All language subtitles for Law & Order (1990) - S02E18 - Cradle to Grave (720p WEB-DL x265 ImE)_track3_[eng]

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.

Bypass triage.
Straight to E.R.

Exam room 6.

Exam room 3.

Don't forget
your paperwork.

Exam room 5, please.

Gunshot wounds
before sprained ankles.

Go on, sit down. Go on.

Rhonda, Luther Vandross--
next week at the Garden.

Oh, Lucas, your mother's
going to love that.

You're missing
something wonderful.

I know. The concert.

Did you send me
a myocardial?

Who else is
going to send him?

He's got indigestion.
Not for two days,
he don't.

Run back there and
stick him on an E.K.G.

Now!

Rhonda!

Oh, my God.

Call the code.

Dr. Orton, exam area stat.
Code blue, E.R.

Code blue, E.R.

Dr. Orton, exam area stat.

Let's move it.
Get Dr. Barg.

This baby's stone-cold.

( sighs )

Phil.

Somebody left the box
after 10:30 janitor's
last sweep.

You got a perfect I.D.,
right?

Yeah. I saw a white guy
put the box down at 11:00.

I saw a woman
put it at 10:30.

She was tall, he was a midget.

We got prints off the box--
maybe we'll get lucky.

The body's ready to pick up.

What do you think, Doc?

I'm an intern,
not a pathologist.

Hazard a guess.

I've been in E.R. for a week.

Don't quote me.
He froze to death.

CERRETA:
That doesn't make sense.

This is a clean,
well-dressed baby,

not a homeless kid.

How do you know?

You can't keep

a kid clean without a home.

Otherwise healthy,
no signs of exposure.

They must have been covered.

What's a kid like that
doing out in the cold?

What's any kid doing
out in the cold?

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No babies are
reported missing.

The prints on the box
were partials.
And smudged.

Don't they take
babies' footprints?

They put them
on birth certificates.

Hospital keeps them
a couple of months,

then throws them away.

Great. So somebody
walked in there,

left a box with a baby in it,
and we got no witnesses.

You don't go to the E.R.

to watch the scenery.

That baby was left
on the floor like trash.

Nobody even noticed.

You got a photo of the kid?

Let's assume whoever left him
lives in the neighborhood.

We could start
with day care.

There's three churches,
two community centers.

Talk about a haystack.

It beats ringing every doorbell

on the lower east side.

Oh, yeah, we used to take babies
before the federal cutbacks.

LOGAN:
What do you
call these?
Toddlers.

So you tell me--
better to pay

for a few more fighter planes
or to take care of kids?

What about the churches?

There is St. Julia's
on East 12th.

They had a day care
for babies.

Let me ask you
something.

Do you know a woman
who doesn't work?

What are we supposed to do

with our kids?

WOMAN:
Bye. I'll see you tomorrow.

Okay.

This kid asleep or dead?

Do you recognize
the face?

What a beautiful world.

This the one they found
under the westside highway?

Could you just look closer
at the picture, ma'am?

We put them on a waiting list
at this age, but...

I can't recognize a face.

I got to check out
these kids.

I turn around,
somebody will snatch

one of them.

What do we got?

We got the baby, the box,
and the clothes.

Let's check out
the bunny suit.

CRAGEN:
Okay, so where does that
leave us?

Bunny suits were manufactured
and shipped from Taiwan

to a single wholesaler.

It was last year's
big item.

So, the one
the baby was wearing--

was that new?

Wholesaler had 30 cartons left
from last season.

Went to a job lot guy
on Warren Street.

Job lot shipped 20 cartons
all over Jersey.

One carton each

to ten different stores
in the city

three to the lower east side.

A dozen suits to a box.

Down from a thousand doorbells
to ten stores-- that's progress.

Unless, of course,
it's a gift from
an aunt in Jersey.

It's unbelievable.

The lady
at the church asks

"Is this the one
from the westside highway?"

This wants to know

if this is the kid
from battery park.

How many kids died
this weekend?

Well, we got one more store
down here.

This baby I don't remember.

Wait, wait!
Wait a minute!

Come on.

You looked
at this picture

all of two seconds.

Take a good look.

You had one carton.

