All language subtitles for Law and order S10E07 - Patsy

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.

I had a lady once.

Swore a rat rolled a
wheel of parmesan

right out the fridge
while she was sleeping.

(CHUCKLING) All right.

It's the super. I got
the exterminator here.

Anybody home?

Miss Knowles?

(RATTLING DOORKNOB)

Having some trouble, here?

(MOANING) Oh, God.

Oh! Oh!
Get help.

Oh, you're gonna be all right.
You'll be okay.

Victim's Cecilia Knowles.
She's 36 years old.

She was a mess. Clothes were ripped.
Eyes glazed over.

EMS rolled her to Mercy Trauma.

What'd the neighbors
have to say?

Downstairs apartment heard
noises sometime after midnight.

Didn't think it was
anything to worry about.

Or worth getting
out of bed for. Thanks.

No, no, the only other person we
saw up here this morning was 6J.

And he left
about 7:15.

His work number is on his rental
application if you need it.

That'd be a help. How about Ms. Knowles?
You know her very well?

She moved here from
Albany a few months ago.

I fixed her closet once.

She lived alone?
Uh-huh.

Boyfriend? I haven't
noticed anyone.

I'd like to see
her rental application.

Sure. I'll get it.

MARGO: The attack started here,
and then finished in here.

BRISCOE: Mmm.

Looks like some night
baseball got out of control.

MARGO: We're bagging
and tagging the linens.

BRISCOE:
Nice looking family.

No family names in here.

Business cards,

from all over the country.

NICK: Here's
her application.

Thank you.

She moved in five months ago.

Any next of kin?

Fly-Away Travel.
That's what she wrote.

East 47th street.

Yeah. She's a travel agent.

She put her boss
as next of kin?

Might as well die alone.

She almost did.

Ligature marks on her neck.
Bruising on her inner thighs.

Rape kit's been sealed
and sent to your lab.

When will she be able to talk?

She's in a coma. Neurology's
been called in to take a look.

So, you don't know when?

Or if. She presented with
anoxic brain injury.

From the strangling?

Well, that's one possibility.

What's the other?

An allergic reaction
to Demerol.

We found trace amounts
of it in her blood.

Are you sure? Because we didn't
find any pills in her place.

Well, how about a syringe?

This bruise here, right in the
middle, there's a needle mark.

The Demerol was injected.

There's no syringe
in her apartment.

The doer doped her up?

Sometime between midnight and 2:00
a.m., according to the doctor.

And that's on top of the couple
of drinks she had before that.

Cocktails. No forced entry.
Could be date rape.

Who was this girl seeing?

We've been looking
through her phone book.

A lot of disconnected numbers
in Albany, answering machines.

Local numbers are nail
salons, take outs, airlines.

Apparently, Ms. Knowles
was married to her work.

Then try co-workers.

Well, I'm pretty sure she
wasn't seeing anybody.

We were just talking the other day
how hard it is to meet people.

What hospital is she at? Mercy.

Oh, I should get flowers.

She's in a coma.

Oh, well, I mean, still.

I mean, if Cecilia wakes up,
and there's nobody there.

Oh, this is so awful.

Is this her sister?

Yeah, Julie, her kid sister.

Any idea where we can find her?

Well, Cecilia said she
passed away a few years ago.

Any other family?

Um... She said her parents died
when she was still in college.

And there's an ex-husband. Steven Knowles.
She said he was a drunk.

Do you know where
we can find him?

I don't know. It sounded like she
hadn't spoken to him in years.

Anyone else you can think of?

She said she'd been in love
once, not with the ex.

You might try where she
used to work, up in Albany.

The State Travel Division.

She mention any plans
she had for last night?

Well, I had some plane tickets to
drop off at the Mayflower Hotel

for a client, and she
offered to take them.

Was that on her way?

Well, actually, no. But
she said she didn't mind.

Yes. She was in last night with a
package for one of our guests.

The Gilberts.

She left it at the desk
about 10:00 o'clock.

That late? You sure?

I was just about
to go off duty.

She with anybody?

Well, she was wearing
a cocktail dress.

Maybe someone was waiting
for her outside.

Well?

I didn't see anybody. She just came out.
I offered to get her a cab.

She said no. Then she went across
the street to the Swanson.

Thanks.

MIKE: Sure, I remember her.

Glass of merlot. She sat
at a table in the back.

By herself?

Couple of guys tried
to buy her a drink.

But she told me she was waiting
for an old friend from Albany.

You see what the guy
looked like?

No. I notice the ladies.

The guys in the business suits,
they all look the same to me.

ED: Maybe if we check
the credit card receipts.

I doubt the guy
had time for a drink.

