1. In the criminal
justice system...Copy !req
2. the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups:Copy !req
3. the police who
investigate crime...Copy !req
4. and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.Copy !req
5. These are their stories.Copy !req
6. Where's the regular
guy? He sick? I don't know.Copy !req
7. His mother didn't give me a note.
These boxes are not regulation.Copy !req
8. He owes me $5 on the Knicks.
You have to replace them.Copy !req
9. I do? I look like I
own the building?Copy !req
10. Mailman. Package.
Tell your boss.Copy !req
11. Be right there...Copy !req
12. Sure. As soon as I tell him to replace
the lock, ten 40-year-old refrigerators...Copy !req
13. a dozen faucets, and give
me that raise that he promised...Copy !req
14. Yeah, tell him to repaint
the hall. Give it some color.Copy !req
15. Here you go. Thanks.Copy !req
16. So, what time you
finish? See you later.Copy !req
17. You want to see the neighborhood?
I've seen the neighborhood.Copy !req
18. Yeah, but have you
seen it with an Italian?Copy !req
19. The victim is
Florence Manning, 48.Copy !req
20. They took her to St.
Mary's in bad shape.Copy !req
21. Burns? That's the least of it.Copy !req
22. Looks like she opened up an
explosive package with a letter opener.Copy !req
23. Blew into her neck.
What do we got?Copy !req
24. Confetti.Copy !req
25. Piece of the stamp.
A young Elvis.Copy !req
26. That might be the postmark.Copy !req
27. Yeah, Grand Central Station.
That's gonna be a big help.Copy !req
28. She delivered the
package an hour ago.Copy !req
29. You remember anything
about it? It didn't fit into the box.Copy !req
30. I was bending it. It could've
gone off. A return address?Copy !req
31. Do you know how
much mail I carry?Copy !req
32. Yeah?Copy !req
33. Okay.Copy !req
34. Yeah. Thanks.Copy !req
35. Your route just got one stop shorter.
Florence Manning didn't make it.Copy !req
36. One of the nurses called me at
work. She said Florence asked her to.Copy !req
37. I figured if my
sister was talking...Copy !req
38. She gave them my number.
She must've been awake.Copy !req
39. Has anybody spoken to
you since you got here?Copy !req
40. She's dead.Copy !req
41. I mean, how can
things change so fast?Copy !req
42. Look, I know it's not much
consolation, Mr. Rossi...Copy !req
43. but we do want to
catch whoever did this.Copy !req
44. I'll kill him. You
catch him, I'll kill him.Copy !req
45. Him. You have some idea?Copy !req
46. It's got to be some
psycho. I don't know.Copy !req
47. Did anyone ever threaten
your sister? Harass her?Copy !req
48. She taught third grade.
She collected recipes.Copy !req
49. How about her personal
life? She live alone?Copy !req
50. She got separated from her
husband about a year ago.Copy !req
51. Where can we find
him? Hudson Polytech.Copy !req
52. He's a big deal over
there. Edward Manning.Copy !req
53. She was going to move out to...Copy !req
54. the West when the
school year ended.Copy !req
55. She hadn't wanted to come to New
York when I got this appointment.Copy !req
56. When did you last speak to her?Copy !req
57. Three weeks ago.Copy !req
58. We spoke mostly through
lawyers. We were getting divorced.Copy !req
59. And how was that going?Copy !req
60. Divorce is painful. Ours was as
amicable as could be expected.Copy !req
61. What do you do here.
Is it doctor or professor?Copy !req
62. I'm a high-energy physicist.Copy !req
63. Director of the nuclear
reactor laboratory here.Copy !req
64. Reactor? Like in Chernobyl?Copy !req
65. No, like a hundred safe
ones you never heard of.Copy !req
66. Do you have any idea who
killed my wife? Do you, Professor?Copy !req
67. I thought no one used regular
mail for packages anymore.Copy !req
68. I guess the junk mailers are still
loyal. Yeah. So are the Mad Bombers.Copy !req
69. What, you think it's a nut? How
about a scrambled egghead?Copy !req
70. The husband?Copy !req
71. Listen to this, courtesy of
the University Press Service:Copy !req
72. "Prof. Edward Manning,
BA, Cornell, PhD, MIT...Copy !req
73. "when he was 26, co-discovered
the omega-minus particle.Copy !req
74. "Beginning in 1981...Copy !req
75. "led an experiment seeking
evidence of proton decay...Copy !req
76. "which, if established,
would demonstrate...Copy !req
77. "that all matter in the universe
will eventually disintegrate."Copy !req
78. Yeah, but who's that lady
I saw him with last night?Copy !req
79. Guy like this could
commit a murder...Copy !req
80. then jump in the time
machine to cover his tracks.Copy !req
81. Let's start with our kind of
science. Go see Forensics.Copy !req
82. The explosive was
plastique. RDX.Copy !req
83. Military stuff?Copy !req
84. Once upon a time. Now about
as hard to get as illegal guns.Copy !req
85. From the radius of the damage,
I'd say it was a small charge.Copy !req
86. A lot of smoke but
not much power.Copy !req
87. Tell that to Florence Manning.
The letter opener was a fluke.Copy !req
88. By rights, the bomb should
only have wounded her.Copy !req
89. And scared the hell out of her.
So our bomber got lucky, huh?Copy !req
90. Or unlucky, depending on
whether he felt like being a murderer.Copy !req
91. Firing pin? Yeah. Opening
the package released it.Copy !req
92. Allowing a spring to push
the nail against a metal plate...Copy !req
93. completing an electrical
circuit, and Merry Christmas.Copy !req
94. Classic design.
Handsomely executed.Copy !req
95. Your man has some
technical sophistication.Copy !req
96. Like maybe a physicist?Copy !req
97. Experimental or theoretical?Copy !req
98. I never liked the guy.Copy !req
99. I mean, unless you could
talk about nuclear molecules...Copy !req
100. he'd treat you like a moron.Copy !req
101. Your sister keep up her
end of the conversation okay?Copy !req
102. For the first 20 years, I guess.Copy !req
103. You think Edward did it? He
said the divorce was amicable.Copy !req
104. Sure. Like a weekend in Bosnia.Copy !req
105. Florence was a little more open with
