All language subtitles for Law and order S17E11 - Remains of the Day

(male announcer)
In the criminal justice system,

the people are represented
by two separate

yet equally important groups--

the police
who investigate crime

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

You wanna explain to her
this ain't the Four Seasons?

I swear, she hits
that button again,

she's gonna feel
a whole new source of pain.

Hurry!
Her son Michael!

He's on the floor.

[panting and groaning]

He's not breathing!
I don't know what happened.

He--he just collapsed.
I don't--come on, hurry!

Michael, baby, please
talk to me!

Come on, baby.
Please, talk to me.

Help him!
Help him!

Ma'am, I need
to look at him.

Please, please,
give me space.

Come on,
let the nurses see him.

Code blue!
Code blue!

Four Benson 322!

Get a crash cart now!
Michael, talk to me!

(man)
Let the nurses
do their job, okay?

(Ashley)
Oh, my God.
Breathe, Michael, breathe!

Breathe!
He said that his head hurt
and then he just collapsed.

(man)
It's okay, let the nurse
do her job.

(Ashley)
Michael, please,
breathe, breathe!

(Dr. Havens)
His name is Michael Jones.

Just the two of them
in the room when he died?

No, her publicist was there
as well.

He's waiting
to talk to you.

So what makes you think
foul play?

Well, there's no
obvious trauma.

But he was fine one minute
and dead the next.

That happened to
my Uncle Harry.

They called it
a heart attack.

A 19-year-old kid?
It's not likely.

(Dr. Havens)
As soon as we pronounced,
we got everybody out.

Nothing's been touched
in the room either.

(Cassady)
Is that blood
coming out of his mouth?

(Dr. Havens)
Pulmonary edema.

His lungs filled up
as he was dying.

That can happen
with a poisoning?

Absolutely.

Where's his mother now?

Down the hall.
Sedated.

She's in a pretty bad way.

Change of clothes,
some books.

Cell phone.

Who would have been in and out
of this room tonight?

Nurses on shift.
An attendant maybe.

Regular traffic.

What time is dinner,
normally?

Um, 7:00, I think.

She's the patient.

The food was for her.

Maybe the kid wasn't supposed
to be the victim.

[theme music]

killed Michael.

I know he did.

Now, what are you
gonna do about it?

Who are you
talking about?

Miles Foster.
My husband's son.

He and is sister Hillary

are contesting the will
in court.

I have a legal right
to that inheritance.

William signed the papers.

How much money are we
talking about, exactly?

46 million.

I can't believe
Michael's gone.

He was my baby.

We didn't get
any time together.

Why'd they have
to hurt him?

It's possible that you were
the target here, Ms. Jones.

Oh, my God.

These people think
they can do anything.

This Miles Foster,

has he ever
threatened you before?

That's all he's done.

He's had men follow me home,
crank phone calls.

Okay, we'll look into that.

Now, what's the state
of the
settlement?

There is no settlement.

All the money's tied up
in probate.

What happens if
you're not around?

Under the terms
of the will,

everything goes
to Miles and Hillary.

I want that man arrested!

Ashley Jones is accusing me
of poisoning her son?

This nightmare won't end.

Well, we believe
someone intended

to poison her.

I applaud them
for the effort,

but I assure you I had nothing
to do with it, Detective.

You and your sister
stood to gain.

We're about to win
our lawsuit.

We have no reason
to do something like that.

(Cassady)
She can appeal, can't she?

She can take it
to the Supreme Court,

for all I care.

The woman's been exposed
as a first-rate con artist.

How'd she manage to stake
a claim in the first place?

By manipulating my father.

92, in declining health,

she tricked him
into marriage,

and contrived a way
to amend his estate plans.

Maybe he was in love.

I know she
certainly wasn't.

My father died less than a year
after they were married.

She's used every scheme
in the book

to get her hands
on that money.

Knowing her,
she probably killed her own son,

just to accuse me.

Well, she said
you threatened her in the past.

People following her home.

We hired
private investigators

to document
her lifestyle.

It was never intended
as a threat.

Talk to my attorney.

Allow her
to enlighten you.

(Heath)
William Foster
was halfway senile.

Ms. Jones worked on him till
he didn't know which way was up.

Within a month,
the pre-nup was negated,

and she was a heartbeat away
from retirement.

That's not gold digging.
That's grave robbing.

You do understand
how this looks?

Detective, Miles Foster
has no motive

for getting even.

His lawsuit is wrapping up
quite well for us.

Because of something
you have on Ashley.

Mm-hmm.

