Law & Order 13x3

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. As long as you dress the code

8. and you watch the areas you're assigned

9. you're going to do just fine.

10. Timberland's okay?

11. Timberlands, Hytest...

12. but are those non-skid? I don't know.

13. Well, you better find out.

14. Because we get a lot of spillage

15. and if a bottle of bleach and chlorine collide

16. and you slip

17. it'll burn right through to the bone.

18. What was that?

19. Mother of...

20. Boy, used to be

21. we'd light a cigar

22. throw some cologne on a mask...

23. Well, no perfume's going to help this girl.

24. She's been marinating a while.

25. Victim's a Jane Doe, early thirties.

26. ME's guy said she's been dead since Friday night

27. driver picked her up this morning.

28. And where's the genius who moved her?

29. (sighs): Supervisor went off to call me.

30. Driver went to puke.

31. That leaves the new kid.

32. Maybe he wanted to make sure she was dead.

33. Well, one look would have told him that.

34. Ah, what are you going to do?

35. It was his first day on the job.

36. He wasn't expecting visitors.

37. So he blows our forensics?

38. Not to mention he wakes me up

39. every Tuesday and Thursday morning.

40. Nah, these guys only handle commercial zones.

41. City handles residential.

42. Well, does the new guy talk?

43. I already tore him a new one, okay?

44. Well, there goes my fun.

45. Detectives Briscoe and Green would like to pick your brains.

46. No I.D., purse, anything.

47. Okay, we're going to need

48. the entire load separated

49. so our techs can examine it.

50. Don't have to go through the whole thing.

51. She popped out the front.

52. Means I picked her up on the Lower East Side.

53. Probably somewhere along Essex Street.

54. All right, thanks.

55. Let's get a canvas started

56. see if anybody saw anything.

57. And have them examine all the commercial bins.

58. That's a tough first day on the job.

59. It's an even tougher last day.

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61. to the lower temporal regions of the brain.

62. Also found defensive wounds on the hands and arms

63. but most of the abrasions are post-mortem.

64. Five tons of garbage'll do that.

65. Slug's a.38 caliber, pretty banged up.

66. Ballistics has it now.

67. Look at the track marks on her arm.

68. Tox screen shows

69. both cocaine and heroin in her system.

70. Ugh, speedball.

71. High's supposed to be like free-falling in an elevator

72. for 30 stories.

73. Well, her loved ones will be glad to know

74. she died with a smile on her face.

75. If we ever find them.

76. Well, maybe I can help you with that.

77. Oh, please, tell me she's got her name and address

78. tattooed somewhere.

79. Close.

80. Are those what I think they are?

81. Well, they are not water balloons.

82. Saline implants.

83. Okay, so that narrows it down

84. to every woman in every bar on Second Avenue.

85. Actually, they come with catalogue and lot numbers.

86. The lab that manufactured them

87. might be able to help you track down her surgeon.

88. Serilene Laboratories—

89. they were one of the first to make implants anatomical.

90. Most other implants were round

91. but seven years ago, people were opting for anatomics

92. because they looked less fake.

93. They have a more natural slope.

94. We appreciate the history lesson

95. but we really just need to know this woman's name.

96. I'm sure you know that information's privileged.

97. Well, uh, somehow I don't think she'll mind.

98. Here we are— "Jane Hunt. "

99. I have a billing address.

100. Call me old-fashioned, but plastic cools my engine.

101. Well, you seemed to enjoy Shirley what's-her-name

102. from the spaghetti joint.

103. Believe me, everything about Shirley was real.

104. Well, I guess you two never went jogging.

105. Hey, when did you become such an expert

106. on what's real and what isn't?

107. Man, I'm a regular René Descartes.

108. René? I think I got a lap dance from her once...

109. therefore I am.

110. Somehow, I don't think she lived in this building.

111. So, Jane Hunt is Patty Voytek?

112. Is that supposed to mean something to somebody?

113. How about three million records sold?

114. You're sure it was her?

115. Oh, God.

116. I've been her agent going on six years.

117. Good old Patty, always with the great timing.

118. That sounds terrible.

119. That is terrible, Mr. Sanford.

120. Pierced Tung— that's her band—

121. has an album coming out in two weeks, their first

122. in three years.

123. Three years?

124. What happened, writer's block?

125. No, she lost her husband, Shane Mallory.

126. He used to be the lead singer of Krisis.

127. Oh, is that the guy that took a header

128. off the brownstone in Brooklyn?

129. He's got an entire section of Prospect Park

130. dedicated to him.

131. When was the last time you talked to Patty?

132. Not for a couple of weeks.

133. She was undergoing rehab at the Daylight House in Riverdale.

134. From what I hear, she was doing well.

135. Last time I saw her was around 7:00 Friday night.

136. She was on her way out of group therapy.

137. About an hour later, I was told she checked out.

138. Checked out?

139. Is this rehab or the Four Seasons?

140. The Daylight program is voluntary.

141. We don't force anyone to stay.

142. Well, do you know why she left?

143. No. It seemed like she was making real progress

144. especially given the circumstances.

145. Well, what circumstances?

146. She lost her mother when she was 15

147. her father physically abused her

148. and her husband killed himself.

