All language subtitles for Law & Order s20e05 Dignity.eng

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 e offenders.

These are their stories.

- Good morning.

Morning, jess.

Looks like somebody's
ready for a nap.

- Yeah, if I'm lucky.

The more tired she is,
the more she fights it.

- Excuse me.

- Peace be with you.

Let us pray.

Dear father,

We gather together,

One family,

In the presence of your love.

We ask you to open our hearts

And our minds

So that we may be at peace.

We ask you to grant us courage

So that we may stand up
to adversity

and seek out justice and truth.

We ask you to delight
in our laughter.

In times of...
[gunshot]

- [woman screaming]

[all screaming]

- Dr. Walter Benning...

Shot once, back of the head,
during opening prayers.

- Anyone not have
their head bowed?

- Parishioner
on a cigarette break

Saw a white male
run out of the church,

Drive away
in a dark blue sedan.

- Oh, thank heaven for smokers.

- One 9-millimeter
shell casing there,

No sign of any weapon.

- Except for the one
that the doctor's packing.

He's also wearing
a bulletproof vest.

Lot of precaution
for Sunday service.

- The doc has reason
to be careful.

He's taken a bullet before.

- It has to be said...

Can I get a witness?

- One person was facing
the congregation during prayers.

- No, I'm sorry.

My eyes were closed,

And when I heard the shot,
I hit the floor.

I don't have
dr. Benning's courage.

- What... what courage
is that?

- Dr. Benning
was an abortion provider.

Specialized
in the toughest cases...

Third trimester.

He was one of the few
willing to risk his own safety.

- A lot of christians

Would consider
what he did murder.

Any of your members believe
in an eye for an eye?

- Our church
advocates tolerance.

Benning's been coming
to services here

Without incident
for the last ten years.

- A devout abortionist.

- Walter benning believed
he was doing the lord's work...

Prayed to the same god
as the rest of us.

- Well, he should've prayed
a little louder.

Transcript from a Canadian source
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- I begged walter
to stop the abortions.

But he was stubborn.

- Where was his practice?

- He had an office
in manhattan,

But he did the abortions
at his clinic in riverdale.

That's where
they shot him last year.

- Did they catch the assailant?

- A pro-lifer.

She's in prison upstate.

Now one of those zealots
came back to finish the job.

- Uh, mrs. Benning,
I'm lieutenant van buren.

I'm very sorry
about your husband.

You have my assurance
we'll do everything

To find his murderer.

- These people,
they call themselves godly...

Shooting a man while he prays.

I'm sorry.

I have to make
the arrangements.

- We are talking about
the usual suspects here, right?

- The only suspects,
according to the wife.

- Well, check
with benning's staff.

Uh, maybe our shooter
tipped his hand.

- Chemo must be a real picnic.

- [crowd chanting]
god loves children.

- The merchants complained

The protesters were hogging
the parking spaces.

The landlord hired us

To enforce
the two-hour parking limit.

- You're out here all day.
You hear things.

Any of thesesero-lifers
make violent threats,

Maybe flash a gun?
- Not this bunch.

Mission for life...

They just do a lot
of griping and chanting.

- The security cameras...
who owns them?

- Landlord put 'em up
on the cheap, mostly for show.

- Thanks.

- Mission for life
are fanatics,

But they had a grudging
respect for walter.

- Didn't one of them
try to kill him last year?

- In the parking lot.

But she wasn't
th mission for life.

If you can believe it,

Those fanatics held the shooter
until the police came.

- I can believe it.

What kind of threats

Had dr. Benning
been attracting lately?

- Attracting?

You make it sound like
he was doing it on purpose.

- I don't think that's
what my partner was saying.

- Well, he was providing
late-term abortions.

That's a lightning rod
for trouble.

- Detective, new york state law

Allows for abortions
after 24 weeks

If the life of the mother
is at risk.

- Yes, I know the law.

Are you saying
that every abortion here

Was because a mother's life
was in danger?

- I'm saying ending a pregnancy
in the third trimester

Is an agonizing decision.

Our patients
had prenatal diagnoses

Of genetic disorders,

Fetuses developing
without organs.

Most of our patients
wanted a baby.

The others are girls,
ten, eleven,

Rape and incest victims.

I am proud to work here.

And now, unless we can find

Another doctor who's brave
enough to step up,

We'll have to close.

- Who's jonah leland?

