All language subtitles for Law and order S13E18 - Maritime

NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system

the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,

the police who investigate crime

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

SCOTT: You've got two kids,
ten years of marriage.

You run off with this yoga
instructor you barely know...

She not just a yoga instructor, Scott.
She owns the studio.

Oh, well, that changes
everything.

Look, enough with the lectures.
I don't need it.

Especially from my kid brother.

You are gonna break
Paula's heart,

and in five years you're gonna end up
with exactly what you already have.

And that is if you're lucky...
Scott, shut up.

Hey, you wanted my advice,
I'm giving it.

No, no, no, look.
Over there.

Oh, God.

OFFICER: Female victim, late twenties.
If she had ID, it's gone.

Body was found
by those two over there.

They're brothers. One
of them has got wife trouble.

That's original.
Yeah.

She could've been killed somewhere
else, dumped here. Thanks.

Hey, why don't you get a canvas started?
Maybe somebody saw something.

Washerwoman hands.
Come again?

It's a condition due to prolonged
immersion in the water.

Means she was in the soup
for several days at least.

Well, the bridge is over there, the
Throgs Neck. Maybe she was a jumper

and she got brought in
by the tide.

Found something else.

Gunshot wound.

You need to order an autopsy to confirm
whether or not it was self-inflicted.

Well, you think she shot herself
before or after she jumped?

I heard about a guy once,
jumped off a building,

got hit by a stray gunshot
on his way down.

Coroner didn't know whether to
rule it a suicide or homicide.

What about
Our Lady of City Island?

Oh, homicide.

The absence of tattooing,
smudging, or burn indicates

the shot was fired
from several feet away.

Cause of death, a single 9mm gunshot
wound to the right temporal lobe.

She looks like an angel.

A fallen angel, maybe. Blood
alcohol level was.20.

I also found traces of marijuana,
ecstasy, and dimenhydrinate.

Dramamine.

Well, at least
she didn't get seasick.

I think I might be able to
help you with an ID.

I found this ring on her toe.

There's an inscription
on the inside.

It's Greek to me.

Psi Kappa Gamma.
She's a sorority girl.

Don't look at me.

I didn't even learn how to
apply lipstick until I was 25.

Well, it looks like
you got the hang of it now.

Thank you, Detective.

Oh, my God.
That's Julie.

ED: Julie...
Julie Eastman.

What happened?
What happened to her?

That what we're
trying to find out.

How well did you
know Miss Eastman?

She graduated in '97.

I was a year behind her.

What can you tell us about her?

Julie was serene. She never looked
off balance. Knew just what to say,

just how to dress.

She was a little
intimidating actually.

Julie was from Nebraska.

She grew up on
a small dairy farm.

Do you know if she had any
family we could notify?

We have all her
contact information on file.

We wanted to keep Julie
closer to home,

but how can you argue
with a four-year scholarship?

When that acceptance letter
came in the mail,

Julie couldn't pack
her bags fast enough.

They say sons leave, but
daughters are yours forever.

I kept waiting for her
to come back home.

She never did.

Julie had Dramamine
in her system.

Did she mention anything about going
on vacation or on a boat trip?

Julie kept us out
of her private life.

She never introduced us to any
of her friends, boyfriends.

MRS. EASTMAN: She was
embarrassed, Don.

She didn't think we were
sophisticated enough.

What did Julie do after
she graduated college?

A little of this, a little
of that, and she landed

a job with Nelson Woburn.

BRISCOE: The real estate firm?

Apparently, was doing quite well.
Thought she had a real future there.

I'm not sure I buy that
"girls stay home" theory.

My two couldn't wait for the ink to
dry on their high school diplomas

before they moved out.

And what happened
after they were gone?

Oh, we'd hear from them
when they needed cash.

Funny thing is, no matter how
much they suck out of you,

you're always ready
to give them more.

Then in the end, you wind up in
the dark, like the Eastmans.

Well, maybe somebody down at
Nelson Woburn can shed some light.

Eve Harrington,
I used to call her.

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
The poor girl's dead.

No love lost, huh?

Well, she'd walk into your office
with this innocent, corn-fed smile,

and leave with
six of your clients.

That must've made her
pretty popular.

Hey, that's the business, right?

What about her personal life?

(SCOFFS) TMI, frankly.

"Too much information."

She was right
in the next cubicle.

The phone was practically
glued to her neck.

Was she seeing anybody?

Adam something.

