All language subtitles for Law and Order s24e04 The Meaning of Life.eng

- 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.

- You're overreacting, hon.

- The man called you
an infidel, Christopher.

- [scoffs]

- Maybe dial back
the large events for a while.

- What, and silence
any public conversation

on God and faith because
it ruffles people's feathers?

Oh, I know that look, Sarah.

- What look, Christopher?

- That look that says
I'm cooking you dinner tonight.

- Three courses.

Penance for being
so eternally stubborn.

- Okay.
- [sighs]

- I'll go out to the garden,
pick some herbs.

- Hon!

Do you know who
dropped off the gift?

[car alarm blaring]

[dramatic music]

[indistinct radio chatter]

- The premises clear?

- Full sweep.
Not easy, given the mess.

- Jesus.

- What do we know?

- An old-school pipe bomb.

Sprinkles on top.

- The nails were on the bomb?

- About 30
from the looks of it.

- All right, do we know
where the bomb went off?

- Right here.

And that's where
they found her.

- Have A&E let us know
if they can pull any DNA

or fingerprints.
- Will do.

- Detectives.

- What do we know
about the vic?

- Sarah Heartwood, age 39.

Medics took her to the ER,
said she won't last the night.

- She live here
with her husband?

- Yeah,
he's apparently an author.

- Get a statement?

- We barely got
a coherent word.

He was trying
to give her mouth-to-mouth

when the bomb squad arrived.

- Where is he now?

- They put him in the bus
to go to the hospital

with the victim.

- All right. Thanks.

- Is she in any way
responsive?

- We can't do the full battery
of neurological tests yet,

but it's not looking good.

- Doctor, is there--
is there anything more

you can do for her right now?

I mean--
- I'm sorry.

We're doing everything we can.
- Is she in pain?

- Mr. Heartwood,
I'm sorry to interrupt.

I'm Detective Riley.
This is Detective Shaw.

We'd like to ask you some
questions, if you don't mind.

[heart monitor beeping]

Thank you.

[indistinct PA announcement]

Now, you mentioned
that the blast happened

just moments after you
and your wife came home.

Did you notice
anything unusual?

Was anything
in the home disturbed?

Any signs of forced entry?

- No.

No, everything
seemed perfectly normal.

- Did your wife
have any enemies,

anyone who might wanna hurt her

or do anything like this
to her?

- No, she was a--

is a reproductive
endocrinologist.

She's beloved by her patients,
her colleagues.

She spends every Sunday morning
volunteering at a food bank.

No, this--this was my fault.

It was meant for me.

- How do you mean?

- I write about faith

from an anthropological
and intellectual point of view,

and some people don't like

an objective, historical
dissection of their beliefs.

- And you think that maybe

one of these people
wanted you dead?

- Well, a few hours before I
was doing a reading of my book,

and an audience member
stormed the stage,

took my microphone, and told me
Allah was going to punish me.

Sarah, she was, um...

she was worried,
and I brushed her off.

[suspenseful music]

- Hey.

Housekeeper confirms
she got there at 2:30,

found a gift bag on the stoop
with a pink package inside.

- Was there a card or a label?
- No.

No, she said
the neighbors were known

to drop off packages
from time to time,

so it didn't seem suspicious.

She just brought it in
with the mail.

And it looks like the bomb's
tripwire was inside the box,

and it was triggered when
the lid was pulled off.

- Did you get any video
from the stoop?

- No, no, the vics didn't have
any front door camera,

but we're still
canvassing the area

to see if any of the neighbors
got any footage.

- And what about ballistics
from the bomb?

- Yeah, Shaw is with Arson
and Explosives right now.

They said that
all the recovered pieces

were covered
in a black enamel paint

that masks fingerprints
and DNA.

- So our bomber was
not a dummy?

- No.
[sighs]

Oh, hey, hold up a sec.

We've got footage
from the book event.

[person shouting and spitting]

There's our guy.

- And I thought book events
were boring.

- Techs report no hits
on facial rec.

- What about video at the exit?

Find out which way he went.

- Yeah, there he is
getting into that van.

Plumbing Pro.

- Plumbers use sulfuric acid.

- Yeah?
- Mm-hmm, for clogged drains.

But if you're smart enough,

you can convert it into sulfur
and use it to make gunpowder.

We improvised a lot
of fireworks in high school.

Okay, get Shaw,
call Plumbing Pro,

find out that guy's name,
and bring the bomb squad.

