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NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,
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the police who investigate crime
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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Other side. MAN 1: Come on.
Deep. Deep. Deep.
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Set. Hike! MAN 2: Watch your pass.
Watch your pass.
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One Mississippi, two
Mississippi, three Mississippi
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MAN 2: Come on.
Come on. Come on. Oh!
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Holy...
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All I can tell you now is it was a
single knife wound to the chest.
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So, what? He crawled under
the cab to keep warm?
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This guy didn't crawl anywhere.
Knife hit the aorta.
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Our friend here, was dead
before he hit the ground.
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You got a time?
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Temp tells me no more than five hours.
Puts it around 3:00 a.m.
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From the blood spatter, he hit
the bricks right about here,
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then some good samaritan
shoved him under the cab.
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A clean New York
is a happy New York.
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And this was under the cab, too.
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A Season in Hell.
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Arthur Rimbaud.
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French poet.
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Thought he was a Knicks fan.
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This stogie was down there, too.
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Well, that could have
been there since the 60s.
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I doubt it. Cuban. Monty 2.
That's a $40 smoke.
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My ex was right. These
things will kill you.
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Alright, have forensics
run a preliminary DNA.
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Hey, and while you're
at it, could you run
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the vic's prints through
all the right places?
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Busy. Busy. Busy.
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Guy had a wallet,
not a stitch of ID.
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Well, luckily, I don't think
they require ID to hop in a cab.
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What makes you think
the DOA hopped a cab?
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I don't.
I think he drove it.
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How many cabbies you know
don't lock up for the night?
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Oh, so you're thinking
this is a robbery?
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Well, that's a possibility.
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But the hack license was
issued to a Ji-Hoon Pak.
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Maybe he was adopted.
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Detectives!
I just called the TLC.
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Ji-Hoon Pak lives
over on West 46th Street.
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Thanks.
Okay.
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That's like three miles away.
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But parking's a bitch.
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I got the sniffles.
That against the law?
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We found a body under your cab, Mr.
Pak.
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Body?
What kind of body?
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The dead kind.
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It's New York. They find bodies
in all kinds of weird places.
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Don't you read the papers?
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Unfortunately, we don't have to.
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We just wanted to
give you a heads-up.
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Yeah, thanks.
What for?
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We impounded your vehicle.
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Oh, come on. You can't do that!
I gotta earn a living here!
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Look, we'll get it back to you,
maybe tomorrow at the latest
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and with your little
bout of the sniffles,
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it shouldn't be
a problem, right?
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Man, this sucks.
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Just for kicks,
you recognize this guy?
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No.
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ED: I spent
my college years
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driving somebody
else's cab, Mr. Pak.
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You know, lending out your
hack license to somebody else
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could have you looking
for work real quick
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but that'll be the
least of your problems
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if you do know this guy
and you lie about it.
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It's John Chertoff.
He's a nice guy.
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I met him in A.A.
A couple years back.
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Sorry, pal.
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Another gig down the toilet.
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Well, how often did Chertoff
moonlight in the cab?
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Every Wednesday while Mr. Pak
was in an A.A. Meeting.
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We're canvassing
the neighborhood to see
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if there's any local spending
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more cash than usual.
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But you know the odds
on a random isolated killing.
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Only it might
not be that random.
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Forensics ran Chertoff's
prints through AFIS.
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Let me guess. They showed up
on the grassy knoll in Dallas.
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No, in a black church
in Beloit, Mississippi.
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One that mysteriously
burned down five years ago.
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Only, those prints belonged to
somebody named Bobby Lee Redburn,
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card-carrying
member of the KKK.
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Preacher's two kids
died in that fire.
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Stop. So what,
Redburn jumped bail?
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Nope. Hung jury and he lived a
happy life till the Feds noticed
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he was downloading child
porn from the Internet.
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That's when he split.
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Maybe I'm not so
upset he's dead.
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Well, how close are the prints?
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ED: Four-point match.
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That's hardly conclusive.
I'll call down to Mississippi
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and you two see if
there's anything else
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to prove that
Chertoff and Redburn
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are one and the same.
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If this guy was Redburn, he
must have left his white hood
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back in the land of cotton.
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You know, there's something to
be said for the simple life.
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No phone, no TV.
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If I were hiding from the
Feds, I'd be in Rio.
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You know, it's hard to figure a
Klansman buddying up to Mr. Pak.
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Maybe he saw the light.
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BRISCOE: Or maybe
it's not him.
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Oh, think we're getting warmer.
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VAN BUREN: The sheriff from Beloit
ID-ed the photo as Redburn.
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He also confirmed
that the preacher
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was home the night
that Redburn was killed.
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I wouldn't be shocked
if one or two more
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of the congregation
wasn't out to get him.
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Yeah, but if the Feds couldn't find
Redburn, how did a bunch of yokels?
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Hey, sometimes even a random
killer hits the lotto.
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Oh, is the one about the young
man from Nantucket in there?
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Hey, man, let me
ask you something.
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Do you remember seeing any
books in Redburn's room?
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Me either. I can't imagine
he'd start his collection
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with a dead French poet.
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Not when Mein Kampf
is available.
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You think the book
belonged to the killer?
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Well, it's new. The spine
isn't even cracked yet.
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There's a sticker from Barnes and Noble.
It's worth a look.
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Have fun.
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Verlaine was
the real talent, you know.
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Rimbaud just latched on to his
coattails and wouldn't let go.
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We were just saying that
on the way over here.
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He shot him.
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Who shot who?
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Verlaine popped Rimbaud.
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Paul loved Arthur. Paul also loved
Mathilde. It was a whole mess.
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The French.
What do you expect?
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So, can you tell us if you
sold any copies recently?
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If you really want decadent,
I'd stick with Baudelaire.
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Oh, wouldn't you know it?
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A couple of days ago our downtown
store sold a copy to Nelson Lambert.
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The writer?
Put it on plastic.
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Damn, I read all his books when
I was a freshman in college.
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I read his police report
when he stabbed his wife.
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I smoke, I drink. Whatever my ex-wives
don't know makes me stronger.
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(CHUCKLES)
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Cohiba Millenniums. They make one
batch of these every thousand years.
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Fidel gave them to me.
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No, thanks.
I'll pass.
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You know, what I used to love,
though, was the Monty 2s.
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Son of a bitch, that's
what I smoked last night.
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(LAUGHS)
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You knew that, didn't you?
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Okay, well, whatever
I did, wasn't enough.
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Whoever was on the receiving
end more than deserved it.
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In other words,
you don't remember?
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I met the muse
last night, Detective
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and she looked an awful lot
like a bottle of tequila.
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ED: Oh, yeah? And where
was she hanging out?
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Mmm, Helen's Tavern.
It's an eatery catering to...
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ED: The drunk
and obnoxious. Yeah.
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I read Page Six.
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Do I sense some animosity here?
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It's just that dead bodies
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make my partner a little testy.
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And I can ease the pain, how?
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Listen, a cabbie was stabbed.
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A new copy of A Season in Hell
was found beside the body.
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Hmm.
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Some bad memories
coming back, Mr. Lambert?
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I always mourn when someone who
actually reads leaves the earth.
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Let's cut the crap.
You bought the book.
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And a Monty 2 was also
at the scene of the crime?
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Go figure.
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Tack on your affinity for knives
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and all the fingers seem to
point in the same direction.
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Well, I gather this is
gonna take some time.
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Vodka, gin, Scotch. I'm drinking bourbon.
What can I get you?
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Oh, nothing for me, thanks.
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My muse dumped me in the
gutter about six years ago.
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Scotch is good.
Hey!
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What? It's the end
of a tough day.
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How often do I get to sit around
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shoot the breeze
over a couple of drinks
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with the voice
of his generation?
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You don't know him
very well, do you?
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The man has spent his
life trying to become
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the myth he created
in his books.
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Well, how much macho does
it take to stab a woman?
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With Nelson, fiction has a
funny way of becoming fact.
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The three of us were sitting over there.
He and Natalie were arguing
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about Finnegans Wake
or some such nonsense.
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Nelson tossed his soup spoon,
it hit the wall over there.
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Natalie was hit
with a glob of minestrone.
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That's not what it said
in the police report.
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He tells the story 10 times, the
soup spoon becomes a steak knife.
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He tells it 20 times, the wall
becomes Natalie's shoulder.
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In ten years, it'll be a
decapitation with a samurai sword.
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Writers, they lie
for a living, Detective.
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So, he was here last night?
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Until the wee hours.
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Have you ever killed
a man, Detective?
