All language subtitles for Law & Order s17e15 Melting Pot.e

NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system

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

the police
who investigate crime

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

Please tell me
it's boxers.

(sums)

Which way does
the pointy one move?

Check.

Drop 'em, dude.

I resign.

Give it up...

Or you can get these
on your way home.

Hey, quit screwing around, Amanda.
Come on.

Ooh! Ooh!

Amanda, seriously, look.

About time.

Any idea what it's like being
stuck in here with a swinger?

You're supposed to
be the professional.

You got a time
of death?

11:00, give
or take an hour.

Now do your thing, please,
so I can get her down.

Name's Erin Garrett. She's the
actress in some of these posters.

She used some
kind of nylon lashing.

Okay, you can
take her down.

Any forced entry?

The door was closed,
but unlocked.

No sign
of a struggle here.

This play like a straight
up suicide to you?

I don't know.
She leave a note?

Nope.

Well, looks like her acting
career was doing all right.

Yeah, well, so was
Marilyn Monroe's.

(CAMERA CLICKING)

She was a very nice lady.
I never would have thought.

We noticed she didn't have
a bed in her apartment.

She lives
somewhere else.

Rented this place about two
years ago to use for an office.

Said she couldn't get
any work done at home.

Do you know
that address?

I can get it for you.

Do you know if she
had any visitors today?

Nobody I saw. She pretty
much kept to herself.

Except when her babysitter
brought her kids to visit.

Kids? How old?

Little, like one, three.

This is really gonna be
rough on her husband, huh?

She wasn't wearing
awedding ring,

are you sure
she was married?

Oh, yeah. Landlord made
him co-sign the lease.

I... I don't understand.
It doesn't make sense.

Mr. Faulkner,
was your wife

experiencing any problems,
any personal setbacks?

No, Erin was happy.

Nothin' stressed her out, even
when things weren't goin' her way.

Like her acting career?

Look, she knew she was never
gonna be Julia Roberts.

She decided she wanted
to write and direct,

and that's why
she took that office.

To focus on that.

How about you, any
problems on your end?

No, not really.

What do you do?

I co-own a framing
shop in Chelsea.

We do a lot of work
for the galleries.

Forgive me, but I need to
ask about your marriage.

I'm telling you, everything
was fine between us,

I don't know how to make
you understand this,

but Erin would have never
done this to herself.

Lemme show you somethin'.

I took this last week
in Central Park.

That's Emily and Theo.

Does this look like a
woman who wanted to die?

RODGERS: This was
a healthy, active woman.

No overt physical problems
or latent pathologies.

No evidence
of sexual assault.

T ox screen'?

(SCOFFS) Clean
as yours, Detective.

So the cause of death was neck
compression from the hanging?

Technically, yes.

But?

The noose is
what killed her.

But I found a small
cranial fracture

that was impossible to
detect at the crime scene.

And that is
a subdural hematoma.

Hell of a lot bigger than you'd
see in a hanging victim.

So somebody hit her
in the head first?

She was unconscious
before she was hanged.

What if she had received medical
attention after she was hit?

She'd have been
good as new

after a few days
in the hospital.

This was a murder
staged as a suicide.

Any suspects?

Well, the husband says
everything was copasetic.

But she wasn't wearing awedding
ring, and neither was he.

Well, not everybody does.

Especially if they're
screwing around.

You're not buyin' the
one big happy family?

No one is as happy as her
husband makes them out to be.

But he was the one that kept
insisting she wouldn't kill herself.

Well, start looking at their
insurance policies and financials.

Jonas Faulkner had a
charge on his credit card

to this hotel about two months
ago in the amount of $3900.

He booked a room
here for 13 nights.

ED: Did he check
in with luggage?

Mr. Faulkner prepaid for the
room, but he wasn't the guest.

The woman who was with him
was the one staying here.

Uh, what did
she look like?

Mmm, mid-20s, 5'10",
long, blonde hair.

Do you have her name?

I think so. She charged a few
incidentals to her own credit card.

Diana Rawlings.

Uh, her billing address
is Saratoga Springs.

And you said
she was with him?

You know,
they were together.

Whenever I was at work, he was,
like, back and forth to her room.

DIANA: I teach
third grade here.

Uh, it was
a Winter break.

I went to the City for the
holidays, at the Downtown Grand.

Alone?
That's right.

