All language subtitles for Law & Order s18e13 Angelgrove.eng

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.

AUDREY: Good use
of negative space.

Nice composition.

Karina has real talent.

You pay for her class,
Mrs. Audrey.

She find her happiness,
gracias.

Karina will have
a great portfolio

when she applies
for art school.

(WIND GUSHING)
(BOTH EXCLAIMING)

Oh, Gilda!
Oh, I'm so sorry.

I'll pay for them.

It'll be Karina's
first sale.

Okay. See you tomorrow,
Mrs. Audrey.

CHRIS:
You can really notice!

The doctor said the scars
would be invisible.

The next time you're thinking
about cosmetic surgery,

just ask me first.

(BANGING)

Ah!

Chris!
Oh, my God!

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

We got a pedestrian
with a skull fracture.

The door was wide open
when my guys got up here.

Then they found her.

Her name's
Audrey Lortell, 42.

This is a work number
for the husband.

Okay. We're going
to need a canvass

of all the surrounding
buildings.

Anybody that has a view
onto this terrace.

Her head feels like
a bag of broken china.

Looks like they started throwing
rocks at her over there,

cornered her back here.

One direct hit would
have put her down.

Any one of these tools would have
done the job a whole lot quicker,

not to mention
the 10-story drop.

Maybe quick
wasn't the point.

RODGERS: I count over 30 major
contusions on her head,

face, and upper torso.

Most were inflicted
post-mortem.

Overkill.
Someone was venting.

Or practicing
their fastball.

I've never seen
this MO before.

I have, in Pakistan,
in the tribal areas.

The man I saw killed
was an opium addict.

A dope-head
stoned to death.

Those mullahs have
a sense of humor.

I seem to remember some
stonings in the Bible, too.

Thanks.

Her husband,
what's his story?

He was at his office downtown
when we notified him.

He was appropriately upset.

His co-workers confirmed that
he was there all afternoon.

Well, what about his
religious background?

MATTHEW: We don't
really have a religion.

We haven't been
to church in years.

Sundays were for
being with our kids.

Do you have
any neighbors

or friends with strong
religious views?

I don't really
see your point.

Audrey was very
accepting of all people.

LUPO: You waiting
for something?

My son. He's driving down
from Oneonta,

he goes
to college there.

Mrs. Lortell have
any enemies?

No. Audrey was awonderful
mother, a great wife.

She owned an art gallery.

It doesn't really make
any sense.

We understand,
Mr. Lortell.

When was the last time
you spoke to her?

This morning,
around 11:00.

How did she sound?

A little stressed. There was
some crisis at the gallery.

Your housekeeper said that
your wife came here at 12:00.

Well, that doesn't
sound like Audrey.

It was all I could do to tear
her away from the place.

I'm ready, Dad.

How long before
we can move back in?

It will be a couple of days.
We'll give you a call.

LAUREN: Jason!

Oh, God! Mom's dead.

We're so glad
you're here.

It seemed like a big crisis
yesterday, but now...

I can't believe, Audrey,
just like that...

Okay. Let's just deal
with yesterday.

Maybe you noticed, there's
no art in the art gallery.

Yeah, if you say so.

We were going to open Konstandin
Vassinsky's new show tomorrow night.

Yesterday morning,
before Audrey came in,

Konstandin came and tore
down all his paintings.

What was his beef?

He kept saying she was a
child playing with dynamite.

The dynamite,
is that him?

He's Albanian, and an artist.
Handle with care.

She called him
when she came in.

They got into it, I think
he hung up on her.

Then she told me the show was
cancelled and she was going home.

Fatima's Jihad.

He's an Albanian Muslim,
yeah?

MADISON: I think so.
ED: Religious dynamite.

KONSTANDIN: I liked Audrey.
She was nice lady.

I took my paintings away because
I decide they're no good.

I think they're
pretty good.

Look, you told Audrey she was a
child playing with dynamite.

My partner thinks
you're the dynamite,

but I think it might
be your paintings.

