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. Excuse me.Copy !req
7. A car like this, you need
to see where you're going.Copy !req
8. You have a nice day, now.Copy !req
9. You press the button, you take a
ticket, and you pay on the way out.Copy !req
10. Guy drives a $60,000 car,
and he can't read English.Copy !req
11. Brains got nothing
to do with it.Copy !req
12. My idiot brother drives a Vette.Copy !req
13. It costs $40 to
fill that sucker.Copy !req
14. $20. Thank you.Copy !req
15. Round two is on me.Copy !req
16. Heavy cream, three
sugars. Real sugar this time...Copy !req
17. maybe a chocolate-covered...Copy !req
18. Jeez.Copy !req
19. I could've been inside.
They don't pay me enough.Copy !req
20. You see anybody peculiar
go in there this morning?Copy !req
21. I look at the cars,
not the people.Copy !req
22. You know, you seen one
Jag, you seen them all.Copy !req
23. All right, if you
remember anything, huh?Copy !req
24. It took six units and
an hour to contain it.Copy !req
25. Never got out of the garage.Copy !req
26. We're lucky this was a
Class A fire-restrictive building.Copy !req
27. If our guy was one block
south, it would still be burning.Copy !req
28. Find the source?Copy !req
29. Char patterns, radius
of structural damage...Copy !req
30. My guess? Car bomb.Copy !req
31. What's the tab?Copy !req
32. The tenants will have
the next month or two off.Copy !req
33. Some of them longer than that.Copy !req
34. Tell me you found a photo ID.Copy !req
35. Our guys went over every inch.Copy !req
36. Most of the damage was
centered around a spot...Copy !req
37. in the northeast
corner of the garage.Copy !req
38. Hope this guy was
up-to-date on his premiums.Copy !req
39. I doubt he'll be making
any claims, Mike.Copy !req
40. So, the bomb was right here?Copy !req
41. More likely in the trunk. Here.Copy !req
42. Take a whiff.Copy !req
43. Central Park South in July.Copy !req
44. Very good.Copy !req
45. Chemical fertilizer.Copy !req
46. Mix it with diesel fuel, light
it, you get a hell of a bang.Copy !req
47. This dude knew what was what.Copy !req
48. Here, take a look at this.Copy !req
49. Condoms?Copy !req
50. We found them about
20 feet from the car.Copy !req
51. Told you the earth moves.Copy !req
52. Observe.Copy !req
53. This is the same grade
latex they use in condoms.Copy !req
54. I poured some acid onto it
about five minutes ago and voilà.Copy !req
55. It's a makeshift fuse.Copy !req
56. Giving the mad bomber time to haul
ass before the acid burns through...Copy !req
57. and lights the fertilizer
cocktail. Exactly.Copy !req
58. You know, it's cheap, efficient, and
you don't have to be Einstein to play.Copy !req
59. I never did like those things.Copy !req
60. Forensics says we should count
our luckies that only one person died.Copy !req
61. Looked like a kid.
You talk to the family?Copy !req
62. Well, if she had ID,
it's barbecued or buried.Copy !req
63. No one's claimed the body.Copy !req
64. Well, we've got every member of
the lunatic fringe claiming credit.Copy !req
65. FBI terrorist section is
checking out the calls.Copy !req
66. What, terrorists
blowing up a garage?Copy !req
67. Hey, maybe they're not
that good at what they do...Copy !req
68. the Calloway building's
filled with heavy hitters.Copy !req
69. Two brokerage
firms, four law firms...Copy !req
70. two banks, including the
Banco de Cali. Colombian.Copy !req
71. I guess we're talking drugs.Copy !req
72. Drugs, mob, IRA,
Symbionese Liberation Army...Copy !req
73. Excuse me, folks. Forensics came
up with the serial number for the car.Copy !req
74. I ran it by the DMV.Copy !req
75. It's a 1990 Mercedes 300D,
leased to the Egyptian Embassy.Copy !req
76. And it's being used by a
gentleman named Assad Asalam.Copy !req
77. Last known address,
Radcliff Hotel.Copy !req
78. Take some backup. Who knows
what other toys he's got in his suitcase.Copy !req
79. You wanna stop this crap?Copy !req
80. Put a fence around
the country...Copy !req
81. run a couple of
thousand volts through it.Copy !req
82. So sure this guy wasn't
hatched in Brooklyn?Copy !req
83. Come on, listen.Copy !req
84. Some guy gets picked
up for littering in Cairo...Copy !req
85. and then his buddies hijack a
plane headed out of Kennedy.Copy !req
86. "Give me your tired, your poor."Copy !req
87. Yeah. Well, that
was then, this is now.Copy !req
88. We got enough
homegrown nuts as it is.Copy !req
89. You Assad Asalam?Copy !req
90. Yes. What is this?Copy !req
91. You'll have to get back to
them later. Okay, let's go.Copy !req
92. I come here three
times a year on business.Copy !req
93. And what sort of business were
you conducting yesterday morning?Copy !req
94. As a matter of fact, I was with three
members of your State Department...Copy !req
95. from 8:00 a.m. until noon.Copy !req
96. - Did you drive downtown?
