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[dramatic music]

*

- Two counts of murder

with special circumstances

have been filed against
Erik and Lyle Menendez.

- He told me everything.

How you shot your parents.

- I had to tell somebody.
I wanted to kill myself.

- You trust a doctor
more than your own brother.

- I think you and I
should go back in and talk.

- I don't have anything
to say to you.

Good luck, Dr. Oziel.

- If you kick me out,

I'll go to the cops,
and I'll tell them

that Lyle and Erik
confessed to you.

- You do that,

and I'll be
the least of your problems.

- A warrant was executed

to seize tapes from
a Beverly Hills psychologist.

- Are you gonna take our case?

- If I feel
I can believe in it,

I will do it.

Mr. Reiner, who wants to be
our attorney general,

is at war with
the most basic social contract

we have:
doctor-patient privilege.

Someone has to stop him.

And we will.

[mournful music]

*

[cameras snapping rapidly]

- You don't owe
those parasites a photo.

Just breathe.

Keep your eyes on me.

- Megan Lang, NBC News.

So very sorry for your loss.

*

- Defendants
Erik and Lyle Menendez,

you've been charged
with the murder

of Mary Louise Menendez

and for Joe Say Menendez.

How do you plead?

- Not guilty.
- Not guilty.

- Defendants are remanded
to custody.

- Your Honor,
the district attorney

has been leaking information
to the media.

I know Mr. Reiner is running
for attorney general,

but that doesn't
give him the right

to poison the jury pool.

- Mr. Alhadeff,

you tell your boss
to stop the leaks.

We're adjourned.
[bangs gavel]

- Remember: no talking
to anyone.

Okay?

[press all talking at once]

- It's going to take more
than a warning from a judge

to shut Mr. Reiner up.

A court order is what is needed

to keep him from turning
this whole case

into some kind
of a reality TV show,

and he can stand in front of
all the flags he wants to

at his press conferences.

Does not hide the fact

that he is trying to trample
on our clients' rights.

- Leslie, do you think that

the DA is biased against
your clients?

- I don't know about the DA.

But I do know that the media

doesn't like rich people.

And with all
the Wall Street scandals

and the white-collar crimes
over the last 10 years,

who can blame them?

But what you are doing

is you are scapegoating
my clients

because their parents
were rich.

You called them spoiled,

you called them entitled.
If you met Erik and Lyle,

you would see
that they are not spoiled,

and they know

the only thing
they are entitled to

is a fair hearing.

And we're going to
make absolutely sure

that they get that.
Thank you.

Excuse me.

[suspenseful music]

*

[reporters calling,
cameras snapping]

*

- Mrs. Menendez,
can you tell us

about your grandsons?

- Mama. Mama.

*

- [distantly] You are charged
with the murder

of Mary Louise Menendez

and Joe Say Menendez.

*

- They're smiling.
Look at them.

Why the hell are they smiling?

*

- As Mr. Chaleff explained,

Ms. Lansing knows the case
inside and out,

and she's a lot tougher

than her very good looks
might suggest.

- Lyle, are you okay
with the change?

- Chaleff thinks
we're going to lose.

That's why he quit.

- No, he withdrew to give us
a better chance of winning.

- He said that they
were going to split us up.

Separate trials?

- That's what
the prosecution wants.

They're going to try
to turn you against each other,

but we're not going to
let that happen, are we?

- Absolutely not.
We stick together.

As long as we're together,
we'll be okay.

- Right.
It's Lyle and me.

- The only prosecution witness

is Oziel's mistress,
Judalon Smyth.

- She's a flake.
She used to date

Al Goldstein,
the porno king.

- It makes you wonder
about Oziel.

How did he end up
as your therapist?

- Uh, Mom's shrink
recommended him.

- First thing we're gonna do

is get his audio notes
and tapes of you thrown out.

Did you give Oziel permission

to share the details
of your sessions with anyone?

