All language subtitles for Law and order S14E15 - Veterans Day

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.

Feels like the city's getting
dirtier by the minute.

Budget crunch.
What do you expect?

I never thought I'd say this,
but I miss Giuliani.

Bite your tongue.
Oh, yeah. Look at this guy.

Geez. He doesn't look very good

Hey, kid,you all right?
Is he breathing?

Call 911.
I don't feel a pulse.

- [Man] He was strangled
- [Briscoe] When did it happen?

Sometime within the last four hours.
So about the same time
the snow started?

What makes you think
he was choked to death?
Petechial hemorrhages.

Strangulation until proven otherwise.
Autopsy will confirm one way or the other.

I don't see any marks or bruises
Skin's gotta dry out for
ligature marks to really pop.

Might not show up until tomorrow.
Any I.D.?

Over there
[Green] Hey, yo! Hey man, what do you got?

Contents of the pockets.
No wallet, but we're still looking.

House keys, spare change,
fresh pack of smokes.

That's one way
to kick the habit.

Found this in his stomach.
Could be off the killer's cuff.

It's a white button and white thread.
It's pretty generic.

Well, if the killer had him
in a choke hold--
He bit it off trying to escape?

He was being strangled to death.
How would he manage that?

He could still swallow.
Huh?

Look, your garden-variety,
two-handed choke hold
severely compresses the neck...

and prevents oxygen
from reaching the lungs.

Right. If you can't breathe,
you can't swallow.
Right. But this one...

applies just enough pressure
to block venous outflow
from the brain.

Meanwhile, the carotids
are still pumping blood in.

You keep that up
for four or five seconds,
blood floods the brain,

the capillaries start exploding
like popcorn.

Four or five seconds?
Correct.

Somebody knew
what he was doing.

You could pick up
this move a lot of places--
martial-arts training, the military.

- Mm-hmm. Law enforcement.
- Back in the day,
we called it the sleeper hold.

Used it to restrain suspects.

Trouble is, it put some of them
to sleep for good.

Tell me we have an I.D.
Mm-hmm. The vic's name is Brian Teague.
B.C.I. had his prints on file.

I love it when their fingers do the talking.
In Teague's case, they couldn't shut up.

Four collars for
disturbing the peace, one for assault,
another one for resisting arrest.

Well, maybe he just
mouthed off once too often.

It doesn't feel like a street fight to me.
He didn't have any other injuries.

His wallet's missing.
Somebody could have jumped him.
The lab's examining that button.

They told us not to hold our breath
unless we get 'em a suspect
and the shirt off his back.

Okay. So where does that leave us?
With a last known address.

[Man] Sorry to hear about Brian.

Most of the tenants here are students.
Pains in the asses, I can tell you that.

We heard Teague had a rep
for acting up.

No, he was one of the nicer ones.
Always said hello.

Lot of these other kids make like
I'm invisible. My lot in life
to clean up after 'em.

Who's this?
Don't know her name. Seen her
coming and going few times.

Girlfriend, maybe?
I don't get involved.

Hey, no wonder Teague had that
rap sheet. He's been disturbing
the peace fighting for it.

There's a whole bunch
of rally flyers here.

New Yorkers for Peace,
Bring Our Troops Home Now Coalition.

Kid tried to get me to sign a petition.
Did you?

Like I said--
Yeah, I know, you don't get involved.

Hey, incoming messages.
[Beep]

[Woman] Bri, it's Rehana.
I'm here waiting for you.
Where the hell are you?

[Beep]
[Rehana] It's me again.
I'm going home. See you tomorrow.

[Beep]
Rehana? Is that an Indian name?

Sounds Indian to me.
“See you tomorrow."
That protest is today.

[Shouting, indistinct]
We met at a W.T.O. demonstration.

Brian was a chain-smoker.
I was trying to quit.

He was so cute, I couldn't resist.
I bummed a smoke off him.

And one thing
led to another and, uh--

You were boyfriend and girlfriend?

We were more than that.
We were soul mates.

What about yesterday?
Were you two together?

We were at
the Handleton demonstration.

Handleton?
The construction company?

The one making billions in Iraq
and Afghanistan? I mean, that's
the reason why these wars started.

Really? I thought it was 9/11
and 3,000 dead Americans.

