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[Man Narrating]
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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Really chuggin' along, huh?
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Look, if you can't write...
I'm thinking, all right?
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You know, in Florida...
Vonnegut never had to deal with this.
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Screw you, okay?
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- It's been goin' on for an hour!
- I'll call the desk.
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Screw that!
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The music's so loud, he can't
even hear me. Hey, buttwipe! Hey!
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He could be an ax murderer.
Then I'll call the police.
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He was a pervert who liked
listening to loud music.
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That's all we know!
And you know this because...
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Because I can add
one and one together. Hey!
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Jeffrey is in the middle of a novel.
Jeffrey is about to be in the middle of Rikers.
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Look. We never even met the guy.
We only found him because Jeffrey couldn't concentrate...
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with the music blasting.
Was the music on all day?
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No. Actually, just tonight.
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It started...
I don't know. Maybe 9:00.
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Okay. Hang here, okay?
[Briscoe] Well, how long has he been here?
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He took the room for a week.
Checked in on Monday.
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He have a name?
Bob.
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What?
What is that, like Cher?
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Huh?
Did Bob have a last name?
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Well, this ain't exactly
the Four Seasons.
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The guy pays for a week in cash,
I don't ask any questions.
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He's never been
any trouble before.
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Before what? Monday?
Huh?
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I usually take the towels.
Looks like a couple of cracks to the skull with this did the trick.
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That's why I always get
a nonsmoking room.
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The manager's a bust.
Same with the neighbors.
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He's been dead two hours, tops.
There's no clothes or luggage in the closet.
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Tell me we found
a driver's license. Not that lucky.
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No business cards?
Man, not even a toothbrush.
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I have a feeling
whoever did this has strict rules against kissing on the mouth.
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Detectives.
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[Chattering On Police Radio]
"Don't leave home without it."
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Skull cracked in two places.
Acute cerebral hemorrhaging.
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Good news: Death came quickly.
And the bad news?
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My cable's on the fritz.
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Last meal, chili dogs.
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Mustard and relish?
Tabasco.
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In that neighborhood,
that's fine dining.
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No defensive wounds.
That's odd.
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Yeah, the fun part for these guys is
the struggle after they've been tied up.
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Or so I've heard.
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Guy checks into a sleazeball hotel
on 10th Avenue,
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pays cash, has chili dogs for dinner...
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doesn't strike me as a guy
who'd waste 20 bucks on a manicure.
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Elementary, my dear Rodgers.
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You run the piece?
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Not registered. We're checking
where it began its life.
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Look, she already had him tied up.
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If all she wanted was
what he had in the room,
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she didn't have to kill him.
If she didn't want to be I.D.'d, she did.
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Believe me. Guys who are into
what this guy was into...
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don't file too many complaints.
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- Check with S. V.U. Anyway.
- We did. No similar M.O.'s, and latents led nowhere.
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The guy...
[Briscoe] Bob.
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Checked in alone?
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- Mm-hmm. And nobody saw
any guests arrive. - Great!
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- He had a manicure.
- Would you stop it with the manicure.
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Hey, I don't get manicures, do you?
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Ed, I got the phone records
from the hotel.
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Your guy only made one call
in two days.
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You run it down?
I did.
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And got voice mail.
You're gonna love the message.
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[Woman] Hi, guy. Cosette here.
Well, not here, exactly.
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Leave a name and number.
I'm available for out call only.
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[Beeps]
What time was the call?
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8:32.
F. Scott Fitzstupid... next door...
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- said the music went on around 9:00.
- Where'd the hooker live?
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East Village.
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Cab would get her to the Clinton
in 20 minutes.
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[Sighs] Great.
Quota time, huh?
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You'd think with all the crap in the city,
you'd find a real criminal to hock.
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I'll pay the fine. For the record,
which one of the wives complained?
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Actually, we haven't contacted
the deceased's family yet.
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- Deceased?
- Yeah, that tends to happen when you bash somebody's brains in.
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Whoa! What are we talking about?
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Your client, Cosette.
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- The one you left tied to the bed.
- Hey, I don't do kink.
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And my date was ordering a French dip
from room service when I left.
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That's a good story. It's too bad the Clinton
Hotel doesn't have room service.
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The Clinton... Where's that?
I was at the Monarch.
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Oh, yeah? What room?
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2716.
A guy named "Glen"?
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- I'm calling my lawyer.
- You can call him from the precinct.
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The nice officers downstairs
will escort you.
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[Water Running]
Could we make this quick? My wife's in the shower.
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Your wife?
Yeah, she just flew in from Boise.
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- Um, I came ahead on business.
- And hired a private consultant?
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Look. It was my first time.
[Gasping]
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How often do I get to the city?
Uh, the concierge. Um, um, Douglas.
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He's the one who gave me her name.
How long was Cosette here?
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You mean, in the room?
Uh, 8:00 to 10:00.
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The M.E. Says
he died around 9:00. Died?
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Who died?
Maybe Douglas had more than one girl on his list.
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- Look, my-my wife...
- Go. Go.
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[Door Closes]
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Sorry. I don't think
he's a guest here.
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We're more interested in
whether or not you got him a date.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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Glen, in 2716,
would argue otherwise.
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Look, I've known Cosette forever.
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She would never get involved
in something like that.
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Just your all-American
girl next door, huh? That's right.
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Sometimes, I send
business her way. So what?
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It's called pimping.
I refer business...
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to an entrepreneur as a courtesy.
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I never take a nickel from her.
[Chuckles]
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So what about the rest
of the girls on your block?
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What's that supposed to mean?
Do you refer any other girls?
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No way.
Thanks.
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So Bob's all alone in the big city.
He gets an itch. The recommended scratcher's out and about.
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So, he goes to Plan "B"
for backup.
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But Bob only made the one call,
and the itch is gettin' real bad, so...
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You don't think he was
dumb enough to leave a message?
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Even after you erase a message,
it remains in the system for 48 hours.
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Nothin' like peekin'
at somebody's privates, huh?
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It's for the customer's benefit
if he should erase something by mistake.
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But I'm sure you're never
so thoughtless. I don't have voice mail.
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Uh, Melba, this number belongs to a girl
who's involved in prostitution.
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Maybe murder. So if you could
help us out, we'd really appreciate it.
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What time?
8:32.
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[Man]
Hi. Arnie gave me your number.
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You know what? I'll call back.
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Thank you so much.
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Arnie. I got a news flash for you.
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Guys don't usually tell me
their real name.
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Well, then, the guy
that calls himself Arnie.
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He's a once-a-weeker.
[Briscoe] Where do you meet him?
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I got news for you, Cosette.
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There's no such thing as
"hooker-client confidentiality."
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Uh... [Chuckles]
For good customers, I, uh...
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- provide a place.
- Nothin' like a home office.
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He says he lives in the city.
But Douglas referred him.
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Sure, I guess.
What does he look like?
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Better yet, maybe
you should pick him out.
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Let's go, Cosette.
Another road trip.
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I'd love to help you, but
I've never seen that face before.
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[Briscoe] He said you
gave him Cosette's number.
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He lied. Believe me,
in my business I hear a lot of lies.
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- And what business is that?
- I'm a financial reporter for the Ledger.
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Well, maybe it was
a friend of a friend.
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I've got a wife and a three-year-old.
She's not something I talk about.
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- Uh, nothin' personal, babe.
- Oh, not to worry.