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Have you?
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Quid pro quo.
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You answer my question,
I'll repay the favor.
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I've had occasion to use my weapon.
Yes, unfortunately.
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Why unfortunately?
Was it a clean shooting?
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Not the point.
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(SCOFFS)
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Remorse, that's for naughty
children and priests.
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Let me see it, your piece.
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Regulations.
(SCOFFS)
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Would have you
benched for sharing
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liquid refreshment
with a suspect.
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Alright. I could use
a good benching.
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Knock yourself out.
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Lighter than a.45,
government issue in Nam.
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You served?
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Marched through so much muck,
we had to shove our sidearms
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down our pants to keep the
barrels out of the mud.
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They say that the first one
is the toughest.
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First kill is hard only by
consequence of it being first.
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First step. First word.
First woman.
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First murder.
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Do you know the difference between
killing and murder, Detective?
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Mmm-hmm.
25-to-life.
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Intimacy.
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If you use a bayonet
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it becomes personal.
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A man's blood flows
between your fingers
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warm, wet.
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Even more so with a knife.
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Sometimes they scream.
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Not as often as you'd think.
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So, Nelson hang around
to help you clean up?
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That'll be the day. No, he was
drinking from his own private stock.
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Mezcal Especial. He claimed
Saul Bellow gave it to him.
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Son of a gun drained the bottle.
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Yeah. I've been there.
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So, anybody else at this party
besides you and Nelson?
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His friend Clay
was here for a while.
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Clay?
Warner.
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One book, he thinks
he's Leo Tolstoy.
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Teaches a creative
writing class at Hudson.
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This tequila they
were drinking...
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Mezcal Especial. Two hundred
a bottle, if you can get it.
242
00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:09,894
Is that the kind with the
dead worm in the bottom?
243
00:12:09,962 --> 00:12:13,090
Yup. And Nelson sucked it
straight from the bottle.
244
00:12:13,165 --> 00:12:14,689
That's when I put him in a cab.
245
00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:15,900
Around 3:00 a. M?
246
00:12:15,968 --> 00:12:17,026
That's right.
247
00:12:17,103 --> 00:12:20,231
You know, I've never seen a
$200 bottle of booze before.
248
00:12:20,406 --> 00:12:22,397
It should be
in the trash out back.
249
00:12:22,475 --> 00:12:23,475
Help yourself.
250
00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:29,374
Yeah, I can get DNA off a bottle neck.
Sure I can. Maybe.
251
00:12:30,316 --> 00:12:32,807
Unless the alcohol denatured the
mitochondrial material or...
252
00:12:33,452 --> 00:12:34,646
You say it was in the trash?
253
00:12:34,787 --> 00:12:37,119
Yeah. Give it a whiff.
That's not my aftershave.
254
00:12:37,456 --> 00:12:38,855
Cross-contamination.
255
00:12:38,991 --> 00:12:40,424
Any number of elements
could corrupt the DNA,
256
00:12:40,493 --> 00:12:41,926
making it unrecognizable.
257
00:12:42,394 --> 00:12:43,554
Assuming it's even there.
258
00:12:44,463 --> 00:12:47,921
God! I'm glad I stayed late.
(CHUCKLES)
259
00:12:48,367 --> 00:12:49,959
Who needs Disneyland, huh?
260
00:12:52,071 --> 00:12:55,370
Who would you say was the most
despised man at the front?
261
00:12:56,809 --> 00:12:57,833
The C.O.
262
00:12:57,910 --> 00:13:00,708
Negative that. Sniper.
263
00:13:02,381 --> 00:13:04,576
Sitting all alone, up in a tree.
264
00:13:05,951 --> 00:13:08,078
No artistry in
that kind of a kill.
265
00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:10,653
Just technology.
266
00:13:12,892 --> 00:13:15,292
Now it takes a certain
kind of a man
267
00:13:15,728 --> 00:13:18,595
to do the deed,
up close, personal.
268
00:13:18,998 --> 00:13:20,158
And you're that kind of man?
269
00:13:20,933 --> 00:13:24,892
Just doing my job.
Cleaning up the nation's mess.
270
00:13:25,504 --> 00:13:27,131
Soldier-to-soldier?
271
00:13:27,907 --> 00:13:29,306
Man-to-man.
272
00:13:29,375 --> 00:13:30,467
Did the best man win?
273
00:13:30,776 --> 00:13:35,679
I'm sitting here and sharing my
Scotch and my soul, am I not?
274
00:13:39,218 --> 00:13:43,279
What about you, Detective?
Do you have what it takes?
275
00:13:44,256 --> 00:13:46,816
Can you perform with
grace under pressure?
276
00:13:47,493 --> 00:13:49,791
Play poker for
the ultimate stakes?
277
00:13:50,162 --> 00:13:51,162
Mmm.
278
00:13:51,964 --> 00:13:53,431
I don't think of it as a game.
279
00:13:53,566 --> 00:13:55,056
Of course it is!
280
00:13:55,467 --> 00:13:58,664
Winners live. Losers die.
It's all a damn game.
281
00:14:00,873 --> 00:14:04,934
A Season in Hell. That sounds
like something you'd like.
282
00:14:06,412 --> 00:14:08,346
Minor work by minor poet.
283
00:14:09,548 --> 00:14:10,742
Can I borrow your copy?
284
00:14:13,052 --> 00:14:14,314
I gave it to a friend.
285
00:14:17,756 --> 00:14:20,850
This cabbie fellow of yours,
where'd he take it?
286
00:14:22,161 --> 00:14:23,161
In the chest.
287
00:14:24,263 --> 00:14:26,959
Good. Good.
288
00:14:29,301 --> 00:14:31,201
A chest kill is the best kill.
289
00:14:33,239 --> 00:14:38,700
If the point of insertion is selected
correctly, the blade slips in easily
290
00:14:40,346 --> 00:14:42,712
bypassing bone and ligament.
291
00:14:43,916 --> 00:14:47,249
They could deflect the blade
making a quick kill less likely.
292
00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:52,756
The prey feels what
he thinks is a hard blow.
293
00:14:55,261 --> 00:14:58,526
Not until the blood flows does
the man realize he's dead.
294
00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,490
You son of a bitch.
295
00:15:05,170 --> 00:15:06,170
You did it.
296
00:15:07,606 --> 00:15:08,606
You killed him.
297
00:15:11,076 --> 00:15:12,202
Did I?
298
00:15:19,885 --> 00:15:23,048
Five hours? I hope to hell he
called you in the morning.
299
00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:24,722
Hey, the best way to get a drunk
300
00:15:24,857 --> 00:15:26,324
to open up is to let him drink.
301
00:15:26,392 --> 00:15:27,859
Isn't that right, Lennie?
Hear, hear.
302
00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:29,451
Did you at least
read him his rights?
303
00:15:29,528 --> 00:15:31,496
It was just two guys talking.
304
00:15:31,563 --> 00:15:33,656
Yeah, until
a lawyer gets involved.
305
00:15:33,732 --> 00:15:34,824
We just wanted to make sure
306
00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:36,333
we were lookin' in
the right direction.
307
00:15:36,402 --> 00:15:38,563
And? Well, he described
the wound like somebody
308
00:15:38,637 --> 00:15:40,195
who'd seen it up
close and personal.
309
00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:44,299
I've got Beck working on lifting
DNA samples from Lambert's bottle.
310
00:15:44,510 --> 00:15:46,842
If they match
the DNA on that cigar,
311
00:15:46,912 --> 00:15:48,573
it definitely puts
him at the scene.
312
00:15:48,647 --> 00:15:52,481
That's great, why don't we all go out
for a drink until we hear from Beck.
313
00:15:52,551 --> 00:15:55,987
He's had enough. But the owner of
the bar said Nelson was drinking
314
00:15:56,088 --> 00:15:57,817
with somebody named Warner.
315
00:15:57,890 --> 00:15:59,653
Well, maybe he'd like
to join us.
316
00:16:04,263 --> 00:16:07,061
Nelson's 50%
imagination, 50% mouth.
317
00:16:07,132 --> 00:16:08,690
I think there's some
ego in there somewhere.
318
00:16:08,767 --> 00:16:10,064
That's just a shield.
319
00:16:10,369 --> 00:16:13,236
Nelson was the smallest kid in the
schoolyard with the thickest glasses.
320
00:16:13,305 --> 00:16:15,603
The kids picked on him so he
learned to fight back with words.
321
00:16:15,674 --> 00:16:17,194
Believe me, Nelson
wouldn't kill anyone.
