All language subtitles for Law.and.Order.S20E18.HDTV.XviD-LOL

In the criminal justice
system,

The people are represented by
two separate,

Yet equally
important groups

The police who
investigate crime

And the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

- Hi, sweetie.

You like my tie?

- Yeah, it's red.

- You can watch me
on the internet, bela.

Mommy will show you how.

- I know how.
Bye.

ciao.

- Go play baby.

I want you
on the next plane home.

- I'm not going to argue
with you about this, dana.

I'll call you later.

please!

The evidence that human conduct
causes climate change

Is open to debate.

What's indisputable
is the foolishness

Of the solutions
to that supposed problem.

Cap and trade
of carbon emissions

Injects scientists
into the financial sector,

Where we have
no place being.

- Excuse me.

Excuse me.

I do not agree with dr. Silva's
views on global warming,

But that does not mean that

He is wrong about
cap and trade.

It's a racket,

And government policy
should look elsewhere.

- Thank you, dr. Brown.

It's nice to know that
we can find common ground,

Even-

Even despite
our ideological differences.

I'm sorry.
I have the worst headache.

- Somebody call 911!

- Dr. Silva's been rushed
to the hospital unconscious.

Extremely elevated
blood pressure.

Looks like a hypertensive crisis
triggered a stroke.

- And the blood?

- Probably broke his nose
when he fell.

- A stroke and a broken nose.
- What can I tell you?

Apparently, dr. Silva's
a controversial guy.

The brazilian consulate
wanted cops in the mix.

- Great.

- Got the video teed up.

- I'm sorry.
I have the worst headache.

- Hey, run that back again
in slo-mo.

Look at that.

He was bleeding
before he went down.

- Bleeding like that
from a stroke?

- Not from a stroke.

I've never seen this
before.

we have.

It's called homicide-itis.

- Well, his blood work
shows he ingested

A massive amount
of methylphenidate

An hour
before he collapsed.

Uh, right.
It's an amphetamine.

The drug caused
a sudden jump in his b-p

And triggered
a cerebral hemorrhage.

- Any chance
he was popping uppers?

- Oh, I doubt it.

Methyl-p is usually
for kids with a. D.D.

- Meaning
he might have been poisoned.

- Yep.
E.R. Pumped his stomach.

Looks like somebody
spiked his granola.

- There was a buffet breakfast
before the morning panel.

But I can't believe anybody
would hurt dr. Silva.

- We're gonna need a list
of everyone at the breakfast.

Do you know
who silva ate with?

- Probably himself.

It's a climate change
symposium.

He's a climate change denier,
so...

- Yeah, the odd man out.

- I know
what you're thinking,

But these are scientists.

The worst that happens

Is they flame each other
in a journal

Or pull
some sophomoric prank.

- Any of that happen
to dr. Silva?

- He was worried about
his data being hacked.

He told me he got an alert
on his laptop.

The hotel's wi-fi wasn't
properly firewalled.

He was just being
paranoid.

- Hey, check this.

Blood pressure meds,
pills for ulcers,

But no methyl-
whatever the m. E. Called it.

- Right, and look.

Silva has a file here
labeled "smoking gun. "

It's an email thread
from a dr. Everett brown

To a dr. Larry cattermole,
dated two weeks ago.

"we have to adjust
these data hiccups.

"any temperature anomalies

"will encourage
the climate deniers.

We can't allow that. "

- Sounds like
they were fudging data.

- Silva's not on the distro
list for these emails,

Meaning he's not
supposed to have them.

- Stolen emails proving that
two global warming scientists

Were cooking their numbers.

No wonder
silva was worried

About somebody
hacking his computer.

- All right, so maybe
brown or cattermole

Figured out that silva
had hacked theirs

And decided to shut him up.

- Guess who was on the panel
with silva?

- These are private emails,

And possession of them
is a felony.

- Did you tell that
to dr. Silva?

- No. I didn't know
he had them.

It's the first
I've heard of this.

I am very concerned with
the invasion of privacy.

- Not to mention it
getting out

That you were monkeying
with your data.

- A few data points
among thousands,

With zero effect
on the bottom line

That global warming
is real.

- Then why game your research,
dr. Brown?

- Because...

Global warming deniers
will use any excuse

To create doubt
where there is clarity.

The stakes are too high
to let them muddy the waters.

- You were on the panel
with silva.

Did you talk to him
at the breakfast buffet?

- I didn't even see him.

I grabbed a bagel
and left.

- We're still verifying
brown's alibi.

