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(siren wailing in distance)

(indistinct chatter)

(engine stops)

-(dog barking)
-(chain-link fence rattling)

(snarling)

(knocking on door)

Caleb Greeves?

Who the hell are you?

I represent Harvey Birkbeck.

(lock clicks)

Harve still up
over at Statesville?

Going on 27 years.

That's a long time
to serve for a murder

you and I both know
he didn't commit.

I have a court order

authorizing me to collect
a sample of your DNA.

Bad idea coming here by
yourself, don't you think?

People know I'm here, Caleb.

You take me out, there's gonna
be ten more tomorrow

and another ten the next day.

It's the end of the road.

Can't kill your way
out of this one.

Says you, lady.

(dialing)

(line ringing)

(dog whining)

OPERATOR:
911. What is your emergency?

(dog whines)

What happens to a dog
when the owner dies?

OPERATOR:
Ma'am, is there an emergency?

Not anymore.

VIOLET:
Good morning from Chicago.

Once again we are recording
our weekly podcast

from our offices
at the Injustice Defense Group,

a law firm solely dedicated

to the issue
of wrongful convictions.

On this week's episode
of Until Proven Innocent,

we're here with our regular
guest, and my boss,

wrongful conviction attorney
Madeline Scott. Her recent

discovery of DNA evidence

has gotten Harvey Birkbeck
a new hearing

after 27 years.

Will an innocent man
finally get to go home?

This is the first time you're
facing off against Gore Bellows

since you became a lawyer
four years ago, correct?

-Yes, it is.
-To the two people

in the entire world
who don't know,

Gore Bellows
is the very prosecutor

who wrongfully convicted
Madeline

and her brother Levi Scott
of the first-degree murder

of her best friend
Rosemary Lynch.

Are you nervous going up against
the man who put you away?

No.

His approach in my case
was so stunningly dishonest

that any opportunity
to show the world

that our white knight
state's attorney is really

a corrupt liar is an opportunity
I'm eager to take.

(knocking on window)

And that is your law partner
Easy Boudreau,

who I guess doesn't know
we're recording.

Curious what he thinks
the headsets are for.

This is Until Proven Innocent
with Violet Price,

telling the stories
of the wrongfully accused

and the lawyers
who represent them.

Was it really necessary
to antagonize Bellows?

It's always necessary.
And it's fun.

"Fools give rise to their rage,

but the wise bring calm
in the end." Proverbs.

"I'm a sinner, I'm a saint,

I do not feel ashamed."
Meredith Brooks.

"I'm your hell, I'm your dream."

BOTH:
"I'm nothing in between."

While I hate to break up
this amazing rendition

of late '90s feminist
alternative rock,

-we've got to get to court.
-(dog barks)

Yeah.

Hey, Atticus.

This is Atticus.

What was I supposed to do?

At least he's black.

-(chuckling): Exactly.
-Sorry.

* I'm a bitch, I'm a lover *

-* I'm a child,
I'm a mother... *
-(shouting)

MAN:
Keep it up, Madeline.

MAN 2:
How'd you find the DNA?

MAN 3:
Great work, Madeline.

-Set him free, Madeline.
-Keep fighting
the good fight, Madeline!

You okay, Harvey?

DEPUTY SHERIFF:
All rise.

The State v. Madeline

and Levi Scott
will now proceed.

DEPUTY SHERIFF:
All rise.

The People v. Harvey Birkbeck.

You may be seated.

Counselor, you may proceed.

Good morning, Your Honor.
On behalf of petitioner,

we would like to submit
newly acquired DNA evidence...

Your Honor,
may it please the court.

The State withdraws
its objection

to the release
of Mr. Harvey Birkbeck.

Now, I realize
this is somewhat unusual,

but in consideration
of this new DNA evidence,

clearly a mistake has been made.

Contrary to what Ms. Scott
would have the public believe,

we prosecutors
are also human beings.

Objection.
Assumes facts not in evidence.

-(gallery laughing)
-(gavel bangs)

Quiet, please.

Mr. Bellows, continue.

An injustice has been done.

This man has spent
the better part of his life

wrongfully imprisoned,

and it gives me no greater joy
than to say,

"It's time for you to go home."

The State moves to vacate
Mr. Birkbeck's conviction

of murder in the second degree.

(gallery murmuring)

Congratulations, Mr. Birkbeck,
you're a free man now.

