All language subtitles for Law & Order (1990) - S02E20 - Intolerance (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.

Your mom's paying
for an A.P. prep course?

You don't need it.

I need a five.

She thinks
it's the best way.

The best way is not
to worry so much.

Easy for you to say.

( speaking Chinese )

( speaking Chinese )

( speaking Chinese )

What did he say?

Low faan... barbarians.

They don't want Tim
hanging around white people.

Your family
still doesn't want

to meet me, do they?

Why don't you take me home
with you right now

and introduce me
to your mother?

You handled that real well.

Kate, what are you doing?

Walking.

I'd say you're
an insensitive jerk.

I'd say it was none
of your business.

Both you and Tim
are real mature.

( gunfire )

What was that?

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

No!

LOGAN:
Let me get this straight.

It's the middle
of the afternoon.

You got three shots,
but no witnesses?

Maybe people thought
it was a car backfiring.

This is a freaking
echo chamber in here.

It must have sounded
like the Fourth of July.

It didn't happen
on the streets.

You want a guy who saw
two dogs nearby?

Hey, no problem.

A dog did it.

Okay, kid still had
his wallet on him.

Get this: a thousand-dollar
laptop computer

in his knapsack.

He was a star physics student
at Manhattan Science.

A dead end.

No way out the back.

Kid leaves his friends on
the way back from school.

Why does he walk
in here?

Someone was waiting,
called him in.

Or he was expecting
somebody.

Maybe.

So have C.S.U. check
the grounds, every inch, okay?

Right.

Have you seen
the Jade Squad report?

Three Chinese gang hits
in two months.

We're going to take you
to the precinct.

You can call
your parents.

He'd still be alive if I'd
just kept walking with him.

You never think something
like this would happen

to people like us.

Somebody ought to tell him

bullets don't recognize
your I.Q.

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They just drove by.

Tim said something
in Chinese.

Then they were gone.

Here.

These boys in the car,
these were Tim's friends?

She told you,
she hardly saw them.

Let your daughter talk.

Tim didn't talk
about his friends.

So you didn't recognize
any of them.

They weren't
from school.

BOY:
Those leather jackets--

they looked like
they were in a gang.

Tim wasn't in a gang.

He did live in Chinatown.

And what does that mean?

Mom.

You know something
about the boy's family?

I do business with the Chinese.

They live in a different world.

They're from Canal Street,
not Mars.

3:30 in the afternoon
and nobody sees this thing?

There were
six uniforms.

They didn't turn up
anybody

so we canvassed
and we got nothing.

It's the back
of an apartment house.

Not a lot of people there.

We can't be sure if it was
the Chinese kids in the car.

What can we be sure of?

If you grow up in Chinatown

you're a gang member
or you have troubles.

Any indications of gangs?

C.S.U. found three shells.

Ballistics says
they're .380 Tanfoglio titan.

That's an expensive weapon
for an ordinary street kid.

Okay, I'll buy that.

Let's see what the family says.

Great, I can't wait.

"Sorry about your son.

Was he running
any protection rackets?"

Find a more diplomatic way
of putting it, Mike.

Please don't mention that
in front of my mother.

My brother wasn't in a gang.

Miss Chong, we're trying
to find a motive.

I would have known.

All due respect ma'am, you're
older than your brother.

You don't live down here...

My mother would have known.

She paid more attention
to Tim's life than her own.

All Tim wanted
was to get out of here.

He was going to M.I.T.

( speaking Chinese )

Policemen, Mother.

( speaking Chinese )

Tim not in gang.

Sometimes when children
are away from home...

He told her everything.

Not about
his girlfriend.

CERRETA:
Did Tim ever seem upset

or look like he'd been
in a fight?

All the time,
after every drug deal.

He spent his weekends
at the library.

Your brother must have had
some friends

in the neighborhood.

( speaking Chinese )

Just school friends.