All the messages in here
are from doctors or women,

Except this guy.

He called
half dozen times last week

Asking for dr. Benning.

- His girlfriend's scheduled

To come from pennsylvania
tomorrow for a procedure.

- Okay, well, what did he want?

- I don't know.

He only wanted to talk
to dr. Benning.

He sounded angry.

- It's important
you don't get discouraged.

Every patient responds
to chemo differently.

- I'm a big girl.

Let's cut to the chase.

- After a course of cisplatin,

There's no appreciable
shrinkage of the tumor.

- Okay.
So we try something stronger.

- There are other drugs
we can try.

The side effects may be worse.

- Well, the nausea
I can handle,

Dying, not so much.

So bring it on, doctor...
whatever it takes.

- No way.
I never called dr. Benning.

Blair would've been mad at me.

- Blair, your girlfriend?
- Ex, she broke up with me.

- Before or after she decided
to have an abortion?

- It was her decision.
I was supportive.

- You a born-again
christian, jonah?

- Yeah. Mostly.

- Except the
"sex before marriage" part?

- I'm against murder.

- So you're pro-life,

But you support blair's decision
to have an abortion?

- There was something wrong
with the baby.

I couldn't deal.
I don't even have insurance.

- A genetic abnormality?

- Something
I never even heard of.

Blair told me.
It went right out of my head.

- When you told her
you couldn't deal,

Is that when she decided
to have an abortion?

- Yeah.

Look, I got to get
back to work.

My boss is looking at me funny.

- You know what?
Forget the abortion debate.

You should need a permit
to have kids.

- In your world, a kid hardly
has a chance to be born.

- You know what?
About that,

Not to step on your
freedom of speech or anything,

But we're not here
to get into arguments

With witnesses.

- I don't know, lupes.

That nurse at the clinic
basically admitted

That benning was performing
illegal abortions.

- That's not the crime
we're investigating.

And if you think forcing
an 11-year-old rape victim

To give birth is okay,

Then you and I got nothing
to talk about.

- You got it backwards, man.

The horrible thing is the rape,

Not the bringing of a life
into the world.

- All I know is,
an unwanted child's

Already got
two strikes against it.

- That unwanted child
could change the world...

Cure cancer, be president.

- Yeah, or put his finger
on the button

And blow up the world.

- That's not for us to decide.

[engine turns, stops]

I was born
two months premature.

My mother was unmarried,
uh, poor.

Seven months pregnant,

She panicked, threw herself
down a flight of stairs.

- So I almost
had another partner.

- That's all I'm saying.

[engine turning]

- My baby's gonna have
fragile skin disease.

It's gonna need
round-the-clock medical care.

And when I told jonah,
he freaked.

- So you scheduled
an appointment with benning.

- Dr. Benning
said he'd help me.

He said the baby
wouldn't suffer.

- And jonah was okay
with that decision?

- Jonah's selfish.

There's no way he could handle
a sick baby.

- Must have been
a tough decision.

You already bought baby stuff.

- My father bought a crib,

'cause he...
he really wanted a grandson.

- How did he feel
about the abortion?

- A couple months ago when I
showed him the sonogram picture,

He started crying.

I can't have this baby.

Who's gonna help me now?

- Blair's baby was diagnosed

With ehlers-danlos syndrome.

The skin is so delicate,

The slightest touch
causes tearing,

And it can be fatal
without constant medical care.

- But you were willing to take
on that responsibility.

That's a big commitment.

- Yeah.

I told blair I'd work three jobs
if I had to.

We'd find the money.

- Your daughter told us
she didn't want the baby.

- She should have made
the decision earlier.

She's 28 weeks.

That's not a fetus.
That's a child.

- And did you try to talk
to dr. Benning?

He got calls from someone

Claiming to be
the baby's father.

- Thought he'd be more likely
to talk to me

If I had parental rights.

- And when he didn't take
your calls, what'd you do,

Mr. Morton?

Did you go to his clinic?
- No.

- Maybe you found out
where he lived.

Maybe you followed him
to church.

- Look, I went for a long walk.
Things have been tense at home.

Blair getting pregnant,
it's my fault.

Ever since her mother died,
I've let her run wild.

I wanted to take responsibility,
but not with a gun.

- Professor morton?
- Excuse me.

- I wonder if his long walk

Included a drive
into manhattan.

- Yeah, well, let's check
the faculty parking.