-Case is dismissed.
-(gallery cheering)

Defendant is discharged.

-(gallery cheering)
-MADELINE: You get to go home.

JUDGE:
"We, the jury, in the above
entitled cause,

"find the defendants

"Madeline Scott
and Levi Scott guilty

-"of the crime of murder...
-No.

of Rosemary Lynch."

-No, we're innocent.
-Your Honor, please.

-We're innocent.
-Your Honor, please.

-No. No, Your Honor!
-MADELINE: I would never hurt...

(gallery talking indistinctly)

We're innocent.

Your Honor, please.
No!

BELLOWS:
Well done, Maddie.

I always wanted to tell you

that your case was
never personal for me.

I was just doing my job

and I honestly thought
you were guilty.

-In fact, I still do.
-WOMAN: Mr. Bellows.

-MAN: Mr. Bellows.
-WOMAN: Mr. Bellows, sir.

MAN:
How about a quick comment?

(reporters clamoring)

What is that snake up to?

EASY:
Bellows wants to avoid
the humiliation and be the hero.

It's pretty clever, actually.

Well, the real question is why.

VIOLET:
Today's Until Proven Innocent
is being recorded

at the Performing Arts Center
for our first annual

Injustice Defense Group
fund-raiser.

(audience cheering, whooping)

Now, the whole world knows

that Madeline got
her bachelor's degree

during her ten years in prison,

and upon her release attended
Yale Law School,

graduating top of her class.

But what most people
don't realize

is that her lawyer wasn't even
a criminal defense lawyer

when he took on
her infamous case.

Nope.
Reinsurance regulation.

-(laughter)
-VIOLET: So what happened?

EASY:
Uh, truth be told,

I thought she was guilty
like everyone else did.

Then Maddie sent me a letter.

The letter said,
"Please do not look away

without at least
hearing my story."

I was so surprised,
I thought perhaps

this is the one case
meant for me.

And so I decided to follow

the Lord's guidance
and not look away.

After a few months working
together, I asked her about

the number she'd written at the
bottom of my special letter.

2,736.

Turns out, that was the number

of letters she'd sent
before mine.

I realized right then that I had
discovered my purpose.

Because if 2,735 trained lawyers

would ignore an innocent girl
whose case was famous,

who was gonna fight for
the innocent people behind bars

who weren't famous?

(cheering, whooping)

Now, Rosemary Lynch
was brutally murdered

and yet her killer
was never found.

That's correct.

When someone goes to prison
for a murder they didn't commit,

it means the real murderer
is still out there.

(indistinct chatter)

Same contribution as last year?

-Absolutely.
-Maybe a little more?

My cover is a billionaire donor
tonight.

That's why I bought this hat.

It's not very believable.

-How are you?
-Good, how are you?

Dylan, hi.

Hey.

-Thank you for coming.
-(sighs) Yeah, of course.

Where's Becky?
Sh-She couldn't make it?

Oh, you didn't hear.

She, um...

She dumped me.

-What?
-Yeah.

That's crazy.
You're like a rom-com character.

(chuckles)
What do you mean?

Well, just, you know,
you're handsome,

and you have a beard
and a sexy reporter job.

Uh, well, unfortunately, she did
not feel that way about the job.

She hated the job.

It was just, um...

I don't know,
it was just too much travel.

If my boyfriend was covering the
Middle East, I'd be in heaven.

Just... just when you start
to annoy me,

you leave town.
Dreamy.

Well, then maybe you and I
should go out sometime.

(laughs)
That's good.

-You're hilarious.
-Hmm.

(chuckling):
I'm gonna go get a...

I'm gonna go get a drink.

I thought you didn't drink.

You know,
I think I'm gonna start.

-Okay.
-Okay.

(grunts)

Don't be nervous, honey.

You're gonna crush this.

We don't have enough
of a presence in Springfield.

The numbers are still
too low downstate.

We've got plenty of time,
and when we're through,

your opponents will be scattered
into piles of ashes.

Nobody does metaphor
quite like you do, my love.

Now...

Big smile, dear.

(crowd cheering)

It is with great pride
and great humility

that I announce my candidacy
for attorney general

to the great state of Illinois.

If elected, I promise
to enforce law and order,

ensure that no crime
will go unpunished.

So that's what he was up to.

