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[Birds chirping]

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Help! Argh!

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[Door opens]

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[Girl crying]

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Officer request rolling 702. 20 deuce.

Cloverfield park.

'We've got the surviving Jenkins boy.'

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Miss chase?

Jimmy conlon.

Mr. Conlon. Congratulations. Welcome aboard.

Call me Jimmy, please. And welcome back to you.

Thank you. It's good to be back.

Sorry to drop a bomb on you, your first day in.

Uh, excuse me?

- You haven't heard? - No.

They found five bodies in a house on Ashland.

Bound, gagged, slaughtered.

Miss Scofield's on her way to the crime scene with Williams.

I've a meeting with the mayor and chief of police.

We reconvene, one hour. Conference room.

Uh, okay.

- You sure you're up for this? - Yeah, I'm fine.

Good. Let's go to work then. Oh, there was one survivor.

- A survivor? - Four-year-old boy.

Williams, what are you doin' here?

Figured I'd come down and watch you guys sabotage a crime scene.

Must have a lot of time on your hands these days.

Prosecutor's office. How's that workin' out for you?

Well, what do we know? We're still cops.

Okay, we'll take it from here, detective.

What's the working theory?

Robbery, home invasion gone bad.

Five doas. Jenkins family.

Mom, three kids, nine, fourteen, seventeen.

Plus a neighbor lady who just stopped by to drop off a cake.

Shells from a .45 and a nine. So figure two shooters.

Man, they shot the dog too.

What part of no witnesses don't you understand?

My reputation precedes me.

- Is it always this bad? - Yeah.

Well, that'll teach you to be a whistleblower.

Well, you know what they say.

- No good deed. - Yeah.

- Hey. - Hi.

- 'Welcome back.' - Thanks.

- How does it feel? - Honestly, a little weird.

The same, but not.

- We missed you. - I missed you guys.

- I'm ready to get to work. - You've been filled in?

Yeah, the murders on Ashland. It sounds horrific. Five dead?

Yeah. We just came back from the scene. A real bloodbath.

- Unbelievable. - Annabeth.

- Ed Williams. How are ya? - Been awhile.

- Three months. - Yeah, that's right.

I transferred into the prosecutor's office

just after Jack.

Yeah, after he went on leave.

- You doin' okay? - I'm fine.

- Her first day back. - Picked a doozy.

Met the new boss?

He stopped by on the fly on his way to meet the mayor.

They're giving this case to conlon?

Apparently.

- Wow. Only been here a month. - I know.

When Steve resigned I thought you were next in line

for chief deputy.

So did I.

Okay, I'll just shut up now.

[Phone rings]

Annabeth chase. We'll be right there.

Conlon's ready for us.

Investigator ray Blackwell.

Annabeth chase, deputy prosecutor.

Maureen Scofield, senior deputy prosecutor.

Ladies.

Ray was my go-to guy in Manhattan.

He'll be an invaluable asset here in the office.

- Investigator ed Williams. - Williams. Heard about you.

So, the Jenkins' family.

Killed execution style in their own home

'on a beautiful sunny summer day'

in a quiet neighborhood.

This was a massacre, people. Plain and simple.

This cannot stand.

Talk to me about the victims.

Single parent household, lanie Jenkins, the mother, 42.

Neighbors say she moved to Indianapolis four months ago.

'She and her four children.'

she and the three older children were killed.

Tommy, 17, senior at Baldwin.

'The two daughters, mikki and Bella, 14 and 12'

'Jefferson middle school.'

(conlon) 'What about the fifth victim?'

woman from down the block, Mrs. Mina Lopez.

Apparently she dropped by for a neighborly visit

with the Jenkins' family at the wrong time.

'Leaves behind a husband and two kids.'

how about the survivor, the four-year-old boy?

Frankie Jenkins. Couple of plain clothes cops found him nearby.

- Did he witness it? - We don't know.

Pretty traumatized. He's with the county shrink now.

He's lost his whole family. Have we located any next of kin?

Cincinnati pd's still looking. So far, no luck.

- He needs a home. - We should question him.

- He may know something. - He's four years old.

Debrief him anyway. You're a mother.

Y-You'll know how to talk to him. What about Mr. Jenkins?

According to the neighbors Mr. Jenkins

was a civilian truck driver killed last year in Iraq.

Gotta call in to the Pentagon to confirm.

Shooters will be looking to get rid of the loot.

Check with the pawnshops, the fences.

