloblastic anemia.
324
00:14:34,132 --> 00:14:37,602
So either Karin Burdett or Keach
would have had to pass it on.
325
00:14:37,669 --> 00:14:41,139
The M.E. said whoever passed it on to
the kid would be taking medication.
326
00:14:41,206 --> 00:14:43,482
Large doses of folio acid.
327
00:14:43,542 --> 00:14:46,648
Well, here's the inventory from
the Burdetts' medicine cabinet.
328
00:14:46,712 --> 00:14:48,953
Folate, one milligram tablets.
329
00:14:49,614 --> 00:14:52,254
Wait a minute,
that's not right.
330
00:14:52,317 --> 00:14:55,423
This prescription is made
out to Joshua Burdett.
331
00:14:57,055 --> 00:14:59,695
He's the father?
He's black?
332
00:15:00,792 --> 00:15:02,669
Maybe the pharmacy
made a mistake.
333
00:15:02,728 --> 00:15:04,969
Or maybe he's taking
it as a supplement.
334
00:15:05,030 --> 00:15:07,203
I heard it's good
for thinning hair.
335
00:15:07,265 --> 00:15:09,506
Burdett has
an ex-wife, right?
336
00:15:10,135 --> 00:15:12,172
Ask her if he has anemia.
337
00:15:13,071 --> 00:15:16,018
Yes, Josh has the condition.
338
00:15:16,074 --> 00:15:19,021
We were worried that he might
pass it on to our son David,
339
00:15:19,077 --> 00:15:20,750
but we were lucky.
340
00:15:21,179 --> 00:15:23,682
BRISCOE: Mrs. Houston,
far as you know,
341
00:15:23,749 --> 00:15:26,286
what's your ex-husband's
ethnic background?
342
00:15:27,152 --> 00:15:30,861
Burdett is an old
Anglo-Scottish name.
343
00:15:30,922 --> 00:15:33,766
And his mother, I think,
was French-Italian.
344
00:15:33,825 --> 00:15:37,136
Did you ever meet his relatives
or see any pictures of them?
345
00:15:37,195 --> 00:15:41,337
Josh was an only child, and his
parents died when he was very young.
346
00:15:41,767 --> 00:15:42,973
What are you getting at?
347
00:15:43,034 --> 00:15:46,743
His late wife gave birth to a
baby with megaloblastic anemia.
348
00:15:46,838 --> 00:15:48,784
The baby was part black.
349
00:15:49,875 --> 00:15:52,754
That's... Oh, what about
Karin's parentage?
350
00:15:53,045 --> 00:15:55,685
Danish. About as
white as you can get.
351
00:15:56,148 --> 00:15:58,424
Excuse me.
352
00:15:59,384 --> 00:16:03,628
David, would you and Veronica go
upstairs please, until I'm finished?
353
00:16:05,657 --> 00:16:07,295
Thank you, honey.
354
00:16:10,896 --> 00:16:13,342
You saw my son.
He's not black.
355
00:16:14,399 --> 00:16:15,469
And neither is Josh.
356
00:16:15,534 --> 00:16:18,140
I'm sorry, Mrs. Houston,
but this baby...
357
00:16:18,336 --> 00:16:20,077
Karin was unstable.
358
00:16:20,672 --> 00:16:23,016
I called Josh
that Sunday morning.
359
00:16:23,074 --> 00:16:25,315
He had to go out
and get her some pills.
360
00:16:25,577 --> 00:16:28,421
I could hear her
screaming like a banshee.
361
00:16:29,414 --> 00:16:32,725
She was capable
of anything with anybody.
362
00:16:33,485 --> 00:16:35,055
We've already
been down that road.
363
00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:36,656
Josh is not black.
364
00:16:37,456 --> 00:16:41,461
I was married to him for nineteen years.
I'd know.
365
00:16:43,829 --> 00:16:44,967
(DOOR OPENING)
366
00:16:45,130 --> 00:16:46,939
BRISCOE: Your lawyer
is on his way in.
367
00:16:47,999 --> 00:16:51,139
To pass the time, let's talk about
you volunteering a blood sample.
368
00:16:51,503 --> 00:16:52,641
For what?
369
00:16:52,704 --> 00:16:53,808
A paternity test.
370
00:16:54,773 --> 00:16:57,777
You and that baby you can't
run away from fast enough.
371
00:16:57,843 --> 00:16:59,914
That's ridiculous.
I'm not the father.
372
00:16:59,978 --> 00:17:01,980
Well, you both
have the same anemia.
373
00:17:02,047 --> 00:17:04,425
So do thousands
of other people.
374
00:17:04,483 --> 00:17:07,487
First I killed Karin because she
had a child by another man.
375
00:17:07,552 --> 00:17:09,759
Then I killed her
because she had my child?
376
00:17:09,888 --> 00:17:11,629
Because she wanted
to keep your child.
377
00:17:12,958 --> 00:17:17,304
And because everybody in your
just-us-white-folks executive suite
378
00:17:17,362 --> 00:17:19,672
was gonna find out
you're black, Josh.
379
00:17:19,731 --> 00:17:22,177
That's absurd.
I mean, look at me.
380
00:17:27,672 --> 00:17:29,549
I want to talk to him.
381
00:17:34,246 --> 00:17:35,748
(DOOR CLOSING)
382
00:17:40,852 --> 00:17:42,525
Hello, my brother.
383
00:17:44,790 --> 00:17:47,862
Damn, look at you.
384
00:17:49,127 --> 00:17:51,334
You did it. You passed.
385
00:17:53,231 --> 00:17:57,577
You know, I thought up close I'd be
able to tell, but I swear, I can't.
386
00:17:58,737 --> 00:18:01,775
So what's it like when
it's just you and them?
387
00:18:05,010 --> 00:18:07,820
You laugh along when
they tell the jokes?
388
00:18:09,114 --> 00:18:11,822
Oh, you know what
I'm talking about, right?
389
00:18:12,684 --> 00:18:17,758
Or do you tell nigger jokes, too,
just to keep up appearances?
390
00:18:17,823 --> 00:18:19,097
If you don't mind.
391
00:18:20,091 --> 00:18:25,404
Oh, am I sitting too close? What, I
remind you of somebody? Your mother?
392
00:18:26,498 --> 00:18:29,035
Was she dark-skinned?
High yellow?
393
00:18:30,068 --> 00:18:31,376
Redbone?
394
00:18:35,907 --> 00:18:38,148
You're scared now, aren't you?
395
00:18:39,678 --> 00:18:42,386
You been scared
for almost 40 years.
396
00:18:43,181 --> 00:18:45,889
And all that fear came
gushing out Sunday morning.
397
00:18:45,951 --> 00:18:48,363
You panicked.
Isn't that right?
398
00:18:50,755 --> 00:18:54,567
You go ahead.
Tell me what happened.
399
00:18:56,428 --> 00:19:00,376
Take the weight off, my brother.
You'll feel better.
400
00:19:05,270 --> 00:19:06,408
I'm Mr. Burdett's attorney.
401
00:19:06,471 --> 00:19:09,645
You mind telling me what
my client is doing here?
