All language subtitles for Law.and.order.S20E20.HDTV.XviD-LOL

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.

Hey, you! You work here?

Dead soldiers.
Take 'em, replace 'em.

I've had enough, randy.
I wanna go.

You're so down tonight.
You wanna go home with that guy?

He looks like he's
into depressed chicks.

It might cheer you up.

I just wanna go home.

Okay.

Okay.

Phil. Yeah, bring the car around.

Last stop, princess.

No wounds, no trauma...

Except a fresh needle
puncture in her left forearm.

Couple old tracks.

Heroin amateur.

Tox screen'll tell the story.

My money's on an o.D.

Limousine, private townhouse.

She could afford to
buy the good stuff.

A little too much of it.

It was drugs, wasn't it?

Oh, we won't know for a while,
miss douglas.

The deceased... She was your niece?

Yeah.

Annie was living in
the house with me.

I thought I could
keep an eye on her.

Her parents couldn't?

Her mother's dead and...

Her father, my brother,
is in belize with...

Uh...His fourth wife, I think.

Oh, god.

She was with her cousin randy.

They, uh, hit a
couple clubs downtown.

Took off for home about 3:00 a.M.

With one stop, uh... 90th and lex.

- Hit another club?
- Not that I could see.

Randy got out of the car,

Came back about ten minutes later.

They sat for a few minutes,
then...Randy told me

To drop him at his place
and take annie home.

You see what they did when
they were sittin' in the back?

No. The privacy glass
was up all night.

I couldn't see a thing.
For all I know,

They get back there,
have orgies, fly kites...

Run chariot races.

Did you take anything
from the backseat

Once you found the body?
Chariots...Anything?

- I didn't touch a thing.
- Okay.

Why don't you hang
out for a minute?

No drugs, no works-
nothing back there.

Cousin randy cleaned up.

He scores the dope, they shoot up,

His cousin is dying...

And he sends her
home with jeeves.

Nice guy. Can't wait to meet him.

Sub by Adriano_CSI

Mr. Colwyn doesn't deny

That he was with his
cousin last night,

But he has no knowledge
of what she did

After he left her.

Okay. Does mr.
Colwyn have any knowledge

Of what he did on lexington
avenue and 90th street

At 3:00 a.M.?

My client told me
he needed to urinate.

The driver said that you were out

For a good ten minutes.

You have a problem
with your bladder?

No. I was getting some air.

The, uh, car was stuffy.

Hmm. And you thought
a little heroin

Would improve the atmosphere.

You have your answer,

And now mr. Colwyn must leave

To be with his family
while they grieve.

Grieve, my ass.

He left her dying
there in that car-

Or already dead.

Well, did you get a
line on his dealer?

No calls on his cell.

Either he had a
standing appointment,

Or his dealer's open 24/7.

This dead girl...

She was found in a townhouse
owned by henry douglas?

That was her grandfather,
you know,

The super-rich guy that
died of cancer last year.

She was living there with her aunt.

The henry douglas
cancer pavilion.

I've been there for tests.

Douglas's name is
all over the place.

He endowed the
hospital with his money

While his grandkids
spend theirs on heroin.

At least he didn't
live to see this.

Find out where cousin
randy does his shopping.

All right, so randy got
out of the limo at 3:00 a.M.

Right here- where did he score?

Well, if he walked
into a building

Where a doorman saw him,

His lawyer wouldn't
let him lie about it.

Right.

That place, on the other hand...

Hey.

'scuse me.

Oh, man,
hey... She's lying, okay?

Whatever she said, she's lying.

That's the exact thing
I told my partner.

No credibility.

Now, maybe you can
do us a favor back.

You see this man in the building?

So you- you never talked to her.

Nope. But we can.

Have you seen that guy? - No.

Did anybody in the building
have late-night customers?

People coming and going?

What are you talking-
hookers, dope?

Well, damn, what do you have in there,
a department store?

I hear things. I don't see 'em.

I'm here mornings.
Hey, this doorbell

Doesn't buzz-it just makes
the phones ring, right?

- Yeah, so?
- So it's a phone.

There'll be records of its calls.

3:00 a.M. I was sleeping.