- Yeah.

[tense music]

- Ibrahim Sami?

NYPD. Open this door.

Sami, you've got three seconds
to open the door.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Hands where I can see them.

Hey, this is a warrant.

- I didn't do anything!
- Do not touch anything.

- What did I do?

- Move, move, move, move,
move, move, move.

- What are you doing here?

What is this about?

- That.

- That's research
for my injunction

to stop the spread
of poisonous ideas.

I'm not allowed
to express my opinions?

- Yeah, yeah,
opinions are fine.

Bomb making, not so much.
- Hands behind your back.

You're coming with us.
Come on.

- Islam means peace.

- Bum-rushing a man behind a
podium strikes you as peaceful?

- Christopher Heartwood's book
is an affront to Allah.

- So how about
you don't read it, then?

- His book, "Playing God,"
claims that

the God of every religion is
a figment of our imaginations.

[scoffing]
A delusion created by man

for evolutionary survival.

- I understand.

You believe what you believe,

and Heartwood's book was
so insulting,

so disrespectful,
you had to do something.

- Exactly.
- So you tried to kill him.

- What?

- You dropped off a package
at his house.

One with a bomb inside.

- [scoffing] Bomb?
- Yeah.

- When he was on stage,

I spit on him as he has
spit on the Muslim faith.

I brought no weapon, no bomb.

But I see.

You assume a Muslim
must be behind it.

- No, we assume someone
with a grudge is behind it.

- Tell us about the circuit
board we found in your house.

What was that for, huh?

- A customer asked me
to build a lighting system.

- Why don't you tell us
where you were today

before the reading,
between 10:00 and 2:30 p.m.?

- Fixing broken pipes
at the building in Chinatown.

The super was with me
the whole time.

I arrived at 8:00,
didn't finish until 3:00 p.m.

- Sami's alibi holds.

- Yeah?

We just got
the security footage back

from the neighbors
across the street,

which picked up our stoop.

Our gift bag boy is
definitely not Ibrahim Sami.

- [whistles]
Broad daylight, huh?

- Yeah. 12:32 p.m.

Bag sat there for two hours

before the housekeeper
brought it in.

- That is
a very relaxed bomber.

- What's that say on his shirt?

- Didn't the husband
say that the wife

volunteered at a food bank?

- Harlem Mission is five blocks
from the vic's house,

runs a soup kitchen daily.

- Okay, get there as soon
as they open.

- Hey, my man, let me
give you a hand with that.

- Excuse me, sir.

Hey, man, we're detectives
with the 2-7.

Man in this picture,
you know him?

- Jason.

He comes in a few times a week
for food, clothing,

whatever he can grab.

- Know where we can find him?

- Usually hangs out
across the street by the deli.

[suspenseful music]

- All right. Thanks.
- Thanks.

[dramatic music]

- Not today.
No, no, no, no, no.

- Do not move! Do not move.

Get on your knees.

Get on your knees!

- It's a couple loosies,
brother!

Don't go all brutality on me!

- We're not here about
your corner hustle, Jason.

We're here about the bomb.

- Bomb? Like explosion bomb?
- Oh, yeah.

You can watch
a video of yourself

planting it
down at the station.

Let's go.

- Criminal trespassing,
larceny, drug possession.

And now you're making bombs, huh?

- You're really climbing
the ladder, aren't you, Jason?

- What are you talking about?

- You recognize
those two people?

- Yeah, the lady.

- She volunteers
at your soup kitchen, right?

- She's cool.

Gives you extra food
if you ask.

- So what happened?
She didn't smile back at you?

- What are you talking about?

- Somebody tried to kill her.
She's in the hospital.

That's what I'm talking about.
- That's a picture of her now.

- What happened to Miss Sarah?

- A bomb exploded in her hands!

One that you delivered!

- Yeah, you remember
that package you dropped off

on their porch, 12:32 p.m.?

The one with the IED in it?

- Improvised Explosive Device.

- Pipe bomb.

- Some white guy gave me $100
to deliver that bag.

I didn't know what was in it
or who lived there.

- Yeah, he's going with
the random white guy story.

- Like, he pulls out
a nice blue bag,

waves a $100 bill
at my broke ass,

gives me an address,
and tells me to drop it off.

- And you never asked why?

- No, sir.

$100 is $100.

- Can you describe
this random white guy

who gave you the money?

