All language subtitles for Law and order - 20x18 - Brazil.HDTV.Xvid.LOL

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.

- Hi, sweetie.

You like my tie?

- Yeah, it's red.

- You can watch me on the internet, bela.

Mommy will show you how.

- I know how. Bye.

ciao.

- Go play baby.

I want you on the next plane home.

- I'm not going to argue
with you about this, dana.

I'll call you later.

please!

The evidence that human
conduct causes climate change

Is open to debate.

What's indisputable is the foolishness

Of the solutions to that supposed problem.

Cap and trade of carbon emissions

Injects scientists into
the financial sector,

Where we have no place being.

- Excuse me.

Excuse me.

I do not agree with dr.
Silva's views on global warming,

But that does not mean that

He is wrong about cap and trade.

It's a racket,

And government policy
should look elsewhere.

- Thank you, dr. Brown.

It's nice to know that
we can find common ground,

Even-

Even despite our ideological differences.

I'm sorry. I have the worst headache.

- Somebody call 911!

- Dr. Silva's been rushed
to the hospital unconscious.

Extremely elevated blood pressure.

Looks like a hypertensive
crisis triggered a stroke.

- And the blood?

- Probably broke his nose when he fell.

- A stroke and a broken nose.
- What can I tell you?

Apparently, dr. Silva's
a controversial guy.

The brazilian consulate
wanted cops in the mix.

- Great.

- Got the video teed up.

- I'm sorry. I have the worst headache.

- Hey, run that back again in slo
-mo.

Look at that.

He was bleeding before he went down.

- Bleeding like that from a stroke?

- Not from a stroke.

I've never seen this before.

we have.

It's called homicide-itis.

- Well, his blood work shows he ingested

A massive amount of methylphenidate

An hour before he collapsed.

Uh, right. It's an amphetamine.

The drug caused a sudden jump in his b-p

And triggered a cerebral hemorrhage.

- Any chance he was popping uppers?

- Oh, I doubt it.

Methyl-p is usually for kids with a. D.D.

- Meaning he might have been poisoned.

- Yep. E.R. Pumped his stomach.

Looks like somebody spiked his granola.

- There was a buffet breakfast
before the morning panel.

But I can't believe anybody
would hurt dr. Silva.

- We're gonna need a list
of everyone at the breakfast.

Do you know who silva ate with?

- Probably himself.

It's a climate change symposium.

He's a climate change denier, so...

- Yeah, the odd man out.

- I know what you're thinking,

But these are scientists.

The worst that happens

Is they flame each other in a journal

Or pull some sophomoric prank.

- Any of that happen to dr. Silva?

- He was worried about
his data being hacked.

He told me he got an alert on his laptop.

The hotel's wi-fi wasn't
properly firewalled.

He was just being paranoid.

- Hey, check this.

Blood pressure meds, pills for ulcers,

But no methyl
- whatever the m. E. Called it.

- Right, and look.

Silva has a file here
labeled "smoking gun. "

It's an email thread
from a dr. Everett brown

To a dr. Larry cattermole,
dated two weeks ago.

"we have to adjust these data hiccups.

"any temperature anomalies

"will encourage the climate deniers.

We can't allow that. "

- Sounds like they were fudging data.

- Silva's not on the distro
list for these emails,

Meaning he's not supposed to have them.

- Stolen emails proving that
two global warming scientists

Were cooking their numbers.

No wonder silva was worried

About somebody hacking his computer.

- All right, so maybe brown or cattermole

Figured out that silva had hacked theirs

And decided to shut him up.

- Guess who was on the panel with silva?

- These are private emails,

And possession of them is a felony.

- Did you tell that to dr. Silva?

- No. I didn't know he had them.

It's the first I've heard of this.

I am very concerned with
the invasion of privacy.

- Not to mention it getting out

That you were monkeying with your data.

- A few data points among thousands,

With zero effect on the bottom line

That global warming is real.

- Then why game your research, dr. Brown?

- Because...

Global warming deniers will use any excuse

To create doubt where there is clarity.

The stakes are too high to
let them muddy the waters.

- You were on the panel with silva.

Did you talk to him at
the breakfast buffet?

- I didn't even see him.

I grabbed a bagel and left.

- We're still verifying brown's alibi.

The other scientist, cattermole,

He was in portland, teaching a seminar.

- Excuse me, uh, loo, check this out.