Yeah? Then you
were sleep talking.

Who called you from the street?
You know what?

That's a private matter.
I don't have to talk to you.

Detective lupo...

I see a suspicious-looking
white powder

On the piano back there.

I'll wait right here until
you get the search warrant.

- You can't see anything.
- Wanna fight about it in court

After we search your place
and find your stash,

Which you won't get back,
no matter what?

Or do you just wanna answer
a few simple questions?

Like who came to see you
last night at 3:00 a.M.?

Some rich kid. Comes in a limo.

Real discreet.

Him?

What'd he buy?

- Come on.
- Just between us.

Scout's honor.

Couple glassines of madman.

And works for two.

Randy colwyn bought the drugs.

He left her dying in the car.

He cleaned up,
and he lied about it.

Wouldn't it have been smarter

To leave the needle in her arm?

He could have claimed she
was fine when he left her.

First of all,
he's not that smart,

And second of all,
he did supply her with the heroin.

Well, best case we can make is
criminally negligent homicide,

Maybe second-degree manslaughter,

And that's assuming a grand jury

Doesn't see it as
a tragic accident.

What if it wasn't negligence?
What if he did it on purpose?

Why?

Randy and annie are cousins,

Both grandchildren
of henry douglas,

The zillionaire that just died.

Might be interesting to
know what's in his will.

In case a pot of money
goes to his grandchildren

And one less grandchild
means more money for randy.

Worth lookin' into.

Mr. Douglas's primary heirs,

Aside from his charitable bequests,

Are catherine, her brother,
and her sister.

And you're what, mr.
Graham, the executor?

Coexecutor.

He's my attorney and accountant.

What does this have to do
with what happened to annie?

We're just wrapping things up.

Did she and the other
grandchildren inherit anything?

Yes, they inherit per
stirpes behind catherine

And her siblings.

They divvy up a set amount.

The less of them,
the more each one gets.

You want to know if randy
benefited from annie's death.

Did he?

Randy...Is a disappointment.

He's not a murderer.

Let's just get straight
on this one point.

Did he benefit?

Well, actually,

The way the will
is structured, yes.

We're only here as a courtesy

To stop this ridiculous
investigation.

How ridiculous is
it that your client

Would be a million dollars richer

Because of the death of his cousin?

What?

I have no idea what
you're talking about.

We're talking about
his grandfather's will.

Come on, randy.

You're telling me you didn't
know what was in that will?

- No.
- Uh, talk to me.

That will hasn't
even been filed yet.

Well, that doesn't mean

That randy doesn't
know what's in it.

He had the motive
to kill his cousin,

And he gave her the
drugs that did kill her.

Two plus two.

He's looking at criminally
negligent homicide.

I didn't kill annie.
It was an accident.

- Randy...
- It wasn't even my idea.

She was just depressed
after granddad henry died.

She-

She visited him every day
at that balichek clinic.

She cried so hard,
they had to sedate her.

So she wanted to forget.

He gave her the drugs
and cleaned up afterwards.

Consciousness of guilt.

You willing to bet

That a jury won't think
he knew about that will?

Criminal facilitation. Probation.

Hmph.

Okay on the charge,
but he does a year.

Six months.

Deal.

Six months.

Trust me, it was a weak case.

At least he'll see
the inside of a jail.

- Hey, lieu.
- Yeah.

You ever heard of
the balichek clinic?

No. Why?

Randy just mentioned that's
where his grandfather died.

He builds a cancer hospital,
gets cancer,

And goes somewhere
else for treatment?

And dies, leaving
his heirs a fortune.

He did die of cancer, right?

Colorectal cancer.

You want us to check it out?

Give it half a day.

Worst case, maybe I'll
find a better doctor.

Of course mr. Douglas
came here when he got sick.

He built this hospital.
But he didn't stay here.

No. The tumor had
penetrated his bowel wall,

And there was evidence
of metastasis.

There was nothing that
you could do about it?

Of course there was.

We have one of the best
survival rates in the nation.

With radiation and chemotherapy,

He could have lived
another year, maybe two.

Then why did he leave?

You'd have to ask his daughter.

