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Nouncer) 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.

She forgot to designate a driver

before getting hammered.

Why should I be surprised?

Ooh, she forgot her panties too.

How old is this?

Lift with your legs, lori.

You're a real gentleman, rog.

Might as well start your rounds

while you're up there.

(Lori) Give me a break!

[Booming sound]

Shwataking package strs

when the bomb went off.

She was barely breathing

when they put her in the bus.

(Lupo) What's her name?

Emerson. Lori emerson.

Lori emerson.

What's it look like?

Finding pieces of a pipe bomb.

Oh.

Right.

Can I borrow that?

So...

What is this?

Looks like it's from an alarm clock.

That's old school, huh?

I'm gonna need a list of the tenants

and all the security camera footage

from the lobby and the street, okay?

The other guard went to the hospital

with the victim.

Yeah, from what I hear

he could end up being our only living witness.

Ugh, yoga classes. Prenatal.

Two victims now.

Lori was handling the packages.

Usually it's medical supplies.

Specimens going to the labs upstairs.

She make the deliveries every night?

No.

6:00 to 2:00 isn't her normal shift.

I don't know if she was filling in

or switched or what.

Still it was nice of you

to ride with her to the hospital.

I thought somebody should be here,

you know...

If she came to.

I called her husband six times.

No answer.

[Door opens]

How's she doing, doc?

She's out of surgery,

but she's had a massive stroke.

She went into a coma.

We're seeing minimal brain activity.

Any chance of recovery?

Maybe 5%.

What about the baby?

Stable.

The fetus should be okay

as long as miss emerson's on life support.

She's in post-op with her husband.

(Ryan) The money's been tight,

so lori was trying to get in some o.T.

Before going on maternity.

Oh, god, baby.

(Green) Look, we're really sorry.

The other security guard--

he said he had a tough time reaching you.

I couldn't hear my phone.

You were in a bar, that's why.

Don't start. I can smell the booze.

You're out drinking--

my brother's here now.

Don't you use that tone with my wife!

Stop!

The three of us go outside.

Come on.

Lori's been staying at her mother's

the last couple weeks.

It's the kid, you know?

Money...

Me and dean have a contracting business.

Yeah, things have been slow.

So you couldn't stay in the same house

and work it out?

Was lori afraid of you?

I would never lay a hand on her.

Was he abusive?

Well no, he never actually hit her,

but all that arguing.

I told her it wasn't healthy for the baby.

So moving out was your idea?

Ryan's wasting his time

working with that brother of his.

He's about to be a father

with a young son on the way.

It's time for him to get serious.

It was supposed to be a wake-up call.

The amount of explosives packed in that pipe

should've blown the doors off that elevator.

Why didn't it?

Bad design.

Too much nitro was used as a detonator.

Cheddite was the main explosive,

but nitro has the greater velocity of explosion.

The nitro blew the end off the pipe

before the cheddite detonated.

Right.

What else?

The parts were untraceable.

It was packed in a small, white cardboard box.

The address label was unreadable.

Maybe she wasn't the target.

Somebody could have a beef with somebody in the building.

Doctors and labs.

Do a threat assessment.

Right.

Any kind of threats?

Calls? Letters?

How about the procedures you do there?

Anything controversial?

Sure, the doctor can call me back later.

Okay, thank you.

Doctors.

All these people care about

is how this explosion will drive up their insurance.

I just saw

your sister-in-law.

How's she doing?

Uh, better.

Hey, ed, you like kids?

Yeah, I like kids.

That one.

White, small.

(Green) B&c couriers.

(Man) I don't care what the courier told you.

This doesn't look like the boxes

which we use to send our specimen.

I was the last one to leave the office yesterday

and I did not see this box.

Where--where do you leave your specimen?

Right here.

In here.

Pick-ups are always between 6:00 and 7:00.

But this is not my package.

You get a lot of traffic through here.

These are all doctors' offices.

Dr. Zimmer, dr. Bellamy, dr. Stern.

Any of the labs you use for your specimens

on this list?

This one.

I use them a lot.

But I'm telling you this is not my package.

Okay.

Genatech.

Ninth floor of the victim's building.

We were the target? Oh, my.

All we do here are liver screens.