This is the video of silva collapsing?

This is brown, talking,
just before it happened.

- I do not agree with dr. Silva's views

On global warming.

But that does not mean that is he is wrong

About cap and trade.

It's a racket,

And government policy
should look elsewhere.

- Cap and trade. That's
about carbon emissions.

- Right. Limiting the
pollution a company can emit.

If you want to pollute more,

You can buy carbon credits

From a company who's polluting less.

Weird thing, brown is an eco-warrior,

And here he is, siding with silva

To rip cap and trade.

- Yeah, silva had proof that
brown was falsifying data.

Now maybe he used this to
convince brown to support him.

- Carbon trading
-people make money out of that, right?

- Mm
-hmm.

- A prominent global warming advocate

Bags on cap and trade,

The market might have noticed.

- Stocks in carbon
emissions trading companies

Tanked right after brown's statement.

- If silva knew what
brown was going to say,

He might have made money off it.

- Find out if dr. Silva liked
to play the carbon market,

And then talk to his wife.

She just flew in from brazil.

- We met at a conference.

I moved to rio.

We have the perfect life.

Our daughter nicole, you
should see him with her.

Why anyone would want to poison oscar-

- Well, he is a
controversial figure, right?

- The "warmists,"

The global warming fanatics,

Have accused him of every crime.

But now we see their
lies about the glaciers,

The manipulation of data.

- Mrs. Silva,

I'm sorry to have to ask you this,

But did you know that your
husband bought stock options

In a carbon emissions
trading company last week?

- Stock options?
- Yes.

$50,000 worth of short call options.

Now the company's stock dropped

After dr. Brown came out
against cap and trade,

And now your husband's investment

Is worth $200,000.

- We think your husband
pressured dr. Brown

Into making those statements

So he could profit from it.

It may be a reason why
someone poisoned him.

- Oscar's no crook.

He's a decent and honest man.

You can't be right.

- He said he'd ruin me

If I didn't come out publicly
against cap and trade.

- Did he promise you a cut of his scam?

- No. He said I was lucky
if I kept my reputation.

What choice did I have?

He threatened to send
the emails to the media

If I went to the police.

I was scared.

There's something off about the man.

- Beyond the fact that
he was blackmailing you?

- We were talking the
day before the panel,

And then he takes a call,

And he starts arguing
with someone in portuguese.

Something vicious.

And I got to thinking

That maybe he was raised in a favela.

You know what those guys are capable of?

- No. But you seem to.

Maybe you thought the
extortion had just begun.

I did not poison him.

I swear.

- We talked to five
people at the breakfast,

And all of them verify that brown left

Before silva arrived.

- And with cattermole 3,000 miles away,

We're back to square one.

- Hmm.

- That phone call silva got
when he was talking to brown,

It was from his wife in brazil.

- The phone call that scared brown?

- Yeah. Silva turned vicious,
screaming at his wife.

- She told us she and
silva had the perfect life.

- Hmm.

- Don't worry about his personal effects.

I'll send for them.
- Whoa, what's going on here?

- I'm medevacing oscar to sao paulo.

- 12 hours after you got here?

What seems to be the hurry?

- There's nothing they
can do for him here

That doctors can't do
for him at home in brazil,

So let's go.

- No one's going anywhere.

Please, take him back to the room.

- You don't have the right!
- Especially you, mrs. Silva.

We need to ask you some questions.

- I don't have to answer any questions.

I'm a brazilian citizen
with a brazilian passport.

- Well, this is an nypd badge.

Let's go.

- As a brazilian citizen,
mrs. Silva refuses

To answer any questions until
she talks to her consulate.

- Well, her brazilian passport

Lists new jersey as her place of birth,

So that makes her a
citizen of this country.

So maybe she'd like
to answer our questions

As an american.

- I was in brazil when
my husband was poisoned.

How could I know anything?

- We confirmed your husband
engineered that stock scam.

Now we just need to know
why he needed the money.

Was it a gambling debt
or was it a mistress?

- Is that what you
two were fighting about

On the phone a few days ago?

- How dare you.

- We understand that if your
husband was cheating on you,

You'd be angry.

- Angry enough to hurt him.

- All right. End of conversation.

Obviously you don't have
enough to arrest her,

And we'll see how long
this b. S. Detention lasts

After the brazilian consul
talks to the state department.