Do you think we could see
your brother's room?

Maybe get a picture
of him?

If she didn't know
about the girlfriend

maybe she didn't know
about his friends

on the street.

Chairman Mao, Albert Einstein,
and Patrick Ewing.

What do you think
they got in common?

One 17-year-old
Chinese kid.

Phil, look at this.

"Timothy Chong, winner of
the NASA Science Competition."

This kid had everything.

So why is he dead?

I got a better question.

Why did he go
to a plastic surgeon?

"Removal of tattoo"?

Gang insignia?

Maybe the M.E.
Can tell us.

First, I want to talk to someone
on that Jade Squad.

MAN:
Tiger tattoo.

That's the White Tigers.

But this kid went
to Manhattan Science.

That tiger on his arm
wasn't a fashion statement.

He has no record.

Half the smack in the country
blows through here.

You seen a lot of arrests?

Maybe they're
paying you off.

Yeah, millions.

My mortgage is a front.

You got nobody
on the inside?

I had one.

You got a medium,
you can talk to him.

We found him in little pieces
on Hester Street.

Listen, how bad do you want
to break this?

I know a kid in the Tigers
who will talk to you.

If there's any hint they did it,
you'll know.

Tim Chong--
I seen it in the papers.

Rumor has it
he was a White Tiger.

Yeah, for five seconds.

Was it a happy divorce?

We don't shoot people.

My lawyer--
he advises against it.

You always take
your lawyer's advice?

Why would we want
the kid dead, huh?

Tim Chong buys
that American dream crap.

We didn't care.

See that kid over there?

Kid sells smack.

What some stiff at IBM
makes in a year

he can make in one week.

No matter
how much you make

it's hard to spend it
in Attica.

We didn't do Tim Chong.

All right, listen.

A wagon

like a Jeep or a blazer.

Yellow.

Who drives it?

I don't know.

If I knew, I'd tell you.

We didn't want the kid hit.

So much
for the American dream, huh?

He did everything right.

Wound up dead anyway.

Ballistics compared the slugs
from Chong

to every Chinese gang killing
in the past three years.

No match.

This kid is 17 years old-- how
many enemies could he have?

This kid was getting bagged
for having white friends.

The wind only blows
in one direction?

There's going to be talk.

We ought to run
at the girlfriend

without the mother.

CRAGEN:
That's risky.

If she's involved

whatever she says is useless
without a parent there.

When her mother's around,
everything she says is useless.

Most of Timmy's friends
were white.

He's American, so that
wouldn't be a problem, right?

Some of my friends,
they call me an egg.

White on the outside,
yellow on the inside.

Calling names
is one thing

but does it go
beyond that?

It's not violent.

LOGAN:
No fistfights?

Breaking into a locker?

The worst it gets--

somebody sprayed graffiti.

It said "slant-eyes"
on the door of the 1600 Club.

It's a study group
for the S.A.T.S.

1600's a perfect score.

The club's about half Chinese.

So Tim wasn't having
any trouble with anybody?

I'm really not sure.

We weren't communicating
very well.

Well, who would he talk to?

Maybe Mr. Steinman,
our physics teacher.

He knew tim pretty well.

Tim's the best I ever taught.

How long have you
been teaching?

Long enough not to exaggerate.

He won the NASA award.

This year, he was a shoo-in
for the Hellmuth Competition.

Kids give him grief
for screwing up the curve?

Students are
sophisticated here.

They compete to get in.

What about after?

Getting in is the start
of the race, not the end.

This science competition--
the Hellmuth--

do you have anybody else
who might win it?

What are you getting at?

Any prize money
for it?

$20,000, but it isn't the point.

It's the Nobel Prize
of high school.

Who's the also-ran?

Any number of people.

Are you betting
on any favorites?

Okay...

he was with Tim
when he was shot.

The Borland kid.

Carl.

He and Tim
were always number one and two.

Since when always?