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I'm a stand-up guy. If one
of my buddies was murdered,
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I'd be the first to help you
find the slut who did it.
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If it's okay, my wife's got a leg oflamb
about to come out of the oven.
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Sorry, Arnie.
Tuesday?
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So?
[Briscoe] We'll be in touch.
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You know, there's still
the manicure angle.
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What angle?
Tenth Avenue, in the 40s.
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How many nail-clippers can
there be within walking distance of the Clinton Hotel?
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Yes, yes, I know.
I remember.
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Is he a customer of yours?
One time.
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Two days before.
Before what?
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You mean two days ago.
Yes! A-Ago. Yes.
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Nice man! Strong hand.
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Uh, did he pay cash?
Cash?
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Yes. Ten dollar tip!
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- Mr. Philly.
- That's his name, Mr. Philly?
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[Chuckles]
No, no. Name Bob.
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Philly from where he live.
But he travel much.
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Tucson. Before that,
he say New Hampshire.
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- And, uh, Charleston.
- And he's got the frequent flyer miles to prove it.
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No.! Bob not fly. Bob drive.
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Which means Bob had to park.
Thank you.
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Whatever they told you
at Safe Park on 11 th, we got the best weekly rates in town.
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And you're just a sand wedge
from the Clinton Hotel. My lifeline.
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Pennsylvania car.
Here she is. Buick.
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You really don't need a warrant?
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Bob said it was okay.
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Pop the trunk, Ed.
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Uh, I think you got a customer.
He'll keep.
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I won't.
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Hey, Ed!
Yeah.
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Whole bunch of stuff
about Mitchell Maas. The rich kid rapist?
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The fugitive rich kid rapist.
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An entire police report.
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Court papers.
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Maybe Bob was a stalker.
Or a bounty hunter.
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The car's registered to Robert Rovelli.
Better known as "Bob."
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"Bobcat." The Philly police
know him well.
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"Bobcat Rovelli.
Have gun, will travel."
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Even if it is unregistered.
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Word is, Bobcat's an
"outside the box" kind of guy.
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This Mitch Maas is a piece of work.
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Ten million dollar trust fund,
and he's out date-raping ski bunnies.
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You think he graduated to murder?
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[Briscoe]
Nah. Guys on the run don't make house calls.
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Tell me something.
You come into a strange town, what's the first thing you do?
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Search the Yellow Pages
for the best rib joint.
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You call home, the office... someone
to let them know you made it okay.
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You said this guy, Bobcat, made only
one call from his room to the call girl.
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I'm thinkin', even bounty hunters
have families.
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So one of the personal items
taken from the hotel room might have been a cell phone.
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On which he called
itch-scratcher number two.
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You got the name,
look up the number.
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[Keyboard Clicking,
Phone Ringing]
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Bobcat? Nope, that I'd remember.
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A.k.a. Robert
or Bob Rovelli?
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Sorry.
[Briscoe] That's funny, because our phone records show...
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that Bobcat called you
three times the other day.
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I'm a reporter at
the New York Sentinel. You can't imagine how many calls I get.
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Mr. Rovelli's shortest call
was almost four minutes, Mr. Kellogg.
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Rovelli. Sure. My bad.
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Yeah, we spoke. I told him
the same thing I told the F.B.I. After the interview was published.
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- What interview?
- Last week, I published an interview with Mitchell Maas.
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- He's the bookstore heir, convicted of...
- Maas, we know.
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So, what exactly
did you tell the F.B.I.?
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That Maas called me out of the blue
here at the office.
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I had no idea
where he was calling me from.
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The feds traced the call and discovered
it was from a throwaway cell phone.
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[Briscoe] A phone interview
with a notorious fugitive's...
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gotta add a couple of numbers
to your paycheck.
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A follow-up interview might even
move the decimal point.
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What? Kellogg had
a manicure too?
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Hey, what if Maas promised
to call Kellogg from the road from time to time?
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Oh, I got you.
A promise wouldn't mean squat...
224
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if a bounty hunter
slapped chains on him.
225
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Kellogg calls Maas and warns him
that Bobcat's on the scent.
226
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Only that shoots your theory of
fugitives and house calls all to hell.
227
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Maas kills Bobcat and calls Cosette
to send the dogs sniffing in the wrong direction.
228
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Only how would Maas
get her number?
229
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Maybe Kellogg is
a friend of Cosette's too.
230
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Birds of a feather
still drink together.
231
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Especially reporter birds.
232
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Brian comes out of nowhere.
Big smile, hearty handshake.
233
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Boom! You know, he's headed
to theJournalist Hall of Fame.
234
00:14:19,725 --> 00:14:21,716
Left my sorry butt in the dust.
235
00:14:21,794 --> 00:14:23,819
Well, sounds like
you knew him pretty well.
236
00:14:23,896 --> 00:14:25,864
Yeah, I used to be
at the Sentinel.
237
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Five years in the Metropolitan section.
I rewrote Kellogg's first piece.
238
00:14:29,235 --> 00:14:32,261
Now look... Mitch Maas
calls him personally.
239
00:14:32,338 --> 00:14:35,239
You know that's gonna turn
into a book, or a movie, or...
240
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who knows what.
241
00:14:37,509 --> 00:14:42,139
If I sound jealous, I am.
But Kellogg has talent. You can't take that from him.
242
00:14:42,214 --> 00:14:44,375
How long did you say
you've been seeing Cosette?
243
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That again? [Sighs]
I don't know.
244
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- Uh, five years. Why?
- So that started back when...
245
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you were still bendin' elbows
with Kellogg. Yeah.
246
00:14:53,425 --> 00:14:56,588
But no. I never told Brian about it.
Like I told you,
247
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my personal life I keep personal.
248
00:14:59,665 --> 00:15:03,066
Besides, Brian's single.
He gets all the pu...
249
00:15:03,135 --> 00:15:05,831
Put it this way. He does
just fine in that department...
250
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without any professional help.
251
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[Telephone Ringing]
Forensics says the latents in Rovelli's hotel room...
252
00:15:13,746 --> 00:15:16,112
aren't even close to Maas's.
253
00:15:16,181 --> 00:15:19,048
Tell you what: Kellogg can write.
Listen to this.
254
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"I imagine Maas sitting wherever he was,
in some coffee shop in Houston,
255
00:15:23,188 --> 00:15:28,854
"some gas station in Tampa,
the tic over his left eye starting to flutter uncontrollably...
256
00:15:28,928 --> 00:15:30,862
as he started to bare his soul."
257
00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:35,560
So, did he cop to raping the girls?
Claims that they were after his money from the get-go.
258
00:15:35,634 --> 00:15:38,865
A rich rapist claiming frame.
That's original.
259
00:15:38,938 --> 00:15:41,532
You know what bothers me?
Besides the Mets?
260
00:15:41,607 --> 00:15:44,974
I read all of these articles,
the police reports, the witness depositions...
261
00:15:45,044 --> 00:15:48,605
Not one of them mentions a tic
fluttering over Maas's eye.
262
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Poetic license.
Maybe.
263
00:15:50,683 --> 00:15:53,413
Or Kellogg met with him
face-to-face.
264
00:15:56,121 --> 00:15:58,749
[Kellogg Chuckles]
My compliments. You caught me.
265
00:15:58,824 --> 00:16:02,783
Mitchell Maas and I broke bread...
steaks, actually... a couple of days before I published the interview.
266
00:16:02,861 --> 00:16:05,728
What about the four-hour phone call
the F.B.I. Traced?