Well, where were these demonstrations?
Outside the C.E.O.'s townhouse
on King Street.

How long were you there?
Till about 3:00.

The cops came and cleared us out.
We got separated.

We were supposed to
meet back at the car at 6:00,
but-but Brian never showed.

- The car? The only keys they found
on him were his house keys.
- His parents' car, actually.

I'm gonna call in a BOLO
What kind of car?

It's a black S.U.V. Lexus.

I'm gonna have 'em call Impound
and check repair shops.
Maybe they towed the car.

[Woman] Where were the police?

Too busy protecting
the C.E.O. of Handleton.

We're very sorry for your loss,
Mrs. Teague.

Actually, the murder took place
several hours after the protest.

So the police and the demonstrators
had already left the scene.

Any witnesses?
Uh, any idea what happened?

Not so far. Uh, can you think of
anybody we should talk to?

[Mrs. Teague]
What do you mean?

Well, Mrs. Teague,
your son had a history of,
how should I put it... confrontation?

We taught him to speak his mind,
to stand up for what he believed in.

In a pretty aggressive manner.
Disorderly conduct, assault--

No, no, no. Civil disobedience.
Brian never hurt anyone.

Are you blaming Brian
for what happened?

No. No, not at all. I'm just saying
that maybe somebody took exception.

Somebody he'd tangled
with in the past?

I can't think of anyone.
Honestly.

Well, we think the murder took
place near where he parked the car,

and the killer may have
used it to flee the scene.

So if we could locate your car-

A copy of the registration's
in my study.

I'll be right back.

I'm thinking we oughta
recanvas the crime scene.
Why? What'd we miss?

Well, the girl said the kid was
a heavy smoker. He was found
with an unopened pack.

Oh, you thinkin'
he bought them that day.
Hopefully, in that neighborhood.

I didn't sell this kid any cigarettes.
How can you be so sure?

I told him to get lost.
He was fighting with this other guy.

They were knocking over
all my magazines.
I told them to “Take hike."

To both of them.
Did you get a good look
at the other guy?

Yeah. Sure. He's my mailman.
This is his route. I see him every day.

I wouldn't call it a fight.
What would you call it?

A disagreement.
Okay.

So what was
the disagreement about?

Well, the jerk wants to
rag on America.
It's a free country.

Hey, I fought for
their right to be stupid.

But these kids, you know,
they're blocking all the foot traffic.

I got a 70-pound cart
and a load to deliver.

So what, you told him
to get the hell out of the way?

No. I asked him to step aside
very politely, you know.

And the kid tells me
to go screw myself.

Yeah. That was part of the disagreement.
But it didn't end there.

Look, I tried walking down the block. The kid
followed me, talking all kinds of trash.

I was about to call my supervisor-
So why didn't you?

This cop, you know,
he broke it up.

He was about to let us both go.
But the kid just wouldn't quit.

Before I know it, the cop's shoving
him in the back of his squad car.

For what? For talking back?
No. For giving the cop the bird.

I would've slapped the cuffs
on him too.

I wonder why we didn't find
a record of this arrest
when we pulled Teague's file?

It just happened yesterday.
Maybe he's slow on his paperwork.
Yeah. Maybe.

Maybe he just drove the kid
around the block to scare him
and then let him go.

Uh-huh. Maybe.
Why? You think this cop
choked Teague?

Well, like you said,
this sleeper hold's
an old academy move.

Yeah, and it's been banned since Lindsay
was mayor. I mean, Teague was killed
hours after the cop arrested him.

Okay. So I'm wondering
what happened in between?

We had about
five guys working that rally--
three in plainclothes, two in uniform.

That's all? I mean, we were
talking to one of the protesters.

She made it sound like
the March on Washington.

Yeah, right. A couple a dozen of
these college kids with nothing better
to do. Wish I had that kinda free time.

Hey, the two unis,
they got names?
We got a problem here?

One of them broke up a fight
between one of the protesters
and a mail carrier.

Oh, that. Yeah.
Officer's name is Jeff Dawson.

You know that kid?
What a royal pain in the ass.

Uh, wait. He made it
to the precinct?
All the way to a holding cell.

Wouldn't shut up for a single second,
hollering for a lawyer.

Hey, we didn't see
a record of his arrest.

