All language subtitles for Law And Order S24E09.PROPER.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH_track3_[eng]

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- 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.

[steam hissing]

[indistinct chatter]

[pop music playing faintly]

[tense music]

* *

- [panting]

Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry.

It's just--

* *

[panting]

[hip-hop music playing
indistinctly]

Come on. Pick up.

- Leave a message, please.

- I know I screwed up,

but you said
I could always call,

so I'm calling.

I saw something.

Something bad.
And just call me, please.

* *

- Hey! What's up?

[indistinct chatter
and laughter]

* *

[train tracks clacking]

[indistinct radio chatter]

- Which train was it?
- J train to Brooklyn.

Train pulled in at 11:53 p.m.

Looks like the guy was
waiting to get on.

- Oh, boy.

- Lines have been shut down
in both directions.

This is the northbound.

Trying to get the southbound
back up ASAP.

- Where was the point
of impact?

- By this column.

- Oh. [sighs]

- We got a name for this guy?

- Yes, sir.
His ID was left in his pocket.

Raymond James Clark.

- Hey, see if you
can get a TARU guy

and tap into this DAS cam
on the fly, huh?

- Yes, Detective.

- Listen, you know me.

I never like to sound callous,

but guys jump in front
of trains all the time.

Why is Homicide here?

- Yo, Duke.

[indistinct chatter]

Duke Archer.

Been driving this train
27 years.

Tell him what you told me.

- Saw that man's face.

I'll never forget it.

I've had dudes step
in front of me on purpose.

Twice.

This wasn't that.

- Detectives, the DAS footage.

[tense music]

- Thanks.

- Damn.

Duke was right.

- That's not a man who
wanted to die.

* *

[dramatic music]

* *

- Oh, there she is.
Welcome back.

- Hey.
How was your vacation?

- Fantastic.

But I'm glad to be back
and getting paid again.

What do you got?

- No reports of any
mentally ill people

or disorderlies threatening
anyone in the subway station.

So if it wasn't random?
- It was personal.

- Techs cleaned up the video.
We got a bracelet.

Leather, braided,
some kind of insignia.

- Um, we got some footage
from outside of the station.

It's no help, though.

60 or 70 people come and go

and there's no sign of that
bracelet on any of them.

- What do we know
about the victim?

- Not a whole hell of a lot.

He was a three-sport athlete
in high school.

Apparently, a pretty good one.

- No sheet.

LKA on the license was a bust.
No forwarding.

Cell phone was crushed
by the train.

But according to the cloud,

he made a quick call
two minutes before he died.

Number's unregistered.

[line trills]

- This is Sergeant Chen.

- Did you say sergeant?

- Who the hell is this?

- 19, 20, 21.

[whistle trills]
22, 23, 24, 25.

- Really brings you back, huh?

- Yeah, I like the past
where it is--

in the past.

- Freddy Chen.
- Thanks for meeting us, Sarge.

- I was out cold
when Raymond called.

Got his message this morning.

I tried him back,
got voicemail.

[whistle trills]
Now I know why.

- I know I screwed up,

but you said I could always
call, so I'm calling.

I saw something.
Something bad.

And just call me, please.

- Any idea what
he might have seen?

- Wish I did.

He was a great kid.

- So Raymond was
in the Academy?

- Till he flunked
a random drug test.

Said he had a bum shoulder,
high school football thing.

And once he got
into the Academy,

he knew he wasn't gonna
pass our physical exam.

Too much pain.
Tried masking it with pills.

Just bad judgment.

- You got a current address
for him?

Ms. Clark...

Now, you have any idea

what Raymond was doing
in the city last night?

- Nothing unusual about that.

[sniffles]

But I--I can't tell you why
he was there.

- Was Raymond having
any problems?

- I think he was a little lost,
honestly. [sniffles]

Didn't know where he fit,
where he belonged.

That's why he wanted
to be a cop so bad.

- Ma'am, do you know
of any reason

why anyone would want
to hurt Raymond?

- No.

He was a gentle soul.

[sobs softly]

Though...

the other night,
there was this guy.

He came by banging on the door
yelling for Raymond.

