All language subtitles for LA Dragnet s01e11 For Whom the Whistle Blows

The story you are about to see was
inspired by actual events.

The names have been changed to protect
the innocent.

It was Monday. It was warm in Los
Angeles.

My partner and I were working the day
shift out of robbery homicide.

The call came at 1115.

Abandoned car, Santa Monica Canyon.

Female, decomposed body.

Possible gunshot to the head.

A fire department brush clearance team
spotted the car.

Santa Monica Canyon was on the western
edge of the city, quiet, isolated.

That was one of the strange things about
L .A., patches of barren wilderness

hidden in a vast metropolis.

People came out here to forget the city.

Sometimes, if they were unlucky, the
city forgot them.

My name's Friday.

I'm a cop.

Seven Series Beamer went over the edge.
Could have sat there forever. No one

would have known.

You on this one?

Captain, you know I was in court in
Santa Monica. Asked if I could swing by.

idea how long the car was down there?

Tag says April 97.

We're running the place. Six years.
Anything left of the victim?

Depends on your definition of anything.

Mind if I say it on this?

Well, if it is what it looks like,
everyone will be on it.

Detective, take a look.

Adult female.

Partially mummified from the elements.

Well, the stall is shattered here.

It could have happened when she drove
off the road.

Looks more like a small caliber gunshot.
That's why I called it in. Anyone touch

this car?

No, none on the inside.

Well, I don't think she drove off the
road. You don't drive off a cliff in

neutral. Well, maybe a robbery?

I don't see any jewelry or a handbag.

Maybe she picked up someone she
shouldn't have. I don't think you drive

and pick up hitchhikers.

Well, whoever did this, why don't they
take the car?

Looks like she had a son. Maybe 15, 16.

Okay, auto status says car was
registered to Christopher and Carolyn

Six years.

You couldn't help wondering what had
happened in this house since then.

A child becoming an adult without his
mother.

A husband mourning the loss of his wife.

Time had stopped for Carolyn Meeker.

For those who loved her, life had gone
on.

How had they coped? Who had they been
then?

And who would they be now?

I kept hoping the phone would ring.

She'd say she was sorry that she was
coming back.

Are you sure it's Carolyn?

We'll know better after the autopsy.

I, uh... I... I thought she'd abandoned
us.

Why did you think that?

Too many business trips.

I actually... I said it to my son.

I thought she was having an affair and
that she ran off with someone.

When was the last time you saw her?

It was dinner the night before. I left
early the next morning to go to the

airport. I had this consulting business.

My son called and said that she didn't
come home.

So I called her office and a friend.

I called the police.

Other than the idea that she was having
an affair, was there anything else?

Didn't make any sense.

She had everything.

She had a great job. She loved it.
ComSec.

They're defense contractors.

I went on TV. I asked everyone if they'd
seen her.

Nothing.

People say, move on, let it go.

You'll recover from this.

You know what?

You never do.

Christopher Meeker was right.

We say we recover from the worst. The
truth is, people don't.

We could offer one thing, a version of
finality.

Who took this woman from the people who
loved her?

What would the evidence tell us?

Single shot, fired into the right
frontal lobe.

Stomach contents? The insects took care
of that.

But the other organ says a remarkable
state of preservation.

That's a uterus, completely mummified.

It appeared slightly enlarged, so I did
some sections. I expected endometriosis,

maybe cancer, but...

That is clearly an embryo.

Eight weeks at most.

Carolyn Meeker was pregnant.

This is one of the biggest missing
persons files I've ever seen. Detective

the case was Louisa Rainer. Retire.
Spend more time with her kids.

She'll be here in ten minutes.

From the looks of it, she was good. Over
51 interviews.

Anything on the weapon?

22 Browning automatic.

Start at the beginning of that, call
everyone.

What are they going to remember after
six years? Anything they've thought

her since she disappeared.

Six years. A month hasn't gotten by. I
haven't thought about Carolyn Meeker.

She was about my age.

16 -year -old son.

My boy was 16.

She was very successful.

Big bucks. Found the time to volunteer
for a nursing home.

One of those weird things that sticks in
your head.

Husband had some vague idea about an
affair.

Her friend said she was distracted.

Something on her mind.

She came home late a couple of times too
often. It says here that she had passed

in corporate stock options just a week
before she disappeared.

Yeah, it was a defense contractor.

350 grand.

Well, that's motive.

Her husband?