me than you, honey. Frank has a temper.Copy !req
106. Open about what?
Edward's mid-life crisis.Copy !req
107. He decided to recapture his
youth by sleeping with one.Copy !req
108. Before they separated?Copy !req
109. He told Florence he
wanted to marry the girl.Copy !req
110. How did Florence like being
tossed out with the garbage?Copy !req
111. After following him
around like an army wife?Copy !req
112. This university, that
university. Son of a bitch.Copy !req
113. He took her to Geneva
once for two years.Copy !req
114. The scientists he worked with spoke
English, not the people in the stores.Copy !req
115. She spent the whole time
feeling lonely and miserable.Copy !req
116. So I guess she felt she deserved a
little more than an honorable discharge?Copy !req
117. He wanted a divorce.Copy !req
118. She made it as long, as
complicated, as expensive as possible.Copy !req
119. There are no
secrets in a divorce.Copy !req
120. My personal situation is documented
in a stack of court filings this high.Copy !req
121. You did say it was amicable.Copy !req
122. No, I said it was as amicable
as could be expected.Copy !req
123. Your girlfriend, she
one of your students?Copy !req
124. Does she have to
be involved in this?Copy !req
125. No secrets in a murder
investigation, either, Professor.Copy !req
126. She's a chemist. A very
bright young woman.Copy !req
127. And your wife was keeping you
from this bright young woman?Copy !req
128. Florence and I were
married 22 years.Copy !req
129. Because I wanted a divorce
doesn't mean that I hated her.Copy !req
130. And it certainly doesn't
mean I killed her.Copy !req
131. Look at it from our side.
She was killed by a bomb.Copy !req
132. Physicists make bombs.Copy !req
133. Given enough time and money, I
could possibly build you an atomic bomb.Copy !req
134. I know nothing of
conventional explosives.Copy !req
135. Our reactor is behind this
wall. A shield is being lowered...Copy !req
136. in order to conduct a diffraction
experiment on that target.Copy !req
137. I'm going to leave before
I'm bombarded with neutrons.Copy !req
138. I suggest you do the same.Copy !req
139. We talked about
marriage at one point.Copy !req
140. But I don't see him right now.Copy !req
141. Did you change your mind when the
first Mrs. Manning went up in flames?Copy !req
142. Please. Do you know
what kind of man Edward is?Copy !req
143. The things that he's working on?Copy !req
144. Well, we know he's working
on getting a new wife.Copy !req
145. He's investigating the
fundamental nature of matter.Copy !req
146. How the universe began.
How the universe will end.Copy !req
147. Well, we're just a couple of
simple city boys, Miss Thomas...Copy !req
148. but we know that you and Edward
were planning on getting married...Copy !req
149. and Florence was standing in
the way. I told you that's on hold.Copy !req
150. Yeah, that's because
Florence Manning put it on hold.Copy !req
151. I didn't realize how
complicated divorce could be.Copy !req
152. I thought it'd be
over a long time ago.Copy !req
153. You give him a message,
"It's now or never"?Copy !req
154. No, it wasn't that simple.Copy !req
155. And the delay gave us some time
to think about what we really wanted.Copy !req
156. He still gives the impression
of really wanting you.Copy !req
157. Yeah, well...Copy !req
158. I guess he thought if the
divorce went through...Copy !req
159. You know, we did stop by Florence's
apartment a couple of weeks ago.Copy !req
160. He had some papers
for her to sign...Copy !req
161. and I waited in the car
and there was this man...Copy !req
162. who was looking through
one of her windows.Copy !req
163. A man? With a beard.Copy !req
164. I don't know, maybe
she has a boyfriend.Copy !req
165. Or maybe she had a peeping Tom.Copy !req
166. He went to ring the bell as
Edward was coming out...Copy !req
167. and I couldn't hear what they were saying,
but it looked as if they started to argue.Copy !req
168. Did Edward tell you
who he was? No.Copy !req
169. He just said he was some nut.Copy !req
170. Now, if Florence Manning
did have a boyfriend...Copy !req
171. it'd be the best news
her husband ever had.Copy !req
172. He would've sent
champagne, not a bomb.Copy !req
173. What's the matter, you hungry?Copy !req
174. What's that guy working
on? The end of the universe?Copy !req
175. Life. It's here, everything
falls apart, and it's over.Copy !req
176. You actually think the
universe is gonna end?Copy !req
177. Usually I'm just
hoping the week'll end.Copy !req
178. Well, I mean, if it's all
just gonna disappear...Copy !req
179. what does it matter if you make
Sergeant or what kind of car you drive?Copy !req
180. I mean, all the things
we worry about?Copy !req
181. You wanna tell Florence Manning's brother
it doesn't matter if we find her killer?Copy !req
182. You think Van Buren will
buy it? Let's go see Manning.Copy !req
183. A man with a beard?Copy !req
184. I really don't remember.Copy !req
185. Your girlfriend
remembers him pretty well.Copy !req
186. And she's not the one
whose face he got in.Copy !req
187. There might have been
someone. A street person.Copy !req
188. You remember if he
said anything to you?Copy !req
189. Spare change?Copy !req
190. He didn't say anything
about your wife? Come on.Copy !req
191. Your wife didn't mention that
she was expecting anybody?Copy !req
192. A bum?Copy !req
193. I'd help you if I could. This is the
first time you haven't accused me.Copy !req
194. Nobody? Never?Copy !req
195. Yeah. She would've
told you, right?Copy !req
196. Okay, thank you.Copy !req
197. Florence Manning never told herCopy !req
198. sister-in-law about
any new man in her life.Copy !req
199. No boyfriends, no
stalker, no psycho.Copy !req
200. Yeah, Manning's girlfriend saw
the guy on the 21st about 10:00 a.m.Copy !req
201. Florence Manning's datebook.Copy !req
202. "Toast and coffee, 115 calories.Copy !req
203. "9:30, manicure.Copy !req
204. "Noon, lunch with Anna."
