1. In the criminal
justice system...Copy !req
2. sexually-based offensesCopy !req
3. are considered
especially heinous.Copy !req
4. In New York City,
the dedicated detectivesCopy !req
5. who investigate
these vicious felonies...Copy !req
6. are members of an elite squadCopy !req
7. known as
the Special Victims Unit.Copy !req
8. These are their stories.Copy !req
9. I found her moaning, half-naked,
bleeding from her chest and privates.Copy !req
10. Couldn't tell her age.
Her face was too badly beaten.Copy !req
11. She moan anything
you could make out?Copy !req
12. Nothing that sounded
like words.Copy !req
13. We got this call 45 minutes
ago. Why is she still here?Copy !req
14. They've only been here
five minutes.Copy !req
15. Moses wasn't available
to part the morning rush hour.Copy !req
16. Deep stab wound, left chest.Copy !req
17. Hand me a 4 by 4.Copy !req
18. I was afraid to move her. I called
for the bus, I put a rush on it.Copy !req
19. What have we got?Copy !req
20. Good old-fashioned stoning,
New York style.Copy !req
21. My guess,
after the stabbing and rape.Copy !req
22. What about the weapon?Copy !req
23. Nothing yet.
Any ID?Copy !req
24. Still looking.Copy !req
25. BP 90 over 60. That's as
good as we're gonna get.Copy !req
26. Let's get her
out of here.Copy !req
27. What is this, open season?Copy !req
28. A few drinks, a little smoke, a bunch
of guys wet down a couple dozen women?Copy !req
29. Wilding's back in vogue.Copy !req
30. I hate that word "wilding. "Copy !req
31. Like it's some kind of party.Copy !req
32. You ride,
I'll cover the scene?Copy !req
33. Is there anything I can tell
the chief of detectives...Copy !req
34. when he calls me
for the fifth time?Copy !req
35. Female Jane Doe,
probably in her 20s.Copy !req
36. She was raped, stabbed, and
beaten with stones. Left for dead.Copy !req
37. No clue who she is?Copy !req
38. We grid-searched,
put divers in the pond.Copy !req
39. The scene was
pretty much trampled.Copy !req
40. It could have been a dump job.
No ID, no knife.Copy !req
41. I rode the bus with her.Copy !req
42. She was mumbling something in Arabic or
Hebrew. Nothing that I could make out.Copy !req
43. Thanks.Copy !req
44. That was the hospital. They
got post-op photos for us.Copy !req
45. They poured four units in her.
It's touch and go she'll survive.Copy !req
46. What about
the rape kit?Copy !req
47. It turned up hair, semen, bruising, and
blood from a freshly perforated hymen.Copy !req
48. A virgin.Copy !req
49. You know what the chief was telling
me during our last conversation?Copy !req
50. It's pucker time, folks.Copy !req
51. Now, call every precinct,
transit, and housing district.Copy !req
52. See if anybody
reported her missing.Copy !req
53. Go talk
to the park precinct captain.Copy !req
54. See if there's any ongoing
problems we should know about.Copy !req
55. But be warned,
that guy is a jerk times 10.Copy !req
56. Crime in the park
is the lowest in 30 years.Copy !req
57. It was different today.Copy !req
58. Today was an anomaly.
That's why I'm out here.Copy !req
59. All we're asking is whether you have any
wolf-pack type activity on your radar.Copy !req
60. Like the wilding after
the Portofino Day Parade.Copy !req
61. Another anomaly.Copy !req
62. Look, we get the usual isolated
incidents, but no gangs. Not in my park.Copy !req
63. Captain, one more question...Copy !req
64. Look, call me.
I got people waiting.Copy !req
65. Had a nice chat with
your superior. Lovely guy.Copy !req
66. Capt. Walson give you
the not-in-my-park routine?Copy !req
67. Why? You know different?Copy !req