Like this one,
Fatima's Jihad.

The Prophet's daughter,
and her struggle.

It's against the oppression of
women in some Muslim countries.

It's not the religion,
it's men.

Some ignorant men who twist the
religion to keep women down.

Didn't some artists
in Europe

get killed for saying
the same thing?

So? This is America.

I can say anything, right?

You know how
she was killed?

Rocks.

Lots of them.

Somebody didn't want her
showing your paintings, right?

I warned her.

But she say if we cancel
the show, the brutes win.

She was so American.

What brutes are we
talking about?

They own an Albanian
bakery in the Bronx.

They say cancel the show
or they cancel me.

You've been lied to,
my friends.

I don't threaten anyone.

That's not what your local
precinct said, Mr. Vasic.

They're looking at you for the
strip club arson four blocks away.

Good riddance.

My family had to pass
that dump every week

on our way
to the mosque.

Listen, we need to know
where you and your men were

3:00 in the afternoon
yesterday.

We've been here.
All of us.

Baking.

Uh, what size shoes
do you wear?

VASIC:
What are you doing?

Nothing, just taking some pictures.
(CAMERA CLICKS)

We can match that against the
footprints we found in Soho yesterday.

Hold still, fellow.

This is bull.

Riza!

This is my nephew Riza.

Summa cum laude
from Brooklyn Law.

Any questions you have
for my uncle,

you can put in writing
for my review.

Otherwise, we'll
consider this visit

part of a pattern
of harassment,

and you may be called
upon to testify in

our civil suit
against the NYPD.

Hey, we'll let you know
how those pictures turn out.

Gangsters masquerading
as good Muslims.

Yeah. I was raised
by gangsters

masquerading
as good Catholics.

What are you talking
about, the Mob?

No, the nuns
at my parochial school.

(LAUGHING)

They could carve out your
liver with a 12 inch ruler.

What is that?

It says, "Look
across the street."

The Bureau's had Vasic and his
bakery under surveillance

for the past
six months.

Why are you
talking to Vasic?

We're investigating
threats against an artist

whose paintings
might be considered

offensive to Muslims.

These threats
are credible?

Yeah, we think so. We've got
a dead art gallery owner.

We're looking at Vasic for
interstate weapons trafficking.

Wow. You've been doing
surveillance 2417?

Yeah.

You got a 3-0-2
for yesterday?

Yeah.

What's the, uh, name
of your murder victim?

ED: Audrey Lortell.
L-O-R-T-E-L-L.

Well, our bakery crew is
present and accounted for.

Their alibi
holds up for now.

Lortell, Audrey
on Green Street?

LUPO: Mmm-hmm.

What are
all those entries?

These are wiretap logs and e-mail
surveillance on Audrey Lortell.

You have wiretap
warrants for her?

We don't need warrants. We've got a
National Security Letter out on her.

How do you figure
she's a security threat?

Your murder victim,
Ms. Lortell,

is suspected of giving material
support to a terrorist organization.

The NSA automatically monitors
calls to and from the US.

The system sends up a flare
whenever certain keywords are used.

A National Security
Letter is issued,

the callers are
put on a watch list

and all their communications
get recorded.

Can we hear the call that landed
Audrey Lortell on the watch list?

Uh-huh.
It was two months ago,

from her cell phone
to a number in Germany.

AUDREY: It's a work
in progress,

but Fatima's Jihad wlll
make people take notice.

MAN: I trust your
judgment, Audrey.

Jihad? Is that the keyword
that sent a flare up?

That's how the program
is designed to work.

Fatima's Jihad is the
name of a painting

done by an artist who was
represented by Mrs. Lortell.

But we also have her using the words
suicide bomber in another conversation.

That's the name of another
painting by the same artist.

Mind if I listen to this?

Yeah, it's read-only.
No copying.

The guy in Germany,

he's probably
an art collector.

Yeah, well, obviously
somebody goofed.

Uh, if we'd known
the context of the calls...

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

I got to take this.
Excuse me.