- I took a cab.Copy !req
97. Look, you have to understand, the
night before, I drove back from Albany.Copy !req
98. I was exhausted. I parked
the car on 58th Street...Copy !req
99. the next morning it was gone.Copy !req
100. The stolen car story?Copy !req
101. I told that one in high school.Copy !req
102. Well, I went to the
Wharton school...Copy !req
103. and I assure you, I could
come up with a better story.Copy !req
104. Did you report the car missing?Copy !req
105. I was in a rush.Copy !req
106. Tell me, Detective, what
motive could I possibly have?Copy !req
107. Hey, I don't know. Allah calls,
I hear you people get antsy.Copy !req
108. Take five.Copy !req
109. Hey, what's going on?Copy !req
110. We're lighting a fire under
this guy. He's just a little cool.Copy !req
111. That's 'cause he's innocent.Copy !req
112. Meet Agent Garrett, FBI.Copy !req
113. Mr. Asalam's father is one of
the top industrialists in Egypt.Copy !req
114. He's here on an
economic mission.Copy !req
115. So he can afford first-class
accommodations...Copy !req
116. what does that prove?Copy !req
117. He can also afford
a first-class alibi.Copy !req
118. His story checks.Copy !req
119. He was with Kenny, Dukes,
and Fried of State all morning.Copy !req
120. So, in other words,
we're back to square one.Copy !req
121. The fact is we're
all running in circles.Copy !req
122. Whoever's responsible has probably
crossed three time zones by now.Copy !req
123. You might have been
right about homegrown nuts.Copy !req
124. The dead girl had
blonde hair, hazel eyes.Copy !req
125. The ME's report said she also had traces
of ammonium nitrate under her fingernails.Copy !req
126. So she set the bomb?Copy !req
127. Either she dawdled on
her way out of the garage...Copy !req
128. or there was a
leak in the condom.Copy !req
129. Bomb went off before she
had a chance to get away.Copy !req
130. They ran her prints.
She's clean in this state.Copy !req
131. Most girls her age are
worried about their SATs.Copy !req
132. Lennie, your kid's
about 18, right?Copy !req
133. Well, you don't hear from her
for a couple days, what do you do?Copy !req
134. I hear from her,
that's an occasion.Copy !req
135. I'm just thinking...Copy !req
136. maybe nobody claimed the body
because nobody knew she was alive.Copy !req
137. Missing Persons.Copy !req
138. We started with
anyone 19 and younger.Copy !req
139. That narrowed it to
15,000, give or take.Copy !req
140. The appendicitis
scar cut that in half.Copy !req
141. The tattoo on her derrière
made it manageable.Copy !req
142. We'd be better off
looking at milk cartons.Copy !req
143. Don't kid yourself, Logan.Copy !req
144. If we don't find them
first couple of days...Copy !req
145. odds are they ain't
gonna get found.Copy !req
146. But this girl is one of
the lucky ones. Lucky?Copy !req
147. She had an I-beam
land on her head.Copy !req
148. She also had loving parents who
spent a lot to straighten her teeth.Copy !req
149. We lucked out.
The dental records.Copy !req
150. Wendy Alice Berman.Copy !req
151. Reported missing five years
ago when she was 14. Runaway.Copy !req
152. Thanks, Mark.Copy !req
153. We had a storybook life.Copy !req
154. David was a doctor, a surgeon.Copy !req
155. He put Wendy on a horse
when she was eight years old.Copy !req
156. Every year she
won her age group.Copy !req
157. She had lots of friends.
She liked school.Copy !req
158. Well, sorry to
say, Mrs. Berman...Copy !req
159. but kids don't usually
run away from perfection.Copy !req
160. When she was 13, we sent her to
equestrian camp for the summer.Copy !req
161. On July 17, David
had a heart attack...Copy !req
162. jogging around the
reservoir in Central Park.Copy !req
163. He was dead before
the paramedics arrived.Copy !req
164. And the following year,
Wendy spent with psychiatrists.Copy !req
165. Then the promiscuity started...Copy !req
166. and the drugs.Copy !req
167. And she ran away, but she
always came back in a few days.Copy !req
168. One day she just
didn't come back at all.Copy !req
169. Last year I got a letter.Copy !req
170. She said she was all right...Copy !req
171. but something terrible would
happen if I tried to contact her.Copy !req
172. If we could see that letter.Copy !req
173. I'd like it back,
if that's okay.Copy !req
174. "And the fifth angel
sounded the trumpet...Copy !req
175. "and I saw a star fall from
heaven upon the earth...Copy !req
176. "and there was given to him
the key of the bottomless pit."Copy !req
177. Shrinks did a hell of a job.Copy !req
178. What is it, she
joined a convent?Copy !req
179. Get this. Return address:Copy !req
180. 476 avenue bearing the initial of
our Lord into the New Kingdom.Copy !req
181. Great. This time of day, it's gonna
take us an hour to get downtown.Copy !req
182. Since when do you have
a road map to Heaven?Copy !req
183. I don't. But I've been
up and down Avenue C.Copy !req
184. "C" for Christ.Copy !req
185. For your son.Copy !req
186. Thank you, God, for the delivery of
your son the Savior upon this earth.Copy !req
187. Thank you, God, for the
cleansing of our system senses...Copy !req
188. and the enlightenment
of our souls.Copy !req
189. We are the lambs...Copy !req
