All language subtitles for Law & Order s18e07 Quit Claim.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.

GIRL: Have you ever seen so
many different kinds of candy?

MAN: We have candy stores in
Des Moines too, sweetheart.

But not with
these prices.

I love
this neighborhood!

It's so cool!

It's dirty.

And I'd sleep better knowing
you were living in a dorm.

A dorm? Mom, will you
talk to Dad, please?

Honey, we're going
this way.

I'll catch up.

Whoa! Check out that sunburst.

Yeah, it's nice.

(VEHICLE REVVING)

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

(CAR ALARM BLARING)

LENNOX: Melanie and Donna Huelsman,
mother and daughter from Iowa.

Vehicle ran the light.

LUPO:
Anybody get plate numbers?

No. Car's described as a silver
sedan, four door, American make.

Driver and a passenger,
no description.

This came off a Dodge,
'06 model.

A Dodge. Can you get
that out over the air?

I don't see skid marks.

There aren't any.

All indications,
he kept accelerating.

Detectives, they think they found
the car, up near 14th Street.

DETECTIVE: We ran the VIN.

Car was reported stolen two weeks
ago from a livery service.

All right. Can you start a
canvas, two blocks either way,

all the way out to the First and
Third Avenue subway stations?

Check it out.

Must be at least
10 grand in here.

My guess, they didn't win
it at a church bingo.

Stolen money,
stolen car.

Hit-and-run's only the tip
of this iceberg I bet.

ED: There were no prints on the car.
It was wiped clean.

The witness saw two people
running away from the car,

maybe male,
maybe white or Hispanic.

Talk to me
about the money.

Ten thousand in new bills,
all sequential.

The band around the brick
is from a Hudson mutual bank.

You checked
robbery reports?

None reported,
banks or otherwise.

Well, trace the bills back
to the branch they came from

and find out
who made the withdrawal.

We needed cash
to buy some furniture.

$50,000, for furniture?

That's what the bank told us
you took out, Mr. Conroy,

most of your savings.

Well, we needed furniture.
We just bought a house.

You mind telling us where you
were yesterday, around 2:00?

I was at work in Midtown,

at an insurance company.

Margaret and I both work there.
That's how we met.

Why do you ask?

Look, $10,000 of your money turned
up in a stolen car yesterday.

Stolen car? We don't know
anything about that.

So why don't you give us the
name of the furniture place?

Tell them, Jerry.
We didn't do anything wrong.

It could void our contract.

Contract for what?

MARGARET: The new house.

You paid cash for a house?

Just part of it. The seller said
if we paid $50,000 in cash,

they'd knock that much off the price
that gets filed with the county.

Right, and you save on taxes.

Give us the name
of the seller.

It's a company, they sell
houses in foreclosure.

We got a great deal.

When did you
give them the money?

The closing
was yesterday morning.

Dennis Langdon,
Home Relief Corporation.

Mr. Langdon prepaid two months
at the beginning of the lease,

now he's three months behind.

I keep calling the number he
gave me but I get a recording.

Junk,junk,junk.

It's empty-

To Dennis Langdon, from the
County Recorder's Office.

Looks like a receipt for
a deed transfer filing.

County Recorder's office,

County Recorder's office,

County Recorder's.

These are the deed transfers
for the houses

Home Relief Corporation
bought and sold in September.

August and July
are on the way.

All right. Thank you.

Home Relief's a DBA
for Dennis Langdon.

Been in business
four months,

only address is
the office he never uses.

This guy gets
sketchier and sketchier.

Look. All these houses
he bought and sold?

He got titled to them
by Quitclaim Deeds,

including the house
the Conroys bought.

Well, they said
the place was in foreclosure.

Previous owners
probably got jammed up

and walked away
from the house.

Yeah. Well, if they
signed it over to Langdon,

maybe they know
how to find him.

He said he would stop
the foreclosure notices

and get the payments
back down.

How exactly
was he going to do that?

Mr. Langdon had me sign some
papers and now every/thing's okay.

Is this what Langdon had you
sign, a Quitclaim Deed?

