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MAUREEN:
Leslie Brooks, as in Brooks, Inc.?

Executive Vice President
of Brooks, Inc.;

married to Will Brooks,
CFO of Brooks, Inc.;

daughter-in-law to Henry Brooks,
the retired billionaire.

How was she killed?

Blunt force trauma-- a
hammer or maybe, a club.

PD's sweeping the area.

Looks like a robbery.

The assailant took her ring,
her necklace, wallet, watch.

Coroner puts the time
of death about 2:00 a.m.

Working late.
She was just coming in

to the office when
she got jumped.

At 2:00 a.m.?

Must have been
an emergency.

Keep me posted.

Wow.

Part of the dog
and pony show, too?

Conlon said he wanted a strong
presence at the house.

Can you really
call it a house

if it's bigger than
the average hotel?

(chuckles)

How rich are
these people?

The Brooks family?

They own half of Indianapolis.

Yeah, and act like
they own the other half.

I worked the mayor's security
detail when I was uniform.

He'd be here having dinner
with Old Man Brooks,

at least once a month.

Henry Brooks-- the Donald Trump
of Indianapolis.

Looks like he's
done okay for himself.

So has he-- nice ride.

I didn't know you prosecutor
types made that kind of bread.

Conlon's got dough--
in New York, his assistant

would go through his desk
and collect his paychecks.

He'd forget to deposit them.

I forget
to deposit mine, too,

'cause after taxes,
there ain't nothing left.

CONLON:
All right, people, let's do it.

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The mayor wants me to tell you
that he is very grateful

that you're handling
this matter personally,

and so are we, Mr. Conlon.

Whatever you need,
Mr. Brooks.

HENRY:
Whoever killed my daughter-in-law,

I want this man found.

I want him to pay with his life.

I promise you,
Mr. Brooks,

we will arrest and
prosecute her killer.

HENRY:
Thank you.

My son, Will.

ANNABETH:
Uh, Mr. Brooks, do you know

what time your wife
went out last night?

Alex said sometime after 1:00.

Yeah. She told him she
needed to go to the office.

What was so important
it couldn't wait

until regular business hours?

For Leslie, there were no
"regular business hours."

She was passionate
about the company.

Henry.

Arthur Stanton,
our family attorney.

Mr. Conlon, thank
you for coming out.

Mr. Stanton, my associates.

STANTON:
Pleased to meet you.

So do you have

any leads, any witnesses?

CONLON:
Well the investigation, has just begun, Mr. Stanton.

BOY:
Daddy?

Do I have to go to the park?

I want to stay with you.

Uh...

Hey, there, champ.

Do we see eye to eye?

Yes.
(chuckles)

You run off
to the park now, Hal.

You don't want to be cooped up
here all day with Grandpa.

He's got a lot
of work to do.

Daddy?

Is Mommy at work?

Can I call her?

Uh, not now, bud, okay?

Who are they?

They're friends of Grandpa's
and Daddy's

and Mr. Stanton's.

I'll see you later,
okay, kiddo?

WILL:
Come on, pal.

Daddy going to get
some fresh air with you.

HENRY:
Thank you.

Richard will
see you out.

Thank you, again,
Mr. Conlon.

Okay.

What was that phone call?

Brooks, Inc.
Chief of Security.

They found
Mrs. Brooks' jewelry

in the night guard's locker.

Have him arrested.

So, tell me, how did
Mrs. Brooks' jewelry,

watch, and wallet come
to be in your locker?

I don't know.

It just magically
appeared?

I don't know,
I wasn't even there.

You punched in
at midnight

and out at 8:00 a.m.

We also have video
of you patrolling the halls

and looking into offices.

I was just doing my rounds.

I wasn't stealing anything
or killing somebody.

I liked Mrs. Brooks.

(sighing):
Look.

Mrs. Brooks and me,
we had this arrangement.

She liked to work late,

and she'd come
into the office at midnight.

Most of the time, it was just
her and me in the building.

She'd tell me that I could leave
early, that I could go home.

And last night?

She called at 12:30.

She said she was coming in
and I could go.

What time did
you leave?

Little before 1:00.

And she punches
out for you, too.

I got to get a
boss like that.

No, that's the day guy.

He clocks out for me
when I leave early.

You can ask him;
he'll tell you.

MAN:
The way it works, right?

Day guy, that's me, relieves
the night guy, that's him.

MAUREEN:
That's what he told you to say

if anybody asked, but he
needs you to tell the truth now.