Have anyone who's handled stolen goods here rousted now. Today.

I'll get all b and e arrest in the last 8 months.

Thanks.

Somebody used lanie Jenkins' debit card at an atm.

Security cams picked up a pretty clean image of this clown.

Great. I want the hardcopies asap.

Uh, how asap?

I'm holding a press conference in 40 minutes.

When conlon says asap, he means asap in New York, not Indiana.

Welcome to eastern standard time.

Five good people of our community

have been taken from us brutally

senselessly and in cold blood.

Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.

A little boy has been left orphaned.

I promise you, we will bring these killers to justice.

Not vengeance, but justice.

We must persevere with strength and courage.

We need the help of every good citizen of this community.

We cannot do this alone.

'This picture, taken just hours after the shooting'

'shows the suspect using an atm card from one of the victims.'

'if any one has information about this man'

'please call the number on the screen.'

this plays 24/7 until they're caught.

Wonderful statement.

Exactly what the community needed to hear.

I'll be frank with both of you.

I find the level of preparedness in this office pathetic.

We should already be making arrangements

to empanel a grand jury.

It's only been a few hours since we discovered the bodies.

In this office, sir, we usually proceed

with a prosecutor's information memorandum.

A watered-down indictment which only comes after an arrest.

That's fine for a run on the mill domestic, but a major case?

In New York we use grand juries for everything.

We're not in New York.

And doing it our way, Maureen and I have somehow

managed a 93% conviction rate.

Well, we can do better.

Ladies, I would like someone arraigned for these murders

within the next 24 hours. We got a lot of work to do. Go.

I want my mommy.

We talked about that, Frankie. Remember? Mommy's not here.

I want my mommy, please.

(Jinny) 'Well, this nice lady'

'just wants to talk to you for a minute, okay?'

'can you do that, for me?'

hey, Frankie.

I have a little girl. Do you know that?

Her name's Hailey.

And she's just a little baby, not a big boy like you.

Where is she?

She's home with her babysitter.

'Frankie, can you be a big boy for me?'

can you tell me what you heard when you were hiding?

You mean when the bad man came to my house?

Yeah.

I don't think so.

Well, maybe if you close your eyes..

I can't. Too scared.

Okay, we're not gonna play this game anymore. Okay?

It's alright.

- I want my mommy. - I know you do, honey. I know.

He can't help us.

Have we found any of his family yet?

We're still looking.

(Maureen) 'The immediate purpose of this community meeting'

'is to find our suspect.'

anybody with information on the man in this photo

should call the tips hotline.

- Miss Scofield. - Miss Scofield.

Sir.

We know if he's from around here or someplace else?

Well, we are pursuing every lead.

He's armed and presumed very dangerous.

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Korean shop owner gave ray an ID on our guy and a partial plate

on a late model blue Chevy. Dmv faxed the list.

I want every car owners on that list contacted

and if pd doesn't have enough manpower

I'll call the state troopers.

Sixty seven hits on the partial plate.

What can I tell you? Indianapolis, it's a Chevy town.

Also, on the victim's husband..

Pentagon still can't locate any civilian truck driver named

Robert Jenkins killed in Iraq the last year and a half.

- Tell them to keep looking. - Will do.

Me and Blackwell are jumping on this.

- How's that going? - It's going.

We're both pros. A least he's not local.

Still got a fighting chance.

- Have at it, gentleman. - 'Yes, ma'am.'

any luck?

I was thinking, maybe these bad boys

are from out of town and that blue Chevy's long gone.

Atm hit was just traveling money.

- It's entirely possible. - I mean you gotta ask yourself.

What kinda moron would kill five people and stick around town?

A homegrown kind of moron. Nowhere else to go.

Exactly. Local joker with a local record.

So I ran the names in the partial plate hits

against the database.

- I was going to suggest that. - Mm-hmm.

- It's our atm guy? - Yep.

Antoine marachek.

Homegrown rap sheet with at least one known associate.

Dave gahr. There were two shooters.

And guess what? Dmv has got an address on that blue Chevy.

Antoine keeps his registration up-to-date.

Well, a guy like Antoine doesn't want to get pulled over

for having expired tags, does he?

See? He ain't so dumb.

[Doorbell rings]

- Antoine, cops! - Go around back.

(Male #1) 'Go left! Around the back.'

freeze!

Right on.

Freeze, police! Keep your hands low.

Get up here. Get your arms up.