267
00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:09,632
I had to call my machine.
You never considered dropping a dime on Maas?
268
00:16:09,702 --> 00:16:12,068
Why would I?
Maybe to be a good citizen?
269
00:16:12,137 --> 00:16:14,196
Maybe so he wouldn't rape
somebody else's daughter?
270
00:16:14,273 --> 00:16:17,800
That's not my job, is it?
You see? That's why you guys are movin' to...
271
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the top of America's
most-despised list.
272
00:16:20,646 --> 00:16:23,843
No, Lennie, it's what's comin' next
that earns him that honor. That's right, Detective.
273
00:16:23,916 --> 00:16:27,283
Anything Mitchell Maas
and I might have discussed is protected by law.
274
00:16:27,353 --> 00:16:30,322
And it didn't bother you
that he might have recently moved up to murder?
275
00:16:30,389 --> 00:16:34,257
My readers trust the Sentinel.
What would happen to that trust if I started betraying sources?
276
00:16:34,326 --> 00:16:36,260
Your crime writers
would have less to do.
277
00:16:36,328 --> 00:16:40,264
And if Deep Throat couldn't rely on
Woodward and Bernstein's confidence,
278
00:16:40,332 --> 00:16:42,800
Nixon's face might be
on a mountain.
279
00:16:46,338 --> 00:16:50,001
The courts used a balancing test,
and the people's right to know came out on top.
280
00:16:50,075 --> 00:16:53,272
What about the people's right
to watch a rapist-murderer rot?
281
00:16:53,345 --> 00:16:55,472
Uh-oh.
Slippery slope time, Lennie.
282
00:16:55,547 --> 00:17:00,484
Well, Albany stopped the slide for good
with a statute that says we can't force a reporter to disclose anything...
283
00:17:00,552 --> 00:17:04,648
a source tells him in confidence.
So it's "Take a Felon to Dinner Week" all year long?
284
00:17:04,723 --> 00:17:06,657
Yeah, as long as you write
about it afterwards.
285
00:17:06,725 --> 00:17:10,889
Dinner?
Kellogg says he had steaks with Maas.
286
00:17:10,963 --> 00:17:14,490
Yeah, who paid?
My money's on the guy with the New York Sentinel expense account.
287
00:17:14,566 --> 00:17:18,730
So what you're telling me is,
Kellogg knew Maas was a fugitive and aided his escape.
288
00:17:18,804 --> 00:17:22,535
Hold on. You want to charge
a reporter with accessory after?
289
00:17:22,608 --> 00:17:25,099
If it'll convince him to help us
locate Maas, why not?
290
00:17:31,083 --> 00:17:33,984
Stop the presses!
Very funny.
291
00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:37,614
Brian Kellogg, you're under
arrest for aiding and abetting a number of felonies.
292
00:17:37,689 --> 00:17:39,623
The good news is
you got another exclusive.
293
00:17:39,691 --> 00:17:43,286
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
294
00:17:45,631 --> 00:17:49,431
Docket number 298463,
People v. Brian Pierce Kellogg.
295
00:17:49,501 --> 00:17:52,595
Charges: Harboring a fugitive
and accessory after the fact.
296
00:17:52,671 --> 00:17:56,198
- Talk to me, Mr. Kellogg.
- My attorney should be arriving shortly, Your Honor.
297
00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:58,209
He snooze, you lose.
298
00:17:58,277 --> 00:18:01,075
- Give me a plea.
- I'd prefer to...
299
00:18:01,146 --> 00:18:03,080
This is not a Chinese restaurant,
Mr. Kellogg.
300
00:18:03,148 --> 00:18:05,673
There are only two choices available.
Pick one.
301
00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:09,243
- [Man] Innocent, Your Honor.
- [Judge] And that's not one of them.
302
00:18:09,321 --> 00:18:12,256
- I find that odd, don't you?
- Are you a wiseass?
303
00:18:12,324 --> 00:18:15,225
- Or a fool, Mr...
- Dworkin, Randall K.
304
00:18:15,294 --> 00:18:17,228
And, uh, with all due respect,
Your Honor,
305
00:18:17,296 --> 00:18:21,562
perhaps you should expand your horizons
and start looking at the world...
306
00:18:21,633 --> 00:18:26,570
as more than just true or false,
black or white, Laverne or Shirley.
307
00:18:26,638 --> 00:18:28,697
Guilty or not guilty?
308
00:18:28,774 --> 00:18:31,242
- My client elects the latter.
- Ms. Southerlyn?
309
00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:33,437
The People ask for bail of $100,000.
310
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- What's the other choice?
- Jail for contempt.
311
00:18:36,715 --> 00:18:38,706
[Gavel Bangs]
312
00:18:40,586 --> 00:18:44,249
So Vinnie the Chin takes a seat
at the bar in O'Malley's Tavern.
313
00:18:44,323 --> 00:18:48,157
He tells Mr. O'Malley that he's throwing
a "Sweet 16" for his granddaughter...
314
00:18:48,227 --> 00:18:52,596
and that O'Malley has two options:
He can supply the liquid refreshment free of charge...
315
00:18:52,664 --> 00:18:55,064
or watch his establishment
burn to a crisp.
316
00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:58,297
Very colorful, Mr. Dworkin.
Extortion always is.
317
00:18:58,370 --> 00:19:00,429
Now, let's look at what
you're doing to my client.
318
00:19:00,506 --> 00:19:04,203
The difference is Mr. O'Malley
wasn't committing any crime.
319
00:19:04,276 --> 00:19:08,212
Look, you know as well as I do,
I don't want to do this.
320
00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,874
Just tell me what you know
about Maas. What a relief.
321
00:19:10,949 --> 00:19:15,682
Talk, or go to jail for
facilitating a continuing felony!
322
00:19:18,490 --> 00:19:21,050
You know, when they came
and took away my Fourth Amendment,
323
00:19:21,126 --> 00:19:24,994
I kept my yap shut... what the hell!
I really didn't have anything to hide anyway.
324
00:19:25,063 --> 00:19:28,624
When they grabbed up
my Second Amendment, I sat still and bit my tongue...
325
00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:31,362
because, truth be told,
I'm allergic to guns.
326
00:19:31,436 --> 00:19:35,133
But here we are, you with
your cold, hard fingers...
327
00:19:35,207 --> 00:19:37,835
wrapped around the neck
of my First Amendment,
328
00:19:37,910 --> 00:19:40,902
and I've got to shout as loud
as I can, because if I don't,
329
00:19:40,979 --> 00:19:43,777
before you know it, you won't
let me say nothin' at all.
330
00:19:44,783 --> 00:19:48,879
My motion to dismiss
on the grounds of everything that makes this country not Iraq.
331
00:19:53,058 --> 00:19:56,118
Judge Murphy cut Dworkin off
before he had a chance to get started.
332
00:19:56,195 --> 00:19:58,663
Don't tell me he said it was
an issue of fact for the jury.
333
00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:01,563
That's exactly what he said.
Brave man.
334
00:20:01,633 --> 00:20:05,729
I know I wouldn't want the op-ed page
looking over my shoulder 24/7.
335
00:20:05,804 --> 00:20:09,262
I suspect this will convince Mr. Kellogg
to hit all the high notes.
336
00:20:09,341 --> 00:20:14,244
Some reporters actually consider
going to jail to protect their sources a badge of honor.
