Original subtitles

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.

[CLASSICAL MUSIC]

♪

[GLASS SHATTERS]

♪

♪

[GUNSHOT]

Vic is Charles Harper. This is his place.

His daughter called it in.

She came over to check on him and found the body.

Cause of death, single gunshot to the back of the head.

Execution style, all right.

Based on body temp, I'd say it happened

sometime late last night.

Somebody turned the place over pretty good, huh?

Same story in the bedrooms and living room.

Yeah, clocked that broken window downstairs too.

All right, so we're looking at a possible B&E.

Downside of being rich, I guess.

Vic was the guy behind Inherit-Ed.

You know, the company that tests your DNA?

That's how I found out I'm part American Indian.

Like 1/64.

I'm not saying I identify. I'm just...

I don't know if I can do that, man.

The idea of giving away all my biological data

to some random company? No thanks.

Doesn't look like he put up much of a fight.

If he was wearing those,

good chance he didn't hear it coming.

Handel, classical music guy.

Well, at least he died peacefully.

♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

- Synced and corrected by synk - - www.addic7ed.com -

I tried to call him this morning a bunch of times,

and when he didn't pick up,

I just felt that something was wrong.

Did your father live alone?

No. He's married.

His wife is out of town.

I don't call her my stepmother.

They've only been married for a year,

and she's younger than I am.

I knew he was alone this weekend,

and so I just stopped by to check on him.

Do you know of anyone who would want to hurt your father?

Ma'am, there might be a chance that this is a burglary gone bad,

so we're gonna need your help determining

if anything is missing.

Of course.

Detectives.

Excuse us.

This is Delores Sung.

She lives next door, thinks she might have seen something last night.

It was around 11:30.

I heard a loud bang.

I didn't know if it was a gunshot or a firecracker.

I looked out the window, and I saw someone running

down the street that way.

Can you describe this person?

It was pretty dark.

Just tell us what you can.

Were they tall, short, male, female?

I couldn't really say.

But they were wearing a dark gray sweatshirt

with a logo on the back,

a big Y with a heart in the middle.

I think I know the brand you're talking about.

That it?

Yeah, that's it.

Whoever it was, they were running like hell.

A handful of valuable items are missing

from the brownstone, including a diamond wedding ring

that belonged to Harper's first wife, now deceased.

According to his daughter, he always kept it

- on the nightstand. - Credit card, wallet?

Also missing.

We're monitoring them for any activity.

And unfortunately, Harper's security system

was not set up yet.

And so far, we haven't found any useful street cam footage.

Any other break-ins reported in the area?

Nada, but strangely enough,

the killer did leave some pretty obvious low-hanging fruit.

Current wife's jewelry box was just sitting there untouched

- on top of the bedroom dresser. - Look at this.

That's the floor in front of the window the killer

supposedly came through.

Covered in glass, which makes sense.

But if someone actually crawled through that window,

they would have stepped on those shards

and just broken them into smaller pieces.

It looks staged,

like they wanted us to think it was a random robbery.

It could be someone who had access to the brownstone.

This is a nightmare.

I just still can't believe that...

When was the last time you spoke to him?

Last night, around 8:00 maybe. Everything seemed fine.

How long were you at the yoga retreat?

Just a few days.

You can check the GPS in my car

or just look in my phone.

I took a lot of photos.

I know why you're really here.

I've been through this before.

Referring to your first husband.

I'll save you time.

I didn't marry him or Charles for money.

I'm richer than both of them combined,

and I-I don't profit from his death.

I mean, I literally don't inherit one nickel.

He was leaving everything he had to Victoria

and Sean, his two kids.

What is it?

No, I'm sure it's nothing.

No, I can't believe that.

A few days ago, Sean and Charles

got into a big fight.

Sean was pissed about how much Charles was spending.

He accused him of blowing through his inheritance.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Can I help you?

Detectives Shaw and Riley.

We're looking for Sean Harper.

I'm his girlfriend.

