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NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system

the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,

the police who investigate crime

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

MAN: Because I don't want her
to hear us talking, that's why.

No, she knows all...

Look, it doesn't matter if it
was 10 years ago or yesterday.

She sees me talking to you,
and she sees us mid-coitus.

What can I say?
(GUN FIRING)

(DOG BARKING)

Oh, my God.
(FIRING CONTINUES)

(DOOR SLAMMING)
I think I just heard gunshots.

Lila, stop. Lila!

Oh, God. Lila!

(CAR HORN BLARING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

MARTINEZ: Dog walker heard shots
coming from this area and called 911.

Uniforms responding
found the door wide open.

Vics are Louise and Hugh Murdoch,
husband and wife. Both PhDs.

Both full professors
at Stuyvesant College.

Brainy household.

Not smart enough
to lock the door.

She took three in the back.
No exit wounds.

M.E. Will have to
dig out the slugs.

How about him?

Two in the skull.
Same on the slugs.

You get a read on the weapon?

No shell casings.
Could've been a.38.

On the other hand, the lady
took three in the back.

So if she's running away,
could have been a semi.

Witness is outside.

I'll get it.

Was this phone here?

We found the cradle upstairs.

Okay, we need the LUDs on this
number, as soon as possible.

I only saw the guy for a couple of
seconds, you know, only from behind.

Do the best you can.

Slight build.
Curly, dark hair.

I think he might've
been Hispanic.

Why, his back look Spanish?

Uh, no, it's kind
of embarrassing.

The way Lila took off
after that guy.

She only does that with Latinos.

Yeah. Well, if you
think of anything else.

You wouldn't think
on a block like this...

Yeah.

Was he any help?

Other than the racist dog?

My aunt had a spaniel
who didn't like tall men.

Detectives, we got something.

In a trashcan around the corner.

He takes the time to
clean up the casings,

but throws the gun
in the trash can?

Well, some bulbs don't
burn as bright as others.

Fired recently.

Yeah, three guesses where.
Ripped By mstoll

BRISCOE: Forensics ran the prints from
the gun through the system. Nothing.

And you're sure
this wasn't a robbery?

If it was, he was an amateur.

I mean, the husband was wearing
a Franck Muller Master Banker.

It's a watch.
It goes for 25,000.

BRISCOE: There's no hidden safe,
the drawers were untouched.

And there's expensive
artwork on all the walls.

And you're a connoisseur now?

Hey, if ain't
Dogs Playing Poker.

Anyway, they were both
Stuyvesant College professors.

Well, no robbery
means this is personal.

Neighbors said they were
quite the party givers.

No, all they said was there was a
lot of people coming in and out.

Hey, to me, two or
more people is a party.

LUDs you wanted from
the Murdochs' townhouse.

They received
a three-minute call

just six minutes before
the dog walker's 911 call.

"Telemarketing Solutions"?

I looked it up.
It's here in the city.

Maybe we'll catch a break and
the caller overheard something.

You guys remember
every donut you eat?

Joke.
Funny.

Hey, man, your average call
here lasts about 20 seconds.

This one, three minutes. Don't
tell us you don't remember.

Here's one I'll bet
you don't hear too often.

I do remember.

Most people start off with a couple
of negative comments about my mother,

then they slam down the phone.

But this lady was nice.
She actually listened.

Did she buy?

We didn't get that far.
She had to go.

All right. So, let me
ask you a question.

I get these calls that
usually start off with,

"This call is being recorded
for quality assurance."

A tape? Sure.
Piece of cake.

What, no donut?

LOUISE: But I have
good credit.

(DOORBELL BUZZING)

ED: That sounds
like a doorbell.

And guess who's
coming to dinner.

And there's more.

SAL: Consolidating debt's
a good thing.

LOUISE: What would be
the interest rate?

Variable or fixed?

I've got to go.

That's no help. Hmm. To the
baffled multitude, maybe.

Here we go.

By dissipating ground hum and
putting a gain on the lows,

I was able to enhance the far conversation
when it didn't overlap the near.

MAN 1: You... Professor Murdoch...
Ellenbar.

"Ellen Bar"?

Maybe Murdoch had a really big tab
and the bartender got fed up.

No, no,
probably just a fragment.

But to be thorough,
I looked it up.

No listings for any bars
of that name in the city.

But there's more.
I knew it.

For some reason the far conversation
got louder towards the end.

Probably because she got closer
as she walked downstairs.

MAN 2: I only do what I...
In the Stuyvesant...