(Antoine) What'd I do?

'What'd I do? I didn't do anything.'

- Let's do this. - Hey, you okay back there?

'In the alley.'

oh. Yeah. I had a stone in my shoe.

'You take Antoine. I'll take his partner.'

- I didn't kill anybody. - Then your boy next door did.

Which means you're on the hook for this.

Ain't fair. I told you where to find him.

It was all Dave's fault anyways.

I didn't want to use that damn atm card.

Come on, man. You know how it looks, dog.

You got the dead lady's debit card

'her purse, stuff from her house.'

I found that stuff, alright.

He said he found it in the trash.

Over on 15th street.

I didn't think it would work, but lucky for us

she had a pin printed right on a post-it.

You're never supposed to do that, you know.

Just out of curiosity, where were you that morning?

Please, don't tell me home alone.

My mom's.

Your mom's. That's even better.

Call her. You don't believe me?

- 718-273-8... - W-w-wait. 718.

- That's New York. - Brooklyn.

You were in Brooklyn when those people got killed.

And I got a plane ticket to prove it.

Our two suspects are telling the truth.

Gahr flew to New York three days before the killings

and returned one day after. Marachek has a better alibi.

He was with his parole officer at the time of the killings.

Question is why the real killers dumped the stuff they took.

Because they weren't after it in the first place.

Take a gold star out of petty cash. That was a hit.

Somebody wanted the family or someone in it dead.

Take a harder look at lanie Jenkins' life.

I'd like a motive and an arrest before the weekend.

I'll hold marachek and gahr in possession of stolen property.

I'm impaneling a grand jury.

We're going to indict them on murder, five counts.

You're gonna charge two petty criminals with murder and use

the grand jury to investigate a crime they didn't commit?

If the killers think these mobs are taking the fall

they'll relax, make a mistake.

'I intend to indict anyone whoever so much'

as looked crosswise at lanie Jenkins. My experience.

People tend to open up voluntarily

when you give them no choice.

Talk softly and carry a big subpoena.

Grand jury's a prosecutor's best friend.

Unless its powers are abused.

Well, that's why god invented appellate courts, mo.

He's really going to charge those guys with murder?

You really think this is how they do things in New York?

- Come on, "mo." - Ugh.

Hey, it's late. Pack it in. Go home.

Everybody we talked to says the same thing about lanie Jenkins.

Nice lady, nice kids. Details? Forget it.

I knew more about you in four days

than lanie Jenkins' neighbors knew about her in four months.

I got a big mouth.

Question.

Why did you bring lanie Jenkins' landlord

before the grand jury?

I like to carpet bomb a case.

I prefer the sniper approach

who cuts down on the collateral damage.

[Scoffs]

But carpet bombing works sometimes, I suppose.

Lanie Jenkins' application for a rental

list her married name as waters.

Lanie waters.

Well, if that's her real name

maybe we can find out where she came from. Nice work.

That thing about the midnight oil?

A couple more hours won't kill you.

[Scoffs]

Albany, Georgia pd has a file on lanie waters aka lanie Jenkins.

- She has a record? - As a victim, not a perp.

Spousal abuse.

That was the dougherty county da.

Seems that Mr. Waters didn't limit the abuse to his wife.

Wait, back up. I thought Mr. Jenkins, waters

was killed in Iraq.

Well, we should be so lucky.

Robert waters is in jail in Georgia awaiting trial

on multiple sexual assaults.

- His own daughters. - The two girls who were killed.

Who just happened to be the only witnesses

in his sex crimes trial starting next month.

So, what are you saying? He had them killed to shut them up?

It's a thought.

It's a motive.

(Annabeth) Our victim, lanie waters aka Jenkins

was running from an abusive husband, Robert waters.

She'd been in protective custody in Georgia.

The local cops there felt her husband posed a threat

even from jail. They think she got spooked and headed north.

Indianapolis seemed like a safe place to hide.

If Robert waters is in prison in Georgia

then who pulled the trigger?

Waters had a cellmate in Georgia, Ricky price.

Six priors, all violent.

He was awaiting trial on attempted homicide.

Was?

Witness recanted, charges were dropped, he walked.

Do we have a current whereabouts?

Because without price this is conjecture.

We put an apb out on him at three this morning.

We need to interview waters.

He's in the dougherty county jail infirmary

recovering from a burst appendix.

We should pay him a visit, don't you think? Bring him flowers.

I can't go to Georgia. I have a hearing tomorrow.