337
00:20:14,313 --> 00:20:17,441
Yeah, spending a couple of weeks
in a holding cell for contempt...
338
00:20:17,516 --> 00:20:21,919
is a far cry from a couple of years
in Attica for facilitation.
339
00:20:21,987 --> 00:20:25,684
The judge wants facts.
I suggest we pile up as many as we can.
340
00:20:25,757 --> 00:20:28,282
I'll start with the people
who work with Kellogg.
341
00:20:31,363 --> 00:20:33,297
Thousands of reporters
spread across the map...
342
00:20:33,365 --> 00:20:35,993
Who does the fugitive du jour
pick? Brian Kellogg.
343
00:20:36,068 --> 00:20:40,368
Believe me. That's a career.
The interview upped our circulation 10%.
344
00:20:40,439 --> 00:20:42,737
And I'm sure Kellogg
was rewarded handsomely.
345
00:20:43,909 --> 00:20:48,073
People don't
go into journalism to get rich. They do it to get the next story.
346
00:20:48,146 --> 00:20:51,138
Are you saying Mitchell Maas
promised Kellogg another interview?
347
00:20:51,216 --> 00:20:54,777
I wouldn't know.
But I wouldn't be surprised if he promised Brian his firstborn.
348
00:20:54,853 --> 00:20:57,048
That's just the kind of guy
Brian is.
349
00:20:57,122 --> 00:20:59,750
Do you know where they had dinner?
350
00:20:59,825 --> 00:21:02,885
Why? You gonna lock me up too?
351
00:21:04,029 --> 00:21:06,293
[Chuckles]
Sorry.
352
00:21:06,365 --> 00:21:09,266
I only read what you did.
353
00:21:09,334 --> 00:21:11,700
Brian's not the worst boss
I ever had.
354
00:21:11,770 --> 00:21:16,833
But he's not the best?
Hey, you know. Every now and then I'd like to do more than take a letter or get coffee.
355
00:21:16,908 --> 00:21:21,072
Tell me about it.
Ah, what can I say? I guess he's under a lot of pressure.
356
00:21:21,146 --> 00:21:23,512
What kind of pressure?
Publish or perish.
357
00:21:23,582 --> 00:21:25,607
The man's gotta fill
two columns a week.
358
00:21:25,684 --> 00:21:28,084
He comes across cucumber-cool
to everyone else,
359
00:21:28,153 --> 00:21:30,553
but I know what's really goin' on.
360
00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:35,116
Why don't you tell me?
Well, I suppose this-this couldn't hurt him.
361
00:21:35,193 --> 00:21:37,821
Here's a for instance.
362
00:21:37,896 --> 00:21:39,955
Schultzie wanted someone
to do a piece...
363
00:21:40,032 --> 00:21:43,468
about the investors who were
destroyed during the Enron thing.
364
00:21:43,535 --> 00:21:45,833
So Brian volunteers.
Like it's nothing.
365
00:21:45,904 --> 00:21:49,465
I read that piece.
I can't believe he got some of those people to talk.
366
00:21:49,541 --> 00:21:51,600
Yeah. Well, that's Brian.
367
00:21:51,677 --> 00:21:56,580
Now, to the rest of the staff,
Brian comes across like, "Hey, piece of cake!"
368
00:21:56,648 --> 00:22:01,017
Mm-mm. Between you,
me and the coffee pot, he was a wreck.
369
00:22:02,654 --> 00:22:05,214
So, can I assume that someone who
doesn't make their own coffee...
370
00:22:05,290 --> 00:22:07,224
doesn't make their own
dinner reservations?
371
00:22:07,292 --> 00:22:12,025
Hmm. Most of the time, yeah.
But, when he met with Maas, he flew solo.
372
00:22:12,097 --> 00:22:14,691
So where does he usually
go for steak?
373
00:22:14,766 --> 00:22:17,200
The Palm.
But not this time.
374
00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:21,933
- How do you know?
- Well, because this time, he took a company car.
375
00:22:22,007 --> 00:22:26,307
And that would have been
a little extravagant, 'cause it's like two blocks away.
376
00:22:27,779 --> 00:22:30,942
I don't know. Maybe I thought
you'd find a book of matches or something.
377
00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:33,951
You sure nobody drove it
since Kellogg took it out?
378
00:22:34,019 --> 00:22:37,250
Yeah, that's what
they tell me. Why? Well, it's a long shot.
379
00:22:38,290 --> 00:22:42,124
Hey. According to
the navigation system, the last person that used this car...
380
00:22:42,194 --> 00:22:45,391
went to 25 Oak Tree Lane
in Greenwich, Connecticut.
381
00:22:45,464 --> 00:22:50,766
Could be where Kellogg met Maas.
Or it could be the golf club where the editors do their "research."
382
00:22:50,836 --> 00:22:52,963
What the hell?
We have nothing else.
383
00:22:56,742 --> 00:22:58,676
Isn't that the playboy from Vail?
384
00:22:58,744 --> 00:23:03,272
Mitchell Maas. Good eye.
Money. Family. Looks. Makes you wonder what went wrong.
385
00:23:03,348 --> 00:23:07,284
Has he spent any time here?
A rapist? Here in Greenwich?
386
00:23:08,954 --> 00:23:11,184
There's a chance.
How about this guy?
387
00:23:11,256 --> 00:23:14,521
Does this look like a halfway house?
388
00:23:14,593 --> 00:23:17,562
I'll be.
That looks like Mr. Smith.
389
00:23:17,629 --> 00:23:21,497
- Nice fellow. What did he do?
- Why don't you tell us?
390
00:23:21,566 --> 00:23:25,195
- Well, he and the wife...
- Mr. And Mrs. Smith? You bought that?
391
00:23:25,270 --> 00:23:27,363
No, but I don't pry.
392
00:23:27,439 --> 00:23:31,637
I certainly doubt that he's
the first gentleman to use our facility to step out on the missus.
393
00:23:31,710 --> 00:23:33,769
You get anything beside "Smith"?
394
00:23:33,845 --> 00:23:39,306
- I believe he called her Denise.
- Can I take a look at your registration book, please?
395
00:23:43,855 --> 00:23:47,313
Kellogg checked into his motel
in Greenwich three nights straight.
396
00:23:47,392 --> 00:23:51,726
On the last night, his car was in the lot
from 6:00 until the following morning.
397
00:23:51,797 --> 00:23:55,961
That was the night of the seventh.
Which is the same night he was supposed to be having dinner with Mitchell Maas.
398
00:23:56,034 --> 00:24:00,869
Exactly. And the motel manager
said that he and this Denise didn't have any visitors.
399
00:24:00,939 --> 00:24:04,431
And they only went out for a cozy dinner
for two at a coffee shop at around 9:30.
400
00:24:04,509 --> 00:24:07,239
So that leaves us with
two possibilities, Jack.
401
00:24:07,312 --> 00:24:11,681
Either Kellogg got the date wrong,
or he didn't have dinner with Maas.
402
00:24:11,750 --> 00:24:15,117
I know it's crazy, but I showed
Kellogg's photo to people at Bobcat's hotel.
403
00:24:15,187 --> 00:24:18,088
And a custodian said that
he saw someone that looked a lot like Kellogg...
404
00:24:18,156 --> 00:24:21,125
waiting for an elevator.
405
00:24:21,193 --> 00:24:23,252
Maybe it's not that crazy.
406
00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:27,729
The last entry on Bobcat's map
was on the second.