You're not in trouble, Wayne.

Just tell me the truth.

He said Mrs. Brooks told him
it was cool to leave.

I'd clock out for John,
so it would look like he was

at work the
whole night.

Did he say why?

Look, I figure the boss
says it's okay, it's okay.

We'd been doing it for years
and never had any trouble.

Years?

Well, he stopped
for a while.

It started again
about six months ago.

I don't even think
about it anymore.

If John ain't there in the a.m.,
I just punch his ticket.

Did you clock out for him the
morning Mrs. Brooks was killed?

It was a day like any other day.

I'm thinking thanks to the
influence of the Brooks family,

we may have jumped the gun
and arrested the wrong guy.

One guard corroborates
the other guard's story.

That doesn't
exonerate him.

What about the jewelry
in the locker?

He hides the stuff

where it's obviously
going to be found?

I mean, why didn't
he just take it home?

Am I thrilled
with this arrest?

I mean, do I with I had a week

or ten days to investigate--
you bet,

but that's what money
and influence get you.

And too bad
for the security guard.

The security guard

can sit in jail
and wait for his alibi

to check out if
it checks out.

Is Henry Brooks prosecuting
this case or are we?

Somebody else is
always going to be calling the shots.

You want to save yourself
20 years of ulcers?

Learn how to
bend the rules

without getting
hammered for it.

So you do or you don't want
the security guard indicted?

We have 72 hours.
Prove we have the wrong guy.

Look, it's pretty clear:
Leslie Brooks often wanted

to be alone at the office
late at night.

Maybe this wasn't so much
about work as play.

Maybe she and a friend had a
late-night playdate that night.

If she was
cheating on him,

then her husband becomes
a person of interest.

We will need a truckload
of evidence

before we will even
consider the possibility.

So instead of talking
to Will Brooks about his wife's

possible extracurricular
activities...

See if you can confirm
whether Leslie Brooks

had a lover some other way.
ANNABETH: Suggestions?

Her colleagues won't dare talk
to us on the record.

Well, maybe next colleague.

We can look into that.

Amazing. The Brooks family
has this much pull.

Hey, this is their town.

We just live in it.

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I left the company by then.

right around the
time Henry retired.

When was this?

About three years ago.

And Leslie Brooks told you
she was having an affair?

But then, she and Will
worked things out.

He forgave her and
called off the divorce.

He'd filed for divorce?

Their home life had
become so difficult.

She met someone
at the company

who could give her
what Will couldn't.

What was going on
at home?

Will had a
drinking problem,

and to his credit,
he did take a long,

hard look at himself,

signed into rehab
and finally quit.

We'll need to know
the name of Leslie's lover.

She wouldn't tell me his name.

I only know he worked
at the company.

They used to meet there
late at night.

How is an affair three years ago
relevant to Leslie's murder?

She'd used the office

for her late-night rendezvous
in the past.

And Will knew what she
was up to-- three years ago?

Leslie's ex-colleague said the
original lover

was an employee.

Thank you.

ANNABETH:
Let's have Ed and Ray check

all cars registered
to employees,

see if anybody was putting in
late nights the same nights

as Leslie.
MAUREEN: Security guard's prints

aren't on Leslie's jewelry,
only hers and Will's.

Everything keeps coming
back to him.

Cut the guard loose.

I'll do the paperwork.

Annabeth, you talk
to Will Brooks.

How do you want to handle this?

Without his attorney.

What do we want him to tell us?

What she was doing
at the office that night,

and whether he knew if she
was having an affair or not.

(sighs)

Our necks are out a mile on this
one, so tread carefully, huh?

(softly):
Don't we always?

No, as a matter of fact,
you don't.

ANNABETH:
How is your son?

We're, none of us,
doing too well.

It must be very hard.

Believe me, I understand
what you're going through.

No, you don't.

You have no idea.

I... lost my husband
eight months ago.

I'm sorry,
I didn't realize.

Forgive me.
It's okay.

Does it get easier?

Eventually,
little by little.

Kids?

Yeah, a little
girl, 16 months.

She won't remember him.

No, but I think she'll
miss him just the same.

Yes, she will.

Hal and his mother
were very close.

How can I help you,
Miss Chase?

We were wondering if
you could shed any light

on why your wife went to the
office so late that night.

She must have had
work to do.

She was tireless, relentless,
when it came to the company.

The security guard claims

he wasn't there at
the time of the murder

because Leslie
had sent him home.

Said she did it
all the time.

