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. I'm home!Copy !req
7. Sean, honey.Copy !req
8. Maureen.Copy !req
9. Frank. Somebody help
me with these groceries.Copy !req
10. Sean, turn that music down.Copy !req
11. It's not gonna help me
memorize the periodic table.Copy !req
12. You always do fine. Stop
worrying. Where's your sister?Copy !req
13. Oh, not again!Copy !req
14. Where'd your father go?Copy !req
15. B-line tenants said
there's no hot water.Copy !req
16. He's fixing the boiler, I
think. I think he's in the shop.Copy !req
17. I wish they'd buy a new boiler.Copy !req
18. Frank?Copy !req
19. Frank?Copy !req
20. Oh, my God.Copy !req
21. Frank?Copy !req
22. Oh, God. Oh, God, Frank.Copy !req
23. Oh, God. Oh, God, Frank.Copy !req
24. Oh, God. Oh, God, oh, God.Copy !req
25. Hey, it goes with
the job these days.Copy !req
26. The Super stops a break-in,
he gets his head bashed in.Copy !req
27. Looks like he's been moved.
Who touched the body?Copy !req
28. When we showed up, the
wife was holding him like a baby.Copy !req
29. She won't let go. I
think she was in shock.Copy !req
30. McKinnon, Frank, 44. Heard a
noise, came out with a hammer.Copy !req
31. Everybody's got to be a hero.Copy !req
32. Broke the window trying
to get the security bar.Copy !req
33. Every piece of glass, even slivers.
Everything goes into Forensics.Copy !req
34. Did anybody get inside?Copy !req
35. Doesn't look like it. He was in the
boiler room. When he came out...Copy !req
36. they were probably
still working the door.Copy !req
37. He should've gone back in.
His tool kit had a knife in it.Copy !req
38. At least he'd have a chance.Copy !req
39. Should've gone back
in and called 911.Copy !req
40. Why'd he go out by himself?
I mean, why didn't he call me?Copy !req
41. This is Detective Briscoe.Copy !req
42. Mr. McKinnon's
son, Sean. Hi, Sean.Copy !req
43. You know, if I'd worked on the
boiler like he wanted, I mean...Copy !req
44. none of this would have
happened. I could have...Copy !req
45. Sean, why don't you take
care of your mom. Okay?Copy !req
46. ME says one blow
did the job. Crackhead?Copy !req
47. Makes you mad, makes you
strong. Tell you one thing...Copy !req
48. if we don't get good prints,
goes to the three-day and dies.Copy !req
49. Sean! Excuse me, please. Sean!Copy !req
50. Hey, that's my sister. Let
her in. What's going on?Copy !req
51. What the hell is this?Copy !req
52. Oh, honey. Uncle Ned, why
are you here? What is this?Copy !req
53. There was a break-in and
your father tried to stop them.Copy !req
54. So, where is he? Is he okay?Copy !req
55. Oh, my God! Oh, no!Copy !req
56. No. Please!Copy !req
57. There's only been two
robberies in, I don't know...Copy !req
58. a couple of years.Copy !req
59. Okay, so as far as you
know, he was well-liked...Copy !req
60. no problems with anybody
in the neighborhood.Copy !req
61. I never heard any. I mean, the
building was crazy about him.Copy !req
62. Just this morning he
was here fixing the sink.Copy !req
63. I mean, most Supers, you
have to open your wallet first.Copy !req
64. Frank wouldn't take a dime.Copy !req
65. Nancy, it's Frank McKinnon.Copy !req
66. Some burglars beat
him up. He's dead.Copy !req
67. Oh, my God!Copy !req
68. It was around 9:30.
Were you home?Copy !req
69. Did you hear any
noise, maybe shouting?Copy !req
70. Who listens? The
whole city shouts.Copy !req
71. Wait, 9:30...Copy !req
72. Yeah, I was coming from the
video store. I did hear an argument.Copy !req
73. I thought it was
2A, the Horowitzes.Copy !req
74. Him and his
brother-in-law again.Copy !req
75. Nancy, darling, they went to
the country on Wednesday.Copy !req
76. Oh, you're right. Okay, but
you heard two men yelling, right?Copy !req
77. Yeah, but I thought it was
Nat Horowitz. I didn't even look.Copy !req
78. No prints on the door,
unusable partials on the hammer.Copy !req
79. Similar M. O. In
the neighborhood?Copy !req
80. Fire escapes, windows,
but no basements.Copy !req
81. Break-in at 9:30.Copy !req
82. That's not a pro.Copy !req
83. Crackheads or kids.Copy !req
84. Gets hit with his
own hammer. Now...Copy !req
85. if I was the kind of kid who broke
into buildings, I'd probably be armed.Copy !req
86. I got to admit, the same
thing occurred to me.Copy !req
87. A gun, at least a knife.Copy !req
88. Hey, you want to look for holes,
I got one as big as my kitchen.Copy !req
89. Noisy boiler room,
the guy's hammering...Copy !req
90. and he hears glass
break in the hall?Copy !req
91. Talk to Forensics. I'll run a
family, see if anything pops.Copy !req
92. Suppose this guy broke
into his own building?Copy !req
93. Oh, sure. He forgot the key.
Blood on the broken glass.Copy !req
94. The ME also sent over
a sample of the victim.Copy !req
95. How close? It's perfect.Copy !req
96. It's the same blood. What?Copy !req
97. Well...Copy !req
98. maybe it's one
of our guys did it...Copy !req
99. got the victim's blood on his
gloves before he picked up the glass?Copy !req
100. Maybe.Copy !req
101. Medill.Copy !req
102. Your Lieutenant calls.Copy !req
103. Yeah, Logan.Copy !req
104. For what?Copy !req
105. Frank McKinnon's daughter's
got a juvenile record.Copy !req
106. Criminal Possession Four. Okay.Copy !req
107. She got a counselor?Copy !req
108. Maureen had a big coat.Copy !req
109. Went through Macy's,
filled it with gold...Copy !req
110. lipsticks, and enough
clothes for an army.Copy !req