402
00:19:10,275 --> 00:19:13,313
We're arresting your client
for the murder of his wife.
403
00:19:13,378 --> 00:19:14,652
Take him down to booking.
404
00:19:14,713 --> 00:19:16,420
BRISCOE: Josh Burdett,
you're under arrest.
405
00:19:16,481 --> 00:19:18,154
You have the right
to remain silent.
406
00:19:18,216 --> 00:19:21,390
Anything you do say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.
407
00:19:21,453 --> 00:19:22,625
You have the right
to an attorney...
408
00:19:25,023 --> 00:19:26,627
It seems he had
everybody fooled.
409
00:19:26,691 --> 00:19:28,693
His whole life was a charade.
It's pathetic.
410
00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,967
Maybe 30, 40 years ago
it made more sense.
411
00:19:31,029 --> 00:19:33,566
Back then they had lynch
mobs and bullwhips.
412
00:19:33,632 --> 00:19:36,374
Now they use toilet plungers.
Progress.
413
00:19:37,269 --> 00:19:40,079
You confirmed that he's
the father of this child?
414
00:19:40,138 --> 00:19:42,846
We're just waiting for a
blood sample from the baby.
415
00:19:42,907 --> 00:19:44,545
What else?
Weak alibi.
416
00:19:44,609 --> 00:19:47,283
Forensics to establish
the manner of death.
417
00:19:47,345 --> 00:19:51,054
His motive being that he didn't want
anyone to know he was black. Why?
418
00:19:51,116 --> 00:19:53,118
Shame, loss of friends,
his work.
419
00:19:53,184 --> 00:19:54,857
I can just imagine
what he was afraid of.
420
00:19:54,919 --> 00:19:57,058
Don't imagine it.
Prove it.
421
00:19:57,355 --> 00:19:58,800
(PHONE RINGING)
422
00:20:00,725 --> 00:20:04,002
Madeline's phone number.
I promised her you'd call.
423
00:20:05,297 --> 00:20:07,243
Ross. Yeah.
424
00:20:08,333 --> 00:20:10,973
Since when?
We'll get right on it.
425
00:20:12,504 --> 00:20:14,506
That was Curtis.
The adoptive mother
426
00:20:14,572 --> 00:20:16,518
has disappeared with the baby.
427
00:20:16,708 --> 00:20:18,312
I don't know where they are.
428
00:20:18,376 --> 00:20:19,446
She left without telling you?
429
00:20:19,511 --> 00:20:20,546
What's it to you?
430
00:20:20,612 --> 00:20:22,319
They can come
and go as they please.
431
00:20:22,380 --> 00:20:25,020
That child's paternity
is evidence in a murder.
432
00:20:25,083 --> 00:20:26,585
I'm her father.
433
00:20:26,651 --> 00:20:29,461
You're crazy if you think I'm gonna
help you to prove Burdett is anything.
434
00:20:29,521 --> 00:20:31,023
Why? What are you
worried about?
435
00:20:31,089 --> 00:20:33,194
If Mr. Burdett turns out
to be the biological father,
436
00:20:33,258 --> 00:20:35,465
it gives him legal standing
to revoke the adoption.
437
00:20:35,527 --> 00:20:37,700
His wife wanted our baby back.
Maybe he does, too.
438
00:20:37,762 --> 00:20:40,641
Who told you that?
Was it Mr. Burdett?
439
00:20:41,166 --> 00:20:43,009
Did he threaten you
or pay you to do this?
440
00:20:43,068 --> 00:20:45,742
The paternity test could help
convict Burdett of murder.
441
00:20:45,804 --> 00:20:47,977
No judge will ever grant
custody to a murderer.
442
00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:49,541
Tell that to the Simpson kids.
443
00:20:50,008 --> 00:20:53,649
Mr. O'Brien, I have a court
order for the paternity test.
444
00:20:53,712 --> 00:20:55,783
I can compel you to tell
us where your child is.
445
00:20:55,847 --> 00:20:58,088
What are you going to do,
cite him for contempt?
446
00:20:58,149 --> 00:21:00,026
His position is,
he doesn't know
447
00:21:00,085 --> 00:21:02,463
where his wife
and baby are. Period.
448
00:21:05,590 --> 00:21:07,228
We need that test.
449
00:21:07,292 --> 00:21:08,930
We need to turn up
the heat on O'Brien.
450
00:21:08,994 --> 00:21:10,564
If he's getting
paid off by Burdett,
451
00:21:10,628 --> 00:21:12,608
he's on the hook for a
lot more than contempt.
452
00:21:12,664 --> 00:21:14,109
I'll get Briscoe
and Curtis on it.
453
00:21:14,165 --> 00:21:17,544
Then talk to Burdett's employers.
Let's nail down his motive.
454
00:21:18,370 --> 00:21:21,374
You can't be right, Ms. Ross.
Josh is a straight arrow.
455
00:21:21,439 --> 00:21:23,282
If he says he's white,
he's white.
456
00:21:24,175 --> 00:21:26,280
He checked white
on his application.
457
00:21:26,344 --> 00:21:28,688
I thought it was illegal
to ask an applicant's race.
458
00:21:28,747 --> 00:21:33,958
It is now. That was filled out in 1963.
The bad old days.
459
00:21:34,652 --> 00:21:36,325
What if he'd said he was black?
460
00:21:36,388 --> 00:21:39,460
He was hired as a sales associate
in our Richmond office.
461
00:21:39,524 --> 00:21:42,403
The market was southern
doctors and pharmacists.
462
00:21:42,460 --> 00:21:44,872
The application would have
ended up in the trash.
463
00:21:44,929 --> 00:21:47,876
And now? If the company found
out he was African American?
464
00:21:47,932 --> 00:21:51,709
Now? Hell, we'd probably
put him on the board.
465
00:21:52,270 --> 00:21:53,840
(CHUCKLING) Cheaper
than Colin Powell.
466
00:21:55,039 --> 00:21:57,781
You're wrong about Josh. I've
known the man for twenty years,
467
00:21:57,842 --> 00:21:59,253
and I never saw any hint
468
00:21:59,310 --> 00:22:01,256
he was anything
but what he said he was.
469
00:22:01,312 --> 00:22:02,757
What kind of hints
were you looking for?
470
00:22:02,814 --> 00:22:03,986
Well, for example,
471
00:22:04,048 --> 00:22:07,860
there was a young black man a
couple of years ago. Shawn Taitt.
472
00:22:07,919 --> 00:22:10,593
A real comer
Josh put under his wing.
473
00:22:11,055 --> 00:22:14,901
Then one day, he's gone. Josh
had enough of the attitude.
474
00:22:14,959 --> 00:22:16,802
Everything was
"black this, black that"
475
00:22:17,028 --> 00:22:18,268
Mr. Burdett fired him?
476
00:22:18,329 --> 00:22:19,501
And get us sued?
477
00:22:20,331 --> 00:22:23,175
Josh promoted him
to our office in Duluth.
478
00:22:24,102 --> 00:22:28,881
One sub-zero winter, and
Taitt got the idea. He quit.