ED: Do you know someone
named Jonas Faulkner?

He's my half-brother.

Is this about Erin?

Uh, that's right.

Wait, you must have...

Oh, my brother treated me
to that room for Christmas

so I could spend time in New
York with Theo and Emily.

Please excuse us
for not knowing.

We're very sorry
about your sister-in-law.

But Jonas and Erin,
they were okay?

Definitely. I would have known
if there was a problem.

Can you think of any reason
somebody would want to hurt Erin?

Erin wrote and directed a short film
about sexual repression of women

in the Muslim world.

It's called
Fire Under the Veil.

She just found out
that it got accepted

into the NoHo Film Festival.

I can understand
why some people

might find that subject
matter offensive.

Erin told me there were some
powerful images in the film.

I know she downplayed
it to Jonas.

ED: Why would she do that?

I think she was afraid that he'd
make her pull it from the Festival.

That he'd be scared
for her and the kids.

Can we see this film?

Ask her producers,
Woodmore Films.

Erin became obsessed about
the girls in Saudi Arabia

who were beaten back
into a burning school

because they weren't wearing
proper Islamic dress.

She wrote
an amazing script,

and we decided
to produce her film.

The movie was
about the fire?

Only tangentially.
It's fictional.

Much more a meditation
than a narrative.

But it's dedicated to the
girls who were killed.

You start questioning
people's religious beliefs,

and somebody's bound
to get offended.

That's what drew me
to the project.

The fact that some scenes
are provocative, disturbing.

Give us a "for instance."

A young Muslim woman
masturbating

while a mullah sings from
the Koran in the voiceover.

Wow. People have
seen this?

Not yet, but they will
when the film premieres

at the Festival
in the Spring.

Who has seen it?

Me and my partner, John,

Erin's film Editor,
Marcy Stanton,

and the guys at the video house
working on Post-Production.

Mike and Ali.

We've kept a tight lid
on it for obvious reasons.

And who are Mike and Ali?

The Sound Mixers
over there.

I worked on
Fire Under the Veil.

Why is that
police business?

I guess you don't
read the news.

The filmmaker was
found dead yesterday.

What does that
have to do with me?

You didn't have a problem with
some of the things in her movie?

What kind of problem?

Well, we heard there were
some offensive images

we could see how
that might upset you.

Look, they pay me to mix
audio, I'm not a movie critic.

But you had to
watch that garbage.

Even worse, you contributed to
putting her message out there.

I went to college to be
a sound engineer, okay?

I came to this country
to work on films!

That insult
your religion?

Look, you have no right to question
me about my religious beliefs!

Okay? That's in
your Bill of Rights!

ED: Okay, calm down!

Where were you yesterday afternoon, Mr.
Mohammed?

Look, why must I be the only
person in this facility

to answer these questions?

Because I'm the only
Muslim here?

No, because you're one
of the few people

that have actually
seen the film.

We sent three copies of this
movie to the Film Festival!

Maybe they put it
all over the Internet!

When a film is submitted
for consideration,

there are only two
people who see it.

Me and my
Assistant Programmer.

Well, what about
all these people?

They're volunteers.

They don't see the films until
they play at the Festival.

Well, what if one of them becomes
curious about a submission?

Our volunteers
aren't the problem.

It's the distributors
who buy at the Festival.

They'd like
nothing more

than to get a sneak peek
at what we're programming.

So we keep one copy
of each film,

and it's kept
under lock and key.

Well, the Post-Production
house we just came from,

said they sent over three
copies of Fire Under the Veil.

They did.

But every master
they delivered

had so many digital hits and sound
synch problems, it was unscreenable.

I called Erin Garret
last week to tell her

the people she was using over
there must be incompetent.

Can we borrow
one of these masters?

Sure.

The Department didn't
have the right equipment

to analyze the H.D.
digitape that you gave me,

so I had to buy
editing software

and borrow a deck from a friend
who does digital duplication

for a Visual Effects
Supervisor.

Beck, is this explanation gonna
be longer than the movie?

(LAUGHING) No, I'm
sorry, this is cool.

Uh, basically, the woman at
the Film Festival was right.

This thing is unwatchable.

ED: How'd it happen?

Uh, the video pixilation
was caused by activating

one of the filtering enhancements
in the ProTools editing suite.