She kept a very neat diary.Copy !req
205. Yeah.Copy !req
206. She'd be upset to see what
a mess her place got into.Copy !req
207. What now? Another insight into
the nature of time and matter?Copy !req
208. Maybe. Look at that.Copy !req
209. Is that on the negative?
Something twisted, like a spring.Copy !req
210. Like the spring in that bomb.Copy !req
211. It's radioactive.Copy !req
212. When the spring was
collected at the crime scene...Copy !req
213. it must've been placed in a
bag next to the unexposed film.Copy !req
214. See?Copy !req
215. Its image was imprinted
before the picture was taken.Copy !req
216. Is it safe to stand here?Copy !req
217. If I was a man, I wouldn't carry
any of this in my front pocket.Copy !req
218. What is it, uranium?
Nope. Steel.Copy !req
219. My car is steel. It doesn't
set off a Geiger counter.Copy !req
220. This stuff didn't start
off radioactive, either.Copy !req
221. Some of its atoms must
have been converted...Copy !req
222. to unstable isotopes by
exposure to high-energy particles.Copy !req
223. Suppose the bomb was built or stored
in a room next to a nuclear reactor?Copy !req
224. That could do it.Copy !req
225. You got any suspects with
nuclear reactors in their basements?Copy !req
226. As a matter of fact we do.Copy !req
227. So now you suspect me
of murdering my wife...Copy !req
228. because the bomb that
killed her was radioactive?Copy !req
229. Our expert says it was stored near
a source of high-energy particles.Copy !req
230. Like those things that chased
us out of here yesterday.Copy !req
231. Can I assume that the
bomb components were steel?Copy !req
232. See, our point is, Doc, maybe you
don't have to assume. Maybe you know.Copy !req
233. I'm assuming.Copy !req
234. If they're steel and
they're going radioactive...Copy !req
235. then you're probably
talking about cobalt 56.Copy !req
236. Did your expert take a
gamma ray spectrum?Copy !req
237. Well, the Geiger counter
was pretty convincing.Copy !req
238. I'll make it simple for you.Copy !req
239. This reactor could
not irradiate that bomb.Copy !req
240. I'm afraid that's a little
too simple, Professor.Copy !req
241. The iron atoms in steel
are converted to cobalt 56...Copy !req
242. by collision with
high-energy protons.Copy !req
243. A reactor like this one
produces low-energy neutrons...Copy !req
244. nothing above 2.5
million electron volts.Copy !req
245. We're going to need some
documentation on that.Copy !req
246. I'll lend you a freshman
physics textbook.Copy !req
247. You didn't bother to run
the super-framistan test...Copy !req
248. or whatever the hell it is, and
we end up looking like idiots.Copy !req
249. It's a gamma-ray analysis,
and you didn't ask for it.Copy !req
250. Since when do we tell
you how to do your job?Copy !req
251. Since every time
you walk in here.Copy !req
252. The energy signatures of
the isotopes in the bomb.Copy !req
253. These are the spectrum lines
from cobalt 56. Multiple peaks.Copy !req
254. Then there's no way Manning's
gizmo could make this stuff?Copy !req
255. No.Copy !req
256. But a particle accelerator can.Copy !req
257. There is one in the area,
at Manhattan University.Copy !req
258. That's why we call it an accelerator,
Detective. It accelerates protons.Copy !req
259. So when one of them slams into an iron
atom, it automatically becomes cobalt 56?Copy !req
260. Sometimes. I didn't know the police
investigated particle interactions.Copy !req
261. You know Edward Manning over at
Hudson Polytech? He ever come over here?Copy !req
262. Dr. Manning? This is one of the
last places on Earth he'd set foot.Copy !req
263. No scientific cooperation? He never
drops by to borrow a cup of protons?Copy !req
264. Our director is Arthur Stedman.Copy !req
265. Twenty years ago, he and Manning
were both chasing a new nuclear theory.Copy !req
266. Manning proved it two
weeks after Stedman did.Copy !req
267. Stedman got the Nobel
Prize. And Manning got sore.Copy !req
268. There's no prize
for second place.Copy !req
269. Where do these accelerated
protons run free around here?Copy !req
270. In the accelerator chamber, where
the researchers set up the experiments.Copy !req
271. These researchers, we're
gonna need a list of their names.Copy !req
272. Well, I don't really like
going down there at night.Copy !req
273. I mean, it's all locked up and
everything, but, you know...Copy !req
274. Any other grad
students work late?Copy !req
275. I don't know, Barry Ramsey.
He practically lives there.Copy !req
276. He's always doing
something with the tools.Copy !req
277. What tools are those?Copy !req
278. Well, they're supposed to be
just for the experiments but...Copy !req
279. Was something stolen?Copy !req
280. Did Barry know a woman
named Florence Manning?Copy !req
281. The woman that was
killed? Did he know her?Copy !req
282. I don't think Barry Ramsey has
noticed that people come in two sexes.Copy !req
283. He calls me "fella."Copy !req
284. This is the way it is, fella.Copy !req
285. If I don't finish my thesis
this year, I'm ruined.Copy !req
286. The accelerator's a
quiet place to work.Copy !req
287. Cocoa? No, thanks.Copy !req
288. You need tools
to write a thesis?Copy !req
289. No. I use a laptop
computer to write a thesis.Copy !req
290. I use tools to fix
my VCR, my toaster.Copy !req
291. Any other night owls at
the accelerator? Not really.Copy !req
292. Except when it's running,
then everybody's there.Copy !req
293. And Max Weiss.Copy !req
294. Max Weiss. He's not on the list.Copy !req
295. No. He's not on staff
anymore. His post-doc ran out.Copy !req
296. But he still hangs around,
plays with the atoms?Copy !req
297. He still has a desk.
He's a good scientist.Copy !req
298. He just hasn't found a new job
yet. He's working on something.Copy !req
299. Does he ever work alone? Sure.Copy !req
300. Nights I play Mah Jongg, but I
haven't seen him in three or four days.Copy !req
301. Maybe he got a job.Copy !req
302. Maybe he finished one.Copy !req
303. Okay, listen, you be good, okay?
And you go in there and watch TV...Copy !req
304. and take your little sister,
all right? Okay, there you go.Copy !req
305. And I promise I'll come
in and read you a story.Copy !req
306. When Max is here, he likes to read
to them, but Max is always at work.Copy !req
307. At the lab?Copy !req
308. What is this about? It's just a
routine inquiry. He can tell you.Copy !req
309. Is it a security check?Copy !req
310. He applied for a job at Los
Alamos, and that would be...Copy !req
311. I'm sorry, the FBI does those.Copy !req
312. I see.Copy !req
313. Is this your husband? Yes.Copy !req
314. Well, I don't think they're
hiring, anyway. Budget cuts.Copy !req
315. I think my husband was
born about 20 years too late.Copy !req
316. For the arms race?Copy !req
317. Well, to get the kind of
job doing the work he likes.Copy !req
318. And you said he was
working now, right?Copy !req
319. Yes, he is at work.
It's just in another field.Copy !req
320. Can you excuse me
for a minute? I'm sorry.Copy !req
321. Good night, Max.Copy !req
322. Thank you.Copy !req
323. You went to my apartment?Copy !req
324. Well, we didn't know to look for you
here. We thought you were a scientist.Copy !req
325. I am a scientist...Copy !req
326. who has to support five people
without a permanent position.Copy !req
327. Did you know Florence Manning?Copy !req
328. I read about her. Yeah,
but did you know her?Copy !req
329. I've heard of her husband.Copy !req
330. Did you ever have words with
him in front of his wife's building?Copy !req
331. - I don't think I can help you.