Chem 8 profiles. R.A.S, a.S.O.S--

blood work.

Urine and fecal specimens.

Genetic screening. All very routine.

Anything involving stem cells

or testing on animals?

No, nothing controversial.

No, our business partners wouldn't approve.

(Lupo) Those tests though--

they're wrong sometimes, right?

When was the last time?

We botched an amnio test a few months ago.

The parents were told the karyotype analysis

revealed the fetus had trisomy 21, down syndrome.

This was not correct.

We discovered it a week later, but--

but the parents had already terminated the pregnancy.

Terminated a healthy baby.

Did they sue?

Our insurance company settled two weeks ago.

We'd been trying for seven years to get pregnant.

That baby was our last shot.

I had two miscarriages.

I'm 42.

We're very sorry...

But would you mind putting down

where you were yesterday

between 5:00 and 7:00?

You seriously think I had something to do

with that bomb?

The lab told us you settled a lawsuit

for a fraction of what you were asking.

That had to leave a bad taste.

It wasn't about the money.

Sir.

They wore you down, didn't they?

They told you your lawsuit didn't have a chance.

After all, it was you

who decided to end the pregnancy.

Forgive me for saying so, but they've got a point.

A down's kid can live a pretty good life these days.

Maybe you should've played the hand you were dealt.

Is that what genatech said

when they gave you a couple bucks.

Screw you.

We just wanted an apology.

And we got one.

From hoffman.

In person.

I don't know how sincere he was.

He just wanted the whole thing over.

It's as good as we were gonna get

from those people.

And here.

An adoption agency?

That's where we were yesterday.

We're having our baby one way or the other.

Are we done now?

You too. Thank you.

The adoption place vouches for fleming.

The chief of d's got a complaint

about you coming down on a witness

over a therapeutic abortion.

You put a personal spin on it?

First off, it was a suspect.

And second, I was playing him.

Sounded okay to me.

Look.

I don't care where it's coming from.

You question a suspect,

you don't personalize the issues.

So what did you conclude about this suspect?

Fleming's covered for the time

that the package was left at the doctor's office.

So?

I was with this--

i was engaged to this girl.

She got pregnant,

and when the amnio came back

't agree on what to do.

So...like that.

Sorry you asked, right?

Check this out.

Two years ago,

hoffman is a professor at hudson,

full tenure and research grants up the ass.

And then he leaves for genatech.

Maybe it wasn't his choice.

(Man) There was no scandal.

Dr. Hoffman was presented with a business opportunity,

and he jumped at it.

All those blood tests add up to serious money.

He left all this for money?

All this isn't all it's cracked up to be.

And he no longer has to deal

with the outraged attentions

of our campus thought police.

One of these groups was giving dr. Hoffman a hard time?

He found a death threat

nailed to the door of his lab.

He suspected a kid

from one of our campus christian ministries,

but he couldn't prove it.

This death threat, can we see it?

I have a copy in my office.

I remember it clearly.

"Hoffman, you are the darwin of deviance,

and you'll burn in hell with the faggots you love."

And why this reference to gays?

That's what hoffman was researching here:

A genetic marker for sexual orientation.

He was looking for a gay gene?

Not just looking. He claimed he found it.

I left that all behind.

I don't do that kind of research anymore.

What kind of research are you doing?

Antigens.

Nothing controversial.

This gay gene, it's for real?

Absolutely.

There are traits

that suggest a physical difference

between gays and straights.

The direction of the hair whirl

at the back of the head of males, for example.

These differences have a genetic basis.

Here.

The xq28 region of the human genome.

And this is what people are upset about?

(Hoffman) Mm.

If sexual orientation is hardwired into our dna,

then it's no longer a choice.

Good news for the gay community.

And bad for our bible-thumping friend.

You had an idea who he was, right?

An undergrad-- luke drummond.

I had a run-in with him

right before I found that note on my door.

I was here all afternoon tuesday,

and then I went home to the community house.

You ask them.

Oh, we will.

Of course, your fellow believers could lie

to cover for you.

Oh, there's no need to.

Hoffman can do all the research he wants.

It's not important anymore.

How do you figure?

If dr. Hoffman's right about this gene,

doesn't that prove being gay

is part of god's design?

All temptation is a part of god's design,

genetic or not.