Our last two AGs
became governor.

We can't let that happen.

Hey, if you go after him
in the press,

it'll come across like revenge.

Not if I do it in court.

What are you talking about?

-You want to sue him?
-No, expose him.

You know Harvey Birkbeck and I
aren't the only

two innocent people
he's thrown in jail.

And there'll be a heck
of a lot more

-if he's elected
attorney general.
-Exactly.

We need to sink his AG campaign
before it begins.

Let's find another one
of his wrongful convictions--

something really high-profile--
and jam it down his throat.

Are you sure you want
to poke the bear?

No, I want to rip his heart out.

How many innocent lives
has he destroyed?

I don't think
it's a great idea,

but I think
somebody ought to...

This man doesn't get to be
attorney general.

DETECTIVE (on video):
Lucia, why did you
set the fire?

Because my little Angel
told me to.

He spoke to me.

He said he was ready
to go to Heaven.

(Lucia laughing)

You seriously want to defend

the Wicked Witch
of West Pullman?

The woman murdered her own child
by burning down her house

-and then confessed to it.
-We'd have a better chance

exonerating the ghost
of Charles Manson.

I know it's not a great case,

but her PCR hearing is
in less than two months.

The timing is perfect,
and it's high-profile enough

that we'll get a ton of press.

This is a disaster
waiting to happen.

Everyone loved hating her.

Just like they loved hating me.

Lucia Rincon was convicted

because of this image
of her, right?

-The satanic goth queen?
-EASY: Correct.

What if I told you...

she was really a preacher's wife

who was never into goth?

So, then what was
with all the goth makeup?

It wasn't makeup.

It was soot from the fire.

They didn't clean her up
before the confession.

Eyewitness accounts
have her getting

some sort of injection
on the scene.

(panting, sobbing)

And let me guess, her toxicology
report has disappeared.

Vanished in the wind.

I think we found our case.

(indistinct chatter)

(lock buzzes, latch clicks)

(woman speaking indistinctly
over P.A. speakers)

EASY:
You okay?

Yeah.

Best years of my life.

LUCIA:
To this day,

I don't know why my baby's dead.

I don't know why I confessed.

I play it over in my head.

Why did I do that?

Since the advent
of DNA evidence,

about 2,000 inmates have
been proven innocent and freed.

More than 500 of them
had been coerced

into falsely confessing.

EASY:
So, Lucia,

can you tell us
what happened that night?

I don't remember anything.

I was never into... goth.

I-I-I didn't even know
what that was.

Bellows did
the same thing to me.

You know,
the night Rosemary died was

the first night
I ever got drunk.

What?

I thought you were
some crazy party girl.

Behind every media caricature is
a real-life human being, right?

That man is a monster.

Lucia, you have a hearing
in six weeks.

We'd like to be your lawyers
at that hearing.

(exhaling quickly)

This guy's kind of cute.

Ah, yeah. He's like Daddy
Warbucks if he was a eunuch.

Sometimes that's preferable.

-(laughs)
-Sorry, am I interrupting?

We're just analyzing Violet's
reckless dating app behavior.

Says our investigator
holding a sword.

It's a replica
of a 16th century katana.

What got you into this stuff?

-Kill Bill part two.
-Oh, is that what got you
into wrongful convictions?

-No. It was Kill Bill part one.
-(laughs)

Engine Company 93 originally
investigated the fire.

I want you to go down there.
Dig around.

See if you can find out
how the fire got started.

Perfect. I'll go undercover
as a recruit.

I don't think that's necessary.

It's always necessary.
(chuckles)

VIOLET:
Maddie, I want to show you

what I've been working on
for the new press release.

Our plan is to show how Bellows
used the media to demonize you.

Exactly like
he's doing to Lucia.

(singsongy):
You, I like you.

No.

Absolutely not.

I don't want to make
this story about me.

Maddie.

We have to make this about you.

You are the living,
breathing example

of what Bellows
is doing to Lucia.

EASY:
She's right.

-You're our best asset.
-Right now

you're our only asset.

It's a terrible case.

(indistinct chatter, laughter)

Oh, are you seeing anyone,
Maddie?

-You know that I'm not, Mom.
-Well...

you're not gonna be
young forever.

-Burn.
-You've been out of prison
for seven years.

-Your whole life
can't just be about your cases.
-Well, actually,

there's, uh, one that I need
to talk to you all about.

