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NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system

the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,

the police
who investigate crime

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

You want to explain to her
this ain't the Four Seasons?

I swear, she hits that button
again, she's going to feel

awhole new
source of pain.

Hey! Her son, Michael!

He's on the floor!

(PANTING)

He's not breathing! I don't know
what happened! He just collapsed.

I don't know.
Come on! Hurry!

ASHLEY: Michael, baby!
Please, talk to me!

Come on, baby!
Please talk to me!

Help him! Help him!

Ma'am, I need
to look at him.

ASHLEY: Wait!
Let the nurses see him.

Code blue! Code blue! Four Benson, 322.
Get a crash cart now!

Michael, talk to me! WOMAN ON
INTERCOM: Code blue. Code blue.

Breathe, Michael!
Breathe! Breathe!

He said that his head hurt
and then hejust collapsed.

Oh, my God! He's dying!
Oh! It's okay.

Michael, breathe! Breathe! Breathe!
Breathe! MAN: Oh, my God.

DR. HAVENS: His name
is Michael Jones.

Just the two of them
in the room when he died?

No. Her publicist
was there as well.

He's waiting
to talk to you.

So, what makes you
think foul play?

Well, there's no
obvious trauma.

But he was fine one minute
and dead the next.

Well, that happened
to my Uncle Harry.

They called it
a heart attack.

A 19-year-old kid?
It's not likely.

DR. HAVENS: As soon as we
pronounced, we got everybody out.

Nothing's been touched
in the room either.

CASSADY: Is that blood
coming out of his mouth?

Pulmonary edema. His lungs
filled up as he was dying.

That can happen
with a poisoning?

Absolutely.

Where's his
mother now?

Down the hall.
Sedated.

She was in a pretty bad way.

Change of clothes,

some books,

cell phone.

Who would have been in and
out of this room tonight?

Nurses on shift,
an attendant maybe.

Regular traffic.

What time is
dinner normally?

Um, 1:00, I think.

She's the patient.
Food was for her.

Maybe the kid wasn't
supposed to be the victim.

That son of a bitch
killed Michael.

I know he did.

Now, what are you
gonna do about it?

Who are you
talking about?

Miles Foster,
my husband's son.

He and his
sister, Hillary,

are contesting
the will in court.

I have a legal right
to that inheritance.

William signed the papers.

How much money are we
talking about exactly?

Forty-six million.

I can't believe
Michael's gone.

He was my baby.

We didn't get
any time together.

Why did he have
to hurt him?

It's possible that you were
the target here, Miss Jones.

Oh, my God.

These people think
they can do anything.

This Miles Foster,

has he ever threatened
you before?

That's all he's done.

He's had men follow me home,
crank phone calls.

Okay. We'll look into that.

Now, what's the state
of the settlement?

There is no
settlement.

All the money's
tied up in probate.

What happens if
you're not around?

Under the terms
of the will,

everything goes
to Miles and Hillary.

I want that man arrested.

Ashley Jones is accusing
me of poisoning her son?

This nightmare won't end.

Well, we believe someone
intended to poison her.

I applaud them for the
effort, but I assure you

I had nothing to do
with it, Detective.

You and your sister
stood to gain.

We're about to win
our lawsuit.

We have no reason to do
something like that.

She can appeal,
can't she?

She can take it to the Supreme
Court, for all I care.

The woman's been exposed
as a first-rate con artist.

How did she manage to stake
a claim in the first place?

By manipulating my father.

Ninety-two, in
declining health,

she tricked him into marriage
and contrived a way

to amend his estate plans.

Maybe he was in love.

I know she
certainly wasn't.

My father died
less than a year

after they were married.

She's used every
scheme in the book

to get her hands
on that money.

Knowing her, she probably
killed her own son

just to accuse me.

She said you threatened
her in the past.

People following
her home.

We hired private investigators
to document her lifestyle.

It was never intended
as athreat.

Talk to my attorney.
Allow her to enlighten you.

HEATH: William Foster
was halfway senile.

Miss Jones worked on him
until he didn't know

which way was up.
Within a month,

the prenup was negated and she was
a heartbeat away from retirement.

That's not gold digging,
that's a grave rob.

You do understand
how this looks?

Detective, Miles Foster has
no motive for getting even.

This lawsuit is wrapping up
quite well for us.

Because of something
you have on Ashley?

A signed affidavit from
her personal trainer,

courtesy of Mr. Simon,
my investigator.