- Medium height, medium build.

His name might
have been Jeremy.

- Why do you say that?

- He had a bracelet,
said Jeremy 15.

[suspenseful music]

- Hey, you guys.

Just got off the phone
with the hospital.

Sarah Heartwood
is in an irreversible coma,

so please tell me
we have something.

- Well, I think the kid's $100
errand story is gonna hold.

He's got no motive
and pipe bomb is just miles

beyond his usual misdemeanors, so.

- Was he able to give you
a description of the bomber?

- One that fits
half of New York City.

- What about security cameras
in the area where the bag

was supposedly handed off?

- We're not gonna have
a lot of luck down there.

Most of the cameras are busted.

The one thing he did give us

was that the so-called perp
might go by the name Jeremy.

- All right, what if Jeremy 15
is actually Jeremiah 1:5?

"Before I formed thee
in the belly, I knew thee."

13 years of Catholic school.

But blue bag, pink box.

Those are pro-life colors.

- And our vic's
a fertility doctor, right?

- Yeah.

- Well, that's close enough

for some anti-choice people
these days.

Check it out.

- Sarah devoted herself

to helping other couples
become parents.

- She made
"New York Magazine's"

best doctor list, huh?

- She was one of
the top fertility doctors

in the country.

- Did Dr. Heartwood
ever perform abortions?

- From time to time
those are medically necessary,

but they get referred out.
Why?

- She might have been
targeted by somebody

in the pro-life movement.

- The anti-choice,
anti-science,

anti-woman groups, you mean?

- I'm guessing there's
some issues there, huh?

- Especially since

the new fetal personhood
movement came knocking.

- I'm sorry, fetal personhood?

- [sighs]

The largest embryo
we ever freeze

is a mere 100 cells,
invisible to the human eye,

but the Alabama Supreme Court

just ruled those cells
a human life.

- And I bet the
fetal personhood movement

doesn't like you guys
destroying unused embryos.

- They think it's mass murder.

- Any threats to the clinic?

- After the "New York Magazine"
article,

we got some strange calls.

- Strange how?

- A man would say Sarah's
full name, and then one word:

guilty.

- In the tri-state area alone,

there's over three dozen
pro-life organizations.

- All affiliated with
some religion, I presume.

- Yeah, mostly Catholic
and Southern Baptist.

- Yeah, well,
way to make a stand, fellas.

- I mean, I get it,
but it's complicated.

- Oh, yeah.

Forgot I'm talking to a
nice Catholic boy over here.

- Not really.

I mean,

my wife had a miscarriage
between our two kids.

- Oh, sorry.
- Yeah.

It was early on
in the pregnancy.

And my wife, she's the furthest
thing from a churchgoer,

let me tell you.

She's never gonna
tell another woman

what to do with her body,
but she grieved it, man.

I mean, I felt that too.

So I get it.

I get the importance of choice
and I get the science,

but she was not grieving cells,
let me tell you that.

- Sorry, brother. Mm.
[phone buzzing]

Oh, we gotta go.

499 West 19th, possible package
bomb at a Chelsea brownstone.

Home of Dr. Donald Travers.

- Let me guess, IVF doctor?

[siren wails]

No sign of the bomb squad.

- Anyone hurt?

- The kid's mom called,
and I told her

there was a gift bag on the
stoop that I brought inside.

She started wigging out,
said she read about

a fertility doctor getting
a bomb on her doorstep?

- Where's the bag now?
- Inside with Mikey.

He wouldn't leave it
and come out with me.

- Get them out of here.
- Hey, hey, Vince.

The bomb squad's coming--
- We can't wait, man!

There's a kid in there!
Just get them away!

- Come on, come on,
come on, come on, come on.

[tense music]

- Hey, buddy.
I'm Vince.

I'm a police officer.

You're Mikey, right?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

Mikey, Mikey.

You know what?
I'm gonna take this.

- No!

It's for my little sister.

- Uh, you're--you're
a really good big brother.

You know what?

I think you might
deserve an ice cream.

Do you like ice cream?

You don't like ice cream,
do you?

- Yes, I do. I love it.

But I need to bring this
to my sister.

- You know what,
we'll find her outside, okay?

She's outside
with your babysitter.

Let's go talk to her right now
and get some ice cream, yeah?

- Okay.

- Okay, okay, come on.

- Wait.

The present! The present!

- Dr. Travers.

- You know what,
maybe now's a good time

to get this young man
his ice cream.