I didn't open the door.
I was scared.

I told him Raymond wasn't home.

- And then they left?

- Yeah.

I watched him leave
through the window.

[soft suspenseful music]

But he said
he'd be coming back.

- Can you tell us what
this man looked like?

Hey.

A man fitting the description

Raymond Clark's mom gave just
popped up on a security camera

from the bodega next door.

Took off on a motorcycle
after he left the mom's house.

License plate came back
to a Luke Bragg.

- Luke Bragg?

ThatLuke Bragg?
- Boxer?

- Yeah, who turned into
a men's rights activist.

Guy's a real charmer too.

He doesn't think women
should drive or vote.

- Yeah, his latest venture
is the Alpha Institute,

a self-help course
helping to turn young men

into business gods like him.

- [chuckles]

- Runs it out of a boxing gym
in Midtown.

- Go ruin this prick's day.

[boxers grunting]

[boxing gloves thumping]

- Gotta be better than that,
gentlemen.

Come on.
You're fighting for all of us!

Prove that you belong here!
Prove that you are an alpha!

[boxers grunting]

- All right, fellas.

Let's wind it down
for a minute, yeah?

- What's this about?

- NYPD.
That's what this is about.

- What do you want?

- Raymond Clark is dead.

- So?
- So you sent him an email.

"You're a beta, Raymond.

And the only good beta
is a dead beta."

[boxers laughing]

- Oh, that's funny?

Let's take a ride, Luke.

- I got nothing to hide.

I meant every word
about Raymond Clark.

- Raymond Clark
spent his entire life savings

on your institute.

You should have been
sending him flowers,

not banging on his door.

- I wanted to chat.

- About what?

- Look.

I didn't do this, lady.

- Lady?

I prefer Lieutenant.

But whatever.

Listen,
we can do this two ways.

You can answer my questions
and go home

or you can play tough guy

and we'll hold you
for 48 hours or so.

- You know,
I gave Raymond Clark

his place in the world.

I turned him into the man
he wanted to be.

- So what happened?

- He spit in my face,

rejected my teachings,
and left the program.

- Well, you already had
all his money.

What did you care?

- Because I was trying
to help him.

- [chuckling] Seriously?

Why did you care?

- Okay, fine.

Raymond tried to blow me up.

He tried to convince my other
students that I was a fraud.

Made lots of
defamatory TikToks about me.

[soft suspenseful music]

- So he threatened
your business empire

and you killed him.

- No.

I didn't kill Raymond.

- Then where were you
last night?

.

[elevator bell rings]
- Luke Bragg's alibi is good.

- Not gonna lie,
I was really hoping it was him.

- I get it, but it's not.

Bragg was right about
one thing, though.

Raymond Clark was
coming after him.

Raymond figured out that
Bragg's self-help crap

was just a pyramid scheme
to sell protein powder,

so he made a bunch of videos

to make sure
the rest of the world knew.

- Hey.
Finally got Clark's texts.

- And?

- The last text he sent was
to someone named Noah.

Clark said he was
worried about him

and that he was heading
to Noah's apartment now.

- Which means this Noah
could be the last person

to have seen him alive.

- Okay, run the number.
Find out where he lives.

[knock at door]
- Police. Open up.

We're looking for Noah Turan.

- My son's not here.

- You mind if we come in?

Just have a few questions
for you.

- Of course.

What's going on? Is Noah okay?

- We're not sure.
You know where he is?

- No, not at the moment.

- This your son's bracelet?

- Yes.

- Ma'am, when was
the last time you saw him?

- Uh, this morning.
What is this about?

- We need to talk to him about
his friend, Raymond Clark.

- What about Raymond?

- He's dead.

- What? Raymond's dead?

- Check this out.

M112.
- That's C-4.

- It was in his bedroom.

- What is your son doing
with explosives?

Is he building a bomb?

- A bomb? Of course not!

He works at my restaurant.
He's a good boy.

- Good boys
don't play with C-4.

Let's go.

[tense music]

Mother's downstairs
if we need her.

- What do we have?

- Suspect is Noah Turan,
age 22.

- Do we have his
electronic devices yet?