111. I had an uncle who
had a coat like that. HeCopy !req
112. used to load up the
pockets with ashtrays.Copy !req
113. The boy Maureen hangs
with, ashtrays aren't on his list.Copy !req
114. Mitchell Lewis, 16, truant, runaway,
possession three, juvenile assault.Copy !req
115. Just the kind of kid
I'd like for my daughter.Copy !req
116. Not a lovely boy.Copy !req
117. Maureen's okay, just takes
her anger out on herself.Copy !req
118. Who doesn't?Copy !req
119. Says her brother's smart.Copy !req
120. One genius in a
family is enough.Copy !req
121. And there was a problem at home.Copy !req
122. Something about her father.Copy !req
123. Is that a problem?Copy !req
124. Half the kids in America don't
get along with their parents.Copy !req
125. Not like this. Maureen's
run away a couple of times.Copy !req
126. She won't tell me. She
might have told Mitchell.Copy !req
127. What am I hearing? Daddy was
a little too close to the daughter?Copy !req
128. Could make her run
away, look for protection.Copy !req
129. Mitchell had a scream-out
with Dad. Dad called the cops.Copy !req
130. Myself, I needed help,
I wouldn't pick Mitchell.Copy !req
131. No, we'll pick him.
For today, at least.Copy !req
132. Where can we find him?Copy !req
133. They don't need me at home.Copy !req
134. Your dad was killed last night.Copy !req
135. I don't have to be home to cry.Copy !req
136. She don't need you for nothing.
She needs you, though, Mitch.Copy !req
137. Just so she can
get busted again.Copy !req
138. Where were you
last night? With me.Copy !req
139. Till I got home.
You taking me in?Copy !req
140. 'Cause we're going back to the
crib, and you ain't invited. Later.Copy !req
141. I'm sorry, I don't know
what this is about.Copy !req
142. We understand that Mitch didn't
get along with your husband.Copy !req
143. No, Frank didn't like him.Copy !req
144. We never thought he
was right for Maureen.Copy !req
145. Look, is all this necessary?Copy !req
146. My sister really needs her rest.Copy !req
147. We happen to know that
Maureen ran away a few times.Copy !req
148. So if there's anything you want
to tell us, I think now is the time.Copy !req
149. Wait. You think
Mitch killed Frank?Copy !req
150. I mean, they argued
a couple of times, but...Copy !req
151. What about?Copy !req
152. I told you. Frank wanted
Maureen to stop seeing him.Copy !req
153. All right, now. Your daughter
says he was with her last night.Copy !req
154. Could there be a reason
that she'd protect him?Copy !req
155. Good Lord, she
thinks she loves the kid.Copy !req
156. Even if he killed her father?Copy !req
157. I don't know.Copy !req
158. I can't talk about this. I just
don't know what she'd do.Copy !req
159. Gentlemen, please.Copy !req
160. Is your son around?Copy !req
161. With a friend. Sandy Resnick.Copy !req
162. She lives over on
Central Park West, 341.Copy !req
163. You should leave Sean alone. He
has an important chem test tomorrow.Copy !req
164. He's studying?Copy !req
165. His father was just murdered.
His father wanted him to study.Copy !req
166. He has early
admission at Princeton.Copy !req
167. He fails chem, they might
withdraw the acceptance.Copy !req
168. Hey, my mom just called.
What's this about my sister?Copy !req
169. You know her boyfriend?Copy !req
170. Mitch.Copy !req
171. Well, yeah, I met him.Copy !req
172. Yeah, you see him last night?Copy !req
173. Oh, no. I know what
you guys are thinking,Copy !req
174. but that kid? I mean, he...Copy !req
175. He couldn't have done it. We
heard he was angry at your dad.Copy !req
176. Yeah, but...Copy !req
177. No, I don't think so.Copy !req
178. Sean, let me ask you something.Copy !req
179. You were in your room studying.Copy !req
180. Your father's outside
having a fight...Copy !req
181. but your window's
right on the alley...Copy !req
182. and you didn't hear anything?Copy !req
183. Look, I don't know why
you guys are doing this, but...Copy !req
184. I was in the kitchen
awhile and the radio was on.Copy !req
185. I'd have gone out if
I'd heard something.Copy !req
186. Yeah. Good luck on that test.Copy !req
187. Holes just keep getting bigger.Copy !req
188. The mother says maybe the
daughter's boyfriend did it...Copy !req
189. but she won't give
you enough to move.Copy !req
190. Yeah, and admit her
husband's doing their daughter?Copy !req
191. We gave her a chance. She'll
dance on his grave before she tells us.Copy !req
192. Hell, she'll jump in
it before she tells us.Copy !req
193. Something here doesn't play. Loved
by his tenants. Sweetest guy on earth.Copy !req
194. Is that the picture of a
guy who molests his child?Copy !req
195. None of this plays.
McKinnon's Mr. Clean...Copy !req
196. he doesn't take tips, lives
in a basement apartment.Copy !req
197. How's he afford to pay
prep school tuition for the kid?Copy !req
198. We don't know enough about this
man. Let's ask somebody who might.Copy !req
199. I own that building 16 years.
Frank McKinnon's been with me 11.Copy !req
200. Anybody that honest,
you got to wonder.Copy !req
201. That's a lovely view
of human nature.Copy !req
202. Calling a Super crooked
is like calling the sky blue.Copy !req
203. McKinnon?Copy !req
204. He wouldn't steal
cheese from a rat.Copy !req
205. Sounds like he's practically
a friend of the Tooth Fairy's.Copy !req
206. He was soft on the tenants.Copy !req
207. He fixes things they