479
00:22:30,542 --> 00:22:33,352
Mr. Burdett told your colleagues
you had an attitude problem.
480
00:22:33,411 --> 00:22:35,391
Maybe that's what he told
them, but we got along fine
481
00:22:35,447 --> 00:22:37,324
until I found out
he was from Knoxville.
482
00:22:37,382 --> 00:22:39,953
What, you don't like
people from Knoxville?
483
00:22:40,018 --> 00:22:41,554
I told him I had family there.
484
00:22:41,619 --> 00:22:43,496
And they knew a Burdett family.
485
00:22:43,555 --> 00:22:45,193
A black family.
Mmm-hmm.
486
00:22:45,256 --> 00:22:47,463
A month later I was
shipped off to Duluth.
487
00:22:47,525 --> 00:22:49,004
Did you suspect why?
488
00:22:49,060 --> 00:22:50,505
Mmm-hmm.
He was passing.
489
00:22:51,196 --> 00:22:52,971
You could have sued.
490
00:22:53,665 --> 00:22:56,874
Why make trouble for the man?
He's a whole other generation.
491
00:22:56,935 --> 00:22:58,175
I can just imagine
what he went through,
492
00:22:58,236 --> 00:23:02,150
being a black kid
in Tennessee in the '50s.
493
00:23:03,608 --> 00:23:04,814
(SIGHING)
494
00:23:04,876 --> 00:23:07,288
That's the fourteenth Burdett
I've spoken to in Knoxville.
495
00:23:07,345 --> 00:23:09,518
Not one of them will
claim Josh Burdett.
496
00:23:09,581 --> 00:23:11,686
What about birth records?
497
00:23:11,749 --> 00:23:13,786
They're in the Knox
county clerk's office.
498
00:23:13,852 --> 00:23:15,889
They're working on it, but
it might take some time.
499
00:23:15,954 --> 00:23:19,731
There's nothing in his personal records either.
No birth certificate,
500
00:23:19,791 --> 00:23:22,328
no relatives in his
address book, no photos.
501
00:23:22,393 --> 00:23:24,634
The paternity test might be our
only way to prove he's black.
502
00:23:24,696 --> 00:23:26,073
What's happening
with the O'Briens?
503
00:23:26,131 --> 00:23:28,042
The police haven't found
any pay-offs by Burdett.
504
00:23:28,099 --> 00:23:31,012
But they turned up this check.
505
00:23:34,772 --> 00:23:39,778
Leonard Hillman, Esquire.
Twenty thousand dollars.
506
00:23:39,844 --> 00:23:42,017
Burdett wrote it a week
before his wife died.
507
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,754
Hillman specializes in employment
discrimination claims.
508
00:23:44,816 --> 00:23:48,423
Yeah, he sued this office
two years ago.
509
00:23:48,486 --> 00:23:52,024
So, what does a white male executive
need with a civil rights attorney?
510
00:23:52,790 --> 00:23:54,292
I'll ask.
511
00:23:57,295 --> 00:23:59,332
By the way,
how'd it go last night?
512
00:24:00,231 --> 00:24:04,680
With Madeline? She's bright, attractive, funny.
As advertised. Thanks.
513
00:24:04,736 --> 00:24:06,977
You're welcome.
514
00:24:07,038 --> 00:24:10,611
In case you're wondering, she thought
you were charming, passionate.
515
00:24:10,675 --> 00:24:11,813
Passionate?
516
00:24:11,876 --> 00:24:12,980
About your work.
517
00:24:13,044 --> 00:24:14,182
(CHUCKLES)
518
00:24:15,747 --> 00:24:18,387
She said you mentioned
Claire Kincaid.
519
00:24:18,917 --> 00:24:21,761
Because Madeline's brother spent
three months in the hospital
520
00:24:21,819 --> 00:24:24,857
thanks to a drunk driver.
I was not obsessing.
521
00:24:24,923 --> 00:24:28,894
Don't worry. For some reason
she'd like to see you again.
522
00:24:34,332 --> 00:24:36,278
Yes, Mr. Burdett
came to see me.
523
00:24:36,334 --> 00:24:38,541
No, I can't tell you
what we discussed.
524
00:24:38,603 --> 00:24:41,413
Fine. So let's discuss
my problem, Mr. Hillman.
525
00:24:41,472 --> 00:24:44,510
Just so happens in my spare time
I'm president of a large company.
526
00:24:44,575 --> 00:24:45,610
Go on.
527
00:24:45,677 --> 00:24:46,951
This company
doesn't hire women.
528
00:24:47,011 --> 00:24:50,788
So I've mislead my employers and the
shareholders by claiming I'm a man.
529
00:24:50,849 --> 00:24:53,329
And they fell for it?
Hard to believe.
530
00:24:53,384 --> 00:24:54,658
Can I be fired for that?
531
00:24:54,719 --> 00:24:57,928
As a general rule, misrepresentations
not material to your work
532
00:24:57,989 --> 00:24:59,593
are not grounds for dismissal.
533
00:24:59,657 --> 00:25:04,072
So if they fire me for lying
about my gender, or race,
534
00:25:04,128 --> 00:25:06,108
they're liable for a claim
of wrongful termination?
535
00:25:06,164 --> 00:25:08,474
Yes. But in the hypothetical,
536
00:25:08,533 --> 00:25:11,980
most executives are employed under
personal services contracts,
537
00:25:12,036 --> 00:25:15,813
which have standard provisions for
termination for acts of moral turpitude.
538
00:25:15,873 --> 00:25:17,250
Such as lying.
Yes.
539
00:25:17,308 --> 00:25:19,117
But, again in the hypothetical,
540
00:25:19,177 --> 00:25:22,715
that could put your considerable
stocks and pension benefits at risk.
541
00:25:22,780 --> 00:25:26,057
You charge the average executive
$20,000 to talk about those risks?
542
00:25:26,117 --> 00:25:28,825
No, what Joshua Burdett
paid me is a retainer.
543
00:25:28,886 --> 00:25:31,867
'Cause he thought
he was about to get fired?
544
00:25:31,923 --> 00:25:35,666
Because his company was about to
find out he's African American?
545
00:25:35,727 --> 00:25:37,502
I can't comment.
546
00:25:38,296 --> 00:25:41,675
Burdett has a retirement
package worth over $8,000,000.
547
00:25:41,733 --> 00:25:43,303
With stock options,
it's double that.
548
00:25:43,368 --> 00:25:46,008
(LAUGHS) We're in
the wrong business.
549
00:25:47,038 --> 00:25:49,644
Burdett concluded it'd be
cheaper to kill his wife.
550
00:25:49,707 --> 00:25:52,051
Except he paid
the lawyer a retainer.
551
00:25:52,110 --> 00:25:54,454
The lawyer as much as told me that
Burdett and his wife had decided
552
00:25:54,512 --> 00:25:56,583
to get their baby back.
553
00:25:56,647 --> 00:25:58,388
There goes his motive.
554
00:25:59,250 --> 00:26:02,459
Why do you always give me bad
news while I'm digesting?
