All language subtitles for Law & Order s17e21 Over Here.eng

NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system

the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,

the police
who investigate crime

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

Do you really
think she's okay?

She's so lethargic!

Well, that's because
Princess is a very fat cat.

Changing her diet
would do her good.

Well, I'm getting
a second opinion!

(sun FIRING)

(SCREAMING)

Dena! Get Laurie out here with
an ambu-bag for a large dog!

Call 911!

We're losing him.

We're losing him!

I know some of the local homeless,
but I've never seen him before.

He say anything
before he died?

No. We had the ambu-bag over his
mouth, trying to help him breathe.

He's the first real person
I work on and he dies!

At least you tried.
Most people...

How far could he have walked
with those head wounds?

It's hard to say. He
sustained internal trauma,

but without an autopsy...

He's got fractured ribs on the
left, ruptured spleen and liver,

internal hemorrhaging, and a
shattered acromioclavicularjoint.

Broken shoulder.

Didn't you say you never
worked on people before?

Oh, I got X-ray hands.
Comes from treating patients

who can't tell you
what's wrong with them.

Could be a hit-and-run.

Uh-uh, not with
these wounds.

They look defensive. My guess,
he got beaten to death.

Thanks.

No ID. He couldn't have
walked far in that condition.

His squat's probably
nearby.

He gets his beat-down, he's looking
for help and he sees this.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)
Any port in a storm.

Hello?

Where?

Got it.

Hope you weren't
planning on breakfast.

Lower East Side, another
homeless guy beaten to death.

Call came in at 5:10.

Someone heard shouting,
a man calling for help.

Caller see anything?

She was up
on the third floor,

it was still
too dark to see.

We'll canvass the buildings
on the off chance.

It's 5:10. The other guy fell
into the clinic around 4:30.

Say he was beaten
10 minutes before that.

That leaves about 50
minutes between attacks.

It's time enough to walk from 26th
and 9th all the way over here.

Could be the same guys.

And I got something here.

Hmm. Cute kid.

And, uh, a New Jersey
driver's license.

William McCarter,
address in Fort Lee.

Let's make sure that
gets back to his family.

Yeah.

Blunt-force injuries,
crushing wounds

these guys were stomped, punched
and batted head to toe.

Any way to
connect the attacks?

Ah, both men have a similar
bruise here on the right temple.

Shaped like a boot heel.

I'm guessing this is what started the
brain hemorrhage that killed him.

Looks like shrapnel wounds.

Yeah.

There's more on his leg.

Is he a veteran?

Infantry, First of the Third,
stationed in Tikrit.

So says the tattoo on
his left shoulder blade.

I put him in his mid-20s.

CSU got nothing
from the baseball field

and the canvass didn't turn
up any witnesses. No kidding.

All the more reason to figure out where
this John Doe got his beat-down.

Private John Doe.
Iraq veteran.

From Tikrit to our street.

Some homecoming.
Hmm.

It's a cocktail napkin.
The L,

it's from the Lexmore,
it's a hotel in Chelsea.

The Lexmore,
nice piano bar.

He said his name was David.
Never got a last name.

He said he was
in the service.

How'd you know him?

I found him digging through
the dumpster out back.

So, I set him up
with a meal.

I did it a few times.

A vet eating garbage,
it ain't right.

You know where he
laid up for the night?

No idea. David
wasn't a big talker.

Last night, he
come around for his meal?

Nah, he came,
every other week.

David knew not to push,
and to show his gratitude.

How did he do that?

Well, I don't want
any trouble.

If they were stolen, I don't
know anything about it.

If what was stolen?

Floor mats.

He said he found 'em, he
wanted to give 'em to me.

They were practically brand-new
except for a couple of little stains.

I gave him 10 bucks for 'em.

These are
for a Bentley.

Figured I could
sell 'em on eBay.

Not anymore.

Store tag's still on 'em.

Yup, they're ours. They were, ah,
damaged from a leak in the stockroom.