Since freshman year.

Drove Carl's mother crazy.

I don't know how bad it was

but parent-teachers night,
Carl's parents up in front

Tim's mother in back.

Boys were friends.

The parents
never even said hello.

I remember that night.

Mrs. Borland
couldn't even look at us.

Weren't Tim

and Carl friends?

Carl's a nice boy.

His mother is not
a well woman.

What does this have
to do with Tim?

Two kids are friends.

Usually the parents say hello.

She said hello when she called

and said we weren't
real Americans--

why should Tim
get the prizes?

Carl's older brother
called, too.

You're not saying...

( speaking Chinese )

My mother wants to know

are you suggesting Tim
was killed

so Chinese kid
wouldn't win the scholarship?

Every parent wants his kid
to be number one.

Every parent doesn't make
threatening phone calls.

You talked to Chong's
girlfriend twice.

Trouble like this
she would have mentioned.

She was a wreck.

She probably would have told us.

We're talking
about $20,000

and the biggest
science prize

in the whole country.

And Marian Borland is wired
about her son Carl.

Looked to me like the father
was playing with a full deck.

Why don't we pay her a visit,
punch a few buttons

and rule her out--
that okay with you?

That's okay with me.

We were all shocked.

Tim's murder--
it's horrible.

Maybe we should raise
our children in the suburbs.

I guess it's
as bad there.

So, what does this
have to do with me?

Claudia Chong said you made
some unpleasant phone calls.

I love my son.

Maybe sometimes... I go too far.

How far is that?

Oh, this is ridiculous.

Tim was a lovely kid

but the boys
were very competitive.

It wasn't healthy.

Do you have children?

You know how hard it is.

Yes, but I don't call
other parents

when their kids
get better grades than mine.

I admit I was...

inconsiderate.

Did you tell the Chongs

that Chinese
shouldn't win prizes?

Of course I didn't.

At 3:30 on the afternoon
that Tim Chong was shot

can you tell us
your whereabouts?

This is unbelievable.

The idea that I...

Mrs. Borland, look,
we got to ask you.

( sighing )

It was Thursday?

My shift ends at 3:30.

Randy, my oldest boy,
picks me up and takes me home.

Maybe one of the employees
saw you leave.

I don't know
who would have seen me.

Where can we find Randy?

Fulton Fish Market.

He works with his father.

Thank you.

This hasn't been easy
on any of us.

Right.

Every Tuesday and Thursday
I get her.

Anybody here when you left
to pick her up?

Nobody comes till late.

Hey, guys, my mom told me
what you're thinking.

Really?

We just left her
20 minutes ago.

Yeah, but she called.

Lunch hour,
she's under pressure...

you coming in like that.

So you picked her up
at 3:00, right?

3:30. I dropped her at home.

Look, maybe my mom said
some dumb things...

You called
the Chongs, too, right?

My mom wouldn't kill anybody.

What happened after you
dropped her at home?

"Y", 23rd street,
shot some hoops.

Regular game 4:00.

I get back,
there's a note from dad.

He went to take care of Carl.

Didn't that worry you?

I was sorry
about the Chinese kid

but somebody's
got to run the stall.

I got to get some ice.

LOGAN:
You think she called randy

to make herself feel better?

To make sure
he got the time right.

Did you notice

that he wasn't exactly
an aerospace engineer?

I also noticed
he's not her favorite son.

Well, if she lied, he lied.

If he's lying,
where did they go

after he picked her up?

She didn't go home.

He didn't shoot hoops.

You're praying
at the right church.

You going
to read that to us

or fan us with it?

"Borland, Ronald

"296 South Street

D.B.A.
R. Borland & son, Fresh Fish."

Carry permit:
.380 Tanfoglio titan.

Seems to me it's the gun
I said it would be.

Let's get a warrant.

What do you mean
he said no?

You want me
to try Portuguese?

He said you cannot have
a search warrant.