No. Now, first of all, he was out of
town.

Everyone said they were happy.

And on top of it all, she was making a
fortune, twice what he did. So you never

thought of any suspects?

Nobody? I thought about the son,
Zachary.

He had no alibi, truancy, ran with a bad
crowd.

The father never mentioned that.

Kid ended up doing juvie time.

Him along with a couple other kids.

Liquor store, armed robbery.

She's tagging along.

I think that's running my friends.

Why go through with the robbery, then?

Just being a punk.

Acting out, I guess.

We found that in the car with your
mother.

She's six years now. I thought she
bailed on me.

It's like I can't let myself believe
that she's, um... She's dead.

Do you...

Do you know who killed her? We have a
lot of unanswered questions.

Does that include, you know, someone she
might have been seeing?

Why would you say that?

Blew off school one day, went down to
Melrose, bought some CDs, and I saw her

a restaurant with this guy.

My mom looked pretty upset, and this guy
reached over and took her hand, and he

just kept holding it, and my mom was
letting him.

And that's the last time you saw them?

I know they were together another time,
a business trip.

I called her hotel, and a guy answered.

I'm not really sure it was him, but who
else could it have been?

You didn't mention this to the police
six years ago.

I was 16, man.

I didn't know what to think.

I was mad. I figured, she doesn't want
to be found.

I'm not going to look.

Do you remember the date that you
called?

How could I forget that one?

It was the night before we robbed a
liquor store.

You think that was honest?

Sure. He misses his mother. Feels guilty
for being angry at her. Look what he

tells us. I get angry, I act out. He
calls a hotel.

A man who's not his father answers the
phone. Then what? He robs the store. You

think he lost control?

Maybe. He's got no alibi.

Thinks his mother's having an affair.

Can you honestly tell me you think that
kid murdered his mother?

When I had it all up, no. But
something's wrong.

What? I don't know.

But he gave us the date of his mother's
hotel stay.

Let's call ConSec, see if they have her
travel record.

We were horrified by the news about
Carolyn.

Please.

You worked with her at that time?

I brought Carolyn into the company. She
was my protege.

The truth is, if she hadn't disappeared,
she'd have ended up CEO, not me.

She must have been very smart.

They don't come much smarter.

She turned our guidance system division
around in six months.

Looking back, is there anything you've
thought that might help explain her

disappearance? Wasn't it a robbery or
something?

What can I tell you?

Well, for example, she exercised stock
options at the same time.

Yeah, the police asked about that. I
don't know what to say. She was cautious

about money.

Did other executives cash in their
options?

I'm sorry, why would that have anything
to do with Carolyn's disappearance?

Mr. Hindle, it's a simple question.

Look, it was a long time ago.

This was a smart guy, Martin Hindle.

He knew all about stock options.

What they were worth when you sold, when
you didn't.

Six years ago, Carolyn Meeker had sold
hers. He knew why.

He didn't want to tell us.

Thank you.

Carolyn's former assistant has the
travel records that you wanted.

She was terrific.

She treated me like a real person.

Did you know her outside of work?

Oh, not really. She was awfully busy
most of the time.

Before she disappeared, did you notice
any change in her behavior?

Well, I didn't think about it till
later.

She was... Yeah, I don't know what it
was.

For years, I made all her calls, and
then suddenly she started closing her

office door and making her own calls.

Possibly to a man who wasn't her
husband?

No.

Not Carolyn, no.

Absolutely not, no. She would never
cheat on Chris.

If you had seen Carolyn with her family,
you'd know. She wasn't that kind of a

person. Ah, Carolyn's travel, September
through October, 1997.

Carolyn Meeker had some secrets.

You mean an affair?

Maybe, or maybe something entirely
different.

Kendall was holding something back. Why
did she cash in those options?

That's something we need to follow up.
Before that, I want you to see where

are on the gun.

They dug some bullet fragments out of
Carolyn Meeker's skull, sent them over.

Your shooter used the hollow point .22.

Man, you said fragments. You really
meant it.

What about the shell casings they found
in the BMW?

Here it is.

This you can get a match on.

Pin strike and extraction marks.

Well, there's only one problem.

What makes us think we're going to find
the gun used in the six -year -old

murder?

The guy you just spoke with, Martin
Hendel?

According to this, he said the same
exact thing about Carolyn Meeker when he

interviewed six years ago. Run him. See
if anything turns up. Sexual harassment

charges, anything.