should have paid for.Copy !req
208. The only thing I
worried about...Copy !req
209. liability insurance. I wondered.Copy !req
210. Maybe he drank a little bit.Copy !req
211. So did I, but it didn't make
me a bad insurance risk.Copy !req
212. Bet you didn't break as
many bones as he did.Copy !req
213. What? Accidents.Copy !req
214. Four, five times
in the hospital.Copy !req
215. I mean, it's got to
be the bottle, right?Copy !req
216. Which hospital?Copy !req
217. February, cracked collarbone.
He slipped on the ice.Copy !req
218. April, steam from the boiler.
First degree burns on his back.Copy !req
219. Who stands backwards
at a boiler that long?Copy !req
220. The admitting nurse
wanted to know, too.Copy !req
221. Cooked that bad, he'd have to be
against a hot pipe a good minute.Copy !req
222. July, he's in again. Cracked
ribs. Fell off a ladder.Copy !req
223. I admitted him.Copy !req
224. If that man fell off a ladder, then I
got hit by a truck and stubbed my toe.Copy !req
225. Well, people do
fall off of ladders.Copy !req
226. I mean, I might
crack a couple of ribs.Copy !req
227. Mr. McKinnon had no bruises.
No scratches. Just the ribs.Copy !req
228. I asked him, "Somebody hurting
you?" He was polite enough.Copy !req
229. But he said I should
mind my own business.Copy !req
230. Four times in 18 months.
Nobody is that accident-prone.Copy !req
231. All I know is somebody killed my
husband and you can't tell me who did it.Copy !req
232. All right, did your
husband have any friends...Copy !req
233. or business associates who had
a reason to put him in the hospital?Copy !req
234. You calling my father
some sort of criminal?Copy !req
235. Sean.Copy !req
236. My husband worked hard.Copy !req
237. 5:00 in the morning
till 10:00,11:00 at night.Copy !req
238. He was tired, he had accidents.Copy !req
239. But you think your daughter's boyfriend
had a grudge against your husband, right?Copy !req
240. I didn't say that. You did.Copy !req
241. Do you have any more questions?Copy !req
242. We have to make arrangements
for my husband's funeral.Copy !req
243. You know, all we got
is a bunch of hunches...Copy !req
244. and an accident-prone dead guy.Copy !req
245. Yeah, I think we
got the wrong hunch.Copy !req
246. Maureen's boyfriend had
one lousy fight with her father.Copy !req
247. That's a long way
from killing him.Copy !req
248. Yeah, two days ago, the mother
steers us toward the boyfriend.Copy !req
249. Two minutes ago, she backs off.Copy !req
250. Sure, she goes along
with anything we say.Copy !req
251. She doesn't want
us to get anywhere.Copy !req
252. You know what else
bothers me? Both kids.Copy !req
253. Their father gets his skull
crushed. Where are they?Copy !req
254. She's off with
Mr. Juvenile Record.Copy !req
255. He's at his
girlfriend's, studying.Copy !req
256. Who in hell studies for a test
the day after your father is killed?Copy !req
257. You got trouble
with this kid? What?Copy !req
258. I mean, you're both Irish.Copy !req
259. You made it as
far as detective...Copy !req
260. he's making it all the
way to the Ivy League.Copy !req
261. Hey, the trouble I
have with this kid is...Copy !req
262. he was the only one
home when it happened.Copy !req
263. Let's work this through.Copy !req
264. They say somebody broke in.
We say maybe nobody broke in.Copy !req
265. You see the problem?Copy !req
266. Nat Horowitz fights with
his brother-in-law all the time.Copy !req
267. I don't know, I just assumed.Copy !req
268. But it was definitely
two voices. Men's voices.Copy !req
269. Well, I really wasn't paying
attention. I think it was two.Copy !req
270. One was shouting really loud.Copy !req
271. Mrs. Kroll, are you sure you
didn't hear any words clearly?Copy !req
272. No, just shouting. Later, they
were throwing things at each other.Copy !req
273. Elaine Horowitz told me
last year Nat threw a lamp.Copy !req
274. This time, it
sounded like glass.Copy !req
275. Wait a minute. Now, you didn't
say anything about glass breaking.Copy !req
276. Well, it was about
half an hour later.Copy !req
277. I was on the fire stairs
in the back hallway.Copy !req
278. My husband won't let me
smoke in the apartment.Copy !req
279. Mrs. Kroll, I'm gonna run
this by you one more time.Copy !req
280. You heard shouting. Then a half-hour
later, you heard glass breaking?Copy !req
281. Yes. I thought it was Horowitz.Copy !req
282. Is the woman reliable?Copy !req
283. Unless she was smoking dope on
those back steps instead of cigarettes.Copy !req
284. Yeah, I don't think she
lost track of half an hour.Copy !req
285. And I don't think anybody
beat him up and then broke in.Copy !req
286. Well, fellas, I'll
buy no burglars.Copy !req
287. In fact...Copy !req
288. I'll buy there was
no one there at all.Copy !req
289. Somebody stop me
before the train crashes.Copy !req
290. We're about to say Frank
McKinnon was killed by his own son.Copy !req
291. I won't stop you.Copy !req
292. I just want to know who
smashed the window.Copy !req
293. No question.Copy !req
294. This glass was knocked
out. From the inside.Copy !req
295. You just discovered this? I'm
not Columbus. I wasn't looking.Copy !req
296. Ask me sooner, I find it sooner.Copy !req
297. Glass is tensile.Copy !req
298. You want to know which
side it was hit from...Copy !req
299. match a piece on the ground
with one left in the frame...Copy !req
300. check for radial fractures.Copy !req