He was sleeping with Ashley from the
day she married William Foster.

Why did the trainer
tell you about it?

Because she used him
like toilet paper.

He thought he was moving out of
the gym and up to the penthouse.

Are there any more like him?

Plenty. She was a kept
woman for years.

How does her son
figure into all of this?

He didn't. She shipped
him off when he was a kid

to live with
relatives upstate.

GREEN: Any idea
why he came back?

Let's just say the tire doesn't
roll far from the mobile home.

Money? She's been working men
since the age of consent.

Her own son shows up,
he starts working her.

Call it karma.

CASSADY: Drug buy.

I shot those photos outside
Ashley's apartment last week.

GREEN: Hey, Lou.
Yo.

The toxicology report
from that hospital food

came back negative.

No poison in
the ravioli?

So, maybe the kid did
die of an overdose.

His mother and her publicist
say he was acting totally

normal before he died.

What about that photo?

Cassady's at narcotics seeing
if they can identify the dude.

And what'd the M.E. say?

She's still not
done with the post.

She has to order more tests
to verify the cause of death.

Look, I don't want to keep spinning
our wheels if this isn't a homicide.

Call her again.
Light a fire.

You know, you're gonna have to call her
because she's sick of talking to me.

Our wannabe player
is Marco Penzler.

He's had a couple of
run-ins with narcotics,

mostly low level
heroin deals.

He's got a bench warrant
on a marijuana summons.

Yeah, keep reading. He also has
an attempted murder charge.

What's that about?

The D.A. declined to prosecute
because of lack of evidence,

but the word is, he pushed a burn bag with
roach poison. Put a kid in the hospital.

He could have done
the same thing to Michael.

Any contact with Marco
before the kid died?

Not that I could tell. GREEN: You
know, it's possible, though.

There was a call on Michael's cell
records that we couldn't link up.

It could be a
disposable cell phone.

Which has dealer
written all over it.

Pull Marco in.

Okay.

I can read the
sign on the door.

You're homicide. What's
that got to do with me?

Michael Jones is
a client of yours, right?

I saw he died
on the news.

Yeah. He died.

Now, here you are.

Right.
Here I am.

You know they said I burned
that dude, but it ain't true.

That's why the D.A.
dropped the charges.

Except maybe it's happened again and
it's coming back to you again, Marco.

We know that Michael
talked to you that day.

And we know that you dealt
to him in the past.

Did he O.D.?
Did you sell him heroin?

Didn't have
any to sell.

Fashion week cleaned me out.

Must have scored some
gutterjunk that messed him up.

You know
what I think?

I think he owed you.

Came to you for
another favor

and you gave him
the bad stuff.

Ugh, Mikey didn't have any
problem coming up with cash.

He got it from that
fine MILF of his.

CASSADY: Then who
did he hook up with?

You're the dick.
All I know is,

he didn't die from
nothing I gave him

because I didn't
give him nothing.

Autopsy's done.
M.E.'s waiting for us.

Perfect. Well, Marco,
in about 10 minutes,

we'll know if
you're on the level.

RODGERS: His tox showed
moderate levels of heroin

and a couple
prescription medications.

He died of
a drug cocktail?

That probably
helped him along,

but the actual
cause of death

was a golf ball-sized
metastatic tumor in his brain.

Well, he complained of a
headache before he collapsed.

Yeah, I bet he did.

He probably had
a massive seizure.

So, he died of
complications from cancer?

Uh, not so fast.
I'm ruling it a homicide.

How you figure?

The non-recreational
pharmaceuticals in his

blood were cyclosporin
and prednisone.

Immunosuppressants.

People take them when they get
a new kidney or a new heart.

Ooh, what did he get?

New legs.

See here and here?

He got cancer
from bone grafts.

You got it.

You're looking at first-class surgery
with third-rate donor material.

How'd that happen?
It shouldn't have.

The bones should have been
screened and sterilized.

No way this came from
a legitimate tissue bank.

Are we talking about
black market body parts?

I typed the cells
in the tumor,

even called in a neuropath
consultant for confirmation.

This young man died
of ovarian cancer.

Rodgers thinks the
surgery is legit,

but it's anybody's guess where
those donor bones came from.

Well, what are we
talking about here?

Illegal chop shop?
Stolen body parts?

That would explain why
the cancer wasn't detected.

Any real tissue bank
would screen for diseases.

If this stuff gets into
the distribution chain...