We had to throw 'em out.

Where'd you find 'em?

This man sold 'em
to someone else.

Oh, him.

Kreidel. What a
pain in the ass.

What, he get hit
by a bus?

Beaten to death. You called him
Kreidel, you know his name.

Of course. David Kreidel. We were suing
him for scaring away our customers.

Lawyers filed
the papers last week.

You're suing
a homeless person?

Customers bring
their cars in for service,

they'd see him hanging out
back there, doing his thing.

Going to the bathroom,
talking to himself,

we offered him money
to move, but...

Back there in the alley,
that's where he was living?

Yeah.

So what were you suing him
for, the lint in his pockets?

The money he was getting from the
government some kind of benefits.

Like maybe
his GI benefits?

We were just hoping
that he'd shove off.

Right.

That's a nice pin on
your lapel, by the way.

(SCOFFS)

Looks like his squat.

I got blood on the box,
blood here,

and blood here where
somebody grabbed on.

Looks like we got
our crime scene.

We got an eyewitness, too.

Mr. Hammond!
This camera work?

BECKWAY:
Don't expect miracles.

The camera's about
five years old.

We'll keep it in mind.

BECKWAY: Here we go.

I couldn't make out
their faces.

There it was.
The deathblow.

Go back to the beginning.
I want to see something.

Freeze it.

Right there.
What's that?

ED: That's a baseball cap.

Go forward slowly.

Someone was standing under
the camera, just watching.

You see that? Something
flew out of his pocket.

He was right
about here.

Turned this way, the
thing flew out that way.

There's all kinds of
nastiness under there.

Don't! You wanna get
rabies or something?

Here, use this.

It was square shaped
like a piece of cardboard.

CASSADY:
Something like that?

It's a map of the city.

All the sights
are highlighted,

maybe our perps
are from out of town.

If it's their map.

Well, same shape.
Same general look.

So if this is their map, and
they're from out of town,

maybe they're
staying at a hotel.

Maybe that's where
they were heading

when they attacked
the second guy.

A hotel in the
Lower East Side?

There were a bunch
of them. Four or five.

Young people.

They were all staying
in the same room.

Yeah. They were here
about a week.

Party-hardy types.

When did they
check out?

This morning
about 8:00.

Here we go.

Hold your nose!

Watch it, you got, uh,
vomit there on the floor.

Looks like bloodstains on the
sheets, and, uh, other fluids.

Ugh. They must be
into water conservation,

they didn't bother flushing.

Violent, impulsive, looks like
we're on the right track.

You people are
wrecking the place!

Like anybody's
gonna notice.

Now, about your guests...

I told you, I can't really
describe any of'em!

People come, people go,
that's the hotel business!

But you got ID from them
when they checked in, right?

I got cash in advance!

There were two or three
guys with a girl.

But they all looked
above the legal age!

CASSADY: Hey, Ed!

Check this out.

Found it behind
the dresser.

Blank checks belonging
to Rachel Hutton.

West 87th Street.

On top of everything else,
they're thieves!

The whole box
is gone.

I don't believe this!

Anything else missing,
Ms. Hutton?

Oh, my God!
My digital camera.

I had pictures from my parents'
anniversary, this is crazy!

Um, who comes
into this room?

The housekeeper,
our nanny.

They've been
with us for years!

Any strangers in the
house in the last week?

Oh, well, Monday there was a
young man and a young woman,

very nice, very polite.

They came to the door.

They were selling
something?

Magazine subscriptions to earn
money for a semester abroad.

Oh, I'm an idiot!

I let the girl use the
powder room right here.

You're a nice lady.

You bought magazines
from them?

Yeah. About $100 worth.

I made a check out
to, um,

Excursion Sales.

I even got a receipt!

ED: That's right,
New York City Police.

Outside?

It's a beautiful
spring day.

How's it down
in Orlando?

Terrific.

Nearest we can figure out,
Excursion Sales

is just a clearing house
for subscriptions.

