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- Next case.

Case number 47652, The People vs. Crawford.

- Mr. Mandel, is that your client?

- Yes it is.

- How are you doing?

I spoke with the arresting officer.

Police say the shooter was driving

your car, wearing your jacket.

- Told you, man, I didn't do it.

Just get me back to juvie.

- That's not happening.

The DA is cracking down on gang killings,

wants you tried as an adult.

- Look, man, you just do your thing and I'll do mine--

- Case number 47653--

- And everything will be cool, OK?

- The People vs. Alejandro Cruz.

- Next round, counselor.

- Ready, Your Honor.

- He's not standing.

- Stand up.

- Your client have some sort of disability, Mr. Morales?

- One moment, Your Honor.

(WHISPERING) This is my turf.

These are my rules.

Get your ass off that bench.

Otherwise this judge will send you away for life.

- Mr. Morales, I'm waiting.

- What the hell are you doing in my car?

- Be cool.

I didn't even put one scratch on it.

- Get out.

- I'm Alejandro's brother, Mitchell.

- What do you want?

- AK Deuces offed that dude, not my brother.

They made the shooting look like Alejandro did it.

- His own gang set him up?

- That's what they do, man, so nobody snitches.

- How?

- Boss of the Deuces made my brother

hold the gun after it was used.

Alejandro's prints are all over that thing.

- For insurance?

- Not anymore.

I know if you got the gun, the Deuces

can't blackmail my brother.

- No, you can't give this to me.

See, that just makes trouble.

- Better you than me, man.

- Hey, hey, hey!

[theme music]

[upbeat music]

- Anybody know the whereabouts of our Mr. Morales?

- He had a pro bono arraignment this morning.

- Then let's begin.

- First, The People vs. Emory Lewis and Gary Stubbs.

I should hope those animals who beat

you will finally get convicted.

- Unfortunately, the eyewitness backed out.

She's afraid of reprisals from neighborhood kids

if she testifies.

- That shouldn't affect our case.

Stuart was really convincing at the prelim.

He'll do even better at trial tomorrow.

- Next, Marciante vs. Bernheimer Memorial Hospital.

- That's mine.

Anthony Marciante's girlfriend is brain-dead

after an automobile accident.

She's also 18 weeks pregnant.

- And being used as an incubator to bring the baby to term.

I caught the story on the news.

That's grotesque.

- We're seeking a court order to keep her body functioning long

enough to deliver the baby.

However, the girlfriend's mother wants to pull the plug

and bury her daughter.

- Well, I agree.

The woman's dead, for God's sake.

- Arnie, we're talking about a potential human life.

Mr. Marciante wants to be a

- Father he should have thought about that

before driving himself and his girlfriend off the road drunk.

- He killed her and now he wants to keep--

- It was an accident, man. - He still has rights.

- So does the girl's mother. - What about the baby?

- All right, folks, we're all on the same team.

- Mr. Morales.

Honored that you could join us.

How was the arraignment?

- People vs. Alejandro Cruz.

He's charged with shooting a news vendor who refused

to pay protection money.

- Any extenuating circumstances, Daniel?

- No, Leland, not really.

I'm trying to have Cruz tried in juvenile court,

but right now, that's looking doubtful.

- Well, if there's no other business, we're adjourned.

- Melina, I need your advice.

- What is it?

- [sighs] Well, we can't talk here.

And actually, I should speak first with my client.

- Cruz?

- Yeah, I may be in trouble on this one.

I'll catch you later.

- All right.

- Mr. Mullaney?

- Yeah.

I'm, uh, looking for my son Tommy.

- Nice to meet you.

I'm Roxanne.

- Yeah?

- Roxanne Melman.

Well, your son and I used to work together when he was here.

- Oh, did he get fired?

- No, no.

Tommy works at the district attorney's office now.

- Oh, truth, justice, the American way, huh?

I guess him and me sort of lost touch.

I haven't been in the same room with him

since his wedding to Blondie.

- Oh.

- If I'd have known the airlines didn't let you smoke anymore,

I don't think I would have made the trip.

- Well, I'd be glad to take you over to Tommy's office.

- Don't bother.

I'll go down and get a cab.

- Well, LA's not like Boston.

Here, you have to call for a ride.