Somebody goofed?

No wonder they call it
a "secret program."

It's not a total waste.
Check this out.

A call to Konstandin
five days before she died.

AUDREY: You can't charm
me anymore, Konstandin.

I used to be weak
but now l...

KONSTANDIN: I don't make
you weak right now?

(CHUCKLES)
Matthew's in the next room.

I'll see you tomorrow
at the gallery.

Well, it doesn't take a genius to
figure out the context of that.

Question is, did the
husband figure it out?

At that point of her life, Audrey
needed the attention of a younger man.

LUPO: I'm not sure I
could be that forgiving.

Twenty-two years of
marriage, a lot happens.

And it keeps
happening, right?

How could you ever
trust her again?

I did.
I did trust her.

Look, I know what
you're trying to do,

but I did not
murder my wife.

Those last couple of months
we had together were good.

We felt like a family.

A happy family.

FESTEN:
Jason's not here.

He moved out, like,
a month ago.

I don't know where to.

These are his books?

Yeah.

He just took his clothes,
left the rest of his stuff.

He even gave me his iPod.
Sweet, huh?

They've hardly
been cracked.

What's he been
doing, partying?

Maybe.

The guy was here
six weeks,

but I never saw him
go to a class or study.

Dude was weird.

Hey, man, you know this
girl, Brenda, on this menu?

Uh, she's a townie.

She works at that pizza
place next to Savings Mart.

I saw Jason
hitting on her once.

College guys
always hit on me.

Maybe they get extra credit for
doing a townie, I don't know.

Look, this is Jason. He had
your cell phone number.

You sure you didn't
give it to him?

I don't know him.

I got to get home,
please?

She talks to everybody.

She might've
talked to this guy.

We'll need
Brenda's address.

She lives
with her parents.

I get that they're
not the type of folks

who'd let her have
guys sleeping over.

And you know
her friends?

Maybe Jason's
crashing with them.

I don't know them.

But there's an address we've been
making a lot of deliveries to

the past
couple of weeks.

Brenda pays for
the pies herself.

All right,
we'll take that.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

Police. Nobody move.

Dude...

Hey. Easy, cowboy.

Listen up. We're looking for
a kid named Jason Lortell.

He's from the college.

(DOORKNOB CLICKS)

Whoa, whoa!
Don't move!

Jason,
down on the ground.

Down on the ground, now.

I meant like this.

Care to comment?

React?

Maybe shed a tear
for your poor mother?

Look, whoever did this couldn't
help but step in the blood.

We're going to find that
on your shoes, aren't we?

LUPO: What happened?

You came home,

what, maybe you didn't expect
your mother to be there?

You were looking for
dope money, right?

That's why
you dropped out?

I'm not a druggie.

Come on, Jason, we found you
living with a bunch of tweakers.

You wouldn't understand.

LUPO: Try us.

Still nothing to say
about your mother?

She committed adultery.

She destroyed herself.

What, you're saying,
she had it coming?

We all have it coming.

Evil thoughts
come from the heart.

But not from my heart.

Jason,

did you kill
your mother?

I didn't need to.

This is Jason's counsel,
Mr. Hensley.

He'd like a moment
with his client.

That kid was just
about to give it up.

Well, maybe this will nudge
him in the right direction.

Blood on his shoes, O positive,
the same as his mother.

Rage and drugs,
bad combination.

I don't know. He said his
mother destroyed herself.

He said, evil thoughts
come from the heart.

He's talking scripture,
Old and New Testament.

Sounds like God,
not drugs.

Hey, did Hensley say
he was Jason's lawyer?

Check this out.

Are you his attorney,
Mr. Hensley?

I already told you,
I'm his counsel.

Are you a lawyer, sir?
Any kind of lawyer?

I'm Jason's pastor.

Step out of
the room, sir.

Jason, stand up.

Jason Lortell, you're
under arrest for murder.

Evil will slay
the wicked.

The foes of the righteous
will be condemned.

Get him out of here.