- Yeah, let's go do that.

[siren wailing]

- What's going on here?
Why us?

- We think it has something
to do with your IVF work.

- You mean like
anti-abortion groups?

- Have you received
any threats lately?

- A month or two ago,
a woman came in for a consult

and then began ranting at me
about how I murder embryos.

After that, we started
getting these crazy calls.

- Did you get
this woman's name?

- No. She gave us a fake name.

- Can you describe her?

- 20s, tall, long braids.

She was wearing dark glasses.

She left a pamphlet
on our counter

from a group called
We The Living.

[suspenseful music]

- Bombs?

I'm a champion for life,
all life.

I'd hurt no one.

- Mind giving us
your real name then?

- Andrea Rose Marcus.

- Andrea, why don't you
show me some identification?

- Yes, sir.

- Virginia
state driver's license.

- Moved here from Arlington
last year.

- You have an alibi for
yesterday, 10:00 a.m. to 12:30?

- I was on Staten Island

meeting with three different
fertility doctors.

They'll remember me, I promise.

- Anyone in your group
familiar with bomb making?

- As I said,
we're all champions for life.

- Right.

[phone buzzing]

Okay, well, if anything comes
to mind...

Give me a call.

- Bomb techs have
finished their analysis

on the unexploded device.

- 10-inch section
of galvanized steel pipe,

1 1/4 inch diameter.

Rigged to detonate when
the gift box was opened.

- Those are machine nuts?

- Creative flourish
to penetrate human flesh.

And two types
of gunpowder filler,

black powder and smokeless
double base Hero powder

to maximize the blast.

- Can either powder be traced?

- No, there are
a few hundred shops

and distributors across
the country that sell them.

- Any fingerprints or DNA?

- The whole device was sprayed
with black enamel paint.

- You ever seen anything
like this before?

- Not in these parts.

But I ran the size and spacing
of the drill holes

on the end cap through BATS.

- You got a match?

- To a device that was found
two years ago

on the steps of
a D.C. courthouse.

Never exploded.

- They make an arrest?

- Mm-mm.

- How about suspects?

D.C. have anything on that?

- No, just a police sketch.

- The girl from We The Living,
that looks like her boyfriend.

Saw it in a picture
on her desk.

- This is Shaw.

We need to dig into
an Andrea Marcus.

We need the name and last
known address of her boyfriend.

[indistinct chatter]

- Hey. NYPD detectives.

We were told this is a place of
employment of a Patrick Wayne.

- 26, from Virginia.
He work here?

- Is there an issue?

- No, no.
We just need to talk to him.

- Yeah, he's, uh--he's actually
over there by the stairs.

- Patrick.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No!

Back off! Back off!

- Let the man go, Patrick.

Let him go.

- I've got a bomb in my bag!

- All right, everybody out!

Clear the building!
Everyone outside right now!

Clear the building right now!
Outside!

Let this man go.

- Not until my work is done!

- Hey, do not move.

- All I have to do
is tap that phone there.

You have to shoot me or this
whole place is gonna blow.

- You trying to die a martyr?
Is that what you're doing?

- I'm trying to leave
the world a better place.

- Listen to me, Patrick.

You and I, we both know that
suicide is a sin, don't we?

Right?

The Apostle Paul and Jonah,
they were both tempted.

They both endured.
They both pushed through.

Come on.
- No! No, stop.

You don't wanna hurt this man,

I don't wanna shoot you,
and you don't wanna die.

- [snarling]

- [growls]

- Nice try, church boy.

Do not move.

- No bomb?

There's no bomb in here.
This was a bluff?

The whole thing's a bluff?

Patrick Wayne,
you're under arrest.

Anything you say can and will

be used against you
in a court of law.

Do you understand?

- Guess all that
Catholic school paid off, huh?

Miles would be proud.
- Yeah.

- They ran a full battery
of neurological tests.

She's lost all function
in her brain.

- Do they have her rigged up
to all this machinery?

- Well, apparently
it's her husband's wish

that she remain
on life support.

- So what do you
wanna charge?

- We can charge
attempted murder,

and when Sarah Heartwood
fully and formally dies,

we upgrade to murder.

- No, come on.

She's--she's young
and she's strong.

I mean, she might survive
for decades.

- So?

- So what kind of a murder case

can our office mount
in ten years?

And will our witnesses still be
alive or our evidence intact?