What if some of these kids here

have a gene for addiction?

Doesn't mean they should just give up and get high.

They can make a moral choice.

So taking drugs and being gay,

it's all the same to you.

It's the same struggle for everybody.

I mean, the anger I felt when I threatened hoffman.

Th w was the devil in my heart.

"Do not be overcome by evil,

but overcome evil with good."

Romans.

12-21.

So instead of death threats,

you're out here doing good.

This is where my faith has lead me.

(Green) People like that make me think

the world ain't ready for a gay gene.

What, some things are better left unknown?

Hell yes!

It's like those women that find out

they have the breast cancer gene.

They get mastectomies

and they still get the cancer.

And some of 'em don't do anything,

and they're fine.

What are you gonna do,

you gonna stop the march of science?

No, it's the march of stupidity I'm talking about.

Let's say you had the gay gene.

Maybe it doesn't mean you're gay,

but if your neighbor finds out you got it,

watch out.

So dr. Hoffman's trying to get his research published.

He couldn't do that without

the university knowing about it.

If somebody wanted to stop him,

that'd be the first place they'd go.

I'm sorry, we're not supposed to give out

any information about university research projects.

Except if dr. Chang says it's okay.

Miss...

I'm sure you want to help us catch the person

that did this.

Oh, that's so sad.

If somebody called here

about dr. Hoffman's study,

maybe even one of his research subjects.

So sad.

Anyway, I still can't talk about the research.

But if you want to know if somebody called

about dr. Hoffman,

that's different.

Okay, we want to know.

They asked if the dr. Hoffman at genatech

is the same dr. Hoffman who taught here.

You get this person's name?

Totally.

I don't give out information to just anybody,

but he said he was a doctor.

Here, it was two weeks ago.

He said his name was doctor paul bellamy.

What are the odds?

I didn't make that call.

I never even heard of sheldon hoffman.

Can you think of anybody that might impersonate you

on the phone?

Somebody violent, maybe hates gays,

or has extreme religious views?

Maybe one of your patients.

Nice try,

but my patients are off-limits.

And you have my assurance as a psychiatrist

they're all garden variety neurotics.

Okay, maybe we can narrow it down a little bit.

This guy knows that a courier

picks up lab samples at dr. Choudhary's office

between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm.

So maybe a patient that has a regular appointment

around that time.

[Sighs]

Doctor, when we arrest this guy, and we will,

i would hate to find out that he spilled his guts

to you about sending this bomb and you did nothing to stop him.

I'm well aware of my legal and ethical obligations.

[Knock on door]

Brilliant.

You locked the door.

(Dr. Bellamy) Mrs. Watkins, I'm sorry. Little problem with the door.

I'll take you right in.

You go right in.

You're still here.

Thank you, doctor.

What the hell was that?

[Door shuts]

I emailed his schedule to my phone.

I figured that much.

Well, if that wasn't plain sight, what is?

Plain sight don't cover what you just did.

It does where I've been for the last four years.

Well, news flash-- you home now,

and you got a partner who don't want to deal

with that headache.

Then I guess you don't want to know

who has an appointment with bellamy

every tuesday and thursday at 5:00.

Dean emerson, lori's brother-in-law.

(Green) We got to hit up the phone dumps.

There was a call to hudson university

from dean's apartment.

(Van buren) He have a history of anti-gay violence

or activism?

(Lupo) No, nothing's turned up.

But he just happened to send a bomb

to someone who worked in the same building

as his sister-in-law.

Dean's call to the university

about hoffman and genatech

might've been a smoke screen to hide the real target.

Lori and her husband were having problems.

Ryan looks like a cut and run type.

He might've been looking for a cheap way

out of the marriage.

And he got his brother to do the heavy lifting.

But we don't have anything on ryan.

The call came from dean's apartment.

So...start there.

Hey, that's my room!

The small one, that's my son's room.

What, you don't think I could read a warrant?

I was a bail bondsman for 15 years.

You can only search the parts of the home

under my son's control.

[Sighs]

The place is clean.

Hmm.

You okay, sir?

Yeah, yeah.

Just this bum ticker.

It'll be fine as soon as you guys clear out.

Do you take pills for your heart?

Yeah, I take pills.

