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Excuse us.
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Uh,the 911 caller said the south tower.
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Right. Which you get to from the central plaza on the third floor.
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No. You cross around the corridor.
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Well,you know what?
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We'll just see who gets there first.
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There's no reason for you to have called the police.
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I called the police because no one can explain what happened to my son.
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Ms. Langner,please.
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Let me get you a grief counselor.
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I don't need a grief counselor!
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I want those doctors arrested.
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Let's discuss this in my office.
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Detective daniels,lapd.
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Priority homicide.
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Help mE.
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They murdered my son.
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Ok,just take a breath.
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Take a breath.
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Ok?
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So,what's going on here?
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I brought my son nicky in for a simple endoscopy.
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And now he's dead.
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They killed him.
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Detective. If I may.
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There's no question that we've had a terrible tragedy here tonight.
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But the presence of police...
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it just seems to be inflaming the situation.
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It might be best for everyone if you just went home.
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I'm sorry.
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You do not tell the lapd to go home.
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Detective,please.
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Don't overreact to this situation.
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It is common to hear accusations like this from people who have lost children.
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But I can assure you,
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the doctors took all heroic measures to save the boy's life.
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I'd like to hear that from them.
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Dr. Woods and dr. Sands are unavailable.
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Since you refuse to cooperate,
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and I have reasonable suspicion regarding this attended death--
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reasonable suspicion?
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I am designating the O. R. A crime scene.
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No one touches the body.
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Nothing is disturbed or removed.
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Please secure the operating suite.
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Let's go.
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Sorry to pull you guys away from dinner.
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The speeches were endless.The food never came.
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I was about to eat my napkin.
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What's going on here?
Well,we have a problem.
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The mother over here,melissa langner,
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her son nicky came in for a routine procedure.
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Are you in charge?
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Talk to the lady.
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Deputy chief brenda leigh johnson.I'll be with you in a minute,sir.
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Go on.
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So,her son,went through surgery to stop some minor gastric bleeding,
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there were some complications,he died,
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and now she's saying that he was murdered.
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Ok.
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Thank you,sergeant.
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And you are?
Howard pierce.
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Administrative director of southwest pacific university hospital.
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One of your people has shutdown our operating room.
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That was daniels' call before I got here.
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Ok.
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I'd be happy to address your concerns as soon as I get more information.
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One moment,please.
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Oh,excuse me.
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This is the woman I was speaking of.
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Ms. Langner.
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I'm deputy chief brenda leigh johnson of the lapd.
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I'm sorry to press you at a time like this,
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but I need to know why you think your son was murdered.
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Nicky started throwing up around 6:15.
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There was a little blood.
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I'm a fourth year medical student.
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I knew it probably wasn't anything too serious,
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but I didn't want to misdiagnose him so I brought him here
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so that they could scope him.
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10 minutes later,he was in major surgerY.
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20 minutes later,he was dead.
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That's A...
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that is a terrible story,ms. Langner,
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but what makes you think it was a crime?
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Because...
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when I questioned dr. Woods,
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the vascular surgeon,
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about the cause of death,
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he kept changing his answer.
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And after the third response,
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he just looked at the other doctor,the G.I. Specialist...
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and I saw it in their eyes.
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They are covering something up.
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Ms. Langner...
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please...
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help me.
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Please?
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Ok. I'll be right back.
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I hope that we are acting on good solid suspicions and not just sympathy.
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Chief,I initiated this investigation because I was being actively obstructed.
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could the bruises be from how he was handled during surgery?
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No.
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I doubt it.
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The yellowing suggests they happened much earlier.
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Is that a video camera?
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You should know as soon as your grieving mother went to the bathroom,those guys appeared.
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They've been huddling.
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Looks like they're planning their next play.
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And they are leaving.
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I don't think they're a flight risk.
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Mr. Pierce,I believe we've gotten off on the wrong foot.
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I'm confident that with your cooperation,
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we can resolve this issue right noW.
I agree.
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All I need is the surgery video,the boy's charts,
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and to have a short conversation with the physicians.
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Well,that's not going to happen.
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Excuse me?
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You want to resolve this quickly,let me help you.
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There...was...no...murder.
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You need to turn that operating suite back over to us right now.
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Sergeant gabriel,please notify building operations that we'll be shutting down this floor.
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Nothing goes in or out without our permission.
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Nothing.
You can't do that!
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One more word out of you,
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and I will padlock this entire hospital and arrest you for interfering with a murder investigation.
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We don't know there was malpractice.
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Much less a crime,much less murder.
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So let's be clear about what's going on here.
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You're launching a full-fledged investigation into a nationally respected hospital based on the hunch of a hysterical woman.
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Daniels and I both felt she might be telling the truth.
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Ok. Make that three hysterical women.
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I know you don't want me to respond to that.
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No. What it looks like to me is a grieving mother desperate to pin the blame for her son's death on somebody.
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Ever consider she might be pinning it on those responsible?
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Todd woods is one of the top vascular surgeons in the country.
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What possible motive could he or this other doctor have for murdering an 8-year-old boy?
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Well,then,if there's no issue,
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why won't this mr. Pierce,
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this jerk of a hospital administrator help me?
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Brenda,just because somebody doesn't share your agenda doesn't make them a jerk.
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Dr. Woods was decorated for his work as a trauma surgeon during the first gulf war.
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He pioneered the use of carotid stents.
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Dr. Sands has performed over 2,000 endoscopic procedures.
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He's been recognized--thank you. I get it.
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The attending physicians are geniuses.
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Now,like chief johnson,
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I am committed to resolving this with the least inconvenience for all involved.
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Then end the criminal inquiry.
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If ms. Langner continues to harbor doubts about her son's treatment,
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she has numerous civil remedies available to her.
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We are asking for minimal cooperation.
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And I am telling you that these doctors' records are protected,
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and they will remain confidential.
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And let me give you a word of warning,sir,
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the legal principals at stake in this case are more important than you seem to imagine.
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Now I urge you to think very carefully about what you do next.
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Martha,get me martin garnett,please.
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Thank you.
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Garnett's the deputy district attorney.
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I'm gonna ask him to have the grand jury issue subpoenas for everything related to the langner case.
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Just to satisfy my own stupid,uninformed curiosity.
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There's no reason to involve a grand jury.
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I can arrange for the doctors to speak with you and for the hospital to turn over the video.
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But the charts remain sealed.
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That's better.
