1 00:00:01,127 --> 00:00:02,902 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:02,962 --> 00:00:06,842 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:06,899 --> 00:00:08,708 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,768 --> 00:00:11,577 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,670 --> 00:00:13,377 These are their stories. 6 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,982 Unbelievable. God, you never learn. 7 00:00:18,043 --> 00:00:20,751 Well, they were different. They shaded. They omitted. 8 00:00:20,812 --> 00:00:22,792 They lied. Just like Robert lied. 9 00:00:22,848 --> 00:00:23,952 Ugh, I forgot my hairdryer. 10 00:00:24,016 --> 00:00:26,394 Uh-uh, I will buy you a new one. 11 00:00:26,451 --> 00:00:28,260 You're not going back to his apartment. 12 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,198 I mean, he told me he hadn't seen her in months, and... 13 00:00:32,123 --> 00:00:33,397 Oh, my God. 14 00:00:33,457 --> 00:00:36,028 Come on! I swear, everything is gonna be okay. 15 00:00:36,127 --> 00:00:37,697 No, it's not. Look. 16 00:00:39,730 --> 00:00:43,405 (EXCLAIMS) Give me your cell. Quick! 17 00:00:44,435 --> 00:00:46,847 (CHATTER ON POLICE RADIO) You recognize her from the neighborhood? 18 00:00:46,904 --> 00:00:48,645 I live uptown. 19 00:00:48,706 --> 00:00:49,810 You? 20 00:00:49,874 --> 00:00:52,945 My boyfriend, my ex... Well, I mean, not for sure... 21 00:00:53,009 --> 00:00:54,215 Whatever. 22 00:00:54,277 --> 00:00:55,449 Anyway, his place is down the block, 23 00:00:55,512 --> 00:00:56,786 but I've never seen her before. 24 00:00:56,846 --> 00:00:58,621 You hear anything last night? 25 00:00:58,682 --> 00:01:00,161 No. Sorry. 26 00:01:02,886 --> 00:01:05,196 What's her story? Not a pretty one. 27 00:01:05,255 --> 00:01:07,166 Bruised face, bruised neck, bruised knuckles. 28 00:01:07,390 --> 00:01:08,562 What killed her? 29 00:01:08,625 --> 00:01:10,570 Strangled, I think. Too bad. Good-looking girl. 30 00:01:10,626 --> 00:01:11,661 You find ID? 31 00:01:12,194 --> 00:01:16,370 Nah. No purse, no wallet. But over here we got the heel of her shoe. 32 00:01:16,432 --> 00:01:18,776 Up here we got a piece of the coat snagged on the gate. 33 00:01:18,834 --> 00:01:20,745 Huh. She got tossed around pretty good. 34 00:01:20,803 --> 00:01:23,682 Yeah. Not that anybody around here noticed. 35 00:01:23,772 --> 00:01:25,718 All right, bag her hands and roll her. 36 00:02:16,422 --> 00:02:20,598 Death by strangulation sometime between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. 37 00:02:20,659 --> 00:02:23,367 Lab found wool fibers on her neck and coat. 38 00:02:23,429 --> 00:02:25,170 Not from anything she was wearing. 39 00:02:25,231 --> 00:02:28,337 We ran her prints. One arrest for disorderly conduct. 40 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,643 According to this file, her name's Lotus Blossom. Can't be her real name. 41 00:02:32,704 --> 00:02:34,650 How can you tell? 42 00:02:34,706 --> 00:02:36,083 Rape? No. 43 00:02:36,141 --> 00:02:38,382 Scarring on her fallopian tubes. 44 00:02:38,443 --> 00:02:41,390 Past pelvic inflammatory disease. Prostitute? 45 00:02:41,846 --> 00:02:44,725 Stripper. Spent the night in jail two years ago. 46 00:02:44,783 --> 00:02:47,889 Got swept up in a raid at a club called Lavish Buffet. 47 00:02:47,952 --> 00:02:49,022 You call over there? 48 00:02:49,087 --> 00:02:50,566 Nobody's seen her since the bust. 49 00:02:50,622 --> 00:02:53,500 No forwarding address, no Social Security number. 50 00:02:53,557 --> 00:02:56,299 And I don't suppose Lotus Blossom's in the white pages. 51 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,306 Have LaMotte check the topless bars. 52 00:02:58,362 --> 00:02:59,500 He'll be thrilled. 53 00:02:59,563 --> 00:03:02,407 And you get to check out the address on the arrest file. 54 00:03:06,537 --> 00:03:09,518 Lotus Blossom? She Asian-American? 55 00:03:09,573 --> 00:03:10,916 Yes. You know her? 56 00:03:10,974 --> 00:03:12,748 Could be my daughter Lorraine. 57 00:03:12,808 --> 00:03:14,913 Ever since she got into the adult entertainment business, 58 00:03:14,977 --> 00:03:16,923 she's had all kinds of names. She live here? 59 00:03:16,979 --> 00:03:19,186 I kicked her out eight years ago. 60 00:03:19,248 --> 00:03:22,024 Broke her mother's heart her working in that business. 61 00:03:22,084 --> 00:03:23,392 What's she done now? 62 00:03:23,452 --> 00:03:27,730 This woman was found murdered in the city. 63 00:03:33,128 --> 00:03:34,163 Lorraine. 64 00:03:35,130 --> 00:03:36,609 Had you heard from her lately? 65 00:03:36,998 --> 00:03:39,171 No. How did... 66 00:03:40,235 --> 00:03:41,509 It was strangulation. 67 00:03:43,505 --> 00:03:44,643 (SIGHS) 68 00:03:44,706 --> 00:03:45,912 BRISCOE: Do you know where she was living? 69 00:03:46,575 --> 00:03:47,918 Maybe a phone number? 70 00:03:47,976 --> 00:03:51,048 She showed up about a year ago when her mother died, 71 00:03:51,112 --> 00:03:53,455 made a big deal about paying for the funeral. 72 00:03:54,481 --> 00:03:56,688 I haven't seen her since. 73 00:03:56,750 --> 00:03:58,252 ED: Do you know any of her friends? 74 00:03:58,319 --> 00:03:59,923 I wouldn't know any of her crowd. 75 00:03:59,987 --> 00:04:02,160 Which funeral home took care of your wife? 76 00:04:02,223 --> 00:04:03,668 Park Lawn in Fort Lee. 77 00:04:07,494 --> 00:04:09,269 Lorraine wasn't a bad kid. 78 00:04:09,763 --> 00:04:11,764 I just don't get what happened to her. 79 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,944 "One hundred percent anti-allergenic." 80 00:04:16,002 --> 00:04:18,642 Yeah. You wouldn't want granny breaking out in a rash. 81 00:04:19,205 --> 00:04:22,675 Haruki Shelby, interred August last year. 82 00:04:22,742 --> 00:04:24,346 Paid for by her daughter Lorraine. 83 00:04:24,410 --> 00:04:25,514 Credit card? 84 00:04:25,578 --> 00:04:26,682 Cash. 85 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:28,821 She also took care of the arrangements 86 00:04:28,882 --> 00:04:30,953 for another deceased three months ago. 87 00:04:31,017 --> 00:04:32,051 Who? 88 00:04:32,117 --> 00:04:35,826 May Sheng. A Chinese girl, died of pneumonia. 89 00:04:37,222 --> 00:04:39,133 We did a Buddhist cremation. 90 00:04:39,191 --> 00:04:41,228 Any address for Lorraine Shelby? 91 00:04:42,327 --> 00:04:43,499 No. I'm sorry. 92 00:04:43,562 --> 00:04:46,099 Who signed the death certificate on the Chinese girl? 93 00:04:47,699 --> 00:04:50,179 The girl came in. Both lungs were filled with fluid, 94 00:04:50,235 --> 00:04:52,976 she was running a fever of 105. 95 00:04:53,037 --> 00:04:56,314 I called the ambulance, but she was dead before they got here. 96 00:04:56,374 --> 00:04:58,684 Anybody with her? A woman brought her in. 97 00:04:58,743 --> 00:05:00,689 Lorraine Shelby? Yes. 98 00:05:01,545 --> 00:05:03,354 You treat a lot of Lorraine's friends here? 99 00:05:03,514 --> 00:05:04,652 Why? 100 00:05:05,149 --> 00:05:08,096 She was found dead the day before yesterday six blocks from here. 101 00:05:08,152 --> 00:05:09,597 (SIGHS) Dead as in murdered. 102 00:05:10,488 --> 00:05:13,627 I can't say I'm surprised, considering the business she was in. 103 00:05:13,690 --> 00:05:15,397 Prostitution? Yes. 104 00:05:15,458 --> 00:05:16,766 Same as her friends. 105 00:05:16,826 --> 00:05:18,635 ED: You ever make house calls on Lorraine? 106 00:05:18,695 --> 00:05:19,935 At my age? 107 00:05:19,996 --> 00:05:22,340 Medical calls. We just need to know where she lived. 108 00:05:22,399 --> 00:05:23,901 Not far from here. 109 00:05:24,501 --> 00:05:28,074 West 11th, 575-A, second floor. 110 00:05:29,072 --> 00:05:31,882 There it is. Short commute to work. Nice. 111 00:05:34,410 --> 00:05:37,254 Looks like she spent a lot of time looking out the window. 112 00:05:37,313 --> 00:05:38,758 ED: The show's in here. 113 00:05:40,449 --> 00:05:42,725 Everything for the accomplished ecdysiast. 114 00:05:44,420 --> 00:05:46,161 Yeah. The rug's been matted down. 115 00:05:46,789 --> 00:05:50,965 Something was moved out of here recently. A desk, maybe? Boxes? 116 00:05:51,026 --> 00:05:52,936 No personal papers, no address book. 117 00:05:53,528 --> 00:05:55,508 Somebody's been through here already. 118 00:05:56,230 --> 00:05:58,437 Out of where? The apartment above the massage parlor. 119 00:05:58,499 --> 00:06:00,274 Somebody moving stuff out. 120 00:06:00,368 --> 00:06:02,746 Yeah, Wednesday night. Nine-ish. 121 00:06:02,804 --> 00:06:05,944 A couple of guys took out some computers, 122 00:06:06,007 --> 00:06:07,680 cardboard boxes, put them in a van. 123 00:06:07,742 --> 00:06:09,619 What kind of a van? It was a white van, 124 00:06:09,744 --> 00:06:11,746 and they took stuff out of the massage parlor, too. 125 00:06:11,813 --> 00:06:13,314 It's about time they closed it down. 126 00:06:13,380 --> 00:06:15,860 Did you get a look at these guys? Not really. 