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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) I'd like to show you a series of

photographs.

Do these photographs fairly

and accurately represent the crime scene as you

found it?

They do.

Thank you.

Order in the court.

The forensic evidence you spoke of, detective.

My client's sperm, saliva, and skin fragments.

They could all be the product of Jonathan

Frazer's and Eleanor Albers' having sex, true?

That would not explain her crushed skull.

No, it wouldn't.

And yet, when asked by Miss Stamper to

give evidence as to who crushed that skull,

the evidence you gave to incriminate my client

is sperm, saliva, and skin fragments.

And his bloody footprints.

Which he could have left if he'd returned

to the scene after she was killed.

And the fact that your client fled.

Yes, he fled.

I suppose when we have two people come

upon the scene, one flees, the other doesn't,

it's usually the one who flees who gets

put on trial.

It's not as simple as that.

In this case, it is.

There were no eyewitnesses to this crime.

No security cameras in this building to monitor

the comings and goings to see if anybody

else came or went.

There were not.

The footprints, fingerprints, and saliva found at the

scene belonging to two people.

My client and the husband.

Fernando Albers went to the scene after his

son alerted him.

He went to his wife's aid.

His DNA, the DNA that belonged to the

husband, Fernando Albers.

You cannot scientifically exclude the possibility it was

left the night before, can you?

Did you not hear my question?

I did, I did hear your question.

And I also heard your opening statement.

It was offensive.

We don't stick our heads in the sand

in order to jam through quick convictions.

An innocent person got slaughtered.

Our intent was to find out who did

it.

Our only pursuit here was the truth.

However, much of that disappoints you.

And the truth is, that man's DNA.

He had an alibi.

A man with motives.

His son was with him.

They were together at the family apartment over

ten blocks away.

His ten-year-old son.

He was awake the whole time?

There are cameras in and outside the building

that would have shown if Mr. Albers left.

Cameras in the back as well as the

front.

He could have gone out the back.

There is no evidence, either by security cameras,

street cameras, or eyewitness accounts that placed Mr.

Albers on or around the scene that night.

The street cameras, however, did capture your client.

Anybody else?

No.

Where was this taken?

A full block away.

From the scene?

Yes.

At what time?

A little past 9.30 p.m. The

night of the murder?

Yes.

A block from the scene and at the

time of the murder.

Who is this in the picture, do you

know?

Grace Fraser.

The defendant's wife.

The defendant's wife.

Near the scene and around the time.

Gene.

Are you suggesting she killed her?

I'm actually not.

What I am suggesting is that you just

lied.

I'm suggesting that you had evidence of another

person, one with a lot of motive, being

at or near the scene around the time

of death and you questioned her as a

suspect.

We absolutely questioned her.

As a suspect?

You gave her Miranda.

Did you advise Grace Fraser of her Miranda

rights before questioning her as a suspect?

We did not.

Would that not be the law if you

considered her to be a suspect or read

her rights?

It would be if she was a suspect.

But she wasn't.

We had security cameras capturing her walking, continuing

on.

We had and still have no reason to

believe she ever entered the dwelling nor there

was any of her DNA present.

If her DNA had been present, you would

have considered her a suspect.

Of course, but it wasn't.

His was.

Did you ever read Fernando his rights?

You made an exception for Fernando Alves.

Was it because admitting your suspicions of him

might weaken your chances of getting him?

Fernando Alves had an alibi.

Yes.

His sleeping son.

...the detective a squirmy worm.

They're saying, like, can't make the prosecutor feel

good having your whole case ride on a

squirmy worm.

Turn the phone off.

Turn the phone off.

Just turn it off.

Thank you.

It's not often that we get to eat

together at the service.

Yeah.

You'll pour it.

Thank you.

Did you know she was gonna do that?

Pull up that picture?

I did.

And you're okay being a suspect?

I'm not a suspect.

That was Haley's point, that they should have

taken a more serious look at me just

as they should have taken a more serious

look at Mr. Alves.

And they didn't.

They just had tunnel vision for your father.

So, then, your mom told me.

That you saw me and...

me and Eleanor Alves at school.

I'm really sorry about that.

I behaved incredibly badly.

It was repugnant of me to allow you

to witness any of it.

I think we're gonna win.

Do you?

I don't...

I don't know, but I think we might

have made a colossal mistake.