- If she was behind the poisoning,

She would have needed an
accomplice to pull it off,

Someone at the conference.

- Someone she would have talked
to on the phone from brazil.

We'll need records from
the local phone company.

- All right, I'll put in an m
-lat request.

In the meantime, we keep her passport.

She doesn't leave the country.

- All right.

So we're looking for
someone at the breakfast

Who might have been
mrs. Silva's accomplice.

- Yeah, well, we're working our way

Through the list of attendees.

We found one gentleman

Who's been pestering the organizers

For a full refund for the conference.

He claims he didn't attend a single event.

- Yeah, except they have his signature

On the sign-in sheet for the breakfast.

- It sounds like someone was
trying to create an alibi.

- Hmm.

- There was an occluded
front over montana

Kicking up rare cloud formations all week.

I'm talking stratocumes.

That's why I bailed the
night before the conference.

- They have you signed in at
a breakfast two days later,

So the skies must have
cleared up in a hurry.

- Impossible. I was in montana.

The morons who organized that conference,

They claim to have a photo of me

Shaking hands with some chinese diplomat.

It's not even me,

And they want to sell
me a print for 20 bucks.

- Can we see that photo?
- Yeah.

- Well, he's wearing your nametag.

- Yeah, look at that. The nerve.

- You know him?
- Uh, yeah.

He was at the hotel bar that night.

Professor shoemaker. From jersey, I think.

- Okay, you caught me.
I crashed the event.

But, you know, before you condemn me,

These-these a la carte conferences

Are very expensive,

And my research grant
doesn't really cover-

- Got it.

You run into oscar
silva at that breakfast?

- Oh, yeah. The guy who got sick?

No. Why?

- You know him?
- By reputation.

I know he's a real mouth-breather.

- Is this iguazu falls in brazil?

- Yeah. It's beautiful, huh?

You see those swifts?

They nest behind the falls.

It's awesome.

You go to a place like that,

You know what you're fighting for.

- Yeah. You spend a
lot of time in brazil?

- A few weeks a year, to
study the green desert.

Green desert.

Of course, they cut down the rainforest

And they planted more pine trees-

- You know who'd be interested
in something like this?

- Hmm?

- Silva's wife.

- Right. Dana.

Very good-looking lady.

You ever run into her down
there, professor shoemaker,

In the green desert?

- Mm, no.

No, I don't
- I don't know them.

Listen, uh, my simulations.

I got a presentation to a grant
committee meeting tomorrow,

And if I don't get cracking-

- You'll be sneaking into
a lot more conferences.

- Yeah.
- Thanks.

- Yeah. No worries. Thank you.

- Loo, you've got seven
calls over the past year

To the silva's home in brazil

From the main number
at shoemaker's college.

- Well, the silvas are scientists.

Anyone at that school could
have been calling them.

- How many of them have
this kind of travel pattern?

Three trips to brazil
last summer, two in March.

Seven, the year before that.

Some for two weeks, some for two days.

I mean, it looks like
shoemaker and mrs. Silva

Were having an affair.

- We have something
from the record search

On shoemaker.

This guy was racking up some legal fees.

Look at all these court appearances.

- Shoemaker v. Shoemaker.

Sounds like a divorce.

Open up one of those files.

- Son of a bitch.

- Hmm.

- Anita van buren for a. D.A. Rubirosa.

- You're arresting her?

- On an outstanding contempt citation.

She was married for six
years to phillip shoemaker.

Divorced in 2006.

One daughter, nicole.

- And three years ago,
she fled the country

With her daughter, in violation

Of a shared custody order

To go marry oscar silva in brazil.

The judge issued an arrest warrant

And granted full custody
to professor shoemaker.

- You and your ex, we take it,

Weren't getting along.

- It's not amicable.
The divorce was ugly.

And not being able to see nicole

Has been difficult for phillip.

- All those trips to brazil,
and he hasn't seen her?

- No, I don't think spending time

With someone that angry

Would be healthy for nicole.

But he keeps suing me in brazilian court

To get to her, and it's cost us a fortune

To defend ourselves.

That's why-that's why oscar needed money.

He needed to pay the lawyer

So that we wouldn't lose nicole.

- How did your ex feel about oscar?

- About what you'd expect.

But phillip would never hurt oscar.

We're scientists.

We deal with disagreements

With emotional detachment and reason.

- That's what the argument
was about on the phone?

