All language subtitles for The Practice s05e08 Mr Hinks Goes To Town

Hi. I'm looking for her.

Lindsay.

Jeannie? Hey.

Hi.

How are you? I'm fine.

I see. I don't have to ask with new.

Yeah, about five months.

I knew her when she was a virgin. Funny.

Listen, you got two seconds? I'm on a
major clock. Sure.

You must be a witch. I have been meaning
to call you. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for

inviting me to the wedding, by the way.

Eloped. Right.

Listen.

William Hanks.

I've been treating him.

The William Hanks?

Yes.

Did you start killing people after you
began treating him, or...? That's cute.

I don't think he did it.

What do you mean you don't think he did
it? He confessed.

I think he fabricated that confession.

He made up that he killed nine people?
Yes.

And fooled the police?

It's complicated.

Listen.

As you probably know, the trial starts
in two days. He just fired his attorney.

The judge, I'm told, is not likely to
grant him much of a continuance. He'll

probably assign a public defender and...
Lindsay, would you consider doing it?

Defending William Hinks?

You've become this big star. I read
about you now.

I don't do serial killers, Jeannie.

Lindsay.

I believe the man didn't do it. Yes, he
says he did.

But as good as you are at what you do, I
am just as good at what I do. And I'm

telling you, I've become more and more
convinced he's delusional.

William Hanks is not the serial killer
who murdered those women.

And right now, he needs a good lawyer.

I don't think you should take it. My
first instinct was not to, but she says

he's innocent.

I don't know, Lindsay.

How do you start such a monster of a
trial on two days' notice?

The defense is fully developed.

John Moore was the lawyer. He's good.

Stephen Banks was the lawyer before
that, and he's excellent.

What happened to them?

Well, he fired them.

According to Jeannie, when they
confronted Hanks about his possibly

delusional... He fired them. The man
can't face the idea that maybe he's not

killer. In which case, how do you defend
him? And why would you even want to?

I'd be going up against Roland Hill for
one thing.

How often does any lawyer get the chance
to go up against him?

Not very often, but if I were going to
do it, I certainly wouldn't want a

who insists he's guilty.

You people supposedly defend underdogs.

I've got one here.

He's ill, and unless we help him, he's
going to destroy his life.

I want to do it, Bobby.

But I will need backup. I can do it. I'm
free. I was first.

All right.

Jimmy, you second chair.

Thank you.

Thanks.

He's really a docile man.

Just misunderstood.

Do we need a guard in the room?

It's your call.

You'll lose privilege.

I think we can take him.

Okay.

William, this is Lindsay Dole, the
lawyer I was telling you about, and this

Jimmy Berluti, also with the same firm.

My pleasure.

I guess thank you is in order.

Mr. Hanks.

We continue the trial until next week,
which means you may get transferred back

to Cedar Junction. They don't like
keeping maximum security prisoners in

for too long.

What we're going to do first is go over
the confessions and the evidence, and

then we'll get back together and talk.

What is there to talk about?

Well, Dr. Reynolds tells me it's your
preference to plead insanity.

You realize if we win on that, you don't
go free.

Yes, I realize that.

If we could possibly get a straight not
guilty.

No.

I did it, Myrtle.

At least with insanity, I can perhaps be
sent to a place where they'll help me

get better.

Even if that's true, you won't be
getting out.

The closest diagnosis I can make is that
he has delusions.

Symptomatic of schizophrenia, probably
paranoid.

Not only does he believe he committed
these crimes, the idea of others not

believing it is for some reason
repugnant to him.

But if he didn't do them, he sure gave
them a lot of details.

Almost all the information he provided
in his confession was accessible.

There's a whole Internet site set up on
this killer. A lot of these facts are

available to the general public.

Janie, tell me why you think he didn't
do it. For one thing, he's got a lot of

holes in his story.

I also don't get any sense of anger in
him. I don't see the necessary capacity

for violence. He's a quiet little
accountant who never leaves his house.