Six blue, six pink?

You sure
he didn't get one?

You remember the lady.

No, I don't, Fernando.

FERNANDO:
She bought the playpen, right?

We don't remember, Fernando.

Nothing.

You know, we got a baby
that's frozen to death.

I don't need your attitude.

What about the playpen?

I took it home for her.

3rd Street between A and B,
two flights.

She said she was sorry
she couldn't tip me.

3rd Street?

Do you remember the number?

No. A lot of iron gates
on both sides.

Tenement. Real pit.

Thank you.

LOGAN:
You understand what I'm saying?

The woman with the baby, okay?

Hermana.

No, that's sister.

Hermana y niño--
como se llama?

Ward.

Ward.

First name.
Primo, primo.

Yo no se.

Want to try
for a description?

I'm doing the best I can
with seventh grade Spanish.

Ward es young, old?
Blanca, negra?

Si, negra.
Veinte, veinte y uno.

2-B.

Black. 20, 21.

She lives in 2-B.

It's a romance language.

( sighs )

( wind whistling )

Leave me in this wind tunnel,
I'd freeze, too.

Left in a hurry.

They got out in a hurry.

What are we looking at here?

Crack-head?

I don't know.

Your guess
is as good as mine.

The baby dies,
she dumps it,

just clears out...

like it was nothing.

Anyone else home?

En casa?

The lady in 3-B.

Fourth floor-- nobody.

Oh, now you habla ingles
well, huh?

No, no very good
English.

Vamos?

WOMAN:
I don't know nobody named Ward

and I don't want to.

She lives beneath you.

I knew the lady
who lived there-- Mrs. Loftus.

I didn't like her either.

Noisy people
with a noisy baby--

cried at night.

Well, that's what babies do.

Oh, tell me about it.

I've had five of my own.

I'm sure they were
very devoted.

Anybody live over there?

It's empty.

What about there?

No home.

But somebody lives there.

Aqui esta.

Mr. Turner.

Is there a problem?

Should there be?

You don't look
like you're from Con Ed.

Mr. Turner--
Sergeant Cerreta.

Detective Logan.

We're looking
for a neighbor of yours,

a woman by the name of Ward.

I'm not your neighborly
kind of guy.

Mind if we come in

and have
a little chat?

You look like nice people,
but it's a mess.

I'd only invite my friends in.

The woman downstairs

with the baby--
have you seen her?

A lot of people
took the buyout.

Landlord's offering
five grand to leave.

It's a real good deal.

It's obviously
not that good.

I'm on disability-- bad back.

I pay $248.65 A month--

rent control.

Bad back, huh?

Must give you trouble
in the gym, right?

I like to work on myself.

Develop-- what do you call them?

Compensatory muscles.

The $248-- where do you send it?

Corman Equities

over on First Avenue.

I'd let you in
to get the exact address...

Oh, yeah, we know.

You only invite
your friends

into the inner sanctum.

WOMAN:
Remember the old song

"Where have all
the investment bankers gone?"

Two bedrooms renting
for the price of one.

Ward, Ward, Ward.

There's none here.

Which building?

736 East Third Street,
apartment 2-B.

Oh. That building.

I was offering buyouts.

I figured I'd renovate

and get those hip
upper westsiders

who want to live downtown,
but the way the economy is...

You're looking for
tenants with style?

That, a lot of cash.

Adele Loftus, 2-B.

This lease goes back
to the '50s.

We're looking for
a young woman named Ward.

What can I tell you?

What can you tell me?

Loftus has a bargain--
$230 a month.

Yeah, that building--
bargain.

Thanks for your time,

Miss Corman.

The medical examiner guarantees
the kid was dead

at least two hours before
he was put on the floor.

So what do we got?

A lease from the '50s,
different last names...

Are we going to turn up
Miss Ward?

That building
is half empty.
It's a dump.

Why does it need
a full-time super?

I don't know, Phil.
Copper plumbing.

A couple junkies could strip
a brownstone

faster than they
could shoot up.

No Adele Loftus
in the five boroughs.

Why do I doubt
anyone there

used an assumed name?

I checked
social security.

She died a year ago.

The death certificate says
she's buried at St. Stephen's.