I looked over, and
bang, she was gone.

Okay I get back to work?

Yeah, go ahead.

Our little wallflower
blooms at night.

Old friend in a business suit. Maybe if
we check her business card collection.

Hong Kong. Some guys
have all the fun.

I wouldn't know from Hong Kong.

My old man took me.

What'd he do, work
for the National Geographic?

Oil business.
Petro-chemical engineer.

A brainiac.

I'm sure this is just what
he had in mind for you.

Yeah.

Right. Stuart Ruskus.

Oh, I see. Sorry for your loss.
Thanks.

Guy croaked a year ago.

Kenneth Taylor.
Deputy press secretary

for the New York State Comptroller.
Come on down.

Hi, Kenneth Taylor, please.

I'm Detective Ed Green
of the New York Police.

He did?

Do you have that address?

Thank you very much.

Kenneth Taylor moved down
from Albany last summer.

To an apartment two blocks
from the Swanson Hotel.

Knowles, the name
sounds familiar.

So, you have no idea why she
had your card in her bedroom?

No. I can't
place her. Sorry.

Taylor.

She used to work in the state

government travel
division up in Albany.

That's right.
That's right.

She handled some travel arrangements
for me awhile ago. Yes.

Now you remember?

Yes, now I remember. And now
I have to get back to work.

Before you do that, you mind telling
us where you were Tuesday night?

I was at home working
on the press campaign

for the audit
of the Hudson River

Small Crafts
Navigation Program.

I'm filling up with
anticipation And after that?

I ordered a movie
on pay-per-view.

And I fell asleep
before it ended.

ED: Any phone calls?

My brother, asking me
to go sailing with him.

And my fiancée called
just after midnight.

She's at a conference in California.
Now can I go?

And other than that
one time in Albany,

you've had no contact
with Cecilia Knowles?

That's right.

Now you can go.

Thank you.

Check his IUDS?

And hers.

Cable company confirms Taylor ordered
a movie at 20 past midnight.

Shakespeare In Heat.
Cause and effect.

I don't know about the effect.

Rape kit was negative
for seminal fluid.

Phone records.
His and hers.

New York and Albany.
No calls in either direction.

But there are these calls she
made to Queens from Albany.

She called the 116th precinct?

Couple of times a month
before she moved here.

Checking on the crime rate?

She was calling about her sister.
Julie Gorham.

Gorham.
From three years ago?

The one and the same.
Missing, presumed murdered.

Girl flies in LaGuardia from
Albany to visit her boyfriend.

Hasn't been seen since.

Boyfriend a suspect?
Uh-huh.

Stormy relationship, but we
could never make a case.

Worst part of the job having
no answers for the family.

When's the last time
you talked to Cecilia?

Month ago. Very upset.

She ran into the
boyfriend in the city.

You got the file?
Yeah.

She was always convinced
the guy did her sister.

If we'd been able to
take the gloves off...

Why didn't you?

Guy's some mucky muck
in state government.

Yeah, right.

Our film buff, Kenny Taylor.

Yes, you're right. I lied.

I was stalling you so I
could talk to my lawyer.

I learned my lesson about
dealing with you people.

What lesson's that? That
we're as stupid as we look?

I've been through this circus
before when Julie disappeared.

That's where you
learned to lie?

There. That's what I mean.
You just twist everything.

All right, Ken, you don't have
to get into it with them.

I'm okay.

Just ask your question.

We just want
to verify a few things.

Now, you said you hadn't seen Ms. Knowles
since you moved to the city.

Right.

Well, she told the
detective in Queens

that she ran into you
about a month ago.

Okay, sure. Um, on my lunch hour.
It was in midtown.

What'd you talk about?

Nothing. I tried to be polite and get
away from her as fast as I could.

She's still laboring under
the delusion I killed Julie.

A lot of people
have that delusion.

Next question.

We read the investigators'
reports on Julie Gorham.

The one thing everyone
remarked on was your temper.

You trying to bait me?

Just stating the facts.

You have a thin skin. That's why
Julie was breaking up with you.

That's why she came
down to New York.

That's according to Cecilia.

The truth is, we were
making a fresh start.

I had the hotel room ready. I had champagne, flowers.
She never got to the hotel.

And that's according to you.

It's what happened.

They have a record of her
getting on the plane, Ken.

What, she jumped
out over Poughkeepsie?

Damn it, I didn't kill her!

See, it still gets
to you, doesn't it?

You thought you had
it all put behind you

when you came down from Albany,

and bang, you run
into the big sister.

I've got better things to do
than worry about a crazy woman.

A guy like you? I don't think
you'd just walk away from it.

You wanted to reason with her, you
know, have a little sit down,

bury the hatchet There was
no reasoning with her.

