All language subtitles for Law & Order s18e03 Misbegotten.eng

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.

She forgot to designate a
driver before getting hammered.

Why should I be surprised?

Ooh! She forgot
her panties, too.

How old is this?

Lift with your legs,
Lori.

You're a real
gentleman, Rog.

Might as well start your
rounds while you're up there.

Give me a break.

(EXPLODING)

(POLICE RADIO CHATTERING)

She was taking packages upstairs
when the bomb went off.

She was barely breathing when
they put her on the bus.

What's her name?
Emerson, Lori Emerson.

Lori Emerson...
What's it look like?

I'm finding pieces
of a pipe bomb.

Oh.

Can I borrow that? So...

Oh, what's this?

It looks like it's
from an alarm clock.

That's old school, huh?

I'm gonna need
a list of the tenants

and all the security camera footage
from the lobby and the street, okay?

The other guard went to the
hospital with the victim.

Yeah. From what I hear, he could end
up being our only living witness.

(SCOFFS)
Yoga classes, prenatal.

Two victims now.

Lori was handling
the packages.

Usually it's medical supplies,

specimens going
to the labs upstairs.

She make the deliveries
every night?

No, 6:00 to 2:00
isn't her normal shift.

I don't know if she was filling
in or switched or what.

Still, it was nice of you to
ride with her to the hospital.

I thought somebody
should be here.

You know,
if she came to.

I called her husband
six times, no answer.

How's she doing, Doc?

She's out of surgery, but
she's had a massive stroke.

She went into a coma. We're
seeing minimal brain activity.

Any chance of recovery?

Maybe 5%.

What about the baby?

Stable.

The fetus should be okay as long as Ms.
Emerson's on life support.

She's in post-op
with her husband.

RYAN: The money's
been tight,

so Lori was trying to get in some
OT before going on maternity.

Oh, God, baby.

ED: Look,
we're really sorry.

The other security guard,

he said he had a tough
time reaching you.

I couldn't hear
my phone.

You were in a bar,
that's why.

Joan, don't start!
JOAN: I can smell the booze.

DAVID: From here. Out
drinking while she's dying?

My brother's
here now, huh?

Don't you use that tone
with my wife!

DOCTOR: Stop!
(JOAN CRYING)

The three of us
go outside. Come on.

Lori's been staying at her
mother's the last couple of weeks.

It's the kid,
you know, and money.

Me and Dean have
a contracting business.

Yeah. Things have
been slow.

So you couldn't stay in the
same house and work it out?

Was Lori afraid of you?

I would never lay
a hand on her.

Was he abusive?

Well, no, he never
actually hit her.

All that arguing, I told her it
wasn't healthy for the baby.

So moving out
was your idea?

Ryan's wasting his time working
with that brother of his.

He's about to be a father
with a young son on the way.

It's time for him
to get serious.

It was supposed to be
a wake-up call.

The amount of explosives
packed into that pipe

should've blown the doors
off that elevator.

Why didn't it?

Bad design.

Too much �We was
used as a detonator.

Cheddite was
the main explosive,

but nitro has the greater
velocity of explosion.

The nitro blew
the end off the pipe

before the cheddite
detonated.

Right. What else?

The parts were untraceable,

it was packed in a small
white cardboard box,

the address label
was unreadable.

Maybe she wasn't
the target.

Somebody could have a beef
with somebody in the building.

Doctors and labs.

Do a threat assessment.

Right.

Any kind of threats?

Calls, letters...

How about the procedures
you do there?

Anything controversial?

Sure, the doctor can
call me back later.

Okay. Thank you.

Doctors...

All these people care about is how this
explosion will drive up their insurance.

I just saw your sister-in-law.
How's she doing?

Uh, better.

Hey, Ed, you like kids?

Yeah, I like kids.

LUPO: That one.

White, small.

"B & C Couriers."

I don't care what
the courier told you,

this doesn't look like the boxes
which we use to send our specimens.

I was the last one to leave
the office yesterday,

and I did not
see this box.

Where... Where do you
leave your specimens?

Right here.

In here.

Pick-ups are always
between 6:00 and 7:00.

But this is not
my package.

You get a lot of traffic
through here?

These are all
doctors' offices.

Dr. Zimmer, Dr. Bellamy,
Dr. Stern...

People come and go
all day long.

Any of the labs you use for
your specimens on this list?

This one.

I use them a lot.

But I'm telling you,
this is not my package.