I don't want to hear about it.
Who's been notified so far?

Well, the M.E.'s office reached
out to the health department.

They are issuing bulletins
to area hospitals.

Look, do we have any leads on who
performed this operation on the kid?

We got nothing.
There's over 100

medical facilities in New York
City that can do bone grafts.

What about when it happened?

Rodgers thinks that, judging
by the healing of the bone,

it's about a year
and a half ago.

At that time, Michael was a heroin
addict living on the street.

I doubt he was insured.

Yeah, well I doubt
any transplant hospital

would even take your temperature
without proof of insurance.

Meaning somebody came
through for him in a big way

because that procedure
was not cheap.

Talk to his mother again.
See if she knows anything.

Michael admitted he'd been
homeless and used drugs.

I said so what?

We were making
a fresh start.

I didn't want to
dwell on the past.

His or yours?

Look,

I may not have
always been there.

I had a substance abuse problem
of my own to deal with, okay?

Miss Jones, help us out.

We don't know anything about what happened
to your son when he was on the street,

except he had major surgery.

Seems pretty unusual, considering he was
a homeless drug addict at the time.

What do you want me to say?

I don't know
anything about it.

Can you tell us anything?

Old friends he might
have mentioned?

Places he used to hang out?
Anything?

Um...

A few weeks ago,

Michael had a girl
in the apartment.

Um...

She looked like
she'd been crying.

She left pretty quickly
after I came home.

Did you get a name?

Natasha, I think.

She was an old
girlfriend. Um...

I didn't press
on the details.

Anything else?

Um...

Her shirt...

There was a name
on her shirt, uh...

Delancey's.

Delaney's.

Me and Mike,
homeless junkies.

I can't believe
I lived that way.

I hadn't seen him
in almost two years.

Then we reconnected.

It was obvious that
he was still using.

I told him I didn't
want to see him again

if he wasn't going
to get clean.

Do you know how
he broke his legs?

Back then, we were doing little
rips to keep up with our habits.

We got caught
boosting an airbag.

Mike took off across
Queens Boulevard.

A taxi hit him.

GREEN: Where'd they take him?

I don't know.

The paramedics wouldn't
let me go with him.

I figured he was dead. I mean,

he looked halfway there when
they put him in the ambulance.

If he got hit on
Queens Boulevard,

do you think maybe they took
him to Queens City Hospital?

I checked right
after it happened.

They didn't have him
listed as a patient.

Well, is it possible that he was
admitted under another name?

What name?

Well, maybe he had somebody else's
insurance card or ID or something?

(CHUCKLES)

Now I know why
I couldn't find him.

Yeah.

Um, we found a wallet
in the glove box of

a car that we had ripped.

The ID sort of
looked like Mike.

He kept it in case
we got busted.

Do you remember the name?

We used to make fun of it
because it sounded rich.

Huvey Wilson.

(CHUCKLES)

AMIRI: Mr. Huvey T. Wilson, A.K.A.
John Doe. Two shattered femurs.

Looks like we treated him
about a year and a half ago.

You did bone grafts on
him to repair his legs?

Uh, not according to this. The
kid had insurance issues.

The card probably
came back stolen.

All right, so if he can't
pay, what happens next?

Well, if you can't pay, you
get the blue-light special.

In this case,
double amputation.

You've gotta be
kidding me.

Hey, blame the
bean counters.

We don't take any pleasure
cutting off someone's legs.

Look, Doctor, up until two days
ago he was walking upright.

We know he got bone
grafts on both legs.

Maybe he transferred out. But there's no
way he got that kind of charity here.

Well, what does
his chart say?

Um...

Missing a couple
of pages. It happens.

Okay, do you have any idea where
this surgery might have been done?

Uh, there's a non-profit
orthopedic clinic in Manhattan.

They've taken some of our
hard-luck cases in the past.

Uh, Dr. Vaughn
runs the program.

Guy's practically
pining for sainthood.

This way!

You're sure about this?
Ovarian cancer?

And the M.E. thinks it came from the
bones you used to fix his legs.

I'm sorry, I highly doubt that.

The M.E. seems pretty confident
it came from the graft.

Doctor, we need to know where
the donor bones came from.

We use several procurement
companies and tissue banks.

It could have come
from any one of them.

Well, how do you cover
your uninsured patients?

Through grants,
fundraising.

Our clinic has an operating
budget of almost $15 million.