555
00:26:03,588 --> 00:26:05,534
If it's true, why
didn't Burdett tell us?
556
00:26:05,590 --> 00:26:07,467
Is there somebody
he's trying to protect?
557
00:26:08,860 --> 00:26:12,069
(SIGHING) He has an ex-wife
and a teenage son.
558
00:26:12,130 --> 00:26:14,235
Even if Burdett was willing to
take the heat for his decision,
559
00:26:14,299 --> 00:26:15,471
maybe they weren't.
560
00:26:15,533 --> 00:26:20,448
Will you please find out what they
were doing that Sunday morning?
561
00:26:20,505 --> 00:26:22,451
I'll get this.
562
00:26:23,274 --> 00:26:25,515
Frances Houston,
Burdett's ex-wife,
563
00:26:25,576 --> 00:26:26,953
said she called
him in the morning,
564
00:26:27,011 --> 00:26:31,289
just before he went to the pharmacy.
That's confirmed by her IUDs.
565
00:26:31,349 --> 00:26:33,727
We got calls on her line
and on her son's,
566
00:26:33,785 --> 00:26:37,858
roughly 20 minutes before and
after Mrs. Burdett was killed.
567
00:26:37,922 --> 00:26:40,095
They live about 10 minutes
from the Burdetts.
568
00:26:40,158 --> 00:26:42,035
So either of them
had the time to do it.
569
00:26:42,093 --> 00:26:43,902
But look at these.
570
00:26:43,961 --> 00:26:48,034
IUDs from last week. Ms. Houston
got a 12-minute collect call
571
00:26:48,099 --> 00:26:50,705
from a convenience store
in Hobart, Indiana.
572
00:26:51,102 --> 00:26:53,207
The adoptive mother, don't
her parents live in Indiana?
573
00:26:53,271 --> 00:26:56,343
Yes. Look at the next call
Ms. Houston made.
574
00:26:58,176 --> 00:26:59,587
Western Union.
575
00:26:59,644 --> 00:27:02,557
I doubt she was sending
birthday greetings.
576
00:27:02,613 --> 00:27:07,926
Ms. Houston wired $3,000 to a
Mrs. Teresa Gaydos in Hobart.
577
00:27:07,985 --> 00:27:09,521
She's your mother-in-law,
isn't she?
578
00:27:09,587 --> 00:27:13,865
Mr. O'Brien, hindering
prosecution is a felony.
579
00:27:13,925 --> 00:27:18,567
If you don't cooperate now,
today, I will prosecute you.
580
00:27:18,629 --> 00:27:20,506
You and your wife
will go to jail.
581
00:27:20,565 --> 00:27:21,873
You will lose
custody of your baby.
582
00:27:21,933 --> 00:27:22,968
Mr. McCoy...
583
00:27:23,034 --> 00:27:24,877
I mean it!
584
00:27:24,936 --> 00:27:28,247
People who get in the way of
my murder cases get run over.
585
00:27:37,382 --> 00:27:39,589
He tells you what he knows,
586
00:27:39,651 --> 00:27:42,791
you don't press charges
against him or his wife.
587
00:27:42,854 --> 00:27:44,856
Let's hear it.
588
00:27:46,357 --> 00:27:48,769
Ms. Houston came to us
before Burdett was arrested
589
00:27:48,826 --> 00:27:52,069
and she said, "Watch out.
Burdett didn't kill his wife."
590
00:27:52,764 --> 00:27:54,141
She said once
he clears himself,
591
00:27:54,198 --> 00:27:55,734
he's gonna
fight us for the baby.
592
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,646
She told us to take Maggie out of state.
She even offered us money.
593
00:27:59,704 --> 00:28:01,706
Did she say why
she was doing this?
594
00:28:01,772 --> 00:28:05,185
I can't understand how an educated
woman like her could say it,
595
00:28:05,243 --> 00:28:07,416
but she said
596
00:28:07,478 --> 00:28:11,392
she didn't want "some nappy-haired
little monkey" ruining her family.
597
00:28:19,357 --> 00:28:23,100
Now you don't think he killed his wife?
Thanks for telling us.
598
00:28:23,161 --> 00:28:26,665
The bad news is, we might charge
him with hindering prosecution.
599
00:28:26,731 --> 00:28:27,937
Prosecution of whom?
600
00:28:27,999 --> 00:28:29,637
The police identified
the fingerprints
601
00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:31,509
found in your bedroom
and on the balcony.
602
00:28:31,569 --> 00:28:34,345
They found yours, your
wife's, your housekeeper's,
603
00:28:34,405 --> 00:28:35,611
and your ex-wife's.
604
00:28:35,673 --> 00:28:37,243
Frances?
605
00:28:37,308 --> 00:28:40,084
She paid the O'Briens
to take the baby out of state.
606
00:28:40,144 --> 00:28:41,851
We think she killed your wife.
607
00:28:44,315 --> 00:28:46,295
Anything you want to
tell us, Mr. Burdett?
608
00:28:51,989 --> 00:28:54,560
Uh, excuse us.
609
00:29:00,698 --> 00:29:05,169
For now, whatever my client
tells you is off the record.
610
00:29:07,405 --> 00:29:09,214
Let's hear it.
611
00:29:11,843 --> 00:29:15,290
Before we were married, I told
Karin about my background.
612
00:29:15,346 --> 00:29:20,728
It was our secret. But the
pregnancy was a mistake.
613
00:29:20,785 --> 00:29:23,857
We argued for weeks
about terminating it.
614
00:29:23,921 --> 00:29:26,492
We finally agreed
on the adoption.
615
00:29:27,625 --> 00:29:32,096
But after we gave up our baby,
Karin became so unhappy.
616
00:29:32,897 --> 00:29:33,932
(SIGHING)
617
00:29:33,998 --> 00:29:37,775
I loved her,
she wanted our child back,
618
00:29:38,736 --> 00:29:41,273
so that's what
we decided to do.
619
00:29:42,340 --> 00:29:46,482
That Saturday, I told my son
the truth about everything.
620
00:29:46,544 --> 00:29:48,285
The next morning,
Frances called me.
621
00:29:48,346 --> 00:29:51,520
She said David was angry
and behaving erratically.
622
00:29:51,582 --> 00:29:55,689
She begged me to reconsider.
I said our mind was made up.
623
00:29:56,654 --> 00:30:01,501
I didn't know what to think after Karin died.
I called Frances.
624
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,804
She said Karin was dead and
we had to protect our son.
625
00:30:07,632 --> 00:30:09,509
She told you your son
killed your wife?
626
00:30:09,567 --> 00:30:10,671
No.
627
00:30:10,735 --> 00:30:14,182
No, not in so many words.
But that's what I understood.
628
00:30:14,238 --> 00:30:16,980
That's why I misled the police.
629
00:30:18,743 --> 00:30:21,087
I discussed your offer
with Ms. Houston.
630
00:30:21,145 --> 00:30:24,615
I explained that prosecutors don't
just like to beat the other guy.
631
00:30:24,682 --> 00:30:26,593
They want him to
limp off the field.
