All language subtitles for Law and order S18E05 - Driven

(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 really been
over here before?

Yeah, I copped some weed
from those guys last week.

You copped weed
from Those Guys?

You're such a wuss.

You wanna play with me?

Uh, he will.

[Speaking rhythmically]
My mother and your mother
were hanging up clothes.

My mother punched your
mother right in the nose.

What color was the blood?

It was turquoise.

Let's go.

Turquoise.

T-u-r

q-u-o-i

s-e.

Turquoise.

A unit from the two-five
responded to a radio run

of a shots fired
a few minutes after 8:00.

Unit got here quick; 8:14.

Looks like she caught one
in the chest.

Any witnesses come forward?

No, nobody yet.

She's got on a necklace.
It says "tanya."

She must be, like, nine or ten.

Sarge!

We got something.

One in the neck,
one in the shoulder.

The neck looks like
a through-and-through.

[Screaming]

Turley.

Turley, I want
this street cleared now.

Push those people back.

It's gonna hit the fan now,
my friend.

Let's go;
Make a hole.

(Man)
Oh, they got the brass
up in here now!

Oh, it's something now, huh?

You got a white boy down;
Now it's something.

Hey, lieutenant, nice night
for a walk.

Tell me a story.
I hear two kids were shot?

Yeah; One over there,
a white male,

mid-teens, no I.d.

Two shots,
close range.

And we got, uh,

tanya anderson; Ten years old,
black, one shot.

The shooting
took place over here.

There's two shell casings
on the ground.

Blood on the curb.

Just two shell casings?

Well, the boy had a
through-and-through on his neck.

He got shot first,
staggers on down the block--

through-and-through
hits the girl in the playground.

You know, this used to be
a free-fire zone.

Rumor has it
it was cleaned up.

I kinda got news for 'em.

Boss.

Chief of d's is here,

with the deputy mayor.

Chieif they're heree,
to get a photo-op

with the dead girl's mother,
she just left.

Hey, yo.

Our john doe's prints
aren't in the system.

All right, well, I found some
paint scrapings

in the treads here,
so maybe

he was someplace
they were stripping paint.

Well, whoever he is,

he spent some of the last hours
of his young life

in a swimming pool.

Smell his hair.

Chlorine.

Like, from a pool
at the y, or school?

The tests on his hair show
the ph wasn't as harsh

as what you'd find
in institutional pools.

I noticed there's a couple
new luxury high-rises

a few blocks
from the shooting.

They advertise indoor pools
on the roofs.

[crying]
oh, my god! My god.

My baby.

I have to see him.

Of course, we'll have someone
drive you there.

I'll go get my coat.

What happened
to my son?

Tell me.

He was shot,
mr. Kendall,

over on 105th street.

Do you know what
he might have been doing there?

No.

he was shot,
how can that happen?

You went to
the theater last night?

Yeah.

Uh, we came home about 10:30.

David's door was closed,
we figured he was asleep.

Looks like you just moved in.

You do any renovation,

strip paint off the wall,
that sort of thing?

What?
Uh, no.

Do you know anyone
who is doing renovations?

Uh, someone
david would visit?

The steels are renovating
their brownstone on 109th.

David's friends
with their boys, andy and josh.

Uh, david came over
around 7:00.

He was here, maybe,
I don't know, an hour?

Did he tell you guys where
he was going when he left?

Uh, no, he just said
he was going home.

Why, is he okay?

um, no, ma'am.
He was shot and killed

near the playground
on 105th.

Hey, are you josh or andy?

Josh.

How 'bout it, josh?

David say anything
to you?

You know what, boys, let's go;
We're going to be late.

(green)
We have more questions
for them.

I'm sorry,
it's my morning to carpool.

And anyway, they were home
all evening with me, so...

And, frankly, I'm not that
surprised about david.

Why's that?

I'd heard he'd been
experimenting with drugs.

(Sanchez)
This schoolyard
used to be a hot spot.

But the developers moved in,
brought a bunch

of yuppies with them.

There's fewer places to sling.

Still, we got one crew
back here.

We ran a buy and bust
a few weeks ago.

You collar anybody?

Just the grunt that did
the hand-to-hand.

Dude who has the corner
goes by "ty'lan."

That's him.
Over there.

Red jacket.