Most of that goes to
subsidizing patient care.

$15 million? And all that comes
from financial donations?

People give generously to help us care
for the working poor and indigent.

To help a patient like Michael
who almost lost his legs

because he was homeless.

And you don't
occasionally cut corners?

We may be a non-profit clinic,
but our quality of care

is on par with any
university hospital.

Look, Detective, it's extremely rare
for cancer to metastasize to bone.

Michael must have contracted
the disease some other way.

Now, as far as the graft
bones are concerned,

I'm telling you I don't know
which company procured them.

Don't you at least
have the donor's name?

The provenance has
to be tracked somehow.

I have a copy of the
donor's death certificate.

That's it.

Karen Kendall.

Twenty-one years old.

You'll also notice
the cause of death.

It wasn't ovarian cancer.

Karen was driving home
from college for spring break.

A truck cut her off in the
tunnel coming into Manhattan.

The doctors said
she was brain dead.

We took her off life support
six days after the accident.

Did you donate any of her
organs or tissue at that time?

No. No, we never consented
to anything like that.

The hospital
asked us to,

but it was too much with
Karen dying so suddenly.

Which hospital?

Chase General.

They said they'd
take care of her.

But you're saying
they did it anyway?

We think that somebody did.

Oh, my God.

Had your daughter been
diagnosed with ovarian cancer?

Cancer?

No!

She was in peak health.

She ran marathons!

(SOBBING)

Mr. and Mrs. Kendall,

we're going to need to verify what
happened to your daughter's body,

so the medical examiner is gonna
want to look at her remains.

She was cremated.

Who handled
the cremation?

Uh...
Bicks Funeral Home.

Uh, Tony Bicks helped us
with the arrangements.

(CRYING)

TONY: Talk to the
hospital morgue.

They're the body butchers.

GREEN: The hospital says you
picked up Karen Kendall's

body within two
hours of her death.

Apparently, it would have taken too
long to harvest her remains there.

I'm sorry,
I don't remember.

You signed her out.
We have the time.

Well, if that's what it said,
then that's what I did.

CASSADY: What was the rush?

I was probably there
on another run.

She was the only
body that day.

What are you
getting at?

What she's getting at is there's a
small window of time to harvest

her remains before
they're unusable.

CASSADY: Unusable and worthless
to a paying tissue bank.

And you think
that's what I did?

That body was cremated, which means
you could have taken anything

you wanted and nobody would know the
family didn't give their consent.

I think you're making a lot of
unfounded accusations here, Detective.

Cool. How about we have
a look at your records?

We can straighten
this out right now.

I think you can take
it up with my attorney.

We can get a warrant
if we have to.

Myers, Prescott
and Mandelbaum.

They're in the
yellow pages.

You call them.
We'll wait.

GREEN: Two hundred and
seventy-eight bodies

went through Bicks
Funeral Home last year.

Of those, 213 did not consent
to donate tissue or bone.

And most of those names are now
showing up on the donor list.

Who did Bicks sell to?

There could have been any number
of tissue banks or brokers.

Every company I talked
to was not willing

to admit that they bought
directly from him.

Yeah, well, worried
about liability.

This stuff could be scattered
across the country.

CASSADY: I pulled the LUDS
from the funeral home.

Bicks called Vaughn's
clinic on a regular basis.

You think Vaughn knew
what he was getting?

CASSADY: He said he didn't.

And he might not have
if Bicks was forging

consent forms,
death certificates...

He wasn't exactly helpful
when we talked to him.

How much money are
we talking about?

Okay, you want the list? Now,
these are non-organ parts,

veins, cartilage,
tendons, bones.

One body is worth
over 200 grand.

Do Bicks' financials
bear that out?

He's got a little
something in the bank,

but nothing like this
kind of cash flow.

He's gotta be hiding it.

Even still, we can't pin him for
the murder of Michael Jones.

But we can get him for grand
larceny and forgery, right?

Only if you can prove that Bicks was
the one who pillaged the corpses.

A lot of those bodies
didn't get cremated.

Talk to the families. We need
to start digging people up.

RODGERS: This was
pure slice and dice.

I've got corpses missing bones
from their legs and arms,

major veins and
tendons are also gone.

Now, take a look at this.

Are those pipes?

PVC for plumbing.

To maintain the shape of the limbs
for the viewing would be my guess.

I also found bloody
aprons and gloves

dumped inside a couple
of abdominal cavities.

Can we trace any
of this to Bicks?