632
00:30:26,651 --> 00:30:29,131
No wiggle room,
Ms. Joyner.
633
00:30:29,187 --> 00:30:31,292
Manslaughter one,
eight-and-a-third-to-25,
634
00:30:31,355 --> 00:30:33,198
or she goes on trial
for murder two.
635
00:30:33,257 --> 00:30:35,066
Then you won't like my counter.
636
00:30:35,126 --> 00:30:37,629
Second degree manslaughter,
minimum time.
637
00:30:37,695 --> 00:30:40,938
That's unrealistic. We've got her
prints, her pay-offs to the O'Briens.
638
00:30:40,998 --> 00:30:43,672
I said man two, minimum time.
639
00:30:43,734 --> 00:30:46,476
Do you really want to put your son
through a trial, Ms. Houston?
640
00:30:46,537 --> 00:30:48,175
Let her worry about her son.
641
00:30:48,239 --> 00:30:51,413
Frankly, Ms. Joyner, I'm surprised
you'd represent a bigot.
642
00:30:55,413 --> 00:30:58,519
I don't see a bigot here.
I see a woman deceived
643
00:30:58,582 --> 00:31:01,688
and pushed to the brink
by a self-hating coward.
644
00:31:01,752 --> 00:31:04,164
Everyone at my firm
agrees, Mr. McCoy.
645
00:31:04,622 --> 00:31:06,568
No jury will ever convict her.
646
00:31:12,763 --> 00:31:15,039
This trial is about a baby.
647
00:31:16,901 --> 00:31:21,907
A child of white and
African American parents.
648
00:31:23,074 --> 00:31:27,181
Karin Burdett bore it.
She wanted to raise it.
649
00:31:27,244 --> 00:31:29,121
That's why she's dead.
650
00:31:32,283 --> 00:31:33,762
The evidence will show that
651
00:31:33,818 --> 00:31:37,960
Frances Houston knew Karin
Burdett was home alone,
652
00:31:38,990 --> 00:31:43,132
that she struggled with her, and
pushed her off of a balcony.
653
00:31:43,961 --> 00:31:46,066
That she bribed a witness.
654
00:31:47,064 --> 00:31:49,977
That she did all this
because she didn't want
655
00:31:50,034 --> 00:31:52,514
her narrow-minded
circle of friends
656
00:31:52,570 --> 00:31:56,313
to know that she had once
been married to a black man.
657
00:31:56,374 --> 00:32:02,655
Because, as she stated in the
vicious vocabulary of racism,
658
00:32:05,516 --> 00:32:08,622
she didn't want a
"nappy-haired little monkey"
659
00:32:12,456 --> 00:32:14,868
ruining her good name.
660
00:32:21,299 --> 00:32:23,745
JOYNER: Mr. McCoy wants you to
believe that my client is a bigot.
661
00:32:23,801 --> 00:32:25,542
Well, I'm here to
tell you she's not.
662
00:32:25,603 --> 00:32:29,312
She's a realist. She knows
what goes on in America.
663
00:32:30,374 --> 00:32:35,153
You'll hear that educated black men earn
far less than their white counterparts.
664
00:32:35,212 --> 00:32:37,715
That black men are denied
the access, the promotions,
665
00:32:37,782 --> 00:32:40,319
the memberships
given to white men.
666
00:32:40,384 --> 00:32:45,231
That black men are routinely harassed
and brutalized by the police.
667
00:32:45,289 --> 00:32:47,667
That's what my client
was thinking about.
668
00:32:47,725 --> 00:32:49,830
She wanted to
preserve for her son
669
00:32:49,894 --> 00:32:52,841
the protection the word
"white" afforded him.
670
00:32:52,897 --> 00:32:55,741
She didn't want him
to have a lesser life,
671
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,509
because the word "black" had
been added next to his name.
672
00:33:01,138 --> 00:33:02,515
If, at the end of this trial,
673
00:33:02,573 --> 00:33:06,749
you believe that my client caused
the death of Karin Burdett,
674
00:33:06,811 --> 00:33:12,022
please understand it was not the
premeditated act of a racist,
675
00:33:12,083 --> 00:33:15,326
but the unintentional act
of a mother
676
00:33:15,386 --> 00:33:18,128
desperate to save
the son she loves.
677
00:33:20,424 --> 00:33:22,631
JACK: She didn't do it
because she's a racist,
678
00:33:22,693 --> 00:33:25,230
she did it to protect
her son from racists.
679
00:33:25,296 --> 00:33:26,866
It explains their witness list.
680
00:33:26,931 --> 00:33:29,104
Statisticians,
social scientists.
681
00:33:29,166 --> 00:33:31,874
You got to admit, that's
some mitigation defense.
682
00:33:31,936 --> 00:33:33,472
Something for every prejudice.
683
00:33:33,537 --> 00:33:36,040
The white jurors wouldn't want their
kids growing up black either.
684
00:33:36,107 --> 00:33:37,950
And black jurors
because they know
685
00:33:38,008 --> 00:33:40,648
that the playing field
isn't level?
686
00:33:40,711 --> 00:33:43,590
If I were the defense, I wouldn't
count on much support there.
687
00:33:43,647 --> 00:33:45,923
How many whites on the jury?
More than one?
688
00:33:45,983 --> 00:33:48,327
That's all Ms. Houston
needs for a mistrial.
689
00:33:48,385 --> 00:33:50,387
If the jury
disregards the facts.
690
00:33:50,454 --> 00:33:53,458
Fine, you win their minds,
she wins their hearts.
691
00:33:53,524 --> 00:33:55,265
I'm not ready
to concede anything.
692
00:33:55,326 --> 00:33:57,397
All we have to do
is convince the jury
693
00:33:57,461 --> 00:34:00,772
that her son would be no worse off
living as a black man in this country.
694
00:34:00,831 --> 00:34:04,711
You can start by making sure they
never hear from these witnesses.
695
00:34:06,270 --> 00:34:08,511
JOYNER: These witnesses
are relevant, Your Honor.
696
00:34:08,572 --> 00:34:11,519
Professor Murphy's study quantifies
the economic discrepancies
697
00:34:11,575 --> 00:34:12,610
between the races.
698
00:34:12,676 --> 00:34:15,418
Professor Harrison's work
on law enforcement practices
699
00:34:15,479 --> 00:34:16,685
has been cited in every...
700
00:34:16,747 --> 00:34:18,351
None of which has anything
to do with her client.
701
00:34:18,415 --> 00:34:20,258
It goes to her state of mind,
702
00:34:20,317 --> 00:34:23,230
her fear her son would suffer the
fate of many African Americans.
703
00:34:23,287 --> 00:34:27,133
Your Honor, if Ms. Joyner wants to
establish her client's state of mind,
704
00:34:27,191 --> 00:34:28,898
she can call her to the stand.
705
00:34:28,959 --> 00:34:32,805
Even if I do, these witnesses are
evidence that her beliefs and concerns
706
00:34:32,863 --> 00:34:35,343
about racism in this
country are reasonable.