- Well, when I started
seeing him,

my parents made him tell them
what I said.

- That won't affect
the privilege now.

The DA mentioned
a threat of violence.

Did you ever threaten Oziel?

- No.
- No way.

- Then it's still privileged.
We're gonna keep those out.

[dramatic music]

- The network gave us
May 17th.

- That's smack in the middle
of the sweeps.

What are the other networks
doing?

- CBS will do it on
"60 Minutes,"

NBC has a special.
But we've got Diane.

- Sexy Sawyer.
Can't beat that.

- I'll get an exclusive
with Grandma;

by the end of the week,
we'll get Oziel,

all the key players lining up
for team ABC.

- Judalon, there was
$14 million involved in this.

But you did what you did,
and that's what you did.

I suggest you have no comment
to the press

unless you want things
disclosed that you don't--

- Really, Jerry?
Well, I just called to say

that the boys are in jail
and I'm not dead.

And you said if I went
to the police,

that I'd be dead
in two minutes.

- Well, guess what.

It's gonna take
a little longer.

*

- Now he'll cooperate.

Let's talk about the guns.

You said you heard Erik
talk about guns.

- No, Jerry told me.

Erik said they bought the guns

in a store near San Diego.

It had security cameras.

Erik was worried
that they were filmed.

After the murders,

they tossed the guns
off Mulholland,

about a mile west of Coldwater.

*

- Hey, you four.

Head over to that ravine.
You two, and you guys,

Hey watch out.
That's poison oak over there.

Hey! So,

only lost three Explorer Scouts
so far.

What do you got?

- Gun stores within two miles
of the freeway

between Newport and San Diego.

- That's a lot of gun stores.

- There's more bad news.

DMV got a request to cancel

the California plates
for Erik's Ford Escort.

It's been sent out of state.

No idea where.

- The biggest problem
people have

with them
is that they're wealthy.

- "Rich, greedy brats,"
according to my husband.

As if it's their fault
they were born rich.

- There's this shopping spree.
Watches, a Porsche,

condos, a restaurant...

- How did they spend money
before?

- Well, Lyle's had
a credit card since he was 15.

Lives in a condo his father
bought him in Princeton.

- What kind of car
did he drive?

- Cars. A three-year-old Alfa
and a Beamer.

Erik had an '87 Escort.

- Hard to be a rich brat
in an Escort.

- So mostly, their spending
after the murders

was the same as it was before.

- It's perception.

People think
they have advantages

because they're privileged,

and now that privilege

is being used against them.

So next problem: the notes
that Oziel dictated

after sessions
with Erik and Lyle

on Halloween,
and there's a tape

of a December session.

We need to know what's on them.

- I've got a friend
from the academy

at the Beverly Hills PD.
I'll ask her.

- Cindy has more connections
than AT&T.

That's why I hired her.

- That, and I'm
the only investigator

who can put up with you.

Um, this is what I've got
on Oziel.

His license was suspended
in '86

for improper billing practices.

There are
two complaints pending

with the Board of Psychology,

one alleging that
he raped a patient

and tried to strangle her
with a phone cord.

- Jesus, why isn't he in jail?

- Good question.

Now, you may have heard

that there's a confession
on those tapes.

There probably is.

Between these four walls
and these four women,

Erik told me they did it.

- Lyle hasn't admitted
anything to me.

- They still deserve
the best defense

we can give them.

- Are you sure about this one,
Les?

These boys shot their mother
in the face.

- Right.
We're all mothers here.

Cindy and Marcia
know about my mother.

She...put me last
from the second I was born.

She opposed me
every change she got.

Still, I love her.

I--I can't imagine

the kind of pain
that must exist

between a mother and child

to provoke that kind
of violence.

- Well, the father
was authoritarian,

verbally abusive.
Maybe the mother was too.

- There's still huge pieces
missing here,

but we'll find them.

*

- We hear you filed a motion
to get your tapes back.