301. So, the kid broke the window,
realized he screwed up...Copy !req
302. and then moved
the glass back inside.Copy !req
303. And, got some of
his father's blood on it.Copy !req
304. Kills his old man, cleans it up
and waits for Mom to come home.Copy !req
305. That is cold.Copy !req
306. Yeah, but Dad was in
the boiler room. Now...Copy !req
307. why would he go outside to
stop a break-in that didn't happen?Copy !req
308. What's the basement
floor made of? Cement.Copy !req
309. Get us a guy with
Luminol. We're gonna spray.Copy !req
310. Well...Copy !req
311. I guess that's not
cranberry juice.Copy !req
312. Straight line.Copy !req
313. He was dragged the whole way.Copy !req
314. Dead end, fellas.Copy !req
315. Spray the pipe.Copy !req
316. Right.Copy !req
317. Well...Copy !req
318. he hits him here, drags him out.Copy !req
319. You think the mother knows?Copy !req
320. I don't know.Copy !req
321. But did you notice the daughter
the last time we were in the building?Copy !req
322. Unhappy. And scared.Copy !req
323. You keep coming after me. I was
with my boyfriend. I don't know anything.Copy !req
324. Okay, look, all we want to know
is what happened to your father.Copy !req
325. We don't think you or your
boyfriend had anything to do with it.Copy !req
326. I'm gonna ask you
a question, okay?Copy !req
327. Did your brother get
along with your father?Copy !req
328. Did they ever fight sometimes?Copy !req
329. I don't know what you mean.Copy !req
330. Well, he was there that night.
But he says he didn't hear anything.Copy !req
331. He said he was in the kitchen.Copy !req
332. Maybe he wasn't
telling the truth.Copy !req
333. What do you think happened?Copy !req
334. I don't... You
know what I think?Copy !req
335. I think you don't
believe him either.Copy !req
336. Look, it doesn't matter.Copy !req
337. My father is dead,
so just leave us alone.Copy !req
338. This has been very hard
for my sister and the kids.Copy !req
339. Oh, please, sit down.Copy !req
340. I'm sure that Catherine...Copy !req
341. you know, told you
everything she knows.Copy !req
342. All due respect to you, we
don't think that's the case.Copy !req
343. What are you suggesting?Copy !req
344. I'm suggesting that Mr. McKinnon
was in the hospital four times last year.Copy !req
345. Was your sister's
husband a violent man?Copy !req
346. No.Copy !req
347. How about Sean?Copy !req
348. He ever hit his father?Copy !req
349. Well, I mean, you
know, once in a while...Copy !req
350. You know how families
are. Tempers flare, you know.Copy !req
351. Where I come from, it was
the father who used the strap.Copy !req
352. There was this reception,
the Princeton Club.Copy !req
353. It was for applicants
and their parents.Copy !req
354. I went in Frank's place.Copy !req
355. Catherine said I'd make
a good impression...Copy !req
356. because I'm an accountant.Copy !req
357. When we got home that night...Copy !req
358. Frank was upset.Copy !req
359. He said, "I'm a
Super and proud of it."Copy !req
360. And Sean said, "Oh, a Super.
That would really help me get in."Copy !req
361. Frank was shouting.Copy !req
362. Sean told him to shut up.Copy !req
363. And then, Frank went
right over to the boy...Copy !req
364. right in his face and
he said, "Go ahead...Copy !req
365. "do it in front of your
uncle. Take a pop at me.Copy !req
366. "Let him see what this
family is really about."Copy !req
367. Sean was gonna hit him.Copy !req
368. I had to separate them.Copy !req
369. I thought you said your
sister told us the truth.Copy !req
370. Yeah, well, maybe I'm
not as sure as I used to be.Copy !req
371. Broken collarbone, cracked ribs.Copy !req
372. You were beating him up
pretty regular, weren't you?Copy !req
373. Let's give the kid
a chance, Lennie.Copy !req
374. Maybe you can
explain this, Sean.Copy !req
375. You think I hit my own father?Copy !req
376. We heard you almost hit
him in front of your uncle.Copy !req
377. What he do this time, huh?
Something must have made you mad.Copy !req
378. I don't know what you're talking
about. Somebody broke in.Copy !req
379. No, actually, Sean, nobody did.Copy !req
380. You see, what happened was this.Copy !req
381. Somebody dragged his body
out from the boiler room outside.Copy !req
382. You didn't like your
old man, did you?Copy !req
383. Why? 'Cause he was a Super?
'Cause he didn't go to Princeton?Copy !req
384. I loved my father.Copy !req
385. Well, maybe you can tell
us about the broken windowCopy !req
386. 'cause it turns out...Copy !req
387. somebody knocked
it out from the inside.Copy !req
388. That doesn't sound like a burglary
to me. You know what I mean?Copy !req
389. Pretty smart move, Sean.Copy !req
390. But you didn't know we
could prove that, did you?Copy !req
391. Gentlemen...Copy !req
392. Roger Easton, Sean's lawyer.Copy !req
393. What's he doing here?Copy !req
394. Well, for openers, we
think he killed his father.Copy !req
395. Under pressure here?Copy !req
396. You can't find the street scum
who did it, so you go after this boy?Copy !req
397. I want him out of here, now.Copy !req
398. Take a break, Counselor. Maybe,
we'll give you a ride to central booking.Copy !req
399. Mike.Copy !req
400. Parents beating their kids is pretty
common. But the other way around?Copy !req
401. How often does that happen? So
this kid's the exception to the rule.Copy !req
402. He's ashamed of his father? As a motive,