They subcontract with
vendors to do the selling,

then those guys subcontract
with magazine sales crews.

They're the ones who
actually ring the doorbells.

And steal from the customers.

Every/body's an independent contractor,
so no one's responsible for anybody.

I get it.

Lieutenant?
Yeah?

There's a Sherry Kreidel
here for an identification.

The victim's next of kin,
the Iraq vet.

I'll see her in my office.

Light a fire
under these people,

this magazine crew's not
gonna stick around for long,

not with two murders
hanging over them.

Um, I'm sorry, I, um...

I haven't seen my brother
in nearly six months.

I heard he was mugged?

We're not sure
what happened.

Poor Davey.

He, um... He wasn't
always like this.

I mean, a street person.

Tell me what
he was like.

Oh, Davey was
the sweetest kid.

All my friends had
a crush on him.

(LAUGHS)

And then when he came
back from over there

he told me
he couldn't sleep.

He would cry for no reason,
he was depressed.

Did he get counseling?

The army told him he had
post-traumatic stress.

But they couldn't treat him right
away, so he waited for weeks!

All the time
getting worse!

He started getting
into trouble.

He would talk back to the
officers, sleeping in.

So the Armyjust
kicked him out.

They told him he had
a personality disorder

and drummed him out
on a 513 discharge.

They said he would
never be a quality soldier.

Just like that.

We found out the Army
has to pay benefits

if they discharge people
for post-traumatic stress,

but if they discharge them
for a personality disorder,

they don't have
to pay anything!

So that's what
they did to Davey!

I'm very sorry,
Ms. Kreidel.

The girl that brought me in
here, she said she was in Iraq.

Oh, yeah. We have a number of
officers who served there.

Davey told me

he would have been better off
if he got killed over there.

They would have treated
him like a hero then.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Excuse me.

We've got a lead on the
manager of the sales crew.

Lean into him.

This could be anybody. But it sure
as hell isn't any of my people.

Sure as hell?

Yeah, we're running
short on our quota.

Which means that my crews
are out on the street

by 7:00 every morning
to make up for it.

Nobody parties late, or runs around
beating the crap out of bums.

Why don't you let us figure
that out for ourselves?

You just give us
the name of your sellers

that were working West 87th
Street a few days ago.

My mag crews weren't
working on the West Side.

It must be a whole other
crew I don't know about.

Hey!
Get out of there!

Who's Tommy Bennett? You bought
a travel voucher for him.

Yeah! He, uh,
quit the crew,

so we bought him this bus
ticket home to Milwaukee.

Why'd he quit?

He just quit.
So what?

"So what"?

You bought this travel
voucher yesterday.

One day
after the murders.

All right, look.

You do what
you gotta do, okay?

But I don't know
anything about anything.

We find the bus Tommy's on,
we can have him pulled off.

That's not me, I swear!

Well, obviously these two guys
aren't you, but you see this here?

At the bottom
of the frame?

That's the top of
somebody's hat,

that somebody
could be you, Tommy.

I swear to God
I wasn't there!

Then why were you in such
a hurry to leave town?

I wasn't, I just quit!

I couldn't take
the job anymore!

Which part of the job
couldn't you take?

The partying
or the stealing?

You don't get it. They told me I
was gonna earn all this money

working on a mag crew,
traveling around the country,

staying in hotels,

except they didn't say there were
gonna dock our pay for the hotels,

gas, whatever
they felt like!

They're ripping us off!

We barely had
enough money to eat!

And they put us up
in these roach hotels

with hookers and meth heads.
It was scary.

Like the Delancey Hotel?

You were staying there with
those guys, weren't you?

We're gonna find your prints in the
room, Tommy, we're gonna know!

I didn't have anything to
do with killing anybody.

Iwasn't even hanging with
those guys that night.

I told 'em I was gonna quit and
they kicked the crap out of me.

You see?

They locked me
out of the room

and they went out to get drunk.
ED: Mmm-hmm.