But you tried
anyway, didn't you?

You met up with her at the
bar at the Swanson Hotel.

Maybe you didn't get the
satisfaction you wanted.

You went home,
you stewed about it.

No, no!

And you went to her place, you gave
her some bull, and she let you in.

That's enough.
And you did to her

just what you did to her
sister, didn't you?

No! I never laid
a hand on her!

CHARLES: Ken.
I know my rights.

I know where I stand.

I've talked to them as much as I have to.
I'm leaving.

Next time you want
to talk to him,

you'd better bring
a subpoena or a warrant.

We showed his picture around
the Swanson bar. No takers.

None of the neighbors either.

Well, if she was meeting with the man who
murdered her sister, it's a big thing.

You'd think she
would've told someone.

Who? Her nail salon
or the Chinese take-out?

Did you get any call backs
from those numbers in Albany?

Three. None of them had talked
to Cecilia in at least a year.

They got tired of watching
her grind the same ax.

Well, she used to work for
the state travel division.

Have you tried up there?

Have a nice drive.

You believe in family curses?

I didn't.

Then I met Cecilia.

Parents go in a car accident,

then Julie.

(SIGHING) Now this.

ED: You knew Julie?

Very sweet person.

She was in management at one
of the TV stations in town.

Cecilia was so proud of her.

Then along came Ken Taylor.

Had you talked
to Cecilia recently?

No. Not since she moved.

ED: Anybody else
she might've talked to?

I don't think so.
It's been difficult.

Julie's death just ate at her.

While she was here, was she
ever in contact with Taylor?

Well, a couple of months
before she moved,

she had a run in
with him at a function.

She accused him,

said she'd never let him
forget what he did to Julie.

How did he react?

Well, she started having our
secretary screen her calls.

Gave her specific instructions
not to put Taylor through.

Did he ever try to call her?

I don't know.

But Cecilia always
made sure one of us

walked her to her
car in the evening.

She ever go to the police?

I told her she could get a restraining order.
I don't know if she ever went.

And then she moved.

Just a month before Taylor did.

He moved after she did?

Yes. I heard about it
through the grapevine.

I left her a message
to warn her.

But she never called back.

He signed his lease July
12th, moved in July 30th.

She signed hers June 24th.

Could be a coincidence.

Yes, I'm still here.

Okay.

No, no, no, no,
I'm not hanging up.

Computer company from hell.

I've been on hold
a half an hour.

I sent my kid's computer in to
get fixed, and they lost it.

I told you those
gizmos were trouble.

You talk to the Albany police?

Yeah, she filed a complaint. Said he
followed her, waited outside her apartment.

But without any proof...

They did nothing.

Her bad luck he didn't beat the crap
out of her in front of witnesses.

Check this out.

DMV records show Taylor was pulled
over a year ago, DWI, in Loudonville,

just outside Albany.

Loudonville, isn't
that where she lived?

Could've been cruising
her neighborhood.

Call Albany. Check
on the disposition.

No, you don't want
me to come down there.

Taylor said he had dinner at a friend's house.
Charges dismissed.

His lawyer argued the
glass of wine he drank

interacted with the
medication he'd taken.

Let me guess,
he ate a breath mint.

He has a bad back from a
skiing accident in college.

He's been on pain
killers ever since.

One more guess, Demerol?

It doesn't say.
(PAGER BEEPING)

It's Medill in Forensics.

We found one pubic hair
that didn't belong to her.

There's no root, you
can forget about DNA.

Next time, we'll take our
bad news over the phone.

Well, there is some good news.

Two drops of seminal fluid on the top sheet.
Very small drops.

Tadpoles in the fluid?

Well, enough for a sample.

There's also a drop in the
carpeting next to the bed.

Drop here, a drop there The guy
tried to clean up after himself?

No, there was spermicide
in the fluid.

More likely he used a condom,

then had some spill
off when he removed it.

You take his blood, you let him
stew in jail for two days,

if you don't bring him up for
arraignment by tonight...

Three years I've put up with
this campaign of harassment.

When does it stop?

It's up to you.
It can end right now.

How? By telling you
what you want to hear?

Is that what you'd like?

Oh, you don't want to know
what I'd like right now.

Are you trying to
provoke me, is that it?

We don't want to do that. We
need you calm and focused.

We've got a lot
of ground to cover.

Okay, okay.

Let's start with
this DWI in Albany.

In Cecilia's neighborhood.

I was nowhere near her.

You were drunk,
you might not remember.

I was not drunk.
I take painkillers.

Scotch always killed my pain.

For my back.
I take Demerol.

Demerol.

Your fiancée is a
doctor, is that right?