Okay.

Genatech. Ninth floor
of the victim's building.

We were the target?

Oh my. All we do here are liver
screens, chem eight profiles,

R.A.s, ASOs, blood work,
urine and fecal specimens,

genetic screening,
all very routine.

Anything involving stem cells
or testing on animals?

No, nothing controversial.

No, our business partners
wouldn't approve.

Those tests, though, they're
wrong sometimes, right?

When was the last time?

We botched an amnio test
a few months ago.

The parents were told
the karyotype analysis

revealed the fetus had
Trisomy 21, Down syndrome.

This was not correct.

We discovered it
a week later, but...

The parents had already
terminated the pregnancy.

Terminated a healthy baby.

Did they sue?

Our insurance company
settled two weeks ago.

MIKE: We'd been trying for
seven years to get pregnant.

That baby was
our last shot.

I had two miscarriages.
I'm 42.

We' e very g Qr "S! I

but would you mind
putting down

where you were yesterday
between 5:00 and 7:00?

You seriously think I had
something to do with that bomb?

The lab told us you settled
a lawsuit for a fraction

of what you were asking. That
had to leave a bad taste.

It wasn't about the money.

Sir?

They wore you down,
didn't they?

They told you your lawsuit
didn't have a chance.

After all, it was you that
decided to end the pregnancy.

Forgive me for saying so,
but they have a point.

A Downs kid can live
a pretty good life these days.

Maybe you should've played
the hand you were dealt.

Is that what Genatech said when
they gave you a couple bucks?

Screw you.

We just wanted an apology.

And we got one
from Hoffman.

In person.

I don't know
how sincere he was.

He just wanted
the whole thing over.

It's as good as we were going
to get from those people.

And here.

An adoption agency?

That's where
we were yesterday.

We're having our baby,
one way or the other.

Are we done now?

You too. Thank you.

The adoption place
vouches for Flemming.

The Chief of Ds got a complaint
about you coming down on a witness

over a therapeutic abortion.

You put a personal
spin on it?

First off, it was a suspect.
And second,

I was playing him.

Sounded okay to me.

I don't care
where it's coming from.

You question a suspect, you
don't personalize theissues.

So what did you conclude
about this suspect?

Flemming's covered for the time that the
package was left at the doctor's office.

So?

I was with this...

I was engaged to this girl,

she got pregnant, and
when the amnio came back,

we couldn't agree
on what to do.

So, like that...
(SNAPS FINGERS)

Sorry you asked, right?

Check this out. Two years ago,
Hoffman is a professor at Hudson,

full tenure and research
grants up the ass,

and then he leaves
for Genatech.

Maybe it wasn't his choice.

CHANG: There was no scandal.

Doctor Hoffman was presented with a
business opportunity and he jumped at it.

All those blood tests
add up to serious money.

He left all this for money?

All this isn't
all it's cracked up to be.

And he no longer has to deal
with the outraged attentions

of our campus
thought police.

One of these groups was giving Dr.
Hoffman a hard time?

He found a death threat nailed
to the door of his lab.

He suspected a kid from one of
our campus Christian ministries,

but he couldn't prove it.

This death threat,
can we see it?

I have a copy in my office.
I remember it clearly.

"Hoffman, you are
the Darwin of deviance,

"and you'll burn in hell
with the faggots you love."

Why this reference to gays?

That's what Hoffman was
researching here,

a genetic marker
for sexual orientation.

He was looking
for a gay gene?

Not just looking.

He claimed he found it.

I left that all behind.

I don't do that kind
of research anymore.

What kind of research
are you doing?

Antigens,
nothing controversial.

But this gay gene,
it's for real?

Absolutely.

There are traits that suggest a physical
difference between gays and straights.

The direction
of the hair whorl

at the back of the head
of males, for example.

These differences have
a genetic basis.

Here,

the XQ-28 region
of the human genome.

And this is what people
are upset about?

Mmm. If sexual orientation is
hard-wired into our DNA,

then it's no longer a choice.

Good news
for the gay community.

And bad for our
Bible-thumping friend.

You had an idea
who he was, right?

An undergrad, Luke Drummond.

I had a run-in with him right before
I found that note on my door.

I was here
all afternoon Tuesday.

And then I went home to the
community house. You ask them.

Oh, we will.

Of course, your fellow believers
could lie to cover for you.

Oh, there's no need to.

Hoffman can do all the research he
wants, it's not important anymore.