Can I see them?

Please?

Here.

This is a three months supply.

You got it two weeks ago.

So where's the rest of them?

How the hell do I know?

Nitroglycerin.

No different than the nitro in the bomb.

[Chatter on police radio]

Put the nail gun down, dean.

Put it down!

What's going on?

You're under arrest for attempted murder.

Arrest? For what?

No, it's-- it's okay, ryan.

Go take care of dad.

Hey, hey.

Mr. Emerson is a business owner.

He is the caretaker of his elderly father.

Whose heart medication he stole to make his bomb.

(Judge alden) Did he now?

Points for creativity, mr. Emerson.

Bail's 500,000.

[Bangs gavel]

Hey.

Don't worry. I'll get the money.

I'll get the money.

You better find that money quick.

You don't want your brother rolling on you

when we offer him a deal.

You think you can scare us?

Forget it.

It's the emerson brothers bake-off.

First pie out of the oven gets the prize.

Leave ryan out of it.

Dean.

My client's not interested in a deal.

I just think everyone should get

what's coming to them.

No more, no less.

Your kid brother's the only one

who stands to gain from your recalcitrance.

You could convince us that none of this was your idea.

After all, ryan's the violent one.

He's the one with the juvenile record

for aggravated assault.

[Slaps table]

Time is your enemy, mr. Emerson.

Don't leave empty handed.

Motion to suppress.

It's all going out.

The search, the nitro pills, the phone call.

Ask your detectives.

They know why.

The probable cause for the search

was the fact he's seeing a shrink

down the hall from where the bomb was picked up.

And how did you know he was a patient there?

Came up at the shrink's.

The affidavit from dr. Bellamy

says he invoked doctor/patient privilege

and refused to give you any information.

Try again, detective.

Doctor bellamy left his blackberry

in plain sight in the waiting room.

His appointment calendar was on the screen.

You could read it from where you were standing?

No.

I...emailed his weekly calendar

from his blackberry to my phone.

That's a violation of the privilege.

(Cutter) Is it?

Oh...okay.

Thank you, lieutenant.

[Door opens]

I don't care what kind of legal two-step

they dream up,

i know a bad search when I see it.

Tell me you were tying your shoe when he did that.

I was tying my shoe when he did that.

(Cutter) There's no violation.

I'd argue the mere fact

of having an appointment with a doctor

isn't privileged information.

Based on what?

The attorney/client privilege

which doesn't cover an attorney's client list.

Throw in a good faith argument

and I think we got it.

The issue is plain sight.

The caas on the doctor's blackberry screen.

I'd need a telescope to read that.

Well as far as I know

the plain sight rule doesn't have an exclusion

for myopia.

Don't be a wise ass.

Detective lupo couldn't read the information either,

that's why he stole it by emailing it.

He sent himself a digital copy

of something he was allowed to see in the first place.

Is that stealing?

It's never been argued in this context.

And it won't be argued now.

The evidence is still admissible

under the principle of inevitable discovery.

Going back to the call that lead the police

to emerson's psychiatrist,

a search of the university's

phone records would also have led them to emerson.

Your honor,

the court can't reward the violation

of my client's rights.

I don't intend to.

The evidence of mr. Emerson's call

to the university stays in.

The pills and the psychiatrist are out.

I'm also granting the defense's application

for bail reduction,

with the condition that the defendant

will be confined to his home.

This boy of yours, jack mccoy--

uh-uh, no.

We agreed no dumping on jack in front of connie.

Yeah.

How much is out?

Yeah, the news isn't any better here.

Lori wasn't scheduled to work that night.

She was called in sometime in the afternoon.

Which begs the question,

did ryan and dean find out she was working

in time for dean to leave the bomb

where the courier picked it up?

So far the answer's no.

There's no record that lori and ryan

talked to each other tuesday afternoon.

Square one.

When did lori find out

she had to report for work?

Well her supervisor

never spoke to her directly.

He left a message with her parents.

Start tracking down those messages.

My wife gave her the message

I'm not sure what time the call came in.

You can ask her when she comes back

from the powder room.

Ain't gonna let them get away with this, are you?

Ryan and his brother.

No, we'll do our best.

Lori never liked that dean.

Why is that, mr. Drucker?

