All language subtitles for Law and order S18E03 - Misbegotten

Nouncer)
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.

She forgot
to designate a driver

before getting hammered.

Why should I be surprised?

Ooh, she forgot
her panties too.

How old is this?

Lift with your legs, lori.

You're a real gentleman, rog.

Might as well start
your rounds

while you're up there.

(Lori)
Give me a break!

[Booming sound]

Shwataking package
strs

when the bomb went off.

She was barely breathing

when they put her
in the bus.

(Lupo)
What's her name?

Emerson.
Lori emerson.

Lori emerson.

What's it look like?

Finding pieces
of a pipe bomb.

Oh.

Right.

Can I borrow that?

So...

What is this?

Looks like it's
from an alarm clock.

That's old school, huh?

I'm gonna need a list
of the tenants

and all the security
camera footage

from the lobby
and the street, okay?

The other guard went
to the hospital

with the victim.

Yeah, from what I hear

he could end up being
our only living witness.

Ugh, yoga classes.
Prenatal.

Two victims now.

Lori was handling
the packages.

Usually it's medical supplies.

Specimens going to the labs
upstairs.

She make the deliveries
every night?

No.

6:00 to 2:00
isn't her normal shift.

I don't know
if she was filling in

or switched or what.

Still it was nice of you

to ride with her
to the hospital.

I thought somebody
should be here,

you know...

If she came to.

I called her husband
six times.

No answer.

[Door opens]

How's she doing, doc?

She's out of surgery,

but she's had
a massive stroke.

She went into a coma.

We're seeing minimal
brain activity.

Any chance of recovery?

Maybe 5%.

What about the baby?

Stable.

The fetus should be okay

as long as miss emerson's
on life support.

She's in post-op
with her husband.

(Ryan)
The money's been tight,

so lori was trying
to get in some o.T.

Before going on maternity.

Oh, god, baby.

(Green)
Look, we're really sorry.

The other security guard--

he said he had
a tough time reaching you.

I couldn't hear my phone.

You were in a bar,
that's why.

Don't start.
I can smell the booze.

You're out drinking--

my brother's here now.

Don't you use that tone
with my wife!

Stop!

The three of us
go outside.

Come on.

Lori's been staying
at her mother's

the last couple weeks.

It's the kid,
you know?

Money...

Me and dean have
a contracting business.

Yeah, things have been slow.

So you couldn't stay
in the same house

and work it out?

Was lori afraid of you?

I would never lay
a hand on her.

Was he abusive?

Well no, he never
actually hit her,

but all that arguing.

I told her it wasn't healthy
for the baby.

So moving out
was your idea?

Ryan's wasting his time

working with that brother
of his.

He's about to be
a father

with a young son
on the way.

It's time for him
to get serious.

It was supposed to be
a wake-up call.

The amount of explosives
packed in that pipe

should've blown the doors
off that elevator.

Why didn't it?

Bad design.

Too much nitro was used
as a detonator.

Cheddite was the main explosive,

but nitro has the greater
velocity of explosion.

The nitro blew the end
off the pipe

before the cheddite detonated.

Right.

What else?

The parts were untraceable.

It was packed in a small,
white cardboard box.

The address label
was unreadable.

Maybe she wasn't the target.

Somebody could have a beef
with somebody in the building.

Doctors and labs.

Do a threat assessment.

Right.

Any kind of threats?

Calls? Letters?

How about the procedures
you do there?

Anything controversial?

Sure, the doctor can
call me back later.

Okay, thank you.

Doctors.

All these people care about

is how this explosion
will drive up their insurance.

I just saw

your sister-in-law.

How's she doing?

Uh, better.

Hey, ed, you like kids?

Yeah, I like kids.

That one.

White, small.

(Green)
B&c couriers.

(Man)
I don't care
what the courier told you.

This doesn't look like
the boxes

which we use to send
our specimen.