Carolyn Meeker was at the Fairmont Hotel
in San Francisco three weeks before she

disappeared. Just like the son told us
around the time of his arrest.

Get the names of all the male guests at
the same time. Look for anyone who was

alone and had an LA drug.

Carolyn Meeker's son, the armed robbery?

I checked the juvenile record.

One of the kids fired a gun to scare the
clerk. That kind of gun.

22 Ruger. Helen Meeker was shot with a
Browning. Ballistic said they weren't

sure.

Check with evidence. See if they have
the gun from the robbery.

It didn't seem likely that Zach Meeker
was involved in his mother's death, but

we follow every lead.

Was it possible?

Could we match the gun used by a friend
of Zach Meeker's to the gun that killed

his mother?

I know. He thought Carolyn Meeker was
shot with a Browning.

Could it have been a Ruger?

Browning, Ruger, Beretta, maybe. Hard to
tell from fragments. Either way.

You don't get anything from this.

Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop.

Okay, there. There's a knock from the
lands. Turn the, uh, plug from the

robbery.

That's something.

Yeah, something I never testify to.

If the son killed his mother, this
doesn't make your case.

Zach Meeker's a dead end. No way to rule
him out, no way to rule him in.

He might still be helpful.

DMV photos, four men, all say that the
Fairmont at the same time as Carolyn

Meeker. Maybe one of them is the same
guy Zach saw his mother with.

My God.

Ben.

That's the guy.

You sure?

Yeah, I've been sitting with her at the
restaurant. I wouldn't forget that face.

Gerald Kanan?

She ever mentioned that name before?

No.

But, I mean, that's him. I remember him.

He always had this habit. He was running
his hands through his head like it was

spinning, and he was feeling it or
something.

And the way he stared at her, I mean, he
was always staring at her, always.

He did remember.

He was telling the truth.

It was as if we were back there right
now.

Still, I couldn't help wondering, was he
remembering the right things?

What had he forgotten?

What did the passage of six years
erased?

My mom was cheating on my dad, right?

Did he kill her?

Gerald Kanan was in room 404 of the
Fairmont the night Carolyn Miko was

She was in 406.

That helps if you want to have an
affair.

Gerald Canaan, UCLA law, used to work
for the Public Interest Policy Council.

Is that government?

That's left -wing consumer advocates.

She's a corporate officer. Why is she
having an affair with the enemy?

The year Carolyn Meeker disappeared,
Gerald Canaan quit his job as man of the

people and opened a patio furniture
store.

Canaan Gerald, registered in Smith and
West and 38th. What's the year of the

registration?

November 97th. Well, I have a question.

Are we so sure that an affair and a
pregnancy are motives for murder?

Here's another question. What's a public
interest lawyer doing with a gun?

Let's ask him.

Mrs. Cannon?

Yes? Detective Friday, LAPD. My partner,
Detective Beltran. Is your husband

home?

What's this about?

Daddy, door.

It's okay, honey. Go on in.

We need to ask you some questions about
Carolyn Maker.

Yeah. Mind if we do this out here?

I saw about Carolyn on the news.

Maybe it'd be easier if you came
downtown to talk with her.

I'm not sure I could be much help. I
only knew her briefly and I don't

that much about her. Well, maybe it
would jog your memory if we told you you

were a suspect in a murder.

What my client says never goes beyond
this room.

Counselor, he can talk now or he can
talk in front of a grand jury. Uh -oh.

What he's going to say puts him at great
risk.

If he sounds paranoid, he's got a right
to.

He needs protection. We'll make sure he
gets it.

In July 1997, I got a call from a woman
who wouldn't identify herself.

Do you know what Carolyn Meeker did at
CONSEC?

Department head on her way up. She
oversaw risk analysis on their laser

systems.

Their biggest client was the Defense
Department.

I, uh, I first met her in the garage of
the Chandler.

She was, uh, she was scared.

She said that they were suppressing
evidence of design flaws in their

and she had documents to prove the cover
-up. How did she get to you? She saw me

on TV. I was loud in those days.

She trusted me.

told me who she was and that she wanted
to blow the whistle and get a federal

investigation. You think Konsek is
behind Carolyn Meeker's death?

Does that surprise you? What surprises
me is you met this woman in garages and

hotels for a couple of months, and
you're making this sound like it was all

business.

Did you have an affair?

No, I didn't.

She was the most courageous woman that I
ever knew, and she wanted her life to

make a difference.