If his car has an e-zpass,
we'll get a quick answer.

- Witness said the shooter
drove away in a blue sedan.

This is close enough.

- No e-zpass.

- Hey, check it out.
Blue chalk.

His car got chalked
at the clinic parking lot.

- That's one security guard who
just earned his minimum wage.

- That's ridiculous.
I'm not a killer.

I'm a science teacher.
- You know what?

You're gonna have to do
better than that, kevin,

'cause we already caught you
in one lie.

- Look, I wanted
to talk to benning,

Reason with him.

I went to the clinic Saturday,
but they wouldn't buzz me in.

So I thought I'd wait for him,

But, I mean, there were
all these crazies,

So I just went home.

- You were scared off
by one of the crazies?

- One of them
followed me to my car.

Thought I was
an abortion doctor.

I told him, "no, I'm trying
to prevent an abortion."

Told him my daughter
was scheduled for Monday, and...

And then he told me that, uh...

What is it?

What'd he tell you?

- I'm... I'm de talking.

- Hey, this guy,

You think... you think
he's the one.

- You probably think the guy
that you talked to

Saved your grandson's life.

Yeah, he may have,
but he's also a killer,

And there's no reason to think
that he won't kill again.

So what did he tell you?

- He told me not to worry.

That my grandson would be fine.

- We'll need you to look
at some videotape.

The people inside the clinic

Say he's been outside
every day with your group...

Every day except the Monday
after benning was shot.

- He's not affiliated
with mission for life.

We're against violence.

We encourage
dr. Benning's patients

To get sonograms, so they
can see their baby's face,

Their tiny fingernails.

We change more minds
with love than threats.

- We want to catch this shooter
as much as you do, detectives.

I'm roger jenkins,
executive legal advisor

From our headquarters
in topeka.

- You're here
for damage control.

- Murdered abortion doctors
do not help our cause.

I've been doing
the talk-show circuit,

Asking whoever it is
to turn himself in.

- You wouldn't have
to work so hard

If your people
tell us who this is.

- It's a public space.

We can't dictate
who comes and goes.

- Disclaimer noted.

Now...

- Wayne...

He bragged
about getting arrested

For breaking into a nuclear
power plant in buchanan.

- Wayne always cared more
about strangers

Than his own family.

- Are you still
in contact with him?

- By email.

Will?

He took our son out for dinner
and a movie Saturday night...

Olive garden, big splurge.

- We need to talk
to your dad, will.

Do you know
how to get a hold of him?

- He won't even tell me
where he lives.

- Saturday night...
was that a special occasion?

- He said he wanted me to know
that he loved me...

No matter what happened.

What did he mean by that?

- You're cops.

Figure it out.

- What's this about?

- It would be
a lot better for wayne

If we straighten
these things out in person.

- Will broke his leg
a year ago.

I emailed wayne.

He came to the hospital
in less than an hour.

- It's been over two hours.

I guess wayne grogan's not up
for father of the year.

- He's off the grid.

No phone, no credit card.

- Hey.
[car door closes]

- Detectives, I'm here
on behalf of wayne grogan.

- Where is he?

- I'm not at liberty to say,

Not until
I speak to the d.A.

- After we arrest you
for harboring a fugitive.

- I'm acting as his attorney.

I'm here to negotiate terms
for his surrender.

- The d.A.S think that jenkins
is stalling for time

Until he can get to grogan.

- Yeah, he's probably trying

To turn him into a poster boy
for the cause.

- Well, what I'd like to know
is, who tipped jenkins

About the trap at the hospital?

- Not grogan's ex-wife...
no love loss there.

- There's still plenty of love
between grogan and his son.

- You hacked into my account

And found the email
that I sent your dad?

- Not like it's the first time.

- You warned roger jenkins.

How did you know
to contact him?

- Saw him on tv.

- I see you care
about the environment?

You get that from your dad?

Is this you and him
on vacation?

- Will lived with wayne
last summer.

- Who's the pretty lady?
That his girlfriend?

- She cared about stuff
that's important.

- What's her name?

- You know, my dad said,
"never trust authority."

- [chuckles]

- No argument here.

But you see, sooner or later,

Your father
is going to get caught.

If not by us,
then by other cops...

Cops who might like
to shoot first.

- I haven't seen wayne
for a year.

Last I knew
he went back to new jersey

To be closer to his son.

- You haven't been in touch?