She wasn't satisfied with
our plan of treatment,

And she had a lot of
influence over her father.

So catherine douglas
took her father

To this balichek clinic.

She wanted an
experimental therapy

She'd read about somewhere.

- Why didn't you do it here?
- Because we don't offer it.

- Why not?
- Because it doesn't work.

'scuse me.

The medical establishment-

They always do what they always do,

And they always get
what they always get.

- Which is?
- Moderate success

With easy cancers.

I didn't know there were
any easy cancers.

Oh, sure...If you brutalize
them into submission.

Chemotherapy-it's destroying
the village to save it.

- What do you do differently?
- Hormonal therapy,

Augmented by nutritional
supplementation.

Most of the advances come
from independent clinics

In germany and switzerland.

If you had six months,
I could explain them to you.

We have techniques
for curing cancers

That establishment
medicine can only retard.

You didn't cure henry douglas.

He came here too late.

Please, leave your
passes at the front desk,

And don't forget to sign out.

The guy's controversial,
to say the least.

The way the mainstream
literature describes it

His cancer therapy consists of
fairy dust and magic potions.

He's been sued for
malpractice a dozen times.

The ama have him on
their watch list.

But the patients
keep coming, right?

There's nothing like the
diagnosis of terminal cancer

To get people looking
for a magic potion.

Lately, check out which people.

Those are recent death certificates

Filed by dr. Balichek's clinic.

Dot-com billionaire.
Widow of a real estate mogul.

They all left high-end places

Like the douglas cancer pavilion

To go to the balichek clinic.

And die there.

It's a roach motel
for millionaires, lieu.

They check in...
But they don't check out.

Doctors gave my
mother a year to live-

A death sentence.

No discussion of
alternative therapies,

No attempt to find another way.

She was my mother.

The least they could
have done was lie to me.

So you put her into dr.
Balichek's care,

And she died six weeks later.

That's right,
but she went down fighting.

She was given a chance.

The original doctors

Opposed the move to
the balichek clinic.

Well, they would, wouldn't they?

They said you influenced
her decision to move there.

Dr. Balichek offered us hope.

I would do it again.

Last fall,
my father was diagnosed

With stage three pancreatic cancer.

His doctors gave him a
month at the outside.

They made arrangements
to ship him to a hospice.

we just weren't
ready to let him go,

So I did some research
and found dr. Balichek.

He gave my dad six months

That we never thought
we would have.

Your father survived longer

Than his original doctors thought.

He had time.

Time to say good-bye.

We all did.

It was a blessing.

Right. Well,
thank you for your time.

we're sorry if
we upset your wife.

No, it's... It's all been hard.

Those last few months were hell.

Hell and...A blessing.

The old man's last
months at balichek's clinic

Weren't my idea of a blessing.

Tubes stuck in everywhere.

So many meds,
he couldn't think straight.

When my time comes,
just pull the plug.

please.

If we were thinking some
kind of murder scheme here,

That last case pretty
much scotched it.

Dr. Balichek kept the patient
alive longer than expected.

So unless we're gonna charge
him with anti-homicide...

No, no, no. It's perfect.

They all died in 2010,
right? - Mm-hmm.

So the ones who had
longer life expectancies

Got cut short,

And the one who was
supposed to die in 2009

Was kept alive into January.

Right...

Right.

You see, there is
a leftover loophole

From the bush tax laws.

There's no estate tax in 2010.

So if a rich person
dies in 2009 or 2011...

Your heirs pay
millions to uncle sam.

But die in 2010,
and they keep it all.

My accountant
explained that to me.

Not that my heirs will
have much to worry about.

okay, so there is a
money motive to kill,

And what, these loving
sons and daughters

Ship their old folks off to dr.
Balichek to do the deed?

What's in it for balichek?

There has to be
some kind of payoff.

These family members
inherited fortunes.

There's plenty of loose change
to kick back to the doctor.

Well, I'll call
rubirosa for a subpoena.

Why is this necessary?

Miss douglas was happy
to answer your questions.

A different area, mr. Graham.

We're looking at payments
from any of her accounts.

To whom? Her nephew, her niece?

Dr. Balichek.