Here's a preliminary.

CSU pulled two latents
off the inside of a pipe.

Guess who?

You go.

Tony Bicks, step
this way, please.

(WHISPERING)
Keep your voice down.

You're under arrest for
grand larceny and forgery.

What are you doing?
I'm right in the middle...

You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say can be used
against you in a court of law.

CLERK: �Docket number 8357.2.
People v. Anthony Bicks.

"Charge is grand larceny in the second
degree, forgery in the second degree."

Mr. Bicks pleads
not guilty, Your Honor.

People on bail?

The defendant altered official
state death certificates

to facilitate an illegal
trade in stolen body parts.

I'm sure that forging his passport
isn't beyond his capabilities.

People seek remand.

That's absurd. Not one of these
charges is over a C felony.

RUBIROSA: Your Honor,
we are still exhuming bodies.

The full scope of this criminal
enterprise is expanding.

The victims in this case
were already dead, correct?

Not true. Mr. Bicks' actions implicate
him in the homicide of Michael Jones.

Mr. Jones contracted
ovarian cancer

from illegally harvested bones
he received during atransplant.

Lot of dots to connect
there, Counselor.

There is a murder indictment
pending, YourHonoL

Then let's revisit
bail if they file.

I'm not letting Dr. Frankenstein,
here, off so easy.

Bail is 300,000, cash only.

He can't make that,
Your Honor.

Maybe he's got
something he can sell.

(GAVEL STRIKES)

RUBIROSA: Looks like Bicks
will post tomorrow.

His lawyer wouldn't
discuss a plea.

She's waiting to see if we make
good on our murder indictment.

Judge Goldberg's
betting against us.

We know Bicks harvested
Karen Kendall's bones.

We know Dr. Vaughn transplanted
them into the victim.

I find it hard to believe that
Vaughn was totally in the dark.

It's circumstantial.
If we can't link them

together with shared intent,
we can't make a case.

Phone records aren't
proof of complicity?

It would be easy to say the calls
were related to fundraising.

Bicks has given money
to the clinic in the past.

Illegal profits could have been
disguised as financial donations.

We still haven't been able to
trace where the money went.

What does Dr. Vaughn
have to say for himself?

I was referred to his
attorney, Dave Seaver.

He's not malpractice, by the way.
Strictly criminal law.

That should tell
us something.

We still can't prove
that Vaughn knew

where the body parts
were coming from.

Not without flipping Bicks.

The clinic's records
might shed some light.

Do you really think we're going to
get a subpoena for medical records?

Half the judges on the roster
have had hip replacements.

Given the issue, I don't
think we'll have a problem.

Not bad.
Yeah?

Not bad got me a full ride
to Georgetown next fall.

You're Jason Carter, right?

Man, I must be dreaming
you came here looking for me.

I'm Connie Rubirosa with the
district attorney's office.

I needed to talk to you about Dr.
Adam Vaughn.

Yeah, what's up
with Dr. Vaughn?

Did he, uh, perform surgery
on your knee last year?

Yeah. I wouldn't have been able
to play ball if he hadn't.

Why you want to know?

Jason smashed up his knee
at the end of his junior year.

Yeah, he called it atibial
plateau fracture.

I shattered my
kneecap, basically.

Now, you're saying the bone
they used to fix him up

was stolen out of
some other body?

As far as we can tell, Jason
was one of two people

who received parts
from this donor.

Ayoung man, about your
age, died of cancer.

He contracted it from the bone that Dr.
Vaughn transplanted in his legs.

Dr. Vaughn wouldn't
do nothing like that.

What do you want
with Jason?

We're building a murder case against the
man who illegally harvested the body.

We need to be able to prove that
the cancer came from this donor

and not another source,
like a blood transfusion.

How do you do that?

Jason would need to undergo
a biopsy of his knee.

Yeah. I don't
know about that.

I understand this
is an unusual request.

Unusual? You're coming in my home
telling me he might have cancer.

We need Jason's help
to make this case.

No. I'm calling Dr. Vaughn right now
and getting to the bottom of this.

Miss Carter, Dr. Vaughn is a
suspect in our investigation.

Excuse me? That man gave Jason a second
chance at going to a top college.

He's getting the benefit
of the doubt from me.

You need to know
that if he refuses,

I will have no choice but to get
a court order to compel him.

Then I guess you'll
have to do that.

Jason Carter is not under any
obligation to help Mr. McCoy.