707
00:34:35,399 --> 00:34:37,379
JACK: There's no question
the beliefs are reasonable.
708
00:34:37,435 --> 00:34:40,279
The issue is whether or not her
client actually believes them.
709
00:34:40,337 --> 00:34:41,680
We wouldn't be here
if she didn't.
710
00:34:41,739 --> 00:34:44,015
JUDGE STEIN:
Simmer down, counselors.
711
00:34:44,075 --> 00:34:47,852
Ms. Joyner, the case is about
the defendant's state of mind,
712
00:34:47,912 --> 00:34:50,085
not the State of the Union.
713
00:34:50,147 --> 00:34:54,562
And since these witnesses
have no direct knowledge
714
00:34:54,618 --> 00:34:58,122
of what your client was
thinking, they're excluded.
715
00:34:58,189 --> 00:35:00,567
Now, let's get back to court.
716
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,300
Frances kept telling me
we had to protect David.
717
00:35:06,363 --> 00:35:09,435
I felt I had no choice
but to lie to the police.
718
00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:12,674
JACK: Before this incident, was the
defendant aware you were black?
719
00:35:12,736 --> 00:35:15,148
Yes. She found out
six years ago,
720
00:35:15,206 --> 00:35:18,449
when my sister appeared at
our door, looking for me.
721
00:35:19,410 --> 00:35:22,948
In nearly 20 years of marriage
she had never met your family?
722
00:35:23,013 --> 00:35:26,517
No. I'd cut myself
off from them.
723
00:35:26,584 --> 00:35:29,963
You see, when I was a child,
724
00:35:30,020 --> 00:35:33,832
my mother always
told me I had good skin,
725
00:35:33,891 --> 00:35:37,338
good features, good hair.
726
00:35:37,394 --> 00:35:41,672
Back then, in Knoxville,
Tennessee, "good" meant "white."
727
00:35:42,533 --> 00:35:44,672
I was often mistaken for white.
728
00:35:44,735 --> 00:35:46,772
I could sit at
the front of the bus,
729
00:35:46,837 --> 00:35:50,410
I could drink at the water
fountain reserved for whites.
730
00:35:50,474 --> 00:35:52,886
You can't imagine what
an advantage that was
731
00:35:52,943 --> 00:35:56,584
when you're bone-dry thirsty
on a hot summer's day
732
00:35:56,647 --> 00:36:00,595
and it's another 20 blocks
to a colored water fountain.
733
00:36:00,651 --> 00:36:05,122
After college, I got a good job,
because I passed for white.
734
00:36:05,189 --> 00:36:08,830
I was promoted, I was
transferred to New York.
735
00:36:09,627 --> 00:36:12,039
No one ever asked me
if I was white.
736
00:36:12,096 --> 00:36:14,474
Frances had no reason
to question me.
737
00:36:15,232 --> 00:36:17,212
JACK: After she met
your sister, what happened?
738
00:36:17,268 --> 00:36:19,179
She was very upset.
739
00:36:20,337 --> 00:36:22,840
She wanted a divorce.
740
00:36:22,907 --> 00:36:25,319
In the divorce agreement,
741
00:36:25,376 --> 00:36:28,289
were any special conditions
imposed by the defendant?
742
00:36:28,345 --> 00:36:30,154
Yes, Frances asked that...
743
00:36:30,214 --> 00:36:32,319
Objection.
Approach, Your Honor?
744
00:36:36,253 --> 00:36:38,961
Your Honor, the witness and the
defendant signed a binding agreement
745
00:36:39,023 --> 00:36:40,832
not to disclose the
terms of their divorce.
746
00:36:40,891 --> 00:36:43,132
Without paying
a substantial penalty.
747
00:36:43,194 --> 00:36:45,367
Mr. Burdett is willing to
write Ms. Houston a check.
748
00:36:45,429 --> 00:36:47,409
There are third parties
to be considered here.
749
00:36:47,464 --> 00:36:49,808
Namely, the defendant's son.
750
00:36:49,867 --> 00:36:54,407
Mr. McCoy, what term of the divorce do
you want your witness to testify to?
751
00:36:54,471 --> 00:36:57,714
The defendant exacted his promise that
he wouldn't tell anyone he was black.
752
00:36:57,775 --> 00:37:00,221
We'll stipulate
to that, Your Honor.
753
00:37:00,277 --> 00:37:01,688
(SIGHING) All right.
754
00:37:01,745 --> 00:37:04,055
Objection sustained.
755
00:37:04,114 --> 00:37:06,560
Members of the jury,
756
00:37:06,617 --> 00:37:11,623
the defense stipulates for the record
that Mr. Burdett and Ms. Houston
757
00:37:11,689 --> 00:37:17,139
agreed as a condition of their divorce
not to disclose Mr. Burdett's race.
758
00:37:18,495 --> 00:37:20,202
Go on, Mr. McCoy.
759
00:37:20,831 --> 00:37:21,969
No more questions.
760
00:37:25,135 --> 00:37:29,140
Mr. Burdett, doesn't the fact that
no one found out you were black
761
00:37:29,206 --> 00:37:32,016
prove you're
an accomplished liar?
762
00:37:32,076 --> 00:37:34,647
I lied once,
on an application form.
763
00:37:34,712 --> 00:37:36,817
After that, the question
never came up.
764
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,621
You passed for white because
it gave you an advantage
765
00:37:38,682 --> 00:37:40,525
over other African
Americans, isn't that right?
766
00:37:40,584 --> 00:37:41,619
Yes.
767
00:37:41,685 --> 00:37:42,925
You saw how blacks were treated
768
00:37:42,987 --> 00:37:45,024
by your white friends
and colleagues?
769
00:37:45,089 --> 00:37:46,329
Yes.
770
00:37:46,390 --> 00:37:49,098
You didn't want that to happen
to you, isn't that right?
771
00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:50,160
Yes.
772
00:37:50,227 --> 00:37:52,935
Then why make it happen
for your son?
773
00:37:52,997 --> 00:37:56,274
Why did you decide now to come
out of the racial closet?
774
00:37:56,333 --> 00:37:57,744
Things aren't the same anymore.
775
00:37:57,801 --> 00:37:58,836
Really?
776
00:37:58,902 --> 00:38:02,782
When you started at
Northfield Pharmaceuticals,
777
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,583
how many black presidents, vice-presidents
and directors were there?
778
00:38:06,643 --> 00:38:07,747
None.
779
00:38:07,811 --> 00:38:08,881
And now?
780
00:38:08,946 --> 00:38:12,359
Three directors, in Human
Resources and Marketing.
781
00:38:12,416 --> 00:38:16,455
Out of how many executives?
Ten? Thirty?
782
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,160
Nationwide, over 150.
783
00:38:19,223 --> 00:38:22,796
Well, the Reverend King
can rest easy.
784
00:38:22,860 --> 00:38:25,739
His dream
has finally come to pass.
785
00:38:25,796 --> 00:38:26,797
Objection.
786
00:38:26,864 --> 00:38:27,865
Withdrawn.
787
00:38:28,766 --> 00:38:31,542
There's nothing in the divorce
agreement other than what I told you.