Why'd you buy a 38?

When she disappeared, I was scared out
of my mind. Wouldn't you be?

Do you have anything to back this up?

What do you think?

I think it's a stretch.

You didn't let Karen Meeker's boss.

Want to go back and squeeze him? No. If
there's any case to be made, I want to

talk to the DA first.

You think Carolyn Meeker was murdered
because she was a whistleblower? It's a

lead. What do you think? I want to hear
what our science guy thinks of the

document. Joe, Kanan sounds legit.

Kanan thought Velcro was a conspiracy.

I have trouble with conspiracy theories,
too. This is hard to buy.

I read your stuff, guys.

It's scary.

If these are real, CONSEC knew its
guidance systems were prone to failure.

You're saying they knew they were making
a defective product.

Defective and potentially dangerous.

If that was in the L .A. Times, company
officers would start worrying about

prison. Where do you start? CONSEC's a
big company.

Carolyn Meeker's boss was a man named
Martin Hindle, now CEO.

Oh, Hindle, you sure can't pick him.
Talk about the height of respectability.

Why call the criminals respectable if
he'll indict it? Hey, we're not talking

fraud. We're talking murder for hire.

I'm not convinced.

At the very least, we need to know
Carolyn Meeker really was going to blow

whistle. If you were going to rat out
your employer, who would you tell first?

I knew she was having some problems at
work, but we never talked specifics.

We believe your wife was going to the
feds over a cover -up at CONSEC.

That's serious stuff.

Wouldn't she have shared that with you?
I knew she was concerned with something

about test results, but that was her
job. She was more than concerned.

These were confidential documents.

Look, even if what you say is true, what
would they do? This is not the most

ethical company, but they wouldn't
resort to murder.

It didn't make sense.

Was Carolyn Meeker planning to blow the
whistle or not?

If she was, wouldn't she have told her
husband? Maybe she wouldn't have told

anyone else.

She certainly would have told him.

Carolyn Meeker was on the brink.

That's why Cana was so scared once we
disappeared. The question is, why didn't

her husband know?

Beltran?

Yeah.

Okay, thanks.

Those are the DOC.

A prisoner in Calipatria has some
information on Carolyn Meeker.

Wants to trade.

They'll be coming out of the woodwork.

I'll let the hell go up and see him.

It's 150 miles.

Take Langer along. He's a good company.
I know you like looking at him.

Carolyn Meeker, shot in the head,
October 97.

Keep talking.

What do I get?

Well, you don't get a reduced sentence.

You can raise my comfort level.

Transfer me to Lancaster. I want to be
closer to my wife.

Gilbert Muncie, 35 years with an armed
robbery, one strike prior, and...

Man started with an unidentified object.

You all pulled the meeker woman out of
her car in the Santa Monica Mountains,

right? Everyone read that in the paper.

The paper says she was done with a .22.

Yeah.

Yeah, she was shot in her Mercedes.

Beamer.

You're on a roll.

You do for us, we do for you.

Well, I once was on the block with a man
named Ancona.

Ancona, huh?

Got a first name?

John. J -O -N. Big talker. I must have
heard this story a hundred times.

Well, we just need to hear it once.

He had a thing for blondes. She caught
his eye.

You know, you never know who's behind
you online at the grocery store.

He followed her out. He put a gun on
her. Had her drive to a nice spot. But

he tried to get it on, well, she
rejected his advances.

He took it badly.

He popped her, took her cash, some
hardware, and dumped her car down in the

woods.

I never believed these stories. Any
reason to believe this one? He knew

the 22.

Yeah, and we didn't release that, so he
didn't hear about it on the 5 o 'clock

news. No, he definitely knew details.

What do we have on the con who he says
killed her? Uh, John Ancona. Half a

badass. On robbery, assault, rape.

Fits the bill.

Ancona got out of Quentin a month ago,
and until two weeks ago, he was living

north in Danville. Where's he living
now? He's not. What?

Dead. John Ancona was shot during an
armed robbery last week. San Jose.

It's set up.

Suspect conveniently dead.

Someone doesn't want us to find out who
killed Carolyn Meeker.

Get the prison visitor's log. Someone
visited your snitch in the last 24

told him exactly what to say.

You visited your husband in Calipatria
yesterday.

I go out there whenever I can.

He gets lonely.

Listen, Regina, your husband told us a
story. Now, we think he was paid to tell

it.

What's that got to do with me?

