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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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The gowns and the jewels
and the food and the music...
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[Speaking Foreign Language]
Patrika.
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I'll take my father up a cup of tea.
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An ice sculpture?
Who could imagine horse and carriage?
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A swan, eh? But horse?
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Ah! Please, also coaster.
Of course.
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It was beautiful
So beautiful. So beautiful.
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And... And gifts enough
to fill a gymnasium.
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Ohhh.
More candlesticks from her uncle.
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Bijan.
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[Man] Roya? Asher?
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He's not breathing! Hurry!
Come up here! Come on!
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Name's Manoush Soleimani.
Big cheese in the caviar racket.
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Soleimani. Sounds Italian.
Caviar. It's probably Iranian.
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Persian.
Whatever, he must have sold a lot of it.
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All those flowers,
looks like somebody was expecting a funeral.
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They're from a wedding last night.
We got a time of death?
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Guy was so fresh, I half expected him
to get up and have breakfast.
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No rigor, body temp
same as you and me.
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He's dead, tops, an hour.
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There's no muss in there.
What makes you think it's not natural causes?
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Can't say. Started my exam,
the lady of the house threw a fit, told me to stop.
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That's when I sent for you.
She wants me to release the body to the funeral home.
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- Is the D.O.A. the father of the bride?
- The D.O.A. was the groom.
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Young bride, old groom, wedding night...
maybe he died of a heart attack.
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Like my mother used to say,
�Play with kids your own age."
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if the wife doesn't want us here,
why are we here? The son does.
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He's sure there's been foul play,
wants an autopsy.
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[Woman] I forbid it!
Who are you to forbid?
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[Ben] Who are you to forbid?
Family feud. My favorite.
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My husband was a private man in life.
I will not let you disrespect him in death.
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Disrespect?
There will be no autopsy.
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From someone who parades
around like a Paris Hilton?
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Your father was a widower for many years,
with many companions.
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I was the one he chose to take to the altar.
I made him happy.
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You exploited him.
Ben and Yasmin, stop arguing, please.
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- I do not have to answer to you.
- You will have to answer about my father's death. Not just to me.
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- All right! Everybody calm down, all right?
- We're gonna need to talk to all of you.
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Yeah, in neutral corners.
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It wasn't a heart attack.
My father just had a perfect checkup.
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Pre-honeymoon. They were about to
go on a Mediterranean cruise.
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Who called 911?
I did.
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I took him a cup of tea.
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He wasn't, uh...
He wasn't breathing. I called for help.
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Who else was in the house?
Uh, Roya and Asher were in the dining room with Patrika.
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And Roya is?
My sister.
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Asher is her husband,
my brother-in-law.
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Patrika is the housekeeper.
She's been with us forever.
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So where was his new wife?
Not by his side.
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I went to look for her.
She was nowhere in the house.
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The ambulance was here
by the time she strolled in.
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You said she'd have to answer
for your father's death.
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Detective, she's 25.
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My father was 68,
and a very, very wealthy man.
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Ben knows better. A traditional Jewish
funeral has to take place within 24 hours.
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Mrs. Soleimani, don't you want to know
what happened to your husband?
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I know what happened.
He died peacefully in his sleep.
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No one killed him.
We don't need an autopsy.
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We can ask the M.E. to rush his exam,
try to make that 24-hour deadline.
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Manny was a religious man.
Our traditions meant everything to him.
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He would not have wanted to
be handled, touched by outsiders... secular people.
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You called for the ambulance.
The E.M.S. handled him.
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I did not call 911.
I was not even here when they found him.
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Where were you?
I went riding. What does it look like?
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A lot of women in this zip code
run errands in those.
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I don't do errands.
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But you do go horseback riding
the morning after you tie the knot?
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I did not know how much riding
I would get to do on my honeymoon.
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What? You don't believe me?
Mrs. Soleimani,
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your husband was found dead in his own bed
the morning after he got married.
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�To a much younger woman,"
is what you're thinking.
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I wouldn't be doing my job if I wasn't.
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I can assure you he was quite alive
before I left for the stables.
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The bride's a piece of work.
Cool as a cucumber.
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If it was up to her, she'd have him
buried by sundown... bye-bye evidence.
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Meanwhile, we're stuck.
We can't get a warrant till you say that the death was a homicide.
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Which I can't do, with the wife saying �No�
to an autopsy.
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But you are an M.E.
You don't need a warrant to investigate.
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You can freeze the scene
and have your forensics guys process whatever you find.
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Yeah, I could.
But it's not really my job, and she's gonna raise holy hell.
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Believe me,
we'd rather do it ourselves, but we're in a bind here.
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- Can you help us out?
- What about the autopsy?
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Just sit on the body and make sure
it doesn't go anywhere...
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until the D.A.'s have a chance to ruin
some judge's lovely spring Sunday.
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A Persian Jewish family,
Your Honor.
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Yasmin Soleimani is asserting
a religious objection to an autopsy.
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The medical examiner
has the right, under the law,
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to perform an autopsy
over a religious objection if there's a threat to public health.
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Which I presume this is not.
Or in the face of a homicide.
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In the face of an apparent homicide.
There's no apparent homicide here.
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No signs whatsoever
of foul play or violence.
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[Southerlyn] We can't know that
until an autopsy's performed
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Ben Soleimani doesn't think
that his father died of natural causes.
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He wants a full investigation.
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The decision to perform an autopsy
is Mrs. Soleimani's, as next of kin.
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Ms. Southerlyn,
unless you bring me some evidence,
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I'm unwilling to overrule
Mrs. Soleimani's objection.
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Your Honor, how can
I provide you with evidence of foul play without an autopsy?
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I'm sorry, Ms. Southerlyn.
I can't accommodate you.
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What if Mrs. Soleimani
is not the next of kin?
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Judge, there were more than 400 people
at the wedding... all witnesses.
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The wedding took place last night...
Saturday.
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[Man] After Sabbath, around 10:00.
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Manny Soleimani died this morning...
Sunday
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The county clerk's office
doesn't open till tomorrow.
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They couldn't have possibly
filed their marriage certificate yet.
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It's a hyper-technicality,
Ms. Southerlyn...
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[Sighs] but a legitimate one.
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It is enough to dismiss the autopsy objection.
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Don't know if the marriage was a marriage,
but his death was definitely a homicide.
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He was smothered.
ls a butterfly gonna jump out at us?
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No, but there is lamb involved.
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First, look at this section of gum.
The frenulum was ripped.
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When you're smothered,
the reflex is to move your head from side to side, like this...
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What, the killer was too strong for him?
Not necessarily.
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His last meal was lamb and lentils.
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Tox screen was positive
for a benzodiazepine... Xanax.
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So what's up with the lamb?
When you eat a fatty meat like lamb,
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the triglycerides potentiate the effects
of the tranquilizer to make it much stronger.