149. She hit the trifecta.

150. Something must have set her off.

151. Well, uh, if there was something

152. she didn't share it during group.

153. What about visitors or phone calls?

154. Not allowed.

155. The program depends upon isolation—

156. no television, no radio.

157. We don't even permit our patients

158. to carry money.

159. Well, if she didn't have any cash

160. how did she get all the way downtown?

161. We provide patients with a courtesy van.

162. Straight to her courteous dealer.

163. Our driver took her home.

164. After that, she's on her own.

165. Uh, Friday night? Yeah.

166. She wanted me to take her home.

167. You sure she got there?

168. I do my job.

169. Well, seeing as though you were the last person

170. to see her breathing, maybe you should come with us.

171. Uh, look, I-I don't want any trouble, okay?

172. Around 7:30, I get buzzed to meet her with a car out front.

173. When I'm coming out of the garage

174. I see Patty hopping into a Town Car.

175. And you didn't report this?

176. I figured she called a car service.

177. Didn't think it was that big a deal.

178. Even after you heard she was dead?

179. I didn't know she got killed that night.

180. Well, how do you know it was a car service?

181. You're not going to say anything to Dr. Zucker, right?

182. That depends.

183. Black Town Car.

184. License plate, "Star Five."

185. Yeah, sure, I seen her.

186. What is that, Friday, Saturday...?

187. It was probably Friday.

188. That's right.

189. Mr. D'Alleva— he was my real client that night.

190. I dropped him at a dinner party in Scarsdale at 7:00.

191. Told me I should pick him up at midnight.

192. So, you figured you'd make a few extra bucks, huh?

193. Yeah, sure, why not?

194. As soon as I hit Riverdale, there she is.

195. Offers me a hundred to take her to the East Village.

196. All the way, it's "faster, faster."

197. Then we get there, she tells me she's busted.

198. When am I going to learn, right?

199. You let her jump the fare?

200. Hey, I'm nice, not stupid.

201. She says wait, and if she don't come down

202. in five minutes with the cash

203. I'm supposed to go up to, uh... apartment 3F.

204. So, did she come down?

205. Uh, not her, some other freaky-looking chick.

206. All right, we need that address.

207. I can't believe she's dead.

208. Hey, I'm sorry, but if you could just tell us

209. what she was doing here Friday night...

210. Yeah, she-she was stressing

211. you know, about the new CD.

212. Damn critics, waiting with a knife and a fork.

213. She left rehab a week early

214. to come down here and just talk shop?

215. Yeah.

216. I'm not buying that, Rain.

217. Look, kid, your friend wound up in a Dumpster

218. junked up with a bullet in her brain.

219. Whoever helped her off the wagon may have killed her.

220. Mommy?

221. Hey, Ricky, sweetie, listen, I'll be right in.

222. Just go back to bed, okay?

223. All right. Patty was really... in bad shape

224. when she came here that night

225. and she said she needed to score, so...

226. I hooked her up with a couple grams of coke

227. and some smack.

228. That you just happened to have laying around?

229. I thought this was aboutPatty.

230. Okay, what happened next?

231. She took the stuff and she left.

232. So, I guess she wasn't all that stressed, huh?

233. Hey, I loved Patty

234. but nobody gets high in front of my kid, okay?

235. Did she say where she was going?

236. Yeah.

237. To hell is what she said.

238. She could be dark like that sometimes, you know

239. especially since Shane.

240. She said heroin was the only thing

241. that could chill the demons in her head.

242. So, was hell anywhere near where she lived?

243. Montauk? I doubt it.

244. Look, I was all for her getting clean.

245. It's just that when she called me...

246. Wait.

247. Patty called you? When?

248. Uh, an hour before she got here, around 7:00.

249. You're sure it was that early?

250. Yeah.

251. So, it turns out that Patty was a regular Chatty Cathy that day.

252. Here is the incoming phone call

253. that the nurse mentioned.

254. Hmm. You traced the number?

255. Mm-hmm. It was a prepaid cellular.

256. The phone call that Patty made afterwards isn't.

257. Well, she called her guitarist— what's her name?

258. Rain.

259. And you're not going to believe

260. who the next phone call was from.

261. Going to give you a little hint—

262. former NYPD detective turned best-selling author.

263. Mike Foster?

264. Mm-hmm. Who happens to be writing a book

265. about the death of Patty's husband, Shane Mallory.

266. Which was ruled a suicide, if I'm not mistaken.

267. My kind of book: short.

268. "Jumped or Pushed?"

269. How's that for a title?

270. It's catchy.

271. But if he jumped, you don't sell many books.

272. Are you kidding?

273. There is no chance this was not a homicide.

274. Come on. Rock stars today, they're like ballplayers

275. in our time, right, Lennie?

276. I mean, bucks, broads

277. booze— hey, whatever you want.

278. Can you imagine Joltin' Joe whackin' himself?

279. Joe didn't have track marks

280. running up and down his arms.

281. I mean, the best forensics team in the city

282. said that Shane Mallory's death

283. was a do-it-yourselfer.

284. Of course they did.

285. You know, what else are they going to do

286. you know, when they're clueless?

287. So enter the great and powerful Mike Foster, huh?

288. I already solved

289. three cases as a civilian I couldn't have as a cop.