Well, wait,
how do you figure?

If Doctor Hoffman's right
about this gene,

doesn't that prove being gay
is part of God's design?

All temptation is a part of
God's design, genetic or not.

What if some of these kids here
have a gene for addiction?

It doesn't mean they should
just give up and get high.

They can make
a moral choice.

So taking drugs and being gay,
it's all the same to you?

It's the same struggle
for everybody.

I mean, the anger I felt when I
threatened Hoffman, that was...

That was the devil
in my heart.

"Do not be overcome by evil,
but overcome evil with good."

Romans.

DRUMMOND: 12:21.

So instead of death threats,
you're out here doing good?

This is where
my faith has led me.

ED: People like that make me think the
world ain't ready for a gay gene.

What? Some things are
better left unknown?

Hell, yes.
It's like those women

that find out they have
the breast cancer gene.

They get mastectomies and
they still get the cancer.

And some of them don't do
anything and they're fine.

What're you going to do? Are you
going to stop the march of science?

No. It's the march of
stupidity I'm talking about.

Let's say you have
the gay gene.

Maybe it doesn't mean
you're gay,

but if your neighbor finds
out you got it, watch out.

Right. So Doctor Hoffman's trying
to get his research published.

He couldn't do that without the
university knowing about it.

If somebody wanted to stop him,
that'd be the first place they'd go.

I'm sorry. We're not
supposed to give out

any information about
university research projects,

except if Dr. Chang
says it's okay.

Miss.

I'm sure you want to help us
catch the person that did this.

Oh, that's so sad.

If somebody called here
about Dr. Hoffman's study,

maybe even one of
his research subjects...

So sad...

Anyway, I still can't talk
about the research.

But if you want to know if
somebody called about Dr. Hoffman,

that's different.

Okay. We want to know.

They asked if the Dr.
Hoffman at Genatech

is the same Dr. Hoffman
who taught here.

ED: You get
this person's name?

Totally. I don't give out
information to just anybody,

but he said
he was a doctor.

Here. It was two weeks ago.

He said his name was
Dr. Paul Bellamy.

What are the odds?

I didn't make that call. I never
even heard of Sheldon Hoffman.

Can you think of anybody that might
impersonate you on the phone?

Somebody violent,
maybe hates gays

or has extreme
religious views?

Maybe one of your patients?

Nice try, but my patients
are off limits.

And you have my assurance
as a psychiatrist,

they're all
garden variety neurotics.

Okay, maybe we can
narrow it down a little bit.

This guy knows that a courier
picks up lab samples

at Dr. Choudhary's office
between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm.

So maybe a patient that has a regular
appointment around that time.

(sums)

(BEEPING)

Doctor, when we arrest
this guy, and we will,

I would hate to find out that
he spilled his guts to you

about sending this bomb and
you did nothing to stop him.

I'm well aware of my legal
and ethical obligations.

(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

Brilliant.
You locked the door.

(BEEPING)

BELLAMY: Mrs. Watkins. I'm sorry,
little problem with the door.

Now, I'll take you right in.

(DOOR CLOSING)

You go right in.

You're still here.

Thank you, Doctor.

What the hell was that?

I emailed his schedule
to my phone.

I figured that much.

Well, if that wasn't
plain sight, what is?

Plain sight don't cover
what you just did.

It does where I've been
for the last four years.

Well, newsflash,
you home now,

and you got a partner who don't
want to deal with that headache.

Then I guess you don't want to know
who has an appointment with Bellamy

every Tuesday
and Thursday at 5:00.

Dean Emerson,
Lori's brother-in-law.

ED: We got a hit
off the phone dumps.

There was a call to Hudson
University from Dean's apartment.

He have a history of anti-gay
violence or activism?

LUPO: No, nothing's
turned up.

But he just happened
to send a bomb

to someone who worked in the same
building as his sister-in-law?

Dean's call to the university
about Hoffman and Genatech

might have been a smokescreen
to hide the real target.

Lori and her husband were
having problems.

Ryan looks like
a cut-and-run type.

He might've been looking for a
cheap way out of the marriage.

And he got his brother
to do the heavy lifting.

But we don't have
anything on Ryan.

The call came
from Dean's apartment,

so start there.

Hey! That's my room.

The small one,
that's my son's room.

What? You don't think
I can read a warrant?

I was a bail bondsman
for 15 years.

You can only search the parts of
the home under my son's control.

The place is clean.
Hmm.