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So, in English,
he was weak as a kitten?
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Throw in a lot of alcohol at the wedding...
It would have been child's play to smother him.
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We also found a hair on his torso.
Oh, you saved the best for last?
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I don't want to get your hopes up.
Until it's analyzed,
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all we know for sure
is that it wasn't his.
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[Green]
Looks like it's time to start checking alibis.
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Shame about Manny.
He spent a lot of time here over the years.
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His daughter used to ride here
as a teenager.
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When was the last time you saw him?
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He started coming back
around last summer.
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Bought his fianc?e an Arabian.
Horses and girls.
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She was here yesterday.
Saddled up around 9:30,10:00.
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How often does she ride?
She goes riding most mornings.
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Weekends too?
Don't really see her on the weekends, come to think of it.
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Excuse me. I've got a customer.
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All right, so if she doesn't
usually ride on the weekends, the alibi could've been preplanned.
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Let's find out if her husband left her
more than the horse.
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They got engaged.
Manny opened an account for her.
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A million bucks, free and clear,
after taxes.
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Pretty nice nest egg.
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The rest of his estate
he left to his children:
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Two-thirds to his son, Ben,
one-third to his daughter, Roya.
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What, did he love his son
twice as much as he loved his daughter?
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[Chuckles] That's their custom...
the old Persian way.
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Besides, Roya's married.
Her husband takes care of her.
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So he gave Yasmin
a million bucks up front?
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Not that she needs
Manny's money.
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Why? Because she's so gorgeous?
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Because she's so smart
and because she has some of her own.
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Yasmin grew up in the caviar business too.
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Her Uncle Bijan...
Manny's biggest competitor.
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Must've made
for interesting pillow talk.
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So how close were Yasmin
and this uncle? Close.
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Bijan brought Yasmin's family over
from Iran after the ayatollahs took over.
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The nice life she's led in America,
she owes to him.
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Mr. Bijan is not here, not home.
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Where is he?
We need to talk to him.
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Telephone call come.
He go.
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Where did he go?
J.F.K.
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J.F.K.?
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His business rival gets killed,
he hops a plane?
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Thank you.
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We called Mr. Bylaw to come in and talk to us
on a pre-text to take him into custody.
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For what?
Smuggling caviar.
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Straight from the Caspian Sea.
Black market caviar.
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Shipment we seized today...
400 kilos.
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Street value: 1.4 million.
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Wow. So, Jimmy here
can sniff out tins of caviar?
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There's no way to pack the eggs
without breaking some, which leaves an oil residue.
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So what exactly was illegal
about Bijan's caviar?
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Could be a number of things,
like passing off cheap stuff as high-end product.
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In this case, we got a tip
that Bijan's shipment came from sturgeon on the U.N.'s endangered species list.
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- So what happens to the caviar now?
- We test the D.N.A. And if it's legit, he gets it back.
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[Briscoe] And if it isn't?
He goes to jail and the caviar down the drain.
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So where is this fish egg felon?
We need to talk to him.
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Sorry, he's already in the system.
[Green] You mean, your system?
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Afraid so.
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I expected you to come in with him.
There's a flag on the play.
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We're waiting for the feds
to analyze some caviar D.N.A. You gotta be kidding.
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Bijan's lawyer got a judge
to order an independent test to prove that his caviar was legal.
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And meanwhile we can't
talk to a homicide suspect?
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I don't think so. Find out
where they're holding this guy.
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I'll get you in to see him.
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I went by the house to drop off
silver candlesticks... a traditional gift.
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[Briscoe]
Which you just happened to bring over the morning Manny was murdered?
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I forgot to bring them to the wedding.
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So you dropped them off
at the house personally? Why not send them?
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Why shouldn't I deliver them in person?
Besides, I wanted to pay my respects.
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[Briscoe] And did you?
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Manny was still asleep,
and Yasmin had gone out.
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I said hello to Roya and Asher and left.
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We hear that you weren't on good terms
with the Soleimanis.
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Yasmin may have married Manny,
but I was still her uncle.
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And what's that supposed to mean?
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Manny and I carried on a fancy food fight,
but it was not a bloodfeud.
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We both left Tehran
in the late '50s as young men. We had much in common.
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We were in the same business.
And how was business?
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Mine was good. His wasn't.
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So why not kill the competition?
You corner the market.
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I was not destroying Manny's business.
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His big-shot son was...
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trying so hard to do things the modern way.
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He never had Manny's brains.
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You saying that Ben Soleimani
was trying to put you out of business?
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Let me tell you something.
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If anyone was trying to kill the competition,
it was Ben.
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Ben and Bijan were friendly competitors,
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until he had the gall to open a caviar store
just a block from here.
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They became very bitter enemies.
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But he was invited to the wedding?
Of course he was.
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Yasmin makes him family.
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But Bijan would have been invited
no matter who Manny married.
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Even an enemy who is one of us
is more a friend than any stranger.
218
00:12:40,693 --> 00:12:42,639
At this year's Iranian harvest
219
00:12:42,695 --> 00:12:48,304
we came across an excellent grade
of caviar from the Persian sturgeon.
220
00:12:50,703 --> 00:12:52,649
Mmm.
221
00:12:52,705 --> 00:12:55,811
Crunchy, salty... I like it.
222
00:12:55,875 --> 00:12:59,982
You have good taste, Detective.
It sells for $170 an ounce.
223
00:13:00,046 --> 00:13:01,992
I don't like it that much.
[Clears Throat]
224
00:13:02,048 --> 00:13:04,619
So was the caviar
keeping the company in the black?
225
00:13:04,684 --> 00:13:07,927
The company went
from a profit of 20 million in '98...
226
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to a loss of 2 million last year.
227
00:13:10,490 --> 00:13:12,697
[Green] Somebody stealing?
Never.
228
00:13:12,759 --> 00:13:15,035
Well, then somebody
was spending it.
229
00:13:15,094 --> 00:13:17,768
The caf?, catalog, were all doing well,
230
00:13:17,830 --> 00:13:23,075
but we opened stores in places
where people haven't developed a palate for our product.
231
00:13:23,136 --> 00:13:25,912
Whose idea was the expansion?
232
00:13:28,875 --> 00:13:31,287
If Ben was wrecking his father's business,
he might have been worried...
233
00:13:31,344 --> 00:13:34,291
that the old man
would take it away from him and leave it to the new wife.
234
00:13:34,347 --> 00:13:39,228
That actually takes the wife off the hook.
She's got a million dollars, there's a pre-nup, and she's not even in the will.
235
00:13:39,285 --> 00:13:41,231
So she has no reason to kill him.
236
00:13:41,287 --> 00:13:43,233
The son made the call to 911?
237
00:13:43,289 --> 00:13:45,235
Yeah, but that could've
been a smoke screen.