'Cause I voided it.
Why?

A couple months back,
Dawson detains a few demonstrators.
Forgot to let them use the John.

ACLU filed a lawsuit.

Hey, I didn't want him
working that protest,
just somebody else banged in sick.

- So you cut Teague loose?
- Kid threatened to file
a C.C.R.B. over nothing.

Sol tried to smooth things over.
Even arranged for that little twerp
to get a ride back to his car.

Hope you didn't give
that assignment to Dawson.

I look like an idiot, Detective?
Dawson's head was already full
of steam about letting that kid go.

I sent an R.M.P. to take him back.

What do you want me to say?
You sure you dropped the kid off?

Why would I lie?
Well, to cover for your buddy, Dawson.

Or maybe you're
covering for yourself.

You think I killed him?

No. “A"-- you're too young
to know the choke hold
that killed the kid,

and “B"-- you're too short
to use it even if you did.

And what's “C”? I'm a woman?
I wasn't gonna say that.

You think I shouldn't be a cop?
You old-schoolers are all alike.

All I'm saying is,
maybe you saw what went down.

I wasn't with Jeff. But I know him.
He wouldn't do something like this.

All right. So why don't you
tell us what happened?

I was pulling out,
giving the kid a ride back to the car
Jeff taps on the window, hops in.

We get there. Jeff says he wants
a few minutes alone with the guy

- He say why?
- You know, explain the facts of life.

So, he gets out,
opens the back door, pulls the kid out,
walks him around the corner.

A few minutes later he comes back.
He's laughing.

He says he really messed up
the kid's car.

I think he did
a little bit more than that.

Docket number 49803,
Richard Houck--

[Briscoe]
Jeff Dawson?

Listen, I gotta testify against
a Wail Streeter who made a right on red
on Park Avenue.

You mind if we chat after?
You know what? I'm not sayin'
anything till I talk to my delegate.

- What makes you think we're I.A.?
- Kid filed a complaint, right?

He couldn't.
Oh, so you're not I.A.?

Nope. Homicide.

- This kid's dead?
- Mm-hmm. Somebody
choked him to death.

And as far as we know, you were
the last person to see him alive.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. The only thing
I am guilty of giving that little punk
is a civics lesson.

Okay. You wanna explain that?
I told him somebody was gonna kick
his can if he didn't learn a little respect.

Only somebody beat me to it.
They customized his car.
Customized?

Two slashed tires,
they scratched the driver's side door.
You know what he says to me?

He says, “Oh, my Dad's gonna kill me."
Like he's a little teenager or something.

Man, I couldn't stop laughin'.
Was he pissed.

All right, man. You told your partner
that you scratched that car.

Yeah, sure. I had to save face, right?
What, I went all the way down there
for nothin'?

[Man] Docket number 49804.

Listen, that's my right on red.
Are we cool?

[Briscoe] Go ahead

Well, I don't particularly like him,
but I don't particularly like him
for Teague's murder either.

- He said the kid had two flats?
- Yeah. Two flats, one spare.
The car had to be towed.

Well, we checked Impound
and every garage in the neighborhood.

What about the parents' neighborhood?

What time did he call for the tow?
About 8:30.

How long did it take you to get there?
Fifteen, 20 minutes, tops.

[Briscoe]And he was by himself
Yeah. I offered him a lift.
He wasn't interested.

Said he would just hail a cab.
Did he happen to say
where he was calling from?

Someplace noisy.
Sounded like a bar to me.

Hey, Lennie, Brian Teague's wallet.
Found it under the front seat.

Well, that's one mystery solved.

[Pool Balls Clicking]
You seen this guy around here
in the last few days?

Nah. Not our clientèle.
Try Feluzzi's up the block.
This is yuppie scum.

Look, man, he wasn't slumming.
He may have come in
to use the pay phone.

His car broke down. He needed a tow.
Sorry. Doesn't ring a bell.

Well, he certainly rang my bell.
You saw him?

Well, sure. Cute young guy
got all his own hair and no paunch
walks into a dump like this?

Makes a girl sit up
and take notice.

Did he talk to anybody?

No. Just made his call,
that was it.

So he didn't sit at the bar,
have a couple drinks,
say two words to anybody?

He was on the phone.
I stepped into the ladies' room,
and when I came out, he was gone.

