Law & Order 13x1

1. In the criminal justice system

2. the people are represented

3. by two separate yet equally important groups:

4. the police, who investigate crime

5. and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.

6. These are their stories.

7. Because I don't want her to hear us talking, that's why.

8. No, she knows all...

9. Look, it doesn't matter

10. if it was ten years ago or yesterday.

11. I mean, she sees me talking to you

12. and, you know, she seesusmidcoitus.

13. What can I say?

14. Oh, my God. I think... I think I just heard gunshots.

15. Lila, stop! Lila!

16. Lila!

17. Dog walker heard shots coming from this area and called 9-1-1.

18. Uniforms responding found the door wide open.

19. Vics are Louise and Hugh Murdoch—

20. husband and wife, both Ph.D.s

21. both full professors at Stuyvesant College.

22. Brainy household.

23. Not smart enough to lock the door.

24. She took three in the back.

25. No exit wounds.

26. M.E. will have to dig out the slugs.

27. How about him?

28. Two in the skull.

29. Same on the slugs.

30. You get a read on the weapons?

31. No shell casings.

32. Could have been a.38.

33. On the other hand, the lady took

34. three in the back, so if she's running away

35. could have been a semi.

36. Witness is outside.

37. I'll get it.

38. Was this phone here?

39. We found the cradle upstairs.

40. Okay, we need the LUDs on this number

41. as soon as possible.

42. I only saw the guy for a couple of seconds, you know?

43. Only from behind.

44. Do the best you can.

45. Uh, uh, slight build, um, curly, dark hair.

46. Uh, I-I think he might have been Hispanic.

47. Why, his back look Spanish?

48. Uh, no, it's kind of embarrassing.

49. The way Lila took off after the guy?

50. Sh-She only does that with Latinos.

51. Yeah, well, if you think of anything else...

52. You wouldn't think on a block like this.

53. Yeah.

54. Was he any help?

55. Other than the racist dog.

56. My aunt had a spaniel that didn't like tall men.

57. Detectives, we got something.

58. In a trash can around the corner.

59. He takes the time to clean up the casings

60. but throws the gun in the trash can?

61. Well, some bulbs don't burn as bright as others.

62. Fired recently.

63. Yeah. Three guesses where.

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65. Forensics ran the prints from the gun

66. through the system— nothing.

67. And you're sure this wasn't a robbery?

68. If it was, he was an amateur.

69. I mean, the husband was wearing

70. a Franck Muller Master Banker.

71. It's a watch. It goes for $25,000.

72. There's no hidden safe

73. the drawers were untouched

74. and there's expensive artwork on all the walls.

75. And you're a connoisseur now?

76. Hey, if it ain't "Dogs Playing Poker..."

77. Anyway, they were both Stuyvesant college professors.

78. No robbery means this is personal.

79. Neighbors said they were quite the party givers.

80. No, all they said was there was a lot of people

81. coming in and out.

82. Hey, to me, two or more people isa party.

83. LUDs you wanted from the Murdochs' townhouse.

84. They received a three-minute call

85. just six minutes before the dog walker's 9-1-1 call.

86. "Telemarketing Solutions"?

87. I looked it up. It's here in the city.

88. Well, maybe we'll catch a break

89. and the caller overheard something.

90. You guys remember every donut you eat?

91. Joke.

92. Funny.

93. Hey, man, your average call here

94. lasts about 20 seconds.

95. This one, three minutes.

96. Don't tell us you don't remember.

97. Here's one I bet you don't hear too often:

98. Idoremember.

99. Most people start off

100. with a couple of negative comments about my mother.

101. Then they slam down the phone.

102. But this lady was nice.

103. She actually listened.

104. Did she buy?

105. We didn't get that far.

106. She had to go.

107. Right, so, let me ask you a question.

108. I get these calls

109. that usually start off with, uh

110. "This call is being recorded for quality assurance."

111. A tape? Sure. Piece of cake.

112. What, no donut?

113. but I have good credit.

114. That sounds like a doorbell.

115. And guess who's coming to dinner.

116. And there's more.

117. Consolidating debt's a good thing.

118. What would be the interest rate?

119. Variable or fixed?

120. I've got to go.

121. That's no help.

122. Mm, to the baffled multitude, maybe.

123. Ah, here we go.

124. By dissipating ground hum

125. and putting a gain on the lows

126. I was able to enhance the far conversation

127. when it didn't overlap with the near.

128. We want to talk to you

129. and Professor Murdoch about her protest of the Ellen Bar...

130. "Ellen Bar..."?

131. Maybe Murdoch had a really big tab

132. and the bartender got fed up.

133. No, probably just a fragment.

134. But to be thorough, I looked it up.

135. No listings for any bars of that name in the city.

136. But there's more. (chuckles)

137. I knew it.

138. For some reason, the far conversation

139. got louder towards the end.

140. Probably because she got closer

141. as she walked downstairs.

142. I only know what I read about

143. in the Stuyvesant paper.