- Now, how did you know I'm from Boston?

- Well, Tommy talks about you.

- He does?

He's a good kid.

Like this one.

Yours?

- A friend's.

- [baby talk]

- [baby fussing]

- Aw.

What's the matter?

- I'll just go find somebody to watch Lucy, and, uh, we'll go.

- Thanks.

- Anthony, if you would, tell the court about the events

leading up to your--

your accident.

- Karen and I had been up in the mountains above San Bernardino.

We'd been fighting a lot, so we decided

to spend the weekend together alone to see

if we could work things out.

Driving home, I had a few drinks.

More than a few.

I--

I fell asleep at the wheel.

I came away with a few cuts and bruises.

Karen was badly hurt.

She went into a coma.

- When did you first learn that Karen was pregnant?

- Just after the accident, in the emergency room.

When I heard--

[sigh] It was a shock, but I'm still trying to take it in.

But, uh, Karen is gone, and now there is a new life.

When the doctors told me that they

might be able to save the baby, I--I told them to try.

- Do you want to be a father?

- (TEARFUL) More than anything.

I owe this to Karen.

And my daughter.

The, uh-- the OB did an ultrasound.

I want to name the baby Michelle.

- Are you ready to be a father, Anthony?

- I think so.

I've stopped drinking.

And, uh, I've been working very hard.

I just received a promotion.

And I have a lot of support from friends

and the staff at the hospital.

- No further questions, Your Honor.

- Mr. Pavlik.

- Mr. Marciante, at the time of the accident,

your blood alcohol level was 0.15.

Is that correct?

Nearly twice the legal limit.

- I've already pled guilty.

I have no excuse.

But as I said, I've stopped drinking.

- Your abstinence is admirable, right in time for sentencing,

but too late for Karen.

- I have to live with this forever.

- According to obstetricians at Bernheimer,

the fetus is only 18 weeks old, just midway

through its second trimester.

To your knowledge, can that fetus

be brought to term before the mother's

body begins deteriorating?

- I was told there was no way of knowing.

- Were you also told that even if the fetus survives,

there is a 50% chance it will be grossly

premature with a real possibility of brain damage?

- There's an equal chance that she

will be born perfectly healthy.

- You are charged with DUI and vehicular manslaughter.

Should you be sentenced to jail, who will care for your child?

- I will face that when the time comes.

Right now, what's important is rescuing my baby.

Look, I have-- the woman I love is dead.

That doesn't mean that our baby should die, too.

- Pop.

Long time.

- It's February in New England.

I was freezing my can.

- Welcome to California.

Um, you met Roxy.

- Oh, she says Blondie's gone.

That's too bad.

You never knew a good thing when you had it.

Oh, you got a smoke?

- Actually, I quit.

- Quit?

[laughs] Why, you left that nice office for this hellhole?

Working with lowlifes?

Coming from the airport, I was surprised to see about as

many niggers and spics camping in the streets

as we have in Boston.

- Pop.

- Neighborhood grew so sour, I couldn't let

his mother go for a walk alone.

- Hey, don't start about Mom, huh?

- Tommy-- Tommy, I'm sure your father didn't mean any harm--

- Hey, you have no idea about this guy.

Even he doesn't know what he means.

- Tommy.

- No, this is my son's way of making his dad feel welcome.

You made your point.

I am not staying with you.

I'm going to rent a room in a hotel.

- No, I never said that you couldn't stay with me.

- Not in so many words.

- Look, it's just I'm under a lot of pressure

lately here with this trial--

- It shouldn't matter.

I raised you better.

- As a matter of fact, you didn't.

- I'll fly home tomorrow.

Not a problem.

- Mr. Mullaney.

Mr. Mullaney, please don't go.

- Roxy.

- You're real sweet, Red--

- Her name is Roxanne.

- No fooling?

[door closes]

- After the arraignment, your brother was waiting in my car.

- [laughs] Man, careful.

Mitchell, he steal your car before you blink.

- He wanted me to know why you're so loyal to the Deuces.

- Mitchell don't know jack.

He don't belong to a gang.

See, I'm loyal because my boys are going to take care of me.

I got five clean alibi witnesses.

- Perfect.

Five gang kids with scars and tattoos.