Annabeth, you want to come with me?

I can't leave Hailey.

Bring your nanny. You do have a nanny?

Yes, but, I mean I can't afford to bring her...

We'll cover the cost.

The taxpayers of Indiana are gonna pay

for her nanny to go to Georgia?

It's on my nickel, relax.

I didn't know.

No idea, I'd been out of circulation.

[Crying]

The kids..

They're my girls.

Frankly, I'm a little surprised at your reaction, Mr. Waters.

You're not exactly in here for carjacking.

I didn't do what they said I did to those girls

and I never killed nobody either.

Those girls, your daughters..

Mikki and Bella, one shot each.

'Nice, neat, professional.'

'your wife was shot twice in the abdomen'

and once in the head to finish her off.

Take a look, Mr. Waters. Don't be squeamish.

'Your eldest son Johnny, he fought back.'

'they had to chase him down.'

'shot once in the leg'

and then again just below the left thigh.

Funerals are on Thursday.

Somebody oughta be there.

We weren't able to locate any other family.

Your son Frankie's about to go into foster care.

My..

My folks might take him.

- You're in touch with them? - No.

(Robert) 'There ain't nobody else.'

and I'd like to go to that funeral if I could.

Well, we'll see what we can do.

What exactly were you doing in there?

State of Georgia just lost the only witnesses it had

in the sex crimes trial against Mr. Waters.

Sooner rather than later they're gonna have to drop the charges.

We-we can't let waters walk.

Waters was working awful hard in there to convince us

he was shocked by the deaths. I played through his bluff.

If he refused to come to the funeral he looks like a liar.

The funeral services were two days ago.

And he doesn't know that.

You tricked him into waiving his rights?

If we can get him, we can hold him.

The moment he sets foot in Indiana, he's ours.

Do not pass go, do not contest extradition.

There's a decent restaurant at the hotel we're staying in.

Why don't you let me buy you dinner?

Hmm, okay.

I'll be up in a little while to say goodnight.

Okay.

No, thank you.

Well, it took a little massaging

but the warden's agreed to release waters for the funeral.

Pretty slick. What about the grandparents?

They're on their way from Georgia to pick up Frankie.

Hmm.

I know this is none of my business. Um..

- Go on. - Why the move?

I mean, who leaves the big apple?

Little fish, big pond?

Big fish, huge pond.

Manhattan da wasn't showing signs he'd ever retire or die.

I mean, you wanna talk about a glass ceiling.

Spitzer's running for governor. You could've gone after his job.

A republican in New York? Tides are running the other way.

Besides, I miss the midwest.

- I was born in saginaw. - Oh, I get it.

You climb the ladder here, couple of years

run for Marion county prosecutor

then Attorney General, then after that who knows, huh?

Sounds good.

You really think the people of Indiana

would put a carpetbagger in the state house?

Who are you calling a carpetbagger?

My parents and grandparents were all hoosiers.

I spent my summers at the family farm downstate.

- My mistake. - What about you?

Local girl, ball state, iu law.

You never got the urge to spread your wings?

Are you content to be a line assistant the rest of your life?

I love my work.

I love Indianapolis. This is my home.

Little fish, little pond, huh?

You don't know anything about me.

No, I don't. However, I do need to know one thing.

I know you've suffered a loss.

A huge loss.

- Are you over it? - Over it?

Can you do the job? That's all I need to know.

- You bet your ass I can. - Good.

'Cause you're lead counsel when Robert waters stands trial

on five counts of murder.

'Sit down.'

please.

When we get back I'll reconvene the grand jury.

Now, we're going to need to find Ricky price and his accomplice.

- Did you guys have fun today? - She loved the pool.

- She just loved it. - Aw, I'm so sorry I missed it.

Yeah, we had fun, didn't we, Hailey?

'Yeah, goodnight. Goodnight, annabeth.'

goodnight. Thanks.

Oh, what did you do today without me?

Mommy misses you.

[Instrumental music]

- Welcome home. - Thanks.

- Successful trip? - 'I'll say.'

managed to get waters out of Georgia

without an extradition hearing.

- Under false pretenses. - Pretty slick.

Safely under lock and key here in Indianapolis

until we indict him.

His parents are here to take custody of their grandson.

- You should talk to them. - Will do.

While you two were way down yonder

I ran a background check on waters' criminal associates.

- That was ambitious. - You said to follow every lead.

One name popped out at me. Paul Jameson.