68. He's worried about getting his ass
dragged down to the Morris Commission.Copy !req
69. Why, what's he spooked about?Copy !req
70. The brass versus big bucks,
with him in the middle.Copy !req
71. Bunch of private school punks on their
mountain bikes trying to be gangsters...Copy !req
72. who get their kicks lifting purses,
or surrounding some pretty thing...Copy !req
73. and scaring the hell
out of her.Copy !req
74. And he didn't tell us this
because...Copy !req
75. Because he didn't spot
this pattern till yesterday.Copy !req
76. Know who these kids are?Copy !req
77. Yeah, I busted one of
their leaders last week.Copy !req
78. Hi. I'm Detective Benson.
This is Detective Stabler.Copy !req
79. What now?Copy !req
80. Is Chris Lyons at home?Copy !req
81. You want to talk to him?
Here, call our attorney.Copy !req
82. We can either do this the easy
way, or we can do it your way.Copy !req
83. Now, your way means
a search warrant.Copy !req
84. Six officers
inside your townhouse...Copy !req
85. turning it upside down
well into the evening.Copy !req
86. I'm sure your neighbors
would understand.Copy !req
87. We'll meet you
at our attorney's office.Copy !req
88. Is there a reason
you're harassing my client?Copy !req
89. Yeah. Your client
was arrested last week...Copy !req
90. for threatening a mother
walking her infant in a stroller.Copy !req
91. She was a dime, yo.Copy !req
92. Chris.
I was just checking her out.Copy !req
93. We've already
answered that charge.Copy !req
94. Hey, yo, where were you
early this morning?Copy !req
95. My God. You're talking
about that woman.Copy !req
96. The attack in the park.Copy !req
97. How dare you accuse my son...Copy !req
98. David.Copy !req
99. I wasn't there.Copy !req
100. He was home all night.Copy !req
101. And don't you
say another word.Copy !req
102. How about we hear
about it from him?Copy !req
103. How about we don't?
He's 15.Copy !req
104. Hey, yo, homeys,
you walk the walk.Copy !req
105. You got it in you
to talk the talk?Copy !req
106. So we like to look
at the ladies.Copy !req
107. But what happened to that
lady, we're not down with that.Copy !req
108. What are you down with?Copy !req
109. Dot-comming.Copy !req
110. From 1:00 in the morning
till Pops here kicked me off.Copy !req
111. Around 9:00.
You can check our records.Copy !req
112. We'll be in touch with you.Copy !req
113. What have we got?Copy !req
114. Lab called.
It's not what we thought.Copy !req
115. Your victim only had
one person's DNA inside her.Copy !req
116. She was dumped
after she was stabbed.Copy !req
117. Are you sure about that?Copy !req
118. Hospital says she lost
half her blood volume.Copy !req
119. We didn't find anywhere near
that amount of blood at the scene.Copy !req
120. Okay. Fibers?Copy !req
121. White cotton.Copy !req
122. Found in the blood, on her
clothes, her legs and genitals.Copy !req
123. Meaning she wasn't
wearing any pants.Copy !req
124. The attack followed the rape
by maybe eight hours.Copy !req
125. Anything on the rocks?Copy !req
126. We found a bloody print.Copy !req
127. Doesn't match the victim or
anyone in the system. But this...Copy !req
128. may help you ID her.Copy !req
129. She was wearing it.Copy !req
130. CSU picked it up
at the hospital.Copy !req
131. Hanford.Copy !req
132. You wanted to go back to
college. Now's your chance.Copy !req
133. Any of these?Copy !req
134. No.Copy !req
135. No. No. No.Copy !req
136. We think she's from somewhere
in the Middle East, maybe Israel.Copy !req
137. Wait. Elliot, look at this.Copy !req
138. Amir...
Amir, Nafeesa.Copy !req
139. 23, School of Journalism.