- We recovered his laptop,

and Vince is with
the techs right now

trying to break into it
as we speak.

- What are you thinking?

- I don't know,
but something just feels off.

I mean, Turan lives
a quiet life, no record.

He delivers food
for his mom's restaurant

and as far as
Raymond Clark goes,

they've been best friends
since third grade.

They're like brothers.

- Since when does
murder make sense?

- Hey.
Guys, we cracked the laptop.

We got into Turan's messages.

Someone sent him a PDF

from an encrypted number
a couple hours ago.

It's in Arabic.

We don't know what
the hell it says yet,

but it did come with these
instructions in English.

"In three hours,
the world will learn

"they cannot ignore
the injustice

"suffered by our people.

"Post this before your triumph.

Allah will meet you
in paradise."

- He's planning
a terrorist attack.

[tense music]

- Stop the work!

We have a potential
terrorist attack.

Our suspect, Noah Turan,

received a text
placing him in Brooklyn

somewhere near
Grand Army Plaza.

I need a TTL ping
on his phone now.

917-555-0167.

Let's track him in real-time.
Come on, move it.

[siren wails]

[protesters clamoring]
- Jesus.

* *

- Lou, what's going on
in the Brooklyn Public Library?

- Let's go.
I need answers now.

- Lou, there's a conference
at the Brooklyn Library.

Chinese dignitaries are meeting

with the U.S.
Trade Representative.

- Jalen.

- Lou, we're approaching
the library.

We need
the suspect's location now.

This has got to be the target.

- I'm gonna go east.

- JOC's up and running.

- Counterterrorism
and FBI are on board.

- Where's my ping?

- Here.

- Well, we need to refine it.

- I'm working on it.

[protesters clamoring]

* *

[computer chimes]

- Lieutenant Brady, I got him.

- Suspect's on the north side
of the library heading west.

And who's that?

- It's Shaw.

- Jalen, you're right
on top of him.

protestors: [chanting]
End forced labor!

End forced labor!
End forced labor!

* *

- I got a positive.
He's headed for the entrance.

Noah Turan! Police!

[people screaming]

Show me your hands!
Show me your hands!

No, no, no!

Do not reach in that bag!

Everybody, clear the area!

Everybody, move!

Kid, I will shoot you!

* *

- Detonator's secure!
- Detonator's secure!

- Get the bomb techs
in here now!

.

- [sighs] We'll talk
about the bomb later.

I just wanna know

why you killed Raymond Clark.

- I'm not talking about that.

- Okay, that's your right.

- In China...

2 million Uyghur Muslims
are being held in camps.

- Why did you kill
Raymond Clark?

- Children are separated
from their parents.

Women are gang-raped.

Men are sterilized.

They have to renounce
their own faith.

- We have video of you.

57 seconds before Raymond died,
you entered the subway.

30 seconds later,
you exit, hood up.

I think you regret it already.

The bracelet you were wearing,

we found that
in your apartment.

This is not theory.
This is fact.

Your life as you know it
is now over.

[knock at door]

Sit tight.

[door opens and closes]

The bomb was fake?

- Or a mistake.

- Either way, bomb squad
took apart the device

that he had on him when
we arrested him.

It was never gonna work.
Take a look at this.

The blasting cap had
no ignition charge

and the C-4 was fake.

- So there was
nothing to explode

and nothing to ignite it.

What the hell's going on here?

[suspenseful music]

* *

- Okay, now,
let's talk about the bomb.

Your blasting cap had
no charge.

You were carrying around
four packs of "C-4,"

which was, in fact,
molding clay,

the kind you buy
at an arts and crafts store.

It was basically Play-Doh.
You were carrying a toy bomb.

- No.

No, that can't be true.

- You didn't know?

* *

I'm gonna ask you
one more time.

Why did you kill Raymond Clark?

* *

He was your best friend.

- I...

I thought I had no choice.

* *

- How strong
is our murder case?

- It appears to be a slam dunk.

The evidence backs up
the confession.

- Which is?

- According to the defendant,

Raymond Clark went over
to Noah Turan's apartment,

saw that he was
building a bomb.