He attended one of our community meetings.

He served time in Georgia. With waters?

Better. With waters' cellmate, the elusive Ricky price.

Like Mr. Jameson has a date with the grand jury.

Nice work.

Did Mr. and Mrs. Waters wanna see their son?

They seemed most concerned about their grandson.

- Where is Frankie? - He's with his grandparents.

Child services brought him over this morning.

Okay. I'll go talk to them.

We don't really need to see him, miss chase.

He's your son. It's your right.

What she's saying is, we don't care to see him.

'Mrs. Waters and I, well..'

'...we lost our son a long time ago.'

been quite a while since we saw Robert. More than a year.

Your son was originally charged with some other serious offenses

vis-a-vis his own children.

His daughters.

The sexual assaults are the motive for the murders.

'Now, it's going to be difficult to establish'

these assaults without the girls.

Are you saying he may not be punished for all this?

We intend to see that Robert stands trial

for the murders of your grandchildren

and your daughter-in-law and any other crimes he's committed.

You have the two men who did the shooting in jail?

Yes. Mr. Marachek and Mr. Gahr. The investigation is ongoing.

Ma'am, will you be needing Frankie for the trial

'or can we take him home?'

no, sir, we're not going to put Frankie on the stand.

From what we can tell, he didn't see anything.

He was hiding when it happened.

- Thank god for that. - My baby. My little boy.

You're taking Frankie back to Georgia?

Little fellow doesn't have anyone else.

I don't want you to worry, okay?

We're building the strongest case we can.

My boss is with the grand jury as we speak.

You attended a community meeting about the murders.

I was trying to help.

We appreciate that, Mr. Jameson.

We ran a check of the names from the sign-in sheet

from that meeting and since you have a criminal record..

Brother with a rap sheet. He must have done it.

What I get, trying to be a citizen..

Mr. Jameson, you're not a suspect.

We're just following every lead.

Now, your record indicates

that you were incarcerated in the same facility in Georgia

at the same time as one Richard aka Ricky price.

- Yes, sir. - Did you know Mr. Price?

You're under oath, Mr. Jameson.

I know him.

Have you seen him in Indianapolis, sir

since your parole?

Failure to respond constitutes contempt at these proceedings.

I'd seen Ricky at a bar, that's all.

Ain't supposed to be in places like that.

Mr. Jameson, a contempt citation is already a parole violation.

If you wish to compound that citation with perjury...

I talked to him, alright? He was looking for work.

He said if anything came up

he was staying in one of them projects on laird boulevard.

Freeze, police! Leave your hands right where they are.

- Don't move. - I wouldn't dream of it.

Now stand up and put your hands behind your back.

- Where's Ricky price? - Library.

Overdue book he had to return. It was preying on his mind.

- Who are you? - Phil raab.

(Phil) 'I'd shake your hand, but... '

well, well, Phil, what do we have here? A nine and a .45.

Recently fired.

I'm gonna guess these sidearms aren't licensed pursuant

to the laws of the great state of Indiana.

'Get him out of here.'

[whistling]

(Ed) 'Toss me sports.'

- colts lost. - It's pre-season. Don't count.

Six letters, "hopeless." Starts with d.

Doomed.

Here's the report file.

[Whistling]

Ballistics just gets better and better.

Like the dry cleaners.

Same day service.

What does it say?

Handguns from your apartment

killed all those people over on Ashland.

- It's your death warrant, pal. - 'You're good to go, brother.'

five counts murder, our interrogation is over.

- Don't I get to say my say? - For what?

If I were you, I'd lawyer up now.

Hey, hold on, ray.

Tell us where Ricky price is and maybe we can get the prosecutor

to back off on that death penalty.

Where's price?

He said I just had to watch his back while he grabbed the kids.

It'd be a piece of cake.

So it was a kidnapping gone bad, not a contract killing?

Nobody was supposed to die.

I wouldn't have signed on for that.

Didn't go down nothing like he said it would.

Piece of cake.

Afterwards, he didn't even wanna give me my cut.

So where's price?

Your witness, counselor.

Ricky price in the flesh.

At least we know raab's telling the truth about something.

You take a witness as you find him.

(Maureen) 'We'll make a deal with raab?'

life in prison in exchange for his testimony.

Meanwhile I have 23 grand jurors I've kept nice and hungry.

Think I'll throw them red meat and indict Mr. Waters

on five counts of murder.

You mind telling me how?