Well, we want them
kept out of court too.

We can help each other.

- I'm not aligned
with either side.

- Understood.
Then you won't mind answering

some questions.

Was Judalon Smyth
in your waiting room

during your sessions
with Erik and Lyle?

- No. Anyway,
there's two padded doors

between here
and the waiting room.

- Then how did she know
what was said in the sessions?

Did you tell her?

- No, of course not.

I honor
the doctor-patient privilege.

In many ways, I feel like
being a therapist is like

a holy man,

and there's a sacredness

to the connections we forge.

No, no, Judalon
knows what she knows

because she read my notes
when she stayed with my family,

and for the record,

she was not a frightened person
doing her civic duty

when she went to the police.

She was not in fear
of the boys.

She just wanted
to destroy me.

- But you told the police

you felt threatened
by Erik and Lyle?

- Well, yes.
Lyle did threaten me.

- How did he do that?

- He took my hand,
looked me in the eye,

and said,
"Good luck, Dr. Oziel."

- You took that as a threat?

- It was said
in a threatening manner.

- Here. Show us.

- Good luck...

Dr. Oziel.

Like that.

With that way
of fixing me in the eye.

Between men,
that's a veiled threat.

- Yes, I know
what a veiled threat is.

So I'm confused.

You filed a motion
to get your tapes back,

and then you gave the DA
an excuse

to use them as evidence

with this business
about threats.

- Listen.

I am in a tremendous
amount of pain

at the idea of testifying
against former patients.

But if the court orders me,
I'm obligated to.

- Yes, that's a nice speech.

I think you're trying to
cover something up.

Like the fact that
you milked them for sessions

that never took place.
- I resent that.

I spoke with
the boys' lawyer,

Mr. Chaleff,
and at his request--

- He's not their lawyer
anymore--we are.

[dramatic music]

*

Good luck, Dr. Oziel.

*

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[buzzer goes off]

- There's seven inmates
just in my unit named Menendez.

Three are named Jose.

- What happened to your hair?

- [sighs] They confiscated
the glue from my hairpiece.

Ms. Lansing is working
on getting it back.

[low music]

This is great.

- [laughs]

- I can't sleep.

The lights are always on
and I can't breathe.

- You'll be out of here soon,
baby.

My parents say
there's no way

the police can use those tapes.

- I just keep having
nightmares about Mom,

and Dad yelling at me.

- Don't think about him.

Think about me.

Think about me waiting for you,
baby.

- [breathes deeply]

- Look, I need your help,
Jamie.

I want you to tell the police

that my dad made a pass at you.

He grabbed you.

- But he never did that.

- Please. If they ask,
just say it.

- You said he liked me.

Why would I lie?

- Jamie, why do you think
you got the sponsorship

to play in Europe?

My dad thought
you weren't appropriate for me.

So he put up
the sponsorship money

to get rid of you.

So do it, please.

For us.

[dramatic music]

- Sorry, no.

If you showed me the guns,
I'd remember who bought them.

- Believe me, miss,
I wish we had guns to show you.

- Les.

Check the name on this one.

- Donovan Goodreau.

- Lyle's old roommate.

He bought two 12 gauge
Mossbergs, August 18th.

- Says they checked
his driver's license.

- Hey, uh, would you have
a security tape

from August 18th last year?

- Our camera doesn't work.

We just keep it there
to scare the bad guys away.

[ominous music]

- The New York cop
who helped us

with the Billionaire
Boys Club.

- Boggs.

- I hope this number's
still good.

*

- Detective Zoeller.

Yeah, his alibi checks out.

He was working here
August 18th.

- All right. Thank you,
Detective Boggs.

Any time you're in the
neighborhood, give me a ring.

- NYPD, at your service.

*

- Hello?

- Looks like you're
off the hook.

- For what?

- Oh, your driver's license

was used to buy two shotguns

in San Diego, two days
before the murder.