The other scientist,
cattermole,

He was in portland,
teaching a seminar.

- Excuse me, uh, loo,
check this out.

This is the video
of silva collapsing?

This is brown, talking,
just before it happened.

- I do not agree
with dr. Silva's views

On global warming.

But that does not mean
that is he is wrong

About cap and trade.

It's a racket,

And government policy
should look elsewhere.

- Cap and trade.
That's about carbon emissions.

- Right. Limiting the pollution
a company can emit.

If you want to pollute more,

You can buy carbon credits

From a company
who's polluting less.

Weird thing,
brown is an eco-warrior,

And here he is,
siding with silva

To rip cap and trade.

- Yeah, silva had proof that
brown was falsifying data.

Now maybe he used this to
convince brown to support him.

- Carbon trading-people make
money out of that, right?

- Mm-hmm.

- A prominent
global warming advocate

Bags on cap and trade,

The market
might have noticed.

- Stocks in carbon
emissions trading companies

Tanked right after
brown's statement.

- If silva knew what brown
was going to say,

He might have
made money off it.

- Find out if dr. Silva liked
to play the carbon market,

And then talk to his wife.

She just flew in
from brazil.

- We met at a conference.

I moved to rio.

We have the perfect life.

Our daughter nicole,
you should see him with her.

Why anyone would want
to poison oscar-

- Well, he is
a controversial figure, right?

- The "warmists,"

The global warming
fanatics,

Have accused him
of every crime.

But now we see their lies
about the glaciers,

The manipulation of data.

- Mrs. Silva,

I'm sorry
to have to ask you this,

But did you know that your
husband bought stock options

In a carbon emissions
trading company last week?

- Stock options?
- Yes.

$50,000 worth
of short call options.

Now the company's
stock dropped

After dr. Brown came out
against cap and trade,

And now
your husband's investment

Is worth $200,000.

- We think your husband
pressured dr. Brown

Into making those statements

So he could profit
from it.

It may be a reason
why someone poisoned him.

- Oscar's no crook.

He's a decent
and honest man.

You can't be right.

- He said he'd ruin me

If I didn't come out publicly
against cap and trade.

- Did he promise you a cut
of his scam?

- No. He said I was lucky
if I kept my reputation.

What choice did I have?

He threatened to send
the emails to the media

If I went to the police.

I was scared.

There's something off
about the man.

- Beyond the fact that
he was blackmailing you?

- We were talking the day
before the panel,

And then he takes a call,

And he starts arguing
with someone in portuguese.

Something vicious.

And I got to thinking

That maybe he was raised
in a favela.

You know what those guys
are capable of?

- No. But you seem to.

Maybe you thought
the extortion had just begun.

I did not poison him.

I swear.

- We talked to five people
at the breakfast,

And all of them verify
that brown left

Before silva arrived.

- And with cattermole
3,000 miles away,

We're back to square one.

- Hmm.

- That phone call silva got
when he was talking to brown,

It was from his wife
in brazil.

- The phone call
that scared brown?

- Yeah. Silva turned vicious,
screaming at his wife.

- She told us she and silva
had the perfect life.

- Hmm.

- Don't worry about
his personal effects.

I'll send for them.
- Whoa, what's going on here?

- I'm medevacing oscar
to sao paulo.

- 12 hours
after you got here?

What seems to be
the hurry?

- There's nothing
they can do for him here

That doctors can't do for him
at home in brazil,

So let's go.

- No one's going anywhere.

Please,
take him back to the room.

- You don't have the right!
- Especially you, mrs. Silva.

We need to ask you
some questions.

- I don't have to answer
any questions.

I'm a brazilian citizen
with a brazilian passport.

- Well, this is
an nypd badge.

Let's go.

- As a brazilian citizen,
mrs. Silva refuses

To answer any questions until
she talks to her consulate.

- Well,
her brazilian passport

Lists new jersey
as her place of birth,

So that makes her a citizen
of this country.

So maybe she'd like
to answer our questions

As an american.

- I was in brazil when
my husband was poisoned.

How could I know anything?

- We confirmed your husband
engineered that stock scam.

Now we just need to know
why he needed the money.

Was it a gambling debt
or was it a mistress?

- Is that what you two
were fighting about

On the phone
a few days ago?

- How dare you.

- We understand that if your
husband was cheating on you,

You'd be angry.

- Angry enough
to hurt him.

- All right.
End of conversation.

Obviously you don't have
enough to arrest her,

And we'll see how long
this b. S. Detention lasts

After the brazilian consul
talks to the state department.