Clark got spooked, ran out.

Turan chased him down,
killed him.

- To protect the mission?
- Correct.

- What about
terrorism-related charges?

Not easy to charge someone
for not bombing something.

- Yeah.
Even if we could,

it's not gonna be
as serious as murder, so.

- Until we know more...
[notification chimes]

Let's move forward with what
we know to be true.

Noah Turan
murdered Raymond Clark.

- Nolan?

Turan wants to proffer.

[door buzzing]

- Okay,
so what's this all about?

- My client is prepared to
plead out to reduce charges.

- And why would
we agree to that?

He confessed
to killing Raymond Clark.

- We know that.

But he's willing
to give up his boss.

"What gives you life is jihad.
Live to die."

The script that Noah was
supposed to post.

But those are not his words.

They're the words
of a jihadist,

the man who
radicalized my client.

Who knows how many other men
are out there right now

getting groomed by this man?

You could look at this
cynically or practically.

You can save lives.

- Do you know who
this jihadist is?

[suspenseful music]

- He said his name is Karim.

I've seen him.

- Noah was a foot soldier.

And for that, he's willing
to take responsibility

and plead guilty
in the death of Raymond Clark.

But this jihadist...

he's at war with America

and using kids like Noah
to do the dirty work.

- Where might we find
this jihadist?

* *

- I got eyes on a man
that resembles Karim.

Black jacket, gray pants.

Let's go.

[tense music]

* *

Hey. NYPD.

Do not move.

- Uh-uh. Don't do it.
Don't move.

* *

- You don't wanna do this.

- Oh, yes, we do. Trust me.

Hands behind your head.
Take a knee.

- Just relax.
Let me explain.

- Get on the ground.

Get on the ground!

- You're making a mistake.

- Yeah?

And why is that?

- I'm FBI, sweetheart.

* *

.

- So Noah Turan was your mark?
- Mm-hmm.

I've been working him hard
undercover.

Yesterday was the big day.

He was supposed to meet me
at the service entrance

of the Brooklyn Library
to deliver the bomb

and I was going to arrest him.

- Then what?

- Sayonara. Enjoy Gitmo.
I move on.

- So you knew that the bomb
Noah was carrying

was--
- Of course.

I gave him the components.

- But he did not know?
- No.

He's an idiot,

an idiot who hates our country
and our freedoms.

What's going on?

- Your mark committed a murder.

- He what?

- His friend, Raymond Clark.

He pushed him in front
of a train

and he claims he did
that because of you.

- And you're listening to him?

You people screw up
a three-month operation,

put me on my knees
at gunpoint...

now you're blaming me for
some moron killing his friend?

[scoffs]

Have a nice day
and kiss my ass.

- We went fishing
for a jihadist.

We caught the FBI instead.
Agent Joshua Haddad.

- Mm.

We got a guilty plea
out of this.

Noah Turan is spending
ten years in prison,

so we didn't come away
empty-handed.

Beyond that, we're done.

- We're not so sure, Nick.
- What does that mean?

- Noah Turan's plea
required him

to share his encrypted
conversation with Agent Haddad.

Three months' worth,
24,000 texts.

- And?
- Well, it's s-shocking.

Agent Haddad was
extremely aggressive.

- That's his job.

- No, no, he crossed a line.

He didn't find a monster,
he createda monster.

- What do you mean?

- Turan had no interest
in hurting anyone.

But Agent Haddad
wouldn't let it go,

wouldn't take no for an answer.

Just kept at it until
Turan became radicalized.

- Sit down with Turan.

Talk to him about Haddad,
his tactics.

If we're gonna go after
the FBI, we better be right.

- The first time Agent Haddad
brought up the idea of a bomb,

I said, hell no, I'm out.

- And the response?

- He got nasty.

This isn't an organization
you quit.

You're in too deep.

He told me this went way up.

It was one thing
to let himdown.

That would be bad.
But the people he worked for?

I mean, you just didn't do it.

- Did he say who that was?

- Daesh.

- The Islamic State?

- Yeah.
Look, I'm not a--

I deliver kebabs on a bicycle,
you feel me?