He's a big-time sports agent
at Haas Sports Management.

This is him?

Yeah, shaved head.

White dudes shouldn't
shave their heads.

BONNIE: What's he gonna do?
He's going bald.

How serious were they?

Hot and heavy at first, but I got the feeling
she was getting ready to break it off.

She said she was gonna drop
the bomb over the weekend.

This past weekend?

Apparently, he was a little quick on the
trigger in bed, if you catch my drift.

HAAS: Adam Makris.

He was due back from
a trip a few days ago.

I tried him on his cell phone a few times,
but he must not be getting a signal.

BRISCOE: This trip wouldn't
happen to be on a boat, would it?

Darryl Ridgeway, one of our clients,
threw a birthday party in Southampton.

Darryl Ridgeway,
the quarterback?

Adam and Julie sailed out with him
to the Hamptons last weekend.

Kind of chilly for
a boat trip, isn't it?

It's a 60-foot Uniesse yacht.
It's nicer than my apartment.

Besides, Darryl always
marched to his own beat.

Yeah, like walking away
from a $23 million contract.

He said his head
just wasn't into football.

Wanted to follow
a spiritual path.

BRISCOE: Whatever that means.

Well, like I said,
he's unconventional.

Like, how many football
players do you know

who speak four languages, read philosophy,
and run with the bulls at Pamplona?

Guy sounds brilliant, except
for the part about the bulls.

Think we could meet him?

He got a place in the city.
My secretary has the address.

And I'll have Adam
call you when he gets back.

I won't hold my breath.

Darryl Ridgeway had a Glock
9mm registered to his name.

The same caliber that
killed Julie Eastman.

Have you located him yet?

I think we're gonna need
an APB to do that.

Or scuba gear. We talked
to Ridgeway's doorman.

He hasn't seen him for a week.

So, the only thing we know
for sure is Adam Makris

and Darryl Ridgeway were on
the boat with our victim.

And that they were supposed to sail
back from Southampton four days ago.

What are we doing
to find the boat?

Coast Guard's working on that.

Well, while you're waiting
for your ship to come in,

go talk to Ridgeway's family
before the press does.

Are you sure this girl was on Darryl's
boat? I've never heard of a Julie Eastman.

Me neither.

What about you, Shawn?

I can't keep track of all
the women in Darryl's life.

You're not suggesting he had anything
to do with this girl's death?

ED: No, we just need to
ask him a few questions.

Darryl would never hurt anyone.

We're not saying he did.

HOWARD: Probably on
his way to Aruba.

Since he quit playing, he doesn't have a
job or any responsibilities to bind him.

Howard, the police wouldn't be here
if there wasn't something wrong.

You're just covering all the
bases, right, Detective?

Right.

BRISCOE: When was the
last time you heard from him?

We called him on his birthday.

He sounded fine.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

The girl that was murdered,

ecstasy was found in her system.

Do you know if your son
took any drugs?

ANSWERING PHONE: Briscoe.

Yeah. Uh-huh.

Not Darryl.

I didn't even take aspirin
that night.

You were at Darryl's party?

Yeah.

Well, did you notice any
trouble? Anything unusual?

I didn't stay long.
Wasn't exactly my crowd.

BRISCOE: Okay, thanks.

Hey, Ed...

That was the Coast Guard.
They found the boat.

Fisherman called in off our
Marine Assistance Broadcast.

She was anchored in a cove
near Port Washington.

Looks like she'd been there
a couple of days.

We found the dinghy
hauled up on shore.

Killer probably used it
to get away.

There a Long Island railroad
station in Port Washington.

And from there, it's a
straight shot to Penn Station

and the rest of the country.

Detectives.

Beck, how the hell
did you get here?

Patrol car.

I found a few bullet holes here.

That looks like blood.

Yeah, from the spatter you can tell that
one of the victims was prone when shot.

One of the victims?

Preliminary testing indicates
two different blood types.

Two?

At least two.
Come here.

Look. It's a forensic
smorgasbord.

BRISCOE: And somebody
spilled the gravy.

The lab confirmed three different
DNA samples from the boat,

one of them matching
Julie Eastman.

Have you tried matching the other two blood
samples against Makris and Ridgeway?

CSU took hair fibers from their
apartments this morning.

We're waiting for the results.

Latent also lifted a dozen or so prints
from the boat. They're running them now.

See if something hits.

What about the people that
were at Ridgeway's party?

Any of them have
access to the boat?

Well, we're working on it. There
over 50 names on that list.