190. that you have put among us.Copy !req
191. He will lead us through
the valley, and into...Copy !req
192. We are in search of a
peaceable kingdom, Detective.Copy !req
193. Surely, that can't
be against the law.Copy !req
194. Well, it is, when the path to it runs
through a Wall Street parking garage.Copy !req
195. I read about the explosion.Copy !req
196. I prayed for those
who were injured.Copy !req
197. Yeah. Well, I'm sure you've got a
seat reserved in Heaven, Donald.Copy !req
198. But I'm not too sure about
another member of your flock.Copy !req
199. Wendy Berman.Copy !req
200. Our congregation
has a lot of members.Copy !req
201. I couldn't possibly
know them all.Copy !req
202. Well, Miss Berman used your
church as her mailing address.Copy !req
203. The doors to our Temple are
open to everyone, Det. Briscoe.Copy !req
204. Well, I got tired of pickup
trucks and drive-ins.Copy !req
205. So you traded them in for
subways and street muggings?Copy !req
206. Well, you stay, don't you?Copy !req
207. I was born here. And I
couldn't be happier living here.Copy !req
208. You ever watch the 11:00 news?Copy !req
209. Mike, I'm gonna
get a cup of coffee.Copy !req
210. I see a different city.Copy !req
211. My kid should be so sweet.Copy !req
212. Yeah, well, I'm
starting to get cavities.Copy !req
213. You make it sound
like a small town.Copy !req
214. Things will change, Det. Logan.Copy !req
215. There's a lot more
good in man than evil.Copy !req
216. Is that what they preach
in that church of yours?Copy !req
217. You're a skeptic.Copy !req
218. Ten years in Our Lady of
Mercy will do that to you.Copy !req
219. Sister Theresa, at
Saint Luke's in Boise...Copy !req
220. used to make us have
silent lunch every day.Copy !req
221. We had to wear plaid
skirts below the knees.Copy !req
222. Blue blazers.Copy !req
223. You got it.Copy !req
224. What about your folks,
do they know you're here?Copy !req
225. Two years, my stepfather
probably doesn't even know I'm gone.Copy !req
226. Daniel Hendricks is here.Copy !req
227. He says he's the grand poo-bah.Copy !req
228. I formed the Acherusian
Temple seven years ago.Copy !req
229. The people that come to me
are in search of something...Copy !req
230. although most of them
don't know what it is.Copy !req
231. But you do?Copy !req
232. Well, we're all ultimately in
search of the same thing, Detective.Copy !req
233. What about this girl? How
was her search progressing?Copy !req
234. She was extremely
troubled. So you knew her?Copy !req
235. I found Ruth maybe a year ago.Copy !req
236. She was on the
corner of 12th Street...Copy !req
237. selling her body
for a vial of crack.Copy !req
238. A little prayer and
some real food...Copy !req
239. I thought she was
back on the right path.Copy !req
240. But she zigged when
she should have zagged?Copy !req
241. She disappeared
several months ago.Copy !req
242. You called her Ruth, her
mom called her Wendy.Copy !req
243. She was trying to
forget her past life.Copy !req
244. Can you blame her?Copy !req
245. Most of these kids,
they're stray kittens.Copy !req
246. All they really need is
someone to care about them...Copy !req
247. someone to pay a little
attention when they cry out.Copy !req
248. Yeah. Or a little jail time.Copy !req
249. It's amazing that some
of them have survived.Copy !req
250. Dysfunctional
families, drugs, abuse.Copy !req
251. I won't lie to you, we
don't always succeed.Copy !req
252. But more often than not, I think
we're able to turn their lives around.Copy !req
253. There's nothing else.Copy !req
254. He seems sincere.Copy !req
255. Oh, come on, Lennie.
Church? That's not church.Copy !req
256. Church is stained glass windows
and nuns running around with rulers.Copy !req
257. The gospel according
to Logan. That's right.Copy !req
258. And rule number one
is e girl I just talked to...Copy !req
259. should be giving rave reviews to
her boyfriend, not some Bible-banger.Copy !req
260. You think Hendricks
forced these kids?Copy !req
261. Well, didn't you have
to be dragged to church?Copy !req
262. Hendricks said the Berman girl fell
off the wagon a couple of months ago.Copy !req
263. Yeah. Well, Jim Bakker swears on a stack
he didn't know where the money was going.Copy !req
264. Listen. How many crackheads do you
know can cook up a bomb in a basement?Copy !req
265. Somebody must have helped her.Copy !req
266. See if he'll give you a
list of his congregation.Copy !req
267. And try to be polite.Copy !req
268. Well, nobody here's
running for sainthood.Copy !req
269. Half of them have yellows.Copy !req
270. Narcotics, prostitution,
armed robbery.Copy !req
271. That farm girl you were bonding
with spent six months at Spofford...Copy !req
272. tried to off her pimp
with a pair of scissors.Copy !req
273. Two-to-one he deserved it.Copy !req
274. Hendricks got a commendation from
the city for his work with street kids.Copy !req
275. Yeah, clean them
up, feed them...Copy !req
276. then fill their heads
with religious garbage.Copy !req
277. You're so sure it's garbage?Copy !req
278. Listen.Copy !req
279. My old lady had a
rosary in her left hand...Copy !req
280. while she beat the crap
out of me with her right.Copy !req