- If she was
behind the poisoning,

She would have needed
an accomplice to pull it off,

Someone at the conference.

- Someone she would have talked
to on the phone from brazil.

We'll need records from
the local phone company.

- All right, I'll put in
an m-lat request.

In the meantime,
we keep her passport.

She doesn't leave
the country.

- All right.

So we're looking
for someone at the breakfast

Who might have been
mrs. Silva's accomplice.

- Yeah, well,
we're working our way

Through the list
of attendees.

We found one gentleman

Who's been pestering
the organizers

For a full refund
for the conference.

He claims he didn't attend
a single event.

- Yeah, except they have
his signature

On the sign-in sheet
for the breakfast.

- It sounds like someone
was trying to create an alibi.

- Hmm.

- There was an occluded front
over montana

Kicking up rare cloud formations
all week.

I'm talking stratocumes.

That's why I bailed
the night before the conference.

- They have you signed in
at a breakfast two days later,

So the skies must have
cleared up in a hurry.

- Impossible.
I was in montana.

The morons
who organized that conference,

They claim to have
a photo of me

Shaking hands with
some chinese diplomat.

It's not even me,

And they want to sell me
a print for 20 bucks.

- Can we see that photo?
- Yeah.

- Well, he's wearing
your nametag.

- Yeah, look at that.
The nerve.

- You know him?
- Uh, yeah.

He was at the hotel bar
that night.

Professor shoemaker.
From jersey, I think.

- Okay, you caught me.
I crashed the event.

But, you know,
before you condemn me,

These-these
a la carte conferences

Are very expensive,

And my research grant
doesn't really cover-

- Got it.

You run into oscar silva
at that breakfast?

- Oh, yeah.
The guy who got sick?

No. Why?

- You know him?
- By reputation.

I know
he's a real mouth-breather.

- Is this iguazu falls
in brazil?

- Yeah.
It's beautiful, huh?

You see those swifts?

They nest behind the falls.

It's awesome.

You go to a place
like that,

You know
what you're fighting for.

- Yeah. You spend a lot
of time in brazil?

- A few weeks a year,
to study the green desert.

Green desert.

Of course, they cut down
the rainforest

And they planted
more pine trees-

- You know who'd be interested
in something like this?

- Hmm?

- Silva's wife.

- Right. Dana.

Very good-looking lady.

You ever run into her down
there, professor shoemaker,

In the green desert?

- Mm, no.

No, I don't-
I don't know them.

Listen, uh, my simulations.

I got a presentation to a grant
committee meeting tomorrow,

And if I don't
get cracking-

- You'll be sneaking into
a lot more conferences.

- Yeah.
- Thanks.

- Yeah. No worries.
Thank you.

- Loo, you've got seven calls
over the past year

To the silva's home
in brazil

From the main number
at shoemaker's college.

- Well, the silvas
are scientists.

Anyone at that school
could have been calling them.

- How many of them have
this kind of travel pattern?

Three trips to brazil
last summer, two in March.

Seven,
the year before that.

Some for two weeks,
some for two days.

I mean, it looks like
shoemaker and mrs. Silva

Were having an affair.

- We have something
from the record search

On shoemaker.

This guy was racking up
some legal fees.

Look at all these
court appearances.

- Shoemaker v. Shoemaker.

Sounds like a divorce.

Open up
one of those files.

- Son of a bitch.

- Hmm.

- Anita van buren
for a. D.A. Rubirosa.

- You're arresting her?

- On an outstanding
contempt citation.

She was married for six years
to phillip shoemaker.

Divorced in 2006.

One daughter, nicole.

- And three years ago,
she fled the country

With her daughter,
in violation

Of a shared custody order

To go marry oscar silva
in brazil.

The judge issued
an arrest warrant

And granted full custody
to professor shoemaker.

- You and your ex,
we take it,

Weren't getting along.

- It's not amicable.
The divorce was ugly.

And not being able
to see nicole

Has been difficult
for phillip.

- All those trips to brazil,
and he hasn't seen her?

- No,
I don't think spending time

With someone that angry

Would be healthy
for nicole.

But he keeps suing me
in brazilian court

To get to her,
and it's cost us a fortune

To defend ourselves.

That's why-that's why
oscar needed money.

He needed to pay the lawyer

So that we wouldn't
lose nicole.

- How did your ex
feel about oscar?

- About what you'd expect.

But phillip
would never hurt oscar.

We're scientists.