I'm not exactly
on facebook up here.

- I see you don't have any
power lines running out here.

You're off the grid.

- I prefer a simple life.

I eat what I grow.
I sleep when it's dark.

- Mm.

- Well, I guess
if you don't like technology,

Then this isn't your computer.

His battery's low.

- Wayne, open the door.
It's the police.

Go! Go!

- An energy-saving tip,
wayne...

Don't run from the police.

I got him!

Get up here.
Come on.

- Ten years on manslaughter?

- We're talking about a man

Cast adrift by an ugly divorce

Who found connection
with the pro-life movement,

Who was seduced
by its rhetoric.

- Who drifted into a church

And pumped a bullet
into a man's skull.

- No deal, mr. Jenkins.

- It's what I told you, wayne.

They're not interested
in justice.

You know what
you have to do now.

It's time for brave men
to take a stand, my friend.

- Benning was killing babies.

Somebody had to stop him.

- Somebody?

Meaning you?

- That's right.

- You're confessing
to the murder?

- We're asserting justification

As an affirmative defense.

Wayne killed benning
in defense of other persons.

- Innocent little souls.

They need somebody
to protect them.

From monsters like him.

- Abortion protesters
have been trying for years

To hide behind
a claim of justification

To absolve their illegal acts

Against clinics
doing late-term abortions.

But court after court has held

That an unborn fetus
is not a person in jeopardy.

- My client wasn't attempting
to prevent all these abortions.

He was protecting
a specific person

From imminent harm.

- Who was that?

- The unborn son
of blair morton...

A 28-week-old viable baby.

The pregnancy was scheduled
to be terminated

Because the child was diagnosed
with ehlers-danlos syndrome.

- Tell me more
about this syndrome.

- It's caused by a defect
in the protein of the skin.

A-a person with this disorder

Has extremely fragile skin,

Prone to cuts,
blisters, infections.

- It's a-a survivable
condition?

- Absolutely.

Blair's child has
a normal life expectancy.

He was days away from being
aborted by dr. Benning

Simply because
he was unhealthy.

- And mr. Grogan knew this
before he acted?

- I'll submit an offer of proof
to that effect.

- In that case,

I'll deny the people's motion.

You may present
a justification defense,

Mr. Jenkins.

- Judge, this is unprecedented.

Y-you're opening
pandora's box here.

- Well, it sounds like
the defendant

Acted in
an exceptional situation.

I'm sorry, mr. Cutter,
but this will go to a jury.

- We didn't want this trial
to be about abortion,

And now we have no choice.

- Not only that,
the judge is letting jenkins

Hitch his defense
to a sick baby.

- Referring to this fetus
as a baby

Isn't gonna help matters.

- An unborn child
is a life and a soul to me.

I-I can revert to p.C.
In the courtroom

Because it's my job,

But I'm... I'm not gonna do it
in my own office.

- You're in my office,

And we're not debating
the abortion issue.

- Well, the jurors will be.

And it's time
to face the facts.

The tide has turned.

Most americans
are pro-life now.

- Most americans
don't live in new york.

I doubt we'll draw
an anti-choice jury here.

- You might be surprised.

My daughter was pro-choice
until she taped a sonogram

Of my grandchild to be
on her refrigerator.

Now...

The crux of grogan's case
is that he was aware

Of blair morton's
planned abortion, right?

- Right.

- Her father did speak to grogan
a few days before the murder.

- Then we need to show
that grogan formed the intent

To kill dr. Benning

Before he ever heard
of the mortons.

- He was always louder
than the other protesters,

Angrier.

- Did he ever threaten
dr. Benning?

- I didn't hear it.

And dr. Benning wouldn't have
said anything to us if he had.

We've already had one nurse
quit a few months ago

Because of the threats.

- From grogan?
- Dr. Benning didn't say.

She just stopped showing up
to work one day.

[bababs crying]

- I was sorry to read
about dr. Benning.

He didn't deserve it.

- I was told you quit

Because of threats you got
from protestors.

- Who told you that?
- So it's not true?

- Doesn't matter now.

- You left
a late-term-abortion clinic

To work
in a neonatal care unit.

Something must have changed
your worldview.

- A woman in her seventh month
came in for an abortion.

She'd found out that her baby
had genetic markers

For an anencephaly.

The sonogram confirmed

That a large part of the fetus'
brain wasn't developing.

During the abortion,
something went wrong.

