All language subtitles for LA Law s04e02 Captain Hurt

Previously on L .A. Law.

What's up?

My friend Alice, she's gone to the
hospital for an operation.

What sort of operation?

One that makes it so she won't have a
baby.

Whoa.

I don't know what Benny's told you, but
my daughter is not pregnant and she's

not going in for any abortion.

Then what's going on?

Alice is going in to be sterilized.

Sterilized? Why?

Because she and Benny are having sexual
intercourse, that's why, and she could

never take care of a baby.

I really think I'm making the right
call, Leland.

It could be right, it could be wrong.
The only thing I'm telling you is that

it's premature.

And what do we do?

I talk to Benny.

I make sure he wears a prophylactic.

Okay. For now, I'll hold off.

Randy and I were childhood sweethearts.

Thanks.

He was literally the boy next door.

We got married and had Chloe while he
was still in design school.

For about five years, everything was
great.

When did things start to go wrong?

Right about the time he started making
money. I helped him finish school,

him build his business, put my own
ambitions on hold.

But he was this great architect now.

Nothing else mattered.

What do you want to do?

What do I want to do?

It's your call.

I probably want to run him over with a
car.

The problem is we have a seven -year
-old daughter who loves us both.

So I think what I need to do is to
resolve this thing as quickly and

as possible.

Okay? Whatever you want. I will need a
$7 ,500 retainer from you. Okay. And

today, not tomorrow, today, we change
the locks on your house.

Is that really necessary?

It is if you have anything you don't
want him to take.

I don't think Randy would do that. Who
do I make this out to?

Mackenzie Brackman. You have a key to
his place?

No. Why should he have a key to yours?

It just seems a little drastic. I don't
know. Deal from strength, Corinne.

That's the way to resolve this quickly.

All right.

I'll change the locks.

But I want you to understand, divorced
or not, to our daughter, we're still a

family.

What does that say?

Arnold Becker, family law.

I am nothing if not sensitive.

Black college professor is accused of
killing his pretty white research

assistant. How big a part is race going
to play in this trial?

Well, it shouldn't play any part at all.
I'm trying this case on the facts.

How's your client holding up?

Right now, he's anxious for the trial to
start.

And we both feel confident that once all
the facts are laid out, he will be

exonerated, and he can put this whole
mess behind him.

Both sides should conclude jury
selection today.

From the Los Angeles Criminal Court
Building, I'm Hal Ochoa.

Since we can assume that Michael's lost
to us for the duration of this trial,

Victor, would you make sure that his
more drab, less newsworthy cases don't

require immediate attention?

Will do.

Ah, Benny. Very good.

Just set it down right here.

Good God, where are the togas?

People, you can't eat too much fresh
fruit.

High water content to cleanse the
gastrointestinal tract.

Zero cholesterol. These are things...

We need to pay attention to, try though
we might to ignore them. In fact, I've

instructed Benny to put fruit in all our
offices.

Thank you, Douglas. Can we move on with
the meeting?

Hammond versus Hammond. Arnold? Yeah.
Hot shot architect walks out on wife and

child. I should be able to carve out
a... Major council fee right out of his

midsection. Here, here. Having just seen
the quarterly reports, we were all

doing likewise.

Yes, Stuart, you might fill us in on a
few of these horrible details.

Yeah, our gross income is down 11%.
Malpractice premiums are up again. And

there's this balloon payment due next
month on the office renovations. We're

sluggish and bloated.

We need to be lean and mean.

On that...

We're adjourned.

Victor. Huh?

Last week, I promised Leo Hackett that I
would make sure that...

I'd make sure that Benny was practicing
responsible sex.

Uh -huh. And I figured you might help me
share the burden.

Now, Arnie spoke to him once, but then
he didn't wish to entertain the

discussion. And I figured since you had
such a successful trip with him to the

zoo... I don't know, Leland.

You're the fatherly figure.

Oh, no. Oh, no. I figure coming from me,
that would make him too nervous.

Please.

Mr. Nevins, do you believe that black
people are discriminated against in this

country?

