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In the criminal justice system
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,
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the police who investigate crime
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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Anna's got a new man,
a gringo banker.
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Don't tell me
she dumped Enrique!
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That was three boyfriends ago.
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She said the sex
always gets boring.
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Since when is that a reason
to break up with someone?
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She's a passionate girl.
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She's a sucia. A total puta.
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Oh, how I envy her.
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0:08 mio!
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DOA checked in alone
around midnight.
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No luggage.
Paid one night in cash.
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Didn't make or receive
phone calls.
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Neighbors hear any noise?
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Nothing.
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Kept things nice and tidy.
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Thirteen bucks.
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Hey.
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What the hell is this?
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"Tah-dig"? "Too-dig"? "Tay..."
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It's pronounced "Teague."
It's Gaelic for Timothy.
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I knew a Tadhg in high school.
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He threatened me when
I went out with his sister.
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Let's have a look.
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Temp's 88. He's been
dead about seven hours.
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Looks like he had himself
a little party.
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Is there any chance
this was an accident?
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Hard to tell, not knowing what
or how much was in the vials.
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But the goodbye note
there says otherwise.
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"Now more than ever
seems it rich to die,"
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"to cease upon the
midnight with no pain."
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It's signed Tadhg, but it
was written by John Keats.
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I happen to know
my Romantic poetry.
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Doesn't all of this
seem strange to you?
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A guy is about to kill himself,
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but he keeps things very
orderly and he quotes poetry?
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Yeah, but he could be just
a well-versed neat freak.
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Maybe. But how many well-versed
neat freaks do you know
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that spell their own name wrong?
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Hmm.
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His tank was close to full
on alcohol and alprazolam,
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but he drowned before the
narcotic was fully absorbed.
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The drugs put him to sleep,
and then he slid under water?
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Or someone helped him. I found
skin scrapings under a fingernail.
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And take a look.
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Are those bruises? I didn't see
that when he was in the tub.
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Abraded areas like this only
appear after the skin dries out.
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Someone could have forced
him to take the plunge.
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There wasn't much
evidence of a struggle.
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Maybe that same someone
cleaned up the scene?
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It doesn't even look
like Tadhg's handwriting.
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I don't know. It's hard to say.
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Do you know of anybody
that would want to harm him?
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No.
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Do you know...
Did he have a girlfriend?
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None I'd heard of.
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He played the field.
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Look, my brother had a mouth that
would get him a punch in a bar.
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But someone phonying
up a suicide?
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Maybe it was the article
he was working on.
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He was a journalist.
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Did he say what
the article was about?
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I didn't ask. And he knew telling
me would get him an earful.
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Earful for what?
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Being reckless.
Going places he shouldn't.
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He'd put his head in a
lion's mouth to get a story.
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Ma, go lie down.
I'll bring you some tea.
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Did you know where
your brother worked?
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Oh, he bounced around freelance,
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but the last I heard,
the Voice of the City.
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Past year, he'd been on
an expose on gun dealers.
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Thought it was gonna be his big
insider, win him a Pulitzer.
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How did that work out?
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First draft read like a
cheap conspiracy theory.
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I told him so. He blew up.
Accused me of taking payoffs.
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Do you know that he received any
threats because of that stuff?
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None he told me about. Doesn't
mean it didn't happen.
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Had he been threatened before?
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He'd get angry calls from
rappers to city councilmen.
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He liked to piss people off.
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Well, did he piss off
anybody in particular?
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Ah, no one I'd aim you to. In the
past, Tadhg did hard-hitting stuff,
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from toxic waste to dirty cops.
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But recently, it's been missed deadlines
and failing to corroborate facts.
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Is that what got him fired?
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Uh, bending some girl over
his desk at lunch did that.
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Oh, man.
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Well, that sounds
pretty erratic.
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Yeah, he was
a talented kid. Sharp.
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But he could go too far with a
story, an interview, personally.
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You just couldn't live
with the mood swings.
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But he did say he was gonna pursue
the gun story somewhere else.
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Probably wound up
on someone's bad side.
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Who was his main source
on that story?
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Talk to Mike Wells at
Citizens Against Guns.
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Thanks a lot.
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Tadhg might've been
a little eccentric,
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but his story had a chance of
getting guns off the street.
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HOW?
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He was investigating a
salesman named Alfred Biso.
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Biso had taken delivery
of 500 cheap guns
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from a bargain manufacturer
in Nevada recently,
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and promptly reported
463 of them stolen.
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Tadhg figured Biso lied
about the robbery
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so he could sell the guns black
market at a better price.
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Could he prove any of that?
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He tracked those guns to dozens of
shootings in Philly and New York.
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You know if he ever
interviewed Biso?
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He was going to, alone. Not
something I would've done.
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Do you have any idea where
we can find this guy?
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Tadhg left a box of
his research in my office.
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You're free to dig through it.
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Police! Get down! Get down!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
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UP, up, up! Against the wall!
Against the wall!
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Quite an arsenal
you got there, Biso.
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Those are all legally
purchased firearms.
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What are you two ladies doing
here, Christmas shopping?
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Come on, let's go.
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I understand, from a certain perspective,
all those guns doesn't look good.
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It doesn't look good? The kids you
were selling to were barely 16.
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Is that what happened? Tadhg Ruane found
out who you were selling guns to?
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Who now? Tadhg Ruane.
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The journalist. Did he confront
you about selling guns?
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This is Tadhg's notebook.
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"4:30, Wednesday, Tompkins
Square Park. Biso."
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Unless there's some other Biso.
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Dude was a journalist?
That nutcase?
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What you mean, "nutcase"?
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Talked a mile a minute about any damn
thing. Sports, food, getting laid.
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And he was recommended
by a legit guy.
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Recommended to you for what?
What did he need from you?
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Said it's urgent, he needs a gun
'cause someone was after him.
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Said he found a guy in
his closet. Crazy talk.
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But you made the deal anyway?
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He had the cash.
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Did you get him a gun?
He didn't show up to get it.
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When was that supposed
to happen?
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Early yesterday, Tompkins
Square Park again.
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So it wasn't two nights ago, around
midnight at the Athena Hotel?
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No.
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See, we think you met him at that
hotel, you put a gun to his head,
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you made him swallow some pills,
and then you drowned him.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa...
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No, no, no. Come on, man, you
had every reason to do it.
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He was about to expose your
dirty little business deal.
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I had no idea he was a reporter.
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Look, bro, you sell guns to kids.
That's serious enough.