You okay, sir?

Yeah, yeah...

It's just this bum ticker.

I'll be fine as soon
as you guys clear out.

Do you take pills
for your heart?

Yeah, I take pills.

Can I see them?

Please.

Here.

This is a three-month supply. You got it two
weeks ago. So where's the rest of them?

How the hell
would I know?

Nitroglycerine, no different
than the nitro in the bomb.

Put down the nail gun, Dean.
Put it down!

What's going on?
Stay back.

You're under arrest
for attempted murder.

Arrest for what?

No. It's... It's okay, Ryan.
You go take care of Dad.

Mr. Emerson is
a business owner.

He is the caretaker
of his elderly father.

Whose heart medication
he stole to make his bomb.

Did he now?

JUDGE ALDEN: Points for
creativity, Mr. Emerson.

Bail's $500,000.

(BANGS GAVEL)

Hey.

Don't worry. I'll get the money.
I'll get the money.

You better find
that money quick.

You don't want your brother rolling
on you when we offer him a deal.

You think you can scare us?
Forget it.

It's the Emerson Brothers
bake-off.

First pie out of the oven
gets the prize.

Leave Ryan out of it.
Dean.

My client's not
interested in a deal.

I just think everyone should
get what's coming to them.

No more, no less.

Your kid brother's the only
one who stands to gain

from your recalcitrance.

You could convince us that
none of this was your idea.

After all,
Ryan's the violent one.

He's the one with the juvenile
record for aggravated assault.

Time is your enemy,
Mr. Emerson.

Don't leave empty-handed.

Motion to suppress.

It's all going out, the search,
the nitro pills, the phone call.

Ask your detectives.
They know why.

The probable cause for the search
was the fact he's seeing a shrink

down the hall from where
the bomb was picked up.

And how did you know
he was a patient there?

It came up
at the shrink's.

The affidavit
from Dr. Bellamy says

he invoked
doctor-patient privilege

and refused to give you
any information.

Try again, Detective.

Dr. Bellamy left his BlackBerry in
plain sight in the waiting room.

His appointment calendar
was on the screen.

You could read it from
where you were standing?

(slsl-ls) No.

I emailed his weekly calendar
from his BlackBerry to my phone.

That's aviolation
of the privilege.

CUTTER: Is it?

Oh, okay.

Thank you,
Lieutenant.

I don't care what kind of
legal two-step they dream up.

I know a bad search
when I see it.

Tell me you were tying your
shoe when he did that.

I was tying my shoe
when he did that.

CUTTER: There's
no violation.

I'd argue the mere fact of having
an appointment with a doctor

isn't privileged information.

Based on what?

The attorney-client privilege, which
doesn't cover an attorney's client list.

Throw in a good faith argument,
and I think we got it.

The issue is plain sight.

The calendar was on the
doctor's BlackBerry screen.

I'd need a telescope
to read that.

Well, as far as I know, the plain sight
rule doesn't have an exclusion for myopia.

Don't be a wise-ass.

Detective Lupo couldn't
read the information either.

That's why he stole it
by emailing it.

He sent himself
a digital copy

of something he was allowed
to see in the first place.

Is that stealing?

It's never been argued
in this context.

And it won't be argued now.

The evidence is
still admissible

under the principle
of inevitable discovery.

Going back to the call that led the
police to Emerson's psychiatrist,

a search of the university's
phone records

would also have led them
to Emerson.

Your Honor, the court can't reward
the violation of my client's rights.

I don't intend to.

The evidence of Mr. Emerson's
call to the university stays in,

the pills and
the psychiatrist are out.

I'm also granting the defense's
application for bail reduction,

with the condition the defendant
will be confined to his home.

This boy of yours,
Jack McCoy...

Ah, ah, ah. No.

We agreed, no dumping on
Jack in front of Connie.

Yeah.

How much is out?

Yeah. The news isn't
any better here.

Lori wasn't scheduled
to work that night.

She was called in
sometime in the afternoon.

Begs the question, did Ryan and
Dean find out she was working

in time for Dean to leave the bomb
where the courier picked it up?

So far the answer's no.

There's no record that Lori and Ryan
talked to each other Tuesday afternoon.

Square one.

When did Lori find out
she had to report for work?

Well, her supervisor never
spoke to her directly.

He left a message
with her parents.

Start tracking down
those messages.

My wife gave her
the message.

I'm not sure what time
the call came in.

You can ask her when she comes
back from the powder room.