Let's just say that it's my experience,
not my belief.

Do you think that experience is shared
by all black people?

I do.

Including the defendant?

Yes, ma 'am. Including the defendant.

Prosecution asks that Mr. Nevins be
excused for cause.

Objection. What's the cause?

I believe that Mr. Nivens is predisposed
to view the charges against the

defendant as racist and is incapable of
judging this case on the facts.

There's no showing of cause here.

Denied. In that case, prosecution would
exercise one of its preemptory

challenges and ask that Mr. Nivens be
excused.

Mr. Nivens is excused.

Thank you for your time.

Mr. McGuire, do you have many black
friends?

No.

You have any black friends?

None. How would you feel if your
daughter married a black man?

I don't know if he was a decent sort. I
don't think it would bother me much.

The defense would accept this man.

Mr. McTwire.

How do you feel about capital
punishment?

I guess I'm on the fence.

Do you think, sir...

That the possibility of execution would
prevent you from rendering a guilty

verdict if the facts supported it. Not
if the facts supported it, no. In other

words, you're capable of sending this
man to his death.

Yes. Thank you. The prosecution accepts
this man.

I did the best I could picking him. With
jurors, you just never know.

Oh, it's a crapshoot.

You got a good case, Earl. That's not a
crapshoot.

Jackie, tomorrow, don't forget to bring
a dark suit, a white shirt, and a tie

for Earl. And I want the kids dressed
like they're going to church.

Uh,

the kids are supposed to be in school.

It's important that they be here.

They told me this morning that they want
to be here with their father, Earl.

Your family's behind you. I want the
jury to see that.

Miss Vitek, in what capacity did you
work for the defendant?

I was his secretary.

Are you familiar with People's Exhibit
No.

1? Yes, it's a claims form for a 1989
Jaguar. And what about People's Exhibit

No. 2 through 97?

Are you familiar with these forms?
They're all automobile claim forms that

Knipp put through. Can you tell the
court, ma 'am, if the automobiles that

forms refer to...

ever actually existed?

They did not. And for each and every
instance, Miss Vitek, who received the

money that Pioneer Insurance paid on
these policies?

He did. Let the record reflect that the
witness has indicated the defendant,

Leonard Nip. Tell us, ma 'am, didn't the
company have ways of verifying claims?

Leonard was senior claims adjuster. He
knew exactly what to do. Objection. The

witness has no idea what Mr. Nip knew.

Sustained. Did the defendant admit to
falsifying claims?

Admit it?

He used to brag to me about it.

He thought it made him a big man.

Guess what, Leonard?

Thank you, Miss Vitek. I have no further
questions.

Miss Vitek, you're testifying under a
grant of immunity, are you not? Yes,

Korngold, that's what I'm doing. In
other words, you yourself could have

prosecuted for these crimes.

Tell us, did Leonard ever buy you
anything out of the monies he received

these policies?

Listen, he was constantly buying me
things.

Yes, he was. He bought you a Mercedes.

He bought you a co -op apartment in
Century City.

What's your point?

My point is, Miss Vitek, that you are
what is known as a dominatrix.

Objection. Irrelevant. Your Honor, this
is cross -examination. The sexual

persona of the witness is wholly
appropriate subject matter. Objection is

overruled. You specifically ordered
Leonard Nip to falsify those claims.

Leonard's a big boy.

He did what he wanted. Did you or did
you not spank Leonard?

Very rarely. He referred to you as
Mistress Irma, and you called him Little

Lenny the Worm.

What have you been telling people,
Leonard? It's all irrelevant, Your

is not irrelevant, Your Honor.

The relationship between these two
people is central to the question of

innocence. No speeches, Miss Korngold.
The objection is overruled.

Don't you feel just the tiniest bit
strange, Miss Vitek? What does that

You had an intimate relationship with
Leonard for more than seven years, and

not only disavowed any personal
responsibility, you turned on someone

adores you.

So what?

He loves it.

All these big, strong women around him.

So much abuse, so little time.

Just part of the process, that's all.

I never thought you'd have him arrested.

Don't worry, okay?