He explained, I have to turn over the
title in order for him to fix my credit.

You know you signed
over your home, right?

It's just temporary,
until my credit's fixed.

Miss Simonian, I...
I hate to tell you this,

but Mr. Langdon
sold your home.

What?
Yeah.

When?

Three days ago.

Have you heard from him
since you signed?

No.

All of the houses that
Langdon flipped, same story.

He would con people who were in trouble
with their sub-prime mortgages

into signing
a Quitclaim Deed,

and then a week later he'd be selling
the houses at bargain prices.

How does he
make his money?

He got every buyer to slip him
$50,000 in cash under the table.

So, he's flipped almost
40 houses in two months?

Yup.

Nice work
if you can get it.

And we think he's the guy that
was driving the hit-and-run car?

If not him,
then somebody he knew.

His money
was in the car.

Is Langdon
in our system?

He's not in anybody's system.
It's probably an alias.

We're having the homeowners, past
and present, look at mug shots.

What about accomplices?

I mean, it's hard to imagine he'd
pull off a scam this big by himself.

Well, one name
keeps popping up.

A bunch of these closings were handled by
the same person from the title company.

Kim Brody.

I've done 14 closings
with Mr. Langdon.

All the papers
were in order.

Well, it didn't
bother you

that all the properties
Langdon sold

he got
by Quitclaim Deeds?

We've been seeing a lot
of that in this market.

And homeowners who never should have
qualified for a mortgage in the first place.

Except in this case,

these homeowners thought Langdon
was helping them keep their homes.

What are you saying?

He conned them into
signing Quitclaim Deeds.

God. I had no idea.

He seems so decent.

That's why they
call them con-men.

Look, we need to
find him.

His business address
is a bust.

But you have his name.

Well, we don't think
Langdon's his real name.

Listen, you check IDs
during a closing?

Of course,
it's customary.

But I go the extra mile. I make
photocopies of driver's licenses.

Would you like to see
Mr. Langdon's?

Yeah.
Right.

LUPO: The driver's license
was bogus,

but we ran Langdon's photo
through Facial Recognition.

We got a winner, Phil Newsom,
a.k.a Dennis Langdon.

VAN BUREN: Possession of stolen
goods, forgery, larceny,

defrauding homeowners is
right in his comfort zone.

He's a known associate
of the Fatone crew.

Well, it figures the Mob would have
their fingers in the sub-prime pie.

It gets better.

Nicky Fatone runs
a cigar club on Grand.

That's five blocks
from the hit-and-run.

Talk to a judge
about a search warrant.

(MUSIC PLAYING ON JUKEBOX)

(PATRONS GROANING)

You, sit.
Everybody stays seated.

Nicky Fatone.

We're looking for
your buddy Phil Newsom.

Yeah?

Keep looking.

How'd you get that bruise?

I must've
hit my head shaving.

That's funny.
Stay in here.

Oh, what happened here?

Termites.

Bullet hole in the door frame.
Looks new.

There's another one
in the wall over there.

And look at this.

It was forced open.

Cleaned out. Somebody shot up
the place up and robbed Fatone.

Maybe these hit-and-run
guys were coming from here.

Fatone had the money
from the Quitclaim scam,

they stole it.

Ripping off the Mob. No
wonder they were in a hurry.

CONNIE: And the people
that robbed Fatone

we think are the same
people in the hit-and-run?

The way it looks, he was in on the
Quitclaim scam with Phil Newsom,

a.k.a. Dennis Langdon.

Fatone was holding the
money when he got robbed.

Odds are
it's an inside job,

somebody who knows when the
Quitclaim money's coming in.

But if Fatone has an idea who
that is, he's not telling.

We need to convince him
to cooperate with us.

Well, if we had evidence against
him in the Quitclaim scam,

we could leverage
his cooperation.

So we're all
on the same page.

We are?

We want to do a sting
on Fatone and Langdon.

Don't you have to
find Langdon first?

We think we've got somebody
that can find him for us.

But we might need a little
prosecutorial pressure.

That's my specialty.

All I have
is his voice-mail.

And if Mr. Langdon needs me
for a closing, he calls me.