And I slept in
some park all night!

So who is this
in the photo?

(sums)

Well, this looks
like Pete Harris.

And that's Bobby Cole.

With the boots?
Bobby Cole? You sure?

Yeah, it looks like him.

And that's Audrey.

Audrey Hermenez.
She went with them.

Those three
were real tight.

Where can we find them?

I don't know.

Look at this.
Look at it.

There's circles drawn
around neighborhoods!

You guys made
a schedule. A plan.

What was the plan
for today, Tommy?

(sums)

We were gonna
take the subway here

to Astoria Boulevard station.

Come on, you're
going with us. Get up!

Let's go!
(SCOFFS)

Those guys, they're
out of control.

Don't wuss out
on us, Tommy.

There! That's Pete,
that's Pete.

I'd be helping the
refugees of Darfur

while still earning credits
towards my medical degree.

As you can see, we have a
wide selection of magazines.

How about a lifetime subscription
to the Prison Times?

Peter Harris, you're under arrest.
Excuse us.

Where are your friends?

Uh, uh, I got
nothing to say.

(SCOFFS)

WOMAN ON RADIO: 110
David, be advised,

two individuals
matching the descriptions,

one male, one female, seen entering
residence at 429 Steinway.

Ma'am, we're looking
for two people

who were just seen
entering this residence.

Yeah. They're
selling magazines.

May we come in?

Where are they?

He was just here,
and the girl she...

(TOILET FLUSHING)

Police! Hands up!
Where's Cole?

I don't know, I don't know.
(CRASHING)

(GRUNTING)

Turn around!

Don't move!

Cuff him.

Hey, Cole.
Nice boots.

OFFICER: Get up.
(SIREN WAILING)

Docket number 3305, People v.
Peter Harris, Audrey Hermenez...

Not so fast! Where's counsel
for these defendants?

Don't know, Your Honor.

Mr. Fetzer!

Will Legal Aid represent defendants
for the purposes of arraignment?

You know me, Judge.

Whatever you need.

CLERK: People v. Peter Harris,

Audrey Hermenez,
and Robert Cole.

Not guilty!

Counselor, put a lid
on your client.

One count each,
murder in the second degree,

two counts grand larceny.

My clients plead
not guilty.

JUDGE: People on bail?

The defendants brutally beat
two homeless men to death.

One of the murders was clearly
captured by a security camera.

Defendants have no ties to the
community, no fixed address.

They do now.
Remand across the board.

Notify the 18-B panel.

Let's get separate
attorneys appointed

and, Mr. Fetzer,

since you seem to have a
calming effect on Mr. Cole,

you'll continue as
his counsel of record.

JACK: So much for
being clearly captured.

This gone to
the defense yet?

In the afternoon
discovery package.

A tape of the actual crime
should have been a slam dunk.

They beat two men
to death!

There should be blood on
their clothes, their shoes.

They must have
cleaned it off.

Cole's boot heel matched the
head wounds on the victims.

But so would a
million other shoes.

On the other hand, Latent found
the girl's prints on the map.

Well, I guess we can always hold a
littering charge over her as leverage.

What?

There was blood on the bed in
the hotel room they all shared.

Belonged to the girl,
Audrey Hermenez.

And there was semen
mixed with it.

Belonging to one
of the other two?

The lab is still testing it, but if
one of them is Audrey's boyfriend,

we might be able to play the love
birds against the odd man out.

Talk to Ms. Hermenez before
the defense sees that tape.

AUDREY: I didn't have
sex with anybody.

Audrey, just listen to her.

The semen was mixed
with your blood!

Whoever it was, Peter or
Bobby, you can help him.

Especially if you tell me this
whole thing wasn't his idea.

I didn't have sex.

I don't have
a boyfriend.

Audrey, what are
you trying to say?

Were you raped?

We'll protect you.

Peter and Bobby
can't hurt you anymore,

but you have to tell
us about the murders.

They didn't rape me.

