All language subtitles for Law and order S09E09 - True North

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.

What've we got?

Neighbor heard three shots
about 10 minutes ago.
It's quiet now.

You call ESU?

Yeah, we're going in.
Shooter could still
be in there.

Like behind the door.

I got a white male down
in the master bedroom!

Over here!

Detective,
this is Mr. Peterson.

He's the one
who flagged us down.

I live over there.
I was on my way out
about 9:00.

I saw Mrs. Harker
go in the door.

She lives there?
Yeah.

A minute later,
bang bang bang.

Did you talk to her?

No. I only saw her
from the back.

I think she shot her
husband and the little girl?

Right now we just need to
find her. Did you happen to
notice what she was wearing?

Yeah. Dark pants,
white blouse.

How about any
friends or relatives
we can contact you know of?

No. They've only
lived here maybe a year.
I think they're from Buffalo.

Wait here.

The neighbor saw
the wife coming in.

She's not here now.

Usually, they just
stand around waiting for us.

Or shoot themselves.

I wish this one had.

Get this to repro services
for copying. Patch it up
with the APB.

Ronald Harker,
Stephanie Harker,
Caitlin Harker.

Happier days.

Rich ones, too.
He's Harker Data.
Computer software.

CSU found navy blue fabric
hooked on the fence
in the backyard.

Ah, family calendar.

Today 8:30 p. m., Emma.

It wasn't his date.
He was here.

Charge card statements.
Checkbook.

Passport.

Hers. Canadian.

She's not flying off
to South America.

Monthly garage bill.
Third Avenue Parking.

She has a Mercedes E60.

He has a Jaguar XJR.
They have a Volvo wagon, too.

It's in the Hamptons
right now.

Three spaces
at $450 a month?

Ain't it great to be rich?
Here they are.

Yeah, she's not back yet.
She went out about 8:00.

Yeah, for her date
with Emma.

Did she pop back in
around 9:00?

Nope.

Got a license plate number?

AXP 1424.

You know any of
Mrs. Harker's friends?

I see her with her lady
friends sometimes.

They get in her car,
they go places ladies go.

Well, who's in this
other space?

They let
a friend park there.

What friend is that?

I'm not sure.

That sign on your office says
no substitutions.

Now, would it be possible
somebody tossed a few bucks
to somebody?

Oh, now, I go by the book.
Christmas gratuities only.

Really?

Guy's name is Petoskey.
He's a friend of hers.

Police, Mr. Petoskey.
We want to talk to you.

Police?

Yeah, police.
Open the door.

What's it about?

When we see you,
we'll tell you.

Okay.
Just a minute.

Now, Mr. Petoskey!

Okay, I'm coming.

Anybody with you?

What are you doing?

You seen
Stephanie Harker tonight?

No. Why?

Then why'd you take
five minutes
to open the door?

I was in the crapper.
What do you want
with Stephanie?

Somebody shot her husband
and their little girl.

Shot them? Who?

I guess we rushed him,
Lennie. He forgot to flush.

In the tank.

Cocaine.

You didn't show me
a warrant.

You know, there's
enough weight here for
criminal possession,

First Degree.
That's 15 years,
minimum.

Look, I don't know
where Stephanie is.

Who were
her friends?

She has lots of friends.

Name three.

We're looking for
Doris Nichols.

She's my roommate.
She isn't home.

You sure?

The extra guy's for her.
She got a phone call
after the second inning.

Slammed out of here.

And that'd be, what,
about a little after 8:00?

Yeah.

She say where
she was going?

No. She doesn't tell me.

Who called?

I don't know.

Is she in trouble?

No. We're looking
for a friend of hers,
Stephanie Harker.

Stephanie. Next best thing
to a rich boyfriend
is a rich girlfriend.

What, you mean
Doris and Stephanie...

Spend money together.
Stephanie's.

Her husband's rich.
Why you looking for her?

Her rich husband's dead.

Wow.

What about Doris
and Mr. Harker?
Anything going on there?

I don't know.

If you had to guess.

She thought he wasn't
half-bad. She's always on the
lookout for special friends.

She have any lately?

Last week she paid her
back rent. Bought two pairs
of Prada shoes.

When she left here tonight,
what was she wearing?

Slacks, white blouse.

What color slacks?

Mmm, navy blue.

We got Doris Nichols'
drivers license photo.

We're putting out
a bulletin.

You think she could be
the shooter?

Well, Mrs. Harker
left home at 8:00.

Right after that, Doris
Nichols gets a phone call.