She didn't make any
payments to balichek.

Her father paid all his own bills.

We assume miss douglas is aware

That because her
father died in 2010

There's no tax on his estate.
Everyone's aware of that.

It's been on the front page of
the wall street journal

A dozen times.

She never expressed
any particular interest.

No, she didn't.
What are you accusing her of?

We'll have these back
as soon as we're done.

No payments to balichek.

But she is redecorating
with italian marble.

Yeah. And drinking
french wine at $500 a pop.

Her father died
February 10th, right?

Yeah.

From her personal account.

There's a check to amanda green for 300,
000, February 12th.

Amanda green.

Yeah. Her name's on
the visitor's log

At the balichek clinic.

A go-between?

That money was for me,
not dr. Balichek.

Do you mind telling
us what it was for?

I guess not.

It was a settlement of our
joint financial affairs.

You and catherine douglas
were in business together.

In life together.

Up until a few months ago,
we were lovers.

We lived together,
traveled together.

Owned property together.

But you do know dr. Balichek.

I met him at his clinic
when I visited henry.

So you were friends with
your ex-girlfriend's father?

The rest of catherine's family

Wouldn't acknowledge I existed.

But henry and I...

We both loved gardening and...

The master and commander novels.

The others, they...

I never saw any of them visit him.

Except annie.

They were just waiting
for him to die.

Waiting for his money.

What was your impression
of the care he was getting?

I'm not a doctor, but...

It was clear he was dying.

I know he had some hope that dr.
Balichek would...

You think he wasn't
getting good care?

His original doctors
thought he could have lived

For another year or two if
he had stayed with them.

But catherine... - Oh, god.

I thought she was kidding.

About what?

Catherine was never
close to her father,

And she just milked
him for all she could.

She didn't understand
why I liked him.

You thought she was
kidding about what?

Well, last year,
she came home from a meeting

With her accountant,

And he told her about
some estate tax thing...

That if her father died in 2010,

There'd be a lot more money.

And she was laughing about it.

She said, "if the old son
of a bitch has to go,

He might as well do it in 2010."

I thought she was kidding.

The ex-girlfriend will testify

That catherine douglas wanted
her father to pass in 2010.

That still could
be a coincidence.

People die.

Oh, yeah? You think
that's a coincidence?

Bruce graham is catherine
douglas's accountant.

He also worked for roger
weil and louise casey.

Those are the other two
people whose parents died

At the balichek clinic.

Yeah, they died in 2010,

And they were crying their
eyes out-sons of bitches.

It's graham. He's in the
middle of all of this.

He worked for dr. Balichek too.

He signed off on several
payments for malpractice claims.

So he knows the good doctor

Has a habit of
killing his patients.

Graham tells his clients
about this tax loophole

And about dr. Balichek,

And they send their moms and
dads to the balichek clinic

Where they kick right on schedule.

And the heirs save millions.

But what's in it for graham?

Well, all three heirs named him

Executor of the estates.

Estates that big,
they get huge fees.

My first accountant
serial killer.

I believe it. How do we prove it?

There's the
ex-girlfriend's testimony.

That's good, but not enough.

I need one of these people
tell the story to a jury.

Let's bring 'em in.

They'll be shocked
we even suspect 'em.

Somebody'll crack. - Maybe.

What if we really shock 'em?
Arrest 'em.

- Which ones?
- All of them.

- This is outrageous.
- Uh-huh.

Dr. Balichek-you too?

I don't understand any of this.

I'm trying to reach my lawyer.
Nobody say a word.

Nobody say anything.

It's getting kind
of crowded in there.

- Where do you want these two?
- Chain 'em to the coke machine.

Let's go. This way.

People v. Catherine douglas,

Bruce graham, vincent balichek,

Roger weil, and louise casey.

Charges are...Three counts of
murder in the second degree

As to defendants
graham and balichek.

One count each,
murder in the second degree,

As to defendants douglas,
weil, and casey.

All plead not guilty.

Quite the distinguished group.

I feel like we ought
to be serving canapes.

They don't belong here, judge.

The district attorney
is putting on a show.

It's no show.
Three people are dead.

Of cancer. Why not
indict the grim reaper?