I'm convinced.

The Deuces have the murder weapon with your prints on it.

- Mitchell say that?

- Your own gang is holding you hostage.

- Man, you don't know.

It don't work that way.

- I have the gun.

Mitchell said he snatched it clean.

- Fool!

The Deuces are going to be crazy.

You gotta give the gun back.

- The Deuces set you up.

Don't you get it?

They killed somebody, put your prints on the gun,

and conned you into thinking it would stay in juvenile court.

You better hope I can make a deal.

- No. No deals.

- Alejandro, you don't owe these guys your freedom.

- Man, you don't know what I owe them

and what I don't owe them-- - You are sure to be convicted.

That's what--

- Just give the gun back and beat the damn case!

- You're not listening!

What happens when you lose?

- That's not a problem, Morales.

Plenty of Deuces in here to keep me company.

- Dr. Shuster, is Karen existing on her own?

- No.

Presently, she's connected to a respirator,

which breathes for her.

In addition, every body function is being monitored.

- To the best of your knowledge, will she ever recover?

- No.

The damage to Karen's brain stem was massive and irreparable.

- Does the baby appear healthy?

- So far.

There's at least another 10 weeks

until viability-- that is, able to live outside the womb.

- And has a baby this young ever survived incubation

in a maternal cadaver?

- I know of a 22 week fetus that was delivered healthy.

As for Karen's child, with persistence and luck,

it can be done.

- Thank you, doctor.

- Dr. Shuster, am I right that once the brain stem is

gone, theoretically, it's the same as

if the corpse is decapitated?

- Yes, that's correct.

- Thus you are regulating either by machine or medication

Karen's blood pressure.

- Yes.

- Body temperature?

- Yes.

- Blood sugar?

Hormone levels?

Blood gases?

Hydration?

- Yes.

Every body function is constantly monitored.

- Tell me, how many of your ICU staff

are involved in this experiment?

- Objection to the use of the word experiment.

- I'll take that under advisement, counselor.

Answer the question, doctor.

- Between physicians, nurses, pathologists,

technicians, roughly 35 people over three shifts.

- Well, even assuming this baby has no postnatal problems,

which in all likelihood she probably will,

the hospital bill calculates out roughly to $400,000.

Who's going to pay?

Anthony Marciante?

- Objection.

- Overruled.

- Mr. Pavlik, I can't equate saving

a human life with dollars.

- Then let me do it for you.

Every day in cities across America,

infants die of malnutrition and diarrhea

because mothers are unable to afford

a $6 bottle of Pedialyte.

- Objection.

- Give me $400,000.

- Sustained.

- I'll open the clinic serving 300 sick children.

- Objection! - Sustained.

- Live human beings already on this planet--

- Mr. Pavlik!

- Ignored by our health system, desperate for help.

- That's enough, Mr. Pavlik.

- Nothing further.

- So why did you call?

- I thought we should talk.

- About what?

- After the preliminary hearing the other day,

I saw you with your son.

What's he, about three?

I have kids the same age.

I'm just trying to understand.

I want to know why you and your friend pulled me from my car

and tried to beat me to death.

What did I do to you?

Come on, talk to me.

Forget it.

Must have been crazy coming down here alone.

- Why?

Afraid?

- Yeah, a little.

Oh, I see.

Seems like old times.

- Maybe I need protection.

- From me?

- Look, man, somebody did me like you,

the first chance I'd get, I'd be looking

to do the same thing back.

- Well, that's not why I'm here.

- You were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Guarantee if you had been in my shoes,

you'd be doing the same thing.

- No I wouldn't.

I would not have done the same thing,

because this-- this pattern of violence has got to stop,

don't you see?

- Because you're a pansy.

Yeah, that's right.

Little man gets ticked off, thinks he can come down here

and change the world.

He can't!

Hey, I'm talking to you, man!

Hey!

Yo!

- Thanks for coming.

- So, what's the secret about the Cruz case?

- I have the gun used in the shooting.

Alejandro's brother lifted it from the leader

of the AK Deuces gang and dropped it

on me outside the courthouse.

- Lucky you.

- Yeah.

The Deuces were using it for leverage.

It has Alejandro's prints on it, but he didn't pull the trigger.