238
00:13:45,291 --> 00:13:48,238
Ben could have killed his father
to keep control of the business.
239
00:13:48,294 --> 00:13:50,296
And throw the blame on Yasmin?
240
00:13:51,931 --> 00:13:54,571
I could have a lawyer here
faster than you could pour a cup of coffee.
241
00:13:54,634 --> 00:13:56,580
Go ahead. Call him.
I'll start pouring.
242
00:13:56,636 --> 00:14:00,083
I was the one who found my father.
I tried to save him!
243
00:14:00,139 --> 00:14:04,246
Man, please.
You called 911 to make us believe you were trying to save your father.
244
00:14:07,313 --> 00:14:09,315
All right.
245
00:14:13,820 --> 00:14:18,200
I went into his bedroom
to say hello, like always.
246
00:14:18,257 --> 00:14:20,203
Yeah?
247
00:14:20,259 --> 00:14:24,867
He didn't respond.
And he wasn't breathing.
248
00:14:24,931 --> 00:14:29,141
Well, unfortunately for you,
you were there by yourself... no witnesses.
249
00:14:29,202 --> 00:14:32,615
It was already too late.
He'd been murdered. Yasmin's got an alibi. You don't.
250
00:14:32,672 --> 00:14:38,179
Why would I kill my father?
To keep control of the family business, which was failing, thanks to you.
251
00:14:38,244 --> 00:14:40,121
You were scared that Yasmin
was gonna get the company.
252
00:14:40,179 --> 00:14:43,558
My father would never have done that.
I am his son!
253
00:14:43,616 --> 00:14:46,563
[Cell Phone Ringing]
254
00:14:46,619 --> 00:14:51,728
Yo, Lennie, what you got?
Oh, yeah? Fantastic.
255
00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,998
- We got the murder weapon.
- Good.
256
00:14:57,063 --> 00:14:59,009
Maybe now you'll find
whoever killed my father.
257
00:15:00,299 --> 00:15:03,143
Maybe we already have.
258
00:15:07,540 --> 00:15:12,922
Here's your murder weapon. Pillow contains
goose down and D.N.A. from the victim... saliva.
259
00:15:12,979 --> 00:15:16,426
He was a drooler?
Apparently only when being smothered.
260
00:15:16,482 --> 00:15:18,758
It's the only pillow in the house
with traces of his saliva.
261
00:15:18,818 --> 00:15:21,264
You found that in his bedroom?
His daughter's.
262
00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,596
Any trace evidence?
Got a hair.
263
00:15:23,656 --> 00:15:26,262
It's a woman's...
dyed, with a gray root.
264
00:15:26,325 --> 00:15:29,932
If it's got a root, we can get D.N.A.,
see if it matches the one we found on the body.
265
00:15:29,996 --> 00:15:32,602
I'm gonna call the lieu,
see if she wants to handle this herself.
266
00:15:36,669 --> 00:15:39,775
It Is disrespectful
She is sitting shivah.
267
00:15:39,839 --> 00:15:43,719
Sir, it's important to our investigation.
268
00:15:43,776 --> 00:15:46,723
Can't it wait?
She's been through a lot We both have.
269
00:15:46,779 --> 00:15:49,055
Asher, it's all right.
I'll talk to her. Come.
270
00:15:49,115 --> 00:15:51,186
Please sit down.
271
00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,573
Mrs. Koutal, when was the last time
you were with your father?
272
00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:09,905
At the wedding.
And were you with him at all the next morning?
273
00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:13,917
No. By the time I saw him, he was...
274
00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:15,418
already dead.
275
00:16:15,475 --> 00:16:17,477
Did you touch him?
276
00:16:18,978 --> 00:16:22,255
I could hardly look at him,
277
00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:24,522
let alone touch him.
278
00:16:24,584 --> 00:16:26,530
Now I wish I had.
279
00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:31,093
Did your father have a routine
before he went to bed?
280
00:16:31,157 --> 00:16:35,105
He had a, uh, cigar and a brandy,
281
00:16:35,161 --> 00:16:37,107
and then a shower.
282
00:16:38,164 --> 00:16:43,170
A woman's hair was found on him
Would you be willing to supply a D.N.A. sample?
283
00:16:44,503 --> 00:16:46,449
Of course.
284
00:16:46,506 --> 00:16:49,715
Do you know how his pillow
got into your bedroom?
285
00:16:51,677 --> 00:16:54,749
No. No, I don't.
286
00:16:54,814 --> 00:16:58,091
His D.N.A. was on the pillow
from his saliva.
287
00:16:59,285 --> 00:17:01,629
I don't understand.
288
00:17:02,688 --> 00:17:05,862
It was the pillow
that was used to smother him.
289
00:17:10,463 --> 00:17:12,465
[Weeping]
Oh, my God.
290
00:17:14,500 --> 00:17:17,447
- Oh, my God.
- Roya, is everything alright?
291
00:17:17,503 --> 00:17:19,483
They think I killed him.
292
00:17:19,539 --> 00:17:21,780
Mrs. Koutal, please.
That is not what I said.
293
00:17:21,841 --> 00:17:24,685
We are looking
into your father's death.
294
00:17:24,744 --> 00:17:28,453
You're wrong.
She was devoted to him.
295
00:17:28,514 --> 00:17:30,892
She loved him best of all.
296
00:17:36,989 --> 00:17:40,527
She seemed genuinely distressed
and horrified.
297
00:17:40,593 --> 00:17:43,870
If I killed my father,
I'd be distressed and horrified too.
298
00:17:43,930 --> 00:17:45,876
She kept talking about
staying in the house.
299
00:17:45,932 --> 00:17:48,879
Is she entitled to?
Well, that's a whole other question.
300
00:17:48,935 --> 00:17:51,211
Well, usually it goes to the wife.
301
00:17:51,270 --> 00:17:53,682
I'll find out if the townhouse
is Yasmin's to keep.
302
00:17:53,739 --> 00:17:55,685
Okay.
303
00:17:55,741 --> 00:17:59,211
I gave the detectives the financials.
304
00:17:59,278 --> 00:18:03,226
What I need to know
is who inherits the townhouse? Roya.
305
00:18:03,282 --> 00:18:06,388
What about the two-thirds custom?
The son doesn't get a piece of the house?
306
00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:11,561
When Ben had his first child,
Manny bought him an apartment of his own.
307
00:18:12,625 --> 00:18:15,572
And he didn't buy his daughter a place
because she doesn't have a child?
308
00:18:15,628 --> 00:18:17,574
And because
she always lived at home.
309
00:18:17,630 --> 00:18:20,076
Even after she got married?
310
00:18:20,132 --> 00:18:23,909
Manny was a widower,
so Asher moved in.
311
00:18:23,970 --> 00:18:27,179
Manny was thrilled
that Roya married a boy like that.
312
00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,186
Like what?