I was the last one
to leave the office yesterday

and I did not see
this box.

Where--where do you leave
your specimen?

Right here.

In here.

Pick-ups are always between
6:00 and 7:00.

But this is not my package.

You get a lot of traffic
through here.

These are all doctors' offices.

Dr. Zimmer, dr. Bellamy,
dr. Stern.

Any of the labs you use
for your specimens

on this list?

This one.

I use them a lot.

But I'm telling you
this is not my package.

Okay.

Genatech.

Ninth floor
of the victim's building.

We were the target?
Oh, my.

All we do here are
liver screens.

Chem 8 profiles.
R.A.S, a.S.O.S--

blood work.

Urine and fecal specimens.

Genetic screening.
All very routine.

Anything involving stem cells

or testing on animals?

No, nothing controversial.

No, our business partners
wouldn't approve.

(Lupo)
Those tests though--

they're wrong sometimes,
right?

When was the last time?

We botched an amnio test
a few months ago.

The parents were told
the karyotype analysis

revealed the fetus
had trisomy 21, down syndrome.

This was not correct.

We discovered it a week later,
but--

but the parents had already
terminated the pregnancy.

Terminated a healthy baby.

Did they sue?

Our insurance company
settled two weeks ago.

We'd been trying for seven years
to get pregnant.

That baby was our last shot.

I had two miscarriages.

I'm 42.

We're very sorry...

But would you mind
putting down

where you were yesterday

between 5:00 and 7:00?

You seriously think
I had something to do

with that bomb?

The lab told us you settled
a lawsuit

for a fraction
of what you were asking.

That had to leave
a bad taste.

It wasn't about the money.

Sir.

They wore you down,
didn't they?

They told you your lawsuit
didn't have a chance.

After all, it was you

who decided to end
the pregnancy.

Forgive me for saying so,
but they've got a point.

A down's kid can live
a pretty good life these days.

Maybe you should've played
the hand you were dealt.

Is that what genatech said

when they gave you
a couple bucks.

Screw you.

We just wanted an apology.

And we got one.

From hoffman.

In person.

I don't know how sincere
he was.

He just wanted
the whole thing over.

It's as good as we
were gonna get

from those people.

And here.

An adoption agency?

That's where we were
yesterday.

We're having our baby
one way or the other.

Are we done now?

You too.
Thank you.

The adoption place vouches
for fleming.

The chief of d's
got a complaint

about you coming down
on a witness

over a therapeutic abortion.

You put a personal spin
on it?

First off, it was a suspect.

And second,
I was playing him.

Sounded okay to me.

Look.

I don't care
where it's coming from.

You question a suspect,

you don't personalize
the issues.

So what did you conclude
about this suspect?

Fleming's covered for the time

that the package was left
at the doctor's office.

So?

I was with this--

i was engaged to this girl.

She got pregnant,

and when the amnio came back

't agree
on what to do.

So...like that.

Sorry you asked, right?

Check this out.

Two years ago,

hoffman is a professor
at hudson,

full tenure and research grants
up the ass.

And then he leaves for genatech.

Maybe it wasn't his choice.

(Man)
There was no scandal.

Dr. Hoffman was presented
with a business opportunity,

and he jumped at it.

All those blood tests
add up to serious money.

He left all this
for money?

All this isn't all
it's cracked up to be.

And he no longer
has to deal

with the outraged attentions

of our campus thought police.

One of these groups was giving
dr. Hoffman a hard time?

He found a death threat

nailed to the door
of his lab.

He suspected a kid

from one of our campus
christian ministries,

but he couldn't prove it.

This death threat,
can we see it?

I have a copy in my office.

I remember it clearly.

"Hoffman, you are the darwin
of deviance,

and you'll burn in hell
with the faggots you love."

And why this reference
to gays?

That's what hoffman
was researching here:

A genetic marker
for sexual orientation.

He was looking for
a gay gene?