-Who is it, honey?
-Her name is Lucia Rincon.

Bellows is the prosecutor.

And I know our case
is gonna come up,

-because it's part
of our defense strategy.
-JACK: Why do you want

to talk about
that nightmare again?

I don't.
But this woman is innocent.

So if I have to drag my name
through the mud

to save her,
that's just what I'm gonna do.

But what about your brother?
He hasn't been able

to get a decent job
because of what happened.

Hey, I'm fine.

Coaching kids' soccer
is nice, but...

-Wow. Okay. Thanks, Mom.
-MADELINE: I think it's great.

-Thank you. It is great.
-HELEN: You can't do this
to us again.

Our lives have
just gotten back to normal.

Hey, we're the ones
that went to prison, okay?

So if she wants to talk
about the case,

then she can talk
about the case.

-And I want you to crush
that son of a bitch for me.
-For us.

For us.

JACK:
I'm worried about you, Maddie.

Are you sure
you really want to do this?

Ever since I saw Bellows,

I can't stop thinking
about Rosemary.

(takes deep breath)

Seeing him
triggered something in me.

We've all spent so many years
trying to forget about this.

It never goes away, does it?

I don't think it ever will.

(Young Madeline gasps softly)

(gasps softly)

("Sleep Alone" by Bat for Lashes
playing)

* Last night's parties... *

ROSEMARY:
I bet Tobey

would totally hook up with you
in that dress.

(both laughing)

* Smiling and welling
and kissing *

* All I know... *

YOUNG MADELINE:
Tobey, stop.

Come on, just one sip.

* Give my soul, give my soul *

-(coughing)
-* Sing it free *

-* Across the sea *
-ROSEMARY:
Hey, Levi, come drink with us!

-Ah!
-Ha! Oh!

* Lonely, lonely, lonely *

* His mother told me *

* A two-hearted dream. *

TV NEWSWOMAN: Now with
renowned innocence attorney

Madeline Scott at her side,
Rincon is heading back to court

for round two of her infamous

trial by fire.

And the Supreme Court
has also held

that fantastic
or delusional claims

of actual innocence should be
dismissed by judges

as frivolous
and patently without...

Hey, uh...

what do you make
of this Luciferina deal?

Arson? Not arson?

Those judges wouldn't know
deliberate

from an accidental combustion
if you set their robes on fire.

(laughs)

That fire was 2004, wasn't it?

Yes, it was, Chief.

December 2004.

So there you have it.

Why? What...
what happened in 2004?

Charcoal Christmas, son.

But for this small
suburb of Chicago,

the murder of Rosemary Lynch
is still a hot...

All right, let's go, let's go!

Hustle it up now!

Keep your head up!
There you go!

Nice shot! Hey, great save!
There you go!

Come on. Go meet up
with your friends, honey.

-Good effort, good effort. Give
me some fives. There you go.
-Levi! Levi!

Why is your sister defending

that psycho
who set her kid on fire?

You-You'll have
to talk to her about that.

She is using Rosemary.
It's disgusting.

What is wrong with you people?

Can we not talk
about this here, please?

I-I'm-I'm trying
to coach soccer.

We are never gonna forget
what you and your sister

did to Rosemary. Ever.

Come on, Brian.

LEVI:
We'll see you next week.

BOY:
Bye, Coach Levi!

Hey.

BRIAN:
Hey, Levi.

What are you doing here?

No one wants you here.

We don't want you
around our kids.

You know,
assault with a deadly weapon

can get you up to ten years.

Maybe life if you kill me.

Is that what you want, Brian?
You want to sit in a cell

for the rest of your life
just dreaming

about all the things
that you missed out on,

like your wife, or your kids?

Just a couple beers.

A good steak.

Why don't you move over and...

we'll both just pretend
this whole thing didn't happen.

(grunting)

Oh, my God! Brian!

Brian! Are you okay?

(groans)
Babe.

(panting)

Are you all right?

(Brian groans)

(grunting)

(panting)

(indistinct chatter)

(clears throat):
Heather.

Hi.

What are you doing here?

Your drug addict brother
nearly killed me and my husband.

I take it you're defending him?

-He's been clean for years.
-Good for him.

Wait, Brian Husband
is your husband?

Yeah.

Oh, it's just...

now your name
is Heather Husband.