An oncologist. What
does that have to do...

In her office, she keeps swabs,
syringes, things like that.

Yes, of course.

What're you writing?

You and your fiancée
use condoms?

What the hell? He's not
going to answer that.

Isn't he curious as
to why we're asking?

Yes, I am.

Whoever raped Cecilia
used a condom.

Except some of his little
guys got away from him.

Like on the rug, on the bed.

That's why we took
your blood, Taylor.

That doesn't
concern me one bit.

We're giving you
the straight dope.

Let's move on.
(DOOR OPENING)

Sorry to interrupt.

We have the blood
test results, Mr. Taylor.

Your DNA matches what
we found at the scene.

Boo! You should've
been a little more careful

when you took
off your party hat.

It's not possible.

O.J. or no O.J.,
DNA don't lie, my man.

Would you like to make a statement
at this time, Mr. Taylor?

It is not possible!

I'll take that as a no.

Mr. Garnett, I've notified
the D.A.'s office.

We're ready to take your
client over for arraignment.

This can't be happening.
Charles, do something!

Yeah, Counselor, why don't you
click your heels three times

and say, "There's
no place like home"?

CARMICHAEL: You plead to the
assault on Ms. Knowles.

You plead to the
murder of her sister.

You serve concurrent
sentences of 25-to-life.

JACK: Two
for one, Mr. Taylor.

This is why we're here?

The rape and attempted murder
alone will get you 25 years.

In the meantime,

the police would continue to
investigate Julie Gorham's murder.

They turn up anything, you'd
face another 25 years.

You'd be 80 before
you saw daylight.

But I'm innocent.

Ken, we don't have to give
them an answer right away.

I don't have to think about it.

I spent two days in prison before I got bail.
I'm not going back.

Mr. Taylor, once you're
indicted, it's too late.

Oh, to hell with this. You deal with them.
I'll be downstairs.

Ken...

Mr. Garnett, if you haven't explained
the facts of life to your client...

I had the talk with him.

But he tells me he's innocent.
What am I supposed to do?

When are you presenting
to the grand jury?

CARMICHAEL:
Day after tomorrow.

He wants to talk to them.

About what? His
political connections?

He'll sign the waiver of
immunity whenever it's ready.

KEN: Ms. Knowles was convinced
I killed her sister.

Of course I was
the obvious suspect.

The police investigated
me thoroughly.

They searched my hotel
room in New York,

they searched
my home in Albany.

They searched my parents'
home, my brother's boat,

his home, our cars.

But they didn't find one
shred of evidence. Not one.

But that didn't change
Ms. Knowles' mind.

She just kept on after me.

I think she'd do
anything to harm me.

JACK: Even put
herself in a coma?

I'm sure she didn't plan
on ending up in a coma.

But she staged this assault.
There's no other explanation.

She lied to the police
about you harassing her?

Yes. I never harassed her. I never called her.
I never followed her.

You moved to New York City
one month after she did.

That's a coincidence.

JACK: It's also a coincidence that
Ms. Knowles was injected with Demerol?

Julie knew I took Demerol.
I'm sure she told Cecilia.

And Cecilia injected herself.

And the ligature marks and
the bruises on her thighs?

They were
self-inflicted?

They had to be.

And the semen?

Mr. Taylor, two laboratories
independently confirmed

your DNA matched the semen
found at the scene.

They must've made a mistake.

Is that your best answer?

No.

(SIGHING)

I had two sexual encounters the week
before Ms. Knowles was attacked.

While your fiancée
was out of town?

Yes.

I met the women through an escort
service, Private Encounters.

I saw one on Saturday, the
other one on Monday night.

Are you suggesting
Ms. Knowles

used a prostitute
to obtain your semen?

She had to.

Can you produce either of these
women to corroborate this theory?

No. I don't know
their real names.

This is a heck
of a story, Mr. Taylor.

No wonder you were so anxious
to tell it to the grand jury.

I came here because I
have nothing to hide.

I admitted cheating
on my fiancée.

An admission
without consequence,

since, as I'm sure your
attorney explained to you,

grand jury transcripts
are sealed.

Do you think it's easy
for me to sit here

in front of all these people?

I think you lie as
effortlessly as I breathe.

I am not lying!
I am being framed!

By a woman in a coma?

She's crazy. She was
obsessed with me.

JACK: Mr. Taylor.

Ask her friends. She was
even seeing a shrink.

Mr. Taylor, your
statement is over.

(BELL RINGING)

Rape one, assault one,
attempted murder two.

Round one to you.
See you in motions court.

The tried and true, when you
have no case, file motions.

Let's not be too smug.