Someone gave him the information he was
trying to sell.

You were the only person who visited
him.

I don't know what you mean. He's
probably hustling you. He does that.

So, uh, how do I get one of these at the
food stand, sir?

I work half days when I can get a
sitter.

So that's what you make?

Seven, eight bucks an hour?

Regina, someone paid him to lie. You got
the money. Nobody paid me anything.

Then you wouldn't mind showing us your
most recent pay stub.

Without a warrant?

I don't have to show you anything but
the door.

Well, this was fun.

Let's stay in touch.

She went up there to her husband and
told him to make up a story. What are

people saying? Major corporate
executives paid a convict to screw up

investigation? It's been known to
happen.

Carolyn Maker was a threat to that
company.

Says who? Some burned -out left -wing
radical.

Your expert likes the evidence.

Listen, anyone ever hear of Karen
Silkwood? A lot of people think that she

killed by the nuclear power industry.

Sandy, I agree with you. I don't think
corporations are running around killing

people. But we do need to get back there
and talk to her boss.

Sandy, they've got to confront this guy.
See what he says.

Then your chief gets a call from the
contact lawyers, and you know what they

say. One word of this leaks to the
press, and the city gets sued for 50

My advice?

Be careful.

Don't piss this guy off.

Come on. You don't think anyone from
this company was involved in her death?

What would it have cost had Carolyn
Meeker gone public with those documents?

Absolutely nothing. We lost that
contract in 99.

Clinton administration.

Budget cuts.

Can you answer two direct questions?

Ask them.

Did you know Carolyn Meeker had the
documents?

Did you know she was going public?

We knew.

That probably shook things up around
here.

I'll tell you exactly what we did. It's
the way you handle these things.

The general counsel in the company took
me to Carolyn's house.

We told her and her husband that we
would litigate them into the ground.

would be destroyed.

They'd need expensive lawyers.

They'd spend every nickel that they had
ever saved.

When it was over, they'd be broke.

Back up.

You said her husband was there. Chris
Meeker? He was there. He was terrified.

He knew precisely what his wife was
doing.

And he wasn't too happy about it.

had concerns.

Consick threatened you and your wife.
They basically told you your lives would

be destroyed.

A meeting like that, that's not
something you forget.

Look, they're a powerful company.

Why would I say anything about them?

If they wanted to hurt me now, they
still could.

He was different this time. His pain was
gone.

In its place, self -assurance,
confidence.

It all sounded reasonable, except for
one thing.

They threatened him six years ago, and
he's afraid to tell us now?

How could it matter?

She realized that those documents were
not going to be enough, and so she

reconsidered the whole thing. You're
saying she changed her mind?

No, she never committed to it in the
first place. It's like I told you. She

thought about it, and in the end, she
decided that it wasn't worth the risk.

You're not buying. I'm on a budget. I'm
not buying a story that changes every

day. Well, he's a basic. Does that mean
he had the reason to kill his wife?

Call me a sap, but these two people look
like they loved each other. At one

point they did.

Suppose she wouldn't be able to get a
job. Suppose they were going to be

Is that enough?

Nothing's ever just about money.

I don't believe he did it. He killed her
or he had it done. The question is why

and how do we prove it?

We need to know a lot more about Chris
Meeker.

No doubt about it. Chris Meeker, he was
telling the truth.

Said he went to the papers for help
looking for his wife?

Big paragraph on page 31, not exactly a
desperate attempt.

He was smart enough to do more if he
wanted to.

These diplomas, Stanford, full
scholarships the whole way. Full

Stanford doesn't hand out any full rides
for good grades. Either he was some

kind of all -star athlete or he grew up
in a lower tax bracket.

Well, Mika strikes me as the guy who
comes from money.

Well, guess again.

He's from La Puente. Not exactly a high
-dollar neighborhood.

All right, get a subpoena.

Get Meeker's canceled checks from July
to December 97.

Get his savings and money market
accounts, too.

You feel like taking a ride?

A trailer park.

Meeker had started his life here.

The kind of place you aren't proud of.

A place you'd sooner forget.

I was starting to understand who
Christopher Meeker was.

If Meeker was born rich, his parents
sure hid it well.

Oh, this is the one.

Sir, Meeker still live here.

You're about four years late. Tom Meeker
died of lung cancer.

How long have you lived here? 20 years.

Tom lived here at least twice that long.

You ever talk to Chris?