And the audio problems
were created

when the Five-One mix was rendered
with a customized plug-in

to defeat
the Dolby E-coding.

Oh, I... I just think that the Sound
Engineers screwed up the movie.

I told you, I don't care
about her ignorant movie!

Really?

Look, she probably pixilated
the master herself.

That film was
made by an amateur.

Oh, because I thought you
weren't a movie critic, Ali.

I said that I don't makejudgments
about the projects I work on.

Even when they depict a
woman pleasuring herself

while a holy man
reads from the Koran?

Look, can you give me some space?
You're invading my space.

Let's talk about where
you were that morning.

Which you didn't answer the
first time we talked to you.

Your boss says
you came to work late.

I couldn't start work
until the video editors

laid off the project
I was assigned to!

So I was home
all morning.

Alone?
Yes!

Scan my MetroCard
if you don't believe me!

I... I got on the G Train in
Astoria a little before 2:00.

Why are you touching me?
ED: Hey, hey!

Just lookin' for
your MetroCard.

(DOOR OPENING)

Can I see you
for a second?

Sit down.

You need to see this
before you make

our Muslim friend any
more uncomfortable.

The lab found wall plaster
particles on Erin's sweater

and that nylon strap
used in the hanging.

There was construction
goin' on in that building.

Start looking in
that direction.

I really hope I didn't
cross any lines in there.

Oh, listen, I'm sure
Mr. Mohammed is used to

being a scapegoat
by now.

Erin said, with all
the banging upstairs,

she couldn't get
any work done.

When did this start?

Uh, a couple of weeks ago
when they started workin'

on the apartment
directly above her.

Does this have something to
do with her getting killed?

It's possible.

But my sister said you were
asking about Erin's movie.

Yeah, we're looking
at all the angles.

The only reason Erin
rented that space

was so she could have
a quiet place to write.

Do you know if she
talked to anyone

on the construction
crew about the noise?

I know she called the company
that was doing the work.

The work we're doin' in Eight-C
is a total gut renovation.

We're rippin' out walls,
flooring, fixtures.

There's no way to do that
without makin' a racket.

Any complaints from
the building residents?

We try to do all the loud stuff
when people are at work.

Well, some people
work at home.

It's the nature
of the beast.

Did any of the guys
on your crew

talk to Erin Garrett
about the noise?

We communicate
with the Super,

he's supposed to
deal with his tenants.

Did any of the tenants
talk to you, Mr. Easton?

Not that I remember.

Did we get any noise
complaints on 85, Leonard?

Nobody called here.

What can I tell ya?

Is there any reason that
any of your crew members

would have needed access
to the apartment below?

You think one of my
guys did this?

It's a simple question.

Not on this job.

Look, if anything else comes to
mind, give us a call, all right?

Thank you.

What are we doing
with Ali Mohammed?

Well, he's got
a hell of a motive.

ED: There's no
physical evidence.

Well, we'll drop the murder and charge
him with destruction of property.

What about
the construction angle?

Erin Garrett had issues with
the noise they were makin',

but the head of the company
said she never complained.

The husband's
telling us one thing,

this Easton guy is telling
us something else.

So we're goin' over to talk
to the construction crew.

Good.

Yeah, this is the third apartment
we've done in this building,

and I haven't heard
a peep from nobody.

What about the guys
in your crew?

Ah, they would've told me
if somebody complained.

All right, we're gonna need
the names and the addresses

of everybody that worked
with you on Tuesday.

(SIGHING) I can
give you the names,

but the addresses, you're
gonna have to get from Carl.

All right. Let me
see, there's, uh,

there's Mike Stanopolous
and Ronnie Boatwright.

That's it?

I just saw three or four
dudes go upstairs!

Oh, the Spanish guys? I just
know them by their first names.

But the office would
have their information?

Uh, no, I doubt it. These are guys
we just pick up from job-to-job.

Well, so how do you communicate with them?
How do they get paid?

Look, I'm not lookin' for
any trouble behind this.

The trouble is gonna start when
you stop answering questions.

(SIGHING) Okay, I speak some
Italian, so they get the gist

and we pay them cash on
Friday afternoon. Thafsit

How's your Spanish?

It's okay, but I'm hoping
somebody's bilingual.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Hello?
Hello?

We must have spooked 'em
when we came in downstairs.

Maybe they left through
the service entrance.