It wasn't them.
They saved me!

They were out getting food when
some meth heads from down the hall

bust in looking for money,
they attacked me,

they were raping me when
Peter and Bobby came back.

They pulled those
animals off me.

I understand your loyalty.

No, you don't.

We've been together for four
months, going from place to place.

Everybody was ripping us off.

Our boss even has these goons beat us
up if we don't bring in enough money.

All we've got
is each other.

But you are the one that's
in trouble right now.

It was your prints on the map!
I don't care!

Bobby? He was in Iraq.

He said the only reason
he came back alive

is 'cause he and his
buddies hung together.

Well, it's no different
here. No different.

I didn't see any murders.

I didn't see anything.

What do they think they
are, The Lost Platoon?

Well, if we don't break their bonds
of loyalty, we don't have a case.

They're kids. Push 'em
around, they'll fold.

Audrey Hermenez was gang
raped, Cole was in combat.

It'll take more than tough
talk to intimidate those two.

That still leaves the third
musketeer up for grabs.

Too late. Omnibus motion to
dismiss, set bail, suppress,

you name it,
they're going for it.

You shut them down,

because I don't want these
people back on our streets.

The only thing this tape
clearly captures

is the big nothing at the
center of the People's case.

The tape speaks for
itself, Your Honor,

it's up to the jury to
determine its probative value.

Except Ms. Rubirosa hyped it as the
second coming of the Zapruder film.

It's why our clients
are denied bail.

Is your client okay,
Mr. Fetzer?

What happened
to his arm?

I believe he slipped
on the stairs at Rikers.

Your Honor, the entire
case against our clients.

Save your breath, Mr. Fetzer.
Your motion to dismiss is denied.

As to the bail application.

If I may remind Your Honor, the
defendants are out-of-state residents.

$50,000 on Harris and Cole,

25 for Ms. Hermenez.

(GAVEL THUDDING)

Arthur should be happy. At $50,000
they won't be going anywhere soon.

You know, for a guy who took
a header down the stairs,

Cole looks pretty good.

No head injuries,
no bruises.

You don't buy his story?

At arraignment he could
hardly stand still.

Now he's moving
at half speed.

He's got a bad case
of dry mouth.

It's a common side effect
of mood-stabilizing drugs.

It'd be nice to know why Cole
needs his mood stabilized.

The warden at Rikers
told me Cole was shanked

in a fight with
another prisoner.

There were no witnesses and it's
unclear who started the fight,

but the other prisoner? He
ended up with a broken jaw,

three broken ribs
and a broken ankle.

Sounds like Cole
went on a rampage.

Is that why
he was sedated?

Cole refused to waive
his medical confidentiality.

But the doctor didn't
disagree when I suggested

that Cole was on either
phenobarbital or tegritol.

Heavy-duty stuff.

So what's this
all masking?

Mood swings, a
propensity for violence?

Well, Cole doesn't
have a rap sheet,

but I had his service record
faxed over this afternoon.

We might be able to
read between the lines.

He served in
a mechanized unit,

did two tours...

Divisional commendation,
a Purple Heart.

Wounded 02109 of '06.

Hmm. Eight months
of recovery,

most of it at the Linden
VA hospital in Brooklyn.

He got two
letters of reprimand.

That's the military equivalent
of a slap on the wrist.

But look at this, he received
a general discharge.

He's practically
awar hero

and they muster him out because
of a couple of bad write-ups?

Ah, we're not getting
the whole story.

Or any of it.

Start drafting a subpoena.

I'm only authorized to tell you that Mr.
Cole was admitted

with an ABI,

acute brain injury sustained when
an IED exploded near his Humvee.

Beyond that you have
his redacted records.

Redacted is putting it mildly.

Anything useful has
been blacked out.

We've been served a temporary
restraining order by Mr. Cole

barring the release
of his medical information.

Until the lawyers
tell me otherwise...

A TRO. Can we see it?

Here's something your
redactors missed!