- You believe this kid?

- Yeah, I do.

I tried to get him to make a deal,

but he's playing the true blue gang member.

He told me to give the piece back.

- Besides me, who else knows about this?

- Those two.

And I'm not about to put my career

in the hands of a 14-year-old carjacker and his

16-year-old gangbanger brother.

- Are you sure no one else knows?

- I don't think so.

- Good.

At least that'll give us some time to--

[door opening]

- Daniel.

- Daniel Morales?

- Yeah.

- You're ordered to appear in front

of Deputy DA William Davidoff.

- What's this all about?

- I'm being subpoenaed before a grand jury.

- And Mr. Morales, bring the gun.

- This is not simply your affair, Daniel.

The entire firm's exposed.

- Douglas, I can handle it.

Trust me.

- It's not a matter of trust.

Our relationship with the DA's office

is critical to our criminal practice.

I'm not about to jeopardize that--

- I came as soon as I could. What's up?

- Daniel's been subpoenaed to testify at the grand jury

and produced the murder weapon in the Cruz case.

- You have the gun?

- Leland, you don't want to know the answer to that question.

- Look, let's proceed on a strictly hypothetical basis.

Assume, for the sake of argument,

that Daniel is in possession of a .38 caliber

handgun believed to have been used

in the murder of Ramon Mendez.

- Now assume the gang that killed Mendez forced Alejandro

Cruz to put his prints on that gun

in order to keep him in line.

- Nice guys.

- Unfortunately, there's no attorney-client

privilege to withhold evidence.

People versus Fairbanks.

- A defense attorney in possession

of physical evidence of a crime must turn

it over to the prosecution.

- Even if it convicts our client of a crime he didn't commit?

- Exactly.

I don't care what this case says.

I go to jail first, assuming I have the gun.

- How is it the DA knew to subpoena

you in the first place?

- Maybe somebody from the gang tipped him off.

Without the gun, Alejandro can't be controlled.

- What if he pleads the Fifth?

- It's worth a shot.

Penal Code Section 135 makes it a crime

to destroy or conceal evidence. - Well, there you go.

Answering may incriminate you.

- It's a red flag, daring the DA to prosecute Daniel.

- With all due respect to your commitment and your client--

- Our client, Leland.

I am not sending this kid to prison for something

he didn't do.

- McKenzie-Brackman will not have

an associate in this firm prosecuted for suppression

of a murder weapon.

- Then maybe I'm at the wrong firm.

[swing music]

- How did you find me?

- It wasn't too tough.

I knew you'd be looking for a drink,

and Roxy said your curiosity about this place was piqued.

- Not the only thing piqued.

If that gal puts her bottom in my face once more, I swear--

- Come on, let's get out of here.

- Where are we going?

Disneyland?

- Bring you something else?

- Why not.

A pair of those, and another Wild Turkey.

- Anything for you?

- He'll have the same.

- Nothing, thanks.

- You're not going to join me?

- You know I quit.

- Yeah, but who takes you seriously?

Gee, you quit smoking, you quit drinking.

What's next for you, the seminary?

- Listen, if you're not leaving, I'll see you back in my office.

- I came to California to spend some quality time together.

- It's almost 30 years, and suddenly

you're taking an interest?

- I was always there for you, and don't forget it.

- Yeah, Pop, whatever you say.

- Are you calling me a liar?

- Ah, here we go.

- Answer me.

- You answer me!

Years go by, I'm pitching, no one's catching.

Now all of a sudden you show up pretending we're related?

What's this all about, Pop, huh?

- Nothing.

- I want to know.

- Never mind.

- No, you tell me.

- I'm dying.

Sit down, you're blocking the view.

[swing music]

[upbeat music]

- This is every parent's greatest fear--

surviving your child.

I'd give everything to change places with Karen.

- Mrs. Coleman, before the accident,

were you aware that your daughter was pregnant?

- Yes.

She told me over Thanksgiving.

- And did your daughter say what she

intended to do about the baby?

- Objection.

Hearsay.

- Exception to state of mind.

You may answer the question, Mrs. Coleman.

- Karen said she wasn't sure, but if she decided

to keep the baby, she said she didn't want Anthony

playing any part in raising it.

- Objection.

- Overruled, counselor.