- Actually, you can.Copy !req
332. If you don't mind, we'd like you
to come down to the precinct.Copy !req
333. Take part in a line-up.Copy !req
334. Do I have to? It really
might be in your best interest.Copy !req
335. I don't think I have to.Copy !req
336. Just keep your eye on the door.Copy !req
337. Tell us if you see the man you saw
outside Mrs. Manning's apartment.Copy !req
338. It was a couple of
weeks ago, you know.Copy !req
339. Do the best you can. And
I didn't really get a close...Copy !req
340. The man with the
beard. Is that him?Copy !req
341. You're supposed
to tell us. I don't...Copy !req
342. No, I don't know. Listen, I
got to get home by 5:00, okay?Copy !req
343. Don't worry, we'll
give you a lift home.Copy !req
344. Wait a minute. That's
him, the doorman.Copy !req
345. Only he wasn't
dressed like that.Copy !req
346. Excuse me, we're getting
ready to run an experiment here.Copy !req
347. Hey, Ramsey. How's your toaster?Copy !req
348. We have a warrant to search any
premises occupied by Max Weiss...Copy !req
349. including any storage
areas pertaining thereto.Copy !req
350. I think it would be in your best
interest to show us what's his.Copy !req
351. I'm not sure I can do that.Copy !req
352. Okay, we're going to have to
take this whole room apart...Copy !req
353. including the accelerator and you can have
Gyro Gearloose here glue it back together.Copy !req
354. He uses that drawer.Copy !req
355. Locked.Copy !req
356. Wait, fella.Copy !req
357. There.Copy !req
358. Well.Copy !req
359. Recognize that wire?
Merry Christmas.Copy !req
360. You think Max Weiss was planning
to re-grout his bathroom tiles?Copy !req
361. I think we better
call the Bomb Squad.Copy !req
362. I want you to run the scientific
method on these, Dr. Weiss.Copy !req
363. The plastic explosive
found in your drawer...Copy !req
364. matches the explosive in the
bomb that killed Florence Manning.Copy !req
365. The wire in your drawer...Copy !req
366. matches the wire in the bomb
that killed Florence Manning.Copy !req
367. You were seen
acting a little strange...Copy !req
368. outside Florence
Manning's apartment.Copy !req
369. Am I under arrest?
We can't afford a lawyer.Copy !req
370. If you want a lawyer and can't afford
it, one will be provided at no charge.Copy !req
371. That is what they said at the college
clinic. There's a $20 deductible.Copy !req
372. Do you want a lawyer, Dr. Weiss?Copy !req
373. I don't know what to do.Copy !req
374. I just don't know what to do.Copy !req
375. Do you want a lawyer?Copy !req
376. This guy plotted a bombing?
The evidence nails him.Copy !req
377. But no motive.Copy !req
378. Yeah, you want motive, the husband's
loaded with it, but no evidence.Copy !req
379. What about putting the two
together? It's worth a shot.Copy !req
380. Meanwhile, what do we
do with Albert Einstein here?Copy !req
381. Arrest him.Copy !req
382. We looked for connections.Copy !req
383. Manning told us he
never heard of Weiss.Copy !req
384. Weiss told us he read about
Manning in the newspaper.Copy !req
385. But Weiss got his PhD at
the University of Wisconsin.Copy !req
386. Until five years ago, Manning
taught there. It's a big campus.Copy !req
387. Weiss called Manning's office
eight times in the last four months.Copy !req
388. Before or after the bombing?
Before. And three weeks ago...Copy !req
389. Weiss, who if he had a nickel,
it would die of loneliness...Copy !req
390. deposited $3,500 in
his checking account.Copy !req
391. Manning hired
Weiss to kill his wife?Copy !req
392. I know of one way to find out.Copy !req
393. I think it's clear...Copy !req
394. Mr. Weiss does not
wish to make a statement.Copy !req
395. Yeah? Well, we do.Copy !req
396. You're nailed, Max.
You're going away.Copy !req
397. No more bedtime
stories for the kids.Copy !req
398. We know you made the bomb small, Max.
We don't think you were trying to kill her.Copy !req
399. And that can work in your favor.
If you tell us what happened.Copy !req
400. Did someone hire you to do
it? I would never kill anybody.Copy !req
401. Is this train going somewhere?Copy !req
402. Max, you told us you didn't
even know Edward Manning.Copy !req
403. You called him 12 days ago,
you called him 10 days ago.Copy !req
404. He was my thesis
advisor at Wisconsin.Copy !req
405. Sure. Did he tell you about his problems?
Did he tell you about the divorce?Copy !req
406. I didn't know about...Copy !req
407. Max, you got one way to help yourself.
What did Manning ask you to do?Copy !req
408. Wait a minute.
Just let me think.Copy !req
409. Will you leave me
alone with my client?Copy !req
410. You, too.Copy !req
411. If I had a client charged with
murder who was willing to testify...Copy !req
412. that someone hired
him to commit the crime...Copy !req
413. what could be worked out
for this client? Manning?Copy !req
414. I'm speaking
hypothetically here.Copy !req
415. Hypothetically, if your client's
testimony was truthful and productive...Copy !req
416. his charge might drop
to Manslaughter One.Copy !req
417. Hypothetically, he might accept.Copy !req
418. Manning? Hypothetically, yes.Copy !req
419. I never meant to kill her. Max.Copy !req
420. What's on the table,
Ben? You tell me.Copy !req
421. We don't need a plea
to convict Mr. Weiss.Copy !req
422. The FBI raised saliva
from the stamp on the bomb.Copy !req
423. It matches his DNA.Copy !req