Since when is Judge Feinstein
so picky?

Since he got a clerk
who knows about guns.

He said a Tanfoglio
is too common.

Just because Borland has one
doesn't give probable cause.

Big bunch of crap.

You want some probable cause?

Try breaking some alibis.

Okay.

You think marian borland
punches a time clock at work?

Randy went to the "Y."

Basketball buddies notice

when you're
holding up a game.

Good, that's very good.

And next time you need a warrant

don't go to Judge Feinstein.

WOMAN:
Everything is computers now.

So you don't
have the records?

I'm looking,
I'm looking.

Maybe I have
her time card.

They come back
from the service.

Sometimes I remember
to save them.

Looks like you have cards
from World War II.

All I hear is,
"They shortchanged me.

I lost an hour.
They cheated me."

No, not here.

Sorry.

I must have dumped them.

Marvin, I can't find it.

My payroll man
doesn't have it either.

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

She clocked out at 2:30.

He won't swear by it.

He could have entered it
wrong off the card.

2:30?
She said 3:30.

If she entered it wrong,
she would have complained.

Missing pay, right?

She don't have
the check yet.

Thanks, Marvin.

Later.

Don't tell her
we were here.

You're cops.

Now if you were I.R.S.,
I might tell her.

Thursdays, 4:00.

It's a great time for Randy.

He works the graveyard shift.

So last week
he was here at 4:00.

Always on time.

Got the court for an hour.

You know randy
pretty well?

High school.

You talk to him today?

No. Why?

Well, I'm asking you
questions about him

but you're not asking
what it's about.

Locker room
sign-in sheet.

Rand signed in at 3:51.

Like I said,
we play at 4:00.

The computer
at the payroll service--

not a lot of probable cause.

We got to try.

This time we try
Judge Allan Berg.

Spell it with two L's
and two A's

or we're never
going to get a warrant.

We want the business,
296 South Street

and the apartment,
which is 573 East 30th Street.

( phone ringing )

Detective Logan.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

Uh, can you wait a minute?

I'm going to put you on hold.

Don't go away.

Where is it?

Where is it?!

What?

Got a tip
on the Chong shooting.

Ah, come on.

Okay, somebody give me
a tape recorder.

Batteries,
something!

Get him back on the line.

One, two, three.

Yeah.

Here you go, Logan.

No, I'm not going
to put you on hold.

Yeah, I'm listening.

Well, I'd love to know.

Uh-huh.

Well, how do I know
you're on the up-and-up?

Mm-hmm.

You know what the address is?

Mm-hmm.

What kind of gun
am I going to find there?

Hello? Hello! Hello!

.380, that's the same caliber.

That voice ring a bell?

Me neither.

Any bets?

Friend, maybe somebody
who works at that fish market.

What do you want to do?

Address, caliber of gun--

sounds reliable
and credible to me.

Probable cause?

If Judge Berg thinks it is.

I should call my dad.

If you want to do that,
I think you should.

You have a key for this?

Son, I'm going to have
to break into it.

Okay.

There was nothing
in the kitchen.

Carl, you sure
you haven't seen a gun

lying around the house?

My dad keeps it
in the office.

I think I've got
prints on this.

That's my mom's good china.

That's okay.

Nothing in here.

Mike.

Bingo.

( gunshot )

The Italians make nice guns.

It would be nicer
if it's the right gun.

It would be nicer
if it were a clean match.

R-7 twist.

I wouldn't say this is close.

I'd say exact.

Yes, mama.

Very nice.

No question--
this gun killed Tim Chong.

One set of prints on the gun.

A good match

to Ron Borland
from when he got his permit.

His gun, his prints--
that's a problem?

Considering he walked in here
an hour after the killing

and didn't even blink?

Why are the mother
and son fixing alibis?

I thought Randy's held?

Not anymore.

Sign-in sheet from the "Y."

Infrared scan.