I'm glad you've recovered enough
from Rosemary's death

to make everything a big joke.

You know, most of us in town

still think
you should be in jail.

We always will.

Well, sometimes I miss lockup,
'cause, you know,

kind of cool to beat the hell
out of a dumb bitch

who looked at you wrong.

Well, you know all about being
a dumb bitch, now, don't you?

You know, I always thought
that maybe you were the one

-that killed Rosemary.
-What?

You were definitely
the queen bee back in the day,

but you knew you were
never getting out of La Grange.

And you should've seen your face

the day Rosemary
was accepted to Stanford.

(elevator bell dings)

Well, it looks like
she didn't quite make it,

now, did she?

See you in court, Maddie.

Mr. Scott, where is your sister?

She should be here soon,
Your Honor.

Madeline Scott, Your Honor,
counsel for the defendant.

(whispers):
Sorry, bud.

And how do you plead?

As always in our family,
not guilty, Your Honor.

(gallery chuckles)

(gavel bangs)

-Hi.
-Hey.

Hi.

Can we, uh,
can we talk about Rincon?

Oh, is that what
you're doing here?

Well, we got a lot of readers
that love the Goth Killer.

I'm metro now.

-Oh.
-So...

I guess your international
dream guy scenario is over.

Yeah, you're still dreamy
on this continent,

but I can't discuss it.

All right, new idea.
How about this?

How about I take you to dinner,

and I give the story
to somebody else?

You would lose a story
for a date?

I would lose a Pulitzer
for a date with you.

-Are you kidding me? Come on.
-(both chuckle)

Oh, you're good.

I can't. I...

I, uh...

You know what?
You're not missing anything.

I'm terrible in bed.

That's a true story.

(laughs)

Easy.

I've been looking into Lucia's
missing toxicology file.

So, this is
the medical examiner report

from Lucia's case.

-You see that?
-Yeah. It's a photocopy
of a staple.

Right. But that's the only page,

and it says the toxicology
report is attached.

If there's a photocopy
of a staple...

It was hidden in discovery.

And we never figured out

what she was injected with
at the crime scene.

-Mm-hmm.
-It's got to be in there, right?

Yeah, if we can find it.

What about the EMT
who treated her at the scene?

Maybe she can get it for us.

She's listed right here
on the report.

You got it wrong.

I didn't inject Mrs. Rincon
with anything.

I drew her blood.
It's standard procedure.

Can you get us the complete
toxicology report that says

-what her blood showed?
-I'm sorry.

I can't help you.

I know it's a lot to ask,
but our client

lost her son, her husband,
and her freedom.

She lost everything.

EASY:
Great news.

The paramedic found her soul
and gave us

Lucia's lab report, which shows
she was hallucinating

from carbon monoxide poisoning.

MADELINE:
So her entire
satanic public image

was in reality
a woman who was poisoned.

And Bellows buried the blood
test that would prove it.

-We just destroyed
Lucia's confession.
-(laughs)

Bingo.

All right,
I got good news and bad news.

Oh, we're playing
this game again.

Yeah, because I love it.

Which one do you want first?

ALL:
The bad news.

(sighs)
I'm not gonna be a fireman

with Engine Company 93.

-Shocking.
-What's the good news?

Firefighters know everything
about arson. Who knew?

-I knew.
-In 2005,
a Jersey-based importer

was hit with a class action suit

claiming their faulty
Christmas tree lights

caused more
than 60 Christmas tree fires.

They called it
Charcoal Christmas.

Looks like Lucia's fire
was an accident

caused by faulty
Christmas tree lights.

-Can we prove she owned them?
-You mean,

did she run back into a burning
house to save a box of receipts?

-Probably not.
-Okay, wait,

but for the first time
we have a logical explanation

for how the fire started.

All right.

I'll amend our petition
to include Bellows' suppression

of the toxicology report
and make sure that I file it...

No, no, no.
We can't file anything yet.

Bellows could cut a deal
to keep this off the record.

Hiding a damaging blood test
is enough to show

how corrupt his case was
and blow up his AG campaign.

I know you want
to humiliate him,

but what matters is Lucia.

We have enough information
for him to release her.

I hate Bellows, too,

but we have to protect
our client above all else.

Yeah.

Okay.

Go to Bellows,
see if he'll cut a deal.

Nice spot for a jog.