424. I needed the money. I
only meant to scare her.Copy !req
425. Let me get this straight.
Prof. Manning came to you?Copy !req
426. I asked him for a job.Copy !req
427. At Wisconsin, years ago,
he wanted to hire me...Copy !req
428. as part of his
proton decay project.Copy !req
429. I was up for a tenure-track
position at Oberlin, I said no.Copy !req
430. Then they asked Manning for a
reference. He blackballed you?Copy !req
431. He never answered the
letter. I found out about that.Copy !req
432. I would have been an associate
professor by now, instead of a...Copy !req
433. You know what
they pay post-docs?Copy !req
434. Sir, there are other
ways of making a living.Copy !req
435. I went to Manning. He knows
my work, he knows I'm good.Copy !req
436. Good at what? Good at
physics? Good at murder?Copy !req
437. He knew I was in the Army Reserve.
That is how I paid for Wisconsin.Copy !req
438. So Prof. Manning hired
you to kill Florence Manning?Copy !req
439. Kill. That's what he said.Copy !req
440. Call off your dogs, Ben.Copy !req
441. The police are turning Prof.
Manning's life upside down.Copy !req
442. He's a murder suspect, Bill.Copy !req
443. They're not going to invite
him to a dinner dance.Copy !req
444. Max Weiss is looking at
25 years in Attica, cold.Copy !req
445. Anyone would make
up a story to cut a deal.Copy !req
446. The police won't find any evidence
to support it because there isn't any.Copy !req
447. The $3,500 dollar deposit to Weiss's
account was a check from your client.Copy !req
448. Give me some credit. I
almost won the Nobel Prize.Copy !req
449. You think I'd pay a
hired killer by check?Copy !req
450. With your attitude, sir, you might
think yourself too smart to get caught.Copy !req
451. I know what's
going on here, Ben.Copy !req
452. The law says you can't
convict a man on theCopy !req
453. uncorroborated testimony
of an accomplice.Copy !req
454. If you believe that check would
stand up as corroboration...Copy !req
455. you'd have arrested
Prof. Manning by now.Copy !req
456. I hired Weiss to do some
research. I knew him from Wisconsin.Copy !req
457. He was a good man.
I thought he was.Copy !req
458. If you knew him from Wisconsin,
why did you tell the police...Copy !req
459. that you didn't recognize him when you
saw him outside your wife's apartment?Copy !req
460. He also knew my wife from Wisconsin,
too, and I never thought he killed her.Copy !req
461. It didn't seem right
to get him involved.Copy !req
462. Awfully kind of Manning to
protect Weiss from the police.Copy !req
463. I gather he's not
the kindly type?Copy !req
464. His story might explain why he
told the police he didn't know Weiss...Copy !req
465. but it doesn't explain why
he lied to his own girlfriend.Copy !req
466. So, Ben, do you believe Weiss?Copy !req
467. The check is the only evidence
he has to support his story...Copy !req
468. aside from the fact that he had
no motive to do it on his own.Copy !req
469. He had no motive, or
you haven't found it yet?Copy !req
470. Max liked Florence Manning.Copy !req
471. Her husband treated his grad students
like slaves. She baked them cookies.Copy !req
472. How much did your
husband like her?Copy !req
473. What do you mean?Copy !req
474. Max and Mrs. Manning
in a lover's quarrel?Copy !req
475. Oh, God, if you knew him at all.Copy !req
476. He loves me, and the children,
and subatomic particles.Copy !req
477. Mrs. Weiss...Copy !req
478. he's admitted he sent the bomb.Copy !req
479. Well, then he's lying. I
mean, he couldn't have.Copy !req
480. He's covering up for someone.
I don't know, maybe Manning?Copy !req
481. I know my husband.Copy !req
482. We've talked to people
who worked with him.Copy !req
483. They say he's
been erratic, moody.Copy !req
484. A couple of months ago he got
an idea. A breakthrough idea...Copy !req
485. I don't know, don't ask
me, I don't understand it.Copy !req
486. He applied for a research
grant. He was so excited.Copy !req
487. It was going to launch
him, it was going to save us.Copy !req
488. I was just afraid.Copy !req
489. Of being saved? No.
Of what happened.Copy !req
490. Of what always happens.Copy !req
491. He didn't get the grant.
He was devastated.Copy !req
492. You say he's been moody lately.Copy !req
493. He can't support his family doing
the work he loves. How would you feel?Copy !req
494. Miss Kincaid, what's
gonna happen to him?Copy !req
495. What's going to happen to us?Copy !req
496. "Potential Super Symmetric
Models for Higgs Scattering...Copy !req
497. "an Experimental
Overview by Max Weiss."Copy !req
498. You know what I took for my science
requirement? Physics for Poets.Copy !req
499. Geology 101, Rocks For Jocks.Copy !req
500. Weiss's notebooks. His papers.Copy !req
501. If he was doing research for
Manning, here's no indication.Copy !req
502. That's good. That means
he's telling the truth.Copy !req
503. Not according to his wife.Copy !req
504. She swears the only thing on
Weiss's mind lately was this.Copy !req
505. "An Alternative Mode
for Proton Decay."Copy !req
506. His rejected grant
application. Proton decay?Copy !req
507. That's Manning's field.Copy !req
508. Edward Manning and his team
filled a vat with 1,000 tons of fluid...Copy !req
509. containing 100 billion
quintillion protons.Copy !req
510. They surrounded it with
detectors, computers.Copy !req
511. They studied it for eight years