Hey, why don't you take a walk?

So long, b.
Hold it down.

So what'd I do?

We just wanna talk.

Okay, you think obama's
gonna go all the way?

You see this boy
here last night?

That's the kid
that was shot?

Yo, what makes you think
I was over there?

Hey, ed, take a look
at that watch.

Where'd you get that,
canal street?

It's a patek.

I don't know.
It looks like a knock-off to me.

Oh, so it's gonna
be like that, huh?

Yeah, I guess it's
gonna be like that.

Okay, I seen that boy yesterday,
just before supper.

He came with about two
of his friends.

They walked by.

Two friends?

Two white kids.

They looked alike.
Like brothers.

And they just walked by,
that's it?

That way.
With a basketball.

Then about five minutes
after that,

they walked right by here again,
without the ball.

And one of the brothers
was crying like a baby.

What happened,
he get hurt?

Didn't look it.

I heard some of the ballers
that play down the way

took the ball from him.

Can I get my patek
back now?

Hey guys, let's go.
hop in.

Come on.

(Lupo)
Is there anything
you'd like to add

to what you told us
this morning?

Like the part about you being
at the playground

with david yesterday?

You forgot that, right?

We were scared.

Scared of what?

Scared of the dope dealers
over there; They killed david.

We're not sure about that.

What about the guys
that took your ball?

Made you cry?

It was david's ball.

And it had
his initials on it.

Yeah, there were, um,
there were four of them.

And they asked to borrow it.

But they never
gave it back.

And that's why david
went back there last night?

To get his basketball back?

Yeah, but there was no way
we were going with him.

(Lupo)
These four guys,

can you describe them?

Maybe you heard their names?

Um, they were black,
17 or 18, and, uh,

the one doing all the talking,
he was wearing

a throwback
earl monroe jersey.

Number 10.

(Josh)
Yeah, but it wasn't
the knicks.

It was
the baltimore bullets.

You remember anything else?

Yeah, they said if we ever
came around there again,

they were p a cap
in our white asses.

He wears an earl monroe
bullets jersey.

When I come out here,
I focus on my game.

You, sir?

Called him black jesus.

Who, the kid in the jersey?

Earl the pearl.

Madison square garden,

1969.

I don't know, man,
a lot of kids wear throwbacks.

Yeah, but this one's special.

It's earl monroe,
baltimore bullets.

Am I keeping you
from something?

I just don't know anything
that will help you.

What am I, new?

(Green)
Tanya anderson spent a lot
of time in this playground.

She wasn't much older
than your daughter.

Tanya was a sweet kid.

You remember her?

But you don't
remember the boy?

He played ball here a lot.

Sorry, I don't remember
the young man.

Come on, sweetie.

Well, I'm getting
nothing, you?

Man, let's get out of here
before I lose it.

(Lupo)
We've been over that
neighborhood three times.

We've rang
every bell.

Well, maybe the steel brothers
were wrong

about the jersey.

It's not just that, loo,
everybody gives me

that "don't ask me" look
before they even know

what I'm looking for.

Yeah, same deal here.

Most people I talk to
just don't seem to care.

You really believe that?

Well, I get the "don't snitch"
thing, you know,

and the "white boy,"

but the little girl,
she's from the neighborhood.

I got news for you, detective:
You really don't get it.

We got a report
from ballistics?

Yeboth slugs are
from the same weapon.

A raven's arm .25;
It's a little punk gun.

Look, loo,
we're nowhere on this.

We need somebody
with some weight

that can throw it around.

And break things up.

Jonas, both children were killed
with the same gun

by the same man.

Someone from the neighborhood.

But no one's talking
to my people.

Self-preservation.

In case you haven't noticed,
the neighborhood's turning

white and rich.

Families are being
forced out.

My officers can't afford
to live in the city anymore.

That's your community, anita.

My community's just trying
to hold on to its own.

Well, if "don't snitch"

is how you define
your community,

maybe it's not
worth saving.

Okay, what if I get
people to come forward?

Always wheelin' and dealin'.

That's how things
that need doin' get done.

St. rita's
at 108th and amsterdam.

They're talking about selling it
to a condo developer.

There's nothing illegal in that.

St. rita's is the beating heart
of this neighborhood.

It closes,
and it's "game over."