Especially this early,

before all the carbon monoxide

chokes the oxygen
out of the air.

Lucia Rincon's confession.

She was suffering
from carbon monoxide poisoning

when she gave it.

I have the hidden blood test
to prove it.

Look, I know you all think

I'm the villain in your story.

May I ask you a question?

You ever taken the statement
of a mother

whose child
has just been murdered?

I have.

At least a hundred times.

Never forget the look
in their eyes,

the look that says that
their lives are now over, too.

Only thing I can do to make sure
I can still sleep at night

is punish the killer
of their child.

What about
when you get it wrong?

Madeline Scott is guilty.

So is Rincon.

Even if you can get her released
with that report,

she still killed her kid.

She didn't kill him,

but the fact
that you suppressed this report

will certainly kill
your campaign.

So either way, you lose.

(chuckles):
That's a good one, Easy.

She pleads to manslaughter,

I'll make sure her sentence
is reduced to time served.

The report stays buried.

She pleads
to child endangerment.

If, in your crusade,

you manage to free someone
who's actually guilty

and then they murder someone

or otherwise ruin
innocent lives,

then who's the villain
in your story?

You have a deal.

LUCIA:
What?

-Really?
-You're being offered
what's called

the Alford plea.

If you plead guilty
to child endangerment,

you'll be released
based on timed served.

But everyone will still think
I'm the Goth Killer?

What do you think I should do?

I was offered a plea in my case.

I turned it down.

I would rather be in prison

than have the world think
I was a murderer.

And you won in court?

My conviction was overturned.

And if this happens,

they can't retry me

-because of the
double jeopardy thing.
-No, no, no, no.

Double jeopardy only applies
if you're found innocent

at trial or deemed actually
innocent based on appeal.

Yeah, but Bellows cares too much
about his political ambitions

to risk another loss.

I would be stunned
if he tried you again.

My husband left me

because he thought
I killed our baby.

He made a statement against me
in court.

I lost everything.

MADELINE:
Lucia, what do you want to do?

I want to go to court.

(whistle blows)

-COACH: You take the kick.
-Right.

-Way to go, Tim. Way to go.
-WOMAN: Yeah, there you go!

(chuckles)
Yeah, that's the way.

All right. Pass it over.

Hey, Levi.

Hey, Coach. What's up?

Hey, look, um,
I-I hate to do this,

but we're gonna
have to let you go.

Wh-What? Why?

That thing with Brian Husband
pushed a lot of people

over the edge.

You know, I tried to fight it,
but, uh, you know,

with the prison thing
and-and the drugs...

No, no. Hey. Coach,
I've been off oxy for years.

I have, you...

Frank, you know
this is all I got.

You know I love these kids.
Don't-don't do this to me.

I'm sorry, Levi.

-I'm sorry.
-Frank, please don't.

(siren wailing in distance)

ROSEMARY: Do you want
to be a virgin in college?

No. Do you?

No. So let's get it over with.

(phone buzzing)

Hey.

Hi.

Um, I was thinking about

your offer, and I...

...I can't promise
that it won't be super awkward,

um, but maybe...

-...if you want
to have dinner, then...
-Yes.

I-I definitely want to.
I would love to.

Uh, Saturday.
How about Saturday night?

-Okay.
-All right.

-I'll pick you up.
-Great.

Okay, bye.

(chuckles)

I got a line on Madeline Scott.

I love it.
Bring me something good.

Well, you know I will.

(man speaking Spanish)

What's up? You okay?

Yeah, will you look at this?

Lucia's husband.

All his preaching
is exclusively in Spanish.

So? The police report said
that he didn't speak English.

Yeah, but his statement
is in flawless English.

I couldn't stop thinking

about Lucia's husband.

Why would he give a statement
that she never wanted children

-if it wasn't true?
-Right, so we looked back

to Rincon's original statement
to the police.

-It's written
in flawless English.
-And?

He probably couldn't even read
what he was signing.

Translator could have
written anything.

All right, we need to confirm

this is actually what he said,
and if not,

we need to get him on the record
refuting it.

But first we have to find him.

(laughs):
Yeah, good luck with that.

On it.

(Easy sighs)

How could you get her
to reject the plea?

You risked our client's life
on a long shot appeal

over a personal vendetta
with Bellows.

I don't see it that way.