A signed affidavit
from her personal trainer.

Courtesy of Mr. Simon,
my investigator.

He was sleeping
with Ashley

from the day she married
William Foster.

Why'd the trainer
tell you about it?

'Cause she used him
like toilet paper.

He thought he was
moving out of the gym,

and up to the penthouse.

Are there any more like him?

Plenty.

She was a kept woman
for years.

How does her son figure
in all
this?

He didn't.

She shipped him off
when he was a kid

to live with relatives
upstate.

(Green)
Any idea why he came back?

Let's just say the tire doesn't
roll far from the mobile home.

Money.

She's been working men
since the age of consent.

Her own son shows up,
starts working her.

Call it karma.

(Cassady)
A drug buy.

I shot those photos outside
Ashley's apartment last week.

Hey, Lieu.
Yo.

The toxicology report
from that hospital food

came back negative.

No poison
in the ravioli.

So maybe the kid did die
of an overdose.

His mother
and her publicist says

he was acting totally normal
before he died.

Well, what about
that photo?

Cassady's at Narcotics,

seeing if they can
identify the dude.

And what'd the M.E. say?

She's still not done
with the post.

She has to order more tests
to verify the cause of death.

Look, I don't want
to keep spinning our wheels

if this isn't a homicide.

Call her again,
light a fire.

You're gonna have
to call her,

because she's sick
of talking to me.

Our wannabe player
is Marco Penzler.

He's had a couple
of run-ins with Narcotics.

Mostly low-level
heroin
deals.

He's got a bench warrant
on a marijuana summons.

Keep reading.

He also has
an attempted murder charge.

What's that about?

The D.A. declined
to prosecute,

because of lack
of
evidence.

But the word is
he pushed a burn bag

with roach poison.

Put a kid
in the hospital.

He could have done
the same thing to Michael.

Any contact with Marco
before the kid died?

Not that I could tell.
(Green)
It's possible, though--

There was a call
on Michael's cell records

that we couldn't
link up.

It could be
a disposable cell phone.

Which has dealer
written all over it.

Pull Marco in.

Okay.

I can read the sign
on the
door.

You're homicide.

What's that got to do
with me?

Michael Jones is
a client of yours, right?

I saw he died
on the news.

Yep, he died.

And now here you are.

Right.
Here I am.

You know, they said,
I burned that dude,

but it ain't true.

That's why the D.A.
dropped the charges.

Except maybe
it's happened again,

and it's coming
back to you again, Marco.

We know that Michael
talked to you that day.

And we know you dealt
to him in that past.

Did he OD?

Did you sell him heroin?

Didn't have any
to sell.

Fashion Week
cleaned me out.

Must've scored some gutter junk
that messed him up.

You know what I think?

I think he owed you.

Came to you for another favor,
and you gave him the bad stuff.

Mikey didn't have any problem
coming up with cash.

He got it from
that fine MILF of his.

(Cassady)
Then who'd he hook up with?

You're the dick.

All I know is he didn't die
from nothin' I gave him.

'Cause I didn't
give him nothin'.

Autopsy's starting.
M.E.'s waiting for us.

Perfect.

Well, Marco,
in about ten minutes,

we'll know if you're
on the level.

His tox showed
moderate levels of heroin,

and a couple
prescription medications.

He died of
the drug cocktail?

That probably
helped him along,

but the actual
cause of death

was a golf ball-sized
metastatic
tumor

in his brain.

Well, he complained
of a headache

before he collapsed.

Yeah, I bet he did.

Probably had
a massive seizure.

(Green)
So he died of complications
from cancer?

Not so fast.

I'm ruling it
a
homicide.

How do you figure?

Then non-recreational
pharmaceuticals in his blood

were cyclosporine
and
prednisone.

Immunosuppressants.

People take them when
they get a new kidney,

or a new heart.

What did he get?

New legs.

See here and here?

He got cancer
from bone grafts.

You got it.

You're looking at
first-class surgery,

with third-rate
donor material.

How'd that happen?
It shouldn't have.

The bone should have been
screened and sterilized.

No way this came from
a legitimate tissue bank.

Are we talking about
black market body parts?

I typed the cells
in the tumor.

Even called in
a neuropath consultant

for confirmation.

This young man died
of ovarian cancer.

rgery is legit,

but it's anybody's guess where
those donor bones came from.

Well, what are we
talking about here?

Illegal chop shop?
Stolen body parts?

That would explain why
the cancer wasn't detected.

Any real tissue bank
would screen for diseases.