The custody?

- I wanted oscar to come home.

I was worried that phillip
would find out he was there

And have him detained.

- Do you have any ties to
brazil beyond your husband?

- No, not really.

- So if something were to happen to him,

There'd be nothing keeping you

Or your daughter there, right?

You'd come home, to the u. S.

- Oh, my god.

If you know this, why
don't you arrest phillip?

- We don't have enough evidence,

Not even for a search warrant.

- Look, if you know anything
that could be useful,

Anything that could help us-

- I don't.
- Please, just think.

Any detail.

- She told you she doesn't know.

- Your ex used a poison

That raised your husband's blood pressure.

Now did he know mr. Silva was vulnerable,

If he had a heart or
a circulatory problem?

- Phillip knew oscar
had some fainting spells

Associated with his high blood pressure.

- Look, I
-I made my peace with dana moving on long ago.

I mean, even if I hadn't,

How would killing her
husband serve any purpose?

It's fundamentally irrational.

- Registered mail
receipt from a p. O. Box

In hogansburg, new york.

- It's for maple syrup.

- Sure it is.

- Hmm.

Suspicious maple syrup?

- Hogansburg has an indian reservation

That straddles the canadian border.

In my intel days, we
kept tabs on the place

Because it was a staging ground

For smuggling all sorts of
nasty stuff into the u. S.

- Okay, so it's my p. O. Box.

I sell tons of sports memorabilia on ebay.

It was probably a
signed canadiens' jersey.

- The recipient said it was maple syrup.

- Right. Well, I ship that stuff too.

It's hard to remember.
I do a lot of volume.

- Ah, the thing is,
vernon, you're on parole

For bringing oxycontin across the border.

Now are you back in the
pharmaceutical business?

Maybe smuggling methylphenidate?

- Honestly, I don't
even know what that is.

- The guy you sent that package to,

We're gonna offer him immunity

In exchange for testimony
about its contents.

Or we can make you that offer.

Five seconds and we're out the door.

- Okay, okay, okay. Look, look, look.

I get a call from some dude
who wouldn't give me his name.

He says he'll pay big.

He sends a money order and instructions

On where to send the pills.

- What kind of pills?

- Methyl-p,
man. Methyl-p.

- Come on, please, please, please.

This is all just a huge misunderstanding.

- Yeah, you'll have plenty
of time to clear it up.

- I hope you die in jail!
- Hey, hey!

I want my daughter back!

- She doesn't even remember your name!

I told her you were dead!
- You evil bitch!

- You murdering bastard!

They're gonna love you, honey!

They're gonna love you in jail!

- Sit down!

- Must be some of that

Emotional detachment and reason.

- Case number 187299,

People v. Phillip shoemaker.

Attempted murder.

- Not guilty, your honor.

- People request bail of $1 million.

- Professor shoemaker
has ties to the community

And no criminal record.

We request r. O.R. So he can assert

The sole custody rights granted to him

When his ex-wife fled the country

With their daughter.

- Judge, the custody
issues are collateral

To a bail determination.

- Not if my decisions impact them.

Where is the child now?

- In brazil, with the
parents of her stepfather.

- Of the man mr. Shoemaker tried to kill.

- The child's mother is in custody

Pursuant to an arrest warrant
issued by the family court.

If my client can't make bail,

The child will remain in brazil,

Far from her lawful parent.

- And if you release mr. Shoemaker,

He'll get his daughter
back, giving him exactly

What his attempt on mr. Silva's life

Was meant to accomplish: Custody.

- So I get to make everybody unhappy.

Fine.

Bail is $500,000.

- Ms. Rubirosa, I'm kate orris.

I've been retained by mrs. Silva

In the custody matter.

We're moving to have her
custodial rights reinstated.

- Dana's moving to
keep her kid in brazil.

She's using shoemaker's indictment

To prove he's an unfit parent.

- The last thing we need

Is to get dragged into a custody dispute.

- Too late.

Shoemaker just subpoenaed me

In the custody case.

He wants a full airing
of the charges against him

To prove they're bogus.

- We'll get the subpoena quashed.

- You'd better.

A prosecutor on the stand

Giving a defendant a free preview

Of his pending criminal case?

You may as well dismiss the charges now.

- This subpoena is mr.
Shoemaker's naked attempt

To undermine his criminal trial.

The details of his case

Are not relevant to this custody dispute.