407
00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:30,165
He was looking for Maas in Tucson.
408
00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:33,363
He was headed for Los Angeles,
only he never made it.
409
00:24:33,438 --> 00:24:36,737
Instead, he winds up dead
in a hotel on 10th Avenue.
410
00:24:37,809 --> 00:24:40,937
Bobcat highlighted every
move he made on this map.
411
00:24:41,012 --> 00:24:42,946
Why didn't he highlight
his trip east?
412
00:24:43,014 --> 00:24:46,677
Because he didn't come east
looking for Maas; he came east looking for Kellogg.
413
00:24:48,553 --> 00:24:51,420
Wait a minute.
When was that interview published?
414
00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:54,118
On the 10th?
415
00:24:54,192 --> 00:24:56,558
Yeah, the 10th.
416
00:24:56,628 --> 00:24:59,495
That's the day that Bobcat
changed directions.
417
00:24:59,564 --> 00:25:02,931
So he might have read something
in that interview to make him think that the ace reporter...
418
00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:08,029
made up the whole thing.
Kellogg lied to his editors about the phone call from Maas,
419
00:25:08,106 --> 00:25:12,839
and he lied to the cops
about their dinner. But making up an interview entirely?
420
00:25:12,911 --> 00:25:15,937
The bottom line is: Who would be
better equipped to realize...
421
00:25:16,014 --> 00:25:21,680
that the interview was bogus than
someone who had lived and breathed Mitchell Maas for almost a year?
422
00:25:21,753 --> 00:25:23,687
And then he came to New York
to blackmail Kellogg.
423
00:25:23,755 --> 00:25:26,690
An easier buck than chasing Maas
from coast-to-coast.
424
00:25:26,758 --> 00:25:30,489
See if you can find out what it was
that inspired Bobcat's trip east.
425
00:25:30,562 --> 00:25:33,429
And if I can?
Refile.
426
00:25:33,498 --> 00:25:35,728
Charge Kellogg with murder two.
427
00:25:41,006 --> 00:25:45,033
Congratulations! You squeezed the hunk
of coal hard enough, a diamond popped out.
428
00:25:45,110 --> 00:25:47,704
Les jeux sont faits.
Consider the white flag raised.
429
00:25:47,779 --> 00:25:51,738
Brian has agreed to tell you
everything he omitted from his published interview with Mitchell Maas.
430
00:25:52,784 --> 00:25:55,548
No longer good enough.
Hey.
431
00:25:55,620 --> 00:25:58,521
I love a costume party as much as
the next guy, but no amount of makeup...
432
00:25:58,590 --> 00:26:01,150
is going to turn Brian into a murderer.
[Chuckles]
433
00:26:01,226 --> 00:26:05,492
- Or a reporter.
- Tell that to his millions ofloyal readers, why don't you?
434
00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:11,332
One page two of your interview,
you wrote about Mitchell Maas's passion for baseball.
435
00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:15,464
How, since he went on the run,
the thing he misses most is his box seat...
436
00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:19,067
beside the dugout in Coors Field.
Hey, somebody's got to root for the Rockies.
437
00:26:20,145 --> 00:26:22,739
Why do you suppose that
particular line is underlined...
438
00:26:22,814 --> 00:26:26,875
in Bobcat Rovelli's copy
of the interview?
439
00:26:26,952 --> 00:26:29,216
Well, we didn't know either,
so we checked with Coors Field,
440
00:26:29,287 --> 00:26:31,915
and they told us that Maas's seats
were behind home plate.
441
00:26:31,990 --> 00:26:35,756
This is what you're hanging
your hat on? A literary flourish?
442
00:26:35,827 --> 00:26:38,694
To Bobcat, it was a red flag.
443
00:26:38,763 --> 00:26:43,757
It told him... Mr. Kellogg might have
fabricated the entire interview.
444
00:26:43,835 --> 00:26:45,769
[Chuckles]
Jack.!
445
00:26:45,837 --> 00:26:49,534
No one ever told me about
your sense of humor. Outstanding!
446
00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:52,873
We found his prints in Rovelli's room.
447
00:26:57,182 --> 00:27:00,709
So. How much did he want from you?
448
00:27:00,785 --> 00:27:04,448
[McCoy] It had to be a lot, to give up
his hunt for a million dollars.
449
00:27:04,522 --> 00:27:07,150
Pay up or be exposed as a fraud.
450
00:27:07,225 --> 00:27:09,921
My feeling is...
451
00:27:09,995 --> 00:27:12,259
you really couldn't afford either.
452
00:27:13,798 --> 00:27:16,824
Uh, what say we reconvene?
453
00:27:24,242 --> 00:27:26,836
The People will show
that Bobcat Rovelli...
454
00:27:26,911 --> 00:27:30,745
caught the defendant
in a very public lie.
455
00:27:30,815 --> 00:27:35,149
That Mr. Rovelli discovered the lie
and threatened to expose him.
456
00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:39,787
That his ego, or pride,
457
00:27:39,858 --> 00:27:42,452
could not or would not allow that.
458
00:27:42,527 --> 00:27:45,587
So he went to Mr. Rovelli's hotel room,
459
00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:49,259
and cracked his skull
with an ashtray,
460
00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:54,533
killing him instantly, and then,
with utter disregard for the consequences,
461
00:27:54,606 --> 00:27:58,770
he tried to frame
an innocent party...
462
00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:00,777
by staging an aborted sex scene.
463
00:28:01,980 --> 00:28:07,282
Mr. Kellogg has no defense,
he has no excuse.
464
00:28:07,352 --> 00:28:10,753
He's guilty of murder
in the second degree.
465
00:28:12,724 --> 00:28:15,955
You know that dream...
where you show up at work,
466
00:28:16,027 --> 00:28:18,291
and you're naked?
467
00:28:18,363 --> 00:28:21,628
In my version,
the day starts off great.
468
00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:23,895
I actually get a seat
on the Number 2 train.
469
00:28:23,968 --> 00:28:27,734
In the elevator, Susie, from down
the hall, flashes a wink and a grin.
470
00:28:27,806 --> 00:28:32,300
Then, smack in the middle of my
presentation to a roomful of partners,
471
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:34,641
I see my reflection in the window.
472
00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:40,515
Not the suave, well-coiffed devil
you see in front of you, mind you,
473
00:28:40,585 --> 00:28:45,488
but a bony-butted...
474
00:28:45,557 --> 00:28:48,549
- You can imagine the rest!
- Your Honor, what has this got to do with...
475
00:28:48,626 --> 00:28:51,925
Brian Kellogg saw
that reflection every day.
476
00:28:53,865 --> 00:28:57,028
He was petrified that those
around him would see it too.
477
00:28:57,102 --> 00:29:00,299
He was scared that they would
see past his facade...
478
00:29:00,371 --> 00:29:02,498
his cocky grin, his air of competence,
479
00:29:02,574 --> 00:29:07,136
and see him for what
he really was: A fraud.
480
00:29:07,212 --> 00:29:13,173
A man forced to play a role
that he was totally unable to audition for, let alone play.
481
00:29:13,251 --> 00:29:16,049
And who is it that forced him
into that role?
482
00:29:16,121 --> 00:29:19,887
It was you. It was me.
483
00:29:19,958 --> 00:29:23,792
It was all of us!
All of us who allow a policy of racial preference...
484
00:29:23,862 --> 00:29:28,390
- Your Honor!