- Did your daughter say why she didn't want Mr. Marciante's

help in raising the baby?

- She was planning on breaking up with Anthony.

She felt he was too immature to be

a father, much less a husband.

- That's not true.

- Mr. Marciante.

- You may have loved her, but she didn't love you.

- Mrs. Coleman, what exactly are you asking this court to do?

- Let me bury my daughter.

Every day I sit beside her bed, watching her.

I know she's not alive, and there's nothing to be done.

Still, I want to protect Karen.

I want to take care of my girl.

I can't just abandon her.

- Thank you, Mrs. Coleman.

Nothing further.

- Mrs. Coleman, all of us here respect your feelings.

But what about your daughter's feelings?

I mean, she's almost reached her third trimester.

Isn't it apparent that she decided to keep the baby?

- No.

She never said so.

- Anthony Marciante may not be your idea

of the perfect father.

Still, doesn't he have the rights of any father?

And what about this unborn baby's rights?

- Objection.

Calls for legal conclusions.

- Sustained.

- Mrs. Coleman, do you have any other children?

- No.

Karen was my only child.

- Then out of all this pain, as we mourn her death,

why not let your daughter present you with the gift

of your only grandchild?

- Don't you think I want to be a grandmother?

That if there was the slightest chance

that this is what Karen wanted, I would hold on for dear life?

Karen was my baby.

Please, let me take care of her.

Let her go in peace.

- So when you turned the corner, Mr. Markowitz, what happened?

- There was a large crowd, about 25 people or so,

standing in the middle of the street.

- In fact, didn't this mob surround your car

and block your path?

- Well, they were-- they were outraged by the verdict,

and I think this was a way for them to vent--

- Objection.

Speculation.

- Sustained.

- Mr. Markowitz, how was your windshield broken?

- It was smashed with a baseball bat.

Then the door was thrown open, I was pulled from the car,

and a man started beating me with a bat.

- Do you see that man here today?

What about the man who pulled you from the car?

Mr. Markowitz?

Your Honor, I request a brief recess.

- Counsel, approach the bench.

Enlighten me.

- Your Honor, Mr. Markowitz had no problem at the prelim.

- Well, he's having a problem now.

- Request I be allowed to confer with the witness.

- Court's adjourned for 10 minutes.

- What's going on, Stuart?

Did Lewis get to you?

- No, it's not like that.

I'm the one who asked him to meet me.

- You what? - What are you talking about?

- Yeah, yesterday.

We sat two feet apart.

If he wanted to hurt me he could have done it.

- Why would you get together with the defendant?

- Tommy, I was sitting there talking to this man,

and all I could think of was what

was going to happen to his son.

- If you don't think I'll declare you a hostile witness

or hit you with a contempt--

- Tommy, we have a chance to make a difference

in this man's life.

- By sending him to jail.

- Yeah, great.

He serves time, and then he comes out even more convinced

that the world is against him, and then

he passes that on to his son.

And we have got to break the cycle.

Somebody's got to take the first step.

- You are not a one man justice system.

- It's my choice to testify.

- Let the jury convict, and the judge sentence!

- It's my choice, Ann!

My choice.

Accept the plea bargain that they offered.

- Karen Coleman is dead, but will this court

let her die with dignity?

Her next of kin asked this court to put an end

to this medical experiment so that Karen's

remains may be buried and her spirit put to rest.

What do we know about Karen's wishes?

We know that she purposely kept her boyfriend

in the dark about her pregnancy because she didn't want him

interfering in her decision.

She didn't trust Mr. Marciante to act as a responsible father

to her child, and as it turned out, she was right.

She's dead by his hand, the fetus forever

deprived of its natural mother.

Let nature take its course.

Let this woman be buried.

- The wonder of medicine is that we can prevent

nature from taking its course.

Horrific epidemics have been halted by a single vaccine.

A human body is kept functioning so that a child may be born.

If Anthony and Karen's child were one week from viability,

would we be debating this?

How about three weeks?

Six weeks?

Your Honor, we're asking for 10.

Can that somehow be morally or legally different?

The rescue of a baby in utero is an ancient medical tradition.

It's called a Cesarean section because it's

been a legal obligation since the time

of Caesar in ancient Rome to deliver

the baby if the mother died.