Not just looking.
He claimed he found it.

I left that all behind.

I don't do that kind
of research anymore.

What kind of research
are you doing?

Antigens.

Nothing controversial.

This gay gene,
it's for real?

Absolutely.

There are traits

that suggest
a physical difference

between gays and straights.

The direction of the hair whirl

at the back of the head
of males, for example.

These differences
have a genetic basis.

Here.

The xq28 region
of the human genome.

And this is what people
are upset about?

(Hoffman)
Mm.

If sexual orientation
is hardwired into our dna,

then it's no longer a choice.

Good news
for the gay community.

And bad for our
bible-thumping friend.

You had an idea who he was,
right?

An undergrad--
luke drummond.

I had a run-in with him

right before I found that note
on my door.

I was here all afternoon
tuesday,

and then I went home
to the community house.

You ask them.

Oh, we will.

Of course, your fellow
believers could lie

to cover for you.

Oh, there's no need to.

Hoffman can do all the research
he wants.

It's not important anymore.

How do you figure?

If dr. Hoffman's right
about this gene,

doesn't that prove being gay

is part of god's design?

All temptation is a part
of god's design,

genetic or not.

What if some of these kids here

have a gene for addiction?

Doesn't mean they should
just give up and get high.

They can make
a moral choice.

So taking drugs and being gay,

it's all the same to you.

It's the same struggle
for everybody.

I mean, the anger I felt
when I threatened hoffman.

Th w was the devil
in my heart.

"Do not be
overcome by evil,

but overcome evil with good."

Romans.

12-21.

So instead of death threats,

you're out here doing good.

This is where my faith
has lead me.

(Green)
People like that make me think

the world ain't ready
for a gay gene.

What, some things are better
left unknown?

Hell yes!

It's like those women
that find out

they have the breast cancer
gene.

They get mastectomies

and they still get
the cancer.

And some of 'em
don't do anything,

and they're fine.

What are you gonna do,

you gonna stop the march
of science?

No, it's the march of stupidity
I'm talking about.

Let's say you had
the gay gene.

Maybe it doesn't mean
you're gay,

but if your neighbor finds out
you got it,

watch out.

So dr. Hoffman's trying
to get his research published.

He couldn't do that without

the university knowing about it.

If somebody wanted to stop him,

that'd be the first place
they'd go.

I'm sorry, we're not supposed
to give out

any information about
university research projects.

Except if dr. Chang
says it's okay.

Miss...

I'm sure you want
to help us catch the person

that did this.

Oh, that's so sad.

If somebody called here

about dr. Hoffman's study,

maybe even one of his
research subjects.

So sad.

Anyway, I still can't talk
about the research.

But if you want to know
if somebody called

about dr. Hoffman,

that's different.

Okay, we want to know.

They asked if the dr. Hoffman
at genatech

is the same dr. Hoffman
who taught here.

You get this person's name?

Totally.

I don't give out information
to just anybody,

but he said he was a doctor.

Here, it was two weeks ago.

He said his name
was doctor paul bellamy.

What are the odds?

I didn't make that call.

I never even heard
of sheldon hoffman.

Can you think of anybody
that might impersonate you

on the phone?

Somebody violent,
maybe hates gays,

or has extreme religious views?

Maybe one
of your patients.

Nice try,

but my patients are off-limits.

And you have my assurance
as a psychiatrist

they're all garden variety
neurotics.

Okay, maybe we can
narrow it down a little bit.

This guy knows that a courier

picks up lab samples
at dr. Choudhary's office

between 5:00 pm
and 7:00 pm.

So maybe a patient
that has a regular appointment

around that time.

[Sighs]

Doctor, when we arrest this guy,
and we will,

i would hate to find out
that he spilled his guts

to you about sending this bomb
and you did nothing to stop him.

I'm well aware of my legal
and ethical obligations.

[Knock on door]

Brilliant.

You locked the door.