Then why are you standing
around, talking to me?

"I dwell in possibility."

That's Darryl in a nutshell.

And Emily Dickinson, right?

Yeah, he got interested
in her poetry

after Sports Illustrated
described his past completions

as tiny ecstasies set in motion.

He came here looking for a
Roberts Brothers first edition

with original gilt and
silver white cloth boards.

It's the feel of
the cloth spine,

the look of the
marbled end papers.

Darryl doesn't experience
anything halfway.

Sounds like your experience with
him isn't limited to books.

(LAUGHS) Darryl and I
don't play for the same team.

And I'm not talking about football.
We're just friends.

Okay. So, uh, what can you
tell us about the party?

It was a weekend of free flowing ideas
between diverse and curious minds.

Sounds like
my last birthday party.

So the ideas flow more freely
with a little bit of ecstasy?

Well, X expands thinking and promotes
feelings of closeness with others.

Is this before or after
your spinal fluid dries up?

So, you're saying that this
party was just one big love-in?

For most of the people there.

But not everybody.

Darryl's girlfriend
was a real downer.

I mean, it was his 30th birthday
and she was on his case all night.

BRISCOE: About what?
I don't know.

I was trying to stay away
from the negative energy.

That bitch!

She says she's gay, but
that doesn't stop her from

flirting with my boyfriend
all night long.

Well, was Darryl flirting back?

With her and every other
woman at the party.

Must've made you mad.

I spent two months planning
this party for him.

When was the last time
you saw Darryl, Amanda?

Sunday night. Why?

That was the last time
anybody else saw him.

What about Shawn?
His brother?

I saw Darryl and Shawn
on the boat together.

After the party they were gonna
sail back to Manhattan together.

ED: Was there anybody
else on board?

Just Adam and his, uh,
girlfriend, what's her name.

Julie.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

So, you stayed behind because you
were still angry about the flirting?

I'd had enough.
Hello?

Were Shawn and his brother getting
along all right at the party?

Shawn was high. And he kept trying
to pick a fight with Darryl,

and Darryl just brushed it off.

Okay. Okay, thanks. He had a really
hard time putting his foot down

where his brother was concerned.

Well, if you think of
anything else.

That was the lab. The blood samples
from the boat matched both

the DNA of Makris and Ridgeway.

Hardly earth-shattering
news.

They also got a hit on a print.

Shawn Ridgeway.

He had a handful of priors, and
one of them was for assault.

So, what do we tell
the Ridgeways first?

That one son's probably dead, or the
other one's probably a murderer?

Are you sure?

ED: We found Darryl's boat. There was
blood on it that matches his DNA.

But you haven't found him. I
mean, you haven't found his...

No, not a body.

We need to ask your son
Shawn a few questions.

Shawn? Why?

His criminal record
contained his fingerprints,

and we found matching
prints on Darryl's boat.

Well, he's been on Darryl's
boat lots of times.

I know, ma'am, but he lied to
us about being on it this time.

Don't go making excuses
for him, Miriam.

He's our son.
Darryl's our son.

So help me, if Shawn...
Howard.

Mr. Ridgeway,
if you know anything.

Please, Howard, don't.
Don't. Please.

We got this, this morning.

ON ANSWERING MACHINE:
Mom, it's Shawn.

Um, listen.

You're gonna hear
some things, some

horrible things, and I want
you to know I didn't do it.

I didn't do any of it.

I don't know
if you'll see me again.

Take care of yourself.

I love you.

Bye.

Let him rot.

Where does he live?

Who knows?

Please,

find him.

No. Ridgeway.

If I had an address,
I wouldn't be talking to you.

I've been looking
at your boy's sheet.

Assault with a deadly
weapon, drug possession.

Yeah, couple grams of heroin.

Yep, but look who
he got collared up with.

Oh, his dealer.

Find the dealer,
find the junkie.

Was it something we said?

Your P.O. Sends
his regards, Tyrone.

Hey, just talking up the
Kournikova Variation, officers.

You see, if they're
pushing the "C" pawn,

Jimmy's gotta hit him on
the King side, that's all.

Yeah, that great. You take in any chess
tournaments with this guy recently?

Never seen him before.

Try again. You got collared with him.
He's one of your regulars.

Regular what?

Come here.
Hey!

Hey, come on, man.
You can't do that!

Look, man, I watch Court TV, all right?
You ever heard of probable cause?

Court TV ever teach you
about a Terry Stop, Tyrone?