322
00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:19,971
Although, some might claim
he bored them to death.
323
00:16:20,045 --> 00:16:21,910
What about his
wartime escapades?
324
00:16:22,014 --> 00:16:25,973
Yeah, it was kill or be killed
in Fort Dix, New Jersey.
325
00:16:26,352 --> 00:16:27,910
Sounds like Mr.
Lambert has trouble
326
00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:29,749
distinguishing
fact from fiction.
327
00:16:30,622 --> 00:16:33,750
The whole macho thing, it's
all about self-preservation.
328
00:16:33,826 --> 00:16:36,522
A hard exterior shields
a sensitive soul.
329
00:16:37,029 --> 00:16:40,260
Nelson's not the first. Hemingway
and his man's man image.
330
00:16:40,332 --> 00:16:42,766
He wrote about running the bulls,
but the closest he ever got
331
00:16:42,835 --> 00:16:44,700
was watching from
a second-story balcony.
332
00:16:45,170 --> 00:16:47,161
Sounds like you know
Mr. Lambert pretty well.
333
00:16:47,339 --> 00:16:49,398
He helped get my
first book published.
334
00:16:49,475 --> 00:16:50,999
Would I lie to protect him?
I suppose I would.
335
00:16:51,076 --> 00:16:53,806
But the fact is, in this particular
instance, I don't have to.
336
00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:55,540
Okay, so, just for our records
337
00:16:55,614 --> 00:16:57,411
what time did you
say you left Helen's?
338
00:16:57,683 --> 00:16:59,480
Nelson passed out,
head on the table,
339
00:16:59,618 --> 00:17:01,449
around 1:00. Right
around then, I guess.
340
00:17:01,787 --> 00:17:03,448
There you go.
That's all we needed.
341
00:17:03,522 --> 00:17:04,511
I mean, as far as we can tell,
342
00:17:04,590 --> 00:17:05,818
the murder took
place around 3:00,
343
00:17:05,891 --> 00:17:07,222
so the worst cabbie in the city
344
00:17:07,292 --> 00:17:08,589
would have got him
home within two hours.
345
00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:11,322
Well, he could have gone home
and then come back out again.
346
00:17:11,697 --> 00:17:12,697
Thanks, man.
347
00:17:15,267 --> 00:17:17,861
Hey, how was that book
that Nelson gave you?
348
00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:20,838
You know what, I must
have left it at Helen's.
349
00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:23,131
I do stupid things
like that when I drink.
350
00:17:23,742 --> 00:17:25,232
I got a class.
BRISCOE: Thanks.
351
00:17:26,578 --> 00:17:28,637
Gotta give him credit for a quick recovery.
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
352
00:17:28,714 --> 00:17:30,113
Yeah, twice.
353
00:17:30,182 --> 00:17:32,662
Once about the book and the other
about their time of departure.
354
00:17:33,185 --> 00:17:37,417
Briscoe. Yeah.
We'll be right there.
355
00:17:38,157 --> 00:17:39,590
You gotta love this kid, Beck.
356
00:17:40,092 --> 00:17:41,992
I wouldn't have believed it
if i hadn't seen it myself.
357
00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:43,494
But are you ready for this?
358
00:17:43,695 --> 00:17:46,095
You can get DNA off
the lip of a bottle.
359
00:17:46,331 --> 00:17:48,663
So, does it match
the prelim from the cigar?
360
00:17:48,734 --> 00:17:50,201
Oh, not even close.
361
00:17:50,335 --> 00:17:51,825
Beck, you just eliminated
our prime suspect.
362
00:17:51,904 --> 00:17:55,362
But you gotta love the
pure science of it, guys.
363
00:17:55,441 --> 00:17:58,672
Accomplishment, purely
for accomplishment's sake.
364
00:17:58,844 --> 00:18:00,744
I hate to criticize
your methods, Beck,
365
00:18:00,879 --> 00:18:02,779
but you could've told us
this over the phone.
366
00:18:02,981 --> 00:18:05,074
But then you wouldn't
have gotten the cherry.
367
00:18:05,150 --> 00:18:06,674
Now, please tell me you know
what he's talking about?
368
00:18:06,785 --> 00:18:08,082
The cherry.
Better known
369
00:18:08,153 --> 00:18:10,246
as the fingerprint match on that
book you found at the scene.
370
00:18:10,322 --> 00:18:12,347
Nelson Lambert?
That's the bad news.
371
00:18:12,424 --> 00:18:14,824
Beck, for your sake, I hope
there's some good news.
372
00:18:14,893 --> 00:18:16,724
Gee, now, I realize
that a four-point match
373
00:18:16,862 --> 00:18:18,727
is nothing to pop
the champagne cork over
374
00:18:18,797 --> 00:18:20,677
but considering it belongs
to somebody who spent
375
00:18:20,732 --> 00:18:22,757
the past six years in Sing Sing,
376
00:18:22,835 --> 00:18:24,632
I thought it might
pique your interest.
377
00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:28,035
Someone named Warner.
Clay Warner.
378
00:18:33,378 --> 00:18:38,372
I was 24 years old. I paid my rent by
selling weed to grad students at NYU.
379
00:18:38,851 --> 00:18:40,411
And one of them
turned out to be a narc?
380
00:18:40,486 --> 00:18:43,614
No, a PhD candidate in Physics
381
00:18:43,922 --> 00:18:45,753
got picked up for
soliciting a prostitute
382
00:18:45,891 --> 00:18:47,722
and traded my name for
his own clean slate.
383
00:18:47,826 --> 00:18:49,054
They found an ounce and a half
384
00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:51,790
in my apartment and
sentenced me to 10 years.
385
00:18:51,930 --> 00:18:53,761
Ten years?
For an ounce and a half?
386
00:18:53,932 --> 00:18:55,160
Must be more to it.
387
00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:56,699
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
388
00:18:57,136 --> 00:19:00,469
But like they say,
every cloud...
389
00:19:00,539 --> 00:19:01,659
Prison gave me time to write.
390
00:19:02,608 --> 00:19:03,608
Is this it?
391
00:19:03,675 --> 00:19:06,701
I lined my cell with
publishers' rejection letters.
392
00:19:06,778 --> 00:19:07,904
Oh, it only takes one.
393
00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:09,872
Which I wouldn't have
without Nelson Lambert.
394
00:19:09,948 --> 00:19:11,916
I sent him that
manuscript in a shoebox.
395
00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:13,471
I'm sure he only
opened it because
396
00:19:13,519 --> 00:19:15,282
the return address
was Sing Sing.
397
00:19:16,188 --> 00:19:18,349
Prison's a metaphor
that no writer can ignore.
398
00:19:18,557 --> 00:19:20,149
Yeah, no murderer either.
399
00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:25,263
Okay. I lied about the book.
I wanted to protect Nelson.
400
00:19:25,364 --> 00:19:27,332
So, he didn't give
you the poetry book.
401
00:19:27,866 --> 00:19:30,926
Nelson gets drunk
and reads poems to the crowd
402
00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:32,197
whether they're
listening or not.
403
00:19:32,271 --> 00:19:34,796
Wednesday night it
was Rimbaud's turn.
404
00:19:35,007 --> 00:19:37,032
Only, your prints
were on the cover.
405
00:19:38,243 --> 00:19:41,872
All right. Maybe I enjoy
a live audience, too.
406
00:19:43,715 --> 00:19:46,741
First, Nelson Lambert.
Now, Clay Warner.
407
00:19:46,818 --> 00:19:47,818
What do you want to do?
408
00:19:47,886 --> 00:19:50,980
Wipe out the entire New York
Times best-seller list?
409
00:19:51,056 --> 00:19:52,683
Warner only sold 2,000 copies.
410
00:19:52,824 --> 00:19:54,689
Read between
the lines, Detective.
411
00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:56,250
Well, you saw
that book of poetry.
412
00:19:56,395 --> 00:19:57,919
It looked unopened.
It was brand new.
413
00:19:57,996 --> 00:19:59,657
Yeah, but that's
hardly scientific.
414
00:19:59,731 --> 00:20:02,359
Hey, you get two drunks passing
a paperback back and forth
415
00:20:02,434 --> 00:20:03,714
they're bound
to bend some pages.
416
00:20:04,703 --> 00:20:06,034
Book report's due at three.
417
00:20:06,171 --> 00:20:07,536
The dog ate mine.
418
00:20:07,839 --> 00:20:10,273
Listen to this.
"The thoracic cavity
419
00:20:10,375 --> 00:20:13,572
"sits just behind the third
button from the top.