If that stuff gets into
the distribution chain--

I don't want
to hear about it.

Who's been notified
so far?

Well, the M.E.'s office
reached out

to the Health Department.

They're issuing bulletins
to area hospitals.

Do we have any leads

on who performed
this operation on the kid?

We got nothing.

There's over 100
medical facilities

in New York City
that can do bone grafts.

What about when it happened?

Rodgers thinks that, judging by
the healing of the
bone,

it was about
a year and a half ago.

At that time,
Michael was a heroin addict

living on a street.

I doubt he was insured.

Yeah, well, I doubt
any transplant hospital

would even
take your temperature

without proof of insurance.

Meaning somebody came through
for him in a big way,

because that procedure
was not cheap.

Talk to his mother again.

See if she knows anything.

(Ashley)
Michael admitted
he'd been homeless

and used drugs.

I said, "So what?"

We were making
a fresh start.

I didn't want to dwell
on the
past.

His or yours?

Look.

I may not have
always been there...

I had a substance
abuse problem

of my own
to deal with, okay?

Ms. Jones, help us out.

We don't know anything
about what happened to your son

when he was
on the street,

except he had major
surgery.

(Cassady)
Seems pretty unusual,

considering he was a homeless
drug addict at the time.

What do you want me
to say?

I don't know anything
about it.

Can you tell us anything?

Old friends
he might have mentioned.

Places he used
to hang out.

Anything?

Um...

A few weeks ago,

Michael had a girl
in the apartment.

She looked like
she'd been crying.

She left pretty quickly
after I came home.

Did you get a name?

Natasha, I think.

She was an old girlfriend.

I didn't press
on the details.

Anything else?

Um, her shirt.

There was a name
on her shirt.

Delancey's.
Delaney's.

(Natasha)
Me and Mike, homeless junkies.

I can't believe
I lived that way.

I hadn't seen him
in almost two years,

then we reconnected.

It was obvious that
he was still using.

I told him I didn't want
to see him again

if he wasn't gonna
get clean.

Do you know how
he broke his legs?

Back then we were
doing little rips

to keep up with
our habits.

We got caught
boosting an air bag.

Mike took off
across Queens Boulevard.

A taxi hit him.

(Green)
Where'd they take him?

I don't know.

The paramedics wouldn't
let me go with him.

I figured he was dead.

I mean, he looked
halfway there

when they put him
in the ambulance.

If he got hit
on Queens Boulevard,

do you think
maybe they took him

to Queen City hospital?

I checked
right after it happened.

They didn't have him listed
as a patient.

Well, is it possible
that he was admitted

under another name?

What name?

Well, maybe he had
somebody else's insurance card

or I.D. or something.

Now I know why
I couldn't find him.

Yeah.

We found a wallet
in the glove
box

of a car
that we had ripped.

The I.D. sort of looked
like Mike.

He kept it in case
we got busted.

Do you remember the name?

We used to make fun of it,

'cause it sounded rich--
Huvey Wilson.

Mr. Huvey T. Wilson,
a.k.a. John Doe.

Two shattered femurs.

Looks like we treated him
about a year and a half ago.

You did bone grafts on him
to repair his
legs?

Not according to this.

The kid had
insurance issues.

The card probably
came back stolen.

All right, so
if he can't pay,

what happens next?

Well, if you can't pay,
you get the blue light special.

In this case,
double amputation.

You've gotta be kidding me.

Hey, blame
the bean counters.

We don't take any pleasure
cutting off someone's legs.

Look doctor, up until
two days ago,

he was walking upright.

We know he got bone grafts
on both legs.

Maybe he transferred out.

There's not way he got
that kind of charity here.

What does his chart say?

Um...

Missing a couple pages.

It happens.

Okay, do you have any idea
where this surgery

might have been done?

There's a non-profit
orthopedic clinic in Manhattan

and they've taken some of
our hard luck cases in the past.

Dr. Vaughn runs the program.

The guy's practically pining
for sainthood.

This way.

(Dr. Vaughn)
You're sure about this?

Ovarian cancer?

The M.E. thinks it came from
the bones you used

to fix his legs.

I'm sorry,
I highly doubt that.

The M.E. seems
pretty confident

it came from the grafts.

Doctor, we need to know
where the donor bones came from.

We use several
procurement companies

and tissue banks.

It could have come
from any one of them.

Well, how do you cover
your uninsured patients?

Through grants
and fund-raising.

Our clinic has
an operating budget

of almost $15 million.

Most of that goes
to subsidizing patient care.