788
00:38:31,602 --> 00:38:34,549
I don't want to be taken by surprise.
Why did they object?
789
00:38:34,605 --> 00:38:36,607
I have no idea what
Frances was thinking.
790
00:38:36,674 --> 00:38:38,415
Now, you'll have to excuse me.
791
00:38:40,277 --> 00:38:43,053
You looked at the divorce decree, Jack.
There was nothing there.
792
00:38:43,113 --> 00:38:44,490
Pull the full
record of the divorce.
793
00:38:44,548 --> 00:38:47,119
Depositions, draft agreements,
filings, everything.
794
00:38:47,184 --> 00:38:48,527
Most of it's probably sealed.
795
00:38:48,586 --> 00:38:49,860
Get a court order.
796
00:38:51,388 --> 00:38:53,868
I tried to reason with Karin.
797
00:38:53,924 --> 00:38:58,236
I begged her to think about Josh's son,
and what she would be doing to him.
798
00:38:58,295 --> 00:39:00,798
But I wasn't getting through.
799
00:39:00,864 --> 00:39:02,673
What was going
through your mind?
800
00:39:02,733 --> 00:39:05,270
(SIGHING) All I could
think about was David.
801
00:39:05,336 --> 00:39:07,839
How his life would be changed.
802
00:39:08,105 --> 00:39:11,382
All of his friends are white. And
all of their friends are white.
803
00:39:11,442 --> 00:39:16,289
I was afraid for him, for the same
reasons that Josh kept secret his...
804
00:39:16,347 --> 00:39:17,451
Objection.
805
00:39:17,514 --> 00:39:18,822
JUDGE STEIN: Sustained.
806
00:39:20,484 --> 00:39:22,088
Go on with what happened.
807
00:39:22,152 --> 00:39:26,999
Karin said she wasn't feeling well,
and that she needed some air.
808
00:39:27,057 --> 00:39:31,369
She went out onto the balcony
and our argument heated up.
809
00:39:31,428 --> 00:39:35,137
At one point she was wagging her
finger at me and I slapped it away.
810
00:39:35,199 --> 00:39:39,614
And then suddenly she grabbed
my hair and I pushed her.
811
00:39:39,670 --> 00:39:43,243
Before I realized what was
happening, she lost her balance
812
00:39:43,307 --> 00:39:46,151
and she went over the balcony.
813
00:39:47,444 --> 00:39:48,718
Was that your intent?
814
00:39:48,779 --> 00:39:50,019
No.
815
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,026
All I could think
about was David.
816
00:39:52,082 --> 00:39:56,053
I just wanted to protect my
son, as any mother would.
817
00:39:56,787 --> 00:39:59,666
I never thought to kill Karin.
818
00:40:00,524 --> 00:40:02,265
Thank you.
819
00:40:06,563 --> 00:40:09,976
Did you seriously expect Mrs. Burdett
to abandon her baby girl
820
00:40:10,034 --> 00:40:11,308
for the sake of your son?
821
00:40:11,368 --> 00:40:15,874
I don't know what I expected her to do.
I just needed to talk to her.
822
00:40:15,939 --> 00:40:19,853
Because you were concerned that
your son's future was in peril
823
00:40:19,910 --> 00:40:21,412
if it became known
he was black?
824
00:40:21,478 --> 00:40:22,616
Yes.
825
00:40:22,679 --> 00:40:24,090
Even in this day and age?
826
00:40:24,148 --> 00:40:25,821
Oh, yes, Mr. McCoy.
827
00:40:25,883 --> 00:40:28,921
For every Tiger Woods, there's
a thousand Fuzzy Zoellers
828
00:40:28,986 --> 00:40:31,262
and I did not want
David to go through life
829
00:40:31,321 --> 00:40:32,925
facing that kind of prejudice.
830
00:40:32,990 --> 00:40:34,196
Prejudice where?
At school?
831
00:40:34,258 --> 00:40:35,430
Oh, yes.
832
00:40:35,492 --> 00:40:38,029
Aren't there other African
American students in his class?
833
00:40:38,095 --> 00:40:42,305
The only black student
they have is from Bermuda.
834
00:40:44,268 --> 00:40:47,374
Who decided to send
your son to this school?
835
00:40:49,373 --> 00:40:51,011
It was your decision,
wasn't it, Ms. Houston?
836
00:40:51,074 --> 00:40:52,417
Objection.
837
00:40:52,476 --> 00:40:53,750
Overruled.
838
00:40:53,811 --> 00:40:56,382
Answer his question,
Ms. Houston.
839
00:40:57,881 --> 00:41:00,384
My father went to
the Chase Academy.
840
00:41:00,451 --> 00:41:02,124
They have excellent academics.
841
00:41:02,186 --> 00:41:04,996
And no African American
students.
842
00:41:05,055 --> 00:41:06,830
Isn't that the real reason?
No.
843
00:41:06,890 --> 00:41:09,029
You wanted your son
to go to a white school,
844
00:41:09,093 --> 00:41:10,231
to have white friends.
Isn't that right?
845
00:41:10,294 --> 00:41:11,329
No.
846
00:41:11,395 --> 00:41:12,897
Because you don't like
African Americans.
847
00:41:12,963 --> 00:41:14,442
That's not true.
848
00:41:14,498 --> 00:41:16,171
You didn't want your
white friends to know
849
00:41:16,233 --> 00:41:17,735
you'd been married
to one, did you?
850
00:41:17,801 --> 00:41:19,508
No.
That you'd shared your bed
851
00:41:19,570 --> 00:41:21,015
with a black man.
No.
852
00:41:21,071 --> 00:41:22,573
Been intimate with a black man,
853
00:41:22,639 --> 00:41:24,084
a "nappy-haired
little monkey"?
854
00:41:24,141 --> 00:41:26,178
That's a lie.
I never said that.
855
00:41:26,243 --> 00:41:28,052
The O'Briens were lying?
Objection.
856
00:41:28,112 --> 00:41:30,319
Everyone is a liar, everyone
is a racist except you?
857
00:41:30,380 --> 00:41:31,757
Your Honor, I objected.
858
00:41:31,815 --> 00:41:33,988
Yes. Sustained,
Mr. McCoy.
859
00:41:34,051 --> 00:41:36,691
Isn't it true, Ms. Houston,
that your son has more to fear
860
00:41:36,754 --> 00:41:37,960
from your prejudice
than society's?
861
00:41:38,021 --> 00:41:39,056
JOYNER: Objection.
862
00:41:39,122 --> 00:41:41,659
No, I would like
to answer Mr. McCoy.
863
00:41:41,725 --> 00:41:45,036
My son is not afraid of me.
864
00:41:46,096 --> 00:41:48,440
He knows that I love him.
865
00:41:54,905 --> 00:41:56,407
No more questions.
866
00:42:01,645 --> 00:42:03,318
It has only been
three days, Adam.
867
00:42:03,380 --> 00:42:05,553
Three days, 10 days.
868
00:42:05,616 --> 00:42:07,618
The jury is stalemated.