Maybe it's Ron Harker saying,
"Hey, come on over.
The coast is clear. "

The neighbor saw
Mrs. Harker?

From the back.

But this one had
the right clothes.

She knew Ron Harker.
She liked rich men.

Liked to shoot them?

Lennie, some cab driver
just called 9-1-1 about
a passenger he picked up

about a half-block
from your crime scene.

She was shaking
and very upset.
I thought she wasn't well.

What time did you
pick her up, exactly?

9:15.
Madison and 68th Street.

Is this one of them?

This one.
She was bleeding
from her leg.

When I drop her, she get out
without her purse.

I pick it up,
call her back,
and there was a gun in it.

You saw a gun?

Through the zipper.

I thought I should
tell somebody.

Where did you drop her?

She said she needed a drink.
She was right.

Definitely coming down
from something.

How bad was she bleeding?

Not too much.
But her pants were torn.

She went into
the bathroom to clean up.
I found her a safety pin.

She say how it happened?

Tripped on the subway stairs.

What else she say?

That New York sucked
and she was heading out.

She had a few drinks.
She made a phone call.
She left.

When?

Maybe a half hour ago.

She tell you
where she was going?

She had some hundreds.
She asked for change
for a cab.

Now what?
Big tipping's a crime?

Did you put her in a cab?

Ah, there weren't any around.
The theater crowd
was getting out,

so I snared her a limo
on a break.

Those guys got nerve.

What do you mean?

He says it'll be 30 bucks
for a 10-minute ride.
She was just going up Third.

Where to?

Chez Nous. The restaurant.

Thanks.

- What's going on?
- Woman down.

That one did it.

Mrs. Harker?

She tried to kill me.
She said she killed
my husband.

Is she dead?

Lennie.

At least two shots.
It's Doris Nichols.

She said she killed Ron.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Harker.
He was shot around
9:00 at your home.

Oh, my God.
Did she hurt Caitlin?

Yes.

Is she...

I'm sorry. Please.

Listen, you want to
take a few minutes?
Maybe call somebody?

No. No, I want to know
what happened.
Why did Doris do it?

We don't know.
How well did she know
your husband?

We were friends.

Is there any
possibility that they were
more than friends?

No.

I don't know.

Ron was having
an affair.

He told me it was over.
We were making a new start.

Do you think it was Doris?

Tonight, you were out with
somebody named Emma?

It was in your calendar.

Emma. It's a book.

Um, my book group met
at that restaurant.

Jane Austen.

How late did that go?

I left at midnight.

Doris was waiting for me
on the sidewalk.

She pulled a gun
out of her purse.

She said she was going
to kill me.

Did your friends
from the book group see this?

I don't know.

They left before me.
I was finishing a drink.

What happened after Doris
pulled the gun?

I tried to reason with her
but she was crazed.

I grabbed the gun,
she scratched me,
the gun went off.

Okay, we're gonna need
to talk to some
of your husband's friends.

Can you tell us
who he was close to?

I heard it on the news.

I mean, even if someone
wanted to kill Ron,
his daughter?

She probably walked in on it.
A witness.

It's just beyond imagining.

Mr. Wexman, do you know
a woman named Doris Nichols,
a friend of Mrs. Harker's?

Her friends were involved?

You think they
could have been?

Ron was a brilliant
and successful businessman.

Her friends were people
who picked each other up
in nightclubs.

How do you know?

Ron told me.

He asked my wife to invite
Stephanie into her book group.

Something cultural
that didn't involve
drugs and mirrored balls.

Did Mr. Harker ever mention
Doris Nichols to you?

Not that I remember.

Think it's possible
he was having an affair
with her?

No. Ron?

His wife said that
he was having an affair.

I don't believe it.

If the upstanding
Ronald Harker
was having an affair

with a party girl,
he might not have
mentioned it to his friends.

Yeah, or his friends
might not mention it
if they were in on the party.

There's no Doris Nichols
in Harker's datebook.

And this guy wrote down
what kind of bread
he took his sandwiches on.

Little black book?

Big electronic book.
No Doris Nichols.

Charge receipts
for stays at local hotels?

Nope.

Business checks
to Victoria's Secret?

Nothing.
Here's the register.

Well, here's one
for 20 grand
to a Pat Sinclair.

No ID.
You said the guy
wrote down everything.

Sinclair?

Yeah.

Sinclair, Patrick.
Attorney. Matrimonial Law.

It was a retainer.
Mr. Harker wanted a divorce.

Why?