Chris? Tom's son?

God, he looked just like Tom.

I knew Tom all those years, and I never
knew he had a son.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Yeah, Beaker walked away from all this.
He never looked back.

Can you blame him?

It wasn't the American dream, no.

He had it, too.

Yeah, he'd have done anything to keep
it.

We're ruling out an affair as motive,
and we're not thinking some corporate

executive paid for a hired hit.

We're moving off of that.

And based on no physical evidence
whatsoever, we're going with the idea

husband killed him. I'll grant you, no
physical evidence, got an alibi, but he

has motive.

Oh, come on. Being poor as a child? Put
yourself in his place.

He grew up with nothing less than
nothing.

Worked his ass off.

Got the big car. Got the big house. He
had it made.

Erased his childhood.

And his wife says, I'm taking a stand on
concept.

Which, by the way, will cost us
everything.

So he stood to lose his money, so he
killed her.

Deeper than money, it's about him.

It's about who Meeker was and who he
wanted to be.

And she was going to take it all away
from him. You got motive.

I got opportunity.

A connection between Christopher Meeker
and our snitch at Calipatria.

Tell me your snitch grew up in La
Puente. Not quite, but his wife did.

Regina grew up right around the corner
from the Royal Gardens trailer park.

Bingo. Back to her.

Nah, she won't budge. We need someone
with information who's willing to talk.

We've talked to everyone.

Well, maybe not. Sometimes the best
information comes from people who don't

know they have it.

Look, it was six years ago. I don't
remember.

Well, try to think back. Had anything in
their relationship changed?

Why are you asking this?

Did they fight?

Sure. Not as bad a thumb, though. I had
friends whose parents used to throw

things at each other.

The day your mother went missing, your
dad was out of town.

Yeah, Phoenix.

What's with the questions? Do you
remember how long that trip may have

planned in advance?

I don't know whether or not it was
planned.

He told us he was going to leave the
night before.

I'm going to go. I only have a few more
questions. Yeah, well, you know what? I

don't want to answer them.

The officer will drive you home. I'll
take the bus.

What happened?

He knows more than he wants to know.

We'll go through Meeker's checks.

You don't think he'd hire someone to
kill his wife and leave the papers for

The checks are cash. We can find them.

Now, this might not mean anything, but
six weeks before Carolyn Meeker

disappeared... $500 cash machine
withdrawals every third day for the

weeks. Well, they could have spent that
out of their pockets.

Well, wouldn't she spot a check to
someone she didn't know? Unless they

cleared. Or unless he found a way of
paying somebody without her noticing.

HP Landscaping.

$15 ,000 ten days before Carolyn Minka
disappeared.

And over here?

Another $10 ,000 the day after.

Look at that yard.

That big pool area. They could have
spent that easy.

Except for the timing.

One check right before she disappeared,
another check right after. Uh -huh.

H .B.

Landscaping. It's not a corporation.
It's a DBA.

Full of business license.

We find out who's behind H .B.

Landscaping.

We find out who killed Carolyn Meeker.

H .B. Landscaping. A guy named Henry
Burke.

Mr. Burke stays busy when he's not
trimming the hedges.

Burglary, 18 months.

Armed robbery, a Deuce Pacino. And the
good part.

Two years ago, CCW, a .22 Browning
Buckmark automatic.

Meeker hired his gardener to kill his
wife? Why not?

Burke's mowing his lawn. He and Meeker
get to talking. Comes out, Burke's done

time. We don't have a Henry Burke's gun,
so we can't match shell casings. They

still have a picture of the .22.

Yeah?

That's no good to us. Well, sure it is.

Pull Henry Burke's prints.

Get me a picture of that gun. Meet me at
Ballistics.

This was a nice gun.

Started production in .92, I think.

There's a new model now. They changed
the barrel.

Can you get this exact gun?

I told you it's been scrapped.

All right, find one. Age it to look just
like this one.

Then check the scratches on the grip and
barrel. Try to duplicate it exactly.

I get the feeling we're about to do
something unethical. Unethical, no.

Devious, maybe.

Henry Burke?

Hank, only people calling you Henry are
family or cops.

Step away from the truck, please.

Stop moving, Henry.

What are you, some kind of lamey? Keep
your hands away from your body now. Look

here, man. I'm clean. I made all my
parole meetings, all right? You're under

arrest for the murder of Carolyn Meeker.

You're under arrest for the murder of
Carolyn

Meeker. You have the right to remain
silent.