Except that the bone in his
knee was illegally obtained.

The notion that the state has no recourse
in an investigation is not right.

Mr. Carter is not a target of
the investigation, YourHonoL

It's a major intrusion
on an innocent third party.

Mr. Carter may be
a victim of the crime.

Maybe he'd like to know.

As his Fourth Amendment rights
are flushed down the toilet?

Your Honor, my client would prefer to
handle any health issue privately.

The Supreme Court held in Winston v.
Lee that compulsion of minor surgery

to obtain evidence of
a crime was not unreasonable.

I'd hardly call
the procedure minor.

Mr. Carter would have a piece
of his bone tissue removed,

which could destroy
his knee all over again.

Winston concerned surgery on a patient
who was also a suspect in the crime.

The decision wasn't
based on that.

It was based on the level of
intrusion and the court ultimately

denied the request
because of that.

The court left the door
open in those cases where

the public interest
outweighs the intrusion.

And this is one
of those cases.

The New York Department of
Health and the CDC are involved

due to the potential for
a major health crisis.

We're not making
this request lightly.

Is there no other
way around it?

We don't believe so.

From a search of
Dr. Vaughn's records,

Jason Carter is the only
other patient we know of

who received remains
from Karen Kendall.

And what's a biopsy
going to prove, Mr. McCoy?

That the bone graft Michael Jones received
gave him cancer and caused his death.

I'm reluctantly
granting the request.

Mr. Carter,

I understand this court is asking
a lot of you with this order.

If I didn't feel there were
larger public health issues here,

I would not have
decided this way.

And frankly,
young man,

I think you ought to know
one way or the other.

They're saying
it's the same thing?

RU Bl ROSA: Yeah .

I don't feel
bad or nothing.

Doctors say
it's still early.

You can treat it,
beat it.

How am I going
to pay for this?

Think Medicaid's going
to give him what he needs?

You'd have a solid civil case
against anyone we convict.

It could mean
a large settlement.

JACK: Jason,

I can't imagine how hard this
must be for you right now.

What do you
want me to do?

Testify at trial.

Dr. Vaughn didn't
mean to do this,

did he?

Damn right, he knew! I'm not
going down for what Vaughn did.

Not for murder.

You were an active participant
in the crime, Mr. Bicks.

You knew full well that Dr.
Vaughn would use

the bone and tissue
you illegally harvested.

That I harvested?
Hold on, Tony.

I want assurances
you'll reduce the charges.

Your client proffers
the information.

Then we can discuss
what it's worth.

Mr. Bicks?

I didn't take anything
out of those bodies.

All I did was get a finder's
fee and fix the paperwork.

Dr. Vaughn did
the harvesting?

My hands shake.

You don't cut those tendons
out right, they're worthless.

How many bodies are
we talking about?

Five hundred, maybe.
Maybe more.

He said his patients couldn't
afford anything else.

This was only
for his clinic?

No. He sold some of the parts to
tissue banks around the country.

As long as the paperwork looks good, they
don't ask where the stuff came from.

Lot of people walking around
with that stuff in them.

PRESCOTT:
Heard enough?

You won't file
murder charges?

If he testifies,
I'll agree to concurrent

sentences for the grand
larceny and the forgery.

He does at least 10 years.

Tissue or even
an organ...

MILLER: I asked them to wait, Doctor.
This can't wait.

Dr. Vaughn,
please stand up.

I'm in the middle of a consultation.
You'll have to reschedule.

Excuse me.

You're under arrest for the
murder of Michael Jones.

Doctor! Every/thing's okay.
Call my lawyer.

You have the right
to remain silent...

Anthony Bicks has agreed
to testify, Dr. Vaughn.

He's going to tell ajury about
your gruesome enterprise.

Let's not confuse
the issue here, Jack.

Illegal procurement of body parts is
one thing. How you get to murder...

It's called foresight.
Dr. Vaughn knew the risks.

He evinced a depraved
indifference toward his patients.

You're wrong, Mr. McCoy. I gave my
patients consistently excellent care.

Tell that to Michael
Jones or Jason Carter.

He's sick, too,
by the way.

SEAVER: This is
a malpractice case.

This is a public
health crisis.

Man one, 15 years, and he
surrenders his medical license.

There was no way of knowing Karen
Kendall had ovarian cancer.

It wasn't diagnosed
at the time of her death.

Dr. Vaughn didn't have access
to her medical records

because the harvest
was illegal.