It's always the quiet ones.

I also put him under hypnosis.

There he told a very different story.

Which was?

Basically that he didn't do it. That he
wishes he did it.

They found him near the scene of his
last victim.

He said he has a police radio.

According to a story under hypnosis, he
heard of the crime, he managed to go

there, get into a neighboring cellar,
and let himself be discovered there.

The police are pretty good about
sniffing out false confessions.

He is extremely smart.

Borderline genius.

He also passed the polygraph, which he
would if he were delusional.

Any chance he could have been faking
with the hypnosis?

That's what I thought at first, but I
don't believe it now.

Either way, Jeannie, if he convinced the
police with his confession, including

an FBI profiler, he'll likely fool a
jury.

He didn't necessarily fool the FBI
profiler.

What?

I was suspicious.

There were certain facts he should have
had if he were the real killer.

And he didn't. Such as?

Uh, times of death he could only
approximate. A killer that precise, I'd

thought he'd be clear on time.

Positions of the bodies, also the
fingernails.

What about the fingernails?

Well, you saw that he pulled them off
all of his victims.

And? He actually didn't.

The police planted that disinformation
for the very reason to trip up any false

confessions. Hinks has maintained that
he pulled the nails out of all of his

victims, just as reported in the papers.

If you've checked Discovery, you now
know that the nails of the fifth victim

were never removed.

That's something the real killer should
know.

But you signed off on this being the
guy.

Because he did have a lot of very
specific details.

He was found near the scene of the last
one, and when they searched his

apartment, they found voluminous
clippings, internet printouts, whatever,

each and every previous killing.

But he could have collected that stuff
to learn about the murders.

Or he was the murderer, and he liked to
read about himself, which is pretty

typical of serial killers.

One more thing.

The killing stopped as soon as William
Hinks was in custody.

So you think he's it?

I think he's probably the one.

But maybe not.

Maybe not.

How do we defend him? If we plead not
guilty, he'll fire us. Which more than

anything else is telling me that he
didn't do it. How do you figure?

Well, a guilty man would want to get an
acquittal if he could, don't you think?

A man obsessed with having the world
think he's guilty, on the other hand.

Maybe we just stick with insanity.

Who knows? Maybe we could win that way.

But we don't believe he did it, Jimmy.
We can't argue he was insane at the time

he did it if we know he didn't do it. We
don't know it, Lindsay.

We don't know anything.

Could you ever go to a judge and get an
order that he has to plead not guilty?

I've never heard of that happening.

Everybody wants it to be him, Lindsay,
because they're afraid.

And he wants it to be him.

But it's not...

Him.

I don't understand. Are you arguing
insanity or not?

Mr. Hanks, this is extremely
complicated.

You're just going to have to trust me.
Can you do that?

No, I can't, Ms. Dole.

My future is at stake. My life.

I've known you less than a week.

William, you trust me, don't you? Please
don't handle me. I'm not some anonymous

little man to be handled.

The plan is to keep you out of prison.

But it may involve you having to hear
some things in court you don't want to

hear. It could also mean you having to
testify.

So be prepared for that.

Testify?

Your only chance at this point is to
trust her, William.

Are we going with insanity or not, Ms.
Dole?

Yes.

We're going with insanity.

All right.

Insanity.

I always chose to drop the weapon at the
scene, relieving myself of the worry of

it ever being found in my possession.

the gloves, I would either burn or
dispose of at the right opportunity.

Why the fingernails?

Souvenir, I suppose.

A fingernail is easier to remove than
one might expect.

Plus bloody as well.

How many times have we got to watch it?
Until we've memorized every word. This

confession is their whole case.

I would have probably removed all ten
except for the time consumption.

It takes patience to extract a
fingernail without damaging it.

I like them in mint condition, of
course.

And it's difficult not to rush when you
have a dissected carcass in the room.

It can make you jumpy.

We will introduce more of this tape
during the trial.

But the footage that you just saw will
be introduced as evidence of the

defendant's clarity during his
confession.