You have the right
to remain silent.

Remember, Jason. They can't lay a
hand on those anointed by the Lord.

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

You have the right
to an attorney...

CLERK:
Docket number 21255,

"People v. Jason LorteH
Murder in the Second Degree."

Who's your counsel,
Mr. Lortell?

Jesus Christ
is my counsel.

Who's your local counsel?

Mike Jeffers for the
defense, YourHonoL

We enter a plea
of not guilty.

Additionally, I move for a
73030 competency hearing.

I have serious reservations about my
client's competency to stand trial.

You don't say.

So ordered.
People on bail?

The People request remand.

My client's father is willing to
ensure his appearance in court.

Jason was found living
in a drug den.

If that's an example of Mr.
Lortell's parental supervision...

Point taken,
Ms. Rubirosa.

Defendant is remanded
for psychiatric evaluation.

(GAVEL BANGS)

JASON: I know about your
judges and your lawyers.

But they don't know
what's best for me.

You were living
with drug addicts.

Do you think that's
what was best for you?

I was ministering
to them,

doing the work that God
has revealed to me.

Revealed how?

It's not voices.

But these revelations just
become present inside of me.

Pastor Hensley
helped me do this.

He helped me realize how
special I am to God's plan.

How do you know for sure

that these revelations
come from God?

I know it as clearly as I know that
I'm sitting here talking to you.

Was it God's plan
to kill your mother?

My mother's flesh was sacrificed
to cleanse her of her sin.

My mother died
in a state of grace

because God is merciful.

Isn't it beautiful?

God, in his
infinite mercy,

spared her soul.

He's oriented as to time,
place and identity.

He understands the role
of judges and lawyers,

though he doesn't recognize
their authority over him.

Well, he wouldn't, not if he's trying
to get off on a claim of insanity.

I didn't sense that
he was trying anything.

Except that a revelation
told him to stone his mom

because she cheated
on his dad.

Whatever these
revelations are,

he sincerely believes
they're coming from God.

So what's your diagnosis?

Labeling religious fanatics as mentally
ill is extremely controversial.

The manual doesn't
recognize religion

as a Delusional
Personality Disorder.

He's not hallucinatory,
he doesn't hear voices.

Great! Is he competent
to stand trial?

In my opinion, yes.
(COMPUTER BEEPS)

CONNIE:
Take a look at this.

Jeffers has
filed a motion

to do some kind of MRI
scan on Jason's brain,

an FMRI scan.

A Functional MRI scan.

It measures blood
oxygenation in the brain.

Beats me what it has to do
with Jason's competency.

DR. SURUX: This is a scan
of Jason LorteWs brain

during what he described
as a divine revelation.

Now, as you can see,

the activity in his
prefrontal cortex

is extremely vibrant
and indicated in red.

I recorded 19 such episodes
over a 48 hour period.

YourHonon we again object
to this testimony.

This science is
experimental and...

And again
your objection's overruled.

Doctor,
were all 19 episodes

during what Jason described
as divine revelations?

Yes. That area is referred
to as the "God Spot."

A study of
Carmelite nuns

showed similar activities
during what the nuns descfibed

as periods of
religious ecstasy.

And what impact, if any, does this brain
activity have on rational thought?

The subject's capacity for rational
thought is highly compromised.

Given the frequency
of his episodes,

in my opinion, Jason
Lortell would be unable

to rationally assist
with his defense.

JEFFERS: Nothing further.
Thank you, Doctor.

So according to you, Doctor,

every religious zealot who claims
his God Spot has been lit up

by a mystical experience

should be found not
competent to stand trial?

I'm here to testify
about Jason Lortell.

CUTTER: But that's the implication
of your testimony, isn't it?

You would excuse
any terrorist

who claims he's inspired by visions of
martyrdom, or paradise, or any other...

Objection, argumentative.

JUDGE AMBROSIUS:
Sustained.

And unless you have
something pertinent to add,

Mr. Cutter, I'm ready
to rule on the motion.