313
00:18:29,241 --> 00:18:33,087
Asher was raised in Iran.
314
00:18:33,145 --> 00:18:36,922
Came here in his 20s, just like Manny.
315
00:18:36,983 --> 00:18:41,193
Old school, traditional.
Hard worker too.
316
00:18:41,254 --> 00:18:43,200
Manny took Asher
into the family business?
317
00:18:43,256 --> 00:18:46,203
Asher was loyal, devoted,
grateful for the job.
318
00:18:46,259 --> 00:18:49,866
He and Manny... cut from the same cloth.
Manny loved him like a son.
319
00:18:49,929 --> 00:18:52,102
And Ben?
Ben's a good son,
320
00:18:52,164 --> 00:18:55,873
but it's hard not to take for granted
that which you have always known would be yours.
321
00:18:55,935 --> 00:18:59,382
We ran a title search and found out
that Manny just closed on an apartment.
322
00:18:59,438 --> 00:19:01,418
Do you know why he bought it?
No.
323
00:19:01,474 --> 00:19:04,148
But I do know where. On Park.
324
00:19:06,012 --> 00:19:09,892
The real estate agent offer anything?
Just that the market's still strong.
325
00:19:09,949 --> 00:19:14,056
Did she know if Soleimani
bought it for an investment or for some personal use?
326
00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:17,897
All she knows is that she's gonna
get her commission either way. D.N.A. results come back?
327
00:19:17,957 --> 00:19:22,406
Yeah. The hair on the victim's body
and the hair on the pillow both belong to Roya.
328
00:19:22,461 --> 00:19:24,907
I got something else.
We ran her fingerprints.
329
00:19:24,964 --> 00:19:27,911
They're on file with Immigration.
Because of the caviar business?
330
00:19:27,967 --> 00:19:29,913
No, the kid business.
331
00:19:29,969 --> 00:19:34,076
Over a year ago, she and her husband
filed for foreign adoption... China.
332
00:19:34,140 --> 00:19:36,746
That was a long time ago,
and they still don't have a kid.
333
00:19:37,843 --> 00:19:39,845
Let's look into it.
334
00:19:42,648 --> 00:19:46,755
I met with them in person several times...
once at their house to do the home study
335
00:19:46,819 --> 00:19:49,265
Between the phone and e-mails,
we were in touch every week.
336
00:19:49,321 --> 00:19:52,268
And they went through the entire process?
Start to finish.
337
00:19:52,325 --> 00:19:54,271
And the paperwork is daunting.
338
00:19:54,327 --> 00:19:57,865
You try dealing with the city of New York,
the state of New York, the federal government,
339
00:19:57,930 --> 00:20:01,605
Homeland Security
and the People's Republic of China.
340
00:20:01,667 --> 00:20:03,772
You've really got to want it.
And then what?
341
00:20:03,836 --> 00:20:06,282
I'm just a social worker,
not a shrink.
342
00:20:06,339 --> 00:20:09,445
I called to say they'd been
matched with a baby.
343
00:20:09,508 --> 00:20:11,988
I sent them a picture...
an adorable little girl.
344
00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:16,151
You always carry your files with you?
Just the active cases,
345
00:20:16,215 --> 00:20:18,627
so I can return calls
after my boys go to bed.
346
00:20:18,684 --> 00:20:20,960
Parents waiting for a child call 24/7.
347
00:20:21,020 --> 00:20:23,193
Oh, wow.
[Chuckles]
348
00:20:23,255 --> 00:20:26,793
I couldn't resist this face,
and I'm not even looking for another kid.
349
00:20:26,859 --> 00:20:30,466
They could. After looking
at that picture for weeks,
350
00:20:30,529 --> 00:20:33,169
one day Roya calls
and says, �I'm sorry.�
351
00:20:33,232 --> 00:20:36,372
And her explanation?
She was vague.
352
00:20:36,435 --> 00:20:40,815
It didn't add up... especially since
they already had a travel date to get the baby.
353
00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:48,190
I live here more than 20 years.
Only know how much Roya wanted child.
354
00:20:49,482 --> 00:20:51,587
How did Roya and Yasmin get along?
355
00:20:52,651 --> 00:20:56,326
You know, older daughter,
younger wife.
356
00:20:57,490 --> 00:20:59,436
Before Yasmin,
357
00:20:59,492 --> 00:21:04,601
Roya and Asher would be
with Mr. Soleimani hours and hours.
358
00:21:04,663 --> 00:21:06,939
Talk and laugh. Play cards.
359
00:21:06,999 --> 00:21:10,071
And after Yasmin came into his life?
360
00:21:11,504 --> 00:21:15,008
Not so much.
He only have time for new woman.
361
00:21:15,074 --> 00:21:17,452
And Roya never had any children?
362
00:21:17,510 --> 00:21:21,754
That is why she want
this little China girl so much.
363
00:21:22,748 --> 00:21:24,955
So when it didn't happen?
364
00:21:25,017 --> 00:21:27,361
She upset... a lot.
365
00:21:29,188 --> 00:21:31,395
Very moody all the time.
Can't sleep.
366
00:21:31,457 --> 00:21:34,768
We know that
she was taking tranquilizers.
367
00:21:34,827 --> 00:21:36,829
Was she seeking help anywhere?
368
00:21:40,966 --> 00:21:43,242
I saw Roya several times a week.
369
00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:45,646
Then you knew she wanted to adopt.
Sure.
370
00:21:46,705 --> 00:21:48,742
What happened?
Why didn't she go through with it?
371
00:21:48,808 --> 00:21:51,084
Out of respect for her father.
372
00:21:51,143 --> 00:21:53,419
Respect? How so?
373
00:21:53,479 --> 00:21:58,588
Manny emigrated here four decades ago,
yet carried values from the past.
374
00:21:59,819 --> 00:22:03,767
He did not approve of adoption.
That's old-fashioned, to put it mildly.
375
00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:07,930
It's hard for you to understand,
because these are not your ways.
376
00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:11,600
If Roya disobeyed her father,
she would have been ostracized.
377
00:22:11,664 --> 00:22:15,271
By the family?
By the entire community.
378
00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:17,473
How was Asher with the adoption?
379
00:22:17,536 --> 00:22:20,779
Roya is first generation American,
born here.
380
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:25,949
Asher was born in Iran.
He would never disrespect Manny's wishes.
381
00:22:26,011 --> 00:22:29,618
Probably, on some level,
he even agreed with him about the adoption.
382
00:22:29,682 --> 00:22:34,153
When was the last time you saw Roya?
Saturday, at services, then that night at the wedding.
383
00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:36,928
Was she still upset
about giving up the baby?
384
00:22:36,989 --> 00:22:40,232
And how her relationship
with her father would change.
385
00:22:40,292 --> 00:22:42,238
She didn't want a new stepmother?
386
00:22:42,294 --> 00:22:45,901
One who was even younger than she?
