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In Toronto's
war on crime,

the worst offenders are pursued
by the detectives

of the Specialized Criminal
Investigations Unit.

These are their stories.

Cara.

Cara?

Sometimes we have to admit
what we've done

in order to move on.

Guess I won't be
moving on then.

Because I didn't do anything.

I believe you.

Watch your back, girl.

Baby killing bitch!

Come on, Melville,
we'll take the tunnel back.

Okay, let's settle down
ladies.

- Let's go!
- I got eyes on you.

Guard? What...

So you think broken ribs
contributed to the baby's death?

Injuries an adult
could survive

might be fatal for a child.

So while rib fractures
in general

aren't considered
life threatening,

as the defence expert suggested,

in the case of an infant...

they may be deadly.

Thank you, Doctor Plath.

Look what just came
in from Innocence Canada.

I can't take on any more
cases right now.

It's about Cara Melville.

What do you mean,
Cara's getting a new hearing?

What, like parole?

It's more than just parole,
Mr. Melville.

What's going on, dad?

Uh, it's nothing, Audrey.
It's nothing.

Detective Dreyfus,

my ex-wife has only
served a year

for killing
our six-month-old child.

How is that possible?

They're saying
we missed evidence.

Due to the potentially
exculpatory evidence

that was not disclosed at
Cara Melville's original trial,

a blonde hair found
on the victim,

six-month-old,
Izzy Melville,

this court has decided
to release Cara Melville

on bail, pending appeal.

I am satisfied that
there is merit

and she is not a flight risk.

We won the battle today,
but not the war.

So you sit tight at the motel

and let me focus
on winning your appeal--

- Cara. Cara!
- Dad, please.

Mr. Melville,
give her some space.

Stay out of this!

You will not get away with this.

You think one hair
is gonna free you?

I have way more than one hair,
Tate.

I went through a lot of
red tape to get this.

I hope you know
what you're doing.

Thank you, Ms. Shuter.

What do you want?

We need to talk.

Ms. Melville?

Ms. Melville?

Hey, it's Management.

I just need to check
your breaker.

I'm coming in.

What the hell?

Jesus Christ.

Sorry to get you guys out here
in the middle of the night,

but we've got a weird one
on our hands.

You know what they say...

No rest for the wicked?

Excuse me, sir.
Are you the manager?

Yeah.
Hi, I'm Jonas.

Detective Bateman.
This is Detective Graff.

Yeah, look,
I didn't do anything. Okay?

The power went out
around eight,

so I went in to flip the breaker
and she was already dead, man.

It's like the freaking
shining in there.

Alright, thanks, Jonas.

You can give your statement
to the officer over there.

You might wanna, uh,
check his phone for photos.

Yeah.

- Got a name on the victim?
- Cara Melville.

As in the, uh,
just got bail after

being imprisoned
for killing her kid,

Cara Melville?
- Yup.

Told you it was weird.

Jonas found Cara in the tub.

Her head was there,
her feet were there.

EMT tried to save her, but...

But a hairdryer in the bath
is instant death?

Yeah.

Blew the motel's power too,

which tells us two things.
This place isn't up to code

and the time of death was
8 PM when the lights went out.

And she's been living here

ever since she left
prison, yeah?

Broke, divorced, no family.

She had nowhere else to go.

And something tells me
she was safer on the inside.

Any, uh, forced entry?

Jonas said the door
was locked,

but it's one of those
cheap push buttons,

so anyone could have popped it
in on their way out.

There's still cash in her purse,

so it doesn't seem
like a botched robbery.

What about CCTV?

- Security cameras are broken.
- Hmm.

That's why I called you.
I can't tell if

this is an accident, foul play,
or self-inflicted.

Well, if Cara was so close
to real freedom,

why would she end it all
with a hairdryer?

Well, this doesn't seem
like surrender to me.

Looks like a fight.

That cut on her head
wasn't caused by

flailing or falling in the tub.

And the tile's too smooth.

Her skin's split.
It's a vertical laceration,

so she must've hit her head
on a sharp edge.

Okay.

Well, for her sake, let's make
the, uh, invisible visible.

Play this out with me.
- Okay, let's give it a whirl.