290. Well, as a cop, that damn Constitution gets in your way.

291. I'm not talking about that.

292. I'm talking about time.

293. I got a lot more of it now

294. than I did when I was carrying a badge.

295. I mean, the public

296. they want quick closure— emphasis on quick.

297. And civil servants

298. are paid to oblige.

299. And you get paid a lot more.

300. Consider this—

301. Mallory spent half his 26 years high on something.

302. Maybe he was depressed, maybe he was a psycho.

303. I don't know.

304. But don't you think he would have

305. done the deed before he hit it big?

306. Let's talk turkey.

307. You want to know why Patty called me Friday night?

308. Hey, I was a cop, remember?

309. Okay, so what did you talk to her about?

310. She did all the talking, actually.

311. She threatened to sic her lawyers on me

312. if I kept interviewing her friends.

313. Let me guess

314. she was your prime suspect.

315. Do I think she helped Shane

316. off the ledge?

317. No.

318. But I do think she knows who did.

319. Look, her husband Shane was worth millions.

320. And rumors were that he was about to dump her.

321. Now that she's dead, the millions go to...

322. She didn't have a will—

323. Dear old Dad—

324. who she happened to sue on more than one occasion.

325. She was a real sweetheart, this one.

326. It wasn't a lawsuit.

327. It was what they call an injunction.

328. I sold some of her childhood clothes and photos on the eBay

329. and she wanted me to stop.

330. I can't imagine why.

331. Hey, I paid for it all.

332. Well, now she can pay you back.

333. Oh, right.

334. I'd be elected Pope before I got a penny from her.

335. The rehab said that she got a call about a family emergency.

336. Not from this family.

337. We didn't talk to each other in two years except

338. through our attorneys.

339. Must have made for a hell of a Thanksgiving dinner.

340. I'm going to give it to you straight.

341. Jane had her screws loose, if you know what I mean.

342. She was a liar, a junkie and a whore.

343. She's also your daughter

344. and she's dead.

345. Show some respect.

346. Yeah, and I'd be the only one.

347. You should read some of her "fan" mail.

348. "It should have been you who jumped off that roof."

349. I don't think Jeffery Dahmer got mail this bad.

350. "Slut, you ruined Shane and Krisis."

351. I won't even read this one in mixed company.

352. Her daddy was right, ain't no love here.

353. She gets more hate mail than I get junk mail.

354. You know what?

355. You might save yourselves some time

356. by talking to someone who actually liked her.

357. Check, check, test one, two.

358. Test, test...

359. Patty dies, and we sell out for the first time in two years.

360. Maybe a lot of people loved her.

361. Well, Patty couldn't have cared less.

362. She just wanted to make music.

363. And the thing with Shane, man...

364. To the world it was like she was Yoko busting up the Beatles.

365. She wasn't?

366. Oh, look, Shane had his own crap to deal with

367. long before he even met Patty.

368. And now it's like his dying

369. is some kind of major conspiracy.

370. Like, Shane killed himself, accept it.

371. Well, can you think of anybody

372. that had a particularly hard time accepting it?

373. Actually, about six months ago

374. we were playing the Hammerstein

375. and this freak in a Krisis T-shirt

376. pushes his way to the stage and pulls a mic into the pit

377. and starts ranting that Patty's a murderer.

378. Is there some reason you didn't tell us this before?

379. Well, before you were

380. asking about drugs.

381. Does this freak have a name?

382. Your guys dragged him off. Ask them.

383. Friday night?

384. I was performing, bro.

385. Performing where?

386. On the steps of the Brooklyn Academy.

387. Go ahead and ask them.

388. They made me sign a bunch of forms.

389. I don't know, Grant.

390. Patty Voytek seems to be the focus

391. of a lot of your anger.

392. I'm not crying she's dead, if that's what you mean.

393. Why? Because she had something to do

394. with Shane Mallory's death?

395. "With a hook in her teeth and a string through her nose

396. "she's got rundown dreams, she's got rundown clothes.

397. "She stepped on the cracks

398. "and she hopped on the trains

399. "but there's no looking back

400. from those Heavens and Chains."

401. That's art, man.

402. That's poetry.

403. Shane touched a lot of souls.

404. She destroyed all that.

405. And that's why she's in the morgue right now?

406. The guy boosts himself off a building

407. with two grams of smack in his veins?

408. No way. Listen to his words, man.

409. Shane agonized over life, but he never stopped treasuring it.

410. Yeah, I guess forensics missed that CD.

411. Well, there's that expert

412. that says that his, uh— what do you call it—

413. trajectory off the building means that he was pushed.

414. You don't got to write it down, dude.

415. The other cop got all that.

416. What other cop?

417. Hey, I work a case, I talk to everyone.

418. Not if you step on our toes, you don't.

419. All right, I'm sorry.

420. That's the last thing I want.

421. I left a message for you at the precinct this morning.

422. There's a guy, Travis Jones...

423. We supposed to know him?

424. Only if you're a rock historian.

425. He was the original drummer for Krisis, you know?

426. That is until he introduced his girlfriend

427. to his good buddy, Shane Mallory.

428. And the girlfriend was Patty Voytek?

429. Uh-huh, yup.

430. And Travis gets dumped by both the girl and the band

431. in one fell swoop

432. and Shane and Patty live happily ever after.