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You add murder to that...
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Dude carried a bottle
of booze in his pocket,
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he took a leak in
a trash can at the park.
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In the middle of the damn park!
What reporter does that?
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Biso's handwriting does
not fit the suicide note.
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Latent get prints off the note?
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A partial, but it was too smudged
for any kind of a match.
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Did the M.E. call back on the
skin under the DOA's nail?
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Barely enough to test from, and it
could be the victim's own skin.
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He scratched himself?
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Well, the DOA did have scratches
that could be the source.
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But it's not conclusive.
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Biso come up with an alibi
on the time of death?
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He said he was smoking
pot in his apartment,
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and believe it or not,
his neighbors confirmed it.
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Look, are we chasing our
tail on this gun angle?
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We did get a lot of
guns off the street.
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Yeah, but it sounds like this
DOA was pretty unstable.
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Do we even have a murder?
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The Medical Examiner says that
the bruises on his shoulder
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are consistent with someone
holding him underwater.
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Hey, check this out. I'm digging
through Tadhg's research, right?
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Now, the handwriting on that
suicide note looks like it matches
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the handwriting on these love
notes I found in his notebook,
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and they're all signed "A.B."
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On his cell phone, there are
calls to an Angela Burkett.
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Go talk to her.
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I slipped it in his coat pocket as
he was leaving for work last week.
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I wanted him to know that even
in darkness there's beauty.
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Why'd you sign his name to it?
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Because I saw it as his portrait.
Dark, but beautiful.
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Can you account for
yourself on the night he died?
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You think I... I murdered Tadhg?
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Were you anywhere near
the Athena Hotel?
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I was with a girlfriend
in Williamsburg.
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If you wouldn't mind giving
us her contact info?
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If you want my opinion,
no one murdered Tadhg.
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He was a beautiful madman
and a brilliant writer,
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but he suffered from
horrible depression.
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We heard he was eccentric,
nothing about depressed.
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I was with him two years.
I think I'd know.
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And you think he was suicidal?
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He suffered from
dysphoric mania.
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It's a mental illness with
extreme high-low states.
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You mean, like bipolar?
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Like one day he would
want to marry me
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and buy a house with
a yard and a puppy,
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and the next day
he wouldn't speak to me.
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He was sick. You need to
speak with his psychiatrist.
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Angela sent you to me?
That's surprising.
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Why would you say that, Doctor?
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I shouldn't be talking to
you without a subpoena,
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but I'd lay Tadhg's death
at her doorstep.
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She says he had dysphoric mania.
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Crippling sadness, irritability,
euphoria, paranoia, promiscuity.
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Did you see his tox
screen when he died?
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Yeah, he had a whole
lot of tranquilizers.
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But no SSRls or anti-psychotics.
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It's because a couple of months
ago, Angela convinced him
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that he'd be cured
with herbs and exercise.
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And you weren't
buying into that.
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Or Angela's motives.
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Just before she convinced
him to quit the meds,
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he'd confessed cheating on
her and fathering a son.
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Did he say how Angela reacted?
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Threatened the other woman.
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And that other woman,
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did he happen to mention her
name while he was in therapy?
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Sarah Ridell.
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She showed up at my door
one night a few months ago.
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Said Tadhg was having problems and
it was best if I just stayed away.
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Angela wanted to cut off contact
between Tadhg and his son?
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More like Tadhg and me.
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But I wasn't about to let Tadhg see
Sean alone, so, effectively, yeah.
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Why wouldn't you let
Tadhg alone with Sean?
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He was so unpredictable. You never
knew which Tadhg would show up.
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When Angela came to your apartment, did
you feel that she was threatening you?
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The point got across.
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Did you tell Tadhg about that?
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I mentioned it.
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Were you two in contact a lot?
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Just sometimes. Not like he
was around to be a father.
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Nothing like that.
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So how often did you see him?
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When he'd call.
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You mean to hook up?
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When was the last time?
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The day before he died.
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We got a drink and
went back to my place.
241
00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,240
It was all good until we'd
finished, and then he freaked out.
242
00:12:05,750 --> 00:12:07,050
What do you mean by that?
243
00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,060
He went nuts, started
blubbering like a baby.
244
00:12:10,290 --> 00:12:12,730
Do you know
what that was all about?
245
00:12:12,790 --> 00:12:16,420
He said when Angela found out
we did it, he was a dead man.
246
00:12:17,370 --> 00:12:19,800
He didn't look like he was
killed in a jealous rage.
247
00:12:19,870 --> 00:12:21,460
Angela was with
the guy for two years.
248
00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:23,200
She knew all of his weaknesses.
249
00:12:23,270 --> 00:12:25,670
So, what, she took
her time, set him up?
250
00:12:25,740 --> 00:12:26,970
As susceptible as he was,
251
00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,740
unemployed, off his
medication, in despair,
252
00:12:29,810 --> 00:12:33,610
it wouldn't be hard to lube the guy with
booze and pills and drown the poor bastard.
253
00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:36,170
We checked the LUDs on Angela's
place the night of the murder.
254
00:12:36,250 --> 00:12:38,080
There were no calls
to or from the hotel.
255
00:12:38,150 --> 00:12:39,810
But an hour before
Tadhg checked in,
256
00:12:39,890 --> 00:12:41,300
she got a call from
the White Horse Tavern,
257
00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,520
which is right around the
corner from Tadhg's apartment.
258
00:12:43,790 --> 00:12:47,160
Well, didn't Angela have an alibi?
Some friend in Williamsburg?
259
00:12:47,230 --> 00:12:50,140
She couldn't be reached. The super said
she just left for the Peace Corps.
260
00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:51,560
She's lying.
261
00:12:52,330 --> 00:12:53,960
Go to the tavern.
262
00:12:55,270 --> 00:12:57,430
Tadhg Ruane? He was a regular.
263
00:12:58,110 --> 00:13:01,080
Did a self-portrait
right there on the wall.
264
00:13:01,510 --> 00:13:03,480
Was he in here three nights ago?
265
00:13:03,540 --> 00:13:06,280
Yeah, he was. Posted up
right there on that stool,
266
00:13:06,350 --> 00:13:07,910
talking some trash
about the Knicks.
267
00:13:07,980 --> 00:13:09,920
Hey, how was his behavior?
268
00:13:09,980 --> 00:13:12,040
Uh, real low-key. Real calm.
269
00:13:13,620 --> 00:13:15,660
Doesn't sound like the guy
we've been hearing about.