We matched the phone records
from the body shop.

Teague made a call for a tow
from a bar called McNulty's
on Carmine Street.

It's a few blocks away
from the crime scene.

Yeah. It's a dive.
Looks like a vets' hangout.
You know, flags, medals.

What did the patrons have to say?
Nothin'. Only one of 'em even remembered the kid.

And they were a little fuzzy
on the details.

Maybe there's a reason.
The lab lifted some prints
from Teague's wheel rims.

- Ronald Gibbons. Who is he?
- He has one prior-- barroom brawl,
Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

- He's a vet.
- I checked with the army's
personnel command.

Gibbons served five years Special Ops.

He saying I kinked up his car?

Well, tell him he can sue me.
I mean, isn't that what makes
America great?

That's the civil side
of the justice system, Ron.
We deal with the criminal side.

Oh, come on.
Two detectives for what,
a misdemeanor?

For Brian Teague.
You know, the traitor?

What are you guys talking about?
[Green] He's dead

That turns your misdemeanor
into an “A” felony.
Hey, I never even saw the guy.

So you just happen to mess up
his car the night he got killed?

Hey, “France was right."
[Green] What?

That's what the bumper sticker
said-- “France was right."

And that's why you wrecked his ride?
That guy don't know what he's got.

Doesn't appreciate what a lot of
other people have sacrificed so he could
put that stupid sticker on his car.

That's a lovely story, Ron.
But it won't fly.
We did our homework.

You're ex-army.
Airborne, Special Forces.

Trained in hand-to-hand combat.
Meaning what?

- Meaning Brian was killed by somebody
with your particularskill set.
- Yeah?

Now let me tell you
why that doesn't fly.

The day I touched up his car?

That night,
I was 20 feet below Perry Street
putting out an electrical fire.

Ah, look, fellas,
I'm in enough trouble already.

I mean, vodka makes me a lot chattier
than I ought to be, you know?

Really?
I thought it was our good looks
and charming demeanor.

Hey, look, Tina,
you-you know what I think?

I think that somebody came down
pretty hard on you for talking to us.

Listen, this is my neighborhood.

I... I gotta live here.
I mean, these are my friends.

Well, it won't get back to them.
I promise you.
Oh, sure.

Hey. You know that cute kid
who came to the bar that night?
He's dead.

Somebody choked the life out of him.
I know.

We're just trying to
make it right for his family.

Look, if you know anything, please--

The kid comes in, asks for change
for the pay phone, calls for a tow.

I go to the ladies' room,
powder my nose.

When I come out,
he's mixing it up with one of the regulars.

- What do you mean, “mixing it up”?
- Well, you know, yelling and cursing,

saying this guy keyed his car,
slashed his tires.

Is this the guy
Teague had a fight with?

Ronnie Gibbons.
Yeah. Yeah. He was there that night.

But the kid wasn't yelling at Ronnie.
He was yelling at Kenny.

- Kenny? Kenny got a last name?
- Well, I... I just know him as Kenny.

But he usually
drops by the bar around 5:00,
right after he finishes his route.

[Green] His route?
Yeah. He's a mailman.

Look, I told you.
He was blocking my path,
I asked him to move,

we had a few words
and the cop took him away, end of story.

Kenny, we have a witness
who was in the bar that night
He saw you tangle with Teague.

Okay, okay. He came into McNulty's,
and he started in again.

But he's the one that
got in my face, I swear.

[Briscoe] What about?
He said I trashed his car, which was bull.

- That had to have pissed you off.
- He was just talk. Smart-ass kid

- So you let him have it, right?
- Nah. He ran his mouth some more,
and he left.

And that's the last I saw
of that little bastard.

No, it wasn't.
You followed him out of the bar.

After they towed his car,
you caught up with him.
That was the last time you saw him.

I know what it's like.
You had a tough day so you had a few,

and the wrong person
says the wrong thing.

You know, juries go easy
on a guy like you, Kenny.

A working man, a veteran.

This kid, this anti-war protestor,

he picks a fight with you
earlier that day, and now he
walks into your bar.

I think I want to see a lawyer now.

You're gonna need one, Mr. Silva.

The lab says the button and thread
found in the victim's stomach
came off the shirt of a postal worker.

Arrest him.