Taylor has two
potential witnesses

who have a track record
of doing anything for money.

The prostitutes?

Shouldn't we find
them before he does?

If they exist.

Any mention he was a suspect

in Julie Gorham's death
would be inflammatory.

People v. Molineux, prior bad acts
are admissible to establish motive.

The fact Cecilia Knowles blamed
him for her sister's death

is the reason
he tried to kill her.

Pure speculation.

It's an issue of fact.

I agree. The jury
can make the call.

I'm going to let them hear about
Ms. Gorham's death. Next up.

Speaking of prior bad acts,

I want to present evidence
of gross negligence

by the labs used
for DNA testing.

Any problems at the labs have
long since been resolved.

These incidents occurred
just two years ago.

Oh, please! Motion denied.
What else?

This so-called harassment
of Ms. Knowles.

Ms. Knowles made a report
to the Albany police.

Your Honor,

how am I supposed to cross
examine a police report?

JACK: Thanks to his client,
Ms. Knowles

is unable to testify about the
terror he visited on her.

This report is the
next best thing.

As long as he
can authenticate it,

I don't see a problem
here, Mr. Garnett.

Motion denied again.
Next item.

That's it. I have
no more motions.

Then we're done. I'll see
you gentleman at trial.

(SIGHING)

ED: It took some doing, but we found
the guy that runs the escort service.

He's cooperating?
Oh, we're nominating him

for Citizen of the Year.

Taylor put his horizontal hula
classes on his credit card.

There's a charge for the Saturday
before Knowles was attacked.

We talked to the girl. She
met Taylor at his place

at 3:00 o'clock
in the afternoon.

At 5:00, she was
on a plane out of Newark.

She went to Vegas to work
a garment convention.

She didn't return until
the following weekend.

What about Miss Monday Night?

There's no record
Taylor had a date.

He could've paid cash, but the
service would have a booking slip.

Doesn't make sense he'd lie about
this one and not the other.

Our Citizen of the Year's arranging
for us to talk to the booker,

the girl who handled
the phones that Monday.

Good. As soon as you
know anything...

You don't actually swallow
Taylor's cock and bull story.

It's a matter of what he
can get a jury to swallow.

His lawyer wants to
meet with us tomorrow.

If you hear anything
by then, let me know.

It's become obvious to us
that no matter how unjust,

we have no hope
of prevailing at trial.

So, we'd like to talk
about a plea bargain.

You know our terms.

They're unacceptable. We might as
well take our chances with a jury.

We're prepared
to accept 15-to-25

on a plea to the assault
on Ms. Knowles.

We're not admitting anything
on the Gorham murder.

Fifteen years, he'll be out,
and Ms. Knowles most likely

will still be in a coma.

I know what judges have been handing
out for this kind of offense.

Fifteen years is well
within the ballpark.

I talked to Ms. Knowles'
social worker.

At the present
standard of care,

she'll exhaust her medical
insurance in two years.

After that, things
get very bleak.

All right, what do you want?

He forfeits all his assets to
cover her medical expenses.

Anything beyond that comes
out of his future earnings.

Oh.

That's the deal.

It's outrageous!
Ken, wait.

All right, let's
split the difference.

The minimum sentence here
is 12 and a half years.

He does that, plus
the medical expenses. Okay?

Ken, it doesn't mean we'll stop
trying to prove your innocence.

Okay.

CHARLES: Send
us the paperwork.

I want all his financials
by the end of the week.

We didn't tell them the cops are
talking to the escort service.

We're under no obligation.
It isn't exculpatory.

It isn't up to us
to do their work for 'em.

We don't know
what they'll find.

(SIGHING)

Abbie, he confessed.

Case over.

You count it as a touchdown.

I'll wait for
the instant replay.

I can't believe the
service gave you my name.

They tell you all I do
is answer their phones?

And book the appointments.

Okay, sure, I do that.

So, you want me to give the
money back or something?

Somebody we're looking at claims he got
a girl from your service last month.

On the night of the
12th, a Monday.

Every call gets a booking slip.

CARMICHAEL: This one didn't.
The name's Ken Taylor.

On 57th. He's booked
with you before.

We get a hundred calls a night.

The author wants portly pandas.
They look portly to you?

What's the deal, Michelle?

You make appointments off the books,
split the cash with the girls?

I got a deadline here.

We know Taylor called
the service that night.

We can show you
the phone records.

We can send a copy to
your boss, if you'd like.

Please don't do that.

I need the job.

Then play ball.

This girl I know, Tina,

she called me asking if
Taylor ever booked with us.

I told her, "Sure."
She say why?

She said he owed her money.

You have Tina's number?

She had a pager
but it got disconnected.