What do you mean, don't worry? You're
putting him in jail.

Corinne, we're not putting him in jail.
What we're doing is sending him a

message. Now, look, here's what I want
you to do.

Just stand behind me and not say a word.

So you should have arrested the two of
them?

Uh -huh, who are they? She's your
complainant, Sergeant. That's right, and

her lawyer. You're pushing it, Arnie. On
this one, you're pushing it. Hey, last

time I looked, breaking and entering was
still a crime.

It's his own house.

He abandoned this woman. He abandoned
the house. All right, bring him over

What were you doing there?

I was picking up some of my daughter's
things for the weekend.

Did he harass you in any way?

No. She wasn't even home.

Why the hell did you ever arrest him? He
set off the alarm. The security patrol

responded. They called us. Then they
called him.

They're instructed to call me. He told
me the guy didn't live there anymore and

that they were pressing charges.

I thought we weren't going to do this,
Corinne.

Take the cuffs off him. Wait a minute. I
said take the cuffs off him and get out

of here, all of you.

You might well be looking at a false
arrest beef here, miss. Save the

my friend.

In the future, he won't say anything
from that. It's your time to have your

office. Call my office.

Let's go.

He knows we mean business now. This is
good.

Her name was Nina Corey.

She wrote poetry.

And she dreamed of becoming a reporter.

She loved a gray and white cat named
Emma.

She made the mistake of loving the
defendant.

And that mistake, ladies and gentlemen,
cost Nina Corey her life.

Three days shy of her 21st birthday, the
defendant...

That man killed her.

Oh, it wasn't quick.

And it was anything but painless. In
fact, he wanted her to suffer.

He wanted her to cry out in pain. We
will place him at her apartment on the

night she was killed.

We will prove beyond all reasonable
doubt that he took a baseball bat and

systematically broke her legs, ruptured
her spleen...

and crushed her skull with such fury.

Positive identification was only
possible by using dental records.

After you've been shown all that, I have
every faith, ladies and gentlemen,

that each and every one of you will do
the right thing

and find the defendant guilty.

A terrible crime was committed.

A brutal murder.

And as is always the case, we are
desperate to find someone to blame.

Now, the police felt that desperation.

They felt the public clamoring for this
killer to be caught.

And the people of Los Angeles, almost as
one, wanted to know his name.

They wanted to see his picture in the
paper, and they wanted it fast.

Now, it offends us as deeply as anything
can that a crime like this one goes

unpunished.

But it also has to offend us just as
much, however, that the wrong man be

punished.

And this man is the wrong man.

He wasn't Nina Corey's lover.

And he wasn't Nina Corey's killer.

The police will tell you that he is.

Because they want to know that they have
solved this crime.

The prosecutor will tell you that he is.

Because prosecutors like to win.

All I ask is that you honor your oath.

Honor your oath.

If you do that, ladies and gentlemen...

you will set Earl Williams free.

Thanks. Sit down.

Now, I know I only spoke to you about
this last week, and I know that you do

like talking about it, but we have to,
Benny, okay?

Now, you know what I'm about to say,
don't you?

Sex.

That's right, sex.

Now, nobody here thinks it's wrong for
you and Alice to have sex.

Benny?

Benny, I need you to listen to me, and I
want you to look at me, okay?

Sexual intercourse is a very big step in
a relationship.

Now, some people feel that you need to
be married first, and other people

Personally, I think it's okay if the two
people really care very strongly for

each other and are really committed to
one another.

Now, if you and Alice decide to have
sex, that's nobody's business.

But it's really important that you act
responsibly so that you can prevent the

spread of disease and so that you can
prevent Alice from becoming pregnant.

Betty, when you and Alice have sex, do
you wear a condom?

Well, we only had sex one time.

Okay. Did you wear a condom?

What's that?

Benny, I thought Arnie told you that you
have to wear something when you're

having intercourse.

He said I had to wear a rubber.

Yeah, right. Well, that's the same
thing. Did you wear one?

No.

Well, why not, Benny? It's really
important.

I'm afraid to buy them.