Well, if only the dead
could talk.

They don't need to,

unless, God forbid,
someone moved the body.

Somebody's paying
to maintain the grave.

I've always liked graveyards.

Don't tell me--
a quiet, peaceful place

where you can contemplate
your own insignificance?

No. Every spring my mother
used to take us out

to Grandma and Grandpa's grave--
it's an Old-World thing.

She would plant flowers
and wash the stone.

Then she'd spread
a tablecloth

and we would have
a beautiful picnic

with Grandma
and Grandpa.

You'd picnic
on their graves?

Well, were we going to picnic
on strangers' graves?

Maintenance
for Adele Loftus

is paid for
by Charlayne Ward--

Long Island City.

And if you'd like
to pay your respects,

Miss Loftus is buried
in quadrant G-7.

I've marked it
right on the map here.

Thanks a lot.
Okay.

CERRETA:
Who is Adele Loftus?

Adele Loftus was our grand-mama.

My sister Jackie
took care of her.

Your sister have any kids?

A little boy, Henry.

Charlayne,
here we are

two police officers

asking about your sister
and her son

and you don't seem
too worried.

You don't even
ask why.

When was the last time
you talked to Jackie?

Jackie don't have no phone.

Couldn't pay the bill.

Look, man,
we ain't talked to her.

We haven't even seen her.

Mike, did we ask
if he'd seen her?

And she doesn't call?

If I was in trouble

I'd talk to my only sister.

Look, man,
Jackie did not call, okay?

Here's what we can do.

I can leave
Detective Logan here.

I'll go get a warrant

and when I come back,
we'll search the place.

We can pass the time--

two, three hours,
watch some TV.

Does that sound
like fun to you?

Or you can just let us look now.

You're about as far into my home
as you're gonna be.

So why don't you just go on
and get your warrant.

( door opens )

Jackie!

Sorry, Charlayne.

I did the wrong thing, so...

where else am I going to go?

CERRETA:
She left him alone
in that apartment.

I didn't...

You just watched him

freeze to death.

Detective...

I had to go to work.

Mrs. Hillyard-- I was serving
at one of her parties

and Serena Price, a neighbor,
comes right after school.

Henry's never alone for long.

Long enough
to freeze to death.

CERRETA:
Where's the father?

Truck driver--
killed in an accident.

I thought Serena would be there.

I get home, I don't know,
around midnight,

and the apartment is dark,

freezing cold, and...

Henry, he wasn't moving.

I took him

to the hospital.

And left him.

I was out of my head.

I didn't mean
to leave him there.

He was...

he was... he was so cold.

I kept hoping, you know...

I didn't know what to do.

Gentlemen,

can we...?

She's responsible
for that baby's death.

Open and shut.

The only thing
open and shut here

is your mind.

The D.A. might go

for endangering
the welfare of a child.

The law says she
has to exercise
reasonable diligence.

ATTORNEY:
The law says

she had to knowingly
or intentionally

or recklessly
or negligently

cause harm.

I don't think
any of those apply.

We can hand the D.A.
a solid case for negligence.

Has she talked
to the baby-sitter
since the boy died?

She panicked.

We'll check her story.

With your busy schedule,
maybe you could squeeze it in

before you indict her.

I'll talk to the D.A.

Meantime, she stays
at Central Booking.

Look, it beats Rikers.

She's a good mother.

She loves Henry.

Were you supposed to be there,
Serena?

I got stuck--

the subway coming uptown.

It's not her fault.
She feels bad enough as it is.

SERENA:
Jackie said
she might have to leave.

I have a key
to the apartment.

The super says

there's no way

he opens the front door
for a stranger.

Like that place
is something to protect.

You'd been there before?

He opened the door for me once,

but now he says he doesn't
know me from Adam.

I told him
about Henry,

but he said Jackie and Henry
were gone.

I thought Jackie
must have been mad.

She'd never want me
to come back.

A black girl--
negra senorita?

She tried to get
into the building.

Yo no se.

Here we go again.

Jackie Ward's
baby-sitter.

She's a young
black girl

about 16 years old.

Her name is Serena Price.

Excuse me.

Oh... Mike.

Look at this.