I think Mr. Alves is obviously very sympathetic

and there's no real evidence to show his

guilt, so...

Did you mean what you said?

If we survive this far, we can survive

anything.

I said that?

Last night.

Oh.

If we can survive this trial, I think

this family can survive.

All right.

Don't you?

We need to talk about that another time.

No.

I want to talk about it now.

No, we're not talking about it now.

Let's talk about it.

It's not the time.

You tell your patients that marriages can go

on even after somebody cheats.

Thanks, ma'am.

You tell them that marriages can even sometimes

grow stronger.

Is that a lie?

I said it.

Is that a lie or...

Penny, stop.

Stop.

Just...

You would never cheat again, would you?

You would never...

See?

We can still be

a family.

But, you know, we could even get a

dog.

Finally.

I'll take care of it so you won't

have to worry about what happened before.

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

I asked you a question.

What do you mean?

Mom told me about the dog thing.

About your family blaming you.

Well, she shouldn't have done that.

I think I'm going to get some air.

What did I say?

Mom, what did I say?

It's all right, Mom.

I'm just waiting.

Jonathan.

Jonathan!

I'm sorry.

It's just the stress of it all.

Taking its toll, I suppose.

I don't believe you.

What was that about?

Jonathan, what...

was that about?

I...

I didn't kill the family dog.

We never had a dog.

I had a sister.

I...

I killed the family sister.

Katie.

Katie the kitten, we called her.

I was babysitting her.

I was 14.

She was...

four.

And...

somehow she sneaked out of the house while

I was in the kitchen making a...

a cheese and tomato sandwich.

I heard the sound of the brakes and

then, um, another sound that I will never...

get out of my head.

Your sister got hit by a car?

It was your sister?

You should add that to my list of

lies.

Except I also told myself this one, you

know, that it wasn't my fault.

That, uh...

it was just another unfortunate thing.

But...

because it was my fucking fault.

Because...

Katie...

Katie the kitten was put under my charge.

And she...

and she got hit by a car while

I was making myself a sandwich.

How is it you have never told me

this?

Oh, because we don't...

we don't talk about it, uh...

uh...

ever.

Ever.

It is probably, uh...

why I went into paediatric medicine.

I don't know.

You're...

you're the shrink.

You know better than me, but, uh...

I will tell you this.

Every...

every patient I treat, every single one...

is...

is little Katie.

Yeah.

All this time he was carrying that burden

and I never saw him.

In your professional opinion...

is a past trauma like that...

likely to render a person...

more compassionate...

or more psychotic?

I tried calling his mother...

a few times...

and she never returned.

Even his family doesn't want to have anything

to do with him.

Turn, please.

Turn, please.

Thank you.

Morning.

Turn, please.

Thank you, sir.

Turn, please.

After she hadn't come home...

or...

replied to any of my calls or texts...

my son, Miguel, he...

he went to check on her.

I thought he'd gone to school.

I was just having a busy morning.

The baby, she wasn't there, so...

I told him to just go on...

see himself to the bus...

and...

he didn't.

He went to see his mom.

He went to the studio?

Yes.

And then you went there?

Yes.

After he'd come back.

Crying, screaming.

And so you went there and...

what did you find?

It's...

Helena.

Her wife.

She was lying there.

There was blood everywhere.

Her face.

Her head.

There were like moss.

So you called the police?

Yeah.

I called the police and...

the ambulance.

Thank you.

Mr. Alvarez.

I cannot imagine your pain, sir.

That's a lie.

I'm sorry?

You feel nothing for me.

Or my pain.

You tried to blame me.

I actually didn't.

I simply tried to point out that you

cannot be eliminated as a suspect.

That others cannot be eliminated.

For that you should direct your contempt to

the police, not me.

Objection.

Sustained.

My wife is dead and you're just...

playing games.

That's it.

You disgust me.

I don't mean to incite your rage.

You spoke of your love of Helena.

You loved her very much.

She was everything to me.

I'm sensing that.

But you weren't everything to her.

There were other men.

Including my client.

No, no, no.

There were no other men.

He was the only one.

How can you know that, sir?

Well, because I do.

Did you know that she was romantically involved

with Jonathan?

Helena was able to keep part of herself

from you.

Maybe that's why she kept a separate apartment.

To keep part of her separate.

No, that's not what that was.

That was an apartment for her art.