He couldn't have
known either way.

There are always complications
in transplant medicine.

But weigh that against the fact
that those butchers were going

to amputate Michael's
legs because he was poor.

People like Karen Kendall have so
much they can give and they don't.

I did what I had
to do for my patient.

Our offer is on the table.

Then I guess we're done.

Even the noblest crusaders aren't
beyond a little hypocrisy.

It usually
involves money.

Well, that was my initial hunch, but I
pored over his financials, nothing.

If Vaughn sold surplus body
parts on the open market,

there should be some
evidence of a profit.

The only explanation
I can come up with

is that he sunk the money
right back into his clinic.

How's that for noble?

Well, I stand corrected.

We don't need
a financial motive

to hold Vaughn
accountable for murder.

There's a clear chain of events
that led to Michael Jones' death.

Well, they'll counter
your causation argument

by citing the statistical
risk of any surgery.

It's about consent.

Michael Jones wasn't
aware of the risk.

Vaughn gambled with his life.

Well, no pun intended, but I think
the doctor has another bone to pick.

Which is? Well, vilifying
the insurance companies,

turning this trial
into a referendum

on the inequities of the
American medical system.

The haves and have-non.

Even the have-nots wouldn't
want what Vaughn was selling.

There are 46 million uninsured
people in this country.

In ajury pool,
that's one in six.

Well, then you better
make Dr. Vaughn seem

like a worse choice
than no doctor at all.

Dr. Vaughn never
told me I might get cancer.

JACK: What did
Dr. Vaughn tell you?

He just said
he'd fix my knee.

Where did he tell you
the new bone came from?

He didn't.

He never told me nothing.

How did you feel when you learned
you'd contracted cancer?

Scared, I guess.

Angry-

I just sort of thought Dr. Vaughn
was more on top of it, you know.

I started chemotherapy last week and
hopefully that'll do the trick.

I just want to live my life without
having this hanging over my head.

Nothing further.

Would you have gotten your
tibial plateau fracture

repaired without
Dr. Vaughn?

No. My mom couldn't
afford it otherwise.

Because you and your mother don't
have any health insurance?

That's right.

So, Dr. Vaughn
treated you for

next to nothing.

Basically.

Without that, would you be playing
basketball for Georgetown next fall?

No.

If he wouldn't
have fixed my knee,

they never would have
given me a scholarship.

Recruiters had to see
I still had my game.

Means a lot for you
to play, doesn't it?

Just about everything.

Jason, I want you
to think about this.

If Dr. Vaughn had explained that,
under very rare circumstances,

an undiagnosed cancer can transfer
itself through the donor bone,

would you have said
no to the surgery?

Probably not.

You'd still have
the operation?

If it would have fixed
my knee, I would.

Do you blame Dr. Vaughn
for your cancer?

I know he didn't mean
for it to happen.

I actually feel bad
he's in trouble, you know?

Nothing further.

Seaver scored points today.

I'm worried we've lost
our leverage to deal.

Don't be. I'm
not offering one.

Jack, Jason Carter basically
said he'd be willing to endure

chemotherapy for
a college scholarship.

Risk versus reward,
understandable.

It doesn't change the circumstances
of Michael Jones' death.

Well, maybe not.

But informed consent is
beginning to sound irrelevant.

Especially after Vaughn makes
his pitch to the jury.

What?

What date do you have
for Michael's surgery?

Um...

April 28th.

This is odd.
This medication log

shows the dispensary gave Michael
his first anti-rejection drugs

on the 23rd, days
before the transplant.

Could be a clerical mistake.

The same nurse signed the
daily charts, Valerie Miller.

She signed the
medication log, too.

Might be worth asking Nurse
Miller for a clarification.

It gets hectic
at the clinic.

I'm sure I wasn't paying
attention when I wrote it down.

So, when did Michael
Jones have his surgery?

The 28th,
like it says.

I checked with
the dispensary.

Their records show that they
issued the medication on the 23rd.

Patients don't start taking this kind of
drug before they receive a transplant.

Miss Miller, did he have his surgery
on the 23rd and not the 28th?

I just did what I was told.

Don't put me in
the middle of this.

(SIGHS) But it looks
like you already are.

Dr. Vaughn asked me
to change the dates

in the file after he heard
Michael Jones had died.

Why did he do that?

Karen Kendall was still
on life support on the 23rd.

She wasn't the real donor.