He bought out

the whole hardware store.

Pretty cold, huh?

Hace frio?

No heat.

Since when?

The morning.

I fix it tonight.

Yeah.

Six space heaters
and the furnace just went out.

If Jackie's telling the truth,
it was off two days ago.

First time we were here,
was the heat on?

The old lady
on the third floor

had her coat on inside.

The building's half empty
and a wreck.

You get a message?

The landlord
would be thrilled

if the tenants left.

Maybe the heat was off
accidentally on purpose.

736 East Third,
owned by Iris Corman.

Corman Equities.

You got a contract on it?

Thank you.

Any changes
in the amount

over the last
six months?

I'll be getting back
to you, okay?

Petrillo Oil contracted
to service the furnace.

No reports of trouble.

But in the last six months,
no change in oil consumption.

Colder in February
than September.

Shut it down, burn less.

We prove harassment

Jackie's behavior
is going to look better.

You want to make this stick?

Find somebody

who was driven out.

Department of Housing
and Community Renewal.

They keep leases on computer
for four years.

And talk to Jackie Ward again.

If she knew the heat was off,
she is still on the ropes.

LOGAN:
Tell us about the building.

There was never
that much heat, ever.

Sometimes it was off
an hour or two.

They said it was
an old furnace.

Did you complain?

It wasn't my lease.

It was my grandma's.

I complain,
they find out she's dead

they get me out in a minute.

LOGAN:
The law changed.

You lived there when she did,
you're entitled to a lease.

I didn't know that.

I was scared we'd end up
in a shelter.

The tenants that left--
did they complain?

What am I hearing?

I kept to myself.

All I know is

the Spanish guy takes over--
the new super--

and it gets worse.

He wouldn't do nothing.

ATTORNEY:
The heat was off

intentionally?

We're trying to establish

whether it was done
to harass the tenants.

Wait, wait, wait.

Wait.

You mean to tell me
that they did this on purpose?

Iris Corman?

What a gem.

We got a whole desk
devoted to complaints on her.

Hampton-- cops are asking
about Iris Corman.

Sweet Iris--

Scum Landlord of the Year
three years running.

Lock her up
and throw away the key.

Or in one of her buildings.

No water,
broken windows, floods.

A textbook on how
to empty a place.

Is she trying to empty
the place on East Third Street?

Look, I'm a city employee.

For me to accuse her...

Why don't you take the records,
make your own conclusions.

Moved out. September.

Really bad problems.

Water's coming down
the bathroom walls.

The super turns
the water off.

Two days later,
the flood's gone.

No hot water.

You think it was intentional?

Come on, I went down.

I tried
to turn the water on.

The basement
was locked up.

Many buildings
keep it locked.

Never before.

I took the buyout.

I had as much
as I could take.

My lock was broken.

The super pretended
he didn't understand.

He's got trouble
with English.

The trouble is
he's alive.

I put a chair
against the door.

Middle of the night-- boom--
the door's down,

and that creep Turner's
in my living room.

Is he angry with the whole
world, or is it just you?

That guy is a tenant
like I'm the Queen of England.

I never saw him at night--
he's sleeping somewhere else?

I try to get
the heat back on,

I got to get past Turner.

He's a thug, pure and simple.

This is Turner's

sixth building for Iris Corman.

He clears out tenants--
that's what he does.

He's got three priors--
assault and menacing--

tenants trying
to get heat.

Depraved indifference
homicide-- murder two.

There's another building.

Old lady gets pneumonia.

Lack of heat. She dies.

No charges filed

because they can't
tie them together.

Charging Jackie Ward
may be pointless

but murder two?

We have to prove intent.

Turner's been doing this
for years.

Which doesn't prove the heat
was cut off deliberately
the day the baby died.

Tirado didn't have six
space heaters for no reason.

They were all
brand-new.

It's a reach, but...
maybe Tirado, okay?

Turner-- we have no link
to the Ward baby.

Maybe we do--
the baby-sitter.

Serena Price.
You remember she said

the super wouldn't
let her in, didn't
recognize her.

You think Serena
speaks Spanish?

No, of course she doesn't.

It wasn't the super
who kept her out.

it was Turner,
she talked to Turner.