144. Stuyvesant? That's where they taught.

145. Somebody doesn't have to hand in that term paper.

146. Hugh and Louise weren't just two of my best faculty members.

147. They were dear friends.

148. Were they any problems between them?

149. Oh, no. Ah, sure there was a rough period

150. maybe five or six years ago.

151. Two workaholics, it's to be expected

152. but, uh, now they walked around campus

153. holding hands.

154. What about problems with students?

155. Louise wasn't even teaching this semester.

156. She took a sabbatical to write a book

157. on the Holy Roman Empire.

158. And the husband?

159. And one of our biggest stars.

160. Every year Harvard tries to poach him.

161. He doesn't-doesn't really teach that much

162. anymore so...

163. If he wasn't teaching...?

164. Uh, research.

165. He ran our biochemistry lab.

166. Hugh spent most of his time there.

167. You may want to talk to some of his post-grad researchers.

168. Dean Bodner.

169. We were on the verge.

170. Parkinson's Disease.

171. What, he had a cure?

172. Methodology to look for one.

173. So, in other words

174. this was like whacking Jonas Salk.

175. Dr. Salk didn't have a Phil Giani working for him.

176. Meaning...?

177. Uh, I'm not saying he killed Dr. Murdoch

178. but if anyone here wanted him out of the picture

179. it was definitely Phil.

180. Why? Phil was pro-Parkinson's?

181. He thought Dr. Murdoch should have given him credit

182. for the research on his last paper.

183. And the professor disagreed.

184. It turned ugly.

185. Dr. Murdoch fired him.

186. Where does this Giani work now?

187. That's the thing.

188. This is a very small community.

189. Word gets out you had a run-in with someone

190. of Dr. Murdoch's stature...

191. And you're out of the business.

192. Who says you can't go home again?

193. Hacking's how I paid my way through undergrad.

194. Tough break.

195. Things'll change.

196. Why, because Dr. Murdoch ain't around anymore to bad-mouth you?

197. 'Cause I'm too good a researcher.

198. Oh, yeah?

199. So, uh, what's the best way to get uptown during rush hour?

200. What's pluripotent hES cell transference

201. or blastocystic trophectoderm removal

202. with regards to stem cell research?

203. I guess I missed that day onSesame Street.

204. All this transference stuff was your idea?

205. What Murdoch stole from me wasn't ideas...

206. it was a methodology.

207. Look who I'm talking to.

208. You know, since we have a lot to talk about

209. we might as well be comfortable.

210. I'll show you the best way to get downtown.

211. I'd love to smack that little pompous schmuck.

212. Me first.

213. I hear that a lot of money comes into the school

214. because of Dr. Murdoch's research.

215. Ooh, subtle.

216. You're good.

217. I'm about to crack.

218. An ordinary guy would want

219. a piece of that for himself.

220. I wouldn't know about an "ordinary" guy.

221. It doesn't bother you that you do all the work

222. and Dr. Murdoch gets the money?

223. You don't go into molecular biochemistry for money.

224. Well, what do you go into it for?

225. The glory?

226. That's right.

227. I want to march up front in the Macy's parade.

228. Intellectual achievement.

229. Though I'm sure that means absolutely nothing to you.

230. Blastocystic removal? The wave of the future, right?

231. Very good.

232. The primate can regurgitate what it heard.

233. Next, let's move onto sentences.

234. Let me ask you something.

235. "Primate"?

236. It's like a...

237. monkey.

238. No. I want to ask your opinion

239. on Einstein's theory

240. because I'm not sure he was right.

241. (chuckling):

242. "Cop Cracks Relativity."

243. No, not that theory, Phil.

244. His theory on genius.

245. See— and correct me if I'm wrong— Einstein argued

246. that genius has no personality.

247. But after talking to you

248. for this short amount of time

249. I realize that you actually prove the negative.

250. You definitely have personality.

251. And it makes this primate want to whup your ass.

252. Now, say something.

253. Way to go, Ed.

254. Van Buren.

255. Thanks.

256. Ballistics is ready for you.

257. Ballistics? My kind of scientists.

258. M.E. extracted three bullets from the female

259. two from the male.

260. 125-grain hollow-points.

261. So unfortunately...

262. I know. They tend to break into fragments.

263. They had to pick three of these

264. from the male's brain alone.

265. Reassembling was like a jigsaw puzzle.

266. Did you get any kind of a match?

267. Well, striations indicated a clear

268. six-point correlation to the two slugs

269. from the male victim.

270. You couldn't confirm the other three? For good reason.

271. They're fired from a different nine-millimeter.

272. You're saying Mrs. Murdoch was killed

273. by a different weapon?

274. Two guns to fire only five bullets?

275. Well, either your guy's ambidextrous or...

276. This bastard's got a friend.

277. That guy? I highly doubt it.

278. Wouldn't you say revenge killings

279. are typically solo acts?