You ain't going to let them
get away with this, are you?

Ryan and his brother?

No, we'll do our best.

Lori never liked that Dean.

Why's that, Mr. Drucker?

A leech.

Bloodsucker, living off his brother
Ryan's hard work, living off his dad.

Honey, Ms. Rubirosa here
wants to know about that

message from
Lori's supervisor.

When did you give Lori the message
she had to work that night?

Let me think now...
It was just after 5:30.

I finally reached her
on her cell phone.

5:30, you're sure?

That sounds too late for her
to get to work on time.

She said it was no problem since she
was already upstairs in the building.

In the building
where she worked?

What was she doing there
on her day off?

She said she was
at a doctor's office.

Her obstetrician?

No, another doctor,
uh, Dr. Hoffman.

I don't know what
she was seeing him for.

She's a security guard. Maybe she
was at the lab to discuss security.

CONNIE: On her day off?

Your colleague, Dr. Brill, couldn't think
of a reason why Lori would visit you.

But she did find this
in your lab's records.

It's a record for an amnio
you had done on Lori.

You ordered the amnio
for your research.

Doctor Hoffman can't
get into that.

He's engaged
in proprietary research.

There are lucrative patents at stake
that must be protected from competition.

Doctor Hoffman should be worried
about protecting himself from me.

He was using the victim
for a research project,

and he didn't think it worth
mentioning to the police.

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

You're looking for a way to identify
this gay gene in a fetus, aren't you?

That would be correct.

Did Lori know
what you were doing?

No.

I found out
she was pregnant.

I asked her to participate
in a research study

to find genetic markers
for cancer in utero.

I needed a comparative DNA sample
from a member of her family.

Two weeks ago, I asked Lori to ask
Dean Emerson for a sample. He refused.

Why ask Dean in particular?

On the questionnaire she
filled out for the study,

Lori indicated a history of
homosexuality in her husband's family.

Dean in particular.

Dean Emerson is gay.
It matters how?

Hoffman's trying to identify a genetic
marker for homosexuality in a fetus.

It could be the first step towards a
screening test to see if your baby is gay.

Given the option, how many homophobic parents
would abort fetuses they think are gay?

A whole community could be
wiped out of existence.

Dean Emerson might not like the
idea of being the last of his kind.

So he tried to kill
Hoffman to stop it.

We had the right suspect,
but the wrong motive.

I hear Pandora's box
creaking open.

PARRISH: You won't be sorry
you came all the way out here.

Our proposal is simple.

Dean pleads guilty,
you agree 15 to life,

and you don't oppose
his parole after 15.

I'd rather lose the case at
trial than give your client

one day off the
25 years I'm seeking.

And that's not accounting for the
murder charges I'm going to file

when his sister-in-law dies.

Mr. Cutter, please,
for my father's sake.

I've always been discreet
about my orientation.

Your father doesn't know.

On my 18th birthday,
I came out to him,

and then every year
for five years.

But he never heard me,

so I gave up.

It's not just him.

It's the family,
his brothers, friends.

My dad still lives in the same
neighborhood he grew up in, and a trial

would be embarrassing.

What part of the trial would be
embarrassing for your family,

to find out you're gay

or that you nearly killed
your pregnant sister-in-law?

My family?

That's a real good question.

I told Lori I needed
a DNA sample from Dean,

a swab from his mouth,
nothing invasive.

She called him
from my office to ask him.

And what, if anything, did you
hear of her conversation?

She gave him my name.

She told him she was participating
in a research study.

She started arguing with him,
she called him paranoid.

After she hung up, she told me Dean
refused to supply a DNA sample.

Thank you, Doctor.

Doctor, you've received death
threats in the past, haven't you?

Yes, two years ago,
from a religious zealot.

How about now,
since the news broke

about your work on identifying
the gay gene in fetuses?

Any death threats?

Many, from the gay
community this time.

They liked me well enough when I found a
genetic basis for their behavior, but now...

Are they upset now because your work
might lead to a screening test?

I don't know about that.

Isn't that the patent
you applied for,

a screening test to identify
this gay gene in unborn babies?

Yes.

So while you're making
millions off this patent,

the gay community is worried
that your test might ignite

what they've termed
a gay holocaust.

Objection, relevance.
Withdrawn.

Doctor, in light of the highly
provocative nature of your research,

are you aware
if the police investigated

any suspects besides my client
in connection with the bombing?