- Mrs. Silva made them relevant

By arguing the indictment demonstrates

My client's lack of fitness as a parent.

- It's sufficient for this court

To take judicial notice of the charges.

Anything more imperils the
state's compelling interest

In prosecuting an attempted murder.

- The only concern of this court

Is the best interests of the child.

Those might be served by a full inquiry

Into whether the charges against
mr. Shoemaker are baseless.

Motion denied.

Take the stand, mr. Cutter.

- We indicted mr. Shoemaker
because we had evidence

That he illegally purchased the drug

That was used to poison mr. Silva

And he assumed a false identity

To attend the breakfast
where mr. Silva was poisoned.

- I see.

Mr. Cutter, are you the
product of a broken home?

- Objection. Beyond the
scope of the subpoena.

- Goes to bias.

I'm entitled to show
mr. Cutter's upbringing

Tainted his investigation
of professor shoemaker.

- I'll allow it. Mr. Cutter?

- My parents divorced when I was ten.

- A divorce initiated
by your father, right?

- That's right. He left my mother.

- Your parents were granted
shared custody of you, correct?

- Yes.

- But things didn't
quite work out that way.

Your dad kept moving.

Different states, different countries.

- He was a turnaround specialist.

He worked for different
companies, and he-

- You didn't get to see a lot of him?

- No.

- Fair to say, you grew
to resent your father,

Hate him?

- I was ten years old.

- Petitioner's 2
-b.

A declaration from mrs.
Silva's former attorney,

Eli driscoll.

Mr. Cutter strong-armed mrs. Silva

Into filling out an affidavit he needed

To search my client's apartment.

- That is a slanderous accusation.

- Didn't you pressure her
to provide probable cause

For a warrant to search my client's home?

- That's my job.

- And when she couldn't
think of anything,

You kept insisting,
even suggesting evidence.

- The warrant and the charges
were based solely on the facts.

- Are you telling this court

That your animus toward your own father

Didn't undermine your
prosecutorial judgment one iota?

- Your honor, please.

- Yes. Ms. Marks, you're done.
The witness may step down.

- Thank you.

- Well, I've heard enough
to render my decision.

What's clear is that neither
party deserves custody

At this juncture, which
puts me in a quandary.

Fortunately, there's a third option.

Mrs. Silva's parents have
filed a motion to intervene.

I'm granting temporary custody of nicole

To sharon and nelson lehman

Pending permanent resolution
of the custody order

And of the charges against mr. Shoemaker.

Mrs. Silva will make arrangements

For the immediate return
of the girl to this country.

We're adjourned.

- I trust this won't come as a surprise

To either of you.

- Shoemaker's trying
to throw out our search

On the grounds of your bias.

- So my search gets tossed

Because I had a no-account
dad 25 years ago?

- Marks did her homework on you.

- Homework? All he needed was google.

If the search is out, we
lose the p. O. Box upstate

And all proof that shoemaker
received amphetamines.

I can't convict him without the drug link.

- If your case can't survive the loss

Of even one piece of evidence,

Maybe you shouldn't have
brought it in the first place.

- Silva's final lab work just came in.

Even with his hypertension,

The amount of methyl-p
he was poisoned with

Wasn't enough to give him a stroke.

- Then why did he have a stroke?

- Turns out he had a pre
-existing aneurysm.

The methyl-p just blew it out.

- Shoemaker must've known
about silva's aneurysm.

- Well, dana said all he knew

Was that silva had fainting spells.

- If you can establish
that shoemaker knew

About silva's aneurysm,
that would be probable cause

For a search of his apartment.

- Inevitable discovery.

And the evidence of the
drug shipment stays in.

- And your bias stays out.

- I'm positive I never told phillip

About oscar's aneurysm.

It wasn't even diagnosed
until last summer.

- Hold on.

- Now you remember something?

- That depends.

My client sits in jail.

Meanwhile, her husband
has awakened from his coma,

Her daughter is flying in from brazil.

You want her help with your case,

You help with her release.

- Talk to the judge.

It wasn't our custody order she violated.

- No, but another voice
in favor of her release

Might tip the scales.

- Suppose we do that. What do we get?

- Last summer, mr.
Shoemaker sued for custody

In brazilian court.

He argued that dana and
oscar were unfit parents.

His lawyers requested and were given

Oscar's medical records.