Docket number 67905--
People v. Patricio Kenneth Silva.

The charge is murder
in the second degree.

- How does the defendant plead?
- Not guilty, Your Honor.

People's position on bail,
Ms. Southerlyn?

- $500,000 bail, Your Honor.
- Mr. Chiles?

My client has no history of
violent behavior, no criminal record,
unlike the man he's accused of killing.

How about a little give,
Ms. Southerlyn?

Mr. Silva is divorced
without any known dependents.

The People consider him
to be a flight risk.

Mr. Silva is a model citizen.

He is an immigrant who served
this country with distinction,

who wouldn't be here now
if he hadn't been goaded beyond
endurance by a young hothead.

Is that an admission of guilt,
counselor?

- Bail is set at $500,000. Next.
- [Gavel Raps]

It sounds to me like Chiles
is exploring the idea
of a self-defense claim.

A trained soldier
against a student activist?
Who's going to buy that?

Well, it's not as far-fetched
as you think. Silva's got a Bronze Star
to go along with a spotless record.

And Teague has a rap sheet
and a history of provoking people.

He challenged a cop on the street,
took on Silva on his own turf.
He was combative, to say the least.

Let's find out if the victim's
as much of an agitator
as the defense will claim.

I'm not saying Brian
was a shrinking violet.

You know, he knew how to
stand up for himself.

But that night in the bar
wasn't the first time
that Silva attacked Brian.

They got into a fight
earlier that day.

A few months ago
at a community board meeting.
I thought you knew.

No, I didn't. What happened?
Silva was pushing the community board
to convince the city council...

they rename a street
in the memory of a soldier
who was killed in Afghanistan.

Brian was dead set against it.
Said it glorified an unjust war.

Silva went ballistic.

Told Brian he was lucky
to be living in the good old U.S.A.

Why was Silva so gung ho
about renaming the street?
Was this soldier someone he knew?

His son.

Teague wasn't even here about
renaming the street. He was just
dropping off an anti-war petition.

What happened?
He got up and made a speech.
It was incredibly insensitive.

He didn't understand the situation.
Which was?

We gave Silva the floor,
let all his friends speak.

Figured, in a way, it could be
our own community tribute to his son.

As for renaming the street,
practically speaking,
that was never gonna happen.

City bureaucracy?
To begin with.

And then there are just so many people
to pay tribute to, the cops and firefighters
from 9/11 at the top of the list.

I figured the least we could do
was to hear a grieving father out.

Everybody gets to say what
a good boy this Silva kid was,

how much he deserves to have
a street named after him?

But then this Teague kid gets up
and starts condemning the war.

People were mortified.
It was so inappropriate.
What did Silva do?

I thought he was gonna
have an aneurysm.

He thinks this kid is attacking
the soldiers and spitting on
the memory of his dead son.

He wasn't?
No. He kept saying
he wanted to bring the troops home.

That they shouldn't have to
die for oil, that kind of stuff.

Which only made matters worse.
Sure. What Kenny heard was this guy
saying his son died for nothing.

Made him crazy. It got ugly.
We had to separate them.

I was just glad his wife was there
to calm him down.

His wife?
Ex-wife.

She spoke, too, about their son.
It was heartbreaking.

Matt was two weeks shy
of coming home,

and his helicopter gets shot down
by a Taliban missile.

Kenny had his heart set on
having a street named after our son
in our neighborhood.

The board president said
it was a long shot at best.
I know.

But I encouraged Kenny anyway.

He's been a shell of himself
since Matt died.

I thought it would give him
something to live for.

He's been depressed?
We both have.

Our only child.

You have no idea
how much it hurts.

I'm sure I don't.

But Kenny even more than me.

They were so close.

Fathers and sons, you know?

I knew it wasn't gonna happen.
But your ex-husband
still blamed Brian Teague.

Twenty people spoke for us
at that meeting.

And that kid,
he gets up and he starts in.

A rich kid who's had everything
in his life handed to him,

and he calls my baby a murderer?

I can certainly understand
why your ex-husband would be bitter.

I think Kenny would have gotten over it.
It was Ronnie who wouldn't let it go.

- Ronnie?
- Kenny's best friend.
Ronnie Gibbons.

My client's already pleaded to
criminal mischief and paid his fine.
What more do you want?