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And how long will this take?
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I hope we don't need to make an appointment.
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I'll be back in 2 hours.
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Excellent.
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Thank you.Thank you so much.
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Wow. The motto is first do no harm.
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They should add,second,don't be so obnoxious.
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You realize that by limiting the information they turn over,
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they're trying to guide our conclusions.
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You're welcome,brenda.
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Thank you.
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As you can see,there was already significant bleeding when I began the egd.
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The egd?
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Esophago-gastro duodenoscopy.
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It's when the doctors slide the scope down the patient's throat to get a visualization of the upper gastro intestinal tract.
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What causes this kind of bleeding?
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Hematemesis.Vomiting blood.
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It can be caused by gastritis,or in rare cases,mallory-weiss tears.
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Which are?
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Burst blood vessels in the mucosa of the esophagus.
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I did a year in medical school.
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Cauterization should reduce that bleeding,
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but 3 minutes into the procedure,
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the patient's blood pressure dropped to 60 over 30,
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began transfusing with o-negative.
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And called for surgical back-up.
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I arrived less than 10 minutes later,
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and performed an emergency laparotomy.
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Exploring the abdominal cavity for hemorrhage.
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At 19:16,the patient coded.
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At 19:19,I discovered a bleed in the left gastric artery.
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As I began suturing this perforation,
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the patient flatlined.
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Had no meaningful heart function for 3 minutes.
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Despite closing this rupture,
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the patient's diastolic pressure never rose above 20 millimeters.
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Repeated attempts to establish a normal sinus rhythm failed,
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and we pronounced the patient dead at 19:31.
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Thank you,buzz.
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If you were to review your charts with our forensic pathologists,
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would they be entirely consistent with what you just told us?
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No.
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No. The charts would indicate something significant beyond that.
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Over the past 6 months,
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melissa langner brought her son to the E.R. Repeatedly with complaints ranging from allergies to asthma to acute gastric distress.
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The exact cause of these various ailments remains undetermined,
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but they share one common element.
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They all could've been artificially induced.
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And as you saw last night,
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melissa langner is emotionally unstable.
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Are you suggesting melissa langner deliberately made her son sick?
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I am.
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And the treating physicians thought this might be a case of munchausen's by proxy and so listed it on the boy's charts.
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Doctors woods and sands were concerned that bringing these allegations to your attention would needlessly complicate a tragedy.
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But if you're certain this is murder,
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then I'd consider melissa langner a serious suspect.
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Thank you so much for coming in on such a sad day.
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Do you have someone staying with you?
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No,but I-- I'm managing.
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Thank you for fol--following...
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through on this.
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Well,we are committed to discovering exactly what happened to nicholas.
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I don't believe you've met lieutenant tao.
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My condolences.
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Ms. Langner,this morning,
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dr. Woods and dr. Sands gave their statements,
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and they maintain your son died from severe internal bleeding.
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Despite dr. Woods having closed a perforation in the left gastric artery.
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Have you seen the charts yet?
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We haven't,
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but we've been assured there's nothing in there that would contradict the video of your son's surgery.
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I'm sorry to ask you questions on such a hard day,
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but we were also told that in recent months,
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nicky's made approximately a dozen trips to the E.R.
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Is that true?
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Nicky had always been a healthy kid.
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And then his dad died last july,
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it was totally unexpected.
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Oh,my.
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So nicky is the second family member you've lost in a year?
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That's so unfortunate.
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After my husband died,I was almost suicidal.
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I'm so sorry.
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Have you been talking to anyone about this?
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Yes. And with antidepressants,things improved,
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but nicky,suddenly,he was sick.
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All the time.
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It was like he picked up every germ.
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The flu,the chicken pox.
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Yesterday,he was vomiting blood.
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Do you have any idea what might have caused your son to throw up?
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There are a hundred different physical reasons.
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Or it could've been a lot of stress.
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Losing his dad,being in a new school.
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Was nicky being treated for anything that might have affected his motor coordination?
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No. Why?
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Well,when we examined nicholas,
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he seemed to have several bruises.
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Was he bumping into objects or falling down a lot?
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How else do you think he might have sustained those injuries?
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Are you suggesting I hurt nicky?
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We have to consider all the possibilities.
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That...isn'T...a possibility.
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That is an insult.
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My son was everything to me.
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Do you really believe I would have hit him?
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Do you?
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Maybe not hit him,but hurt him.
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Doctors have access to things that can make children sick,
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and you're a medical student.
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Well,thank you for your commitment to finding out what happened,ms. JohnsoN.
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But I won't be needing your help anymore.
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Mrs. Langner.
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We have to help.
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Whether you like it or not.
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Last 10 years,I've worked 3 cases of munchausen by proxy.
286
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Mothers are supposed to be making their kids sick to get sympathy for themselves.
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It's bullshit.
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Really?
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And what about all the surveillance tapes of parents overdosing their kids and smothering them with pillows.
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Hey,I'm not saying it never happens.
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But every case I saw,
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there was always a sick kid,a pain in the ass mom,
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and a doctor who wanted them both to disappear.
294
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Easiest way to accomplish that is say the word munchausen.
295
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Ok,lieutenant flynn,we appreciate your perspective,
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but as you are our resident expert in munchausen's by proxy...
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you want the profile,fine.
298
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The fbi says that the vast majority of munchausen perpetrators are women.
299
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80 percent have medical background,
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and most are under psychiatric treatment.
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So far we're batting a thousand.Anything else?
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Parent tends to keep their child from other adults and away from outside activities like playing with other kids.
303
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Do we know anything about nicholas langner's extended family?
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School friends,anything?
305
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Nicky attended robert hutchins academy.
306
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It's an expensive private school,
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and the teacher said he's intelligent,
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hardworking,shy.
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One last thing,chief.
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When munchausen happens among medical people,
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it's to cause illness then save the kid to impress other doctors.
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An added incentive for melissa langner.
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The doctors treating her son were the same ones she'd have for medical rotations.
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Whatever happened to good old fashioned brown-nosing?
315
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Except she didn't save the kid,did she?
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Preliminary autopsy report.
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Nicholas langner died from massive internal bleeding.
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Dr. Crippen found 3 prescription drugs in his system all within acceptable levels,
319
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and none could've acted with that specificity on his gastric artery.
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Ok,lieutenant provenza,
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please get a warrant and search melissa langner's house.
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Keep a special eye out for any substances that might not have shown up in her son's blood work but could've made him sick.