So I blocked him on Telegram.

But he tracked me down.

Showed up to my
mother's restaurant,

sat down like
he was a customer.

Said his name was Karim,

the guy I'd been talking to
on Telegram.

- Had you mentioned your
mother's restaurant to him?

- No. It was creepy.

And then it got...

evil, man.

He started talking about the
restaurant, the laminate walls.

Said they burn real easy.

One match,
the whole place goes up.

And my mother's--

[suspenseful music]

* *

I mean, she killed herself
making that place work,

you know,
so we could have a life.

Karim didn't have
to say another word.

I said,
I'll do anything you want.

Just...

leave her out of this.

- And at some point,
you became a believer?

You were ready to kill.

You didn't know
that bomb was fake.

- No. [sighs]

Over time, I guess I...

broke or something.

He made me feel like family.

Took me to Yankees games.

And the stuff he kept telling
me about my mom's people,

it was real.

People are dying every day
and no one cares, so--

* *

He gave me a purpose.

- Why did you kill
Raymond Clark?

- Karim told me to do it.

He said I needed to
"take care of the problem."

* *

[knock at door]
- Sean, come on in.

How are you?

- How am I?

I just got a call
you executed a search warrant

at Joshua Haddad's apartment.

- Whoa. Slow down.

- He's a decorated FBI agent,
Nick.

You don't just show up
at his door with a warrant.

Not without calling me first.

- It's more complicated
than that.

- The hell are
you talking about?

- We're charging him
with manslaughter.

- Manslaughter?

Who are you claiming he killed?

- Raymond Clark.

- The kid who died
in the subway?

Have you lost your mind?
He had nothing to do with that.

- We believe differently.

[soft suspenseful music]

- You know what
this type of work requires,

what it looks like.

You did it.

Wedid it together.

- We didn't do it like this,
Sean.

- Please spare me the lecture.

You're making a mistake.

A very dangerous mistake.

* *

- So you didn't consider
yourself a radical?

An extremist?

- No.

I was just trying to

stand with Uyghur Muslims
back in China.

I was born here,
but that's my mom's people.

And it's--it's horrible.

- And that's how the defendant,
Agent Haddad,

found you in the first place,
isn't it?

- Yes.

I, uh,

commented on
a couple of Reddit posts

about the Uyghur people

and I just was trying
to show support.

- And then Agent Haddad,

back when he was
posing as Karim,

he DM'd you
to start a conversation.

- Yes.

And we started talking
privately through Telegram.

- Encrypted messages.

And what was the first thing
that Karim taught you?

- That I needed to take
the rage I had for China

and put it on America.

He said that if it was
any other country doing this,

the U.S. would do something.

- Did Agent Haddad
teach you how to make a bomb?

- Yes.

- Did he buy you the materials
for that bomb?

Choose your target?

- Yes.

- And on that fateful night,

when Raymond Clark saw the bomb
in your apartment and ran,

was your first act
to chase him down and kill him?

- No.

I loved Raymond like
I would love my own brother.

No.

The first thing I did was,
I called Karim.

- Your jihadist handler,

the man we now know
is Agent Haddad.

And what did you tell him?

- I said, you know,
my friend saw the device.

Please, call it off.
Call the whole thing off.

- And how did
Agent Haddad reply?

- He told me that
nothing could stop us.

And that I needed
to take care of the problem.

- How did you interpret that?

- I mean, he'd already
threatened my family,

warned me not to disappoint
the Islamic State.

I thought if I didn't obey...

he'd kill me.

Or my mom.

- I have nothing further.

- You're here because you're
requiredto be here, yes?

- I made a plea deal.

- Did Agent Haddad
explicitly tell you

to chase down Raymond Clark?

- No, he didn't have to.

- Did you follow Raymond Clark,

whom you loved
like your own brother,

into the subway,

push him from behind
with the intent to kill him?

- Yes.

And I'm so sorry.

[soft suspenseful music]

[sighs]

- I have nothing else.

- May I, Your Honor?

Would any of this have happened

were it not for the actions
of Agent Haddad?

- No.

He left me no choice.

* *

- We targeted Noah Turan
through an operation

called Lure and Trap.