We deal with disagreements

With emotional detachment
and reason.

- That's what the argument
was about on the phone?

The custody?

- I wanted oscar
to come home.

I was worried that phillip
would find out he was there

And have him detained.

- Do you have any ties
to brazil beyond your husband?

- No, not really.

- So if something
were to happen to him,

There'd be
nothing keeping you

Or your daughter there,
right?

You'd come home,
to the u. S.

- Oh, my god.

If you know this,
why don't you arrest phillip?

- We don't have
enough evidence,

Not even for
a search warrant.

- Look, if you know anything
that could be useful,

Anything
that could help us-

- I don't.
- Please, just think.

Any detail.

- She told you
she doesn't know.

- Your ex used a poison

That raised
your husband's blood pressure.

Now did he know
mr. Silva was vulnerable,

If he had a heart
or a circulatory problem?

- Phillip knew oscar
had some fainting spells

Associated with
his high blood pressure.

- Look, I-I made my peace
with dana moving on long ago.

I mean, even if I hadn't,

How would killing her husband
serve any purpose?

It's fundamentally
irrational.

- Registered mail receipt
from a p. O. Box

In hogansburg, new york.

- It's for maple syrup.

- Sure it is.

- Hmm.

Suspicious maple syrup?

- Hogansburg
has an indian reservation

That straddles
the canadian border.

In my intel days,
we kept tabs on the place

Because it was
a staging ground

For smuggling all sorts
of nasty stuff into the u. S.

- Okay, so
it's my p. O. Box.

I sell tons of sports
memorabilia on ebay.

It was probably a signed
canadiens' jersey.

- The recipient said
it was maple syrup.

- Right. Well, I ship
that stuff too.

It's hard to remember.
I do a lot of volume.

- Ah, the thing is, vernon,
you're on parole

For bringing oxycontin
across the border.

Now are you back in
the pharmaceutical business?

Maybe smuggling
methylphenidate?

- Honestly, I don't even
know what that is.

- The guy you sent
that package to,

We're gonna offer him
immunity

In exchange for testimony
about its contents.

Or we can make you
that offer.

Five seconds
and we're out the door.

- Okay, okay, okay.
Look, look, look.

I get a call from some dude
who wouldn't give me his name.

He says he'll pay big.

He sends a money order
and instructions

On where to send the pills.

- What kind of pills?

- Methyl-p, man.
Methyl-p.

- Come on,
please, please, please.

This is all just
a huge misunderstanding.

- Yeah, you'll have plenty
of time to clear it up.

- I hope you die in jail!
- Hey, hey!

I want my daughter back!

- She doesn't even
remember your name!

I told her you were dead!
- You evil bitch!

- You murdering bastard!

They're gonna love you,
honey!

They're gonna
love you in jail!

- Sit down!

- Must be some of that

Emotional detachment
and reason.

- Case number 187299,

People v.
Phillip shoemaker.

Attempted murder.

- Not guilty,
your honor.

- People request bail
of $1 million.

- Professor shoemaker
has ties to the community

And no criminal record.

We request r. O.R.
So he can assert

The sole custody rights
granted to him

When his ex-wife
fled the country

With their daughter.

- Judge, the custody issues
are collateral

To a bail determination.

- Not if my decisions
impact them.

Where is the child now?

- In brazil, with the parents
of her stepfather.

- Of the man mr. Shoemaker
tried to kill.

- The child's mother
is in custody

Pursuant to an arrest warrant
issued by the family court.

If my client
can't make bail,

The child will remain
in brazil,

Far from her lawful parent.

- And if you release
mr. Shoemaker,

He'll get his daughter back,
giving him exactly

What his attempt
on mr. Silva's life

Was meant to accomplish:
Custody.

- So I get to make everybody
unhappy.

Fine.

Bail is $500,000.

- Ms. Rubirosa,
I'm kate orris.

I've been retained
by mrs. Silva

In the custody matter.

We're moving to have her
custodial rights reinstated.

- Dana's moving
to keep her kid in brazil.

She's using
shoemaker's indictment

To prove
he's an unfit parent.

- The last thing we need

Is to get dragged
into a custody dispute.

- Too late.

Shoemaker just
subpoenaed me

In the custody case.

He wants a full airing
of the charges against him

To prove they're bogus.

- We'll get
the subpoena quashed.

- You'd better.

A prosecutor on the stand

Giving a defendant
a free preview

Of his pending
criminal case?

You may as well
dismiss the charges now.