(Dr. Bellamy)
Mrs. Watkins, I'm sorry.
Little problem with the door.

I'll take you right in.

You go right in.

You're still here.

Thank you, doctor.

What the hell was that?

[Door shuts]

I emailed his schedule
to my phone.

I figured that much.

Well, if that wasn't
plain sight, what is?

Plain sight don't cover
what you just did.

It does where I've been
for the last four years.

Well, news flash--
you home now,

and you got a partner
who don't want to deal

with that headache.

Then I guess you don't want
to know

who has an appointment
with bellamy

every tuesday and thursday
at 5:00.

Dean emerson,
lori's brother-in-law.

(Green)
We got to hit up
the phone dumps.

There was a call
to hudson university

from dean's apartment.

(Van buren)
He have a history
of anti-gay violence

or activism?

(Lupo)
No, nothing's turned up.

But he just happened
to send a bomb

to someone who worked
in the same building

as his sister-in-law.

Dean's call to the university

about hoffman and genatech

might've been a smoke screen
to hide the real target.

Lori and her husband
were having problems.

Ryan looks like
a cut and run type.

He might've been looking
for a cheap way

out of the marriage.

And he got his brother
to do the heavy lifting.

But we don't have
anything on ryan.

The call came
from dean's apartment.

So...start there.

Hey, that's my room!

The small one,
that's my son's room.

What, you don't think
I could read a warrant?

I was a bail bondsman
for 15 years.

You can only search
the parts of the home

under my son's control.

[Sighs]

The place is clean.

Hmm.

You okay, sir?

Yeah, yeah.

Just this bum ticker.

It'll be fine as soon
as you guys clear out.

Do you take pills
for your heart?

Yeah, I take pills.

Can I see them?

Please?

Here.

This is a three months supply.

You got it two weeks ago.

So where's the rest of them?

How the hell do I know?

Nitroglycerin.

No different than the nitro
in the bomb.

[Chatter on police radio]

Put the nail gun down,
dean.

Put it down!

What's going on?

You're under arrest
for attempted murder.

Arrest?
For what?

No, it's--
it's okay, ryan.

Go take care of dad.

Hey, hey.

Mr. Emerson
is a business owner.

He is the caretaker
of his elderly father.

Whose heart medication
he stole to make his bomb.

(Judge alden)
Did he now?

Points for creativity,
mr. Emerson.

Bail's 500,000.

[Bangs gavel]

Hey.

Don't worry.
I'll get the money.

I'll get the money.

You better find
that money quick.

You don't want your brother
rolling on you

when we offer him a deal.

You think you can scare us?

Forget it.

It's the emerson brothers
bake-off.

First pie out of the oven
gets the prize.

Leave ryan out of it.

Dean.

My client's not interested
in a deal.

I just think everyone
should get

what's coming to them.

No more, no less.

Your kid brother's the only one

who stands to gain
from your recalcitrance.

You could convince us
that none of this was your idea.

After all,
ryan's the violent one.

He's the one with
the juvenile record

for aggravated assault.

[Slaps table]

Time is your enemy,
mr. Emerson.

Don't leave empty handed.

Motion to suppress.

It's all going out.

The search, the nitro pills,
the phone call.

Ask your detectives.

They know why.

The probable cause
for the search

was the fact
he's seeing a shrink

down the hall from where
the bomb was picked up.

And how did you know
he was a patient there?

Came up at the shrink's.

The affidavit from dr. Bellamy

says he invoked doctor/patient
privilege

and refused to give you
any information.

Try again, detective.

Doctor bellamy left
his blackberry

in plain sight
in the waiting room.

His appointment calendar
was on the screen.

You could read it
from where you were standing?

No.

I...emailed his weekly calendar

from his blackberry
to my phone.

That's a violation
of the privilege.

(Cutter)
Is it?

Oh...okay.

Thank you, lieutenant.