A leech, bloodsucker.

Living off his brother ryan's hard work,

living off his dad.

Honey,

miss rubirosa here wants to know

about that message from lori's supervisor.

When did you give lori

the message she had to work that night?

Let me think now.

It was just after 5:30.

I finally reached her on her cell phone.

5:30? You sure?

That sounds too late for her to get to work on time.

She said it was no problem

since she was already upstairs in the building.

In the building where she worked? Mm-hmm.

What was she doing there on her day off?

She said she was at a doctor's office.

Her obstetrician?

No, another doctor.

Uh...dr. Hoffman.

I don't know what she was seeing him for.

She's a security guard.

Maybe she was at the lab to discuss security.

(Rubirosa) On her day off?

Your colleague, dr. Brill,

couldn't think of a reason

why lori would visit you.

But she did find this in your lab's records.

It's a record for an amnio you had done on lori.

You ordered the amnio for your research.

Dr. Hoffman can't get into that.

He's engaged in proprietary research.

There are lucrative patents at stake

that must be protected from competition.

Dr. Hoffman should be worried

about protecting himself from me.

He was using the victim for a research project

and he didn't think it worth mentioning to the police.

I didn't know it had anything to do with this bombing.

You're looking for a way to identify this gay gene

in a fetus, aren't you?

That would be correct.

Did lori know what you were doing?

No.

I found out she was pregnant.

I asked her to participate in a research study

to find genetic markers for cancer in utero.

I needed a comparative dna sample

from a member of her family.

Two weeks ago I asked lori

to ask dean emerson for a sample.

He refused.

Why ask dean in particular?

On the questionnaire she filled out for the study,

lori indicated a history of homosexuality

in her husband's family.

Dean...in particular.

Dean emerson is gay? It matters how?

(Rubirosa) Hoffman's trying to identify

a genetic marker for homosexuality in a fetus.

It could be the first step towards a screening test

to see if your baby is gay.

Given the option, how many homophobic parents

would abort fetuses they think are gay?

A whole community could be wiped out of existence.

Dean emerson might not like the idea

of being the last of his kind.

So he tried to kill hoffman to stop it.

We had the right suspect but the wrong motive.

I hear pandora's box creaking open.

(Parrish) You won't be sorry you came all the way out here.

Our proposal is simple.

Dean pleads guilty, you agree to 15 to life,

and you don't oppose his parole after 15.

I'd rather lose the case at trial

than give your client one day off

the 25 years I'm seeking.

And that's not accounting

for the murder charges I'm gonna file

when his sister-in-law dies.

Mr. Cutter, please,

for my father's sake,

I've always been discreet about my orientation.

Your father doesn't know.

On my 18th birthday, I came out to him.

And then every year for five years.

But he never heard me.

So I gave up.

It's not just him.

It's the family, his brothers, friends.

My dad still lives in the same neighborhood

he grew up in, and the trial...

It would be embarrassing.

(Cutter) What part of the trial would be embarrassing

for your family?

To find out you're gay...

Or that you nearly killed your pregnant sister-in-law.

For my family? That's a real good question.

I told lori I needed a dna sample from dean.

A swab from his mouth. Nothing invasive.

She called him from my office to ask him.

And what, if anything, did you hear

of her conversation?

She gave him my name.

She told him she was participating

in a research study.

She started arguing with him.

She called him paranoid.

After she hung up,

she told me dean refused to supply a dna sample.

Doctor, you've received death threats in the past,

haven't you?

Yes. Two years ago.

From a religious zealot.

How about now,

since the news broke about your work

on identifying the gay gene in fetuses.

Any death threats?

Many.

From the gay community this time.

They liked me well enough

when I found a genetic basis for their behavior,

but now...

Are they upset now because

your work might lead to a screening test?

I don't know about that.

Isn't that the patent you applied for?

A screening test to identify this gay gene

in unborn babies?

Yes.

So while you're making millions off this patent,

the gay community is worried

that your test might ignite

what they've termed a gay holocaust.

Objection. Relevance.

Withdrawn.

Doctor,

in light of the highly provocative nature

of your research,

are you aware if the police investigated

any suspects besides my client

in connection with the bombing?

No, I'm not aware of it.