I'm Cara.
Cara's in the bathroom.

Okay. Killer enters.

Makes a sound.

Cara hears the noise,
opens the door.

Killer pounces.
Fast.

Right. There's no signs of
a struggle, so killer grabs her,

knocks her head
into this doorframe.

Now, she's about my height,
so that would be...

there?

I mean, there's no blood.

Yeah, looks like
it's been wiped by, uh,

something that's messed
with the paint there.

We're gonna need, uh,
a photo and swab of this mark.

Copy.

Okay, so Cara's knocked out.

Killer throws her
into the tub and then

chucks the hairdryer
in after her.

He then leaves under the cover
of darkness.

Okay. So. Who?

Who had it out for Cara?

Is this her ex-husband?

Yeah, that's Tate Melville.

My dad's in Kingston
for a job.

Early morning hot tub install.

He drove out there last night.

Why?

Audrey, are you aware of what
happened to your former stepmom?

I never wanna hear anything
about Cara ever again.

She's the worst thing
that ever happened to my dad.

Unfortunately,
we have to inform you

that, uh, Cara was murdered
last night.

At the motel
where she was living.

What?

Wait, you guys don't think

my dad had something
to do with this, do you?

We just need to speak
with him.

He didn't do anything.

A lot of people were upset
that Cara got bail.

Me, my dad, Detective Dreyfus.

Oh, and in case you
were wondering,

I was at school last night,
George Brown.

We're not accusing you,
Audrey.

Good.
I don't wanna talk anymore.

It's alright.

If you, uh, just ask your dad
to give us a call

when he gets in.

Tate was angry Cara got out.

But he wouldn't do this.

He's a good, hardworking man.

But Tate's in the wind.

And his ex-wife allegedly
killed their kid,

I mean, it looks like motive
to me, Detective Dreyfus.

Allegedly?

And what's up with this,
uh, missing hair?

How'd it get her an appeal?

The hair wasn't entered
into evidence

because I didn't see it.

Neither did Doctor Plath.

Here are my autopsy photos

from when I examined the victim.

As you can see,

there are no blonde hairs
on Izzy's hand.

And this is the police photo
taken in the ER

after resuscitation
efforts ceased.

Do you see any hairs
around the hand?

Well, maybe see
something

near the middle finger?
But I can't be sure.

Imagine you're in the ER
a few feet from the body,

you can understand why
I didn't see it back then.

- Yeah.
- Neither did the coroner.

Yes, the body and bedding

were bagged and brought
to me directly.

We're checking through
that old evidence

to see if it was missed.

We know who didn't miss it,

was Innocence Canada.

Cara contacted them
after she went to prison.

They went through her file,
looking for a way

to get her out.

Now, at 300 times magnification,

guess the blonde hair's
pretty clear.

Yeah.

Okay, so this picture
proved that some evidence

went undisclosed and that was
enough to get Cara her appeal?

Hmm. That and the testimony
of the ER doctor, Garvey.

Supposedly,
he remembered seeing it,

but he didn't mention that
to me at the time.

Honestly, I think the hair
is a contaminant.

Wasn't Audrey's or Cara's
'cause both are brunette.

And-and Tate was out
of town on business.

Yes.

Cara was an alcoholic.

She fell off the wagon.

Guess Izzy wasn't easy
to be alone with.

Medical report indicate
she suffered from colic.

Cara needed a break.

She contacted Audrey
to watch Izzy, went drinking.

She got back by 10 PM,

sent Audrey home
to her mom's house.

She woke up at five
in the morning

to find Izzy convulsing.

Subdural hematoma.

Shaken baby syndrome.

With trauma like that,

the timeline between
injury and death

is four to six hours.

Cara was alone
with Izzy for seven.

So you do the math.

Okay. So you think Cara
got out on a technicality.

Did you happen to tell
her ex that?

Dad, I've been calling
and texting!

I know, I know, I'm sorry.
Come here, come here.

Feels like it's happening
all over again.

Hey, hey. It's not.

I promise it's over.

It's all over now, okay?

What do you mean,
it's over now?

Means I'll take care
of the cops,

you don't have to deal
with any of that.

Did you go see Cara
last night?

Why would I do that?

