All language subtitles for Law and order S17E12 - Charity Case

(male announcer)
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.

(Sofia)
Keep him covered.

I don't want him
to be photographed.

Not a lens in sight,
sweetheart.

I'm just sayin'.

(Sofia)
Come on, honey.

There you go.

So what flavor?

Strawberry.
No, chocolate.

Okay.

No way.
You're Sofia Archer.

Yes, that's right.

Uh, she'll he
chocolate.

Oh, my God, is that
the child from Africa?

Can I be the first
to see him?

He's a little cranky
right now.
Oh, just a peek.

My mom would
lose her mind.

Can you please just give us
the ice cream?

(Sean)
Get away,
don't touch him.

Back off, back off!

[both men arguing at once]

Oh, my God!

[arguing escalates]

[gunshot]

Oh!

Oh, my God!
[baby cries]

Call the police!
(Sofia)
Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

[screams]

[baby crying]
Oh, God!

Baby's fine.

Mom was getting shocky,
so EMS got her to Bellevue,

and daughter and nanny
are back home with uniforms,

two blocks from here.

Nobody saw anything
more than a scuffle?

And his head exploding.

Nobody on the street
came forward.

No, nobody.
It's dead this early.

It's not
an attempted robbery.

Well, if it was,
it didn't get far.

I hate to say it, but it looks
like a kidnapping attempt.

I mean, this adoption
got a whole lot of press.

Yeah, but not in months.

(Officer Benitez)
The nanny said

it was one of the first times
since the adoption

the kid was out in public.
Bad luck?

Ha. I doubt it.

Sean was a wonderful man.

And he died
protecting our child.

(Cassady)
Have there been any threats

against the new baby?

I mean, it was big news.

A lot of it negative.

And no for no good reason.
We didn't do anything wrong.

A lot of human rights
organizations,

children's rights groups

sprouted up, looking
for press and donations.

When the cameras were gone,
so were they.

Their beef being...

Oh, that it was for publicity,
you know?

For my career.

Just because Angelina
and Madonna--

It was all aboveboard.

(Sofia)
We had signed permission

from the president of Mamuno
and the baby's real father.

I mean, he knew
this was the only way

that his son
would have a decent life.

(Green)
Well, what about
your husband?

Could somebody have been
coming after him?

I don't know.

Um--
[clears throat]

John Brody doesn't have
the balls to hurt a fly.

What?

Sean just got back from

six weeks of producing
a film in Gibraltar.

He was sleeping
with his star,

Darla, Brody's wife.

(Cassady)
I have to admit,

I'd be a little less
casual about that.

(Sofia)
Well, Sean and I have--

had an arrangement.

But I don't want that
getting out in the press.

He died a damn hero.

But Darla's husband John,
he found out about
the affair?

[sighs]

He was ruined.

(Josh)
Yeah, so what's this got
to do with me?

Did you hear
what I said, Mr. Brody?

Yeah, and that's a tough
break for Sean Archer.

(Cassady)
Getting laid off
is a tough break.

Bullet to the head's
something else.

You want me to cry for him?
He was banging my wife.

Been out of the house and away
from my kids because of him.

Yes, it's an awful situation.
Got you drinkin'.

You bet.

You drinking
to drown your sorrows

or to boost your confidence?

What, to shoot him?

I mean, come on,
I have enough problems.

Where were you
at 7:00 this morning?

Here.

Can anyone
verify that?

Aw, come on,
I'm a writer.

We don't kill people.
We just write about it.

So what'd you hope to accomplish
by calling Sofia

to tell her her husband was
stepping out with your wife?

Get a little
damn revenge.

You know what she said?
"Good for him,"
and hung up.

Miss Humanitarian, mother
to the poor and downtrodden.

Her and her husband,
both of 'em--whores.

You own a gun,
Mr. Brody?

No, but if you wanna
look around, be my guest.

Won't take long.

There it is--
my worldly possessions.

and he doesn't have a record.

And no alibi.

The bourbon on his breath
says he just woke up.

