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Why wouldn't you tell us what it's about?

I have no idea.

Have we broken any rules lately?

Well, not that I'm aware of. I've never even appeared before this judge. Neither

have I.

Sorry to keep you waiting, gentlemen.

Thank you for coming.

I'll skip the pleasantries and get right to it.

Lawrence O'Malley.

You've heard of him.

We read the papers.

Excellent. Then you're halfway up to speed.

You obviously know he thinks he's Hannibal Lecter.

Tomorrow's papers will be covering his need for new counsel, which is where you

come in.

You're it.

I beg your pardon?

His lawyer fell out.

There will be no continuance for Mr. O'Malley. The trial will start the day

after tomorrow, which means I need seasoned criminal defense attorneys who

jump in. Hold on a second. The files are being delivered to your office as we

speak. You can't just assign us... What you need to know about the judge, Mr.

Donnell, is that she doesn't like to be interrupted.

The trial starts on Tuesday. You will be his lawyer.

In fact, I'm assigning your entire firm to it to ensure the bastard doesn't have

any inadequate counsel appeal. What about our other cases? I'll write you a

note.

Sorry to do this, boys, but your reputation speaks for itself.

What happened to his other lawyer?

Your client bit off his nose.

The whole firm? Who is this judge?

Look, let's not waste time talking about the judge. It is what it is. We have to

get ready for the trial.

Starting Tuesday.

Helen Gamble is the DA, so we at least don't need scouting reports on the

prosecution. Eugene and I will meet with the client tonight. Eleanor, I need you

and Beck to meet with the psychiatrist first thing in the morning.

So we're going insanity?

Yes. Lindsay, I'd like you and Jiminy to meet with his former lawyer.

He's at Mass General in good condition.

The guy really thinks he's Hannibal Lecter. That seems to be the question.

The prosecution thinks he's faking.

Eugene, we should go.

He's shackled, straight jacket, muzzle.

I think he'll be okay.

Has he been fed?

Is that a joke?

We don't find your guy too funny, counsel.

You want a guard in there or not, up to you.

That'll be okay.

I'm Bobby Donald. This is Eugene Young, appointed by the court to represent you.

The judge refused to continue the case. She evidently didn't want to reward you

for biting off body parts.

That means we go day after tomorrow, which means we have a lot to do.

We're going to need your full cooperation.

What's your name?

Did you miss the part about full cooperation?

What's your name?

My name is listed in the indictment.

I assume the question is designed to elicit what I think my name is to give

some sense of whether I'm sane.

I suggest you take it up with the doctors.

Right. Look, let's not waste time with you trying to prove you're smarter than

me. You're in prison. I'm not.

You're sitting there shackled, wearing a muzzle.

I'm not.

You're the one who could be spending the rest of his life in prison.

Do you know your name?

Lean in closer.

Just tell me.

My name is Hannibal Lecter.

You plan to argue insanity?

You murdered and ate three people, Mr. Lecter.

Insanity seems to be our best bet. I didn't kill them.

The other man killed them.

What other man?

What other man?

The doctors think basically he created this man in his head for the murders

themselves. He has never denied consuming the victims. But it's always

persona who stabbed the girls.

What's the diagnosis?

It's all over the map.

One of my doctors says paranoid schizophrenia.

Another says psychotic disorder.

Prosecution experts say he's faking it.

That he stabbed the girls and he ate them to give himself an insanity defense

should he ever get caught.

It would convince me.

What do you think?

Look, to do what he's done, obviously there's some severe mental deficit

here.

Is he criminally insane? Did he not understand that what he was doing was

I don't know.

All I am sure of, as crazy as he may be, he is not stupid.

Don't ever think you're in charge of him, Mr. Dole.

Promise you.

He'll be in control of you.

One of the psychiatrists had him take a polygraph.

He passed.

Said he was Hannibal Lecter, said another guy killed the girls.

He passed the lie detector with flying colors. He could also describe the

killing. It was basically like he stepped outside of himself and was

somebody else do it, and then he would step back into himself to eat them.

And the police think he's faking because...

He has a nine -to -five job. He punches in every day as Lawrence O'Malley, pays

his bills on time.

Are they offering anything?

Life in prison.

Client turned it down. I guess he's not that crazy.