Which means I can
pat you down for a weapon

without PC if I feel
my safety is being threatened.

You feel threatened, Lennie?

I'm shaking in my shoes, Ed.

Yeah,

it's not a weapon, but it will put
you away for a couple of years.

Well, that is, uh, unless
it doesn't belong to him.

Maybe he was just
holding it for a friend?

Yeah, yeah. Look, I don't
know what's in the packet.

Dude just asked me to hold
on to it for him, all right?

Well, we could return it to him.

Look, man, he's shacked up in some dump
with this girl on 21st and Lex, all right?

ED: Yeah?
What's the girl's name?

Sharon something.

(SIGHS)

She's got a mouth on her,
let me tell you.

The joint's ten degrees
quieter with her gone.

Where did she go?

She pays a month
in advance. I don't ask.

I haven't seen her
in a couple of days.

If she's got anything illegal,
I don't know about it.

His breathing's shallow.

Looks like Shawn threw himself
a little going away party.

Yeah, we've got a possible
overdose at the Battery Hotel.

And hurry!

"Docket number 578302,

"People v.
Shawn Daniel Ridgeway.

"Three counts of Murder
in the First Degree."

One pitch, three strikes.

Oh, forgive me,
Mr. Wolchesky.

That was your last client. Third and
long is more appropriate for this one.

Nah, that's his brother,
Your Honor.

My client is...

About to plead. Isn't that right, Mr.
Ridgeway?

Not guilty.

Across the board, Judge.

JUDGE: Talk to me,
Ms. Southerlyn.

The defendant has been charged with
the brutal death of three people,

one of whom was his brother.

The People request remand.

My client belongs in
a hospital, not a prison.

For a drug overdose.

If Counsel needs a refresher course,
heroin use is still illegal in this state.

The law can't allow one illegal act to
mitigate the punishment for another.

You have to admit,
Mr. Wolchesky, she's quick.

Defendant is remanded
without bail.

(BANGS GAVEL)

Next.

I don't want to burn a hole
in your client's pocket,

so what do you say to
three counts of man one,

he serves the max, sentences
to run concurrently.

What happened to
the plea bargain discount?

I didn't kill my brother.

Look at it from my point of view, Mr.
Ridgeway.

Four people got
onto your brother's boat.

Three of them died.

You only have one body.

SERENA: And the blood
samples of the other two.

Be that as it may, four people
got on the boat, one got off.

The math's not that difficult.

I don't like boats.

They dropped me off
in Greenport.

Darryl and everybody were fine.

Yeah, there is
that pirate problem.

Don't laugh. That
yacht guy, what's his name?

Pirates punched his ticket.

In South America. This boat
was in the Long Island Sound.

You don't have a weapon.
You don't have a witness.

Top that off with Darryl
being Shawn's golden goose,

and you don't have
much of a case.

I'll make it easy on you, Jack.
Say, a couple of counts of assault,

Shawn does the next
six months in rehab,

you don't lose face,
everybody's happy.

I apologize in advance, Matt.

WOLCHESKY: For what?

All those courthouse steps
you'll have to climb.

My nephew Andy played
with Darryl Ridgeway

the year the Gators
went 12 and one.

That son of a gun could throw.

Second pick in the draft.
$20 million contract.

Makes you wonder.

Maybe he quit because he's tired of having
his brain bashed in on a daily basis.

Actually, I was wondering what it would
have taken for the Giants to sign him.

We can't explain why Shawn
Ridgeway killed his kid brother.

My guess is Wolchesky will have the
jury wondering the same thing.

I heard Shawn claim he didn't kill his
brother. I never heard him say he loved him.

That the second oldest
story in the Bible.

You might want to find someone
who'll actually testify to that.

The first thing he does,
is buy his mama a house.

The second is put dad
on the payroll.

I was wondering more
about his brother.

Shawn, right.

There's a real piece of work.

Darryl comes in one day, asks me if I
can hire him. You know, mail room,

messenger, anything.

You did?

10% of 20 million, I'd hire
his dog if he asked me.

I can assume
that it didn't work out?

Well, we called Shawn a scout.

We sent him around to colleges, you know,
give us a preview of the guys coming up.

Not to tell you your business, but
Shawn Ridgeway is a heroin user.

Well, Darryl tells us he was
also a hell of a two guard,

back in the day.

I figure, you grow up around Darryl, you
got to be able to recognize talent.

Well, it sounds like some
things don't run in the family.