it sounds like sidewalk psychology to me.Copy !req
403. Look, I don't care what it sounds
like. You don't buy the motive?Copy !req
404. Go with the physical evidence.
Who broke that window?Copy !req
405. Who the hell dragged
McKinnon's body down that hall?Copy !req
406. The physical evidence makes
me ready to believe the motive.Copy !req
407. Even if I am ready to believe
it, I don't know if a jury is.Copy !req
408. We have enough to indict.Copy !req
409. Okay. Go ahead.Copy !req
410. Sean McKinnon...Copy !req
411. you're under arrest for the murder
of Frank McKinnon. Excuse me.Copy !req
412. You have the right
to remain silent.Copy !req
413. Anything you do,
say, can and will be...Copy !req
414. used against you
in a court of law.Copy !req
415. "Docket number 680641...Copy !req
416. "People of the State of
New York v. Sean McKinnon.Copy !req
417. "Charge is murder
in the second degree."Copy !req
418. How does the defendant plead?Copy !req
419. Not guilty, sir.Copy !req
420. All right.Copy !req
421. Young man, nobody
calls me sir anymore.Copy !req
422. Ms. Kincaid?Copy !req
423. The People request
reasonable bail.Copy !req
424. While there's no risk of
flight... There's also no record.Copy !req
425. Bail is to secure appearance at
trial, Ms. Kincaid, not to punish.Copy !req
426. Mr. Easton?Copy !req
427. Your Honor, the McKinnon
family have limited means.Copy !req
428. High bail would be
a terrible hardship.Copy !req
429. Death was a terrible
hardship for the victim.Copy !req
430. Meanwhile, your client
looks quite respectable.Copy !req
431. You'll get a bond.
$50,000, short date. Next?Copy !req
432. You're making a mistake.
The boy's a victim.Copy !req
433. Sir, he's walking around
and his father is six feet under.Copy !req
434. Mrs. McKinnon is prepared to
admit that her son killed her husband.Copy !req
435. I tried to stop him.Copy !req
436. It's a couple of years now.Copy !req
437. Sean was only defending himself.Copy !req
438. Your husband was abusing
your son? He hit him.Copy !req
439. He hit me, sometimes...Copy !req
440. my daughter.Copy !req
441. My husband was a very angry man.Copy !req
442. Sean says...Copy !req
443. He told me...Copy !req
444. he was studying...Copy !req
445. and his father was in
one of those moods.Copy !req
446. He came after him.Copy !req
447. Mrs. McKinnon, when
did your son tell you this?Copy !req
448. Ben, this is not the time to
look for an accessory charge.Copy !req
449. I couldn't believe
Sean had done it.Copy !req
450. When he told me, I knew...Copy !req
451. that I was at fault.Copy !req
452. I should have stopped Frank.Copy !req
453. He picked on Sean so much.Copy !req
454. Her husband was abusive.Copy !req
455. Mr. McKinnon was in
the hospital several times.Copy !req
456. For God's sake, so was Sean.Copy !req
457. He broke his arm.Copy !req
458. His father broke his arm.Copy !req
459. We told the doctor it was a
bike accident. He fell off his bike.Copy !req
460. Sean was supposed
to go to Europe...Copy !req
461. he sang with a group at school.Copy !req
462. His father beat him...Copy !req
463. he was black and blue...Copy !req
464. he couldn't go.Copy !req
465. He gave him a black eye.Copy !req
466. We lied and said...Copy !req
467. it was an accident. Basketball.Copy !req
468. Pity the poor child.Copy !req
469. It's a good defense,
and it works.Copy !req
470. There is the possibility
that she's telling the truth.Copy !req
471. You didn't even want an arrest.Copy !req
472. I hadn't met Catherine McKinnon.Copy !req
473. It was weird. When you
went out with Easton...Copy !req
474. she kept saying how
sad it was for her son.Copy !req
475. But she never
mentioned her husband.Copy !req
476. Not even to complain about him.Copy !req
477. - I don't believe her.
- She's not on trial.Copy !req
478. And if she's lying,
they trumped us.Copy !req
479. But if she's not lying, I don't
want to prosecute an abused child.Copy !req
480. Now, why didn't she go for help?Copy !req
481. An abusive father, he can
hold an entire family hostage...Copy !req
482. but an abusive son? No,
she'd have called somebody.Copy !req
483. Sean McKinnon
almost hit his father...Copy !req
484. in front of his uncle. Now,
that wasn't self-defense.Copy !req
485. What do you think?Copy !req
486. You want a deal?Copy !req
487. You tell Easton, the
kid has to see Olivet.Copy !req
488. Are you so
convinced he's guilty?Copy !req
489. Check the mother's story.Copy !req
490. And see if that kid
was also in the hospital.Copy !req
491. I never thought
I'd hit him back.Copy !req
492. How do you feel now?Copy !req
493. I don't know. I mean...Copy !req
494. what do you want me to say?Copy !req
495. I feel bad?Copy !req
496. Okay, I mean, I feel bad.Copy !req
497. He was my father.Copy !req
498. I'm sorry.Copy !req
499. I didn't want this to happen.Copy !req
500. I know.Copy !req
501. When he beat me...Copy !req
502. he was shouting...Copy !req
503. about...Copy !req
504. how I didn't respect
him. And about...Copy !req
505. About how I never brought friends
home 'cause he was only a Super.Copy !req
506. He didn't understand.Copy !req
507. The way he let those
tenants treat him. I mean...Copy !req
508. he lived in the basement, as
if that was all you should have.Copy !req
509. Do you think he was
ashamed of himself?Copy !req
510. He thought I was ashamed, but...Copy !req
511. he was projecting.