Thank you. It's been
bothering me. Hah?

Jose Tirado,
step outside, please.

You're under arrest

for the murder
of Henry Ward.

Put your hands
behind your back.

Come on,
you've done this before.

Where's Turner?

Turner no home.

( pounding )

WOMAN:
Stop! Stop!

Stop!

TURNER:
The lock is broken.

It has to be replaced.

You're not the super.

Turner!

Just give me an excuse.

No way.

( drops hammer )

You just got nailed.

Joseph Turner,
you're under arrest

for the murder
of Henry Ward.

You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say will
be used against you
in a court of law.

Do you understand that?
Yes.

You have the right
to an attorney...

You have to wonder
how these people sleep at night.

The connection
between morality and sleep.

I guessed I missed that
in law school.

Tossing little old ladies
into the street.

Going for manslaughter

is very admirable,
but how do you prove intent?

I aim a gun at you.
Is that intent to harm?

It is if the gun goes off.

cut off the heat?
Why did they

To cause harm
so people would leave.

That's intent,
and that's manslaughter.

How do you sell it to a jury?

Turner's crimes
have a common scheme.

I get his prior convictions
admitted,

the intent to harm is clear.

His record gets admitted
as pattern crime.

On a bad day with a tired judge,
we can sell tickets to that.

ROBINETTE:
Or maybe we get lucky.

Roll the super on Turner.

Get Turner's record admitted.

He rolls on the landlord.

Turner's worked a long time

for Iris Corman.

They hang together
or they don't hang at all.

Thanks for your optimism.

I didn't say don't try.

Where are we, Cuba?
This is justice?

Reckless endangerment one
if your client testifies
against Mr. Turner.

The idea
of responsibility...

You think the charge
is inflated?

We're testing it with a jury.

With no evidence.

One, Mr. Tirado
had separate heat.

Two, he told the police
he ordered

a furnace part-- no order.

Three, the contractor said
there was nothing wrong

with the furnace.

Okay. Just a damn minute.

Esta gente
quiere encerrarte.

Si yo testigo
puedo estar muerto.

Oh, no, no, tell him

no one will kill him.

Everybody knows
what muerto means.

Reckless endangerment two.

He does no time.

Who turned off the heat?

The feed pipe,
Turner, he pull it.

He say we get these people out,
we get paid more money.

( speaking Spanish )

He wanted to fix the furnace.

Turner stopped him.

MAN:
Obviously, Mr. Tirado is lying.

That illiterate moron.

The idea that I'm...
Please, please.

And Tirado is so credible?

He's the super.

You make this crime a habit.

Two prior assaults, menacing.

A jury sees his
history and...

Call Bellevue,
make a reservation.

You're out of your mind.

You couldn't bribe a judge
to get that allowed.

Convicted this time

you don't do
one or two years,

it goes up to 25.

Oh, heavy.
You can see I'm terrified.

Marc, tell him
the facts of life.

What, the birds, the bees,
the penal law?

He knows them
better than we do.

convictions.
He has two felony

One more, he goes up
as a persistent offender.

My first conviction

was appealed.

I didn't serve a day

until after my second
conviction.

That counts as one offense,
not two.

You convict me,
I get six to 12.

I'm out in two years.

We're submitting
a motion

to have your prior convictions
admitted as evidence.

I'll bet it's
beautifully written, Ben.

And it's worthless.

I'll see you in chambers.

Now, you can't allow this.

The jury hears
he attacked three tenants,

they'll beg you to execute him
in the courtroom.

Relax. We don't have
the death penalty anymore.

virtually identical,
Three cases,

in which Mr. Turner
assaulted tenants

who were trying
to restore the heat.

That's my point.

They're assault cases.

They're not about heat.

this straight.
Let me get

Making the buildings unlivable
is intent to cause injury.

That's the
common scheme.
Yeah, but you're not gonna...

It's a novel theory...

and I like it.

This court rules
that Mr. Turner's

previous crimes
may be introduced into evidence.

Thank you.
Mm-hmm.

ROBINETTE:
We thought Turner was a thug.

He's no saint.

The buildings Iris Corman owns,
Turner owns them with her.