$15 million.

And all that comes from
financial donations?

People give generously

to help us care
for the working poor

and indigent.

To help a patient
like Michael,

who almost lost his legs
because he was homeless.

And you don't occasionally
cut corners?

We may be
a non-profit clinic,

but our quality of care
is on par

with any university hospital.

Look, Detective,
it's extremely rare

for cancer to metastasize
the bone.

Michael must have
contracted the disease

some other way.

Now, as far as the graft bones
are concerned,

I'm telling you I don't know
which company procured them.

Don't you at least have
the donor's name?

The provenance
has to be tracked somehow.

I have a copy of
the donor's death certificate.

That's it.

"Karen Kendall."
21 years old.

It wasn't ovarian cancer.

Karen was driving home
from college

for spring break.

A truck cut her off
in the tunnel

coming into Manhattan.

The doctors said
she was brain dead.

We took her off
life support

six days after
the accident.

Did you donate
any of her organs

or tissue at that time?

No, no, we never consented
to anything like that.

The hospital asked us to,
but it was too
much

with Karen dying
so suddenly.

Which hospital?

Chase General.

They said they'd
take care of her.

But you're saying
they did it anyway?

We think that
somebody did.

My God.

Had your daughter
been
diagnosed

with ovarian cancer?

Cancer? No.

She was in peak health.

She ran marathons.

Mr. and Mrs. Kendall,
we're gonna need to verify

what happened
to your daughter's body.

So the Medical Examiner's gonna
want to look at her remains.

She was cremated.

Who handled the cremation?

Uh--

Bicks Funeral Home.

Tony Bicks helped us
with the arrangements.

[sobbing]

(Bicks)
Talk to the hospital morgue.
They're the body butchers.

(Green)
The hospital says you picked up
Karen Kendall's body

within two hours
of her death.

Apparently, it would have
taken too long

to harvest her remains
there.

I'm sorry,
I don't remember.

You signed her out.
We have the time.

Well, if that's what it says,
then that's what I
did.

What was the rush?

I was probably there
on another run.

She was the only body
that day.

What are you getting at?

What she's getting at is
there's a small window of time

to harvest her remains
before they're unusable.

Unusable and worthless
to a paying tissue bank.

And you think
that's what I did?

That body was cremated,

which means you could have
taken anything you wanted,

and nobody would know

that the family didn't
give their consent.

I think you're making
a lot of

unfounded accusations here,
Detective.

Cool, how 'bout we have a look
at your records?

We can straighten this out
right now.

I think you can take it up
with my attorney.

We can get a warrant
if we have to.

Meyers, Prescott,
and Mendelbaum.

They're in the Yellow Pages.

You call 'em.
We'll wait.

278 bodies went through
Bicks Funeral Home last year.

Of those, 213 did not consent
to donate tissue or bone.

And most of those names
are now showing up

on the donor lists.

Who'd Bick sell to?

It could have been any number
of tissue banks or
brokers.

Every company I talked to
was not willing to
admit

that they bought
directly from him.

Yeah, well,
worried about liability.

This stuff could be scattered
across the country.

(Cassady)
I pulled the LUDs
from the funeral home.

Bicks called Vaughn's clinic
on a regular basis.

You think Vaughn knew
what he was getting?

(Cassady)
He said he didn't.

And he might not have,
if Bicks was forging

consent forms,
death certificates--

He wasn't exactly helpful
when we talked to
him.

How much money
are we talking about?

Okay, you want the list?

These are non-organ parts--
veins, cartilage,

tendons, bones.

One body is worth
over 200
grand.

Do Bicks' financials
bear that out?

He's got a little something
in the
bank,

but nothing like
this kind of cash flow.

He's gotta be hiding it.

Even still,

we can't pin him for
the murder of Michael Jones.

We can get him for Grand Larceny
and Forgery, right?

Only if you can prove
that Bicks was the one

who pillaged the corpses.

A lot of those bodies
didn't get
cremated.

Talk to the families.

We need to start
digging people up.

This was pure
slice and dice.

I've got corpses
missing bones

from their legs
and arms.

Major veins and tendons
are also gone.

Take a look at this.

Are those pipes?

PVC, for plumbing.

To maintain the shape
of the limbs

for the viewing,
would be my guess.

I also found bloody aprons
and gloves

dumped inside a couple
of abdominal cavities.

Can we trace any of this
to Bicks?

Here's a preliminary.

CSU pulled two latents
off the inside of a pipe.

Guess who?

(man)
I know that this has been
very, very difficult...

You go.