280. Murdoch's lab guy.

281. He said that he was doing stem cell research.

282. And they shoot abortion doctors, don't they?

283. The phone tapes

284. they mentioned something about Stuyvesant.

285. Maybe they meant the lab and not the college.

286. Let's go see if Murdoch's lab

287. is on anybody's hit list.

288. A human cell is placed in an egg

289. who's own nucleus has been removed.

290. And we put it in a Petri dish

291. zap it with a jolt of electricity

292. and voilá... it's all reprogrammed

293. into a clump of between one and 200 new cells.

294. And then we harvest the stem cells for our studies.

295. And with that you can cure Parkinson's?

296. Parkinson's

297. diabetes, Alzheimer's, who knows what else?

298. But somewhere along the line

299. what we do became a political hotbed.

300. We did receive some nasty letters

301. but the FBI checked them out.

302. Maybe we ought to check them out, too.

303. "We strongly caution you

304. "against this type of research, Dr. Murdoch.

305. "It is wrong in the eyes of God.

306. You will be judged."

307. Looks like judgment day

308. came a little bit early for Professor Murdoch.

309. I'm sorry to hear that.

310. Murder isn't just a sin, Mr. Scott

311. it's also a felony.

312. Look at the name on the wall, Detective.

313. "Protect Life."

314. We would never kill to prove a point.

315. Words are our only weapon.

316. Maybe somebody in your organization

317. thought they weren't enough.

318. Perhaps.

319. If Professor Murdoch's research

320. violated our principles.

321. Which it clearly did

322. otherwise you wouldn't have sent that letter.

323. What we object to is the creation of life

324. for the soul purpose of destroying it.

325. Anyway, this letter was sent before.

326. Before what?

327. Before we confirmed Dr. Murdoch

328. was using existing cell lines.

329. We had no problem with Murdoch or his research.

330. The only problem

331. with this guy's story

332. is that that kid from Murdoch's lab

333. said that theywere creating life in that dish.

334. He didn't say life, he said new cells.

335. From what I hear, you kill more cells drinking a beer.

336. You can't tell me that when that cell hits the egg

337. that isn't the start of life.

338. Okay, zygotes are people, too.

339. Well, they turn into people, don't they?

340. Look, the bottom line is Murdoch was either

341. lying to the public about his research

342. or those Protect Lifers are lying to us.

343. They're just squeaky wheels, not killers.

344. So if they did do it, odds are

345. they made a couple of mistakes along they way.

346. All right, back to letter "A."

347. Okay, so, the doorbell rings

348. Mrs. Murdoch goes to answer it. Why?

349. Maybe she didn't know hubby was there.

350. Or maybeshewas the one expecting guests.

351. Now what happens next?

352. All right, hubby goes to answer the door...

353. She's in the library...

354. The shooter walks him all the way

355. to his desk in the den.

356. Now if your main goal was to kill him

357. wouldn't you kill him right away?

358. Not if I wanted to kill the wife.

359. I been a department secretary

360. for the last five years.

361. Nobody ever had a cross word for Louise.

362. Louise? You called her Louise?

363. She'd yell at anyone that called her "professor."

364. "Doctor"? Forget about it.

365. A woman of the people, huh?

366. And here are 12 of them.

367. This looks like, uh, a guest list

368. for some kind of party the day after she was murdered.

369. A tea.

370. That's what she called them.

371. Although, tea was the last thing she served.

372. From what I hear.

373. I used to call it tea, too.

374. They were discussion groups, actually.

375. With other professors?

376. Professors, students

377. civilians.

378. Well what'd they talk about?

379. Whatever.

380. I'm sorry.

381. These are detectives, Jennifer.

382. Jennifer...

383. Uh, you wouldn't be Jennifer Taylor?

384. Yes.

385. I was just returning these books.

386. I was doing some research.

387. This was for her book?

388. I was checking footnotes and sources mostly.

389. I'm sorry.

390. Jennifer, your name's on the guest list for Dr. Murdoch's

391. next discussion group...

392. I went to a lot of them.

393. Was there a specific topic planned for that night?

394. We were going to discuss

395. gender apartheid; that was her thing lately—

396. the abusive treatment of women

397. in certain Middle Eastern countries.

398. She'd been throwing

399. charity cocktail parties for years to raise funds

400. and awareness.

401. I bet that thrilled the local Muslim men.

402. Well, she was always receiving literature

403. pamphlets, really, quoting the Koran.

404. I can show you.

405. There's a shelter for abused women around the corner

406. and this lady's worried about suffrage

407. in some third world country?

408. Well it ain't just voting rights.

409. Listen to this.

410. "Men are commanded to whip their disobedient wives.

411. Women are deficient in intelligence compared to men."

412. What's that from?

413. "The Center for

414. the Advancement of Wife Beaters"?

415. No, it's... wait.

416. "El Anbar Books."

417. As in "Ellen Bar."

418. I don't have anything

419. to do with that trash.