[Door opens]

I don't care what kind
of legal two-step

they dream up,

i know a bad search
when I see it.

Tell me you were tying
your shoe when he did that.

I was tying my shoe
when he did that.

(Cutter)
There's no violation.

I'd argue the mere fact

of having an appointment
with a doctor

isn't privileged information.

Based on what?

The attorney/client privilege

which doesn't cover
an attorney's client list.

Throw in a good faith
argument

and I think we got it.

The issue is plain sight.

The caas on the doctor's
blackberry screen.

I'd need a telescope
to read that.

Well as far as I know

the plain sight rule
doesn't have an exclusion

for myopia.

Don't be a wise ass.

Detective lupo couldn't read
the information either,

that's why he stole it
by emailing it.

He sent himself a digital copy

of something he was allowed
to see in the first place.

Is that stealing?

It's never been argued
in this context.

And it won't be argued now.

The evidence is still admissible

under the principle
of inevitable discovery.

Going back to the call
that lead the police

to emerson's psychiatrist,

a search of the university's

phone records would also
have led them to emerson.

Your honor,

the court can't reward
the violation

of my client's rights.

I don't intend to.

The evidence
of mr. Emerson's call

to the university stays in.

The pills and the psychiatrist
are out.

I'm also granting
the defense's application

for bail reduction,

with the condition
that the defendant

will be confined to his home.

This boy of yours,
jack mccoy--

uh-uh, no.

We agreed no dumping
on jack in front of connie.

Yeah.

How much is out?

Yeah, the news
isn't any better here.

Lori wasn't scheduled to work
that night.

She was called in sometime
in the afternoon.

Which begs the question,

did ryan and dean find out
she was working

in time for dean to leave
the bomb

where the courier
picked it up?

So far the answer's no.

There's no record
that lori and ryan

talked to each other
tuesday afternoon.

Square one.

When did lori find out

she had to report
for work?

Well her supervisor

never spoke to her
directly.

He left a message
with her parents.

Start tracking down
those messages.

My wife gave her the message

I'm not sure what time
the call came in.

You can ask her when
she comes back

from the powder room.

Ain't gonna let them
get away with this, are you?

Ryan and his brother.

No, we'll do our best.

Lori never liked that dean.

Why is that, mr. Drucker?

A leech,
bloodsucker.

Living off his brother ryan's
hard work,

living off his dad.

Honey,

miss rubirosa here
wants to know

about that message
from lori's supervisor.

When did you give lori

the message she had
to work that night?

Let me think now.

It was just after 5:30.

I finally reached her
on her cell phone.

5:30? You sure?

That sounds too late for her
to get to work on time.

She said it was no problem

since she was already upstairs
in the building.

In the building where
she worked?
Mm-hmm.

What was she doing there
on her day off?

She said she was at
a doctor's office.

Her obstetrician?

No, another doctor.

Uh...dr. Hoffman.

I don't know what
she was seeing him for.

She's a security guard.

Maybe she was at the lab
to discuss security.

(Rubirosa)
On her day off?

Your colleague, dr. Brill,

couldn't think of a reason

why lori would visit you.

But she did find this
in your lab's records.

It's a record for an amnio
you had done on lori.

You ordered the amnio
for your research.

Dr. Hoffman can't get into that.

He's engaged
in proprietary research.

There are lucrative
patents at stake

that must be protected
from competition.

Dr. Hoffman should be worried

about protecting himself
from me.

He was using the victim
for a research project

and he didn't think it
worth mentioning to the police.

I didn't know it had anything
to do with this bombing.

You're looking for a way
to identify this gay gene

in a fetus, aren't you?

That would be correct.

Did lori know
what you were doing?

No.

I found out she was pregnant.

I asked her to participate
in a research study

to find genetic markers
for cancer in utero.

I needed a comparative
dna sample

from a member of her family.

Two weeks ago I asked lori

to ask dean emerson
for a sample.