The baby was delivered alive.

Dr. Benning asked the woman

If she wanted him
to complete the procedure.

- Complete the procedure?

You mean terminate the baby?

- Yes.

The woman
told dr. Benning yes.

She said, "finish it."

And he did.

After that, I couldn't go
back to work there.

I, um... I'm gonna need
the name of that patient.

[doorbell rings]

- Miss howell?

I'm connie rubirosa

With the new york
district attorney's office.

Do you mind if I come in?

- Uh, what's this about?

- I'm working
on the prosecution

Of the man
who killed dr. Benning.

I understand you were
one of his patients.

- Where did you hear that?

[scoffs] that information
is confidential.

- I know this is
a very personal matter.

I just need to ask...
- you can't be serious.

That's the hardest thing
that I ever went through

In my whole life.

- I understand completely.

I just need to confirm
certain facts.

- What facts?

You have no business
prying into my medical history.

How dare you?

Just...

 leave me alone.

- Judging by my reception,

The nurse's story
seems to be on the money.

- So dr. Benning
murdered a newborn infant.

- We have to report it
to the bronx d.A.

- Dr. Benning's dead.

It can wait
till after the trial.

- At the very least,
it's brady material.

We're required to turn it
over to the defense.

- Why? It's not relevant
to our trial.

- Dr. Benning
killed a human being.

Didn't grogan shoot him

To prevent him
from doing just that?

- It's not exculpatory.

Grogan didn't know any of this
when he executed benning,

And if jenkins
gets his hands on this,

He'll find a way to exploit it
and prejudice the jury.

- So you both best pretend
you never heard it.

- I went to benning's clinic

To ask him not to give
my daughter an abortion.

They wouldn't even let me
in the front door.

- What happened after you left?

- When I went back to my car,
this man followed me...

Mr. Grogan.

He asked me if I was with
someone getting an abortion.

I told him I was trying to keep
my daughter from having one.

- How did mr. Grogan react?

- When I told him
about my grandson,

He got red in the face,
red with anger.

He told me my grandson
would be okay.

- And what did you take that
to mean?

- That somehow the abortion
wouldn't take place.

- Thank you.

- What did you tell wayne

About your grandson's
medical problems?

- I told him he had
a very serious skin condition,

But that with love and care,

He had a chance
to live a happy life.

- Mr. Morton, are you
against all abortions?

- I think a woman has a right

To decide what happens
with her own body.

But I teach science,
and the facts told me

That blair's baby was viable,

That he had a chance at life.

It wasn't
just about blair anymore.

- And what's happened
with blair's pregnancy?

- Well, she's due any day now.

- That's terrific news.

Thank you.

- As a board-certified ob-gyn,

I conducted peer reviews
of dr. Benning's practice.

In my opinion,

Walter benning was a caring
and heroic physician.

- Did you review
dr. Benning's file

On blair morton
and her unborn child?

- Yes.

Regrettably,
I concluded that child

Is doomed
to a life of suffering

That will require
round-the-clock care.

- So in your expert opinion,

Was it reasonable
for dr. Benning

To abort blair morton's
unborn child?

- Not only was it reasonable,

It was the only responsible
medical choice.

- Thank you.

- A fetus is viable
outside the womb

As early as 22 weeks,
right, doctor?

- With state-of-the-art
neonatal technology, yes.

- Two weeks
less than the period

During which new york state
allows abortion on demand.

Would you agree that the law

Hasn't kept up
with medical science?

- I don't play that
line-in-the-sand game.

The right to choice
is absolute.

- Absolute?

You would allow abortions
up to the very moment of birth?

- In cases
of medical necessity, yes.

The decision should involve
only the mother and her doctor.

- You don't believe society

Has an interest
in protecting life?

- Life as defined by whom?

Crackpots like your client?

- So even though
blair morton's son was viable,

Even though science might
provide effective treatment

For ehlers-danlos,

Even a cure
during the child's lifetime,

You would have ended his life?

- I don't indulge
in pie-in-the-sky thinking.

As of today,

The life that child
will experience

Is compromised
and without dignity.

- Dignity?
As defined by you?

Would you volunteer to abort
blair morton's baby even now?

- If she asked me,
yes, I would.

Threats and intimidation

Won't keep us
from providing abortions

To the women who want them.

- What if the law
says you can't?

- Well, even if
the politicians bow

To the hypocrites and fools,
it won't stop us.