He left about 15 minutes ago.

What's going on?

When's he coming back?

I don't know. He left in a hurry.

What do you mean?

He said he had to get out of town. He packed a bag.

Any idea where he's going?

No, but he was taking the train.

Said he was headed to Grand Central.

Thank you.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

OK, all right. Thanks, Lieu.

Sean Harper bought a ticket to Greenwich, Connecticut

21 minutes ago, which means we're looking

for Metro North to Stamford.

♪

Track 19.

♪

Sean Harper.

Do not move.

Police. Hey!

[GRUNTING]

♪

Where are you running off to, Sean?

You guys are police?

Homicide.

- Let's go have a little chat. - Come on.

We know you fought with your father over his spending,

and now he's dead, and you're on the run.

You see how that looks?

I would never hurt my father. I love him.

As much as you love his money?

I didn't kill him.

But I...

I know who did.

Well, if you know who did it,

you should be running towards the police,

not away from them.

I didn't know they were police. I thought they were...

OK, I borrowed some money.

I was trying to get my business off the ground.

I built this app, and I couldn't raise any capital.

I asked my dad. He said no.

And so this friend set me up with this investor guy,

this Anthony Niducci.

Anyway, the business didn't work out.

Niducci says he wants his money back plus interest.

I tell him I don't have it, and he threatens to...

kill me.

Yeah, but you're alive,

and your father's dead. So?

Yeah, I told my dad about Niducci.

I was hoping he'd just give me the money to pay him back,

but he wouldn't.

He insisted on meeting with the guy.

He was convinced he could work something out.

And then now he's...

You think you're next?

That's why I was trying to get out of town

Where were you last night around 11:30?

At home in bed with my girlfriend.

In fact, I have a photo on my phone.

I sent it to a friend of ours.

We were wearing matching pajamas.

The friend I sent it to, he owns a clothing line and...

yeah, there. See?

Cute. OK.

Let's talk more about this guy Niducci.

Sorry to hear that Harper's dead.

Seemed like a good guy.

Loved the hell out of his kid, even though he's an idiot.

But I had nothing to do with it.

I don't kill people.

Sean Harper said you threatened him.

With legal action.

Like I said, an idiot.

Frankly, you coming here and insinuating that I'm...

I don't know... in the mafia or something is racist.

Dude, you're the one out here doing the whole

"Goodfellas" cosplay thing.

Hey, my grandfather opened this bar in 1974.

My dad ran it before me. I'm not playing at anything.

OK, all right, calm down.

Now, where were you two nights ago at 11:30 p.m.?

I was here. We got security cameras.

They'll show I was here all night.

Listen, I had no reason to want the guy dead.

We resolved our issue.

We had a productive conversation,

and he texted me later that night promising

that Sean would pay me back soon.

You'd know this if you just checked his phone.

We did.

We didn't see the text you're talking about though.

Maybe he deleted them, but I'm telling the truth.

Security footage shows Niducci was at the bar until closing.

OK, so he didn't pull the trigger himself.

Is it possible that he hired somebody else to do it?

That wasn't the vibes.

I mean, he's just a local bar owner pretending

to be a venture capitalist.

Not the kind of guy who's gonna have

somebody whacked, you know.

It seems like he was telling the truth about the texts too.

Harper deleted them, but TARU was able

to pull 'em out of the cloud.

I mean, it seems like everything was cool

between him and Niducci, but, um...

wait.

What is it?

There's a bunch more texts here between Harper

and someone named Finn Carson.

Refers to him as Agent Carson.

Looks like they're talking about some kind

- of investigation. - What kind of investigation?

I have no idea. It's all very vague.

Looks like there's an Agent Finn Carson

in the Homeland Security New York field office.

Works in the Financial Crimes Unit.

Charles Harper was working with Homeland Security?

♪

Charles Harper? Name doesn't ring a bell.

Look, we understand that undercover work can be delicate.

We're not trying to blow up your operation, but a man is dead.

And we need your help figuring out who killed him.