To see if
she was telling the truth?

No, listen, the truth
is that Cara killed Izzy.

And nothing's gonna change that.

Okay?
- Okay.

It'll be okay, Audrey.

A grief-stricken father riled
up by an irate detective...

Goes to Cara's hotel
to exact revenge.

Pretty good place to kill
somebody and get away with it.

Yeah, the room is basically
a dirty bomb with DNA,

it'll be hard to find
a real suspect.

Ordinarily,
I'd agree with you.

Everyone and their mother
has been in that room.

But I found something
under Cara's nails.

Foreign DNA.

She might have scratched
her attacker.

Look, I don't know
what happened to Cara,

I was in Kingston.

Can we do this later?
I have a job this afternoon.

No, I'd prefer to talk
now because that, uh,

that bandage?
On your neck there?

That might tell
a different story.

Oh, yeah? What's it gonna say?

That you were maybe
with Cara last night?

Cara scratched someone
before she was killed.

Skin cells under the fingernails
and if those cells

happened to belong to you
and you're not cooperating,

you know,
it just doesn't look good.

Fine. I was with Cara
last night.

We argued and she scratched me,
but I didn't kill her.

- You sure?
- Yes. I swear.

I was on the road.
You can check my GPS.

Look, I know it sounds bad,
but I just...

needed to know the truth.

The truth about what, Tate?

After the hearing,
Cara said something weird.

She said that she had more than
one hair to exonerate herself.

Well, if she had
new evidence,

new information wh-why didn't
she bring it up at the hearing?

Well, that's what Plath
and Dreyfus said, but...

I couldn't get it out of
my head, so I went to the motel,

she wouldn't tell me,
said she couldn't

because she hadn't collected
enough evidence yet.

Tate, did Cara think

that someone else
killed your daughter?

Apparently. She was collecting
proof on some hard drive.

But it was stolen.

How convenient, right?

Where was this drive
stolen from?

Uh, a public library the day
before she died.

Which library?

I don't know, I--

This is Audrey.
Do you mind?

- Of course.
- Hey.

Yeah. Yeah, okay.

What if, uh,
Cara did have new evidence?

I mean, she'd only just
found out about the hair.

Maybe she had a hunch as to...

who it belonged to.

Hmm, someone she knew.
And if that someone knew

that Cara was on to them,

that is a reason
to steal a drive.

We're gonna have to check out
every library in the city

to find a thief, aren't we?

You make that sound
like a bad thing.

Tate's alibi is solid.

We caught him on camera

at a gas station
near Oshawa at 8 PM.

You found Cara?

Security footage came
in from the library she went to.

Yeah, confirms Cara was at
this branch every day for a week

before she died, researching
on their computers.

We know what
she was looking at?

No idea.

The history auto clears
on these terminals,

but this was the day
before she was killed.

And lookie-loo.

Our blonde drive thief
approaches.

If the hair that was found
on Izzy came from this guy,

we could be looking
at a real killer.

Yeah and if, uh,
Cara had something on that drive

that further proved
he was responsible...

we may be looking
at Cara's killer, too.

So, you think Cara suspected
someone else of killing her kid

and that person murdered Cara.

Anyone from the family
recognize this guy?

No. We showed this to Tate,

Audrey, Dreyfus,
no one knows who he is.

Maybe there's a reason
that no one knows who he is.

I mean, this may
sound indelicate,

but Tate was out of town
the night that Izzy died.

And Cara was alone.

You think Cara
had a secret boyfriend?

Maybe invited him over
the night Izzy died,

she didn't think
he could've hurt Izzy

until she found out about
the undisclosed hair.

So Cara gets out of prison,
starts looking into him...

He finds out
she's suspicious of him,

he follows her...

And steals the drive
and then kills her

before she can expose him
as a child murderer.

If Cara's dead
then the appeal is abated

and she dies, guilty of
second-degree murder.

The whole case disappears.

No one's looking
for the real killer.

I've never seen
this guy before.

Cara didn't mention
the evidence she was collecting

to try to find
Izzy's real killer?

Finding real killers
is your job, detectives.

I was very clear with Cara
about what my job was.

Show the council did not
get all the evidence they needed

to adequately defend her.