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Lieutenant flynn,
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please keep looking for langner relatives.
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Sergeant gabriel,
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I think we ought to find out if nick langner played well with others.
327
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What's the name of his school again?
328
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Many of these kids haven't even lost a pet.
329
00:18:42,030 --> 00:18:45,340
Imagine trying to explain the death of a classmate.
330
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My nicky was such a special little boy.
331
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Did you have much interaction with his mother?
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In 25 years of teaching,
333
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I've dealt with a lot of overprotective parents,
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but they pale in comparison to melissa langner.
335
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What do you mean by that?
336
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Well,for example,when nicky first arrived,
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he was placed with one of our younger instructors.
338
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But ms. Langner reduced her to tears so often,
339
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and with so many accusations of carelessness,
340
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that I moved him into my own class.
341
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As we discussed,
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nicky hadn't been here very long,and he was shy.
343
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Tyler crosby wasn't just his best friend,
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he was his only friend.
345
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I've gotten permission from tyler's mother to have him speak with you,
346
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but,of course,you will be sensitive to what he's going through.
347
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Absolutely,ma'am.
348
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Of course.
349
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Tyler.
350
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I'm brenda leigh johnson.
351
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Do you know why I'm here?
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Nicky.
353
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That's right.
354
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We're here to talk about your friend.
355
00:19:50,870 --> 00:19:54,490
It's hard when someone you care about passes away.
356
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I'm sorry.
357
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I didn't mean to.
358
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I didn'T.
359
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I was only playing.
360
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,050
You didn't mean to what?
361
00:20:05,170 --> 00:20:07,990
I didn't mean to kill him.
362
00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,430
I'm sorry.
363
00:20:09,450 --> 00:20:11,590
Please don't arrest me.
364
00:20:11,590 --> 00:20:13,870
Why--why do you think you killed him?
365
00:20:13,910 --> 00:20:16,910
His mom said not to wrestle.
366
00:20:17,070 --> 00:20:19,170
He wanted to.
367
00:20:19,430 --> 00:20:20,640
He came at me.
368
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He made me.
369
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What--what did you do?
370
00:20:25,310 --> 00:20:29,000
I turned him over and I held him down.
371
00:20:29,390 --> 00:20:32,130
But he was laughing.
372
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I didn't mean to hurt him.
373
00:20:38,170 --> 00:20:40,410
Please don't tell nicky's mom.
374
00:20:40,430 --> 00:20:43,100
Please,I'm afraid of her.
375
00:20:43,810 --> 00:20:46,310
Did nicky's mom threaten you?
376
00:20:46,350 --> 00:20:49,340
Yeah. Yeah,she warned me.
377
00:20:49,450 --> 00:20:51,900
She warned me not to hurt him.
378
00:21:02,790 --> 00:21:08,710
Langner's house has padding on every table corner and covers on all the electrical outlets.
379
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,850
I'm telling you,this is a mom who wanted to build a giant bubble around her kid.
380
00:21:13,010 --> 00:21:15,510
All the medicine cabinets are full of vitamins.
381
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Not to mention 3 half empty bottles of ipecac.
382
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That induces vomiting.
383
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You do that enough,and anybody's insides will start to bleed.
384
00:21:21,980 --> 00:21:25,810
Chief,I found melissa langner's in-laws in...
385
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rancho palos verdes.
386
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Beverly and walter langner.
387
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They're in your office,and they want to talk.
388
00:21:32,950 --> 00:21:33,790
Ok.
389
00:21:34,340 --> 00:21:37,100
We are both...
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00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:39,630
horrified by nicky's death.
391
00:21:39,660 --> 00:21:41,920
But not completely surprised.
392
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,280
This past year...
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since our son died so unexpectedly,
394
00:21:47,950 --> 00:21:50,130
melissa's become increasingly...
395
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:51,170
well...
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paranoid.
397
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She refused to let us near nicky.
398
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We had to sue her to get limited visitation with our own grandson.
399
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:02,990
It's so embarrassing.
400
00:22:03,030 --> 00:22:05,920
What reasons did she give the judge for denying you visits?
401
00:22:05,950 --> 00:22:10,020
She claimed that nicky was too sick to spend time away from home.
402
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:15,090
And that my occasional cigar at dinner posed an unreasonable health risk.
403
00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:16,160
If he was sickly,
404
00:22:16,180 --> 00:22:18,940
it was only because melissa made him that way.
405
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,550
But I don't blame her alone.
406
00:22:21,580 --> 00:22:25,070
That boyfriend of hers played a part in this.
407
00:22:25,070 --> 00:22:27,560
Um,you didn't mention a boyfriend.
408
00:22:27,590 --> 00:22:29,980
A couple of months after our son died,
409
00:22:30,010 --> 00:22:32,750
she took up with this guy she dated in high school.
410
00:22:32,780 --> 00:22:34,550
Jason higgins.
411
00:22:34,580 --> 00:22:35,960
She never let us meet him,
412
00:22:35,990 --> 00:22:38,790
but the second that nicky told us about him,
413
00:22:38,820 --> 00:22:40,350
I had him checked out.
414
00:22:40,370 --> 00:22:42,140
He has an ex,
415
00:22:42,180 --> 00:22:43,220
he owes alimony,
416
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:44,460
he owes child support,
417
00:22:44,490 --> 00:22:47,070
and there's a restraining order against him,too.
418
00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:50,590
Years back,we set up a trust for our son.
419
00:22:50,750 --> 00:22:56,500
And,uh... after he died,it passed on to our grandson,and...
420
00:22:56,530 --> 00:23:00,750
now that he's gone,too,that money,
421
00:23:00,770 --> 00:23:05,660
it's $3 million today,goes to melissa,
422
00:23:05,690 --> 00:23:12,000
and if she marries him,this jason higgins.
423
00:23:15,670 --> 00:23:17,080
According to langner's parents,
424
00:23:17,110 --> 00:23:18,870
higgins has anger issues,
425
00:23:18,890 --> 00:23:21,910
so we're gonna play good cop,bad cop.
426
00:23:21,940 --> 00:23:23,780
You're not gonna make me be the good cop,are you?
427
00:23:23,810 --> 00:23:25,780
I don't think that's possible,lieutenant.
428
00:23:25,810 --> 00:23:27,950
How bad do you want me to be?
429
00:23:28,090 --> 00:23:29,660
Go for broke.