He killed a woman

for giving other women
reproductive choices.

And Patrick Wayne is
not some lone lunatic.

He is part of a movement,
a growing movement,

who is mounting an attack
on women's rights.

We have to send a message.

- How strong is our case, now?

- We have an eyewitness
who claims the defendant

paid him to deliver the bomb
and half a dozen calls

from the defendant's phone
to the victim's clinic,

and, of course, the threats
he made to the police

when they tried
to apprehend him.

- The courts have
recognized brain death

in a few manslaughter cases.

- Yeah, but Patrick Wayne
had clear intent.

Besides, if we charge man one,
double jeopardy could attach

and we'd never be able
to go after him for murder.

- So let's charge
attempted murder.

- And risk letting him walk
in ten?

- It's not perfect, Sam,
but I'm not comfortable

declaring that neurological
death is exactly the same

as full circulatory death.

Since when did we get
to distort science

for our own convenience?

- The courts have
been pretty busy

redefining when
human life begins.

Maybe it's time
to ask when it ends.

Patrick Wayne is clearly
a danger to the public.

The bomb makes it
arson plus murder.

Let's take a shot at murder,
first degree.

- Dismissal? On what grounds?

- The so-called victim
is alive and breathing

at Mercy General Hospital.

- Your Honor,
Sarah Heartwood is

not considered fully alive by
any legal or medical standard.

- Do you have
a death certificate?

- We do, Your Honor.

- The victim's heart is beating
and she is breathing.

- By virtue of
artificial life support.

- You want me to treat
this case, this charge,

as though,
to be perfectly frank,

the victim were already
in the ground?

- We do.

- Many states allow exemptions

for recognizing death
by neurological criteria.

- But New York
isn't one of them.

- Your Honor,
The People versus Eulo

long ago established the brain
death standard for homicide.

- Prosecution cites
a case from 1984.

Our understanding of--
of the brain and the body

has changed vastly.

And science,
artificial intelligence.

I mean, who knows what
we're capable of

in the next five to ten years?

- That is all well and good,
but it's just theory.

Sadly, the reality
is more grim.

Sarah Heartwood
is neurologically dead.

She will never
regain consciousness.

We have a team of experts
ready to attest to this.

- I'm going to allow
the people to proceed.

Motion to dismiss is denied.

[tense music]

- We're on our way.

- Yeah, now we just have to
make sure that Sarah's husband

is on board with us
declaring his wife dead.

- It's not a religious issue,

but I feel that Sarah
is still alive,

that she's still with me.

- That is entirely
understandable.

- I mean, her hand, when I
hold it, it's still warm.

- Christopher, you understand

that the hospital has
declared Sarah brain-dead?

- Her doctors are excellent.

They've mapped out
the science for me.

- And we are
charging the bomber

with first-degree murder.

- Go after that sick animal
with everything you've got.

It's just--

I'm not ready to disconnect her
from life support yet.

- It's all right.
You don't have to.

- No, but we will
need you to testify.

And for that, you can't waver

on your acceptance
of Sarah's death.

Putting Patrick Wayne
behind bars will depend on it.

[suspenseful music]

- I'll do what I need to do.

- Thank you for your time,
Christopher.

Your bedside manner
could use a brush-up, Sam.

- Our whole case hinges on our
claim that she's dead, right?

That this was murder, that

his crime merits
the highest level punishment,

so we need our case
and him to be rock-solid.

- I get it, but he's not ready
to say goodbye

no matter what
the medical experts say.

- There's no chance--
- I--I--I know

the chances are remote
and it might not be logical

or rational, but it's not our
job to rob him of that hope.

- No, but it is our obligation

to let him know
the cost of that hope.

- We conducted an
electroencephalogram,

a digital subtraction
cerebral angiogram,

and additional apnea testing.

- In layman's terms,
every possible test.

- Every test in the guidelines

of the American Academy
of Neurology.

- And in your opinion,
what caused

the cessation of brain function
in Sarah Heartwood?

- Multiple depressed fractures

and basal fractures
throughout her skull.

Her brain essentially
suffocated and drowned.

- Thank you, Dr. Matthis.

- Does Sarah Heartwood maintain
any neuroendocrine function?

- She does, but that's
not uncommon for brief periods.

- Which means, does it not,

that her brain
is still somewhat alive?

- The cessation of all
other brain functions

which are needed
for her to live

without artificial support
are irreversible.