His pal fixed it.

Unless you believe
in elves.

You think the whole
Borland family killed the kid?

Nothing puts the mother
and Randy at the scene

but we do have the gun.

We arrest Ron Borland

maybe something breaks.

Pick him up.

Mr. Borland...

I think you've bothered
my family enough.

Ronald Borland,
you're under arrest

for the murder
of Timothy Chong.

Dad?

Go call your mother.

...used against you
in a court of law.

I got to my store at 2:00.

I didn't leave till Carl called.

But your gun managed
to kill Timothy Chong.

You fellows have, what--

three open gang shootings?

Maybe your lab got a little help

with that bullet.

I wouldn't try that

with a jury.

Why not?
Juries always trust cops?

So, nobody saw you
at your store?

I was there for Carl's call.

An hour after the killing.

40 minutes

the way
I heard it.

Your wife and Randy join you
in the shooting?

Finito, gentlemen.

If you're booking him,
let's do it.

STONE:
Why? I mean...

it makes no sense.

I was back barely two hours,
Willis called.

He'll take man two.

We haven't even started
interviewing witnesses.

Borland's prints are on the gun

but Cerreto and Logan
are right--

everything else
points away from him.

( phone ringing )

Yeah?

Uh-huh.

Attributed?

Thanks.

Tomorrow's Post says
we're negotiating a plea.

No attribution.

Willis dragging us
to the altar.

I don't like shotgun weddings.

I want to know what happened.

So put a vise around that family

and I don't care
how hard you squeeze.

( bell ringing )

I'm glad I don't have your job.

I don't have
to talk to you.

Did you hear them
plan it, Carl?

I didn't know about it.

I mean... that's not
the way it happened.

Did your mom
go with your dad

or just provoke him
into doing it?

My parents
are good people.

They only want
what's best for me.

Killing someone?

Is that how
you get the best?

How did your dad know
where Tim would be?

I'm not going to talk
to you anymore.

Do you know what accessory
to murder means, Carl?

My father didn't
kill anyone.

His fingerprints
were on the gun.

You don't know anything.

You don't know
what you're talking about.

Even Carl knows
his father didn't do it.

How do you explain
the prints?

Ben, what are you
trying to pull?

Why are you talking to Carl?

Leave my son alone.

He's a witness.

He's a kid!

Get a headline.

Make us look bad.

Get them to leave him alone!

If you'd like to sit down...

My son's life is at stake here.

I thought it was your husband's.

There's a lot at stake here.

WILLIS:
Let's go, Marian.

Next time you want to see Carl,
do me a favor-- call first.

The family is certifiable.

Unlike everybody else.

Who made that phone call?

Obviously, you don't think
it was an angry employee.

What if Ron Borland made it?

Borland gets back
with Carl.

He sees his wife and Randy
and he knows they did it.

They're the ones
faking the alibis.

Why didn't Borland
throw the gun away?

Cerreta and Logan
are onto them

so he does something heroic.

Randy belongs to him the way
Carl belongs to his mother.

So he wipes their prints
off the gun

puts his own on,
takes the fall.

You want to arrest the mother
and the older son

and right now you wouldn't get
a conviction for bad thoughts.

I have motive and the gun.

If it's not suppressed because
of a questionable warrant.

I can tell the jury about it.

You won't get a conviction.

If we don't arraign,
I can't even try.

Fine. Try.

Mr. Robinette,
can we have a statement?

You trying this
in the press?

According to public opinion

my clients are
the salt of the earth.

So was the victim.

Ginseng maybe,
not salt.

You having a bad week,
Leonard?

Docket #51423

the People v. Marian Borland
and Randall Borland.

The charge is
murder in the se...

Didn't I already see
this case on my docket?

Charges against
a previous defendant

were dismissed, Your Honor.

The people regret their error.

We're talking about murder.

You ought to publish an apology
in the Times.

How do the defendants
plead?