- Hypocrites and fools.

Thank you, doctor.

- So now we know there are
fanatics in both camps.

- Well, jenkins is betting

He can sway enough jurors
with emotion

To force a deadlock.

- If not an outright acquittal.

- Who's the first
defense witness?

- Lisa barnett.

Her child was diagnosed
with a genetic disorder,

But she chose
against an abortion.

- And how is that relevant?

- A defendant
who asserts justification

Must prove
he was acting reasonably.

A few weeks
before shooting dr. Benning,

My client saw mrs. Barnett
on a talk show,

Discussing the birth
of her daughter.

What he heard
influenced his state of mind.

- This is just another attempt
by mr. Jenkins

To prejudice the jury
against dr. Benning

And his lawful work.

- I'll allow the testimony,

But if I hear any nonsense,
mr. Jenkins, I'll stop it.

Step back.

- What did your doctor tell you

About your pregnancy,
mrs. Barnett?

- I was in my sixth month.

He told me my baby
had a genetic defect

Called meckel-gruber disease.

She'd be born with a soft skull
and undeveloped organs.

My doctor told me her condition

Was incompatible with life.

He recommended
I have a late-term abortion.

- And did you?
- No.

I discussed it with my family,
but I decided against it.

R
I knew my baby would die soon after her birth,

But I wanted her death
to be natural.

I wanted her to die
with dignity.

- And what happened, lisa?

- My beautiful daughter,
amanda, was born on may 5th.

I never experienced
such a sense of happiness

When they put her in my arms.

She had blue eyes,
curly brown hair.

She wasn't a monster
like the doctors warned me.

Amanda looked just like
a normal baby.

- I show you
defendant's exhibit "d."

- That's me holding amanda
with my husband and my family.

- And what happened to amanda?

- Later that night,
one of the nurses woke me.

She said it might be
amanda's time.

When they brought her to me,

Amanda was struggling
to breathe.

She didn't cry
or seem like she was in pain.

I looked in her eyes,
and I sang to her.

I felt like she was comforted
by my presence,

Like she could feel
my love for her.

And then she slipped away.

My daughter was alive
for 21 hours.

- At any time,

Have you regretted not having
an abortion?

- Not for a second.

My daughter
spent most of her life

Peacefully in my arms.

My husband and I felt honored
we'd shared her life,

Happy that she had
died with dignity.

We mourned her death.

And after everything
we went through,

We felt clean.

- Thank you.

- You're a brave woman,
mrs. Barnett.

Is it possible that
at another time in your life,

You might have made
a different choice?

- Yes, it's possible.

- And would you consider

A doctor who offers
late-term abortions

To women in your position

As providing an essential
medical service?

- I would have to say yes.

- Nothing further.
Thank you.

Half the jury was in tears.

- That doesn't mean
they'll acquit.

- You're deceiving
yourself, jack.

All it takes is one vote

To hang this jury
and the next and the next.

- We're not offering
grogan a plea bargain.

- Manslaughter's
a reasonable compromise.

- For the cold-blooded murder

Of a doctor performing
legal procedures?

- Substitute slavery
for abortion?

John brown for wayne grogan?

In its day,
roe v. Wade conformed

To what we knew then
about human life and science.

Contraception was limited.

Most birth defects
were untreatable.

35 years later,
birth defects can be corrected.

Disabled children are protected
by a bill of rights.

Contraception of every kind
is available.

- Yet people who don't want to
still get pregnant.

- And so their right
should reign supreme?

My god.

Cats and dogs have more rights
than the unborn.

Roe v. Wade
wasn't written in stone.

It could stand another look.

- If the jury wants
to send that message

By acquitting grogan,
let them do it.

I'm not cutting any deals.

- Thank you.

[sighs]

- What?

- The defense has sprung
a new witness on us...

Jennice morrow, the nurse
at the botched abortion

You asked us to pretend
never happened.

- How the hell
did they find out?

- I don't know.

Nurse morrow
probably called them.

- I'd like to believe that.

- What, you think that I had
something to do with it?

- When you start mixing up
john brown with wayne grogan,

Anything's possible.

- You're kidding.

You're the one who thinks
I like winning too much.

Why would I sabotage
my own case?

- Principles maybe?

- Jack, if you really think

That I would actually
go out there...

- I told them.
I called jenkins' office.

I decided it was
an ethical violation

If the defense wasn't informed.