How else will we find her?
Through another service?

No. She finds
clients at the hotels.

I know she spends a lot of time
in the bar at the Swanson.

The bartender at the Swanson told us
you're there at least three nights a week.

Ms. Knowles was there
the night she was attacked.

The night after
you saw Ken Taylor.

I don't know Ken.

ED: Oh, I'd bet
he remembers you.

We put you in a line up, even
blindfolded he'd pick you out.

So, the way to go here,

is nice and easy.

Okay, we go that way.

What kind of charges?

Don't cooperate,
and you'll find out.

(SIGHING)

Cecilia approached me

at the Swanson,
a couple of weeks before.

I wasn't the first girl
that she'd talked to.

She told me that this guy,
Taylor, had been bothering her.

And that she wanted
to get something on him.

She knew he called the escorts.

She said she'd pay me
to find out which service.

Is this something
you've done before?

(SIGHS) No.

But I know girls who've done
it, for wives, girlfriends.

I called some
bookers that I knew.

I got the information
Cecilia wanted.

And then she offered me more
money to arrange to meet him.

ED: And to get
a semen sample?

Yeah.

I made sure he used a condom.

And I gave it
to her the next day.

Did she say what she
was gonna do with it?

She told me Taylor
killed her sister.

She said she was gonna
make him pay for it.

She got wind he was
moving to New York

when his office sent a housing
request to the travel division.

It gave her time to sign
a lease before he did.

So, this harassment
was a work of fiction.

Along with everything else.

One of her co-workers at the
travel agency takes Demerol.

The only thing she didn't count
on was the allergic reaction.

Have we told
Mr. Taylor?

CARMICHAEL:
We told his lawyer.

(SIGHING)

Well, you got an innocent man to
confess to a crime he didn't commit.

Maybe this job's getting
too easy for you.

I know. I know.

I was going to say I'll get
started on the dismissal notice.

A man so self-absorbed,
so arrogant.

It never occurred to me
he might be innocent.

Or that Cecilia Knowles
might be so desperate.

Ninety percent of cases
are circumstantial.

We can only go where the
best evidence leads us.

And if we stumble across
justice along the way, great.

You see Julie Gorham's
file on the table?

Yes.

Look in the search inventory.

A barn on 5 acres of
farmland in Schoharie County

belonging to the Taylor family.

No barn, no farmland.

It was on the list of assets

Taylor sent over
for the plea bargain.

Jack, they searched
every piece of property

Taylor and his family
owned to find Gorham's body.

Why didn't they
search this barn?

Maybe he bought it recently.

Let's have the police
look into it.

BRISCOE: Taylor's old
man was a lawyer.

A client gave him the barn six
years ago as payment for services.

But the title was never transferred
until after the old man died last year.

Well, maybe Taylor wasn't aware
his father owned it until then.

Well, Ma and Pa
Kettle next door

remember Taylor and his dad
being out here five years ago.

It's over here.

She's in some
kind of canvas bag.

CARMICHAEL: We have
a manner of death?

ED: Skull's crushed
in on the left side.

BRISCOE: What's
that label say?

Marine Plus.
Could be a sail bag.

Taylor's brother keeps a
boat for City Marina.

These are dirt marks
on the sail bag

that held the remains
of Julie Gorham.

This is a section of the
deck of your brother's boat.

The characteristics of the non-skid
pattern are uniquely consistent

with the marks on the sail bag.

The only patterns that matter
are my client's fingerprints.

Which I assume you didn't find.

We were wrong once, Mr. Garnett.
We're not wrong this time.

KEN: Why are you
doing this to me?

I didn't kill Julie. It's Cecilia.
It's all Cecilia!

I guess that means we can
forget about a plea.

I don't make the same
mistakes twice either.

I'm going to enjoy putting
your client in jail.

Blame the woman in a coma.
Hell of a strategy.

What a weasel.
Yeah,

and the jury better
not hear about it.

It's absurd.

And so is hiring a prostitute to
extract evidence from Mr. Taylor.

From Taylor's lawyer. He wants
Cecilia's psychiatric records.

Uh-huh.

Ms. Knowles had been
seeing her shrink

for seven years before
moving to the city.

I believe those records contain evidence
of her obsession with my client,

and of her culpability
in the death of her sister.

She was obsessed with him
because he killed her sister.

Her obsession with him
predates her sister's death.

Your Honor, he thinks he
can say anything he wants

because Ms. Knowles isn't
here to defend herself.

That's why I'm here. Mr. Garnett,
those records are privileged,

unless Ms. Knowles or her
legal guardian waives it.

There's no legal guardian.

She's in a coma, with little
hope of regaining consciousness.

I mean, what am
I supposed to do?