In light of the compelling
evidence presented by the Defense,

I find Jason Lortell not competent
to stand trial at this time.

(GAVEL POUNDS)

She doesn't realize
what she's done.

She just created a new legal
status for religious mystics.

I'll start preparing
the appeal.

Didn't Jason tell Olivet
he'd always had revelations?

Yeah, he just wasn't
aware of them.

Let's find out if he
started being incompetent

before or after
he killed his mother.

Revelations. (SCOFFS)

He had nosebleeds when he
was nine, fainting spells.

The doctor said it was
normal for his age.

And when he left
for college,

did you talk
to him often?

A little.

He was homesick at first.

Then a few weeks before Audrey
died, he stopped calling,

he stopped
answering his phone.

The court psychiatrist
said that

he was ministering to
a group of drug addicts.

Ministering?

Yeah. He was actually
living with them.

He was always
a caring kid.

He must have had some
kind of impact on them.

Why do you say that?

One of them's been
calling at home for him.

A rough-sounding girl.

Her name was,
uh, Brenda.

The caller ID said
it was an Oneonta number,

some place called
Angelgrove Camp.

MAN: We have Brenda in the truck.
We're on our way.

Won't be long now.

You run this place?

Yeah,
for Christian kids.

Do you have a lot of
drug-addicted kids staying here?

Brenda's not
a drug addict.

She actually ministers
to them, like Jason.

Does she have
revelations, too?

No. Jason is a very
special young man.

I've been praying for him.

(CHILDREN SHOUTING
INDISTINCTLY)

What is that?
What're they saying?

It's just
children playing.

CHILDREN: (CHANTING) This means war!
This means war!

Hi. Brenda, I'm Connie with
the New York DA's office.

We have a material
witness order

to take you back
to New York City.

Don't be afraid,
Brenda.

Here, I'll take this
for you.

No, that's going to go
with her. Thank you.

Looks like you and Connie have
been doing all the talking.

We had better luck
with Brenda's camera.

Here's how Jason spent the last four
weeks before he killed his mother.

You hold the key to the second
coming of our Lord and Savior.

Now, you young people...

A day in the life
of Christian warriors!

HENSLEY:
...for Jesus Christ.

Let's pray
for our Christian leader!

Let's tell him that
we are one nation...

CHILDREN: Under God!

One nation...

CHILDREN: Under God!

How many of you will be
willing to die for Jesus?

CHILDREN: Amen!

All right.

And how many of you
are phony martyrs?

How many of you claim to
be members of God's army,

when you're in here, but are
hypocrites in your daily life?

And there's no room for
hypocrites in God's army.

(KIDS CRYING)

Hypocrites are
deniers of Christ.

What do we say to the Muslim
infidels who murder Christians?

CHILDREN:
This means war!

What do we say
to blasphemers

who pollute
the kingdom of God?

CHILDREN:
This means war!

What do we say?
This means war!

What do we say?
This means war!

My God, it's a school
for fanatics.

And one that isn't
in the Middle East.

CHILDREN:
This means war!

HENSLEY: What do we say to the
Muslim infidels who kill Christians?

CHILDREN:
This means war!

If you're a denier,
come clean.

Call out
your hypocrisy!

(CHILDREN CRYING)

Hypocrites are
deniers of Christ.

Here's what we thought
was interesting.

Okay, you guys are
playing real nicely.

Paul, that was
a great shot down there.

I really like
what you're doing.

Keep passing.
It's great.

It's just like we did
in practice.

Billy, I want you to take
it at the top of the key

and hold it,
and no hitting, okay?

This was recorded the
day before the murder.

There's other video of him
conducting a prayer group,

working in
the camp kitchen.

He appears competent,
rational.

Exactly.

I'll prepare a report.

Thanks, Liz.

JEFFERS: The issue's not whether Jason
was competent when the video was shot,

but whether
he's competent now.

Presumably he experienced at least one
of his frequent divine revelations

while the video was shot,

with no noticeable effect
on his behavior.