Not guilty.

Not guilty.

I'll hear a few
spirited words

on the subject of bail.

Leonard, it's nice to see you.

Thank you, Judge.

My clients are not
a flight risk.

Any high bail
would be a hardship.

Mr. Robinette?

The people request

$50,000 on each defendant.

The severity of the crime...

Go no further.

When you're right, you're right.

This is
murder two.

$50,000 each defendant.

Next.

You don't even know
who fired the gun.

STONE:
Why don't
you tell me.

Manslaughter two.

They do the minimum, two to six.

Why not 30 days
with time off for good behavior?

Man one, they do the max,
eight to 25.

You're hitting an elephant
with a fly swatter.

You don't have a murder weapon.

Has there been a ruling?

The search warrant
should never have been issued.

No jury ever hears
about that gun.

Cancel the bravado.

My career's built on it.

The warrant was proper.

An anonymous phone call
was probable cause?

I don't think so.

You knew Ron Borland
never fired that gun.

And you know if I
discuss that with you

I could be disbarred.

Manslaughter two.
Last chance.

You lose on the warrant,
no deal.

See you in chambers.

Man two? They put
three bullets into that kid.

Willis is offering you a gift.

The judge suppresses that gun,
you don't get a conviction.

A similar warrant stood
in Ashton.

They killed it in Johnson.

That was two years ago.

Ashton was last year.

I don't want
to be overturned on appeal.

Are you worried about

our closure rate?

I'm worried about them
not serving a day.

They kill
over a prize

maybe they'll get angry
at the mayor.

There's no way
Simon suppresses the gun.

Simon thinks that the A.C.L.U.
is too conservative.

When's the hearing?

Tomorrow.

You lose on the gun,
you lose the case.

WILLIS:
That search warrant
has no basis in probable cause.

Your Honor, the informant not
only knew the caliber of the gun

he knew where to find it.

This was
an anonymous phone call.

Well, let's look
at the standard.

Anguilar-Spinelli calls
for a specific two-pronged test:

the informant's reliability
and the basis of his knowledge.

Now, Ben, how reliable
was that tip? A .380?

Lots of people probably
knew Borland had one.

The address you could
get from the phone book.

The Supreme Court is adopting

a less rigorous standard
for search warrants.

They forgot why we have
the fourth amendment.

Here in New York, thank God,
we have a stricter standard.

The Court of Appeals is moving
with the Supreme Court.

That permit was
for the Borland business.

The warrant was
for the Borland home.

Any idiot can see

that the cops were relying
on the phone call.

I'm not even an idiot.

I can see it.

I respectfully suggest...

you can respectfully suggest
till New Year.

The warrant is ruled invalid.

The gun is suppressed.

None of it goes
into evidence.

You want to go to trial, Ben,
you go without the gun.

When Randy Borland called,
what did he say?

He said the police thought
he had something to do

with this kid's murder.

They wanted to know
what time he came to play

and I said I'd say
whatever he wanted me to.

What else did he
ask you to do?

He said could I fix
the sign-in sheet.

How do you do that?

I can get behind the desk.

I work part-time
checking membership cards

and I knew some people
that signed in pencil.

This is people's exhibit #11.

It's an enlargement

of the sign-in sheet
for that day

subjected to infrared light.

Would you please describe it
for the court?

Randy's name is signed
over Larry Gordon's.

I...

I erased Larry's.

Down here, Larry's name
is written over Randy's.

So you changed the names?

Yes, I did.

What effect
did that have?

It makes it look like
Randy got there

an hour before he did.

STONE:
No further questions.

Your Honor, permission
to show this to the jury?

JUDGE:
You may do so.

I was given three shell casings
and three bullets

removed from
Timothy Chong's body.

What type of gun was used?

Based on the grooves
on the bullets

and the ejector marks
on the casings

I concluded it was

a .380 Tanfoglio titan
semi-automatic.