He refused.

Why ask dean in particular?

On the questionnaire
she filled out for the study,

lori indicated a history
of homosexuality

in her husband's family.

Dean...in particular.

Dean emerson is gay?
It matters how?

(Rubirosa)
Hoffman's trying to identify

a genetic marker
for homosexuality in a fetus.

It could be the first step
towards a screening test

to see if your baby
is gay.

Given the option,
how many homophobic parents

would abort fetuses
they think are gay?

A whole community could be
wiped out of existence.

Dean emerson might not like
the idea

of being the last of his kind.

So he tried to kill hoffman
to stop it.

We had the right suspect
but the wrong motive.

I hear pandora's box
creaking open.

(Parrish)
You won't be sorry
you came all the way out here.

Our proposal is simple.

Dean pleads guilty,
you agree to 15 to life,

and you don't oppose his parole
after 15.

I'd rather lose the case
at trial

than give your client
one day off

the 25 years I'm seeking.

And that's not accounting

for the murder charges
I'm gonna file

when his sister-in-law dies.

Mr. Cutter, please,

for my father's sake,

I've always been discreet
about my orientation.

Your father doesn't know.

On my 18th birthday,
I came out to him.

And then every year
for five years.

But he never heard me.

So I gave up.

It's not just him.

It's the family,
his brothers, friends.

My dad still lives
in the same neighborhood

he grew up in,
and the trial...

It would be embarrassing.

(Cutter)
What part of the trial
would be embarrassing

for your family?

To find out you're gay...

Or that you nearly killed
your pregnant sister-in-law.

For my family?
That's a real good question.

I told lori I needed
a dna sample from dean.

A swab from his mouth.
Nothing invasive.

She called him from my office
to ask him.

And what, if anything,
did you hear

of her conversation?

She gave him my name.

She told him
she was participating

in a research study.

She started arguing
with him.

She called him paranoid.

After she hung up,

she told me dean refused
to supply a dna sample.

Doctor, you've received
death threats in the past,

haven't you?

Yes.
Two years ago.

From a religious zealot.

How about now,

since the news broke
about your work

on identifying the gay gene
in fetuses.

Any death threats?

Many.

From the gay community
this time.

They liked me well enough

when I found a genetic
basis for their behavior,

but now...

Are they upset now because

your work might lead
to a screening test?

I don't know about that.

Isn't that the patent
you applied for?

A screening test to identify
this gay gene

in unborn babies?

Yes.

So while you're making millions
off this patent,

the gay community is worried

that your test might ignite

what they've termed
a gay holocaust.

Objection.
Relevance.

Withdrawn.

Doctor,

in light of the highly
provocative nature

of your research,

are you aware if the police
investigated

any suspects besides my client

in connection with the bombing?

No, I'm not aware
of it.

As far as the threats,

i think most people understand
that science seeks

only one thing.

The truth.

I don't have any political axe
to grind here.

Doctor, isn't it true

that your findings
have been rejected

by every scientific journal
you've submitted them to?

That's only three journals.

I have successfully screened

for the marker in utero.

That's why I asked dean
for a dna sample.

Lori emerson's child
carries the marker

for homosexuality.

(Parrish)
That's according
to your standards.

No further questions.

I knew since high school
my brother was gay.

But he wasn't one of those
flashy gay guys.

He wasn't political.

He played it cool.

(Parrish)
You love your brother, ryan?

Yeah.

He's my big brother.

Taught me how to throw
a spiral.

You know, football.

You were arrested when
you were 15 for assault.

Tell us about that.

Well, these guys
at our high school...

Real muffin heads,

they jumped dean
in the parking lot

'cause he was gay.

They hurt him pretty bad.

Dean didn't want to go
to the teachers or the cops,

so the next day I called
those guys out.

They never bothered dean again.

Knowing dean as you do,

do you think he was capable
of sending that bomb?

No.