So if his murder has anything to do

with the case that you're working on...

I'm not being coy with you here, guys.

There is no case.

I don't know who you're talking about.

OK.

Harper's cell logs show that he was in heavy communication

with this number.

Now, that comes back to a burner phone,

but he had it saved in his contacts under your name.

Yeah, these didn't come from me.

♪

I think I know what's going on.

Looks like Charles Harper got scammed.

Yeah, HSI has actually had a bunch of these incidents

over the last few years.

They call it pig butchering.

Yeah, so the scammer calls the person pretending

to be an HSI agent and lets them know

that they've been investigated for financial fraud.

And let me guess.

The first step is to give Homeland Security

access to their bank accounts.

That, or they get them to wire a bunch of money

to an offshore account that's controlled

by the scammer, which is what we think happened to Harper.

And these are the names and addresses of real agents

and field offices, just in case anybody

wants to verify it's legit.

And in the last two weeks leading up to Harper's death,

he wires $5 million to an offshore account

that then just vanishes into thin air.

Do we think this scammer has anything to do with the murder?

Doubtful.

No, these guys, once they get the money,

they usually vanish into thin air too.

Check this out.

Harper recently upped his life insurance

policy to $10 million, and his kids are the beneficiaries.

Now, Sean Harper, he's got an alibi, the pajama photo.

But if you ask me, $5 million is more than enough incentive

for him to lie.

Plus, we know that he has very strong feelings

about his inheritance,

and if he found out that his dad was broke...

And we all know how easy it is to manipulate a photo.

Well, have another chat with him.

I'm telling you, I was here all night, all right?

You can talk to my doorman.

Or better yet, the building is covered in security cameras.

- Check those. - We will.

I didn't even know about my dad being scammed

until this morning when my sister and I met with the estate lawyers.

I still can't believe he got sucked in like that.

We'll need to speak to your girlfriend too.

Fine, but she's not here.

We have her number. We'll be in touch.

Wait.

There's something I haven't told you.

Oh, yeah? What's that?

[SIGHS]

All right, the day my dad was killed,

I spoke to my sister, and she told me that

she was planning on having dinner with him that night.

She told us a much different story.

Right, well, she told me that, you know,

she ended up canceling,

but, look, the reason I didn't tell you guys about this

before is that I believed her.

I couldn't imagine that she would ever...

That's changed now.

This afternoon, I was at Victoria's apartment,

and I was feeling kind of upset,

so I went to her bathroom to look for a Klonopin.

And?

And I saw something in one of her drawers.

Your mother's missing wedding ring,

right where your brother said it would be.

So? I mean, it's mine.

My father gave it to me.

Well, that's funny, because you told us

it was taken by whoever killed and robbed him.

I already told you already...

she was home with me the night that Charles was killed.

Have a seat now.

Detectives,

this the hoodie you're looking for?

- It sure is. - It was in the dryer.

It was just washed.

That's blood.

♪

And you were supposed to be the one

who didn't care about the money, huh?

Please, you don't understand.

Victoria Beyer, you're under arrest for the murder

of Charles Harper.

You have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be used

against you in a court of law.

- Do you understand? - Hey, no, no, no, no, no.

Arraignment went well.

Bail was set a $2 million.

Hi. Sorry, I didn't realize.

No, no, no, Sam, it's OK. This is my brother, Thomas.

Nice to meet you.

Nolan told me about you.

I didn't mean to interrupt. I'll be back.

No, no, no. No need.

I was just going.

You know, he's actually a lot of fun, deep down.

But he can be stubborn to the point

where you begin to question what kind

of person he really is.

Talk more soon.

Everything OK?

Yeah, yeah.

- Was she able to post bail? - Uh, yes.

She's rich enough to post that kind of bail

but still has to murder her father for money?

Can a person really be that greedy?

I assume that was rhetorical.

Yeah, well, it's pretty clear the defense's strategy

is gonna lean heavily on her alibi.