Stuyvesant.
That's where they taught.

Somebody doesn't have to
hand in that term paper.

Hugh and Louise weren't just two
of my best faculty members,

they were dear friends.

ED: Were there any problems
between them?

Oh, no.

Sure, there was a rough period,
maybe five or six years ago.

Two workaholics,
it's to be expected.

But, uh, now they walked
around campus holding hands.

What about problems
with students?

Louise wasn't even
teaching this semester.

She took a sabbatical to write a
book on the Holy Roman Empire.

ED: And the husband?

One of our biggest stars.

Every year Harvard
tries to poach him.

He doesn't really teach
that much anymore, so...

If he wasn't teaching?

Research. He ran
our biochemistry lab.

(PHONE RINGING)

Hugh spent
most of his time there.

You may want to talk to some
of his post-grad researchers.

Dean Bodner.

We were on the verge.
Parkinson's Disease.

What, he had a cure?

A methodology to look for one.

So, in other words, this was
like whacking Jonas Salk.

Dr. Salk didn't have
a Phil Giani working for him.

ED: Meaning?

Uh, I'm not saying
he killed Dr. Murdoch,

but if anyone here wanted
him out of the picture,

it was definitely Phil.

Why?
Phil was pro-Parkinson's?

He thought Dr. Murdoch
should have given him credit

for the research
in his last paper.

And the Professor disagreed?

It turned ugly.
Dr. Murdoch fired him.

ED: Where does
this Giani work now?

That's the thing. This is
a very small community,

word gets out you had a run in with
someone of Dr. Murdoch's stature, and...

You're out of the business.

Who says you can't
go home again?

Hacking is how I paid
my way through undergrad.

Tough break.

Things'll change.

Why, because Dr. Murdoch ain't
around anymore to badmouth you?

Because I'm too good
a researcher.

Oh, yeah?

So, what's the best way to
get uptown during rush hour?

What's pluripotent
HES cell transference,

or blastocystic trophectoderm removal
with regards to stem cell research?

I guess I missed that day
on Sesame Street.

All this transference stuff
was your idea?

What Murdoch stole
from me wasn't ideas.

It was a methodology.

(SCOFFS) Look who
I'm talking to.

You know, since we have
a lot to talk about,

we might as well be comfortable.

I'll show you the
best way to get downtown.

I'd love to smack that
little pompous schmuck.

Me first.

ED: I hear that a lot of
money comes into the school

because of
Dr. Murdoch's research.

Ooh. Subtle.
You're good.

I'm about to crack.

An ordinary guy would want a
piece of that for himself.

I wouldn't know about
an ordinary guy.

It doesn't bother you that you do all the
work and Dr. Murdoch gets the money?

You don't go into molecular
biochemistry for money.

Well, what do you go
into it for? The glory?

That's right.

I want to march up front
in the Macy's parade.

Intellectual achievement.

Though I'm sure that means
absolutely nothing to you.

Blastocystic removal, the
wave of the future. Right.

(LAUGHS) Very good. The primate
can regurgitate what it heard.

Next.
Let's move on to sentences.

Let me ask you something.

Primate?
It's like a...

Monkey.
No.

I want to ask your opinion
on Einstein's theory

because I'm not sure
he was right.

(CHUCKLES) Headline.
"Cop cracks relativity."

No. Not that theory, Phil.

His theory on genius.

See, and correct me
if I'm wrong,

Einstein argued that
genius has no personality.

After talking to you for
this short amount of time,

I realized that you
actually prove the negative.

You definitely have personality.

And that makes this primate
wanna whup your ass.

Now say something.

Way to go, Ed.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Van Buren.

Thanks. Ballistics says
they're ready for you.

Ballistics.
My kind of scientists.

M.E. Extracted three bullets from
the female, two from the male.

125-grain hollow-points,

which unfortunately... I know,
they tend to break into fragments.

They had to pick three of these
from the male's brain alone.

Reassembling was like
a jigsaw puzzle.

Did you get any kind of a match?

Striations indicated
a clear six-point correlation

to the two slugs
from the male victim.

You couldn't confirm
the other three?

For good reason. They were
fired from a different 9mm.

You're saying Mrs. Murdoch was
killed by a different weapon?

Two guns to fire
only five bullets?

Well, either your guy
is ambidextrous...

Or there were two shooters.

This bastard's got a friend.

That guy?
I highly doubt it.

Wouldn't you say revenge killings
are typically solo acts?

Murdoch's lab guy,

he said that he was doing
stem cell research.