You lend your license
to anybody?

- I-I lost it.
I left it behind

when Lyle threw me out
of his dorm in Princeton.

*

- I think I said,
"Good luck, Dr. Oziel."

Just, like, "Have a nice life."

I wasn't ever planning
to see him again.

- Did you mean
to threaten him?

- No. I was mad at Erik.

Oziel could go to the police.

- Did you want to kill him?

- No, I was just...

annoyed.

I-I think he had
some idea to blackmail us,

but I told Jerry Chaleff
about Oziel.

Why would I do that
if I wanted to kill Oziel?

- Okay.

I don't want you
to get in trouble here, Lyle,

and sometimes,
when you're annoyed,

it can come off as anger.

[ominous music]

- That's my father.

He said in business, it's good
to make people afraid of you.

- In prison,
that's a dangerous game.

*

- I, um...

Appreciate the advice.

And, Miss Lansing,
thanks for...

getting my glue back.

- [laughs]
You can call me Jill.

And my friends call me
"Jilly."

- Why would I threaten
Dr. Oziel?

I wasn't mad at him.

- No? I'm mad at him.

He exploited you.

[dramatic music]

You ever get angry, Erik?

At Lyle?
Maybe at your parents?

*

- [sniffs]

- You know you can talk to me,
right?

*

My mom is an emotional abuser.

I've never stopped loving her,
not for one second.

But I get so angry at her,

so angry.

*

On that last day
with your parents,

were you angry?

*

- Now that you say it
like that, I guess.

- Were you afraid?

- [breathes deeply]

All the time.

As bad as it is in here,
it's...

it's amazing, not to have to
be afraid anymore.

- Afraid of what, honey?

- [sighs]

- That tape Oziel did with
Erik and Lyle in December,

I need to know what's on it.

- I haven't heard it.
Lyle told me

that Oziel
did most of the talking.

Uh, suggested motives
for the murders.

The boys went along
with whatever he said.

- Which was what?

- Oziel suggested the boys
were trying to escape

Jose's dominations, control.

- They had escaped!

Lyle was at Princeton,

Erik was going to UCLA.

So what motive did Oziel
suggest for killing the mother?

- Mercy killing.
Kitty was suicidal,

couldn't survive without Jose.

- Dah, what baloney.

- Les, they did it.
- I'm not saying they didn't.

I'm trying to get
my head around a motive,

and nobody's giving it to me.

I can't provide a defense

if I don't understand
what happened and why.

I need somebody
to open those boys up.

[sighs]

This is Bill Vicary.

He's a psychiatrist.

I've worked with him before.

He would not be here
if he wasn't the best.

- And we think he can help us
move things forward.

- I'm pleased to meet you both.

I look forward
to getting to know you.

- Do you have any questions
for Dr. Vicary?

- No, I can't think
of anything.

- Look.

We have a tough situation here,

and Bill is here to help us.

And we all know
you guys did it.

Isn't that right?

Then talk to Bill.

[ominous music]

*

- My father's standards
were impossibly high.

That was hard for us.

- Can you give me an example?

- My girlfriends.

Even after I went away
to Princeton,

he tried to control
who I dated.

Nobody was ever good enough.

- How'd you feel about that?

- Again, just domination,
control.

- Lyle, those are
your father's actions.

I'm interested
in how you felt.

*

Erik,

did you understand my question?

- [sighs]

My stomach's upset.

- Do you want me
to repeat my question?

*

- Dad was an atheist.
My parents only cared about

the practical world.

Do you think they spike
the food here with drugs?

*

- I don't think so.

Does it worry you?

- No. Just curious.

*

- When you asked me
to evaluate them,

I completely accepted
the prosecution theory.

Rich kids, pissed off
at their oppressive parents,

killed them to get the money

and go on with their lives.

- Except that kids
rarely kill their parents.

- Yes. And these two
are much sicker

than I expected.

Lyle's suspicious.