Okay. Call him,
leave him a message.

Tell him you have
a very motivated homeowner

who needs to
straighten out his credit.

I don't know. I don't really
want to get involved.

You are involved.

Your name is on
14 sham transactions.

But I didn't know.
Really?

Once we catch Langdon, and we
will, with or without your help,

you sure he's gonna
back up your story?

You know? Maybe... Maybe I
should've suspected something.

Why do you say that?

Well, it's customary to tip the
title person after the closing.

Mr. Langdon tipped me
$3,000 every time.

I thought it was
too generous, but...

We will overlook it,
if you help us.

(DIALING)

I don't know how much
Miss Brody told you,

but once Home Relief
Corporation steps in,

the calls from
the mortgage company,

the creditors,
they stop.

We'll negotiate
on your behalf

and we'll get you a payment
schedule you can afford.

So they won't take away
our house?

Absolutely not.

That's our mission.

We make sure that decent folks
like you don't lose their homes.

We... We've really tried to make those
payments every month, Mr. Langdon.

Well, since... Since I got laid
off, it's been a struggle.

You got
no more worries now.

Well, how does this work?

First, you transfer the debt
over to Home Relief

by assigning us
the title to the home.

Wait. You're saying we have
to give you our house?

Honey...

That's all right.
It's a common question.

You assign us
the title temporarily.

You'll still be
living here.

We just need to show
the mortgage company

that you're serious
about fixing your credit.

So I just sign this?

I'll need both
of your signatures.

Wow.

I feel like a weight
has been lifted already.

Perhaps we can get
a good night's sleep.

I feel kind of bad
for these people.

One person's misfortune
is another's fortune, right?

Like you saw this morning,
the house is a real gem.

Well, any place my ex-wife
ain't is a real gem.

(LAUGHS)

KIM: Everything's in order.

I'll file these with the
county and you should be set.

Then I guess
we're done here,

unless your lawyer
has any other questions.

I... I went over everything.
You're good.

There you go.
We're good.

Thatjust leaves the other matter
we talked about on the phone.

Right.

There you go.

It's $50,000.
It's all there.

Well, Mr. Sanders,
congratulations.

You've just closed
on a beautiful new home.

Thank you so much. Thank you.
Thank you so much.

Hold on, Kim.
I'll go down with you.

ED: How was it for you?

Audio was perfect.

Here comes our
title company lady.

ED: Where's Langdon?

They were supposed to be
coming down together.

Lupo, you see Langdon?

LUPO: Negative.

VAN BUREN: Lupo.

LUPO: Hey!

What happened to Langdon?

I don't know.
He took a different elevator.

What did he tell you?

He said to meet him at Johnny Roman's
Grill in Brooklyn in half an hour.

He'd pay me then.

I think
he suspects something.

Why do you think that?

I overheard him
on the phone,

and someone named Nicky
is going to be there too.

I'm scared.

I just want to go home
and forget everything.

ED: This place is empty, man!

Nothing but rats
back there.

I don't get why Langdon
told her to meet him here.

We didn't actually hear Langdon
tell her anything, did we?

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Yeah, Lupo.

We're on our way.

Shots fired at
Fatone's cigar club!

SERGEANT: Sector car responded
to a radio run of shots fired.

Five victims here,
all DOA.

I got Fatone here.

ED: Langdon here.

His leather pouch
with the 50K is gone.

Nine millimeter,
our friends came back.

Yeah. And they left
no witnesses this time.

S ERG EANT: Detectives?

There's another victim
behind the building.

Here, bag this.

LUPO: Looks like one half
of our robbery team.

The other half took the money.
Somebody got greedy.

Check this out.

What you got?

On his face here. It's not
blood, it's lipstick.

She kissed him.

His partner. It's her.

Man!

Police! Open up!

What's...

Against the wall. Put your hands
where I can see them. Up!

What's going on? Tell...

We found lipstick
on your boyfriend's face.

Is it customary
to shoot your partner

or does that fall under
going the extra mile?

OFFICER: Clear! Clear!

Against the wall.

Are you arresting me?

What did I do?