Well, he's outside
the jurisdiction.

But he had help from
these defendants,

As the evidence will show.

People seek remand.

Several of the accused
have multiple residences.

Which they are willing
to put up to secure bail.

Cash is always so much more elegant,
don't you think?

1 million per.

Oh, and, um...Passports. Please.

You might as well be wearing
a sign on your forehead,

Mr. Cutter: "tell us a story,
and we'll let you go?"

Well, that would depend

On what story your
client has to tell.

My mother got sick.
My mother died.

That's the story.

She died at dr.
Balichek's clinic.

You care to tell us
how that came about?

Dr. Balichek said he could
prolong my father's life-

Which he did.

Right into 2010

When his estate passed
to you tax-free.

Even granting your
preposterous assertion,

How is it possibly a crime
to keep someone alive?

There was a conspiracy
to fix the time of death.

It happened over and over.

All that happened was that
I gave those people hope.

Which expired,
in every case, in 2010.

Sick people die.

Especially when they submit
to the so-called treatments

Of the medical establishment
before coming to me.

If there are complaints

About the way dr. Balichek practices
medicine, Its a medical review board.

Not a trial for homicide.

It doesn't have to come to that

If dr. Balichek will tell us

How he came to treat
so many wealthy clients

Of mr. Graham.

Even if graham did recommend dr.
Balichek, so what?

He's a licensed physician,
not a mob hit man.

With a track record that
would make a hit man jealous.

Your former lover's testimony

Will help explain
what really happened.

Really.

What do your former lovers
have to say about you?

I thought someone would fold.

Big game like these people,

If you don't bring 'em
down with a single shot,

You're in trouble.

Maybe you shouldn't
have been so quick

To arrest the entire
upper east side.

Oh, like you never
went out on a limb?

Okay. Okay, so we go to
war with the army we have.

There's the testimony
of the ex-girlfriend

That catherine douglas
met with graham

And came home salivating about
her father dying in 2010.

That's graham,
the homicidal accountant.

It all connects through him.

He sent the heirs to the doctor

Whose specialty was making
sure people died in 2010,

And he got rewarded by
being named executor.

The jury will see the pattern.

Or not.

Motion to sever.

Defense wants three
separate trials.

Gentlemen, your table is ready.

He has to work.

Yeah.

The premise of the people's case

Is that all five defendants

Participated in a common plan.

An understanding of the
pattern of the crime

Requires that they
be tried together.

The strongest suggestion

That this so-called pattern exists

Would come from making
these five individuals

Sit together in front of a jury.

The people are attempting to
establish guilt by proximity.

Mr. Cutter,

You are alleging three
separate homicidal acts

At three separate times.

What homicide, your honor?

As to defendant casey,

The charge is that she
prolonged her father's life

For a mercenary reason.

Now...I I can't find any statute

That makes it a crime to
prolong a life for any reason.

She only prolonged
her father's life

Until she saw fit to end it.

No sale, mr. Cutter.

Charge against miss
casey is dismissed.

As for the others, judge,
if a juror believed

An allegation against
any defendant,

It might be applied
improperly to them all.

Ah, save your breath. I agree.

Motion to sever is granted.

Maybe it's a
blessing in disguise.

We'll lead with our strongest case.

You're happy we just lost?

The charge against casey
was never gonna hold.

We don't have a
witness against weil,

So we'll start with
catherine douglas.

All we have is the testimony
of her ex-girlfriend.

That, plus the deaths Of weil's
mother and casey's father.

Were you and I just
in the same courtroom?

The judge said we
couldn't try them together.

He didn't say a world
about people v. Molineux.

We can introduce
evidence of uncharged acts

To show a common scheme or plan.

Right. So we can bring
in the other deaths

Without needing to prove them.

The ex-girlfriend's still
our star witness, though.

How bitter was their breakup?

Will the defense be able
to accuse her of lying

Out of spite?

I can check westlaw and see
if they've ever sued each other.

Catherine...

Douglas...

And amanda green.

Oh, my.

Catherine douglas
wasn't just your lover.

Only in some fictitious sense.

Some legal fictitious sense.

You are parent and child.