Karen Coleman is dead, and her privacy rights died with her.

Today, Your Honor, we must take care of the living,

and that includes not only the father,

but little Michelle as well.

- Here they are.

- Mr. Mullaney, does the DA's office plan on filing

any additional charges?

- I will make my statement later.

- Were you surprised by Mr. Markowitz's testimony?

Why the plea bargain?

- I said later.

[reporters clamoring]

- Mr. Markowitz, you seemed to recant earlier testimony.

- I have no comment.

- Ms. Kelsey, what's your comment on--

- I have no comment. - Mr. Markowitz--

[reporters clamoring]

- Are you feeling any remorse?

- Do you have a statement?

- Look, it's not important what I say.

Mr. Holmes can do the talking.

- What is it you want to do now, sir?

- Look, all I want to do is just go home.

- I'd like to say something. - Mr. Holmes.

- It's time for the criminal justice system

to guarantee equal rights to every man, no matter

his race, creed, or his color.

- Mr. Morales, are you presently counsel of record

to Alejandro Cruz?

- I am.

- During the course of your representation,

did you come into possession of a .38 caliber handgun?

- I refuse to answer on the grounds

my answer may incriminate me.

- Mr. Morales, at the moment you are not the target

of a criminal investigation.

On what basis are you invoking the Fifth Amendment?

- I refuse to answer on the grounds

that my answer may incriminate me.

- Ms. Paros, would you tell me how your client

has a right not to testify?

- Section 135 makes it a misdemeanor

to conceal evidence.

Admitting possession admits past concealment.

- How about that, Mr. Davidoff?

- Assuming Section 135 applies, the district attorney's office

is authorized a grant of immunity.

We will not prosecute.

Nothing he says can incriminate him.

- Mr. Morales, do you persist in refusing to answer?

- I do, Your Honor.

I mean no disrespect.

- Then I must find you guilty of contempt.

Pursuant to CCP Section 1219, you

are herewith remanded to the custody of the sheriff

to keep and confine you until such time

as my order is obeyed.

Bailiffs.

Mr. Morales, the keys to your liberty are in your own pocket.

- OK, sir.

- Make sure you tell the sitter so she stays with Lucy.

- Yes, I will.

[dramatic music]

- Be seated.

- I find Mr. Marciante's testimony

to be credible and sincere.

I believe he may now have the strength of purpose

to undertake the role of parent.

But his commitment to Karen, and to a pregnancy prior to Karen's

death, does not demonstrate the kind of relationship

which outweighs the obvious pain now

being caused to a mother who speaks for Karen

as her legal guardian.

Furthermore, I-- I cannot justify the heroic effort,

nor the expense, which could be better directed elsewhere.

Simply because medical advances allow us to do something

does not necessarily mean that is what we ought to do.

Karen Coleman is entitled to a dignified burial.

Therefore, I direct the hospital to remove all life

support systems immediately.

All of you involved have my deepest sympathies.

This court is adjourned.

- Give me the word.

We'll go right to the Court of Appeals.

[jazz music]

- Voila!

- Plan on getting any fresh air while you're in town?

- This is Los Angeles.

There is no fresh air.

- Roxy's waiting in the lobby.

Why don't we go grab a bite to eat, huh?

- Where the hell-- waitresses.

They're not hovering, you can't find them.

- Pop, you can get a snort at dinner.

- Oh, look at that.

She's smiling at me.

- Whatever you say, Pop.

You're drunk.

- Just pleasantly lit.

You know, you're beginning to sound just like your brother.

How is he, anyway?

- He's good.

Spoke with him last week.

- I got a card at Christmas.

Well, he-- he would've had to.

He's a good kid.

He always listened to you, though.

That's for sure.

- Gee, this place has really changed.

- Roxy, you were supposed to wait.

- Sorry, Red.

We got talking about Tommy's little brother

and how he always did what his big brother told him.

Never me.

Saxon Woods Park, you remember?

- Can we get out of here?

- Saxon Woods?

- The maple tree.

You must remember.

- Why are we dredging up the past?

- Come on, Tommy.

I want to hear this.

- You must understand, my boys never wanted to stay home.

And it used to worry their mother sick,

and she'd send me out in the dark to search for them.