Right, the husband claims she was at home with him.

And he's sticking to it.

Unfortunately, her cell site data backs up her story.

Well, that just means that she's smart enough

to not bring her phone with her when she commits murder.

The brother is the one who pointed

detectives in her direction.

He can also establish that Victoria was planning

on going to their father's brownstone

on the night of the murder.

Sounds like a good witness.

On the day that your father was murdered,

did you speak to your sister?

Yes.

She called me in the late afternoon.

And what did you talk about?

A number of things.

She mostly just wanted to check in on me.

Did she mention what her plans were that evening?

I don't believe so. No.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Isn't it true that she told you

she was planning on going to your father's brownstone

that night?

♪

No.

♪

[SIGHS]

Permission to treat this witness as hostile, Your Honor.

So granted.

♪

Your Honor, I am handing Mr. Harper

what I am marking as people's exhibit 1 for identification.

This is the statement you gave detectives

two days after your father's murder.

- Do you recognize it? - Yes.

And that is your signature at the bottom.

Yes.

In this statement, you told the police that Victoria

called you the day of the murder and said

she was headed to your father's home.

Right. Uh... [CLEARS THROAT]

So that conversation happened a few days before,

not the day that my dad was killed.

I got... I got turned around.

I... I was... I was an emotional wreck.

My father had just been murdered.

You told the detectives that you suspected her

of being involved because you saw

your mother's wedding ring in her apartment,

the ring that she told police

must have been stolen by your father's killer.

Well, she ended up finding the ring

after she reported it missing.

It turned out that our father had put the ring

into the family safe deposit box.

You were in my office last night

to prepare for your testimony.

You never once said your statement was incorrect.

Well, after I got home, I started going over

everything in my head, and, you know, that's when

I realized that I, um...

well, I screwed up the date.

Victoria was devoted to Dad.

She spent a lot of time with him,

but, no, I'm not aware of her having any plans

to see him that night.

♪

Is there any way to prove Sean Harper's lying?

I tried. I got permission to cross-examine him,

but he held pretty firm.

So he's playing us.

He was planning this all along.

Otherwise, why even agree to take the stand?

My guess is his sister offered

to cut him an even bigger chunk of the insurance money.

And everyone we've spoken to goes on and on

about how Charles Harper was kind and hardworking,

but somehow his children turned out to be vipers.

Sometimes the apple actually does fall far from the tree.

Apples.

The police never found the murder weapon?

No.

But we do have Victoria's sweatshirt

with the victim's blood on it and the neighbor

who saw someone wearing that same sweatshirt fleeing the scene.

That hoodie is available in every mall in America.

And your witness couldn't even tell if the person

she saw was a man or a woman.

And the defense will try to explain away

the blood and claim it got on the hoodie some other time.

You need to find a way to more concretely

put Victoria Beyer at the crime scene that night.

Well, looks like it's gonna be a long night.

Yep, let's pull everything we got on Victoria Beyer

- and Charles Harper. - Nolan.

Hey. Thomas, what are you doing here?

We need to talk.

Sorry, I promise I'm usually not this much of a buzzkill.

- Oh. - Well, I'll politely disagree.

I'm gonna go into the conference room,

- get started. - OK, I'll be in, in a minute.

No rush. It was nice to see you again.

You've been ignoring my calls.

Um, no, I'm in the middle of a trial right now.

Listen, I spoke to the doctor.

Dad had another episode.

Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, he did, but he's fine now.

Were you gonna tell me?

He's stable. There's nothing to tell.

This is gonna keep on happening, Nolan.

No, it's not necessarily true.

They put him on a new medication.

I think it's time to have a conversation about...

Hold on.

This is why I didn't want to tell you, all right?

'Cause you're already blowing it out of proportion.

I'm asking you to think about what is best for Dad.

- Excuse me? - Nolan, don't do this.

- How dare you suggest... - He's dying.

OK, you think I don't care about Dad?

We need to figure out right now...

- I don't have time for this. - OK.