433. And Krisis goes on to fame and fortune

434. without Travis.

435. Sounds like motive.

436. Exactly.

437. Travis is a major league doper now

438. but he has this old diary of Patty's

439. that indicates she really never loved Shane.

440. That she only used him to further her own career.

441. Hot stuff, huh?

442. For the book, you know?

443. Publisher's dream.

444. Only at the last minute Travis backs out.

445. Which just pissed me off to no end

446. because I paid this guy, you know...

447. You don't want to know how much.

448. So I go to his place.

449. Well, he's not there

450. so I let myself in.

451. Oh, wait a minute. You broke in?

452. I'm not a cop anymore, okay?

453. Hey, I paid him for the diary.

454. I wanted what was mine.

455. So did you get it?

456. Oh, yeah, but that's not all I got.

457. That's a.38?

458. Mm-hmm. Under Travis' bed.

459. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't let the papers know.

460. I mean, let me break it in my book, hmm?

461. That's, like, history, man.

462. Past tense. Me and Patty ended, like, years ago.

463. Yeah, time flies when you're dancing on the clouds.

464. I know that one, it's the Ramones.

465. My partner's talking about the smack, Travis

466. and how it may distort your sense of time.

467. It's an illness, man.

468. Well, we heard that you and Patty

469. were giving each other first-aid Friday night.

470. Patty!

471. No, Patty made her choice years ago, dude.

472. She wanted to tiptoe up the ladder of corporate madness.

473. Well, here's to you, Patty.

474. Oh, we got us one hell of a guy here, Ed.

475. Girl throws him out

476. leaves him crawling on the dirt for nickels and dimes

477. and he wishes her nothing but the best.

478. Well, maybe it was me

479. that realized I was wrong about her from the start.

480. And what about Krisis?

481. Krisis is dead to me.

482. Yeah, so to speak.

483. Shane Mallory.

484. Mr. Sensitive. Mr. Angst.

485. I can't believe it, man, the guy's a...

486. he's like a bad trip.

487. Do you own a gun?

488. No.

489. What the hell would I do with a gun?

490. Oh, geez.

491. So, I need a lawyer now.

492. We'll get back to you on that.

493. Do you believe him?

494. I believe on a good day

495. he couldn't find his ass with both hands.

496. He had the motive

497. he lives two blocks away from the Dumpster

498. where Patty Voytek's body was found

499. and he had a weapon.

500. And that's a whole other story.

501. Oh, come on.

502. You going to take the word of a dope-head over an ex-cop?

503. An ex-cop who broke into a civilian's house.

504. And who may have planted that gun.

505. Oh, come on.

506. Look, we're just saying what a defense lawyer

507. is going to say.

508. That fact is

509. Foster should have known better

510. than to break the chain of evidence.

511. He was afraid if he waited, Jones would ditch the gun.

512. Speaking of which...

513. The serial number was filed off

514. and ballistics said the slug pulled out of the victim's body

515. was way too damaged to analyze.

516. Well, I'll send it to the national lab in DC

517. see if they can work any magic.

518. In the meantime, does this Travis Jones have a sheet?

519. Oh, yeah.

520. Three misdemeanors for possession, one assault.

521. He slugged the band's road manager.

522. I'll start the paperwork for a warrant.

523. You go see if you can corroborate motive

524. from someone other than Mike Foster.

525. Complete and total karma.

526. Man, if Shane knew about half the crap Patty pulled, man.

527. Blocking the release of our last album

528. trying to screw us out of royalties

529. he'd resurrect.

530. I take it you won't be sending Patty any flowers.

531. You got that right.

532. Just for the record, where were you two guys last Friday night?

533. At the Spotted Pony in Jersey.

534. Hey, what can you tell us about Travis Jones?

535. I can't even talk about him.

536. Whoa, he was a monster drummer.

537. I mean, like a metronome, man.

538. I mean, he knew what I was going to do

539. before I even did it, you know?

540. We tried to talk Shane out of axing him, but...

541. Shane's your ticket.

542. Yeah, without him

543. we were like a punk-junk bar band.

544. You know, when he died

545. me and Zach, we tried to connect with T, but he just blew us off.

546. (cell phone ringing) He said he was done with Krisis

547. He was through with the whole scene.

548. Excuse me.

549. You think Travis still blames Patty

550. for getting him fired from the band?

551. It's hard not to.

552. She had Shane wrapped around her finger.

553. More like her needle.

554. Okay, thanks.

555. Lennie, that was forensics.

556. There was blood spatter on the gun.

557. Matches Patty Voytek's DNA.

558. One drug addict killing another?

559. It's not something a lot of people

560. are going to lose sleep over.

561. Gee, Arthur, I never saw

562. your compassionate side before.

563. Sure, let's legalize narcotics.

564. Put all the junkies on an island—

565. let them kill themselves.

566. Don't tantalize me.

567. You're kidding, I hope.

568. Ah, you're entitled to hope.

569. I've heard a few good arguments

570. to legalize drugs, but mass suicide

571. wasn't one of them.

572. Oh, with all the money we spend

573. on the so-called war on drugs

574. we could buy all the poppy fields

575. in the world and burn them to a crisp.

576. But do we do it? No. And why?

577. Because without a war on something

578. people in Washington wouldn't get elected.