Where do you want to start?

Mrs. Harker used drugs.
Mrs. Harker ran around
with a bunch of low-lifes.

Mrs. Harker
was a lousy mother
to Mr. Harker's daughter.

The girl wasn't hers?

No. From his first marriage.

Mrs. Harker spent
his money like water.

Mrs. Harker was
having an affair.

But she baked delicious
oatmeal cookies.

She told us that
he was stepping
out on her.

She's lying.

You'd think she'd be
a little grateful.

Five years ago,
she was selling postcards

out of her father's
souvenir stand
in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Harker stopped
by for a souvenir?

She moved to Buffalo.

Started at Harker Data
as a receptionist.

Did she know
her husband wanted
a divorce?

Oh, yeah. First thing
she did was forge
his signature on a letter,

tried to withdraw
two million dollars

out of his account
in a cashier's check.

She told us she and
her husband were trying
to make a new start.

Start of a long
and expensive litigation.

Stephanie got
to the restaurant
at 8:30.

I noticed.
She usually comes late.

Did Mrs. Harker
leave you at all
during the evening?

She just got up
to take a phone call
for a few minutes.

You don't think
she was involved with
shooting her husband

and that sweet child?

We just need to know
exactly what happened,
Mrs. Wexman.

Did she say
who the call was from?

Nobody. She said
they'd hung up by the time
she got to the phone.

Uh, what time was that?

Around 11:30.
Usually she's gone by 10:00.

Not a real
book lover, huh?

Before we decided
to read Emma

I don't think she'd heard
of Jane Austen.

She was just trying
to please her husband.

So last night, you left.
She was finishing her drink.

What drink?

She told us that's why
she stayed behind.

Stephanie usually has
a few so her book evenings
wouldn't be a total loss.

But last night,
nothing but coffee.

So she went on the wagon.
That's not a crime.

Last night, of all nights?

Her husband was
having an affair.

He and the girlfriend
ended up dead.

If that's all we knew,
we'd be booking
the wife right now.

For shooting the husband
and the daughter while
she was three miles away?

Hey, she never stayed
around for a whole book
discussion once.

And last night,
she practically punches
a time clock

establishing an alibi.

She doesn't need an alibi.

Doris Nichols' pants match
the scrap on the fence.

The M.E. just told me that
she has a matching
laceration on her leg.

She shot Ron Harker
and his daughter.

Okay, Doris Nichols
made a phone call
from that hotel bar.

Then Mrs. Harker got a call.
Then she gave some phony
excuse and waited around.

Waited for what?
For Doris Nichols to come
and shoot her?

The absent-minded
homicidal maniac?

On her way to kill
Mrs. Harker, she leaves
her gun in the cab.

Look, this is going
before a grand jury
no matter what.

You find something solid,
I'll present it.

Or we could just arrest her.

Gentlemen, there is nothing
here but hunches.

So what you got,
a hot line to
the new D.A.?

I gave her what
I had at the time.

What, I'm supposed to ask,
"Did Lennie say it was okay
for me to talk to you?"

What do you have now?

Final report.

Two slugs in Ron Harker.
One in Caitlin Harker.
Two in Doris Nichols.

All from the Colt.38
recovered outside
the restaurant.

Nichols got
one in the gut
and one in the back.

So she was running away.

Yeah, or the first shot
spun her around.

Prelim tox scan shows
Doris Nichols had cocaine
in her system.

A lot.

You look under her nails?

There was blood.
Some tissue.

Like she scratched
Stephanie Harker?

Hmm.

Who's doing the analysis?

I just got that report.

Blood type is O.
Same as Doris Nichols.

Yeah, and about half the
population. Could it be
a match for Mrs. Harker?

Its PGM enzyme
is Type Two,
same as Doris Nichols.

That narrows it down
to 2%% of the population.

Keep going.

Kel system antigen is KK.

Like Doris Nichols.
Yeah.

And exactly one citizen
in 900,000.

So unless they're clones
and we don't know it,

that's Doris Nichols'
own blood.

Stephanie Harker
must have self-inflicted
her scratches.

It sure made a nice story.

Here are the LUDs
from the pay phone
at the hotel bar

where Doris Nichols
regrouped.

She called the restaurant
where the book group
was meeting.

Just to make sure
Mrs. Harker was there?

She made sure
for 11 minutes.

Harker told her friends
the caller hung up.

Go get her.

You want us to check
with Carmichael again?

No.

Somebody did some
fast packing.

There's clothes
and suitcases
thrown all around.