And they shoot abortion
doctors, don't they?

Well, the phone tapes, they mentioned
something about Stuyvesant.

Maybe they meant the lab
and not the college.

Let's go see if Murdoch's lab
is on anybody's hit list.

A human cell is placed in an egg

whose own nucleus
has been removed.

We put it in a petri dish,

zap it with a jolt of
electricity, and voilà!

It's all reprogrammed into a clump
of between one and 200 new cells.

Then we harvest the
stem cells for our studies.

And with that you can
cure Parkinson's?

Parkinson's, diabetes,
Alzheimer's, who knows what else?

But somewhere along the line what
we do became a political hotbed.

We did receive
some nasty letters,

but the FBI checked them out.

Maybe we ought to
check them out, too.

"We strongly caution you against
this type of research, Dr. Murdoch.

"It is wrong in the eyes of God.
You will be judged."

It looks like judgment day came a
little bit early for Professor Murdoch.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Murder isn't just a sin, Mr.
Scott. It's also a felony.

Look at the name on the wall, Detective.
"Protect Life."

We would never kill to prove a point.
Words are our only weapon.

Maybe somebody in your organization
thought they weren't enough.

Perhaps, if Professor Murdoch's
research violated our principles.

Which it clearly did, otherwise you
wouldn't have sent that letter.

What we object to
is the creation of life

for the sole purpose
of destroying it.

Anyway, this letter
was sent before.

Before what?

Before we confirmed Dr. Murdoch
was using existing cell lines.

We had no problem with
Murdoch or his research.

The only problem with
this guy's story is that,

that the kid from Murdoch's lab said that
they were creating life in that dish.

He didn't say life.
He said new cells.

And from what I hear, you kill
more cells drinking a beer.

You can't tell me that when that cell hits
the egg that isn't the start of life.

Okay, zygotes are people, too.

Well, they turn into
people, don't they?

Look, the bottom line is, Murdoch was either
lying to the public about his research

or those Protect Lifers
are lying to us.

They're just squeaky wheels,
not killers.

So, if they did do it,

odds are they made a couple
of mistakes along the way.

All right.
Back to letter A.

Okay, so the doorbell rings. Mrs.
Murdoch goes to answer it.

Why?

Maybe she didn't know
hubby was there.

Or maybe she was
the one expecting guests.

Now, what happens next?

Hubby goes to answer the door.

She's in the library.

The shooter walks in all the
way to his desk in the den.

Now if your main goal
was to kill him,

wouldn't you kill him
right away?

Not if I wanted
to kill the wife.

I've been the department secretary
for the last five years.

Nobody ever had
a cross word for Louise.

ED: Louise?
You called her Louise?

She'd yell at anyone
that called her "Professor."

"Doctor"?
Forget about it.

BRISCOE: A woman
of the people, huh?

And here are 12 of them.

This looks like a guest
list for some kind of party

the day after she was murdered.

A tea.
That's what she called them.

Although tea was the
last thing she served.

From what I hear.

Yeah, I used to call it
"tea," too.

They were
discussion groups actually.

ED: With other professors?

Professors, students, civilians.

What did they talk about?

Whatever.

I'm sorry.

These are detectives, Jennifer.

Jennifer, uh...

You wouldn't be Jennifer Taylor?

Yes. I was just returning these books.
I was doing some research.

ED: This was for her book?

I was checking footnotes
and sources mostly.

I'm sorry.

Jennifer, your name's on the guest list
for Dr. Murdoch's next discussion group.

I went to a lot of them.

Was there a specific topic
planned for that night?

We were going to discuss gender apartheid.
That was her thing lately.

The abusive treatment of women in
certain Middle Eastern countries.

She'd been throwing charity cocktail parties
for years to raise funds and awareness.

I'll bet that thrilled
the local Muslim men.

STEPHIE: She was always
receiving literature,

pamphlets really,
quoting the Quran.

I can show you.

There's a shelter for abused
women around the corner,

and this lady's worried about
suffrage in some third world country?

Well, it ain't just voting rights.
Listen to this.

"Men are commanded to
whip their disobedient wives.

"Women are deficient in
intelligence compared to men."

Where's that from, the Center for
the Advancement of Wife Beaters?

No, it's... Wait.

"El Anbar Books."

As in "Ellen Bar."

MOGAZl: I don't have anything
to do with that trash.

Your store was on the return
address label, Mr. Mogazi.

It was not me.
Talk to the kid.

What kid?

Mousah Salim. I hired
him to stack books.