Would you?
387
00:22:45,965 --> 00:22:48,707
She didn't want to relinquish
her place with her father.
388
00:22:48,767 --> 00:22:50,713
And she certainly
didn't want to leave the home.
389
00:22:50,769 --> 00:22:54,478
She was moving out of the townhouse?
At her father's request.
390
00:22:54,540 --> 00:22:58,920
I tried to persuade her
to see it as a positive change for herself and Asher.
391
00:22:58,978 --> 00:23:00,924
But she didn't?
392
00:23:00,980 --> 00:23:03,824
She was devastated.
393
00:23:03,883 --> 00:23:06,591
She didn't support her brother's
request for an autopsy.
394
00:23:06,652 --> 00:23:09,428
She's the only one
with a scrip for the tranquilizer.
395
00:23:09,488 --> 00:23:13,095
The murder weapon,
the pillow he was smothered with, was found in her bed,
396
00:23:13,158 --> 00:23:15,604
and her hair was found on his body.
397
00:23:15,661 --> 00:23:17,766
Suggestive, but not definitive.
398
00:23:17,830 --> 00:23:20,436
She'd just given up
a child she wanted desperately,
399
00:23:20,499 --> 00:23:22,945
only to have her father
marry a younger woman...
400
00:23:23,002 --> 00:23:25,608
and kick her out of the house
she'd lived in all of her life...
401
00:23:25,671 --> 00:23:28,914
after she took care of it and him
since her mother's death.
402
00:23:28,974 --> 00:23:31,284
Jack, everything points to her.
403
00:23:31,343 --> 00:23:33,414
Why'd he want her
out of the house now?
404
00:23:33,479 --> 00:23:37,325
To be alone with his new young wife...
her rabbi said as much.
405
00:23:37,383 --> 00:23:39,920
Have the cops pick her up.
406
00:23:39,985 --> 00:23:42,898
Then work on getting
a subpoena for the rabbi...
407
00:23:42,955 --> 00:23:44,992
to testify as a hostile witness.
408
00:23:45,991 --> 00:23:49,234
Roya Soleimani Koutal, you're under arrest
for the murder of Manny Soleimani.
409
00:23:49,295 --> 00:23:51,400
My father? What are you saying?
You cannot do this.
410
00:23:51,463 --> 00:23:53,739
You must stop.
You're making a terrible mistake. She did not kill her father!
411
00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:56,245
Take it easy.
I did not kill him! Let me go!
412
00:23:56,302 --> 00:23:58,407
Asher, please!
I'll call Rothenberg. Don't worry.
413
00:23:58,470 --> 00:24:01,576
I'm not a monster!
It'd be easier for us if you were.
414
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,816
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
415
00:24:10,149 --> 00:24:12,425
Docket number 21118.
416
00:24:12,484 --> 00:24:15,090
People v. Roya Soleimani Koutal.
417
00:24:15,154 --> 00:24:17,430
Murder in the second degree.
418
00:24:17,489 --> 00:24:20,470
How does your client plead, Mr. Rothenberg?
Not guilty, Your Honor.
419
00:24:20,526 --> 00:24:22,472
People on bail, Ms. Southerlyn?
420
00:24:22,528 --> 00:24:24,872
We ask for bail set at $2 million.
421
00:24:24,930 --> 00:24:26,603
No remand?
No, Your Honor.
422
00:24:26,665 --> 00:24:29,612
Given her particularly strong ties
to family and community,
423
00:24:29,668 --> 00:24:32,205
we don't see the defendant
as a flight risk.
424
00:24:32,271 --> 00:24:35,013
Done. Bail is set at 2 million,
cash or bond.
425
00:24:36,508 --> 00:24:39,387
We've known each other
a long time, Jack.
426
00:24:39,445 --> 00:24:43,052
What do you want, Norman?
Drop the charges.
427
00:24:43,115 --> 00:24:45,425
I talked to her doctors.
428
00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:48,556
She's more likely to harm herself
than someone else.
429
00:24:48,621 --> 00:24:51,067
I'd like to hear that
from the state's doctor.
430
00:24:52,458 --> 00:24:54,938
Let Skoda see her if you're that sure.
431
00:24:56,629 --> 00:24:58,905
Make the arrangements.
432
00:24:58,964 --> 00:25:04,744
Oh, there's also this...
motion to dismiss the rabbi from testifying.
433
00:25:04,803 --> 00:25:08,273
His conversations with my client
are privileged.
434
00:25:14,813 --> 00:25:17,589
Two people taking a stroll in the garden
doesn't 't meet the standard
435
00:25:17,649 --> 00:25:22,257
Show us the confessional.
Only practicing Catholics have expectation of privacy?
436
00:25:22,321 --> 00:25:26,428
In the absence of one,
the congregant has no claim to an expectation of privacy.
437
00:25:26,492 --> 00:25:31,271
You don't need a physical structure
for a conversation to be sacrosanct.
438
00:25:31,330 --> 00:25:34,937
Forget the physical structure,
I'd settle for an intellectual concept.
439
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,709
You just said it yourself.
The rabbi and the defendant had a conversation,
440
00:25:38,771 --> 00:25:42,548
which is inherently devoid
of any standing as privileged.
441
00:25:42,608 --> 00:25:45,555
You cannot compel
a rabbi to testify...
442
00:25:45,611 --> 00:25:49,058
or he will be in violation
of rabbinic doctrine.
443
00:25:49,114 --> 00:25:51,390
It's considered stealing...
444
00:25:51,450 --> 00:25:54,056
taking a sacred trust...
445
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,725
and giving away
that which is not the rabbi's to give.
446
00:25:56,789 --> 00:26:00,236
I'm a staunch advocate
of the separation between church and state,
447
00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:03,967
and I've always taken the term �church�
to include any house of worship.
448
00:26:06,965 --> 00:26:08,967
We lost the rabbi.
449
00:26:10,302 --> 00:26:13,408
How are we going to prove
Roya knew her father wanted her out of the house?
450
00:26:14,473 --> 00:26:18,250
There must be someone he confided in
outside the hothouse of his family.
451
00:26:18,310 --> 00:26:21,587
Could be the barber, his tailor,
the massage therapist.
452
00:26:21,647 --> 00:26:24,491
I'll see if the cops came across anyone
who fits the bill.
453
00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:30,090
Last summer,
Manny started coming around to watch his fianc?e ride.
454
00:26:30,155 --> 00:26:32,601
She'd ride, we'd talk.
455
00:26:32,658 --> 00:26:35,161
About his family?
And mine.
456
00:26:36,495 --> 00:26:40,375
Did Manny ever talk to you about Roya
and how she got along with Yasmin?
457
00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:45,245
Oh, yeah. He was worried about
how the two of them would get on once they were under the same roof.