The Times was at his door,

and the gunpowder residue test
came back negative.

So he's all bark
and no bite.

Which shoots a hole through
the image of Sofia
and Sean,

who were supposed to be this
happy Hollywood power
couple.

An actress's real life
doesn't match her press?

Well, this is more than press,
this whole adoption thing.

She's making herself out
to be a saint.

Does any of it
help our case?

It expands the suspect
pool-- jilted lovers,

husbands and wives
of those jilted lovers.

Wonderful.

Ballistics came back on shell
casing found at the crime scene.

It matches a gun registered
to Marlon Cooper,

defense attorney.

Last year,
he assaulted a cop.

Have fun.

Did you notice
the charge was dropped,

or you didn't read
that far?

Oh, watch yourself,
smart ass.

I stopped where it said you
put one of us in the hospital.

First of all, I had
no idea he was one of yours

because he was
in plain clothes,

planted to incite.

That was at the rally
for Darfur refugees.

The U.N.'s inattention to

and thus murder of
Darfur refugees, yeah.

So you're involved
in African causes.

I'm a civil rights attorney.

I'm involved
in a lot of things.

International
child adoption?

What do you guys want,
exactly?

What's your take
on Sofia Archer?

Sofia Archer?

Jeez, uh, diva actress?

And her adoption
of an African baby?

Hey, they cleared room
for her on the bandwagon.

Good for her.
Look, I'm a busy guy.

Where's your 9-millimeter,
Mr. Cooper?

Um, got lost.

Two years ago.
It was stolen.

You didn't report it?

It was in a box
when I moved apartments.

It might have got thrown out.
What's to report?

Where were you
this morning, 7:00?

I was with a client.
Accused drug dealer, actually.

He got flaked by a cop.

What's your client's name?

Bobby Suarez.

"International League
for Child Rights."

Isn't this one of the groups

protesting
Sofia Archer's adoption?

I got that flyer
on the subway.

(Green)
Right.

On the subway.

Cooper did some pro bono work
for us after the Darfur rally.

But we parted company
on the Sofia adoption.

The New York Ledger
says your organization

was at the forefront
opposing it.

That was Marlon
who gave those quotes.

When the article came out,
we cut ties.

Well, he made it
sound like

Sofia wasn't even
on his radar.

Oh, more like there was
nothing else on his radar.

He was obsessed.

He said she was copycatting
and trying to boost her career

with a baby theft.

Theft?
What'd he base that on?

Mamuno has maybe three laws
concerning adoption,

written 50 years ago.

But one of them says
that adoptive parents

have to live in the country
for a year

before the child can leave.

She was there
three days.

And Cooper draws the line
at star adoptions?

Well, he didn't talk about
kidnapping or murder.

Well, what then?

Protests.
Pickets.

Rallies outside her apartment.

Why'd that get him
the boot?

I'd think that'd bring
more publicity
to your cause.

Listen, we want money
for AIDS and war orphans.

Whatever her motivation,

Sofia brought attention
and money to Mamuno.

And that just didn't fly
with Cooper.

He kept calling her
"the baby thief."

You can read all about it
in his letter to the editor.

"Why travel 1,500 miles
to adopt a child of color?

"How 'bout Detroit, St. Louis?

"Hell, Sofia,
hop a 5 train to the Bronx,

"and I'll guarantee
scores of orphans.

"But will you?
No.

"Because a celebrity

"career-boosting
accessory du jour

"is no longer
a sweater-wearing Chihuahua.

"It's a destitute
African AIDS orphan,

"ready for purchase
from any number of countries

desperate for foreign cash."

Yeah, guy's got a serious
bone to pick.

And his gun is
the murder weapon.

Well, a kidnapping would bring
a lot of attention to the cause.

Or himself.
The guy's a total windbag.

(Green)
Well, he's a windbag
with an alibi.

Bobby Suarez,
that dope dealer kid

that he was supposed to meet up
with, backs Cooper up.

(Van Buren)
Dope dealer?

And why should we
believe him?

Because he met him
at his PO's office--it's legit.