First of all, those $3,000
tips, we call those bribes.

But Miss Rubirosa said...

That was before you sent us on
that wild goose chase to Brooklyn.

I did no such thing.

Come on, Kim,
the inside man, it's you.

That's crazy.
That hurts!

Let me ask you a question.

When you saw that woman and her
daughter crossing the street,

did you think for a second to
take your foot off the gas?

Why are you
doing this to me?

After all I did for you, I
don't deserve this.

Come on.
It's so unfair.

Case 11107,
People v. Brody.

Fourteen counts of Obstructing Governmental
Administration in the First Degree.

How do you plead?
Not guilty.

Your Honor, I...
I don't know why I'm here,

and I can't
afford a lawyer.

That's why Mr. Berbatov's been
appointed to represent you at no cost.

CONNIE: Your Honor,
People request remand.

Miss Brody is a suspect in eight homicides,
including two hit-and-run victims.

Yet she's only been charged
with a few e-felonies.

She has no ties
to the community.

Her work history traces
back just six months,

not to mention she obtained a social
security number just last year.

My client's pedigree
was good enough

when they asked her to be a cooperating
witness in a sting operation.

Miss Rubirosa, your case is a motion
away from misdemeanor status.

I see no reason to deny this
defendant reasonable bail.

Your Honor, the defendant is privy to the
workings of a massive real estate scam.

The People request
a material witness warrant.

That's just
back-door remand.

Didn't you just tell me she was a
cooperating witness, Mr. Berbatov?

Warrant to issue
in the name of Kim Brody.

(WHISPERING)

Your Honor, since the real estate
scam involves organized crime,

we request protective custody
in a secure location.

A mutually-agreeable
secure location.

KIM: So, this is what I get
for helping you?

Accusations of
murder and robbery?

Why did you send
the police to Brooklyn?

Because that's where Mr. Langdon
told me he was going to be.

It's my bad luck
he can't tell you himself.

His bad luck you and your
boyfriend killed him.

I don't even
have a boyfriend.

(SIGHS) I'm a single girl
all alone here.

BERBATOV: As long as I'm
here, you can't bully her.

We'll discuss a plea
on the bribery charges.

Anything else,
we're not interested.

Bobby Sinclair,

escaped from Broward Countyjail
in '04 while awaiting trial,

convictions for assault
and armed robbery.

You don't know him.

That's your story?

That's right.

He had your lipstick
on his face.

Same make, same color
as the one in your purse.

And in thousands of other purses
in the metropolitan area.

Don't kid yourself. We will
connect you to Mr. Sinclair

and then your clock
will run out,

Miss Brody or whatever
your real name is.

It is Kim Brody.

With a year-old
social security number?

I don't think so.

I never needed one
until now.

I worked in my uncle's
liquor store in Greenville

until he died
and it went out of business.

Inever had a straight
job, until I came here.

I thought finally circumstances
would turn in my favor.

But some things,
they just never change.

First things first. This
material witness warrant,

you'll have my motion to
dismiss by tomorrow morning.

CONNIE: If the warrant gets
dismissed, she'll make bail

and disappear with the money she
stole from Fatone and Langdon.

Well, don't look at me
for good news.

The search of her apartment
turned up nothing.

Far as her pedigree,

we found one Kim Brody living in a
Virginia orphanage 12 years ago.

Emancipated at 16,
nothing since.

No photo, no social.

An orphanage.
I almost feel sorry for her.

Loops, put up your laptop. Florida's
sending us something on Sinclair.

He had help breaking out
of prison four years ago.

From a paralegal
named Claire Tomalin.

She smuggled in
a gun to him.

Claire Tomalin,
Kim Brody?

Here it is.

What do you think? Kim Brody,
the green eye shadow years?

She's an inch shorter than
Brody, 15 pounds heavier.

Same color eyes.

No fingerprints on file.

We can run it
through Facial Recognition,

might take a couple days.

Well, the motion hearing's
this afternoon.

Print it out. Maybe if I
poke the judge in the eye.

JUDGE BARCLAY: lfl understand the
People's case correctly, Mr. Cutter,

Miss Brody is being held as a material
witness against five dead men?