420
00:20:13,645 --> 00:20:17,081
"If the point of the knife enters
there, you're assured a kill."
421
00:20:17,416 --> 00:20:19,850
Who says you can't
learn a trade behind bars.
422
00:20:20,152 --> 00:20:22,620
Well, you can make it to
Sing Sing in about an hour.
423
00:20:22,921 --> 00:20:25,151
Find out if Warner writes
about what he knows.
424
00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:30,486
WARDEN: I'll tell you what.
I was glad to get rid of him.
425
00:20:30,562 --> 00:20:32,757
What, with Nelson Lambert
writing letters to the editor
426
00:20:32,831 --> 00:20:35,061
taking out ads in
The New York Review of Books.
427
00:20:35,133 --> 00:20:37,795
You'd think we had The Count of
Monte Cristo locked up here.
428
00:20:37,869 --> 00:20:38,858
BRISCOE:
The power of the pen.
429
00:20:38,937 --> 00:20:41,804
Well, the power of a
$600 an hour mouthpiece.
430
00:20:42,374 --> 00:20:43,374
Lambert hired an attorney
431
00:20:43,442 --> 00:20:45,171
who made 10 appeals
if he made one.
432
00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:47,508
I think those judges just got
sick of listening to him.
433
00:20:47,879 --> 00:20:49,199
Did they reduce
Warner's sentence?
434
00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:50,510
He served six of 10.
435
00:20:50,582 --> 00:20:51,622
So, he was a good prisoner?
436
00:20:51,683 --> 00:20:52,707
(CHUCKLES)
437
00:20:52,784 --> 00:20:55,275
"Good prisoner." That's kind
of like "jumbo shrimp."
438
00:20:55,854 --> 00:20:58,687
He mostly kept to himself.
Especially after the thing.
439
00:20:59,024 --> 00:21:00,048
What thing is that?
440
00:21:00,659 --> 00:21:02,286
Three guys went
into the laundry.
441
00:21:02,527 --> 00:21:03,687
Two came out.
442
00:21:03,829 --> 00:21:04,989
The third one was stabbed?
443
00:21:05,364 --> 00:21:08,197
Shanked in the chest.
Blood everywhere.
444
00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:09,953
And Warner? Oh, he was
there, all right.
445
00:21:10,002 --> 00:21:11,128
Some of that blood was his.
446
00:21:11,203 --> 00:21:13,262
Why would the appellate court
let him go after that?
447
00:21:13,338 --> 00:21:15,169
Well, knowing and proving
are two different things.
448
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,299
Especially with
Lambert screaming about
449
00:21:17,442 --> 00:21:19,501
the immorality of
locking up a genius.
450
00:21:20,145 --> 00:21:21,476
You still have
the blood analysis?
451
00:21:21,613 --> 00:21:22,944
Sure, I'll get it for you, too.
452
00:21:24,383 --> 00:21:27,375
Warner's DNA was on the cigar.
His prints were on the book.
453
00:21:27,452 --> 00:21:28,680
They were both
found at the scene.
454
00:21:28,754 --> 00:21:31,484
The guy in prison was killed
the same way as the cabbie.
455
00:21:31,623 --> 00:21:34,091
Which Warner describes in
perfect detail in his book.
456
00:21:34,226 --> 00:21:35,352
A reason would be nice.
457
00:21:35,427 --> 00:21:37,759
Well, money's as good as any.
Redburn's cash was missing.
458
00:21:37,963 --> 00:21:41,694
This guy's been feeding us
volumes of lies from the get-go.
459
00:21:43,201 --> 00:21:44,600
Pick him up.
460
00:21:45,637 --> 00:21:47,077
WARNER: I have
a question. Did she...
461
00:21:47,739 --> 00:21:49,639
We're discussing
Anna Karenina. Join us.
462
00:21:49,741 --> 00:21:51,470
You ought to read
Crime and Punishment.
463
00:21:52,878 --> 00:21:54,140
Clay Warner, you're under arrest
464
00:21:54,212 --> 00:21:55,907
for the murder of
Robert Lee Redburn.
465
00:21:55,981 --> 00:21:57,812
Don't you love when
art imitates life?
466
00:21:57,883 --> 00:21:59,283
You have the right
to remain silent.
467
00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:01,684
Anything you say can be used
against you in a court of law.
468
00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:03,220
You have the right
to an attorney...
469
00:22:06,558 --> 00:22:09,254
"Docket number
4-7-3-6-8-9.
470
00:22:09,394 --> 00:22:12,090
"People of the State
of New York v. Clay Warner. "
471
00:22:12,197 --> 00:22:15,633
Charges are, "Murder in the First
Degree, Murder in the Second Degree,
472
00:22:15,701 --> 00:22:17,362
"Manslaughter in
the First Degree."
473
00:22:17,536 --> 00:22:18,798
All for one dead body?
474
00:22:18,937 --> 00:22:20,461
The murder was committed
during the commission
475
00:22:20,539 --> 00:22:21,597
of a robbery, Your Honor.
476
00:22:21,673 --> 00:22:23,106
That makes it a felony murder.
477
00:22:23,275 --> 00:22:25,573
Clay Warner. Are you the
fellow that wrote that book?
478
00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:28,379
I am.
I started it. Hmm.
479
00:22:28,847 --> 00:22:29,905
How do you plead?
480
00:22:29,981 --> 00:22:31,073
Not guilty on all accounts.
481
00:22:31,149 --> 00:22:32,275
JUDGE:
People on bail?
482
00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:35,081
A half a million dollars. The
defendant is tied to the murder
483
00:22:35,153 --> 00:22:37,280
with both DNA and
fingerprint evidence.
484
00:22:37,456 --> 00:22:40,016
Both of which are irrelevant
as far as risk of flight.
485
00:22:40,125 --> 00:22:41,592
He's a repeat offender,
Your Honor.
486
00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:43,992
A minor drug charge and he
didn't jump bail the first time.
487
00:22:44,062 --> 00:22:46,155
But old dogs do
learn new tricks.
488
00:22:46,398 --> 00:22:49,026
Bail is set at $300,000.
Uh, Judge...
489
00:22:49,101 --> 00:22:50,500
I'm sorry, professor
but nothing says,
490
00:22:50,569 --> 00:22:52,298
"I'll be back"
like cash. Next!
491
00:22:52,871 --> 00:22:53,871
(GAVEL BANGS)
492
00:22:54,139 --> 00:22:55,139
(WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
493
00:22:56,141 --> 00:22:58,006
"Utter genius.
494
00:22:59,177 --> 00:23:02,408
"It shocks the reader into
redefining his life experience.
495
00:23:03,382 --> 00:23:05,350
"One part Dostoyevsky,
one part Dickens."
496
00:23:05,917 --> 00:23:08,886
I'm impressed, Mr. Warner. Perhaps
this will increase sales.
497
00:23:09,287 --> 00:23:12,586
Alright, Jack, I can play smart-ass
with you. If that's what you want.
498
00:23:12,691 --> 00:23:14,955
This is your meeting, Ira
What do you want?
499
00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:17,590
World peace. The Mets
should win a pennant.
500
00:23:17,662 --> 00:23:19,027
But I'll settle for Clay
501
00:23:19,097 --> 00:23:20,897
being free to write
a couple dozen more books.
502
00:23:21,032 --> 00:23:23,523
I'll send him all the
pencils and paper he needs.
503
00:23:23,769 --> 00:23:26,169
See, you're starting up again with
the whole smart-ass thing and...
504
00:23:26,238 --> 00:23:27,762
Forensics puts him at the scene.
505
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,298
Yeah, I would have
saved you the trouble,
506
00:23:29,374 --> 00:23:31,094
if you would've asked me.
Yes, he was there.
507
00:23:31,610 --> 00:23:33,271
As Rimbaud would
have said, c'est tout.
508
00:23:33,345 --> 00:23:35,040
That's it. Do you have
a murder weapon?
509
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,280
No.
510
00:23:36,348 --> 00:23:38,179
Do you have an eyewitness
to the murder? No, you don't.
511
00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:39,649
He describes it in his book.
512
00:23:39,718 --> 00:23:42,482
Yeah, and how shall we exclude that?
Let me count the ways.
513
00:23:42,554 --> 00:23:44,613
Like I said, Ira,
this is your meeting.
514
00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:48,625
Man two. Time served.
515
00:23:48,827 --> 00:23:50,351
He hasn't served any time.
516
00:23:50,529 --> 00:23:53,259
Six years on a
trumped-up drug charge.