420. Your store was on the return address label, Mr. Mogazi.

421. It was not me. Talk to the kid.

422. What kid?

423. Ah, Mousah Salim.

424. I hired him to stack books

425. then he started mailing that nonsense from my store.

426. Well, if you didn't like it, why did you let him?

427. I didn't even know about it

428. until this crazy woman comes here

429. with all her friends and her picket sign.

430. Was this woman a college professor?

431. Yes, yes, and all her crazy friends.

432. Look not good for business.

433. So I fired the kid and now she leaves me alone.

434. This Mousah Salim, does he have an address?

435. Ah...

436. I'm sorry, there must be some mix-up.

437. We're looking for Mousah Salim.

438. No mix-up.

439. I'm his mother, Francine Landen.

440. Uh, can we talk to him?

441. Well, that would be difficult.

442. He's in Pakistan.

443. Uh, can we talk to you?

444. Sure.

445. Do you have kids?

446. Yeah, in Florida.

447. Hopefully smoking dope like normal teenagers.

448. My little angel puts a towel on his head

449. and starts quoting the Koran at breakfast.

450. When I was 22, I read theRazor's Edge

451. and I didn't eat steak for two months.

452. Yeah, well, you got over it.

453. Some things with my Greg never change.

454. You know what we spent on private school?

455. Straight C's.

456. Couldn't have gotten into a decent college if he wanted to

457. which he didn't.

458. He's been nothing but a disappointment.

459. Something wrong?

460. The police.

461. Looking for Greg.

462. You're in the wrong hemisphere.

463. I told them.

464. What, the Pakistanis

465. don't want him around, either?

466. Actually, we thought that he might've witnessed a murder.

467. Greg, do something useful?

468. You've definitely got the wrong kid.

469. Well, all in all

470. I'd say that's a pretty good alibi.

471. Yeah, unless he got sick of falafel

472. and decided to come home ahead of schedule.

473. What, and forgot to tell his parents?

474. If she was my mom, I'd forget, too.

475. I got Customs looking into it.

476. So, you're thinking we've got another

477. John Walker Lindh on our hands?

478. Yeah, only this one actually may have pulled the trigger.

479. Hey, somehow, some way

480. this kid is connected to the killers.

481. Well, maybe someone helped him with his conversion.

482. Greg is highly intelligent

483. but had trouble fitting in.

484. I'm sure you know the type.

485. Yeah, I read about them in theColumbine News.

486. No, no, he wasn't like that.

487. Sure, he got picked on every now and then

488. but he certainly wasn't one for retaliation.

489. He just sat back and took it?

490. Well, he did act out once.

491. He and another boy were caught on campus one night

492. setting fire to a garbage can.

493. Who was this other kid?

494. I can dig out the disciplinary report

495. but I do remember he wasn't a student at Strickland.

496. Michael's not here.

497. I'm his sister.

498. Where are your parents?

499. Who do you want to talk to?

500. My dead mother or my convict father?

501. Is this your brother?

502. Yep.

503. The dog was right.

504. Look, whatever's going on with Michael

505. I'm the parents now, you can talk to me.

506. Hey.

507. Hey!

508. Here you go.

509. You know, if you were on your way down to the precinct

510. we can give you a ride.

511. You know what this is, Michael?

512. It's a ballistics report

513. and it says that the gun that we found outside

514. the Murdochs' townhouse

515. is the gun that killed Hugh Murdoch.

516. Now, this one, this is from our forensics lab.

517. Now, if your fingerprints are found on that gun...

518. it means that this isn't going to one of your better days, kid.

519. I don't know what you mean.

520. Two people are dead, Michael.

521. You killed one of them.

522. Now, we're guessing that your friend killed the other one.

523. Which one?

524. That's what we want you to tellus.

525. Time's up.

526. Gina Sparrow, Esquire.

527. I've been retained by Mr. Sanchez's sister.

528. You should know better.

529. Questioning this kind of suspect without his lawyer present.

530. We didn't know he had one.

531. And exactly whatkind of suspect is he?

532. You want us to leave.

533. That would be nice.

534. So, is this guy as dumb as he seems?

535. There's no way this kid is the brains behind all this.

536. Did you reach the D.A.?

537. Well, she's willing to play.

538. Here we go.

539. Now, speaking hypothetically, what if Michael

540. had a partner?

541. We'd be shocked.

542. Would the D.A. work with us?

543. If Michael gives us

544. a name, they'll give two counts of Man Two.

545. Running concurrently?

546. If he gives us a location.

547. Michael's partner was a boy named Landen.

548. Greg Landen.

549. He was the one who shot Mrs. Murdoch.

550. I guess he really did get sick of falafels.

551. Docket Number 26775.

552. People v. Greg Alan Landen.

553. My name is Mousah Salim.

554. Derek Greer for the defense, Your Honor.

555. Waive reading.

556. Plead not guilty. No, I plead

557. nothing— I'm not asking you for anything.

558. You have no authority over me.

559. Tell that to the gentleman

560. with the service revolver.