But check these out.
TARU just sent these over.

They're security stills
from inside Sofia's lobby.

They're not from
the day of the murder,

but they're from last week.

(Green)
It looks like Marlon Cooper
was giving you a payoff,

Mr. McCready.

He said he was paparazzi.

What'd he want?

Heads up when she left
with the new kid.

Which you gave him
the day of the murder?

That don't make me
responsible.

How much was it worth
to him?
A grand, cash.

(Cassady)
How'd you give him
the heads up?

Called his cell.

We dumped his cell.
There were no calls from you.

I just called
the number he gave me.

You'd better find
that number--now.

You don't mind doing
25 years--is that it?

Sit down.

I didn't kill
Sean Archer.

Then who did?
Who'd you give
that weapon to?

My gun was stolen.

Then why'd you pay off
her doorman, huh?

Look, I don't see
any money here.

Okay, then who have you
been talking to

at this disposable
cell number?

The doorman said
he called you at this number

the morning of the murder.

Then there are cell site hits
for this phone

near the crime scene
at the time of the shooting.

But you were with
your drug dealer client then,

so you had to have
passed off the phone.

The same guy
you gave that gun to.

I think we're seeing
coincidences.

Marlon, you were
on a mission.

Baby theft,
illegal adoption.

Those are things
I strongly protest.

And what better place
to make a statement

than at a huge press event
like a kidnapping?

Except the best-laid plans,
right, Cooper?

What went wrong?

You know what?

I'm sorry
Sean Archer is dead.

I'm sure the person
who killed him is too.

But these people
were pure biblical evil.

You tell me I'm wrong.

For stealing babies?

Three days is not a year.

Did you try
to take the baby,

and something went wrong?

Look, whomever did this,
I'm sure he's remorseful.

And I hope he's getting
a good head start on you.

I got nothin' more
to say.

(Green)
Anybody coming in or out
of Cooper's apartment?

Is revolving door.
He say clients--I say swine.

Anyone
in the last few days?

Who knows--I stop paying
attention to him year ago.

(Green)
Okay.

Police.
Open up.

[knocking]

Police.

[object smashing]

I'll take the street.

[distant thud]

Damn it.

Police, freeze!

Nina, he's coming out
the back of the building.

Black male, around 25.

He's got a gray jacket,
black pants.

He's limping.
Something's wrong with his leg.

(Cassady)
Stop, police!

[tires squeal]

Central, be advised.

Perpetrator
has jumped into a cab

heading east on Dyckman.

We found loose ammo
for a 9-millimeter

that ballistics says
is consistent

with the slug pulled
from Sean Archer.

Any lifts?

Oh, my God, there was, like,
a thousand in that guest room,

but believe it or not,
none of them are in the system.

Hmm. A first-timer
blows a guy's face off.

Our guy's a foreigner.

I traced a prepaid credit card
found in Cooper's apartment.

Airline charges
for a round-trip ticket

from Mamuno with about
20 different connections

ending in Toronto.

And then another charge
for a child's seat

one way from Toronto
to Mamuno.

The child's father--
what's his name?

Ephraim Mogae.

Obviously, Cooper was smuggling
him in through Toronto.

To take his son home.

Were there any other charges
on that prepaid card?

Nothing.
He's in the wind.

Any relatives,
friends you can talk to?

(Cassady)
Nothin'.

Well, you're gonna
have to find someone.

That guy's out there
with a gun.

Mr. Mogae
said he had a brother.

It was a cousin.
Said he lived in New Jersey.

Do you know
this cousin's name?

I think it's in my BlackBerry.
Let me get it.

(Cassady)
Did Ephraim Mogae
try to make contact

after the adoption?

Yes.
Here you go, sweetie.

To see his son?
Yes.

What happened?

I told Mary that I didn't
want to hear from him again.

I mean, if we were going
to be a family,

then we needed time to bond.

When was the last time
he tried to make contact?

It's been a while.

But you cut him off.

No contact at all--opposite
of your press statements.