During your investigation

did you determine
whether Mr. Borland

was licensed to carry a firearm?

I did.

What did you find?

Mr. Borland
is licensed

to carry a .380 Tanfoglio titan
semi-automatic.

No further questions.

How many licenses
has the state issued

for Tanfoglio titan .380?

I couldn't say exactly.

If I told you it was more
than a thousand

would you find that a surprise?

I'm sure it's more than that.

If I told you
the actual number

was 2,941,
would that surprise you?

No, it wouldn't.

I'm glad.

In your expert opinion

could another gun

have left the kind of markings
that you found?

Very unlikely.

Oh, so you are saying

it could have been
another kind of gun?

Excuse me, I concluded
that the gun was a Tanfoglio

before I knew
Mr. Borland owned one.

That's very cavalier of you.

Thank you.

No further questions.

JUDGE:
I instruct the jury

they may draw no conclusion

from the fact that a weapon

has not been entered
into evidence

in this trial.

Cloudy, muddy, murky.

That jury
has enough reasonable doubt

to bottle it solid.

You can hear Willis
in summation--

"The defendants lied
because they were scared.

Yes, they own a gun,
but did they use it?"

Marian Borland--
what did she tell the cops?

"The kids were competitive.

It was unhealthy."

The only unhealthy competition
was hers--

for her son's glory.

You prosecuting or preaching?

She pulled the trigger--
not physically...

Oh. Metaphysically.

She harped about
the Chong kid every day.

Why did Randy kill him?

You kick a dog long enough,
it bites.

You want to try that
in your summation?

Won't get you a conviction.

It might get us a deal.

Ron Borland was willing
to go to jail

to save his son.

Is he going

to watch Randy
go now?

You want him
to pressure his wife?

I make the offer

Randy does less time
than his mother

he'll make his wife
take the deal.

Giving the shooter
a better deal--

is that what
you want?

Uh-huh. I just don't know
if it will work.

( phone rings )

We're trying to arrive
at what's fair.

I hope your clients
understand that.

The sentences--
we have a problem.

No, that's settled.

Manslaughter two
for Mrs. Borland.

She does two to six.

Eight-and-a-third to 25.
No playing around.

You said he'd be reasonable.

Marian...

It is unlikely
Mrs. Borland

will be convicted.

Finish the trial
and find out.

You said a few years.

You said parole.

Be quiet, Marian.

Mrs. Borland

if you are convicted,
you will do 25 to life.

We're offering much less.

You said he wouldn't do this...

Stop it.

How long will Randy
be in prison?

He pleads to man two,
he does three to nine.

This isn't right.

Mom...

it's not going to help.

Why don't we just go outside...

Stop!

He's 23.

He has a chance for a life.

Sit down.

The trial isn't over.

I don't see why...

Because he's your son.

I don't believe
we'll be convicted.

I won't do this.

STONE:
Do you remember, Miss Chong

how many of these phone calls
occurred?

Over the last six months,
nine or ten.

What did Mrs. Borland say?

She said Carl and Tim
shouldn't be friends

that Tim was using Carl--

using his brain.

She called my brother...

a chink.

She said, "You chinks
aren't real Americans."

And, uh,
what did Randy Borland say?

He said... if Tim kept trying
to steal Carl's ideas...

that he'd regret it.

Thank you.

No further questions.

Now, Miss Chong, you said

that the Borlands' calls
frightened you.

Did you call the police?

No.

So, uh...

how frightening were they?

In our culture,
you don't call the police.

Your family's friends--
are most of them Chinese?

Objection. Relevance?

The witness mentioned
her culture.

Overruled.

The witness will answer.

Our closest friends are Chinese.

Did you brother belong
to a Chinese gang?

Your Honor...

I'm allowing this, Mr. Stone.

He quit.

He wasn't really...

And what was the name
of the gang?

The White Tigers.

This is defense exhibit #3.