No, I'm not aware of it.

Far as the threats,

I think most people understand
that science seeks only one thing.

The truth.

I don't have any political
ax to grind here.

Doctor, isn't it true that your
findings have been rejected

by every scientific journal
you've submitted them to?

That's only
three journals.

I have successfully screened
for the marker in utero.

That's why I asked Dean
for a DNA sample.

Lori Emerson's child carries
the marker for homosexuality.

That's according
to your standards.

No further questions.

I knew since high school
my brother was gay.

But he wasn't one of those
flashy gay guys.

He wasn't political.
He played it cool.

PARRISH: You love
your brother, Ryan?

Yeah. He's my big brother.

Taught me how to throw a spiral.
You know, football?

You were arrested when
you were 15 for assault.

Tell us about that.

These guys at our high school,
real muffin-heads,

theyjumped Dean in the parking
lot 'cause he was gay.

They hurt him pretty bad.

Dean didn't want to go
to the teachers or the cops.

So the next day
I called those guys out.

They never bothered
Dean again.

Knowing Dean as you do, do you think
he was capable of sending that bomb?

No.

That's not Dean.

Anyway, he can't even connect
up a computer, you know?

No further questions.

(CLEARS THROAT)

You love your brother.

You love your wife too,
and your unborn child?

Yeah, sure.

I love them a lot.

Lori's gonna pull through.

We'd all like that,
Mr. Emerson.

After his beating,

did your brother receive any
medical help orcounsefing?

He got patched up
at the hospital,

started seeing
a shrink for depression.

Objection.
To her own witness?

It's clear where
this is going.

Overruled, Ms. Parrish.

Ryan, do you know the name of Dean's
therapist or where his office is?

I don't remember his name.

But I went on the subway
a couple times with Dean.

73rd and Columbus.

The same building where the bomb was
left to be picked up by a courier.

Approach, Your Honor?

I want this
testimony stricken.

This is the same evidence
you suppressed.

She put this witness on the stand,
Your Honor, she opened the door.

And so you did, Ms. Parrish.

The objection is overruled.

Good recovery today.

What's all this?
Your summation?

Parrish's. Trying to imagine
what I would say in her shoes.

"Haber"?

Fritz Haber, German chemist.

Won the Nobel in 1918, invented
chlorine gas and Zyklon B,

the poison of choice in the
Nazi extermination camps.

The moral
arithmetic defense,

kill one scientist
to save millions.

It's a good one. If Dean had killed
Haber, maybe I'd move to acquit.

So what's your rebuttal?

Dr. Hoffman was
no Fritz Haber, right?

Well, if you were a fetus with the gay
gene, you might not be saying that.

But this isn't
Nazi Germany.

Dean Emerson had other venues
available to voice his protest.

Make sure you point that out
in your summation.

By the way, Fritz Haber's
wife committed suicide

to protest his work
with poison gas.

Maybe Mr. Emerson should've
followed her moral example.

(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

Not sure what
to make of this.

The defense just added
an alibi witness.

David Drucker, Lori's father.

It's real simple. The day you say
Dean was planting that bomb,

he was at our house
in Long Island,

fixing a leak
in our powder room.

Even stayed for dinner.

Strange that Dean never contacted
you to provide an alibi.

Dean and I don't always see
eye-to-eye on things, but...

Maybe he thought
I wouldn't stand up for him.

But he's family.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Lori's things have been taken away.
Is she being moved?

Yes, tomorrow, to
obstetrics ICU on three.

Is something wrong
with her baby?

No. The baby's fine.
Are you family?

No, we're with
the District Attorney.

So, whatever
you can tell us...

Well, I can't talk about
this case in particular,

but for someone
in Lori's condition,

bringing a pregnancy to full term
reduces her chance of recovery

from 5%
to almost nothing.

But if the pregnancy
is terminated now,

her chances stay at 5%.

Wait. That's what's
going to happen?

The pregnancy's
being terminated?

It was her
husband's decision.

What happens if they don't
terminate the pregnancy?

The chances are
almost 100%

the baby would grow to full term and
be delivered healthy and normal.

Aborting a healthy boy for a 5%
chance of saving your wife...

I don't know
what Ryan's thinking.

It's desperate
and unexpected.

Like David Drucker's
sudden testimony.

So, what changed?

Hoffman.

He testified he found the gay
genetic marker in the fetus.

You mentioned how much
David dislikes Dean.

What if it's homophobia?