281. Next time I go to a church...Copy !req
282. six of my closest buddies
will be carrying me.Copy !req
283. It's going to be a lot sooner
than that, Mike. Look at this.Copy !req
284. '82, Saint Paul's Lutheran on 23rd
tossed Hendricks from their congregation.Copy !req
285. They got a restraining order to keep
him 100 yards from their front door.Copy !req
286. I bet that wasn't just for
singing off-key at choir practice.Copy !req
287. Daniel Hendricks was
young, charismatic...Copy !req
288. knew the scriptures
backwards and forward.Copy !req
289. By himself he expanded
our congregation by 50%.Copy !req
290. Sounds like a guy you'd
want to keep around.Copy !req
291. He was also crazy.Copy !req
292. And became crazier when the
membership chose me as their president.Copy !req
293. Did he ever threaten you?Copy !req
294. One Sunday, he
stood on the pulpit...Copy !req
295. screaming that we would
all die in a lake of fire.Copy !req
296. Yeah, well, he's got
his own pulpit now.Copy !req
297. "Beware of false prophets which
come to you in sheep's clothing...Copy !req
298. "but inwardly they
are ravening wolves."Copy !req
299. Yeah, but his congregation
seems to think he's the real thing.Copy !req
300. The real thing doesn't
ask you to donate...Copy !req
301. all the money you can
steal from your parents.Copy !req
302. I wouldn't call what
he has a congregation.Copy !req
303. I'd call it a cult.Copy !req
304. Danny always had to be on top.Copy !req
305. President of the class,
captain of the basketball team.Copy !req
306. Leader of the congregation.Copy !req
307. My son played the lead in
the school play, year after year.Copy !req
308. I thought he'd become an actor.Copy !req
309. Are you disappointed?Copy !req
310. Danny's alive,
that's all I can ask for.Copy !req
311. They found my oldest dead in
the bathroom of a gas station...Copy !req
312. with a needle in his arm.Copy !req
313. One of these days...Copy !req
314. maybe he'll stop trying
to save the world...Copy !req
315. get married, raise a family.Copy !req
316. Any prospects?Copy !req
317. One of those kids that
hangs around his church.Copy !req
318. Pretty girl.Copy !req
319. Ruth something or other.Copy !req
320. Is this her?Copy !req
321. She was older, but, yeah.Copy !req
322. When was the last
time you saw her?Copy !req
323. Maybe a month ago.Copy !req
324. She and Danny came for dinner.Copy !req
325. He lied about the girl.
He saw her a month ago.Copy !req
326. Maybe he can't tell time. Maybe he
just didn't want any trouble at the church.Copy !req
327. Okay, I'll make the call.Copy !req
328. Hey. Fax from Washington.Copy !req
329. Hendricks was booted out of
the military on a psycho discharge.Copy !req
330. You've got to bay at the moon
before they give you a Section Eight.Copy !req
331. Special Forces. I'm impressed.Copy !req
332. Yeah, well, his military
training might've come in handy.Copy !req
333. Guess what his specialty
was? Demolitions.Copy !req
334. Making a bomb out of
fertilizer and diesel fuel...Copy !req
335. would be a walk in the
park for a Green Beret.Copy !req
336. Diesel fuel.Copy !req
337. The car that blew up. It
was a Mercedes 300D, right?Copy !req
338. The "D" stands for diesel.Copy !req
339. They wanted to siphon
gas from the tank.Copy !req
340. The Egyptian said he drove to Albany and
back. That would make the tank near empty.Copy !req
341. If we're lucky, the
preacher refueled.Copy !req
342. You know how many gas
stations there are in this city?Copy !req
343. I know there aren't that
many that sell diesel.Copy !req
344. Start on Avenue C,
work your way up.Copy !req
345. You're kidding.Copy !req
346. That guy was a preacher?Copy !req
347. Are you saying he was in here?Copy !req
348. Him and his honey.Copy !req
349. Real kumquat, you
know what I'm saying?Copy !req
350. This her?Copy !req
351. Sure is.Copy !req
352. What's a preacher doing
with a honey like that?Copy !req
353. Any chance he
used his credit card?Copy !req
354. After 7:00, it's cash
only, exact change.Copy !req
355. Dude had a $20, which
meant a $4 tip for me.Copy !req
356. Now you're sure that was him?Copy !req
357. Around here, a guy comes in
with diplomatic plates, I remember.Copy !req
358. Being a fanatic's
not against the law.Copy !req
359. His girlfriend had ammonium
nitrate under her nails.Copy !req
360. They bought the
diesel fuel together.Copy !req
361. It doesn't mean he knew
what she was going to do with it.Copy !req
362. The girl liked to ride horses.Copy !req
363. What does she know
about explosives?Copy !req
364. Hendricks spent four years
blowing up things for the army.Copy !req
365. You have a motive?Copy !req
366. Who knows? Maybe
he saw a burning bush.Copy !req
367. Look, he lied about
seeing the girl.Copy !req
368. We can get the
entire congregation...Copy !req
369. from his old church
to swear he's a nut job.Copy !req
370. We're talking arson
and felony murder.Copy !req
371. Pick him up.Copy !req
372. And I saw another man...Copy !req
373. and he was up to his
knees in the river of fire.Copy !req
374. And his hands were
outstretched and bloody...Copy !req
375. and worms came
out of his mouth...Copy !req
376. - and from his nostrils.