127 00:06:15,916 --> 00:06:17,691 What about a license plate on the van? 128 00:06:17,751 --> 00:06:19,697 No. Who cares? 129 00:06:19,753 --> 00:06:22,734 The place is a whorehouse. This is a residential neighborhood, you know? 130 00:06:22,789 --> 00:06:24,894 Lot of people been trying to close the place down. 131 00:06:24,958 --> 00:06:26,164 A lot of people like who? 132 00:06:26,226 --> 00:06:28,069 Hey, decent folks, you know. 133 00:06:28,128 --> 00:06:30,870 We had to hound the cops just to get them to raid the place. 134 00:06:30,931 --> 00:06:32,432 When was this raid? 135 00:06:32,498 --> 00:06:35,001 Couple of months ago, and what good did it do? 136 00:06:35,067 --> 00:06:37,377 The next day the place was back in business. 137 00:06:38,270 --> 00:06:39,408 Thanks. 138 00:06:43,175 --> 00:06:45,849 Yeah, we sent an undercover, but the girls made him. 139 00:06:45,911 --> 00:06:48,915 My guys decided to bring them down to the station anyway to check their IDs. 140 00:06:49,015 --> 00:06:51,427 You let them go? No choice. 141 00:06:51,484 --> 00:06:53,485 Anyway, it's all shut down now. 142 00:06:53,551 --> 00:06:55,121 You bring Lorraine Shelby in? 143 00:06:55,186 --> 00:06:56,790 The alleged madam? 144 00:06:56,888 --> 00:06:59,129 Apparently she ran things from her place upstairs. 145 00:06:59,190 --> 00:07:02,137 Since she wasn't in the rub room itself, we couldn't touch her. 146 00:07:02,193 --> 00:07:03,501 And since then? 147 00:07:03,561 --> 00:07:05,563 We've been keeping up a presence. 148 00:07:05,630 --> 00:07:08,008 Any units sitting on the place the day she was killed? 149 00:07:08,099 --> 00:07:10,204 We don't have the budget for 2417. 150 00:07:10,268 --> 00:07:12,305 Lot of complaints from a Derek Fedder. 151 00:07:12,970 --> 00:07:15,780 Guy's got kids, lives two doors from the place. 152 00:07:15,873 --> 00:07:17,716 Maybe he got tired of complaining. 153 00:07:19,209 --> 00:07:22,486 I'm sorry she's dead. But if that's what it took to close that sewer down... 154 00:07:22,546 --> 00:07:24,082 Yeah, that's what it took. 155 00:07:24,148 --> 00:07:27,425 So where were you early Wednesday, say around 5:00 am.? 156 00:07:28,252 --> 00:07:30,198 With my three-year-old She was sick. 157 00:07:30,254 --> 00:07:31,995 Uh-huh. Where was your wife? 158 00:07:32,056 --> 00:07:34,035 In Richmond, visiting her parents. 159 00:07:34,090 --> 00:07:35,694 You think I killed that woman? 160 00:07:35,758 --> 00:07:38,329 Like you said, it's what it took to close the place down. 161 00:07:38,394 --> 00:07:40,567 (SCOFFS) You guys are nuts. 162 00:07:40,630 --> 00:07:44,009 So, what, you just resigned yourself to living next door to a whorehouse? 163 00:07:44,067 --> 00:07:45,341 No. 164 00:07:45,401 --> 00:07:47,938 I couldn't get rid of the hookers, maybe I could get rid of the johns. 165 00:07:48,004 --> 00:07:49,278 At least the ones that drive up. 166 00:07:49,338 --> 00:07:50,510 BRISCOE: And how'd you do that? 167 00:07:50,573 --> 00:07:52,075 Wait by their cars. 168 00:07:52,141 --> 00:07:54,416 If they come out, I tell them I got their plate numbers. 169 00:07:54,476 --> 00:07:55,546 It do any good? 170 00:07:55,610 --> 00:07:56,748 Not much. 171 00:07:56,812 --> 00:07:58,348 ED: You ever see a white van? 172 00:07:59,047 --> 00:08:01,357 I've seen a lot of white vans. 173 00:08:01,416 --> 00:08:02,793 You want their plates? 174 00:08:03,418 --> 00:08:04,761 Okay. Thank you. 175 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,197 Starting with the vans that showed up regularly, 176 00:08:07,255 --> 00:08:10,031 we got one registered to Happy Days Plumbing. 177 00:08:10,092 --> 00:08:13,038 Plumbers. Babydoobeedoo Diaper Service. 178 00:08:13,094 --> 00:08:15,199 (LAUGHS) Serious? Seriously. 179 00:08:15,329 --> 00:08:19,869 And an expired registration on Enchanting Imports, 9199 West Street. 180 00:08:19,934 --> 00:08:21,242 Sounds promising. 181 00:08:24,171 --> 00:08:25,946 NYPD. Anybody home? 182 00:08:26,006 --> 00:08:27,110 Nobody's allowed in here. 183 00:08:27,174 --> 00:08:29,245 Guess again. Who're you? 184 00:08:29,310 --> 00:08:31,187 Watchman. What're you watching? 185 00:08:31,245 --> 00:08:32,280 Nothing. 186 00:08:32,346 --> 00:08:34,291 What's in here? Nothing. 187 00:08:34,347 --> 00:08:37,419 Oh, I guess you won't mind us taking a look at nothing. 188 00:08:38,518 --> 00:08:39,724 ED: Aw, man! 189 00:08:39,786 --> 00:08:41,197 Are people living in here? 190 00:08:41,254 --> 00:08:43,325 I don't know. What about that one? What's inside? 191 00:08:43,389 --> 00:08:44,800 I don't know. 192 00:08:48,862 --> 00:08:51,035 (WOMEN CHATTERING IN PANIC) 193 00:08:51,097 --> 00:08:52,405 ED: Oh, man! 194 00:08:53,899 --> 00:08:57,472 Do me a favor, try to run! Cuff him! 195 00:08:57,536 --> 00:08:58,810 OFFICER: This way, paisan! 196 00:08:58,871 --> 00:09:01,181 All right, all right. Come on, come on. 197 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,948 (CHATTERING IN CHINESE) 198 00:09:07,479 --> 00:09:10,926 Some Chinese guy hired me. I get paid every Friday, that's all I know. 199 00:09:10,983 --> 00:09:12,690 You knew those women were in that shipping container. 200 00:09:12,751 --> 00:09:13,888 Yeah, the guy that dropped them off 201 00:09:13,951 --> 00:09:15,259 told me I should take care of them. 202 00:09:15,319 --> 00:09:16,730 The Chinese guy? 203 00:09:16,787 --> 00:09:18,460 No, some white guy. I don't know who he is. 204 00:09:18,523 --> 00:09:20,196 He was here, talking to Mr. Chang. 205 00:09:20,258 --> 00:09:21,760 Then who's Chang? 206 00:09:21,859 --> 00:09:23,202 He runs the place, I think. 207 00:09:23,261 --> 00:09:24,638 Lent the white guy his van. 208 00:09:24,695 --> 00:09:26,675 How can we get in touch with him? You can't. 209 00:09:26,731 --> 00:09:29,735 Right after he talked with that guy, he left for China. Said he wouldn't be back. 210 00:09:29,834 --> 00:09:32,610 (SIGHS) When did the white guy drop these girls off? 211 00:09:32,670 --> 00:09:34,307 Wednesday, late afternoon. 212 00:09:34,404 --> 00:09:37,510 He was driving Mr. Chang's van, how should I know anything was wrong? 213 00:09:37,574 --> 00:09:38,746 Let's see. 214 00:09:39,376 --> 00:09:41,413 A dozen women stuffed into a shipping container 215 00:09:41,478 --> 00:09:43,719 with a bucket in the corner to pee in. 216 00:09:43,780 --> 00:09:46,590 I swear, I didn't know anything was wrong! I want a lawyer. 217 00:09:46,650 --> 00:09:47,924 (DOOR OPENS) 218 00:09:48,885 --> 00:09:50,330 Get anything? 219 00:09:51,454 --> 00:09:52,865 Not from this moron. 220 00:09:52,923 --> 00:09:53,992 Translator's here. 221 00:09:57,693 --> 00:10:01,072 She paid $10,000 to a smuggler in Hong Kong, 222 00:10:01,130 --> 00:10:04,475 she was put in a container with 15 other girls. 223 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,045 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 224 00:10:06,101 --> 00:10:07,842 After two months at sea, 225 00:10:07,903 --> 00:10:10,406 they started running out of food and water 226 00:10:10,472 --> 00:10:11,917 and couldn't breathe. 227 00:10:12,875 --> 00:10:14,945 It took them three months to get to New York. 228 00:10:16,144 --> 00:10:17,555 Four girls died. 229 00:10:17,612 --> 00:10:19,182 ED: What happened once they got to New York? 230 00:10:19,247 --> 00:10:21,523 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 231 00:10:25,486 --> 00:10:27,397 They were forced to work as prostitutes. 232 00:10:28,089 --> 00:10:29,193 Does she know this woman? 233 00:10:29,257 --> 00:10:30,827 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 234 00:10:31,993 --> 00:10:33,165 Boss lady. 235 00:10:33,561 --> 00:10:35,039 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 236 00:10:35,095 --> 00:10:37,439 Oh, this woman told the girls what to do. 237 00:10:37,497 --> 00:10:38,908 Anybody else? 238 00:10:38,966 --> 00:10:40,775 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 239 00:10:42,402 --> 00:10:45,872 Yes. White man. Eugene. Balding. 240 00:10:45,939 --> 00:10:49,250 Every week he came by to pick up the receipts. 241 00:10:49,309 --> 00:10:51,255 Was he there the night the boss lady got killed? 