Post office box...Copy !req
140. That zip code looks
like the East Village.Copy !req
141. She's from Afghanistan.Copy !req
142. Emergency notification,
Daoud Tarzi, East Village.Copy !req
143. We need to fax Munch
that photo ID.Copy !req
144. Mr. Tarzi?Copy !req
145. He doesn't live here anymore.
What do you want?Copy !req
146. Who are you?Copy !req
147. David Hamoud.Copy !req
148. How about some ID?Copy !req
149. Anything with a photo
on it?Copy !req
150. No, I don't drive...Copy !req
151. and my passport's
in my safety deposit box.Copy !req
152. Have you seen this woman?Copy !req
153. No. Who is she?Copy !req
154. How long
have you lived here?Copy !req
155. I just moved in last week.Copy !req
156. Do you know
where Mr. Tarzi is?Copy !req
157. I'd tell you
who the super is if I knew.Copy !req
158. I got a stuffed drain
with his name on it.Copy !req
159. You got that trying
to fix it yourself?Copy !req
160. Yeah, as a matter of fact.Copy !req
161. I'm sorry, if you'll excuse
me. I'm late for a meeting.Copy !req
162. I'll be back in the evening
if you want to talk.Copy !req
163. Oh, God.Copy !req
164. Is that her?Copy !req
165. I can't be sure.Copy !req
166. She missed class
this morning.Copy !req
167. Is that unusual?Copy !req
168. I've had Nafeesa in different
sections each semester.Copy !req
169. She's never
missed a class.Copy !req
170. You ever talk
one-on-one with her?Copy !req
171. Constantly.Copy !req
172. She couldn't believe
how free the press is here.Copy !req
173. The Taliban government in
Afghanistan controls the media...Copy !req
174. the way they control women.Copy !req
175. She came here
to escape?Copy !req
176. Well, unless she sneaked
out of the country...Copy !req
177. her parents must also be here.Copy !req
178. Afghan women can't even leave
their homes on their own.Copy !req
179. She have any friends
in the class?Copy !req
180. Annette Fleming.
They were joined at the hip.Copy !req
181. It's her.Copy !req
182. I can't believe it.Copy !req
183. When was the last time
you saw her?Copy !req
184. Just yesterday, in class.
How could this happen?Copy !req
185. Well, maybe you can
help us find out.Copy !req
186. Was she acting like
anything was wrong lately?Copy !req
187. The opposite.
Nafeesa was loving life.Copy !req
188. She have a boyfriend?Copy !req
189. She wouldn't talk about it.Copy !req
190. I think it was her way
of protecting herself.Copy !req
191. Protecting herself
from what?Copy !req
192. Her father.Copy !req
193. An Afghan diplomat.Copy !req
194. She thought that he may
have been looking for her.Copy !req
195. If he had his way, Nafeesa
and I wouldn't even be friends.Copy !req
196. Sounds like a strict guy.Copy !req
197. A control freak.Copy !req
198. He wouldn't let her go out,
made her wear the robes.Copy !req
199. Like she had to back home?Copy !req
200. She'd wear them
when she left the house...Copy !req
201. and change
when she got to school.Copy !req
202. She hated so much
that she had to do that.Copy !req
203. She was talking to Prof. Husseini,
who was helping her to adjust.Copy !req
204. And where did she keep
these forbidden clothes?Copy !req
205. In her locker.Copy !req
206. You gotta sign for this.Copy !req
207. Yep.Copy !req
208. That's it?Copy !req
209. That'll be all.Copy !req
210. Thanks, guys.Copy !req
211. Can you imagine what Maureen would do
if you told her she couldn't wear jeans?Copy !req
212. That's a place
I wouldn't go.Copy !req
213. Boyfriend?Copy !req
214. Could be.Copy !req
215. Her address. East Side.Copy !req
216. This young woman was found
in the park.Copy !req
217. Do you recognize her?Copy !req
218. It is our daughter.Copy !req
219. She's in Intensive Care
at Mount Sinai.Copy !req
220. She's dead?Copy !req
221. Actually, she's in critical
condition, but she is still alive.Copy !req
222. Nafeesa did not
understand her place.Copy !req
223. She chooses a man's work.Copy !req
224. She turns her back on her
traditions, on her family.Copy !req
225. We still have a son, Jaleel.Copy !req
226. But she is dead to us.Copy !req
227. Sir, your daughter
was beaten and raped.Copy !req
228. It is zina.Copy !req
229. Zina?Copy !req
230. She has slept with a man
who was not her husband.Copy !req
231. Do you recognize
this man?Copy !req