As far as the threats,

i think most people understand that science seeks

only one thing.

The truth.

I don't have any political axe to grind here.

Doctor, isn't it true

that your findings have been rejected

by every scientific journal you've submitted them to?

That's only three journals.

I have successfully screened

for the marker in utero.

That's why I asked dean for a dna sample.

Lori emerson's child carries the marker

for homosexuality.

(Parrish) That's according to your standards.

No further questions.

I knew since high school my brother was gay.

But he wasn't one of those flashy gay guys.

He wasn't political.

He played it cool.

(Parrish) You love your brother, ryan?

Yeah.

He's my big brother.

Taught me how to throw a spiral.

You know, football.

You were arrested when you were 15 for assault.

Tell us about that.

Well, these guys at our high school...

Real muffin heads,

they jumped dean in the parking lot

'cause he was gay.

They hurt him pretty bad.

Dean didn't want to go to the teachers or the cops,

so the next day I called those guys out.

They never bothered dean again.

Knowing dean as you do,

do you think he was capable of sending that bomb?

No.

That's not dean.

Anyway, he can't even connect up a computer, you know?

[Clears throat]

You love your brother.

You love your wife too.

And urnbn child.

Yeah, sure.

I love 'em a lot.

Lori's gonna pull through.

We'd all like that, mr. Emerson.

After his beating,

did your brother receive any medical help

or counseling?

He got patched up at the hospital,

started seeing a shrink for depression.

Objection.

To her own witness?

It's clear where this is going.

Overruled, ms. Parrish.

Ryan, do you know the name of dean's therapist

or where his office is?

I don't remember his name.

But I went on the subway a couple times with dean.

73rd and columbus.

The same building where the bomb was left

to be picked up by a courier.

Approach, your honor.

I want this testimony stricken.

This is the same evidence you suppressed.

She put this witness on the stand, your honor.

She opened the door.

And so you did, ms. Parrish.

The objection is overruled.

(Mccoy) Good recovery today.

What's all this? Your summation?

Uh, parrish's.

Trying to imagine what I would say in her shoes.

"Haber"?

Fritz haber.

German chemist.

Won the nobel in 1918,

invented chlorine gas and zyklon b,

the poison of choice in the nazi extermination camps.

The moral arithmetic defense.

Kill one scientist to save millions.

It's a good one.

If dean had killed haber,

maybe I'd move to acquit.

So what's your rebuttal?

Dr. Hoffman was no fritz haber, right?

Well, if you were a fetus with the gay gene

you might not be saying that.

And this isn't nazi germany.

Dean emerson had other venues available

to voice his protest.

Make sure you point that out in your summation.

By the way, fritz haber's wife committed suicide

to protest his work with poison gas.

Maybe mr. Emerson should've followed her moral example.

[Knock on door]

Not sure what to make of this.

The defense just added an alibi witness.

David drucker, lori's father.

(David) It's real simple.

The day you say dean was planting that bomb

he was at our house in long island,

fixing the leak in our powder room.

He even stayed for dinner.

It's strange that dean never contacted you

to provide an alibi.

Dean and I don't always see eye to eye on things,

but...maybe he thought I wouldn't stand up for him.

But he's family.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Lori's things have been taken away,

is she being moved?

Yes, tomorrow, to obstetrics.

Icu on three.

Is something wrong with her baby?

No, baby's fine.

Are you family?

No, we're, uh--

we're with the district attorney,

so whatever you can tell us.

Well, I can't talk about this case in particular,

but for someone in lori's condition,

bringing a pregnancy to full term

reduces her chance of recovery

from 5% to almost nothing.

But if the pregnancy is terminated now,

her chances stay at 5%.

(Cutter) Wait, that's what's gonna happen?

The pregnancy's being terminated?

It was her husband's decision.

[Scoffs]

What happens

f [scofchances are almost 100%

the baby would grow to full term

and be delivered healthy and normal.

Aborting a healthy boy for a 5% chance

of saving your wife.

I--i don't know what ryan's thinking.

It's desperate and unexpected

like david drucker's sudden testimony.

So what changed?

Hoffman.

He testified he found the gay genetic marker

in the fetus.

You mentioned how much david dislikes dean.

What if it's homophobia?