I didn't care. I just...Copy !req
512. I just wanted him
to be proud of me.Copy !req
513. Well, was he?Copy !req
514. No, he wasn't.Copy !req
515. It didn't matter how
hard I worked. I mean, I...Copy !req
516. I got into Princeton and everybody
else was happy, except him.Copy !req
517. He was depressed. He was angry.Copy !req
518. Why was that?Copy !req
519. He said...Copy !req
520. I thought I was better than him.Copy !req
521. And then a week after...Copy !req
522. he showed up at school
in work clothes. I mean...Copy !req
523. you don't do that at Deardon.Copy !req
524. Did that matter to you?Copy !req
525. No.Copy !req
526. Oh, no. I just...Copy !req
527. I wanted to be
different, you know.Copy !req
528. I just wanted a different life.Copy !req
529. I wanted more.Copy !req
530. It's a great act, but
he's a sociopath.Copy !req
531. An ounce of doubt,
I wouldn't testify.Copy !req
532. Liz, the son beats the father
up and the mother does nothing?Copy !req
533. The woman is probably paralyzed.Copy !req
534. If she admits how bad it is, she
has to admit she raised a monster.Copy !req
535. Then maybe we should
be prosecuting her.Copy !req
536. She's in denial. She wants
to keep her family together.Copy !req
537. Like with alcoholics.Copy !req
538. Daddy passes out over
dinner, we pretend he's just tired.Copy !req
539. The cops were right. The McKinnons
had a secret. They just got the wrong one.Copy !req
540. I wish I could be
as sure as you are.Copy !req
541. Why don't you
want it to be true?Copy !req
542. Am I the patient here?Copy !req
543. Ben, you're not alone.Copy !req
544. None of us want to believe
that kids beat up their parents.Copy !req
545. Do you think that the
father ever hit the kid?Copy !req
546. It would make it easier
to deal with, wouldn't it?Copy !req
547. I think this kid doesn't
want to be who he is...Copy !req
548. and every time he looks
at his father, he's reminded.Copy !req
549. Maybe Mom sent him a message,
the father's no good. So, he takes over.Copy !req
550. Do you know what he
told me? He pays the bills.Copy !req
551. How many 17-year-olds do you know
who take care of their family finances?Copy !req
552. I don't know.Copy !req
553. Is it that important?Copy !req
554. It's a textbook sign.Copy !req
555. Journal of Family Dysfunction.Copy !req
556. "In most cases, the adolescent is ashamed
of a parent's lack of social status.Copy !req
557. "The child commonly takes
over parental functions...Copy !req
558. "determining how money
is spent and paying bills.Copy !req
559. "The parents, fearing
the child, acquiesce."Copy !req
560. A million cases a
year of parent abuse.Copy !req
561. I can't tell you why it
happened in this family.Copy !req
562. But I do know that Sean McKinnon
has enough anger to blow this office apart.Copy !req
563. The McKinnons are playing
the press. Guess what?Copy !req
564. The father's the villain.Copy !req
565. That's what they'll do in court.Copy !req
566. Sean McKinnon will
make his own best witness.Copy !req
567. The hospital only has
X-rays of Sean's broken arm.Copy !req
568. They don't prove how it
happened. And the black eye?Copy !req
569. Two stitches, they
sent him home.Copy !req
570. She told us that her
husband hit the kid, right?Copy !req
571. She told the hospital that
it was a basketball game.Copy !req
572. So, let's find out who
he plays ball with, okay?Copy !req
573. If we'd known Sean's
dad was beating him...Copy !req
574. I mean, maybe we
could have helped him.Copy !req
575. We all feel really bad about it.Copy !req
576. Oh, he never told you?Copy !req
577. No. Sean never
talked about his father.Copy !req
578. I guess now we know why.Copy !req
579. Why are you asking
me about this?Copy !req
580. I mean, my coach said
something about me hitting him?Copy !req
581. Last June, when
he got a black eye?Copy !req
582. That was an accident.Copy !req
583. We were playing one-on-one.Copy !req
584. His mother claims that his
dad gave him the black eye.Copy !req
585. No.Copy !req
586. No, it was me. I mean,
I was sorry, but I did it.Copy !req
587. It swelled up. He went to the
emergency room at St. Mary's.Copy !req
588. Did Sean say it didn't happen?Copy !req
589. Catherine McKinnon lied.Copy !req
590. Yeah, she'll testify that she was
confused. It was another black eye.Copy !req
591. This whole story
plays both ways.Copy !req
592. The father had accidents...Copy !req
593. the son was abused.