Who was
the real donor?

A woman named
Tina Sadowsky.

JACK: People's 22.

This is Tina Sadowsky's
death certificate.

When did she die?

April 22nd. The day before
Michael Jones had his surgery.

What's the cause
of death noted?

I'm so sorry, Dr. Vaughn.
I didn't want to do this.

They told me they were going to take my
nursing license if I didn't testify.

Your Honor? The jury will
disregard the witness's comment.

You're out of order, Miss Miller.
Answer the question.

What's the cause of death noted on
Tina Sadowsky's death certificate?

Ovarian cancer.

Nothing further.

(CLEARS THROAT)

Your Honor, we have no
questions for this witness.

I was notified by the hospital

that they had an
uninsured patient

who'd shattered
both femurs.

They intended to
amputate his legs.

I knew I could help him.

And did you?

Absolutely. After
his recovery,

Michael Jones was
able to walk again.

And why did he die,
Dr. Vaughn?

It's a painful fact, but
there are risks in medicine.

If you give a million
patients penicillin,

a small but predictable number
will always die of anaphylaxis.

But who questions the
benefits of antibiotics?

What did you use
to fix his legs?

I used two six-inch pieces of human
bone that I harvested from a donor.

I took them
without consent.

SEAVER: Why did you do that?

Because we have a system in this country
that favors the wealthy and insured.

They expect that if they need
blood, tissue or even an organ,

it'll be there for them.

Truth be told, it usually
is because they can pay.

How many of those people do you
think become donors themselves?

I'll tell you. It's
less than 10% percent.

I took an oath to care
for my patients.

I had to do everything
I could to help them.

How does that square
with harvesting bones

from a woman who died
of ovarian cancer?

To the non-medical eye,
I agree it looks reckless.

That's why I stupidly
tried to cover it up.

It wasn't reckless?

It's extremely rare
for ovarian cancer

to metastasize to bone tissue.

How rare?

Put it this way. Michael
Jones had a greater chance

of getting struck by lightning
or even dying in a plane crash,

than developing ovarian cancer
from that donor's bones.

And what were his odds of walking
again without your help?

Zero.

It's a noble argument,
Doctor, but it glosses

over the reality of the
crime, don't you think?

You stole human remains

from unwilling
donors, correct?

Perhaps they
were unwilling.

There's no question
they were needed.

You had no way to determine
their suitability, correct?

The medical histories of the
donors were never vetted.

Parts you procured were
never screened for disease.

Isn't that right? I made the
best evaluation I could.

I believe I chose
good candidates.

So confident, you
even sold the parts

that you didn't use to other tissue
banks for a profit, correct?

The money was only
to keep my clinic running.

You confidently chose good
candidates, like Tina Sadowsky,

a woman who died
of ovarian cancer.

As I said, the risk of transferring
the disease was extremely rare.

Except in this case,
you were wrong.

Michael Jones died.

Jason Carter now
has cancer as well.

And I tremendously
regret that.

JACK: You knew with
any illegal donor you

were getting a loaded
gun, correct?

My patients wouldn't have gotten the
treatment I provided anywhere else.

So, in other words, you didn't
think you were risking much?

I'm saying I weighed
the risk against helping

people who desperately neededit

But you never told your
patients what those risks were.

They never had a choice.
Isn't that right?

Do you think Michael Jones would
have chosen to lose his legs?

In a perfect world,
Mr. McCoy, I might be guilty.

But I practice medicine
in the real world.

Where you're also
bound by laws.

Which support a medical
system that does not

operate in the best
interest of people in need.

It's dictated by money.

Or more often, in the case
of my patients, a lack of it.

Except that the system
is not on trial here.

You are because you gambled with
a young man's life and lost.

What would you have me tell someone
like Michael Jones? Too bad?

As a doctor who swore an oath to help
my patients, that's not acceptable.

He depended on me to save
his legs, so I did.

You saved his legs.
You lost the patient.

And given the odds,
I'd do it again.

Which is why,
Dr. Vaughn,

your cure is worse
than any disease.

Objection!

Sustained.

(EXHALES)

Nothing further.

Has the jury
reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

On the count of murder in the
second degree, how do you find?

We find the defendant,
Adam Vaughn, not guilty.

Take comfort in the fact he's
losing his license to practice.

I'm not sure people like
Jason Carter feel that way.

Jack, you were
right on the law.

Does that mean

that Dr. Vaughn was wrong?

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