270
00:13:15,690 --> 00:13:19,680
Generally, he's loony tunes. I'd
never seen him so laid back.
271
00:13:20,460 --> 00:13:22,620
Hey, do you know if he used
that payphone over there?
272
00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:24,760
Yeah, he did, but I don't
know who he called.
273
00:13:24,830 --> 00:13:26,270
Do you know what
time he left about?
274
00:13:26,330 --> 00:13:28,060
- Around 11:00.
- You know where he went?
275
00:13:28,140 --> 00:13:29,370
No clue.
276
00:13:30,340 --> 00:13:31,860
You could ask the
limo driver, though.
277
00:13:31,940 --> 00:13:33,910
He took a limo? LIRIANO:
Asked me to call him one.
278
00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:36,440
Said tonight he wanted
to ride in style.
279
00:13:36,510 --> 00:13:37,740
You got the number?
280
00:13:37,810 --> 00:13:39,640
Yeah. I got the number
right here.
281
00:13:43,020 --> 00:13:45,560
His limo driver dropped him right
outside and watched him walk in,
282
00:13:45,590 --> 00:13:47,550
so he was definitely here.
283
00:13:47,620 --> 00:13:49,090
I'm sorry, I don't remember him.
284
00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,770
Listen, this might've been this guy's
last stop before he was murdered,
285
00:13:51,790 --> 00:13:54,730
so if you wouldn't mind
taking a closer look...
286
00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,960
If it's the same guy, he may be the one
that met up with one of my regulars.
287
00:13:59,030 --> 00:14:00,300
Who was that?
288
00:14:00,370 --> 00:14:01,530
Angie.
289
00:14:01,740 --> 00:14:03,500
Angela Burkett? Yeah.
290
00:14:03,910 --> 00:14:05,030
Did she fill a prescription?
291
00:14:06,970 --> 00:14:10,810
Listen, for your information, confidentiality
laws do not apply to pharmacists.
292
00:14:11,580 --> 00:14:12,640
I'm well aware they do.
293
00:14:12,710 --> 00:14:15,290
Well, then you're well aware that
we'll go get a subpoena, come back,
294
00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,040
close this joint down for three days
and go through all your records.
295
00:14:18,250 --> 00:14:20,050
What's your pleasure?
296
00:14:25,390 --> 00:14:26,830
Last two months
she filled a few.
297
00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:28,360
What were they for?
298
00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:30,960
Alprazolam.
299
00:14:32,170 --> 00:14:34,160
Are you sure they were
my pills he took?
300
00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,000
We're sure.
301
00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,000
Well, I keep them
in my nightstand.
302
00:14:40,070 --> 00:14:42,570
He must've taken them
without me knowing.
303
00:14:43,340 --> 00:14:45,870
You mind telling us why you've
been stockpiling so many pills?
304
00:14:46,910 --> 00:14:48,110
What do you mean?
305
00:14:48,180 --> 00:14:50,620
Your phone records indicate
calls to four psychiatrists
306
00:14:50,690 --> 00:14:52,120
over the past couple of months.
307
00:14:53,590 --> 00:14:55,850
I was trying to find
a new doctor for Tadhg.
308
00:14:56,290 --> 00:14:59,520
Well, we think that you were getting him
all the right prescriptions for downers.
309
00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:02,320
You don't know that.
310
00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,420
We'll know soon enough. We're
gonna subpoena all their records.
311
00:15:07,030 --> 00:15:10,000
When did you find out Tadhg was
sleeping with his son's mom again?
312
00:15:11,540 --> 00:15:12,600
I didn't know.
313
00:15:12,670 --> 00:15:14,950
You didn't know that he slept
with her the day before he died?
314
00:15:14,980 --> 00:15:16,600
No, I didn't know.
315
00:15:16,940 --> 00:15:18,570
And I wouldn't have cared.
316
00:15:18,650 --> 00:15:20,710
When did you get
the enlightened attitude?
317
00:15:20,780 --> 00:15:24,100
We know for a fact that you threatened her
to back off Tadhg a couple of months ago.
318
00:15:25,350 --> 00:15:30,020
No, I told her that Tadhg needed to
simplify his life. I can't believe this.
319
00:15:30,090 --> 00:15:31,920
Oh, God, stop lying.
320
00:15:32,260 --> 00:15:35,040
He was screwing around, and that pissed
you off. That's a natural reaction.
321
00:15:35,060 --> 00:15:38,860
Screwing around is a symptom of his
illness. It doesn't mean anything.
322
00:15:38,930 --> 00:15:41,900
Oh, come on! He had a kid
with another woman.
323
00:15:42,340 --> 00:15:45,360
You're the scorned woman.
You got revenge. Admit it!
324
00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,740
No, Tadhg needed my help. He wanted to die.
All I did was help him!
325
00:15:54,150 --> 00:15:55,880
You helped him die?
326
00:16:00,220 --> 00:16:03,120
L think I need to speak
with an attorney now.
327
00:16:11,330 --> 00:16:13,890
She helped him die. She's
going to plead not guilty?
328
00:16:13,970 --> 00:16:17,800
Or her fallback will be assisted suicide.
Either way, it's man two.
329
00:16:17,870 --> 00:16:19,240
Why not murder two?
330
00:16:19,310 --> 00:16:22,300
How will we convict her for murder?
There's evidence he was suicidal.
331
00:16:22,380 --> 00:16:25,180
He suffered depression. That's
no reason to put him to death.
332
00:16:25,250 --> 00:16:27,040
Of course not,
but if he wanted to die,
333
00:16:27,110 --> 00:16:29,240
should she do 25-to-life
for helping?
334
00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:30,580
He was held underwater.
335
00:16:30,650 --> 00:16:33,660
He had a gut full of pills. There's no
evidence she shoved them down his throat.
336
00:16:33,690 --> 00:16:37,490
She was aware of his promiscuity
and she wrote his suicide note.
337
00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,320
That's staging the crime scene,
which is consciousness of guilt.
338
00:16:41,260 --> 00:16:43,160
I will write the indictment
for murder two,
339
00:16:43,230 --> 00:16:46,930
but I'm sure her lawyer's going to
have something to say about it.
340
00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:50,400
Tadhg was violently
depressed, suicidal.
341
00:16:50,470 --> 00:16:54,370
He had tried every kind of therapy,
every drug. Nothing helped.
342
00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:59,040
He begged Angela to help him die.
This was not murder.
343
00:16:59,950 --> 00:17:02,280
Why did she pen
his suicide note?