242 00:10:51,311 --> 00:10:53,257 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 243 00:10:57,850 --> 00:10:58,988 She doesn't know. 244 00:10:59,218 --> 00:11:01,664 Was there any bad blood between Eugene and the boss lady? 245 00:11:01,721 --> 00:11:03,598 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 246 00:11:06,359 --> 00:11:07,360 No. 247 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:09,833 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 248 00:11:11,264 --> 00:11:14,836 Last week, your victim and another man 249 00:11:14,899 --> 00:11:17,175 had a knock-down drag-out 250 00:11:17,903 --> 00:11:19,883 with a white man. 251 00:11:19,938 --> 00:11:22,384 Mustache. They were yelling in English. 252 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:23,714 Does she know the man's name? 253 00:11:23,775 --> 00:11:25,186 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 254 00:11:26,778 --> 00:11:27,950 Sorry. 255 00:11:28,313 --> 00:11:29,986 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 256 00:11:31,449 --> 00:11:34,361 She wants to know what's gonna happen to her and the others. 257 00:11:35,819 --> 00:11:38,595 They'll be turned over to the INS. After that... 258 00:11:39,423 --> 00:11:40,959 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 259 00:11:43,127 --> 00:11:46,006 ED: Parent company of the massage parlor is called Asian Novelties, 260 00:11:46,063 --> 00:11:48,907 shipping warehouse is leased by Enchanting Imports. 261 00:11:49,066 --> 00:11:50,340 They related? 262 00:11:50,401 --> 00:11:53,439 Who knows? They're both a tangle of DBA's, LLC's. 263 00:11:53,504 --> 00:11:54,880 Immigration pick up the women? 264 00:11:54,937 --> 00:11:58,043 INS and a Vice team searched the massage parlor. 265 00:11:58,107 --> 00:12:01,782 Fourteen cubicles and a back room where the women slept. 266 00:12:01,844 --> 00:12:02,879 All in one room? 267 00:12:02,945 --> 00:12:05,016 Wall to wall mattresses. 268 00:12:05,081 --> 00:12:07,322 They find a clue who Eugene is? 269 00:12:07,383 --> 00:12:09,488 'Cause I'd really like to nail this bastard. 270 00:12:09,552 --> 00:12:10,895 VAN BUREN: He's not listed? 271 00:12:10,953 --> 00:12:12,694 No corporate officers listed. 272 00:12:12,755 --> 00:12:16,395 Some lawyer prepared these and filed them, find out who. 273 00:12:20,996 --> 00:12:23,738 Yeah. Yeah, I filed these papers. 274 00:12:23,799 --> 00:12:25,836 Asian Novelties. Who for? 275 00:12:26,935 --> 00:12:28,175 A client. 276 00:12:28,236 --> 00:12:29,874 Yeah. Guy named Eugene? 277 00:12:30,872 --> 00:12:33,785 Assuming you've heard of attorney-client privilege. 278 00:12:34,942 --> 00:12:38,947 This is a shipping container, 15 women lived in it for three months. 279 00:12:39,013 --> 00:12:40,890 BRISCOE: A slow boat from China. 280 00:12:41,482 --> 00:12:42,517 Look... 281 00:12:42,616 --> 00:12:44,960 ED: See those buckets there? That was their bathroom. 282 00:12:45,019 --> 00:12:46,760 They were told they'd be seamstresses. 283 00:12:46,821 --> 00:12:48,801 Your client made them work as prostitutes. 284 00:12:49,156 --> 00:12:51,136 Look, I swear, I didn't know. 285 00:12:51,425 --> 00:12:52,768 Now you know. 286 00:12:57,430 --> 00:13:00,274 I just prepared and filed the corporate documents. 287 00:13:00,333 --> 00:13:02,370 That's the only job lever did for him. 288 00:13:03,737 --> 00:13:04,875 Eugene Miller. 289 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:08,917 All right, everybody up. Let's go. 290 00:13:08,975 --> 00:13:10,750 OFFICER: Come on. Get out of here. 291 00:13:14,481 --> 00:13:15,925 Eugene Miller? Yeah. 292 00:13:16,048 --> 00:13:18,961 You're under arrest for kidnapping and false imprisonment. 293 00:13:19,017 --> 00:13:21,793 Anything else, Lennie? Yeah, pimping and pandering. 294 00:13:21,854 --> 00:13:24,664 What the hell? Your lawyer can explain it all to you. 295 00:13:24,723 --> 00:13:27,203 Meantime, you have the right to remain silent. 296 00:13:27,259 --> 00:13:30,706 Anything you do say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 297 00:13:31,163 --> 00:13:32,801 I don't know any Lorraine Shelby. 298 00:13:32,865 --> 00:13:34,776 Don't even try it. 299 00:13:34,832 --> 00:13:37,312 Come on, Ed, let's just give him to the Feds, 300 00:13:37,902 --> 00:13:39,643 they've got enough to put him down for life. 301 00:13:39,704 --> 00:13:43,516 Hey. Hey, what, you sleaze-bag? 302 00:13:43,574 --> 00:13:45,212 You want him to cooperate or not? 303 00:13:45,576 --> 00:13:47,647 Show us what it looks like. 304 00:13:48,746 --> 00:13:50,726 I don't know who killed her, okay? 305 00:13:50,782 --> 00:13:52,022 I heard about it on the news, 306 00:13:52,083 --> 00:13:53,721 I just went and got stuff out, that's all. 307 00:13:53,785 --> 00:13:55,764 What stuff? Files and equipment. 308 00:13:55,819 --> 00:13:57,765 Why? 'Cause they're mine. 309 00:13:57,821 --> 00:14:00,427 Yours? They were in her apartment. 310 00:14:00,490 --> 00:14:02,527 They're her files. Where are they? 311 00:14:02,592 --> 00:14:05,937 You have no probable cause to poke around in his files. 312 00:14:05,996 --> 00:14:09,170 I've got plenty. I've got 15 girls in a container. 313 00:14:09,232 --> 00:14:12,941 Your client removed evidence from the murder victim's apartment. 314 00:14:13,003 --> 00:14:15,608 The night watchman at your warehouse already ID'd you. 315 00:14:15,671 --> 00:14:17,582 Chang leased that, not me. 316 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,120 Far as I know, those girls are independent contractors. 317 00:14:20,176 --> 00:14:21,712 You're joking. COUNSELOR: He already told you 318 00:14:21,777 --> 00:14:23,950 he knows nothing about the murder. 319 00:14:24,446 --> 00:14:28,451 Okay. Where were you Wednesday morning, say 4:00 or 5:00? 320 00:14:28,517 --> 00:14:31,862 I was going over the books at my other massage parlor, the one you found me at. 321 00:14:31,921 --> 00:14:34,128 ED: Anybody with you? My accountant. 322 00:14:34,190 --> 00:14:36,328 You got an accountant who works at 4:00 am.? 323 00:14:36,391 --> 00:14:38,667 It's not a 9-to-5 business, okay? 324 00:14:39,194 --> 00:14:40,867 Jay Kogen. You want his number? 325 00:14:42,297 --> 00:14:44,299 Good. You'll check his alibi. 326 00:14:44,899 --> 00:14:46,378 Now about the other charges... 327 00:14:46,434 --> 00:14:48,641 You got a lost cause, Counselor. 328 00:14:48,703 --> 00:14:52,014 His trip's already booked. It can go easy or hard. 329 00:14:52,073 --> 00:14:53,575 You cooperate or you don't. 330 00:14:57,845 --> 00:15:01,088 The stuff's in unit 64 at U-Store-It in Soho. 331 00:15:02,483 --> 00:15:04,895 I deserve some consideration here, I'm cooperating. 332 00:15:04,952 --> 00:15:06,761 You force women to have sex 333 00:15:06,820 --> 00:15:09,858 with every loser that walks in with $20 in his sweaty hands. 334 00:15:09,923 --> 00:15:12,904 What's the difference between you and a rapist? 335 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:14,837 Put a leash on this guy, all right? 336 00:15:15,262 --> 00:15:17,502 Yeah, we gave up. He keeps chewing through them. 337 00:15:21,567 --> 00:15:23,877 Miller's alibi checked out, so he's not our murderer. 338 00:15:23,936 --> 00:15:26,712 Four girls are dead because of his smuggling deal. 339 00:15:26,772 --> 00:15:28,183 Federal jurisdiction. 340 00:15:28,241 --> 00:15:29,720 What're they gonna do, slap him on the wrist 341 00:15:29,775 --> 00:15:31,448 because his girls didn't have green cards? 342 00:15:31,511 --> 00:15:33,582 Well, at least we got him on state kidnapping. 343 00:15:33,646 --> 00:15:35,250 What'd you find at his storage unit? 344 00:15:35,314 --> 00:15:37,589 Well, some video equipment, file cabinets 345 00:15:37,649 --> 00:15:39,856 and 17 boxes of video tapes. 346 00:15:39,918 --> 00:15:42,364 Dirty movies? See for yourself. 347 00:15:52,564 --> 00:15:55,101 VAN BUREN: Eugene Miller didn't tell you about the hidden cameras? 348 00:15:55,166 --> 00:15:57,008 We went back to Rikers and asked him. 349 00:15:57,067 --> 00:15:58,876 He said he didn't know about it. 350 00:15:58,936 --> 00:16:00,438 You watched all these tapes? 351 00:16:00,537 --> 00:16:03,313 We fast-forwarded through some of them. They were all the same. 352 00:16:03,874 --> 00:16:05,478 Well, one of the Chinese women told you 353 00:16:05,543 --> 00:16:08,717 Lorraine Shelby had an argument with a mustached man. 354 00:16:08,779 --> 00:16:11,316 Yeah, if he was one of the customers, he's probably on the tapes. 355 00:16:11,715 --> 00:16:14,355 Well, get her back in here, see if she can find him. 356 00:16:33,503 --> 00:16:35,278 This one says "insurance." 357 00:17:06,901 --> 00:17:09,040 This must be the raid from two months ago. 358 00:17:10,104 --> 00:17:11,879 That one there. Wasn't he the guy getting the hummer? 