I checked the garage.
She left at 6:00 a. m.

You know, we do know
what we're doing.

Anita, we have confidence
in your detectives.

Hunches? Apparently
you still don't.

What do the Canadian
authorities say?

We asked them
to look around
Collingwood.

It's an Ontario ski
resort, off-season.

Mrs. Harker waiting
for the snow?

We sent out a bulletin
and found an account
of hers

in the Commonwealth
Bank of Canada.

She drew on it
with an ATM card
in Collingwood last night.

Keep us posted.

Oh, I will.

Jack, do we have
Doris Nichols' bank records?

The Ontario Provincial Police
picked her up this morning.

What are you
indicting her for?

Man one, extreme emotional
disturbance, or murder two?

Murder one.
Murder one?

How do you come
to murder one?

The police found
Stephanie Harker
because of an account

she has at the Muskoka branch
of the Commonwealth Bank
of Canada.

Two weeks before
the murders, Doris Nichols
received a wire transfer,

$50,000 from
the Muskoka branch of
the Commonwealth Bank.

From Stephanie Harker's
account?

We can't confirm that
until we get the paperwork
from Canada.

But we also traced the call
that Doris Nichols got

just before she shot up
the Harker house to
a pay phone in a garage

where Stephanie Harker
was picking up her car.

She told the Nichols woman
to shoot her husband?

And paid her for it.
The $50,000 was probably
just up-front money.

She had the motive.
Stop the divorce.

Wife kills girlfriend
to shut her up.

Multiple murders,
murder for hire.

Get the indictment.
Get her shipped down
from Canada.

You're planning
on trying Mrs. Harker

on a charge of Murder
in the First Degree?

That's right.
That's a capital offense.

It can be.

We have 120 days
to decide whether or not

to pursue the death penalty.

Well, you are aware that
Canada has a moral objection
to capital punishment.

That's your prerogative.

These crimes took place
in the United States.

Yes. But our
extradition treaty
with the United States

says that unless
assurances are provided
that the death penalty

won't be imposed,
extradition may be refused.

It may be.
It doesn't have to be.

You extradited
Charles Ng to California.

Joseph Kindler
to Pennsylvania.

They were Americans.

As a matter of policy
we didn't want

non-Canadian killers
seeking haven among us.

Your own Supreme Court
ruled that you can
extradite anyone you want to

without any assurances.

I've spoken to
the Minister of Justice.

In this case,
we're going to insist.

Isn't that a little
presumptuous of one country
to tell another country

how to enforce
their own laws?

Well, we don't think
it's presumptuous
when your government

lectures the Chinese about
Tiananmen Square.

That was a massive violation
of basic human rights.

So is strapping
a person to a table
and killing her.

We will not extradite
Mrs. Harker under
these circumstances.

Take the death penalty
off the table,

they'll send her back
to us in a gift box
with a bow.

One less decision for us.

Yes. But it should be
our decision.

It's our citizens
getting murdered
in our city.

Do you want to
execute this woman?

I don't know yet.

I sure as hell want
the death penalty chip

to leverage a plea
bargain if I need it.

You're not gonna get
anything at all unless you
give them what they want.

Adam.

Tell them no death penalty.

Your case against her
for killing her husband
and the child is guesswork.

And she killed
Doris Nichols
in self-defense.

She shot her in the back.

I lost my head.

She had just killed
everyone that I loved.

The husband you loved
was dumping you.

No, we'd made up.

His lawyer said
he was filing for divorce.

Ron changed his mind.

When did he tell you that?

Half an hour after
whenever his lawyer said
he talked to him last.

You're not even bothering
to make your lies specific.

We were in love, Mr. McCoy.
We talked all the time.

We might take Criminally
Negligent Homicide.

Time served, she pays a fine.

Pass.

Explain it to me.
How do men
fall for women like that?

Well, you have to
be there, Abbie.

She'll smile and pout
and explain everything away.

We fill in all the gaps
between her and Doris Nichols.

Who knew them both?

First of all,
I'm not a drug dealer.

Right.
You just collect rare cocaine.

Tell us, Mr. Petoskey.
How friendly was Stephanie
with Doris Nichols?

What's in this
for my client?

His drug case can go hard
or it can go easy.

It's going away.
The police didn't
have a warrant.

The cocaine was in
plain sight.

You want to try to prove
two detectives are lying?

All right. What?

Did you ever hear
Stephanie and Doris
talk about Ron Harker?

Yeah, about how rich he was.

It made Doris scream.