Won't put her away so quick.

He wants to protect
his investments.

That's not the only reason.

They own a house together.
600 grand.

Sands Point.

They live in it together?

Love makes the world go 'round.

Also makes
plea bargains difficult.

We convict,
maybe he turns on Corman

for a sentencing recommendation.

And then she confesses.

I wouldn't count on it.

WOMAN:
Mr. Turner showed up in august.

I moved out a little
after Christmas.

The incident

where Mr. Turner assaulted you--

how did it begin?

I went
to the boiler room.

Turner's there,
screwing in a lock.

I try to get
into the room.

He smacks me across the face.

Did you sustain
any injuries?

He split my lip.
I had six stitches.

The vicious jerk.

Objection.

Sustained.

The jury

will disregard
that remark.

SERENA:
I was standing

at the front door
of the building, pounding.

He wouldn't let me in.

Do you see him in the
courtroom today?

He's sitting
right there.

Would the record show

that she is indicating
the defendant, Joseph Turner.

Let the record so indicate.

Had you seen
the man before?

Every time I went
to take care of Henry.

I told him Henry was inside,
but this man--

he said
he didn't know me.

He said Jackie
took Henry with her.

Thank you.

Your witness.

Miss Price,

how did you describe Mr. Turner

to the police?

Well, I...

I... I didn't.

Is that so?

Didn't you tell them

he was the building
superintendent?

Yes.

But he's not.

If you'd been there
that often

how come you didn't know that?

How was I supposed to know?

He's there a lot,

so I thought...

You didn't know
who he was?

Now, is it possible that he
didn't know who you were?

Objection.

He's asking the witness what was
in another person's mind.

Sustained.

TIRADO:
Yo le dije a Joe

que teniamos que poner
el steam.

Y trate de abrir la puerta
del cuarto del boiler.

I told Mr. Turner

we had to turn
the heat on.

I tried to open the door
to the furnace room.

And what did Mr. Turner do?

¿Y que hizo
el Señor Turner?

Turner me dijo
que lo dejara

apagado.

Yo lo queria prender.

Pero el me ordeno que me fuera

que me largara.

Turner said to leave
the furnace off.

I was going to turn it on,
but he pulled me away.

Mr. Tirado, in the past,
did you help

Mr. Turner at all
to harass other tenants?

¿Tu ayudaste
al Señor Turner

a hacerle daño
a los inquilinos?

Si. Ayude.

Yes, I did.

WARD:
I thought it would only take
a few minutes

and he'd be fine.

How long was Henry alone?

Seven hours.

When you left,
what was the temperature

in the apartment?

Um... I had a sweater on,
but it was okay.

It wasn't too cold.

And when you returned?

I could see my breath
in the air.

Thank you.

No further questions.

Now, Mrs. Ward,
I know this is very difficult

so I only have a few questions.

You testified that you
didn't call the apartment

because you had no phone.

Did you think
of calling a neighbor?

Um... I didn't know them
too well.

No one in the neighborhood?

No. I pretty much
kept to myself.

Did you think of calling
Serena price's mother,

to make sure that Serena

was in fact
taking care of Henry?

I didn't think of that. No.

Then who's really responsible
for Henry's death?

Objection.

Withdrawn.

No further questions.

Will the defendant please rise?

The people v. Joseph Turner,

on the sole count
of the indictment

the charge of manslaughter
in the second degree

how does the jury find?

We find the defendant guilty.

I thank the jury.

Short date
for sentencing.

Your Honor,

the people request
a pre-sentencing conference

at which Mrs. Ward be permitted
to address the court.

The court will consider
the people's request.
Court is adjourned.

There's a reason I want
you there. I want you
personally to ask for the max.

It won't affect the sentence.

Whatever Turner and Corman
are paying Menakerarc menaker,

he's earning every dime.

What's that?
A juror, number seven--

he's white,
but he speaks fluent Spanish.

There's some question
about Tirado's testimony--

a mistranslation.

I don't know how serious it is.

Menaker probably
called every juror.

Desperate but clever.

Asking for a mistrial?

I talked to Judge Barry's clerk.

He'll probably get it.

Son of a bitch.

"Turner said
leave the furnace off.