Then exonerate her
and call it a day.

- Even without the hair?
- I didn't need it.

I have the photo
and Doctor Garvey's testimony.

Are they still
looking for it?

Why?

You wanna compare it
to this guy?

Well, if he's a match,
it could well be

that he's Izzy's killer
and Cara's killer.

True, but I don't think
that hair will help you

prosecute Cara's killer.

There's zero connection

between her crime scene
and a hair

found in a kid's hand
three years ago.

Wait.
Did you say in the hand?

The photo that we saw,
it looked like the hair

was on Izzy's hand, not in it.

Not according
to Doctor Garvey.

Yes, that is what I told
Ms. Cross.

In the ER,
I saw a hair in Izzy's hand.

It got dislodged in our efforts
to save her life.

You didn't tell the police?

I thought the message
had been relayed.

It wasn't.
So when Edith contacted me,

I told her it had been
entwined in Izzy's fingers

like she had, um,
grasped hair and pulled.

So the hair
wasn't a contaminant.

If she'd pulled Cara's hair,
it would've been dark.

No, that means it must've been
someone else inside that house

between 10 PM and 5 AM
when Izzy was hurt.

Maybe or maybe
it happened earlier.

What do you mean?

I think the timeline
stated was, um,

too conservative.

Doctor Plath
is the preeminent expert,

but I've seen shaken baby deaths
occur 10, 12 hours after injury.

Hold on. You're saying that
Izzy could have been hurt

much earlier that evening?

Like when she being minded by,
uh, her half-sister Audrey.

Thank you, Doctor Garvey.

Yeah.

Well, if he's right,
Audrey wasn't alone that night.

Yeah, and she lied about
not knowing who our blonde is.

I think you're on to something

with this secret boyfriend
theory.

Right idea, wrong woman.

Okay, I lied.

But I barely know Christian.

He was two grades older
and we hooked up once.

Was it that night?

I was there.

But I didn't hurt that baby.

I wasn't allowed
to have guys over.

I didn't want my dad to know.

Besides, Christian
didn't do anything.

Well,
if you didn't do anything,

why did you steal
Cara's drive?

Can you tell me about when
he reached out to you recently?

He heard that Cara
got released.

Read about the hair
in the news and texted me.

I hadn't heard from him
since that night.

He was freaking out that Cara
was gonna blame us.

Did you tell him what Cara
said to your dad?

Yeah, but she was lying
about having more evidence.

My dad told me.

I know Christian
didn't hurt Izzy.

Cara did it way after we left.

Audrey,
that's not necessarily true.

All it takes is five seconds
of forceful shaking.

The only person
I touched was Audrey.

Sure.

You know, I heard that...

poor little Izzy was...

was quite the crier.

Did Audrey have to keep getting
up to, uh, go take care of her?

My client has already said

he doesn't recall
specific events.

I don't think Goldilocks
here even understood

the specific events that
he might have done something

that hurt Izzy.

I need you to think back, okay?

Try as hard as you can
to remember.

Was there any time when
Christian was alone with her?

I, I mean,
I went to the bathroom once.

Izzy started crying, but then...

she stopped.

When I came out, Christian,
he was in the hall.

He wasn't in her room.

Then, how did a blonde hair
get entwined in Izzy's fingers?

Are you trying
to implicate my client

in a crime that Cara Melville
was already imprisoned for?

Oh, we'll leave that to, uh,

Detective Dreyfus
to further investigate.

Our little chat here
is to establish your motive

in the murder
of Cara Melville.

Audrey told you
about Cara's evidence.

That she had more than a hair
regarding the real killer.

So you stole the drive, uh,

discovered that Cara had
dirt on you,

and you went to the motel
and you killed her.

No! No.

Look, I may have been
at Cara's the night Izzy died--

- Christian.
- But I didn't touch that baby.

And I was nowhere near
that motel when Cara was killed.

Well, where were you,
Prince Charming?

Tell 'em.

Christian was doing community
service for vandalism.

He was at a food bank
until 9 PM.

Oh, so being a delinquent, uh,
finally worked in your favour.

What's on the drive?

I don't even know.

The files were
password protected.

I cracked the drive.