I told the detectives
everything I know.

You never mentioned
your friendship with Kenneth Silva,

the man charged with killing
the driver of the car you vandalized
on the day he was murdered

You lied to the police about
your whereabouts that night.

And your fingerprints
are on the victim's car.

He cooperates?
[McCoy] Full immunity for
his testimony against Mr. Silva.

I can't rat out a friend.

Mr. Gibbons, you're facing
an indictment for murder if you don't.

Ron, you need to consider this.

All right, I keyed the kid's car, okay?
I slashed his tires.

Stupid, but I was pissed.

How did you know it was his car?
Kenny pointed it out.

Said he'd seen the kid pull in
and park earlier that day.

And then, when-when Teague walked
into Mac's, we couldn't believe it.

It was like wavin' a red flag
in front of a bull.

You'd both been drinking.
You were angry.

Guys like Brian Teague
make me sick.

Carrying picket signs in the back
of their daddy's S.U.V.,

calling us murderers,
ragging on the military.

Brian Teague called you
and Mr. Silva murderers?

Not in so many words.
So that isn't what he said?

I knew what he meant.

What happened after
Brian Teague left the bar?

Kenny had another drink,
thought it over...

and decided he needed to have
another word with the kid.

He went after him?

By the time I found him, it was over.

Kenny was just sitting there
on the curb crying his eyes out.

Did he tell you what happened?

All he kept saying was,

“What have I done?
What have I done?"

Oh. Thank you.
Your client's self-defense claim
just went up in smoke, counselor.

We've got him--
lock, stock and eyewitness.

Teague walked into that bar
and tried to provoke my client--
eh, baited him.

An ongoing grudge, an escalating pattern
of intent to harm Brian Teague...

and the use
of a lethal choke hold.

Adds up to murder two to me.

New math-- he'll take man one.

Not interested.

Well, you're forcing my hand then, Jack.

We'll be asserting
an E.E.D. defense at trial.

Come on.
Extreme emotional disturbance?

Teague got right up into Kenny Silva's
face and trashed everything that
that man believes in,

everything that his son
sacrificed his life for.

If he had attacked him in the bar
in the heat of the argument, maybe.

But your client had time
to think it over, have another drink.

Instead of staying on his barstool
or going home,

he chose to follow the victim outside
and reignite the altercation.

He snapped.
Kenny Silva didn't snap.
He made a choice.

You can't imagine the father
reacting out of grief and anger, Jack?

Why not drop it down
to manslaughter?

There's no extreme emotional
defense here. Silva pursued
Brian Teague, Arthur

He made it murder two
when he walked out of that bar...

a full 20 minutes
after Brian Teague left.

Oh, still, a sleeper hold.

Way I understand it,
it's meant to subdue someone,
not necessarily to kill them.

I mean, things backfired.
A good man went too far.

Believe me, I'm not thrilled at having
to prosecute a decorated veteran.

Well, Chiles will make murder two
a tough sell to a jury.

What are you worried about, Arthur?

Man one will be included
in the final charges,
if the judge buys the E.E.D.

So it's win-win?

And you're set on murder two?

We have to draw the line somewhere.

We do-- every time
we indict someone.

Brian didn't even know
who Matt Silva was.

He just-- he just felt
that naming a street
after a soldier, any soldier,

was-was endorsing
a completely unjust war.

You were at
the community board meeting.

Did Brian Teague ever verbally assault
Mr. Silva or his son?
No.

Did he ever mention Mr. Silva
or his son by name?

No!
Did he ever say anything derogatory about
the men and women in our armed forces?

No.

Nothing further.

Brian was against the war,
not soldiers.

Exactly.
I mean, you hear that a lot.

That's what people say.
That's the truth.

Is it? Or is it just what we've
learned to say after Vietnam?

I was born after Vietnam.

Uh-huh. Do you know
anyone in the military?

No.
Did Brian?

- Not that I know of.
- The all-volunteer army.

People like you and Brian
don't have to serve in the military
these days, do you?

- Objection. Relevance?
- I'll allow it. But let's not
dwell on this, counselor.

You don't have to serve.

We wouldn't, even if we did.
We're pacifists.

Ah. Easy to be
when you have other options.