- And how does that work
typically?

- It's a type
of sting operation.

We identify individuals
who are susceptible

to extremist ideology,
pose as radicals,

fundamentalists,
and create scenarios

to determine whether
or not they're a threat

to public safety
and national security.

- And Noah Turan fit that bill?

- Terrorist groups
believe men like Turan

are especially good recruits
because they are U.S. citizens,

so they can
fly under the radar.

And many of them
feel hopeless, rootless,

eager to join a movement.

- Most people in our country

have never heard
of Uyghur Muslims.

Are they really so dangerous?

- The vast majority are not.

And they are, in fact,
persecuted.

But some have radicalized.

Some have traveled
to Syria, Afghanistan,

trained with the Taliban,
with al-Qaeda.

- Nothing further, Your Honor.

- Your witness, Mr. Price.

- If you are conducting
a Lure and Trap operation

and you determine that a target

is not a threat
to public safety, what happens?

- The investigation
doesn't move forward.

- So we can assume that

because your investigation of
Noah Turan was moving forward,

you believed he posed a threat
to public safety?

- I believed he was capable of
committing an act of terrorism.

- Provided you radicalized him

and taught him how
to build a bomb.

- Objection.
Counsel is testifying.

- Ask a question, Mr. Price.

- You have testified...
[clears throat]

That when you told Noah Turan

to take care of the problem,

you couldn't
possibly have envisioned

that he would then
kill Raymond Clark.

Correct?
- Correct.

- But what I'm failing to grasp
is if you were so certain

that Noah Turan was prepared
to blow up the Brooklyn Library

full of 1,200 people,

how you could
be equally certain

that he would be unwilling
to take one more life?

- [scoffs softly]
I couldn't have known.

- You chose him because
youthought he was a killer.

You trained him
to be a betterkiller.

You gave him a cause
worth killing for.

A-and when you provoked him,
he behaved like a killer.

So it sounds to me like
you got what you wanted.

- Objection!
Your Honor--

- Sustained.

- Nothing further.

- Chief Agent Merrill, how many
special agents work at the FBI?

- Over 10,000.

- And how many of them
have been awarded

the FBI's Shield of Bravery,
Medal of Valor,

and the Medal
for Meritorious Achievement?

- About 45.

- Is Agent Haddad one of them?

- Yes, he is.

- As Agent Haddad's supervisor,
were you aware of his orders?

- I certainly hope so.

- Did Agent Haddad
follow those orders

in the operation
targeting Noah Turan?

- To the letter.

He was doing his job,
doing it well.

- Do your agents prepare
for the possibility

of collateral damage?

- We're taught that
collateral damage

is a necessary consequence
of war.

We work hard
to keep America safe.

Most of the time, folks don't
even know that's happening

because we're pretty good
at what we do.

And on occasion, something
tragic happens along the way.

No one is happy when
an innocent is killed.

But the person who actually
caused Raymond Clark's death

is already in prison.

His name is Noah Turan.

[soft suspenseful music]

- In the last year,

how many young men
did Agent Haddad approach

through the Lure and Trap
program?

- 216.

- And how many of them agreed

to carry out
an act of terrorism

to extinguish American lives?

- Four.
One of them was Noah Turan.

- And how many of them
killed someone

they thought might interfere
with a phony terror event?

- One, Noah Turan.

He's the reason Raymond Clark
is dead, not Agent Haddad.

- Nothing further, Your Honor.

* *

.

- Okay, that's the last of it.

Every official document
related to Haddad's operation.

- There has to be something
in here to help us explain

that Agent Haddad wasn't
just doing his job.

Because if not--
- Yeah.

- [sighs]

- You got to be kidding me.

- What?

[suspenseful music]

* *

- And who was the judge
on that?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I know, Ed.

Hey, listen,
I gotta call you back.

Okay.

- You were the architect of the
FBI's Lure and Trap Program?

- I wouldn't go that far.

But yes,
I was on loan to the FBI.

They wanted me to help out
with it.

After 9/11, we needed to find
more efficient ways

of locating
and interrogating suspects.

- That's one way
to describe it.