579. Well, until Washington comes to its senses

580. we need to deal with Patty Voytek, sir.

581. She's a sort of rock star.

582. Oh, I have a granddaughter.

583. I know exactly who she is.

584. But I also know that trying to build a case

585. on an illegal break-in by a writer

586. is like trying to do a kickflip

587. without lifting your front foot

588. off the skateboard.

589. Grandson.

590. Well, in any case

591. the cops trust this writer's work.

592. That's a shock.

593. They think there's enough for an arrest.

594. We know this case will be high profile.

595. To avoid any taint, why don't we let a Grand Jury

596. make that decision?

597. There you go.

598. Pass the buck to the public.

599. Jack McCoy, right?

600. Have we had the pleasure?

601. Oh, not yet.

602. Uh, my name is Jeremy Cook.

603. I'll be representing Travis Jones.

604. You're a little early.

605. I haven't even convened a Grand Jury yet.

606. Ah, early bird, worms, and all that.

607. If we ever do arrest your client

608. I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of each other.

609. That's the thing.

610. Mom always said, "Haste makes waste."

611. Uh, no, that's not it.

612. "Be prepared."

613. There you go.

614. And thinking back, uh

615. that was Dad.

616. So, before one thing leads to another

617. and we get all tangled up in that, uh, proverbial web

618. let's see what that, uh, judge thinks about that gun

619. that supposedly belonged

620. to my client.

621. You can't move to exclude evidence.

622. before we even know if there's going to be an arrest.

623. Of course you can't.

624. That's an Order to Show Cause.

625. Why the gun should be presented to the Grand Jury.

626. Why Mike Foster

627. should be allowed to testify at all.

628. Try the carpaccio.

629. It's to die for.

630. Maybe I'm getting old

631. but I don't really see what we're doing here.

632. Exactly my point, Your Honor.

633. Defense's motion

634. not only being without merit, is premature.

635. The prosecution is permitted to present

636. any and all evidence to the Grand Jury.

637. Not when that evidence

638. will irrevocably prejudice said Grand Jury

639. and thereby lead to a trial

640. which would publicly slander my client's good name.

641. He's a drug addict and a murderer.

642. Who's being premature now?

643. The fact is, the murder weapon

644. had trace evidence

645. of the victim's blood.

646. It was found in your client's apartment.

647. By a man whose procedure was, shall I say

648. questionable?

649. Mr. Foster's status as criminal suspect

650. indicted or otherwise

651. it eliminates any possibility of full and fair testimony.

652. Excuse me?

653. He broke into my client's apartment.

654. So you're thinking he'll take the Fifth on cross?

655. You read my mind, ma'am.

656. Only there is no

657. cross-examination in a Grand Jury.

658. Look, we all know the prosecution

659. can indict a ham sandwich

660. if it wants to.

661. I'm looking ahead to trial

662. where Mr. Foster won't be able to answer any of my questions

663. without incriminating himself.

664. If he doesn't take the Fifth

665. he'll end up a defendant in his own trial.

666. Kudos on your creativity, Mr. Cook.

667. The problem is, there's no basis in law...

668. And that's why they keep adding new wings to the law library.

669. Your Honor, the idea that a writer

670. was an agent for the state is absurd.

671. Perhaps, but I want to hear from witnesses, not lawyers.

672. Evidentiary hearing tomorrow, 2:00.

673. An evidentiary hearing preceding a Grand Jury presentation.

674. If anything, he's original.

675. He drew the right judge.

676. Yeah, one who wants to see the law expand

677. to meet the times.

678. One who doesn't mind being reversed

679. on appeal.

680. Perhaps.

681. You can't think there's merit

682. in Cook's argument.

683. If Foster is allowed to testify, and the gun is admissible...

684. I hear an "open the floodgates" argument coming.

685. Then the cops could hire cat burglars

686. to find evidence for them.

687. The prosecution would then grant immunity

688. and the Fourth Amendment

689. would be down the toilet.

690. First of all, nobody hired Mike Foster.

691. So, we don't give him money.

692. We just grant him immunity for breaking and entering.

693. I don't see the difference.

694. This is a unique set of facts

695. we're dealing with here, Serena.

696. And it's also one that could set an unconscionable precedent.

697. That's the concern for judges, not prosecutors.

698. Really? What is

699. our concern then?

700. Putting a particular killer behind bars.

701. Here are copies of your previous three years' tax returns.

702. Would you read what's listed

703. as your occupation?

704. Writer.

705. And what was your former occupation?

706. I was a detective with the NYPD

707. for almost 20 years, but I've been retired for...

708. about six.

709. You no longer

710. involve yourself in active criminal investigations?

711. Of course not.

712. Look, retirement was boring.

713. I was... I'd read the papers, I'd watch the tube.

714. I had to do something.

715. So I looked into a murder that had been closed

716. for over ten years, and then I wrote an article about it

717. and one thing lead to another, and I had a three-book deal.

718. No further questions.

719. Did you have a key to Mr. Jones' apartment?

720. (chuckling): No.