- All of us who sit by and let the government force institutions...
485
00:29:28,466 --> 00:29:32,527
such as the New York Sentinel
to put less-than-competent people into positions...
486
00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:35,402
solely to assuage
some sort ofhistorical guilt.
487
00:29:35,473 --> 00:29:39,136
I want the entire opening statement
stricken from the record...
488
00:29:39,210 --> 00:29:42,145
as irrelevant and misleading.
489
00:29:42,213 --> 00:29:45,376
I'll see counsel in my chambers.
490
00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:49,011
I want a mistrial!
It's jury nullification, Your Honor.
491
00:29:49,087 --> 00:29:52,113
Who, me?
Most defense attorneys have the decency to wait...
492
00:29:52,190 --> 00:29:55,057
until closing arguments
to try and confuse the jury...
493
00:29:55,126 --> 00:29:58,459
with completely irrelevant,
absurdly emotional facts.
494
00:29:58,530 --> 00:30:00,725
Prosecution is permitted to speculate
as to motive.
495
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:04,735
The defense should therefore be
permitted to prove it is just that, utter speculation,
496
00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:07,465
by offering evidence as to
the defendant's actual motive.
497
00:30:07,539 --> 00:30:09,905
Affirmative action
made him do it.
498
00:30:09,974 --> 00:30:12,169
Well, if you want to split hairs,
it's really equal opportunity. Your Honor...
499
00:30:12,243 --> 00:30:15,735
No. This, I want to hear.
Unrealistic expectations, Judge.
500
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:21,184
They create enormous pressures.
Who can argue that pressure doesn't mitigate a defendant's mens rea?
501
00:30:21,252 --> 00:30:24,779
I can't. Can you? And as
we all learned in first year crim,
502
00:30:24,856 --> 00:30:30,158
a lesser degree of mental culpability
is the essential difference between murder and manslaughter,
503
00:30:30,228 --> 00:30:33,095
which in turn is the difference
between a defendant dying in prison...
504
00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:36,190
and getting out in time to dance
at his daughter's wedding, God willing.
505
00:30:36,267 --> 00:30:40,294
- Offer him man one, Mr. McCoy.
Save us all the migraine. - Out of the question!
506
00:30:40,371 --> 00:30:43,829
[Softly] It's your head.
Well, defense is certainly entitled to argue...
507
00:30:43,908 --> 00:30:45,808
You can't.!
I just did.
508
00:30:50,215 --> 00:30:52,683
It's like being kicked by a mule.
509
00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:57,312
It's a baseless argument, Arthur.
Juries don't baffle as easily as Mr. Dworkin thinks.
510
00:30:57,388 --> 00:30:59,322
Yeah, but you have to admit,
it is creative.
511
00:30:59,390 --> 00:31:01,915
A lot of people are frustrated
by affirmative action.
512
00:31:01,993 --> 00:31:05,588
Affirmative action does not apply
to the Sentinel, and even if it did,
513
00:31:05,663 --> 00:31:08,530
it isn't relevant to this case.
I know that and you know that,
514
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,761
- but a jury...
- Will vote against it.
515
00:31:10,835 --> 00:31:13,770
Thank you, Sandra Day,
for deciding not to decide.
516
00:31:13,838 --> 00:31:16,534
Don't go there, Arthur.
Why? Because I get a rash...
517
00:31:16,608 --> 00:31:21,204
when I see five of the nine justices
in Washington rewriting the 14th Amendment?
518
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:25,306
The 14th Amendment forbids
discrimination based on race, not assistance.
519
00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:28,409
"Give the black man a chance
to stand on his own legs.
520
00:31:28,486 --> 00:31:30,545
"Let him alone.
521
00:31:30,622 --> 00:31:33,352
Your interference
is doing him positive injury."
522
00:31:33,424 --> 00:31:38,384
But Frederick Douglass didn't know
that 140 years later, so much would not have changed.
523
00:31:38,463 --> 00:31:41,489
- Sounds like white guilt.
- We're leveling the playing field once and for all.
524
00:31:41,566 --> 00:31:43,761
You see, if Dworkin has
the two of you arguing about it,
525
00:31:43,835 --> 00:31:46,269
a jury doesn't stand a chance.
526
00:31:46,337 --> 00:31:48,271
I've got the law;
I've got the facts.
527
00:31:48,339 --> 00:31:50,637
All Dworkin has is hoopla.
528
00:31:50,708 --> 00:31:53,074
I'll ignore it and convict
the son of a bitch.
529
00:31:57,248 --> 00:32:00,615
Back when I worked at the Sentinel,
Brian and I were pretty close.
530
00:32:00,685 --> 00:32:02,915
[McCoy]
Did you socialize? Sure.
531
00:32:02,987 --> 00:32:05,547
We ate together now and then,
ball games, drinks...
532
00:32:05,623 --> 00:32:09,559
Talk about personal things?
As much as guys do.
533
00:32:09,627 --> 00:32:12,596
- Did the subject of women ever come up?
- Of course.
534
00:32:12,664 --> 00:32:17,192
Did you ever tell him...
about a call girl named "Cosette"?
535
00:32:18,836 --> 00:32:22,101
Maybe. I don't think I did,
but I can't be sure.
536
00:32:22,173 --> 00:32:25,267
I do know for a fact
I never gave Brian her number.
537
00:32:25,343 --> 00:32:27,709
[McCoy]
But it was in the Rolodex you kept on your desk.
538
00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:30,471
Sure.
539
00:32:34,852 --> 00:32:37,946
And, uh, you left the Sentinel
because you got a better offer?
540
00:32:38,022 --> 00:32:43,016
[Chuckles]
I left because they didn't appreciate my work.
541
00:32:43,094 --> 00:32:47,030
How do you know?
I was there for five years before Brian showed up.
542
00:32:47,098 --> 00:32:51,660
- Ayear later, I'm working for him.
- Pissed you off to no end, huh?
543
00:32:51,736 --> 00:32:55,297
I'm human.
And did you complain, like any human would?
544
00:32:55,373 --> 00:32:58,001
Sure. I went to Mr. Schultz,
the managing editor.
545
00:32:58,076 --> 00:33:01,136
I said the whole thing was bull,
that Brian didn't have the experience.
546
00:33:01,212 --> 00:33:03,680
[Dworkin]
And what did Mr. Schultz say?
547
00:33:03,748 --> 00:33:06,876
That there were other considerations.
548
00:33:06,951 --> 00:33:09,579
That I should just
bite the bullet on this one.
549
00:33:12,523 --> 00:33:17,756
I'd have to say...
I thought the Maas piece would be the interview of the year.
550
00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:21,230
Did you do any sort of fact check
after you read the piece?
551
00:33:21,299 --> 00:33:24,826
How could I? Brian told me
he spoke to Maas over the phone.
552
00:33:24,902 --> 00:33:28,770
He didn't know where he was.
Which turned out to be a lie.
553
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,936
When I found out, I confronted him.
He told me that Maas insisted that no one ever know...
554
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,912
that they met face-to-face.
And you believed him?
555
00:33:35,980 --> 00:33:40,280
I had no reason not to.
We stand for integrity at the Sentinel.
556
00:33:40,351 --> 00:33:43,843
Most articles are fact-checked twice.
Interviews are approved.
557
00:33:43,921 --> 00:33:47,789
- Our readers rely on that.
- How would they react if they learned that...
558
00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:51,295
one of your star reporters
actually fabricated an interview?