First trip up to BC, they had a power forward
there who was making all the local papers.

Shawn winds up with the kid, passed
out in the basement of some frat.

So much for his scouting days.

Yeah, you fired him?

Adam did, actually,
with Darryl's blessing.

And I felt for Darryl, too. I mean, how
many mouths is one guy supposed to feed?

So Darryl supported Shawn?

Yeah, enough to keep
his head in the clouds.

You're gonna put that piece
of trash away forever, right?

Two kids come out of
the same woman.

What are you gonna do?

I know how hard this
must be, Mr. Ridgeway.

Just tell me what you want.
I'll tell you anything.

Hey, I know when to
cut my losses.

You have kids?
I'm not married.

Don't listen to the gossip,
Ms. Southerlyn.

Anyone tells you kids are a gift from
God is dead wrong half the time.

For every success there's

one that surely disappoints.

From what I gathered, Darryl
didn't feel that way about Shawn.

Let me tell you about Shawn.

He's like a three-legged dog
that shows up at your back door.

He guilted Darryl
into giving him money.

Did Darryl ever
complain about it?

To me?

He wouldn't dare mention it.

I warned Darryl not to
give that bum dime one.

It sounds to me like
you think Shawn's guilty.

Don't you?

Shawn's sport was basketball.

His coach told me he'd never seen
a kid shoot the three like Shawn.

And in high school, all the
colleges were after him.

What happened?

Well, one day he just quit.

He just gave up.

Broke his father's heart.

It appears Mr. Ridgeway
hasn't gotten over it.

Maybe Howard's too demanding, but it
doesn't mean he doesn't love Shawn.

In his heart, he knows Shawn had
nothing to do with Darryl's...

Mr. Ridgeway told me that Darryl was
going to stop supporting Shawn.

Even if they did talk about it, I'm
sure Howard took it the wrong way.

How's that?

Darryl was going to stop
giving Shawn money.

Not to hurt him, to help him.

To keep him off drugs.
It was out of love.

Shawn knew that.

He certainly wouldn't
kill him over it.

Of course not.

This thing that looks like a bar
code, that's a base pair sequence,

the identifying part
of a DNA molecule,

taken from a sample of blood
found on the deck of The Aurora.

Now, compare that

to this sample obtained from
Darryl Ridgeway's last physical.

You'll see they match.

Meaning that the blood aboard the
boat is that of Darryl Ridgeway.

Just as this sample matches a sample
taken from Julie Eastman's blood,

and this sample matches a sample

taken from hair found in
Adam Makris' electric razor.

And what would you conclude
from all this, Dr. Beck?

That the blood on the deck came from Darryl
Ridgeway, Julie Eastman and Adam Makris.

You did a fingerprint
analysis of latents found on

Mr. Ridgeway's boat, didn't you, Dr.
Beck? Yeah, of course.

How many sets did you find?

Twelve, including
those of the defendant.

Assuming

there were in fact
three victims here,

and that's
a very large assumption

considering we only
have one body,

that would leave eight other possible suspects
aside from my client, isn't that right?

Witnesses only saw four
people get on the boat.

When they left the Hamptons.

Certainly it's possible that they
might have stopped along the way

to pick up other passengers,
don't you think?

I guess.

I'd been seeing Darryl
for almost a year.

Would you say you got to know his
brother Shawn during that time?

Couldn't avoid it.

If he wasn't showing up uninvited,
he was calling Darryl's cell.

Give me, give me, give me.

You're talking about money?

That's right.

And Darryl was
a complete pushover.

I couldn't really understand it myself
because Shawn was only going to buy drugs.

This didn't bother Darryl?

Of course it did.

But what really bothered Darryl

is that Shawn didn't even try.

I can't tell you how many
jobs Darryl tried to get him.

Shawn's just one of those guys
that wouldn't help himself.

What happened at the party?

Shawn showed up like always,
with his hand out.

And for once, I was
really proud of Darryl,

because for once, he said no.

What was Shawn's reaction?

He was angry.

In fact, Darryl had to drag him to the den,
where they could talk it out in private.

Thank you.

JUDGE: You can continue your
cross tomorrow, Mr. Wolchesky.

How about we talk?

I've got to admit, I'm not
surprised, Mr. Ridgeway.

I saw what was going on
in there.

So did I,

which makes me question the
logic of my accepting a deal.

Nothing's a sure bet, Jack.
You know that.