430
00:23:30,830 --> 00:23:34,840
Mr. Higgins,deputy chief brenda leigh johnson of the lapd.
431
00:23:37,030 --> 00:23:38,410
I just can't believe he's dead.
432
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,730
I mean,the little guy got sick a lot,
433
00:23:40,750 --> 00:23:43,280
but I really thought he'd grow out of it.
434
00:23:43,310 --> 00:23:45,250
I was the same way when I was his age.
435
00:23:45,270 --> 00:23:46,580
Yeah,and look at you now.
436
00:23:46,610 --> 00:23:48,660
Easy,lieutenant.
437
00:23:48,850 --> 00:23:53,290
How would you describe melissa langner's behavior over the last several months?
438
00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:58,920
Melissa...and i have known each other since we were 15.
439
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:03,640
She's always been,I don't know,tightly wound.
440
00:24:03,660 --> 00:24:06,170
And her husband goes and drops dead on his morning jog,
441
00:24:06,190 --> 00:24:09,760
I mean,that's enough to make anybody lose it a little bit.
442
00:24:09,770 --> 00:24:13,300
Do you believe melissa langner lost it?
443
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,000
You think melissa had something to do with nicky's death?
444
00:24:17,020 --> 00:24:18,900
No way. Oh,no.
445
00:24:18,930 --> 00:24:20,410
Melissa's whole life was about nicky.
446
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,670
She was totally obsessed with that kid.
447
00:24:23,750 --> 00:24:27,410
And how's your financial situation,mr. Higgins?
448
00:24:27,830 --> 00:24:29,250
Is this about my ex wife?
449
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:30,510
'Cause I settled with her 3 months ago.
450
00:24:30,530 --> 00:24:32,020
And I've made every payment since then.
451
00:24:32,050 --> 00:24:33,530
I'll show you the cancelled checks if you want.
452
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:34,790
Why,you got 'em on you?
453
00:24:34,830 --> 00:24:37,600
We understand your ex wife took out a restraining order on you.
454
00:24:37,630 --> 00:24:40,600
Yeah. Because she wouldn't tell me why she was leaving,
455
00:24:40,620 --> 00:24:41,530
and I got a little mad.
456
00:24:41,550 --> 00:24:43,230
I sense that.
457
00:24:43,260 --> 00:24:45,810
Did you ever get mad like that with nick?
458
00:24:45,860 --> 00:24:46,860
No!
459
00:24:47,260 --> 00:24:49,760
Do I look like the kind of guy who'd beat up on an 8-year-old kid?
460
00:24:49,780 --> 00:24:51,150
Are we talking boy or girl?
461
00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:53,040
Hey,screw you!
462
00:24:53,070 --> 00:24:54,390
Well,if that's an offer,
463
00:24:54,410 --> 00:24:56,180
you might be a little friendlier about it.
464
00:24:56,210 --> 00:24:57,370
Lieutenant.
465
00:24:57,410 --> 00:24:59,040
I asked you not to jump to conclusions.
466
00:24:59,060 --> 00:25:02,090
It could be that mr. Higgins here had nothing to do with this crime.
467
00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:04,550
When was the last time you saw nick langner?
468
00:25:04,580 --> 00:25:06,810
All of a sudden,I'm a suspect?
469
00:25:06,850 --> 00:25:11,180
I ain't seen nicky since last wednesday night when I broke up with melissa.
470
00:25:11,650 --> 00:25:13,360
You broke up with melissa langner?
471
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,100
Why do you think I didn't know anything about what happened to nicky?
472
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,330
I don't know,chief.
473
00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:23,660
If this guy didn't want the kid but wanted the money,
474
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:24,880
why break up with her?
475
00:25:24,910 --> 00:25:26,370
Chief.
476
00:25:26,540 --> 00:25:27,650
This is something you should see.
477
00:25:27,690 --> 00:25:28,630
Geez,tao.
478
00:25:28,660 --> 00:25:31,140
I'm starting to think you enjoy looking at this stuff.
479
00:25:31,170 --> 00:25:33,330
These bruises are called purpura.
480
00:25:33,350 --> 00:25:37,640
They can be caused spontaneously by some blood clotting disorders.
481
00:25:37,770 --> 00:25:41,210
Are you suggesting maybe nobody hit nicky at all?
482
00:25:41,950 --> 00:25:46,940
Wouldn't a clotting disorder have been something that would've been diagnosed before surgery?
483
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,420
Or could this have been artificially induced as well?
484
00:25:49,460 --> 00:25:53,360
I won't know for sure unless I have dr. Crippen re-examine the body.
485
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:54,980
All right.
486
00:25:55,010 --> 00:25:58,240
Try and come back with a definite answer I can understand.
487
00:25:58,740 --> 00:25:59,900
And print outs.
488
00:25:59,930 --> 00:26:00,930
Chief.
489
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,210
Pope's office just called.
490
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,780
He needs to see you right away.
491
00:26:12,990 --> 00:26:14,640
chief johnson.
492
00:26:16,260 --> 00:26:17,360
I don't know if you heard,
493
00:26:17,390 --> 00:26:18,400
but a couple of nights ago,
494
00:26:18,420 --> 00:26:20,610
a lady was strangled to death on laurel canyon.
495
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An elderly woman living alone.
496
00:26:22,830 --> 00:26:24,680
Yeah. Right.
497
00:26:24,790 --> 00:26:25,620
And last night,
498
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,160
there was another homicide just around the corner.
499
00:26:28,190 --> 00:26:29,430
Could be the start of a spree,
500
00:26:29,450 --> 00:26:32,760
so you understand why this investigation has picked up greater urgency.
501
00:26:32,790 --> 00:26:38,400
My detectives are already stretched a bit thin and since priority homicide isn't really doing much right now...
502
00:26:38,430 --> 00:26:41,660
I appreciate the gravity of the situation,commander,
503
00:26:41,690 --> 00:26:43,850
but as it so happens,we are busy.
504
00:26:43,870 --> 00:26:47,270
I'm close to resolving the nicholas langner investigatioN.
505
00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:48,450
Nicholas langner?
506
00:26:48,490 --> 00:26:49,880
The boy who died during surgery?
507
00:26:49,910 --> 00:26:52,260
Yes,this past day has opened up new leads.
508
00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:54,890
We are looking at a murder a night in the hollywood hills.
509
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,580
One more,and this jumps to the papers and all hell breaks loose.