That sounds like Leslie.

She liked to be alone-- uh,
all alone in the office.

She called the office,
after hours,

her "fortress of solitude."

Do you know what she

was working on the
night she was killed?

Could have been anything.

She lived and breathed
the company.

It meant more to her than to all
of us who were born into it.

We took it for granted.

I don't know
what any of us

are going to do now without her.

ANNABETH:
Will Brooks may not be

as smart as his old man,

but he knows how to play
his cards close to the vest.

Lug wrench-- police
found it in a sewer

a couple blocks from
the parking garage.

Coroner says
it could be

the murder weapon,
and before you ask--

no blood or prints.

And guess what?

The night Leslie
was killed,

Will Brooks' car was
issued a parking violation

and towed--
it was two blocks

from the Brooks Inc.
headquarters.

So Will was home all night,
but his car

was working overtime?

BLACKWELL:
It gets better.

The car was reported stolen
that morning--

not by Will,
but by Arthur Stanton.

Henry Brooks'
pain-in-the-ass lawyer.

Not only did he report
the car stolen,

towing company
showed me a receipt for the car

signed by him.

Why would a thousand-dollar-
an-hour attorney

bail his client's car
out of an impound lot

in the middle of the night?

"To tamper with
or destroy evidence

in furtherance of the
commission of an offense."

Yo, Ra what kinda car
does Will Brooks drive?

New Mercedes E Class, why?

Oh, fine ride.

Lug wrench is from
a Mercedes tool kit.

I'll let
the Prosecuting Attorney know

we're arresting Will Brooks
for the murder of Leslie Brooks.

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One count of Murder.
How does the defendant plead?

Not guilty,
Your Honor.

Bail application,
Mr. Lisi?

LISI:
My client is an upstanding

and leading member

of this community,
Your Honor,

where his family dates
back five generations.

I'm a native, Mr. Lisi.
I know who Mr. Brooks is.

Mr. Conlon?

Your Honor, despite
Mr. Brooks' lineage,

we request he be held
without bail.

LISI:
The People have already arrested

and released one man
for this crime, Your Honor,

now they've trained their
sights on my client.

Next thing you know, they're
going to say the butler did it.

The Defense is being
flippant, Your Honor.

This is a serious crime,

the government
has damning eviden

against Mr. Brooks,
who has unlimited resources

and is clearly
a flight risk.

Bail is set at $5 million.

Defendant will surrender
his passport.

Your Honor...

JUDGE:
End of discussion, gentlemen.

(gavel bangs)

Jimmy.

It's good
to see you, man.

Mike, always a pleasure.

So, uh, Indiana, huh?

You drive a tractor
to work or what?

(chuckles):
I'm not like you, Mike.

I don't have the entire
New York underworld

to chauffeur
me around.

That's funny.

Annabeth Chase, Maureen
Scofield, Mike Lisi.

Mike used to work for me
back in the day,

at the Manhattan DA's Office.

That was before he crossed over
to the Dark Side.

Ladies, a pleasure.

Nice talking
to you, Mike.

See you in the ring, huh?
Hey, listen, Jimmy.

Don't take it personally,
but you absolutely

have my word we're going
to bury you in paper work.

You and Charlie's Angels here

won't see the light
of day for months. I guarantee it.

"Charlie's Angels"?

Relax, sweetheart, it's a joke.

What, you have to surrender
your passport

and your sense of humor
if you live here?

See you around, Jimbo.

I can see why you
left New York.

You kidding? Guys like him
make me miss it.

The competition.

MAUREEN:
I'm confused.

Why isn't Stanton
leading the defense team?

I'll tell you why.

After Will killed his wife,
he called Stanton,

Stanton came to pick him up
near the scene,

Will confessed
to everything to him.

And after that happened,
Stanton could no longer

represent Will.

Exactly--
Stanton knows the truth,

therefore he can't
suborn perjury

by putting Will on the stand,

if Will has to testify
in his own defense.

And so he brings in
Mike Lisi from the Big Apple

to do it for him--
pretty slick.

Stanton's good.

Brings Lisi in because
thguy knows my moves.

Lisi knows that we can't
subpoena Stanton

or call him as a witness
against Will.

Attorney client
privilege. Iron clad.

Great tactical move.

Fortunately, I know Lisi
as well as he knows me.

If he calls in the next 24 hours

asking for
a pre-trial conference,

that means he knows
that his guy did it.

Lisi will never
go to court

if he knows for sure
that his client's guilty.