I mean, she was so broke
I had to cut off her supply.

Yeah, not that you're
a drug dealer or anything.

She was coked up
when she killed
those people.

The police found
five grams
in her purse.

How'd she afford that?

Stephanie treated her.

Did Stephanie
treat her to any
other illicit goods?

Like what?

Like this gun.

Fifteen years in Attica,
Mr. Petoskey.
They're making your bed now.

Yeah, Stephanie asked me
to get her a gun.
I got her this gun.

When?

About two weeks before.

And you handed it
to Stephanie,
not to Doris.

Right.

Did she tell you
what she wanted it for?

No. I figured it was
for protection.

From what?

Well, you know,
things happen.

Harker's first wife
got killed.

Mrs. Rhonda Harker,
age 39,

was crossing a street in
downtown Buffalo

when she was struck by
a hit-and-run driver.

She died two hours later.

Skid marks on the pavement?

No.

From paint chips and plastic
found at the scene,

the police figured
the death car was

a red Ford Escort,
late '80s.

They never found it.

Where was Stephanie Harker
at the time?

On vacation from
her receptionist job.

We checked old
credit card statements.

Found some purchases
made in her hometown
in Canada.

Any record she owned
a red Escort?

No. And no record
she rented one.

We need to talk to people
who knew her then.
Old friends.

Nothing more I can do
for Stephie right now.

I just hope you people
are big enough
to apologize to her

when you realize your mistake.

If you think we're wrong
about your daughter,
Mr. Stevens, I'm all ears.

Anytime a working class
girl makes good,

there's gotta be something
crooked about her, eh?

I thought this was
the land of opportunity.

Well, that's what
the ads used to say.

A year before your daughter
married Ron Harker,
she came home for a week.

I don't remember.

In October, around
Canadian Thanksgiving.

We know she was there.

So what?

Did she borrow a car
from anyone
in your family?

No. What are you accusing
her of now?

We're going to need
names and addresses
of her friends.

The hell with you.

I had the police
pull your hotel bill.

You've made four calls
to a coffee shop on
the Upper East Side.

Do you order your coffee
from across town?

Who did you call,
Mr. Stevens?

Your boss said the calls
were for you, Wendy.

It was my boyfriend.

He knows your
boyfriend's voice.

Are you a friend
of Stephanie's?

Look, I don't have time
for this. I gotta get
back to work.

If it's free time you need,

I can have the INS.
come down here and
check your work visa.

You'll be on a bus
back to Niagara Falls
by tomorrow morning.

You can't do that.
I got a life here.

Then talk to me
about Stephanie.

I've known her since
kindergarten. She always
treated me nice.

Nice for Stephanie
seems to mean
she hasn't killed you.

Nice means she paid
for me to come
down here

so she could have one
person to be normal with.

Or someone who could
appreciate how far
she'd come.

Did she ever talk to you
about Ron Harker?

Sometimes. I never met him.
Stephie said he wasn't
much fun.

But she went
to a lot of trouble
to meet him, right?

Did she ever
talk to you about that?

Stephie always knew
what she wanted.

Did any of her friends
own a red Escort?

Stephie had a boyfriend
that owned a used car lot.

He used to let her
drive whatever she wanted.

Hey, you mean
you fellas didn't stop
and see the Falls?

Nah. Too painful.
They remind me
of my honeymoons.

I'm still not clear
why you came
all this way.

We understand
you used to be a friend
of Stephanie Harker's.

Her last name
used to be Stevens.

Who told you that?

Friend of hers.

She says you used
to let Stephanie drive
cars from your lot.

What's this about, huh?

Well, you know
she was arrested for murder
in New York.

Yeah, I read about it.
It's hard to believe.

Why? She spend all
her time up here doing
community service?

Nah, she's just a kid,
you know.

A little wild maybe,
but nothing serious.

Well, her friend says
she used to be
a little wild with you.

And you were
a married man.

So did you let her
use your cars or not?

Yeah, sometimes.

We gonna be discreet
about this?

That's up to you.

Two years ago, October,

did you lend Stephanie Harker
a red Ford Escort?

Yes.

You don't have to look it up?
You remember?

Sure. Came back with
the front end smashed in.

She was driving at night
and hit a deer.

It can't be coincidence.
She did it.

Nobody ever looked
at this woman
for the hit-and-run?

Her motive wasn't apparent
until she married Ron Harker
a year later.

So she murders
the first Mrs. Harker,

then Mr. Harker
and his daughter,
then this Doris Nichols.