I'm the only one

who's been through
what Lucia's been through.

Which does not give you
the right

to manipulate her
into risking her own freedom

so you can continue
to grind your ax.

I didn't manipulate her.
I empathized with her.

In prison,
no one is spitting at Lucia.

You want her
to go back to all that?

Who's gonna hire a woman
who murdered her own child?

Who will love that woman?
No one.

Because that is the world
that is waiting for her

if she accepts a plea
that admits any wrongdoing.

That's the life sentence
that terrifies me.

She'll be free.

Isn't that the entire point
of this firm?

Lucia's not fighting for
her freedom, and neither am I.

She's fighting
for her innocence.

And so are we.

(phone buzzing)

Hey, big brother.

LEVI:
Hey, hey. Hey, sis.

Levi, you promised.

Um... promises, promises.

Why?

You were doing so well.

I can't help it.

I miss her.

(inhales, exhales sharply)

She was my best friend, too,
and I'm not a drug addict.

We were more than friends.

What?

I never told you.

I never told anyone.

We were together.

(breath quivering)

You and Rosemary?

(indistinct chatter)

MADELINE:
You swore

-you were never together.
-I know.

-You lied to me.
-I know.

I'm sorry, sis.
It was... it was our secret.

If this gets out,

the whole world will think
we're guilty again.

This could destroy us.

No, it could destroy you.

I'm already gone.

(indistinct chatter)

(indistinct chatter)

(speaking Spanish)

Hey.

Found Rincon.

MADELINE:
Great work. Where?

He's a street preacher
in Hope Park,

preaching that
the world's about to end.

What do you want me to do?

See if he'll
swear out an affidavit

denying the statement
he supposedly gave police.

-Copy that.
-Bodie, be careful.

There's armed drug crews
in that park 24/7.

That's an obstacle.

But I got an idea.
I'll call you back.

Five-O! Five-O!

-WOMAN: Five-O!
-MAN: Five-O! Five-O!

-WOMAN: Five-O!
-(Damian speaking Spanish)

(speaking Spanish)

Damian Rincon.

No speak with no policía.

Aah!

Lucia Rincon was convicted
of arson-homicide

using outdated, outmoded
fire investigation methods.

I remember her trial, Ms. Scott.
I presided over it.

I've also read your brief

detailing this spate
of Christmas tree fires

which all took place
before Mrs. Rincon's trial.

Yes. The fires themselves took
place before the trial, but...

Statute is clear.

Innocence claims must be based
on newly-discovered evidence.

The cause of the fires
wasn't determined

until six years later.

That determination
is our evidence.

Nice try, Ms. Scott, but I'll
stick with my interpretation.

It's not my interpretation.
It's settled precedent.

You say tomato.
I say next issue.

-(gallery murmuring)
-There is no next issue,
Your Honor.

Tomato, Ms. Scott. Next issue.

This is a one-issue case.

If there's no arson,
there's no arson-homicide.

Clock is ticking.

Should we keep
spinning our wheels,

or should we move on
down the road?

(gallery murmuring)

Happy to move on, Your Honor.

Your Honor, if I could
draw the court's attention

to the toxicology report
submitted with our petition.

In violation
of Brady v. Maryland,

Ms. Rincon's blood test was
hidden from defense counsel.

JUDGE SPEER:
Let's discuss how

this blood test
would have impacted the trial.

It clearly undermines Ms.
Rincon's confession, Your Honor.

She has no memory
of the fire or its aftermath.

Among the key symptoms
of carbon monoxide poisoning

is confabulation--
fabrication of imaginary events

to compensate
for total memory loss.

I.e., detectives repeated what
they believed happened over

and over until Ms. Rincon
believed it, too.

I'm not sure that evidence
of carbon monoxide poisoning

is material enough
to change the jury's verdict.

Your Honor, they goaded Lucia

into believing
she murdered her own son.

That, coupled with the guilt
and trauma of losing a child,

amounts to a forced,
unreliable confession.

I'll consider it,
but I'm not gonna lie.

I've heard better.
What else you got?

Wha... What else have we got?

I'm sorry, Your Honor.

Is there something funny about
a woman serving a life sentence

for a crime
that didn't even happen?

-Excuse me?
-(gallery clamoring)

Your Honor, my investigator
has been assaulted.

May we ask
for a recess until tomorrow?

My Lord, you look like hell.