869
00:42:08,518 --> 00:42:10,657
There's always the next time.
870
00:42:10,721 --> 00:42:13,702
You have nothing better to do
than prosecute this woman?
871
00:42:13,757 --> 00:42:14,861
It's a hate crime.
872
00:42:14,925 --> 00:42:18,463
If that's not worth prosecuting,
what are we doing here?
873
00:42:18,528 --> 00:42:20,030
I've been paging you
874
00:42:20,097 --> 00:42:22,270
I've been breathing six-year-old
dust in a warehouse,
875
00:42:22,332 --> 00:42:24,972
reliving the mother
of all divorces.
876
00:42:25,502 --> 00:42:28,415
Burdett v. Burdett.
It went all 15 rounds.
877
00:42:28,472 --> 00:42:31,078
These are draft agreements
from Josh Burdett,
878
00:42:31,141 --> 00:42:33,587
these are from Frances Houston.
879
00:42:33,644 --> 00:42:36,318
Take a look at the
custodial provisions.
880
00:42:38,382 --> 00:42:40,862
Now look at
the alimony proposals.
881
00:42:42,686 --> 00:42:44,165
She's unbelievable.
882
00:42:44,221 --> 00:42:46,827
Get Mr. Burdett
to confirm this.
883
00:42:48,458 --> 00:42:52,167
You're right. That's
exactly what went on.
884
00:42:52,229 --> 00:42:55,005
I was traveling on business
two weeks out of every month.
885
00:42:55,065 --> 00:42:56,908
I couldn't possibly
take care of David.
886
00:42:56,967 --> 00:42:59,846
It would have been nice to have
this information before the trial.
887
00:42:59,903 --> 00:43:02,213
We could have impeached
your ex-wife's testimony.
888
00:43:03,173 --> 00:43:05,119
Mr. Burdett,
if there's a re-trial,
889
00:43:05,175 --> 00:43:06,848
I'm going to use this material,
890
00:43:06,910 --> 00:43:08,389
and I'm putting you
on the stand
891
00:43:08,445 --> 00:43:10,152
to authenticate it
and explain what it means.
892
00:43:10,213 --> 00:43:13,422
Absolutely not. My son doesn't
know anything about this.
893
00:43:13,483 --> 00:43:15,258
Mr. Burdett...
I won't do it.
894
00:43:15,318 --> 00:43:17,662
Whatever happens
to Frances or me,
895
00:43:17,721 --> 00:43:20,292
my son believes
his parents love him.
896
00:43:20,357 --> 00:43:24,169
I won't do anything
to make him think otherwise.
897
00:43:24,394 --> 00:43:26,305
I gave myself
asthma for nothing.
898
00:43:26,363 --> 00:43:29,401
We can't use these unless
he authenticates them.
899
00:43:29,466 --> 00:43:32,936
The jury resumes deliberations
at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow.
900
00:43:33,003 --> 00:43:36,473
Call Houston's lawyer, schedule
a conference for 8:30.
901
00:43:40,510 --> 00:43:42,615
No bagels and coffee?
You should have told me.
902
00:43:42,679 --> 00:43:44,056
I would have brought some.
903
00:43:44,114 --> 00:43:46,390
Don't count on keeping
your big appetite.
904
00:43:46,450 --> 00:43:49,454
Mr. McCoy, that jury
is out of oil.
905
00:43:49,519 --> 00:43:52,090
The engine is freezing over. I can smell it.
They're deadlocked.
906
00:43:52,155 --> 00:43:54,761
I'm ready to set
a new trial date right now.
907
00:43:54,825 --> 00:43:58,204
And we'll hang that jury, too.
And the one after that.
908
00:43:58,261 --> 00:44:00,798
One more trial, and it's over.
909
00:44:00,864 --> 00:44:03,970
Ms. Houston, we uncovered some
documents relating to your divorce.
910
00:44:04,034 --> 00:44:06,139
I've highlighted
the relevant portions.
911
00:44:06,203 --> 00:44:09,446
When I got a divorce, I fought
for custody of my child,
912
00:44:09,506 --> 00:44:12,112
but you actually fought
not to have custody.
913
00:44:12,175 --> 00:44:13,654
I don't know what
you're talking about.
914
00:44:13,710 --> 00:44:15,121
It's all there in
the draft agreements.
915
00:44:15,178 --> 00:44:16,782
Neither of you wanted custody.
916
00:44:16,847 --> 00:44:18,383
Your husband
for practical reasons.
917
00:44:18,448 --> 00:44:20,291
And you...
918
00:44:20,350 --> 00:44:24,025
He actually had to triple the alimony
payments before you'd agree.
919
00:44:26,123 --> 00:44:27,932
They're wrong.
920
00:44:28,492 --> 00:44:30,768
What I see in these papers
is a negotiation.
921
00:44:30,827 --> 00:44:32,670
Whatever meaning
you're reading into it...
922
00:44:32,729 --> 00:44:35,335
Was confirmed by
Mr. Burdett himself.
923
00:44:35,398 --> 00:44:37,810
And he'll testify to it
at her next trial.
924
00:44:37,868 --> 00:44:40,246
She didn't want the boy
because he's black.
925
00:44:46,410 --> 00:44:47,855
Josh would never
get up in court.
926
00:44:47,911 --> 00:44:49,288
He already agreed to do it.
927
00:44:49,346 --> 00:44:53,021
The next jury won't buy your
Mary-Mother-of-God routine.
928
00:44:53,083 --> 00:44:55,222
They'll see you
for who you are.
929
00:44:55,285 --> 00:44:59,563
A bigot whose racism runs so deep,
you even hate your own son.
930
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,302
I assume there's
an offer coming?
931
00:45:06,363 --> 00:45:08,900
Man one,
eight-and-a-third-to-25.
932
00:45:13,503 --> 00:45:15,676
Well, I want to see the other
attorneys at the firm.
933
00:45:15,739 --> 00:45:17,946
The white attorneys?
934
00:45:18,008 --> 00:45:21,182
You walk out that door, Ms. Houston,
the offer is off the table.
935
00:45:21,244 --> 00:45:23,520
You'll be retried
for murder two.
936
00:45:27,617 --> 00:45:31,827
You have an attorney present.
Give me your answer now.
937
00:45:48,872 --> 00:45:49,942
You have a deal.
938
00:45:50,006 --> 00:45:51,679
We'll notify the judge.
939
00:45:55,078 --> 00:45:57,490
You have no idea what I
went through, Mr. McCoy.
940
00:45:57,547 --> 00:46:00,221
Only in your own mind,
Ms. Houston.
941
00:46:05,522 --> 00:46:07,263
You're lucky she didn't
call your bluff.
942
00:46:07,324 --> 00:46:09,304
About Burdett testifying?
943
00:46:09,359 --> 00:46:10,963
You don't feel bad
about lying to her?
944
00:46:11,027 --> 00:46:12,563
She got off easy.
945
00:46:12,629 --> 00:46:15,974
Burdett's lie cost her 20 years.
Mine only cost her eight.
946
00:46:16,024 --> 00:46:20,574
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