We don't know how far the real
estate scam extends, Your Honor.

Miss Brody's testimony may be invaluable
in uncovering other suspects.

May be invaluable? What is this?
Preventive custody for witnesses?

I'm already there,
Mr. Berbatov.

Mr. Cutter, seems to me your warrant's
nothing more than de facto remand.

I'm dismissing the warrant and setting
reasonable bail on the bribery charge.

YourHonon we believe Miss Brody
is using an assumed name

and is, in fact,
Claire Tomalin,

the known accomplice
of Robert Sinclair,

the deceased murder
and robbery suspect.

Miss Tomalin is wanted in
Florida for aiding an escape,

and once we establish that she and
Miss Brody are one in the same person,

we will be charging her
here with murder.

I see
a slight resemblance.

May I see that photo,
Your Honor?

Your Honor,
it's inconceivable

that anyone as
attractive as my client

could ever have
looked like this person.

YourHonon I have another
photo for your examination.

That doesn't even remotely
resemble my client.

Who is this?

Me, as a sophomore.

I grew two inches my senior
year and then everything,

sort of fell into place.

You made your point,
Miss Rubirosa.

Miss Tomalin's photo is being analyzed
with facial recognition software.

We will have the results
in 48 hours.

We ask that you sustain
the warrant until then.

All right,
back to your seats.

I... I need
a few minutes to consider.

Whoa. I might have stood a
chance with you backthen.

What?

Brody's lawyer is wearing a
man's sock on his left foot

and a woman's sock
on his right.

JUDGE BARCLAY: All right,
here's my decision.

The material witness warrant
is sustained for 48 hours.

If by then, the People cannot
prove to my satisfaction

that Miss Brody and Miss Tomalin
are one in the same person,

the warrant
will be dismissed.

(GAVEL POUNDS)

The officers said
Berbatov spent two hours

consulting with his client
behind closed doors

in the hotel bedroom
before coming here.

And he ends up
with mismatched socks.

We need to
search that bedroom.

Yeah, I told the officers to take their
time returning Brody to the hotel.

Detective Lupo, please.

(WHISPERS) Sock...

Hey, man, are you a... Like a
socks-on guy or a socks-off?

You know...

Yeah, yeah. I know.

Well, I got cold feet, so...

To be considerate,
I wear socks, you know.

I get it, man. I just can't
believe you're telling me that.

(LAUGHS)

Hey.

Hey. Hey!

Found it,
man's argyle.

Berbatov lost his sock, so
he borrowed one of hers.

There's only one way it ended
up buried in the sheets.

Miss Brody found a friendly way to
compensate her court-appointed lawyer.

This is a woman who shot her previous
boyfriend while kissing him.

She has plans
for Berbatov.

I want him
under surveillance.

Loops, you've been on the same
page for the last half hour.

You want to get
through law school,

you're going to have to pick
up the pace a little bit.

Shut up, man.

This stuff is deep.
It's complicated.

Heads up.

ED: Hey!

Step away from the car.
Oh, God.

ED: Put the bag down!

This bag is subject to
attorney-client privilege!

You have no right
to search it!

I have no idea what's in there.
I swear.

I can't talk about this. It's
attorney-client pflvflege.

Which client? The one who lent you
her stocking to wear in court?

We found it in her bed.

What was she doing,
giving you a pedicure?

It's attorney-client
privilege.

Mr. Berbatov,

you're not the first lawyer to
get in bed with his client,

and Miss Brody
is a very attractive woman.

She's come a long way from
the mousy little paralegal

who was seduced
by Robert Sinclair

and helped him escape
four years ago.

In fact you could say

the student has
surpassed her teacher.

She got rid of him
with ruthless efficiency.

The same way
she'll get rid of you

when you outlive
your usefulness.

What... What can I do
to help myself?

We'll let you plead
to a misdemeanor.

In return, you tell us everything
you know about Kim Brody.

But the attorney-client
privilege...

That privilege evaporated when
you went to recover this money.

You became part of an ongoing
criminal enterprise.