Christian may look good
for Izzy's murder,

but Cara was not collecting
evidence on him.

These are just articles

about other parents who went to
prison for killing their kids.

Then there's nothing
on the drive about, uh,

a new suspect
in Izzy's murder?

Not as far as I can tell.

Okay, so why would Cara think
this would exonerate her?

I mean, none of it even
has to do with her daughter.

Hmm.
Open the directory for me.

Who's this Nina Shuter and
why's she got her own folder?

Yeah, hold on.

Okay, uh...

Nina was an infant.
Her mother, Maxine,

was convicted of
her second-degree murder.

And she was incarcerated
at the same prison as Cara.

And lived on the same PC Ward.

Okay, so they were neighbours.

But Maxine couldn't have given

Cara any of this, I mean,
she didn't have access.

And Cara couldn't have gotten
any of this on her own either.

I mean,
here's Nina's autopsy report,

a second opinion
from a pathologist,

I mean, these are documents

that only the Shuter family
could acquire.

Hang on.

It says here
the original autopsy

failed to take into account
a hereditary disease.

"Which may invalidate
the assumption of child abuse

having caused asphyxia as...

determined by
Doctor Victor Plath."

Maybe when Cara said

she had more than a hair,
she meant--

More than a missing hair.

And what do you get
when you combine

lost exculpatory evidence
with, uh,

proof of a genetic
oversight?

A pathologist who may be
responsible

for the wrongful convictions
of both Cara and Maxine.

What if Cara was planning
to expose Plath's misconduct?

And he killed her
to keep her quiet.

Doctor Plath,
as Christian's lawyer,

I'm concerned. The police may
charge him with Izzy's murder.

I'll testify in his defence
if you need me to.

Like I said,
my timeline is correct.

Cara killed Izzy.

You haven't found
that hair yet?

No, but, uh, even if I did,
it doesn't trump my expertise.

We're looking, but...

I don't know
if I'll ever find it.

Okay. Keep me posted.

There you are.
I've been looking for you guys.

And were coming to find you.

Major break
in the Cara Melville case.

Yeah, turns out
she was collecting intel

that could ruin
Doctor Plath's career.

Botched autopsies,
missing evidence--

We think he put
two and two together,

suspected Cara
was looking into him.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're not suggesting
that Plath...

The Doctor Victor Plath
killed someone.

To cover up malfeasance, yes.

Okay!

Okay, you have to stick
a pin in this.

Come with me.
- No, Inspector...

Plath was there
when Cara told Tate

that she had more than just
a hair to exonerate herself.

We think, uh,
Plath was in Cara's motel room.

The smudge on the bathroom
doorframe was caused

by sodium hypochlorite.

Yeah. AKA DNA clean wipes.

No, doesn't that sound like
something a...

careful pathologist might take
with him to a crime scene?

Why don't you
ask him yourself?

Doctor Plath is in my office
right now.

Detectives.

I hear you have a new suspect
in the Izzy Melville case.

I just wanted to let you know

I'm happy to provide my reports,
uh, brainstorm?

We appreciate that,
Doctor Plath.

Oh, you should speak
with Detective Dreyfus.

She's handling Izzy's case.

We're still busy
with Cara's murder.

I thought we were looking
at the ex-husband for that.

Oh, we are looking
into a lot of people.

Alright then.

I'll go speak to Dreyfus.

I'm sure you've got Cara's
investigation well in hand.

Uh, you know, we could always
use a second opinion.

I mean, do you have
any instincts, Doctor Plath,

uh, to be honest, it kind of
feels like we may be missing

something that's right
in front of us.

Hmm. That's funny,
I heard a great quote

the other night at this reading,

"When you hear hoof beats,
think horses, not zebras."

Sometimes the correct answer
is the most obvious one.

Oh, what event was that?

Uh, the Brighton Reading
Series.

I take my mother every month.

Right.
Your mother, huh?

You must be close.

Well, it was just
the two of us growing up.

Least I can do.

Anyway, please,
let me know if I can help.

Thank you.

Well. Guess who just casually
dropped his alibi.

The Brighton Reading
Series took place

the night of Cara's murder
from six to nine PM.

How convenient.
Look.

I'm not saying that you guys
are right,

because if you are,
this is gonna be

one hell of a miss.