359 00:17:11,939 --> 00:17:14,078 BRISCOE: Guy's got some explaining to do. 360 00:17:15,743 --> 00:17:17,312 (SPEAKING CHINESE) 361 00:17:19,479 --> 00:17:21,720 The older man, the one on the right, 362 00:17:21,815 --> 00:17:23,954 is the one who had the fight with the victim. 363 00:17:24,017 --> 00:17:25,860 That guy's a cop. Is she sure? 364 00:17:26,052 --> 00:17:27,360 (TRANSLATING INTO CHINESE) 365 00:17:28,221 --> 00:17:29,222 That's him. 366 00:17:29,890 --> 00:17:32,666 The cop who got the lube job was setting up the bust. 367 00:17:36,262 --> 00:17:38,071 ED: He's looking for the marked bill he used. 368 00:17:38,530 --> 00:17:40,339 Doesn't look like he's finding it. 369 00:17:46,872 --> 00:17:48,783 You can't find it, plant it. 370 00:17:51,944 --> 00:17:55,721 The story we got from your lieutenant was your partner went in undercover 371 00:17:55,781 --> 00:17:57,851 and the girls figured him for a cop. 372 00:17:57,916 --> 00:17:58,917 Yeah. 373 00:17:59,450 --> 00:18:02,363 So what happened, you lie to your lieutenant or he lie to us? 374 00:18:02,887 --> 00:18:03,922 Watch who you call a liar. 375 00:18:04,889 --> 00:18:09,167 Yeah, okay, here's your partner with his pants down. 376 00:18:10,228 --> 00:18:13,937 And, oh, here he is getting serviced. 377 00:18:14,132 --> 00:18:17,010 So when exactly did they figure out he was a cop, huh? 378 00:18:17,701 --> 00:18:19,942 How many cops in your precinct knew about this, Renato? 379 00:18:20,003 --> 00:18:21,277 I want a PBA lawyer. 380 00:18:21,772 --> 00:18:23,809 Oh, this is just a friendly chat. 381 00:18:23,874 --> 00:18:26,115 You'd rather have it with Internal Affairs? 382 00:18:26,243 --> 00:18:29,622 Oh, here's your partner looking for the marked bill he used. 383 00:18:30,013 --> 00:18:31,617 He doesn't find it, does he? 384 00:18:32,349 --> 00:18:34,329 Yeah. Here's you donating one. 385 00:18:34,985 --> 00:18:37,191 No lawyer, I'm a clam. 386 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:39,758 Interesting choice of words. 387 00:18:40,656 --> 00:18:44,069 So what happened, Lotus Blossom tell you she had you on tape? 388 00:18:44,126 --> 00:18:46,572 One of you taking advantage of the services 389 00:18:46,629 --> 00:18:48,939 while the other one phonies up evidence? 390 00:18:49,332 --> 00:18:50,606 What'd you fight with her about? 391 00:18:53,903 --> 00:18:55,348 Why'd you kill her? 392 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,820 Guess I'll be looking for a new career. 393 00:19:01,443 --> 00:19:02,717 I guess so. 394 00:19:05,246 --> 00:19:06,884 Want to help yourself? 395 00:19:08,650 --> 00:19:10,152 Neighbors kept complaining. 396 00:19:11,152 --> 00:19:15,191 They sent me in undercover with a marked bill. 397 00:19:15,256 --> 00:19:17,735 When we raided the place, we couldn't find it. 398 00:19:17,791 --> 00:19:19,498 So your partner planted one? 399 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,871 We were frustrated, okay? We wanted to shut her down. 400 00:19:22,930 --> 00:19:25,103 So why didn't you? You had your marked bill. 401 00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:29,773 After we took the girls in, Lotus Blossom told me and Tony 402 00:19:29,837 --> 00:19:32,340 she had us on tape planting the bill. 403 00:19:32,406 --> 00:19:34,386 So you let it drop. Sure we did. 404 00:19:34,441 --> 00:19:35,476 The girls hadn't been booked yet. 405 00:19:35,542 --> 00:19:37,748 We just told Lieutenant Wreston we made a mistake. 406 00:19:37,810 --> 00:19:39,346 He believed you? Yeah. 407 00:19:39,612 --> 00:19:41,319 Tony's good at blowing smoke. 408 00:19:42,281 --> 00:19:45,490 Your partner had a big fight with Lorraine Shelby a week before she died. 409 00:19:46,586 --> 00:19:50,932 She had us rousting drunks out of her place, you know, watching over her. 410 00:19:51,090 --> 00:19:54,594 Renato had enough. He wanted the tapes, she laughed in his face. 411 00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:56,571 Well, that's pretty naive of him. 412 00:19:57,162 --> 00:19:59,005 He's two years from his pension. 413 00:19:59,498 --> 00:20:01,102 He was worried it was gonna get out. 414 00:20:01,166 --> 00:20:02,839 Worried enough to kill her? 415 00:20:03,402 --> 00:20:04,938 I don't know. 416 00:20:05,570 --> 00:20:06,981 I don't know. 417 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:09,315 Okay, man? We were just trying to make a bust. 418 00:20:17,648 --> 00:20:19,821 How widespread's the corruption? 419 00:20:19,884 --> 00:20:23,855 IAB thinks it's just the five cops who raided the place. 420 00:20:24,755 --> 00:20:26,701 Did Detective Renato kill Ms. Shelby? 421 00:20:27,825 --> 00:20:29,361 The victim had him in a bind. 422 00:20:29,860 --> 00:20:33,000 She was demanding protection, he got tired of giving it. 423 00:20:33,397 --> 00:20:36,310 His partner says Renato was afraid of losing his pension. 424 00:20:36,801 --> 00:20:38,677 A motive. Any witnesses? 425 00:20:39,235 --> 00:20:40,509 Not that the cops have found. 426 00:20:40,570 --> 00:20:42,277 Evidence? Not yet. 427 00:20:43,006 --> 00:20:44,542 Want to make it three for three? 428 00:20:44,607 --> 00:20:46,416 We don't know about opportunity. 429 00:20:46,976 --> 00:20:49,616 He's not feeling cooperative enough to give us an alibi. 430 00:20:49,679 --> 00:20:50,953 ADAM: What've you charged him with? 431 00:20:51,014 --> 00:20:52,425 Obstruction of justice for now. 432 00:20:52,482 --> 00:20:53,893 Worried about his pension? 433 00:20:54,417 --> 00:20:56,829 Explain to him that's the least of his problems. 434 00:20:58,253 --> 00:21:00,699 (SIGHS) I was at home with my wife and my kids. 435 00:21:00,756 --> 00:21:03,794 He lives in Hauppauge, hour and a half drive from the city. 436 00:21:03,859 --> 00:21:06,840 Anybody else in Hauppauge see you besides your wife and your kids? 437 00:21:06,895 --> 00:21:09,273 I got off the expressway, exit 37, 438 00:21:09,631 --> 00:21:12,077 got gas at a Shell station about 5:00, 5:15. 439 00:21:12,634 --> 00:21:13,806 Pay with a credit card? 440 00:21:13,869 --> 00:21:15,849 Yeah, and the attendant knows me. 441 00:21:15,904 --> 00:21:18,474 We'll check it. What'd you argue with Ms. Shelby about? 442 00:21:18,539 --> 00:21:20,450 COUNSELOR: Let's hear the deal first. 443 00:21:20,508 --> 00:21:22,078 Probation on the obstruction charge. 444 00:21:22,143 --> 00:21:23,713 His job and pension aren't up to me. 445 00:21:23,778 --> 00:21:26,782 Not good enough, you've got a murder charge in your back pocket. 446 00:21:26,948 --> 00:21:28,291 Convince me he didn't do it. 447 00:21:29,116 --> 00:21:30,288 I didn't do it. 448 00:21:31,219 --> 00:21:32,493 The argument? 449 00:21:34,655 --> 00:21:35,998 I had enough, I wanted out. 450 00:21:36,057 --> 00:21:37,865 What exactly did you do for her? 451 00:21:37,924 --> 00:21:39,403 (SCOFFS) Protection. 452 00:21:40,293 --> 00:21:42,034 Her line of work attracts a lot of weirdoes. 453 00:21:43,597 --> 00:21:45,099 Any weirdo in particular? 454 00:21:47,334 --> 00:21:50,508 She had this one guy that she was chatting up on the Internet. 455 00:21:51,738 --> 00:21:56,517 She had a sideline. Talking dirty to guys online for a couple bucks a minute. 456 00:21:57,544 --> 00:21:59,079 This one guy spooked her. 457 00:21:59,678 --> 00:22:01,783 She asked me to check him out. Did you? 458 00:22:01,847 --> 00:22:03,622 I wouldn't know how. 459 00:22:04,683 --> 00:22:10,031 She talks to me about e-mail and chats and screen names. 460 00:22:11,190 --> 00:22:12,863 How the hell am I supposed to know about that crap? 461 00:22:13,459 --> 00:22:15,905 What name did this weirdo use on the computer? 462 00:22:17,496 --> 00:22:18,667 Hotrod. 463 00:22:20,698 --> 00:22:21,938 Hotrod. 464 00:22:22,634 --> 00:22:25,911 No e-mails from Hotrod. No saved e-mails at all. 465 00:22:26,337 --> 00:22:28,977 But she does have lots of saved chat files with him. 466 00:22:29,107 --> 00:22:30,211 Pull them up. 467 00:22:32,243 --> 00:22:35,588 "Bounce them for me, baby. No, go faster." 468 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,182 BRISCOE: This hump was watching her do it? 469 00:22:37,248 --> 00:22:39,193 Check the settings for a T-3 line. 470 00:22:41,818 --> 00:22:43,297 Yeah. Catch me up. 471 00:22:43,353 --> 00:22:44,923 ED: She was running a live-camera website. 472 00:22:44,988 --> 00:22:47,491 You type in your request, watch the action on the monitor 473 00:22:47,558 --> 00:22:48,730 and then charge it to your credit card. 474 00:22:49,026 --> 00:22:50,528 Print the chats from Hotrod. 475 00:22:50,594 --> 00:22:53,268 And we're gonna need his user profile and his credit card information. 476 00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:56,311 No can do. Your girl used a host company. 