Should we be calling
Immigration or something?

And say what?

You know what, maybe somebody
else on Erin's floor

had problems with the noise.
Mmm-hmm.

Uh, the racket's mostly on
Erin's side of the hall.

If it gets too loud, I just go to
the med school library to study.

Were you here
on Tuesday morning?

Until about 10:00.

And was the construction work
particularly loud that day?

Not really. But that was the
day they cut off the water.

What do you mean?

Um, Erin knocked
on my door to ask

if it was just
her apartment.

She and I decided
to go downstairs,

find out what
was going on.

When we got to the basement, one of the
workers was doing something to the plumbing.

We asked him how long
the water would be off.

Was it a cordial
conversation?

Sure, he was just a kid.

He said he'd check
with his boss

and then knock on Erin's door to let her
know when the water was coming back.

What'd this
kid look like?

Um, 18, 19. Thick, wavy hair,
about my height, Latino.

You think these guys
are coming back?

They don't come to work,
they don't get paid.

Duck out the back every
time you see a cop walk by?

What away to live.

I guess some people
have no choice.

I guess.

I just hope we're not makin'
the same mistake twice.

Here we go.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

I... I speak English.

Okay. We're lookin' for a dude that
was working with you on Tuesday.

Who?

He's about this tall,
19, 20, dark, wavy hair,

he was working in the
basement on the plumbing.

Oh, we don't know him.
He only came one day.

This your whole crew?

Yeah.
ED: Whose bag is that?

I'll take the whole crew
to Federal Plaza if you

don't tell me
whose bag that is.

That's Julio's bag.

ED: ls Julio the one that was
working in the basement on Tuesday?

Yes.

Ed. Same as
in the hanging.

Do you know
where Julio is?

(MAN SPEAKING SPANISH)

(CONTINUES SPEAKING SPANISH)

(ALL CHATTERING)

Against the wall, now!

Why did you run, Julio?

CASSADY: Twice.
You know.

No, I don't know.
Tell us. Sit down.

I have no papers.

CASSADY: We work for the
City, not Immigration.

Police is police.

(SIGHING) Do you have
any family here?

No. In Colombia.

Right. And you're
working hard

so you can send money
back to your family?

Yes, to my mother.

Okay. That woman on the seventh floor?
She's a mother.

What woman?

The one who complained
about the water.

The one whose apartment
you went to that morning!

Look, here's the problem. Her family
wants to give her a Christian burial,

but they can't.

Why?

Because she was hanged.

And they believe
it was a suicide.

That's a sin.

Now we think
you hung her.

No.

We have the strap
she was hanged with,

it was the same as the one
we found in your van.

I didn't do this to her.

Julio...

We can't help
you if you lie.

Now that woman that was
with her in the basement?

She said she saw you coming
out of that apartment!

Yes, I was in her apartment,
but I didn't hang this lady!

Okay, good. Just tell
us what happened.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

I went to tell her that there
would be no more water soon.

She gets very angry.

And she start saying
things to me!

What kind of things?

She said that if she didn't get
water, she was to call the police.

I ask her, "Please, don't!"

Did you ever touch her?

To try to stop her
to use the telephone.

And she fight
back against me!

And she fell down
and hit her head.

I tried to help her!
But she was not moving!

You thought she was dead.

Yes.

Is that when you got the idea to
string her up with that nylon strap,

put that chair
next to her.

No, I just left her there.

Julio, you have to
tell us everything

so that her family
can have some peace.

No, please!

Don't say that.

Don't make me say that.

"Docket number 07115

�People v. Julio Rodriguez,

"murder in
the second degree,

"burglary in
the second degree."

Plea, Ms. Shannon?
Not guilty.

JUDGE: People?

The defendant assaulted the victim
and staged it as a suicide.

This is a highly deceptive individual
who resides here illegally.

Let's cut to the chase.

He couldn't make $500.

And I see there's an Immigration
hold on Mr. Rodriguez.

He's remanded.

I'd like to request
a suicide watch.

Is that a joke,
Ms. Shannon?

My client is
quite inconsolable.

I don't want to
take any chances.

So order it.

(GAVEL POUNDS)

JACK: Murder two,
20-to-life.

Is that the best
you can do?

Not a day lower.

I'm sorry about this! I just
want to go back to Colombia.

And you will, after
you serve 20 years

in the State
Correctional Facility.