I don't need to
defend myself to you.

(Mary)
The cousin's name
is Festus Lepetu.

Has he ever
contacted you guys?

After we asked him
to stop calling,

we haven't heard
from any of them.

And you didn't think
to mention any of that.

Well, it's been months.
Months.

Festus Lepetu.

(Mary)
Yes.

I don't know
where Ephraim is.

He got in your cab
this morning, didn't he?

No, miss.

Well, he was limping.

How bad he hurt himself
jumping out that window?

Sorry, miss.

You got a family here,
Festus?
Yes!

Your family's papers
in order?

Look, we're gonna
talk to your cousin

one way or another.

He is just here
to visit me.

Okay, I wanna
hear him say that.

Will there be any justice
for him against this woman?

If you don't help us
bring him in peacefully,

there's gonna be nothing for him
but a shootout in the street.

Come on.
Hey, hey.

Come on.

Mr. Mogae?

You speak English?

Yes.

We need you
to come with us.

Can you walk?

[screams]
Oh, okay.

Sit, sit, sit,
sit, sit.

I'll call for a bus.

Mr. Mogae, we know why
you're in the city.

We know that Sofia Archer

refused to let you
see your son.

(Cassady)
We can make
our DAs understand.

If they hear your story,

they can help you
with sentencing.

If not, you're just
another murderer,

which we don't think
you are.

Where's the gun?

In a trash can
near my cousin's home.

Good.

Now what happened
yesterday morning?

Mr. Cooper
said he got a call.

They left the apartment.

He got the call
from Sofia's doorman?
Yes.

Did Mr. Cooper
give you the gun?

He did not know
I took the gun.

You can't protect him,
Mr. Mogae.

He did not know.

Or my plan to take
Christopher back home.

Didn't you approve
of the adoption,

sign the papers
and all that?

I thought they'd be
in Mamuno for a year.

Then they were gone.

Gone.

Okay, so what happened
when you confronted
her husband?

He would not
let me see my son.

Even for a moment.

He pushed me.

Is that why
you drew the gun?

Yes, but...

I did not pull
the trigger.

I cocked it, yes,
to scare him,

but it went off.

And then I ran.

Okay.

Good.
Um...

We're gonna tell
the DAs what you said.

But we need you to write it
down first, all right?

I did not want
to hurt anyone.

I deserve what is to come to me
and will do what you ask.

But I must see my son.

Let's concentrate
on your statement.

First my son,
then anything you wish.

But first my son.

Hell, no!
No!

Look, I understand
your reluctance.

You don't understand
a damn thing.

He shot my husband.

If you allow the visit,

he'll plead guilty
to manslaughter

and do 15 years.

He deserves
a thousand.

But if you refuse this visit,

he'll press for a trial.

You'll have to testify,

and maybe even
your daughter too.

He shot Sean in the face,
and he admitted to it.

How could there possibly
be a trial?

We've recovered the gun,

and there was a flaw
with the firing pin.

It could support
an accidental shooting.

Mr. Mogae could come off
sympathetic to a jury.

How could he possibly
come off as sympathetic?

The fact that you refused him
access to his child,

who, they'll argue, was adopted
in an unorthodox way.

That's not true.

They will argue it,
regardless.

It's just five minutes.

He can't come within
three feet of the child.

He will be supervised
by myself

and the detectives
that covered this case.

And yourself,
if you like.

I do not want to see him.
(Mary)
I'll do it.

He killed my husband.

[sobs]

He killed my husband.

Mary, he killed
my husband.

You have five minutes.

May I please see
more of his face?

[babbling]

Mr. Mogae?

Is there a problem?

This...

is not my son.

This is not my son.

What the hell is
that supposed to mean?

He insists
he's not his son.

When's the last time
he saw the child?

Four months ago, and the baby's
nine months old now.

Compare a photo.

(Rubirosa)
Press photos

from the orphanage show
a malnourished five-month-old

who is deathly underweight.

And Sofia's refused to
let the child be photographed

since her return
to the States.