559
00:33:51,362 --> 00:33:55,458
Once you lose the public's trust,
it's next to impossible to get it back.
560
00:33:55,533 --> 00:33:57,728
And what would happen to a reporter...
561
00:33:57,802 --> 00:34:00,532
if it were discovered
that he made up stories?
562
00:34:02,306 --> 00:34:04,467
He would never work again.
563
00:34:08,946 --> 00:34:11,938
If any reporter
other than Brian Kellogg...
564
00:34:12,016 --> 00:34:14,450
misled you about the circumstances
surrounding an interview,
565
00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:16,453
what would you do?
It depends.
566
00:34:16,521 --> 00:34:20,787
- On whether he was black?
- Absolutely not.
567
00:34:20,858 --> 00:34:23,224
We depend on the totality
of the circumstances.
568
00:34:23,294 --> 00:34:26,923
- The nature of the so-called lie.
- Really? We'll get back to that.
569
00:34:26,998 --> 00:34:29,398
You know what I don't get?
570
00:34:29,467 --> 00:34:31,992
Mr. Kellogg was writing obituaries
when he got to the paper.
571
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:35,665
But three months later,
he was on the Metro desk.
572
00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:41,007
- He was good.
- Ayear later, he was a senior editor. Sounds more like he was great.
573
00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:45,072
- Was he great, Mr. Schultz?
- My people must have thought so.
574
00:34:45,149 --> 00:34:47,083
And he was wearing the right color skin.
575
00:34:47,151 --> 00:34:50,609
I like to think of myself
as color blind, Mr. Dworkin.
576
00:34:50,688 --> 00:34:52,679
Yes, we hire talented minorities.
577
00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:55,851
We try, as best we can,
to keep a world perspective.
578
00:34:55,927 --> 00:34:59,385
Let's pretend one of
your reporters publishes a story containing out-and-out lies.
579
00:34:59,464 --> 00:35:01,955
Would you consider such insubordination
to be a fireable offense?
580
00:35:02,033 --> 00:35:04,831
- Yes.
- Yet nothing happened to Mr. Kellogg...
581
00:35:04,902 --> 00:35:07,302
when he wrote about a mythical
phone call with Mitchell Maas.
582
00:35:07,371 --> 00:35:09,498
Why is that?
583
00:35:14,145 --> 00:35:16,670
[Chattering]
584
00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:21,544
Seems like old times.
You jab, I cross.
585
00:35:21,619 --> 00:35:25,385
You're not cute.
My nana would disagree.
586
00:35:25,456 --> 00:35:29,449
You know what? I'm tired of you.
I'm tired of defense attorneys obfuscating facts...
587
00:35:29,527 --> 00:35:32,462
with prejudice.
"Zealous representation." I'm sure you've heard of it.
588
00:35:32,530 --> 00:35:35,988
I don't believe that includes
the denigration of an entire race.
589
00:35:36,067 --> 00:35:39,298
An entire race didn't hire me.
An individual did.
590
00:35:39,370 --> 00:35:42,339
It's destructive.
You want destructive?
591
00:35:42,406 --> 00:35:45,466
Let's talk about a social policy
that stigmatizes blacks as inferior...
592
00:35:45,543 --> 00:35:48,478
by rendering all of their accomplishments,
per se, suspect.
593
00:35:48,546 --> 00:35:51,845
If the one judging the achievements
happens to be a member of the Klan.
594
00:35:51,916 --> 00:35:55,044
Really? Okay.
595
00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:58,486
Uh, you're sick. No.
Your daughter is gravely ill,
596
00:35:58,556 --> 00:36:00,581
and only major surgery will save her.
597
00:36:00,658 --> 00:36:03,252
And you're lucky enough to have
the choice between two surgeons...
598
00:36:03,327 --> 00:36:05,693
one white and one not-so-white...
which do you choose?
599
00:36:05,763 --> 00:36:08,664
My choice would have
nothing to do with race.
600
00:36:08,733 --> 00:36:11,224
Fair enough. Uh, they both grew up
in the same block in Queens,
601
00:36:11,302 --> 00:36:14,100
they both went to Harvard...
Come on, Jack!
602
00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:16,766
Can you honestly tell me
that it would never cross your mind...
603
00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:20,333
that Dr. "B" maybe got a little boost
climbing over the ivy-covered walls?
604
00:36:20,411 --> 00:36:23,676
While Dr. "A" was a legacy!
Okay. Let's try this.
605
00:36:23,748 --> 00:36:25,978
The powers that be
at a major corporation...
606
00:36:26,050 --> 00:36:29,281
parade a couple of black faces
in front of the wondrous white multitude.
607
00:36:29,353 --> 00:36:34,086
They pat themselves on the back,
but do you suppose one of them ever stops to think...
608
00:36:34,158 --> 00:36:36,558
what that parade actually does
to those marching in it?
609
00:36:36,627 --> 00:36:39,187
You mean, providing otherwise
unavailable opportunity?
610
00:36:39,263 --> 00:36:42,528
Opportunity is not opportune
when it's accompanied by marginalization.
611
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,765
That's backwards!
The denial of opportunity created marginalization.
612
00:36:47,838 --> 00:36:50,204
And there's one word
for that: Racism.
613
00:36:50,274 --> 00:36:53,107
Ooh, the "R" word.
614
00:36:53,177 --> 00:36:55,907
The most dangerous weapon
in the leftist arsenal.
615
00:36:55,980 --> 00:36:59,541
Look, Janeane Garofalo herself
can storm into my office...
616
00:36:59,617 --> 00:37:02,609
and tear down the framed photos
of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner...
617
00:37:02,687 --> 00:37:06,123
that I keep on the wall over my desk
for this, but what the hell.
618
00:37:06,190 --> 00:37:08,590
Affirmative action is the devil.
619
00:37:08,659 --> 00:37:11,628
All it does is tell a black man
that he is first and foremost black.
620
00:37:11,696 --> 00:37:14,494
Do you want racism? Let's put on
our jackboots and define a man...
621
00:37:14,565 --> 00:37:19,059
by his race alone...
now that's racism, with a capital "Heil!"
622
00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:23,666
Gee, do you really believe that?
623
00:37:23,741 --> 00:37:25,834
What I believe
really isn't the issue.
624
00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:28,242
I'm not just tired of you; I'm disgusted.
625
00:37:28,312 --> 00:37:32,078
I'm disgusted that you would take
these global travesties...
626
00:37:32,149 --> 00:37:34,811
and bend them and twist them
and turn them inside out.
627
00:37:34,885 --> 00:37:37,479
Just to get a murderer off.
628
00:37:38,522 --> 00:37:40,456
It's a livin'.
629
00:37:47,298 --> 00:37:49,892
I know how I got thejob
in the first place.
630
00:37:49,967 --> 00:37:54,165
It was obvious. One black face
in the entering group of reporters.
631
00:37:54,238 --> 00:37:56,798
Come on. You don't have to be
a rocket scientist.
632
00:37:56,874 --> 00:37:58,808
And no one ever accused you of that.
633
00:37:58,876 --> 00:38:02,903
I never asked for the promotions.
Someone wouldjust call me up into their office...
634
00:38:02,980 --> 00:38:07,280
- and say, "We're bumping you up."
- You never asked why?
635
00:38:07,351 --> 00:38:09,979
I didn't really have to.
636
00:38:10,054 --> 00:38:14,514
Look. I'm black.