721. Was the, uh, door unlocked when you got there?

722. No.

723. So, uh, how did you manage to get in?

724. I know how to pick a lock.

725. Really?

726. Mm-hmm.

727. Where did you, uh, acquire such a useful skill?

728. When I was on the force, which I'm not anymore.

729. That's what they tell me.

730. So, in plain English

731. you entered my client's apartment... illegally.

732. I paid your client

733. for a diary.

734. I entered the apartment to get what was mine.

735. That's nice. Now, would you please answer the question?

736. No, it wasn't legal.

737. Did you tell that

738. to Detectives Briscoe and Green?

739. Yes. I suppose they read you your rights on the spot.

740. No.

741. They cuffed you.

742. No.

743. Oh. Oh, I see, uh...

744. Once a cop, the, uh, big blue wall, etc, etc. Hmm.

745. The fact is, Detectives Briscoe and Green

746. let you get away with a felony.

747. Isn't that correct?

748. Objection.

749. Withdrawn.

750. This is a copy of your, uh, last book, isn't it?

751. Yes. It covers the, uh, Amanda Daley murder in New Orleans.

752. That case was reopened based on your book.

753. Isn't that true?

754. I think the book had an impact, yes.

755. Well, the fact is

756. a suspect was apprehended and later convicted

757. based solely on your work.

758. Well, I did uncover a few new leads, yes.

759. You brought a criminal...

760. to justice.

761. Sounds more like the job description for a cop

762. than a, uh, writer.

763. I don't care what it sounds like.

764. I'm not a cop.

765. Maybe that's why they, uh... needed your help.

766. My partner and I discovered that Patty Voytek

767. had called Mike Foster the night she was killed.

768. We wanted to know why.

769. At any time during the course of your conversation

770. with Mr. Foster, did you ask for his assistance

771. in searching Travis Jones' apartment?

772. Not at all.

773. Mr. Jones wasn't even a suspect.

774. Thank you, Detective Briscoe.

775. So, you were in a bind, and you went, uh

776. running off to Mr. Foster

777. for some help.

778. I didn't say that.

779. You would have liked to get into my client's apartment.

780. Isn't that right?

781. I didn't even know your client existed

782. until Mike told me about him.

783. Move to strike.

784. Please answer yes or no, Detective.

785. Was there any time during your investigation

786. that you would have found it pragmatic to enter

787. Mr. Jones' premises?

788. Sure.

789. But you didn't have probable cause

790. for a warrant, isn't that right?

791. It wasn't even on my radar.

792. Probable cause—

793. yes or no?

794. No.

795. You and Mr. Foster go way back, isn't that right?

796. Yeah, you work on the force

797. long enough, you go way back with everybody.

798. But you and Mr. Foster

799. worked together.

800. The Braddock case, wasn't it?

801. The Braddock case was a triple homicide.

802. There were about 20 detectives on it.

803. My involvement was peripheral.

804. That's all.

805. I'm sorry. It was a couple of days on a case seven years ago.

806. I forgot.

807. You're human.

808. How bad is it?

809. Two old buddies, scratching each other's backs...

810. That's not how it was.

811. I know that. You know that.

812. But Judge Steinman, she might not have our clarity.

813. I just got a call from Judge Steinman's clerk.

814. How bad?

815. We can't use Foster or the gun

816. in front of the Grand Jury.

817. It was an Order to Show Cause, Jack.

818. The case hasn't even started yet

819. so an appeal wouldn't be interlocutory.

820. No, it would be an exercise in futility.

821. The fact that Briscoe and Foster were friends...

822. Means they must have been in cahoots.

823. How did you get in here?

824. Uh, the guard downstairs.

825. Now, he'san old friend.

826. I have nothing to say to you, Mr. Foster.

827. I'm sure you've got plenty to say to me

828. but I truly appreciate your not saying it.

829. The truth of the matter is, um, I'm here to talk.

830. All you have to do is listen.

831. Now, uh, when I was in Travis Jones' apartment

832. looking for the diary...

833. Illegally. Be that as it may.

834. I saw, um... what should I call it, uh...

835. his tools of the trade: needles, baggies

836. filled with curious white powder

837. a rubber hose.

838. It was in the top drawer of the nightstand

839. beside his bed.

840. Now, it hasn't been that long since I carried a badge.

841. So it looked a little...

842. Thank you, Mr. Foster.

843. Anytime.

844. I'll give this to him— he doesn't give up.

845. Briscoe and Green

846. they talked to the members of Shane Mallory's band, right?

847. Yeah. They confirmed motive.

848. Motive gives us probable cause for a search.

849. You want to bust him on possession?

850. If Travis Jones did shoot up with Patty Voytek

851. the night she died

852. we might find some interesting fingerprints.

853. I'll get a warrant.

854. Jack, the cops searched Jones' apartment.

855. There was no heroin, but...

856. Probably celebrated after Judge Steinman's ruling.

857. There were plenty of prints, Jack

858. on the nightstand, on a baggie

859. on a hypodermic.

860. Patty Voytek?

861. We don't need the gun.

862. The prints put her in Jones's apartment.

863. My prints put my head in the fridge.

864. It doesn't mean I finished the Cherry Garcia last night.

865. Especially if I hire this fellow Cook to prove otherwise.

866. We need more.

867. I don't think Jones is going to confess.

868. Why not? He's a hophead, right?

869. Most of the time, they don't know which way is up.

870. Only Cook's not going to let him

871. open his mouth in front of us.