Oh, he'll come on like a SWAT
team, but he's really just

sussing out the best possible
deal for his client.

And if he asks for a plea,
how far can we go?

I don't know.

Will finds out his wife
was up to her old tricks,

heat of passion--
15 to life's fair.

Ask for 25,
settle for 20.

ANNABETH:
No plea on the table at this time,

but we'll hear anything
you have to say

on behalf of your client.

Knowing the big guy,

I'd say he's given you
a 20 year downside.

Am I close?

Well, it's a moot
point anyhow, ladies.

We're not interested in a deal
because my client happens to be

that rarest of creatures in
the criminal justice system,

an innocent man.

Then why are we here?

Keep the dialogue going?

I didn't kill my wife.

And I want to be home
with my son right now.

She was having another affair,
Mr. Brooks.

You must have felt humiliated.

She was not having
another affair.

That was all over and
done with three years ago.

Will, please, huh?

Listen, three years ago,
my client wanted a divorce.

Sure, who wouldn't?

Then he checked himself
into rehab,

sobered up,
decided to take

another go at the marriage
for his son's sake.

And you know what he discovered

once he got his head
out of the bottle?

He loved his wife.

All the more enraging
to find out

she was cheating on you again.

Miss Brooks had not initiated
a new relationship.

MAUREEN:
How do you know?

You told us you never
left the house

the night your wife was killed.

That's right.
I was home all night.

Then how do you account
for your car being towed

near the Brooks building

around the time
of the murder?

I have no idea how my car
got down there or who took it.

As you know, Arthur Stanton
reported it stolen.

Ay 5:00 a.m.?

A transparent attempt
to establish a defense.

No, I swear,
I did not talk to Arthur.

I think we're done here,
but, uh, for argument's sake,

if an offer were
on the table...

No.
...what would it be.

Twenty-five.

Fifteen.
Twenty.

Just what I thought.

I know Jimmy.

Well, we're prepared
to go to trial.

Have a nice day.

ANNABETH:
Mr. Brooks...

think about it.

You're likely to get life in
prison if you go to trial.

In the meantime,
we'll be poring over

your late wife's
personal matters.

We will find her lover.

There's not much
on Mrs. Brooks' computer.

Certainly no love letters
or e-mails to a friend.

I thought all
you girls kept diaries.

I know my name's featured
in quite a few.

Mrs. Brooks must have
deleted them.

Well, there's deleting,

and then there's deleting.

Amateurs.

You find something?

Wasn't just her personal
e-mails she zapped.

Leslie Brooks deleted
thousands of documents.

Far as I can tell,
they're all company related.

Uh, spread sheets, accounting
procedures, Excel docs...

Why would she nuke a storage
room worth of business records?

Any record of why
these documents

were gathered up
or where they went?

Unless the memory wipe
is secured,

it's always there somewhere.

You just have to know
where to look...

and how.

Oh, look at that.

All e-mailed to the same place

WILLIAMS:
Securities and Exchange Commission?

Why would she do that?

Compliance with
a subpoena?

I have a friend from law
school who works at the SEC.

Maybe they'll confirm,
copy us on the missing docs.

Now go get a date.

So, my SEC buddy

said for the past six months
Leslie Brooks had been

cooperating with a secret
grand jury investigation.

What kind of stuff
were they looking at?

Manipulation, doctoring
the books, not outright theft.

What does Mr. Vavoulis, our whiz
kid accountant, have to say?

Give me two more seconds.

So you think that this murder
was about money, huh?

How deep into this was she?

Leslie? Not at all.
But her husband was.

Will Brooks?

Was the SEC's target.

Apparently he has
a hidden talent

for wide-scale corporate fraud.

If the SEC's
analysis is correct,

since Will's father
made him CFO,

the company's
been in a tailspin.

A little theft,

and a whole
bunch of cover-up.

And nobody saw this coming?

Enron stock
had a 15% run up

the day before
they filed for bankruptcy.

Leslie Brooks must have blown a
fuse when the SEC subpoenas hit.

Before that, I'd say.

Looks like
she was on to her husband

months before the SEC
served her with the subpoena.

Maybe Leslie wasn't
having a new affair.

If she was going
to the office late at night

to get the goods on her husband,

no wonder she sent
the security guy home.

Will found out, followed
her, killed her.

Same defendant,
different motive.

We need someone
to corroborate this.

Well, if Leslie Brooks was
co-operating with the SEC...