We were together for a long time.

Before gay marriage existed,

A lot of gay partners
adopted each other

To get family rights,

To visit each other
in the hospital,

Own property together,
all kinds of things.

Including financial things.

Did Randy dougles know about this?

No. We didn't tell anybody.

Would have made most of
catherine's family crazy.

Ha. It will now. For sure.

As catherine's daughter,

You're henry douglas's grandchild.

You have a share in
that part of his estate.

I never thought about that.

Why is this a problem?

I'll still testify
against catherine.

She's not really my mother.

- Yes, she is.
- Technically, legally.

So what?

She inherits the largest
part of her father's estate.

But if she's found
guilty of his murder,

That inheritance gets barred.

She can't profit from her crime.

It passes to her next
of kin-her daughter.

You.

All of it?

You have 50 million reasons
to lie to convict her,

And the defense won't be shy
about pointing that out.

Your testimony will
be worthless unless...

What?

You renounce the inheritance.

No.

You want the money

More than you want
to see justice done?

- No, but...I don't
- I don't want to See

that money go to henry's
other relatives.

They were vipers.
They never appreciated him.

And it...It...

Wouldn't be just for me.

Well, who would it be for?

My unborn daughter.

I'm pregnant.

So you see any more
blessings in disguise?

- No.
- If she doesn't

Renounce that inheritance,
our case falls apart.

Then we'll just have
to renounce it for her.

You heard what she said.

She doesn't think of catherine
douglas as her mother.

- So?
- So the adoption is a fraud.

We'll get it nullified.

We do things a bit less
formally in family court,

But we are on the record.

Then we should note
that miss douglas

Is here under false pretenses.

She's trying to protect
herself from a murder charge.

That's why she's
opposing our motion

To invalidate her
adoption of miss green.

Not so.

My client is here to protect
the right of gay people

To enter into family relationships.

Even if miss douglas
doesn't have clean hands,

My client does.

Miss green has no agenda
except for that principle.

And to preserve her share
of an enormous inheritance.

That's not why I'm
fighting this, catherine.

No matter what you might think.

It's nice to see you
again too, amanda.

People, let's stay on point.

Uh, mr. Cutter contends that
your adoption was a fraud.

Miss green told us

That she never considered
miss douglas to be her mother,

That she considered
her to be her spouse.

Is that right?

We couldn't be spouses legally.

At the time, it was the only
way we could be related.

But if you could have
married miss douglas,

You would have, wouldn't you?

Yes.

Miss douglas, you too?

So you lived as spouses,
behaved as spouses,

Felt yourselves to be spouses,
not mother and child.

When the relationship ended,
did you consider yourself

Still a part of
miss douglas's life?

No.

So the marriage,
if you will, was over.

If you had been married,
you would have gotten divorced.

Your honor,
what is the point of this?

The point is that this adoption

Was the equivalent of
marriage in all but name,

So it needs to be accompanied
by the equivalent of divorce.

I do find that persuasive.

- Your honor-
- you have to consider-

Your clients considered
themselves married.

The adoption was a sham.

One they were forced into

By the state's shameful
failure to allow gay marriage,

But a sham, nonetheless.

The adoption is invalidated.

I will, however,
take a further step.

As mr. Cutter has so
eloquently argued,

These two were essentially married.

I see no reason, therefore,

Why they should not be
accorded the marital privilege.

Uh, miss green is barred from
testifying against miss douglas

In any criminal proceeding.

I hear congratulations
are in order.

Your brilliant argument
just made new case law

About the marital privilege.

Yep. And destroyed my own case.

They're calling me
"boomerang" mike.

That ruling is unsupportable.

The privilege only applies
to legally married

Heterosexual couples.

That judge thinks that's wrong.

Well, it doesn't matter.

A family court ruling isn't
binding in criminal court.

Unless the trial
judge says it is.

Who'd you draw? - Laramie.

His son got married
to a fine young man

In massachusetts last year.

Good luck.

The people are trying
to have it both ways.

They had miss douglas's

And miss green's adoption
invalidated on the grounds

That their relationship
was really a marriage.

Now they're saying it's
really not a marriage.