So you had better
make absolutely sure

that he was actually
doing something wrong

before you go
near him for murder.

Wrong doesn't even begin
to express what he did to me.

And how did you figure
this out, Maxine?

Cara and I met in therapy.

We had to talk a lot about
admitting to what we did.

But we both knew
we were innocent.

We didn't do what Plath said.

We think my daughter died
of a genetic disorder.

My mom's cousin had it.

We told the police
it ran in our family.

But Plath didn't test Nina.

He was too busy telling
everyone I killed her.

Because I was single.
And had post-partum.

He said similar things
about Cara.

That she was an alcoholic,

who was driven to drink
by a colic baby.

He didn't know
anything about us.

What kind of parents we were.

Cara loved Izzy.

I loved Nina.

Can you imagine
losing the person

you love most in this world

and having everyone
think you killed them?

We hoped that if Cara got free,

she would use
her exoneration as a way

to start a real conversation
about Plath.

Be a voice for all of us.

I know you're doing your best,

but I am still getting calls
about this Izzy Melville case.

- From who?
- Detective Dreyfus.

She wants us to look
for that hair evidence.

Again.

I checked that box.
I'm telling you,

it is not there.
- Victor, as the Chief Coroner,

it is my job to make sure
that the autopsies we perform

and the reports we issue
are timely and accurate.

You know me.

I dot my i's, I cross my t's,

I care more than anything
about accuracy

and getting justice
for these victims.

I know.

And I think you're exceptional
at it, Victor.

But if you made a mistake,
you need to tell me.

I can't help you
if I'm in the dark.

Francine.

I don't make mistakes.

I am shocked at what I found.

I looked at 20 of
Plath's most recent autopsies.

They are full of mistakes
and inaccuracies,

just like Nina and Izzy's.

They led to 12 parents
being convicted

in their own child's deaths?

All of them mothers.

Single mothers.

Or mothers with addiction
and mental health issues.

But they were not killers.

Look, um.
The McMahon's case.

Plath said the mom stabbed her
child with a meat skewer,

but these look like
animal bites to me.

And the Bailer case,

Plath thought that normal,
post-mortem lividity

was actually evidence
of strangulation, sorry,

I-I-I just, I can't believe
what I'm seeing.

How did no one notice this?

He is the expert
in pediatric forensics.

Which allows him to what?

Just make up his own mind
about cause of death?

It's an inexact science!

Something that an adult could
survive might kill a child.

Plath purports to know
the difference,

but he's supposed to look
at the whole picture,

use background in tandem
with forensics,

not in lieu of it.

These mistakes are egregious.

I don't think
these are mistakes.

It seems Plath saw certain
type of women,

made an assumption of abuse.

And spread misinformation
to lead to her convictions.

Jesus.

Okay, but how do we connect
this to Cara?

It still doesn't prove
that Plath killed Cara.

Actually, it might.

You know, if he's okay
with spreading misinformation,

maybe he's okay
with withholding evidence.

Like the hair that could
have exonerated Cara?

We don't get to pick
and choose what evidence

we share with the police.
We disclose everything,

we save everything.

It is drilled into us.

The chain of custody is king.

Then maybe Plath
still has the hair.

And if he does,

that in and of itself
is a crime.

Now we're one step closer
to a murder confession.

Hey, good job.

- Vicky?
- Mother!

Sorry, uh,
I didn't mean to wake you.

That's fine.
My show's about to start.

What were you doing over there?

Oh, nothing.

I-I came by to drop off
your prescription.

Oh.

Is that all?

Well, is there...

anything else you need?

No?

Alright.

- Hmm.
- I need to go to work.

A cup of tea would be nice.

Sure.

I got the one you like.

Oh, it's okay.
I, uh, I don't want any.

Oh, come on. Have a cup
of tea with your mom.

Alright.

And you're coming over
Saturday, right?

I told you,
I'm away this weekend.

I've been, uh,
asked to go to a conference.

I've actually been invited to be
the keynote speaker--

Not that one.
The blue one.

Sorry.

You always were
a clumsy boy.

Plath thinks that he's saving
the world from abusers,

locking them up one at the time.