477 00:22:56,366 --> 00:22:57,970 A host company? 478 00:22:58,100 --> 00:22:59,602 Yeah, they run the site for you. 479 00:22:59,669 --> 00:23:02,582 Takes customer information, handles billing. 480 00:23:02,738 --> 00:23:04,684 I doubt they can match the credit card user 481 00:23:04,740 --> 00:23:07,050 to the name he made up for the chat room. 482 00:23:07,109 --> 00:23:08,281 Great, a dead end. 483 00:23:08,377 --> 00:23:11,654 No, not a dead end, just a lot more work. 484 00:23:13,816 --> 00:23:19,026 Hotrod says he's 38, rich, drives a Porsche, and he's well-endowed. 485 00:23:19,087 --> 00:23:20,589 And he couldn't get a real date? 486 00:23:20,655 --> 00:23:23,761 At first, he's just telling her what he wants to see her do. 487 00:23:23,825 --> 00:23:26,328 That goes on for about six weeks. 488 00:23:26,394 --> 00:23:28,635 Then he wanted her to meet him somewhere. 489 00:23:28,697 --> 00:23:31,871 She strung him along without saying yes, and he started threatening her. 490 00:23:31,933 --> 00:23:33,640 "Don't say you love me, you slut, 491 00:23:33,702 --> 00:23:34,908 "if you loved me, you'd meet me. 492 00:23:34,970 --> 00:23:37,314 "You're just using me." Duh. 493 00:23:37,372 --> 00:23:39,647 "If I have to come after you, it'll be to kill you." 494 00:23:39,707 --> 00:23:41,118 Gets worse as it goes along. 495 00:23:41,175 --> 00:23:43,212 I don't get why she didn't block him out. 496 00:23:43,277 --> 00:23:44,517 $2.99 a minute. 497 00:23:44,578 --> 00:23:46,751 Got the credit card user profiles from the host company, 498 00:23:46,814 --> 00:23:48,987 and times everybody was logged on. 499 00:23:49,049 --> 00:23:50,528 Let's match them up. 500 00:23:51,685 --> 00:23:55,189 BRISCOE: Okay, March 17, 3:16 a.m., 501 00:23:55,256 --> 00:23:57,202 Hotrod was chatting with the victim. 502 00:23:57,257 --> 00:23:58,963 Don't these people ever sleep? 503 00:23:59,492 --> 00:24:03,099 Wait a minute. I've got two people logged onto that site at that time. 504 00:24:03,596 --> 00:24:06,042 Yeah, lollipop@tbl.com 505 00:24:06,833 --> 00:24:09,973 and plantman@jointaccess.com. 506 00:24:10,303 --> 00:24:12,078 That's the second time Hotrod was chatting with her 507 00:24:12,138 --> 00:24:14,414 at the same time Plantman's credit card was being used. 508 00:24:14,474 --> 00:24:16,954 So we've found Hotrod? Maybe. 509 00:24:17,010 --> 00:24:19,990 Plantman first registered with the host company in March. 510 00:24:20,045 --> 00:24:22,184 Hotrod was accessing the website before then. 511 00:24:22,247 --> 00:24:24,727 Too bad Renato's alibi checks out. 512 00:24:24,850 --> 00:24:26,557 You know, if this is the future of police work, 513 00:24:26,618 --> 00:24:28,859 I'm gonna start thinking about retirement. 514 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,399 More coffee? 515 00:24:31,823 --> 00:24:33,097 So who's Plantman? 516 00:24:33,158 --> 00:24:34,466 Um... 517 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,304 Lance Vernon, used his City Mutual card. 518 00:24:37,362 --> 00:24:40,171 Four grand in one week telling a stripper how to take her clothes off. 519 00:24:40,264 --> 00:24:41,709 You guys are such suckers. 520 00:24:43,401 --> 00:24:45,074 I don't know what you're talking about. 521 00:24:45,136 --> 00:24:48,845 A porno website. $4000 charged to your credit card. 522 00:24:48,906 --> 00:24:50,146 What? When? 523 00:24:50,207 --> 00:24:52,278 Three weeks ago. Oh, my God. 524 00:24:52,343 --> 00:24:54,949 Where were you March 23, about 5:00 a.m.? 525 00:24:55,012 --> 00:24:56,013 What the hell's going on? 526 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:57,616 Where were you, Mr. Vernon? 527 00:24:57,682 --> 00:24:59,558 I was in Nova Scotia looking at trees. 528 00:24:59,616 --> 00:25:01,960 Look, I gotta go and call my credit card company. 529 00:25:02,018 --> 00:25:04,658 Does anyone else have access to your card? No! 530 00:25:04,721 --> 00:25:05,961 Do you use it a lot? 531 00:25:06,022 --> 00:25:09,526 It's my back-up card, I've only ever used it once. Damn. 532 00:25:10,193 --> 00:25:11,968 All my friends have been telling me to shop online. 533 00:25:12,028 --> 00:25:15,669 It's great, don't worry about security. I'm such an idiot. 534 00:25:15,732 --> 00:25:17,473 Okay. Where'd you use it? 535 00:25:18,635 --> 00:25:23,982 I bought a book. One lousy book from oldbookworms.com. 536 00:25:25,274 --> 00:25:27,276 FLETCHER: Eight weeks ago, our firewall was breached. 537 00:25:27,343 --> 00:25:29,118 This hacker calls himself Leapfrog. 538 00:25:29,178 --> 00:25:30,589 He stole our customer files. 539 00:25:30,646 --> 00:25:31,852 How do you know? 540 00:25:31,914 --> 00:25:33,291 He e-mailed them back to us 541 00:25:33,349 --> 00:25:36,159 with a demand for a quarter million dollars, or he'd sell them on the web. 542 00:25:36,218 --> 00:25:37,322 Did you call the police? 543 00:25:37,386 --> 00:25:38,456 Yeah, we're coordinating with them, 544 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,022 we're trying to track the guy through phone lines. 545 00:25:41,089 --> 00:25:43,035 He must be leaving footprints. 546 00:25:43,090 --> 00:25:45,400 He's pirating other people's e-mail addresses. 547 00:25:45,460 --> 00:25:47,064 Go to the last page of that file. 548 00:25:47,128 --> 00:25:48,402 That came in this morning. 549 00:25:48,463 --> 00:25:50,636 We have till 10:00 a.m. tomorrow to wire the money 550 00:25:50,698 --> 00:25:53,406 to Direct Money Express under the name Chris Roberts. 551 00:25:53,468 --> 00:25:54,776 Which Direct Money Express office? 552 00:25:54,836 --> 00:25:57,112 Doesn't matter. I mean, he could go into any office. 553 00:25:57,171 --> 00:25:58,878 There's 96 in Manhattan alone, 554 00:25:58,940 --> 00:26:00,350 he could be in Bangkok for all we know. 555 00:26:00,407 --> 00:26:02,819 Well, I'm looking at him for a murder in Soho, Mr. Fletcher, 556 00:26:02,876 --> 00:26:04,787 so let's take a flyer he's local. 557 00:26:04,845 --> 00:26:07,849 He says he'll call you tonight at midnight for your answer. 558 00:26:07,914 --> 00:26:09,518 Gives us time to put a tracer on the call. 559 00:26:09,583 --> 00:26:12,325 There's no point. He said he'd know immediately if we did that, 560 00:26:12,385 --> 00:26:14,262 he'd publish the numbers all over the Internet. 561 00:26:14,321 --> 00:26:15,891 We can't take that risk. 562 00:26:15,956 --> 00:26:18,527 Okay. Tell him the money will be there tomorrow. 563 00:26:18,859 --> 00:26:21,839 But we can't... Lie to him. We'll take it from there. 564 00:26:22,895 --> 00:26:24,101 I've been waiting for 20 minutes. 565 00:26:24,163 --> 00:26:27,474 I'm sorry, miss, the system's overloaded, it should be back up soon. 566 00:26:31,303 --> 00:26:33,180 Hey, wait your turn. I don't think so. 567 00:26:33,239 --> 00:26:35,185 We thought we'd leapfrog over you. 568 00:26:36,809 --> 00:26:39,414 I'm not in the mood to do much of anything for her, Mr. Watkins. 569 00:26:39,477 --> 00:26:41,479 We've got her dead on extortion. 570 00:26:41,546 --> 00:26:44,789 I wasn't really gonna do anything, I swear. 571 00:26:46,017 --> 00:26:49,362 I just wanted to show them they need to tighten their security. 572 00:26:49,554 --> 00:26:52,763 Someone has been using at least one of the credit card numbers you stole. 573 00:26:52,824 --> 00:26:54,735 If it wasn't you, who was it? 574 00:26:54,793 --> 00:26:57,330 I'm still not hearing an incentive to cooperate. 575 00:26:57,395 --> 00:27:00,273 Theft, blackmail, extortion. 576 00:27:00,764 --> 00:27:02,971 Whoever used that card is a murderer. 577 00:27:03,033 --> 00:27:04,512 Well, I didn't use it. 578 00:27:06,270 --> 00:27:08,375 I sold some of them. CARMICHAEL: Who to? 579 00:27:09,473 --> 00:27:11,578 I don't know. Lance Vernon. Plantman. 580 00:27:12,709 --> 00:27:14,950 Who did you sell his credit card number to? 581 00:27:16,013 --> 00:27:17,686 Some guy, I don't remember his name. 582 00:27:17,881 --> 00:27:20,326 He sent me a money order, I faxed him a credit card number. 583 00:27:20,383 --> 00:27:21,487 You still have his fax? 584 00:27:22,185 --> 00:27:23,357 Yeah. Sure. 585 00:27:27,490 --> 00:27:28,560 ED: Excuse me. 586 00:27:29,258 --> 00:27:31,204 Is Kevin Malone here? 587 00:27:31,294 --> 00:27:33,274 Why do you ask? We need to talk to him. 588 00:27:34,831 --> 00:27:37,368 Kevin. What's this about? 589 00:27:39,302 --> 00:27:41,611 What's going on, Mom? BRISCOE: You Hotrod? 590 00:27:44,206 --> 00:27:45,651 (EXCLAIMS) Let go of me! 591 00:27:45,707 --> 00:27:47,550 Shut up, all right? You're not rich, 592 00:27:47,609 --> 00:27:50,453 you're not 38, and that's not a Porsche. 593 00:27:50,512 --> 00:27:52,514 I bet if we check under the hood, you'll be 0 for 4. 