You have to remember

all of the wonderful things
about Bob...

Tony Bicks,
step this way, please.

[quietly]
Keep your voice down.

You're under arrest
for Grand Larceny and Forgery.

What are you doing?
I'm in the middle--

You have the r
to remain silent.

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

(m
Charge is Grand Larceny
in the Second Degree,

Forgery in the Second Degree.

Mr. Bicks pleads
Not Guilty, Your Honor.

People on bail?

The defendant altered official
state death
certificates

to facilitate an illegal trade
in stolen body parts.

I'm sure that forging
his passport

isn't beyond
his capabilities.

People seek remand.

That's absurd.

Not one of these charges
is over a C felony.

(Rubirosa)
Your Honor, we are still
exhuming bodies.

The full scope of
this criminal enterprise

is expanding.

The victims in this case
were already dead, correct?

Not true.

Mr. Bicks' actions
implicate him

in the homicide
of Michael Jones.

Mr. Jones contracted
ovarian
cancer

from illegally harvested bone
he
received

during a transplant.

Lot of dots to connect
there, Counselor.

There is a murder indictment
pending, Your Honor.

Then let's revisit bail
if they file.

I'm not letting Dr. Frankenstein
here off so easy.

Bail is 300,000.
Cash only.

He can't make that,
Your Honor.

Maybe he's got something
he can sell.

[bangs gavel]

(Rubirosa)
Looks like Bicks'll post
tomorrow.

His lawyer wouldn't discuss
a plea.

She's waiting to see
if we make good

on our murder indictment.

Judge Goldberg's betting
against us.

We know Bicks harvested
Karen Kendall's bones.

We know Dr. Vaughn
transplanted them

into the victim.

I find it hard to believe

that Vaughn was totally
in the
dark.

It's circumstantial.

If we can't link them together
with shared intent,

we can't make a case.

The phone records aren't proof
of complicity?

It'd be easy to say
the calls were related

to fund-raising.

Bicks has given money
to the clinic in the past.

Illegal profits
could have been disguised

as financial donations.

We still haven't been able
to trace where the money went.

What does Dr. Vaughn
have to say for himself?

I was referred
to his attorney--

Dave Seaver.

He's not malpractice,
by the way.

Strictly criminal law.

That should
tell us something.

We still can't prove
that Vaughn knew

where the body parts
were coming from.

Not without flipping Bicks.

The clinic's records
might shed some light.

Do you really think
we're gonna get a subpoena

for medical records?

Half the judges
on the roster

have had hip replacements.

Given the issue, I don't think
we'll have a problem.

Not bad.
Yeah?

"Not bad" got me a full ride
to Georgetown next fall.

You're Jason Carter, right?

Man, I must be dreaming
you came here looking for me.

I'm Connie Rubirosa,

with the District Attorney's
office.

I needed to talk to you
about Dr. Adam Vaughn.

Yeah, what's up
with Dr. Vaughn?

Did he perform surgery
on your knee last year?

Yeah, I wouldn't have been able
to play ball if he hadn't.

Why you wanna know?

Jason smashed up his knee

at the end
of his junior year.

They called it
a tibial-plateau fracture.

I shattered my kneecap,
basically.

Now you're saying the bone
they used to fix him up

was stolen out of
some other body?

As far as we can tell,

Jason was one
of two people

who received parts
from this
donor.

A young man about your age
died of
cancer.

He contracted it
from a bone

Dr. Vaughn transplanted
in his legs.

Dr. Vaughn wouldn't
do nothin' like that.

What do you want
with Jason?

We're building a murder case
against the man

who illegally harvested
the body.

We need to be able
to prove

that the cancer came
from this donor,

and not another source,
like a blood transfusion.

How do you do that?

Jason would need to undergo

Yeah, I don't know
about
that.

I understand this is
an unusual request.

Unusual.
You're coming in my home.

Telling me
he might have cancer?

We need Jason's help
to make this case.

No.

I'm calling Dr. Vaughn
right now.

We're getting
to the bottom of this.

Ms. Carter,
Dr. Vaughn is a suspect

in our investigation.

Excuse me?

That man gave Jason
a second chance

at going to a top college.

He's getting the benefit
of the doubt from me.

You need to know that
if he refuses,

I will have no choice
but to get a court order

to compel him.

Then I guess you'll have
to do that.

Jason Carter is not
under any obligation

to help Mr. McCoy.

Except that the bone
in his knee

was illegally obtained.

The notion that
the state has no recourse

in an investigation
is not right.