- All right...Copy !req
377. boys and girls, church is out!Copy !req
378. And he was groaning,
weeping and crying.Copy !req
379. Daniel Hendricks, you're under
arrest for the murder of Wendy Berman.Copy !req
380. You have the right... And he
said, "Help me from this suffering...Copy !req
381. "for I shall see..." Mike,
tell him about his right...Copy !req
382. to keep his mouth shut.Copy !req
383. "I am all and in all." You
have the right to remain silent.Copy !req
384. Anything you say can be used
against you in a court of law.Copy !req
385. Do you understand that?Copy !req
386. "And he laid his hand upon me...Copy !req
387. "saying unto me, 'Fear not,
I am the first and the last."Copy !req
388. Your client lied about his
contact with the deceased.Copy !req
389. He recognized the ramifications
of Miss Berman's actions.Copy !req
390. Admittedly, it was
inappropriate behavior, but...Copy !req
391. Inappropriate, Louise, is
using the wrong fork for salad.Copy !req
392. I was trying to
protect the Temple.Copy !req
393. By purchasing diesel
fuel in a stolen car?Copy !req
394. Ruth told me it was her father's
car. Why wouldn't I believe her?Copy !req
395. Bottom line, the most you
can hang on Mr. Hendricks...Copy !req
396. is possession of a stolen auto.Copy !req
397. And that's assuming
you can show knowledge.Copy !req
398. He not only had knowledge,
he had intent. And what?Copy !req
399. You're gonna prove it with a
Ouija board? See you in court, Ben.Copy !req
400. Of course you convinced
the grand jury, Ben.Copy !req
401. Your voice is the
only one they heard.Copy !req
402. I presented the facts, they
drew the obvious conclusion.Copy !req
403. Well, all you can
prove for sure...Copy !req
404. is that this Berman
girl planted the bomb.Copy !req
405. Unless this Hendricks fellow
has a pocket full of miracles...Copy !req
406. she's still six feet under.Copy !req
407. Someone had to teach her
how. Hendricks had the expertise.Copy !req
408. I know how to scramble eggs.
Doesn't mean I made breakfast.Copy !req
409. That is not entirely
analogous, Adam.Copy !req
410. To a jury it is.Copy !req
411. That's why you're gonna
withdraw the indictment...Copy !req
412. unless I can see you connect the dots
with something more than a number 2 pencil.Copy !req
413. I doubt we're gonna get anything
out of the other Acherusians.Copy !req
414. I read the police transcripts.
They're like family.Copy !req
415. They won't turn on Hendricks.Copy !req
416. These people have
real families, don't they?Copy !req
417. For years we made excuses.
Donny was hyperactive.Copy !req
418. Donny had a learning disability.Copy !req
419. Judy and I both worked.Copy !req
420. Then you wake up one morning and
realize that the cause is irrelevant...Copy !req
421. and you have no energy
left to deal with the effect.Copy !req
422. When was the last time
you spoke with Donald?Copy !req
423. Two years ago.Copy !req
424. He asked me to invade the principal
of the trust his grandfather left him.Copy !req
425. Did he say what he
needed the money for?Copy !req
426. For God's work, what else?Copy !req
427. When he first got involved with Hendricks,
I thought, maybe it'll do some good.Copy !req
428. The rehab programs
certainly didn't work.Copy !req
429. Well, there was no evidence
of drug use in the Temple.Copy !req
430. Hendricks' brand of religion's not
the opiate of the masses, Miss Kincaid.Copy !req
431. It's the crack cocaine.Copy !req
432. We graduated from high school,
got married, moved to the Big Apple.Copy !req
433. We figured it'd be
two years, tops...Copy !req
434. before one of us hit the neon
lights and the grease paint.Copy !req
435. I guess the closest
we came was...Copy !req
436. Judy working the refreshment stand
at Sunday in the Park with George.Copy !req
437. Well, it pays the rent.Copy !req
438. Sure, if it's a one room
walk-up on West 46th.Copy !req
439. I mean, we could've
survived, but...Copy !req
440. Joanne came along,
the show closed.Copy !req
441. And you met Daniel Hendricks.Copy !req
442. Like manna from heaven.Copy !req
443. But at that point in my life, a little
prayer wasn't such a bad thing.Copy !req
444. And Daniel, I don't
know. He just made sense.Copy !req
445. So, why did you leave?Copy !req
446. One day, I was playing
cards with Joanne, Go Fish...Copy !req
447. and I said, "It's Daddy's turn."Copy !req
448. And she looked right at me,
and she said, "You're not Daddy.Copy !req
449. "Daniel is Daddy, Daniel
is everybody's Daddy."Copy !req
450. Why didn't your
wife leave with you?Copy !req
451. She couldn't. She
agreed with Joanne.Copy !req
452. It took over a
year, a court order...Copy !req
453. and every penny my parents had to
get my daughter out of that nuthouse.Copy !req
454. I'm sorry I can't
be of more help.Copy !req
455. I never heard Daniel talk
about blowing up buildings.Copy !req
456. But I wouldn't put
anything past him.Copy !req
457. Hendricks preys upon
the lonely and vulnerable.Copy !req
458. They've got the limp,
he supplies the crutch.Copy !req
459. That isn't a crime.Copy !req
460. I assume nobody heard anything
about blowing up buildings?Copy !req
461. No, it's part of his scam.Copy !req
462. Once you're on the inside,
the rest of the world is off-limits.Copy !req
463. Kids stop talking
to their parents...Copy !req
464. wives will have nothing
to do with their husbands.Copy !req
465. That doesn't get us into court.Copy !req
466. There is one
thing. It's a stretch.Copy !req
467. In the letter Wendy Berman
wrote to her mother, she said:Copy !req
468. "If you try to contact me,
something bad will happen."Copy !req
469. A former church member
told me his wife couldn't leave.Copy !req
470. We might be able to
make a case for kidnapping.Copy !req
471. Kidnapping?Copy !req
472. That requires restraint.
They are restrained.Copy !req
473. They're brainwashed. They are
physically unable to leave the church.Copy !req
474. Wendy Berman died while
under Hendricks' control.Copy !req
475. So we still charge
him with felony murder.Copy !req
476. Only in this case, the predicate
felony isn't arson, it's kidnapping.Copy !req
477. Kidnapping! Ben, please.Copy !req
478. The Temple doesn't even
have a lock on the front door.Copy !req
479. Case law has been expanding
the definition of the word "restraint"...Copy !req
480. as used in the statute.Copy !req
481. When they expand it to
the ethereal, give me a call.Copy !req
482. The members of Hendricks'
Temple were powerless to leave.Copy !req
483. And I can't drag myself out of Rumplemyer's
without eating a hunk of cheesecake.Copy !req
484. You gonna give the chef 7-to-21?Copy !req
485. We're serious
about this, Louise.Copy !req