Waters was in prison at the time of the killings.

We have hearsay problems

best evidence rule problems, rootin' issues.

I know.

Without a living, breathing witness

we can't connect waters directly to raab.

- And without that connection... - It's a challenge.

Ricky price told me about this cellmate he had

Robert waters.

Waters wanted his kids snatched.

Ricky said it was a custody thing.

$4,000 bucks, grab the two kids and split. Nobody gets hurt.

'All I had to do was watch the door and drive.'

- what happened that morning? - We get to the house.

The mom answers. Just her and the two girls.

We start tying everybody up.

'I'm in the other room. I hear shots.'

- 'so what did you do?' - I go see.

This teenage kid, we ain't even know he was there

comes up from the basement.

Ricky said he tried to be a hero, so he shot him in the leg.

After that, everything went to hell in a hurry.

The doorbell rings. It's a lady from next door with a damn cake.

So you just stood by and watched

while price slaughtered everyone in the house?

No, ma'am.

Ricky started shootin'.

I took my gun and shot the neighbor lady

while he was doing the family.

What happened after you and price had killed everyone?

I was mad about how it went down.

Ricky said, "get over it," like it was nothin'.

Later, the sob wouldn't even pay me what he owed me. So..

- So? - I shot him.

Dumped him in his car and drove it into the lake.

Nothing further, your honor.

You made a deal with the prosecuting attorney's office

in exchange for your testimony here today?

- Yes. - Five murders.

Well, six, if you count your erstwhile partner, Mr. Price.

Life in prison..

Not a bad deal.

Your honor, is counsel asking a question?

You never met my client Mr. Waters before, have you?

- No. - Spoken to him on the phone?

- E-mailed him? - No.

Telegram, cable, fax, carrier pigeon?

Have you ever, in your life, had any contact

directly with Robert waters?

No, but I was there when waters called him, set the whole thing.

- What exactly did you hear? - I heard Ricky say, "how much?"

'Then he said, "that'd be just fine."'

two days later, we went and did what we did. I know what I know.

You were there when somebody called Ricky price.

- Ricky told me it was waters. - And you believed him?

Why?

'Prison phone records indicate that Mr. Waters'

never made such a call.

Ain't no thing.

Smuggle a cell phone into the joint like anything else.

Well, you would know better than I.

Did you ever receive any money from my client, Robert waters?

The man right over there.

No.

Nothing further.

According to raab, waters called price from jail

two days prior to set up the kidnapping.

Contraband cell phone, like he said.

Two days prior, waters was in the prison or

having his appendix out. He couldn't have called anybody.

Raab only heard price's end of the conversation.

I hate to say it, bachner's right.

Waters must have had someone else make the call for him.

Any visitors before the shootings?

- His defense attorney. - Bachner?

He could've set it up. We'll never know.

Think I'm gonna take a page out of conlon's playbook.

This is unethical, outrageous. I could have you disbarred.

Calling the defense attorney before the grand jury?

Automatic mistrial.

According to the laws of the state of Indiana

we can call anyone before the grand jury.

Did you make the call

to Ricky price to set up the kidnappings

on behalf of your client, Robert waters?

You think I made that call?

You're the only one who had any contact

with Mr. Waters during this period.

(Bachner) 'I never met price.'

the only calls I made on behalf of my client, Robert waters

were to his parents to tell them about the operation.

I thought they'd broken off all contact with

their son after the molestation charges.

- Where did you get that idea? - From them.

Who do you think's been paying my fees?

'They're the only ones who still believed'

in his innocence on those charges. Including me.

They led me to believe they were convinced of his culpability.

The evidence those girls gave the Georgia d.A.

Waters was looking at 25 years, even with the plea.

But the old couple didn't want him to plead.

Insisted we take it to trial.

Okay.

Could they have made that call

to Ricky price on Robert's behalf?

'Would they have known how to contact him?'

he wrote them regularly.

'The prison mail is censored.'

'we'd know if he told them about price.'

sometimes, I'd mail a letter for him.

He gave me one just before..

Just before he arranged for Ricky price

and Phil rabb to kidnap his daughters.

You dragged the defense attorney in front of the grand jury

in the middle of a trial?

I thought bockner must be

the intermediary between price and waters.

- I wanted to lock him down. - Her instincts were right.

Bockner was the middle man, if unwittingly.

- But the defense attorney... - You gave us the grand jury.

I just focused the crosshairs on bockner. My mistake.