(Jeffs)
Mr. Carter is not a target

of the investigation,
Your
Honor.

It's a major intrusion,
on an innocent third party.

Mr. Carter may be a victim
of the crime.

Maybe he'd like to know.

As his Fourth Amendment rights

are flushed
down the toilet?

Your Honor, my client
would prefer to handle

any health issue privately.

(McCoy)
The Supreme Court held
in Winston v. Lee

that compulsion
of minor surgery

to obtain evidence
of a crime

is not unreasonable.

I would hardly
call the procedure minor.

Mr. Carter would have a piece
of his bone tissue removed,

which could destroy his knee
all over again.

Winston concerned surgery
on a patient

who was also a suspect
in the crime.

The decision wasn't based
on that.

It was based on the level
of intrusion.

And the court ultimately
denied the request

because of that.

The court left the door open
in those cases

where the public interest
outweighs the
intrusion.

And this is
one of those cases.

The New York Department
of Health

and the CDC are involved,

due to the potential
for a major health crisis.

We're not making
this request lightly.

Is there no other way
around it?

We don't believe so.

From a search
of Dr. Vaughn's records,

Jason Carter is the only
other patient we know of

And what's a biopsy
going to prove, Mr. McCoy?

That the bone graft
Michael Jones received

gave him cancer
and caused his death.

I'm reluctantly granting
the request.

Mr. Carter,

I understand this court
is asking a lot of you

with this order.

If I didn't feel
there were larger

public health issues here,

I would not have
decided this way.

And frankly, young man,

I think you ought to know,
one way or the other.

They're saying
it's the same thing?

(Rubirosa)
Yeah.

I don't feel bad
or nothin'.

The doctors say
it's still early.

You can treat it.
Beat it.

How am I gonna pay
for this?

Think Medicaid's gonna
give him what he needs?

You'd have a solid civil case
against anyone we convict.

It could mean
a large settlement.

(McCoy)
Jason,

I can't imagine how hard
this must be for you right now.

What do you want me
to do?

Testify at trial.

Dr. Vaughn didn't mean
to do this, did
he?

(Bicks)
Damn right he knew!

I'm not going down
for what Vaughn did.

Not for murder.

You were an active participant
in the crime, Mr. Bicks.

You knew full well
that Dr. Vaughn would use

the bone and tissue
you illegally harvested.

That I harvested?

Hold on, Tony.

I want assurances
you'll reduce the charges.

Your client proffers
the information,

then we can discuss
what it's worth.

Mr. Bicks?

I didn't take anything
out of those
bodies.

All I did was get
a finder's
fee,

and fix the paperwork.

Dr. Vaughn did
the harvesting?

My hands shake.

You don't cut
those tendons out right,

they're worthless.

How many bodies
are we talking about?

500, maybe.

Maybe more.

He said his patients
couldn't afford anything else.

This was only for
his clinic?

No, he sold
some of the parts

to tissue banks
around the country.

As long as the paperwork
looks good,

they don't ask
where the stuff came from.

A lot of people walking around
with that stuff in
them.

(Prescott)
Heard enough?

You won't file
murder charges?

He testifies, I'll agree
to concurrent sentences

for the Grand Larceny
and the Forgery.

He does at least
ten years.

Tissue, or even an organ--

(nurse)
I asked them to wait,
Doctor--

This can't wait.

Dr. Vaughn,
please stand up.

I'm in the middle
of a consultation.

You'll have to reschedule.
Excuse me.

You're under arrest
for the murder of Michael Jones.

(nurse)
Doctor--

Everything's okay.
Call my lawyer.

(Green)
You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say
can be used t you

in a court of law.

. Vaughn.

He's going to tell a jury
about your gruesome enterprise.

Let's not confuse
the issue here, Jack.

The illegal procurement
of body parts is one thing.

How you get to murder--

It's called foresight.
Dr. Vaughn knew the risks.

He evinced
a depraved indifference

toward his patients.

You're wrong, Mr. McCoy.

I gave my patients
consistently excellent care.

Tell that to Michael Jones.

Or Jason Carter.
He's sick too, by the way.

(Seaver)
This is a malpractice case.

This is a public health crisis.

Man One.
15 Years.

And he surrenders
his medical license.

(Seaver)
There was no way
of
knowing

Karen Kendall
had ovarian cancer.

It wasn't diagnosed
at the time of her death.

Dr. Vaughn didn't have access
to her medical records

because the harvest
was illegal.

He couldn't have known
either way.

There are always complications
in transplant
medicine.