His precision.

His careful choice of words.

He had just committed a murder and
dismemberment three hours before this

interview.

This was a man in control.

A man who understood the nature and the
quality...

of the horrific acts he had committed.

The evidence will show that these crimes
were carried out with detailed

precision, with thorough premeditation.

The evidence will reveal cold -blooded
murder, executions, if you will,

committed by a man who knew exactly what
he was doing.

William Hanks is insane.

All nine victims had dogs.

Mr. Hanks met all of them in various
parks and streets while walking his dog.

And you learned this how, detective?

From his confession.

Then he would telephone them, always
from a public phone booth, make a date

plan to see them, be led into their
homes, and he'd kill them.

From your experience, did these killings
appear to be acts of uncontrolled

behavior? No.

Why is that, sir? First of all, they
were meticulous.

Other than the mutilations, which of
course were bloody, there was never any

evidence. No fingerprints, no DNA. The
weapon was always carefully placed next

to the torso.

The first wound was always fatal.

How could you tell that?

There was never a sign of a struggle.

Plus, the coroner's report would always
confirm this.

Is it your testimony, sir, that a killer
acting outside of conscious control

could never act in a meticulous manner?

It's not the norm.

Is it possible?

It's possible, but... Thank you. You've
answered the question.

Actually, I didn't, counsel. I'd like to
complete it.

It was a yes or no question.

But it was evidently not a yes or no
answer, Your Honor.

The witness may complete his response.

If the last victim hadn't hit that
silent alarm, if we hadn't found the

defendant in that basement, he'd still
be out there.

We called these murders the immaculate
dissections because the scenes were free

of evidence.

I mean clean.

That takes planning.

Skill.

He didn't just know what he was doing.
He knew how to do it perfectly.

Are you finished now?

Yes. Thank you, Detective.

Nothing further.

Mr. Hill?

Prosecution rests, Your Honor, saving
our psychiatric evidence for rebuttal.

The witness may step down.

The defense calls Dr. Gene Reynolds.

All set?

I think.

Could you state your name and occupation
for the record?

Jean Reynolds. I'm a criminal
psychologist.

Could you briefly describe what you mean
by criminal psychologist?

It's basically how it sounds. I've spent
10 years treating patients charged with

violent crimes, as well as studying
behavioral patterns of repeat offenders,

including the patterns of serial
killers.

Dr. Reynolds, did you have opportunity
to treat my client, Mr. William Hanks? I

did. Did you have opportunity to discuss
with my client the crimes which he is

currently being charged with in this
trial?

I did. Did you form any medical
conclusion as a result of this

Yes. Could you please state that opinion
for the court?

I do not believe Mr. Hanks killed those
women.

He did not commit the crimes? My opinion
is Mr.

Hanks is suffering from delusions,
secondary to schizophrenia.

Basically, he thinks he killed those
women. He did not.

I also placed Mr. Hinks under hypnosis,
where he told me he did not kill those

women. Objection. Hearsay. Under
hypnosis, the reliability of... There is

hypnosis exception to the hearsay rule.

Your Honor, I would like a sidebar. Mr.
Hinks, please sit down. I seek to

discharge counsel. She is soliciting
false testimony from this witness. Mr.

Hinks, I ask you to sit down. Please
don't make me want to. She doesn't

represent my interest, nor does she
represent the truth. I ask that she be

removed. Mr. Hinks.

Take your seat now.

I am very confused here.

You entered a plea of not guilty by
reason of insanity.

Defense seeks to change that plea to a
straight not guilty.

Mr. Hinks never killed those women at
all. This is a lie, Your Honor.

Security, take Mr. Hinks into custody.

I will see counsel in chambers now.

What the hell's going on?

He didn't commit the crime.

Wait a second. It was your intent all
along to argue this?

Yes.

You committed a fraud on the court,
counsel. You filed an affirmative

insanity.

We had to keep it from our client. That
necessitated keeping it from the court.