Doesn't his remorse
count for something?

Yes. We're not asking
for consec time.

It's still too much
time, Mr. McCoy!

You're forcing me to
take this to trial.

He'll do twice as much time.
You have no defense.

It just so happens that
I've come up with one.

And it ain't half bad.

They're asserting duress
as an affirmative defense.

The motion claims that
Julio is the sole support

to his mother and five younger
siblings in Colombia.

How is that duress?

Well, the money
that he sends them

from his job
keeps them alive.

Had Erin Garrett's call to the
police led to his deportation,

they would starve.

The statute that lays
out the duress defense

requires coercion by
means of unlawful force,

like holding a gun
to somebody's head.

They're grasping
at straws.

I'm not so sure.

You think there's ajudge on the
bench who'd allow this in?

Well, most people who live
and work here illegally,

do it out of
desperation.

Their wages are
a matter of survival

for their impoverished
families back home.

And my heart
goes out to them.

But it doesn't come close to
establishing an affirmative defense!

All I'm saying is that I understand
the pressure this kid was under.

My father supported
us for 10 years

by changing bedpans
at a nursing home,

because his Spanish medical license
didn't get reciprocity here.

Rodriguez knowingly
violated the law

by illegally
entering to start with.

And you wouldn't do the same
for your starving family?

Just about everybody agrees that
our immigration policy is flawed,

but I'm not going
to let this defendant

use a cockamamie defense
to climb on a soapbox.

We'll move to preclude.

JULIO: When I was 14,

my father was killed by the
Cocaineros in our village.

Me and one of my brothers had to leave
our school to work in the coca fields.

SHANNON: Did you make enough
money to support your family?

Yes.

But then the government
came with airplanes

and put a spray
on the plants.

The plants died, and
there was no more work.

So what did you do?

I was afraid to
go back home.

But a man told me that I
could come to New York,

that there were many jobs
there, if I could work hard.

Let me call your attention
to February 7th.

Did you have a confrontation with Erin
Garrett in a building you worked in?

I didn't want to
fight with this lady.

But she was very angry.

She said I cannot
turn off her water.

She said she go
to call the police.

How did you feel
when she said that?

I thought about my brothers and sisters...
And my mother.

And what would happen
to them if we had no money.

And you know, the lady go
to pick up the telephone...

So I must stop her.

Thank you.

And if you did stop her, what made
you think she'd change her mind?

I don't know... Maybe
then I could talk to her.

So how did you stop her?

I... I grabbed her.

Then she was fighting
back against me.

I tried to hold her and she
went back and hit her head.

Then what, Mr. Rodriguez?

I went to see
if she was still alive.

But she was not moving.

That's when you got the idea
to go down to your truck

and get the nylon strap?

No, sir, I just go.

So you still deny

you hanged Erin Garrett from a sprinkler
pipe and staged it as a suicide?

I did not do this!

Did you ever try
to help this woman?

No.

Because there was
a man on the steps.

A man? Where?

He was going
on floor 7.

Are you saying you saw a man
on Erin Garrett's floor?

Yes.

But I thought maybe
he was from the police,

so I go back to my work.

And what did this
man look like?

I could only
see his back.

And why didn't you tell the detectives
about this when they arrested you?

Because I was scared...

To say that
the police were here.

And I did not
tell them what I did.

I don't like
surprises, Lieutenant!

And I have better things to
do than to hold your hand

through a defendant's
hearing testimony!

Why didn't you get this out of
Rodriguez during his interrogation?

Did you ever consider he's lying to
wiggle out of the murder charge?

He's denied the hanging
from the beginning.

Look, it's one thing to
say you shoved someone.

It's a big leap to say
you strung 'em up!

Or your people didn't push
Rodriguez hard enough.

So what? We should have
broken out the water-board?

After all, Rodriguez
is here illegally!

It was a sloppy
interrogation!

My people worked
Rodriguez appropriately!

If you don't like it,
call the Chief of D's.

Anything else?

CSU never worked up the stairwell
in Erin Garrett's building.

They need to now.

And you should talk
to Julio's boss.

If everything's riding
on this kid's credibility,

I'd like to know exactly
who we're dealing with!

Julio has worked for me for
about two years. On and off.

Only positive thing
I can say about him

is that he shows up for
work when he's supposed to.

That's not much
of a recommendation.