(McCoy)
Given proper care,

the child could have doubled
its weight in that time,

but still--

He's backing out of
his guilty plea

until he sees his son
or finds out his whereabouts.

Or he saw his son,
and we're being played.

Well, if that was a put-on,
it was damn good.

And he's the last person

I'd want pleading his case
in front of a courtroom.

Well, let's not forget
he shot a man in the face.

The jury's not likely
to overlook that.

A faulty gun and a questionable
foreign adoption?

You think Sofia Archer
will fight you

over a sample
of the child's DNA?

I can't imagine
why not.

Then you better
lace 'em up, Jack,

because if Mr. Mogae is right
and that's not his son,

then where is his son?

(McCoy)
Your Honor, section 532
of the Family Court Act

permits you to order a child
to submit to DNA testing.

For a paternity action,
as opposed to this,

which is a nonpaternity
action.

Donald FF v. Jennifer FF.

The Family Court Act does
not authorize a proceeding

which aims
to illegitimize a child.

This isn't about
parental responsibilities.

We want this resolved

so that we can wrap up
Mr. Mogae's murder case,

and, if necessary,
begin the search for his son.

Please--
he's a confessed murderer,

in the country illegally,

demanding a DNA test on a child
that he claims isn't his.

Where's his standing?

If Mr. Mogae's claim is true,
we have evidence of a crime.

If Mr. Mogae
is this baby's father,

that's the end of all this.

No further disruptions
in the child's life.

The test
seems minimally invasive

and would resolve the cloud
hanging over this child's head.

Mr. Farmer, your client will
produce the boy for a DNA test.

Got your seatbelt on?

The boy's DNA
didn't match Mr. Mogae.

Sure didn't.
He was right.

So where is the son?

I don't know, but I've
got someone to ask.

The DNA popped a match
in CODIS.

The child's real mother.
Lashonda Harris.

Felony trafficking.
Four months into a ten-year bit.

She tried to smuggle in
four ounces of heroin

from Amsterdam.

One of the balloons
broke inside of
her stomach.

She was pregnant
at the time.

Any connection between

Lashonda Harris
and Sofia Archer?

Lashonda is her
former assistant.

What the hell's
going on here, Connie?

I'm taking a ride
to Bedford Hills
to find out.

(Lashonda)
Obviously, I was into
some pretty bad behavior

at the time.

Sofia was very generous.

She agreed
to take care of your child?

Raise my child.

Pay for good schools,
everything.

When did she first
approach you?

Like, four months ago.

Right after
I got locked up.

Where was your baby
before then?

At my sister's house
in Philly,

which was--
[exhales]

It was a very kind thing
that Sofia did.

Did you know anything
about the child

she'd adopted in Africa,
Christopher?

Uh, I mean, yeah, I knew
she had plans to do that.

But--

Do you have any idea
where he is?

What do you mean?

As far as we can
figure it right now,

Sofia has been
passing off your son

as the child she adopted.

What?

Do you know where
the child she adopted might be?

No. No!

Did you know that Sofia planned
to use your child this way?

No!

Mary came here
and visited me

and said, "Sofia
wants to raise
your son."

Whoa, whoa.
Mary came to you?

And I thought it was the
best thing at the time,
but--

Now, what is going on?

Is my son okay?

It's not your son
I'm worried about.

There is only one explanation
my client can think of

for why the child
she's been caring for

is the son of Lashonda Harris
and not Ephraim Mogae,

as she thought.

We're all ears.

One week after the adoption
of Christopher Mogae

and Sofia's return
to the United States,

she left the child in the care
of her assistant, Mary Calvin,

for six weeks.

And where was she
these six weeks?

A private weight
rehabilitation facility

in Ojai, California.

A health spa.

(Farmer)
It's my client's assertion

that during these six weeks,

Christopher Mogae
came to some harm

under the care of Mary Calvin,

and that Mary Calvin
approached Lashonda Harris--

Are you saying
she got a replacement?

A replacement child?

Is this some kind of
ghouly joke?

Well, that's a question
for Mary, not for me.