Oh, Benny, well, everyone feels awkward
about buying them at first.

You get used to it.

Okay, I'll tell you what.

We'll go to the drugstore and we'll buy
them together.

So that way you can see how easy it
could be.

I don't know.

Benny?

Tomorrow, you and I are going condom
shopping.

Okay?

Okay.

Corinne. It's too rough on me, Arnie.
It's too rough on my daughter. I just

it to be over.

What do you mean?

I don't want any more scenes like last
night's. Hey, me neither.

In that case, let's just shut it down as
quickly as possible, okay? Fine, let's

shut it down.

Towards that end, what can you tell me
about your husband's discharge from the

service? Excuse me?

Well, he was given a general rather than
an honorable discharge from the army.

Would you happen to know why?

Leave that alone, okay?

We're on the same side, remember?

When I negotiate a deal, the more I know
about whoever's across the table, the

better I can do my job.

Well, you're going to have to do it
without Randy's service record. But

There are certain confidences I just
can't betray.

Corinne... Just settle it, please.

You have all the information you need.

I'll do my best.

Rock.

Give me Dave Stapleton at the Veterans
Administration.

Leonard Nip is a masochist. This is
combined with an abnormally high sex

The result is an individual who lives in
a state of virtual bondage to the will

of another.

And in the defendant's case, who is that
other? His former secretary, Irma

Vitek. Doctor, what does it...

Bondage, as you call it, entail. Well,
one ritual was that Miss Vitek would

order Leonard to clean her bathroom,
then let him chew on one of her dirty

as a reward.

Would ordering him to falsify claims
qualify as bondage? Absolutely.

Regardless of the demand, Mr. Nip was
wholly incapable of disobeying. Was he

capable of telling right from wrong?

In my opinion, he was not.

Thank you, Doctor. No further questions.

Tell us. Doctor, what was the effect on
the defendant of obeying Miss Vitek?

Very, very intense physical
gratification.

In other words, he did it for pleasure.

Ms. Van Owen, pleasure to Mr.

Nip is not the same as pleasure to you
or me.

You're right about that.

What I'm trying to say is that Mr. Nip's
behavior can only be understood in the

context of his condition.

What condition?

Masochism.

Coprolognia.

Hyperesthesia? I'm not talking through
my hat here.

Flagellum salutis was first published in
1698. It specifically refers to this

phenomenon. Doctor, have you ever known
a patient to fake it? Leonard Nip is not

faking it. No?

This...

Sniveling, whining, attempt at self
-justification?

This couldn't be an act? I would see
through it, Ms. Van Owen. But then you

wouldn't be paid to testify, Doctor. If
you had said that Leonard Nip grovels

because and only because it's in his
best interest to grovel, then you

have been hired, would you have? I
didn't inquire into the conditions of my

employment. Would you have been hired,
yes or no?

No. Thank you.

By this time, she'd been his assistant
for about two years.

Mr. Corey, was your daughter
romantically involved with the defendant

time of her death?

It's my belief that she was, yes.

What do you base that belief on?

At first, she'd just talk about him.

How much she was learning in his class.

How he wasn't like any of her other
professors.

Then, like I said, she became his
research assistant.

They went away together for weekends.

I asked her about it once.

All she said was, Daddy, I know what I'm
doing.

When was the last time that you saw your
daughter, sir?

The night he killed her.

Objection. Sustained. The night that she
got killed. Okay, is that better?

Go on, Mr. Corey.

The police called me. I saw her lying
there on her bedroom floor while they

pictures. This little bit of a thing
lying in a heap.

With her skull crushed.

Thank you. I have no further questions.

Did you ever see your daughter and the
defendant holding hands?

Or kissing?

Or doing any of the things that people
who are romantically involved might do?

She wouldn't have done that around me.

So the answer's no. Now these...

weekends when they went away together.
These were, in fact, academic

that were sponsored by the university
and were attended by hundreds of others.

Is that right?

That doesn't change anything.

Well, you testify that your daughter was
having an affair with Mr. Williams, and

you're basing that on her having spoken
about his teaching, her having worked

with him, and her having gone away with
him on academic conferences.