What about
my license to practice?

That's between you
and the Bar Association.

Deal, Mr. Berbatov?

BERBATOV:
Yes, room 235, please.

(PHONE RINGING)

OFFICER: Hello, room 235.

This is Peter Berbatov.
Can I speak to my client?

Hold on.

KIM: Let me
close the door.

(KIM CLOSING DOOR)

Where've you been?
I was worried.

I had to take my mother
to the doctor.

You're a very
thoughtful man, Peter.

Did you find
the car all right?

Yes. I got the bag.

Now, rent a car, and put
the bag in the trunk

and park the car in the lot
across from the hotel.

And don't forget
the parking claim check.

Okay.

Are you okay?

You sound upset.

Oh, I'm... No, I'm just
worried about my mom.

KIM: You're a sweetie.

Once you get the car,
call me on the other phone.

KIM: Bye.

(LINE DISCONNECTING)

Good work.

Re-arrest Miss Brody.
The charge is murder.

Who are you?

Special Agent Hasker, FBI.

You?

NYPD.

Richard Cassidy,
U.S. Attorney's office.

That's...
That's our prisoner.

Not anymore. The US government is
asserting jurisdiction over her.

Like hell! We're arresting
her on eight murders.

It'll have to wait.

Miss Brody is a material witness in a
Patriot Act anti-terror investigation.

What investigation?

I can't discuss that.

That's my sweater.

Hold... Hold on!
She's conning you.

Could you
step aside, please?

Miss Brody initiated contact with the U.S.
Attorney's office four days ago.

She indicated
she had information

on a money-laundering scheme
run by Arab nationals.

Assuming this allegation isn't the
fabrication of a psychopathic mind,

how does money-laundering
trump eight homicides?

The government believes we've discovered
a previously unknown terror cell.

It's all detailed
in our brief.

Which, by the way,
we haven't seen.

Under 18 U.S.C. 2003,

the government can only provide that
information to a federal magistrate.

Your Honor, Miss Brody is a
closer for a title company.

How could she possibly have
knowledge of terror cells?

Miss Brody?

These men...
These Arab men,

were buying
and selling houses,

a lot of them.

And all the money was being
wired to Kuwait and Dubai.

I... I got concerned.

Has she provided any
evidence to back this up?

Again, under 18 U.S.C. 2003,
the government can only...

That's not an answer. Your Honor,
Miss Brody is using the U.S. Attorney

to evade prosecution
for murder.

Mr. Cutter,
I don't see how a pause,

however long, in your
proceedings against Miss Brody

will adversely affect
your case in the long term.

I'm remanding Miss Brody to the
custody of the U.S. Marshal

for the duration of the
government's requirements.

Thank you,
Your Honor.

The Feds must've been
her back-up all along,

in case her escape plan
didn't work.

She probably felt Berbatov
was shaky on the phone,

so she pulled the trigger
on the U.S. Attorney.

I called
Cassidy's boss.

Every response from him
consisted of a verb,

a subject and 9/11.

The arrogance...

If we don't do
something quick,

Kim Brody will disappear down
some federal rabbit hole.

Well, until they figure out her
terrorist cell story is bogus.

That won't stop them.

They've been known to invent
cases where none exist.

And Kim Brody will parlay it into
witness protection and a new identity.

You have the names of the FBI agents
who took Miss Brody into custody?

Yeah. Hasker and Cordell.

What are you doing?

Taking prisoners.

Arthur Cordell,
Leo Hasker?

Well, if it isn't
Batman and Robin.

Yeah, look what
we've got here.

A couple of warrants
for your arrest.

Kidnapping.
What?

This is a joke, right?

No.

CORMACK: All right. Let's go, girls.
Move along now.

This is outrageous.

This kind of petty
internecine bullying

while our country
is under attack.

Due process is
what's under attack.

Miss Brody was legally in our custody when
she was hijacked by the U.S. Attorney.

Your Honor ruled that
our action was legal.

An after-the-fact
rubber stamp.

I hope you're not implying
that I made...