Then he starts mailing that
nonsense from my store.

Well, if you didn't like it,
why'd you let him?

I didn't even know about it

until this crazy woman
comes here

with all her friends
and her picket signs.

Was this woman
a college professor?

Yes. Yes. And all her crazy friends.
Not good for business.

So I fired the kid,
and now she leaves me alone.

This Mousah Salim,
does he have an address?

I'm sorry. There must
be some mix-up.

We're looking for Mousah Salim.

No mix-up. I'm his
mother, Francine Landen.

Uh, can we talk to him?

That would be difficult.
He's in Pakistan.

Can we talk to you?

Sure.

FRANCINE: Do you have kids?

Yeah, in Florida.

Hopefully smoking dope,
like normal teenagers.

My little angel
puts a towel on his head

and starts quoting
the Quran at breakfast.

When I was 22,
I read The Razor's Edge

and I didn't eat steak
for two months.

Yeah, well, you got over it.

Some things with my Greg
never change.

You know what we spent on private school?
Straight Cs.

Couldn't have gotten into a decent college
if he wanted to, which he didn't.

He's been nothing
but a disappointment.

Is something wrong?

The police, looking for Greg.

You're in the wrong hemisphere.

I told them.

What? The Pakistanis don't
want him around either?

Actually, we thought that he
might have witnessed a murder.

Greg do something useful?

You've definitely
got the wrong kid.

All in all, I'd say
that's a pretty good alibi.

Unless he got sick of falafel

and decided to come home
ahead of schedule.

What, and forgot
to tell his parents?

If she was my mom,
I'd forget, too.

I've got Customs
looking into it.

So, you're thinking we've got

another John Walker Lindh
on our hands?

Yeah, only this one actually
may have pulled the trigger.

Hey, somehow, some way, this kid
is connected to the killers.

Maybe someone helped him
with his conversion.

Greg is highly intelligent,
but had trouble fitting in.

I'm sure you know the type.

Yeah. I read about them
in the Columbine News.

No, no, he wasn't like that.

Sure, he got picked on
every now and then,

but he certainly wasn't
one for retaliation.

He just sat back and took it?

Well, he did act out once.

He and another boy
were caught on campus

one night setting fire
to a garbage can.

Who was this other kid?

I can dig out
the disciplinary report.

But I do remember he wasn't
a student at Strickland.

Michael's not here.
I'm his sister.

Where are your parents?

Who do you wanna talk to, my dead
mother or my convict father?

Is this your brother?

Yeah.

The dog was right.

Look, whatever's
going on with Michael,

I'm the parents now.
You can talk to me.

(DOOR UNLOCKING)

Hey! Hey!

You know, if you were on your way down
to the precinct, we can give you a ride.

BRISCOE: You know
what this is, Michael?

It's a ballistics report.

It says that the gun that we found
outside the Murdochs' townhouse

is the gun that
killed Hugh Murdoch.

Now this one, this is
from our forensics lab.

Now, if your fingerprints
are found on that gun...

That means that this isn't gonna
be one of your better days, kid.

I don't know what you mean.

Two people are dead, Michael.
You killed one of them.

We're guessing your friend
killed the other one.

Which one?

(SIGHS) That's what
we want you to tell us.

Time's up.

Gina Sparrow, Esquire.

I've been retained
by Mr. Sanchez's sister.

You should know better.

Questioning this kind of suspect
without his lawyer present.

We didn't know he had one.

And exactly what kind
of suspect is he?

You want us to leave?

That would be nice.

So, is this guy
as dumb as he seems?

There's no way this kid is
the brains behind all this.

Did you reach the D. A?

She's willing to play.

Here we go.

Speaking hypothetically, what
if Michael had a partner?

We'd be shocked.

Would the D.A.
Work with us?

If Michael gives us a name, they'll
give two counts of man two.

Running concurrently?

If he gives us a location.

Michael's partner was a boy named Landen.
Greg Landen.

He was the one
who shot Mrs. Murdoch.

I guess he really did
get sick of falafels.

(MEN PRAYING)

"Docket number 26775,

"People v. Greg Alan Landen."

My name is Mousah Salim.

Derek Greer for
the defense, Your Honor.

Waive reading, plead not guilty.

I plead nothing. I'm not
asking you for anything.

You have no authority over me.

Tell that to the gentleman
with the service revolver.

Question of bail?

Remand, Your Honor. This
defendant's a flight risk.

He murdered two people shortly after
returning from four months in Pakistan.

You lying Qabeha!