510
00:26:58,610 --> 00:27:01,270
Look,I have kids.
511
00:27:01,420 --> 00:27:04,180
And what happened to that boy is...
512
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,220
I can't even think about it.
513
00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:08,610
It's every parent's worst nightmare.
514
00:27:08,650 --> 00:27:09,860
Is the mother suffering?
515
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,600
Of course.
516
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,720
Does that make it murder?
517
00:27:12,740 --> 00:27:13,210
No.
518
00:27:13,220 --> 00:27:15,090
Is it a case for priority homicide,
519
00:27:15,110 --> 00:27:16,260
absolutely not.
520
00:27:16,290 --> 00:27:19,040
It's not.It just is not.
521
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,510
Now,get your people to robbery/homicide as soon as possible.
522
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:23,570
If this is a spree killer,
523
00:27:23,580 --> 00:27:26,380
you could be taking over the case tonight.
524
00:27:27,510 --> 00:27:28,670
Ok,then.
525
00:27:28,710 --> 00:27:29,880
Thank you.
526
00:27:30,010 --> 00:27:31,310
Commander.
527
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:35,340
So we're just gonna let it go.
528
00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,400
And we have to go to robbery/homicide.
529
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:38,600
This is complete crap.
530
00:27:38,620 --> 00:27:39,790
We have momentum.
531
00:27:39,810 --> 00:27:41,730
We're getting close to something here.
532
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,930
Uh,chief,it's lieutenant tao.
533
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,990
He says it's urgent.
534
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,680
Hold on a second.
535
00:27:51,620 --> 00:27:52,510
Chief johnson.
536
00:27:52,540 --> 00:27:54,600
Chief.We got a problem.
537
00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:58,110
The morgue released nicholas langner's body.
538
00:27:58,220 --> 00:28:01,650
All right. Well,get over to the funeral home before it gets cremated or embalmed.
539
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:02,710
Well,that's the thing.
540
00:28:02,730 --> 00:28:05,570
Melissa langner didn't send the body to a funeral home.
541
00:28:05,590 --> 00:28:08,080
She released it to her medical school.
542
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,670
Ok. Thank you,lieutenant tao.
543
00:28:16,430 --> 00:28:18,780
Lieutenant flynn and provenza.
544
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,790
Please report to robbery/homicide and give detective ross a hand.
545
00:28:21,820 --> 00:28:22,950
Ross,huh? Yeah.
546
00:28:22,980 --> 00:28:23,960
I'll give him a hand all right.
547
00:28:23,990 --> 00:28:26,150
Sawed off little runt.
548
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:31,640
what about me,chief?
549
00:28:31,670 --> 00:28:34,110
Yeah,you,too,sergeant gabriel.
550
00:28:37,380 --> 00:28:40,050
But on your way there...
551
00:28:40,370 --> 00:28:45,560
get the deputy da to convene a grand jury to subpoena nicky langner's hospital records.
552
00:28:45,710 --> 00:28:50,570
And also the doctor's schedules for last weekend,please.
553
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,320
Thank you.
554
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,510
Feel like driving,detective daniels?
555
00:29:00,540 --> 00:29:01,540
Where we going?
556
00:29:01,570 --> 00:29:03,260
Robbery/homicide.
557
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,300
By way of southwest pacific university.
558
00:29:10,750 --> 00:29:11,520
Pardon me,ma'am.
559
00:29:11,540 --> 00:29:14,550
Can you tell me where the anatomy lab is?
560
00:29:15,330 --> 00:29:16,790
Thank you.
561
00:29:34,990 --> 00:29:37,390
my god.
562
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,820
MrS. Langner.
563
00:29:45,550 --> 00:29:48,270
Wait until you see thiS.
564
00:30:01,850 --> 00:30:07,260
this is the subpoenaed paperwork for each of nicholas langner's 12 E.R. Visits.
565
00:30:07,290 --> 00:30:08,710
Please.
566
00:30:08,810 --> 00:30:12,020
Detective daniels and i have gone through all of them.
567
00:30:12,710 --> 00:30:14,220
Though the doctors said they'd be there,
568
00:30:14,250 --> 00:30:18,630
there is not a single notation on any of these charts indicating munchausen's by proxy.
569
00:30:18,660 --> 00:30:21,650
So the reason howard pierce threw out that misdirect?
570
00:30:22,250 --> 00:30:25,260
See what time dr. Sands ordered the cbc and chem panel?
571
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,970
And look when he started the endoscopy.
572
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,840
Now I've gone over these test results with forensics,
573
00:30:29,870 --> 00:30:33,150
cbc shows nicholas langner's platelet count at 5,000.
574
00:30:33,180 --> 00:30:35,850
About 4 percent of what it would be in a healthy kid.
575
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:36,990
Help me,lieutenant tao.
576
00:30:37,020 --> 00:30:38,680
I have no idea what you're talking about.
577
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,390
It means he developed a clotting disorder.
578
00:30:41,420 --> 00:30:43,960
He'd become sort of a hemophiliac.
579
00:30:43,980 --> 00:30:47,190
So a doctor shoves a scope down his throat,makes a tear,
580
00:30:47,220 --> 00:30:48,940
and the kid bleeds to death.
581
00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:50,900
How would he develop something like this?
582
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:52,240
Is it an illness?
583
00:30:52,260 --> 00:30:55,040
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpora.
584
00:30:55,060 --> 00:30:56,970
I'm not even gonna try and pronounce that.
585
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,470
Also known as itp.
586
00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:04,000
It was probably a temporary after effect of a viral infection like the chicken pox.
587
00:31:04,020 --> 00:31:06,770
Melissa langner said he contracted it a few months back.
588
00:31:06,790 --> 00:31:10,960
And a platelet count that low would've caused spontaneous bruising.
589
00:31:10,970 --> 00:31:13,560
So,in other words,maybe nobody hit him.
590
00:31:13,580 --> 00:31:17,030
Or maybe he wrestled when his mother told him not to.
591
00:31:18,870 --> 00:31:20,370
All right,then.
592
00:31:20,510 --> 00:31:21,620
Thank you.
593
00:31:21,750 --> 00:31:22,980
Good job.
594
00:31:31,510 --> 00:31:33,050
Have you looked at my camcorder tape?
595
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,100
Not yet. I will.
596
00:31:36,850 --> 00:31:38,420
So,ms. Langner,I have to tell you,
597
00:31:38,450 --> 00:31:41,370
I have been a criminal investigator for almost 10 years.