I was going to turn it on,
but he pulled me away."

That's not
an accurate translation.

How far off is it?

What would be accurate?

I... I misheard.

I got the verb wrong.

It shouldn't
have been "pulled away."

He said "ordered away."

MENAKER:
It's the heart

of the pattern crime
issue, Judge.

In previous cases,
Mr. Turner was violent

but not this time.

If a juror translated it
for them

we will never know
what they thought.

At the worst, it's a minor
linguistic difference.

Maybe.

Mr. Norman, you discussed this
with the other jurors?

I told them what I heard.

He said "ordered," not "pulled."

Mr. Norman, do you know
why we sequester juries?

Before the trial began,
I said the jury

mustn't consider evidence
not heard in the courtroom.

Now, you told the jurors
something only you heard.

But I only told them
what he really said.

That's true. You did.

No blame here.

It's a mess,
gentlemen.

It's a mistrial,

and the people
will have to retry

Mr. Turner.

We got a conviction once,
we'll get it again.

Every jury is different.

They're not stupid. I'll put
your client away, and he'll

serve the max, if I have to show
for every parole hearing myself.

If it gets that far.

We're not taking a deal
unless you give us Corman--

same crime, evidence,
and conviction.

I'm moving to have
Turner's records

excluded from the
second trial.
Won't happen.

If I were you, I would look at
what the appellate division

has been doing lately.

Suppose you win
the second trial.

You'll never survive
an appeal.

Mr. Turner will take
reckless endangerment two.

Misdemeanor-- in his dreams.

What looks better
on the news at 6:00--

his dreams
or yours, hmm?

STONE:
It's a bluff.

It's a hustle.

And it's a possibility.
Menaker's no fool.

If the jury doesn't hear
of Turner's record

we don't get a conviction.

They will hear it,
and it will stand on appeal.

I'd like to play poker
with you.

Leave the table
with your clothes.

Six of your jurors
told reporters

that they convicted
because of Turner's record

not because they believed intent
to harm the baby.

Court of appeals
gonna like that?

Maybe we give Turner
reckless endangerment one

if Corman will plead, too.

Great. A child is dead

and you're offering
a "d" felony?

SCHIFF:
Offer it to Turner

on two conditions:

Corman pleads,
they both sign a consent decree

not to harass tenants
in the future.

Still a walk. Stinks.

I don't believe this!

You want me to plead guilty?
She hasn't even
been judged.

STONE:
If we don't
get a deal

we'll take Mr. Turner to trial

and work on getting
Miss Corman indicted.

You have some nerve.
I can't heat a building

for what tenants are paying.
If the rent laws didn't let

people live there forever
that baby would still

be alive, and none
of us would be here.
Iris, please.

I don't believe this.this.
It'sIt's not your fault; it's
the rent laws?

For destroying the value
of my property, yeah.

I ought to sue that Jackie Ward.

I'm sorry about her baby

but she wasn't
even a legal tenant.

The hell she wasn't.

That's enough.

You knew the law
when you bought
that building.

Round one, that's
it, over.

CORMAN:
You can't believe

we meant to hurt that kid.

Did you care either way?

You got nothing

and if Tirado
hadn't rolled on me...

CORMAN:
Maybe Jose Tirado's memory

won't be so clear this time.

Iris, enough.

He's on record.

Maybe he'll change
his testimony.
Iris, shut up.

You admit threatening him?

No, she is not.
Maybe he'll say that

the D.A. forced him
to make up a story!

That's an "e" felony.
You know that?

She didn't say a word.
I didn't mean it.

None of this happened.

She blamed the rent laws?

STONE:
For the death
of a baby.

You'll be lucky to touch her,
and she knows it.

We may have just drew
an inside straight.

For two years, Corman rings up
so many complaints

they can't record them
fast enough.

A year ago, all of a sudden,
no more complaints.

Attack of bad conscience.

ROBINETTE:
No, then housing
inspector changed.

So?

This new inspector's
pretty generous--

16 complaints against Corman--

all of them resolved
in her favor.

What? Bribes?

Let's chase the money,
and see if we can prove it.

You got 15 minutes.

We're both
on the same side.

I live in a small world.