She's a cold-blooded
serial killer.
If anybody deserves it...

Yeah. File the notice,
Ms. Carmichael.

We're seeking
the death penalty.

We told the Canadians
we wouldn't.

I changed my mind.

It's a breach of protocol,
not to mention integrity.

As soon as she's convicted
in Erie County of the murder
of the first Mrs. Harker,

I'm putting her
on trial here

for the other murders under
our death penalty statute.

She killed four people.

That doesn't diminish
my government's objection.

The facts have changed.
The crime has changed.

What facts?

That Stephanie Harker
borrowed a car
similar to the one

that killed the first
Mrs. Harker?

There are hundreds
of such cars.

Well, we'll know for sure

as soon as the Buffalo Police
get that car and its
repair records.

Yes. I'm aware that you've
asked our Ministry of Justice
for those items

and for documentation of
a bank wire transfer

from Stephanie Harker
to Doris Nichols.

Standard cooperation.

Not in this case.

Those requests will not
be honored.

You'd sit on evidence
of four murders?

We're not going
to help you kill her.

I take it without the car,
Buffalo has no case?

Yes. And without
the bank records
we have no case.

Except that Canadian bank
has a branch on 57th Street.

I believe you're aware
the Canadian government

has instructed me not to
comply with this subpoena.

That's nice.

Are they going to send
the Canadian Army down here

to help you carry your money
and computers home?

I beg your pardon?

This bank is in
New York County.

Those detectives
are going to take it apart
brick by brick

to look for the documentation
we've subpoenaed.

That doesn't make sense.

The transfer you're interested
in originated in Ontario.

These detectives are about to
search every account file,

every computer disk.
It'll take a couple of weeks.

You can close
the bank down now.

We got Stephanie Harker's
letter request to transfer
$50,000 to Doris Nichols.

It came by courier
from Muskoka.

They caved.

Well, morals are morals.
Money is money.

Who you gonna shake down
to get her car,
the Royal Auto Club?

So she only goes up
for the murders here.

With this bank record,
she still qualifies
for the death penalty.

Yes, this is the gun
I got for Stephanie.

You placed it in her hand?

Yes.

So if Doris Nichols had it,
she must have received it
from Stephanie Harker?

- Objection.
- Sustained.

Mr. Petoskey, did you have
a sexual relationship
with Mrs. Harker?

Yes.

Who initiated it?

Stephanie kind of
picked me up at the gym.

She said I had nice eyes.

Did she get anything
from you in return for
her sexual favors?

Well, she got something
out of it in bed, you know.

Anything of value
beside you?

Well, if I had drugs around
she'd expect to get
some of those, too.

What kind of drugs?

Cocaine. And when I had
poppers, amyl nitrate.

She'd take a hit of that.

Why?

For the sex.
To make it more intense.

To your knowledge,
did she have sex
with other men?

Yeah. At a couple
of parties,
if she got high enough.

If she got high enough what?

She'd grab a guy,
she'd go into a room.

She liked sex.

She said her husband
couldn't get it up.

Did the defendant
ever tell you that
she was in love with you?

Yeah. A few times.

In bed.

Did you believe her?

Well, she got this look.

You know,
I believed her
for as long as it lasted.

But an hour later,
it was like it
never happened.

Thank you.

You had drugs around
because you were
a drug dealer,

isn't that right?

Yes.

But I've mainly
been doing some
conceptualizing.

Computer games.

Computer games?

Well, you knew who
my client's husband was,
didn't you?

Yes.

Didn't you pester
my client until
she introduced you to him?

Thought his company
might be interested.

So isn't it a fact
that you were using
Stephanie Harker,

not the other way around?

Well, I guess there
was something in it
for both of us.

Well, what's in it
for you to testify
against her today?

What do you mean?

How much cocaine
did the police find
in your apartment?

About half a kilo.
But they...

Are you currently facing
any criminal charges
relating to that cocaine?

No.

So isn't it a fact that
your testimony today

is filled with
lies and exaggerations

in exchange for the police
letting you off?

Objection.
Overruled.

Isn't it, Mr. Petoskey?
Isn't that the truth?

No. I wouldn't do
anything like that.

Stephanie's a friend.
I like her.

Stephanie always talked
about getting out of
Niagara Falls.

She said she'd do it
in a barrel if she had to.

She even sent some
Polaroids to Playboy once.

Did she ever talk about
meeting a rich man
and moving away?

I guess.

You're under oath,
Miss Naughton.