Cole changed wards four
times while he was here.

As part of his
treatment and recovery.

But four times?

Does that indicate a
disciplinary problem?

It might if I were authorized
to discuss it, which I'm not.

What kind of problem?
Was he violent?

Isn't that why he was
given a general discharge?

I can't comment.
The TRO.

Then we'll talk to everybody who had
contact with him during his stay here.

I'm sorry,
I don't make policy.

CONNIE: Read our
subpoena, Ms. Corrado.

You're required to comply unless barred
by specific language of the TRO.

The way I read this,
we can talk to orderlies,

security personnel,
and other patients.

WOMAN ON PA: Dr. Jacobson to O.R.
one. Dr. Jacobson to O.R. one.

You have to understand that a lot
of personnel had been reassigned

since Mr. Cole
was discharged.

We'll talk
to whoever's left.

WOMAN ON PA: Lieutenant Rodrigo
Tyson, waiting room...

(PATIENT MOANING)

Lieutenant Rodrigo,
please report to ICU.

Thanks, guys.

All right.

MAN: Doctor!

Thank you.
You're welcome, Sir.

This way.

Ward Five, isn't that one
of the wards Cole was in?

It's been closed.

In the middle of a war?

The people you wanna
talk to are this way.

Check it out, Sir.

Check it out.

When did you
close this down?

Two months ago.

Jack, there's rat droppings.

This room was Cole's.

Mr. McCoy.

There's dead roaches
all over the floor.

CORRADO: That's why
it's been closed. It's unfit.

How long has it
been like this?

Long as I've been here.

And you had wounded soldiers
living in these conditions?

No wonder Cole wanted
to bust some heads.

I took what I could
with my cell phone

before they hustled
us out of there.

Deplorable.

Disgraceful, that's
the operative word.

But it doesn't have anything
to do with this case.

Talk to me about
something that does.

We found a doctor at the
hospital who told us

that Cole was involved in three
unprovoked attacks on hospital personnel.

All of them had a familiar MO,
punches, kicks to the head.

And it was only because
Cole was quickly subdued

that no one
was seriously hurt.

Evidence of
a pattern crime.

Admissible under the
Molineaux exception.

It's what Cole's lawyer tried
to keep us from finding out.

Great work.

Now use it to turn
one of the lesser evils.

What they're
saying is, Pete,

their case against Cole
just got a big boost.

Lucky for you, we want him
more than we want you.

He finished off
McCarter and Kreidel.

You confirm it, you testify
to it, we've got a deal.

1540-30, Pete.

JACK: Don't take
too long, Mr. Harris.

I might decide to take you
to trial along with Cole.

And ask for life
without parole.

Cole, man, he...

He's like night
and day, you know?

The murders,
Mr. Harris.

Yeah, we did them.

Cole was in one
of his moods.

JACK: What kind of mood?

He goes all quiet,
like in a trance.

He shuts everything out. He comes out
of it, he's looking for a fight.

That's enough for now.

Mr. McCoy, you send us the paperwork,
you'll get the rest of the story.

(EXHALES)

Get word to
Audrey Hermenez's lawyer

that The Lost Platoon
hit a bump in the road.

Hmm. More like a sharp turn.
Look at this.

Cole changed his plea.

Not guilty by reason of
mental disease or defect.

Fetzer must have found out that we
know about Cole's prior bad acts.

Fetzer's smart, he knows
they cut both ways.

We use them to show
a pattern crime.

Fetzer uses them as evidence
of a mental disease.

Life hands you lemons.

This puts Cole's
medical records in play.

No more hiding
behind a TRO.

PETER: When we got
back to the hotel.

Bobby told us we had
to wash our clothes

in case we
got blood on them.

I woke up later, I saw
him cleaning his boots.

Mr. Harris, did you
ever talk to Mr. Cole

about what you described
earlier as his trances?

Yes. Uh, he said they started happening
after he got messed up in Iraq.