But he's a pathologist,
it is not his job

to be judge, jury,
or executioner.

Theo, we gotta do something.

Oh, we will.

But considering how entangled
Plath is with the Crown,

the Defence...

We can't just confront him.

What about his alibi?

Oh, the organizer
of the Brighton Reading

says that he was there,
but she can't confirm that

he was there for the whole time.

How many times has Plath
testified for you, Theo?

I don't know. Like, 20, 30?

40 times?

And how often does he wax
on about his expertise?

That's literally
why he's there.

There he has status,
he was power.

So, what happens if
we take that away from him,

strip him from his medals
in public?

He'd be vulnerable.

He might crack.

You can't just pop up
at any old trial

that he's at and start
questioning him.

Oh, I'm not talking about us.
I'm talking about you.

Come on, Theo, you can exonerate
Cara for Izzy's murder

and prosecute someone new, yeah?

- Like Christian?
- Like Christian.

- You wanna charge him?
- Well, we all believe

that Christian killed
that little girl.

The only one who does
not and cannot is Plath.

He'll have to get up
on that stand and say,

"That hair is irrelevant."

Yeah, it's true.
If he doesn't,

he'll basically be admitting
that he was wrong about Cara.

Except I don't think
I could even try Christian

without that hair evidence.

Oh, come on, Theo.
There has to be a way.

Wait.

If your objective
is to discredit Plath,

we could use
Christian's preliminary inquiry

to our advantage.

I mean, the entire purpose
of the proceedings is to test

the evidence and challenge
the witnesses.

It's the perfect form
to undermine Plath's expertise.

And if I call him...

he has to come.

Doctor Plath, with regard
to chain of custody,

did your duties include
collecting evidence

in the Izzy Melville case?

Uh, it's a bit more than that,
but... yes.

And did you collect
the hair that was visible

in the police photo
taken in the ER

shortly after Izzy died?

I didn't see it on her.

It did not arrive with
the body for the autopsy.

As a continuity witness,
I-I need you to be specific.

You didn't see it,
or it wasn't there?

I did not see it.

No further questions.

Hello, Doctor Plath.

In your opinion,

what was Izzy Melville's
cause of death--

Objection.

Doctor Plath cannot give
his professional opinion.

He has not been qualified
as an expert in this trial.

Just a continuity witness.

Wha--, of course,
I'm an expert.

Okay. I'll qualify him
right now.

Doctor Plath,
state your credentials.

I am a published
forensic pathologist.

I performed over 800 autopsies,

testified in 100 trials,
many of them for the Crown.

Doctor Plath is now
qualified as an expert.

Doctor Plath,
in your opinion,

what was Izzy Melville's
cause of death?

Subdural hematoma.

Occurred between the hours
of 10 PM and 5 AM.

And in your opinion,

what is the relevance
of the hair evidence

that was found in relation
to cause of death?

I don't think it
has any relevance.

I believe it was a contaminant.

No further questions.

You may step down.

What are you doing here?

Oh, I invited her.
Shh, court's in session.

The Crown calls previously
qualified, expert witness,

Doctor Lucy Da Silva.

Doctor Da Silva,
you reviewed the evidence.

In your expert opinion,

how long was the timeline
between Izzy Melville's injury

and her death?

It may have been longer
than four to six hours.

She may have been injured
before 10 PM.

And in your expert opinion,
what created this discrepancy

between your findings
and Doctor Plath's?

I believed that Doctor Plath
was biased.

Thank you, Doctor Da Silva.

Oh. Actually, one more question.

Have you had the opportunity
to review

any of Doctor Plath's
other case files?

Objection, Your Honour.
Relevance?

It's a preliminary inquiry, counsel.

I'll allow it.

Continue, Doctor Da Silva.

I have reviewed
other autopsies

that he was responsible for.

And I found them
to be lacking.

Doctor Plath failed to preserve

pathology material,
he misinterpreted

autopsy findings--
- Objection.

And he referenced parental
history irrelevant

to pathology--
- Objection!

Which, in my opinion,

compromised the administration
of justice!

Objection, Your Honour!

Overruled.

Vicky, what's going on?

You need to call me again.

I need to respond to what
she said, as an expert.