So what?

Are we all going to try this? Lindsay, I'd like you to open. Women victims,

let's put a woman on the face of our defense.

Jimmy, you take the lawyer.

We're going to call him? Probably first.

Eleanor Beck, you got the doctors. Eugene and I will take the prosecution

witnesses. Bobby, Mr.

and Mrs. O'Malley are here. Who?

Hannibal's parents.

He would make up fictitious characters and assume their identities. I think it

made him feel stronger.

He started pretending he was Hannibal Lecter about ten years ago, shortly

the movie came out, probably so that he could feel dangerous.

And at some point, he really thought he was.

Mr. Donald, Lawrence would never do these things.

We want you to hear that from his parents.

This is some sort of insanity, but Lawrence, he is not a killer.

He took his knife and he gutted her like he was

cleaning a fish.

Who did?

The other man.

She didn't die right away.

Okay, look.

We have to make a decision here on the restraints.

He's going to look like a monster if he's shackled and muzzled. I'm not

next to him. He attacked his last lawyer, Bobby. We could petition the

keep him out of the room. I say let him look like a monster. Our strategy here

isn't to make him feel relatable.

Juries don't acquit monsters, Rebecca.

First thing they teach us in law school, monsters lose.

Anybody who would take the lives of three young women then cannibalize them

to have a little insanity going on.

But did Mr. O'Malley understand the nature and quality of his act?

Did he know what he was doing was wrong?

Of course he did.

Ladies and gentlemen, the evidence will show he tried to conceal his crimes. He

tried to avoid getting caught.

Why?

Because he knew it was wrong.

This man acted knowingly, reflectively, and methodically.

He'd go to the same bar, select a victim, hit on her.

Then when rebuffed, follow her, abduct her, stab her

to death, then eat her.

None of us can fathom what must be happening in Lawrence O'Malley's brain.

To fillet three women with a knife.

To consume them.

This is not how sane people behave.

As this trial goes forward, you're going to look at this man sitting over there

and probably wonder to yourselves whether he's even human.

You might look at me and the other lawyers defending him and have questions

about our humanity.

How can we defend such a monster?

Well, our judicial system is about many things.

What it's first and foremost about is protecting society's weakest and most

vulnerable members.

Lawrence O'Malley is severely, severely mentally ill.

The evidence we present to you will establish this convincingly.

You'll want to ignore it, because you're human.

Your sympathy for the victim, your hatred for our client, will make you

ignore or deny what the doctors tell you.

But as jurors, you have an obligation to weigh the evidence.

That's your duty.

That's why you're here.

And the evidence will tell you Lawrence O'Malley is insane.

We'd had so many complaints about how bad the house smelled, we finally sent

officer out there.

He took one step inside and recognized the odor to be decomposing remains.

We obtained a search warrant, went to the premises, and quickly found three

bodies in the basement in different stages of decomposition.

Was anybody else there, detective?

The defendant.

He kept saying, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

That's pretty much all I said at the house.

I'm sorry.

Now, you said the bodies were in different stages.

One was basically skeletal. The other two were carcasses.

It was extremely gruesome.

Detective, did you find anything else? There was a freezer which contained

frozen meat, human meat.

Now, you later interrogated Mr. O'Malley at the police station, did you not?

Yes. where he described each of the killings in detail.

According to the coroner, the descriptions were accurate.

Thank you, detective.

You asked my client his name?

Yes. What did he tell you?

He said his name was Hannibal Lecter.

Did he say he killed the women?

No. He claims he witnessed the other man do it.

He just called him the other man.

The same other man for all three murders?

Yes.

Did he describe the other man? Yes.

The description he gave pretty much matched himself.

He would be at the bar three nights a week, easy.

Do you specifically remember the defendant?

Oh, yes. He was too weird not to remember.

I served him many nights, and I never heard him speak.

Did you ever see him speak?

To women, I did.

He was always trying to talk up women. I never saw him have success.

Did you ever see Mr.

O'Malley talk to any of these women?

I know I saw him talking to the first girl, and I remember the look on her

It was like, get this kook away from me.

You used the word strange, weird, kook.

Based on your observations of my client, Mr. Williams, he seemed nuts.

Objection. Lay opinion.