Sometimes she would

get celebrity magazines
or the gossip papers

and make lists
of rich men,
like for a joke.

Her affair
with Peter Barnett,

the used car king,

was that for a joke?

No, I guess
that was to get
cars to drive.

Did the defendant have
an expression she used
to describe men in general?

Sometimes, yeah.

What was it?

Do I have to say?
It's embarrassing.

Tell us anyway.

"Penises with wallets. "

That's what her husband
was to her?

I don't know.
It was just
a way of talking.

She had some
bad experiences.

Don't we all,
Miss Naughton?

There was this rich kid
in high school.

She got pregnant.
He was supposed
to marry her.

Just answer my questions.
He treated her like trash.

She had to have
an abortion.

Just answer the questions,
Miss Naughton.

When did you see the defendant
last before the murders
in this case?

A few nights before
we had a couple of drinks.

Did she say anything
to you as she was leaving?

She said she might not
see me for a while,
but she'd be in touch.

What did you think
was happening?

I was worried.

She said not to believe
anything bad
I heard about her.

Like that she'd murdered
several people.

No.

No. Of course not.

Thank you.

Well, she didn't tell you
what you might hear,
did she?

No.

For all you knew,
she was worried you'd hear
she gained some weight?

Right.

Wendy, did Stephanie
ever give you money?

Yes, she paid for me
to come down here.

She helped me out
with an apartment,
she bought me a watch.

How much, all together?

At least $10,000.
American dollars.

The watch was
a Breguet.

And after giving you
all that money,

did she ever ask you
to do anything illegal?

No.
She was very lonely.

She just wanted
to have me around.

And you were her
best friend,
weren't you?

The one person
she could really talk to?

Yeah.

Did she ever tell you
she wanted her husband dead?

No, never.
Nothing like that.

Well, you really nailed her.

Good thing we almost
went to war
with Canada.

I got all the facts
I need in evidence.

The gun, the money,
the men, the attitude.

Well, they must think
we've scored points.

They're putting Stephanie
on the stand.

To explain everything away.

Let her try.

Yeah, you're gonna be
the first man to get
the better of her.

I lent Doris the money,
that's all.

She needed help,
and I could afford it.

What kind of help
did she need?

To get into
a rehab program.

She had a problem
with cocaine.

She was having delusions,

paranoid attacks,
fits of violence.

Did she enter rehab?

No, she lied to me.
She just bought more drugs.

Mr. Petoskey told the police
that you gave her drugs.

He's lying.

Mrs. Harker, did you
ever ask Doris Nichols
to kill your husband?

No.

Did you want
your husband dead?

No.

I loved him.
I loved Caitlin.

I can't believe
Doris killed them.

Thank you, Mrs. Harker.

You wanted to help her,

so you gave a drug addict

suffering violent
paranoid fits

$50,000 in cash?

That's how much
some of these
programs cost.

It never occurred to you
to write a check
to the program?

I thought Doris
was responsible.

In between
her paranoid fits?

Why did you give her a gun?

I didn't. She must have
taken it from my house.

Did you report it stolen?

No, I... I didn't know
it was gone.

Why did you call her
a half an hour
before the murders?

To make sure
she was all right.

And she was
so comforted
by your call

that she went right out
and killed your husband
and your stepchild?

Objection.

Sustained.

Why do you think
she killed them?

She was crazy.

It seems like everything
was crazy, doesn't it?

What do you mean?

You loaned $50,000
to a mad woman.

You went to your
book group even though
you hated it.

Doris stole your gun,
but you never noticed.

She killed your family
for no reason.

Then she came
to kill you for no reason,
but she forgot the gun.

Scratches appeared
on your body by magic.

Doris did call you
at the restaurant,

but she never spoke.

Is that the best story
you can make up?

I didn't make it up.

Do you consider
yourself intelligent?

Yes.

The other women in your
book club said you couldn't
even read the books.

So I had better
things to do.

Like get stoned and jump
from bed to bed.

I made some mistakes
I had a problem with drugs.

That doesn't mean
I killed anybody.
I loved my husband.

He didn't love you.
He was divorcing you.

No, he wasn't.

Is his divorce lawyer lying?

Did he file legal papers
for fun?

- Objection.
- Sustained.

Save it for your summation,
Mr. McCoy.

Your good friend Wendy
told us that you'd been
dumped before, is that right?

It happens.

By a rich boy
who treated you like trash.

Your father owned
a souvenir stand, right?

Yes.

Is that why
the boy dumped you?