232. No.Copy !req
233. Your son is...Copy !req
234. He's not here.Copy !req
235. Please.Copy !req
236. My wife and I suffer agony
that she chose this life.Copy !req
237. Please to leave us to grieve
for our daughter.Copy !req
238. What, it's her fault
she was raped?Copy !req
239. She brought shame and
dishonor to her family.Copy !req
240. They behead women for that
where she comes from.Copy !req
241. My first wife dishonored me.
I had to pay her alimony.Copy !req
242. Look what we found
in the knapsack.Copy !req
243. Boyfriend, maybe? Suspect.Copy !req
244. We're in the diplomatic
community now.Copy !req
245. Anybody know what her
father does for the Afghanis?Copy !req
246. Only that
he's with the mission.Copy !req
247. Well, let's get specific,
people.Copy !req
248. If they're covered
by immunity...Copy !req
249. and we go to them with anything
but their daughter's condition...Copy !req
250. the "G" is all over us.Copy !req
251. Son of a bitch.Copy !req
252. What?Copy !req
253. It's that guy
from the apartment.Copy !req
254. Who said
he never heard of her.Copy !req
255. Right.Copy !req
256. Well, maybe we should
refresh his memory.Copy !req
257. Pick him up.Copy !req
258. He's halfway down the block.Copy !req
259. He made us.Copy !req
260. Hi. How are you?Copy !req
261. Stick them in the air.Copy !req
262. Nice tackle.Copy !req
263. You won't find her!Copy !req
264. I'll never tell them
where she is!Copy !req
265. Hear that? I'll never
tell them where she is.Copy !req
266. Who's them?Copy !req
267. You'll never find her.
We already did.Copy !req
268. You have the right
to remain silent.Copy !req
269. Anything you say can
and will be used...Copy !req
270. against you in a court of law. You
have the right to an attorney...Copy !req
271. Name's Daoud Tarzi, 33.
No priors.Copy !req
272. Immigration said he got here
in '88, alone, no family.Copy !req
273. Became a citizen in '93.Copy !req
274. And what does he do?Copy !req
275. His own import-export
business. Fabrics.Copy !req
276. Well, let's keep this out of the
papers until we're sure he's the doer.Copy !req
277. I want to see her.Copy !req
278. Why? So you can
beat her up some more?Copy !req
279. How bad is she?Copy !req
280. Critical.Copy !req
281. I'm responsible for this.Copy !req
282. Okay, you want to tell us
about it?Copy !req
283. I love her.Copy !req
284. We argued.Copy !req
285. She ran out.Copy !req
286. What did you fight about?Copy !req
287. Does it matter?
Her father already won.Copy !req
288. Won what?Copy !req
289. His twisted sense of honor.Copy !req
290. His revenge
for her leaving home.Copy !req
291. Well, he said she was dead to him.
Didn't sound like he wanted revenge.Copy !req
292. What he doesn't want is a reputation for
letting his women do what they please.Copy !req
293. What do you want?Copy !req
294. For her to stop acting like
she's from some primitive tribe.Copy !req
295. You couldn't handle that.Copy !req
296. She wouldn't let go.Copy !req
297. So you decided
to do something about it.Copy !req
298. I overreacted.Copy !req
299. We argued.Copy !req
300. I dared her to leave.Copy !req
301. I never thought she'd leave.Copy !req
302. I love her.Copy !req
303. I wanted to marry her.Copy !req
304. Find somebody who heard that
argument. I'll call Cabot for warrants.Copy !req
305. Yeah, I heard them fighting.Copy !req
306. In their first language. English
is definitely their second.Copy !req
307. Anything you understood?Copy !req
308. Before the screaming
started...Copy !req
309. she called him
a control freak.Copy !req
310. And something
about her father.Copy !req
311. Then what?Copy !req
312. Then five minutes
of gibberish.Copy !req
313. Door slams,Copy !req
314. and one of them stomps
down the stoop.Copy !req
315. Just one of them?Copy !req
316. Yeah, just one.Copy !req
317. Whoever stayed
turned on the TV.Copy !req
318. They looked happy.Copy !req
319. They all look happy.Copy !req
320. This was in the laundry. Bed
sheet. There's blood on it.Copy !req
321. Okay, lab says the bloodstain
on the bed sheets, it's hers.Copy !req
322. Semen's definitely his.Copy !req
323. What about the stones?Copy !req
324. No match on the prints...Copy !req
325. but they got an odd reading on
the blood, so they're retesting it.Copy !req