- You have proof they were turned over?

- My brazilian co
-counsel does.

I might convince him to dig it up

After my client gets out of jail.

- I'm not going to reward a woman

Who flouted a court order for three years

Because your case needs a hand.

- With or without your help,
I'm going to nail shoemaker.

And at the end of the day,

You'll be sending little
nicole back to brazil

With her mother and stepfather.

- So why fight it, right?

If this custody matter proves anything,

It's that nothing's inevitable.

- Well, whatever you think of my case,

Nicole deserves to get back
at least one of her parents.

- She's fine with her
grandparents for now.

Children are resilient.

- Yeah. Yeah, they
- yeah, they muddle through.

Without one parent. Or even both.

But some wounds...

Don't heal.

- Enjoy your lunch, judge.

- A permanent custody
determination will be deferred

Pending conclusion of mr.
Shoemaker's criminal trial.

On another matter, mrs. Silva,

I have decided for humanitarian reasons

To conditionally release you
to the custody of your parents.

You'll be fitted with an ankle monitor

And subject to home confinement.

Allowance will be made so
you can visit your husband

In the hospital as he recovers.

- Judge, for three years,

Mrs. Silva has thumbed
her nose at this court.

Now she gets to live with her daughter?

At a minimum, custody should be shared.

- I disagree.

If mr. Shoemaker is acquitted,

You can move to have my order modified.

We're adjourned.

- Mommy!

- Nicole. Hey, nicole,
it's me. It's daddy, baby.

Nicole, you remember me. It's daddy.

- All right, come on.

Let's go.

- As promised.

- Do you feel good about this?

- I haven't felt good since
this case landed on my desk.

- We have proof he had access
to silva's medical records,

Meaning your client
knew he had an aneurysm.

Meaning the fruits of our search stay in.

- That's not a given.

- Well, how many years
of your client's life

Are you willing to bet on it?

Our offer is a plea to
assault, five to ten years.

- God!

My ex-wife kept me from my
daughter for three years.

If you think I'm gonna
let you put me in jail

Away from nicole for one more day,

You're out of your mind. Out of your mind.

mike cutter.

What?

Thanks.

- To repeat, we have
an eight-year-old girl,

Nicole shoemaker,

Missing from her grandparents' house

Here in locust point.

Missing too is an inflatable boat

That was tied to the dock
at the back of the house.

The girl's mother and grandparents

Are extremely concerned

That the strong currents
in the long island sound

Have carried the small boat out to sea

With little nicole in it.

Now the coast guard has begun

A massive search of the waters.

However, they have yet to find

Any sign of nicole or the raft.

- Now we pray.

- Sharon and I were coming
back from the grocery store.

We had promised nicole we
were gonna make s'mores.

- Tv was still on, but she's gone.

Dana was doing yoga. Her door was closed.

- So we looked upstairs,
downstairs, and then,

I see the back door's open,

So I rush down to the boathouse

And I find her doll on the dock.

The boat was gone.

- Keep the faith, okay?

Everyone's doing all they can.

- They found her!

- A dramatic scene is unfolding

Five miles out in long island sound,

Where the coast guard has found
a small yellow zodiac boat.

Now we understand that the rescue divers

Are already in the water.

The divers are at the boat.

They're checking.

They're signaling.

The boat is empty.

No one is in the boat.

No sign of little nicole shoemaker.

The search will continue...

- Look who I found.
- Mommy.

- Nicole! Nicole! Oh, thank god!

- She was asleep in the storage
shed behind the boathouse.

- It doesn't matter.
- Oh, baby.

I was so worried about you!

- She's safe now.
You're safe with grandpa.

- We'll take her.
- What?

You go finish your yoga.

What's everyone looking at?

I didn't do anything wrong!

- Good morning.

- The lehmans are moving
for sole custody of nicole.

They want dana declared an unfit parent.

- That's a pretty extreme reaction

To an eight-year-old
being an eight-year-old.

- Yeah, well, if you
think that's extreme,

They're even kicking
dana out of their house.

She's in lock-down at an airport hotel.

- They also claim oscar
silva's an unfit guardian

Because of his health.

- Just covering their bases.

- Well, I'll say.

They attached that
brazilian medical record

About silva's aneurysm.

At the top of the page
here is the fax number

The medical record was
faxed from to the lehmans.

That's new jersey, isn't it?