Did he ever talk to you about
getting treatment for them?

He said he was supposed
to take drugs for them,

but because we were always
on the move for our work,

he could never get a doctor
to write him a prescription.

Thank you.

When Bobby came out of his
trances, he was irritable,

hostile, that's what
you said, isn't it?

Yes.

Did he ever direct
his hostility at you?

Sometimes.

How would you
deal with it?

Uh, I'd make him
focus on something else.

Something?
Or maybe somebody?

Yeah, sure.

How would you get Bobby to
focus on somebody else?

I don't remember.

Are you familiar with the
terms haji and Johnny Jihad?

Sure. Bobby said that that's what
they called the enemy in Iraq.

So when Bobby was
coming out of his trances,

did you ever point at
another person and tell him

there's a haji,
there's Johnny Jihad?

Maybe.

Didn't you point to
those homeless men

and tell him,
there's Johnny Jihad?

Uh... I was drunk,
I don't remember.

No more questions.

What do you mean
he's not coming?

It's not up to the
Veteran's Administration,

Dr. Petravian
is under subpoena!

He's being called as a
witness in five minutes!

Okay, okay. Fine.
Do you know about this?

I just got hit with a federal
writ of prohibition.

Somejudge halfway across
the country's telling me

I can't present evidence about my
client's treatment at the Linden VA!

So that explains it.
Explains what?

Jack, our doctor from the
VA isn't showing up.

There's some federal writ.

I know, I got one, too.

Follow me to the
federal courthouse.

Your Honor, the
Veteran's Administration

is being prosecuted
for criminal negligence

in a death that occurred at a
VA hospital in Albuquerque.

Now there's real concern here
that publicity from this case

could unduly influence
the New Mexico case.

If I can't present evidence
of my client's treatment

at the Linden VA,
I won't have a case!

I can't establish the origin
of his mental disease!

Your Honor, my case
supersedes theirs.

Maybe so, but, Your Honor, on its
face, this is over-reaching.

I don't know why
Mr. McCoy's complaining.

He can still introduce his
defendant's prior bad acts

without violating
the writ.

I know what I can do,
that's not the issue.

Fairness is the issue.

No, Mr. McCoy,
due process is the issue.

The federal case
preempts the state.

All mention of the
conditions at the Linden VA

or the treatment rendered therein
is barred from your trial.

Your Honor, you... And any evidence
pertaining to those conditions

will be returned forthwith to
the relevant federal entity.

It's a whitewash.

You have my ruling. Ignore
it at your own peril.

(SCOFFS)

Fetzer's right,
it's a cover-up.

Last I checked, you
were being paid

to put people like
Robert Cole in jail.

Before Cole was
a murderer,

he was a wounded soldier who
received substandard care.

If you think this is an issue
worth airing while we're at war,

then get yourself
down to New Mexico.

Don't tempt me, Arthur.

Jack, do you believe
that Cole knew

that killing those
men was wrong?

Yes, he even
covered up evidence.

Do you believe he appreciated
the consequences of his action?

Yes.
Well, then the path is clear.

We abide by the writ, we
work out a plea with Fetzer,

then we make sure that all that
evidence goes back to the Feds.

Hey, Lieu, Cole's
pleading out.

In the middle
of the trial?

I just report the news.

Rubirosa says all this stuff is
being turned over to the Feds.

Just this?
The VA material?

It's gonna make a nice bonfire
in somebody's backyard.

You worked out
a plea with Cole.

Not yet.

I'm gonna sweat him
out a little longer.

Got a VA doctor testifying tomorrow
about Cole's bad behavior.

And all of this
will be off-limits?

By order of the
US District Court.

Hmm.

You know, my father was wounded
in Wonju, Korea in 1952.

He spent a year in a
VA hospital in Tulsa.

Never talked about it.
Well, not to me.

My mother said the doctors
and nurses saved his life.

Angels of mercy, that's
what she called them.

If it weren't for them, there wouldn't
have been an Anita Van Buren.