You kept your strategy from your client?

Your Honor, he's delusional.

He not only thinks he did it, he wants
others to think he did it, which

precluded us going... Then you should
have had him declared incompetent to

trial. He would have passed the
competency test easily, and we'd be

in court. You do not commit a fraud on
the court or the district attorney.

circumstances warranted us doing it,
Your Honor. No, they did not, Counsel.

Yes, they did, Your Honor.

With all due respect, William Hinks was
prepared to let himself be convicted for

a crime he didn't commit.

That's a bigger fraud, a fraud that
leaves the real killer still out there.

how do we know that this isn't a trick?

If the defendant has not agreed to the
change of plea, he has an automatic

grounds for a new trial. This isn't a
trick. You have my word as an officer of

the court. That doesn't solve it. You
cannot change the plea without the

client's consent.

The man has fired two previous attorneys
who wanted to prove his innocence

because he doesn't want to be innocent.
We had to keep him in the dark.

And that meant keeping the court in the
dark. And if he loses, his next lawyer

will be in here arguing your
incompetency for filing... Look, this is

thing here.

We got a defendant whose sickness
prevents him from wanting to be found

innocent. If we had pledged straight not
guilty, he would have fired us, like he

fired the two guys before us. He would
have went out and eventually found the

lawyer to tell his lie.

And as I said, in our minds, that would
have been the biggest fraud.

Who the hell do you think you are? I'm
your doctor, William. No, you're not. Do

you get that? No, you are not. You are
all discharged. That can't happen.

The judge has ordered us to stay on.

William, you are ill.

You think you committed those crimes.

Under hypnosis, you admitted to me you
didn't. Maybe I was lying under

You think about that?

Maybe I was in denial.

For God's sake, I killed nine women. I
can't be in denial.

William, all I care about for this
discussion is keeping you out of prison.

Why, so I can get mental treatment for
my disorder?

Is that the secret plan?

I'm testifying. We don't think that's...
I have a right to testify in this duel.

If I'm competent to stand trial, I'm
competent to make this decision.

I will be getting into that witness
chair.

You cannot prevent that.

I'm testifying.

And while under hypnosis, what did he
say about the basement?

That he'd heard about the crime on his
police radio, together with the

that it was this same killer, and went
to the scene. Police were all over it,

he broke into the basement two houses
away.

I renew my hearsay objection.

This is all being asserted as the truth.

Mr. Hill, your objection is noted and
overruled.

Did he say why he went into that
basement?

No. I can only guess on some level he
wanted to be caught.

Dr. Reynolds, aside from what he told
you under hypnosis, do you have any

reason to believe he did not commit
these crimes?

Well, as I said, I've studied the
patterns of serial killers.

These people often have some displaced
anger.

I didn't find Mr.

Hinks to have a lot of anger, if any.

He's seen these killings on the front
pages of our newspapers, and he somehow

convinced himself he's the object of all
these headlines.

Ever know a patient to fake being under
hypnosis?

Yes. And if this patient suffered from a
delusion, doctor, wouldn't he suffer

from the same delusion under hypnosis?

Yes, usually the delusion would persist
under hypnosis.

Didn't that make you suspicious?

I was extremely suspicious. What is the
IQ of Mr.

Hinks, if you know?

It's high.

And is it your testimony, then, that you
make no room for the possibility that

he faked being under hypnosis to tell
his little tale of innocence?

I not only considered it, Mr. Hill, I at
first suspected it.

But when he kept insisting that his
lawyers not declare him to be innocent,

he fired lawyers for endeavoring to
prove his innocence, I knew then he

be faking.

Well, she's simply wrong. What more can
I tell you? Dr. Gale, did you consider

that this could be a false confession?

It's one of the first things that we
look for, but in Mr. Hink's case, I

determined his confession to be genuine.

And on what did you base this opinion,
sir?