All it takes is one juror who put a
week's pay on the Jets last year

and thinks Darryl Ridgeway deserves
to go the way of all flesh.

Murder two.

One count.

He does the max.

If you'd rather
finish the trial.

Fine.

We left the party in the Hamptons
around 4:00 in the morning

and took Darryl's boat out.

Who was on the boat,
Mr. Ridgeway?

Me, Darryl,
his agent, Adam Makris,

and Adam's girlfriend.

Her name was Julie Eastman,
Your Honor.

JUDGE: Go on.

About an hour after
we left the marina,

Darryl and I started fighting.

Things got out of hand.

I shot him with the gun
that he kept on board.

Then I panicked,
shot the others.

Threw the bodies overboard,
along with the gun.

I took the dinghy to shore.

JUDGE: What were
you arguing about?

Money.

Darryl said he wasn't
going to give me any more.

Do you understand

that by accepting this plea, you
waive your right to a trial?

I do.

Ms. Southerlyn?

The state has agreed to one count
of murder in the second degree,

with the maximum sentence.

Is that how you understand
it, Mr. Ridgeway?

Yes.

If there's nothing else, the
plea is accepted by this court.

(BANGS GAVEL)

So, funny thing happened on
the way to spend the money

that the Ridgeways paid me
to defend Shawn.

The check bounced.

That's why I represent
the good guys.

Let me finish, Jack.

$4 million was transferred out
one week after the murders.

That's a civil matter.

Sue the Ridgeways.

I would. They appeared to be
as shocked as I was.

Who else has access
to the account?

Darryl Ridgeway.

It's his account, actually.

He may not be dead, Jack.

Mr. Ridgeway testified in open court
that he murdered three people.

But in private
he's always insisted

he wasn't even on the boat
when the murders occurred.

And you believe him?

Well, to be honest, I didn't,

until his parents went to Darryl's
cupboard and found it recently left bare.

Where was the money
transferred to?

The transfer of funds were done
electronically, by computer.

I assume the bank is
working on tracing it.

It could've been bank error.
It could've been a hacker.

It could've been
reasonable doubt.

Justice demands a jury decide...

You had a jury.

Your client came to me and
begged me to send them home.

We were all there. We all
saw what was going down.

Shawn Ridgeway didn't have a shot in
hell of walking out of that courtroom.

I'm certainly flattered you've come to
me with your troubles, Mr. Wolchesky,

but I don't see why.

Appeal the verdict.

Your Honor, an appeal
would take years.

My client could be sitting in a
cell for something he didn't do.

All I'm asking is you set
aside the plea bargain,

and let Shawn Ridgeway have his
constitutionally guaranteed day in court.

First of all, he had it and decided,
upon advice of counsel, to waive it.

Second, a long line of cases

holds that the discovery of potentially
exculpatory evidence is not sufficient

in and of itself to
vacate an uncoerced plea.

It was coerced. Scream "boo" loud enough,
and my client will pass out cold.

I feel for him.

Would you be any more convinced

if he were particularly
susceptible to duress?

That's ridiculous.
Humor me.

Have your shrink talk to him.

That sounds like a plan.

You can't be serious.

He's not asking to go free.
Just a new trial.

I can't see how a session
with your expert will hurt.

I know how the
system works. The great

Darryl Ridgeway was murdered, and the papers
are already sticking a needle in my arm.

I'm looking at a conviction
whether I did it or not.

But agreeing to
toss your life away?

Where have you been?
That happened years ago.

I'm just a piece of garbage
trying to get off the heap.

Garbage?

Just ask Dad.

What about your mother?

I caused her
enough pain already.

Is that why you
accepted the deal?

Can't you understand?

She's already been
humiliated enough.

Tell me about growing up.

What about it?

Why not start with your
relationship with Darryl?

He was my kid brother.

We got along fine.

I know people think
that I was jealous,

that I was a leech.

They didn't know anything.

It would be perfectly
normal to be jealous.

His first game as a pro,

I couldn't believe it.

I was going crazy.

I felt like it was

me out there, and I felt like...

I felt like 50,000 people
were screaming for me.

Did you wish it were you?

It wasn't me.

It could never be me.

I could play, you know.
I could.

Colleges wanted me.

No, no one went to the hoop like me.
That's what everyone said.

So what happened?

In high school,
I averaged 22 a game.

Junior year,
we played Old Bridge,

and I scored seven.

Dad walked out
in the first half.

Disgusted.

When I got home...

What happened when you got home?