Now, forgive me, but that doesn't sound
like very conclusive proof, sir. I knew

my daughter.

Well, did she ever tell you that she was
seeing Mr. Williams?

Not in so many words.

In any words?

In any words, Mr. Corey, did she ever
tell you she was seeing him?

No, she never told me.

Thank you.

I have no further questions.

Thank you, Mr. Corey.

Norma Vitek was everything.

I was nothing.

I only wanted to serve her. How did you
know Irma Vitek wanted you to file those

claims? She told me to do it. She said
she couldn't waste her time with someone

who showed no initiative or courage.

So you were willing to break the law?

I obeyed her. You're a grown man,
Leonard. Age has nothing to do with it.

Leonard, why couldn't you just say no?

Total obedience is total obedience. You
can't pull back. That wrecks it. I know

you all think I'm some sick freak, but
you don't know what it's like to obey. I

live for it. Thank you, Leonard.

No further questions.

Let's see, Mr. Moot.

You sent in these false claims for two
and a half years without being caught.

You had bank accounts under 16 different
aliases. You're a pretty clever guy.

Not really. No?

Miss Vitek certainly couldn't have done
it.

She didn't know how to send in claims
forms that would pass muster with your

company. She wasn't a claims adjuster.
You were. In fact, you were her boss.

What a charade that was.

I was her slave, her plaything. No, Mr.
Nip, you were and are a liar and a

thief.

Objection. Sustained. You knew you were
committing a crime when you filed those

claims. Yes. You even took precautions
so that you wouldn't be caught.

Only so that I could keep on doing it.

Filling out those forms was the greatest
sexual experience I've ever had. And

you can laugh at that all you want to. I
know it's true.

Ask that the witness confine his remarks
to answering the question.

I'm sorry.

Ask that the witness stop embellishing
his answers with submissive behavior

specifically calculated to support his
defense. Mr.

Nip.

I'm sorry.

I won't do it anymore.

Benny? Benny?

Benny? Come on, closer. Here, it's okay.
Come on.

Can I help you?

I, uh... I want to buy a

condom. What kind?

The kind for sex.

Do you think that's funny?

Uh, Pentrex, please.

I'll be with you in a moment. I'm
waiting on him right now.

I'm with him.

Oh, I see.

Pentrex, non -lubricated, no reservoir.
Please.

Phil!

Uh, Pentrex condoms, there's no price.

Is that the right price?

One -fifth of a dollar. Pentrex, non
-lubricated. Mint? Not mint.

Who may I help here?

Well, the condoms are for him. He's
doing the shopping. We're together.

They're together.

How much is that, please?

$2 .79.

That's $2 .97 with the tax.

Here, Benny.

Thank you.

I did it, Victor.

I bought my condom. Yes, you did, Dana.
Come on, let's go.

You were living in the apartment
directly underneath Nina Corey's. Is

right? Yes.

Were you home on the evening of November
8, 1988?

Yes, I was.

Tell us what happened.

Well, around 6 .30, I heard a lot of
screaming and yelling up there.

There was a loud thud, and then this
pounding, like somebody was pounding on

floor with a hammer, seemed to go on for
a long time.

What did you do? I called the police,
and then I went upstairs to see what was

going on. When I got to the top of the
steps, I saw a man run out of Nina's

apartment. Was the man that you saw in
the courtroom now?

Yes. He's sitting right over there. Let
the record reflect that the witnesses

identified the defendant, Earl Williams.

I have no further questions.

Amy.

It was an outdoor staircase that you
were on when you saw this man, right?

Now, according to the records of the U
.S. Meteorological Service, the sun set

that day at 4 .54.

You testified that you went upstairs
around 6 .30.

I could see fine.

How much time would you estimate you had
to observe this man?

A few seconds. I don't know exactly, but
he passed right next to me.

Were you frightened?

Sort of. You're not used to seeing a
black face where you live, are you?

Objection. That has nothing to do with
the witness's identification of the

defendant. It has everything to do with
it, Your Honor.