344
00:17:02,850 --> 00:17:05,410
After he took the pills,
his hands were shaking
345
00:17:05,490 --> 00:17:06,890
and he asked me to write it.
346
00:17:07,490 --> 00:17:09,550
How about the bruises
on his shoulders?
347
00:17:09,990 --> 00:17:13,190
I don't know anything about
the bruises on his shoulders.
348
00:17:13,260 --> 00:17:16,360
He was out drinking earlier.
Maybe he got into a fight.
349
00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:20,730
So she simply assisted his suicide?
That's your contention?
350
00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,800
I was trying to free
him from his pain.
351
00:17:23,870 --> 00:17:27,400
Except that he didn't have
bone cancer or advanced AIDS.
352
00:17:28,110 --> 00:17:31,340
Even Kevorkian limited himself
to terminally ill patients.
353
00:17:31,410 --> 00:17:35,040
Mental illness can be every bit
as painful and intractable.
354
00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:38,550
So why did you tell him to
stop taking his medication?
355
00:17:38,820 --> 00:17:42,590
Because it wasn't working.
It made him more miserable.
356
00:17:43,220 --> 00:17:46,220
A jury will understand
this was a merciful act.
357
00:17:46,290 --> 00:17:49,060
Drowning a drunk,
sedated man is merciful?
358
00:17:51,770 --> 00:17:56,330
My client might be willing to plead
to man two, assisted suicide,
359
00:17:56,670 --> 00:17:57,870
if she stays out of prison.
360
00:17:58,440 --> 00:17:59,500
No deal.
361
00:18:00,540 --> 00:18:01,600
Then what are you after?
362
00:18:03,510 --> 00:18:05,100
Man two, 15 years.
363
00:18:05,580 --> 00:18:08,160
All right. I was hoping that we could
resolve this thing rationally,
364
00:18:08,180 --> 00:18:14,350
but apparently we can't, so here's
our reciprocal discovery. Let's go.
365
00:18:23,660 --> 00:18:26,070
My name is Tadhg Ruane.
366
00:18:27,870 --> 00:18:30,270
I'm of sound body and mind.
367
00:18:31,410 --> 00:18:34,170
And I'm making this,
uh, this recording
368
00:18:35,310 --> 00:18:38,750
because I'm just tired.
369
00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:42,780
I'm tired of the pain.
370
00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:46,550
I'm tired of living.
371
00:18:48,190 --> 00:18:49,660
I'm sorry, Ma.
372
00:18:51,030 --> 00:18:53,120
Just can't do it anymore.
373
00:18:55,830 --> 00:18:58,030
Please understand that.
374
00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:01,230
I want to.
375
00:19:04,870 --> 00:19:07,200
I need to, uh...
376
00:19:10,180 --> 00:19:11,510
I need to die.
377
00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:52,850
Makes it hard to prove murder.
378
00:19:53,690 --> 00:19:56,490
What happened after the
camera was turned off?
379
00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,990
I think Angela helped him commit suicide.
But she didn't pull a trigger.
380
00:20:01,630 --> 00:20:04,600
I don't buy her explanation
for the bruises on his neck.
381
00:20:04,670 --> 00:20:06,660
I say it's evidence
Tadhg changed his mind.
382
00:20:07,270 --> 00:20:09,100
We can't rest the case
on some bruises.
383
00:20:09,170 --> 00:20:13,040
They're an element. We'll argue
that Tadhg was mentally ill
384
00:20:13,110 --> 00:20:17,010
and not in his right mind to decide
whether or not he could commit suicide.
385
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:21,140
I differentiate Tadhg as mentally
ill, not mentally incompetent.
386
00:20:22,020 --> 00:20:24,540
That's kind of a nice
distinction for you, isn't it?
387
00:20:24,620 --> 00:20:27,110
I thought where you came
from, suicide was suicide.
388
00:20:27,460 --> 00:20:32,790
It is, but you can't fault a man for
something that he has no control over.
389
00:20:32,860 --> 00:20:36,890
Exactly. A person with Tadhg's mental
illness who wants to commit suicide
390
00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,430
is mentally incompetent.
391
00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:41,400
A fact that she took advantage
of for her own purposes
392
00:20:41,470 --> 00:20:45,340
and may even have engineered by encouraging
him to stop taking his medication.
393
00:20:45,410 --> 00:20:47,430
Assisting his death is murder.
394
00:20:54,780 --> 00:20:56,480
The cause of death was drowning.
395
00:20:56,550 --> 00:20:59,040
So he was alive
prior to going underwater?
396
00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:01,490
Yes. The post-mortem
buoyancy tests of his lungs
397
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,490
indicate he was sucking in,
trying to breathe.
398
00:21:04,130 --> 00:21:06,490
People's exhibit two,
Your Honor.
399
00:21:07,390 --> 00:21:08,920
Can you tell us
what you see here?
400
00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:12,420
Bruises on the
victim's shoulders.
401
00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:15,500
In your opinion,
how did they get there?
402
00:21:15,570 --> 00:21:18,300
They are consistent with someone
grabbing the victim from above
403
00:21:18,370 --> 00:21:19,930
and forcing him underwater.
404
00:21:20,780 --> 00:21:22,330
Nothing further, Your Honor.
405
00:21:23,210 --> 00:21:27,650
Ms. Rodgers, your report
said that Tadhg Ruane ingested
406
00:21:28,050 --> 00:21:31,710
over 1,000 milligrams of
alprazolam, is that correct?
407
00:21:31,790 --> 00:21:32,810
Yes.
408
00:21:32,890 --> 00:21:35,860
So, if he hadn't drowned,
he would've died anyway?
409
00:21:36,790 --> 00:21:39,090
Unless someone
intervened in time.
410
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,720
But if nobody did,
411
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,990
and he had taken a walk, or
been alone, he would've died?
412
00:21:44,060 --> 00:21:45,160
Yes.
413
00:21:45,230 --> 00:21:47,260
Now these bruises
in exhibit two,
414
00:21:47,330 --> 00:21:51,290
your report states that they
happened within minutes of death?
415
00:21:51,610 --> 00:21:52,730
Yes.
416
00:21:52,810 --> 00:21:57,210
But isn't it possible that the
bruises were inflicted post-mortem,
417
00:21:58,310 --> 00:22:00,780
when the body was
moved from the tub?
418
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,390
Given their location,
it's unlikely.
419
00:22:04,950 --> 00:22:06,280
But it's possible?