My scorn is not directed
at you, YourHonon

but at an Assistant
U.S. Attorney

who is so blinded
by zealotry

that he doesn't see he's being played
for a fool by a psychopathic killer.

YourHonon they keep referring
to her as a killer.

Where are the murder charges?
Where's the evidence?

If we'd been able to arraign
and charge her, then...

She's too valuable
awitness.

Your Honor, I ask you to order the
release of agents Hasker and Cordell.

They are essential
to our investigation.

Mr. McCoy,
this stalemate can't last.

I agree.

I propose
a prisoner exchange.

Our murder suspect
for his agents.

Your Honor,
it's extortion.

And you overplayed
your hand, Mr. Cassidy.

Custody of Miss Brody will
pass to the District Attorney

who will proceed
to indictment forthwith.

In turn
the District Attorney agrees

to dismiss without prejudice all charges
against agents Hasker and Cordell.

Right, Mr. McCoy?

Soon as Miss Brody
is in our custody.

People v. Brody. Murder in the
Second Degree. Eight counts.

How do you...
Not guilty.

Oh, you again.

YourHonon if the People
may be heard on bail...

No need, Miss Rubirosa. Defendant
is remanded pending indictment.

(WHISPERING)

Defendant requests that the
defendant's 18080 release time

be calculated from the date of
her first arrest four days ago.

Your Honor, the statutory time limit
to indict the defendant begins today,

on the murder arrest.

No, no, Miss Rubirosa.
Mr. Lorimer's right.

The original arrest
starts the clock ticking.

YourHonon that gives the
People less than 48 hours

to get an indictment before
Miss Brody gets released.

JUDGE HARPER: Your math
is flawless, Counselor.

Indict Miss Brody by noon
Friday or she's a free woman.

(GAVEL POUNDS)

I'll file an emergency appeal
with the Appellate Division.

Forget it.

Focus on this.

What's your case so far?

We have the stolen money and the
conversation with Berbatov.

Neither of which gets you
a murder indictment.

She made no admission
to Berbatov?

No. We'd have a better chance
of convincing the Grand Jury

she was Bobby Sinclair's
active accomplice

if we could prove she busted him
out of jail four years ago.

(KNOCK AT DOOR)

Facial Recognition
was no help.

But Claire Tomalin used to
work for Orlando Legal Aid.

So, I called them to see if they'd
send over some of her old paperwork.

It came in this morning. Latent
lifted a partial fingerprint.

It's a four-point match
to Brody.

Four-point. Hardly qualifies as
a match, let alone evidence.

I don't know, Jack.

A four-point match is a match
as far as I'm concerned.

Is that what you're going
to tell the Grand Jury?

At trial, she can have her own
experts refute the evidence.

You're splitting
ethical hairs.

So are you! We know Tomalin and
Brody are one in the same.

She's laughing at us, Jack.

Let her.

This is as far as I go.

You're telling me
not to do it?

You're a grown-up.

You're on your own.

I'm getting off the train.

How about you?

All aboard.

A partial print
found on a file

belonging to Claire Tomalin was
matched by the police to Kim Brody.

Yes.

When you say a partial print,
how conclusive a match is it?

Conclusive enough
to convince me

that we're talking about
the same person.

And to convince me that the
woman who smuggled a gun

into Robert Sinclair and helped
him break out of jail in Florida

was a full
and willing accomplice

in his robbery and murder
spree four years later.

Let's break for lunch.

Thank you.

I think we're almost home
free for an indictment.

Maybe not. Brody's lawyer
just filed notice.

She wants to testify
before the Grand Jury.

I have lived
in absolute terror

ever since the day
four years ago

when Bobby Sinclair
kidnapped me at gunpoint.

I had been working on his
case for a few months,

he smiled at me a lot,

and I thought he might be
a decent person after all.

I wasn't very wise
in the ways of evil men.

I don't know
how he got a gun.

But he said he'd shoot me
if I didn't help him.

Once we drove out of Florida,
I begged him to let me go,

but he wouldn't.

I became his prisoner.

I washed his clothes,
I cooked his meals

and he used me

sexually.

I was scared
all the time.

He would show me
newspaper articles

where I was accused
of helping in the escape.