And someone like that wouldn't be thrilled

with a gay grandson.

He made a deal with ryan.

Abort the child in return for perjured testimony

to save ryan's beloved brother.

I'm gonna be sick.

(Cutter) Later.

We gotta get a stay to stop that abortion.

Put that away.

Judge bell'll never talk to you ex parte.

[Sighs]

But he'll talk to me.

I need you to issue a stay

to stop the abortion of lori emerson's child.

My people believe it's the quid pro quo

in an illegal agreement

between ryan emerson and his father-in-law

to obstruct justice.

You mean the alibi testimony from david drucker?

He's scheduled to take the stand tomorrow.

And the abortion is scheduled for the morning.

We think this agreement is being driven

by drucker's homophobic bias

against his unborn grandson

he believes carries a gay gene.

You have evidence there's a connection

between the testimony and the abortion?

No, but if we're right,

the abortion goes through,

the harm is irremedial.

Stay is the only remedy.

If drucker's testimony

isn't credible,

your remedy is cross examination.

By then it'll be too late, joe--judge.

It isn't just about the obstruction of justice.

It's nice to still see you tilting at windmills.

Jack, you have no evidence of conspiracy.

What's it gonna cost you to delay a few hours?

And no standing to challenge

ryan emerson's medical power of attorney.

I'm sorry, I...

Your application for stay is denied.

[Elevator dings]

He didn't go for it.

Terrific.

I should've talked to him.

Believe me, if he said "no" to me

he would've said "no" to you.

Jack, I never heard of arthur branch

fighting your battles for you.

Is this what you want to talk about here?

Now, if you want to do something about the abortion,

there might be a way to derail the train.

Dean emerson--

does he really know the price of this alibi?

Maybe not.

May be time for a family powwow.

(Parrish) I'll have you know

I had to skip pilates to get here this early.

Do I have to guess, or is this about--

(cutter) Have a seat, please.

In case you're wondering

where your alibi witness is,

mr. Drucker is at the hospital with his wife

attending to their daughter.

She's in obstetrics icu

being prepped for a procedure two hours from now.

Oh, what kind of procedure?

Did you really think mr. Drucker's helpful testimony

wasn't coming at a price?

Did you think that homophobe

would do you a favor?

(Ryan) He's doing it

because it's the right thing for our family.

Then why don't you tell your brother

what procedure lori's undergoing this morning.

The procedure you approved.

(Dean) Ryan.

Ryan, tell me what you did.

He's having lori's pregnancy terminated.

He's aborting your nephew.

Your nephew with the gay gene.

That's the price of drucker's alibi.

It's not why. It's lori, man.

If I keep the baby,

she's got almost no chance of coming back.

You're sacrificing your son

for the slimmest hope.

(Dean) Ryan, don't--don't do it.

Stop it!

(Ryan) They'll put you in prison forever.

Forget about the kid.

Dean...

Why is it so easy for him to dispose of his son?

You know, don't you?

Yeah.

I know.

You're just like dad, aren't you?

Shut up. Your son,

your gay son, deserves a life--

you don't know what you're talking about.

(Cutter) This is it, dean.

This is what killing hoffman was supposed to stop.

A gay holocaust right in your own family.

I don't want this.

Then take away

the reason for ryan to do it.

(Cutter) That boy's life is in your hands.

If you don't step up now...

Yeah.

I didn't mean for lori to get hurt.

I know.

I forgive you. Just shut up.

No, I did it. I sent the bomb.

Dean, stop!

I knew if hoffman found the gene in the baby

with lori and her parents,

that kid had no chance.

So now you don't have to go through with it, ryan.

There's no point.

You want this kid to have a life.

Like what? Like yours?

You forget what school was like?

All the miserable days, all the beat-downs?

Even now you can't have a normal life.

You can't be yourself around dad.

I don't wish that kind of life for anybody.

Ryan...

Don't say that.

It would be the same as if this kid had a disease.

Being gay is not a disease.

Yeah, well where we live, bro,

it might as well be.

Ryan postponed the abortion for two days.

That doesn't leave him much time for soul searching.

I doubt it'll make any difference.

What parent doesn't want his child

to have the perfect life?

That's one area where science has been no help.

How to keep well-meaning people

from making lousy decisions.