598
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,510
And I had a very interesting life before that,
599
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,910
but this afternoon,that was a first for me.
600
00:31:45,950 --> 00:31:49,440
You have to look at the tape.
601
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,430
I know you still think I had something to do with nicky's death.
602
00:31:53,470 --> 00:31:54,910
Well,what am i supposed to think?
603
00:31:54,930 --> 00:31:57,720
Your son contracts a serious of unexplained illnesses,
604
00:31:57,740 --> 00:32:00,740
you intimidate his teacher,his 9-year-old friend,his grandparents,
605
00:32:00,770 --> 00:32:02,260
and then,on top of everything else,
606
00:32:02,310 --> 00:32:07,010
you perform an unsanctioned dissection of the boy you say you loved.
607
00:32:07,050 --> 00:32:11,260
It was the only way to prove what I believed.
608
00:32:11,270 --> 00:32:14,320
And what your coroner should've discovered.
609
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,830
Woods told you...
610
00:32:18,020 --> 00:32:20,660
he'd repaired the left gastric artery.
611
00:32:20,690 --> 00:32:22,090
He lied.
612
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,180
Don't believe me.
613
00:32:28,070 --> 00:32:30,070
Look at the tape.
614
00:32:34,210 --> 00:32:36,600
I'm under the omentum.
615
00:32:37,290 --> 00:32:40,220
And I have located the left...
616
00:32:40,950 --> 00:32:42,580
gastric artery.
617
00:32:50,060 --> 00:32:52,820
There is the perforation.
618
00:32:52,860 --> 00:33:01,870
There are only two stitches in a perforation which needed 8 to 10 for closure.
619
00:33:01,970 --> 00:33:04,860
They never sealed the artery.
620
00:33:04,930 --> 00:33:06,550
Ok. That's enough,buzz.
621
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:07,800
Thank you.
622
00:33:08,090 --> 00:33:11,170
Can you play the hospital surgery footage now.
623
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:18,920
Can you magnify his hands?
624
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,650
Just give me one second.
625
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,340
What am I looking at?
626
00:33:31,980 --> 00:33:33,840
A man...
627
00:33:34,250 --> 00:33:38,550
pretending to stitch while a little boy bleeds out.
628
00:33:43,620 --> 00:33:45,520
Thank you,buzz.
629
00:33:47,650 --> 00:33:48,550
Howard?
630
00:33:48,570 --> 00:33:51,180
I'm sorry,this has gone beyond the purview of a hospital.
631
00:33:51,230 --> 00:33:52,130
I believe,at this point,
632
00:33:52,170 --> 00:33:55,330
you and dr. Woods would be better served by a lawyer.
633
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,280
Excuse me,chief johnson.
634
00:34:02,930 --> 00:34:04,400
If you gentlemen have seen enough,
635
00:34:04,430 --> 00:34:08,540
I'll have questions for you after I speak with deputy district attorney garnett here.
636
00:34:08,570 --> 00:34:09,210
Lieutenant tao,
637
00:34:09,210 --> 00:34:13,750
would you please escort doctors woods and sands into interview room 1 and read them their rights.
638
00:34:13,750 --> 00:34:15,300
Thank you so much.
639
00:34:15,330 --> 00:34:17,230
Right this way,doctors.
640
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,540
You have the right to remain silent...
641
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:23,940
I'm a little lost.
642
00:34:23,970 --> 00:34:26,480
What do you want me to do with these guys?
643
00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:29,200
Uh,well,to start with,
644
00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:35,710
you could indict them for second degree murder or conspiracy to commit grievous bodily injury,negligent homicide.
645
00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:36,510
Are you joking?
646
00:34:36,540 --> 00:34:38,970
Dr. Woods didn't try to help that boy out at all.
647
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,150
He's clearly putting on a show for the camera.
648
00:34:41,180 --> 00:34:44,800
Or he's a surgeon with poor aim after 16 hours on his feet.
649
00:34:44,830 --> 00:34:46,400
Listen,before I can prosecute a crime,
650
00:34:46,430 --> 00:34:48,150
I need to establish a crime has been committed.
651
00:34:48,150 --> 00:34:49,820
What you're describing so far--
652
00:34:49,830 --> 00:34:52,320
the mother's video indicates that he didn't do--
653
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,360
oh,yeah. The freak show amateur autopsy.
654
00:34:54,390 --> 00:34:58,320
Putting aside how the jury's gonna react to watching a mother dissect her own son,
655
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,140
once the body was released by the morgue,
656
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,500
it was outside of the chain of evidence.
657
00:35:01,530 --> 00:35:03,960
That tape is completely inadmissible.
658
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:09,130
Nick langner was an 8 year old boy who went into the er vomiting and came out dead.
659
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,170
And those men did that to him.
660
00:35:11,190 --> 00:35:13,960
Well,prove that's what they intended,
661
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,310
and we'll talk.
662
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,970
Sorry for the hold uP.
663
00:35:22,030 --> 00:35:24,300
We try not to keep people waiting so long.
664
00:35:24,330 --> 00:35:26,750
I should tell you that I never speak without a lawyer present,
665
00:35:26,780 --> 00:35:31,290
so you'll understand if i respectfully decline to answer your questions.
666
00:35:31,460 --> 00:35:34,740
You've both invoked your right to counsel which makes an interview impossible.
667
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,600
So I'll just have a theoretical discussion with lieutenant tao here.
668
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,710
I don't really have any questions anyway.
669
00:35:40,750 --> 00:35:45,750
Just some good news for one of you,and some very bad news for the other.
670
00:35:45,780 --> 00:35:48,150
Lieutenant tao,which should i give them first?
671
00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:50,320
I'm thinking they'd like to hear the good news.
672
00:35:50,340 --> 00:35:51,400
Ok.
673
00:35:51,810 --> 00:35:53,650
Dr. Sands,last sunday night,
674
00:35:53,670 --> 00:35:59,790
you killed a young boy due to acts of negligence and malpractice and then lied about it.
675
00:35:59,820 --> 00:36:00,370
Gosh...
676
00:36:00,370 --> 00:36:04,200
now that I've said that out loud,the good news doesn't sound so great.
677
00:36:04,260 --> 00:36:05,680
It gets better though.
678
00:36:06,510 --> 00:36:11,030
Nicholas langner was admitted to the er at 18:42.