But if the church was designated
a historic landmark,

it would stop the deal.

I know you got
friends downtown.

It's extortion;
Two children were murdered.

Durning should jump
at the chance

to do his civic duty.

What, you don't agree?

Twisting a few arms in city hall
is something adam schiff

used to do
with his eyes closed.

He saw it as part
of this job, I don't.

Not yet.

It sets a bad precedent.

Everybody will have
their hand out.

What, they don't already?

(Van buren)
There are more important things

than another high-rise
on the upper west side.

Have you ever seen st. rita's?

It's a beautiful church.

Okay, I'll do what I can
with the landmarks commission,

but I better get
what I bargain for.

(Jonas)
I was at little tanya's
funeral.

I didn't see no players

in their "don't snitch"
t-shirts paying their respects.

You wanna see more dead children
in our neighborhood?

Then keep your mouths shut,

while the white boy's people
cry out for justice,

loud and clear.

Cry out!

Snitch on killers, run them out
of our neighborhood!

Way to go, loo.

[Phone ringing]

Detective green?

Yeah, mr. "I never take
my eyes off my game"?

Well, sometimes I do.

Um, the boy in
the "earl the pearl" jersey,

his name is will.

He lives with
his father at 228.

Across from the playground?

I talked to a kid named will,
he had a girlfriend.

Yeah, pretty puerto rican girl.

(Lupo)
That's the one.

Never took him
for a bad apple.

Thank you, sir,
for coming down.

You need a ride uptown?

No, I'll take the train.

Huh.

228, the shell casings were

practically in front
of the place.

Well, that won't give us enough
to get a warrant for the gun.

But we might be able to get
one for a stolen basketball.

Let's go.

My son's not a thief.

Right, he just borrowed
that basketball.

Ain't that right, will?

Aren't you a little old
for snakes and ladders?

I play with my cousin, man.

Here we go.

D.k.

David kendall.

Your son's under arrest.

For what?

Right now, robbery.

[Heavy rattling]

Feels like loaded dice.

A raven arms .25.

You have the right
to remain silent.

I don't need a lawyer.
I didn't do anything.

Ballistics just got the gun.

They're ready
to start the tests.

(Green)
You know what that means, will?

In less than ten minutes,
we'll know if that gun

fired the slugs that killed
tanya anderson

and david kendall.

I want to speak
to my dad.

You don't need
your dad.

You're man enough
to kill two people,

you're man enough
to tell the truth.

My boy's no killer.

Witnesses saw him
take the ball from that boy.

Now, maybe one of his friends
did the shooting,

and will's just
hiding the gun?

Can I talk to him?

He's 17;

he's not entitled
to speak to a parent.

It's under the microscope now.

(Green)
Look, we already know

that shooting tanya
was an accident.

it was.
Right, good.

So what happened
with the boy?

[Cell phone rings]

(Lupo)
Look, they got a match
on one slug.

Last chance, kid.

I just need
to speak to my pop.

My wife died
when will was little.

It's just him and me now.

You never even dream
of something like this.

I was worried about four
different things that day,

not my kid.

Any parent would blame
themselves, mr. Manning.

But your son got himself
into trouble.

What did he say?
What did he tell you?

Nothing.
It's time to call the d.a.

Ballistics got a match
on both slugs.

We're charging your son
with two murders.

No, no.
I got will into this.

What are you trying
to say, mr. Manning?

The white boys,
there were three of them.

Those boys came back,
they had baseball bats.

they caught will
on the basketball court.

They chased him,
I saw them.

They would have killed him.

You saw them?

Out of the window?

Were you outside?

What did you do,
mr. Manning?

I shot that boy.

I shot him so he wouldn't
kill my son.

The people request remand.

Well, my--
my client

is not running anywhere.

Not with half the news vans
in the city

laying siege to his house.

They are there because
mr. Chester invited them

for his daily
press conference.

I have no intention

of letting this city forget

that the district attorney
is prosecuting a man

for defending his family!

[Cheers]

[hammering]
mr. Chester.

Address yourself to me.

Let's move on.

We can't move on
until we set the record straight

on these so-called murders.

Now, I have here
with me

an eyewitness,

my client's son,
who will testify

that his father acted
to save him

from lethal harm.

Let's swear him in right now.