But you didn't notice
the switch.

I had been gone
for six weeks.

Oh, so all brown babies

pretty much look the same--
is that what you're saying?

Please.

My client had been
in the presence

of Christopher Mogae
for no more than
three days.

His care was almost exclusively
in the hands of Miss Calvin.

Contrary
to her press statements.

Yes.

So adopting a baby was
just a publicity stunt.

I was giving Christopher
a better life.

And I was drawing attention

to a region of the world

that is buckling
under an AIDS pandemic--

Save that for the press,
Mrs. Archer.

Was he going to be raised
by the nanny?

Yes.
But so is my daughter.

And so are the children
of a lot of working women.

Not to the extent
that their children

are unrecognizable
to them.

He was severely underweight
in Africa.

I just--

I just thought
he had gotten healthy.

What are the chances

that Miss Calvin will have
a different story?

Oh, I'm sure she'll
come up with some lie.

But--
(McCoy)
We've heard you, Mrs. Archer.

And we've heard enough.

She's lying!

And throwing you
under a bus.

And what exactly is she saying
I did to Christopher?

Why don't you just
tell us your side?

For what--
what's on the table?

How can I know that,
Miss Prather,

when all I've got
is a missing child

and two supposed caregivers
on opposite sides of the truth?

I didn't hurt him.

I couldn't.
I would never hurt a child.

Then what happened to him?

For a week after
we got back from Mamuno,

she tried to care for
Christopher herself.

Because of the bad press?

It was a disaster.

But she tried.

I left for an hour
to buy food for dinner.

When I came back,
she was screaming.

She said the baby
had turned blue.

Why didn't you call
an ambulance?

He was dead.

I'll ask that again.

I did CPR for 20 minutes.

I defibrillated him with
the portable unit
in the house.

He was dead.

Then why didn't you
call the hospital

or his pediatrician--
anyone?

Sofia lost her mind.
She ordered me not to.

She said if I did,

she'd blame me
to the police

and that the press was already
against her for the adoption,

and now they'd say
that she killed
the baby.

Did she?

Maybe...she shook him.

Whose idea was it
to switch the children?

Sofia's.

I never met Lashonda Harris
before seeing her
in prison.

I can't imagine
you went to all this trouble

out of the goodness
of your heart.

She offered me
half a million dollars.

I needed the money.

I felt so bad
for that little boy.

But he just died.

Where is he?

(Green)
Connie,

we got nothing so far.

Maybe she's wrong
about the location.

Is that something
you really forget,

where you buried
a dead kid?

(ESU officer)
Detectives, we got something.

Bones. Human.

Looks like
an animal got it.

She's a collar.
Sofia Archer too.

Based on what?

She knew.
She had to know.

She's a collar.

(Green)
If you cannot afford one,

one will be provided
for you.

Do you understand these rights
as I have read them to you?

Just get me my lawyer.

Ready to meet
your public?

[reporters shouting]

(Green)
Back up, back up!

Move, move, move,
move, move!

[shouting]

(man)
et a statement,
Miss Archer?

Rib fractures consistent
with a child

who'd been beaten to death.

That is a sad truth,
Mr. McCoy,

but my client's
not responsible.

Mary Calvin
killed my baby.

There are no cameras in here.
You could lose the pretense.

Your assistant could be
a little more respectful.

Your client could be
a little less nauseating.

(Farmer)
So this is personal.
Is that what I'm gleaning here?

Because where's your evidence
of Sofia's involvement?

Her child
buried in the park.

Her reputation, career,
and social standing at stake

if harm came to the child.

And a half million
dollar payment

for disposal of the body.

That was a loan

so that Mary could pay
her mother's medical bills.

Paid in full in cash the day
you left New York for Ojai.

(McCoy)
You want to explain
that coincidence to a jury?

Regardless
of what Mary Calvin says

or what purpose she claims
that money was for,

you can't prove murder.

You got nothing.

(Rubirosa)
There's no way Sofia
didn't recognize the child

when she got back
from weight camp.