486. Then we have got ourselves
a real situation here, Ben.Copy !req
487. You don't have a case...Copy !req
488. and I don't have a client that
can help me defend against it.Copy !req
489. I just spent three
hours with him.Copy !req
490. Whatever criminal acts that
man may have committed...Copy !req
491. I assure you he is
not legally responsible.Copy !req
492. He's zealous, Louise.
He's not insane.Copy !req
493. Billy Sunday was
zealous, Ben. This guy's...Copy !req
494. Look, I am pleading him guilty
by reason of mental defect.Copy !req
495. You want to waste the
taxpayers' time and money, fine.Copy !req
496. He needs help, and I don't
mean the kind dished out...Copy !req
497. by a couple of 200-pound
prison guards up in Attica.Copy !req
498. Be my guest, have your
own expert chat with him.Copy !req
499. Who hasn't wished for simple
answers to complex questions?Copy !req
500. It's everyone's dilemma. Who
am I? What am I supposed to do?Copy !req
501. Why am I here? Tell me
you've never wondered.Copy !req
502. Of course I have.Copy !req
503. Did you find the
answers in science?Copy !req
504. I've accepted that
there are no answers.Copy !req
505. Well, that might
work for a while.Copy !req
506. But when something hurts, when
there's a sudden need, you'll want more.Copy !req
507. And you found the answer.Copy !req
508. I know what you're
saying. I denied it myself.Copy !req
509. I didn't want to be what I am.Copy !req
510. But I was chosen.Copy !req
511. The choice was His, not mine.Copy !req
512. He gave you a sign?Copy !req
513. My brother, Mark...Copy !req
514. was once a loving human being,
turned into a drug-crazed animal.Copy !req
515. I have no choice.
That's my real burden.Copy !req
516. What burden is that, Daniel?Copy !req
517. Don't you see evil
everywhere you look?Copy !req
518. We're living in Babylon.Copy !req
519. And he asked you
to destroy it? No.Copy !req
520. I don't hear little voices,
Doctor. I am not crazy.Copy !req
521. Do you want me to
sound like a minister?Copy !req
522. It's the fornicators,
adulterers, sodomites...Copy !req
523. those who defile God
and worship Mammon.Copy !req
524. Do you want me to
sound like everyone else?Copy !req
525. Go outside and look around.Copy !req
526. He's a manic-depressive.Copy !req
527. He has delusions of both
grandeur and persecution.Copy !req
528. But he can be very subtle
and convincing, even charming.Copy !req
529. He actually believes
he's the Messiah?Copy !req
530. He believes God
commanded him to combat evil.Copy !req
531. And he does this
by setting off bombs?Copy !req
532. The defining moment of his life was
when his older brother died of an overdose.Copy !req
533. At first, he blamed the pushers, but
then he saw a greater conspiracy...Copy !req
534. the manufacturers, the
importers, the moneymen.Copy !req
535. The Colombian bank
in the Calloway building.Copy !req
536. The FBI's been after them
for laundering for years.Copy !req
537. Exactly.Copy !req
538. Liz, can he distinguish
between right and wrong?Copy !req
539. On his own terms, sure.Copy !req
540. Everything he does is predicated
on Judeo-Christian fundamentalism.Copy !req
541. In his mind he believes that planting
the bomb was an act necessary...Copy !req
542. to save humanity and
fulfill the higher will of God.Copy !req
543. I'm sorry, but in my opinion...Copy !req
544. Daniel Hendricks cannot be held
legally responsible for his actions.Copy !req
545. "Docket number 583906...Copy !req
546. "People v. Daniel
Thomas Hendricks."Copy !req
547. It says here Judge Myer has
ordered your client held without bail.Copy !req
548. I'm not wont to set aside the
decision of a colleague, Miss Fryman.Copy !req
549. This doesn't concern
bail, Your Honor.Copy !req
550. The defense wishes to
withdraw its plea of not guilty...Copy !req
551. and enter a plea of guilty
by reason of mental defect.Copy !req
552. Miss Kincaid? The State
accepts the plea, Your Honor.Copy !req
553. We have already
arranged for Mr. Hendricks...Copy !req
554. to enter a state mental
facility for treatment.Copy !req
555. Wait a minute,
nobody talked to me.Copy !req
556. It's the best thing.
I am not insane.Copy !req
557. I would listen to
my attorney, sir.Copy !req
558. She's no longer my
attorney. You're fired.Copy !req
559. I'll keep my plea of
not guilty, Your Honor.Copy !req
560. Mr. Hendricks, I assume you'll
have new counsel for the trial.Copy !req
561. I am all, and in all.Copy !req
562. He is smarter than he is crazy.
But considering Liz's report...Copy !req
563. he'd stand a better chance
getting a parole board's approval...Copy !req
564. than that of a panel
of psychiatrists.Copy !req
565. Somehow I don't think Hendricks thinks
he needs anyone's stamp of approval.Copy !req
566. And I have to go into court
and play the head Pharisee.Copy !req
567. Only now the defendant has
much better representation.Copy !req
568. His new attorney just filed notice
of appearance. Nicholas Burke.Copy !req
569. I bet he had to pass
the collection plate twice.Copy !req
570. His first order of business,
motion to dismiss on the grounds...Copy !req
571. that the indictment violates the
Acherusians' right to freedom of religion.Copy !req
572. Religion by kidnapping,
Ben? This better be good.Copy !req
573. Your Honor, we are
not attacking religion.Copy !req
574. We are attacking Mr. Hendricks'
abuse of that religion...Copy !req
575. to manipulate the vulnerable.Copy !req
576. Ben, the Supreme Court
prohibited judicial intervention...Copy !req
577. into internal church matters.Copy !req
578. This is not about internal
disputes, Your Honor.Copy !req
579. It's about manipulation.
It's about brainwashing.Copy !req
580. Show me one religion...Copy !req
581. that isn't at least one
part brainwashing.Copy !req
582. These people, once they enter the church,
it's almost impossible for them to leave.Copy !req
583. They take vows.Copy !req
584. So do monks and
nuns and priests.Copy !req
585. Your Honor, the Constitution clearly
bars excessive government entanglement...Copy !req
586. in the affairs of religion.Copy !req
587. And the Ballard case holds
that courts are only barred...Copy !req
588. from adjudicating the
truth of religious beliefs.Copy !req
589. Thank you for
making my point, Ben.Copy !req
590. We are not questioning
what the Acherusians believe...Copy !req
591. we are questioning the
means and the purpose...Copy !req
592. for which Mr. Hendricks
instilled those beliefs.Copy !req
593. Well, I haven't been
overruled in six months.Copy !req
594. I'm gonna let this one go ahead.Copy !req
595. But, Ben, if I hear one word
questioning the doctrines of this church...Copy !req
596. it's an immediate mistrial.