Why on and off,
Mr. Easton?

Look, I don't wanna
prejudice the kid,

but tools kept going missing
wherever Julio was working.

If you suspected him of
stealing, why keep him on?

Because I couldn't
prove it was him.

Plus he's got two cousins that
have been with me for years.

They begged me
to keep him on.

They told me they were
gonna have a talk with him

and if anything else
disappeared, they'd pay me back.

Did Julio ever have a confrontation
with anyone at work before?

Not that I know of.

But it wouldn't
surprise me.

I always thought that
kid had a short fuse.

Why?

It's nothing specific, it's just
the way he carries himself.

A lot of these Spanish kids are
prone to that kind of thing.

I know it's a stereotype, but hey,
stereotypes come from somewhere, right?

Well, according to Easton,
Julio's a hot-blooded Latino

with a penchant
for pilfering.

Racism aside, he does admit
going after Erin Garrett.

Even so, it doesn't comport with
what I saw in the courtroom.

Looks can be deceiving.

Lieutenant wanted me
to run these over to you.

There were fingerprint hits in Erin's
stairwell that can't be excluded.

Fingerprints that could have been
made yesterday or a year ago.

That's true. But this is someone
who was a person of interest

before we honed in
on Rodriguez.

Ali Mohammed.

He's a sound engineer. He tried
to sabotage Erin's movie.

He denied he was
ever in her building.

Well, now we know
that was a lie.

Now he has motive
and opportunity.

It's possible we're
prosecuting the wrong guy.

Get up.
What is it now?

I... I told them I'll pay for
this woman's two digitapes.

You're gonna pay
for more than that.

You're under arrest for the
murder of Erin Garrett.

You have the right
to remain silent.

If you forego
that right,

anything you say may be used
against you in a court of law.

You have the right
to an attorney.

Erin Garrett had
a website for her film.

Iwent through
the site's e-mail.

This movie defames the Prophet and
insults Muslims all over the world.

It came from Ali
Mohammed's workstation.

He also had several hits
on fundamentalist websites.

But Julio Rodriguez admits
assaulting the victim.

But not to the murder.

I think Ali came
up the stairwell,

found her lying
on the ground,

took some lashing left behind
by the construction crew.

Because he was
offended by the movie?

Salman Rushdie was targeted by
fundamentalists because he wrote a novel.

Theo van Gogh was
murdered by a fanatic

because he made
a blasphemous film.

This isn't about some lingering
empathy for Rodriguez?

Are you suggesting my background
is affecting myjudgment?

I'm suggesting that
we look at the facts,

not hunches
or headlines.

The construction foreman saw Ali
in Erin's building that morning.

He picked his photo
out of an array.

Well, that's something.

He strung her up
for retribution.

Or to try and kill
her movie.

We've got viable cases
against both of them.

Which, I might point out, are
mutually exclusive situations.

Both these men
can't be guilty.

Motions to dismiss.

One for each defendant.

SHANNON: The People initially
charged my client with this murder.

After realizing their
case was falling apart,

they arrested
somebody else!

It's time to dismiss this
case against Mr. Rodriguez.

Judge, it's my client's case
that should be dismissed.

If Mr. McCoy intends
to prove that Rodriguez

was the one who
hanged the victim,

what is Ali Mohammed
doing here?

Then what was he doing in her
building that day, Mr. Greer?

He went to persuade Ms. Garrett to
withdraw her movie from the Festival.

When he got
to her door,

he couldn't go through
with it, so he left.

And if that was true, why didn't
he just tell the police that?

Are you alleging these men
acted in concert, Mr. McCoy?

We have no proof of that.

Then how do you justify
both of these prosecutions?

There's no legal
authority I'm aware of

that says I can't pursue
inconsistent theories.

Then I'm the authority.

I'm giving you 48 hours
to convene a Grand Jury.

It's time to pick a horse.

You should be talkin'
to Rodriguez!

We believe his story,
not Mr. Mohammed's.

But I'm here with a gift.
Man one, nine years.

My client didn't
kill anyone.

Then we'll try the case.

That was easy.

No. No trial.

So what you were telling me about
this, Ali, that wasn't true?

It was true. I hated this
woman, but I didn't hang her.

Then why plead guilty,
Mr. Mohammed?

What chance do I have
in an American court?

This woman made a movie which
was blasphemy to my faith.