Anything you say can and will be used
against you in the court of law.

You have the right to an attorney if you
cannot afford one more.

You're a three -time loser, Hunter.

I got two felonies.

You're about to get a third.

Says you.

$25 ,000, that's pathetic.

Killing a woman, you should ask for
more.

I remember I used to work for those
meeker people a long time ago.

Put in some trees and bushes.

And a bullet in Carolyn Meeker's skull.

Look familiar?

You carried it without a permit.

Cops took it away from you.

Shell casing from a bullet they fired
this morning.

This one's from Carolyn Meeker's car.

You see those firing pin marks, Henry?

They're identical.

Now, this is how this goes.

You enter a plea to a straight first,
tell us everything, or take your chances

at trial. But that's risky, because you
can wind up with a needle in your arm.

Now, this offer is good for ten seconds.

Five.

I never popped anybody before.

I mean, he even told me where to push
the car so they'd never find her.

He didn't want to know if I really did
it.

I told him.

She showed me a picture of her kid.

She begged me.

They didn't want to hear about it.

Beautifully done.

Thank you. He's nailed it.

Do the speech.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the
sole witness in this case is a convicted

felon who avoided the death penalty by
entering a plea.

Do you believe him, or do you believe
the upstanding citizen, Christopher

Meeker? Will the DA offer him a deal?

They said no. We need a confession.

An arrest would give us the last chance.

You surprise a man, you arrest him, take
him away in handcuffs, He's nervous,

disoriented, tense.

Yes, we would tell Christopher Meeker
his rights, but somehow I thought he

wouldn't call a lawyer.

It would make him look guilty.

He had hired a man to kill his wife, but
he would make every pretense of

innocence.

And while he did, I had a window of
opportunity.

Time to push him before he could think.

I didn't kill my wife. You were out of
town.

You paid a man named Henry Burke to kill
your wife.

I loved my wife.

Did you love your son?

You took his mother away.

That's who he is.

He's trying to recover from the worst
loss he'll ever know.

Zach's doing just fine.

When I first met you, I wondered, a
successful guy has it all.

How come he never remarried?

Now I think I understand.

You never did get over it.

You never came to terms with killing
your wife.

You don't know who I am.

You couldn't visit your own father when
he was dying.

Must have been hard for you.

Remembering when there was no food on
the table.

Kids at school had new clothes. You
didn't have any.

Where'd you grow up?

Nice little tract house in the valley.

Fake cedar shingles on the roof.

Your dad was a cop.

Your mom taught high school.

She was the principal.

Close enough.

No one ever said you weren't smart.

I can almost be there with you.

Your nice house.

Standing by your pool.

Thinking how hard you worked to get this
far.

Now you're going to lose it all.

And all you could see was the dirt yard
of a trailer park.

Your son was 16 years old.

I protected my son. You killed your own
unborn child.

Now if you knew about that, if she told
you...

About the baby.

Would she still be alive?

She... She said she had to do it.

Why?

Why?

It wouldn't change anything. You can't
change the world.

It would destroy us. For what?

ComSec. would go on doing what they
always did. They'd be on the front pages

a day, and they'd go back to their
lives, and they'd still have everything

had.

And we... we had nothing.

There was no way out.

I couldn't let her do it.

You arrested my dad?

Sit down, Dad.

I'm so sorry.

Where is he?

You can't see him right now.

How could he have done it? He wasn't
even here.

We're charging him with paying someone
else to have it done.

You knew, didn't you?

Knew what, sir?

When you asked about my mom and dad.

About the last day.

It's funny, I... I always wondered.

I couldn't ever really explain it.

I can't tell now, but...

I think I always knew.

Sometimes we know things.

We can't do anything about it, so we put
it away.

So we don't have to know.

Detective Beltran will take you down to
county jail, and you can see him when

he's rebooked.

What else could I say to him?

He would be looking for peace the rest
of his life.

We try to leave the past behind.

Sometimes we have to, just to survive.

But the past is never past.

It's there with us all the time.

We can try to rewrite it. It doesn't
work.

Either we learn to deal with the past or
we don't.

If we don't, it deals with us.

entered a plea to murder in the first
degree.

He is currently serving a life sentence
at the state penitentiary at San

Quentin.

Christopher Meeker entered a plea to
murder in the first degree.

He is currently serving a life sentence
at the state penitentiary at Folsom.

Bye. Bye.