517
00:23:53,331 --> 00:23:54,525
You're not serious.
518
00:23:56,601 --> 00:23:58,728
Weren't you in my first-year
criminal law class?
519
00:23:58,904 --> 00:23:59,904
Back row, on the left.
520
00:24:00,038 --> 00:24:01,630
A-, if I remember
correctly.
521
00:24:01,706 --> 00:24:02,706
A.
522
00:24:02,774 --> 00:24:04,503
And you know, and I was always
surprised I have to admit,
523
00:24:04,576 --> 00:24:06,407
that you never took my
trial advocacy seminar,
524
00:24:06,478 --> 00:24:08,605
because we handled real cases
and you might have benefitted
525
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,908
a little from the work.
526
00:24:09,981 --> 00:24:12,006
No offense, but I didn't
care for your clients.
527
00:24:12,918 --> 00:24:13,942
(SIGHS)
528
00:24:14,019 --> 00:24:16,044
Man two. He does it all.
529
00:24:16,354 --> 00:24:17,651
Oh, that's what
I like about you, Jack.
530
00:24:17,722 --> 00:24:20,190
You go for the jugular, but
you never forget to smile.
531
00:24:20,258 --> 00:24:23,421
Well, I'm sure I'm gonna
make you smile even wider.
532
00:24:23,995 --> 00:24:28,728
The police traipsed all across
the First Amendment illegally
533
00:24:29,034 --> 00:24:30,467
when they manipulated
the bookstore
534
00:24:30,535 --> 00:24:31,934
to disclose the names
of their customers.
535
00:24:32,070 --> 00:24:35,267
Whose First Amendment rights are
you talking about? Rimbaud's?
536
00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:38,468
Among others. And without that
illegally obtained disclosure
537
00:24:38,543 --> 00:24:40,477
you people never would have
looked at Nelson Lambert
538
00:24:40,545 --> 00:24:42,445
ergo, you never would have
looked at Clay Warner.
539
00:24:42,514 --> 00:24:43,514
Time to go.
540
00:24:49,387 --> 00:24:51,048
A hundred and
fifty-five pages.
541
00:24:51,523 --> 00:24:53,616
Why not? He has the best
researchers there are.
542
00:24:53,758 --> 00:24:56,556
Students trying to get the
grades for law review.
543
00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:01,332
(SIGHS)
544
00:25:04,236 --> 00:25:06,500
It was a routine
investigatory step.
545
00:25:06,571 --> 00:25:10,200
The detectives were attempting
to tie a suspect to a crime.
546
00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:13,244
Clearly not analogous to buying a
screwdriver from a hardware store.
547
00:25:13,311 --> 00:25:14,573
And I'm sure you'll tell me why.
548
00:25:14,646 --> 00:25:16,443
Allowing the state
to enter a bookstore,
549
00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:18,483
to review a person's reading
or buying patterns,
550
00:25:18,550 --> 00:25:21,917
would have incredibly chilling effect
on what a person chooses to buy.
551
00:25:21,987 --> 00:25:23,579
Surely, no one in this room
552
00:25:23,655 --> 00:25:26,783
would argue this is not a blatant
violation of the First Amendment.
553
00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:28,618
On the other hand, I doubt
anyone in this room
554
00:25:28,627 --> 00:25:30,458
would raise First
Amendment issues
555
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:34,431
when the Feds search the Internet for
purchasers of child pornography.
556
00:25:34,499 --> 00:25:35,557
That's for another time.
557
00:25:35,634 --> 00:25:36,954
What we're talking
about right now
558
00:25:36,968 --> 00:25:38,993
is a man purchasing
a literary masterpiece.
559
00:25:39,070 --> 00:25:42,506
If you can't burn the books? Fine.
Stop the public from purchasing them.
560
00:25:42,574 --> 00:25:43,939
It's exactly
the same difference.
561
00:25:44,009 --> 00:25:46,671
First of all, your client
did not purchase the book.
562
00:25:46,745 --> 00:25:48,736
The book was bought
specifically for Mr. Warner.
563
00:25:48,813 --> 00:25:52,305
If Mr. Warner at any moment
had an expectation of privacy
564
00:25:52,384 --> 00:25:54,181
in this particular
reading material,
565
00:25:54,252 --> 00:25:56,117
he would not have
read whole passages
566
00:25:56,187 --> 00:25:58,587
out loud to strangers
in a public...
567
00:25:58,657 --> 00:26:00,284
Whoa! Let's back up.
568
00:26:00,358 --> 00:26:02,519
You're saying it wasn't the
defendant who bought the book?
569
00:26:02,594 --> 00:26:06,428
That's correct. Nelson Lambert
purchased the book in question.
570
00:26:06,698 --> 00:26:08,563
Well, then, Professor, the
next thing out of your mouth
571
00:26:08,633 --> 00:26:09,895
better be very convincing.
572
00:26:10,769 --> 00:26:14,296
Who would write... Who would buy
books, who would read books,
573
00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:18,365
if the very nature of those books were
not free from government interference?
574
00:26:18,443 --> 00:26:20,570
Good question.
Not good enough.
575
00:26:21,112 --> 00:26:22,545
Your client didn't buy the book.
576
00:26:22,614 --> 00:26:25,276
He doesn't have standing to
argue his rights were violated.
577
00:26:27,719 --> 00:26:31,450
You know, Nelson Lambert has already
started his "save the genius" campaign.
578
00:26:31,556 --> 00:26:34,218
Warner won't be the first genius
to have spent a significant
579
00:26:34,326 --> 00:26:36,260
portion of his life behind bars.
580
00:26:36,561 --> 00:26:38,426
Oscar Wilde, Jean Genet.
581
00:26:38,496 --> 00:26:40,361
I'll stick with
the tax code, thank you.
582
00:26:40,498 --> 00:26:43,365
I briefed the admissibility of
using Warner's book against him.
583
00:26:43,535 --> 00:26:45,799
Simpkis hasn't even moved
to exclude it yet.
584
00:26:45,870 --> 00:26:47,838
He will. The one thing
he preached in class
585
00:26:47,906 --> 00:26:50,932
was that the only advantage that
the defense counsel has is time.
586
00:26:51,309 --> 00:26:53,072
Especially when
he's paid by the hour.
587
00:26:53,211 --> 00:26:56,476
He advocates stretching out pretrial
motions as long as possible.
588
00:26:56,548 --> 00:26:59,847
He thinks that once the prosecution
has asked for its first extension,
589
00:27:00,151 --> 00:27:02,210
the advantage shifts
to the defense.
590
00:27:03,755 --> 00:27:04,983
How far can we push this?
591
00:27:05,824 --> 00:27:08,622
There's no case law directly on point.
It's a crapshoot.
592
00:27:08,693 --> 00:27:11,594
Which tells me we should have
something else in our back pockets.
593
00:27:16,301 --> 00:27:19,293
His father died in a
pool of his own vomit.
594
00:27:20,005 --> 00:27:22,064
Should I have expected
any better from him?
595
00:27:22,507 --> 00:27:26,341
It seems people who know about these
things think Clay is quite talented.
596
00:27:26,911 --> 00:27:27,969
That's sweet.
597
00:27:28,613 --> 00:27:30,012
Are you opposed to his writing?
598
00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:33,550
Is there something
specific, Miss?
599
00:27:35,020 --> 00:27:37,488
We think Clay may have killed
a cabbie in order to rob him.
600
00:27:37,555 --> 00:27:39,489
Do you know if he was
having financial problems?
601
00:27:39,924 --> 00:27:41,551
How could I possibly know that?
602
00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:44,951
You're his mother. Maybe
he asked to borrow money.
603
00:27:45,030 --> 00:27:46,588
It's been years, Miss.
604
00:27:47,032 --> 00:27:48,329
Since you supported him?
605
00:27:48,633 --> 00:27:50,157
Since I've spoken with him.
606
00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:52,530
He's a bad seed.
607
00:27:53,238 --> 00:27:55,433
Always was.
Always will be.
608
00:27:56,875 --> 00:27:59,241
Tell you what.
The man can write.
609
00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:02,044
Teaching, on the other hand,
well, let's just say
610
00:28:02,447 --> 00:28:04,677
it involves a whole
other set of skills.
611
00:28:05,016 --> 00:28:06,016
Let me guess.
612
00:28:06,084 --> 00:28:08,644
Nelson Lambert's influence
helped him land this job.
613
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,950
And my Irish luck put me
in an office with him.
614
00:28:11,189 --> 00:28:12,429
You don't get along with Warner?