But weigh that
against the fact

those butchers were going
to amputate Michael's legs

because he was poor?

People like Karen Kendall
have so much they can give,

and they don't.

I did what I had to do
for my
patient.

Our offer's on the table.

Then I guess we're done.

Even the noblest crusaders
aren't beyond

a little hypocrisy.

It usually involves money.

That was my
initial hunch.

But I pored over
his financials--nothing.

If Vaughn sold
surplus body parts

on the open market,

there should be some evidence
of a
profit.

The only explanation
I could come up with

is that he sunk the money
right back into his clinic.

How's that for noble?

Well, I stand corrected.

We don't need
a financial motive

to hold Vaughn accountable
for murder.

There's a clear chain
of events

that led to
Michael Jones' death.

They'll counter
your causation argument

by citing the statistical risk
of any surgery.

It's about consent.

Michael Jones wasn't aware
of the risks.

Vaughn gambled
with his life.

No pun intended,

but I think the doctor has
another bone to pick.

Which is?

Vilifying
the insurance companies.

Turning this trial into
a referendum on the inequities

of the American
medical system.

The haves
and the have-nots.

Even the have-nots
wouldn't want

what Vaughn was selling.

There are 46 million

uninsured people
in this country.

In a jury pool,
that's one in six.

Well, then you better make
Dr. Vaughn seem like

a worse choice
than no doctor at all.

(Jason)
Dr. Vaughn never told me
I might get cancer.

(McCoy)
What did Dr. Vaughn
tell you?

He just said
he'd fix my knee.

Where did he tell you
the new bone came from?

He didn't.

He never told me nothin'.

How did you feel
when you learned

you'd contracted cancer?

Scared, I guess.

Angry.

I just sorta thought Dr. Vaughn
was more on top of it,

you know.

I started chemotherapy
last week,

and hopefully
that'll do the trick.

I just want to live my life

without having this hanging
over my head.

Nothing further.

Would you have gotten your
tibial-plateau fracture repaired

without Dr. Vaughn?

No.

My mom couldn't afford it
otherwise.

Because you and your mother
don't have any health insurance?

That's right.

So, Dr. Vaughn
treated you

for next to nothing?

Basically.

Without that, would you
be playing basketball

for Georgetown
next fall?

No.

If he wouldn't have fixed
my knee,

they never would have
given me a scholarship.

Recruiters had to see
I still had my game.

It means a lot
for you to play,

doesn't it?

Just about everything.

Jason, I want you to think
about
this.

If Dr. Vaughn
had explained

that under very rare
circumstances,

an undiagnosed cancer
can transfer
itself

through the donor bone,

would you have said no
to the
surgery?

Probably not.

You'd still have
the operation?

If it would have
fixed my knee, I would.

Do you blame Dr. Vaughn
for your
cancer?

I know he didn't mean for it
to happen to me.

I actually feel bad
he's in trouble, you know?

Okay.

Nothing further.

Seaver scored points today.

I'm worried we've lost
our leverage to deal.

Don't be.
I'm not offering one.

Jack, Jason Carter
basically said

he'd be willing
to endure chemotherapy

for a college scholarship.

Risk versus reward.
Understandable.

It doesn't change
the circumstances

of Michael Jones' death.

Well, maybe not,
but informed consent

is beginning to sound
irrelevant.

Especially after Vaughn makes
his pitch to the
jury--

What?

What date do you have
for Michael's surgery?

Um...

"April 28th."

This is odd.

This medication log shows
the dispensary gave Michael

his first anti-rejection drugs
on the 23rd.

Days before
the transplant.

Could be a clerical mistake.

The same nurse signed
the daily charts--

Valerie Miller.

She signed
the medication log too.

It might be worth
asking Nurse Miller

for a clarification.

It gets hectic
at the clinic.

I'm sure I wasn't
paying attention

when I wrote it down.

So when did Michael Jones
have his surgery?

The 28th, like it says.

I checked with
the dispensary.

Their records show that
they issued the medication

on the 23rd.

Patients don't start taking
this kind of drug

before they receive
a transplant.

Miss Miller, did he have
his surgery on the 23rd,

and not the 28th?

I just did what I was told.

Don't put me
in the middle of this.

It looks like
you already are.

Dr. Vaughn asked me to change
the dates in the file

after he heard
Michael Jones had died.

Why did he do that?

Karen Kendall was still
on life support on the 23rd.

She wasn't the real donor.

(McCoy)
Who was the real donor?

A woman named Tina Sadowski.

(McCoy)
People's 22.