That's not dean.

Anyway, he can't even connect up
a computer, you know?

[Clears throat]

You love your brother.

You love your wife too.

And urnbn child.

Yeah, sure.

I love 'em a lot.

Lori's gonna pull through.

We'd all like that,
mr. Emerson.

After his beating,

did your brother receive
any medical help

or counseling?

He got patched up
at the hospital,

started seeing a shrink
for depression.

Objection.

To her own witness?

It's clear where this is going.

Overruled, ms. Parrish.

Ryan, do you know the name
of dean's therapist

or where his office is?

I don't remember his name.

But I went on the subway
a couple times with dean.

73rd and columbus.

The same building where
the bomb was left

to be picked up by a courier.

Approach, your honor.

I want this testimony
stricken.

This is the same evidence
you suppressed.

She put this witness
on the stand, your honor.

She opened the door.

And so you did, ms. Parrish.

The objection is overruled.

(Mccoy)
Good recovery today.

What's all this?
Your summation?

Uh, parrish's.

Trying to imagine
what I would say in her shoes.

"Haber"?

Fritz haber.

German chemist.

Won the nobel in 1918,

invented chlorine gas
and zyklon b,

the poison of choice
in the nazi extermination camps.

The moral arithmetic defense.

Kill one scientist
to save millions.

It's a good one.

If dean had killed haber,

maybe I'd move to acquit.

So what's your rebuttal?

Dr. Hoffman was no fritz haber,
right?

Well, if you were a fetus
with the gay gene

you might not be saying that.

And this isn't nazi germany.

Dean emerson had
other venues available

to voice his protest.

Make sure you point that out
in your summation.

By the way, fritz haber's wife
committed suicide

to protest his work
with poison gas.

Maybe mr. Emerson should've
followed her moral example.

[Knock on door]

Not sure what to make
of this.

The defense just added
an alibi witness.

David drucker,
lori's father.

(David)
It's real simple.

The day you say dean
was planting that bomb

he was at our house
in long island,

fixing the leak
in our powder room.

He even stayed for dinner.

It's strange that dean
never contacted you

to provide an alibi.

Dean and I don't always
see eye to eye on things,

but...maybe he thought
I wouldn't stand up for him.

But he's family.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Lori's things
have been taken away,

is she being moved?

Yes, tomorrow,
to obstetrics.

Icu on three.

Is something wrong
with her baby?

No, baby's fine.

Are you family?

No, we're, uh--

we're with
the district attorney,

so whatever you can tell us.

Well, I can't talk
about this case in particular,

but for someone
in lori's condition,

bringing a pregnancy
to full term

reduces her chance of recovery

from 5% to almost nothing.

But if the pregnancy
is terminated now,

her chances stay at 5%.

(Cutter)
Wait, that's what's
gonna happen?

The pregnancy's
being terminated?

It was her husband's decision.

[Scoffs]

What happens

f
[scofchances are almost 100%

the baby would grow
to full term

and be delivered healthy
and normal.

Aborting a healthy boy
for a 5% chance

of saving your wife.

I--i don't know
what ryan's thinking.

It's desperate
and unexpected

like david drucker's
sudden testimony.

So what changed?

Hoffman.

He testified he found
the gay genetic marker

in the fetus.

You mentioned how much
david dislikes dean.

What if it's homophobia?

And someone like that
wouldn't be thrilled

with a gay grandson.

He made a deal with ryan.

Abort the child in return
for perjured testimony

to save ryan's
beloved brother.

I'm gonna be sick.

(Cutter)
Later.

We gotta get a stay
to stop that abortion.

Put that away.

Judge bell'll never talk
to you ex parte.

[Sighs]

But he'll talk to me.

I need you to issue a stay

to stop the abortion
of lori emerson's child.

My people believe
it's the quid pro quo

in an illegal agreement

between ryan emerson
and his father-in-law

to obstruct justice.