Your honor,
this is not the time.

(Judge morretti)
Mr. Chester, no one
is testifying today,

and you know it.

Bail is set at $1 million.

[Appalled reactions]

[Hammering]

Next case.

I told my community
their voices counted.

Now I hear you don't
care what an eyewitness

has to say.

The steel brothers deny
that they were there.

And will manning refused
to talk to my detectives

about anything.

(Rubirosa)
And now clifford chester

won't let us near him.

Don't tell me you all
can't get around that.

(Cutter)
I suppose we could,

if we didn't mind
violating the sixth amendment.

Maybe if you
talk to chester--

(jonas)
What am I,

the official
police punk?

I don't think you all
really care

what a young black man
has to say.

I'm not sticking
my neck out for you.

(Mccoy)
What's it gonna
take this time?

Want us to move a lamp post,

or name a park
for your favorite nephew?

These people speak
for tanya anderson

as much as they do
for david kendall.

They don't deserve
your contempt.

Now, st. rita's
is fast-tracked

for historic preservation.

If you want it
to stay on there,

you'll talk
to clifford chester.

Do we understand each other,
mr. Durning?

I'd say you got
the hang of this job.

I don't think mr. Durning's
gonna get anywhere with chester.

Subpoena will manning to testify
before the grand jury.

The same grand jury we're asking
to indict his father?

It may be the only way
to get him to talk to us.

I was on the court
by myself

when these three white kids
came at me.

They had metal bats.

(Cutter)
Did you know them?

They were the same kids
me and my friends

kicked off the court
earlier that day.

Why did you do that?

I don't know,
because they were new kids.

I mean, we didn't
do nothin' wrong.

We just talked trash.

Took their ball.

And they came back
that night?

Yeah.

The one kid who got shot,

he asked me
for his ball back.

I said I didn't have it.

So he took a swing at me.

A swing,
with his bat?

Yeah.

I moved out of the way,
and he hit the bench.

I tried to take of
And he just ran after me.

Tell us what happened next.

I saw my dad
on the stoop.

Then I heard shots.

What happened
after the shots?

One of the kids fell.

My dad grabbed me
and pulled me into the house.

And the other kids,
they tried to help

the kid who got shot.

Then grabbed his bat and ran off
towards the park.

The park?

You mean the playground?

No, I mean central park.

That way?
Are you sure?

I've lived on that block
all my life.

I know where central park is.

Will manning said
the steel brothers ran this way

toward the park,
when they live west.

That way.

Right, if you're in trouble,
why run Away From home?

(Lupo)
So this big dent here
looks fresh,

and it definitely could have
been caused by a baseball bat.

Well, it's consistent
with will's testimony.

Maybe they were running to a car
parked around the corner.

Yeah, but the steel brothers
are 14, 15?

I'm just saying,
maybe somebody drove them.

Maybe, if,

sometimes the facts
are simpler.

There was one boy,
david kendall, no bats,

and will manning shot him,
not his father.

You might be able
to sell that story downtown,

but up here,
I wouldn't even try it,

unless we covered every lead.

Okay.

Find me the friend
with the car.

[School bell rings]

(Green)
You're on the soccer team,
right?

Uh-huh.

With andy steel,
you don't hang out

with the rest
of the players?

Uh, andy got kicked
off the team.

Why?

Too many red cards.

He--
I've gotta get home, okay?

Okay.

Well, I've been getting
the preppy version

of "don't snitch," you?

I found out that andy got a lot
of red cards in soccer.

He's got a violent streak.

I'm going to go
talk to the coach.

I didn't kick andy off.
He quit.

So, you would have kept him,
even with all those red cards?

I could have
worked with him.

He's not a bad kid.

Well, you don't get red cards
for Good Behavior.

Yeah, listen,
would you help us out here?

We've been getting
the brush-off all afternoon.

Andy's not the problem.

It's his mother.

She kept telling him
to stand up for himself.

Don't back down.

She actually told him
to head-butt another player.

I banned her
from the games.

So she made andy quit.

Excuse me.

Soccer mom-ster.

Maybe she told kendall
and her boys not to back down.

You know what?
hmm?

She carpooled them
to school.

Maybe she carpooled them
to the fight.

Will told us the steel boys
tried to help kendall.