She must have had legal
counsel of her own.

Talk to her guy.

When did Leslie suspect

something was awry with
the company finances?

About a year ago.

I advised her to start making
copies of documents,

and accounting
for her own conduct.

She very wisely
followed my counsel.

And when she got
the SEC subpoenas?

Six months ago.

I told her to turn over

everything she had gathered,
immediately.

I also told her
she would very likely

have to testify
against her husband.

That he might be facing fines,
restitution to the company...

And a lot of jail time.

Did Leslie confront
Will about this?

The grand jury process
was secret.

Meaning no witness
could discuss it

with anybody
but his or her attorney.

Although, having
re-drafted her will,

I don't think Leslie
would have minded

incriminating
her husband.

You re-drafted her will?

Just after the
subpoenas landed.

She wasn't leaving him
a dime of her money.

Leslie Brooks didn't just marry
into money, she came from money.

Her personal estate is worth
upwards of $50 million.

What difference does it make?
Will's rich.

Not by Brooks standards.

His father controls his money
through a trust.

Will essentially has his salary
from the company, that's it.

Did Will know he'd been
cut out of Leslie's estate?

As far as I know,
he didn't.

So, who does
get Leslie's money?

Goes into trust
for her son, Hal.

As Hal's father,
Will can get his hands

on the 50 million
anytime he wants.

Enough to balance the books,
pay any fines.

Sounds like a motive to me.

If he were the trust's executor,
which he's not.

Who is?

Her father-in-law?

MAUREEN:
Henry Brooks.

ANNABETH:
Leslie Brooks changed her will

and named her
father-in-law

executor of her estate
because her husband

was running the family
firm into the ground.

And to keep him from getting
his hands on her money.

What if Henry told Will that
his wife had written him out?

He'd have no reason to kill her.

Bye-bye, motive.
Case up in smoke.

I'm not so sure.

I mean, finding out you
just lost $50 million

you were counting on.

Money that
just might save

the family firm
and your own skin.

You might be mad enough
to kill somebody.

MAUREEN:
Leslie's attorney

is sure Will had no idea
he'd been cut out.

He thoughthe money
was his if she died.

Let's say she's right, that
Henry didn't tell Will anything.

Henry may have lied to cast out
on our theory of Will's motive.

Let's nail Henry's
testimony down.

Hit him with a subpoena
for depositions.

Put him under oath.
And if he lies to us

to protect his son?
We'll find some other way

to impeach his credibility.

One way or the other,
I promise you,

whatever Henry Brooks tells us

we will use to convict
his son for murder.

hey

Where you going?

On my way to meet Annabeth at
Stanton's office

to depose Henry Brooks.

What's up?
Ray and I were going through

the last of Leslie
Brooks' personal papers.

We came across more than a dozen
receipts for a hotel

from three years ago.
Businesswoman like that would do

a lot of traveling, stay at a
lot of hotels.

The Royale King
in downtown Indy?

A five-star no-tell motel.

Well, we already knew she had an
affair three years ago.

Her ex-colleague told us that.

And Will and his attorney
confirmed it.

But we still don't
know with whom.

Whom?

I say something wrong?

You want us to try
and find out?

You know, it's not exactly
priority one, but...

Sure, check it out.

Conlon doesn't like loose ends,
and neither do I.

ANNABETH:
When did you first learn of any irregularities

in the day-to-day
operations of your company?

The night she died.

Leslie told me of the various
subpoenas from the SEC,

and what she suspected was going
on with the company's finances.

She thought that Will had
mismanaged accounts, lost money

and then covered the losses by
manipulating the books.

Did you discuss Leslie's
suspicions with your son?

(indistinct whispering)

He is the CFO,

and I discussed it with him
shortly thereafter.

Shortly thereafter?
Would that be the same night?

Yes. But Will assured me
that the SEC was simply

flexing their muscles,

that there was nothing
substantive in their investigation

and nothing amiss
with the company's finances.

Did your son know his wife had
changed her will?

Cut him out of her estate and
named you executor?

No.

Leslie asked me not to tell him,
and I respected her wishes.

So, he thought he still stood to
inherit her estate

in the event of her death?

Yes, as far as I know, that is
what he thought.

You knew your
son's car

had been left the night of the
murder near the Brooks Building,

where it was cited and towed?
STANTON: I've advised Mr. Brooks

not to reply to any questions on
this subject,

relying on his Fifth Amendment
protections.

Did you contact Mr.
Stanton concerning the alleged theft of Will's car?