I understand, Your Honor.Copy !req
597. And I doubt that your next
judge will be as progressive as I.Copy !req
598. Well, while you were
out making up new law...Copy !req
599. Nicholas Burke turned this
into the Scopes trial revisited.Copy !req
600. He looks like Clarence Darrow,
we look like the Spanish inquisition.Copy !req
601. This is not about
religion, Adam.Copy !req
602. It's about freedom of choice...Copy !req
603. which became unavailable
to the kids in this church.Copy !req
604. Tough to prove.Copy !req
605. One kid after another testified that he
entered the church of his own free will.Copy !req
606. Which he couldn't
have left if he wanted to.Copy !req
607. Religion and choice...Copy !req
608. strange bedfellows
for 2000 years.Copy !req
609. Well, I never had a problem
with religion and choice.Copy !req
610. Oh, no?Copy !req
611. Let me guess. Agnostic?Copy !req
612. Give yourself 40 years.Copy !req
613. I've been away from the
Temple for almost two years now.Copy !req
614. Have you seen your
wife in that time?Copy !req
615. Only in a courtroom.Copy !req
616. I had to sue to get my
daughter out of there.Copy !req
617. Did you ask your wife to
leave the Temple with you?Copy !req
618. Of course. But she was scared.Copy !req
619. She believed Daniel.Copy !req
620. What did he say
that she believed in?Copy !req
621. Those who did not accept him...Copy !req
622. would drown in a river of fire.Copy !req
623. Thank you.Copy !req
624. In your opinion...Copy !req
625. did your wife really believe
there was a river made out of fire?Copy !req
626. No, it was a metaphor.Copy !req
627. I see.Copy !req
628. Did Mr. Hendricks ever give you a
key to the front door of the Temple?Copy !req
629. There was no key.Copy !req
630. That's because that door was
never locked, isn't that right?Copy !req
631. Yes.Copy !req
632. So people could come
and go as they pleased?Copy !req
633. That's right.Copy !req
634. As a matter of fact, no one
tried to stop you when you left.Copy !req
635. Isn't that right?Copy !req
636. You don't understand.
These people are scared...Copy !req
637. they... Of a metaphor.Copy !req
638. That would certainly have
me shaking in my boots.Copy !req
639. Had I known she was
involved with this man...Copy !req
640. I surely would have
done something.Copy !req
641. How did you think
that she was involved?Copy !req
642. In her letter, she quoted
a lot from the Bible.Copy !req
643. I thought it was
something religious.Copy !req
644. Is this the letter
you're referring to?Copy !req
645. Yes.Copy !req
646. Please read the
highlighted portion.Copy !req
647. Objection, Your
Honor. It's hearsay.Copy !req
648. Your Honor, it is
offered to show...Copy !req
649. the declarant's
then-existing state of mind.Copy !req
650. Overruled.Copy !req
651. You can read the
letter, Mrs. Berman.Copy !req
652. "I am fine.Copy !req
653. "But I fear what will happen
if you try to contact me."Copy !req
654. Thank you.Copy !req
655. Referring to the
letter, Mrs. Berman...Copy !req
656. does your daughter say
specifically who she's scared of?Copy !req
657. No.Copy !req
658. So it could be her boyfriend,
her next-door neighbor...Copy !req
659. even the bogeyman
for all that matter.Copy !req
660. We get the point,
Mr. Burke. Continue.Copy !req
661. Who is Doctor Goodwin?Copy !req
662. He was Wendy's psychiatrist.Copy !req
663. And Wendy started seeing him...Copy !req
664. after she tried
to kill herself...Copy !req
665. by slitting her wrists with a
kitchen knife. Isn't that right?Copy !req
666. Her father died. She was upset.Copy !req
667. Do you ever think, Mrs. Berman, that
maybe Wendy never got over his death?Copy !req
668. That maybe she finally found a
more efficient way to end her life?Copy !req
669. Wendy didn't know
anything about bombs.Copy !req
670. How do you know?Copy !req
671. You hadn't seen her
in, what, four years?Copy !req
672. For every step forward that we
take on direct, we lose three on cross.Copy !req
673. Yeah. Well, what'd you expect?Copy !req
674. You're crawling out
on a very weak limb.Copy !req
675. Unless there's a patsy
on Burke's witness list...Copy !req
676. you can plan on
a very long fall.Copy !req
677. But that's the basis of my case.Copy !req
678. He has them under his
spell, they can't turn on him.Copy !req
679. There may be someone who will.Copy !req
680. Joanne Rudolph, her father
just won a court battle for custody.Copy !req
681. No. You can't expect an 8-year-old
to say that she was brainwashed?Copy !req
682. No. But a jury might
see that for themselves.Copy !req
683. When my dad left the Temple...Copy !req
684. Daniel said that he
would be chained...Copy !req
685. and devoured by worms.Copy !req
686. Joanne, did Daniel tell
you why that would happen?Copy !req
687. That's what happens
when you forsake the Lamb.Copy !req
688. And did you believe him?Copy !req
689. I was scared.Copy !req
690. Did you want to leave the
Temple when your father left?Copy !req
691. I wanted to be safe.Copy !req
692. What was it that you
wanted to be safe from?Copy !req
693. The world will end
with a great explosion...Copy !req
694. and be consumed
by a river of fire...Copy !req
695. and only those who accept
the Lamb will be saved.Copy !req
696. Now, Joanne, who is the Lamb?Copy !req
697. Daniel.Copy !req
698. Thank you.Copy !req
699. Joanne...Copy !req
700. did you ever hear Daniel
tell anyone to plant a bomb?Copy !req
701. No.Copy !req
702. Thank you.Copy !req
703. Of course nobody forced
me. The Temple saved my life.Copy !req
704. So, if you wanted to
leave, that was okay?Copy !req
705. I left every day. I worked
in a grocery in the Village.Copy !req
706. Barbara...Copy !req
707. do you feel that Mr. Hendricks
brainwashed you in any way?Copy !req
708. Daniel did for us what our parents,
our teachers, our doctors didn't do.Copy !req
709. He loved us and respected us.Copy !req
710. He taught us to be better human
beings by following the ways of the Lord.Copy !req
711. Thank you.Copy !req
712. Miss Munn...Copy !req
713. for all these things
that Daniel did for you...Copy !req
714. what did he get in return?Copy !req
715. Our love and respect.Copy !req
716. What about your faith?Copy !req
717. My faith is in the
word of the Lord.Copy !req
718. As interpreted by
Daniel Hendricks, right?Copy !req
719. Yes.Copy !req
720. Now, didn't Daniel Hendricks
speak to you often of the Apocalypse?Copy !req
721. Yes. Does that scare you?Copy !req
722. God cares more for one righteous man
than for a whole generation of the ungodly.Copy !req
723. Yes. But didn't
Mr. Hendricks say...Copy !req
724. that the people who worked in
the Calloway building were ungodly?Copy !req
725. He said they are faithful
only to their greed.Copy !req
726. And did you believe him?Copy !req
727. True faith is blind faith.Copy !req
728. So that if he asked you to
never contact your parents...Copy !req
729. you wouldn't question him?Copy !req
730. Daniel knows what's best for me.Copy !req
731. And if he asked you to go on a
five-day fast you'd believe him, right?Copy !req
732. Of course. And if he
asked you to plant a bomb...Copy !req
733. Objection.Copy !req
734. I can't ignore the word
of the Lord, Mr. Stone.Copy !req
735. They are all lost souls
when they come to me.Copy !req
736. They're involved with
drugs, alcohol, crime.Copy !req
737. And what do you do with them?Copy !req
738. I teach them that
they are misguided.Copy !req
739. They shouldn't try to escape
their problems by running away.Copy !req
740. They should eliminate
them by running toward.Copy !req
741. - Towards what, sir?