There is nothing wrong
with a souvenir stand.

Then why were you
so desperate
to get out of there?

I had some bad memories.

Of being dumped
because you were
poor trash?

Look, I was an idiot.
He wanted one thing,
my body, and he got it.

You weren't going to let that
happen again, were you?
No.

From then on,
you were going to be
the one using people.

I don't use people.

How about the used car king?

How about your husband?

I helped my husband
in a lot of ways.

The chairman of
a multi-million dollar
software company?

How exactly does
a drug-whacked daughter

of a souvenir stand owner
help him?

There were plenty of things
my husband didn't understand.

Him and his friends.
Jane Austen,
like that matters.

He understood you, though,
didn't he?

What do you mean?

He finally understood
that you were just
a hick town party girl

who didn't belong here.

Objection.
He's harassing the witness.

Sustained.
Watch it, Mr. McCoy.

I belong here
as much as any of them.

Did he tell you
he was shipping you out?

Nobody ships me anywhere.

He'd be able to face
his friends again,
wouldn't he?

Bunch of snobs.

Your Honor,
may we have a recess?

It's not being a snob
if they're really better
than you.

The women were jealous
of me! The men all wanted
to get me in bed!

And you were happy
to oblige.

No. Not anymore.
Nobody takes advantage
of me anymore.

You were on your way back
to that souvenir stand,
weren't you, where you belong?

I am smarter
than all of them!

They had it handed to them!
I had to work for it.

They think I was trash.
They don't know anything!

Members of the jury,

on the first count
of the indictment,

Murder in the First Degree
in the death of Ronald Harker,

has the jury
reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

We find the defendant,
Stephanie Harker,

guilty.

On the second count of
the indictment,

Murder in the First Degree
in the death of
Caitlin Harker,

have you reached
a verdict?

We find the defendant,
Stephanie Harker,

guilty.

On the third count
of the indictment,

Murder in the First Degree
in the death of Doris Nichols,

has the jury
reached a verdict?

We find
the defendant guilty.

This court will
reconvene in two weeks

to adjudicate sentence
upon the defendant.

Counsel are instructed
to submit sentence reports
one week prior to that date.

We are adjourned.

Just the kind of
publicity the State
Department likes.

I don't think either Canada or
Great Britain has anything to
teach us about human rights.

Did you read
their Official Secrets Act?

Until a few years ago,
Canada didn't even have
a bill of rights.

Thanks for
the America First speech.
Not too late to back off.

It's up to the jury.

That's not an answer.

Her crimes fit the death
penalty statute. We've got
nothing to apologize for.

The death penalty
may be statutory.
It's not mandatory.

In some cases
it really is, Adam.

Killing four people,
killing a child.

Stephanie Harker doesn't
push my pity button.

It's a dirty business,
my friends.
A dirty business.

I want to say how sorry
I am to all the people
that I hurt.

I lied to my friends.
Used them.

I'm so sorry, Wendy.

I lied in this courtroom.

I asked Doris
to kill Ronnie.

I didn't mean for
Caitlin to get hurt,
but that is my fault, too.

I shot Doris.

And Ronnie's first wife,
I killed her, too.

I wanted things,
all the wrong things,
so bad.

I was afraid
of losing it all.

When I was a little girl,

I used to see the Americans
come to Niagara Falls.

They acted like everything
was just for them.

They were so confident.

I used to imagine that
I was the secret daughter
of some millionaire.

And that some day
he would come
and he would find me,

and everybody would know
how special I was.

But my father told me
not to pretend that I was
something special.

Don't... Don't try
and stand out.

"You're just Stephie Stevens,
and your Daddy sells
plastic souvenirs. "

And that boy,
that boy that got me pregnant,

he treated me
like I was trash.

I am not excusing
what I did.

I am just so scared.

I am really not
a bad person.

I just... I want a chance.

I always just wanted
a chance.

I can change.

Please...

Don't kill me. Please.

Just give me a chance.

Madam Forewoman,
have you reached a unanimous
verdict as to the sentence?

We have.

Go ahead.

We find the defendant,
Stephanie Harker,

shall be remanded to the
custody of the Department
of Corrections

to await execution,
as prescribed
by Article 22-B

of the Correction Law
of the State of New York.

The one time
she was truthful.

Too little, too late.
The truth doesn't
always set you free.

The switchboard told me
they got over 500
calls from Canada.

Nine to one against
killing Stephanie Harker.

Maybe we should
post warning signs
at the Canadian border.

Yeah.

"Enter at your own risk. "