- My job was to help make the
Lure and Trap Program legal.

- Good.

Then I need you to testify.

- Testify?

- Yeah, you're in
a unique position to prove

that Agent Haddad went beyond

the limits of his job
and the law.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

- You know Haddad
didn't do this by the book.

[laughing]
Because you wrote the book!

- I wanna win here
no different than you.

But if I'm gonna be honest,

now that I am the DA,
I don't need the world to know

that I was involved with--

* *

Some tactics employed
in the aftermath of 9/11

don't necessarily look the same
through the lens of 2025.

- Um...

I will sleep well tonight

knowing that I am
trying like hell

to get justice
for Raymond Clark.

In the morning,

you will need to tell me where
you come down on that.

* *

- You may proceed, Mr. Price.

- Could you describe
this document for the jury?

- It's a 2006 memorandum

prepared by
the legal advisory office

for the Joint Terrorism
Task Force.

- Prepared by you, correct?

- Yes.

Establishing a program
to locate extremists

who could threaten
our national security.

We called it Lure and Trap.

- So this memo
established the guidelines

for this FBI operation
and its guardrails,

or the rules, you could say.

- You could.

- Is that a yes?

- Yes.

- The rules, so that
FBI agents like Agent Haddad

could hunt online
for men like Noah Turan,

radicalize them,
and then hold them to account

without those agents

committing a crime
in the process, correct?

- Correct.

- You have had the opportunity
to review the testimony

of Haddad
and Chief Agent Merrill

as well as documents related
to the operation

targeting Turan, yes?
- I have.

- Can you tell the jury
what you learned?

- There were instances
in which Agent Haddad

exceeded the legal limitations
I delineated.

- Objection.

- Overruled.

- As the author of this memo...

when agents target a subject
through Lure and Trap,

are they required to submit
regular FD-302 forms

to their supervisor
to summarize

and report their actions?

- Yes.

- Haddad failed to do so.

Would that represent
a violation of the rules?

- Yes.

- Could you tell the jury
if an FBI agent is allowed

to threaten a subject's family

in order to coerce that subject
into committing a crime?

- No, that is not permitted.

- So as the author
of Lure and Trap,

did Haddad operate
within the bounds

of the guidelines you created?

- No.

- Was Agent Haddad
simply doing his job

in the course of his operation
targeting Noah Turan?

- No, he went far beyond

the legal boundaries
of his mission.

- Objection!

- Sustained.

- Which means Raymond Clark

would still be alive today
were it not for the reckless,

rogue actions...
- Objection, Your Honor!

- Of Agent Haddad.
- Sustained.

Isn't that right?
- Mr. Price.

- I have nothing further.

[tense music]

* *

The notion of collateral damage

is real in war.

But we were not at war
with Noah Turan.

Agent Haddad simply chose him

and then embarked
on a relentless campaign

to change him, manipulate him,
radicalize him.

District Attorney Baxter's
memo authorizing Lure and Trap

was a tacit acknowledgment
the government knew

they were pushing things
as far as they could,

so they created guidelines

and rules to legitimize
the aggressive tactics.

Agent Haddad did not abide
by those guidelines and rules.

No, he ignored them.

And his callous
and reckless disregard

for those guidelines and rules

resulted
in Raymond Clark's death.

It is really that simple.

And for that reason,

you must convict him
of manslaughter.

* *

- Madam Foreperson, has
the jury reached a verdict?

- We have, Your Honor.

In the charge of manslaughter
in the second degree,

we find the defendant,
Joshua Omar Haddad,

guilty.

[onlookers murmuring]

- Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury,

we thank you for your service.

[gavel bangs]
You're excused.

* *

- Heck of a closing.

- I was trying
to make it clear.

- You were trying
to win your case.

Which I respect.

People like you
feel entitled to criticize

what we did after 9/11...

accuse us of stretching
the limits of the law.

But the reason
they feel so entitled

is because
it hasn't happened since.

[soft dramatic music]

No more buildings have
come down in this city.

You don't have to like
what we did.

But it worked.

We saved lives.

* *

[dramatic music]

* *

[wolf howls]