I personally defer to
their earlier argument.

And I personally would
be happy to attend

Miss douglas's and
miss green's wedding.

But this isn't personal.

It's about the laws of
the state of new york.

The statue says
that a husband or wife

Shall not disclose a
confidential communication

Imparted during their marriage,
but society has changed.

For better or worse,

Those changes have not been
accepted by legislature.

For better or worse?

Are you attempting to conduct a
wedding right here, mr. Cutter?

Well, I would if I could,
your honor.

If his commitment to
equal rights is so strong,

Maybe he'd care to
withdraw his motion.

If this actually were
about equal rights, I might.

But miss douglas is only waving
the banner of civil rights

To weaken our murder
case against her.

Well, it is refreshing

That we're all on the same
side of the moral issue.

But I'm afraid the legal issue

Compels me to rule for mr. Cutter.

Miss green can testify.

The spousal privilege
does not apply.

It was about equal rights,

No matter what you said in there.

Look, I'm sympathetic.
I really am.

But I need your testimony.

Well, I'm afraid it's not
gonna be much good to you.

Why not?

Because what I told the
police about catherine

Wasn't true.

I was still mad at her
about our breakup.

No. It was true. She got to you.

I'm just setting
the record straight.

What-what was it,
money? Some kind of threat or-

You can call me to the stand,

But I'll have nothing negative
to say about catherine.

Oh, I see news travels fast.

I've known these women
for years, mr. Cutter.

If you're counting on them
for anything, forget it.

They break up, they make up.

They claw each other's eyes out

Then fly to barbados together.

You've lost amanda
green as a witness.

It's time to end this charade.

What, so your client can
get back in the business

Of arranging murders?

2010 still has a ways to go.

The only charge I am guilty of

Is explaining the tax code.

How much more of your time and
energy do you want to waste?

We'll keep you posted.

How much more of our time and
energy do you want to waste?

Well, if the lesbians
aren't reliable,

We'll go a non-lesbian route.

What else do we have?

Louise casey.
She's not a defendant anymore.

We could subpoena her.

The woman whose
father lived longer

Than he was supposed to.

Maybe we've been going
about this backward,

Focusing on the people dr.
Balichek killed.

How, exactly, did he keep mrs.
Casey's father alive?

He used chemotherapy.

And balichek hates chemotherapy.

He wrote a journal article
denouncing it as poison.

He was trying to keep louise
casey's father alive until 2010.

That's the only explanation.

He violated his own principles.

It discredits him.

You can use it against
him at his trial.

I don't want to
use it against him.

I want to use him against graham.

But dr. Balichek is your hit man.

Isn't that what you've been saying?

He was a strange kind of hit man.

We've been trying to
figure out how he was paid.

Yeah. We've been through
all the defendants' accounts.

We can't find a single
suspicious payment.

Maybe he got a bag of cash
in a blind pig in chinatown.

Or maybe he did the job for free.

A pro bono hit man.

A hit man who didn't
know he was a hit man.

What if he's sincere,

He believes in his
cockamamie therapies?

And if anybody knew they
didn't work, it was graham.

He wrote the guy's
malpractice checks.

So he sent those patients there.

But balichek had no idea
he was being used that way.

He's guilty, but he's innocent.

I'm gonna drop the
charges against him

And make him my witness.
To say what?

If you're right, he was a dupe.

He doesn't know anything.

No, but he knows why he
violated his own principles

And gave someone chemotherapy.

Hmm.

I can't talk to you
without my lawyer.

Yes, you can.

We've dropped the
charges against you.

- You have?
- You didn't do anything wrong.

You treated henry douglas and roger

weil's mother to the
best of your ability.

- That's what I've been saying.
- And now we believe you.

Well, that's very-

But mrs. Casey's
father was different.

He was extremely
sick when he got here.

He was dying.

The establishment
doctors had given up.

They always do.

But you treated him
the establishment way,

With chemotherapy.

Can you tell us why?

I was just trying to sustain him.

You don't believe
in chemotherapy.

You're famous for not
believing in chemotherapy.

Would you like me to read from
some of your journal articles?

- I know what I have written.
- Well, then, why?