I think we've established,

you are far
from being an expert.

Theo.

We're on the same side.

We've worked together
countless times.

And if I knew then
what I know now?

I never would have used you.

And frankly, this conversation's
becoming a conflict of interest.

What is that supposed to mean?

That means he can't be
your ally and prosecute you.

Prosecute me?
For what?

For the murder
of Cara Melville.

Murder?
Vicky, what's happening?

Nothing, mother.
These people are trying

to destroy my career
with outlandish accusations.

They set up my...
subordinate to slander me--

I called the Chief Coroner.

She's starting an inquiry
into your cases.

You pull that thread,

you'll flood the city
with killers.

No, Victor,
you already did that.

I wasn't wrong
about those women.

They-they did terrible things
to their children!

All children
of bad mothers, right?

I don't have a bias, Graff.

No, you don't have a bias.

You've something deeper.

You have personal experience.

You saw yourself in those kids,
didn't you?

Six trips to the hospital
before you were 14 years old?

Uh, broken bones, concussion?
Burns?

Those were accidents.
He was a clumsy boy.

Oh, was he?

Or is that just a lie
you told yourself

so you could sleep at night?

The lie that he was too small
to fight?

Do you remember
that hospital room?

Yeah, your mother on the other
side of the curtain,

weaving her stories about
how you fell, how you...

how you wrenched your arm
on the monkey bars?

Feeling sick to your stomach
about what would happen

if you were to tell your truth.

She's your mother.

Victor, she's supposed
to protect you.

And she didn't.

And every single time,

they would send you
right back home to her.

You don't know anything
about Victor.

He had a wonderful home.

No, a wonderful home
is a safe home

and yours wasn't, was it?

So what'd you do?

You tiptoe around her moods
as if they were landmines?

Why do you care what happened
to me as a child?

Because it happened
to me as a child.

And I care.

See, I wanted to find
your hiding place.

Mine was under the stairs,

but I wasn't sure about you,
so I went

to your mother's house.

And we had a cup of tea,
we talked.

I looked around because you have
something that we need.

And I was sure I'd find it
in your hiding spot.

Where was it?

Was it in the little nook
behind the front door,

was it in the crawlspace?

No.

See, the sad thing is,

is that there was nowhere
for you to hide.

But I did find this...

all the same.

You, uh...

gave it to him?

You said I would be helping
Victor if I...

if I showed you where
his things were.

That is not his.
That is evidence.

I can't believe you took it
off Izzy's body

and kept it
all these years.

You swore an oath to do no harm.

I put a criminal behind bars!

Yeah.
The wrong one.

I have spent
my entire life in service

of justice
for the defenceless.

You were not protecting
those kids.

You were trying to protect
that little boy.

Because having the power
to decide who gets punished

means no one
is punishing you anymore.

You are not gonna blame me
for this.

I was a good mother!

I raised him right.

I mean, look at him,
he's successful,

and wealthy, and good manners--
- Mother.

And loyal!
He was-he was a good boy!

- Mother!
- I mean, sure,

sometimes I had to use
a firm hand,

it's what he needed!
- What I needed...

was for you to stop...

hurting me.

You were terrifying.

I was just a boy.

You were just a boy.

No one should have ever
laid a hand on you, Victor.

You deserved safety.

And you were just trying
to make it right

for those kids,
weren't you?

When you went to see Cara?

I had to stop her.

- From what?
- Talking.

Yeah.

Tell me what happened?

I got into her motel room.

I had to find her evidence.

- Mm-hmm.
- But...

I made a noise!

She came out of the bathroom...

I hit her.

And then?

I pushed her into the tub.

And then?

I threw the hairdryer in.

The Judge agreed.

We'll declare a mistrial,
start over.

Try Christian with the hair
and evidence once it's tested.

Get justice for Izzy.

And with this whole Plath
thing cracked open,

maybe for Maxine and Cara too.

Hmm.

Well, it's good to be
reminded from time to time

that our system
of law is human,

and therefore fallible.

"And that the most
we can hope to achieve

is a certain justice?"

P.D. James.

It's a little popular
for your taste.

Well, I'm not above
a beach read, Bateman.

Not after this.
Well, I think I'm overdue.

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