Of course not. You're busy.

Dad is dying.

Whether or not you're in the middle of a trial

doesn't matter.

[DOOR SHUTS]

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪

OK.

We should, uh, go back over the statements

that Victoria and her husband gave the police.

Yeah, I did. There are no discrepancies.

And, uh, credit card statements,

cell phone location data,

there is nothing that indicates she was anywhere else

other than at home on the night of the murder.

- [CLATTERING] - Ah.

Whoa. You OK?

Yeah.

[SIGHS]

Well, if we can't figure out

where she dumped or hid the murder weapon,

we'll have to find... thank you.

We'll have to find some way to disprove her alibi.

Nolan, I don't mean to pry, but are you sure you're OK?

Yeah, it's nothing.

My father isn't doing very well.

I'm so sorry.

Um...

what's wrong with him?

At the end of the day, he's old.

His body is shutting down.

And, uh, my brother,

he thinks we should start hospice care.

But... [CHUCKLES]

What does your father say?

He's not lucid enough to fully understand the situation,

and I am his health care proxy, so...

- It's a lot of responsibility. - Yeah.

Thomas just... [SIGHS]

He just sees things differently

or... or less optimistically, anyway.

And I get where he's coming from.

It's hard.

Trips to the hospital, the emergency phone calls

in the middle of the night,

but...

When you... when you love someone, you deal with the hard.

Well, I'm sorry you're dealing with all this.

What?

The ring.

Sean Harper claimed that Victoria found it

in the family's safe deposit box

after she reported it missing.

Maybe we can prove they're lying about that.

Let's see.

The safe deposit box is in Manhattan Mutual Bank.

Hmm.

Looks like she did go there the day after the murder,

so it's possible she's telling the truth.

According to that, she was at the bank at 9:14 a.m.

That's before she went to the brownstone, called 911.

And so...

so she goes back to the crime scene

to "discover" her father's body,

but she stops here first. Why?

I mean, what could she have needed out of that box

that was so important?

Maybe she was putting something in

rather than taking something out.

Police didn't know about the safe deposit box.

Well, it's a good place to hide something.

Miss Kern, police recovered the gun

that killed Charles Harper from a safe deposit box

at the bank that you manage.

I assure you, no one at the bank knew it was there.

We have a strict policy against storing firearms.

The safe deposit box belonged to Charles Harper.

Who else had access to it?

Victoria Beyer and Sean Harper.

His children.

Did either of them visit the box

after their father's murder?

According to our logs, Victoria Beyer

accessed it on December 3rd.

The day after Charles Harper was killed.

Has anyone visited the box since?

No.

Meaning the defendant is the only person

who could have put the gun there.

Thank you.

No further questions.

We'll end there for the day.

Court will resume tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.

[BANGS GAVEL]

I'd like to discuss a deal.

Of course you would, but, um, we're good.

There's something you need to know.

♪

We are all ears.

It's OK.

Anything you say here can't be used against you,

should the trial continue.

♪

I was the one who shot my father.

Oh, we know.

I'm pretty sure the jury does, too.

No, you don't understand.

I did it because he asked me to.

♪

It turns out Charles Harper had Pick's disease,

also known as frontotemporal dementia.

We know this for a fact?

Defense provided medical records

showing that he was diagnosed a little over a year ago.

It's an aggressive form of mental deterioration,

and it's fatal.

How are we just finding out about this?

Harper hadn't told anyone.

It was only in the early stages.

He wanted to hide it as long as possible.

And according to Victoria,

he only told her a month before the murder

when the symptoms started getting worse.

Which explains why he went from a frugal workaholic

to traveling the world.

He knew his time was limited.

It would also explain how someone

as smart as Harper could get scammed out of his life savings.

According to Victoria, that was the final straw.

He knew it was only gonna get worse.

He didn't want to go out like that,

so he asked her to take his life.

This was an assisted suicide?

Well, if you believe Victoria Beyer.

But it makes more sense than her killing him for money.