You mean the alibi testimony
from david drucker?

He's scheduled to take
the stand tomorrow.

And the abortion is scheduled
for the morning.

We think this agreement
is being driven

by drucker's homophobic bias

against his unborn grandson

he believes carries
a gay gene.

You have evidence there's
a connection

between the testimony
and the abortion?

No, but if we're right,

the abortion goes through,

the harm is irremedial.

Stay is the only remedy.

If drucker's testimony

isn't credible,

your remedy
is cross examination.

By then it'll be too late,
joe--judge.

It isn't just about
the obstruction of justice.

It's nice to still see you
tilting at windmills.

Jack, you have no evidence
of conspiracy.

What's it gonna cost you
to delay a few hours?

And no standing to challenge

ryan emerson's medical power
of attorney.

I'm sorry, I...

Your application for stay
is denied.

[Elevator dings]

He didn't go for it.

Terrific.

I should've talked to him.

Believe me,
if he said "no" to me

he would've said "no"
to you.

Jack, I never heard
of arthur branch

fighting your battles
for you.

Is this what you want
to talk about here?

Now, if you want to do something
about the abortion,

there might be a way
to derail the train.

Dean emerson--

does he really know
the price of this alibi?

Maybe not.

May be time
for a family powwow.

(Parrish)
I'll have you know

I had to skip pilates
to get here this early.

Do I have to guess,
or is this about--

(cutter)
Have a seat, please.

In case you're wondering

where your alibi witness is,

mr. Drucker is at the hospital
with his wife

attending to their daughter.

She's in obstetrics icu

being prepped for a procedure
two hours from now.

Oh, what kind of procedure?

Did you really think
mr. Drucker's helpful testimony

wasn't coming at a price?

Did you think that homophobe

would do you a favor?

(Ryan)
He's doing it

because it's the right thing
for our family.

Then why don't you tell
your brother

what procedure
lori's undergoing this morning.

The procedure you approved.

(Dean)
Ryan.

Ryan, tell me what you did.

He's having lori's pregnancy
terminated.

He's aborting your nephew.

Your nephew with the gay gene.

That's the price
of drucker's alibi.

It's not why.
It's lori, man.

If I keep the baby,

she's got almost no chance
of coming back.

You're sacrificing your son

for the slimmest hope.

(Dean)
Ryan, don't--don't do it.

Stop it!

(Ryan)
They'll put you
in prison forever.

Forget about the kid.

Dean...

Why is it so easy for him
to dispose of his son?

You know, don't you?

Yeah.

I know.

You're just like dad,
aren't you?

Shut up.
Your son,

your gay son,
deserves a life--

you don't know
what you're talking about.

(Cutter)
This is it, dean.

This is what killing hoffman
was supposed to stop.

A gay holocaust right
in your own family.

I don't want this.

Then take away

the reason for ryan to do it.

(Cutter)
That boy's life
is in your hands.

If you don't step up now...

Yeah.

I didn't mean for lori
to get hurt.

I know.

I forgive you.
Just shut up.

No, I did it.
I sent the bomb.

Dean, stop!

I knew if hoffman found
the gene in the baby

with lori and her parents,

that kid had no chance.

So now you don't have
to go through with it, ryan.

There's no point.

You want this kid
to have a life.

Like what?
Like yours?

You forget what school
was like?

All the miserable days,
all the beat-downs?

Even now you can't have
a normal life.

You can't be yourself
around dad.

I don't wish that kind
of life for anybody.

Ryan...

Don't say that.

It would be the same
as if this kid had a disease.

Being gay is not a disease.

Yeah, well where we live, bro,

it might as well be.

Ryan postponed the abortion
for two days.

That doesn't leave him
much time for soul searching.

I doubt it'll make
any difference.

What parent doesn't want
his child

to have the perfect life?

That's one area where science
has been no help.

How to keep well-meaning people

from making lousy decisions.