JUDGE: Looks like
he wasn't there to sightsee.

Well, listen to you.

You don't even try to hide
your disdain for Islam.

My disdain isn't for Islam, pal.

Defendant is remanded to
the Department of Corrections

without bail. Next.
Allah akbar.

Allah akbar.
I am a slave to Allah.

Allah akbar. Allah akbar.
I am a slave to Allah.

SERENA: I just got
called a name,

I don't even know what it means.

Oh, you're going
to love this guy.

That bad?

Greg Landen could
make our new D.A.

Pack his bags and
head back to Georgia.

I don't think Lillian
would let him.

Lillian?

Mrs. Arthur Branch.

She loves the smell of concrete.

Always has.
Always will.

I didn't know you were
friendly with him?

Bar Association dinners.
Nice fellow.

And his politics?

Nice fellow.
(PHONE RINGING)

Hello.

Sure. Tell him I'll
be there in an hour.

Well, I'm going to meet your Mr.
Landen. Care to come along?

I've already had the pleasure.

For reasons that
should be obvious,

I'd like to make
this one go away.

And for those same reasons,

the best I can do is

two counts of man one, sentences
to run consecutively.

That's hardly a bargain.

This infidel
doesn't speak for me.

Quiet, Greg.

This prosecution is part of
America's crusade against Islam.

I want a lawyer who sees that.

I want a Muslim lawyer.

JACK: It's dilatory, Arthur.
If every time his lawyer

does something he doesn't
like, he fires him,

we may not get
to trial for a decade.

And he'll be off the
street all that time.

The Sixth Amendment guarantees
his right to counsel.

Let him choose whoever he wants.

I think there's another
issue we should consider.

What if Landen was indigent

and Greer was
court-appointed counsel?

Could Landen then reject him
on the basis of religion?

Uh-oh. I feel the old "bad
precedent" speech coming on.

Well, that would mean that a skinhead
could reject a Jewish attorney,

a rapist could reject a woman.

The Constitution requires only
that counsel be competent.

It doesn't say that he and his
client have to be best friends.

Thank you.

Martha Stewart is the queen
of domestic tranquility.

Right now, I'm not sure I'd
want her near my kitchen.

No offense, but that analogy isn't
even in the right ballpark.

BRANCH: Why not?

There's a lot more to
competence than a law degree

and a modicum
of courtroom skill.

The defendant and his attorney
need to be able to communicate.

There should be at least a
touch of trust between them.

JACK: You better watch out,
Arthur, or they'll take back

your invitation to the Strict
Constructionists' Ball.

You see, that's where you
don't understand me, Jack.

It's my job to put that
son-of-a-gun behind bars.

The last thing
I want to do for him

is gift-wrap grounds
for reversible error.

(PHONE RINGING)

SERENA: Mr. Branch's office.

Jack, it's for you.

McCoy.

Yes. Sure.

That was Anwar Mohammed.

He's just been
retained by Greg Landen.

He wants to meet me for coffee.

Oh, to be young and have parents
with a bulging bankbook.

We already tried to cut
a deal with Mr. Landen.

I know. Couldn't we work out
something with no prison time?

A mental facility perhaps?

I'm sorry.

You've known me
a long time, Anwar.

You know the political climate
played no part in my decision.

Maybe it should. The boy's
one step from a terrorist.

I'm sure things haven't been
easy for you this past year.

It's been a terrible year,
but when people need you,

somehow your ethnicity
disappears.

And those who don't need you?

I don't need them.

Well, Jack,
if it's any consolation,

I'll do my best to keep Greg's rhetoric
to a minimum in the courtroom.

Have you met him yet?

Yeah.

And that's why he's getting
nowhere near the stand.

Believe me, I don't' want
his religious beliefs

in the courtroom
anymore than you do.

I'm representing Greg Landen
because he needs my help.

But please don't ever confuse
his politics with my faith.

JACK: And why did you go with Mr.
Landen to the Murdochs' home?

MICHAEL: Greg told me the Murdochs
had more money than they needed.

He said if we took some,
we could go away.

And where would you
go, Mr. Sanchez?

The mountains.
(PRAYING IN ARABIC)

Greg said we could do some
fishing and some hunting.

It sounded like fun.

Allah akbar.

What happened when you got inside the
Murdochs' townhouse, Mr. Sanchez?

The man took us into this room,

and then Greg
told me to shoot him.

(PRAYING IN ARABIC) And you did?

MICHAEL: Yeah. There was
a lot of blood.

What happened next,
Mr. Sanchez?