at a cost of three million dollars...Copy !req
512. and they never
saw a proton decay.Copy !req
513. Maybe they proved
that protons don't decay.Copy !req
514. That's not what
they wanted to prove.Copy !req
515. Manning was unfulfilled...Copy !req
516. severely.Copy !req
517. Last time I talked to him he had
some new idea, some new approach.Copy !req
518. Could he be working
on it with Max Weiss?Copy !req
519. Weiss has a reputation as a
murderer, but not as a physicist.Copy !req
520. He has some new
idea about proton decay.Copy !req
521. Applied for a grant from the
American Science Foundation.Copy !req
522. Rejected?Copy !req
523. No doubt deservedly. I served on
the Foundation's peer review panels.Copy !req
524. You should see some of
the garbage that comes in.Copy !req
525. Peer review. Did
Manning do that?Copy !req
526. Of course. Especially in
a field like proton decay.Copy !req
527. It's his specialty.Copy !req
528. Weiss applied for a grant to look at
old data from Manning's experiment.Copy !req
529. Weiss's theory was that protons
had decayed, but hadn't been detected.Copy !req
530. Yeah. And if Weiss was
right, Manning'd look foolish.Copy !req
531. Now, Manning headed the panel
that reviewed Weiss's proposal...Copy !req
532. and he rejected it.Copy !req
533. He's the expert in the field.
That's the way the system works.Copy !req
534. The panel's confidential...Copy !req
535. but I figure that Weiss put
this conflict of interest together...Copy !req
536. and he starts calling Manning.Copy !req
537. By that time, Manning was working
on his new idea about proton decay.Copy !req
538. Now, these are
his laboratory logs.Copy !req
539. Manning requested copies of the
same data Weiss wanted to look at.Copy !req
540. Perfect.Copy !req
541. First he torpedoes Weiss's
idea, then he steals it.Copy !req
542. It still doesn't
link to the murder.Copy !req
543. Weiss had reason to hate
Manning, not Mrs. Manning.Copy !req
544. It's not unheard of to take
revenge on a man by killing his wife.Copy !req
545. But Adam, it doesn't make sense.Copy !req
546. This man and wife hated each
other. They were separated.Copy !req
547. But maybe Weiss didn't know they were
separated. He hadn't seen them in years.Copy !req
548. If Weiss didn't know that
they were separated...Copy !req
549. maybe we're wrong about
this case from the beginning.Copy !req
550. But then we found
this in your apartment.Copy !req
551. Last year's Hudson
Polytech Faculty Directory.Copy !req
552. Fascinating, Ben.Copy !req
553. You find any old phone books?
Back issues of National Geographic?Copy !req
554. It lists Prof.
Manning's old address.Copy !req
555. The one he shared with
his wife before he moved.Copy !req
556. You addressed the
bomb to Dr. Manning...Copy !req
557. and you didn't know
that he'd moved.Copy !req
558. Substitute carrier
didn't know that, either.Copy !req
559. I've been to the Foundation.
We know what Manning did to you.Copy !req
560. So you killed his
wife by mistake.Copy !req
561. But then you realized that
you could still hurt him...Copy !req
562. and help yourself by claiming
that he hired you, right?Copy !req
563. This interview is over. Max.
We have an understanding.Copy !req
564. We don't need his
testimony. Deal's off.Copy !req
565. Fine. I prefer an
acquittal, anyway.Copy !req
566. Cynthia Thomas's identification
of my client was bogus.Copy !req
567. I'm going to get it thrown out,
and all the evidence it led you to.Copy !req
568. The State's witness did not pick Dr. Weiss
out of a properly constituted line-up.Copy !req
569. Your Honor, Dr. Weiss declined
to participate in that line-up.Copy !req
570. So the police took Miss
Thomas to a place...Copy !req
571. where she could see the
defendant among many other people.Copy !req
572. Yes, but those many other
people wore business suits.Copy !req
573. My client was dressed like
an organ grinder's monkey.Copy !req
574. Does look conspicuous,
Ben. That's a posed photo.Copy !req
575. In context, as a doorman, he
blends in with the background.Copy !req
576. It's reasonable to assume...Copy !req
577. that Miss Thomas would have
overlooked him because of that.Copy !req
578. In a get-up like this?Copy !req
579. There should be a door. In front
of a door he looks like a doorman...Copy !req
580. Ben.Copy !req
581. How many men with
beards walked out that door?Copy !req
582. At least one.Copy !req
583. Wow. One.Copy !req
584. The witness
identification is excluded.Copy !req
585. The identification led to the search
warrant which led to the bomb materials.Copy !req
586. It should all be excluded.Copy !req
587. Your Honor, I'm
sure you realize...Copy !req
588. that the police could have obtained
that warrant on other unrelated grounds.Copy !req
589. But they didn't.
But they could have.Copy !req
590. I would have issued one.Copy !req
591. The identification is
out. The bomb is in.Copy !req
592. Thank you.Copy !req
593. So, what? Dr. Manning...Copy !req
594. the link between
Dr. Weiss and your wife...Copy !req
595. we lost it.Copy !req
596. Now you're the only
person who can testify...Copy !req
597. that you saw Dr. Weiss
at your wife's apartment.Copy !req
598. And you're also the only
person who can supply a motive.Copy !req
599. Can I? What motive is that?Copy !req
600. I don't want to play games with
you, sir. Don't play games with me.Copy !req