420
00:22:07,250 --> 00:22:08,310
Yes.
421
00:22:09,090 --> 00:22:10,350
Thank you.
422
00:22:14,460 --> 00:22:17,290
Those with dysphoric mania
typically cycle rapidly
423
00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:19,830
between very depressed
and very manic.
424
00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:23,030
During this cycling, did Tadhg
ever say he wanted to die?
425
00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:26,230
Once or twice, but more often
he said he wanted to live.
426
00:22:26,310 --> 00:22:30,210
Are you aware of any prior suicide
attempts by the victim, Doctor?
427
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,340
No.
428
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,080
Do you know why he stopped
therapy and medication?
429
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,910
He said his girlfriend didn't
think it was working for him.
430
00:22:38,990 --> 00:22:42,890
In your opinion, is Tadhg
Ruane's condition so bad
431
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,650
as to be beyond help,
beyond hope?
432
00:22:44,730 --> 00:22:46,390
Objection. Speculative.
433
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,190
Sustained. Rephrase, Mr. McCoy.
434
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,700
Could Tadhg Ruane have benefited
from further treatment, Doctor?
435
00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:56,270
Absolutely.
436
00:22:59,970 --> 00:23:03,470
Doctor, would you say someone
with dysphoric mania
437
00:23:04,140 --> 00:23:07,010
can suffer as much pain as
a terminally ill person?
438
00:23:07,310 --> 00:23:10,750
It's hard to quantify pain, but the
symptoms can feel excruciating.
439
00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,140
Enough to make him
want to kill himself?
440
00:23:13,220 --> 00:23:16,920
Yes, but wanting to die and acting
on it are two different things.
441
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,350
But Tadhg's illness
wasn't curable, was it?
442
00:23:19,430 --> 00:23:20,520
It was manageable.
443
00:23:20,590 --> 00:23:24,290
Had he stayed in therapy and on meds,
he could've lived another 50 years.
444
00:23:24,530 --> 00:23:27,830
Have you ever had any other
patients commit suicide?
445
00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:29,830
Yes.
446
00:23:31,070 --> 00:23:35,100
And did any of those patients kill
themselves while in treatment?
447
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,340
One patient.
448
00:23:38,410 --> 00:23:42,470
Staying in therapy and on meds is really
no guarantee against suicide, is it?
449
00:23:42,650 --> 00:23:44,640
Objection. Argumentative.
450
00:23:45,050 --> 00:23:47,540
Withdrawn. Nothing further.
451
00:23:53,090 --> 00:23:56,650
I'm starting to think the jury
won't buy murder two, Jack.
452
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,060
You'll understand if I disagree.
453
00:23:59,130 --> 00:24:02,070
But why risk it if she'll
plead to assisted suicide,
454
00:24:02,140 --> 00:24:03,600
maybe even a little jail time?
455
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,670
Revenge warrants more
than a slap on the wrist.
456
00:24:06,740 --> 00:24:09,070
What if the jury
doesn't see revenge?
457
00:24:09,140 --> 00:24:13,840
What if they just see her as helping
Tadhg free himself from pain?
458
00:24:14,420 --> 00:24:17,040
Pain which might have
dissipated the next morning.
459
00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:20,090
He may have got up and wanted to
take his son to the basketball game.
460
00:24:21,020 --> 00:24:22,850
Or he could have woken up worse.
461
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,460
This is some thorough
devil's advocacy, Alex.
462
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,820
I have strong convictions
about suicide,
463
00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:33,630
but assistance?
464
00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:36,990
For someone who was
dedicated to dying?
465
00:24:37,070 --> 00:24:39,230
I'm not gonna set the precedent
466
00:24:39,310 --> 00:24:42,540
that depressives and
schizophrenics can take an exit
467
00:24:42,610 --> 00:24:45,170
with the help of
overburdened loved ones
468
00:24:45,250 --> 00:24:50,380
whose act of love may have been tempered
by frustration, anger, resentment...
469
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,910
He was suicidal.
470
00:24:53,290 --> 00:24:56,660
What he did may have
been wrong, but her?
471
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,930
And strictly speaking,
look at her.
472
00:25:03,230 --> 00:25:05,220
She's like a wounded
puppy, Jack.
473
00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:07,290
Will a jury convict her?
474
00:25:09,970 --> 00:25:11,030
Did you see that?
475
00:25:11,670 --> 00:25:12,800
What?
476
00:25:13,870 --> 00:25:15,240
Right here.
477
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,880
Watch the mirror
in the background.
478
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,670
Just looks like a change in
light from one of them moving.
479
00:25:25,090 --> 00:25:26,990
Watch it in slow motion.
480
00:25:28,190 --> 00:25:30,280
Angela and Tadhg are here.
481
00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,350
The shadow in the mirror
here is not from them.
482
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,690
Someone else is in the room.
483
00:25:38,630 --> 00:25:39,900
Any idea who it might be?
484
00:25:39,970 --> 00:25:44,460
Not from current evidence. The
detectives are looking for the camera.
485
00:25:45,310 --> 00:25:47,210
She had an accomplice.
486
00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:51,040
An assisted suicide doesn't
require this kind of secrecy.
487
00:25:52,050 --> 00:25:54,880
I was a little shaky
on murder two before,
488
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,080
but an accomplice
changes the game.
489
00:25:58,690 --> 00:25:59,980
Do we try for a continuance,
490
00:26:00,050 --> 00:26:01,390
buy a little time to
investigate?
491
00:26:01,460 --> 00:26:05,590
Doubtful a judge would go for it, and
any delay could hurt us with the jury.
492
00:26:05,660 --> 00:26:07,060
What if Angela was
forced into this?
493
00:26:08,060 --> 00:26:10,660
She's had ample opportunity
to let us know.
494
00:26:10,730 --> 00:26:13,290
Sounds to me like you need
to find your third man
495
00:26:13,370 --> 00:26:15,700
before the case
goes to the jury,
496
00:26:15,770 --> 00:26:18,430
unless Angela plans
on testifying.
497
00:26:18,970 --> 00:26:21,100
Thurber said she was
going to in his opening.
498
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,770
That's a cross-examination
I'd like to see.
499
00:26:28,450 --> 00:26:32,220
Sometimes Tadhg wouldn't sleep
for days and he'd get paranoid.
500
00:26:33,290 --> 00:26:37,750
Any little setback could send him into
a rage, punching walls, wailing...
501
00:26:38,590 --> 00:26:40,150
Did you try getting him help?