And someone like that wouldn't
be thrilled with a gay grandson.

He made a deal with Ryan.

Abort the child in return
for perjured testimony

to save Ryan's
beloved brother.

I'm going to be sick.

Later. We gotta get a stay
to stop that abortion.

Put that away. Judge Bell will
never talk to you ex parte.

(sums)

But he'll talk to me.

I need you to issue a stay

to stop the abortion
of Lori Emerson's child.

My people believe it's the quid
pro quo in an illegal agreement

between Ryan Emerson and his
father-in-law to obstructjustice.

You mean the alibi testimony
from David Drucker?

He's scheduled to take
the stand tomorrow.

And the abortion is scheduled
for the morning.

We think this agreement is being
driven by Drucker's homophobic bias

against his unborn grandson he
believes carries a gay gene.

You have evidence
there's a connection

between the testimony
and the abortion?

No, but if we're right, and the abortion
goes through, the harm is irremedial.

A stay is the only remedy.

If Drucker's testimony
isn't credible,

your remedy is
cross-examination.

By then it'll be
too late, Joe. Judge.

It isn't just about
the obstruction of justice.

It's nice to still see you
tilting at windmills.

Jack, you have no evidence
of conspiracy.

What's it going to cost you
to delay a few hours?

And no standing to challenge Ryan
Emerson's medical power of attorney.

I'm sorry.

Your application
for a stay is denied.

He didn't go for it.

Terrific. I should've
talked to him.

Believe me, if he said no to me,
he would've said no to you.

Jack, I never heard of Arthur Branch
fighting your battles for you.

Is this what you want
to talk about here?

Now, if you want to do
something about the abortion,

there might be a way
to derail the train.

Dean Emerson.

Does he really know
the price of this alibi?

Maybe not.

Maybe time
for a family powwow.

PARRISH: I'll have you know I had to
skip Pilates to get here this early.

Do I have to guess,
or is this about...

CUTTER: Have a seat, please.

In case you're wondering
where your alibi witness is,

Mr. Drucker is at the hospital with his
wife, attending to their daughter.

She's in obstetrics ICU being prepped
for a procedure two hours from now.

What kind of procedure?

Did you really think Mr.
Drucker's helpful testimony

wasn't coming at a price?

Did you think that homophobe
would do you a favor?

He's doing it because it's the
right thing for our family.

Then why don't you
tell your brother

what procedure Lori's
undergoing this morning?

The procedure you approved.

DEAN: Ryan...

Ryan, tell me what you did.

He's having Lori's
pregnancy terminated.

He's aborting your nephew.

Your nephew
with the gay gene.

That's the price
of Drucker's alibi.

That's not why.
It's Lori, man.

If I keep the baby,

she's got almost
no chance of coming back.

You're sacrificing your son
for the slimmest hope.

DEAN: Ryan, don't...
Don't do it.

Stop it!

They'll put you
in prison forever.

Forget about the kid.

Dean, why is it so easy for
him to dispose of his son?

You know, don't you?

Yeah, I know.

You're just like Dad, aren't you?
Shut up.

Your son, your gay son,
deserves a life, Ryan.

You don't know
what you're talking about.

This is it, Dean, this is what killing
Hoffman was supposed to stop,

a gay holocaust,
right in your own family.

I don't want this.

Then take away the reason
for Ryan to do it.

That boy's life
is in your hands.

If you don't step up now...

Yeah.

I didn't mean
for Lori to get hurt.

I know. I forgive you,
just shut up.

No. I did it.
I sent the bomb.

Dean, stop!
I knew if Hoffman found

the gene in the baby, with Lori and
her parents, that kid had no chance.

So now you don't have to
go through it, Ryan.

There's no point.

You want this kid
to have a life

like what, like yours?

You forget what
school was like?

All the miserable days,
all the beat-downs?

Even now, you can't
have a normal life.

You can't be
yourself around Dad.

I don't wish that kind
of life for anybody.

Ryan, don't...

Don't say that.

It would be the same
as if this kid had a disease.

Being gay is not a disease.

Yeah, well,
where we live, bro?

It might as well be.

Ryan postponed the
abortion for two days.

Doesn't leave him much time
for soul-searching.

CUTTER: I doubt it'll
make any difference.

What parent doesn't want his
child to have the perfect life?

That's one area where
science has been no help.

How to keep well-meaning people
from making lousy decisions.

Maybe one day, they can
find a gene for that.

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