- This subpoena is
mr. Shoemaker's naked attempt

To undermine
his criminal trial.

The details of his case

Are not relevant
to this custody dispute.

- Mrs. Silva
made them relevant

By arguing the indictment
demonstrates

My client's lack of fitness
as a parent.

- It's sufficient
for this court

To take judicial notice
of the charges.

Anything more imperils
the state's compelling interest

In prosecuting
an attempted murder.

- The only concern
of this court

Is the best interests
of the child.

Those might be served
by a full inquiry

Into whether the charges against
mr. Shoemaker are baseless.

Motion denied.

Take the stand,
mr. Cutter.

- We indicted mr. Shoemaker
because we had evidence

That he illegally
purchased the drug

That was used
to poison mr. Silva

And he assumed
a false identity

To attend the breakfast
where mr. Silva was poisoned.

- I see.

Mr. Cutter, are you the
product of a broken home?

- Objection. Beyond
the scope of the subpoena.

- Goes to bias.

I'm entitled to show
mr. Cutter's upbringing

Tainted his investigation
of professor shoemaker.

- I'll allow it.
Mr. Cutter?

- My parents divorced
when I was ten.

- A divorce initiated
by your father, right?

- That's right.
He left my mother.

- Your parents were granted
shared custody of you, correct?

- Yes.

- But things didn't
quite work out that way.

Your dad kept moving.

Different states,
different countries.

- He was
a turnaround specialist.

He worked for different
companies, and he-

- You didn't get to see
a lot of him?

- No.

- Fair to say, you grew
to resent your father,

Hate him?

- I was ten years old.

- Petitioner's 2-b.

A declaration from mrs. Silva's
former attorney,

Eli driscoll.

Mr. Cutter
strong-armed mrs. Silva

Into filling out
an affidavit he needed

To search
my client's apartment.

- That is
a slanderous accusation.

- Didn't you pressure her
to provide probable cause

For a warrant
to search my client's home?

- That's my job.

- And when she couldn't
think of anything,

You kept insisting,
even suggesting evidence.

- The warrant and the charges
were based solely on the facts.

- Are you telling
this court

That your animus
toward your own father

Didn't undermine your
prosecutorial judgment one iota?

- Your honor, please.

- Yes. Ms. Marks, you're done.
The witness may step down.

- Thank you.

- Well, I've heard enough
to render my decision.

What's clear is that neither
party deserves custody

At this juncture,
which puts me in a quandary.

Fortunately,
there's a third option.

Mrs. Silva's parents have filed
a motion to intervene.

I'm granting temporary custody
of nicole

To sharon and nelson lehman

Pending permanent resolution
of the custody order

And of the charges
against mr. Shoemaker.

Mrs. Silva
will make arrangements

For the immediate return
of the girl to this country.

We're adjourned.

- I trust this won't
come as a surprise

To either of you.

- Shoemaker's trying to
throw out our search

On the grounds of your bias.

- So my search gets tossed

Because I had a no-account dad
25 years ago?

- Marks did her homework
on you.

- Homework?
All he needed was google.

If the search is out,
we lose the p. O. Box upstate

And all proof that shoemaker
received amphetamines.

I can't convict him
without the drug link.

- If your case
can't survive the loss

Of even
one piece of evidence,

Maybe you shouldn't have
brought it in the first place.

- Silva's final lab work
just came in.

Even with his hypertension,

The amount of methyl-p
he was poisoned with

Wasn't enough
to give him a stroke.

- Then why did he have
a stroke?

- Turns out he had
a pre-existing aneurysm.

The methyl-p
just blew it out.

- Shoemaker must've known
about silva's aneurysm.

- Well, dana said
all he knew

Was that
silva had fainting spells.

- If you can establish
that shoemaker knew

About silva's aneurysm,
that would be probable cause

For a search
of his apartment.

- Inevitable discovery.

And the evidence of
the drug shipment stays in.

- And your bias stays out.

- I'm positive
I never told phillip

About oscar's aneurysm.

It wasn't even diagnosed
until last summer.

- Hold on.

- Now you remember
something?

- That depends.

My client sits in jail.

Meanwhile, her husband
has awakened from his coma,

Her daughter
is flying in from brazil.

You want her help
with your case,

You help with her release.

- Talk to the judge.

It wasn't our custody order
she violated.

- No, but another voice
in favor of her release

Might tip the scales.

- Suppose we do that.
What do we get?

- Last summer, mr. Shoemaker
sued for custody

In brazilian court.

He argued that dana and oscar
were unfit parents.