A woman came in
and she started screaming.

She tried to run away,
but Greg shot her.

Then I got scared, so I ran.

(CONTINUES PRAYING IN ARABIC)

You didn't steal anything?

No. I guess we forgot.

Only one murder
weapon was found.

Do you know whose
fingerprints were on it?

Yours.

Only one person was seen running
from the Murdochs' house.

Do you know who it was?

You.

(STAMMERING)
Greg was there, too.

But nobody saw him.
How do you explain that?

MICHAEL: I don't know,
but he was there.

He shot the lady, and then ran the
other way. It was all his idea.

I guess it's a good thing you made
a deal with the District Attorney,

or we wouldn't even
have your word for it.

This isn't what
I told you to do.

You tell them about
the U.S. Aggression.

ANWAR: Not now, Greg.

Tell them about the U.S.
Government's crusade against Islam.

Sit down. They're
trying to wipe us out.

Your Honor...
(JUDGE BANGING GAVEL)

Three thousand killed
on September 11th.

Quiet down, Mr. Landen.

GREG: Over 20,000
killed in Afghanistan.

Your taxes pay for the bombs
that kill Afghani children.

You're out of order,
Mr. Landen.

You're the terrorists.

They want me to shut me up. That's why
they're trying to put me in prison.

JACK: Your Honor! Only they can't
send me to Cuba like the others.

JUDGE: Mr. Landen,
that's enough!

They can't treat an American
like a caged animal.

Court Officer, remove the
defendant from the courtroom.

I'll see counsel in chambers.

What, so you can talk behind my back?
This trial is a sham!

Give him a Valium.
What do I care?

I'm afraid it won't be
that simple, Your Honor.

It appears the only way to
maintain any semblance of decorum

is to remove the defendant
from the courtroom.

Is that an on-the-record
motion, Mr. McCoy?

Yes, Your Honor, it is.

Well, the last time
I read the Constitution,

all criminal defendants have an absolute
right to confront their accusers,

not only
the well-behaved ones.

The State will provide
a television hook up

so he won't miss a word
of the proceedings.

I'm sure you'd like to add
your two cents, Mr. Mohammed.

Actually, Your Honor, I'm not going
to oppose Mr. McCoy's motion.

What happened to representing
your client zealously?

I feel it would best
serve his defense

if he weren't permitted
to disrupt the proceedings.

Please bring the defendant
into my chambers.

We should at least get his
opinion on the matter.

You know, there is a way
to put an end to all this.

My client won't accept
a deal, Your Honor.

JUDGE: Let me explain what's
going on, Mr. Landen.

Mr. McCoy would like me to
keep you out of the courtroom.

To be equitable, I'd be willing
to give you another chance.

Do you think you can
contain yourself?

Yeah, if he would do his job.

From where I'm sitting
on the bench,

Mr. Mohammed is doing
an excellent job.

No, his job is to do
what I tell him to do.

I want him to use my real name.

And I'd have him tell the jury about
how the American government's

framing me because I'm Muslim.

There's no attorney in the
country that would argue that.

You know what? Fine.

Fine.

Then I'll represent myself.

That kid is an idiot savant.

Or just an idiot.

Don't fool yourself.

He's just out-lawyered our office, his
own counsel, and the judicial branch.

For us to win a motion denying his
request for self-representation,

the court would have to find him
unfit to represent himself.

Well, he is 19 and without
any legal training.

To quote the Bard, ignorance often
turns out to be the best defense.

If he's found unfit
to represent himself,

he could also be found legally
incompetent to stand trial at all.

The proverbial corner,
Ms. Southerlyn.

That's what our friend
has painted us into.

So, what you're saying is we're
not going to oppose his motion?

Look at the bright side,
the judge ordered Mohammed

to stay on
as stand-by counsel.

Which could be a good
thing or a bad thing.

Just to be safe, let's have one
of our shrinks in the courtroom.

Welcome to the corner, Serena.

GREG ON TAPE: We want to talk to Mr. Murdoch
about the protest at the El Anbar...

HUGH ON TAPE: I only know what I
read about in the Stuyvesant...

(STATIC)

I ran this through a Kay
Elemetric 5500 spectrograph,

by comparing pitch, trajectory of
vowel forming, and nasal resonance,

I was able to locate
two distinct voices.

JACK: And were you able
to identify those voices?

Well, the second voice
I can't identify.

I can only assume it
belongs to Hugh Murdoch.

And the other voice?
It's the defendant's.

Are you sure?
Yes.