And your jury
will convict me

because of my
religious beliefs!

I'm not gonna let
that happen to you.

Maybe they'll say I'm aterrorist
and send me to Guantanamo.

No.

Let me stay in prison for nine
years and then I will go home.

GREER: You sure
you wanna do this?

Yes.

Jack?

I can't accept his plea!
He denies his guilt!

I don't understand
this country!

(sum-nus)

Did we just go from two
defendants to zero?

As far as I'm concerned, that was an
interesting piece of political theater.

Well, unless Ali is right
about American juries,

we need to beef up
our case against him.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

MARK: Carl had to
run over to Brooklyn.

Hmm, that's too bad.

I'm Mark,
his office manager.

Something I can
help you with?

Yeah, uh, I had
some questions

about something we found
at the crime scene.

It's nylon lashing,
like this.

What's it used for?

All-purpose rigging. If we
have to secure some lumber,

sheetrock, haul a couple
ladders up some stairs.

So you just would...

Keep it in
your truck, right?

Oh, no, they'd be lyin'
around, all over the job.

Thank you.

Oh, I'm sorry. Do you know when Mr.
Easton will be back in?

Tough to say.

He's not really
in the office too much.

He goes from job to job, always
trying to keep an eye on everything.

Was he at
the Tribeca worksite

the day that
woman was hanged?

I can find out.

Yeah.

Looks like he was there
most of the morning.

Thank you.

Jackllspoke with the Office
Manager and the foreman

who were at 85, Leonard,
and I think we can prove

that Ali had access
to nylon lashing

left in the building's
stairwell by Easton's crew.

Something bothering you?

It's just that

any given time, Easton has
five or six crews on jobs

working all
over the City.

So?

Well, he always puts a couple
union guys on everyjob

to make him look good, but most
of his workers are illegals.

I ran some
of the numbers,

and his practice of using
undocumented labor

nets him at least a
million dollars ayear.

He'd have a lot to lose if
somebody were to complain.

We're way past the exploited
immigrant angle, Connie.

Yeah, but Easton was
at the construction site

on the morning
of the murder.

Are you saying Easton
hanged Erin Garrett?

I'm saying that I used to think
this was about an immigrant

chasing the dollar,

but maybe it's just good
old-fashioned American greed.

Maybe Julio Rodriguez knows
more than he's telling.

Connie said my client was off
the hook on the murder charge.

That can change.

Why did you never
tell anyone that

Carl Easton was
at the crime scene?

You were honest about
everything else, why not that?

I didn't see
Mr. Easton there.

I don't believe you.

I'm reinstating
the murder charge.

SHANNON: What do
you think this is?

A game show where you can change
your mind every two minutes?

Your client is the one
who's running a game here.

I can't say anything
against Mr. Easton.

I wouldn't worry about
your job, Mr. Rodriguez,

you'll never work there
again, I promise you.

Or is this about your two
cousins who work for Easton?

Is that why you're
protecting him?

No.

You can put the charge on me.
It's okay.

It's not okay with me!

But this is all my fault.

I need some time
to talk to my client.

This meeting is over.

Tell me you are not serious about
reinstating against Rodriguez.

He puts himself
in the apartment,

he admits to fighting
with the victim.

So use the assault
charge as leverage,

not a homicide. You
know he didn't commit.

Assault gets us nowhere.

I need the biggest stick
I can get my hands on.

Okay. Let's target
Rodriguez.

I know you didn't
just do a 180.

Judge Delahunt ordered us
to convene a Grand Jury.

You call Easton as
your first witness,

let's see how deep he'll
put himself into it.

Now that's pushing
the envelope.

(SCOFFS) What do
we have to lose?

CARL: I knew Rodriguez might be a
problem right after I hired him.

In what way,
Mr. Easton?

You could tell
the kid was a hothead.

And then I found out he
had problems with women.

What kind of problems?

Well, I got these two gals that
do lighting consultations for me.

Julio was rude to them.

He had this macho
attitude, you know?

And yet you kept him
on one of your crews?

After what happened over there, I'm...
I'm sorry I did.

Now you also were at
Erin Garrett's building

on the morning of the
murder, weren't you?

I don't remember.

VVeH,thetravellog that
your Office Manager keeps,

indicates that
you were there.

That's not
always accurate.

Were you ever on the
seventh floor that day?