I instruct my client
not to answer that.

If there was a cover-up,

his Fifth Amendment rights do
not apply.

That is a determination
for a court.

We disagree. Please answer the
question, Mr. Brooks.

This deposition is concluded.

Sit down, please.

We'll have you before a judge in
the morning, Mr. Stanton.

We have the resources to fight
this for years. Do you?

MAN:
Mrs. Brooks has been a guest with us in the past, yes.

BLACKWELL:
We know that already.

Now, either you cooperate
fully, or we'll continue this little conversation

down at the prosecuting
attorney's office.

Look, Mr. Walters,
we just need to know

was it a single or a double
occupancy?

I'm not familiar with Mrs.
Brooks' accommodations,

beyond her suite preference--
southern exposure,

non-smoking, VIP.
Step over there, pal.

WILLIAMS:
How 'bout you, miss?

You, uh, familiar with her
accommodations?

I don't want to lose my job.

No, you may even get a promotion

after our boss talks to the
manager.

You're asking if Mrs. Brooks
ever had a sleepover

when she stayed here?
Yeah, she had company.

You ever see the guy?

No, but you can always tell.
I mean, the way the room is.

The number of towels
on the floor.

Is there anyone who might have
seen him,

maybe a room service guy?

I don't know.
I couldn't say.

When Leslie Brooks arrived,
she have any luggage?

You'd have to ask our
valet parking people.

Mrs. Brooks parked in
our underground lot.

VIP luggage would have been
brought directly to her room.

Thank you.

Well, well...

I just had a rather difficult
conversation

with the prosecuting attorney.

If I'm fired, send
my last check to Fiji.

Seems Arthur Stanton doesn't
quite agree with your evaluation

of his client's Fifth Amendment
rights.

ybaby.
Henry Brooks knows

that Will did it.
Henry called Stanton to go

get his son's car
and clean it up.

And now the two of them are
doing whatever it takes

to protect junior.
Can we prove it?

If we can just get over the
privilege hurdle,

separate Stanton
from the Brooks family.

Stanton represents Henry Brooks,
therefore, every conversation

between them is protected by the
attorney-client privilege.

And anything Will told Stanton
is covered by the former

attorney-client relationship
between those two.

Well, unless I
missed my mark,

that would be the opening salvo

in the murder trial
of Will Brooks.

Courtesy of my old pal,
Mike Lisi.

Omnibus motion
from the defense team,

motions to suppress,

dismiss in limine, and a couple
I don'teven recognize.

You two gonna be busy.

Ladies.. nice work.

I thought you were mad at us.

On the contrary...

My only regret is I wasn't there
to see

the steam coming out
of their ears.

We won nine out of ten motions.
Not bad against the big guns.

And in front of Judge
Menendez, who's a stickler.

Ten out of ten would
have been better.

Big guns, thanks
for noticing.

If you'll excuse us...

Hey, so you won today.

Tomorrow another salvo
and the day after and the day after the day after...

If I were you,
I'd conserve my energy.

Ladies...

Hmm! Makes me sick.
Will Brooks beats his wife

to death with a wrench,
then clobbers us with motions to exclude it.

The average defendant is
lucky to get legal aid.

It's the system.
The system stinks.

In a perfect world, there'd be
no motions, no discovery,

just straight to trial
one on one and let the truth prevail with the jury.

In a perfect world,
Leslie Brooks wouldn't die in a parking garage.

We couldn't figure out how
Leslie's secret boyfriend

got in and out of the hotel
without anybody seeing.

He invisible?
Might as well be.

Through valet parking,
straight up to the room in the VIP elevator.

Do not pass "Go," do
not stop in the lobby.

There's a lot of turnover,
but we finally found

a parking attendant who now
works at another hotel

who remembers Leslie Brooks
from three years ago.

Showed 'em a picture of her.
Positive ID.

Yeah, we already know that she
was having an afir.

In the words of
the parking attendant,

"I seen her with that guy--
you know-- her boss."

Her boss?

Henry Brooks.

The guy the
attendant saw

on any number of occasions
at the hotel with Leslie

was Henry Brooks.
What?

She was having an affair with
her father-in-law?

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as you suggested.

The forensic accountant says

Henry altered the finances,
not Will.

And he did it in a way to make
Will look culpable.

Can he prove it?

It's complicated and beyond
boring, but yeah, he can.

If you look past Will, there's a
trail that leads to Henry.

What's the theory?

Henry and Leslie had been
lovers.

