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[Instrumental music]

[Moaning]

We're gonna have to pay for that.

- I'm worth it. - Alright.

[Indistinct singing]

[Both breathing heavily]

[Gunshots]

[Dramatic music]

[Footsteps]

[Panting]

[Engine cranking]

[Tires screeching]

[Screaming]

[Camera shutter clicking]

[Upbeat music]

[Music continues]

- Do you know the man you shot? - No.

- Did you plan to kill him? - No.

So what happened, what, you and your girlfriend, uh...

Amanda isn't my...

and you drive to a motel and decide

you're gonna shoot a perfect stranger for kicks?

No, that's not what happened.

Then why don't you tell us what did happen, Billy?

- She met him online. - The victim?

- Yeah, on favespace. - Favespace?

I-I-It's a-it's a website where people chat online.

He talked her into meeting him.

He said he was a freshman at notre dame.

He drove down to meet me, but when I got to his motel room

it was this old guy. H-He was bald and he s-smelled bad.

Why in god's name would you meet a stranger at a motel?

You know better than that. You could've been raped.

- You could have been killed... - Mr. Ross.

We're gonna have to ask you to wait outside.

[Sighs]

Okay. Go on. I'll be quiet.

He was supposed to be a college guy

only he turned out to be a perv.

- Now, where were you? - I just dropped Amanda off.

She told her parents that we were going to the movies.

T-T-That's what he told me, too.

And then what happened?

He kept trying to get me to drink

rum and cokes and take my shirt off.

He kept saying he needed a hug.

He offered me money.

He had this camera he wanted to tape me with.

The door was locked and chained.

I thought he was gonna rape me.

- Oh, Amanda. - Did he touch you?

He kept trying to, and so I told him I had to pee.

I went in the bathroom and texted Billy.

She texted me a message th-that just said, "help."

So you grabbed a gun from your house and went back.

No.

My-my dad keeps a gun in the glove box.

- The glove box? - I have a permit.

I went-i went back to her motel room door

and I heard this sketchy guy, like

begging Amanda take off her clothes.

The gun was just to scare him.

There was a knock at the door, and when the guy opened it

Billy came in holding the gun.

The bald guy. The pervert.

He got real aggressive with me. He was really drunk.

He kept shoving Billy, trying to scare him.

I told him to back off!

It's like he didn't even care that Billy had a gun.

But he wouldn't listen to me!

I was cr-crying so bad I could hardly breathe.

And I shot him!

And then Billy shot him.

Boom, boom.

I don't know what happened, I just..

Squeezed the trigger.

My hand was, my hand was shaking so bad.

(Annabeth) 'Why did you run away?'

I was scared.

And there was blood everywhere

and I didn't want my mom and dad to find out.

I felt stupid for even meeting that pervert.

I just wanted to get out of there.

You could've called the police.

- I know, I should've. - Were you ever going to?

You shot this man twice and fled the scene.

I was just s-so scared.

What do we know about the victim?

Well, his name's Evan Bennet.

Thirty-five years old, no priors, married, two kids.

Works at the "weekly chronicle."

And poses online as a college boy.

It's the wild, wild west out there.

Pedophiles are posing as whatever works.

If the victim really is a pedophile

good luck getting a conviction on a murder charge.

(Annabeth) 'Look, I wanna believe these kids'

'and given the state of the world'

their story is credible

but they didn't make any effort

to let anyone know what was going on.

Instead they just left the victim to die.

I could make a case for intent.

There's also an argument for self-defense.

Let's seize Amanda's computer and the victim's computer

'and see if this online chat story checks out.'

and in the meantime, until the facts tell us otherwise

we'll hold Billy for murder one.

Welcome to the information super highway.

[Instrumental music]

(Kelly) 'Why are you doing this?'

my husband was not a child molester.

He was a good man and a devoted father.

How much time did your husband

spend on the computer, Mrs. Bennet?

That's photography, not pornography.

The computer, did he stay up at night using it?