I've been a clinical and forensic
psychologist for 33 years now. It's what

And contrary to Dr. Reynolds' findings,
I consider Mr. Hinks to be consumed with

rage. He lived alone with his mother
growing up. Though not physically

she was emotionally punishing.

The gruesome acts committed here, the
dissection of the bodies, these are acts

of hatred.

These murders are very much about
punishment.

Dr. Gale, I'm going to play for you a
portion of his confession.

If I could have figured out a way to
dismember them alive, I would have done

But fear of getting caught was a
deterrent there.

Still, I would have so loved to have
extended that look of pain in their

That look of horror.

It's a thing of beauty.

The look on the face of a woman who
knows she's about to die.

They write in the papers, why do they do
it? Why do these killers do it over and

over and over?

It's that look.

You think you'll kill again?

Oh, yes.

I'll get out of this.

You just watch.

And I'll know the joy of that look
again.

Even if Hinks were to somehow learn all
about those crimes, to the point of

being able to fool law enforcement, and
that's an extremely unlikely if, you

cannot fake a psychosis like that.

Sitting at that table is the man who
mutilated those women.

Well, you got your wish, William.

After watching that last footage, I'm
sure everyone thinks you did it,

the jury.

Other than lying to me, you've tried an
excellent case.

Do you truly appreciate where you'll be
going?

In this life or the next?

This one.

I'm talking about the maximum security
hell where prisoners have special

feelings for men who mutilate women.

Well, it's my turn now, I suppose.

I still would like to testify.

I don't see the harm at this point.

What else is left?

Not much. We've got an expert on tire
tracks that could place his car maybe in

some of the areas.

It's nothing.

They'll establish he has no alibi.

Big deal. He says that himself.

We're almost done.

Are you winning or losing?

Well, that depends on the goal, Eugene.

I think he's looking at a conviction.

But to the client, that seems to be a
victory.

And why does he want to testify exactly?

Because if my soul is to be offered any
chance at redemption, I must make a full

confession. And God would like you to do
that under oath?

God would like me to be open and
notorious with my evil, yes.

What do you do with the gloves?

I'm sorry?

The killer always wore latex gloves to
avoid leaving prints or oils behind.

On the night you were caught, the gloves
were never found.

What did you do with them?

As I told the police, I have no actual
memory of how I disposed of them.

And again, as I told the police, if I
were to guess, I threw them in the fire

and burnt them.

Actually, you didn't make that guess in
your confession. You made it much later,

after it was reported that there was a
fire burning.

The police found no residue of the
gloves in the fireplace. Did you know

Is it possible nobody could find the
gloves because the real killer took

I am the real killer, Ms. Dole.

How come you didn't know the second
victim had cancer?

Something which was never released to
the media, coincidentally. Something you

didn't know when you confessed.

I didn't give them physicals, counsel.

I just removed their heads.

This one's head had a wig on it.

You decapitated her but didn't know she
had a wig?

Even the thickest of criminals knows not
to mess with a woman's hair.

What a clever answer.

Women have a thing about their nails,
too.

You messed with them.

Actually, I never so much as scraped a
nail. I removed them in perfect

condition.

What happened to them?

I beg your pardon? You said in your
confession you took them as souvenirs.

People keep souvenirs. What did you do
with them?

That I won't tell.

Come on, Mr. Hanks. You don't know where
they are because you never took them.

I did.

All of them? Every victim?

Every victim.

What about the fingernails on the last
victim, Mr. Hanks?

They went the way of the gloves?

I swallowed them.

What about the fifth victim, Mr. Hanks?
Angela Barton. You remember her?

Pretty. Quick -tempered. Lost her head
easily.

Did you remove her fingernails?

One by one. Made difficult because she
bit them.

You didn't take her nails, Mr. Hanks.
Not Angela Barton's.

The police conceal information for the
purpose of flushing out phony

confessions.

In your confession, you talked about
removing Ms. Barton's nails before you

incised the hands.

The thing is, Mr. Hanks, when you go to
trial, the prosecution has to hand over

all exculpatory evidence, even the stuff
the police concealed.