Was it something
louise casey asked for?

Or graham?

Or are you a hypocrite?

You get people to your clinic

With the promise of
cutting-edge therapy,

And then you just serve up the
same old establishment junk.

No.

It was graham.

He asked me to keep the man alive

By any means necessary
until January.

He said it was...Something
to do with an inheritance.

And if I didn't do it,

He'd pull out the patients
that he'd already brought me.

It has not been easy here.

My ideas are not widely accepted.

If I had cured someone
like henry douglas,

Do you know what that
would have done for me?

And I almost did it too.

If douglas had just
lived a little longer.

How?

There's an experimental
stem cell therapy.

I needed placental cells
from a close blood relative.

Amanda green volunteered.

She's pregnant, you know.

But she's not a blood relative.

No. But she conceived in vitro.

The egg was donated by
henry's daughter catherine.

If that baby came
from catherine's egg,

Catherine has a strong claim to it.

Pretty big club for
her to hold over amanda.

No wonder she changed her story.

But if amanda tells the truth

And sends catherine to prison,

Catherine won't get the baby then.

Who knows? It'll be a big fight

With a lot of money
on catherine's side.

You know, until we
annulled the adoption,

That baby was catherine's daughter
and her granddaughter.

She's my sister.
Chh! She's my daughter.

She's my sister.
Chh! She's my daughter.

Chinatown. That's nice, jack.

You know, when king
solomon had a situation

Involving two women and one baby,

He resolved it by threatening
to cut the child in half.

We don't have a sword.

No. We've got something better.

So we all know what happened,
miss green,

We know what catherine told you
About her father dying in 2010.

I told you I was
lying about that.

No, you weren't.

She's threatened to take the
baby away from you, hasn't she?

And we know it's her egg.

I assume you did things this way

So you would share maternity

So the child would
be both of yours.

But her egg donation makes it hers.

Fascinating. I thought
you brought us down here

To offer us a deal.
I will if I have to.

But I'd rather convince miss green

To testify truthfully.

But I can't do that.

And I know you think you know why,

And maybe you're right, but...

That's all I'm gonna say.

If catherine goes to jail,

No judge will give her the baby.

But what if my
testimony isn't enough?

What if... What if she
doesn't go to jail?

Oh, yes, she will.

Even without you,
we can subpoena mrs. Casey,

Dr. Balichek has agreed to testify.

And if we have to,
we'll offer a deal to graham

And get his testimony too.

Graham? You wanted my
client to roll on him.

Even if she does go to jail,

She might get the baby anyway.

She's got money. She's got lawyers.

No.

Well, you might
be right about that.

So we've made arrangements.

You all remember
cousin randy, right?

- Aunt catherine?
- What is he doing here?

We're working on the paperwork

That would allow him
to serve his sentence

For accidentally killing
your niece under house arrest

So he could take care of the baby.

- Him?
- Mm-hmm.

Well, catherine will be in jail.

Her brother's out of the country.

Her sister's an alcoholic,

And randy is the baby's cousin.

And he's available.

You can't possibly be serious.

Oh, completely.

We're prepared to go to
family court tomorrow.

By the way, randy.

The baby will be
inheriting a fortune

From your grandfather's estate.

That will be under your care too.

I...

I've always been
really good with kids.

Good. So that's settled.

We just wanted to give the
two of you a heads-up.

What if I do it?

Testify against catherine.

For god's sake, amanda-

You really want the
baby to go to this idiot?

- Of course not.
- Well, then do something!

- What--
- you do something.

What if I give you graham?

Catherine,
you don't have to do this.

The whole thing was his idea...

How we could save
money by making sure

My father died this year.

How dr. Balichek was
sure to kill him

Whether he meant to or not.

I didn't really think it mattered.

My father was barely conscious.

All right,
you plead to manslaughter.

You do jail time.

So what happens to the baby?

Stays with amanda.

And, um, when you get out,

Who knows?

Who knows?

Catherine gave it up.
Graham saw he was cooked.

He pleaded to a single count.
Took ten years.

I never would have
let you give the baby

To that idiot cousin.

And solomon wouldn't
have swung his sword.

It was theater.

Bravo.