615
00:28:12,624 --> 00:28:15,286
Clay and a meager talent like me?
Come on.
616
00:28:16,227 --> 00:28:17,888
Did you know him before
he went to prison?
617
00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:20,796
You're not wired or anything...
618
00:28:20,932 --> 00:28:22,331
Of course not.
619
00:28:23,168 --> 00:28:25,693
He used to sell me dope.
He did okay, too.
620
00:28:26,071 --> 00:28:29,302
He was the only grad student who didn't
have to tutor freshmen to buy dinner.
621
00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:30,374
What about now?
622
00:28:31,443 --> 00:28:34,071
I wouldn't know.
Now, I'm high on life.
623
00:28:34,412 --> 00:28:35,504
What about money?
624
00:28:36,147 --> 00:28:37,171
What about it?
625
00:28:37,649 --> 00:28:39,082
Was he in financial trouble?
626
00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:42,312
I just figured he was up to something
that I didn't want to know about.
627
00:28:43,321 --> 00:28:44,321
Such as?
628
00:28:46,991 --> 00:28:50,256
What the hell, let the gods
of literati strike me dead.
629
00:28:50,929 --> 00:28:54,831
Okay, I'm working on a paper on
Faulkner's use of Keats' poetry.
630
00:28:55,133 --> 00:28:57,567
I'm here late one night
doing some research.
631
00:29:00,138 --> 00:29:03,630
Voila behind the two-volume
biography of Faulkner
632
00:29:03,975 --> 00:29:06,773
that everybody has
and nobody reads.
633
00:29:10,548 --> 00:29:12,812
The cash had the cab
driver's prints on it.
634
00:29:12,984 --> 00:29:15,111
The blood traces on the
knife are being tested.
635
00:29:15,186 --> 00:29:17,245
Outrageous.
I'm hardly a wordsmith
636
00:29:17,322 --> 00:29:19,950
but I think that describes what's
happening here as well as any word could.
637
00:29:20,024 --> 00:29:21,389
It was perfectly legal.
638
00:29:22,327 --> 00:29:24,818
Back when we were paying
taxes to King George.
639
00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:28,331
Legal? You're supposed to get a warrant
before you run your fingers through someone's
640
00:29:28,399 --> 00:29:30,060
personal items in his
personal office.
641
00:29:30,168 --> 00:29:34,434
Not when one of the office occupants gives
us permission to conduct the search.
642
00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:36,172
Behind my client's books?
643
00:29:36,307 --> 00:29:39,105
His officemate had
free access to the books.
644
00:29:39,177 --> 00:29:41,907
First off, he has an
expectation of privacy.
645
00:29:42,413 --> 00:29:44,173
Second, anything that's found...
WARNER: Stop!
646
00:29:46,584 --> 00:29:48,142
I'll take a deal,
Mr. McCoy.
647
00:29:48,553 --> 00:29:50,020
No you won't.
Shut up!
648
00:29:52,123 --> 00:29:56,321
I'll confess to whatever you want me to
confess to. I have only one condition.
649
00:29:57,395 --> 00:29:58,589
I'm listening.
650
00:29:59,397 --> 00:30:01,058
I want the death penalty.
651
00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:04,499
I want you to have me killed.
652
00:30:12,010 --> 00:30:14,843
I don't know who was more
shocked, Simpkis or me.
653
00:30:14,946 --> 00:30:18,143
Yup, what fun is it hitting
someone who won't hit back?
654
00:30:18,383 --> 00:30:21,079
I never really thought of this
as an exercise in fun, Arthur.
655
00:30:21,186 --> 00:30:23,654
Brace yourself for professor
Simpkis' motions.
656
00:30:25,957 --> 00:30:27,788
A motion to quash the
agreed upon sentence.
657
00:30:27,859 --> 00:30:31,317
On the grounds that Warner isn't competent
to negotiate on his own behalf.
658
00:30:31,596 --> 00:30:33,461
He wants to die,
so he's got to be crazy.
659
00:30:33,598 --> 00:30:35,828
I've arranged for Skoda
to examine him.
660
00:30:36,301 --> 00:30:37,734
And you say this isn't fun.
661
00:30:43,141 --> 00:30:44,403
Here's a new one for you.
662
00:30:44,542 --> 00:30:45,804
I am not crazy.
663
00:30:47,045 --> 00:30:48,876
Not everyone I talk to is crazy.
664
00:30:48,947 --> 00:30:50,539
But I bet they all claim to be.
665
00:30:50,982 --> 00:30:52,973
Not everyone is as
forthcoming as you.
666
00:30:53,184 --> 00:30:55,675
So show me where to sign
and we can call this off.
667
00:30:56,588 --> 00:30:58,954
The State takes this
very seriously, Clay.
668
00:30:59,490 --> 00:31:01,822
It won't execute someone
with a mental defect.
669
00:31:02,327 --> 00:31:03,954
They can't kill a crazy person.
670
00:31:04,028 --> 00:31:07,020
And a person who wants
to die must be crazy.
671
00:31:08,066 --> 00:31:09,465
And around and around we go.
672
00:31:11,603 --> 00:31:13,093
Tell me about prison.
673
00:31:13,238 --> 00:31:14,728
Now that'll make you crazy.
674
00:31:16,574 --> 00:31:17,574
How so?
675
00:31:18,209 --> 00:31:19,506
Very clever, Doctor.
676
00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:23,643
If I consider a life in prison
worse than no life at all,
677
00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:28,342
then my desire to avoid going back behind
bars is actually an indication of my sanity.
678
00:31:28,753 --> 00:31:30,084
I just asked a question.
679
00:31:30,622 --> 00:31:34,786
Victor Hugo compared prison to church.
The deprivation, the regulations,
680
00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:36,260
the conformity.
681
00:31:36,394 --> 00:31:37,418
And you agree?
682
00:31:38,129 --> 00:31:39,619
Prison is the anti-church.
683
00:31:40,164 --> 00:31:44,430
A church lifts the human consciousness,
elevating man beyond himself
684
00:31:44,535 --> 00:31:45,832
to a union with his God.
685
00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:47,132
But prison
686
00:31:47,805 --> 00:31:49,067
forces him down,
687
00:31:50,008 --> 00:31:52,408
flesh against concrete.
688
00:31:53,077 --> 00:31:55,477
It crushes him
deeper into himself.
689
00:31:56,247 --> 00:32:00,479
Writers like Hugo paint these grand metaphors
without having the slightest reality check.
690
00:32:00,551 --> 00:32:03,520
Sure, they heard about what goes on
in prison but they never really know.
691
00:32:04,822 --> 00:32:06,084
A life sentence.
692
00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:08,589
Think about what
that means, Doctor.
693
00:32:09,727 --> 00:32:12,525
Every minute
of every day. Forever.
694
00:32:18,036 --> 00:32:20,027
Imagining death's
a lot easier, no?
695
00:32:22,140 --> 00:32:23,767
I've barely
scratched the surface.
696
00:32:23,975 --> 00:32:25,340
After eight hours?
697
00:32:25,443 --> 00:32:28,310
His intelligence makes it hard to
know what's real and what's not.
698
00:32:28,579 --> 00:32:30,911
So the blurbs on the back
of his book are true.
699
00:32:31,883 --> 00:32:32,907
I don't know.
700
00:32:33,151 --> 00:32:35,415
I certainly hope
there's a "yet" coming.
701
00:32:35,687 --> 00:32:37,211
I'm meeting with him
again tomorrow.
702
00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:41,884
Let me ask you something,
Jack, off the record.
703
00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:45,429
Would you prefer that I found he
was incompetent and therefore
704
00:32:45,496 --> 00:32:47,430
unable to be sentenced
to execution?
705
00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:49,263
Why would you ask that?
706
00:32:51,502 --> 00:32:52,594
No reason.
707
00:32:53,271 --> 00:32:54,898
Analyze him, Emil. Not me.
708
00:33:00,611 --> 00:33:02,101
You seem irritable today.
709
00:33:02,313 --> 00:33:03,439
Tell me about the cab driver.
710
00:33:03,581 --> 00:33:04,639
Make that testy.
711
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:06,245
If you don't want to do this...
712
00:33:06,617 --> 00:33:07,982
What do you want
to know about him?
713
00:33:09,354 --> 00:33:10,616
Did you talk to him?
714
00:33:11,389 --> 00:33:13,448
I told him I wouldn't
put out my cigar.
715
00:33:13,925 --> 00:33:15,859
The smoke bothered him?
I didn't care.