601. We know what you
did to Dr. Weiss.Copy !req
602. I see.Copy !req
603. So you want me to announce to the world
that I'm a scientific thief and a fraud.Copy !req
604. No, sir, I want
you to tell the truth.Copy !req
605. The truth, Mr. Stone, is that
I'm near the end of a career...Copy !req
606. that I had the good fortune or
misfortune to begin very brightly.Copy !req
607. I used to look around at
meetings in laboratories.Copy !req
608. I was always the youngest
person in the room.Copy !req
609. Then one day at a conference I looked
around, and I was the oldest person there.Copy !req
610. Thirty years had slipped by.Copy !req
611. People were gathered around
one of the stars. He was 29.Copy !req
612. I was the fourth speaker
on the 5:00 panel.Copy !req
613. I know I have something
more to contribute to physics.Copy !req
614. Something you
stole from Max Weiss.Copy !req
615. I'll not end my
career in disgrace.Copy !req
616. I understand, sir, but the alternative
is letting your wife's murderer go free.Copy !req
617. One single human life on
the time scale of the universe.Copy !req
618. You and I have
different priorities.Copy !req
619. He's an aging boy wonder,
and he wants the glory days back.Copy !req
620. And it's no coincidence...Copy !req
621. he picks up someone
else's hot idea...Copy !req
622. and a young girlfriend
at the same time.Copy !req
623. I sure thought he'd testify against
the murderer of his own wife.Copy !req
624. We've threatened him with
a subpoena, with contempt...Copy !req
625. he swears he'll stand mum.Copy !req
626. Scientists have a star system...Copy !req
627. makes Hollywood look
like a socialist love-in.Copy !req
628. Only they don't keep score in
money or starlets. It's reputation.Copy !req
629. If he's worried about his scientific
reputation, let's attack him there.Copy !req
630. Aren't you being a
little inconsistent, Ben?Copy !req
631. Unless your client testifies
fully and freely, he'll be indicted.Copy !req
632. Haven't you just
finished proving...Copy !req
633. Weiss lied about my client
hiring him to kill his wife?Copy !req
634. I didn't say he'd be
indicted for murder.Copy !req
635. I'm going to indict
him for larceny.Copy !req
636. Larceny?Copy !req
637. What larceny? Grand
Larceny in the 4th degree.Copy !req
638. "Theft of secret
scientific material.Copy !req
639. "Any article, device or substance
which constitutes, represents, evidences...Copy !req
640. "reflects or records a
scientific or technical process...Copy !req
641. "invention or formula."Copy !req
642. And that's basically
what Prof. Manning did...Copy !req
643. when he stole the idea
from Max Weiss's proposal.Copy !req
644. Cute.Copy !req
645. You know that law applies
to computer programs.Copy !req
646. Secret formulas.Copy !req
647. Plagiarism isn't larceny.Copy !req
648. I'll let a jury decide that.Copy !req
649. But don't think I won't
show that jury every detail...Copy !req
650. of Prof. Manning's deceit.Copy !req
651. Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't
a charge of larceny presuppose...Copy !req
652. that the thing allegedly
stolen have value?Copy !req
653. Weiss's idea was flawed,
amateurish and worthless.Copy !req
654. That's why I
rejected his proposal.Copy !req
655. No serious physicist would
have wasted an hour on it.Copy !req
656. That's awfully convenient
for you to say that, sir.Copy !req
657. Yes, quite convenient.Copy !req
658. I'll be happy to testify
about this at length.Copy !req
659. I'm the leading
authority in the field.Copy !req
660. Ask anyone.Copy !req
661. If Manning swears that
the theory is worthless...Copy !req
662. you gotta prove that it isn't.Copy !req
663. Now, what the hell's the theory?Copy !req
664. That protons
eventually fall apart.Copy !req
665. Is this something I need
to be worried about?Copy !req
666. It means all matter in the universe will
eventually disintegrate in a certain way.Copy !req
667. Terrific. Now all we gotta
do to win a larceny trial...Copy !req
668. is prove how the
universe will end.Copy !req
669. No, all I do is get my own
group of expert witnesses.Copy !req
670. Who you going to
get, the Almighty?Copy !req
671. Physics professors. That's all
Manning is. Oh, physics professors.Copy !req
672. Better get a jury of insomniacs.Copy !req
673. We want an expert who'll
keep the jury awake?Copy !req
674. We've already got one.Copy !req
675. You got to be kidding.Copy !req
676. You want Dr. Weiss to testify
that Manning stole his theory?Copy !req
677. It's your decision, Dr. Weiss.Copy !req
678. He'd be establishing a motive you'd
nail him with at his own murder trial.Copy !req
679. He'll be convicted no
matter what he does.Copy !req
680. He'd be out of his
mind to help you.Copy !req
681. Doctor, you and I both know that no
one takes you seriously as a scientist.Copy !req
682. Now, isn't this the only possible
chance you have to make your reputation?Copy !req
683. You had an insight into proton
decay, and Edward Manning stole it.Copy !req
684. Do you want the rest of the scientific
community to know this or not?Copy !req
685. You don't understand.Copy !req
686. I don't care about scientific
reputation. I care about science.Copy !req
687. Max, this can't help
you. Nothing can help me.Copy !req
688. Prof. Manning says your theory is
flawed. I don't care what he says.Copy !req
689. - Amateurish, worthless.