- Despite explicit instructions
to the contrary?

- I can't be instructed
to violate my ethics.

- We'll deal with this later.

I suggest you two
put your heads together

And figure out how
we're gonna keep nurse morrow

Off the stand.

- Her testimony
is simply not relevant.

- On the contrary.

It sheds a whole new light
on our defense.

Dr. Benning murdered
a human being.

- There's no way grogan
knew about it.

- This testimony violates
the medical privacy

Of dr. Benning's patient,
who wants no part of this.

- The witness
will refer to the patient

As jane doe.

The objection is overruled.

Let's get on with it.

- After miss doe
was in the stirrups,

I started I.V. Valium,

And dr. Benning inserted
the ultrasound probe.

The next step was to inject
potassium chloride

Into the fetus' heart
to induce cardiac arrest.

- Did something go wrong?

- The injection was off target.

The patient moved,

And the needle
went into the uterus.

The patient started to go
into labor.

- What did dr. Benning do?

- There was nothing
he could do.

The mother
was having contractions.

The baby was born alive.

Dr. Benning held him
in his hands.

The boy was crying
a little cry,

Moving his arms and legs.

Dr. Benning asked the mother

If she wanted him
to complete the procedure,

And she said,
"yes, finish it."

- What happened next?

- Dr. Benning
cut the umbilical cord.

Then he took
the surgical scissors

And inserted it into
the base of the baby's skull.

The room went silent.

The baby was dead.

- What happened
to the child's body?

- The mother didn't want it.

It was disposed of
as medical waste.

- Medical waste.

Nothing further.

- It was clearly
miss doe's decision

To terminate her pregnancy.

- Oh, yes.

- And how long would
her child have survived

Had it been carried to term?

- A day or two, at most.

- Thank you.

It was a rout.

I don't know what got into you
to tell the defense about...

- I felt they were
entitled to know.

It was up to the judge
to disallow it.

- Now it's up to us to convince
the jury to ignore it.

I mean,
you of all people, connie.

I thought you wanted
to win this case.

- I grew up thinking
roe v. Wade was gospel,

And that a woman's privacy
was inviolate.

But after hearing
that woman on the stand

Talk about her baby
dying in her arms...

I don't know.

I don't... I don't know
where my privacy ends

And another being's
dignity begins.

- You want moral clarity?

How about just doing your job?

Put the bad guys in jail.

- I'm glad that it's
so clear cut for you, mike.

Unfortunately,

I can't leave my soul
in the umbrella stand

When I come into work
in the morning.

- I present to you...

Daniel david morton,

Born yesterday at 2:38
in the afternoon.

But for my client...

Daniel would be dead today.

- I'd like
to show you something...

People's 32.

This is the wallet that
walter benning was carrying

When he was shot.

And I want to show you
these photos

Of his children
and grandchildren,

Photos that are stained with...

I can't... I can't do this.

There's...

There's been too much
heartbreaking testimony,

Just too much.

We're dealing
with an issue here

That goes to the very mystery
of our existence.

What is life?

When does it begin?

At conception?
At viability?

At birth?

And in good faith,

We seek guidance
from our moral leaders,

From scientists.

You know, we want so much
to do the right thing,

You know,
the... the just thing.

We want reason and empathy
to lead us to an answer,

And... and we struggle so much

To find that answer.

Why?

Because...

Because despite
all our differences,

We are joined in one belief...

That every life
is special and unique

And imbued
with inalienable rights,

And that belief

Compels us
to reject the violence...

And the unreasoned chaos

That wayne grogan's act
represents.

Thank you.

- The defendant will stand.

Has the jury reached a verdict?

- We have, your honor.

- On the sole count
in the indictment,

Murder in the first degree,
how do you find?

- We find the defendant guilty.

[people murmuring]

- Take a walk with me.

Connie has asked
to be transferred

To the white collar
crime bureau.

- If that's what she wants.

- That's what I want.
- Well, it's not what I want.

I'd have to pull someone
out of that bureau

And find a place
for them somewhere else.

Then I'd have to find someone
to second-chair with mike.

Much as you'd like
to believe otherwise,

People aren't lining up
for that exalted position.

I used to expect people
to be consistent,

That pro-lifers would oppose
capital punishment,

That champions of human rights

Would claim some
for the unborn.

I don't expect that anymore.

It's a big messy world.

Work it out.

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