Paranoid.

Being in a room with him
is anxiety-provoking.

But he's bright.

Articulate.

- And Erik?

- A mess.

He's all over the place.

I'll never get the story
out of him.

I might not get it
from Lyle either,

but it'll be more pleasant.

- Well, it's not either/or,
Bill.

I need you to work with Erik,
too.

- He's very fragile.
If I push too much,

he might have a psychotic
break.

- Which is nothing
compared to

choking him with cyanide gas,

which is what the DA
wants to do.

We can't stop them
without the truth.

Erik is not as weak
as you think.

If you need to push him,
just hold your nose and do it.

Anything to keep those boys
out of the gas chamber.

*

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- Jerry used mind control
on me.

To get me to do things.

- By telling you
you're in danger.

- No, with hypnosis.

Jerry controlled me
with special words,

like "thorns."

He'd say "thorns"
over and over again

to get me to agree to things.

"Thorns, thorns,
thorns, thorns."

[sighs]

- Oh, look! Diane Sawyer!

She called me. She wants
to have lunch with me.

- Absolutely not.
If you give her

an interview,
you're out as a witness.

- You won't be famous anymore,
Judalon.

- That's so unfair.

She wants to put me on TV.

- You gotta see this.

- Coming in May:
an NBC News Special.

The murders that shocked
the nation...

- ABC is also
doing a special in May.

- Of course.
It's the effin' May sweeps.

We're in for
the full-tilt boogie now, kids.

[phone rings]

- They're still out there.

[phone rings]

- Boxer's.

It's for you.

It's Diane Sawyer.

[ominous music]

*

- Your producer lied to me.

Okay? He promised that

you wouldn't film or quote me,

and now there's cameras
outside my work.

- You know those
intrepid reporters.

I have no intention
to deceive you, Donovan.

But you have a unique insight
into this story

that people need to hear.

Can Will come in
to talk to you?

- Yeah. Yeah, okay.
I guess I can talk to them.

*

- Nobody says no to Diane.

So how about it?

Your 15 minutes of fame.

Most people never even
get that, you know?

*

- I owe them
the benefit of the doubt.

I mean, why would they
kill their parents?

They had great cars,
great clothes.

You couldn't ask for more.

- Okay. Let's turn
the camera off for a minute.

Glenn, a source told us
there's a taped confession

Lyle and Erik made
to their therapist.

*

- Okay...

Jesus...

- It's just for a little while.

ABC wants to film your cells.

- What? Can they do that?

Lyle, I have, like,
religious stuff in there.

It's private.

- I know. Deputy,

can we please at least
cover our personal items?

- Make it quick.

*

- Hang in there,
little brother.

*

- I know

Reiner gave ABC permission.

What? Because they're
human beings, Elliott.

Those cells are their homes.

What is with you people?

- You'll like this.

Attorneys for the media
are petitioning the court

to have the autopsy reports
released.

*

- Those reports show
everything.

It's not decent.

My mom, she was
a private person.

- I know it's hard, Lyle,
but there's nothing you can do.

So let Leslie and me
do the worrying

and we'll fight it
in the hearing.

My daughter hates
when I do that.

Tell her she has no power
to change what's bothering her.

- Well, how old is she?

- She's three.

- So she really has no power.

- Well, she thinks she does.

She wants a baby brother,

and I've told her
that is not happening.

- Oh, no, you should
give her one.

Little brothers are great.

- Like Erik?

Were you excited
when your mom brought him home?

- Yeah, I was so happy.

I wasn't alone anymore.

- These things always
run late.

Maybe you noticed we lawyers
like to hear ourselves talk.

[laughs]

Jerry Chaleff told me
you wanted to be an actor.

- Mm, no.

I mean, I did, but no,
my parents made me stop.

- That didn't make you angry?

- I wasn't angry.

I was sad.

I liked it.

Being somebody else.
Disappearing.