716
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:19,861
Were you always
like this? Defiant?
717
00:33:20,965 --> 00:33:23,991
Don't you really mean, did I pay
attention to Daddy and Mother?
718
00:33:25,636 --> 00:33:27,116
If that's what
you want to talk about.
719
00:33:27,405 --> 00:33:30,738
Well, Daddy slept with every
tramp on the Upper East Side.
720
00:33:31,843 --> 00:33:33,470
Did your mother know?
721
00:33:34,278 --> 00:33:35,438
My mother.
722
00:33:37,515 --> 00:33:38,515
What about her?
723
00:33:40,818 --> 00:33:41,910
I'm tired of this.
724
00:33:44,255 --> 00:33:47,349
I murdered a man for no other
reason other than I felt like it.
725
00:33:47,425 --> 00:33:50,258
He pissed me off
and he deserved to die.
726
00:33:52,830 --> 00:33:55,663
Whatever she did to him,
it doesn't excuse his actions.
727
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,529
He doesn't want to be
excused, remember?
728
00:33:57,602 --> 00:33:59,331
He didn't hear voices?
No.
729
00:33:59,871 --> 00:34:02,897
There was no irresistible
impulse to kill?
730
00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:04,435
Not that I'm aware of.
731
00:34:05,476 --> 00:34:06,636
So he's legally sane.
732
00:34:07,779 --> 00:34:08,779
Or he's lying.
733
00:34:09,313 --> 00:34:12,146
Not that it matters, but does
he feel any remorse at all?
734
00:34:12,417 --> 00:34:15,784
None whatsoever. Clay Warner
couldn't care less about anyone.
735
00:34:17,288 --> 00:34:19,916
I can't think of a better
candidate for execution.
736
00:34:28,433 --> 00:34:32,028
Albert Einstein kills
Jack the Ripper.
737
00:34:32,103 --> 00:34:34,196
Now what do we do?
Do we sentence him to death
738
00:34:34,272 --> 00:34:37,173
or do we name a college
physics building after him?
739
00:34:37,608 --> 00:34:40,907
Your hypotheticals are better
served in a classroom, Ira.
740
00:34:40,978 --> 00:34:44,038
And why is that? Because students
have the luxury of open minds, Jack?
741
00:34:44,115 --> 00:34:46,140
Because your example
is misplaced.
742
00:34:46,484 --> 00:34:48,782
He's a Klan member. He's
responsible for two deaths.
743
00:34:48,853 --> 00:34:51,014
In his spare time
he trades kiddie porn.
744
00:34:51,089 --> 00:34:52,920
Is his life really
as worth another life?
745
00:34:52,990 --> 00:34:55,322
Especially somebody with
so much to offer society?
746
00:34:55,726 --> 00:34:58,251
The legal system does
not ask that question.
747
00:34:58,362 --> 00:34:59,442
Oh. And so you
don't either?
748
00:34:59,964 --> 00:35:02,844
Right. All human life is equal, blah,
blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. Right?
749
00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:05,501
That's good for church on Sunday,
Jack, but in the real world,
750
00:35:05,736 --> 00:35:08,068
the value of human
life is relative.
751
00:35:09,107 --> 00:35:12,975
You know what, Ira? It takes an over-inflated
ego to even suggest such a thing.
752
00:35:13,044 --> 00:35:15,805
Oh. And this from a man who doles out
innocence and guilt for a living.
753
00:35:15,847 --> 00:35:18,213
This from a man who made his
living defending a document
754
00:35:18,282 --> 00:35:20,250
that purports to treat
all men equally.
755
00:35:20,318 --> 00:35:21,342
(SIGHS)
756
00:35:21,419 --> 00:35:23,114
You like hypotheticals,
how's this?
757
00:35:24,155 --> 00:35:26,123
Bobby Lee Redburn
kills Clay Warner.
758
00:35:26,190 --> 00:35:27,190
(LAUGHS)
759
00:35:27,425 --> 00:35:29,290
Would you still be fighting
to keep him alive?
760
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,954
Absolutely. Just because the
legislature says something is legal,
761
00:35:32,029 --> 00:35:33,360
does not make it moral.
762
00:35:33,431 --> 00:35:35,456
So, this genius thing has
nothing to do with this?
763
00:35:35,533 --> 00:35:36,773
No, I would do whatever it takes
764
00:35:36,834 --> 00:35:38,802
to stop even one
state-sanctioned murder
765
00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:42,237
and then, Jack, no matter what happened,
I'll be able to sleep at night.
766
00:35:42,540 --> 00:35:43,540
Would you?
767
00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:46,705
You may not like what
your client wants to do.
768
00:35:46,944 --> 00:35:48,104
But it's his life.
769
00:35:49,180 --> 00:35:50,647
And his right to end it.
Really?
770
00:35:50,715 --> 00:35:52,996
So you would ask for the death
penalty if we went to trial.
771
00:35:53,251 --> 00:35:54,309
That's irrelevant.
772
00:35:54,652 --> 00:35:56,517
Come on, Jack.
He stole $300.
773
00:35:56,587 --> 00:35:57,781
He killed a man!
774
00:35:57,855 --> 00:36:01,655
Right which if that were all he did, the
death penalty wouldn't even be an issue.
775
00:36:01,859 --> 00:36:04,885
Three hundred bucks.
Two tickets to a Knicks game.
776
00:36:05,096 --> 00:36:06,791
I mean, that's really
worth a human life?
777
00:36:06,864 --> 00:36:09,697
Especially one with
such creative potential?
778
00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:14,434
You know what, Jack, you're right. You know
what, have another drink and just pretend
779
00:36:14,505 --> 00:36:17,440
that you're just an innocent
bystander to the process.
780
00:36:17,508 --> 00:36:21,467
Because somewhere down the road, when that
icy needle juts into Clay Warner's vein,
781
00:36:21,546 --> 00:36:25,414
you won't be able to avoid it anymore
and you will see as clear as day
782
00:36:25,483 --> 00:36:27,508
that you are the process.
783
00:36:39,964 --> 00:36:42,831
I've been a part of the literary
community for nearly three decades.
784
00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:44,561
SIMPKIS: It's not
a time for modesty, sir.
785
00:36:44,635 --> 00:36:47,604
You've won three national book
awards, two Pulitzer prizes.
786
00:36:47,738 --> 00:36:49,171
I don't write to win awards.
787
00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:50,540
No, of course not.
788
00:36:51,242 --> 00:36:54,122
But they certainly serve as recognition
of your standing in the community.
789
00:36:54,745 --> 00:36:55,871
I suppose.
790
00:36:55,947 --> 00:36:58,381
Have you formed an opinion
as to Mr. Warner's talent?
791
00:36:58,749 --> 00:37:02,480
Clay Warner has the ability to create
things that weren't there before.
792
00:37:02,954 --> 00:37:07,357
And that's an ability that should be
nurtured, developed, hell, even pampered.
793
00:37:07,959 --> 00:37:11,417
Why? Because it's
damn rare, that's why.
794
00:37:11,662 --> 00:37:13,220
Even if he violates the law?
795
00:37:13,297 --> 00:37:15,094
LAMBERT:
Art gives form to life.
796
00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:18,467
Clay Warner killed someone. He
should be punished for that.
797
00:37:18,536 --> 00:37:21,004
But taking his life is not
punishing Clay Warner,
798
00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:22,596
it's punishing society.
799
00:37:22,773 --> 00:37:24,138
But he wants to die.
800
00:37:24,275 --> 00:37:25,606
Well, he's not rational.
801
00:37:25,876 --> 00:37:29,403
Any true artist who
willingly abandons his art
802
00:37:30,448 --> 00:37:33,008
cannot by definition
be rational.
803
00:37:34,151 --> 00:37:35,243
Thank you.
804
00:37:38,889 --> 00:37:42,848
Along with your panoply
of literary awards,
805
00:37:43,094 --> 00:37:45,585
have you received
a medical degree?
806
00:37:46,631 --> 00:37:47,631
No.
807
00:37:47,865 --> 00:37:50,163
A PhD in psychology?
808
00:37:50,968 --> 00:37:52,094
No.
809
00:37:52,169 --> 00:37:54,603
Isn't it arrogant of you, then,
810
00:37:54,739 --> 00:37:58,698
to sit here and contradict
a recognized expert?
811
00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:01,442
Genius, true genius,
812
00:38:02,246 --> 00:38:04,737
should be coddled and forgiven.
813
00:38:06,617 --> 00:38:09,279
Dostoyevsky was a
degenerate gambler.