679
00:36:11,070 --> 00:36:14,930
At 18:48,dr. Sands ordered a cbc,
680
00:36:14,970 --> 00:36:17,340
chem panel,and coags.
681
00:36:17,370 --> 00:36:21,400
Coags were to measure how well nicky's blood would clot.
682
00:36:21,850 --> 00:36:24,150
About how long do these tests take,lieutenant tao?
683
00:36:24,170 --> 00:36:25,390
At least 20 minutes.
684
00:36:25,410 --> 00:36:32,150
And yet,dr. Sands,you began the endoscopy at 18:55,only 7 minutes later.
685
00:36:32,170 --> 00:36:35,150
Before you could've possibly seen the results of nicky's blood test.
686
00:36:35,180 --> 00:36:36,430
Which is a shame.
687
00:36:36,450 --> 00:36:40,390
Because those coags would've shown that nicky's platelets were extremely low,
688
00:36:40,420 --> 00:36:43,330
indicating a condition called...
689
00:36:43,630 --> 00:36:45,210
lieutenant tao?
690
00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:47,590
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
691
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:48,600
Itp.
692
00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:51,680
Actually,if you had looked him over at the er,
693
00:36:51,710 --> 00:36:56,160
you might have noticed nicky had itp simply by looking at the bruises on his torso.
694
00:36:56,190 --> 00:36:57,850
I know how to diagnose itp.
695
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,260
Oh,I'm sorry,are you speaking?
696
00:36:59,290 --> 00:37:01,780
Have you revoked your right to counsel?
697
00:37:01,820 --> 00:37:02,750
No.
698
00:37:02,780 --> 00:37:04,190
Ok.
699
00:37:04,350 --> 00:37:09,020
My guess is the reason you didn't notice the bruising was because you just finished a 24-hour shift.
700
00:37:09,050 --> 00:37:10,500
If you hadn't had one foot out the door,
701
00:37:10,530 --> 00:37:13,540
you might have given nicholas plasma for clotting,
702
00:37:13,570 --> 00:37:16,470
had a surgeon standing by and everything might have been fine.
703
00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:18,010
Instead,you rushed in to your endoscopy,
704
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,410
and considering how tired you were,
705
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,150
and how much blood was in nicky's stomach,
706
00:37:21,180 --> 00:37:25,070
it's not so surprising that you perforated the kid's gastric artery,is it?
707
00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:26,830
Don't answer that,dr. Sands.
708
00:37:26,860 --> 00:37:28,790
You don't speak without a lawyer.
709
00:37:28,810 --> 00:37:35,500
Well,the good news about all of this is that everything that we've just described is merely malpractice.
710
00:37:35,510 --> 00:37:38,130
Oh,your insurance premiums may go up,
711
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,740
and you may have some bad publicity,but,
712
00:37:40,770 --> 00:37:42,490
malpractice is not a criminal offense.
713
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,290
So you are free to go,dr. Sands.
714
00:37:45,330 --> 00:37:49,290
Unfortunately,dr. Woods,I can't say the same thing about you.
715
00:37:50,590 --> 00:37:55,700
You are aware that melissa langner's videotape directly contradicts what you told us.
716
00:37:55,720 --> 00:38:01,060
You did not repair nicky's gastric artery,though why,I have no idea.
717
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:02,370
It doesn't really matter.
718
00:38:02,390 --> 00:38:05,550
The surgeon's report clearly states you sutured the artery closed.
719
00:38:05,580 --> 00:38:06,390
You even billed for it,
720
00:38:06,420 --> 00:38:08,760
and that's your signature on the bottom.
721
00:38:08,860 --> 00:38:14,150
It's quite legible actually considering what they say about doctor's handwriting.
722
00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:15,290
Anyway...
723
00:38:15,310 --> 00:38:22,520
I'm sure you are aware that falsifying medical records for fraudulent purposes is a felony.
724
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:23,760
I think I see what she's trying to do,
725
00:38:23,790 --> 00:38:25,370
but if he speaks without a lawyer,
726
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:26,840
nothing he says can be used in court.
727
00:38:26,860 --> 00:38:29,120
She's trying to get him--
where's everybody at?
728
00:38:29,150 --> 00:38:31,630
I thought you were going to see ross?
729
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,210
What the--
730
00:38:33,370 --> 00:38:35,960
what is she doing in there?
731
00:38:37,410 --> 00:38:40,260
Oh,my. Dr. Sands,you're still here.
732
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,870
I got so wrapped up in giving dr. Woods his bad news,
733
00:38:42,900 --> 00:38:44,750
that I completely forgot you were here.
734
00:38:44,770 --> 00:38:45,600
Run along now.
735
00:38:45,620 --> 00:38:49,130
Make sure to get your parking validated on the way out.
736
00:38:51,670 --> 00:38:54,220
You're not going anywhere.
737
00:38:55,870 --> 00:38:58,740
Dr. Woods,I have to advise you not to speak without an attorney.
738
00:38:58,770 --> 00:38:59,830
This is ridiculous.
739
00:38:59,870 --> 00:39:01,090
I don't need an attorney.
740
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,500
I'm revoking my right to counsel.
741
00:39:07,910 --> 00:39:09,740
It was his fault.
742
00:39:11,060 --> 00:39:13,420
I never expected that you'd do anything but find the bleeding.
743
00:39:13,450 --> 00:39:15,760
You knew the kid was hypoxic when he hit the table.
744
00:39:15,790 --> 00:39:20,310
I had 3 minutes to find your mistake and that left me 45 seconds to fix it.
745
00:39:20,330 --> 00:39:21,810
Then what?
746
00:39:21,890 --> 00:39:26,260
The boy had no blood pumped to his brain for almost 4 minutes.
747
00:39:26,290 --> 00:39:28,680
So he would've woke up paralyzed.
748
00:39:28,710 --> 00:39:29,980
Maybe blind.
749
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,160
Mentally handicapped for the rest of his life.
750
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:33,500
At best.
751
00:39:33,530 --> 00:39:34,790
You didn't know that.
752
00:39:34,860 --> 00:39:36,590
Ok,ok.
753
00:39:37,310 --> 00:39:39,980
Let me see if I've got this straight,doctor.
754
00:39:40,010 --> 00:39:42,590
Are you saying you could have repaired the artery,
755
00:39:42,610 --> 00:39:44,020
but knowing it would take another minute,
756
00:39:44,050 --> 00:39:49,320
you chose to let nicholas langner die rather than bring him back in less than pristine condition?