I mean, she and her husband have

a net worth of $50 million. What's another 5?

She shot him in the head, Sam.

And she staged it to look like a burglary

so the insurance would pay out.

And even if you take her at her word,

assisted suicide isn't legal in New York.

Not yet.

The legislature is considering a bill decriminalizing it.

It has a lot of support too.

Great, but that's still not...

If what she's claiming is true,

we should consider pleading her out to a lesser charge.

There is no way in hell we offer a deal here.

Charles Harper was still healthy enough

that no one even knew he was sick.

He had years left to live.

But if he asked her to do it, then...

But we don't have any proof that he actually did.

And even if she's telling the truth,

"he told me to" is not a legal defense against murder.

You're right. But the jury might not care.

All they're gonna see is a dutiful daughter

trying to help her father die with dignity.

I agree, which is why I'm gonna file a motion

to prevent her from even mentioning the words "assisted suicide."

♪

Nolan.

There's nothing to discuss, Sam.

Even if you take Victoria at her word,

it isn't assisted suicide.

She didn't humanely shoot up her father with morphine.

She put a bullet in the back of his head.

You are under a lot of pressure right now, OK?

You have a lot going on.

Oh, no, no, no.

No, that has nothing to do with this.

I'm fine.

If you'll excuse me, I have a motion to draft.

♪

We have the right to present

all relevant circumstantial facts,

including that the victim in this case

orchestrated his own death.

Now, even if that's true, it's not a valid defense

and is therefore irrelevant.

Any mention of assisted suicide or Harper's diagnosis

will just prejudice and confuse the jury,

which is clearly the intent.

Assisted suicide is a lesser charge

that the jury should have the right to consider.

Technically, the facts in this case

don't qualify for assisted suicide under New York Penal Code.

That's for the jury to decide.

This situation sounds like it might

best be worked out with a plea deal.

Well, we tried that, Your Honor, but the prosecution turned us down.

And that decision stands.

In that case, Mr. Price, I agree with Mr. Banks.

It's up to the jury.

Your motion is denied.

Pick's disease is a form of early onset dementia

that progresses very rapidly.

The time of symptoms first presenting

to death in some cases

can be as short as five years.

- And is there any cure? - No.

What are those symptoms, Doctor?

In the beginning, the patient experiences

momentary lapses of cognition.

But in the later stages, it's a full shutdown

of brain function.

The patient becomes completely unaware of who they are

and what is happening to them.

They lose all memory.

They forget how to eat, how to walk,

go to the bathroom.

And when did you diagnose Charles Harper with the disease?

A little over a year ago.

At that time, he had already been experiencing mild symptoms

for about eight months.

What was his condition by the time of his death?

He came to see me a few weeks before he died.

He reported that his episodes had gotten more pronounced,

that it had progressed beyond a point

that he was comfortable with.

Did he ask you to help him commit suicide?

Yes.

What did you say?

I told him no.

Physician assisted suicide is currently legal in ten states,

but New York isn't one of them.

I wish I could have helped, but I wasn't willing

to risk losing my license.

♪

Thank you.

Nothing further.

Dr. Lark, you stated that

the time between diagnosis

and death with Pick's disease can be as little as five years.

What you didn't mention is that it can also take

upwards of ten years, correct?

In some cases, yes.

And patients can go for many years

before reaching the levels of decline you described,

- can't they? - Absolutely.

You examined Charles Harper a few weeks before his death.

He hadn't reached that tragic end stage yet, correct?

Yes, that is correct.

And it could have been years before he did.

Oh, one last thing...

You declined to help Charles Harper

kill himself because legally,

that would be murder, correct?

♪

Yes.

♪

Thank you, nothing further.

♪

My father was a true American success story.

He didn't come from means, but with hard work

and determination, he built a successful company

from the ground up,

all while raising me and my brother on his own after our mother died.

Being smart and accomplished,

strong,

it was his identity,

who he was as a person.

He refused to become a lesser version of himself.