If his blood got on them,
maybe it got in the car.

All right.

I don't want
to make any stops

or have to come back, okay?

mr. Steel?
Yes?

We have a warrant
to search your car.

Our car?
What for?

It's in the warrant.

but, we're going
to our country house.

(Lupo)
Not in this car.

If you need anything,
you'd better take it now.

Nolan...

What?
I got my briefcase in here.

Is something wrong?

No, no.

(green)
What's in the box?

blankets.
For the country.

Here.

(Lupo)
What about that?

I don't know.
Gretch?

It's just some trash.
if you--

It's a little early
for spring training.

(Nolan)
Gretch, what the hell is this?

you don't understand.
you're under arrest,
mrs. Steel.

No, you really
don't understand.

please, if you would
just allow me to explain--

you don't understand.
this is not--

this is not what i--

gretchen?

Nolan...

What's thbout?

Stay there.

Is there some section
of the penal code

i don't know about?

It's not just the bats.

Your client's garage confirmed
she took the family car out

the evening of the shooting.

Fine.

So let's even assume

that she drove her boys
to 105th street.

She was parked
around the corner.

She had no idea
what was happening.

Where did she think
she was taking her sons?

To batting practice?

No, they were going
into a bad neighborhood, and i--

she had no idea
some maniac was going

to come charging
out of his house, gun blazing.

She's a respectable woman.

It's the wife
of an investment banker.

There is nothing respectable
about her behavior.

I'm indicting her for riot
and criminal possession

of a weapon until I can figure
out whether felony charges

are appropriate.

Gretchen steel
is an active member

of the manhattan valley
improvement project.

What do they do?

According to one editorial,

they're a group
of newly arrived yuppies

who specialize in filing
nuisance complaints

against the poorer residents
of the neighborhood.

Who are mostly people of color.

Maybe she used her sons
to send a message.

Maybe ray manning used his gun
to send his own message.

He was facing eviction
because of a rent increase.

Maybe he had a bone to pick
with the white families

who were displacing him.

Or maybe just the white kids
trying to de-brain his son.

While you two get
on the same page,

what do you want to do
about gretchen steel?

Her sons are being charged
with attempted assault

in family court.

How about charging her

with two counts
of reckless manslaughter?

Two irresponsible parents
contributed to this tragedy.

Well, if ray manning
gets convicted,

and she doesn't,
I don't want to be in this city.

We could just stick them both in
a room and let them duke it out.

Maybe you can, at least
in the same courtroom.

Try them together,
you mean?

Him for murder,
her for manslaughter.

Can we do that?

(Cutter)
It's a single
criminal incident.

one trial,
two legal theories.

And one jury,

who will be loathe to acquit one
while convicting the other.

It's absurd, trying my client
with a self-confessed murderer.

It's prejudicial.

(Chester)
Yes, to my client.

Why should mr. Manning by
this sorry excuse for a mother?

(Granick)
And why would mrs. Steel
want to be lumped together

with this
trigger-happy hothead?

Easy, counselors.

(Chester)
Your honor,
my client and his

have completely
different defenses.

Which isn't grounds
for severance,

your honor.

People v. Mahoubian?

He's right, the shooting
was a single event,

and there's no inherent
factual conflict

between their defenses.

Motion for separate trials
is denied.

No, david wasn't swinging
at the black kid.

He smashed the bench
just to scare him.

Then what happened?

Then the black kid started
running across the street.

And we chased him.

like I said,
just to scare him.

I mean,
that was the whole point.

Just to let him
and his friends know that...

That they couldn't
push us around.

And, um,

and then we saw this black guy
coming down the stoop.

um, it was
that man right there.

He just fired.

He killed my friend
and that little girl.

(Cutter)
Now, andy, you testified

that it was david's idea
to go get his ball back.

And what did your mother
think of that idea?

Um, I don't know.

(Cutter)
Did your mother object
to david's idea?

Did she forbid you and josh
from going with him?

Um...

No.

She encouraged you,
didn't she?

Objection.

Leading the witness.

He's testifying
against his mother.

He should be considered
a hostile witness.

Quite right.
Overruled.

Mr. Cutter?

My thanks
to defense counsel.

Andy, your mother
encouraged you, didn't she?

Yes.