He's the one who was killed.

He's the victim, and you're treating him like...

Mrs. Bennet, I'm prosecuting the young man

who killed your husband, so I need to know all the facts.

The defense is going to argue that your husband

was an online predator.

Well, he wasn't.

Predators are very good at keeping secrets

from their families, and especially their wives.

[Instrumental music]

Maybe he was meeting that girl to interview her.

He was an investigative reporter.

Do you really believe your husband was doing an interview

in a motel, at night, with an underage girl?

Well, he often met people at strange places

and strange hours.

Mrs. Bennet, did your husband usually tell you

what he was working on?

- Yeah. - But not this time?

I guess not.

We found something here.

[Intense music]

(Drummer) Are these girls members of your family?

No.

(Jonathan) 'The victim's computer is a horror show.'

he downloaded thousands of photographs

over the last three months.

He has links to child porn sites

emails to kids where he poses

as a high school student or college guy.

- Sometimes even a little girl. - Ah, here's one.

"Sometimes I do my homework in my underwear, how about you?"

"Ware," w-a-r-e.

Yeah, he misspells words on purpose. Sick.

What did we find in Amanda's computer?

Exactly what she told us, emails from Bennet

including one where our college boy

confirmed their meeting at the motel.

He even sent her a map link so she wouldn't get lost.

Amanda spent dozens of hours exchanging messages

and images with Mr. Bennet.

(Annabeth) 'And the catch is, her pictures are real'

his are fake. He poses as a college-age Brad Pitt.

What're we looking at?

It's Amanda's favespace web page.

She calls herself "hot grrrl?"

Kids create identities for themselves on this site.

They post photos, discuss their interests.

They're creating alter egos for themselves.

But her alter ego is "hot grrrl."

Isn't that a little provocative?

It's pretty tame, compared to her friends.

Check this out.

[Dramatic music]

- Hello. - It's pretty normal nowadays.

A virtual invitation to a sexual predator.

"Hot grrrl" certainly caught Evan Bennet's eye.

She pursued him, too.

She initiated several of the email chains.

This guy chatted with fifth graders, too.

'Pedophiles call it "phishing."'

drop your bait and reel them in.

We do need to know if he was on assignment

but this doesn't look like investigative journalism to me

and if he was doing a story, it just provided him with cover

for his pedophilic behavior.

I'll talk to his paper.

Bennet was doing this story

called "my life as a perv."

- What? - Yeah.

He was writing an expose on how easy it is

for sexual predators to do their thing.

Collect child porn, lure kids

and how all the while, they'd keep it hidden

from their friends and family.

Wait, you knew he was contacting these children online?

Of course. They were the primary sources for the article.

But his wife didn't know what he was doing.

She wasn't supposed to. That was part of the story.

Bennet was a bit of an unorthodox guy.

Do you think we could look at his notes?

Yeah.

So according to his notes

Bennet befriended these kids online

in order to get them to meet him for interviews in person.

- Befriended them how? - By complimenting them.

Sometimes offering to buy them presents or give them money.

You call that journalism?

I'm sorry, but that crosses the line.

You don't lie to kids

and you don't bribe them into meeting you.

I totally agree with you, but..

He was writing a story about predators.

- That's what they do. - Okay.

Let's see if we can find these so-called sources.

See if they corroborate his notes.

If they do, Billy and Amanda's story

begins to fall apart.

Well, their story is already falling apart.

Here is the me's toxicology report.

Says the victim wasn't even intoxicated

not even a little bit.

There was alcohol in his mouth, but he never ingested it.

What, he rinse with it?

Also..

The rum bottle we found in the room

no fingerprints on it. Somebody wiped it clean.

If Bennet wasn't the crazed pervert

Billy and Amanda describe...

Billy's claim that he killed him

to protect Amanda goes out the window.

We know you talked to Evan Bennet.

You can't tell my mom, okay? You have to promise.

You do understand I'm a police officer.

You can still promise.