- He has no imagination.Copy !req
690. Do you know how he
set up his experiment?Copy !req
691. Max. This room...Copy !req
692. is about the size of the
vat he used to fill with fluid.Copy !req
693. Manning put photomultiplier
tubes there, there, there...Copy !req
694. linked to a computer programmed
to pick out signs of proton decay.Copy !req
695. But do you know
what he looked for?Copy !req
696. One mode only.Copy !req
697. Here.Copy !req
698. A positron track going
one way. The other way...Copy !req
699. a neutral pion.Copy !req
700. But what if protons don't decay
that way, but into a positron...Copy !req
701. and two neutrinos?Copy !req
702. Manning's computers never
would have found them...Copy !req
703. because they weren't
looking for them.Copy !req
704. Protons could have
been decaying every day.Copy !req
705. Do you know what that means?Copy !req
706. We can synthesize...Copy !req
707. three of the basic
forces of the universe.Copy !req
708. We would be on the verge...Copy !req
709. of reading the mind of God.Copy !req
710. He'll testify, won't he?
Yeah, I think he will.Copy !req
711. He'll put a noose around his
own neck to defend a theory...Copy !req
712. that maybe 500 people
in the world understand.Copy !req
713. I don't know, I'm beginning
to think I understand it.Copy !req
714. Our murderer is
one hell of a teacher.Copy !req
715. Am I supposed to be impressed?Copy !req
716. Go ahead. Tear down his theory.Copy !req
717. Max Weiss will defend it.Copy !req
718. And I'm sure the jury will
find it compelling. I know I did.Copy !req
719. He's a scientific nobody.Copy !req
720. He's not the only
one who'll testify, sir.Copy !req
721. Prof. Stedman is a somebody.
We've been rivals for 30 years.Copy !req
722. Jacob Munson at Princeton...Copy !req
723. finds Weiss's
theory interesting.Copy !req
724. So does Chadrasan at Michigan.
We're still sending the documents around.Copy !req
725. You're flying in witnesses from all over
the country to prosecute a Class E felony?Copy !req
726. If your client doesn't testify in a
trial involving the murder of his wife...Copy !req
727. I'll fly them in from Jupiter.Copy !req
728. And tell him he can't worry about his
reputation anymore. He doesn't have any.Copy !req
729. You're ruining me
as a man of science.Copy !req
730. Sir, you did that yourself.Copy !req
731. I'm just asking you to
tell the jury how you did it.Copy !req
732. I was close to the answer. I'd been
working on proton decay for 10 years.Copy !req
733. Doctor, isn't that the reason...Copy !req
734. that you were chosen
to chair the panel...Copy !req
735. that actually reviewed
Dr. Weiss's research proposal?Copy !req
736. I'm acknowledged as
the leading authority.Copy !req
737. When I saw his idea,
everything snapped into place.Copy !req
738. I believed, I still believe, I would have
seen the thing myself in a week or a day.Copy !req
739. So what did you do about that?Copy !req
740. I rejected his proposal.
There were some errors in it.Copy !req
741. How did Dr. Weiss react?Copy !req
742. He called me. He threatened to go
to the Office of Research Integrity.Copy !req
743. I told him he'd be wasting his
time. I had status, he had none.Copy !req
744. Did he believe
that? It was true.Copy !req
745. I sweetened it by saying I'd put his name
on the paper I was writing as co-author.Copy !req
746. He'd be able to get a job then. I
gave him some money to tide him over.Copy !req
747. Sir, were you gonna put
his name on that paper?Copy !req
748. His proposal was a guess.Copy !req
749. I'd been working on
the problem for 10 years.Copy !req
750. I told him I'd changed my mind.Copy !req
751. So you told the man who
came up with the crucial idea...Copy !req
752. that he was not going to get
any credit or any recognition.Copy !req
753. I didn't think he earned it.
How did he react to that, sir?Copy !req
754. He got very angry.Copy !req
755. He said he would go to the Office of
Research Integrity and take his chances.Copy !req
756. And what did you do?Copy !req
757. I knew his post-doc was up.Copy !req
758. He was being considered
for an assistant professorship.Copy !req
759. I saw he didn't get the job. Someone
in the department owed me a favor.Copy !req
760. If Weiss wasn't on the faculty, then
his complaint would carry no weight.Copy !req
761. Did he know that
you'd done that?Copy !req
762. He called me. It
was frightening.Copy !req
763. What did he say?Copy !req
764. That I was starving his children.
That he would make me pay.Copy !req
765. Mr. Foreman, has the
jury reached a verdict?Copy !req
766. We have, Your Honor.Copy !req
767. On the sole count
of the indictment...Copy !req
768. Murder in the 2nd degree...Copy !req
769. how does the jury find?Copy !req
770. We find the defendant,
Max Weiss, guilty.Copy !req
771. The jury is excused with thanks.Copy !req
772. Dr. Weiss is remanded
to Rikers Island...Copy !req
773. pending sentencing.Copy !req
774. This court is now adjourned.Copy !req
775. Your Honor, my client wishes to make
a statement before sentence is imposed.Copy !req
776. I want to apologize to
Mrs. Manning's family...Copy !req
777. with all my heart.Copy !req
778. I am so sorry.Copy !req
779. All that's ever mattered to
me is my family and my work.Copy !req
780. All I ever wanted
to do was physics.Copy !req
781. When I saw I was
losing it, I couldn't stand it.Copy !req
782. If I could do it over again...Copy !req
783. I would be a bus driver...Copy !req
784. an accountant, anything,
my whole life without science...Copy !req
785. if I could take
that package back.Copy !req
786. Yes, Dr. Weiss,
but it's too late.Copy !req
787. Your actions were
callous and deadly.Copy !req
788. I sentence you to an
indeterminate term of imprisonment...Copy !req
789. of from 25 years to life...Copy !req
790. to be served at a facility selected
by the Department of Corrections.Copy !req
791. But on the other hand, he killed a
woman, so I had to play it by the book.Copy !req
792. You feel bad about that?Copy !req
793. Twenty-five years. He's
not your typical killer.Copy !req
794. He is. He killed somebody.Copy !req