It's a fax number registered
to shoemaker's college.

He's sharing information
with his ex-in-laws?

- What's the big mystery?

Neither shoemaker nor his former in-laws

Want to be schlepping to
brazil to see the girl.

Makes perfect sense they'd
find common cause on this point.

- Except according to the
header on this document,

Shoemaker faxed the medical
report to the lehmans

Three months ago.

- Makes you wonder how long
they've been cooperating

To get the girl back.

- You're thinking the
attempt on oscar silva's life?

- Well, why not?

If you're willing to have your daughter

Declared an unfit parent,

Then whacking your
brazilian son-in-law

Doesn't seem so extreme.

- Except the evidence points
to shoemaker acting alone.

- Not all the evidence.

We still haven't traced the 500 bucks

Used to buy the methyl-p.

We know shoemaker didn't pull
it out of his bank account.

- Then you'd better subpoena
the lehmans' bank records.

A happy ending.

It's starting to look
like wishful thinking.

- Yeah, with everyone too busy

Trying to get custody of nicole,

It's dumb luck she didn't
end up on that boat.

- Maybe luck had nothing to do with it.

- Nelson's running an errand.

If you want to come back in a few hours...

- Oh, it's just a few routine questions.

And since there was so much
money spent on the search,

The city comptroller wants to make sure

All their is are dotted.

- I already gave the police a statement.

- Oh, yes, about how your daughter

Was too busy to keep an eye on nicole.

Has dana always been so negligent?

- I didn't see it when she
was living here with phillip.

But the past three years-

I can't speak to what happens in brazil.

- Three years. That's a long time.

You must have really
missed your granddaughter.

- Yes. She's our only grandchild.

- We understand that
your son-in-law mr. Silva

Is awake and walking.

So when phillip goes to jail,

I assume your daughter will
be taking nicole with her

Back to brazil.

- I-I-I
don't know.

- It's obvious what nicole means to you.

The prospect of losing her
a second time must be awful.

Awful enough for you to want to ensure

Dana can't take her back to brazil.

- It's almost empty. Want more tea?

- Mrs. Lehman, we can get a subpoena

To do a drug test on nicole.

Whatever you gave her to make her sleep,

It'll still be in her system.

- Child services will question her.

Do you really want to
put her through that?

- We came home.

Dana was in her room, doing yoga.

Nicole was just sitting there,

Watching tv,

Like a good little angel.

And we started to think

How we couldn't lose our angel again.

We gave nicole a glass of lemonade

With an allergy pill in it

And nelson carried her out into the shed.

Nelson's a retired biology teacher,

And he said it would just make her sleepy.

Then nelson set the boat adrift.

We called the police.

We didn't mean to cause so much trouble.

I mean, we just...

We love her so much.

- Did phillip shoemaker know
what you were planning to do?

- No. It wasn't planned.

- But you've stayed in
touch with mr. Shoemaker

Over the years.

- Yes, we've stayed friendly.

I mean, we wanted the same things.

To see nicole grow up,

To be a part of her life.

It hurt so much to lose her.

- Look, you want me to
pay for the search? Fine.

I'll write you a check.

- You're splashing your cash again.

You been doing a lot of that lately.

Sit down.

A $500 atm withdrawal three weeks ago.

And two hours later,
you bought a money order

In the same amount, made
payable to vernon clayton.

The clerk at the western
union I.D.'d your photo.

- That money was for the methyl
-p

Phillip shoemaker used to poison oscar.

- You're nuts.

- Mr. Lehman, you saw how much your wife

Missed your granddaughter.

You saw it for three long years.

- I didn't kill anybody.

- Look, you can stonewall all you want.

But there's enough
here to assume your wife

Was in on the murder attempt too.

And certainly the boat hoax.

Either way, she'll do time.

- No. She
-

Look, I did it.

It was all me.

I poisoned silva.

I wasn't going to let
him take our granddaughter

Away from us, from sharon, ever again.

- If you're willing to testify against shoemaker
-

- No, he
-he had nothing to do with it.

I was the one who walked
into that breakfast,

And I put the methyl-p on silva's cereal.

- We know the methyl
-p was shipped to shoemaker's house.

- No. He had no idea what it was.

I shipped it to his house

So that it wouldn't involve my wife.

The whole thing was my
idea, you understand?

Nobody else.

Nobody.

- Nelson's falling on his sword.