And what I've now learned, the nails of
Angela Barton were never removed.

It was reported that they were, so you
confessed to doing it.

So I forgot.

It was four victims ago. They blend.

You forgot.

You forgot a lot of things, Mr. Hinks.
You could never remember the colors of

carpets, the layouts of rooms, the types
of drapes. I was killing people. You

think I was going to take time out to
notice fabric?

This killer noticed everything.

He was meticulous. Please don't talk
about me as if I were not in the room.

What about the tenth victim?

There were nine.

Nine reported.

There was a tenth.

Never confirmed to be one of the serial
victims because she died by a gunshot

wound. Objection.

Overruled. Her fingernails were also
pulled out, limbs and head amputated.

work, Mr. Hanks?

Objection. She's deliberately... Ask the
counsel not interrupt or steer the

witness. Mr. Haley will sit and remain
quiet.

Your work, Mr. Hanks, or another killer
who likes fingernails?

I didn't think the police knew about
that one.

So it was your work.

Your work, Mr. Hanks?

Yes.

Funny. I made it up.

You're a fraud.

You've never hurt anybody.

I killed those people.

No, you didn't. I killed those people,
Ms. Dole. Your doctors discover you're

delusional. You're just an anonymous
little man who... I killed those women

quickly and surely as I would kill you.

Mr. Hanks! I did it!

I'm famous.

You see my pictures in the papers
because I did it. Mr. Hinks, you would

your voice. This is mine.

I killed them and you can't take it
away.

Okay, Mr. Hanks.

You win.

You

win.

Forgive me, Mr. Hanks. I was just...

Trying to decide whose performance was
better here, yours or Ms. Dole's.

Objection. Sustained.

I have nothing for Mr. Hinks.

You haven't heard him close?

No physical evidence.

No witnesses.

Just a confession from a paranoid
schizophrenic man suffering from

A man desperate to believe he's
something he's not.

You heard a treating psychologist.

You saw him in that witness chair.

He's ill.

But he is not the sick man who committed
those crimes.

For this so -called confession, he was
armed only with information that had

published somewhere.

Stuff that he cut out, downloaded,
printed, plastered all over his walls.

The things that were public information,
like the fingernail still being on the

fifth victim, oh, he somehow forgot
that.

Mr. Hanks, as part of his illness, is
desperate to believe he's the one.

The prosecution, as a result of public
pressure, is desperate to believe he's

the one. I think on some level, we all
are.

Because we want this sick person,
whoever he is, off the street.

But if we really, truly want this killer
captured, we better send a message

to the police that they better keep
looking.

Because it's not William Hinks.

I have never been on a case where the
defense pled insanity only to then, in

middle of trial, suddenly declare that
he didn't do it at all and then to

that with the defendant taking the stand
to say that he did.

Sounds crazy, but it isn't crazy, ladies
and gentlemen.

It's brilliant and very carefully
orchestrated.

We're dealing with a sick, dark, but
brilliant chess player.

A man who met eight women, eight
different women, got admitted to their

murdered them, leaving virtually no
evidence, not a hair, not a bead of

nothing. Then he met his ninth victim,
and though she let him in like the eight

others had before her, she was also able
to set off a silent alarm.

Mr. Hinks still was able to commit the
murder and do his immaculate cleanup.

But when it came time to leave, the
police were coming, and this time he had

take flight to seek cover in a
neighboring basement.

And this time he was caught.

He knew the police would search his
apartment and find those clippings and

website printouts. He knew that he could
offer no alibis for those eight other

killings. He knew that the police would
know they had the right guy.

Well, to get out of this now, Mr. Hinks
would have to be at his most ingenious,

wouldn't he?

So, he gives a confession.

Careful to provide most details, but
also careful to leave out a few.

And then, while under the pretense of
being hypnotized while being treated, he

tells a different story.

A story of innocence.

And he hopes that this therapist will
become his pawn.