They shared a deep, dark secret.

She thought she could trust him,
so she confided in him.

Thinking Will was at fault,
she told Henry about

the SEC subpoenas
and the financial shenanigans.

So, Henry killed her to cover
his fraud.

Henry knew all about
the late-night arrangements

with the security guard.
He framed the security guard

in such a way that it would come
back on his son.

He killed his daughter-in-law
and then framed his son?

It could just as easily
be argued

that Will found out about
the affair and went berserk.

And that's exactly
what Henry Brooks

and his high-powered
legal team will argue.

I'm certain that
Henry did it.

Which means that Will wasn't
at the office that night.

Which means
he didn't drive his car,

and he didn't call Stanton
to tell him it was stolen.

So, who did?

Henry Brooks
called Arthur Stanton.

Which puts us right back behind

the great wall of
attorney-client privilege,

If I could just talk to
Will Brooks somehow...

get him to realize what his
father has done to him.

Maybe he could
persuade Arthur Stanton

to tell us what he knows.

How would you get past
Will's lawyer, Lisi?

I'll handle Mike Lisi.

Ah, too much vermouth.

How the hell do you
live in a town where

you can't even get
a decent martini, Jim?

Can I ask you a question,
off the record?

Off the record, shoot.

Did Will Brooks tell you he
called Arthur Stanton

and asked him to
report his car stolen?

My client told me he never
left the property that night

and never called anyone.

You believe him?

I have no evidence
to confirm or deny.

Therefore, I have no opinion
one way or the other.

That's a lawyer's
answer, Mike.

Well, that's what
I am, a lawyer.

You didn't believe him.

That's why you came
looking for a plea bargain.

You know me too well.

This time, you
were wrong, Mike.

He didn't call Stanton.

He didn't kill his wife.

Then who did?

The old man-- Henry Brooks.

He did it.
No way.

Leslie's lover, three years ago.

You can't be serious.

I need to talk to your client.

Nah, he doesn't know anything.

He knows he didn't do it.
And now, so do you.

You still want me to
put him away for murder?

Trouble with you, Jimmy,
you have too much integrity

to prosecute a guy
you know is innocent.

So help me to convict the man
I know is guilty.

No, he's my father.
He wouldn't...

They wouldn't do that to me.

They... he and Leslie are
colleagues.

He was the guy
she was seeing, Will.

There's no doubt.

Your father set you up

for Leslie's murder
to take the blame

for the financial collapse of
the company, everything.

The evidence is overwhelming.

Leslie made the mistake
of trusting him.

She confided in him
about the SEC subpoena.

I know; he's... ruthless.

I've seen him

eviscerate people over business,

leave them with nothing.

I just never thought
he could do that to me.

Or to Leslie.

We're dropping the charges
against your client.

Will you help us?

What's this?

Trial by ambush?

Will, what are you doing
with these people?

Arthur, they think
I killed my wife.

Why?

I want all of you

out of my offices now.

What did my
father tell you?

What did he say I did?

Henry Brooks is my client.

Anything said between us
is privileged.

You know that's not
necessarily true.

My father killed
Leslie, Arthur.

My son is going to grow up
without his mother

because of him.

When Henry Brooks told you
Will killed Leslie,

did you believe him?

Were you a part
of the cover-up?

Or were you complicit
in his scheme

to frame his son for the murder
of his daughter-in-law?

CONLON:
Either way, you have no privilege.

I will put you in jail,
Mr. Stanton.

Henry woke me about
3:00 in the morning.

He said Will

was drinking again,

and that he had done
something stupid.

And asked me go get Will's car
and clean it up.

Let's call Ed and Ray.

Have them arrest
Henry Brooks

for the murder
of Leslie Brooks.

And, Arthur...

Please make sure
the media's there

to see it.

I want him publicly humiliated.

The way he humiliated me.

STANTON:
I retrieved the car from the towing company,

I drove it to the Brooks
maintenance shed.

Later that morning, I had
one of the workers clean it thoroughly.

Why?

There were small amounts
of blood on the window,

on the steering wheel,

on one of the seats,
maybe elsewhere, I'm not sure.

Whose blood did you think
it was, Mr. Stanton.

Mrs. Brooks. Leslie.

Henry-- Mr. Brooks told me
Will had killed her

to prevent her from
exposing his fraud.

And to gain control
of her estate.

Did you talk to Will Brooks
that night

about the car
or anything else?

I spoke only
with Henry.