(Cutter)
She told you the same thing

she did when you were
playing soccer:

To stand up for yourself.

Yeah, she said that, um...

That if we didn't do anything,

they'd push us right out
of the neighborhood.

Was it her idea
to bring baseball bats?

Yes, she said that those kids,
they probably had knives.

Mr. Granick goes first.

Andy, your mother told you
to bring those baseball bats

for self-defense.

Not to hurt anybody, right?

Yes, that's right.

Young man.

Show me how you were
holding the bat

when you were chasing
my client's son.

Get up; Show me.

Like that?

Okay, so...

When you were chasing
my client's son

and you were holding
the bat like that,

did you yell something like,
"don't worry, kid!

We're not gonna hurt you, these
bats are just for self-defense"?

No.

Will was running toward me.

I saw one of the white boys
right behind him.

He had his bat up.

He looked like he was
about to swing.

So I shot at him.

You thought your son was
in mortal danger, didn't you?

Yes.

I honestly thought that boy

was gonna kill my son.

I'm sorry about
the little girl.

I knew her
from the neighborhood.

She was--

i can't sleep at night
thinking about that.

I was just trying
to save my son.

How far away from you
was your son

when you fired
at david kendall?

Maybe from here
to the table.

Ten feet.

He was running
toward you,

so he was one or two seconds
away from safety when you fired.

Correct?

I don't know
about one or two seconds.

My boy was in danger,
so I reacted.

Well, why didn't you react
by yelling "stop"?

Or firing a warning shot?

There wasn't time.

Because it Looked Like
kendall was about to swing.

That's what you said.

What was I supposed to do,
wait for my boy to get hurt?

You didn't want to wait,
did you?

Isn't it a fact you'd
been building up

a head of steam all day?

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

You told the police

you were worried about
four different things that day,

including an eviction
notice, correct?

You couldn't afford
a rent increase?

Yes, but--

all those white people
moving into your neighborhood

driving up property values.

Didn't that make you mad, sir?
wasn't it unfair?

Sure it was unfair, but--

that's what was going
through your mind

when you saw that white boy
chasing your son:

The injustice of it all.

I--

i don't know, I was--

i just--

i don't know.

No more questions.

My sons and their friend
were scared.

My son said that
they wanted to move out

of the neighborhood.

But I said that
that was out of the question.

That we weren't moving.

This was our home now.

What, if anything,
did you suggest they do?

Well, I let them decide
what to do.

I did tell them
what I've always told them.

And that is that you have
to stand up to bullies.

My sons had just as much right
to use that basketball court

as mr. Manning's son.

What happened after you got
to 105th street?

Well, I, uh--

i dropped the boys off
around the corner.

And I told them to come
right back to the car

at the first sign of trouble.

Then I heard
these popping noises,

and andy and josh
came running back,

and they were terrified.

They, um--

they said that david
had been shot,

and that somebody with a gun
was after them.

And we drove away.

You know I was going
to call the police,

but then I thought--

i thought about my sons and,
you know, the trouble

that they would be in, and...

I don't know,
all I could do--

all I could do was think
about protecting them, so--

is that why you lied
to the police after?

Yes, yes it was.

It was to keep my boys
out of trouble.

It's what any mother
would do for her sons.

Out of trouble?

Didn't you drive them into
trouble in the first place?

She doesn't have
to answer that.

No, you know,

i would like--
I would like to answer that.

My parents always taught us
that you have

to stand up to bullies.

(Cutter)
Isn't going
to the authorities

the appropriate way to deal
with bullies?

Well, if--

if this was my son's school,
absolutely.

I would go to the principal,

and I would let him deal
with the bully's parents.

but the kids on this
basketball court, I mean,

who knows if there's
a parent at home?

How do you even begin
to find them?

We're right here, lady!
talk to us!

[Hammering]

Get him out of here!

Get off me!

You don't like
your new neighbors,

do you, mrs. Steel?

That's not true.

People's 22.

You filed grievances against
them for littering, correct?

Well, yeah, but they leave
fast food wrappers,

and beer bottles on my steps,
so i--

for disturbing the peace?

(Gretchen)
They congregate outside
of their homes,

and they drink,
and they play music.

And they talk very loudly
until all hours of the night.

Look--

i understand that there
are cultural differences,

but i--i think that all of us
want a decent,

safe place to live.