Or the other way around.Copy !req
594. But the father's not here to
defend himself. So a jury...Copy !req
595. could give this kid a
college going-away party.Copy !req
596. He kills his father,
mother defends him.Copy !req
597. Doesn't the sister
have a stake in this?Copy !req
598. Well, we scheduled her for a
statement, she didn't come in.Copy !req
599. She's staying at her
uncle's. Should I try again?Copy !req
600. Why? She never
did anything before.Copy !req
601. Why should she start now?Copy !req
602. Before her father was just
bruised. Now he's buried.Copy !req
603. She wouldn't be comfortable
at home right now.Copy !req
604. I see.Copy !req
605. She's having nightmares.Copy !req
606. I don't want to talk to you.Copy !req
607. Maureen, your mom says Sean
had to protect you from your father.Copy !req
608. Now is that true?Copy !req
609. Your mom says your
father hit all of you.Copy !req
610. Mom wouldn't say that about Dad.Copy !req
611. Honey, why would
she make that up?Copy !req
612. What did you let her in here
for? Did your father ever hit you?Copy !req
613. I wish I could tell
you, but I wasn't there.Copy !req
614. Yeah, why weren't you there?Copy !req
615. Why wasn't somebody there?Copy !req
616. I'm sorry, Maureen.
I should have been.Copy !req
617. Maureen...Copy !req
618. your mother and your brother
say your father beat you.Copy !req
619. No! And that's why
you got into trouble.Copy !req
620. It was your father's fault.Copy !req
621. No. It's not true.Copy !req
622. My dad never hit me. He
never hit anybody. It's not true.Copy !req
623. Okay, okay.Copy !req
624. My daughter's been in trouble.Copy !req
625. She has a lot of problems.
Your brother believes her.Copy !req
626. He wasn't there when
she was arrested.Copy !req
627. He wasn't at the police station.Copy !req
628. He didn't have to
face the neighbors.Copy !req
629. Mrs. McKinnon, maybe what the
neighbors think isn't the issue here.Copy !req
630. Please, don't do this to her. I
mean, I know why she does this.Copy !req
631. It's out of her control. She
invented the whole story?Copy !req
632. She wasn't doing
so great at school.Copy !req
633. So I help her out.Copy !req
634. I help her out all the time,
and she resents me for it.Copy !req
635. Even my dad said to her...Copy !req
636. getting mad at me wouldn't make up
for the things that she's done wrong.Copy !req
637. You let her send
her brother to jail...Copy !req
638. she'll live with it for
the rest of her life.Copy !req
639. Think what you're doing to
her. What are you doing to her?Copy !req
640. Catherine?Copy !req
641. All Sean's hard work.Copy !req
642. You're destroying him.Copy !req
643. You don't think he
played a part in that?Copy !req
644. You're going to trial?Copy !req
645. Who does a jury believe?
A girl with a felony record...Copy !req
646. or a young man
brutalized by his father?Copy !req
647. When he was admitted, Mr. McKinnon
didn't say anything right away.Copy !req
648. I was ready to call the
police. And did you call them?Copy !req
649. His wife told me not
to. That I was wrong.Copy !req
650. That it was an accident.Copy !req
651. And how did you respond to that?Copy !req
652. I said, "Believe what you
want. Somebody hit this man."Copy !req
653. Thank you.Copy !req
654. Your witness.Copy !req
655. Tell us, Dr. Henderson...Copy !req
656. are you an expert
in forensic medicine?Copy !req
657. The man wasn't having accidents.
Not in February, not in April.Copy !req
658. Please, Doctor. Just
answer the question.Copy !req
659. I'm not an expert.Copy !req
660. Oh. So, Mr. McKinnon could
have had these accidents...Copy !req
661. the kind that any building
superintendent might have.Copy !req
662. Isn't that possible?Copy !req
663. Yes, it's possible.Copy !req
664. Thank you. No further questions.Copy !req
665. Catherine left a message on my
machine and Maureen returned the call.Copy !req
666. Her mother's putting a
lot of pressure on her.Copy !req
667. Did she go home?
I don't think so.Copy !req
668. I argued with her and she
ran out of the apartment.Copy !req
669. All this time, I knew
something was wrong.Copy !req
670. She's due to testify on Monday.Copy !req
671. I tried. I told her
I'd always be there.Copy !req
672. That she could live
in my apartment.Copy !req
673. Well, she's been in trouble
before. Where'd she go then?Copy !req
674. I'm not gonna do it. Did
your mother call you?Copy !req
675. Her brother, too. Mitch.Copy !req
676. Here's the headline, Counselor.Copy !req
677. If she goes against
her brother...Copy !req
678. her mother says
she can't come home.Copy !req
679. I won't have anybody.Copy !req
680. What, are you
kicking me to the curb?Copy !req
681. I can't live with you.Copy !req
682. You gonna live
with your brother?Copy !req
683. He offed your old man. If you
don't do this, he gets away clean.Copy !req
684. Hey, Maureen, you know what
your brother says about your father.Copy !req
685. And that's what people
are always going to believe.Copy !req
686. He hit him all the time.Copy !req
687. Whenever my dad talked
back, Sean would hit him.Copy !req
688. Did you tell anyone?
My dad said it would stop.Copy !req
689. My mom...Copy !req
690. she said it was my dad's
fault. He picked on Sean.Copy !req
691. Was that true?Copy !req
692. Dad would do anything
Sean wanted. Anything!Copy !req
693. Maureen, we've heard testimony
that last February your father...Copy !req
694. broke his collarbone.Copy !req
695. Could you tell us
how that happened?Copy !req
696. Sean...Copy !req
697. took $200 from my
mom to buy clothes.Copy !req
698. My dad said it was too much...Copy !req
699. so Sean hit him.Copy !req
700. With a tire iron.Copy !req
701. And last April, we heard that your
father was taken to the hospital...Copy !req
702. with a burn on his back.