594 00:27:52,581 --> 00:27:54,356 What's going on? What are you doing to my son? 595 00:27:54,416 --> 00:27:56,692 He's under arrest for the murder of Lorraine Shelby. 596 00:27:56,752 --> 00:27:59,358 Lotus Blossom to her close virtual friends. 597 00:27:59,421 --> 00:28:01,422 You have the right to remain silent. 598 00:28:01,488 --> 00:28:05,265 Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law... 599 00:28:08,629 --> 00:28:11,667 You don't have a shred of evidence my client killed this woman. 600 00:28:13,167 --> 00:28:18,048 JACK: He threatened her, graphically and repeatedly. And he knew where to find her. 601 00:28:18,105 --> 00:28:20,277 Because she gave him the address of the massage parlor 602 00:28:20,340 --> 00:28:22,513 and told him to "come on down, big boy." 603 00:28:23,109 --> 00:28:25,111 It's not the behavior of a threatened woman. 604 00:28:25,178 --> 00:28:27,351 She knew they were playing a game. Where's the crime? 605 00:28:27,447 --> 00:28:29,893 Using a stolen credit card, making threats... 606 00:28:29,949 --> 00:28:31,690 COUNSELOR: So why are you holding him on suspicion of murder? 607 00:28:31,751 --> 00:28:33,128 He was home that morning. 608 00:28:33,186 --> 00:28:34,756 I pulled him out of bed myself. 609 00:28:34,821 --> 00:28:37,062 I'll pay restitution on the credit card he used, 610 00:28:37,123 --> 00:28:39,125 and we'll redirect his energies. 611 00:28:39,192 --> 00:28:42,502 He's not a killer. My son's a decent boy. 612 00:28:43,962 --> 00:28:45,407 This is your decent boy. 613 00:28:46,198 --> 00:28:49,941 "I want you so bad all the time. I'm so hard for you." 614 00:28:50,002 --> 00:28:51,003 That's private! 615 00:28:51,069 --> 00:28:52,377 COUNSELOR: They're just words, Ms. Carmichael. 616 00:28:52,437 --> 00:28:56,044 "I have to have you." Repeated for a full page. 617 00:28:56,108 --> 00:28:58,145 A month later he says, "I'm going to have you. 618 00:28:58,210 --> 00:29:00,485 "I want you on your hands and knees." Stop it! 619 00:29:00,544 --> 00:29:02,524 "You'll see me or I'll kill you." 620 00:29:02,580 --> 00:29:07,290 My client was merely exercising a vivid imagination in cyberspace. 621 00:29:07,351 --> 00:29:09,353 A jury will see these for what they are. 622 00:29:09,420 --> 00:29:12,458 Vile threats against a woman who was then brutally murdered. 623 00:29:12,523 --> 00:29:13,729 By your client. 624 00:29:13,791 --> 00:29:16,863 Virtual threats, Mr. McCoy, made in virtual reality. 625 00:29:16,928 --> 00:29:19,841 Against a woman who is now more than virtually dead. 626 00:29:23,033 --> 00:29:24,569 Motion in limine. 627 00:29:26,503 --> 00:29:28,449 No jury ever sees those chat logs. 628 00:29:32,375 --> 00:29:34,946 JACK: If Kevin Malone had delivered his threats by US mail, 629 00:29:35,011 --> 00:29:38,185 they'd be part of the People's evidence, no questions asked. 630 00:29:38,248 --> 00:29:42,127 COUNSELOR: But they weren't delivered, not in any meaningful sense of the word. 631 00:29:42,184 --> 00:29:45,495 These were lines in a nasty little theater piece 632 00:29:45,554 --> 00:29:47,932 with Kevin and Ms. Shelby in the starring roles. 633 00:29:47,990 --> 00:29:51,767 Counsel wants this court to see these words as mere masturbatory fantasy. 634 00:29:51,827 --> 00:29:52,897 COUNSELOR: They're less than that. 635 00:29:52,962 --> 00:29:56,341 Desires lived out at the moment in some place that isn't even a place. 636 00:29:57,132 --> 00:29:59,237 I've read the transcripts of the chats. 637 00:29:59,334 --> 00:30:03,509 How do I know they're anything more than defendant's flights of sexual fancy? 638 00:30:03,604 --> 00:30:05,641 Isn't that a question of fact for the jury, Judge? 639 00:30:05,707 --> 00:30:07,812 It's a complex problem, Ms. Carmichael, 640 00:30:07,909 --> 00:30:10,150 open to more than one interpretation. 641 00:30:10,244 --> 00:30:13,054 Your Honor, Kevin Malone stated his intent, 642 00:30:13,114 --> 00:30:16,391 "See me or I'll kill you," page after page and then he followed through. 643 00:30:16,451 --> 00:30:18,397 A jury is entitled to hear these threats. 644 00:30:18,853 --> 00:30:21,196 My client also wrote that he's 38 and rich. 645 00:30:21,588 --> 00:30:22,760 It's all role-playing, Your Honor. 646 00:30:22,823 --> 00:30:24,734 She was worried enough to ask for help. 647 00:30:24,791 --> 00:30:27,965 Her paranoia has nothing to do with my client's intent. 648 00:30:29,396 --> 00:30:30,739 I tend to agree. 649 00:30:30,797 --> 00:30:34,040 Removed from their context, these transcripts are too prejudicial. 650 00:30:34,101 --> 00:30:35,273 They're out. 651 00:30:35,335 --> 00:30:37,178 If you'll excuse me, I'm due in court. 652 00:30:39,906 --> 00:30:43,318 Without those chats, we can't connect Kevin Malone to the murder. 653 00:30:43,376 --> 00:30:46,357 We'll just have to find some other route. Talk to his friends. 654 00:30:48,781 --> 00:30:52,456 I can't believe Kevin killed anybody. He's just so not the type. 655 00:30:52,518 --> 00:30:54,327 You talk to him a lot lately? 656 00:30:54,387 --> 00:30:57,391 Not so much. He's been hanging out at home mostly. 657 00:30:58,124 --> 00:31:00,263 He tell you about this girl he was chatting with? No. 658 00:31:00,825 --> 00:31:04,136 Maybe he was spending way too much time online, but so what? 659 00:31:04,195 --> 00:31:06,300 So he had a problem. 660 00:31:06,498 --> 00:31:07,943 Yeah, I guess. 661 00:31:08,666 --> 00:31:10,145 He fell off the face of the earth. 662 00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:12,909 Stopped playing sports, stopped going to parties. 663 00:31:12,971 --> 00:31:15,645 Really bummed me out to see what was happening to him. 664 00:31:15,907 --> 00:31:17,477 I think it bummed his dad out, too. 665 00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:20,022 Mr. Malone knew what Kevin was doing? 666 00:31:20,078 --> 00:31:21,852 I don't know, but he called me up 667 00:31:21,912 --> 00:31:24,893 asked me to set Kevin up with one of my sister's friends. 668 00:31:24,949 --> 00:31:26,485 You know, get him out of the house. 669 00:31:26,550 --> 00:31:28,689 And what happened? Nothing. 670 00:31:28,752 --> 00:31:31,164 Kevin said he couldn't afford to take anybody out. 671 00:31:31,655 --> 00:31:32,656 Did he say why? 672 00:31:32,756 --> 00:31:36,294 He said he had major bills to pay or his dad was gonna kill him. 673 00:31:37,194 --> 00:31:39,731 Kevin Malone had been going online with Ms. Shelby 674 00:31:39,797 --> 00:31:41,571 for a little over three months. 675 00:31:42,198 --> 00:31:45,839 First month, a $368 charge on one of his father's credit cards. 676 00:31:46,502 --> 00:31:49,039 $2.99 a minute, a little over two hours. 677 00:31:50,106 --> 00:31:51,608 Hardly excessive. 678 00:31:51,674 --> 00:31:53,244 Month two, triple it. 679 00:31:54,077 --> 00:31:56,648 Six hours in a month? Still far from being obsessed. 680 00:31:56,712 --> 00:31:59,750 Month three, close to $50,000. 681 00:31:59,816 --> 00:32:01,954 He maxed out six of his parents' cards. 682 00:32:02,017 --> 00:32:04,361 What does that come to? Ten hours a day. 683 00:32:04,419 --> 00:32:05,659 That rings the bell. 684 00:32:06,288 --> 00:32:10,168 I haven't met the kid face to face, but I'd say he's an Internet addict. 685 00:32:10,659 --> 00:32:12,229 Everything's an addiction now. 686 00:32:13,628 --> 00:32:14,936 His grades go down, 687 00:32:15,731 --> 00:32:17,335 he's stepping back from his friends, 688 00:32:17,399 --> 00:32:19,276 and he's hunched over a keyboard ten hours a day. 689 00:32:19,334 --> 00:32:21,109 What do you call it? Stupid. 690 00:32:22,570 --> 00:32:27,417 Internet addiction is as devastating as alcoholism or compulsive gambling. 691 00:32:27,575 --> 00:32:28,952 Divorce rate's up because of it, 692 00:32:29,010 --> 00:32:30,819 it's causing a host of physical ailments. 693 00:32:30,878 --> 00:32:33,916 Like what? Backache, eye strain, 694 00:32:33,981 --> 00:32:36,291 all the problems attendant on sleep deprivation. 695 00:32:36,350 --> 00:32:38,296 It's not an excuse for murder. 696 00:32:38,352 --> 00:32:40,798 Yeah, that's what they said about Twinkies until a jury bought it. 697 00:32:42,088 --> 00:32:43,761 So what am I up against? 698 00:32:43,823 --> 00:32:45,268 Standard addiction defense, 699 00:32:45,325 --> 00:32:48,033 compulsive behavior, loss of judgment, 700 00:32:48,094 --> 00:32:51,405 plus, in this case, confusion between fantasy and reality. 701 00:32:51,498 --> 00:32:52,738 (LAUGHS) You might as well say, 702 00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:54,676 "Playboy made me do it." It's ridiculous. 