But this.

I know you know
this isn't right.

And kicking broken kids
out of the Army...

Kids like David Kreidel
just to save a buck.

(EXHALES)

Wouldn't treat
a dog like that.

(DOOR CLOSES)

This was the second time Mr.
Cole had attacked an orderly.

Again I explained to him
about his seizures.

I warned him that
he was susceptible

to aggressive behavior immediately
following the seizures.

Did you counsel him
about treatment, Doctor?

Yes.

I explained the seizures are treated
with mood-stabilizing drugs.

And that he must continue
to take those drugs.

JACK: How did he react to
your instructions, Doctor?

I asked if he understood
my instructions

and the consequences
of not following them.

He said he did.

No more questions.

JUDGE". Cross, NH. Fewer'?

Your Honor,
for reasons you're aware,

the questions I'd want
to ask this witness

would put me in contempt of a
federal order of prohibition,

so I have no questions.

JUDGE: All right.

Dr. Petravian,
you're excused.

If I may, Your Honor,

I have a few more
questions for this witness.

JUDGE: Doctor?

Doctor, how would you
characterize the care

provided to Mr. Cole by
the Linden VA hospital?

Consistent with the level
of care at the facility.

Consistent with standards in the
medical community at large?

Um, I'm not sure
I understand.

Mr. Cole received
excellent care.

People's 28.

These are his
treatment records.

Can you tell me if he was
given a prescription

for mood-stabilizers when he was
released from your facility?

I don't see...

His records
don't indicate it.

Do they indicate that he was
directed to an outpatient facility

for further treatment?

No. They don't.

Even though he
suffered from seizures

as a result of the brain
injury he received in combat?

Such outpatient care may
not have been available.

Not available to a soldier

who received a less-than-honorable
discharge from the service?

That may have had something
to do with it, yes.

You testified Mr. Cole's
care was quote,

consistent with the level of
treatment in your facility.

People's 30 to 35.

Do you recognize
these photos?

That's Ward Five
at the Linden VA.

Ward Five was where
Mr. Cole was housed.

Doctor, is it consistent

with the level of care
in your facility

to place wounded veterans
in rooms rife with mold,

infested with rodents...

It's not a fair question!

Or to provide housing
for our wounded

that is putrid with the
stench of faulty plumbing.

Look, you don't understand.

We are overwhelmed!

There's no money for...

For what?

Proper care?

We have a $14 million shortfall
at our facility alone.

Doctor, when we
send our soldiers...

No, strike that.
When we send our children

to fight in
a war of choice,

don't we have the
moral obligation,

the patriotic duty,

to care for those
who come home alive

whatever the cost?

Of course we do.

But we never expected
this number of wounded.

This rate of survival.

Never expected?

Are you saying it would have
been more convenient for you,

for the VA,

if more of our
men and women,

our children,

if they had died in Iraq?

Gotta go.

25-to-life? I thought you'd
be more understanding.

The VA's neglect doesn't
excuse your client.

He knew what
he was capable of,

knew how to stop it.
And he did nothing.

That much will be
crystal clear to the jury.

I'm sorry for your injury.

I'm sorrier for the
two men you killed.

Twenty years? (SCOFFS)

Sure, why not?

At least I'll get my meds.

Send me the paperwork.

I'm really proud
of you, Jack.

I just got off the phone with
the US Attorney's office.

They're seeking contempt
charges against you.

Talking about jail time!

I'm gonna go bake you a
cake with a hacksaw in it.

Make it chocolate.

This is no joke.

The US Attorney was
stomping and hollering

about how airing the
VA's dirty laundry

was giving aid and
comfort to the enemy.

And you agree with him?

I would think improving
conditions at VA hospitals

would give aid and comfort
to our own troops.

Amen.

Iwouldn't worry
too much about jail.

You'll have the very best legal
representation at the contempt hearing.

You?

And at a reasonable fee.

But, Jack,

don't do that again.

Not on my watch.

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