Why didn't you talk to Will?

If he was guilty,
I didn't want to know.

I didn't want him to tell
me anything.

I wanted to be able
to represent him.

You assumed he was guilty
because Henry Brooks told you

he was?

Correct.

Mr. Stanton, we have
a sworn deposition

from the employee who cleaned
the car for you that morning.

Elio Torres.

He says he vacuumed and
shampooed all of the carpets

in the car.

As I said,
at my request.

Including the trunk?

Was there blood evidence

in the trunk
as well?

I wanted
to make sure

all trace evidence
was eradicated.

You're not answering
my question.

Yes, there was blood
in the trunk.

Mr. Stanton, did you do
anything else that morning

to "clean up" for Henry Brooks?

Before you took Will's car

to the company
garage?

You took an oath,
Mr. Stanton,

to tell the whole truth,
not just answer my questions.

I'm only obligated to answer
your questions truthfully,

not to volunteer information.

Then answer my question
truthfully.

Did you do anything else

that morning?

Did you get rid

of any other evidence
for Henry Brooks?

I found something in the trunk.

A lug wrench.

And what did you do with it?

I dropped it down
a storm drain.

Arthur Stanton is mistaken.

I never told him my son said

that his car had been stolen.

I simply said my son's car
had been stolen

and would he please
take care of it.

He said you told him
Will had killed Leslie.

Arthur Stanton is loyal
to a fault.

He assumed that Will
killed Leslie

to cover up his fraud,
and he acted accordingly.

And so did I.

Nothing further.

Three years ago did you
have an affair with your daughter-in-law?

It was a lapse of judgment
on both of our parts.

Will was drinking heavily.

I was appalled by that and what
was happening with the company.

I put an end to it
after a few months.

You called it off?

Leslie would have continued it,

but I didn't think it was
appropriate.

Not appropriate?

Having an affair with
your son's wife?

We took great care to make sure
that Will never found out.

But he did, didn't he?

About the affair,

but not my part of it.

they reconciled.

The financial
irregularities started

right after
they reconciled.

That's when you began
cooking the books,

isn't it?

To ruin your son.

Get him back for taking
Leslie away from you?

The financial malfeasance
was Will's and not mine.

That's not what
the forensic accountant said.

Or the SEC.

They lay the blame
at your feet.

I reject that.

That must have been hard.

To see her back with him.

Were you in love with her?

I loved her.

She was a spectacular woman.

A brilliant woman.

Did you think you'd
get her back

after Will was ruined?

I moved on, Ms. Chase.

I suggest you do the same.

She went to the
office that night.

And you met her there
after the guard had gone.

I never went
anywhere that night.

She told you about
the SEC.

I knew about the SEC
investigation.

You knew about it?

it was a secret grand jury.

I have friends
in very high places.

Of course you already knew.

Did it surprise you

when you found out Leslie
had been cooperating

with the SEC?

No. As I said, she was brilliant

and would easily have discovered

Will's pathetic
little deception.

Because you wanted her to.

After all, you designed
this whole thing

to ensnare your son
and get Leslie back.

We've been assuming

Leslie told you that night
about Will's involvement.

But you would have
welcomed that.

That was your plan
all along.

Instead, she accused you
that night.

I never spoke to her
that night.

She discovered
that you

had been cooking the
books, not Will.

You were going to
lose everything, huh?

The company, Leslie,
your entire legacy.

So you killed her
to keep that from happening.

No. I never manipulated
the company's finances.

It was Will.

Only someone as spineless
as my son

would have needed
to do something like that.

It was Will.

No. Will never would
have killed Leslie.

He'd forgiven her.

He may have even
forgiven you.

I don't require forgiveness.

Nor do you deserve it.

When we spoke to you
just hours after the murder

you said you wanted
to see the man who'd

killed your
daughter-in-law

pay with his life.

That sounds fair to me.

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I love the look on
Henry Brooks' face

when the jury gave
him his wish.

He'll appeal
it forever.

I hope he does.

He'll only squander
his fortune

delaying the inevitable--
a date with the executioner.

The rich are different.

Yeah, speaking
of the rich...

I caught Conlon's
assistant

going through his
desk today.

Collecting his paychecks
to deposit.

Which is exactly what Ray
said he did in New York, too.

Must be nice.

Yeah.

Got me thinking
about Conlon.

He doesn't need
the job

and he's obviously

not doing it
for the money.

He is ambitious.

Maybe for the right
reasons... mostly.

Maybe.

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