It was a perfect match
with the voice samples

taken from the defendant
post-arrest.

JACK: What does that indicate?

Well, that Mr. Landen
was in the Murdochs' house

within minutes of the shootings.

Thank you.

This machine that
you said you used,

it's owned by
the U.S. Government, right?

(CHUCKLES) Uh, city of
New York, actually.

And if you wanted to,
you could fake a recording?

Uh...

Well, I suppose
I could, but, uh...

Are you Jewish?
JACK: Objection.

Overruled.
Your Honor.

JUDGE: Arguably,
it goes to bias.

As a Jew, isn't it
your mission in life

to destroy the lives of Muslims?

JACK: Objection. You
hate Muslims, don't you?

Sidebar, Your Honor.

Your Honor, these questions are
bigoted and have no relevance.

I'm inclined to agree, Your
Honor, however Mr. Landen

does have a right
to his opinion.

He's got a point, Mr. McCoy, pro se
defendants are permitted extra latitude.

JACK: I show you People's Five
and ask if you recognize it.

I understand this is difficult,

but you are under oath,
Mr. Landen.

Yes, it's my gun.

And is it the only
gun that you own?

No. I have another 9mm,
a SIG-Sauer.

Where is that gun now?

I don't know. It's...

Missing.

JACK: Who do you
think took it?

Seek to treat
the witness as hostile.

JUDGE: Go ahead.

You think your son took
your guns, don't you?

I couldn't say.

Well, how about this?

Where do you keep
the weapons in question?

In my study.
In the bottom drawer.

Which is locked?

Mr. Landen?

No. It wasn't locked.

Did you ever cheat on your wife?

JACK: Objection.
Relevance.

How can the jury believe a word he says?
He's an adulterer.

Marital infidelity doesn't bear on
witness credibility, Mr. Landen.

Ask a different question.

Why didn't you have
any more children?

JACK: Your Honor.

Because you didn't even
want to have me, did you?

Objection!

Sustained.

You're embarrassed by me.

(DOOR CLOSING)

That's why you're trying
to put me away.

You want me in jail so that you
never have to see me again.

That's not true.
I love you.

How does it feel to sell
out your own son, hmm?

America's been trying to
destroy Islam for years.

It sides with the Jews
against the Palestinians

because America's
a Judeo-Christian country.

Since 1990, it has occupied our
holy lands in Saudi Arabia.

American women walk around with their
faces uncovered in our holiest city.

America doesn't respect
any culture but its own.

You Honor.
Is any of this relevant?

Let him talk, Mr. McCoy.
It's his right.

You think that your way
is the only way

and feel that you have the right
to invade anyone who disagrees.

Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq.

You're trying to
assimilate the world.

America is a country that was born out
of the mass murder of Native Americans

and built on the backs
of Africans.

If the Native Americans
could've defended themselves

by flying planes into buildings,

don't you think they would have?

If the slaves could have freed
themselves by becoming martyrs,

don't you think that
they would have?

And it wouldn't have
been terrorism.

It would've been
self-defense.

So, killing a woman who challenges
your view of Islam is self-defense?

I didn't kill her.
Michael Sanchez did.

How did he get
your father's gun?

I don't know.

Why would Michael Sanchez target
an advocate for Muslim women?

It was a robbery.
You heard him say that.

But you're not sad she's dead.

She didn't know her place.

Quran 4:34 says, "Allah
made men superior to women."

Under your perversion
of the religion.

See, this is what
I'm talking about.

Any religion that Americans don't
understand, they call perverted.

If we could get back to
the homicides, Mr. McCoy.

Go ahead, Mr. McCoy, go
ahead, listen to the lady.

Excuse me.

No, I won't. I will not
allow a female to judge me.

That's enough for today.

We'll pick it up
tomorrow, 9:30.

(JUDGE BANGS GAVEL)

From what I saw, he's nowhere
near legally insane.

Just your garden variety
fanatic fundamentalist.

If this had been about politics, he
probably would've become an anarchist.

If it was about music, he could've
gotten into grunge and heavy metal.

He picked religion, specifically
Islam, for a specific reason.

Adolescent rebellion.

No, he could have bought a
motorcycle or pierced his tongue.

People who become
fundamentalists do so

because there's a part of the
dogma that resonates with them.

There's something
in their psyche

that draws them to
a distorted interpretation

of an otherwise
legitimate religion.

There's a sect for every nut.

Exactly.

But what is it about militant Islam
that Landen finds so appealing?