- When did you get interested
in acting?

- Uh, when we lived
in Calabasas.

- I bet you wanted
to disappear then.

Having to take the blame
for Lyle

for all those burglaries.

- No, that was
just common sense.

- How so?

- [sighs]
Lyle's like...

a genius IQ.

I mean, people are drawn to him
like a magnet.

He was the one who had
a shot at something really big.

- Senator, Dad said.
Maybe even president.

Not like me.
I'm...

I don't know.
I'm not that important.

[melancholy music]

*

[reporters clamoring]

- Judge Albracht authorized

the release
of the autopsy reports.

This is a victory
for my clients in the media,

but more importantly,
it's a victory

for the public's right to know.

- The district attorney
fully supported

Mr. Jacobi's motion.

In a free society,
the media has a right

to see the entire
Menendez file.

- Leslie, what about
the public's right to know?

- This is not about the public.

This is about ratings
for Mr. Jacobi's clients.

- The DA supported
releasing the files.

- Of course!
Mr. Reiner wants to dump

as much poison as possible
into the jury pool.

Mr. Reiner knows

my clients cannot defend
themselves on television.

He doesn't care
about a fair trial.

Okay? Thanks.

- They take away
my son's dignity!

- Give us some room, please.

That's okay, Maria,
we're going to appeal.

- Leslie! Leslie!
You're going to appeal?

Ms. Menendez, how do you feel
about your grandsons?

- Is this what you want?
Is it?

.

[fast-paced electronic music]

- This is ABC Primetime,

with Diane Sawyer.

- The city of Beverly Hills

has been rocked by a drama
at once riveting and chilling.

Nearly a year ago...

But there's another person
that sources say

might link the brothers
to the murder weapons.

This is Donovan Goodreau.

- Aw, dude, you're famous!

[laughter]

- Shotguns were purchased
in San Diego

using his California
driver's license.

Goodreau told police
his license was missing,

possibly left in the dorm
he used to share

with Lyle Menendez.

- Other crucial evidence:

notes from therapy sessions
were found

at the home of Erik's
Beverly Hills therapist,

Dr. Jerome Oziel.

- A therapist is like
a priest or minister,

in that people come in
and confess.

But also, they look for
someone

to help them work
through their problems.

Like any therapist,
I carry with me at all times

hundreds, if not thousands,
of people's secrets.

And it's a sacred obligation
to preserve those secrets,

unless the law
mandates otherwise.

- For now, the boys
who once lived

in a mansion
in Beverly Hills

live in these cells
in Los Angeles County Jail.

Hard as it is to believe

children would kill
their parents for money,

District Attorney
Ira Reiner

believes money
is only part of the puzzle.

- People kill for money,
Diane,

but mostly,
they kill for hatred.

- But how could these parents

create that kind of hatred
in these boys?

- I have no idea.
Who can understand that?

I don't.

- You and me both, Ira.

You and me both.

- Cemetery in Princeton.

- Everything changes now.

They did it.

- There's still things
that we don't know.

- They used
their buddy's license

to buy shotguns.

- We don't want
any more money from the estate

going to their defense.

- That's not your decision.

- They murdered my sister.

- First of all--
- And if they get

the death penalty?

Your sister and my brother
are part of those boys.

You want them killed again?

[somber music]

*

- Jerry asked me to listen in

from the waiting room
in case things got out of hand

with Erik and Lyle.

I heard Lyle threaten Jerry.

He said they would kill him

to keep him from going
to the police.

Later, Jerry told me
everything.

- You hear conversations
in a soundproof office

through two sets
of padded doors?

You hear dog whistles too,
Miss Smyth?

- I thought this was about
Jerry's tapes.

- It is.

- Go ahead, Ms. Abramson.

- So you said that Dr. Oziel
told you everything

about his session
with Erik and Lyle.

Was he in the habit

of sharing his patients'
confidences?

- Yeah, sure.
I was his lover.