Well... Dr. Reynolds is no pushover.
She's a gifted psychologist, one likely

capable of detecting a sham.

And though he had her mostly convinced,
he knew that she remained doubtful.

According to her own testimony, it was
only after Mr. Hinks fired his previous

attorneys that she finally decided he
was not faking his delusions.

He got her.

And he needed her.

You see, to have any chance of an
acquittal, Mr. Hinks... needed the

to sell you.

And in order to keep her convinced
enough, he had to keep insisting that he

it, and he had to keep insisting that
his lawyers not say otherwise, all the

while needing a lawyer who would say
otherwise over his famed protests.

Enter Ms. Dole, pawn number two.

Mr. Hinks.

needed an attorney who would find a way
to plead not guilty in spite of being

told not to.

Sound complicated?

You bet.

Hard to pull off?

Absolutely far -fetched? Maybe.

But let's consider what he's pulled off
before.

Not many people can commit eight murders
without leaving a single clue.

He did.

Then he met his ninth, and we got him.

We finally got him.

And in order to get off, he would have
to come up with something masterful.

He did.

You want to give him an Academy Award
for his wrenching performance on the

witness stand? You do it. But don't you
dare give him an acquittal.

Don't you dare.

You don't want him out there looking for
number 10.

How long?

I expect this one to take a while.

It's close.

His clothing was good, wasn't it?

Extremely.

He kind of sold me.

Did you know I planned to yank the
insanity plea and go straight not

I had a pretty good idea.

When you wouldn't tell me the strategy
and you said I might be testifying, I

figured that's what you were planning.

What if I hadn't?

Wasn't that sort of a risk?

Considering my plight, Miss Dole, I was
in a position to take risks.

Besides, I was poised to suffer a mental
breakdown and at least secure a

mistrial if you stuck with insanity.

Why didn't you just let me talk you into
going not guilty over your objection?

Because Dr. Reynolds was measuring me
every single step along the way.

I had to cling to my delusions. Without
her completely sold, I didn't stand a

chance. And what perhaps she didn't tell
you, she wasn't completely sure.

She thought I was innocent.

But her medical conclusions were far
more precarious than she ever let on. I

couldn't risk losing her.

Okay. Why not feign improvement?

Take medication, then you could have
just testified and said, I thought I

them, but now I know I didn't.

Far too self -serving.

When you murder nine people, the jury is
not looking for a reason to let you go.

Things have to be perfect.

If you get off, you gonna kill again?

Mr. Berluti.

If I tell you I'm about to kill again,
you don't have to honor privilege.

And you can repeat everything I'm
telling you now.

But nice try.

So things went just as you planned in
there?

I certainly didn't plan for Mr. Hill to
be so good in his closing.

If he convinced you, I hardly feel
overconfident.

What about the latex gloves on the last
victim?

Burned in the fireplace.

The police are shoddy.

Verdict.

All right.

Mr. Hinks, will you please rise?

Madam Foreperson, the jury has a final
verdict.

We do, Your Honor.

What say you?

Commonwealth v.

William Hinks counts one through nine of
murder in the first degree. We find the

defendant, William Hinks, not guilty.

All right.

Members of the jury, your service here
is completed.

Mr. Hinks, you have been declared not
guilty. You are free to go.

This court is adjourned.

I might go out the back way.

Yes. Thank you.

Thank you both.

Unbelievable.

Thank you, Dr. Reynolds.

I suppose your heart was in the right
place.

Yeah. Listen, William, this gets you
out.

But you still need treatment.

Will you let me help you?

Let me think about that, all right?

You really need to get help.

I'll call you.

You did it, Lindsay.

Incredible.

Were you really sure he was innocent?

Was I sure?

No.

I'll probably never be 100 % sure.

He knew that.

Sorry?

Nothing.

Well, he's not out of the woods unless
he gets treatment.

Let him go, Jeannie.

He's ill, Lindsay.

Everything doesn't just end with a
trial, sorry to say.

Especially this one.

Let him go.