Without those records, my
client is swinging in the wind.

Sorry, Mr. Garnett. You
can't have the records.

All right, Your Honor.

Then I want to present
evidence Ms. Knowles

tried to frame my client
for attempted murder.

Fine, then I'll present the jury with
Mr. Taylor's offer to plead guilty.

And neither of you will present anything
about those incidents to the jury.

Your Honor, you're
denying my client

the right to offer an alternate
theory of the crime?

You can present your theory.
Just not with this evidence.

O'MALLEY: Except for a call
from his hotel room

to the airline
at half past midnight,

we couldn't verify the
whereabouts of Mr. Taylor

from the time Ms. Gorham's plane
landed in LaGuardia at 9:00 p.m.

until 7:30
the next morning.

We did establish he had a
rental car at his disposal.

What theory did you form as to
Ms. Gorham's disappearance?

Mr. Taylor picked her up at the airport.
They had an argument,

possibly over her decision
to break up with him.

Mr. Taylor killed Ms. Gorham,
drove to the hotel

to call the airline
to establish an alibi.

He got a sail bag
from his brother's boat

and buried her in the bag
in his barn upstate.

Thank you.

Detective, did any witness
positively identify

Ms. Gorham on the
flight from Albany?

Positively? No.

But her boarding pass was used.

The stewardess saw a woman
occupying her seat.

Do you know how Ms. Gorham got from
her home to the Albany airport?

O'MALLEY: We assume
she took a cab.

Did you find
the cab that drove her?

No.

Hmm.

Who told you that Ms. Gorham decided
to break up with my client?

Her sister, Cecilia Knowles.

But we had other witnesses
who saw your client

and Ms. Gorham
fighting in public.

Did you verify Ms. Knowles'
whereabouts that night?

She said she was
at home in Albany.

We didn't verify it.
She wasn't a suspect.

Isn't it possible she drove
her sister to the airport?

I suppose.

Isn't it possible she got on
the plane, and not her sister?

Anything's possible. I don't
see what you're getting at.

What I'm getting at

is Ms. Knowles
killed her sister

on the way
to the Albany airport,

left the body in her car,

and then flew to New
York in her place.

Isn't that possible?

No. It isn't. Because your
client killed Julie Gorham.

You never searched
Ms. Knowles' car, did you?

No.

Defense 12, from the
Department of Motor Vehicles.

Would it surprise you
she traded her car in

one month after
her sister's murder?

Objection. This is
irrelevant and inflammatory.

It's evidence.
JUDGE: Approach.

The fact that Ms. Knowles got rid
of her car doesn't prove anything.

There are dozens
of possible reasons.

And I have an absolute right to
present my reasons to the jury.

He's taking advantage of the fact
Ms. Knowles can't explain her actions.

This is exactly the sort of thing
we asked Your Honor to prevent.

The jurors aren't
babies, Mr. McCoy.

They can decide whether to accept
or reject Mr. Garnett's theories.

Objection overruled.

Every time my brother was in town, Kenny
would bring Julie down to the boat.

A few times
they brought Cecilia.

They were trying
to fix me up with her.

One time I asked her to come sailing with me.
Just the two of us.

CHARLES: How
did she respond?

Objection. Hearsay.

Res gestae, Your Honor.
It's foundational.

I'll allow it. Answer
his question, Mr. Taylor.

She said she wasn't
interested in me that way.

That she had her eye on Kenny.

Did you tell your brother?

No. I didn't want to cause
him any problems with Julie.

Did you and your
brother ever mention

your father's barn
in Ms. Gorham's presence?

Yes, a few times.

We talked about buying the land next
door and building a country house.

Did you ever talk about it
in front of Ms. Knowles?

I mentioned our plans, yes.

No more questions.

You love your kid brother very
much, don't you, Mr. Taylor?

Yes.

I'm sure he feels very
kindly toward you right now.

When Ms. Gorham
disappeared,

did you mention Ms. Knowles' feeling
toward your brother to the police?

No. It didn't
seem relevant.

But it seems relevant now?

Yes.
Because it suggests

someone else had a reason
to kill Ms. Gorham?

Yes.

Someone other than the kid
brother you love very much.

Withdrawn.

I'm not sure I understand
your question.

I mean, my own sisters and I
don't always see eye to eye.

It doesn't mean anything.

Your Honor, request permission
to treat as hostile.

Go ahead.

Ms. Wehner,
weren't you present

during an argument between
Ms. Knowles and her sister,

two weeks before
Ms. Gorham's disappearance?

Yes.

And wasn't the argument over
Ms. Gorham's relationship

with my client?
Yes.