I'll allow it. You may answer.

He seemed very nuts.

And he would come in three nights a week, on average?

Yes. He would try to talk to women sometimes.

Other nights, he'd just sit at the bar, sometimes motionless.

Like he was in this trance, just staring straight ahead.

The guy wasn't right.

We don't need that.

Scaring the jury doesn't help us here, Lawrence.

Just sit there and be a passive monster. Can you do that, please?

All right, look, the facts are pretty much in.

The rest of the trial goes to the insanity issue.

The big decision for us is whether or not to let you testify.

We'd like to put you up there, but we can't if we think you'll strike terror

people.

Forbes is here.

Jimmy's prepping him.

Okay.

We'll leave with him and then go to the doctors.

I'd like to talk to her, please.

Who?

Her. My attorney.

The one who delivered the eloquent opening about me being one of society's

vulnerable members.

Please.

Sit.

Hello, Clarissa. Oh, brother.

Could you leave, Bobby?

I'd like to speak with Clarissa alone.

I'm not Clarissa, Lauren.

Jodie Foster wasn't even Clarissa.

She was Clarisse.

And even she's not Clarisse anymore.

Do they know?

Does Bobby know?

Does he know what?

That you're in love with me.

I think he might be faking.

Hannibal Lecter, isn't that a little too pat?

We'll let the prosecution argue that.

Experts ready? Oh, they're ready and convincing. They don't think he's faking

all. Jimmy, Forbes is set.

What about the muzzle?

I think it should come off.

We'll take the muzzle off when he testifies.

We need to get back.

He kept talking about the other man.

How he watched the other man stab them.

I would gently remind him, Lawrence, there was no other man.

The other man is you.

He never liked that.

He'd ask me to please not say he was the killer.

Mr. Forbes, why did you remind him? Well, we were about to start trial.

I had to prepare him for things he was going to hear from his own doctors,

But he just didn't like hearing that, that he was the killer.

Friday night, I reminded him again.

And that was it.

What happened? He just lunged like a Rottweiler. He had me by the nose.

In the course of your representation of Mr. O'Malley, what can you tell us about

his mental... Objection. He is trying to admit medical opinions against... No, a

lay opinion. Your Honor, I will stipulate the lay opinion of Mr.

he's crazy. But this witness has no foundation to present testimony on the

of legal insanity as it relates to this trial.

I'm going to agree.

The witness may speak to the defendant's behavior, but leave the psychiatric

opinions to the doctors.

Mr. O'Malley, please take your seat.

Mr. O'Malley. Your Honor, at this time I'd ask that the district attorney be

disqualified.

Why? She and I have had relations.

It was one of those moments where time just seemed to freeze.

Even Helen Gamble herself seemed momentarily paralyzed.

Crap. Well, what do they expect me to do? Jump up and react? Stupid media.

Helen, I know we agreed to never talk shop at home, but you really should put

something on the table.

Get with the stunt, Eleanor, and you know it. Hey, everybody, look how insane

am. Could be.

But not many people eat flesh. The jury's got to think he's nuts.

Jurors are human.

At their core, they're vengeful.

I think you're projecting there. And when they go back to deliberate about

he did to those women, compassion won't be winning out.

Tomorrow, the case turns to the doctors, where both sides have their experts

lined up.

The base illness is paranoid schizophrenia.

The fixed false belief is that he's Hannibal Lecter. And doctor, does

schizophrenia make a person homicidal?

Well, there are no norms. It doesn't necessarily make a person dangerous.

It seems with Mr. O'Malley that when he kills, he experiences a psychotic break

from his other reality.

You lost me there. He becomes somebody else altogether when he kills. The other

person. Then he goes back to being Mr. Lecter.

Basically, he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia always, and he suffers

periodic psychosis on top of that.

Or he's faking. I don't believe he could feign these kinds of symptoms, Miss

Gamble. Well, Doctor, have you ever known a person to feign schizophrenia or

psychosis? Successfully?

It would be extremely rare.

But it can be done.

And in my medical opinion, Mr. O'Malley is doing it here.

Why do you think so?

Well, for starters, he's completely functional as Lawrence O'Malley. He goes

work, performs competently there.

None of his co -workers have ever seen a sign of Hannibal Lecter. Well, could he

just be covering it up?