He told me what his sex therapy
patients were into,

especially the ladies.

He wanted a threesome.

- Judge, please tell her
to stop

flashing her impressive bosom
at you.

- Okay...

I want to say that

I have limited control

over my words and actions
right now.

Jerry Oziel is using
mind control on me.

He's out in the hallway,
using special words.

[desolate music]

- No more questions.

*

- And when Erik Menendez

came into your office,
where was Judalon Smyth?

- Before I answer, Your Honor,

this hearing is closed
to the press, isn't it?

- Yes, it is, Doctor.

I had arranged to have Judalon
sit in the waiting room.

- [whispering]
Lying such...

- I was worried about what Erik

and his brother might do.

- And afterwards, did you

share details of the session
with Miss Smyth?

- Yes, for her safety.
She was at risk; we both were.

As I told you,
Lyle had threatened me.

- If you were so afraid

after Lyle wished you
"Good luck,"

why didn't you go home
to protect your wife and kids

instead of going to boink
your mistress?

- I was worried that
Lyle and Erik

might follow me home
to my family.

- But you had no problem
leading them to your mistress.

How gallant of you.

Now, Dr. Oziel,

didn't you tell Ms. Lansing
and me

a few weeks ago that

Ms. Smyth was not
in your waiting room?

- You must have
misunderstood me.

- Well, let me be sure
I understand you now.

So you just testified
that you violated

the doctor-patient privilege
by telling Judalon

about your sessions with Erik.

- Only because of the threats.

- She testified that you
routinely violated

that privilege,
telling her about

your sex therapy patients...
- No, that's a lie.

The privilege is a sacred bond
between me and my patients.

- Well, wasn't your license
suspended in 1986

for abusing that sacred bond?

- A temporary suspension.

- I have an affidavit
from a former patient

you had an affair with
and tried to strangle

with a phone cord.

Now, was that
a sacred phone cord?

- Lies.
All lies.

- These alleged threats--

Those are the lies

that you made up to scare
Judalon,

to manipulate her.

You don't help people, Doctor.
You make them sicker.

[dramatic music]

*

- The judge will render
a decision

in a couple weeks.
Fingers crossed.

- My colleagues at the paper
aren't too happy

about the hearings
being closed.

- Well, tough.

- That's what I told them
you'd say.

You know,

maybe later this year,

for sure before the adoption,

I'd like to take you
to visit the old sod.

We could pick up a car
in Dublin,

head out to Tullamore.

Les...

We don't have to go,

but you need to find some way

to disconnect from all this.

Even for a week.

- Oh, I know, I know.
I want to go.

Oh, look.

- In a stunning rebuke
to District Attorney Reiner,

Judge Weisberg
declared a mistrial

after the jury deadlocked

in the retrial of
Raymond Buckey

in the McMartin Preschool
molestation case.

- Wow. How many years
did that take?

- Seven years and $15 million.

Oh, this is not good.

This is gonna rebound on us.

- Buckey was cleared...

*

- Most of the jury thought

the kids had been coached

to say they'd been molested.

- Weisberg lost control,
that's what.

- Okay, Pam, you're back
on Menendez, first chair.

- But what about Ray Buckey?

- Forget him.
The focus is Menendez.

Their whole defense team
is women.

The jury will see them
fawning over these boys,

they'll think
"How bad can they be?"

We're not ceding that ground.

Pam will be in charge.

*

- Can't believe he demoted me.

- Time to show
you're a team player, Elliott.

- From October 31st

to December of 1989,

there were a series of sessions
between Dr. Oziel

and the defendants
concerning their mental health

after the murder
of their parents.

There were audio notes
by Dr. Oziel

for the October 31st and
November 2nd sessions,

and a recording of a session
on December 11th.

I have ruled that
none of these communications

are privileged.

Dr. Oziel had reasonable cause
to believe

that the brothers
constituted a threat

and that it was necessary

to disclose
those communications

to prevent the threat
and danger.