757
00:39:49,350 --> 00:39:53,170
No,no,no. Not Less than pristine condition.
758
00:39:53,370 --> 00:39:56,810
Irreparably damaged.
759
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,240
But it's possible that he might have been fine,
760
00:39:59,260 --> 00:40:02,630
and you wouldn't have known that until you resuscitated him.
761
00:40:02,750 --> 00:40:06,680
I had both my hands in that boy's abdomen with seconds,
762
00:40:06,700 --> 00:40:12,820
seconds to weigh the likely outcome,death,or severe disability.
763
00:40:12,870 --> 00:40:15,790
Not to mention,exposing your carelessness.
764
00:40:15,820 --> 00:40:17,860
I never asked you to cover for me.
765
00:40:17,890 --> 00:40:20,770
Only because you lack the guts.
766
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,530
Given the options,I was presented with,ms. Johnson,
767
00:40:24,550 --> 00:40:27,930
I made absolutely the right choice.
768
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,110
To kill nicholas langner?
769
00:40:30,130 --> 00:40:31,600
To let him die.
770
00:40:31,620 --> 00:40:32,760
Yes.
771
00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:39,690
Yes,I let him die because as it so happens,ms. Johnson,that's my job.
772
00:40:39,870 --> 00:40:41,150
Is it?
773
00:40:41,180 --> 00:40:47,640
I make more life and death decisions before 10 o'clock in the morning than most people make in a lifetime.
774
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,760
On the rare occasion that I can't save someone,
775
00:40:50,790 --> 00:40:54,740
I don't have time to weep and wail and point fingers
776
00:40:54,760 --> 00:41:00,560
because in the next room,there's another patient whose life is on the line.
777
00:41:00,580 --> 00:41:04,080
I made the right choice with nicholas langner.
778
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,540
The only choice that made any sense.
779
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,300
And I'd do it again.
780
00:41:13,820 --> 00:41:16,960
If you were so certain that you made the right choice,
781
00:41:16,980 --> 00:41:20,250
why did you try to blame nicky's mother for her son's death?
782
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:25,280
You knew that munchausen's by proxy was not in any of that boy's charts.
783
00:41:42,010 --> 00:41:43,910
Did I not tell you to help robbery/homicide?
784
00:41:43,950 --> 00:41:44,760
What are you doing here?
785
00:41:44,770 --> 00:41:46,590
Getting a physician to admit to manslaughter.
786
00:41:46,610 --> 00:41:48,340
You heard him,mr. Garnett.
787
00:41:48,370 --> 00:41:50,520
Todd woods said he chose to let nick langner die.
788
00:41:50,540 --> 00:41:51,820
No,that's not what I heard.
789
00:41:51,850 --> 00:41:53,510
What I heard was a doctor saying,in his opinion,
790
00:41:53,550 --> 00:41:55,700
he could not save that child's life.
791
00:41:55,730 --> 00:41:59,270
And no jury is ever going to convict this man and no judge is ever gonna let it go to trial,
792
00:41:59,310 --> 00:42:00,490
and malpractice is not a crime,
793
00:42:00,530 --> 00:42:02,620
so at the risk of repeating myself,what do you want me to do?
794
00:42:02,650 --> 00:42:07,170
You tell me exactly what you want those doctors to say in order to try them for manslaughter and I will go back in there,
795
00:42:07,190 --> 00:42:09,400
and I will get them to say it.
796
00:42:09,490 --> 00:42:10,590
I'm sorry,chief johnson.
797
00:42:10,630 --> 00:42:13,890
I don't prosecute cases I know I can't win.
798
00:42:13,890 --> 00:42:15,840
Excuse me,fellows.
799
00:42:16,150 --> 00:42:18,610
You're just like dr. Woods.
800
00:42:18,870 --> 00:42:21,970
Unless you're assured a perfect outcome,you walk away.
801
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,110
And you're just like this crazy mother here.
802
00:42:24,130 --> 00:42:26,650
Insisting we treat tragedy as murder.
803
00:42:26,730 --> 00:42:30,220
So how about this,ma'am.You pick your battles,I'll pick mine.
804
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,090
All right. This case is officially over. Now.
805
00:42:40,110 --> 00:42:43,470
How soon can you get your people to laurel canyon?
806
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,980
Lieutenant tao.
807
00:42:47,570 --> 00:42:50,220
Please report to robbery/homicide.
808
00:42:50,450 --> 00:42:53,800
And detective daniels,if you could wait for me.
809
00:43:00,430 --> 00:43:01,840
Before I let these doctors go,
810
00:43:01,860 --> 00:43:04,960
I want to apologize to melissa langner for the world we live in.
811
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,350
Excuse mE.
812
00:43:17,140 --> 00:43:18,630
Ms. Langner.
813
00:43:18,740 --> 00:43:21,490
I am so very sorry to have to tell you...
814
00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:23,850
buzz,turn the volume down,please.
815
00:43:23,890 --> 00:43:25,520
I can't listen to this.
816
00:43:25,570 --> 00:43:27,710
What?
817
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:48,370
Sorry.
818
00:43:48,390 --> 00:43:49,780
You want to split?
819
00:43:49,810 --> 00:43:51,860
Oh,no,thanks,chief.
820
00:43:58,110 --> 00:43:59,330
look,detective.
821
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,300
I know you're upset,but...
822
00:44:05,340 --> 00:44:07,210
we did everything we could.
823
00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:08,940
We don't--
824
00:44:09,350 --> 00:44:11,190
punish. We don'T...
825
00:44:11,220 --> 00:44:11,990
prosecute.
826
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,650
We just...
827
00:44:13,820 --> 00:44:16,170
we just find out the truth.
828
00:44:32,590 --> 00:44:34,020
It's around the corner.
829
00:44:39,130 --> 00:44:40,660
Drop your weapon!
830
00:44:40,820 --> 00:44:41,980
Right now!
831
00:44:42,020 --> 00:44:43,230
Drop your weapon.
832
00:44:43,260 --> 00:44:45,170
Right there.Drop it.
833
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:47,710
Turn around!
834
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:02,290
Should be a much easier case for you to prosecute,ms. Johnson.
835
00:45:06,030 --> 00:45:09,430
You know,I think dr. Woods thought he was god.
836
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,240
Turns out he was wrong.
837
00:45:14,770 --> 00:45:18,000
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