458
00:26:45,304 --> 00:26:49,878
Did you offer a point of view?
just that two women in one house is one too many.
459
00:26:49,942 --> 00:26:53,890
My advice didn't matter though.
Manny had already put a plan in action.
460
00:26:53,946 --> 00:26:58,895
What was that?
Divide the territory. Put his daughter in a new house.
461
00:26:58,951 --> 00:27:02,228
He thought it was the right decision,
but that didn't make it easy.
462
00:27:02,287 --> 00:27:05,063
Why not?
463
00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:09,231
Manny couldn't shake the guilt
about what happened to Roya when she was still a teen.
464
00:27:09,294 --> 00:27:13,401
He pressured her to jump
in the Hamptons competition.
465
00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:15,741
What happened?
She took a fall,
466
00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:17,906
broke some bones.
467
00:27:17,970 --> 00:27:21,417
Manny said the worst of it
only came out years later.
468
00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:23,419
Roya couldn't have kids.
469
00:27:27,646 --> 00:27:29,819
My mother had died.
It was a bad time.
470
00:27:30,983 --> 00:27:34,692
It made me feel better
to be of help to my father.
471
00:27:34,753 --> 00:27:36,733
How did you manage that?
472
00:27:36,789 --> 00:27:42,068
I ran the house. I hosted parties.
I sat by his side.
473
00:27:42,127 --> 00:27:46,735
There must have been times
when your needs didn't fit with his.
474
00:27:46,798 --> 00:27:51,645
Not really
No. His needs were my needs.
475
00:27:51,703 --> 00:27:54,809
What about
when you wanted to have a child?
476
00:27:54,873 --> 00:27:58,150
As Asher always says,
�God gives with one hand."
477
00:27:58,210 --> 00:28:00,554
A child wasn't meant to be.
478
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,882
Besides, I cared for my father.
479
00:28:03,949 --> 00:28:05,895
I was loved by my husband.
480
00:28:05,951 --> 00:28:11,424
I was an aunt to my brother's children.
I had a good life.
481
00:28:11,490 --> 00:28:16,405
But you gave up your own chance
to be a mother, to adopt.
482
00:28:20,132 --> 00:28:23,136
When did you tell your father
about the adoption?
483
00:28:26,305 --> 00:28:31,015
I didn't want to tell him
until the papers were ready to be signed.
484
00:28:32,110 --> 00:28:35,250
But he found out?
485
00:28:35,314 --> 00:28:39,091
He accused me of keeping a secret, when...
486
00:28:40,652 --> 00:28:44,998
I... I wanted to make him a surprise.
487
00:28:45,057 --> 00:28:47,333
Were you shocked by his reaction?
488
00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:49,599
He knew how important it was to me,
489
00:28:52,197 --> 00:28:54,199
but he said,
490
00:28:54,266 --> 00:28:59,045
he would never let someone else's bastard
become his grandchild...
491
00:28:59,104 --> 00:29:01,607
that it would tarnish his image.
492
00:29:04,409 --> 00:29:06,389
You had choices.
493
00:29:06,445 --> 00:29:08,652
You could have left his home.
You're not a child.
494
00:29:08,714 --> 00:29:11,217
I had no choice.
495
00:29:11,283 --> 00:29:15,060
If I had adopted that baby,
I would have been out of our home and his life.
496
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,225
My father would have seen to it.
497
00:29:20,025 --> 00:29:24,405
She thought she'd have his blessing.
Instead, her father spit on the idea of adoption.
498
00:29:24,463 --> 00:29:27,137
She must have been aware
of his feelings on that subject.
499
00:29:28,133 --> 00:29:30,135
She'd let herself believe
that he'd swallow his pride...
500
00:29:30,202 --> 00:29:33,081
and allow her
to be happy with a baby.
501
00:29:33,138 --> 00:29:35,140
Where was the husband in this mix?
502
00:29:36,141 --> 00:29:40,055
Mostly on the father's side.
Seems they were both more �Old World."
503
00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:43,218
Do you think she was capable
of killing her father?
504
00:29:43,281 --> 00:29:45,921
They had an unspoken covenant...
505
00:29:45,984 --> 00:29:48,055
functioned like a married couple.
506
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,262
Hard as it may have been to give up the child,
she chose her father.
507
00:29:52,324 --> 00:29:54,361
And when he told her to leave anyway?
508
00:29:54,426 --> 00:29:59,739
She was as angry as any wife being replaced-
especially by a younger woman.
509
00:30:04,503 --> 00:30:07,541
Each room was searched
with a high-intensity light source...
510
00:30:07,606 --> 00:30:10,780
that picks up biologicals:
blood, semen, saliva.
511
00:30:10,842 --> 00:30:12,788
How did you identify
the murder weapon?
512
00:30:12,845 --> 00:30:17,624
We knew from the autopsy report
that the decedent was smothered... most likely a soft object.
513
00:30:17,683 --> 00:30:20,630
We identified the pillow used
by his D.N.A. on saliva.
514
00:30:20,686 --> 00:30:22,927
Could you tell us
where the pillow was hidden?
515
00:30:22,988 --> 00:30:24,934
Objection.
[Judge] Sustained
516
00:30:24,990 --> 00:30:28,699
[Judge] Rephrase.
Where did you find the pillow?
517
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,764
It was recovered
from the defendant's bed.
518
00:30:34,032 --> 00:30:38,242
When the pillow was recovered
from the defendant's bedroom,
519
00:30:38,303 --> 00:30:40,249
was it inside a drawer?
520
00:30:40,305 --> 00:30:41,750
No, sir.
521
00:30:41,807 --> 00:30:43,286
Was it inside a closet?
Jo.
522
00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:45,288
- Was it under the bed?
- No.
523
00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:48,257
In fact, wasn't it
on top of the bed? Yes.
524
00:30:48,313 --> 00:30:50,657
So the pillow wasn't hidden.
It was in plain sight.
525
00:30:50,716 --> 00:30:52,662
Hidden in plain sight.
526
00:30:52,718 --> 00:30:54,664
Except for a tiny scalloped edge,
527
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,600
the victim's and the defendant's pillows
look exactly the same.
528
00:30:58,657 --> 00:31:00,659
[Rothenberg] Thank you.
529
00:31:04,630 --> 00:31:07,338
For 20 years,
she functioned as his surrogate wife.
530
00:31:08,333 --> 00:31:12,281
Until her father replaced her
with a real wife...
531
00:31:13,272 --> 00:31:15,274
a younger woman.
532
00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:18,344
And after sacrificing
her chance to become a mother,
533
00:31:18,410 --> 00:31:22,358
he hit her with the psychological equivalent
of a one-two punch.
534
00:31:22,414 --> 00:31:25,452
Why did she stop the adoption
and give up the baby?
535
00:31:25,517 --> 00:31:30,125
She was under the rule
of a patriarchal culture and a controlling father.