- God.Copy !req
742. And in God they
will find peace...Copy !req
743. and love and eternal happiness.Copy !req
744. Tell us about Wendy
Berman, Mr. Hendricks.Copy !req
745. Wendy prayed with
us at the Temple.Copy !req
746. We convinced her to give
up drugs and prostitution.Copy !req
747. Did she ever tell you
anything about her plan...Copy !req
748. to plant a bomb in a
Wall Street garage?Copy !req
749. Absolutely not.Copy !req
750. Mr. Hendricks...Copy !req
751. if you had known of Wendy Berman's
plan, what would you have done?Copy !req
752. We do not preach destruction.Copy !req
753. Certainly, I would have
tried to discourage her.Copy !req
754. But do you have any idea why she
chose that particular building to destroy?Copy !req
755. The love of money
is the root of all evil.Copy !req
756. Therefore the money lenders are at
the foundation of this new Babylon.Copy !req
757. Oh, yes.Copy !req
758. Well, isn't this new Babylon,
isn't that to be destroyed, too, sir?Copy !req
759. The great earthquake, the
turning of the rivers into blood...Copy !req
760. the darkening of the
sun and the moon...Copy !req
761. the stars falling from the sky,
the plagues will visit the wicked.Copy !req
762. I understand that,
Mr. Hendricks.Copy !req
763. But what's supposed
to happen after that?Copy !req
764. The Messiah shall appear...Copy !req
765. and lead the worthy
into the City of God.Copy !req
766. And isn't that what you
taught to Wendy Berman?Copy !req
767. It is the gospel.Copy !req
768. And didn't she believe
everything you preached?Copy !req
769. I took her out of
the burning pit...Copy !req
770. and led her into the City.Copy !req
771. Are you supposed to do
that for all of humanity?Copy !req
772. You cannot survive without me.Copy !req
773. Oh, to the contrary, sir.Copy !req
774. We will not only
survive. We will endure.Copy !req
775. Is there a question
here, Your Honor?Copy !req
776. Are you claiming to
be the Messiah, sir?Copy !req
777. I am a man...Copy !req
778. approved of God among you...Copy !req
779. with miracles and
wonders and signs.Copy !req
780. Yes. But didn't Jesus warn...Copy !req
781. that, "anyone say unto you,
that, Lo, here is the Christ...Copy !req
782. "believe it not"?Copy !req
783. No further questions.Copy !req
784. There was a great explosion and
the person responsible for it is dead.Copy !req
785. Wendy Berman
caused her own death.Copy !req
786. The case should be closed.Copy !req
787. But the folks at
the DA's office...Copy !req
788. have a hard time sleeping...Copy !req
789. when they think someone is murdered
and there is no one left to put in jail.Copy !req
790. So they racked their brains,
and they came up with my client.Copy !req
791. He kidnapped poor Wendy.Copy !req
792. She died while under his
control. He's responsible.Copy !req
793. But what exactly did he do?Copy !req
794. He didn't lock
Wendy in a closet.Copy !req
795. He didn't tie her
to a chair. No.Copy !req
796. He made her give up drugs.Copy !req
797. He made her give up crime.Copy !req
798. My God! He actually
made her read the Bible.Copy !req
799. And that, according to
Mr. Stone, is brainwashing.Copy !req
800. And the son of a
bitch should rot in jail.Copy !req
801. Two hundred years ago this
kind of thing went on all the time.Copy !req
802. That's why we loaded up
the ships, sailed the seas...Copy !req
803. and set up shop here.Copy !req
804. Beware of the false prophet.Copy !req
805. In the last century, he rode
on a horse-drawn wagon...Copy !req
806. and he sold snake oil.Copy !req
807. And in the '70s, he carried a
briefcase and a calculator...Copy !req
808. and he sold real
estate in Florida.Copy !req
809. But Mr. Hendricks, he doesn't
sell snake oil or real estate.Copy !req
810. He sells death and
he sells destruction.Copy !req
811. He doesn't call it that.Copy !req
812. He bottles it as the Apocalypse.Copy !req
813. And Wendy Berman bought it.Copy !req
814. The perfect victim for a
charlatan, a conman, a grifter.Copy !req
815. And it's interesting that he chose
to camouflage his scam in religion.Copy !req
816. That's the genius of it, see?Copy !req
817. If you proclaim
from the pulpit...Copy !req
818. and quote from the Good Book...Copy !req
819. it is an almost inescapable trap
for the innocent and the vulnerable.Copy !req
820. And Wendy Berman
came to that with her need.Copy !req
821. And Mr. Hendricks
gave her the hope.Copy !req
822. But the hope he gave her was a ruse
to get her to do what he wanted her to...Copy !req
823. which was murder.Copy !req
824. But in the end, it was
Wendy Berman that was killed.Copy !req
825. On the first count
of the indictment...Copy !req
826. kidnapping in
the first degree...Copy !req
827. how do you find?Copy !req
828. We find the defendant guilty.Copy !req
829. On the second count,
murder in the second degree...Copy !req
830. how do you find?Copy !req
831. Guilty.Copy !req
832. Forgive them Lord, for
they know not what they do.Copy !req
833. Thumbtacks in his palms.Copy !req
834. At least he didn't
try walking on water.Copy !req
835. Next, I want to see you
pull out the tablecloth...Copy !req
836. and leave the glasses standing.Copy !req
837. No way you should
have won this case.Copy !req
838. I sold the jury a bit
of my own snake oil.Copy !req
839. There's no question that Hendricks was
responsible for Wendy Berman's death.Copy !req
840. Yes, but he was not
entirely a conman.Copy !req
841. He actually believed
in his own deification.Copy !req
842. Yes?Copy !req
843. Oh, my God.Copy !req
844. Call the ME's office.
And keep the media out.Copy !req
845. There's more in the other room.Copy !req
846. Come on, Mike.Copy !req