I agree, he seems
entirely coherent.

In view of this new evidence
and Dr. Olivet's report,

I'm reversing
my previous ruling.

Jason Lortell is competent
to stand trial.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Mr. Cutter,
in good conscience

I cannot let this kid
go to trial.

He truly believes that
he is doing God's will.

What do you suggest?

Just hear what he has
to say, off the record.

I saved my mother.

I saved her soul.

That's not how the State
of New York seesit

Well, if it serves
God's purpose

for me to go to jail, then
he'll allow it to happen.

You knew for months your
mother was having an affair.

Why did you wait so long
to save her soul?

Because I didn't know yet
what God wanted me to do.

When did you find out
what he wanted you to do?

After Pastor Hensley taught me
how to listen to my revelations.

Let's stick to why you went
to see your mother that day.

I realized that
I was a hypocrite.

I'd turned a blind eye
to the sin in my own house.

That I was a phony,
a denier of Christ.

This is something
that came from God,

or from
Pastor Hensley?

Sometimes, God speaks to
me through Pastor Hensley.

Was it through Pastor Hensley that God
told you to go visit your mother?

I just knew that
I had to save her.

What did you do?

How did you
get to the city?

We drove down
in Brenda's car.

We? You and Brenda?

No, Brenda was
working that day.

It was me,
Noah and Billy.

We drove down after a prayer
meeting at Angelgrove.

Who did the driving?

Well, me.

Noah's 10
and Billy's 12.

My son is
a God-fearing Christian.

Your son may have taken part
in a murder, Mr. Boone.

It's okay, Dad.

They'rejust persecuting us like
they're persecuting Jason.

Hey. Jason admitted
to killing his mother.

He said you and Noah
were with him.

Billy, is this true?

She was a Jezebel.

She was trapped
in the filth of herein.

Did Pastor Hensley
tell you that?

He told us that her sin was
a stain on God's prophet.

God's prophet?

You talking
about Jason?

He speaks the word
of the Lord.

He was chosen by God.

The day of judgment
is coming.

Save your souls by...

This is one of
God's warriors?

All 80 pounds of him.

CONNIE: Surely, when it was
just Jason and his God Spot,

but three kids
hear Hensley,

and then they all go
stone a woman to death?

It's time to take the horse out
of the barn and saddle up, Jack.

You want to charge Hensley as an
accomplice in Audrey Lortell's murder?

Who are your witnesses?
This kid?

No. I offered Jason
15 to life. He took it.

He's honest and guileless.

If I put him on the stand
and ask the right questions,

I think he'll tell
the truth about Hensley.

Still a three-legged dog
of a case.

Repent.
Repent and join us,

or die with the infidels and burn in
the fires of hell for all eternity.

Repent!
Go with God.

Repent and be saved!

Repent!
Repent and be saved!

GIRL: Pastor!

Pray, children.
Pray for me.

Most of all,
pray for Jason.

CHILDREN: (CHANTING) This means war!
This means war!

This means war!
This means war!

I talked to Pastor Hensley
about my mother's adultery.

He counseled me to pray and
that an answer would come.

Did an answer come?

Yes, from God.

He told me to go
to my mother's house

and God would put the
tools in my hands

to cast out her sin
and save her soul.

What tools, Jason?

The stones I used
to sacrifice her flesh.

And did this answer
come directly from God,

or did he speak
through someone else?

Sometimes God speaks to me
through other people.

He could even speak to me through you.
We're all God's servants.

Your Honor, permission to
treat the witness as hostile.

Objection.

Just because he isn't getting
the answer he wants...

Overruled.
Go ahead, Mr. Cutter.

Jason, did God's answer come
to you through Pastor Hensley?

Yes.

What did Pastor Hensley say?

He said that we were engaged in a
great battle with Muslim infidels.

God told him that
the time would come

when I'll be a general
in Christ's Army.

God bless the prophet!
God bless you, Jason!

JUDGE LANDSBERG: Order.
Officer, get her out of here.