Why don't you tell me what you know and we'll see.

You ever met this man?

He offered me 500 bucks to meet him at the mall.

Figured it wouldn't be a big deal to show up

at the food court and collect my money.

But when I got there, he was different

than his picture he emailed me.

- He was a reporter. - He told you that?

Yeah, he said he was working on some story

about how pervs meet girls on the web.

Do you know a girl named Amanda Ross?

No, I don't.

This guy Evan Bennet

he ever try to touch you?

No, he just kept asking me questions

about why I talk to guys like him.

He ever try to get you to go to a motel with him?

So he never tried to molest you?

No. He was a nice guy.

He promised not to tell my parents what I'd been doing.

Just as long as I stayed off the web.

He said if he ever saw my image up again

that he would contact them and make them take away my computer.

He said he was a parent, too.

That's why he was doing the story.

We know Bennet was a journalist doing an article

about the dangers of the Internet.

He met with half a dozen kids as part of his story.

- We've spoken to all of them. - And?

I wanna know if Amanda still wants

to stick to her prior statement.

Why? Don't you believe her?

Mrs. Ross, all of the kids Mr. Bennet interviewed

corroborate the fact that he was very up-front with them

about being a reporter.

He didn't act like a reporter.

He acted like a monster.

You're the only one who claims that...

Ask Billy what happened. He was there.

My son deserves a medal for what he did.

(Maureen) They don't pass those out for killing an unarmed man.

A man Billy claims was acting drunk and aggressive.

We know the drunk part isn't true.

All the me's report shows is that Bennet wasn't intoxicated.

Doesn't prove he wasn't acting crazy.

Doesn't prove he didn't intend to hurt that girl and Billy.

It proves someone poured

rum into his mouth to make him look drunk.

The evidence shows you not only failed to report the murder

you altered the crime scene and participated in a cover-up.

Now, I wanna know who did what.

'You've already admitted to pulling the trigger'

'so you're in the hot seat.'

- what did Amanda do? - Nothing.

Billy was protecting me.

If he testifies about Amanda's involvement

is there a deal on the table?

No, no deal.

Why are you protecting her?

Just give us a moment to discuss this.

No! A-Aren't you listening to me?

There's nothing to discuss.

I don't appreciate you talking to me like

I'm some criminal or something.

Why did you and Billy kill Mr. Bennet?

Amanda met him in a chat room.

She thought he was in college.

Only he turned out to be a pervert!

That pervert got real aggressive with me.

I told him to back off, and he wouldn't.

So, I shot him. Boom, boom.

- Daddy, I want a lawyer. - She'll need one.

We're charging her with conspiracy to commit murder.

Conspiracy to commit murder. Miss Ross, how do you plead?

Not guilty, your honor.

The people request that bail be set

in the amount of $300,000.

Oh, that's ridiculous.

We request that my client

be released to her parents, your honor.

(Annabeth) 'Without posting bond?'

(Doug) 'She doesn't pose a flight risk.'

really? She's shown little regard for the judicial process.

Up until now, she lied to the police.

- She lied to our office... - That remains to be proven.

She fled the crime scene, that's a fact.

These are the facts.

'She is a straight-a student.'

she is the president of her student council

she is a youth volunteer at her church.

'She has no prior history'

of any disciplinary problems whatsoever.

We have a list of over 40 character witnesses

'and on the other hand, the so-called victim'

in this case was a pedophile who lured this young lady

into a motel room for the sole purpose...

The only person

who claimed Bennet was a predator

are your client and her co-conspirator.

Not true.

Kayla philby was molested by that man a year ago

and she will swear to that on the stand.

(Hanophy) 'While I admire your flair for the dramatic, Mr. Hellman'

you would be best served to save it for the trial court.

Setting bail at $200,000.

'Next case.'

(Doug) Amanda is the victim here

and that guy, Evan Bennet, was the criminal.

He lied to her, he seduced her

and he duped her into meeting him at that motel.

I think the only one who's been duped is you, Doug.