There's no way
that story's true.

Did the M.E. pinpoint
when the child died?

(McCoy)
Only within a week or so.

Sofia may have been in town
or already in Ojai.

Is there any abuse
in Mary Calvin's background?

No arrests.

A former employer

who says their child
made a few trips
to the ER.

But that child was autistic.
He's accident-prone.

I doubt that's the way
the defense will present it.

But who do you believe?

Mary Calvin, who admitted
to burying this child

and took us to his remains,
or Sofia,

who claims she didn't recognize
the child she had adopted?

We'll need to make
a deal with Mary Calvin

for her testimony.

Disposal of a body
and hindering
prosecution.

Okay, but that's it.

That's the horse
you've got to ride.

(McCoy)
And then what did you do,
Miss Calvin?

(Mary)
I found a dark spot
in the park.

I dug the best hole I could
with the garden shovel.

I--

took Christopher
out of the duffle bag.

Then I covered him up.

Why did you bury the child

instead of going
to the authorities?

Sofia ordered me not to

and threatened
to blame me.

Then--

she promised to pay me.

And why did you approach
Lashonda Harris?

Sofia said she needed
to cover up

Christopher's death.

She needed another baby.

(McCoy)
Did she justify
this switch?

She said that Lashonda's
baby needed help too,

that it would be charitable
to raise him as Christopher,

and that the press
and the public

would never know
the difference.

Miss Calvin, isn't it true
that you're the one

who murdered
Christopher Mogae?

No, it's not.

You killed him

while my client was in Ojai,
California, didn't you?

He died when
she was in New York.

Who buried the child?

I did.

Who approached Lashonda Harris
to adopt her child?

Only because
Sofia paid me.

You ever been violent
with a child in the past?

Never.

Before your employment
with Sofia Archer,

you worked for Paige
and Franklin Littlefield.

Is that right?
Nannying for their son Jackson.

That's right.

(Farmer)
And how many times
did you take little Jackson

to the emergency room
while you were his nanny?

I never hurt him.

How many times?

Three times.

Broken wrist, broken arm,
black eye.

He had autism, and he would
act out violently.

Well, it doesn't sound like
the basis for termination,

but the Littlefields,
they fired you, didn't they?

His behavior was getting
worse as he got older,

and they wanted
an autism specialist.

Or they just didn't want
any more broken bones--or worse.

Objection, Your Honor.

Counselor, leave the testimony
to the witness.

Norther.

(Farmer) I thought I had
Sofia, expla good life to
offer him,

and I wanted to shed light
on the AIDS pandemic

in his own country.

(Farmer)
Did you do any research
before adopting Christopher?

Months' worth.

I had learned that 14%
of Mamuno's 12 million
people

are infected with HIV,

that the number of orphans
is around 1 million.

What happened when you
brought Christopher home?

When I came home
from Mamuno,

my agent called and said
there were talks

of a remake of
Black Narcissus

and I was being considered
for the Sister Clodagh
role,

but I had to get in shape.

So I left Christopher
with Mary Calvin.

(Farmer)
When you returned home
from Ojai,

with the child you thought
was Christopher?

Not very much.

But I think Mary was
keeping him from me.

I mean, he was always
a little sick or asleep.

But she said he was fine,
and gaining weight,

which was obviously a lie.

Sofia, did you kill
Christopher Mogae?

I did not.

(Farmer)
Did you charge Mary Calvin
with arranging to replace him

with Lashonda Harris's baby?

I didn't have anything
to do with that.

And it breaks my heart
to think

a child whose life
I was trying to save

wound up in these
awful circumstances.

(Farmer)
Nothing further.

You refused to let
the child be photographed

or allowed out of the house

during the six weeks
of your absence, didn't you?

There'd been
enough press.

Or was that to ensure that
no one could compare him

to the boy that you adopted
in Mamuno

because it wasn't
the same boy?

That couldn't have been
my concern.

I didn't know what
had happened to him.

You said to the press

that you would raise
the child yourself.

You insisted on that,
but you lied, didn't you?