His lawyers requested
and were given

Oscar's medical records.

- You have proof
they were turned over?

- My brazilian
co-counsel does.

I might convince him
to dig it up

After my client
gets out of jail.

- I'm not going
to reward a woman

Who flouted a court order
for three years

Because your case
needs a hand.

- With or without your help,
I'm going to nail shoemaker.

And at the end of the day,

You'll be sending
little nicole back to brazil

With her mother
and stepfather.

- So why fight it, right?

If this custody matter
proves anything,

It's that
nothing's inevitable.

- Well, whatever
you think of my case,

Nicole deserves to get back
at least one of her parents.

- She's fine with her
grandparents for now.

Children are resilient.

- Yeah. Yeah, they-
yeah, they muddle through.

Without one parent.
Or even both.

But some wounds...

Don't heal.

- Enjoy your lunch, judge.

- A permanent custody
determination will be deferred

Pending conclusion of
mr. Shoemaker's criminal trial.

On another matter,
mrs. Silva,

I have decided
for humanitarian reasons

To conditionally release you
to the custody of your parents.

You'll be fitted
with an ankle monitor

And subject
to home confinement.

Allowance will be made
so you can visit your husband

In the hospital
as he recovers.

- Judge, for three years,

Mrs. Silva has thumbed her nose
at this court.

Now she gets to live
with her daughter?

At a minimum,
custody should be shared.

- I disagree.

If mr. Shoemaker
is acquitted,

You can move to have
my order modified.

We're adjourned.

- Mommy!

- Nicole. Hey, nicole,
it's me. It's daddy, baby.

Nicole, you remember me.
It's daddy.

- All right,
come on.

Let's go.

- As promised.

- Do you feel good
about this?

- I haven't felt good since
this case landed on my desk.

- We have proof he had access
to silva's medical records,

Meaning your client knew
he had an aneurysm.

Meaning the fruits
of our search stay in.

- That's not a given.

- Well, how many years
of your client's life

Are you willing
to bet on it?

Our offer is a plea to assault,
five to ten years.

- God!

My ex-wife kept me from
my daughter for three years.

If you think I'm gonna let you
put me in jail

Away from nicole
for one more day,

You're out of your mind.
Out of your mind.

mike cutter.

What?

Thanks.

- To repeat, we have
an eight-year-old girl,

Nicole shoemaker,

Missing from her
grandparents' house

Here in locust point.

Missing too
is an inflatable boat

That was tied to the dock
at the back of the house.

The girl's mother
and grandparents

Are extremely concerned

That the strong currents
in the long island sound

Have carried the small boat
out to sea

With little nicole in it.

Now the coast guard
has begun

A massive search
of the waters.

However,
they have yet to find

Any sign of nicole
or the raft.

- Now we pray.

- Sharon and I were coming back
from the grocery store.

We had promised nicole
we were gonna make s'mores.

- Tv was still on,
but she's gone.

Dana was doing yoga.
Her door was closed.

- So we looked upstairs,
downstairs, and then,

I see
the back door's open,

So I rush down
to the boathouse

And I find her doll
on the dock.

The boat was gone.

- Keep the faith, okay?

Everyone's doing
all they can.

- They found her!

- A dramatic scene
is unfolding

Five miles out
in long island sound,

Where the coast guard has found
a small yellow zodiac boat.

Now we understand
that the rescue divers

Are already in the water.

The divers are at the boat.

They're checking.

They're signaling.

The boat is empty.

No one is in the boat.

No sign of little
nicole shoemaker.

The search will continue...

- Look who I found.
- Mommy.

- Nicole! Nicole!
Oh, thank god!

- She was asleep in the storage
shed behind the boathouse.

- It doesn't matter.
- Oh, baby.

I was so worried
about you!

- She's safe now.
You're safe with grandpa.

- We'll take her.
- What?

You go finish your yoga.

What's everyone looking at?

I didn't do anything wrong!

- Good morning.

- The lehmans are moving
for sole custody of nicole.

They want dana declared
an unfit parent.

- That's a pretty
extreme reaction

To an eight-year-old
being an eight-year-old.

- Yeah, well,
if you think that's extreme,

They're even kicking dana
out of their house.

She's in lock-down
at an airport hotel.

- They also claim oscar silva's
an unfit guardian

Because of his health.

- Just covering their bases.

- Well, I'll say.

They attached
that brazilian medical record

About silva's aneurysm.

At the top of the page here
is the fax number

The medical record was faxed
from to the lehmans.