Your client has lied to everyone all along.

But she sounds credible to me.

And you know who else does?

That girl.

(Maureen) Do you know Amanda Ross?

Yeah, we go to school together.

When this reporter tried to molest her, too

I had to come forward.

So what happened, Kayla?

I was chatting on my favespace and this guy said

that he was a modeling agent.

He said I was unique, he wanted more pictures of me

so I agreed to meet him.

- Where? - At his studio.

Where was his studio, exactly?

- Downtown, off meridian. - Okay.

He..

He, um..

The reporter guy had a big camera.

Except it was video.

He said I might be able to do movies, too.

He wanted me to pose in my underwear. I was scared.

He said I should have a drink, you know, like whisky and..

He locked all the doors, and I couldn't get out.

He said if I told anyone, he'd kill me.

- When did this happen? - Last summer.

- Can you be more specific? - It was August.

(Gary) She's lying.

Bennet was doing a story down in Texas last August

on the Iraqi war protests.

'I've got dates and receipts if you want them.'

'he was down there for the whole month'

'with one of my photographers.'

I can get you an expense report.

Yeah, we'll need it.

[Instrumental music]

[Beeping]

I don't understand how these girls can just lie like that.

Clearly, Kayla is just trying to help her friend.

I'll sue them. I can sue them, right?

Amanda and that girl Kayla? For slander.

Defamation, for taking my husband's name

reputation, and memory and running it through the sewer.

I don't think now is the time for that.

No, then when?

When would be the right time?

Mrs. Bennet, a civil suit

would just shut people up and impede our prosecution.

[Sighs]

My neighbors..

They look at me like I'm some kind of monster.

The parents at my son's day care

pull their kids close when I pass.

They probably think I molest kids, too.

My little girl..

She just wants her daddy back.

And I tell her..

I do, too.

[Sobs]

(Maureen) Your statement is worthless, Kayla.

The dates don't match, and we can prove it.

I don't understand.

Your daughter lied to us about the molestation.

Oh, that can't be.

It takes a lifetime to build up a reputation, Kayla

but just one minute to destroy an innocent man's name.

We're charging you with perjury, a class d felony

that carries a sentence of six months to three years.

Oh, my god. Kayla.

Amanda..

Amanda had video of me

with the boys at this party.

With boys?

[Sighs] Having sex.

(Nicole) 'How many boys were you with?'

- mom, I'd been drinking. - She taped this?

- I hardly remember any of it. - Oh, my...

And she blackmailed you?

She said she was going to post the video unless

I told you guys this reporter molested me.

- Post the video where? - On the Internet.

Like she's done with her web parties.

What do you mean, web parties?

Amanda gave a bunch of us these webcams for our bedrooms.

You've seen it, mom.

It's right on top of my computer.

Send some investigators out to the school.

I wanna know why Amanda's been giving away these webcams.

And if she's trying to blackmail anybody else.

(Annabeth) Amanda blackmailed her, Doug.

Look, nobody can prove

that anybody blackmailed anybody.

Now this young lady Kayla is obviously confused

and ashamed and looking for ways of gaining attention, sympathy.

Save it for the jury, this was a desperate attempt

to cover up a murder, and you know it.

Doesn't a murder require a motive?

Now what motive would Billy and Amanda have

for killing Evan Bennet if he wasn't a child molester?

See, that's what I thought. You don't have one.

Without one, you don't have much of a murder case.

[Indistinct chatter]

(Michelle) Amanda got Billy to set up the webcam for me.

He even installed some software he wrote.

- He's such a nerd. - Billy did this?

Yeah, he's really smart. He, like, skipped two grades.

I heard he could have gone to college last year

but his dad wanted him to get his driver's license first.

So what did Amanda get out of this?

What do you guys do on these webcams she gave you?

Nothing. We talk to each other.

Sometimes we play strip poker and stuff.

You guys played strip poker on the Internet?

Yeah, all our friends do it.

And Amanda would organize this?