[bangs gavel]

[shutters snapping]

- We're gonna fight this, Erik.
Do not lose hope.

[dramatic music]

*

- The ruling means the DA

can use the tapes
against Erik and Lyle.

Will you appeal?

- What do you think?

- On what grounds?

- That it's wrong.

.

- [crying]

[ominous music]

*

- Where are you going,
Uncle Jose?

I'm bored.

I want to do something.

- Stay in Erik's room,
Andy.

We're just going to
play a game.

- I want to play.

I want to play too.

I want to play!

I want to play too!

Let me in!

[knocking]

- It's your fault.

- Dad...

- You're stupid.

- No, Dad, don't say that.

[breathes deeply and rapidly]

Where are you?

- You're not worthy
of being a Menendez.

- [cries]
Stop.

[cries]

*

- I'm not getting anywhere
with Lyle.

But Erik...
He talks about this nightmare.

Come right up to the edge
of a breakthrough and...

then he pulls back.

Same thing over and over again.

- There's got to be more
to that family.

- Yes, I agree, but some people
go to their graves

with their secrets.

You have to be ready
for that.

Is a plea bargain
not an option?

- Yep, and I am open
to anything

that keeps those boys
off death row.

- I think I'm going crazy.

I hear my father's voice
at night, in my cell.

- Is the voice in your head?

- No.

It's like he's next to me,
like a ghost.

I get up,
and I look for him.

- Have you had
any more nightmares

with the green face
since we last talked?

- [cries]
Yes.

Something doesn't make sense.

When I climb the roof,

to get to my mother,

it's so she'll help me.

But she never helped me
with Dad.

She always sided with him.

- Did she know
you had nightmares?

- Yes.

She would put me
in a cold shower.

I would want to
tell her things,

but I couldn't.

- What did you want to
tell her?

- I wanted--
[sobs]

I wanted her to--

[breathes raggedly]

I wanted her to make
the nightmares stop.

- How could she do that?

- I can't talk anymore.

I need to be quiet.

I need to read my Bible.

- Okay.

*

Erik, what if I could
make the nightmares stop?

Your mother couldn't,
but I think I can.

Will you let me?

*

I called you
as soon as I was sure.

This was two days ago.

Erik finally told me
the green face.

*

- When I was five or six,

Dad would massage my penis.

You know? With his mouth.

He said he loved me.

When I got older,
he had me do oral sex on him.

And I did it, because...

Two years ago,
he threatened me with a knife,

because I said
I didn't want to

have sex anymore.

[shuts off tape]

- Yesterday, he told me,
when he turned 11,

his father started raping him.

- He's a kid who claims
he hears voices.

- When someone tells me
they hear a voice,

I ask if the voice
is in their head.

The fakers always say it is.

The people telling the truth

say the voice comes
from outside them.

Erik said it was as if

his father was in the room
with him.

I believe him.

- Has Lyle said anything
about abuse?

- No, I've hit a wall
with Lyle.

I've asked a colleague,
John Conte,

to talk to him.

He specializes in child abuse.

- Okay. Thanks, Doc.

*

Oh, I trust Vicary's judgment.

- If Erik was abused
for most of his life,

where was his mother?

Where was the rest of
his family?

- Hard to picture
a 17-year-old...

I mean, Erik's an athlete.
He's no pushover.

- And even if it's true,

what does it have to do
with the murders?

I know you see a defense here,
Leslie, but I'm not so sure.

- First, we need corroboration.

We also need to know more
about this family.

- The evidence better be
convincing,

because the image
this family has--

the picture-perfect smiles--

sex abuse is going to be
a tall leap for a jury.

- It's a tall leap for me.

- You really believe
what Erik said, Leslie?

- As a mother and
a human being,

I believe it.

As a lawyer, I'll believe it
when we can prove it.

So let's find the proof.

[dramatic music]

*