That's new jersey,
isn't it?

It's a fax number registered
to shoemaker's college.

He's sharing information
with his ex-in-laws?

- What's the big mystery?

Neither shoemaker
nor his former in-laws

Want to be schlepping
to brazil to see the girl.

Makes perfect sense they'd find
common cause on this point.

- Except according to the header
on this document,

Shoemaker faxed the medical
report to the lehmans

Three months ago.

- Makes you wonder how long
they've been cooperating

To get the girl back.

- You're thinking the attempt
on oscar silva's life?

- Well, why not?

If you're willing
to have your daughter

Declared an unfit parent,

Then whacking
your brazilian son-in-law

Doesn't seem so extreme.

- Except the evidence points
to shoemaker acting alone.

- Not all the evidence.

We still haven't traced
the 500 bucks

Used to buy the methyl-p.

We know shoemaker didn't pull it
out of his bank account.

- Then you'd better subpoena
the lehmans' bank records.

A happy ending.

It's starting to look
like wishful thinking.

- Yeah, with everyone
too busy

Trying to get custody
of nicole,

It's dumb luck she didn't
end up on that boat.

- Maybe luck
had nothing to do with it.

- Nelson's running an errand.

If you want to come back
in a few hours...

- Oh, it's just a few
routine questions.

And since there was so much
money spent on the search,

The city comptroller
wants to make sure

All their is are dotted.

- I already gave the police
a statement.

- Oh, yes,
about how your daughter

Was too busy
to keep an eye on nicole.

Has dana always been
so negligent?

- I didn't see it when she
was living here with phillip.

But the past three years-

I can't speak to
what happens in brazil.

- Three years.
That's a long time.

You must have really missed
your granddaughter.

- Yes.
She's our only grandchild.

- We understand that
your son-in-law mr. Silva

Is awake and walking.

So when phillip
goes to jail,

I assume your daughter will be
taking nicole with her

Back to brazil.

- I-I-I don't know.

- It's obvious
what nicole means to you.

The prospect of losing her
a second time must be awful.

Awful enough for you
to want to ensure

Dana can't take her
back to brazil.

- It's almost empty.
Want more tea?

- Mrs. Lehman,
we can get a subpoena

To do a drug test on nicole.

Whatever you gave her
to make her sleep,

It'll still be
in her system.

- Child services
will question her.

Do you really want to
put her through that?

- We came home.

Dana was in her room,
doing yoga.

Nicole was
just sitting there,

Watching tv,

Like a good little angel.

And we started to think

How we couldn't lose
our angel again.

We gave nicole
a glass of lemonade

With an allergy pill in it

And nelson carried her
out into the shed.

Nelson's
a retired biology teacher,

And he said it would just
make her sleepy.

Then nelson
set the boat adrift.

We called the police.

We didn't mean
to cause so much trouble.

I mean, we just...

We love her so much.

- Did phillip shoemaker know
what you were planning to do?

- No. It wasn't planned.

- But you've stayed in touch
with mr. Shoemaker

Over the years.

- Yes,
we've stayed friendly.

I mean,
we wanted the same things.

To see nicole grow up,

To be a part of her life.

It hurt so much
to lose her.

- Look, you want me to pay
for the search? Fine.

I'll write you a check.

- You're splashing
your cash again.

You been doing
a lot of that lately.

Sit down.

A $500 atm withdrawal
three weeks ago.

And two hours later,
you bought a money order

In the same amount, made
payable to vernon clayton.

The clerk at the western union
I.D.'d your photo.

- That money
was for the methyl-p

Phillip shoemaker
used to poison oscar.

- You're nuts.

- Mr. Lehman, you saw
how much your wife

Missed your granddaughter.

You saw it
for three long years.

- I didn't kill anybody.

- Look, you can
stonewall all you want.

But there's enough here
to assume your wife

Was in on
the murder attempt too.

And certainly the boat hoax.

Either way,
she'll do time.

- No. She-

Look, I did it.

It was all me.

I poisoned silva.

I wasn't going to let him
take our granddaughter

Away from us,
from sharon, ever again.

- If you're willing to testify
against shoemaker-

- No, he-he had
nothing to do with it.

I was the one who walked
into that breakfast,

And I put the methyl-p
on silva's cereal.

- We know the methyl-p was
shipped to shoemaker's house.

- No. He had
no idea what it was.

I shipped it to his house

So that it wouldn't
involve my wife.

The whole thing
was my idea, you understand?

Nobody else.