- But you could not say that
all of her brain is dead?

- Technically,
I could not say that.

[tense music]

- No further questions.

- [sighs]

Redirect, Your Honor.
- Go ahead.

- Does Sarah Heartwood meet
the legal and medical criteria

set by the Uniform Declaration
of Death Act?

- She does, entirely.

- And have you or anyone
in your hospital

ever diagnosed brain death,

with or without
endocrine function...

that later proved false?

- Have we ever been wrong?

Uh, no.

- Hey.

Thanks.

[sighs]

[soft bluesy rock music
playing]

Our doctor did
a good job today.

Hmm? Made it clear
that Sarah is dead.

- What happens the next time
some "angel of death" nurse

yanks a ventilator?

I mean, what's the charge?

Nothing? 'Cause you know
damn well the defense will say

by law, the victim was
already dead.

Thanks to us.

- Um...

I don't deny there are
consequences, Nolan, but...

[sighs] That bastard
killed Sarah Heartwood for--

for trying to help people
have children,

for bringing life
into this world,

for giving women choices.

And his mission is to kill
more doctors like her, so

whatever we need to do

to bury his ass
is what we need to do.

- Okay.

[sighs]

Well, we still have
to find a way to show

that he is a danger
to the public.

We have to tie Patrick Wayne
to the bomb that killed Sarah,

which is not a given.

There's no fingerprints,
no video,

just the testimony of the drug
addict who delivered the bag.

- Okay.

Okay, so we start
at the end instead.

- The end?

- The arrest.

- The suspect suggested
that he had a bomb.

Detective Shaw and I
were scared.

We asked the workers
to clear out.

He took another worker hostage,
suggested he was ready to die,

that he had made the world
a better place.

- Thank you, Detective Riley.

- Detective...

why were you scared?

- We believed the defendant
had a bomb.

- And then you chatted
with my client

for quite some time, correct?

- Yes, we were trying
to keep him talking

so that he wouldn't
blow the building.

- With what?

Some empty pipes
and a tool in his bag?

I mean, isn't it true that you
tackled and arrested my client

despite the fact that

he had nothing but a
work tool in his possession?

- Objection, argumentative.

- Withdrawn.

Nothing further.

- Detective Riley,
could you clarify for the jury

why you were scared
during Patrick Wayne's arrest?

- Yes, the day before,
we were called to the scene

of a serious attack
at Sarah Heartwood's home,

and the next morning,

we were called to the scene
of an attempted bombing.

- Could you explain
what happened?

- The bomb was
in a blue gift bag,

and a five-year-old boy
was playing with it.

- Objection!

- Uh, Your Honor,
the defense opened the door

by asking why
Detective Riley was scared.

- I'll allow it.

- Who was the boy?

- The boy's name
was Mikey Travers.

His father is an IVF doctor
like Sarah Heartwood.

- Objection.
- Sustained.

Move along, Detective Riley.

- The bomb was covered
in sharp pieces of metal

that were designed
to tear a human body to shreds.

The boy, his nanny,
and his little sister

were all near the bomb.

We were all terrified.

And it was my belief
at the time...

That we were dealing
with a serial bomber.

- Your Honor, the people rest.

- Dr. Calhoun, could you tell
the court your area of study?

- I specialize in the study
of Lazarus syndrome.

- And can you explain
what that means?

- Well, I've spent
the past 15 years overseas

and in the United States
interviewing individuals

diagnosed as brain-dead.

- And how can you possibly
interview people who've

been diagnosed as brain-dead?

- Because they woke up.

[tense music]

- Dr. Calhoun,
why are you here?

- Because I believe
Sarah Heartwood could wake up.

[loud indistinct murmuring]

[gavel slams]
- Quiet, please.

- Your Honor,
I'd like to meet in chambers.

- We'll take a brief recess.

- Your Honor, this is the
definition of fringe science.

- No, Dr. Calhoun is not--

he's not presenting
scientific evidence.

It's more spiritual
and anthropological.

- What do you mean?

- Calhoun is a medical doctor,

but he's also a PhD
in anthropology

and his testimony is based upon
his doctoral research.

- The court held in
Frye v. United States

that scientific evidence
needs to be vetted

in a separate hearing before
being presented to the jury

so as not to confuse them
with bogus expert testimony.

This is black-letter law,
Your Honor.