He wanted to end things on his own terms

while he still had his dignity.

And you agreed with that?

Not at first, and certainly not the way

that he wanted to do it.

At first, I didn't even think that he was serious.

But then he showed me the gun he bought.

So he's the one who purchased the gun?

I was horrified.

He had it all planned out.

He begged me. I had never seen him like that.

It broke my heart.

I know that it's hard to understand,

but what I did was an act of love.

No further questions.

You don't have any evidence that proves

your father was the one who bought the gun, do you?

No, but I'm telling the truth.

So why use a gun at all?

If he wanted to kill himself,

there are a lot less violent ways to do it.

He insisted.

He wanted it to be quick...

no suffering, no struggle,

peaceful one moment and then gone the next.

But then you staged it to look like a burglary.

That was his idea too.

The insurance company wouldn't pay out if they knew it was a suicide.

So what you did wasn't only murder,

it was also insurance fraud.

No, my father was humiliated that his net worth

had declined so dramatically.

I tried to tell him that it didn't matter,

but he wouldn't listen.

He was worried about my brother.

Sean was trying to start a new venture,

and he wanted to make sure he left him some money.

It was very important to him.

Your father was going to be an emotional and financial liability.

Killing him eliminated the problem

and replaced the loss with $10 million in cold, hard cash.

That is not true.

- You did this for yourself. - No.

This wasn't an act of love at all.

It was an act of greed. It was an act of selfishness.

The first five times he asked me, I refused.

I couldn't bear the thought of it.

But it wasn't about me

and what I could bear.

The person that I loved most in the world was suffering.

It was only going to get worse, and I could stop that.

If I didn't, that would be selfish.

♪

If he wanted to end his suffering,

he could have done it himself, but he didn't, did he?

You are the one who pulled the trigger.

♪

That's not suicide.

That's murder.

Nothing further.

Court is adjourned for the day.

Trial will resume tomorrow morning.

[BANGS GAVEL]

♪

Oh, um, Sam, I'm sorry.

I have to... I have to go.

♪

Your father has developed dysphagia.

It's a common side effect of the new medication.

OK.

Dysphagia, what does that even mean?

His esophagus has deteriorated.

He can no longer swallow food.

So what do we do?

Well, choice one is we insert a feeding tube.

That could buy him a few more months.

Choice two?

We manage his pain levels over the next 24 to 36 hours,

make his passing as comfortable as possible.

Um... what does installing

the feeding tube entail exactly?

I'm sorry.

Doctor, can we have a moment?

Sure.

Seriously?

A feeding tube?

It's either that or we just sit there and watch him die.

For God's sake.

Dad made me his proxy, and I think

it is reasonable to consider the option

that doesn't kill him.

It may be reasonable, but it's cruel.

Look, there's nothing you can say that's gonna change

his reality or ease his pain.

So you think we should just give up on him

like we did with Christopher?

That's not fair.

Dad can't get out of bed.

He's barely coherent now. He's gonna be fed through a tube.

I understand how you're feeling, Nolan,

but it's time to let him go.

♪

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪

Do you have a second?

Nolan.

Everything OK?

Yeah.

Rough night.

I think you're right. We should offer Victoria Beyer a deal.

You have my blessing.

Reach out to the defense.

Out of curiosity...

What changed your mind?

It wasn't so much a change of mind as a change of heart.

♪

You've reached an agreement, Mr. Price?

We have.

The defendant has agreed to plead guilty

to manslaughter in the second degree.

The people recommend a sentence of five years.

Miss Beyer, do you understand the terms of this deal,

that you will be pleading guilty to manslaughter

in the death of your father?

I do.

I acknowledge what I did was wrong,

but I don't regret it.

I'm just grateful that he's no longer in pain.

♪

We got a meeting tomorrow at the funeral home at 3:00.

OK, I'll be there.

You want to grab a bite,

or better yet, a martini?

I should get back to the office.

Right.

Nolan.

♪

We did the right thing.

♪

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