637
00:38:14,592 --> 00:38:19,495
[Scoffs]
When I got my byline at the Sentinel,
638
00:38:19,563 --> 00:38:22,828
you should have seen
the people in my neighborhood.
639
00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:25,698
It was like I landed on the moon.
640
00:38:25,770 --> 00:38:29,399
I was some kind ofhero.
A role model.
641
00:38:29,473 --> 00:38:33,239
They asked me to speak
to kids at the high school.
642
00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:36,007
I was proud...
643
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:40,483
that I was, all of a sudden, an important
part of the black community.
644
00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:43,452
I get calls from JesseJackson.
645
00:38:43,521 --> 00:38:46,513
Have dinner with Spike Lee.
646
00:38:46,590 --> 00:38:50,686
[Chuckles]
Al Sharpton wanted my opinion.
647
00:38:50,761 --> 00:38:54,527
You know what's nuts?
If I were in your shoes,
648
00:38:54,598 --> 00:38:59,501
I'd sit back, put my feet up on the desk,
and collect the paychecks. [Chuckles]
649
00:38:59,570 --> 00:39:04,234
That's because you can't be in my shoes.
650
00:39:04,308 --> 00:39:07,402
L-I didn't just have to be competent.
651
00:39:07,478 --> 00:39:09,446
L-I had to be superior...
652
00:39:09,513 --> 00:39:14,041
just so people wouldn't think
I was incompetent.
653
00:39:14,118 --> 00:39:16,313
And Bobcat Rovelli...
654
00:39:16,387 --> 00:39:20,346
knew for a fact
that you weren't superior.
655
00:39:20,424 --> 00:39:25,657
You tell me. What if someone else
had been found to fabricate a story?
656
00:39:27,298 --> 00:39:29,892
There'd be a scandal that'd
blow over in a couple of weeks.
657
00:39:29,967 --> 00:39:33,903
But if I'm caught? Well, let's just say
all the wrong people would have...
658
00:39:33,971 --> 00:39:37,031
all the "I told you so's" they wanted.
659
00:39:38,042 --> 00:39:41,569
And that's what you were thinking
when you showed up in Bobcat Rovelli's hotel room?
660
00:39:41,645 --> 00:39:46,673
He took one look at me
and laughed in my face...
661
00:39:46,751 --> 00:39:48,776
and said, "It figures."
662
00:39:50,888 --> 00:39:52,913
That's when I hit him.
663
00:39:58,529 --> 00:40:01,464
If Kellogg was under so much pressure,
he could have quit the damn job.
664
00:40:01,532 --> 00:40:04,831
[Scoffs]
And announce publicly, "I can't hack it?"
665
00:40:04,902 --> 00:40:07,837
Why not? Humans fail.
666
00:40:07,905 --> 00:40:10,738
It's what makes them human.
667
00:40:10,808 --> 00:40:14,676
What, Serena?
It's just, I'm not so sure Kellogg doesn't have a lot more at stake...
668
00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:16,736
every time he leaves his apartment
than I do!
669
00:40:16,814 --> 00:40:20,511
And I think this is all a truckload
of hocus-pocus from Dworkin...
670
00:40:20,584 --> 00:40:25,180
to cover the fact that Brian Kellogg
was more concerned with the trappings of easy success!
671
00:40:25,256 --> 00:40:27,850
The promotions, the paycheck,
the company car,
672
00:40:27,925 --> 00:40:32,055
the trysts in a Connecticut motel
with someone named Diane... Denise.
673
00:40:33,697 --> 00:40:38,066
Have you spoken with her?
We don't even know her last name. There are a lot of Denises in Connecticut.
674
00:40:40,805 --> 00:40:43,365
I want Kellogg down here
first thing in the morning.
675
00:40:46,310 --> 00:40:49,939
A continuance? If you haven't
noticed, I'm on a roll in there.
676
00:40:50,014 --> 00:40:52,744
I'm not asking your permission.
677
00:40:52,817 --> 00:40:54,751
We uncovered a crucial witness.
678
00:40:54,819 --> 00:40:58,812
Who? A busload of nuns ready to testify
that Bobcat was up for sainthood?
679
00:40:58,889 --> 00:41:02,450
No. Just Mr. Kellogg's friend Denise.
680
00:41:03,527 --> 00:41:08,430
Um, I haven't had the pleasure.
A married lady, who your client knows quite intimately.
681
00:41:08,499 --> 00:41:12,060
And her testimony
is relevant because...
682
00:41:12,136 --> 00:41:16,368
To be totally honest, I doubt
if anything she has to say...
683
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,000
would make a difference
to anyone in the courtroom.
684
00:41:19,076 --> 00:41:21,010
Oh.! Silly me.
685
00:41:21,078 --> 00:41:23,740
- I thought "crucial" meant...
- Make a deal.
686
00:41:23,814 --> 00:41:28,217
Are you crazy? We've rounded man one
and are sliding into man two.
687
00:41:28,285 --> 00:41:30,276
That could be 18 months.
No.
688
00:41:32,690 --> 00:41:36,353
We gave it a shot, okay?
It didn't work out.
689
00:41:36,427 --> 00:41:39,362
What can I get?
690
00:41:39,430 --> 00:41:43,491
I'll give you man one.
But you have to do the max.
691
00:41:44,902 --> 00:41:48,702
Twelve and a half to 25 beats the hell
out of 25 to life.
692
00:41:51,642 --> 00:41:55,476
Yeah. Fine.
693
00:41:57,448 --> 00:42:01,350
Sure. Why should I have any idea
what's going on?
694
00:42:15,399 --> 00:42:19,495
I had a dream. I dreamed that
Sandra Day swung the other way,
695
00:42:19,570 --> 00:42:22,835
that the University of Michigan Law
School dropped racial considerations...
696
00:42:22,907 --> 00:42:24,875
in its admission policies altogether.
697
00:42:24,942 --> 00:42:29,641
Oh, you should have been there, Jack!
You should have seen how the white students looked at their black classmates.
698
00:42:29,713 --> 00:42:33,342
How the world treated them
once they graduated.
699
00:42:33,417 --> 00:42:37,353
You can drop it now, Mr. Dworkin.
The trial's over.
700
00:42:37,421 --> 00:42:40,913
Your main problem was,
you had the wrong client.
701
00:42:42,726 --> 00:42:46,685
Well, I can choose my causes,
not my clients.
702
00:42:48,399 --> 00:42:51,129
I still think I could have won,
Denise notwithstanding.
703
00:42:51,201 --> 00:42:56,366
The minute she walked
into the courtroom, all the sympathy you manufactured for Kellogg...
704
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,465
would have backfired in his face.
705
00:42:58,542 --> 00:43:01,340
His dinners with Spike Lee
notwithstanding.
706
00:43:02,646 --> 00:43:07,015
Turns out, he was in
the unique position to know that.
707
00:43:07,084 --> 00:43:09,644
Better than either of us.
708
00:43:11,455 --> 00:43:14,253
Lawyer to lawyer, you never
talked to Denise, did you?
709
00:43:14,325 --> 00:43:16,259
No.
Then how did you know?
710
00:43:16,327 --> 00:43:18,795
I didn't.
711
00:43:18,862 --> 00:43:23,458
But I do know that
I'm barely white enough to live in Greenwich, Connecticut.
712
00:44:10,314 --> 00:44:13,249
[Howling]
713
00:44:13,299 --> 00:44:17,849
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