Adjourned until 9:00 a.m.

And, Ms. Scott, I hope

you're a bit cooler
when you come back in this room,

or I will kick you right out.

Are you okay?
What happened to your face?

Rincon's undocumented, he
thought I was from immigration.

After he realized I wasn't ICE,
he finally started talking.

And?

And he didn't write
that statement,

and he never turned
against his wife.

Their entire motive is falsified
on that forged statement.

He's gonna testify?

No, no, no,
because if he shows up to court,

he's gonna be deported,
and he says if he gets deported,

he'll be killed
as soon as he gets home.

I mean, he already disappeared.

We need to prove that
translation was purposely faked.

Yeah. Then let's look
into the translator.

(sighs)

I found something.

That translator did
the same thing in Indiana.

Did you say Indiana?

MADELINE:
Oh, my God.

It's good. Yeah.

If we can get him to testify,
we might have a shot.

As of right now,
it's our only shot.

We got to find this guy.

MADELINE:
Good morning, Your Honor.

Petitioner submits a letter

from the attorney general
of Indiana, detailing

a plea bargain in a case
where the translator,

Thomas LeMay, improperly

translated the testimony
of a critical witness.

Mr. LeMay was also the
translator the prosecution used

in this case.

Your Honor, counsel's claim
is a desperate attempt

to plant the seeds of doubt
into our investigation.

It is a personal vendetta
against myself,

and impossible to prove that
this translation was falsified.

That's because I'm not finished,
Your Honor.

Petitioner calls the translator,

Thomas LeMay, to the stand.

(gallery clamoring)

Petitioner also submits an
affidavit, signed by Mr. LeMay,

admitting to falsifying
the translation in this case,

State of Illinois v. Rincon.

His motivation was
to ensure guilty verdicts

for people
he was convinced were guilty.

LeMAY:
They were guilty, Your Honor.

Get him the hell out
of my courtroom.

-Your Honor,
I want to say something.
-Out.

LeMAY:
Sometimes the ends
justify the means!

Mr. Bellows?

I'm just as shocked
as everyone else in this room.

Oh, that was good.
Very convincing.

-Your Honor.
-No need

-to rub it in, Ms. Scott.
-Even just a little?

How many cases have you tried
using fraudulent translations?

I am under no obligation
to answer questions

posed by opposing counsel.

You are, however, under
obligation to answer questions

from this bench.

You say tomato, I say to-mah-to.

(laughter)

You stole my line, Ms. Scott...

so I'll take yours.

Mr. Bellows,
how many of your prosecutions

relied on this obviously corrupt
translator?

I have no idea, Your Honor,

but I will personally
investigate

each and every one of them.

In fact, I will initiate
an internal review

of all convictions won by my
office over the last 20 years.

If there is even a scintilla
of corruption,

I will root it out.

I've dedicated my life
to serving justice.

Your Honor, the justice
currently before the court

is the false imprisonment
of Lucia Rincon.

We've presented
a forged affidavit,

a hidden toxicology report,

and ample evidence that show
the true cause of the fire.

There was no murder, Your Honor.

Only lies, deceit,
and corruption

that have placed
an innocent woman behind bars.

Mrs. Rincon.

(whispers):
Stand up.

You must feel like
you got lost in the shuffle.

I've gotten used to it,
Your Honor.

Let's see what we can do
about that.

Based on the totality
of the evidence presented,

Petitioner's motion
for post-conviction relief

is granted,
and this court hereby declares

the defendant is...
actually innocent.

(cheering)

Mrs. Rincon, you are free to go.

(applause, whooping)

MAN:
Ms. Scott.

(indistinct,
overlapping chatter)

(indistinct,
overlapping shouting)

Thank you.

Lucia, how do you feel?

I-I don't mean to sound
ungrateful, but mostly,

I just feel cold.

(overlapping chatter, laughter)

Rosemary?

Rosemary?

Rosemary? Rosemary?

Oh, my God, my God,
please say something.

Levi?

Is she okay?

I don't know, I...

-Oh, my God.
-I'm sorry.

(Madeline screams)

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-* Where you waited *

* In the rain *

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* I'm nobody *

* I am longing for your honey *

* I am longing for your love. *

* And the shot goes *

* Through my head and back *

* Gunshot *

* Never get you back *

* Never get you
back *

* Never get you back. *

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