But I knew where to look.

And I could hear them, both of them,

laughing 50 feet up in that tree,

having the time of their lives.

- Yeah, we were one big happy family.

- Even had to call the hook and ladder once to get him down.

- I'll get you a cab, take you back to your hotel.

[applause]

[knocks]

- Hi.

- I just got a call from the DA's office.

Stubbs and Lewis both got probation with 1,500

hours community service.

- Hmm.

- You, uh, ran out of the courthouse

so fast we didn't get a chance to talk.

- About what?

- Well, I know you were surprised by what I did.

- No, I'm not surprised by anything you do lately.

But I have to take care of myself.

I'm filing a civil suit against the city.

- For what?

- Loss of consortium.

- Are you serious?

- Yeah.

- Ann, we've been under tremendous pressure

from this trial.

Now you want to make our sex life public?

- Stuart, ever since you were injured,

you're not the man I married.

If I can't have you back, someone's going to pay.

- Let's go.

- Are you OK? - Come on, Rox.

- Tommy--

- Roxy, please don't start.

- You know, your father was trying.

- Hey.

You want to hear the truth?

Why we really used to shimmy up that maple?

Every day when I'd come home from delivering the papers,

I'd walk in that house and stop and try to sense what kind

of mood my father was in, because I knew

if he was drinking, it wouldn't be

long before the screaming would start, and then the slapping.

That's when I'd grab my little brother and run.

Usually I'd just carry him.

He was just out of diapers, barely walking.

But he could climb.

We'd reach that maple tree, and I'd tell him, Dad's coming!

Dad is right behind us.

See, way up in that tree was the only place

my old man couldn't catch us when he was drunk,

where he couldn't hit us.

And when he says he heard laughing, we were crying, Roxy.

We were bawling our eyes out terrified.

(CRYING) My father's dying.

[quiet sobbing]

- Coming up.

- Coming through.

- Hey, you.

Hey.

What's going on here?

Douglas.

- They're looking for the gun allegedly

in Daniel's possession.

- Well, this is outrageous.

- Yeah, everything appears in order.

- We have over 500 active files, each of which

contains material our clients expect to be kept confidential.

We'll have to escort you.

[indistinct chatter]

[baby cooing]

[indistinct chatter]

- Who are you?

- Hi.

I'm Pam, Lucy's sitter.

You must be Melina.

- Did Daniel call you?

- Gwen.

Said Daniel's in some kind of trouble.

Wanted me to spend the night with Lucy.

- He'll be OK.

Tomorrow, I'm sure everything will be back to normal.

- Yeah.

Well, I better get this little girl home, get her fed,

bathed, and to bed.

- Do you have everything you need?

- Yeah.

Yeah.

[indistinct chatter]

- Take care.

[indistinct chatter]

[tense music]

- Excuse me. - Yeah?

- The officers are currently under search

for a .38 caliber handgun.

I need to check your bag.

- Does a loaded diaper count?

[baby fussing]

- Gwen, when did you talk to Daniel?

- I didn't.

Why?

- What's the name of Lucy's babysitter?

- Jeanette.

- Oh my God.

- What?

- That woman just took Lucy!

Move.

Move!

Stop the woman with that child!

- What's going on?

- Wait.

Grab the elevator.

[growls] That's her.

- That's who?

- What's going on?

- What is it, Gwen?

- The woman who's stalking me.

She's kidnapped Lucy.

- Take the stairs.

Move.

[tense music]

- Thanks for waiting.

Back to where you picked me up, please.

- They're gone.

- She dropped this.

- Oh my God.

It's my fault. Lucy.

Lucy.

- Through this holy anointing, may

the Lord in His love and mercy help you with the grace

of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

- Amen.

- May the Lord who frees you from sin

save you and raise you again.

Amen.

- Amen.

- Place your hand with mine.

Lord, I commend to Thee the immortal spirits of Michelle

Alexandra and Karen Coleman.

- Can I say goodbye?

- Please.

Go now.

- The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want.

He makes me to lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside the still waters.

He restores my soul.

He leads me in the paths of righteousness

for His name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death,

I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.

- [sobbing]

- Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.

Thou anointest my head with oil.

[flatline tone]

My cup--

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