Yeah, she would organize other stuff, too.

Like skinny dipping dares, cheerleaders gone wild.

Just goofing around.

It's not like anybody touched anybody.

You guys want us to abstain

the web is like the ultimate safe sex.

And Amanda would post these parties

on the web for everyone to see?

Oh, not everyone.

We just showed stuff to each other

and the boys we liked.

Sure, I watched the girls' webcam parties.

I mean, who wouldn't? They play strip poker.

- It beats "jeopardy," man. - So you save these webcasts?

Yeah, I download them, burn them for friends.

You know, not all the guys get it for free.

Wait, wait, wait.

This girl charges people on the Internet?

Yeah, they use mycyberwire, dude.

(Maureen) 'We're issuing a subpoena to mycyberwire.'

'i wanna nail down who's buying these webcasts'

'and exactly what they pay.'

(Steve) 'What's mycyberwire?'

(Maureen) 'It's an online payment service.'

if I agree to buy something on the web

say photos or webcasts, I pay through mycyberwire

which has my credit card number on file.

Is that safe?

It is if you're buying pornography.

There's no record kept of how the money is spent.

Just dollar amounts, dates

and a record that money changed hands.

Why haven't we found evidence of these webcasts

on Amanda's computer?

She must have stored the images

on an external hard drive the police couldn't find.

- What about Billy's computer? - Nothing yet.

He encrypted his hard drive. We can't open the files.

Detective Ortiz has three guys working on it around the clock

but we still managed to get copies of these webcasts

from other guys at the school.

- I've got a pair of threes. - I got an ace.

Well, I got three aces. You lose, Sarah.

Ah! Alright.

Here goes.

[Laughs]

- There you go. - Wow.

These girls look like they're totally oblivious

to the fact that anyone's watching.

Why didn't we do that stuff when we were in school?

(Annabeth) Jack.

God, what if this was Haley?

Hey, if Haley ever tries anything like that

she's grounded for life.

I'm talking locked in the room until she's married.

Yeah, like you're not going to try that anyway.

I got an idea.

Why don't me and you go into the bedroom

and make our own video?

Hmm, that sounds like fun.

We're married, it's legal.

Honey, I'm sorry, I just have to go

through all these DVDs.

- Alright. - I have motions to prepare.

Yeah, well, it's always something, isn't it?

I'm sorry.

Annabeth, you've been pushing really hard

since you lost that trial.

I know I have.

Well, you need a break.

What do you want me to do?

I'm up at the crack of dawn, I take Haley to day care

I work all day, and then I come home to make dinner

and I still have things left to do for the case, Jack.

I mean, I can't just be at your Beck and call.

Right.

[Sighs]

Amanda's been profiting off these webcasts she organized.

Four thousand transactions at an average of $40 apiece

in the last six months.

(Steve) 'She's a high school senior'

and she's running a $320,000-a-year

business from her bedroom?

Okay, we're in the wrong line of work.

She makes more than we do combined.

So I'm thinking Amanda's selling online tickets

to watch her school friends play strip poker on the Internet.

This couldn't have been just boys from her school

paying to watch this.

She must have sold monthly passes to outsiders.

- Pedophile's dream. - This girl is smart.

She was careful not to participate

in the webcasts herself.

How could she do this without participating?

Well, if she had a webcam in her room

she must have dumped it before we got there.

She's probably communicating with her buyers

through instant messaging. You can't trace it.

Which gives us a motive for murder.

Evan Bennet must have discovered

her little online entrepreneurial streak.

How?

Well, pervs have their own chat rooms.

They probably turned him on to her.

She wasn't afraid he was gonna molest her.

She was afraid he was gonna expose her.

So why did Billy shoot him?

Well, we know he set up the webcams.

He must've been involved in her business.

[Indistinct whispering]

I'm just here to inform you that in addition

to the conspiracy to commit murder charge

and all the other charges you're facing

we'll be adding distribution of child porn.

You can't prove that.