It's an article in last month's
Crosstown magazine.

Would you please read
the circled portion aloud?

"The White Tigers--

"the most powerful
of the heroin-dealing gangs

"or tongs,
are fighting a vicious turf war.

"Two members
have been shot this year.

No one thinks the war is over."

Thank you.

No further questions.

You wouldn't vote
to convict?

I'm not on the jury.

But if you were?

( phone buzzes )

Yes?

Mrs. Silver and her daughter
are out there.

Send them in.

My daughter has something
to tell you.

Please, sit down.

Go on, honey.

I didn't want
to say anything.

Carl is my friend.

I like
his mom and dad.

She feels guilty.

She didn't know where
to put her loyalties.

Katie...

After the gunshots,
we were running.

I must have looked
for just a second...

I saw them.

You saw who?

Mrs. Borland...

and Randy.

You saw them on the street?

In the truck.

That truck must have been going
pretty fast.

You sure it was them?

I recognized it.

It was the truck
from the fish business.

LOGAN:
on the stand? to put this kid

Yeah, we don't exclude evidence
that convicts.

Why did she wait
so long?

She and the Borland kid
are friends.

She was torn apart.

She didn't hold anything back
at the precinct.

Are you saying
an 18-year-old kid lied?

I'm saying she reads
the newspapers.

They were saying
you'd need an act of god

to convict the Borlands.

You didn't see her
in our office.

She's not
a good actress.

She loved the kid.

They killed him.

How good
does she have to be?

Without anything more specific,
I have to go

with my instincts.

Where were you
at the time?

Carl and me--
we went around the corner

after we heard the shots.

And what did you see?

It was sort of a flash--
this white truck

and it had two people in it.

Randy was behind the wheel

and Mrs. Borland
was sitting next to him.

They were coming towards me

and I looked down
and I saw the license plate.

I had seen it before

when Carl's brother
had picked him up after school.

What was on the license plate?

It's one of those
that you have made special.

It says "fish hook."

You've known about this
ever since Tim died.

Why did you wait until now

to say anything?

I tried to forget it.

I didn't even want to believe
that it happened.

I told my mom, and she said
i had to tell the truth.

No further questions.

In The People
v. Marian Borland

and Randall Borland

on the sole count
of the indictment

murder in the second degree

how does the jury find
on Randall Borland?

We find the defendant guilty.

On the sole count
of the indictment

against Marian Borland

murder in the second degree

how does the jury find?

We find the defendant guilty.

Hi, Phil, Mike.

Hi.
Ben.

What's up?

Um, I'd like
to verify something.

The girl's testimony

as it's described here--
is this accurate?

For everything
in quotes, yes.

She says she came running
around the corner

and saw
the license plate.

Does she have eyes
in the back of her head?

CERRETA:
She said the truck
was coming toward her.

The only way she sees
the license plate

is if she turns around,
goes back to the corner

and watches
the back of the truck

as it pulls away.

She saw the front plate?

That's been missing for months.

There is no
front plate.

LOGAN:
Borland ordered a new one.

The state never sent it.

God bless bureaucracy.

We have instincts, too, Ben.

REPORTER:
It was a shocking reversal

murder case today.
in the Science-Prize

Marian and Randall Borland--

Timothy Chong--
convicted of murdering

were released from custody

the district attorney's request
following

for a mistrial.

STONE:
You want to indict

a 17-year-old girl
for perjury?

You want a new trial?

Where do you find
an untainted jury?

Upstate-- I don't care

if we have to go
to the Canadian border.

Next time we'll get
the gun in.

inventing the story.
Sources say she has admitted

in California today
In a similar incident

with shooting a boy
a father was charged

on a high school tennis team.
who had taken his son's place

I liked it better

when the criminals
were doing the killing.

The whole world has gone mad.

at the board of education today
A counselor

said pressure on children

was creating
an epidemic of fear.

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