561. Question of bail? Remand, Your Honor.

562. This defendant is a flight risk.

563. He murdered two people

564. shortly after returning

565. from four months in Pakistan.

566. You lyingQabeha!

567. Looks like he wasn't there to sightsee.

568. Well, listen to you.

569. You don't even try to hide your disdain

570. for Islam.

571. My disdainisn'tfor Islam, pal.

572. Defendant is remanded to the Department of Corrections

573. Allah Akbar. withoutbail.

574. Allah Akbar.

575. I am a slave to Allah.

576. Allah Akbar.

577. Allah Akbar.

578. I am a slave to Allah.

579. I just got called a name

580. I don't even know what it means.

581. Oh, you're going to love this guy.

582. That bad?

583. Greg Landen could make our new D.A. pack his bags

584. and head back to Georgia.

585. I don't think Lilian would let him.

586. Lilian?

587. Mrs. Arthur Branch.

588. She loves the smell of concrete.

589. Always has

590. always will.

591. I didn't know you were friendly with him.

592. Bar Association dinners.

593. Nice fellow.

594. And his politics?

595. Nice fellow.

596. Hello.

597. Sure. Tell him I'll be there

598. in an hour.

599. Well, I'm going to meet your Mr. Landen.

600. Care to come along?

601. I've alreadyhadthe pleasure.

602. For reasons that should be obvious

603. I'd like to make this one go away.

604. And for those same reasons

605. the best I can do is two counts of Man One

606. sentences to run consecutively.

607. That's hardly a bargain.

608. This infidel doesn't speak for me.

609. Quiet, Greg.

610. This prosecution is part

611. of America's crusade against Islam.

612. I want a lawyer who sees that.

613. I want a Muslim lawyer.

614. It's dilatory, Arthur.

615. If every time his lawyer does something

616. he doesn't like, he fires him

617. we might not get to trial for a decade.

618. And he'll be off the street all that time.

619. The Sixth Amendment guarantees his right to counsel.

620. Let him choose whoever he wants.

621. I think there's another issue we should consider.

622. What if Landen was indigent

623. and Greer was court-appointed counsel?

624. Could Landen then reject him on the basis of religion?

625. Uh-oh.

626. I feel the old "bad precedent" speech

627. coming on.

628. Well, that would mean

629. that a skinhead could reject a Jewish attorney.

630. A rapist could reject a woman.

631. The Constitution requires only

632. that counsel be competent.

633. It doesn't say that he and his client

634. have to be best friends.

635. Thank you.

636. Martha Stewart is the Queen

637. of Domestic Tranquility.

638. Right now, I'm not sure I'd want her near my kitchen.

639. No offense, but that analogy isn't

640. even in the right ballpark.

641. Why not? There's a lot more to competence

642. than a law degree and modicum of courtroom skill.

643. A defendant and his attorney

644. need to be able to communicate.

645. There should be at least a touch of trust between them.

646. You better watch out, Arthur

647. or they'll take back your invitation

648. to the strict constructionist's ball.

649. You see, that's where you don't understand me, Jack.

650. It's my job to put that son of gun behind bars.

651. The last thing I want to do for him is

652. gift-wrap grounds for reversible error.

653. Mr. Branch's office.

654. Jack, it's for you.

655. McCoy.

656. Yes.

657. Sure.

658. That was Anwar Mohammed.

659. He's just been retained by Greg Landen.

660. He wants to meet me for coffee.

661. Oh, to be young and to have parents

662. with a bulging bankbook.

663. We already tried to cut a deal with Mr. Landen.

664. I know.

665. Couldn't we work out something

666. with no prison time?

667. A mental facility, perhaps?

668. I'm sorry.

669. You've known me a long time, Anwar.

670. You know the political climate played no part

671. in my decision.

672. Maybe it should.

673. The boy's one step from a terrorist.

674. I'm sure things haven't been easy

675. for you this past year.

676. It's been a terrible year

677. but when people need you

678. somehow your ethnicity disappears.

679. And those who don't need you?

680. I don't need them.

681. Well, Jack, if it's any consolation

682. I'll do my best to keep Greg's rhetoric

683. to a minimum in the courtroom.

684. Have you met him yet?

685. Yeah.

686. And that's why he's getting nowhere near the stand.

687. Believe me, I don't want his religious beliefs in the courtroom

688. any more than you do.

689. I'm representing

690. Greg Landen because he needs my help.

691. But please don't ever confuse his politics with my faith.

692. And why did you go with Mr. Landen

693. to the Murdochs' home?

694. Greg told me the Murdochs had more money

695. than they needed.

696. He said if we took some, we could go away.

697. Where would you go, Mr. Sanchez?

698. The mountains.

699. Greg said we could do some fishing and some hunting.

700. It sounded like fun.

701. What happened when you got inside

702. the Murdochs' townhouse, Mr. Sanchez?

703. The man took us into this room

704. and then Greg told me to shoot him.