536
00:31:30,188 --> 00:31:34,466
In your opinion, was she capable
of taking her father's life?
537
00:31:34,526 --> 00:31:36,631
She was full of rage for her father.
538
00:31:36,695 --> 00:31:42,145
That state of mind
is psychologically dispositive toward an act of violence.
539
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:49,575
You conclude this
based on your snapshot?
540
00:31:49,641 --> 00:31:54,249
What did you spend with her?
Two, maybe three hours?
541
00:31:54,312 --> 00:31:57,191
A psychological snapshot.
542
00:31:57,249 --> 00:32:01,356
- And your specialty is Persian women?
- No, but my back...
543
00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:03,696
Well, how about...
how about just Persians?
544
00:32:03,755 --> 00:32:06,361
Their cultural norms?
No.
545
00:32:06,425 --> 00:32:09,770
But you would agree that culture...
546
00:32:09,828 --> 00:32:13,776
and the father that you talk about...
547
00:32:13,832 --> 00:32:19,009
did instill in Mrs. Koutal
a strict code of conduct?
548
00:32:19,070 --> 00:32:21,710
Yes.
549
00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:24,947
With prescribed behaviors for everything,
550
00:32:25,010 --> 00:32:30,585
from dietary laws to appropriate dinner attire.
551
00:32:30,649 --> 00:32:32,629
Yes.
552
00:32:32,684 --> 00:32:37,224
And she would have learned
these values, traditions, behaviors.
553
00:32:37,289 --> 00:32:39,565
when she was very young?
554
00:32:39,624 --> 00:32:41,934
I would assume so.
555
00:32:41,993 --> 00:32:47,443
Now, if she was so devoted to her father
and to the traditional ways,
556
00:32:47,499 --> 00:32:52,073
how could she possibly
have tossed that all aside to commit an act of murder?
557
00:32:52,137 --> 00:32:57,746
She believed he'd pushed her too far,
caused her to suffer too many losses,
558
00:32:57,809 --> 00:32:59,755
left her no choices.
559
00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:05,090
If she ever were to behave in a violent manner,
560
00:33:05,150 --> 00:33:08,927
isn't it more likely, given her background,
561
00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:13,402
that she would have committed suicide,
not homicide?
562
00:33:13,458 --> 00:33:15,404
It's possible, but...
563
00:33:15,460 --> 00:33:18,600
she suffers from anxiety,
not depression.
564
00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:21,769
She doesn't blame herself for any loss.
565
00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:23,835
She blames her father.
566
00:33:28,106 --> 00:33:32,452
So you befriended
your father's then fianc?e, Yasmin?
567
00:33:32,511 --> 00:33:34,821
Of course. I knew her well.
568
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,656
Were you upset
that he was marrying her?
569
00:33:37,716 --> 00:33:40,219
Change is always hard,
570
00:33:40,285 --> 00:33:44,256
but I wanted to see my father content.
571
00:33:44,322 --> 00:33:48,236
So there was no problem
contemplating living under one roof with his new wife?
572
00:33:48,293 --> 00:33:50,830
It is a large roof,
573
00:33:50,896 --> 00:33:55,402
and we were to be one family,
she and I, living like sisters.
574
00:33:55,467 --> 00:33:58,141
I planned her bridal shower.
575
00:33:58,203 --> 00:34:01,241
I helped with her registry.
576
00:34:01,306 --> 00:34:03,308
Thank you.
577
00:34:05,410 --> 00:34:09,051
Living like two sisters
vying for their father's attention.
578
00:34:09,114 --> 00:34:11,754
Not at all.
579
00:34:12,984 --> 00:34:16,591
People's exhibit eight, Your Honor.
Proceed Mr. McCoy
580
00:34:16,655 --> 00:34:21,661
Mrs. Koutal, could you tell the court
what document you're holding?
581
00:34:23,161 --> 00:34:25,767
It is a plane ticket.
582
00:34:25,830 --> 00:34:28,276
Where were you traveling?
China.
583
00:34:28,333 --> 00:34:31,109
To pick up the child
you were planning to adopt?
584
00:34:32,504 --> 00:34:34,643
Yes.
585
00:34:34,706 --> 00:34:37,687
Exhibit nine, Your Honor.
Go ahead Mr. McCoy
586
00:34:41,613 --> 00:34:43,615
Is this the child?
587
00:34:47,953 --> 00:34:51,400
Yes.
Who you were planning to name after your mother, Dora?
588
00:34:55,794 --> 00:34:57,740
Yes.
589
00:34:57,796 --> 00:35:00,743
Were you angry at your father
when he forced you to choose...
590
00:35:00,799 --> 00:35:04,542
between being a mother to this child
and a daughter to him?
591
00:35:04,603 --> 00:35:08,312
I gave up the baby willingly.
I wanted to keep my father happy.
592
00:35:08,373 --> 00:35:10,375
You had tickets for China,
593
00:35:11,376 --> 00:35:15,722
chose a name for the baby,
chose a pediatrician,
594
00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:17,760
ordered baby furniture,
595
00:35:19,384 --> 00:35:23,389
and then gave all that up
to make him happy.
596
00:35:23,455 --> 00:35:26,766
It was my choice
to abide by his wishes.
597
00:35:26,825 --> 00:35:32,366
Isn't it a fact, that your father
was evicting you and your husband from the family home?
598
00:35:32,430 --> 00:35:35,104
Don't you say that he was evicting me.
599
00:35:35,167 --> 00:35:40,446
But it is the truth not some fiction
like you and Yasmin being friends.
600
00:35:40,505 --> 00:35:43,850
He cared more about her wishes
than he did about yours.
601
00:35:43,909 --> 00:35:49,518
Didn't he want you out of his house
before he returned from his honeymoon?
602
00:35:49,581 --> 00:35:53,051
I did everything my father asked of me.
603
00:35:53,118 --> 00:35:58,067
Yes, I wanted a baby, but he said
I should be content to be an aunt.
604
00:35:58,123 --> 00:36:01,400
He said that he was planning
on having more children with Yasmin.
605
00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:04,236
That was the reason
he wanted me to leave the house...
606
00:36:04,296 --> 00:36:08,972
a home that I had made for him
since I was a young woman.
607
00:36:10,368 --> 00:36:12,439
[McCoy] Nothing further.
608
00:36:15,473 --> 00:36:17,453
Putting her on the stand
didn't help the defense.
609
00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:20,854
What the jury saw
was an angry, damaged woman.
610
00:36:20,912 --> 00:36:24,257
Guess Rothenberg bet wrong.
We just heard from him.
611
00:36:24,316 --> 00:36:26,592
Trying to cut a deal, cut his losses?
612
00:36:26,651 --> 00:36:29,097
Asher Koutal is going to testify.
613
00:36:29,154 --> 00:36:32,931
Last-ditch effort... rehabilitate
his wife's testimony, offer an alibi.