502
00:26:40,230 --> 00:26:42,960
I was the one who first
suggested he see a therapist.
503
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,400
And how did the
therapy work out?
504
00:26:45,470 --> 00:26:49,600
He went a lot, and he took a lot of
drugs that had bad side effects,
505
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,540
dry mouth, diarrhea, impotence.
506
00:26:56,110 --> 00:26:59,270
A lot of the time he would
just lay on the floor.
507
00:26:59,780 --> 00:27:02,250
He couldn't speak, or even cry.
He refused to eat.
508
00:27:03,350 --> 00:27:07,880
He said that it was like somebody had
turned the light out in his soul,
509
00:27:08,590 --> 00:27:10,110
it was so dark.
510
00:27:13,530 --> 00:27:16,790
Did he tell you that he
wanted to kill himself?
511
00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:20,930
After awhile
it's all he talked about.
512
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,640
He said he was gonna do it
whether I was there or not.
513
00:27:25,410 --> 00:27:27,170
I chose to be with him.
514
00:27:32,580 --> 00:27:36,610
Can you tell us exactly what
happened in that bathroom
515
00:27:37,450 --> 00:27:39,480
after the camera shut off?
516
00:27:40,950 --> 00:27:45,080
I held Tadhg's hand. He started to fade.
He thanked me.
517
00:27:46,530 --> 00:27:47,890
He told me that he loved me.
518
00:27:48,430 --> 00:27:49,730
And then?
519
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,990
His eyelids got heavy,
his head sagged,
520
00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:57,570
and he went under the water.
521
00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,840
Was he awake when he went under?
522
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,170
I don't think so.
523
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,970
You don't think so?
524
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:05,500
No.
525
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,980
Should we ask the other person who was
in the bathroom with you, Ms. Burkett?
526
00:28:13,750 --> 00:28:15,020
What do you mean?
527
00:28:16,220 --> 00:28:20,420
Your Honor, I'd like the jury
to review defense exhibit B.
528
00:28:37,950 --> 00:28:44,750
I'll make an offer of proof that an
expert from the NYPD audio laboratory
529
00:28:44,820 --> 00:28:48,650
will testify that there is a
third party in that bathroom.
530
00:28:48,990 --> 00:28:51,620
Your Honor...
Just a second, Counselor.
531
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,550
Who was with you, Ms. Burkett?
532
00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:57,360
This is wrong. This is so wrong.
533
00:28:57,430 --> 00:28:58,920
Please just answer the question.
534
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,440
He wanted to die.
This was an act of love.
535
00:29:03,070 --> 00:29:05,060
Who is the other person?
536
00:29:07,510 --> 00:29:08,510
I won't say.
537
00:29:08,710 --> 00:29:12,010
Then you'll be held in contempt
and jailed until you do.
538
00:29:23,260 --> 00:29:24,490
It was his brother Gerald.
539
00:29:42,780 --> 00:29:44,300
After Tadhg made his decision,
540
00:29:44,380 --> 00:29:47,310
I tried to get Gerald
to talk him out of it.
541
00:29:47,710 --> 00:29:51,240
But he said that it was Tadhg's
choice and that we should respect it.
542
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,180
And Gerald helped you
plan it out?
543
00:29:53,250 --> 00:29:55,310
He gave us the book
on self-deliverance
544
00:29:55,390 --> 00:29:58,220
and told me we should
use the camera.
545
00:29:58,290 --> 00:30:00,780
And he was there to tape it?
546
00:30:01,230 --> 00:30:03,490
He got there just before
Tadhg took the drugs.
547
00:30:04,430 --> 00:30:07,560
He set up the camera and
he told us when to start.
548
00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:13,140
Then he mostly just watched
while I sat with Tadhg,
549
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,840
and I stroked his head
while he got drowsy.
550
00:30:18,610 --> 00:30:22,410
You say Gerald mostly watched.
What does that mean?
551
00:30:24,580 --> 00:30:26,780
Well, I don't know, because...
552
00:30:28,620 --> 00:30:31,110
At one point
I left the bathroom.
553
00:30:31,860 --> 00:30:33,160
Why?
554
00:30:33,230 --> 00:30:35,920
The water was supposed
to be a fail-safe,
555
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,190
after the pills knocked Tadhg
out, so he could just...
556
00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:46,640
Could drift under the
water and go to sleep.
557
00:30:50,580 --> 00:30:52,480
But when he started to,
558
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,480
I left the room.
I couldn't watch anymore.
559
00:30:59,420 --> 00:31:01,850
Did Gerald stay in
the bathroom with Tadhg?
560
00:31:04,460 --> 00:31:05,520
Yeah.
561
00:31:05,590 --> 00:31:08,390
Did Tadhg struggle to
get out of the water?
562
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,830
I heard the water
splashing, but...
563
00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:22,080
I just put my hands over
my ears and I cried.
564
00:31:23,310 --> 00:31:26,970
Because you knew what Gerald was doing?
Holding Tadhg down?
565
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,710
Because the man
that I loved was dying,
566
00:31:30,780 --> 00:31:32,840
and I was so scared, and I...
567
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,190
I just wanted him
to be at peace.
568
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,460
She has to testify
against Gerald.
569
00:31:56,780 --> 00:31:58,070
I won't do that.
570
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,720
Explain to your client that suddenly
admitting to a third party on cross
571
00:32:02,780 --> 00:32:05,810
is gonna make the jury think
she has something to hide.
572
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,350
They're gonna wonder why you
didn't bring him up to begin with,
573
00:32:11,430 --> 00:32:13,090
especially if he's innocent.
574
00:32:14,090 --> 00:32:16,060
You're looking at
a murder conviction.
575
00:32:19,430 --> 00:32:21,630
But if she testifies, man two.
576
00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:26,340
You'll make a strong recommendation
for leniency in sentencing?
577
00:32:27,470 --> 00:32:30,840
I'll recommend 10 years,
after she testifies.
578
00:32:34,250 --> 00:32:36,150
We only wanted to help.
579
00:32:38,290 --> 00:32:39,750
We'll see about that.
580
00:32:51,260 --> 00:32:52,980
She could've pointed to
anybody in that courtroom.
581
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,430
But she pointed at you.
582
00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:55,800
I wasn't in that hotel.
583
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,440
Where were you?
584
00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:00,200
On Bowery, at O'Dwyers.
I barback there.
585
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,600
And your boss'll back you up?
You were there all night?
586
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,640
Some of the time I was in the
basement doing inventory.