326. Print's not his
or hers.Copy !req
327. Even without the blood on the rocks,
it's his semen. Her blood on his sheets.Copy !req
328. It's no problem.Copy !req
329. People v. Daoud Tarzi.Copy !req
330. "One count attempted murder,
second degree...Copy !req
331. "one count rape
in the first degree. "Copy !req
332. Mr. Gibson,
how does your client plead?Copy !req
333. Not guilty on both counts,
Your Honor.Copy !req
334. Ms. Cabot?Copy !req
335. Your Honor, this was
a particularly brutal crime.Copy !req
336. The victim was raped, stabbed,
beaten, and left to die.Copy !req
337. We're asking
for remand without bail.Copy !req
338. My client has no criminal
history, Your Honor.Copy !req
339. He's an upstanding member
of his community...Copy !req
340. he has his own
import-export business...Copy !req
341. Good. Let's make sure
he doesn't export himself.Copy !req
342. The defendant is remanded
without bail.Copy !req
343. What does that mean?Copy !req
344. Her parents are here.Copy !req
345. He wants me to tell you
that her parents are here.Copy !req
346. So noted.Copy !req
347. He also wants me to tell you that
he will take a lie detector test...Copy !req
348. against my advice.Copy !req
349. Our examiner.
I'll set it up.Copy !req
350. Is your name Daoud Tarzi?Copy !req
351. Yes.Copy !req
352. Were you born in Lebanon?Copy !req
353. No.Copy !req
354. Were you born
in Afghanistan?Copy !req
355. Yes.Copy !req
356. Did you rape Nafeesa Amir?Copy !req
357. No.Copy !req
358. Do you now live
in Afghanistan?Copy !req
359. Her parents were
at the arraignment.Copy !req
360. That's a strange way
to show you don't care.Copy !req
361. Do you now live
in the United States?Copy !req
362. Yes.Copy !req
363. Did you stab Nafeesa Amir?Copy !req
364. No.Copy !req
365. How did he do?
Passed.Copy !req
366. Or beat it.Copy !req
367. He's not the first person
to fool the box.Copy !req
368. If he can fool the box,
he can fool the jury.Copy !req
369. Maybe he's
telling the truth.Copy !req
370. If he proposed marriage
to Nafeesa...Copy !req
371. there has to be somebody else
who knows about the relationship.Copy !req
372. She wouldn't even tell
her best friend about it...Copy !req
373. for fear of how
her family would react.Copy !req
374. That Hanford professor.Copy !req
375. He's a Mideast specialist. He was counseling
Nafeesa on adapting to life in America.Copy !req
376. We were going to go talk to him
until we thought Tarzi confessed.Copy !req
377. Well, let's see
if your professor can tell usCopy !req
378. why their love
had to be such a secret.Copy !req
379. Nafeesa Amir came
to you for help.Copy !req
380. Lots of students from
my part of the world do.Copy !req
381. To help them assimilate.Copy !req
382. It's tough enough
for a man.Copy !req
383. It's even tougher
for a woman.Copy !req
384. How so?Copy !req
385. They're tempted by all of the things
they're not allowed to do back home.Copy !req
386. Under the Taliban regime,
that means almost everything.Copy !req
387. Like having a job,
going to school.Copy !req
388. Leaving the house alone, or without
every inch of one's body covered.Copy !req
389. She would be scorned
as a vice-monger.Copy !req
390. What about her family?
They've been here for years.Copy !req
391. Her family, like all the
Afghan diplomats at the UN...Copy !req
392. are holdovers
from the previous government.Copy !req
393. They treated women like something
more than just indentured servants.Copy !req
394. But when the Taliban took over, they
put women under virtual house arrest.Copy !req
395. There is nothing in the Koran
that allows them to do that.Copy !req
396. Well, tell their thugs.Copy !req
397. It would be like the militia
running this country.Copy !req
398. That's why the UN
won't recognize them.Copy !req
399. It would be very dangerous for
Nafeesa's family to try and go back home.Copy !req
400. So Nafeesa's father
is not a Taliban?Copy !req
401. Maybe he's a Taliban mole.Copy !req
402. Just because he doesn't wear their
colors does not mean he isn't with them.Copy !req
403. Nafeesa had to choose between
her family and her future.Copy !req
404. She wanted to live
as a modern woman.Copy !req
405. She had to leave
her parents' home to do it.Copy !req