He said that
if I tried to run away,

the police would
shoot me on sight.

When I started working
at the title company,

I told Bobby about Mr. Langdon
and the cash transactions.

I was... I was concerned
it was illegal.

Then one day Bobby said we
were going to leave New York,

that he had a car with a
bag of money in the trunk.

He got real angry when I asked
him where he got it from.

Then...

I was told Bobby
was shot in a robbery

and I was arrested
and accused

of horrible crimes
that I did not commit.

It's just...

It's like I can't wake up from this
nightmare that started four years ago.

CUTTER: A nightmare.

Does that include your seducing
your first lawyer Mr. Berbatov,

whose conversation with you
the Grand Jury heard?

I did not seduce him.

He extorted me.

He said he was getting
paid peanuts to defend me

and if I wanted him
to do a good job,

that I would have to do
something extra.

I was fighting for my life.

But on the tape, you called the
shots, you planned your escape...

No, that's not true.

I told Mr. Berbatov
about the money.

I wanted to turn it
in to the police.

But he said no, that
they'd use it against me.

He said we should
use the money to run away.

He kept pushing me to
tell him where the cash was.

That's not what Mr. Berbatov
told the Grand Jury.

He's a man and a lawyer,

he'd say anything.

(CUTTER SCOFFS)

And you wouldn't?

Mr. Cutter,
when the police asked me

about the Quitclaim fraud, I helped
them find Mr. Langdon, didn't I?

You did help them find Mr.
Langdon, I'll grant you that.

And at great risk to myself,
didn't I also help you

do a sting on Mr. Langdon and
a member of organized crime?

That's not in dispute.

I became a paralegal because
I wanted to help people,

and even after
all that's been done to me,

I've never stopped
being an honest person.

Miss Tomalin...

I didn't rob or cheat,

I didn't drive a getaway car,
I didn't kill any person,

and I didn't kill Bobby.

I cared for him,

even after all
he did to me.

Thanks.

No bill.
They fell for it.

Mr. Cutter.

I... I... I heard about what
happened in the Grand Jury.

So it goes.

Yeah. That's...
That's Kim.

You know? She can be
pretty disarming.

But we can
help each other.

Careful what you say.

The Bar Association's about to strip
me of my livelihood because of her.

There's nothing
I can do about that.

What if I testify that she
told me she shot Sinclair?

That she drove the car
and ran over those people?

It's new evidence, and it will
get you back into a Grand Jury.

Did she tell you
she did those things?

We both know
that's what happened.

There's knowing
and there's proving.

I'm the proof.

Put me on the stand.

My misdemeanor charge goes away
and I get to keep my license.

Think about it.

CONNIE:
We'd be suborning perjury.

It's not perjury
if it's true.

It's too late, Connie. I've already
applied to re-present to the Grand Jury.

Mike, she's not worth it.

You saw her today! It was
one lie after another.

So now you're going to
play by her rules?

I'm sorry, Mike.
Mmm-mmm.

This is where
I get off the train.

JUDGE BARCLAY:
I have two motions here.

People seek leave to
re-present to the Grand Jury,

Defense moves for the immediate
release of Miss Brody.

Your Honor...
Hold on, Counselor.

Mr. Cutter, what's the nature
of your new evidence?

Your Honor, the People...

The People...

JUDGE: Mr. Cutter?

At this time,

YourHonon the People
withdraw their application

to re-present the matter
to the Grand Jury.

All right.

Given the People's position,

charges against Miss Brody
are hereby dismissed.

Pursuant to
a federal order,

Miss Brody is remanded to the
custody of the U.S. Attorney.

(GAVEL POUNDS)

(INAUDIBLE)

(SIGHS) This just came in
from Florida.

They think they found
Claire Tomalin.

They matched the partial print
from the file to a Jane Doe

they've had in the morgue
for the last year.

It's a 15-point match.

As for Kim Brody,
the orphan,

Virginia State Police
located her.

She's a housewife, mother
of three living in Emporia.

It's anybody's guess
who she is.

Well, one thing
she isn't anymore,

our problem.

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