Hint. Sanchez shot Hugh Murdoch.
Landen shot his wife.

"Allah made men
superior to women."

My guess is
he is terrified of women.

Militant Islam eases that anxiety
by making women subordinate.

Landen became a slave of Allah

because he couldn't get a date?

I'm not saying it's as
simple as that, Jack.

But I did see how he
reacted to Judge Burke.

And I saw how his
mother reacted to him.

So Mommy made him do it?

She walked out on him.

Castration hurts whether
it's surgical or emotional.

He can't confront
his mother directly.

I think he's scared to
death of women, period.

And what would happen if a woman
challenged him, literally?

You're talking about
Louise Murdoch?

I'm talking about Serena.

Your Honor,
with the court's permission,

Ms. Southerlyn will continue
with the cross-examination.

JUDGE: That's fine with me.

How are you feeling today, Greg?

I can get you a glass
of water if you'd like.

I'm fine.

I'm sorry. That's right.
I wouldn't want to be

party to you violating any of
your vows of self-sacrifice.

Religion is not
meant to be easy.

SERENA: Like during Ramadan, when
a man is drawn closer to God

by disregarding
his earthly needs?

And what's the other one, Shu...

Shahadah.

Right. That's it.

The prayer before you
give your life for God.

It's an honor to die for Allah.

And Allah wanted
Louise Murdoch dead?

She defied his will.

So whoever actually pulled the trigger
would be the true slave to Allah

and should be honored to accept

the consequences of that
act, is that correct?

Yet you keep denying it.

Is that because you're scared
to accept those consequences?

Scared of the Shahadah?

You're just like Murdoch.

You are both enemies to Islam!

She poisons women against men,

she has killed her unborn child,

and she serves liquor
in her home!

So you shot her in the back.

You don't have to
say that, you know.

No, you were great, Serena.

You cracked him like a walnut.

He didn't actually crack.

Don't be so sure of that.
Landen said in court

that Louise Murdoch had
killed her unborn child.

I thought that was
just part of his rant.

What if Louise Murdoch
did have an abortion?

How would he know?

And how would he know
about her open-door policy,

or the fact she threw parties
where alcohol was served?

How could he possibly
know about any of that?

He knew her.

Anyone that gets into Louise's
office has to get by me first.

And you never saw her
with Greg Landen?

I've been following the trial.

Believe me, if I recognized the
SOB, I would have called you guys.

Maybe one of her students.

She wasn't teaching
this semester.

But she did have some students
helping her research the book.

Anyone who went
to Strickland Academy?

You should have
come forward, Jennifer.

I didn't know it had
anything to do with me.

(CHUCKLES) Denial's a
wonderful thing, isn't it?

Murdoch was your friend.

And that's why...

I prayed it had nothing
to do with me.

Well, why don't you
tell me what you do know?

Greg and I were friends.

But that was way before he got
into the whole Muslim thing.

Did you tell him
about Louise Murdoch?

Maybe there was a little
hero worship going on.

She got me excited
about women's rights.

She opened my eyes to what was
going on in some Muslim countries.

And you opened Greg's eyes.

I guess.

Once I even dragged Greg
to dinner with her.

Are you saying that you
two were involved?

Sure.

I guess. If you could
even call it that.

What exactly does that mean?

We've already been through this.

I'm not accepting
any of your deals.

JACK: You're not here
as a defendant, Mr. Landen.

I asked you here in your
capacity as your own counsel.

We want to call a witness that
wasn't on our initial witness list.

Call whoever you want.
I don't care.

I appreciate your amenability, Mr.
Landen.

Legally, you are entitled to question
her before she takes the stand.

We both know that's going
to be a waste of time.

This is our additional
witness, Mr. Landen.

Jennifer Taylor.

I think you know each other.

How could you, Greg?

Did you do this because of me?

JACK: Think about it, Greg.

Think about what Jennifer
will say on the stand.

In front of your friends,
the press,

your mother, the whole world.
(MOUTHING)

Shut up! Shut up!

You shut up 'cause I am a man!

I am a man no matter
what she says about me.

Okay?

You laughed at me.

You laughed.

You shouldn't have laughed.

(SOBBING)

Well, at least
at his allocution,

Landen apologized to the
entire Muslim community.

Olivet was right.
He wasn't a true believer.

He was just
a humiliated adolescent.

All and all,
I'd say we're damn lucky

this was just one screwball kid.

Angry kid, full of rage.
Just looking for a target.

Isn't that what a terrorist is?

What's scary is how easy
it is to create one.
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