And didn't Ms. Knowles
express the opinion

that my client was the
wrong man for Ms. Gorham?

Yes. And he was.

I didn't ask for your
opinion, Ms. Wehner.

Seven years ago,

wasn't there an incident
between Ms. Knowles

and a married
co-worker in your office?

Yes, but...

She made unwanted advances to him,
sent him inappropriate letters.

Objection. Relevance.

Overruled. Answer
the question, Ms. Wehner.

Yes, she did that.

And after this man
complained to you,

you had a conversation with Ms. Knowles.
What'd you tell her?

I told her she should
see a therapist.

Thank you.

To your knowledge, did Cecilia
ever hurt or threaten her sister?

No.

Julie was everything
to Cecilia.

Ever since their parents died.

Cecilia worked
to support Julie,

to pay for her
college, her books.

She sacrificed so much for her.

Mr. McCoy wants you to put
your brains on auto pilot,

to blindly accept
that of course

Ken Taylor had a bad temper,

of course Julie was
breaking up with him,

of course she landed
at LaGuardia,

of course

he killed her

and dumped her body in his barn.

Of course, of course.

Mr. McCoy

doesn't want you
to concern yourself

with another perfectly
reasonable theory.

That it was Cecilia Knowles who
was jealous of Julie Gorham,

who killed her, took her
place on the plane.

Took the sail bag from the boat

and buried her
in Mr. Taylor's barn.

And Cecilia did this

because she was obsessed

with my client.

She wanted to possess him.
Control him.

Where's the proof?

I wanted you to hear what
she told her therapist

but Mr. McCoy had those
records suppressed.

Objection. Facts
not in evidence.

Mr. Garnett, you've made your point.
Move on.

Cecilia Knowles set out to frame my client.
And it worked.

She fooled Mr. McCoy.

He's as much a victim of her
machinations as my client.

Your Honor.

It's summation, Mr. McCoy. He's
allowed to argue his case.

Goon.

Ladies and gentlemen,
this isn't the first time

Mr. McCoy has been fooled
by Cecilia Knowles.

He doesn't want you to know,
but she's done this before.

Objection. Facts
not in evidence.

Sustained. Wrap it up,
Mr. Garnett.

That's not good enough.
Side bar, Your Honor.

Denied. Mr. Garnett.

He's bringing up
facts not adduced at trial.

I want Your Honor
to instruct the jury to...

Sit down, Mr. McCoy.

Your Honor made rulings.
The People relied on them.

I want his summation
stricken from the record.

I'll do no such thing.

Your Honor, you're leaving
us with no remedy.

If you won't uphold
your own rulings...

Be quiet, Mr. McCoy.

Now, sit down.

So,

even if you don't believe

Cecilia Knowles
killed her own sister,

you must admit
it's possible she did.

And that's reasonable doubt.

Cecilia Knowles
isn't here today

because, as you know,
she's in a coma.

You haven't been told
why she's in a coma.

Mr. Garnett alluded
to the reason.

I'm going to tell you why.

Objection.
She did it

in a desperate,
crazed attempt...

Sustained.
...to call attention

to the fact
that Mr. Taylor

had gotten away with the
murder of her sister.

I said sustained,
Mr. McCoy.

She was so convinced
of his guilt,

she was ready to put
herself in jeopardy

to see this vicious
killer brought to trial.

(STERNLY) Mr. McCoy.
And while she lies

in a hospital bed,
this court has seen fit

to allow the defense to speculate
about her state of mind!

That's enough.

And hold her up as a
patsy for Mr. Taylor.

And since this court

doesn't have the guts
to protect the rights

of the weak and voiceless...
(JUDGE POUNDS GAVEL)

You're in contempt,
Mr. McCoy.

...It's for the jury
to see justice done.

And justice in this case

is holding Ken Taylor, and only Ken
Taylor, responsible for the death

of Julie Gorham. (POUNDING
GAVEL) That's it.

I am declaring
an immediate mistrial.

Oh, Your Honor...

Sit down, Mr. Garnett You
opened the door for this.

Ladies and gentlemen,
you're dismissed.

With my apologies
on behalf of counsel.

We're adjourned.
(POUNDS GAVEL)

(BEEPING)

CARMICHAEL: Your assistant
said you were here.

I had to sign a release for
Cecilia Knowles' possessions.

The hospital didn't know
what to do with them.

We'll get another
shot at Mr. Taylor.

Maybe not.

I asked the police
to track down her car.

It turned up in Ohio.

Forensics found two strands
of Julie Gorham's hair.

They were friends. I'm sure
she rode in her sister's car.

In the trunk?

Of course,

the hairs could've come off
of a blanket or some luggage.

We'll ask her,

when she wakes up.