Who said it was a mistake?

I might not have used the grand jury quite that way.

I'm not so sure I would've thought of it.

Gutsy and smart.

Is there proof the grandparents were the go-between?

They lied to us about having contact with their son

after his arrest on the molestation charges.

The attorneys will argue they were just ashamed, that's all.

- We need a witness. - Who? There's nobody.

Robert waters

why on earth would he cooperate?

So that his sole remaining child will

have grandparents to grow up with.

But he can't, they'll be in jail.

Well, you don't tell him, I won't.

- Where's my lawyer? - You don't need him.

This is so far off the record

it could be happening on the moon.

We know you hired price to kidnap your daughters.

And we know how.

Your parents.

Price was supposed to grab your daughters

give them to your parents, who'd hide them

until the charges were dismissed

and you would go free.

But things went wrong, didn't they? Terribly wrong.

'And now you and your parents'

'are on the hook for felony murder. Five counts.'

I had nothing to do with it, and I ain't a murderer.

You know, some people like me might think you're worse.

'No, I don't think you meant for anyone to die.'

it's too bad you're looking at the death penalty.

You're offering me a deal like rabb?

I won't do that.

You're a child molester.

And you're responsible for the deaths

of four of your family members and an innocent bystander.

If I could..

I'd push that button on you myself.

Then what are we talking about? Why are you here?

Your parents.

They'll be in prison for the rest of their lives

unless you cooperate.

I really should have my lawyer here. This ain't right.

Plead guilty to the sex crimes in Georgia

tell the truth about the kidnapping plot..

- What about my folks? - They will do a few years.

'And Frankie will see his grandparents again.'

I don't know.

What you're asking me to do is testify against my parents.

Well, that shouldn't be too hard.

A guy like you..

Who'd rape his own daughters..

Alright. What can I do?

I'm glad your lawyer arranged this.

He seems like a nice man.

'You look thin. Are you getting enough to eat?'

he said I'm gonna beat the charges.

That's great, son.

Not just the murder charges

but the others, you know, back home.

- You'll shouldn't have married. - Ma..

- I told you from the start. - I feel horrible about this.

What happened to the kids..

'Those children, Robert, they were the problem.'

mom, they're dead!

Price killed them. That wasn't supposed to happen.

Little liars.

She turned them against you.

- 'They had to be quieted.' - You couldn't trust them.

(Linda) Son, we thought it was best that way.

What was?

Your father and I..

We didn't think taking the girls was such a good idea.

They would've told those stories again.

(Archie) Sometime to someone.

Oh, my god.

What'd you do?

What did you tell price?

(Robert) 'What did you say to him?'

we did it for you, dear.

Their own grandchildren.

We had to do it this way, son.

Don't you see?

They called Ricky and offered him $4,000 to kidnap my girls.

(Annabeth) 'To prevent them from testifying against you in the Georgia?'

- yep. - Just kidnap them?

(Annabeth) 'Did they ask him to do anything else?'

they decided that it was too risky to just take the girls

so they called him back.

Ricky said didn't make any difference

one way or the other.

In fact, it was easier this way.

(Robert on tape) 'You asked him to kill them.'

like your mother said, "we did it for you."

So when Ricky price told Phil rabb

he'd been talking to Mr. Waters..

He meant my father, not me.

Were you promised anything..

- For your testimony today? - No.

You have just directly implicated yourself

in these five murders?

- 'Yes, ma'am.' - Why would you do that?

(Robert) 'I thought I was saving my mom and dad from a life sentence.'

I didn't know when I agreed to cooperate

with you people what they'd really done.

I did it for you, mom and dad.

Yeah, I did it for you.

- Hi, Frankie. - Hi.

So I hear you're gonna have a new family?

We found a wonderful couple, three kids.

That's great, right, Frankie?

We had more than 100 offers to adopt him.

(Jinny) 'The community really stepped up, opened their hearts.'

look at this face.

- Goodbye, Frankie. - Bye.

Little guy gets a home, we get convictions. Everybody wins.

Yeah.

You have doubts about our methods.

Let's just say I have concerns.

Wouldn't have it any other way.

That stunt you pulled with the grand jury

and the defense attorney..

Don't ever do anything like that again without asking me first.

You know what they say..

"Better to apologize after than ask permission before."

I'm going for a drink at the sidebar, join me?

- Not tonight, thanks. - I'll give you a rain check.

'Did you ever say you were sorry?'

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