587
00:33:06,010 --> 00:33:08,340
So, he can't account
for you all night.
588
00:33:08,420 --> 00:33:10,040
You drive to work? Yeah.
589
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,170
Where do you park the car?
590
00:33:11,250 --> 00:33:12,310
Around the block.
591
00:33:12,390 --> 00:33:16,880
You got a parking ticket at 1:00
that morning on 24th and 8th.
592
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,790
That's, what, like,
30 blocks away.
593
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,730
It just happens to be around the
corner from the Athena Hotel.
594
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,630
At the very same time your brother
was being pushed underwater.
595
00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:28,190
Kind of strange.
596
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,830
Am I under arrest?
597
00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:32,630
You're going to be.
598
00:33:36,140 --> 00:33:38,610
You're gonna want that
story in perspective.
599
00:33:40,350 --> 00:33:43,910
Well, if I'm not under arrest,
I got nothing else to say.
600
00:33:52,430 --> 00:33:54,920
Gerald's got no record,
but his name popped up
601
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,120
on two rob-assault complaint
reports in the past year.
602
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,200
He was a suspect?
603
00:33:59,270 --> 00:34:01,830
No. He was just interviewed
at the scene after the fact.
604
00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:03,630
His mother was the victim.
605
00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:07,160
Now, the perp was collared,
he's a heroin dealer,
606
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,800
and in Gerald's
statement to the police
607
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:13,040
he said that the dealer was there
to collect on his brother's debts.
608
00:34:13,110 --> 00:34:14,670
How bad was his
mother assaulted?
609
00:34:14,750 --> 00:34:17,340
Well, this second assault
put her in the hospital.
610
00:34:17,420 --> 00:34:18,650
Thanks.
611
00:34:20,820 --> 00:34:23,380
My arm was broke.
Healed, though.
612
00:34:23,990 --> 00:34:25,790
How did Gerald react?
613
00:34:25,990 --> 00:34:28,550
Well, he was upset.
As you can imagine.
614
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,250
Did he confront Tadhg about it?
615
00:34:30,330 --> 00:34:35,200
He did. But Gerald understood how hard
Tadhg was struggling at the time.
616
00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:38,740
It didn't create any
animosity between them?
617
00:34:40,910 --> 00:34:42,900
Gerald loved his brother.
618
00:34:43,910 --> 00:34:46,440
He cared for Tadhg
and protected him,
619
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,150
fought bullies all
through their childhood.
620
00:34:53,590 --> 00:34:54,950
But what, Mrs. Ruane?
621
00:34:55,860 --> 00:35:00,090
I always thought Gerald was capable
of taking care of himself.
622
00:35:01,530 --> 00:35:05,560
While Tadhg was sensitive,
he needed looking after.
623
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:09,900
So I gave him money,
because he was an artist.
624
00:35:11,740 --> 00:35:13,260
Maybe too much.
625
00:35:14,340 --> 00:35:16,170
How much money did you give him?
626
00:35:18,580 --> 00:35:21,210
L think we're done
talking, Ms. Borgia.
627
00:35:23,980 --> 00:35:26,010
The police said around the
time of Tadhg's suicide,
628
00:35:26,090 --> 00:35:29,650
Gerald had several cell calls
in to a realtor in Phoenix
629
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:32,890
and he'd applied for an
Arizona contractor's license.
630
00:35:33,430 --> 00:35:36,420
He was living with mom because
he was broke from a divorce.
631
00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:38,120
How was he gonna buy
a house in Phoenix?
632
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,690
He also had several calls
in to a realtor in Queens,
633
00:35:41,770 --> 00:35:44,170
who said Mrs. Ruane planned
to sell her townhouse
634
00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:46,830
and relocate with Gerald.
Then this guy showed up.
635
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,510
Leland McNeil. Long rap sheet.
636
00:35:51,580 --> 00:35:55,070
Big-time bookmaker. Known to break
kneecaps. The cops spoke to him.
637
00:35:55,150 --> 00:35:58,120
Before Tadhg died, he collected
a debt from him for $60,000.
638
00:35:58,650 --> 00:36:01,090
Did you run Mrs. Ruane's
financials?
639
00:36:01,150 --> 00:36:03,850
She refinanced her house right
around the time the debt was paid.
640
00:36:04,660 --> 00:36:08,290
Scuttling Gerald's plans to
relocate and start a new life.
641
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,060
It's atheory. Arrest him.
642
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:17,700
Hey, Gerald, you got a minute?
643
00:36:17,770 --> 00:36:18,800
What for?
644
00:36:18,870 --> 00:36:20,670
Put that down.
You're coming with us.
645
00:36:20,740 --> 00:36:23,470
You're under arrest, Gerald. You
have the right to remain silent.
646
00:36:23,540 --> 00:36:25,340
You have the right
to an attorney.
647
00:36:28,350 --> 00:36:32,250
When did you know of your brother
Tadhg's desire to end his life?
648
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,690
For years. I had begged
him to get help.
649
00:36:34,750 --> 00:36:37,690
Which he did, many times,
but it didn't work.
650
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,850
And when did you decide
to help him end his life?
651
00:36:41,930 --> 00:36:44,690
When I realized there
was no stopping him.
652
00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:47,290
And that if he went
about it with a gun,
653
00:36:47,370 --> 00:36:48,860
which is what he said he would,
654
00:36:48,940 --> 00:36:53,530
that he may accidentally shoot off
half his face or shoot someone else.
655
00:36:53,610 --> 00:36:57,170
I had nightmares about it.
So I did research into
656
00:36:58,710 --> 00:36:59,710
exiting.
657
00:37:00,780 --> 00:37:04,380
Would you take us through events
on the night your brother died?
658
00:37:04,450 --> 00:37:07,850
Angela Burkett called me at the
bar where I was barbacking.
659
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,720
Tadhg had told her,
"Tonight's the night."
660
00:37:11,790 --> 00:37:13,780
And did you meet them
at the hotel?
661
00:37:13,860 --> 00:37:16,520
With the video camera,
which I set up.
662
00:37:17,230 --> 00:37:18,460
We, uh...
663
00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:23,600
We all said our goodbyes to
Tadhg, which was very sad.
664
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,400
But at the same time, we all
knew it was what Tadhg wanted
665
00:37:27,810 --> 00:37:32,570
and that he'd fought against his illness
his whole life and he deserved to rest.
666
00:37:34,010 --> 00:37:36,040
So there was something
very positive about it.