Overruled. Amy, in the statement you
gave to the police, you described the

you saw as being a male black, 30 to 40
years of age, medium height, medium

build.

Medium complexion.

That really narrows it down, doesn't it?

I also picked him out from a photograph.

Right, a photograph that you saw a month
later that had a caption on it that

identified Earl Williams as the suspect
in the case.

Do you have a question for the witness,
Mr. Cusack?

What did you do when this black man ran
past you?

I didn't do anything. I stood there.

Well, did you look at him? You look away
from him? What? I looked at him long

enough. Long enough for it to register
that he was black, that he was a

stranger, that he was in a hurry.

One split second.

And then you did what anybody else in
your position would do. You put your

down and you stayed out of trouble.
Counsel's making speeches.

Mr. Cusack.

That is the man that I saw.

What color is my tie?

Objection. The witness is being asked to
jump through hoops under pressure. She

was under a lot more than pressure that
night. She was scared to death. The

witness can answer. Your tie is red.

What's the pattern?

Polka dots.

You sure?

Yes.

At least you got the color right.

Arnie. You've got the house, you've got
the vault. They can divvy up the art

with alternate picks.

The Idlewild cabin was designed by
Randy, built by Randy. The title is held

his corporation.

It's a marital asset.

Like hell it is.

Did Corinne say she wants me to sell it?
Stuart, would you please advise Mr.

Hammond that whatever my client tells me
is privileged communication? She would

never want me to sell it. It's the first
house I ever designed.

And she's not entitled to it. She is
entitled to it and a great deal more.

Like what?

Like a major piece of that burgeoning
architectural firm that your client ran?

Wait a minute.

I'm not going to dismantle my firm.

Come up with a $750 ,000 lump sum
payment. You won't have to. You are way

line. Am I?

I don't think so, but, hey, there's an
easy way to find out. Let's bring an

appraiser in to take a look at the
business. Hey, I have partners.

I'm carrying a large debt.

I'm up to my neck in work. You are not
about to start pawing around through my

firm. Is that a no? I thought you wanted
the tantalizing.

It doesn't mean I don't want to drop my
pants and bend over. You shysters.

You just see the dollar signs, don't
you?

Shysters? The shysters.

Bloodsuckers. Leeches.

You can show your client out now.
Stuart, let him do what he's going to

I'm not giving up Idlewild. And I'm not
negotiating on my business.

Believe me, this isn't coming from
Corinne. Let me ask you something,

Does getting the better of a woman make
you feel like a man?

What's that supposed to mean?

The client got caught in a little
homosexual activity while stationed at

Benning, Stuart.

She told you that?

I think it's left him feeling like he
has something to prove.

Maybe beating up on his wife in a
divorce settlement is one way to do

don't you shut your mouth?

Hey, what's done is done, babe.

Is that it? Is that it?

Huh? You gonna hit me?

Is that gonna make you feel like a man?

Is it difficult for you to believe that
this man lost the ability to tell right

from wrong?

Consider this.

We live in a vast, sprawling metropolis.

Within it are countless walking bundles
of psychosexual pathology.

Sadists, masochists, rotors, apron
freaks, all of them living ostensibly

lives while nurturing their own
particular little kink or quirk. The

in Leonard Nip's case,

is that his grew too powerful to resist.

So he bartered his will for the whip
point of happiness.

You might say, strange, yes, but is it
insanity?

I submit to you it's precisely that.

Leonard Nip was unable to tell right
from wrong. He was unable to control his

impulses. Leonard wasn't sane and
Leonard wasn't free.

He was held captive by his own
obsession.

Ladies and gentlemen, don't make him a
criminal.

Understand him for the tormented, sick
individual that he is.

Thank you.

First off, ladies and gentlemen, let me
say that nothing you

do can make Leonard Nip a criminal.

If he's a criminal, it's because he
elected to commit a crime.

Secondly, I don't think this case is all
that strange. When you cut through

all the lurid details, it's about greed.

Mr. Nip wanted things he couldn't
afford, so he defrauded his employer to

them. The fact that Irma Vitek may have
benefited from these crimes or even

encouraged their commission doesn't
absolve the defendant.