You'll burn in Hell
for this.

Go on, Jason, what else
did Pastor Hensley say?

He said that
before I could face

the blasphemers and suicide
killers on the battlefield,

I had to set order
in my own house.

CUTTER: Did he mean
your mother's infidelity?

JASON: Yes.

He said that I was
facing a great test

and that I had to be
strong before God.

And was it
Pastor Hensley's idea

to send the two boys
Billy Boone and Noah Fielding

with you
to your mother's?

Yes.

He said the innocents should witness
the rising up of their general.

CROWD: Praise the Lord!
Praise Jesus!

(GAVEL POUNDING)

JUDGE LANDSBERG:
Enough.

Quiet or I'll
clear the room.

Nothing further.

Jason, did Pastor Hensley tell you to
kill your mother, to end her life?

No. He didn't say that.

Did you tell him what you were
planning to do to your mother?

Just that I was going to
help her cast out her sin.

God did the rest.

Jason was deeply troubled
by his mother's adultery.

I encouraged him to help his
mother find her way back to God.

Did you ever suggest
he stone her to death

or harm her
in any way?

No.

That was God's will.

Jason had
the purity of heart

to listen when
God spoke to him.

He put his love of God ahead of
his love for his own mother.

I can't even imagine how difficult
that must have been for him.

Thank you, Pastor.

I take it you approve of
what Jason did, correct?

I accept it as a
manifestation of God's will.

You think Audrey Lortell's
punishment was just?

Well, I don't call it
punishment, but it was just.

Because she
was unfaithful,

or because she had
a Muslim lover?

Either one put her
Christian soul in peril.

And that's why
you told Jason

he had to set his house
in order?

Yes.

You told him
he was being tested,

that he had to be strong,
correct?

Yes, strong in his faith.

I didn't advocate violence.

No?

Then what are you
advocating?

A non-violent war?

You're taking that
out of context.

We saw the context
on the video, Pastor.

Weren't you exhorting
children to die for Christ?

Sacrifice for Christ.

Sacrifice,
you mean martyrs.

Isn't that what you tell
these children to aspire to?

You're trying to make it sound
like I'm one of those mullahs

who fills their boys with
visions of dancing virgins

so they'll drive
bombs into buildings.

If only you offered
such enticements.

Instead you use humiliation,
isn't that right?

You berate your warriors
in front of their friends,

you call them phony
martyrs, hypocrites.

You force them to
make public confessions.

It cleanses their soul.

It breaks their will.

It makes them strong.

In case you haven't
noticed, we are at war.

A war of religions.

Our enemies
understand that.

They use their religious
schools, their madrassas,

to churn out hundreds of
suicide murderers every day.

And what do we do?

We raise spoiled weak kids
who turn away from God.

We can't wait for another wave
of terror to roll over us.

We must raise up
a Christian army

just as extreme in its faith
as our Jihadist enemy.

Then you do
advocate violence?

They force violence on us.

An eye for an eye?
So says the Bible.

And stones
for adulterers?

The Bible says that, too.

Death for women who
have sex with Muslims?

Yes.

She let herself be defiled
by his blasphemous seed.

That's their plan!

They want to take over the world
and install a new Caliphate.

Their plan, you mean to
sleep with Christian women?

Yes. And if they can't seduce
them, they'll rape them.

That is how they wage war!
Look at Darfur!

That's why you told Jason,
your star pupil,

he had to sacrifice
the sinful flesh?

My Pupil?

You've got it backwards,
Mr. Cutter.

If anything,
lam Jason's pupil.

Jason has been
called by God,

like Joan of Arc before him, to
lead a Great Army of Christ.

Jason is a saint.
Even science says so!

Jason Lortell will end up
saving us all,

saving our Christian
civilization.

Jason Lortell marches to the
beat of a different drummer.

We have the MRls
of his brain to prove it.

He hears
what he wants to hear,

whether the message comes
from God or Pastor Hensley,

Mr. Cutter, or that
painting on the wall.