Nobody.

- Nelson's falling
on his sword.

If he cops to everything,
shoemaker walks.

- And if he does, he gets to
retain sole custody of nicole.

Meaning grandma lehman
gets to spend her golden years

Doting over
her granddaughter.

- Not a bad play for mr. Lehman.
Take his plea.

- Two people conspired
to poison silva.

Now I'm not letting shoemaker
off the hook.

- Bird in hand.

In the meantime, lehman'll
have eight years minimum

To agonize over his decision
to cover for shoemaker.

Meaning sooner or later,
he'll be ready to deal.

Now take the plea.
I'm not asking.

- I waited until silva
got up to make a call.

Then I poured the contents

Of 12500-milligram capsules
of methylphenidate

Into his cereal.

I wanted to kill him
so that my daughter

Would be forced to move back
here with nicole.

And that's all of it.

- Mr. Cutter,
are the people satisfied?

- Just one small matter,

Concerning
the shipping of the poison.

I'd like to call phillip
shoemaker to the stand

To corroborate
mr. Lehman's statement.

- Judge, we object.

Mr. Shoemaker is not
part of these proceedings.

- If we can't corroborate
mr. Lehman's statement,

We're going to reject
the plea agreement.

- There's no procedural bar.
Ms. Marks?

- My client has no objection
to testifying,

Your honor.

- Nelson said
he was going out of town,

And he asked could he have
a package shipped to my house.

I didn't know what it was.

I didn't open it.
I just gave it to him.

- But at any point,
did you and mr. Lehman

Discuss poisoning dr. Silva

In a scheme to get
your daughter back?

- Absolutely not.
I'd never do that.

- So you expect us
to believe

That you had zero
to do with this,

Despite the fact your ex

Practically
kidnapped your daughter?

You even got a court order
awarding you sole custody,

Isn't that right?

- That's right.

- Despite all the trips you took
to brazil to have her returned,

All the money that you spent
on lawyers?

- Uh, it's-
it's in the past.

- You mean, you've given up

On trying to get
your daughter back?

- I've moved on.
- You've moved on?

- Yes. My-my work takes up
all my life now.

I lecture, I teach.

I spend maybe 60 days out
of the year at home now.

There's-there's really-

There's really no room
for her in my life now.

- So you're telling us

That you've stopped
caring for your daughter?

Caring enough to do whatever
it takes to get her back?

- Look, um, after three years,
she's-

She's basically dead to me.

I don't really have an emotional
bond with her anymore.

- Judge, is there
an end in sight here?

- Mr. Cutter,

I assume this constitutes
ample corroboration?

- Just one more thing,
your honor.

- Your daughter
is eight, sir.

In a few years,
she'll read

The transcripts
of your testimony here.

How do you think
she'll react to it?

- I haven't really
given it much thought.

- Oh, you haven't
given much thought

To the fact that you've just
publicly disowned her?

Once she reads that,
you think she'll have

Anything more to do
with you?

- Objection.

- This goes to credibility,
your honor.

- Overruled.
Mr. Shoemaker?

- Um, I don't know.

I- I love my daughter
very much.

I would do anything for her,
and she knows that.

- That's not what you said.

I asked if you'd given up

On trying
to get your daughter back,

And you said
that you'd moved on.

- I-I didn't mean it
that way.

- So you haven't moved on?
- No.

- Now you testified
that there was no room

In your life for her,
is that true?

- No.

- You said you no longer felt
an emotional bond with her.

She's dead to you.

I can tell you from experience,
mr. Shoemaker,

Kids don't forget,
and they don't forgive.

- You tricked me.

The-these words,
they're not true.

- Well, how much of what you
said here is true, sir?

Most of it?
Some? None of it?

- None of it.
None of it, actually.

None of it. I-I would
do anything for nicole.

- Anything?
- Yes!

- Even risk going to jail?

- Yes.

- And even poison
oscar silva?

- Yes.

They stole her from me.

She was my life.
She gave my world meaning.

She made the world
a happier place.

And they took her from me.

They took my daughter!

- Two guilty pleas.

You look like someone
ran over your dog.

- Well, I won,
but nicole shoemaker lost.

She'll grow up with a father
and grandfather in prison,

Under the care of a mom

Whose selfishness set this
whole tragedy in motion.

- It's why I never went
into family law.

It's where
all the heartbreak is.

- Heartbreak is everywhere
in this job,

As you both know.

Take consolation
in getting the right result.

It was a good day's work.

- Yeah.
But not a good day.

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