How did that happen?Copy !req
703. There was a vacant apartment...Copy !req
704. upstairs.Copy !req
705. And Sean wanted my dad
to ask the landlord for it...Copy !req
706. so we wouldn't live
in the basement.Copy !req
707. My dad said no.Copy !req
708. Sean called him a coward.Copy !req
709. He followed him
to the boiler room...Copy !req
710. and he pushed
him against a pipe.Copy !req
711. And I tried to stop him.Copy !req
712. My dad was just screaming...Copy !req
713. and Sean just held him there.Copy !req
714. Maureen, even then, you
didn't ask anyone for help. Why?Copy !req
715. I was afraid.Copy !req
716. Afraid of what?Copy !req
717. I don't know.Copy !req
718. That Sean would be taken away.
My mom and dad would break up.Copy !req
719. I didn't know what would happen.Copy !req
720. Maureen, thank you.Copy !req
721. Your witness.Copy !req
722. Maureen, do you get
along with your brother?Copy !req
723. No.Copy !req
724. Isn't it true you
resent your brother?Copy !req
725. That you feel he got everything
from your parents and you got nothing?Copy !req
726. No. So you're not
envious of him?Copy !req
727. That's hard to understand.Copy !req
728. Did you run away from
home several times?Copy !req
729. I couldn't stand being there.Copy !req
730. I couldn't stand... Your
brother being so successful.Copy !req
731. How much do you hate him?Copy !req
732. Enough to invent
things that aren't true?Copy !req
733. Enough to make up these stories?Copy !req
734. Objection. Enough
to lie to this court?Copy !req
735. Your Honor, he's quietly
badgering the witness.Copy !req
736. Sustained.Copy !req
737. If your brother goes
to jail, Maureen...Copy !req
738. then you get all the attention
that you want, isn't that right?Copy !req
739. Your Honor. Withdrawn.Copy !req
740. No further questions.Copy !req
741. I've always said my
husband was a good man.Copy !req
742. When your husband was violent,
did you consider professional help?Copy !req
743. A psychiatrist, perhaps?Copy !req
744. We wouldn't do that.Copy !req
745. Sick people go to them.
My husband wasn't sick.Copy !req
746. Did your son ever
hit your husband?Copy !req
747. Sean never defended himself.Copy !req
748. Only this...Copy !req
749. This time.Copy !req
750. Thank you, Mrs. McKinnon.Copy !req
751. Your witness.Copy !req
752. Mrs. McKinnon,
a doctor testified...Copy !req
753. that your husband's injuries were
caused by assault and not by accident.Copy !req
754. Is she lying?Copy !req
755. Yes, she is lying.Copy !req
756. Your daughter said that your
son repeatedly attacked his father.Copy !req
757. Is your own daughter lying?Copy !req
758. Yes, she is lying.Copy !req
759. Mrs. McKinnon, isn't it true that
your son took control of your family...Copy !req
760. and you couldn't stop him?Copy !req
761. And can you give us
one reason to believe...Copy !req
762. that these witnesses are lying
and you are telling the truth?Copy !req
763. Because...Copy !req
764. Because I am his mother.Copy !req
765. But isn't that all
the more reason...Copy !req
766. for you to say anything
at all to protect him?Copy !req
767. Thank you.Copy !req
768. No further questions.Copy !req
769. It wasn't easy.Copy !req
770. I still loved my dad.Copy !req
771. Even though he beat you?Copy !req
772. I didn't blame him for it.Copy !req
773. He had a hard life.Copy !req
774. He worked hard for us.Copy !req
775. Tell us about that night.Copy !req
776. He asked me to help
him fix the boiler...Copy !req
777. and I liked doing it.Copy !req
778. It made me...Copy !req
779. feel useful to him.Copy !req
780. And I had this pair of pliers...Copy !req
781. and...Copy !req
782. I dropped them and
he lost his temper...Copy !req
783. like usual, out of nowhere.Copy !req
784. And he swung at me.Copy !req
785. He hit me in the arm and I fell
down and then he hit me again.Copy !req
786. I don't know what
happened then. I...Copy !req
787. I guess all those
times he beat me.Copy !req
788. I think I grabbed the hammer,
and I must have hit him.Copy !req
789. I don't remember it.Copy !req
790. All I remember is the blood.Copy !req
791. Thank you, Sean.
No further questions.Copy !req
792. Mr. McKinnon...Copy !req
793. how did you feel after
you killed your father?Copy !req
794. I don't remember.Copy !req
795. How did you feel when
you dragged his body...Copy !req
796. 36 feet to the service alley?Copy !req
797. How did you feel when you
cleaned his blood off the hall...Copy !req
798. and when you broke the window
to make it look like a burglary?Copy !req
799. I don't remember any of it.Copy !req
800. Do you remember shoving
him up against a steam pipe?Copy !req
801. No!Copy !req
802. Do you remember
hitting him with a tire iron?Copy !req
803. No!Copy !req
804. Would you please
tell the court...Copy !req
805. what you wrote...Copy !req
806. on your college financial aid
application, under the heading...Copy !req
807. of father's occupation?Copy !req
808. Didn't you write
Building Manager?Copy !req
809. Why didn't you write
Superintendent?Copy !req
810. I wanted to get the scholarship.
It sounded better than Super.Copy !req
811. But you said you were not
ashamed of your father...Copy !req
812. and that he was
jealous of you, right?Copy !req
813. Yes, it wasn't my fault. It was
something I had to live with.Copy !req
814. Did you have to live with the fact
that he paid for your prep school tuition?Copy !req
815. And that he worked
12 hours a day...Copy !req
816. to put expensive
clothes on your back?Copy !req
817. Hey, I worked
hard, too. Did you?Copy !req
818. I helped with the building.Copy !req
819. I helped my sister out.
I got into Princeton...Copy !req
820. in spite of...Copy !req
821. In spite of what?Copy !req
822. Of what he was?Copy !req
823. No, I didn't say that.Copy !req
824. You claim that you loved
your father. I did love him.Copy !req
825. How do you show your love?Copy !req
826. By hiding your father
from your friends?Copy !req
827. And by telling him that
he's not worth anything?Copy !req
828. You may call that love.Copy !req
829. Most of us call that shame.Copy !req
830. No further questions.Copy !req
831. Has the jury reached a verdict?Copy !req
832. We have, Your Honor.Copy !req
833. On the sole count...Copy !req
834. of the indictment, murder in the
second degree, how does the jury find?Copy !req
835. We find the defendant guilty.Copy !req
836. Two more months, he'd
have gone to college.Copy !req
837. Everything would have been fine.Copy !req
838. It's scary.Copy !req
839. No, what's scary is that if
it hadn't been his father...Copy !req
840. it would have been
somebody else.Copy !req
841. That much anger doesn't go away
with a B. A. Not even from Princeton.Copy !req