We can prove she sold explicit images

of underage kids online.

Now, you have no evidence aside

from her mycyberwire account

and that just proves that she got money.

You can't prove for what.

Doug, we've got dozens of witnesses

kids who paid to watch the webcasts

kids who are in the webcasts

sometimes unwittingly

including the girl she tried to blackmail

into defaming the victim.

I'd like a minute alone with my client, please.

[Dramatic music]

[Exhales]

Okay, she's willing to deal.

- She'll confess? - No.

She won't confess to any wrong doing

and she's not going to testify against her friend Billy.

- No. No deal. - Wait, wait-wait-wait-wait.

Wait a minute now, she may have something

potentially more valuable than a confession.

Evidence that could lead to the arrest

of people who purchased her webcasts, over 500 of them.

Now, what if you had a log of who received what

images, names, dates

specific requests for underage girls?

She could give us that?

[Sighs] Hypothetically.

If she did, you could get search warrants

and my guess is, if you search their houses

you could find everything that you need

to put these sexual predators away

for a very, very long time.

- In exchange for? - A walk.

Two walks. One for her, one for Billy.

That's a nonstarter, Doug. Besides, I think she's bluffing.

I don't believe she has any of this evidence, and if she does

it's only a matter of time before we find it.

Well, what if there's a hard drive you don't know about.

The police haven't found it now.

What makes you think they'll find it later?

Think about that.

I mean, they're two smart kids.

They can go to college, get on with their lives

and you get to put 500 child molesters behind bars.

- You'll be a hero. - And they get away with murder.

Everything in this life has its price, annabeth.

Five hundred pedophiles would be huge.

Just balance the scales.

Every predator-slash- child molester

preys on 100 kids in his lifetime.

That's a lot of victims and a lot of ruined lives.

I can't make this deal.

Look, if we can find a way to put enough pressure on Amanda

then maybe she'll turn over the evidence she has

and agree to do time.

That's a big if.

Or maybe Billy's computer has something on it.

That's an even bigger if.

Steve, I know I lost a big trial, but...

Annabeth, this is not about trusting you.

It's about making judgment calls.

That's 500 creeps, annabeth.

Indy 500.

But the killers walk, Jack.

People end up thinking Bennet was a child molester.

How do we explain that to his family?

I mean, if this had happened to us

I wouldn't want Haley's memory of you

to be that you were some pedophile.

It wouldn't. You'd see to that.

So will Bennet's widow.

I just don't wanna give up.

So don't. It's not in your nature, anyway.

I'm sorry I've been so busy.

Don't worry about it.

You know, one of the benefits of me working so much

is that I get to save up a lot of vacation time.

- Oh, yeah? - Yeah.

We could use it to go somewhere.

Maybe somewhere exotic.

- Ooh. Exotic. - Yeah.

- I like that. - With a beach.

- Maybe topless. - Not going to happen.

[Giggling]

I don't want us to be so busy that we start drifting apart.

What about Haley?

Haley can stay with my mom.

So just the two of us on a beach?

- Let me think about that. - Oh!

[Phone ringing]

[Groans]

Well, you're not on vacation yet.

[Groaning]

This is annabeth.

You cracked it?

The guys finally opened Billy's files.

(Annabeth) Oh! Please tell me you found enough to put the indy 500 away.

Sorry, we didn't.

Billy programmed all this encryption

just to hide the fact that he was only

watching one person online.

Just one?

Now, imagine that this is your hand

and, when I do this

'it's you touching me.'

feels really good, Billy.

Lover.

'You're the only one.'

no one else gets to do this but you.

Billy.

Thousands of hours of this girl

all perfectly cataloged, too. Dates, times.

He watched her do everything.

This stuff, dressing, homework, showers.

She had a webcam in the bathroom?

(Jonathan) Bathroom, bedroom, closet.

He watched her from all angles

'all day, all night, all the time.'

this kid even watched her sleep.

(Amanda on video) 'Feels so good.'

oh, Billy..