614
00:36:32,991 --> 00:36:36,404
The jury will see that for what it is...
a husband lying for his wife.
615
00:36:38,330 --> 00:36:42,745
Where was Roya between 9:00 and 11:00
on the morning of Mr. Soleimani's death?
616
00:36:42,801 --> 00:36:48,183
Like every Sunday morning,
she was at home in our bedroom with me.
617
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,276
How can you be quite so certain?
618
00:36:50,342 --> 00:36:52,413
It is our routine.
619
00:36:52,477 --> 00:36:56,550
We watch the news, read the paper,
have bagels in bed
620
00:36:57,949 --> 00:37:00,623
And Roya never left your side?
621
00:37:08,893 --> 00:37:11,373
Mr. Koutal?
622
00:37:13,131 --> 00:37:15,304
I left hers.
623
00:37:20,472 --> 00:37:23,885
Roya, I am so sorry.
624
00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:31,784
I left her side... to kill Manny.
625
00:37:33,018 --> 00:37:38,661
- Mr. Koutal, what are you...
- I put two tranquilizers in his drink at the wedding.
626
00:37:38,723 --> 00:37:41,795
And then I slipped into his bedroom
that morning,
627
00:37:42,927 --> 00:37:45,032
and I smothered him with a pillow.
628
00:37:46,531 --> 00:37:49,273
Why?
629
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:55,946
- I was devoted to Manny
as if he were my father. - No.
630
00:37:56,007 --> 00:37:59,955
But in the end, he betrayed the
convictions he claimed to live by.
631
00:38:01,946 --> 00:38:04,552
It was he who broke the covenant...
632
00:38:04,616 --> 00:38:07,222
by bringing Yasmin into our home...
633
00:38:07,285 --> 00:38:12,234
and then banishing Roya,
his obedient daughter,
634
00:38:12,290 --> 00:38:15,134
who sacrificed
ever knowing the love of a child.
635
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:25,437
His was the act of a hypocritical tyrant,
not one of a loving father.
636
00:38:28,072 --> 00:38:30,575
[Rothenberg]
Thank you, Mr. Koutal.
637
00:38:33,478 --> 00:38:36,254
How many years have you been married,
Mr. Koutal? Fifteen.
638
00:38:36,314 --> 00:38:38,294
- You love your wife?
- Very much.
639
00:38:38,349 --> 00:38:40,351
Do anything for her?
Yes.
640
00:38:40,418 --> 00:38:42,557
Including sacrifice yourself
so she won't have to go to jail?
641
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:44,566
Objection.
[Judge] Sustained
642
00:38:44,622 --> 00:38:46,727
I killed Manny Soleimani.
643
00:38:48,593 --> 00:38:51,233
Do you have any proof
to corroborate this story?
644
00:38:51,296 --> 00:38:56,268
No proof. I was alone.
I did it because I love her. I had no choice.
645
00:38:56,334 --> 00:39:00,077
You know, Mr. Koutal,
lying under oath is a serious offense!
646
00:39:00,138 --> 00:39:02,812
Objection!
647
00:39:05,977 --> 00:39:07,979
No more questions.
648
00:39:21,626 --> 00:39:26,302
Family is a haven in a heartless world.
649
00:39:27,298 --> 00:39:31,246
But it is also the place
where emotions run deep,
650
00:39:31,302 --> 00:39:34,408
tensions run high.
651
00:39:34,472 --> 00:39:39,319
The nature of family dynamics can be
more complicated than quantum physics.
652
00:39:40,812 --> 00:39:44,419
But what is not so complicated...
653
00:39:44,482 --> 00:39:49,090
is the decision that you, as jurors
have to make.
654
00:39:49,154 --> 00:39:54,263
Asher Koutal told you
that he killed his father-in-law.
655
00:39:54,325 --> 00:39:56,862
That in and of itself...
656
00:39:56,928 --> 00:40:00,501
is enough to create reasonable doubt.
657
00:40:02,333 --> 00:40:05,337
The only way that you can serve justice...
658
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:09,283
is to find Roya Koutal...
659
00:40:09,340 --> 00:40:11,752
not guilty.
660
00:40:14,612 --> 00:40:16,683
Thank you.
661
00:40:21,352 --> 00:40:25,459
I agree with Mr. Rothenberg
about one thing, at least.
662
00:40:25,523 --> 00:40:28,026
The choice before you is simple.
663
00:40:29,194 --> 00:40:32,641
The defense has offered no rebuttal...
664
00:40:32,697 --> 00:40:34,643
to the evidence against the defendant,
665
00:40:34,699 --> 00:40:38,146
only the transparent �confession�...
666
00:40:38,203 --> 00:40:41,150
of a husband desperate to save his wife.
667
00:40:42,373 --> 00:40:47,584
But all the evidence...
the hair, the pillow, the tranquilizer,
668
00:40:47,645 --> 00:40:50,091
the depth of her rage...
669
00:40:50,148 --> 00:40:55,598
against the overpowering,
omnipresent figure in her life...
670
00:40:55,653 --> 00:40:57,655
all point in one direction:
671
00:40:59,657 --> 00:41:04,163
Roya Soleimani Koutal
murdered her father.
672
00:41:10,101 --> 00:41:14,106
Statistically, jurors are loathe
to convict women, especially for violent crimes.
673
00:41:14,172 --> 00:41:17,119
Especially if they have the option
to convict a man instead.
674
00:41:17,175 --> 00:41:19,280
You think the jury
has reasonable doubt?
675
00:41:20,511 --> 00:41:22,616
I do.
676
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,626
And if they acquit her?
677
00:41:24,682 --> 00:41:28,528
If that happens, I want Asher Koutal
taken into custody faster than spit flies.
678
00:41:33,191 --> 00:41:35,193
[Judge] You may read the verdict.
679
00:41:37,528 --> 00:41:41,567
We find the defendant,
Roya Soleimani Koutal,
680
00:41:41,633 --> 00:41:44,136
not guilty.
681
00:41:44,202 --> 00:41:46,876
Roya.
682
00:41:51,476 --> 00:41:53,752
[Asher] Roya.
683
00:41:53,812 --> 00:41:56,088
Let's go.
Roya.
684
00:41:56,147 --> 00:41:58,388
Asher.
685
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Asher.
Roya. Roya.
686
00:42:01,619 --> 00:42:04,725
- Roya! Roya!
- Asher!
687
00:42:15,667 --> 00:42:18,443
The covenant the father broke
was with both of them.
688
00:42:18,503 --> 00:42:22,110
Even after everything he did to her,
she forgave him. Asher didn't.
689
00:42:22,173 --> 00:42:24,119
He felt more betrayed than she did.
690
00:42:24,175 --> 00:42:27,179
He may have married into the family,
but he'd never be blood.
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00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,666
[Howling]
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