705. And you did?

706. Yeah.

707. There was a lot of blood.

708. What happened next, Mr. Sanchez?

709. A woman came in, and she started screaming.

710. And she tried to run away, but Greg shot her.

711. Then I got scared, so I ran.

712. You didn't steal anything?

713. No.

714. I guess we forgot.

715. Only one murder weapon was found.

716. Do you know whose fingerprints were on it?

717. Yours.

718. Only one person was seen running from the Murdochs' house.

719. Do you know who it was?

720. You.

721. Greg was there, too.

722. But nobody saw him.

723. How do you explain that?

724. I don't know, but he was there.

725. He shot the lady, and then ran the other way.

726. It was all his idea.

727. I guess it's a good thing

728. you made a deal with the District Attorney

729. or we wouldn't even have yourword for it.

730. This isn't what I told you to do.

731. You tell them

732. about the U.S. aggression.

733. Not now, Greg.

734. You tell them about the U.S. government's

735. crusade against Islam.

736. Sit down. They're trying to wipe us out.

737. Your Honor...

738. 3,000 killed on September 11.

739. Quiet down, Mr. Landen.

740. And 20,000 killed in Afghanistan.

741. Your taxes pay for the bombs

742. that kill Afghani children.

743. You're out of order, Mr. Landen.

744. You're the terrorists.

745. They want me to shut up.

746. That's why they're trying

747. to put me in prison.

748. Only they can't send me to Cuba like the others.

749. They can't treat an American like a caged animal.

750. Remove the defendant from the courtroom.

751. I'll see counsel in chambers.

752. Oh, so you can talk behind my back?

753. This trial is a sham!

754. Give him a Valium.

755. What do I care?

756. I'm afraid it won't be that simple, Your Honor.

757. It appears the only way to maintain any semblance

758. of decorum is to remove the defendant

759. from the courtroom.

760. Is that an on-the- record motion, Mr. McCoy?

761. Yes, Your Honor, it is.

762. Well, the last time I read the Constitution

763. all criminal defendants have an absolute right

764. to confront their accusers.

765. Not only the well-behaved ones.

766. The state will provide a television hookup

767. so he won't miss a word of the proceedings.

768. I'm sure you'd like

769. to add your two cents, Mr. Mohammed.

770. Actually, Your Honor, I'm not going

771. to oppose Mr. McCoy's motion.

772. What happened to representing your client zealously?

773. I feel it would best serve his defense

774. if he weren't permitted to disrupt the proceedings.

775. Please bring the defendant into my chambers.

776. We should least get his opinion on the matter.

777. You know, thereisa way

778. to put an end to all this.

779. My client won't accept a deal, Your Honor.

780. Let me explain what's going on, Mr. Landen.

781. Mr. McCoy would like me to keep you

782. out of the courtroom.

783. To be equitable

784. I'd be willing to give you another chance.

785. Do you think you can contain yourself?

786. Yeah, if he would do his job.

787. From where I'm sitting on the bench

788. Mr. Mohammed is doing an excellent job.

789. No. His job is to do what I tell him to do.

790. I want him to use my real name

791. and I'd have him tell the jury about how

792. the American government's framing me because I'm Muslim.

793. There's no attorney

794. in the country that would argue that.

795. You know what? Fine.

796. Fine.

797. That kid is an idiot savant.

798. Or just an idiot.

799. Don't fool yourself.

800. He just out-lawyered our office's own counsel

801. and the judicial branch.

802. For us to win a motion denying his request

803. for self-representation, the court would have to find him

804. unfit to represent himself.

805. Well, he is 19 and without any legal training.

806. To quote the Bard:

807. Ignorance often turns out to be the best defense.

808. If he's found unfit to represent himself

809. he could also be found legally incompetent

810. to stand trial at all.

811. The proverbial corner, Ms. Southerlyn.

812. That's what our friend has painted us into.

813. So what you're saying is

814. we're not going to oppose his motion?

815. Look at the bright side—

816. the judge ordered Mohammed to stay on as stand-by counsel.

817. Which could be a good thing or a bad thing.

818. Just to be safe, let's have one of our shrinks

819. in the courtroom.

820. Welcome to the corner, Serena.

821. We want to talk to you

822. and Professor Murdoch about her protest

823. of the El Anbar bookstore.

824. I only know what I read about it in the Stuyvesant paper.

825. I ran this through a Kaylemetrics

826. 5500 spectrograph.

827. By comparing pitch

828. trajectory of vowel formants and nasal resonance

829. I was able to locate two distinct voices.

830. And were you able to identify those voices?

831. Well, the second voice, I can't identify.

832. I can only assume it belongs to Hugh Murdoch.

833. And the other voice?

834. Uh, it's the defendant's.

835. Are you sure? Yes.

836. Uh, it was a perfect match, with voice samples

837. taken from the defendant, post arrest.

838. What does that indicate?

839. Well, that Mr. Landen was in the Murdoch's house

840. within minutes of the shootings.