872. You know, as far as I'm concerned

873. the case against Mr. Jones died at his evidentiary hearing.

874. As such, we can talk to Mr. Jones

875. without his attorney present.

876. No judge is going to buy that, Jack.

877. Unless we get a judge

878. who wants to see the law expand to meet the times.

879. I don't want to talk about Krisis.

880. A lot of bad blood, huh?

881. Look, I was there from the start.

882. Just me and Shane.

883. We sat together in math class.

884. The guy didn't know nothing about music then, man.

885. It was me that told him his poems were good.

886. I was the one that said that

887. "Dude, we can do something with this."

888. You know that song "Angel"?

889. Yeah.

890. That was about me.

891. I didn't know that.

892. Yeah.

893. He wrote it on that.

894. He wrote everything on that.

895. God, man, I died inside when he turned on me.

896. You know what's that like, dying inside?

897. All because of Patty.

898. Me and Patty were

899. like a perfect chord.

900. Now she's... she's dead. She's gone.

901. But I still got that chord ringing in my brain.

902. Is that why you killed her, Travis?

903. To get rid of that chord?

904. I didn't kill her.

905. But you hated her.

906. Hell, if it wasn't for Patty

907. you'd still be the drummer of Krisis.

908. If that bitch didn't...!

909. Didn't what, Travis?

910. Come to your house the night she was killed?

911. Yeah, she came, but I didn't kill her.

912. No

913. but you did try to ruin her life

914. by selling her diary to Mike Foster.

915. I haven't seen that bitch in five years, man.

916. Then she comes down there, and she's...

917. begging me for help.

918. "Please!"

919. Oh, I loved watching her suffer, but I didn't kill her.

920. And I didn't sell anything of hers.

921. Patty...

922. I'd hurt her gratis.

923. Well, there's no need to thank me.

924. Uh, make yourself comfortable there.

925. You hit it out of the park, Mike.

926. The place was filled with Patty's prints.

927. Well, there you go.

928. Yeah, I'm glad to help after... you know.

929. So, you, uh

930. pick up Travis?

931. We hit a little speed bump with that.

932. What, that wise-ass lawyer of his, right?

933. That son of a bitch. He should lose his license.

934. Tell me, Mike, how much money

935. did you actually pay Travis Jones for Patty's diary?

936. All right, so I told a little white one.

937. I thought it would help your case.

938. Well, we don't work that way.

939. What? Hey, don't give me that bull

940. about the search for truth.

941. You know what the system is all about.

942. Maybe you should explain it to both of us.

943. Well, it's not about truth

944. that's for sure.

945. If it were, there'd be no rules of evidence

946. there'd be no privilege, there'd be no warrants

947. there'd be no probable cause.

948. In this country, there are things that are more important

949. than putting the guilty man behind bars.

950. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

951. The system could care less about innocence or guilt.

952. All it wants is a show.

953. No. No, no, no. What they want

954. is the curtain to come down on the show.

955. Closure.

956. He did it, he didn't do it.

957. It's all irrelevant to the system.

958. So to beat the system, it's okay to commit perjury.

959. Yeah... ends and means, right?

960. Tell you what, Mike, the world's a better place

961. since you turned in your badge.

962. A true believer.

963. I thought they all died out

964. with Nicole Simpson.

965. Well, since you're so interested in putting the bad guys away

966. I'd appreciate it if I could see all your research

967. on Shane Mallory's death.

968. What for?

969. Inevitable discovery.

970. Hopefully, there's something there that would've led us

971. to Travis Jones's gun independently

972. of your breaking and entering.

973. Hmm, I'm sorry, I can't help you there.

974. I'm a journalist, remember?

975. Oh, I thought the Constitution didn't concern you.

976. I never said that.

977. No, I just think that

978. the framers should've put down their pens

979. after they finished amendment number one.

980. I can't believe this guy.

981. He'll perjurer himself.

982. He'll throw the Fourth Amendment out the window

983. but when it comes to his rights as a journalist

984. suddenly the Constitution becomes sacred.

985. Unfortunately, every court in the country

986. would agree with him.

987. We can't force him to turn over his notes.

988. What do you think he's hiding?

989. Probably dozens of illegal break-ins

990. in the name of proving Shane Mallory

991. was pushed off that building.

992. Or that the whole gun thing is a sham.

993. You think Foster killed Patty Voytek?

994. The more I get to know him

995. the less I trust him.

996. Well, let me ask you both something?

997. Since when does the freedom of the press

998. apply only to the nattering nabobs negativism?

999. Let's call theDaily News.

1000. Get our friendly Mr. Weiskopf on the phone.

1001. Well, we made the front page.

1002. That was the point.

1003. I realize Foster stunk up your case.

1004. If you're interested

1005. ballistics down in DC confirmed Jones's gun killed Patty Voytek.

1006. Look, I said he screwed up

1007. but that's no reason to ruin his life.

1008. The reporter asked the questions;

1009. I answered them as truthfully as I could.

1010. Can you stop being a lawyer for a minute?

1011. You said that Mike Foster may have been involved

1012. in Patty Voytek's murder.

1013. I never said that. No, but you implied

1014. he had a good motive for wanting her dead.