Sure, but why?

If he has no compunction about being Hannibal Lecter with the police, why

he cover it up with others?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

How many times do I have to say it? The guy was looking right at me.

Look, it didn't hurt us. It's not like we're pretending he's nice.

No, but it doesn't help if it seems even we're afraid of him. Oh, come on. He's

tied up like a rabid dog. Everyone in that room is afraid of him. The problem

is, if they think of him as a dog, crazy or not, they're going to want to put

him to sleep. He has to be a little sympathetic.

Does he understand that? I've told him over and over.

I think Lindsay should take his direct.

Me? You take him. Look, in a way, you represent the victims.

Exactly. He also seems to be softer with you than he is with Bobby or me.

Have Jimmy take him. He's good at bringing out soft guys.

Look, any one of us could do it.

You'll be the most effective.

His best chance to be sympathetic is you.

Hey.

Yeah.

I can take the direct.

He really scared you, didn't he?

The way he looked at me.

I'll tell you this, Bobby.

He's not faking.

I looked into those eyes.

They were the eyes of insanity.

I may not be a doctor, but I saw it.

That man is truly crazy.

Did you not hear my question?

Did you know these women?

I'd met them.

I can't lay claim to knowing them.

You met them at Hannigan's?

Yes. They weren't particularly kind to me. Can you tell the court how you

happened to see them get killed?

Well, on each occasion, I followed them.

And in the parking lot, I saw them get abducted by the other man.

Could you describe this other man?

I never got a very good look at his face.

He was about six feet tall, lanky.

And he abducted these women in the parking lot?

Yes, he dragged them into his car.

I think they liked him.

But for some reason, they didn't want to go with him.

Okay, and what did you do?

I followed.

He drove them to an abandoned pier on the harbor.

And he would stab them there and drive off.

I tried to help each of them, but I was always too late. They were dead.

There was nothing to be done.

So I ate them.

How did these women end up in your basement, Mr. O'Malley? I drove them

from the pier.

And, sir, can you tell the court why you would eat these women?

Because they were so beautiful.

Like you.

The book of Genesis tells us that woman came from man.

When man consumes the woman, it makes him one with her.

And by eating them, I know they will go to heaven.

Because I am going to heaven.

Then they will go with me.

You'll be going to heaven, Clarice.

You think my name is Clarice?

It's all I have.

What did the other man do with the knife?

I don't know.

Funny how it never turned up, like it was hidden or disposed of carefully.

The other man really knew what he was doing, I guess.

You sucked my fluids to make me one with you.

How come you never told your co -workers your real name?

You went to work every day as Lawrence O'Malley. You did your job as Lawrence

O'Malley. Collected your paychecks, paid your income taxes. You did everything

as Lawrence O'Malley.

Why didn't you tell people you were really Hannibal Lecter?

It makes it difficult to invite somebody over for dinner.

That's clever.

Would you have sexually engaged with me had you known my true identity?

When you saw these women murdered by this other man, why not go to the

I was afraid of being a suspect since I was there. You could have prevented

other women from being killed.

Surely you have a conscience, or do you?

By the time I realized he was a serial killer, bodies were in my basement.

I didn't know what to do.

So you just let women continue to be murdered?

I am trying to help now.

Oh, you're helping now?

Yes. I gave the police a partial description. I told them where he

Instead of persecuting me, you should be looking for him, especially since...

Since what?

He's planning to kill Clarice.

I thought your direct went great.

Good to hear.

I don't want to win this case.

I don't want him going to some state mental facility that he'll be able to

out of in a week.

Okay. No!

I went through this with him. I don't want to go through it again.

I don't want to win this case.

You should go in there.

Eugene, can I see you for a second?

This could be nothing.

What?

Jeannie Tanner is a friend of mine. She works at the coroner's office in

Suffolk.

There's an unsolved murder.

Happened seven weeks ago.

28 -year -old woman, stabbed to death, found behind the Marriott.

Last seen alive at Hannigan's Bar.

Seven weeks ago?

Lawrence O'Malley was in custody.

It's exculpatory evidence, and they held it. This is not exculpatory. It has

nothing to do with the case. Woman stabbed, seen at Hannigan's Bar. Come

This was a robbery victim. The woman was stabbed once.