703 00:32:55,435 --> 00:32:58,973 With magazines you have fantasies. This kid was having sex. 704 00:32:59,038 --> 00:33:01,745 No more real than a Playboy-induced daydream. 705 00:33:01,874 --> 00:33:05,879 Daydreams are solitary. This was two real people having virtual sex. 706 00:33:06,411 --> 00:33:07,754 This is interesting. 707 00:33:08,414 --> 00:33:11,827 Letters between Mr. Malone and his various credit card companies. 708 00:33:12,684 --> 00:33:15,824 First he wants them to disallow the charges his son made 709 00:33:15,888 --> 00:33:18,596 and then he asks for the name of the woman who got the fifty grand. 710 00:33:19,124 --> 00:33:21,070 Say what he was planning to do with the information? 711 00:33:21,126 --> 00:33:23,298 Wanted to talk to her, get his money back. 712 00:33:23,728 --> 00:33:25,799 Then he threatens to sue them if they don't tell him. 713 00:33:25,863 --> 00:33:27,035 Did they? 714 00:33:27,098 --> 00:33:29,704 "Please be advised we've forwarded your letters to our legal department. 715 00:33:29,767 --> 00:33:32,247 "If you wish to pursue your stated course of action, 716 00:33:32,303 --> 00:33:34,180 "please address all further correspondence," etc. 717 00:33:35,406 --> 00:33:37,352 What's the date of the last letter? 718 00:33:38,309 --> 00:33:39,947 Eight days before the murder. 719 00:33:41,212 --> 00:33:44,454 He could've found the address of the massage parlor on his son's computer. 720 00:33:44,514 --> 00:33:46,687 We didn't ask him where he was at the time of the killing. 721 00:33:47,317 --> 00:33:48,819 No point in asking him. 722 00:33:51,021 --> 00:33:52,591 You know that Kevin had the address 723 00:33:52,656 --> 00:33:56,160 of Ms. Shelby's business because she gave it to him? 724 00:33:56,626 --> 00:33:59,266 She tried to lure him into that... 725 00:34:00,463 --> 00:34:01,771 Where she worked. 726 00:34:02,531 --> 00:34:04,010 He's just a boy. 727 00:34:04,066 --> 00:34:05,739 She didn't know that, Mrs. Malone. 728 00:34:05,801 --> 00:34:08,907 To her he was a 38-year-old stud with a wad of money. 729 00:34:10,339 --> 00:34:12,285 When did you and your husband find out 730 00:34:12,341 --> 00:34:15,185 that Kevin had the address in the computer? 731 00:34:15,978 --> 00:34:17,685 A few days before she... 732 00:34:18,814 --> 00:34:22,192 Please, don't you understand what that woman was? 733 00:34:22,617 --> 00:34:24,494 What she did to my son? 734 00:34:24,552 --> 00:34:26,054 What about what he did to her? 735 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,327 I told you, Kevin was at home. 736 00:34:28,389 --> 00:34:30,926 Ms. Shelby was killed at 5:00 a.m. You were awake that early? 737 00:34:32,393 --> 00:34:36,842 No, but I was at 6:00, and I woke Kevin at 6:15. 738 00:34:36,898 --> 00:34:38,775 Could he have just sneaked back into bed? 739 00:34:39,367 --> 00:34:41,643 (SIGHS) He was out to the world. 740 00:34:43,470 --> 00:34:45,472 Can your husband corroborate that? 741 00:34:45,539 --> 00:34:49,214 He may have looked in on Kevin before he left, he usually does. 742 00:34:49,276 --> 00:34:51,483 What time was that? I'm not sure. 743 00:34:51,545 --> 00:34:54,048 So he wasn't there when you got up? 744 00:34:54,114 --> 00:34:56,594 No, he went to work early that day. 745 00:34:58,652 --> 00:35:01,428 (STAMMERS) He wanted to beat traffic into the city. 746 00:35:02,788 --> 00:35:05,268 One other person from his office was in early that morning. 747 00:35:05,324 --> 00:35:07,463 She says she didn't see Malone there. 748 00:35:07,527 --> 00:35:10,098 Did you ask Mr. Malone about it? He won't talk to us. 749 00:35:10,162 --> 00:35:12,768 The police searched the house again this morning 750 00:35:12,832 --> 00:35:15,813 with a warrant specifying Mr. Malone's clothes. 751 00:35:15,935 --> 00:35:17,539 (PHONE RINGING) 752 00:35:18,804 --> 00:35:20,442 Schiff here. 753 00:35:20,973 --> 00:35:22,383 Detective Briscoe. 754 00:35:23,675 --> 00:35:25,086 Lennie. 755 00:35:27,746 --> 00:35:29,089 Okay, thanks. 756 00:35:30,315 --> 00:35:33,592 They found a pair of Mr. Malone's wool gloves, torn, 757 00:35:33,652 --> 00:35:35,928 same color as the fibers found at the scene. 758 00:35:35,987 --> 00:35:37,796 They match? Lab says yes. 759 00:35:42,860 --> 00:35:45,704 ED: We asked Mr. Malone where he was at the time of the murder, 760 00:35:45,763 --> 00:35:48,369 he said he was in the city, working at his office. 761 00:35:48,432 --> 00:35:49,934 Did you check his alibi? 762 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,538 Yes. We spoke to a co-worker who was in the office at 5:00 a.m. that morning. 763 00:35:53,604 --> 00:35:55,811 She told us she didn't see Mr. Malone. 764 00:35:55,873 --> 00:35:59,912 Did you subsequently ask Mr. Malone to account for the discrepancy? 765 00:36:00,044 --> 00:36:02,024 He said he was there, that his door was closed. 766 00:36:02,578 --> 00:36:03,955 But we checked with building security. 767 00:36:04,013 --> 00:36:05,287 They hadn't seen him either. 768 00:36:05,415 --> 00:36:08,726 And his entry key card hadn't been used in the elevators or the office suite. 769 00:36:09,319 --> 00:36:10,855 Thank you, Detective. 770 00:36:12,588 --> 00:36:17,162 Did you talk to anyone who saw Mr. Malone at all that morning? 771 00:36:17,527 --> 00:36:20,133 Yes. A waitress at a coffee shop in Queens. 772 00:36:20,196 --> 00:36:22,198 She said he got a cup of coffee to go. 773 00:36:22,665 --> 00:36:26,908 She could remember a casual customer from two months before 774 00:36:26,969 --> 00:36:28,539 but she couldn't say if he was wearing gloves? 775 00:36:29,137 --> 00:36:30,275 That's what she said. 776 00:36:30,339 --> 00:36:32,046 Anyone else? 777 00:36:32,107 --> 00:36:37,079 Maybe someone who put Mr. Malone closer to the crime scene than Queens? 778 00:36:37,179 --> 00:36:38,590 There were no witnesses on the street 779 00:36:38,647 --> 00:36:40,684 at the crime scene at the time of the murder. 780 00:36:40,749 --> 00:36:42,626 That wasn't my question, Detective. 781 00:36:44,118 --> 00:36:46,826 No one we found saw the defendant again 782 00:36:46,887 --> 00:36:49,663 until 9:00 a.m. that day at his office. 783 00:36:49,724 --> 00:36:52,967 In investigating this crime, did you find that the victim 784 00:36:53,027 --> 00:36:55,200 had been arrested on any occasion? 785 00:36:56,263 --> 00:36:58,140 Yes, a raid at a strip club. 786 00:36:58,466 --> 00:36:59,968 Objection. Relevance. 787 00:37:00,034 --> 00:37:02,310 The victim's character is often relevant, Mr. McCoy. 788 00:37:03,103 --> 00:37:04,446 I'll allow it. 789 00:37:05,505 --> 00:37:08,213 Did you find she was a prostitute? 790 00:37:08,942 --> 00:37:09,977 Yes. 791 00:37:10,043 --> 00:37:12,250 Did you find that she was enslaving other women 792 00:37:12,312 --> 00:37:14,952 and forcing them to perform sex acts with men? 793 00:37:15,015 --> 00:37:16,016 Yes. 794 00:37:16,082 --> 00:37:17,527 Did you learn what percentage 795 00:37:17,584 --> 00:37:20,690 of the other women's earnings Ms. Shelby confiscated? 796 00:37:20,754 --> 00:37:21,994 ED: Eighty percent to the house. 797 00:37:22,055 --> 00:37:23,658 Eighty percent. 798 00:37:23,722 --> 00:37:27,329 Was there a standard charge for, say, oral sex? 799 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:28,966 $20. 800 00:37:29,028 --> 00:37:34,637 So $4 out of every 20 went to the women who were forced to do the real work. 801 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:36,304 Did they get to keep the $4? 802 00:37:36,368 --> 00:37:39,008 They said Ms. Shelby charged half for room and board. 803 00:37:39,338 --> 00:37:41,614 And were they allowed to seek other accommodations? 804 00:37:42,141 --> 00:37:44,120 Not according to what they told us. 805 00:37:44,509 --> 00:37:46,386 Thank you, that's all. 806 00:37:49,681 --> 00:37:51,718 So he smeared the victim, what else is new? 807 00:37:51,783 --> 00:37:55,424 "My client didn't do it, but the victim deserved to die." 808 00:37:55,486 --> 00:37:58,365 And by the time Clayborn was finished, the jury thought so, too. 809 00:37:58,423 --> 00:38:01,165 Who is the first defense witness? Mrs. Malone. 810 00:38:01,225 --> 00:38:05,673 Mrs. Malone? She can't violate spousal privilege, what's her contribution? 811 00:38:05,729 --> 00:38:08,266 Probably broken hearts and violins. 812 00:38:08,331 --> 00:38:10,868 Oh, cut her some slack, her whole family's been destroyed 813 00:38:10,934 --> 00:38:13,972 by a tidal wave of hardcore smut crashing into her home. 814 00:38:14,037 --> 00:38:17,109 It's not illegal. First amendment, Abbie. 815 00:38:17,974 --> 00:38:21,353 Oh, I seem to remember something about "socially redeeming value." 816 00:38:21,478 --> 00:38:23,787 There's nothing redeemable about murder. 