One time Darryl wet his bed.

Dad sat him on the radiator.

He was six years old.

His screams woke me up.

I got out of bed,

took my baseball bat,

and smashed the TV.

It exploded.

He ran off to Mom,

while Dad beat
the hell out of me.

Tell me why you quit
playing basketball, Shawn.

If I didn't play,
I couldn't score only seven.

I don't know what we're doing here, man.
I'm a loser.

And there's nothing that you,

or anyone else can
do about that, so...

The theory is that children in abusive
or dysfunctional environments

assume rigid behavioral
roles that enable them to

seem as healthy
as everyone else.

Darryl was the family hero, while
Shawn became the scapegoat l martyr.

The family pinned all their troubles on
him, and he was willing to take the blame.

That was when
he was eight years old.

You don't outgrow it, Jack.

His father put tremendous pressure
on him to succeed in athletics.

An average performance
was considered a failure.

How does all this have anything
to do with his accepting a plea?

DR. SKODA: If you don't compete
at all, you hasten the failure.

Shawn saw the trial ending
disastrously, so he decided to

hang up the spikes, so to speak.

Which was a perfectly
reasonable reaction.

The plea allowed him to
assume and reinforce,

his role in the family system.

He admitted guilt to
please his family?

Defined roles form a comfort
zone for everyone involved.

What's not typical is to take that
role with you when you leave.

He can't escape his role.

The family is comfortable seeing
him as a failure, so he fails,

whether he deserves to or not.

I'm sorry, Jack, but

this particular family dynamic
leads me to conclude that

Shawn Ridgeway is overly
susceptible to duress.

I'd better see how the bank's
doing tracing the missing money.

You're right. Four million was transferred
to the Cayman Islands Bank and Trust.

Can you get the name
of the account holder?

Unfortunately, the island folk take
bank privacy laws very seriously.

So anyone that had Darryl
Ridgeway's access code and PIN

could have directed
the transfer?

It the downside of living
in an online universe.

But our techs can often back
trace the computer's origin.

It takes time, but...
How close are they?

I'll get them on it right away.

This is the first I even
heard the money was missing.

Are you saying $4 million is missing
and they haven't called to complain?

It's a trace route program.

Same kind of software they use
to nail Internet hackers.

So no matter where you are,
this program can find you?

It can find your computer.

Scary, huh?

Depends who's looking
for you, I guess.

So, you're thinking this Darryl
Ridgeway guy is still breathing?

It's starting to look like that.

I figure his mom didn't report
the money transfer to the bank

in order to give Darryl a head start
getting to wherever he's going.

Here we go.

IP address 392.163.

That's a U.S. Location.

SERENA: So, he hasn't
left the country yet?

Took about ten hops to
complete the transfer.

Come to mama.

.1.104.

Short Hills, New Jersey.

Darryl Ridgeway's parents live
in Short Hills, New Jersey.

So what you're saying is that the
money transfer was all a hoax

to make us think
that Darryl was alive?

Which, in effect, saves Shawn.

I called the bank.

Miriam and Howard Ridgeway are listed as
joint tenants on all of his accounts.

I could charge them with obstruction,
wire fraud, not to mention

as accomplices after the fact, and
probably a dozen other felonies

if I put on my thinking cap.

The Nature Channel.

A baby bird falls from the nest

and Mom swoops down to catch
it before it hits the ground.

Not a perfect analogy, Arthur.

Well, the jury is not
going to split hairs.

A mother desperate to
save her only living son?

This woman tried to cover for
someone who killed three people.

By taking money out of
her own account?

How did Judge Einhorn feel about
Wolchesky's motion to set aside the plea?

She read Skoda's report
and granted it on the spot.

I'm sure Wolchesky would agree in a heartbeat
to reinstate the prior plea agreement.

I'm sure he would, too. Only that
deal's no longer on the table.

I seem to recall a parable.

A feathered friend in the hand
versus two in the pear tree?

I don't want to go to trial
any more than Wolchesky,

but I intend to raise
the stakes on not doing it.

That family systems thing
that Skoda described, he said

Shawn had two roles,
as loser and martyr.

I'll set up the meeting.

Three counts of murder two?

(SCOFFS) Whatever happened to
justice tempered with mercy?

You can either accept my offer,

or watch your mother go to jail,

as an accomplice
to three counts of murder,

among assorted other things.

We know that you transferred money
out of Darryl's bank account

to make it look like he was
still alive, Mrs. Ridgeway.