Yes.

So you have a history
of skillful lying.

What's to say
you're not lying now?

I only lied to the press

to steer attention
to the orphanage,

which resulted in $3 million
worth of donations.

And that was just
to boost your career.

Now the stakes are little
higher, aren't they?

Mary Calvin killed my child
and buried him.

You killed your child
and paid her to bury him--

paid her half a million dollars,
didn't you?

I gave her the money
to save her dying mother.

I never hurt Christopher.

And I'm incapable of harming

or even raising my voice
to a child.

Just neglecting one
to the point

of being unable
to recognize him,

your own adopted son who
you told millions of people

would be raised
as your own blood.

I adopted Christopher
to save his life,

and others like him.

I thought if my celebrity
could serve a good purpose,

then why shouldn't it?

But it wasn't enough.

And, yes,

I am responsible.

Not for his murder...

but for leaving him
with the wrong person.

I never saw her yell
or raise a hand at her daughter.

Because she was patient
or she just wasn't around?

She wasn't around much.

And perfect behavior
when she was?

No, she was absent.
She didn't pay attention.

But that's what
I was there for.

And you never, ever
gave her any drugs.
No!

Look, you already asked me
these questions months ago.

And I am asking you
again.

No, she doesn't drink.

She didn't do drugs,
except for the prescriptions.

Look, I don't think
that she was capable

of beating that kid
like you said.

If he started crying,

she would have just
left the room.

What if she was alone?

She probably would have
put her iPod on

and waited for somebody
to help.

She wasn't cruel,
she was just...

absent.

[knocking]

You ever work
as a babysitter?

I delivered newspapers.

I had eight regulars,
infants to adolescents.

Paid for my first car.

Rule number one--if you do not
watch them like a hawk,

something from the floor
will end up in their mouth.

What am I looking at?

It's from the initial search
of Sofia's home,

from the household vacuum bag--

eight tablets
of dexamphetamine.

Diet pills?

One alone would be
a lethal dose for an infant.

I think she spilled her pills

and didn't think
to pick them up.

Fun story.
Interesting theory.

(Rubirosa)
Your fingerprints

were the only ones found
on the pill bottle.

And Christopher Mogae's DNA
was recovered

from his dried saliva
on four of the tablets

found in the vacuum bag.

Don't.
Don't dignify it.

She wiped his mouth
and handled the pills.

So what?

(McCoy)
A subpoena
of your pharmacy

also revealed
that you called

from your weight
treatment center in California

to cancel an expensive
order of mephloquine.

Malaria medication for
Christopher's ongoing condition.

(Farmer)
So she went
to another pharmacy.

Mephloquine isn't aspirin.

It's only available
through the CDC.

And no other order
has been placed

past the one
your client cancelled.

(McCoy)
Once you got to Ojai,

why did you suddenly
stop treatment

for Christopher's malaria?

Because he was dead,
and you knew it.

I--I cancelled
the order because--

(McCoy)
A vanity adoption.

A hoodwinked father.

And the child overdoses

on your diet pills?

You would have been
pilloried in the press.

What if it was
an accident?

You're saying
you perjured yourself?

She's posing a hypothetical,
which she will not do again.

An accident
doesn't make me a killer.

(McCoy)
You might have been able
to sell the adoption

as simple good will

and Christopher's death
as maternal incompetence.

But you replaced him
with another child.

You knew exactly
what you were doing.

Do you know--do you know
that millions of dollars

went into Mamuno
because of me?

Medicine, food,

clean drinking water.

Do you know how many
other children

will live years past their
life expectancy because of me?

We're only concerned
with the one who won't.

[whispers]
I did my best.

Man 2.
15 years.

I want to have kids,
you know?

I wanna wake up with them
in the morning,

make 'em breakfast,

see 'em off to school,

and tuck 'em in at night.

I just can't imagine
seeing that as a burden.

Some people
are wired wrong.

Ugliest part
of our work.

It's babies.

Babies as fashion.

Pour me another?

[unscrews cap]

[pouring liquid]

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