1015. What I said was that with Patty out of the picture

1016. no one could contest the conclusions

1017. he draws in his book about Shane Mallory's murder.

1018. Your old man was on the job, wasn't he?

1019. Twenty-two years.

1020. Yeah, he'd be real proud of you today.

1021. That's not what gets me up in the morning, Detective.

1022. Mike Foster was a good cop, Counselor.

1023. Not anymore, he's not.

1024. You might want to tell Mr. Foster

1025. that Mr. Weiskopf of theDaily Newswill be receiving

1026. similar reports, every day

1027. until he turns over his research.

1028. In case you're interested, blackmail's against the law.

1029. Arrest me.

1030. Hey, well, look who's here.

1031. Hey, Lenny.

1032. Mike.

1033. I heard you, uh, stayed out of places

1034. like this.

1035. It's club soda.

1036. I like to beat myself up.

1037. Uh, Johnny Black, straight up.

1038. Listen, I'm sorry about this mess.

1039. Eh, guys like McCoy

1040. they're going to take out their measuring sticks

1041. every now and again.

1042. What are you going to do?

1043. You sound pretty calm

1044. for a guy the newspapers called a murder.

1045. Eh, just some lawyer on a soapbox, you know.

1046. Speculating, you know.

1047. It's like a fly on my nose.

1048. Now if McCoy had any real evidence

1049. then that would be a horse of a different color.

1050. You didn't...?

1051. Well, like McCoy said

1052. I have motive and opportunity.

1053. And I already committed one felony that you know about.

1054. You know, come to think of it

1055. why wouldn't I just turn over my papers?

1056. You son of a bitch.

1057. That, or maybe

1058. I just agree with the son of bitch who said

1059. "Any publicity is good publicity."

1060. Don't wet your pants, Lennie.

1061. I sent my stuff

1062. over to McCoy's office.

1063. All of it?

1064. Well, that I won't confirm

1065. or deny.

1066. But I'll tell you

1067. I did include a box of Metamucil

1068. you know, just to help them squeeze out whatever they can.

1069. There's something to be said for the power of the press.

1070. More to be said for the power of the old squeeze play.

1071. Branch was right.

1072. Foster had the combination to a wall safe

1073. in Patty's house Montauk.

1074. Transcripts of recordings of illegal wiretaps.

1075. Jack... a letter from Travis to Patty

1076. written two years ago.

1077. "You ruined my life.

1078. "If I see you, you better run

1079. or I swear, I'll blow your brains across the room."

1080. Sounds to me like probably cause to search for a gun.

1081. Call Van Buren.

1082. Hi... Hi, I know you.

1083. That's right, we're part of your fan club, Travis.

1084. Yeah, we're having a meeting tonight

1085. and you're the featured speaker.

1086. Okay, cool.

1087. I excluded the gun once, Mr. McCoy.

1088. Try, try again doesn't apply in my court.

1089. This letter indicates that Mr. Jones was in fact in possession of a gun.

1090. At best, it's a colorful metaphor;

1091. at worst, a idle threat.

1092. Perhaps, but certainly any competent policeman

1093. would've followed up on such a threat.

1094. Any reasonable judge would've signed the search warrant

1095. and anyone with two eyes would've found the gun.

1096. It's Monday-morning quarterbacking, Your Honor.

1097. Something our Supreme Court loves.

1098. The gun is in.

1099. The fact that you're here leads me to believe

1100. you have no plans to appeal.

1101. That all depends what's on the menu.

1102. First course, Man One.

1103. He does it all.

1104. I can do better at Chinese joint around the corner.

1105. He allocutes to everything.

1106. I thought they use a needle now.

1107. It just means you have to tell the judge everything you did.

1108. If it wasn't for me, there'd be no Krisis, man.

1109. I understand. It must be tough

1110. to get so close to musical history

1111. and then be forgotten altogether.

1112. I could've started another band, man.

1113. Why didn't you?

1114. Me and Shane were like brothers.

1115. You got any idea what it's like

1116. being betrayed by a brother, huh?

1117. It's like Abel and Cain. Abel and Cain.

1118. Only you took your anger out on Patty Voytek.

1119. Well, she's the one who started it all.

1120. She's the one that broke us up.

1121. This story may be more biblical than we think, Serena.

1122. Shane's guitar, how did you get it?

1123. After he died.

1124. No. You said he wrote everything on that guitar.

1125. But you hadn't seen him

1126. in what, five years?

1127. Not since both he and Patty dumped you.

1128. You were there the night he died.

1129. I think it's time for a... coffee break.

1130. You pushed Shane Mallory off that roof.

1131. What happened, Travis?

1132. Patty came to your apartment that night

1133. to get her diary.

1134. She saw the guitar, and she knew...

1135. They tossed me out like garbage, man!

1136. So you did the same to them.

1137. Now it's time for, uh, lunch.

1138. What? I got to keep his mouth shut somehow.

1139. You win the cupie doll.

1140. Tossed one pitch, knocked over two bottles.

1141. Don't you mean tossed one illegal pitch?

1142. Bob Gibson made the Hall of Fame throwing a spitball.

1143. "Rules or no rules," he said

1144. "pitchers are going to throw spitters.

1145. It's a matter of survival."

1146. Why doesn't that comfort me?

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