There is no criminal insanity here.

Leonard Nip likes to be abused. I don't
condemn him for that. I don't seek to

ridicule him. All I've been trying to do
is to demonstrate that he was possessed

of criminal intent.

that he planned, carried out, and
benefited from the crime of

Punish him for that.

Punish him for each and every one of
those 90 counts. Find

him guilty and punish him.

Thank you.

In the murder trial of Earl Williams,
defense attorney Michael Cusack appeared

to score a few points of his own today
as he shook the testimony of an

eyewitness. Additional eyewitnesses
expected to play for the defendant at

scene of the crime did not materialize,
and prosecutor Margaret Flanagan has

announced that she will proceed without
them.

Well, I'm going.

Hi.

How you doing?

I'm great.

Oh, you look like you've lost already.

I'm just tired, that's all.

You know, you got the department
squirming on this one.

Well, we're not exactly relaxed either.

Did you know that he was fluent in
Russian?

Who?

Earl Williams.

Oh. He had to read Tolstoy in its
original order to get his doctorate.

I mean, the man was fluent in Russian.

You think you've got an innocent one
here, don't you?

I know he's innocent.

You want to come join us for a beer?

It's a fun group.

No, I think I'll finish this and go
home. I've got a big day tomorrow.

Okay.

Hang in there, Mickey.

I will.

Yeah.

Mr. Forrester, what's your background,
sir?

I'm a molecular biologist by training.

Now, your lab has positively placed the
defendant inside Nina Corey's apartment

by means of DNA testing. Can you explain
to the jury just what that is?

I renew my pretrial objection, Your
Honor. With respect to DNA testing,

no evidence of conformity with
scientifically accepted standards.

You're free to cross -examine on the
point, Mr. Cusack. The witness can

Deoxyribonucleic acid, or...

DNA is found in every cell in our body,
and each person's DNA is different. How

do you match one sample with another?

We enlarge them until they almost
resemble a barcode that you'd see in a

supermarket. Then we compare them.

The likelihood of two people having
matching samples is statistically

insignificant. Based on a comparison of
DNA samples.

Is it your opinion that the defendant
was present in Nina Corey's apartment?

Objection. Irrelevant. The defendant has
already admitted being in the apartment

in the past. The issue here is whether
he was there at the time of death.

I'm getting there, Your Honor. The
objection's overruled.

Tell us how you identified the
defendant.

Two hairs were located that were left
behind on the bed. I object to the

implication, Your Honor. For all Mr.
Forrester knows, those hairs could have

been carried in on Nina Corey's coat.

Sustained.

What else is your opinion based on?
Fresh semen was found on Nina Corey's

sheets at the time her body was
discovered.

Objection. Move to strike.

Overruled. Whose semen was it?

Objection, Your Honor. Overruled, Mr.
Cusack. Whose semen was it? Your Honor,

object. It was the defendant, Earl
Williams.

Your Honor, the defense moves for a
mistrial right here and now. I'll see

counsel in chambers.

Where's the surprise, Your Honor? Mr.

Cusack knew we were calling a DNA
expert. Well, not to testify to sexual

intercourse. I sure as hell didn't know
that.

The only thing I knew about were the
hair samples. You have some explaining

do, Miss Flanagan. Your Honor, the semen
report only got to me the day before

yesterday. I barely had time to go over
it myself.

I don't believe it.

You think I'm lying?

Yes, I think you're lying. Wait a
minute.

Why was there no evidence of sexual
intercourse in the autopsy report?

I don't know, Your Honor.

But I'm told if you were wearing
protection, there might not be.

Well, the fact of the matter is, Mr.

Cusack, you knew that the prosecution
was going to try to establish that a

romantic relationship existed.

Yes, I did, but I didn't know they were
going to do it by this offer of proof.

I understand. And that being the case,
I'll give you time to prepare for cross

-examination. Also, you can hunt up your
own DNA expert to refute these

findings, assuming that's what you're
going to try to do. Yeah, well, that's

going to take a little more than an
afternoon, Your Honor.