841. Thank you.

842. This machine that you said you used—

843. it's owned by the U.S. government, right?

844. Uh, City of New York, actually.

845. And if you wanted to, you could fake a recording?

846. Uh...

847. Well, I suppose I could

848. but, uh... Are you Jewish?

849. Objection.

850. Overruled.

851. Your Honor...

852. Arguably, it goes to bias.

853. As a Jew, isn't it your mission in life

854. Objection! to destroy the lives Muslims?

855. You hate Muslims, don't you?

856. Sidebar, Your Honor.

857. Your Honor, these questions are bigoted and have no relevance.

858. I'm inclined to agree, Your Honor.

859. However, Mr. Landen does have a right to his opinion.

860. He's got a point, Mr. McCoy.

861. Pro se defendants are permitted extra latitude.

862. I show you People's Five, and ask if you recognize it.

863. I understand this is difficult

864. but you are under oath, Mr. Landen.

865. Yes, it's my gun.

866. And is it the only gun that you own?

867. No, I have another nine-millimeter

868. a SIG Sauer.

869. Where is that gun now?

870. I don't know. It's...

871. missing.

872. Who do you think took it?

873. Seek to treat the witness as hostile.

874. Go ahead.

875. You think your son took your guns, don't you?

876. I couldn't say.

877. Well, how about this?

878. Where do you keep the weapons in question?

879. In my study, in the bottom drawer.

880. Which is locked?

881. Mr. Landen?

882. No. It wasn't locked.

883. Did you ever cheat on your wife?

884. Objection. Relevance.

885. How can the jury believe a word he says?

886. He's an adulterer.

887. Marital infidelity doesn't bear

888. on witness credibility, Mr. Landen.

889. Ask a different question.

890. Why didn't you have any more children?

891. Your Honor...

892. Because you didn't even want

893. to have me, did you?

894. Objection.

895. Sustained.

896. You're embarrassed by me!

897. That's why you're trying to put me away.

898. You want me in jail

899. so that you never have to see me again.

900. That's not true. I love you.

901. How does it feel to sell out your own son?

902. Hmm?

903. America's been trying to destroy Islam for years.

904. It sides with the Jews against the Palestinians

905. because America is a Judeo-Christian country.

906. Since 1990, it has occupied our holy lands in Saudi Arabia.

907. American women walk around with their faces uncovered

908. in our holiest city.

909. America doesn't respect any culture but its own.

910. Your Honor, is any of this relevant?

911. Let him talk, Mr. McCoy.

912. It's his right.

913. You think that your way is the only way

914. and feel that you have the right to invade anyone who disagrees—

915. Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq.

916. You try to assimilate the world.

917. America is a country

918. that was born out of the mass murder of Native Americans

919. and built on the backs of Africans.

920. If the Native Americans could've defended themselves

921. by flying planes into buildings, don't you think they would've?

922. If the slaves could've freed themselves by becoming martyrs

923. don't you think that they would've?

924. And it wouldn't have been terrorism...

925. it would've been self-defense.

926. So killing a woman who challenges your view of Islam

927. is self-defense?

928. I didn't kill her, Michael Sanchez did.

929. How did he get your father's gun?

930. I don't know.

931. Why would Michael Sanchez

932. target an advocate for Muslim women?

933. It was a robbery; you heard him say that.

934. But you're not sad she's dead.

935. She didn't know her place.

936. Quran4:34 says Allah made men superior to women.

937. Under your perversion of the religion.

938. See, this is what I'm talking about.

939. Any religion that Americans don't understand

940. they call perverted.

941. If we could get back to the homicides

942. Mr. McCoy.

943. Yeah, go ahead, Mr. McCoy, go ahead.

944. Listen to the lady.

945. Excuse me? No, I won't.

946. I will not allow a female to judge me.

947. That's enough for today.

948. We'll pick it up tomorrow, 9:30.

949. From what I saw

950. he's nowhere near legally insane.

951. Just your garden variety fanatic fundamentalist.

952. If this had been about politics

953. he probably would've become an anarchist.

954. If it was about music

955. he could've gotten into grunge and heavy metal.

956. He picked religion

957. specifically Islam, for a specific reason.

958. Adolescent rebellion.

959. No, he could've bought a motorcycle

960. or pierced his tongue.

961. People who become fundamentalists do so because

962. there's a part of the dogma that resonates with them.

963. There's something in their psyche

964. that draws them

965. to a distorted interpretation

966. of an otherwise legitimate religion.

967. There's a sect for every nut.

968. Exactly.

969. But what is it about militant Islam

970. that Landen finds

971. so appealing?

972. Sanchez shot Hugh Murdoch.

973. Landen shot his wife.

974. "Allah made men superior to women."

975. My guess

976. is he is terrified of women.

977. Militant Islam eases that anxiety

978. by making women subordinate.

979. Landen became a slave of Allah because he couldn't get a date?

980. I'm not saying

981. it's as simple as that, Jack.