I love you so much.

I dream about you doing this

all night long.

[Chuckles]

This was on your computer, Billy.

Thousands of hours of Amanda Ross on video.

I don't see what this has to do with anything.

The kid had a crush on her. So what?

You were obsessed with her, weren't you, Billy?

Is that why you've been protecting her?

Why you killed for her?

You helped her sell child porn online, too, didn't you?

You're the one who knows computers.

This is your last chance to help yourself.

I'm not gonna testify against Amanda.

Billy, she used you. Can't you see that?

She took advantage of you.

Do you really think she loves you?

Do you really believe you were the only one watching her?

The only one she put on these webcam shows for?

I know I was. I programmed her webcam.

- I designed the software. - Guess what.

She outsmarted you.

You logged every hour of Amanda's private shows

so we compared the times she was doing that..

To the times payments were deposited

into her mycyberwire account.

She was selling a lot of tickets to the shows you were watching.

(Doug) So, you called this meeting.

I assume it's regarding our proposal?

It is. We're rejecting it.

With all the hysteria surrounding pedophiles nowadays

the jury is just going to eat their story up.

Their story? Her story.

Billy's testifying against her.

Here's a counteroffer, you confess

and turn over the evidence you have

we'll consider a reduction in the years you spend in prison.

- I don't think so. - We'll see you in court then.

[Intense music]

Billy, why did you kill Evan Bennet?

Because Amanda asked me to.

'Mr. Bennet had figured out that'

she was making money by getting her friends

to striptease and do stuff on the web.

And she was scared that we were going to go to jail.

- You, too? - Yeah.

'Cause I helped her with computer stuff.

Billy, will you describe how you and Amanda

carried out your plan to kill Mr. Bennet?

Yeah.

She got him to meet her at a motel.

'My job was to wait'

in the car until she texted me.

That's when I went up to the room..

And shot him.

Was that the entire plan?

No.

Amanda wanted to make him look like a perv

'so she told him to bring his camcorder.'

she said it was for the interview

but it was really to make it look

like he wanted to make a video of them having sex.

She also brought rum to make him stink like a drunk.

I-I poured..

Rum into his mouth after I shot him.

And what happened next?

We were supposed to wait for the police

and she was going to act all, like

"oh, no! Oh, no!

The pervert molested me!"

[Crying]

But I chickened out and ran.

Well, that's some story.

Not the same story you told the police though, is it?

No, sir.

It's the story you told the prosecutor's office

in exchange for a more favorable plea deal, isn't it?

- It's the truth. - 'The truth?'

the truth is, you were the one that shot Evan Bennet.

Yes.

(Doug) 'And now you're trying to put'

the blame onto my client.

She told me to kill him.

(Doug) 'So she forced you to do that?'

she put your finger on the trigger

and she made you pull it?

She said..

She said I could touch her.

Excuse me?

Amanda said that if

that if I killed Mr. Bennet..

[Sobbing]

that I could touch her..

For real.

I loved her so much..

That I said yeah.

(Doug) 'So you are telling me that you agreed to murder'

another human being simply in exchange

for the chance to touch this young lady?

Aren't you listening?

Oh, you're comin' through loud and clear.

Amanda, why did you agree to testify today?

Because I want the people to know the truth

about what happened.

And because I wanted them to know

how easy it is for kids to be tricked

by pedophiles on the Internet.

So it doesn't happen to other children.

That's right.

Why don't you begin by telling the jury

how you first got involved with webcams?

I got my first webcam two years ago as a gift

from my grandparents so I could chat with them in Florida.

Billy showed me how to use it.

(Doug) 'And at some point did you begin

talking to other people besides

your grandma and grandpa online?

- Yes. - Including strangers?

Yes.

Did any of these strangers

ever offer you money or gifts?

Yes, this guy offered to set up

a mycyberwire account for me

if I tried on my bathing suit for him.

Then more guys started asking me to do things for them, too.

What sort of things?