But you heard what
my client told Jason.

Pastor Hensley told him
to make peace

with his mother's sin,

to minister to her as Jesus
ministered to Mary Magdalene.

No rational person could take
that as a call to murder.

Now you may not like some of the things
that Pastor Hensley said in that video,

but he has an absolute

First Amendment right
to say it.

The law is clear. Unless
he intentionally soHcHed

or encouraged Jason
to kill his mother,

there's only
one verdict here.

Not guilty.

And there's no room for
hypocrites in God's army.

Hypocrites are
deniers of Christ.

If you're a denier,
come clean.

Call out your hypocrisy.

(CHILDREN SOBBING)

Jason.

(JURY MURMURING)

They say confession's
good for the soul.

But these...

These public confessions
serve another purpose.

Brainwashing.

Breaking down a person's
dignity and individuality,

in an environment
of fear.

That's what Pastor Hensley does
to these vulnerable children.

He replaces their free will
with a theology of violence.

He twists their capacity for love
into a thirst for vengeance.

He whips up their
childish exuberance

and exhorts them to prove
themselves as warriors,

and then he commands them to clean house.
An eye for an eye.

He puts all that in the hands
of a hurt and lost boy,

a boy he's filled with delusions of
being the leader of a great army,

the next Joan of Arc.

And then he sends him on the
road with two other boys,

all charged up
with raw anger,

eager to be
strong and worthy

in the eyes of
their beloved pastor.

And then he pronounces himself
surprised at the results?

No rational person could have
expected any other result.

And now the good pastor hides
behind the First Amendment,

Freedom of religion.

But this is not
about God.

This is about the power of an
adult over adolescent minds,

and the abuse
of that power.

And what do we say to blasphemers
who pollute God's kingdom?

CHILDREN:
This means war!

What do we say?

This means war!

What do we say?
This means war!

War, war on blasphemers.

That's the mission
he gave Jason

when he put him on the road
to his mother's house.

Erasing already?

Making room to plan our
response to Hensley's appeal.

A little early to
count your chickens.

The jury's been out
two days.

The jury's probably
split between

Murder Two Depraved
Indifference and Man Two.

They'd probably all agree
on Criminal Solicitation Two.

I didn't think you charged that.
I didn't.

That's my point
exactly.

Pessimist.

Thejudge
wants to see us.

A court officer found a
Bible in the jury room.

Somebody was consulting it
during deliberations.

Looks like one of your
chickens just got run over.

I was reading it
for guidance, sir.

But you understand your deliberations
were to be guided by my instructions

and by the laws
of New York State?

Yes, sir, I do.

This is a hard case. I wanted
to do the right thing.

Very well,
you're excused.

Thank you.

I'll order that this juror be dismissed
and that an alternate take his place.

Your Honor, the People
move for a mistrial.

We don't know how manyjurors
consulted that Bible.

BARRACADO: And yet witnesses
are sworn in on the Bible.

"In God We Trust" is emblazoned
across the courtroom wall.

It's hypocritical to expect jurors
to check their religious beliefs

at the jury room door.

But that's precisely what
they swore an oath to do,

to apply the laws of men, not
the law of God, to this case.

The jury's deliberations
have been tainted...

I don't agree.

Even if consulting the Bible during
deliberations can be deemed juror misconduct,

I'm satisfied it had no substantial
and injurious effect or influence.

I'm not granting
a mistrial, Mr. Cutter.

JUDGE LANDSBERG: On the first
count of the indictment,

murder in
the second degree,

how does the jury find?

We find the defendant
not guilty.

On the second count,

manslaughter in the second
degree, how do you find?

We find the defendant
not guilty.

(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)

Wejust didn't
prove our case.

Or the jury didn't care.

They liked
Hensley's message.

I'd prefer to think
we didn't prove our case.

Optimist.

Small comfort, Hensley
will have to wait 15 years

for Jason to come out of
jail to lead his troops.

Then our fanatics
can fight their fanatics.

Let's hope the man's over
by then.

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