Don't we all?

Who inspects
Iris Corman's buildings?

Albert Boxer.

Does he take bribes?

I didn't hear that question.

February 1990,
you were covering
Corman's buildings.

Why did you change
assignments?

My wife works
at Merchant Bank.

She's in at 6:00.

A new schedule, I could take
the kids to school.

Iris Corman ever
offer you a bribe?

She hinted.

I stopped it
before she had a chance.

Suppose she pulls out
a couple hundred bucks.

Maybe before I know
what happens,

I start thinking
about new snow tires.

Albert Boxer--
is he buying new snow tires?

I don't know you.

I was never here.

ROBINETTE:
Inspector Boxer
used to take $100 a week

from his checking account.

11 straight months,
he didn't withdraw a dime.

That doesn't prove
he took bribes.

His wife paid for groceries
by check for three years.

The past 11 months,
every week, she paid cash.

So they live on cash.
Iris Corman's not stupid.

She's not going
to give them checks.

What if somebody offered
Boxer a bribe?

And...?

He takes it.

We turn him against Corman.

You got a place to do this?

I'll find one.

Set it up.

Testing, one, two.

Where the hell's Profaci?

Phil, you could play
the landlord.

No, we were both at D.H.C.R.

Boxer might have seen us.

( phone ringing )

Yeah, stone.

Uh-huh. Oh, great.

Profaci's caught in traffic.

Boxer's on the way.

Paul, take your coat off.

CERRETA:
Yeah, and your tie.

Hey, I can't do it.

You're all we got.

All right.

Great.

BOXER:
You don't look like
your name's Gagliardi.

ROBINETTE:
He manages my building.

Home with the flu.

Simpson, Louis.

Mr. Simpson,
Inspector Boxer.

You got heat
in your building?

We've had
two complaints.

Boiler's off.

We're having it fixed.

You been having it fixed
for two days.

I should take a look,
I have to write a summons.

Is that necessary, a summons?

It is the law.

It will be fixed tomorrow.

It's not working today.

Come back tomorrow.

Maybe I don't have to.

Well, what would stop you?

Think of something.

Wait till he asks.

Give me a general idea--
a suggestion.

I'm sure you're

pretty familiar
with the neighborhood.

Ball park.

Five hundred.

Five? 250.

Guess I'm going to have
to write that summons.

Three. 300.

Cash. Now.

Albert Boxer,
you're under arrest

for bribe-receiving.

Come on, you can't do this.

You bet your ass we can.

You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you do say
can and will be used...

All right, give me
my coat back, man.

It's entrapment.
You offered a bribe.

ROBINETTE:
You can lead
a horse to water.

You can't make him steal it.

He solicited a bribe
on tape.

It's a "d" felony.

Two years at Clinton.

You look a little
out of shape

for two years'
hard time.

Come on, Ben, no judge will give
him two years.

I didn't kill anybody.

So I look the other way
for a few days.

So the temperature
was 50 degrees inside, not 70.

ROBINETTE:
Twenty.

Not fifty.

A baby froze to death.

STONE:
I'll make it
easy on you.

Here's what you're
going to do.

You'll plead to a misdemeanor.

You won't fight the city
about your pension.

You'll testify against
every landlord and super

you ever took a bribe from,
or you'll go to jail.

Who do you want first?

Iris Corman.

STONE:
when greed is glorified.

Anything is acceptable.

We must decide where
to draw the line.

We must decide
when greed has gone far enough

to be called murder.

The people will prove
that the defendants

Iris Corman and Joseph Turner

turned off the heat
in an apartment building

they own.

The people will prove
that their acts demonstrated

a recklessness
that led to the death

of a ten-month-old baby.

The people will show
that they willfully, knowingly

and without a shred of concern

for the consequences
of their acts

placed the value
of their real estate

above the value of a human life.

A baby died--

a boy named Henry Ward--

and they didn't shoot him,
they didn't strangle him

they didn't run over him
with their car.

In fact,
they never even met him

but they did kill him.

Now, putting the defendants

Iris Corman and Joseph Turner
in jail

will not bring Henry Ward
back to his mother.

Putting them in jail, however,
is the only remedy we have.

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