You want a continuance? You got it. With
all due respect, I think that the

prosecutor's conduct here warrants a
mistrial.

Mr. Cusack, right now I am not granting
a mistrial. Until you decide whether or

not to contest this evidence, I don't
know that your client has been

at all.

Also, I cannot conclude that an officer
of the court willfully concealed

evidence if she denies it.

Of course you have to show him.

What good is a condom if he doesn't know
how to put it on?

Abby, what am I supposed to do, give
this guy a demonstration?

Well, he's a model.

I don't have a model.

Oh, here.

Here.

Eat this.

A banana?

Yeah.

Looks about right.

Go get him, Victor.

Abby.

Please be advised that unless an
appropriate response is forthcoming, We

fully prepared to do that which is
necessary to enforce the aforementioned

judgment. You bastard.

What? You went behind my back. You did
exactly what I asked you not to do. I

what I felt was necessary. What you felt
was necessary.

Yeah, so maybe you ought to wait and see
what kind of offer they come back with

before deciding I was wrong. Here,
everything you asked for.

This is fantastic.

Maybe to you.

My daughter is seven. She doesn't seem
to think it's so fantastic.

She wasn't quite ready to have all the
venom and the hatred that grown -ups

on each other dumped into her lap.

I think she was entitled to just a few
more years of being a kid.

Look, I played rough, yes, but I got you
what you wanted.

I didn't want for my little girl to grow
up breathing poison.

Look, it'll pass.

Who deals with it if it doesn't pass?

Corrine!

Corinne! Corinne, can we discuss this?
There's nothing to discuss.

Corinne, come on.

Come on, honey, let's go.

You're very welcome.

Are you going to eat that banana?

No. May I have it?

I'm feeling a potassium low.

I guess so.

Thank you.

Fresh.

Has the jury reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

What say you? We find the defendant
guilty.

I would like to thank the jury for its
effort.

Sentencing will be set down for Tuesday,
December 5th. Your Honor, my client has

made a request that I'm duty -bound to
convey to the court. What is it? He's

asked that his bail be revoked and that
he be remanded to custody pending

sentencing. Might I ask why, Mr. Kniff?
Your Honor, Miss Van Owen...

Mistress Van Owen was right.

The things I did were bad. I belong in
jail.

Your Honor, I object.

This man is doing nothing more than
continuing to trot out this canard in an

effort to gain lenience. Ms. Van Owen,
please.

Mr. Nip, you want me to send you to
jail.

Fine. That's where you're going.

Let me be your serf. Mr.

Nip. Let me do your wash.

Your Honor, the man needs professional
care.

He needs to be held accountable for his
actions.

Let me lie face down in your dirty
bathwater.

That's it. The court officer will remove
this man and place him in custody.

Let's go.

Oh, my.

Earl, you got to get real straight with
me, real fast.

I can go in there and attack the
prosecution's DNA expert.

Or I can find one of our own to testify
that that semen wasn't yours. But before

I do, I gotta know.

Did you go to bed with her that
afternoon?

Yes or no?

Yes or no, damn it?

Yeah.

Earl.

You're a smart man. You know how
sophisticated the crime labs are. What

think they were going to find out? I
didn't think they could trace it to me.

you sent me in there spewing bald -faced
lies. Now the D .A. has cut the legs

out from under both of us. I thought
you'd do a better job if you believed I

innocent.

Meaning what?

You're not?

I'm innocent of murder.

Well, it sure as hell doesn't look like
that.

I know.

Wife's sake.

I'd rather not get into it. You don't
have a choice.

It's between her and me. Look, I am not
asking you this because I'm nosy. I have

to know whether or not I can put her on
the stand. Then talk to her. I'm talking

to you. Now you better give me some
answers that aren't lies or stop wasting

time.

I went to Nina's early that afternoon
and made love.

Afterward, we sat in the kitchen and had
a cup of tea.

About four o 'clock, I kissed her
goodbye and I left.

You think I'm a liar?

I know you're a liar.

So does the jury.

The question now is whether or not they
think you're a killer.