We should have been told about it, Helen. The state has no obligation to

the defense of every other homicide. Oh, please. This one either fits the

pattern or comes damn close. I don't agree. Come on, Ms. Gamble. It's close

enough.

But, Counsel, explain to me the harm.

We may have had another defense available.

Which is?

Somebody else is killing these women. Oh, come on.

My client has always maintained the other man killed these girls. We now

knowledge of the other man. You've got to be kidding.

Your Honor, we should at least be allowed to change our plea and argue the

elements. In addition... First of all, this is absurd. Second, you can't just

change a plea. We got stuck with this case on Sunday.

Sunday.

Now we find out the prosecution knew of another murder that fits the pattern. At

the very least, we should be able to change our plea.

It means one extra witness on this other killing. It doesn't inconvenience the

court. And to deny us this, you just guarantee my client an appeal.

Okay.

I'll let you plead in the alternative. I don't believe this. Ms. Gamble, you

should have revealed that other murder.

Be glad I don't find misconduct.

How's she doing? She's okay.

She's a little... She's okay.

I am not okay.

Lindsay... What's wrong with you?

I'm not okay.

Somebody can beat you half to death and you can go back to being okay the next

day. You're always okay.

Bobby's okay.

That's how you handle things. You're okay.

Please don't embarrass me like that in front of the office.

Please don't embarrass you?

I got stabbed two years ago.

I got stabbed, Bobby. A man stuck a knife into me three times.

I almost died.

And then he stalked me.

I'm not okay.

I have never gone back to being okay, no matter how much that you insist that I

have. I'm just, I'm not okay.

The cause of death

was stabbing? That's correct. And the victim, Jill Hanover, was at Hannigan's

Bar the night she was killed?

Yes. Found in an alley off of Commercial Street by the harbor.

Is that right, Detective?

Yes. And Miss Hanover was killed on March 26th?

Yes. And do you have any leads or suspects at this time, Detective,

this murder?

No, we do not.

Is this killing related to the three murders which are the subject of this

trial? We don't believe so. Why not?

Well, Miss Hanover was stabbed once in the neck.

The other girls were stabbed multiple times in the abdomen and the sternum.

A different knife was used for Miss Hanover.

The body was also dumped in an alley as opposed to being transported to a

basement and consumed.

Ms. Hanover was African -American and overweight.

These other three victims were white with conventionally attractive figures.

determined that she was simply a robbery victim and that her death was

completely unrelated to the other three.

Can you prove that, Detective?

Obviously, we can't prove anything until we catch this other suspect.

The other suspect?

Okay, just arguing the alternative, insanity, and the possibility there

is another man.

All right, look, we have two theories.

They're mutually exclusive, but the law permits us to present alternative

defenses. It's risky, but it's in our interest to do so here.

Where's Clarice?

Never mind.

Is she all right?

I'm right here.

I'm sorry I frightened you.

If anything ever happened to you, you know I'd make sure you go to heaven.

Hey, shut your mouth.

I don't want you talking to her anymore. You got that?

The fact that they have thrown in this 11th hour theory, maybe somebody else

it. That evidence shows the desperation of the defense, ladies and gentlemen.

First, he's Hannibal Lecter.

Then zip, throw in a psychotic break. Then what the hell? Why not? Let's say

was another man after all.

Lawrence O'Malley brutally stabbed three women who rejected his advances at a

bar. It is that simple.

Maybe he is really crazy enough to eat human flesh, but we don't let murderers

go because they consume their victims.

This is a competent, highly functional man who went to work every day, lived

a rather normal life.

Never. Flashed Hannibal or insanity to anybody.

And here, we see him flashing it at every turn.

Suddenly, he's standing up saying he and I had sex.

He's calling his attorney Clarice. He bites off a lawyer's nose.

So many sudden acts of insanity after 40 years without a sign.

It's a little convenient, don't you think?

He's trying to feign legal insanity to get away with his murders.

Three doctors who examined him testified he's faking.

And he's hoping you fall for it.

But just in case you don't, maybe another man did it after all.

Worth a shot.

He's been laughing at us this entire trial.

Please.

Don't give him the last laugh.