You did what?

Look, I don't know what you're
trying to pull here, but...

Mrs. Ridgeway?

You tried to save him?

He killed Darryl.

Go ahead, tell him, Ma.

Tell him. Tell him you have two sons.
Tell him you love us both the same.

Some things never change.
WOLCHESKY: All right, all right.

Can we all take a deep
breath here, please. Jack,

you're not really serious
about this, are you?

Dead.

So, what's it gonna be?

You're a damn loser,
is what you are.

Your brother wasn't
enough for you.

I won't let you
take your mother down, too.

Not a chance.

He's going to do whatever
you want him to.

Howard, hold on.

Jack? Is there
a little wiggle room here?

No!

For once in his useless life,
he's going to do the right thing.

That's right. I will. I will.

You can shove the deal, Mr. McCoy.
I'm going to trial.

And you'll rot in hell.

SHAWN: Yeah, there's
a good chance of that.

Who knows? Maybe I deserve to die
in jail, but I'll tell you what.

If I do,

it sure as hell won't be
for killing anybody.

Do you know why Darryl
quit playing ball?

Because he's just
as screwed up as I am.

I mean, look what you
created here, Dad.

Two screw-ups and a...

I love you, Ma.

I appreciate what you
tried to do for me,

but it's just too damn little,

too damn late.

All these years, you
could have done something.

I'll roll the dice
at trial, Mr. McCoy.

Maybe I'll even win.

That'd be a real kick in
the ass, wouldn't it, Dad?

Me, ending up a winner.

Yes, Darryl said he was going
to stop giving me money.

But we talked it out,

and I agreed to go into rehab.

Which he would pay for?

That's right.

And this was decided
at the party?

Yeah.

That's the way it was
our whole life.

We'd argue, we'd fight, and then
we'd hug, and it'd be over.

And after you hugged?

Darryl wanted to see the sunrise, so
we continued the party on the boat.

That would be you, Darryl, Adam
Makris, and Julie Eastman?

That's right.

As soon as we got on board,

Darryl was all over Julie.

Didn't matter that she came
to the party with Adam.

Things like that never
mattered to Darryl.

And what did you do?

I told Darryl, you know,
you'd better back off

because Adam was getting pissed.

But, you know, he didn't listen.

Him and Julie went below
deck to smoke some weed.

I tried to calm Adam down,

but he just kept on
downing shots of tequila.

I wasn't feeling so well,

so they dropped me off
in Greenport and

they sailed off.

I don't know
what happened after that.

That's a very interesting story.

Why is it that no one's
heard it before?

Well, in my mind, there was a
chance that Darryl did the murders.

I wanted him to get away.

You were trying to
protect your baby brother?

That's right.

If you wanted to protect him, wouldn't
it have been better to stay on board,

and make sure
that nothing happened?

Okay.

The Medical Examiner testified
that in addition to Julie's blood,

he found samples
of Darryl's and Adam's.

How do you explain that?

I can't.

Maybe whichever one
of them did the murders

left his own blood to
throw off the cops.

You mean either Adam or Darryl?

That's right.

Maybe they fought
before the shooting.

I don't know.
Could be anything.

I wasn't there.

This isn't your first time in a
courtroom, Mr. Ridgeway, is it?

No.

I've been arrested before.

Could you be more specific?

Once for purchasing narcotics.

Once for assault.

Really? Who did you hit?

Guy who owed me money.

And where you
arrested at the scene?

No.

What was your defense
in the assault trial?

That I didn't do it.

And someone else did?

Have you reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

On the first count
of the indictment,

Murder in the First Degree
of Julie Eastman,

how do you find?

We find the defendant guilty.

On the second count
of the indictment,

Murder in the First Degree
of Adam Makris,

how do you find?

We find the defendant guilty.

On the third count
of the indictment,

Murder in the First Degree of
Darryl Ridgeway, how do you find?

We find the defendant guilty.

Counsel to pick a date for
sentencing four to six weeks hence.

(JUDGE BANGS GAVEL)

At his sentencing, Shawn was still
insisting on his innocence.

You've got to admire
the old stick-to-itiveness.

All the evidence
pointed to him, Arthur.

Well, then he must be guilty.

Unless a crime's caught on tape,

we can't ever be 100%
on any verdict.

Well, for me, the test is,
can I sleep at night?

I'll sleep after this one.

It depends.
On what?

On how long it takes to pull the
other two bodies out of the river.