Exercises..

Aerobics.

One man wanted me to paint my toenails for him.

It's not as creepy as it sounds.

Did these men ever ask you

to do sexual things for money?

Yes.

- Men like Evan Bennet? - Yes.

Now did he ever, at any point

tell you that he was a reporter?

No. He tried to molest me.

He kept pawing me and trying to get me to drink stuff.

That's why I texted Billy.

Now, Billy said you already had a plan to kill him.

- Now, is that true? - No.

I didn't know Billy was gonna shoot him.

I didn't ask him to do that.

He did that on his own.

I think he was jealous.

Thank you, Amanda.

Amanda, just so we're clear.

You're saying you never met Evan Bennet

before that night at the motel?

Never, not once.

And you had no idea he was an investigative journalist?

- Is that your story? - That's the truth.

The people would like to recall Billy Hampton to the stand

as a rebuttal witness, your honor.

(Annabeth) Billy, had you ever seen Mr. Bennet

before that night you shot him?

- Yes. - Where?

At a cafe, that's where he and Amanda

met in person for the first time.

'But they had talked before.'

'he said he was writing a newspaper story'

about websites like hers.

She told me all about him.

- 'So why were you there?' - 'To protect her.'

in case he turned out to be a perv.

So you mean you followed Amanda

to the cafe without her knowing?

Yeah. They didn't see me.

I even took a picture.

Billy, I'd like you to look at the people's exhibit.

Is this an enlargement of the photo you took

'that day at the cafe?'

yes.

(Annabeth) 'So why did Amanda and Mr. Bennet'

'meet later at the motel'

if they'd already met at the cafe?

Because she didn't want to do the interview in public.

She told him that she'd only do it

somewhere really private.

Like a motel.

She'll plead to conspiracy to commit murder

and give you the evidence she has on the people

who purchased the webcasts.

- In exchange for? - Eight years.

Same as Billy.

Billy cooperated. She'll do 20.

But Billy's the one that came up with the idea

to sell the webcasts to start with.

Amanda, it's over. You can stop lying now.

I'm not! He's the one that wanted Mr. Bennet dead.

He's the one that wanted to protect the business.

Why would he? You're the one who kept all the money.

That was my cut.

He made his money blackmailing the pervs.

Some of these guys are doctors, lawyers, businessmen.

(Amanda) Billy tracked their purchases.

He told them he could get them arrested.

Unless they paid him off.

To an offshore account he set up.

Why didn't she tell us about this before?

She thought if she had she would've conceded her guilt.

She is guilty.

She's lying, again.

We obtained bank subpoenas

for your Webcast customers, Billy.

'We know that dozens of them withdrew'

'tens of thousands of dollars'

over the last six months and it's only a matter of time

before we confirm that they wired the money

into the same account, yours.

They'll never agree to testify.

We can be pretty persuasive.

We had a deal.

The deal's off.

Both Amanda and Billy have agreed to do 20 years each.

And we're getting evidence that could put hundreds

of sexual predators behind bars.

My daughter's five years old

and last fall we were online

talking to some of the kids from her kindergarten class.

We didn't think anything about it

until we realized some creep was posing as one of her classmates.

As a five-year-old.

It's almost incomprehensible.

My husband died trying to do something

for these children who are victimized.

I'm just glad he didn't die in vain.

So you and Jack are really going away?

Yeah, we made plane reservations for Hawaii.

Jack found this little place on the beach with a view.

It's so romantic.

Ugh! I am so jealous.

[Chuckling]

(Annabeth) Hey, guys.

What is it?

Annabeth, there's been an accident.

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(Steve) Jack was driving home.

He was on his way to pick up Haley.

He was hit by a drunk driver.

They've airlifted him to the hospital.

He's okay though, right?

How badly was he hurt?

Tell me.

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I'm sorry.

[Crying]

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No. Please, please, please.

[Sobbing]

Please don't..

Don't leave me.

Please don't leave me.

[Annabeth sobbing]

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