This is Tina Sadowski's
death certificate.

When did she die?

April 22nd.

The day before Michael Jones
had his surgery.

What's the cause of death
noted?

I'm so sorry, Dr. Vaughn.
I didn't want to do this.

They told me they were gonna
take my nursing license

if I didn't testify.
Your Honor?

The jury will disregard
the witness's comment.

You're out of order,
Miss Miller.

Answer the question.

What's the cause
of death noted

on Tina Sadowski's
death certificate?

Ovarian cancer.

Nothing further.

Your Honor,

we have no questions
for this witness.

I was notified
by the hospital

that they had
an uninsured patient

who'd shattered both femurs.

They intended to amputate
his legs.

I knew I could help him.

And did you?

Absolutely.
After his recovery,

Michael Jones was able
to walk again.

And why did he die,
Dr. Vaughn?

It's a painful fact,
but there are risks in medicine.

If you give a million patients
penicillin,

a small but predictable number
will always die

of anaphylaxis.

But who questions the benefit
of antibiotics?

What did you use
to fix his legs?

I used two six-inch pieces
of human bone

that I harvested
from a donor.

I took them
without consent.

Why did you do that?

Because we have a system
in this country

that favors the wealthy
and
insured.

They expect that
if they need blood,

tissue, or even an organ,
it'll be there for
them.

Truth be told,
it usually is,

because they can pay.

How many of those people
do you think

become donors themselves?

I'll tell you,
it's less than 10%.

I took an oath
to care for my patients.

I had to do everything I could
to help them.

How's that square
with harvesting bones

from a woman who died
of ovarian
cancer?

To the non-medical eye,

I agree it looks reckless.

That's why I stupidly tried
to cover it up.

It wasn't reckless?

It's extremely rare
for ovarian cancer

to metastasize
to bone tissue.

(Seaver)
How rare?

(Vaughn)
Put it this way.

Michael Jones had
a greater chance

of getting struck
by lightning,

or even dying
in a plane crash,

than developing ovarian cancer
from that donor's bones.

(Seaver)
And what were his odds
of walking again

without your help?

Zero.

It's a noble argument,
Doctor,

but it glosses over
the reality of the crime,

don't you think?

You stole human remains
from unwilling donors, correct?

(Vaughn)
Perhaps they were unwilling.

There's no question
they were needed.

(McCoy)
You had no way to determine
their suitability, correct?

The medical histories
of the donors

were never vetted.

The parts you procured
were never screened for disease.

Isn't that right?

I made the best evaluation
I
could.

I believe I chose
good
candidates.

So confident, you even sold
the parts that you didn't use

to other tissue banks
for a profit, correct?

The money was only
to keep my clinic running.

You confidently chose
good candidates,

like Tina Sadowski--

a woman who died
of ovarian cancer.

As I said, the risk of
transferring the disease

was extremely rare.

Except in this case,
you were wrong.

Michael Jones died.

Jason Carter now has cancer
as well.

And I tremendously
regret
that.

(McCoy)
You knew with any illegal donor
you were getting a loaded gun.

Correct?

My patients
wouldn't have gotten

the treatment I provided
anywhere else.

So in other words,
you didn't think

you were risking much?

I'm saying I weighed the risks
against helping people

who desperately needed it.

But you never told your patients
what those risks were.

They never had a choice.
Isn't that right?

Do you think Michael Jones
would have chosen

to lose his legs?

In a perfect world, Mr. McCoy,
I might be guilty.

But I practice medicine
in the real world.

Where you're also bound
by laws.

Which support a medical system
that does not operate

in the best interests
of people in
need.

It's dictated by money.

Or more often, in the case
of my patients, a lack of it.

Except that the system is not
on trial here.

You are, because you gambled
with a young man's life,

and lost.

What would you have me tell
someone like Michael Jones?

Too bad?

As a doctor who swore an oath
to help my
patients,

that's not acceptable.

He depended on me
to save his legs, so I did.

You saved his legs.
You lost the patient.

And given the odds,
I'd do it
again.

Which is why,
Dr. Vaughn,

your cure is worse
than any disease.

Objection!

Sustained.

Nothing further.

Has the jury reached
a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

(Judge Harvey)
On the count of Murder
in the Second Degree,

how do you find?

We find the defendant,
Adam Vaughn, Not Guilty.

Take comfort in the fact
that he's losing his license

to practice.

I'm not sure people
like Jason Carter

feel that way.

Jack, you were right
on the law.

Does that mean
that Dr. Vaughn was wrong?

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