- He is testifying about people
that he has met personally

and spoken to, and according
to People v. Oddone,

personal knowledge,
experience, observation,

and research are completely
exempt from the Frye test.

- Dr. Calhoun has never treated

or even been in a room
with Sarah Heartwood.

He cannot speak
to her condition.

- Your Honor, prosecution's
own witness declared

that no brain death
determination

has ever been reversed,

and based upon Dr. Calhoun's
research, that is inaccurate.

The jury has a right to know.

[tense music]

- I agree.

I'm going to allow
Dr. Calhoun's testimony.

- 13-year-old Jonathan Myers
in Mississippi

even had full recollection

of things said
in his hospital room

after his doctors
declared him brain-dead.

- So Dr. Calhoun,

in your personal experience
with Lazarus syndrome,

what do you think happened?

- The doctors and scientists

thought they had answers
only God has.

- No further questions.

- Dr. Calhoun,
the cases you cite,

I was able to read about them
just during this brief recess,

because there are so few.

Do you know what percentage
of brain death declarations

worldwide result in reversal?

- One is too many.

- Since you're not a
statistician, allow me to help.

Aggregating the available data,

the approximate percentage is

Point-zero... zero...

zero... one percent.

- An inconsequential number,
you imply.

As long as it's not you.

But what if it were?

What if you were the lucky soul
who got his life back?

- What the hell happened?

- [sighs]
It's an 11th-hour ambush.

- They got the press involved
now too.

Half the city
is waving placards

saying, "Wake Up, Sarah."

What are the odds the jury
isn't feeling the same?

- It's certainly possible.

Their so-called expert
was, uh...

more charming
than I had hoped, but--

- That's not very encouraging.

- No. [sighs]
I think we'll be okay.

We just need to rebut
Calhoun's testimony

and bring the conversation back
to actual science.

- I think we're past that.

- What do you mean?

- This case is no longer
about science or medicine.

It's about emotion.

It's about people contemplating
the unknowable end of life

and being scared.

If the defense wants
to pull heartstrings,

we need to do the same.

So beat them at their own game.

Prepare a closing that paints
a portrait of our victim.

Show the jury who
Sarah Heartwood really was

and make them feel
the life he stole from her.

Whether or not Sarah is legally

or scientifically alive
or dead,

she is lying in bed,
unconscious, intubated,

hooked up to all kinds
of machines.

That's her reality, and the
jury needs to feel that.

- I'll do my best.

[knock at door]
- Hey.

- Hi.

- So I went over
Sarah Heartwood's whole life.

Educational records,
legal documents.

She had a living will,

a clearly written DNR
and advance directive

stating she did not wanna be
artificially kept alive.

- [sighs] He definitely
doesn't wanna pull the plug.

So what's your point?

- If her wishes
had been followed,

we wouldn't be here, Nolan.

We wouldn't be trying
to convince the jury

that she's actually dead.

- That ship has sailed, Sam.

- No.
We're on the ropes here, Nolan.

We went out on a limb.

No, I went out on a limb.

And now
if one juror believes that

Sarah Heartwood might actually
wake up one day, we're screwed,

regardless of how emotional
and brilliant

your closing might be.

[tense music]

- I get it, Sam.

But that is the risk we assumed

from day one.

[sighs]

And yet
we've moved forward anyway.

[ventilator whooshing]

- Christopher.

Did you know Sarah had
Do Not Resuscitate instructions

in her legal documents?

Did she share that with you?

[machines beeping]

When she was brought
into the hospital,

did you discuss her wishes
with her care team?

- I just wanted my wife
to live.

[machines beeping]

[somber dramatic music]

- Do you think Sarah
would consider this living?

Do you think she would
want her killer to go free?

- Hey, good.

I want you to have a look
at my closing.

- We need to call the judge.

- Huh?

- We have information

to share with the jury
prior to your summation.

- Are you saying--

- Sarah Heartwood
took her last breath

at 8:04 this morning.

They finally
took her off life support.

- Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury,

have you reached a verdict?

- We have, Your Honor.

We find the defendant,
Patrick Wayne,

guilty of murder
in the first degree.

- Thank you for your service.

You're excused.

[dramatic music]

- As long as
you can sleep at night.

- [sighing] Oh...

I can, trust me.

We put a cold-blooded murderer
away for life.

It's a good day, Nolan.

- Hey, Nolan.
- Hey.

[sighs]

- Hey, Dad.

How was your day?

[dramatic music]

[wolf howls]

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