Cultural differences?

Yes.

You know, between our culture
and theirs.

Us and them,
mrs. Steel?

You know what I mean.

I'm afraid I do.

No more questions.

I was over at one-p-p,
I thought I'd track you down.

That case goes
to the jury tomorrow.

I'm worried
about the outcome.

You, me, and the whole city.

This was found
on the basketball court

this morning,
105th street.

I was at one-p-p
for a tactical meeting.

They're talking about
mobilizing the department

for the verdict.

When's the last time we offered
plea bargains here?

My summation's ready.
I can win this.

Famous last words.

Even said them myself
a few times.

Two guilty pleas
solves a lot of problems.

Expediency instead
of justice?

Justice doesn't only happen
in the courtroom.

There's too much
on the line here

to go all-in.

Make a deal.

Why should my client
talk about a plea?

I know I have three, maybe four
jurors leaning his way.

And I definitely have
four leaning our way.

And if you're wrong,
will you serve the 15-25 years

your clients are facing?

Well, just to be polite,
what's the offer?

Five, ten.

(Gretchen)
Five, five what?
Five years?

You expect me to spend
five years of my life in jail?

I didn't hurt anybody.

This is all your fault,
lady!

Your son started this,
you shot two children!

I was protecting my own!

I didn't do anything!

Enough, do we have a deal
or not?

Hell, no.

No, not a chance, no.

My client didn't kill anybody.

Nor did she tell her sons
to kill or attack anybody.

Nor did she have any reason
to believe that her actions

would bring about
someone's death.

Then why, you may ask,

is she here, charged with
two counts of manslaughter?

Simple answer.

She's here because
of political pressure

on the district attorney
to put a white face

at that defense table.

You may not like my client,
you may not like her opinions.

That's no reason to convict
an innocent person.

(chester)
We all want justice.

We all want someone punished
for these tragic deaths.

Now, you can punish
this father,

who acted in defense
of his son,

who was seconds away
from being beaten to death.

A father who told the truth
because he had nothing to hide.

A man who's truly remorseful
for these tragic deaths.

Or you can punish
this woman,

who armed her sons,

and took them on
a vengeful mission.

Who lied, and lied again
to the police.

An unrepentant racist.

Who thinks that might
and money make her right.

The decision is yours,
ladies and gentlemen.

Justice is in your hands.

This was a playground dispute
between teenage boys

over a $30 ball.

Now, we expect teenage boys
to be impulsive

and irresponsible.

But teenage boys didn't turn
this dispute into a tragedy.

Their parents did.

Gretchen steel,

who bullied her boys
into going back

to get their ball.

Who, in defiance
of common sense,

carpooled them to a street-fight
with baseball bats.

Ray manning,

who, on impulse,
ran out of his house

with a loaded gun.

Who, without warning,
without thinking,

and with callous disregard,
fired into a public street.

Any reasonable adult would
have kept their kids at home.

Any reasonable adult
would have found a way,

short of lethal force, to get
his son out of harm's way.

You may think that
this white woman

and black man
have nothing in common.

But they share blood.

The blood on their hands.

Now, you've watched them
point the finger at each other,

shirk responsibility,
acting like children.

No more,
ladies and gentlemen.

Make them take responsibility.

(Judge laramie)
Has the jury
reached a verdict?

Uh, we have,
your honor.

Mr. Manning,
please rise.

On the first count
of the indictment,

in the death
of david kendall,

murder in the second degree,
how do you find?

We find the defendant
not guilty.

[Relieved reactions]

[Hammering]

(Judge laramie)
Let's have order in here.

On the second count,
in the death of tanya anderson,

murder in the second degree,
how do you find?

We find the defendant

guilty.

(Judge laramie)
Mrs. Steel, please rise.

In the death of david kendall,

manslaughter
in the second degree,

how do you find?

We find the defendant

not guilty.

(Judge laramie)
In the second count
in the death of tanya anderson.

Manslaughter
in the second degree,

how do you find?

We find the defendant guilty.

I understand the jury

has a statement
they'd like to read?

(Juror)
Yes, your honor.

We, the jury, think
this terrible event

never would have occurred

without both defendants
causing it.

And we recommend they should get
the exact same sentence.

Justice.

Who would have
thought it?