Our job was
on the eight floor.

Did you have keys to the construction
van parked outside the building?

What does this have
to do with Julio?

In fairness
to the accused,

I'd like the Grand Jury
to know who had access

to the nylon lashing that the
police found in your van.

Anybody on my crew.

Including you?

(SCOFFS)

You know, I'm not gonna answer any
more questions without a lawyer.

I couldn't even pin him down
to being in the building.

So we'll get him in a
room with his lawyer

and turn up the heat.

They know we have
nothing but speculation.

We need Rodriguez.

It's not gonna happen.

He's willing to take the
fall to save his cousins.

Call Immigration.

Let's propose a raid
on the company.

We can put Easton
Construction out of business.

But what about the people who depend
on that work for their livelihood?

The only way I can get
Rodriguez to cooperate

is to take his
cousins out of play.

So we're gonna use these men
and their families as pawns?

Easton is the big
picture, Connie.

In more ways
than one.

Cure the disease
by killing the patient.

You can't have
it both ways.

Easton killed
Erin Garrett.

If he goes down, there's bound
to be collateral damage.

All right.
You might be right,

but I'm not gonna be the one
to make that phone call.

SHANNON: I won't to allow
Julio to plead to murder.

If that's what he wants, the
court will have to relieve me

and appoint
another lawyer.

I don't think that
will be necessary.

Yesterday afternoon, all Easton's
construction sites were raided.

Eduardo and Ramon Rodriguez were
taken into federal custody.

They're awaiting their
deportation hearings.

Why do you
do this to them?

They didn't do nothing!

I'm sorry, Mr. Rodriguez,
it's the only way I can

getjustice
for Erin Garrett!

What do you
want from him?

The full story this time.

What about my family?

Julio... Julio.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

After I pushed the lady,

I got very worried.

So I found Mr. Easton.

I told him what I did.

He told me to take
him up there to see.

So we went there.

What happened?

I showed him the lady.

She was still
on the floor.

He told me to go
back to my work.

But he stayed
in her apartment.

Was that the last
time you saw him?

No.

Later he told me to come
down to the street.

We sat together in the van.
He was very angry.

He told me I did
a very bad thing,

but he took care
of my problem.

And he told me if I ever
say this to anybody,

he will fire my cousins.

And every Latino
in his company.

Calling my client to
testify without immunity

was a cheap trick.

How'd I know
he'd become a suspect?

Please.

We won't be using any of
his testimony against him.

Against me?

That's right,
Mr. Easton.

Julio Rodriguez is testifying this
afternoon that he left you alone

with Erin Garrett in her studio
when she was still alive.

And I'll be asking the Grand
Jury to indict you for murder.

I don't believe this.

You might get
an indictment.

You'll never get
a conviction.

Do you wanna roll
the dice, Mr. Easton?

Why would I kill her?

To protect your profit
center in illegal workers.

Over half of your
employees are underpaid,

undocumented aliens.

Look, maybe I cut
a few corners.

But it's still my word
against the word of this...

This illegal Spanish kid!

And who do you think
the jury's gonna believe?

A kid who busts his
ass 60 hours a week

to send $75
to his mother?

Or a man who flouts the law
and parlays his desperation

into a small fortune?

If you're convicted of staging
Erin Garrett's suicide,

I promise you'll do 40-to-life.
I'm offering you 15.

I have a family.
A wife and kids!

So did Erin Garrett.

If you're found
guilty after trial,

we'll also institute forfeiture
proceedings against your property

as fruits
of criminal activity.

Your co-op in Manhattan,

your house
in Westhampton...

Can we have a moment?

They can do that?

(MEN CHATTERING)

Ten years.
No property forfeiture.

The deal is 15-to-life!

If I didn't hire
these people,

what else were
they gonna do?

How else were they
gonnasuppofl their families?

That might be a defense in a
labor violation, not a murder!

Fifteen years,
or atrial, Mr. Easton.

(sum-nus)

Ali had his card pulled for
tampering with Erin's movie.

He's on his
way to Pakistan.

And Julio to Colombia.

And Easton Construction

filed with the Attorney General's
office for dissolution.

You're a one-man
border patrol, Jack.

You give me way
too much credit.

I don't think so.
You cleaned house.

Not really.

You're forgetting Erin Garrett
had a Jamaican nanny.

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