If he cops to everything, shoemaker walks.

- And if he does, he gets to
retain sole custody of nicole.

Meaning grandma lehman gets
to spend her golden years

Doting over her granddaughter.

- Not a bad play for mr.
Lehman. Take his plea.

- Two people conspired to poison silva.

Now I'm not letting
shoemaker off the hook.

- Bird in hand.

In the meantime, lehman'll
have eight years minimum

To agonize over his decision
to cover for shoemaker.

Meaning sooner or later,
he'll be ready to deal.

Now take the plea. I'm not asking.

- I waited until silva
got up to make a call.

Then I poured the contents

Of 12500-milligram
capsules of methylphenidate

Into his cereal.

I wanted to kill him so that my daughter

Would be forced to move
back here with nicole.

And that's all of it.

- Mr. Cutter, are the people satisfied?

- Just one small matter,

Concerning the shipping of the poison.

I'd like to call phillip
shoemaker to the stand

To corroborate mr. Lehman's statement.

- Judge, we object.

Mr. Shoemaker is not
part of these proceedings.

- If we can't corroborate
mr. Lehman's statement,

We're going to reject the plea agreement.

- There's no procedural bar. Ms. Marks?

- My client has no
objection to testifying,

Your honor.

- Nelson said he was going out of town,

And he asked could he have a
package shipped to my house.

I didn't know what it was.

I didn't open it. I just gave it to him.

- But at any point,
did you and mr. Lehman

Discuss poisoning dr. Silva

In a scheme to get your daughter back?

- Absolutely not. I'd never do that.

- So you expect us to believe

That you had zero to do with this,

Despite the fact your ex

Practically kidnapped your daughter?

You even got a court order
awarding you sole custody,

Isn't that right?

- That's right.

- Despite all the trips you took
to brazil to have her returned,

All the money that you spent on lawyers?

- Uh, it's
- it's in the past.

- You mean, you've given up

On trying to get your daughter back?

- I've moved on.
- You've moved on?

- Yes. My
-my work takes up all my life now.

I lecture, I teach.

I spend maybe 60 days out
of the year at home now.

There's-there's
really-

There's really no room
for her in my life now.

- So you're telling us

That you've stopped
caring for your daughter?

Caring enough to do whatever
it takes to get her back?

- Look, um, after three years, she's
-

She's basically dead to me.

I don't really have an
emotional bond with her anymore.

- Judge, is there an end in sight here?

- Mr. Cutter,

I assume this constitutes
ample corroboration?

- Just one more thing, your honor.

- Your daughter is eight, sir.

In a few years, she'll read

The transcripts of your testimony here.

How do you think she'll react to it?

- I haven't really given it much thought.

- Oh, you haven't given much thought

To the fact that you've
just publicly disowned her?

Once she reads that, you think she'll have

Anything more to do with you?

- Objection.

- This goes to credibility, your honor.

- Overruled. Mr. Shoemaker?

- Um, I don't know.

I
- I love my daughter very much.

I would do anything for
her, and she knows that.

- That's not what you said.

I asked if you'd given up

On trying to get your daughter back,

And you said that you'd moved on.

- I
-I didn't mean it that way.

- So you haven't moved on?
- No.

- Now you testified
that there was no room

In your life for her, is that true?

- No.

- You said you no longer felt
an emotional bond with her.

She's dead to you.

I can tell you from
experience, mr. Shoemaker,

Kids don't forget, and they don't forgive.

- You tricked me.

The-these words, they're not true.

- Well, how much of what
you said here is true, sir?

Most of it? Some? None of it?

- None of it. None of it, actually.

None of it. I-I would
do anything for nicole.

- Anything?
- Yes!

- Even risk going to jail?

- Yes.

- And even poison oscar silva?

- Yes.

They stole her from me.

She was my life. She
gave my world meaning.

She made the world a happier place.

And they took her from me.

They took my daughter!

- Two guilty pleas.

You look like someone ran over your dog.

- Well, I won, but nicole shoemaker lost.

She'll grow up with a father
and grandfather in prison,

Under the care of a mom

Whose selfishness set this
whole tragedy in motion.

- It's why I never went into family law.

It's where all the heartbreak is.

- Heartbreak is everywhere in this job,

As you both know.

Take consolation in
getting the right result.

It was a good day's work.

- Yeah. But not a good day.

Sub: Adriano_CSI