We put up three doctors who said he wasn't faking. They believe he's insane.

base illness, a paranoid schizophrenia coupled with psychotic breaks. You heard

the expert's testimony.

And now we learn another woman was killed.

leaving Hannigan's bar, killed while Lawrence O'Malley was in custody.

The police think it's unrelated, but can they prove it? You heard Detective

McGuire. They can't.

The state hasn't met its burden here.

And as a matter of law, you must acquit.

Ms. Gamble, rebuttal?

Hold on, Your Honor.

We're doing our closing in tandem. Mr. Donald took the first part.

Very well.

The most outstanding question concerns the 12 of you.

We have a man sitting here, clearly psychotic.

We know he eats people. He quite possibly kills them.

Nobody.

Nobody likes the idea of him being anywhere except...

in a maximum security prison.

But we all have our duties here. They prosecute, we defend, and you, you

determine whether guilt was proven beyond all reasonable doubt.

The 12 of you have the nastiest job of all because to execute your duty, you

have to find this man not guilty, which, of course, you don't want to do, but

you must.

The expert testimony was a wash at best. They put up doctors to say he's faking.

We put up just as many to say the schizophrenia was real as was the

On the insanity, there's no escaping doubt with all the conflicting opinions,

and that's for the other man.

Well, there was another man who stabbed a girl

leaving Hannigan's Bar.

It happened while Lawrence O'Malley was in custody. That means it's possible.

Possible. Things happened just as Mr. O'Malley claimed. He followed these

out of the bar.

He saw another man abduct them. He saw another man stab them, drive off before.

Mr. O'Malley took the bodies back to his basement.

And this isn't some 11th...

Our theory was thrown out in desperation, by the way. The police knew

other murder and they never told us. And we must ask ourselves, why?

Why didn't they tell us?

You've got reasonable doubt on the insanity. You've got reasonable doubt on

killings themselves. Two very big questions. The third question, the

Are the 12 of you...

going to stay true to your oath and uphold the law.

How'd it go? Jury got it.

If you didn't want to close, why didn't you just say so, Bobby? My closing. You

phoned me and you stood up there. Back up, Eugene. Nobody closes like you can,

and that was half -assed by the numbers. I said back up. All right, cut it out.

We don't need this. Look, I don't want that guy on the street either.

That's not what this is about. We have a job to do.

Everybody in this room did their job, even Lindsey. It was your job to deliver

your best, Bobby, and you were up and down in 30 seconds.

What are we?

Huh? Some clients we try our hardest for, others we pull back?

When the hell are we?

I don't disagree, but it's his wife, Eugene.

Maybe you don't have to excuse him because of that.

But I would think you could understand.

Clerk's office just called.

They have a verdict.

The defendant will please rise.

Mr. Foreman, the jury has a unanimous verdict.

Yes, Your Honor.

What say you?

Commonwealth v.

Lawrence O'Malley on three counts of murder in the first degree.

We find the defendant, Lawrence O'Malley, not guilty.

On three counts of murder in the second degree.

We find the defendant, Lawrence O'Malley, not guilty.

Straight, not guilty.

Your Honor, the Commonwealth seeks to place the defendant under arrest for

concealing and consuming human bodies. Hold on. My client was only charged with

murder. These crimes would be lesser included offenses.

Double jeopardy would attach.

I agree. You can't now arrest him for lesser included, Ms. Gamble. The

has been found not guilty.

He is free to go.

Please release him from the restraint.

Your Honor, this man is clearly dangerous.

Gamble, he's been acquitted. He's free to go.

We're adjourned.

Thank

you,

Bobby.

Eugene, you were sensational.

Clary? Mr. O'Malley?

Mr. O'Malley. Mr. O'Malley, were you surprised by the verdict? Does everybody

else seem to be? No, not at all.

What do you think?

To say the least, I mean, it was a bit intimidating. I'm glad it's over.

It wasn't that we thought he was innocent.

In fact, we all figured him to be guilty. We just couldn't get there

reasonable doubt. Not with that other murder.

I'm sorry.

I think it's the way I handle things.

If I can pretend I'm okay, then... So I...

about how you feel.

You keep it all in until you just explode.

It isn't just me here.

I know.

We both need to do better, Bobby.

But you and I, we won't make it.