814
00:38:09,353 --> 00:38:14,290
Poe was a drug addict. Wagner was
a thief, an adulterer, a racist.
815
00:38:14,825 --> 00:38:16,793
These are despicable men all,
816
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:20,856
and yet their respective societies
ignored their iniquities
817
00:38:20,931 --> 00:38:24,196
because of the sheer abundance
of their contributions.
818
00:38:24,902 --> 00:38:28,269
Now, for some sad reason we've
devolved into a society
819
00:38:28,339 --> 00:38:31,433
that worships conformity
over creativity.
820
00:38:32,209 --> 00:38:35,372
It would be better for
the world to let genius be,
821
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,304
to never doubt it,
822
00:38:38,249 --> 00:38:39,341
never question it?
823
00:38:39,750 --> 00:38:40,910
That's right.
824
00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:42,919
And Clay Warner is a genius?
825
00:38:43,554 --> 00:38:44,554
He is.
826
00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:48,947
Then who are we, sir, to
question his decision now?
827
00:38:54,865 --> 00:38:58,858
I left Helen's, hailed a cab and
had him drive me across town.
828
00:38:58,969 --> 00:39:01,665
But you live downtown,
isn't that correct?
829
00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:04,099
There was another bar
I felt like going to.
830
00:39:04,542 --> 00:39:05,941
What happened in the cab?
831
00:39:06,410 --> 00:39:09,436
Nelson gave me a cigar,
a Cuban. I lit it up.
832
00:39:10,481 --> 00:39:12,881
And the cab driver,
Mr. Redburn,
833
00:39:13,417 --> 00:39:14,417
didn't care for that?
834
00:39:14,552 --> 00:39:15,552
No, he didn't.
835
00:39:15,619 --> 00:39:17,246
He told me to put it out.
I refused,
836
00:39:17,388 --> 00:39:19,652
so he pulled to the curb
and told me to get out.
837
00:39:19,724 --> 00:39:20,724
Did you?
838
00:39:20,791 --> 00:39:23,954
Yes. But when I was outside, I opened
his door and pulled him out with me,
839
00:39:24,028 --> 00:39:25,028
then I stabbed him.
840
00:39:26,664 --> 00:39:27,664
And then?
841
00:39:27,732 --> 00:39:32,135
Then I turned off the engine, took his
money and shoved him under the car.
842
00:39:33,704 --> 00:39:37,265
I didn't really need the money but,
what the hell, I already killed him.
843
00:39:38,743 --> 00:39:40,540
Was this the first time
you killed?
844
00:39:41,011 --> 00:39:45,880
No. In prison I stabbed some junkie in
the laundry because I didn't like him.
845
00:39:51,055 --> 00:39:52,079
(SIMPKIS CLEARING THROAT)
846
00:39:52,156 --> 00:39:55,819
All right, I'm just trying to
understand this, Mr. Warner.
847
00:39:55,893 --> 00:39:56,893
You're, uh...
848
00:39:57,928 --> 00:40:00,488
Think of death as
relief? Do you?
849
00:40:01,999 --> 00:40:02,999
Never thought about it.
850
00:40:04,268 --> 00:40:08,170
You're asking to die, but you've never
thought about being dead? You're not scared?
851
00:40:08,472 --> 00:40:12,272
Why would I be scared? Death is nothing
more than the absence of life.
852
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:16,274
And believe me, life isn't as
precious a commodity as people
853
00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:18,712
delude themselves into
believing. Life, death.
854
00:40:18,783 --> 00:40:20,876
It doesn't matter
to me either way.
855
00:40:21,218 --> 00:40:23,743
So, you're sentenced to life
without the possibility of parole,
856
00:40:23,821 --> 00:40:25,254
you what? You just
kill yourself?
857
00:40:25,556 --> 00:40:27,183
Probably. But this
is a lot easier.
858
00:40:27,591 --> 00:40:29,058
Oh, come on,
Mr. Warner,
859
00:40:30,161 --> 00:40:31,161
you lose this motion,
860
00:40:31,996 --> 00:40:33,088
you're sentenced to prison.
861
00:40:34,064 --> 00:40:35,691
Before you get a chance
to kill yourself,
862
00:40:36,434 --> 00:40:37,628
wouldn't you continue writing?
863
00:40:39,336 --> 00:40:40,394
I suppose.
864
00:40:40,471 --> 00:40:43,634
Because as Mr. Lambert said any
artist willing to abandon his art,
865
00:40:44,408 --> 00:40:45,466
cannot be rational.
866
00:40:45,910 --> 00:40:50,040
The thing is, Nelson thinks his own immortality
lies between the covers of a book.
867
00:40:51,182 --> 00:40:52,462
I know there ain't
no such thing.
868
00:40:53,317 --> 00:40:54,375
This is it, Nelson.
869
00:40:55,886 --> 00:40:56,944
This is all there is.
870
00:41:05,095 --> 00:41:08,531
It would have been easier if Warner had
taken a chainsaw to a family of four.
871
00:41:08,732 --> 00:41:09,858
Why?
872
00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:13,763
Because you're human, and humans
can't help but judge other humans.
873
00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:17,638
That'd be just as wrong as treating
Warner differently because
874
00:41:17,708 --> 00:41:21,576
he can string together sentences better
than the rest of us. The quality
875
00:41:22,179 --> 00:41:26,343
of the victim should not matter anymore
than the quality of his killer.
876
00:41:27,084 --> 00:41:29,678
I said it'd be easier,
not more just.
877
00:41:29,753 --> 00:41:32,278
It's good, Arthur.
He can write.
878
00:41:32,356 --> 00:41:33,584
You want the easy answer?
879
00:41:35,793 --> 00:41:37,158
Just words on a page.
880
00:41:37,294 --> 00:41:38,659
And the more difficult one?
881
00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:43,333
So are these.
882
00:41:44,602 --> 00:41:48,265
The death penalty is the most
severe punishment the law allows.
883
00:41:48,706 --> 00:41:51,197
I got to admit, it's
disconcerting that Warner thinks
884
00:41:51,275 --> 00:41:53,300
it's less severe
than going to prison.
885
00:41:54,645 --> 00:41:57,205
You show the SOB,
keep him alive.
886
00:41:57,648 --> 00:42:01,675
If you do that, the best way for any future
defendant to avoid the death penalty
887
00:42:01,852 --> 00:42:03,547
is gonna be to ask to die.
888
00:42:04,088 --> 00:42:05,749
What gets your goat
is that in the past,
889
00:42:05,823 --> 00:42:08,383
you've always had the backstop
of mandatory appeals.
890
00:42:08,459 --> 00:42:09,926
You were just a cog
in the system.
891
00:42:10,895 --> 00:42:13,830
You could always rationalize
it to yourself by placing
892
00:42:13,898 --> 00:42:16,594
the ultimate responsibility
on someone else's shoulders.
893
00:42:17,134 --> 00:42:18,692
Now, if Clay Warner dies,
894
00:42:18,936 --> 00:42:20,528
it's because I wanted him dead.
895
00:42:23,807 --> 00:42:26,207
It's not you, Jack.
It's the law.
896
00:42:28,946 --> 00:42:30,311
Words on a page?
897
00:42:37,855 --> 00:42:38,855
(DOOR OPENING)
898
00:42:51,435 --> 00:42:53,926
I have listened carefully
to the testimony
899
00:42:54,004 --> 00:42:56,564
of the psychiatrists
for both sides,
900
00:42:57,308 --> 00:42:59,105
to the character witnesses
901
00:42:59,510 --> 00:43:02,479
and finally, to the
defendant himself.
902
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,772
Which in the final analysis
deserves the most weight.
903
00:43:07,151 --> 00:43:09,585
First, I have determined
904
00:43:09,987 --> 00:43:14,822
that the plea bargain was reached in good
faith and without coercion of any sort.
905
00:43:15,459 --> 00:43:20,453
Second, I find that there was not a
preponderance of evidence offered
906
00:43:20,531 --> 00:43:25,525
to establish that the defendant suffers
from a mental disorder or defect.
907
00:43:27,905 --> 00:43:30,135
My final holding, therefore,
908
00:43:30,874 --> 00:43:34,105
is that Mr. Warner
shall be executed
909
00:43:34,445 --> 00:43:36,709
pursuant to the laws
of this state
910
00:43:37,481 --> 00:43:42,646
and in accordance with the plea agreement
reached between the parties to this matter.
911
00:43:43,654 --> 00:43:44,654
(GAVEL BANGS)
912
00:43:44,704 --> 00:43:49,254
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