Your Honor?
Withdrawn. Six months ago,
Brian Teague,

this committed pacifist,
was charged with assault.

The W.T.O. rally?
No, the security guard attacked him first.
Brian was just defending himself.

Four months ago, resisting arrest.

- For swearing at a police officer.
- And would it be flair to say, Miss Khemlani,

that Brian Teague
was not only a pacifist,

but he was a militant,
dedicated activist?

Brian was just trying
to have an effect.

And he was good at
pushing people's buttons,
getting them all riled up.

Sometimes you just
have to make a lot of noise
to get people to listen.

Did Brian Teague seriously think
that Kenneth Silva would listen to him...

after he desecrated
the legacy of his son?

Someone said
"What's the matter, kid, car trouble?”

They were all kinda laughin' at him,
snickerin', you know?

Well, that's when he got really mad.

Called Kenny a coward and gave him
the finger as he stomped out.

How did Kenny Silva react?
Did he follow him out of the bar?

He, uh, cursed him,
had another drink.

I see. When did Kenny Silva
leave the bar that night?

About 15, 20 minutes later.

Did he say why he was leaving?

He said he was gonna go
straighten him out.

Brian Teague?
Yeah.

You know Kenny Silva.

- [Sighs]
- How upset was he after his encounter
with Brian Teague?

Oh, I thought he was gonna
have a heart attack. It was awful.

Did anyone try to calm him down?
Well, sure. We all did.

But he just kept getting
more and more agitated

When he left, how did he seem?
Calm? Under control?

[Sighs] Hardly.

He was shaking all over
he was so upset.
I mean, the guy was a wreck.

[Chiles]
Thank you.

Matt was 10 when Kenny
got sent to the Gulf.

He kept a toy soldier by his bed.
He watched the news every night.

He was so proud of his dad.
He wanted to be just like him.

Did your husband change
after the death of your son?

He got very depressed, withdrawn.

He wasn't the man I married

[Chiles] Is that why you divorced him?

We fought all the time... over Matt.

[Chiles] Take your time.

Thank you.

I didn't want my son to enlist.

He got good grades.
He played sports.

He could've been the first one
in our family to go to college.

- What did his father want?
- Kenny wanted him to go.

He said the army would pay for college.

I told him he could get a scholarship.

What did Matt want?

[Sighs] To be a soldier, like his dad.

[Chiles] Did you blame your husband
for Matt's death?

But not as much as he blamed himself.

Thank you, Mrs. Silva.

Losing a child.

Nothing harder.

[Mrs. Silva] No.

Your ex-husband was depressed
Yes.

Very.
Understandable.

Did he start drinking more heavily?
No.

Using drugs?
No.

Did he ever strike you?

Use violence against you?
Lose his temper?

Kenny? No.

Did he lose his job?
Oh, no.

Kenny went to work every day.

He worked even harder.

Holidays, overtime.

He threw himself into his work?

Yes.
He coped

Of course.

Sounds like a strong man.

Yes.

A hero.

He is.

I came with nothing
to this country.

No money. No education.
I didn't know anybody.

I didn't even know
how to speak English.

The army gave me everything,

an education, a career.

I love this country,
and I raised my son to love it too.

And when he died...

We've heard testimony
from your therapist
that you were depressed.

He put me on some pills.
Uh, serotonin something.

Did they help?
I stopped taking them. I didn't like
the way they made me feel.

I just didn't feel like myself.

Why did you leave the bar
that night?

I wish to God I hadn't.
But you did

Did you intend to hurt Brian Teague?

I... I just wanted to tell him something,
but he wouldn't listen.

He just kept saying.

“You're thugs. You're animals.
You and your son."

That night was not the first time
you and Brian Teague had words.

No.

The difference being
that this time, outside the bar,

you had him all to yourself.

I did not plan it like that.
It just happened.

It just happened that you waited
20 minutes to go after him?

It just happened...

that you waited
for the tow truck to leave?

It just happened that you
grabbed him around the throat?

I was talking to him,
and he turned his back on me
and started to walk away.

You got him in a lethal choke hold.
He passed out and died within seconds.

I didn't mean to.

It just happened so fast. I...

I just wanted him to say he was sorry
for what he said about my son.

Nothing further.

No redirect.
The defense rests, Your Honor.

The witness is excused.