817 00:38:29,285 --> 00:38:31,060 MRS. MALONE: We tried so hard, 818 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,259 we even found Kevin a therapist. 819 00:38:33,322 --> 00:38:35,165 He wouldn't go. CLAYBORN: Why not? 820 00:38:35,224 --> 00:38:37,534 He said it wasn't anybody's business but his. 821 00:38:38,060 --> 00:38:41,439 How would you describe your son's obsession, Mrs. Malone? 822 00:38:41,931 --> 00:38:43,568 It was like an addiction. 823 00:38:43,698 --> 00:38:45,371 Nothing else mattered to him. 824 00:38:45,433 --> 00:38:46,935 When the police arrested your son, 825 00:38:47,001 --> 00:38:49,572 did you believe he might have killed Ms. Shelby? 826 00:38:50,071 --> 00:38:51,072 Of course not. 827 00:38:51,139 --> 00:38:55,212 And when the police came back again and arrested your husband, 828 00:38:56,010 --> 00:38:58,047 did you think it was possible he killed her? 829 00:38:58,179 --> 00:38:59,886 Not remotely. 830 00:38:59,948 --> 00:39:02,155 How many enemies must that woman have had? 831 00:39:03,451 --> 00:39:04,793 Thank you. 832 00:39:11,925 --> 00:39:14,633 Can you shed any light on who killed Ms. Shelby? 833 00:39:15,596 --> 00:39:16,734 No. 834 00:39:16,797 --> 00:39:20,335 Can you give your husband an alibi for the time of the murder? 835 00:39:21,635 --> 00:39:22,773 No. 836 00:39:22,836 --> 00:39:25,839 Did Mr. Clayborn tell you why he wanted you to testify? 837 00:39:25,905 --> 00:39:27,384 Objection, relevance. 838 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,080 This witness knows nothing about the crime, Your Honor. 839 00:39:30,143 --> 00:39:31,816 Her testimony is clearly intended 840 00:39:31,878 --> 00:39:34,916 to tug at the heartstrings of the jury, it's prejudicial. 841 00:39:34,981 --> 00:39:37,086 I ask that it be stricken in its entirety. 842 00:39:37,150 --> 00:39:40,461 JUDGE: I'll consider it. You have any further questions for the witness? 843 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,364 Anything I ask her, she'll just turn it into a sob story. 844 00:39:43,423 --> 00:39:44,730 I take it that's a no. 845 00:39:46,191 --> 00:39:47,534 Witness may stand down. 846 00:39:52,631 --> 00:39:55,134 Did you know where to find Ms. Shelby? 847 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,841 I tried to find out, but the credit card companies wouldn't tell me, 848 00:39:58,904 --> 00:40:00,815 said they only had a corporation name. 849 00:40:01,373 --> 00:40:03,683 Did you try to track down the corporation's address? 850 00:40:03,941 --> 00:40:05,386 It was a PO box. 851 00:40:05,443 --> 00:40:08,515 Did you take any other steps to find Ms. Shelby? 852 00:40:09,113 --> 00:40:10,319 I didn't know how. 853 00:40:10,381 --> 00:40:13,294 If you had found her, what were you planning to do? 854 00:40:13,751 --> 00:40:17,358 I was going to beg her to leave Kevin alone. Just... 855 00:40:19,156 --> 00:40:20,931 Leave my son alone. 856 00:40:21,292 --> 00:40:22,362 Sir. 857 00:40:24,327 --> 00:40:26,933 Did you kill Lorraine Shelby? 858 00:40:28,231 --> 00:40:30,074 No. Thank you. 859 00:40:34,370 --> 00:40:37,044 The police testified Ms. Shelby's business address 860 00:40:37,106 --> 00:40:40,178 was on your son's computer, Mr. Malone. 861 00:40:40,243 --> 00:40:41,347 I didn't know that. 862 00:40:41,644 --> 00:40:43,646 JACK: Did your wife know? Objection. 863 00:40:44,246 --> 00:40:46,556 Mr. McCoy didn't ask Mrs. Malone about this 864 00:40:46,615 --> 00:40:49,152 because he knew it was covered by spousal privilege, 865 00:40:49,218 --> 00:40:51,289 he can't get it in with an end run. 866 00:40:51,353 --> 00:40:53,526 JUDGE: Sustained. Move on, Mr. McCoy. 867 00:40:53,589 --> 00:40:57,264 You said you just wanted to talk to Ms. Shelby, 868 00:40:57,326 --> 00:41:01,240 to ask her politely to leave Kevin alone, is that right? 869 00:41:01,697 --> 00:41:02,698 Yes. 870 00:41:02,764 --> 00:41:06,939 Your son had put upwards of $50,000 in her pocket. 871 00:41:07,001 --> 00:41:11,507 What in the world made you think that she would agree to stop seeing him online? 872 00:41:11,772 --> 00:41:15,242 I wasn't thinking straight, I just wanted it to stop. 873 00:41:15,309 --> 00:41:16,652 I thought if I talked to her I... 874 00:41:16,711 --> 00:41:17,985 Why not talk to your son instead? 875 00:41:18,045 --> 00:41:19,547 He was right there, wasn't he? 876 00:41:19,614 --> 00:41:21,651 You didn't have to track him down, did you? 877 00:41:21,716 --> 00:41:24,924 I did talk to him, I took away his modem, his cables, 878 00:41:24,985 --> 00:41:27,465 I had his phone line disconnected, he couldn't stop. 879 00:41:27,754 --> 00:41:33,033 Without a modem and cables and a phone line, he still kept going? 880 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,067 He bought a new modem, new cables, 881 00:41:35,128 --> 00:41:36,505 he tapped into our phone line. 882 00:41:36,763 --> 00:41:39,243 Did you ever take away the whole computer? 883 00:41:39,299 --> 00:41:41,404 Yes, and he borrowed a laptop. 884 00:41:41,468 --> 00:41:43,846 I did everything I could, Mr. McCoy, 885 00:41:43,903 --> 00:41:47,509 but I couldn't watch him 24 hours a day. It was her fault. 886 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:51,244 She destroyed my son and who knows how many others. 887 00:41:51,310 --> 00:41:52,584 She deserved what she got. 888 00:41:52,811 --> 00:41:54,347 And that was your decision to make? 889 00:41:54,413 --> 00:41:55,619 (STAMMERS) I... 890 00:41:56,749 --> 00:42:00,697 Didn't say that, but don't ask me to be sorry she's dead. 891 00:42:04,722 --> 00:42:06,133 If you didn't kill her, 892 00:42:07,358 --> 00:42:12,899 then can you explain how fibers from your gloves were found on the victim's body? 893 00:42:13,097 --> 00:42:15,509 I can only guess the police lab made a mistake. 894 00:42:15,967 --> 00:42:18,208 Isn't it you that made a mistake, Mr. Malone, 895 00:42:18,903 --> 00:42:21,008 when you accosted the victim and struck her 896 00:42:21,072 --> 00:42:22,710 and strangled her until she was dead? 897 00:42:23,141 --> 00:42:24,677 Isn't that why you're here? 898 00:42:24,742 --> 00:42:27,847 Objection. Asked and answered on direct. 899 00:42:30,180 --> 00:42:31,784 I have nothing further. 900 00:42:38,322 --> 00:42:39,460 Thank you. 901 00:42:44,494 --> 00:42:48,236 Counsel, the jury's asking permission to consider a lesser charge. 902 00:42:48,297 --> 00:42:50,470 How much less? JUDGE: Man two. 903 00:43:00,109 --> 00:43:02,214 The defense has no objection, Your Honor. 904 00:43:02,411 --> 00:43:03,481 Mr. McCoy? 905 00:43:03,546 --> 00:43:05,582 The standard for man two is recklessness. 906 00:43:05,647 --> 00:43:08,355 How does that apply to deliberate strangulation? 907 00:43:08,850 --> 00:43:10,523 I'm inclined to agree with you, Mr. McCoy. 908 00:43:10,585 --> 00:43:12,155 How do you feel about man one? 909 00:43:12,420 --> 00:43:15,458 I don't think any manslaughter option is appropriate. 910 00:43:15,523 --> 00:43:17,525 The victim didn't die by mistake, 911 00:43:17,592 --> 00:43:19,333 this murder was clearly intentional. 912 00:43:19,394 --> 00:43:22,705 The jury clearly disagrees with the severity of the charge. 913 00:43:22,764 --> 00:43:24,300 Because the defense bent over backwards 914 00:43:24,365 --> 00:43:26,366 to stir up sympathy for a cold-blooded killer! 915 00:43:26,433 --> 00:43:28,413 They should have sympathy for a greedy hooker? 916 00:43:28,702 --> 00:43:29,908 That's enough. 917 00:43:31,004 --> 00:43:33,109 Tell the jury they can consider man one. 918 00:43:34,842 --> 00:43:37,652 Your Honor, you're allowing a compromise verdict, that's not... 919 00:43:37,711 --> 00:43:39,054 Sit down, Mr. McCoy. 920 00:43:39,113 --> 00:43:41,286 You might as well let them nullify. Sit down. 921 00:43:46,753 --> 00:43:49,825 It's now a guaranteed man one conviction and Malone knows that. 922 00:43:49,922 --> 00:43:52,425 Six to twelve on an intentional murder. 923 00:43:52,492 --> 00:43:54,062 Well, it happens sometimes when your victim is 924 00:43:54,127 --> 00:43:56,471 sleazier than your defendant, you know that. 925 00:44:06,338 --> 00:44:07,749 Crime starts somewhere in China, 926 00:44:07,806 --> 00:44:10,218 ends up destroying a family in New York. 927 00:44:10,275 --> 00:44:13,722 Not to mention ruining the lives of dozens of Chinese women. 928 00:44:13,912 --> 00:44:15,653 What's the INS doing with them? 929 00:44:15,781 --> 00:44:18,591 Detained, pending the outcome of deportation proceedings. 930 00:44:18,650 --> 00:44:20,220 They've applied for asylum. 931 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,466 Welcome to the global village.