982. But I did see how he reacted to Judge Borke

983. and I saw how his mother reacted to him.

984. So Mommy made him do it?

985. She walked out on him.

986. Castration hurts whether it's surgical or emotional.

987. He can't confront his mother directly.

988. I think he's scared to death of women, period.

989. And what would happen if a woman challenged him, literally?

990. You're talking about Louise Murdoch?

991. I'm talking about Serena.

992. Your Honor, with the court's permission

993. Ms. Southerlyn will continue with the cross examination.

994. That's fine with me.

995. How are you feeling today, Greg?

996. I can get you a glass of water, if you like.

997. I'm fine.

998. I'm sorry, that's right, I wouldn't want to be party

999. to you violating any of your vows of self-sacrifice.

1000. Religion is not meant to be easy.

1001. Like duringRamadan when a man is drawn closer to God

1002. by disregarding his earthly needs.

1003. And what's the other one, Shuha...?

1004. Shuhada. Right.

1005. That's it.

1006. The prayer before you give your life for God.

1007. It's an honor to die for Allah.

1008. And Allah wanted Louise Murdoch dead?

1009. She defied his will.

1010. So, whoever actually pulled the trigger

1011. would be the true slave to Allah

1012. and should be honored to accept the consequences

1013. of that act, is that correct?

1014. Yet you keep denying it.

1015. Is that because you're scared

1016. to accept those consequences?

1017. Scared of theShuhada?

1018. You are just like Murdoch.

1019. You're both enemies to Islam.

1020. She poisons women against men.

1021. She has killed her unborn child

1022. and serves liquor in her home.

1023. So you shot her in the back.

1024. You don't have to say that, you know.

1025. No, you were great, Serena.

1026. You cracked him like a walnut.

1027. He didn't actually crack.

1028. Don't be so sure of that.

1029. Landen said in court that Louise Murdoch

1030. had killed her unborn child.

1031. I thought that was just part of his rant.

1032. What if Louise Murdoch

1033. didhave an abortion?

1034. How would he know?

1035. And how would he know about her open-door policy

1036. or the fact that she threw parties

1037. where alcohol was served?

1038. How could he possibly know about any of that?

1039. He knew her.

1040. Anyone that gets into Louise's office

1041. has to get by me first.

1042. And you never saw her with Greg Landen?

1043. I've been following the trial.

1044. Believe me, if I recognized the S.O.B.

1045. I would've called you guys.

1046. Maybe one of her students...

1047. She wasn't teaching this semester.

1048. But she did have some students helping her research the book.

1049. Anyone who went to Strickland Academy?

1050. You should've come forward, Jennifer.

1051. I didn't know it had anything to do with me.

1052. Denial's a wonderful thing, isn't it?

1053. Murdoch was your friend.

1054. And that's why...

1055. I prayed it had nothing to do with me.

1056. Well, why don't you tell me what you do know.

1057. Greg and I were friends.

1058. But that was way before

1059. he got into the whole Muslim thing.

1060. Did you tell him about Louise Murdoch?

1061. Maybe there was a little hero worship going on.

1062. She got me excited about women's rights.

1063. She opened my eyes to what was going on

1064. in some Muslim countries.

1065. And you opened Greg's eyes.

1066. I guess.

1067. Once I even dragged Greg to dinner with her.

1068. Are you saying that you two were involved?

1069. Sure...

1070. I guess. If you could even call it that.

1071. What exactly does that mean?

1072. We've already been through this.

1073. I'm not accepting any of your deals.

1074. You're not here as a defendant, Mr. Landen.

1075. I asked you here in your capacity as your own counsel.

1076. We want to call a witness

1077. that wasn't on our initial witness list.

1078. Call whoever you want.

1079. I don't care.

1080. I appreciate your amenability, Mr. Landen.

1081. Legally, you're entitled to question her

1082. before she takes the stand.

1083. We both know that's going to be a waste of time.

1084. This is our additional witness, Mr. Landen.

1085. Jennifer Taylor.

1086. I think you know each other.

1087. How could you, Greg?

1088. Did you do this because of me?

1089. Think about it, Greg.

1090. Think about what Jennifer will say on the stand...

1091. in front of your friends, the press...

1092. your mother...

1093. the whole world...

1094. Shut up!

1095. Shut up!

1096. You shut up! 'Cause I am a man!

1097. I am a man, no matter what she says about me.

1098. Okay?

1099. You laughed at me.

1100. You laughed.

1101. (quietly): You shouldn't have laughed.

1102. Well, at least at his allocution

1103. Landen apologized to the entire Muslim community.

1104. Olivet was right, he wasn't a true believer.

1105. He was just a humiliated adolescent.

1106. All in all, I'd say we're damn lucky

1107. this was just one screwball kid.

1108. An angry kid full of rage, just looking for a target.

1109. Isn't that what a terrorist is?

1110. What's scary is how easy it is to create one.

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