[McCoy] May we approach, Your Honor?
Step up.

For the record, Your Honor,
there is insufficient evidence
of extreme emotional disturbance.

You can't let the lesser charge
go to the jury.

Contrary to my colleague's
narrow reading of the law,
we think we've made our case.

We request that you
instruct the jury to consider
the affirmative defense of E.E.D...

and give them the option
of finding my client guilty
of the lesser manslaughter charge.

I'm inclined to agree with you,
counselor.

I think there's been enough testimony
for the jury to consider E.E.D.

Your Honor...
We'll adjourn for the day.

Summations first thing tomorrow.
Court is adjourned.

[Gavel Raps]
[Chiles] Thank you, Your Honor.

If Matt Silva had lived,
he'd be 23 years old,

the same age as Brian Teague.

But Brian Teague was nothing
like Matt Silva.

Brian Teague knew nothing
of service and sacrifice.

Brian Teague let others
bear that burden for him,

and then he would insult
and belittle them for it.

That night.

Kenny Silva was virtually
beside himself...

with grief and loss and anger.

And he lashed out at his tormentor.

This was not some heinous,
premeditated murder.

This was a momentary lapse
by a grieving father,

a decorated war hero,

a grateful citizen
of his adopted country...

who is counting on you,
his fellow citizens,

to show him that our system
is not only just,

but merciful.

Mr. Silva's lawyer...

wants you to believe that his client
lost control that night.

The evidence does not bear him out.

Mr. Silva's actions were
too deliberate, too controlled.

The very qualities that made him
a good soldier put to murderous use.

In fact,

Kenneth Silva used his military training...

to strangle to death a young man
he thought had insulted him.

The truth of the matter is...

that Kenneth Silva bore a grudge
against Brian Teague.

And it was that grudge,

not his despair,
not his grief, not his anger,

that made him put down his beer
and make the hard,

cold, brutal decision
to walk out of that bar...

and confront Brian Teague...

out of the light,

away from witnesses,

where Brian Teague was alone...

and defenseless.

[Judge] Ladies and gentlemen,
have you reached a verdict?

We have.

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

We find the defendant,
Kenneth Silva, not guilty.

On the second count of the indictment,
manslaughter in the first degree,
how do you find?

We cannot reach a verdict,
Your Honor. We've tried.

Chambers, Your Honor, please.

The defendant's admitted
the underlying acts.

The jury should be instructed
to deliberate further, Your Honor.

The jury cannot reach a verdict,
Your Honor. It's time to declare
a mistrial

I'm not prepared
to do that yet, counselor.

I'll enter the acquittal on the murder
and give them an Allen charge.

That's inappropriate, Your Honor.
Don't get greedy, Mr. Chiles.

You already have your acquittal
on murder two.

Members of the jury,
I'm going to ask that
you continue your deliberations.

It is your duty to agree
upon a verdict if you can.

Of course,
no juror should reel compelled to abandon
any conscientiously held beliefs.

On the other hand,

if a substantial majority of your number
are in favor of a conviction,

those of you who disagree
should reconsider whether
your doubt is, in fact,

a reasonable one.
[Gavel Raps]

I thought the Allen charge
would break the stalemate.

It must be some hard-core deadlock.

They're polarized just like
everyone else in the country.

Chiles has them debating the war
instead of the murder of Brian Teague.

Six hours. Another two
and it'll be tune in tomorrow.

I wish I knew what they were stuck on.
Maybe I'll go nose around.

Haven't heard a word. Sorry.

Trying to find out which way
the wind is blowing?
Not at all.

Me too. Worried?
Not particularly.

I'm thinking hung jury.
We'll retry the case.

Maybe even acquittal.
Jury nullification? You're dreaming.

The hardheads,
they'll come around.

Indeed they will. My way.
Mine.

Have you reached a verdict?
[Foreman] No, Your Honor.

- Are you sure that no further
deliberation would break the logjam?
- We're deadlocked, Your Honor.

I have no choice
but to declare a mistrial

The jury is dismissed
[Gavel Raps]

No surprise the jury hung.
We'll try him again.

Your problem was
too many blue-collar jurors.
They identified with Kenneth Silva.

How do you know
who the holdouts were?

The people who escape jury duty?
Same people who escape active duty.

[Howling]