667
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,220
Tell the jury
what happened then.
668
00:37:43,060 --> 00:37:45,150
He, uh... He choked
669
00:37:46,490 --> 00:37:47,930
and he flailed his arms.
670
00:37:48,630 --> 00:37:50,190
What did you do?
671
00:37:50,260 --> 00:37:52,890
I moved to sit at the
edge of the bathtub
672
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,560
and lifted him up, so his
head was out of the water.
673
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,300
And he calmed down,
674
00:38:01,570 --> 00:38:04,480
and after a bit,
his breathing got very slow,
675
00:38:05,250 --> 00:38:09,270
and so I took my hands
on his shoulders
676
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:14,420
and, as gently as I could,
eased him back under.
677
00:38:15,860 --> 00:38:18,830
Is that how he got
the bruises on his shoulders?
678
00:38:18,890 --> 00:38:22,450
He was taller than the tub, so I had to
press down until his head submerged.
679
00:38:23,130 --> 00:38:24,960
Was it a violent act?
680
00:38:28,170 --> 00:38:29,190
No.
681
00:38:29,270 --> 00:38:31,140
And what happened then?
682
00:38:32,270 --> 00:38:34,170
My brother passed away.
683
00:38:37,540 --> 00:38:39,840
And I'm very sad that he's gone,
684
00:38:40,150 --> 00:38:45,410
but there is no reason
why I helped him die
685
00:38:46,820 --> 00:38:48,190
beyond easing his pain.
686
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,790
He wanted to die
and he wanted my help.
687
00:39:00,770 --> 00:39:03,430
And what did you want from
your brother, Mr. Ruane?
688
00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:06,300
I just wanted him at peace.
689
00:39:06,810 --> 00:39:09,170
You wanted peace from him,
didn't you?
690
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:11,180
That's the more accurate
statement, isn't it?
691
00:39:11,780 --> 00:39:13,410
No, you're wrong.
692
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,280
He cost you your job
693
00:39:16,250 --> 00:39:20,380
by appearing at construction sites
and demanding your attention.
694
00:39:20,990 --> 00:39:23,390
That happened one time, and
he was very sick that day.
695
00:39:23,460 --> 00:39:27,150
On numerous occasions he'd arrive
at your home at all hours,
696
00:39:27,490 --> 00:39:29,460
screaming outside if
you didn't let him in.
697
00:39:29,530 --> 00:39:32,000
Not numerous occasions.
Maybe twice.
698
00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:36,700
He broke into your home and stole
electronics and silverware
699
00:39:36,770 --> 00:39:39,260
to feed his drug
and gambling habits.
700
00:39:39,340 --> 00:39:40,970
That happened one time.
701
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,770
A week later your wife filed
for divorce, didn't she?
702
00:39:47,310 --> 00:39:48,310
Yes.
703
00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:54,450
And after you finally persuaded your
mother to relocate with you to Arizona
704
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:58,390
to buy a new 'name
and to stem a new 'gob,
705
00:39:58,660 --> 00:40:01,720
your brother's debts forced you to
put your life on hold yet again.
706
00:40:04,030 --> 00:40:07,130
Do you recall testimony
by the medical examiner
707
00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:09,290
about the bruises on
your brother's shoulders?
708
00:40:09,370 --> 00:40:10,430
Yes.
709
00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:13,870
Those bruises bore no
indication of gentle easing.
710
00:40:13,940 --> 00:40:16,420
Isn't it true that you held him
under the water with brute force?
711
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:17,440
No.
712
00:40:17,510 --> 00:40:20,240
He was flailing his arms and
gasping for air, wasn't he?
713
00:40:20,310 --> 00:40:23,720
Possibly trying to change his mind?
No...
714
00:40:23,780 --> 00:40:24,810
No!
715
00:40:26,020 --> 00:40:27,780
How can you be sure?
716
00:40:33,290 --> 00:40:34,590
You can't.
717
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,590
And you never
entertained the notion
718
00:40:39,370 --> 00:40:41,860
because you wanted
him dead, didn't you?
719
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:44,430
I loved my brother.
720
00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:47,910
But his death didn't just
solve his problems, did it?
721
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,600
It solved them for both of you.
722
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,010
Isn't that correct, Mr. Ruane?
723
00:41:04,290 --> 00:41:05,620
Yes or no?
724
00:41:30,380 --> 00:41:32,150
You asked to see us?
725
00:41:37,490 --> 00:41:39,690
L, uh, want to say something.
726
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,830
You're supposed to protect
your kid brother.
727
00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:47,030
And I did that, his whole life.
728
00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:50,330
And every second of
helping him plan his exit,
729
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,000
I swear that's what I was doing.
730
00:41:52,070 --> 00:41:54,200
I was being an older brother.
731
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,040
But that last moment,
732
00:42:02,350 --> 00:42:04,510
when he wanted to breathe...
733
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:10,710
God forgive me.
734
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,460
Man two, 15 years.
735
00:42:27,310 --> 00:42:29,900
He'd take more if Angela's
sentence was reduced.
736
00:42:31,810 --> 00:42:34,280
She didn't do anything
but love him.
737
00:42:42,290 --> 00:42:45,490
Angela's lawyer called. They thanked
us for the reduction to three years.
738
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:46,960
They should.
739
00:42:47,130 --> 00:42:49,150
She should have helped
him with his meds,
740
00:42:49,230 --> 00:42:52,160
helped him stay in therapy.
She got off light.
741
00:42:52,970 --> 00:42:56,460
Are you familiar with Mark Twain's
account of an incident on a riverboat,
742
00:42:56,540 --> 00:43:00,100
where a man was trapped burning
underneath an exploded boiler,
743
00:43:00,170 --> 00:43:01,640
begging his crewmates
to shoot him?
744
00:43:01,710 --> 00:43:03,200
A crewman did sham him.
745
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,540
How much time
would you give him?
746
00:43:05,610 --> 00:43:07,200
I'm not sure I'd prosecute.
747
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:08,580
And three years is light
748
00:43:08,650 --> 00:43:10,810
for someone who thought they
were doing the same thing?
749
00:43:11,650 --> 00:43:14,090
That exploded boiler
was real, Alex,
750
00:43:14,150 --> 00:43:18,150
not just in the trapped man's mind.
There's a big difference.
751
00:43:18,460 --> 00:43:21,050
You think Tadhg Ruane
would agree with that?
752
00:43:21,130 --> 00:43:23,360
If he was around, I'd ask him.
61306
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