Because she was an artist.

And she needed to focus and she needed

to work.

That's what that apartment was for.

It wasn't just for her art.

She'd been using it to have an affair

with my client.

Did you know, sir?

Did you know, sir?

Not at first.

But at some point.

And at some point you learned that your

daughter...

That my client was the biological father.

That must have been an awful thing to

learn.

Forgive me, but I have to ask.

Was your wife receiving any psychiatric treatment?

Objection!

Overruled.

Was she?

Yes.

What for, do you know?

You are vile.

My question only goes to who else could

have possibly done this.

We cannot rule out that she saw other

men.

That maybe one such man had the capacity

for explosive jealousy or violent rage.

Objection!

These are the very questions you'd want the

police asking.

Am I right to find out who did

this?

He did this!

Your Honor, may I...

He did this!

Ms. Alvis.

Are you receiving any psychiatric help?

Objection!

I don't mean to be insensitive.

Well, you're doing a great job of it.

You have put this witness on the stand.

Your Honor, may I approach?

Cross-examination.

Ms. Alvis, what do you have to be

going through?

Are you getting any help?

Your Honor...

How do you think it's going?

Your objective opinion.

Look, to me...

it's more likely than not that...

that Jonathan did it.

But more likely isn't the standard.

It's beyond all reasonable doubt.

That puts you ahead.

That and he has the best attorney money

can buy.

Grace, I...

I probably shouldn't ask you this, but...

what are you actually thinking?

Yeah.

You shouldn't ask that.

Another reason I couldn't have done it.

I'd love to.

Quite madly.

Not something I could say to Grace, you

see.

It didn't diminish my love for my wife.

It was just, uh...

different.

It's going well.

But you'll need to testify.

We need to account for why you fled.

Only you can do that.

Don't pretend to be honest because you've told

too many lies.

Don't pretend to be a good husband, a

decent father, because you are arguably neither.

We don't need to give him a good

man.

Just someone who didn't commit murder.

Janet.

Hello?

Grace.

What time is it there?

It's 4 a.m. I couldn't sleep, so...

I thought I would use the time to

return your call.

Well, thank you.

Thank you.

I'm sorry it's...

been so long since we've...

Since the wedding, Grace.

We haven't seen each other since the wedding.

Jonathan's doing, I realize.

How is he?

I can't imagine well.

No, none of us are doing great.

Is.

I'm sorry?

None of us is doing great.

None is a contraction of not one.

It's singular.

The verb is singular.

And, um, Henry.

He must be looking like a grown man

by now.

He's getting there.

I've sent you some pictures, but...

Grace, I don't blame you.

It was Jonathan's decision to no longer be

part of his family.

A decision he made long before he met

you.

Well, I'm just trying to piece everything together

right now.

You can probably understand.

Yes, I can.

I just...

learned that Jonathan had a younger sister.

Kate.

And that he feels responsible for her death.

As he should.

He was responsible.

He allowed a four-year-old to wander

out onto a busy street where she was

struck dead.

That must have been unspeakably awful.

It was.

Janet, um...

The grief and the guilt and...

Jonathan growing up with that, did he ever

get professional help?

He did not.

He suffered from neither...

guilt nor grief.

We kept waiting for it.

We, uh, surrounded him with family support.

Certain that once the shock wore off, the

suffering would begin.

But...

it never did.

Jonathan doesn't know how to suffer.

After his sister was killed, he never even

said he was sorry.

After his sister was killed, he never said

another word about it.

He just went on living here until he

was old enough to leave and never come

back.

Which is what he did.

When he was killed, he was responsible that

he allowed her to wander out of the

house.

And that after, he suffered neither guilt nor

grief.

Grace, I want to be very clear.

I want to understand exactly what you're telling

me.

You're saying that Jonathan's mother said he suffered

from neither guilt nor grief.

In essence, his own mother identified him as

a sociopath.

Yes.

Jesus.

I'm willing to testify.

I'm just going to tell the truth.

Well, what is your truth?

But you've gone there that night for some

reason.

And you actually killed your son.

Should this come to light, it is game

over.

You discovered Elena Elvis.

You didn't call the police.

I panicked, you see, I panicked.

You swear that the testimony you're about to

give is the truth.

The whole truth.

Nothing but the truth.

You should be ashamed!

Please answer the question, Doctor.