406. Was there any reason she'd
want to hide from her family?Copy !req
407. If she tried this kind
of thing in Afghanistan...Copy !req
408. women there
have been murdered for less.Copy !req
409. Much less.Copy !req
410. We have enough
to convict you, Mr. Tarzi.Copy !req
411. Even if you did pass the lie detector
test, you confessed to the police.Copy !req
412. Confession?
I never confessed.Copy !req
413. You said, quote,
"I am responsible for this. "Copy !req
414. I meant that I feel responsible,
not that I attacked her.Copy !req
415. He passed the lie detector test.
It wasn't his DNA on the stones.Copy !req
416. It was his DNA inside her.Copy !req
417. We were from the same part
of Afghanistan.Copy !req
418. Near Kabul.Copy !req
419. I helped her
to find an apartment.Copy !req
420. I wanted to help her
find herself.Copy !req
421. What was she looking for?Copy !req
422. To be more than a factory
for producing sons.Copy !req
423. We fell in love...Copy !req
424. but we couldn't tell anyone.Copy !req
425. She didn't want her father
to find her.Copy !req
426. Why? Was she afraid of him?Copy !req
427. She's the reason
he has his job...Copy !req
428. his apartment,
his car with a driver.Copy !req
429. How is it, in a society where a woman
has no authority, she has all this power?Copy !req
430. He promised her to the son
of a government minister.Copy !req
431. Turning her back on that was like
spitting in her father's face.Copy !req
432. And the night Nafeesa
was attacked?Copy !req
433. I asked her to marry me.Copy !req
434. Gave her a diamond ring.Copy !req
435. She said yes.Copy !req
436. She was a virgin.Copy !req
437. You forced her.Copy !req
438. No.Copy !req
439. She didn't say no.Copy !req
440. But I shouldn't have
pushed her.Copy !req
441. And she walked out?Copy !req
442. She said I was trying
to dominate her.Copy !req
443. She throws the ring in my face. Before
I could stop her, she's out the door.Copy !req
444. I should have tried
to stop her.Copy !req
445. Why all the lies?Copy !req
446. You see this?Copy !req
447. It's from a cop.Copy !req
448. What cop?Copy !req
449. Came looking for Nafeesa.Copy !req
450. He had a gold badge.Copy !req
451. I knew Nafeesa's father
sent him.Copy !req
452. If it isn't Bishop Tutuola.Copy !req
453. John Munch. Ross Campo.Copy !req
454. What brings you guys
to this dump?Copy !req
455. This.Copy !req
456. It's yours.Copy !req
457. What about it?Copy !req
458. You laid it on the boyfriend of
that girl we found in the park.Copy !req
459. I got nothing
to say about that.Copy !req
460. He does. Especially the part
about you breaking his head.Copy !req
461. Like you never tuned
anyone up on the job?Copy !req
462. My pleasing personality
usually does the trick.Copy !req
463. You, on the other hand,
weren't on the job.Copy !req
464. So I do a little work
on the side.Copy !req
465. Help me out here, Fin.Copy !req
466. Come on.Copy !req
467. Better us bring this
to you than IAB, right?Copy !req
468. Last time I checked, cops weren't
allowed to moonlight as Pls.Copy !req
469. Three weeks ago...Copy !req
470. boss at the security company
I work for gets a call.Copy !req
471. Some diplomat looking
for his missing daughter.Copy !req
472. Says they're going back to their tent in
the desert, wants to bring her with them.Copy !req
473. Asked me to check it out.Copy !req
474. You find her?Copy !req
475. I got as far as the boyfriend.Copy !req
476. Says he doesn't know her.Copy !req
477. His mouth is moving, her
picture's hanging behind him.Copy !req
478. Like I'm some knucklehead.Copy !req
479. So I tune him up a little.Copy !req
480. But he still
didn't tell you.Copy !req
481. Said I might as well shoot him,
'cause he was never gonna tell me.Copy !req
482. And she never showed?Copy !req
483. I sat on the place
for two nights. Nothing.Copy !req
484. Final lab report.Copy !req
485. And?Copy !req
486. We've got a problem.Copy !req
487. There were two types of DNA
on the stones.Copy !req
488. One was Nafeesa's,
and the other was Tarzi's.Copy !req
489. Well, if not him,
then who?Copy !req
490. That's why
they retested the blood.Copy !req
491. Lab says both DNA types
have similar characteristics.Copy !req
492. Meaning it was
a family member.Copy !req
493. Anything else we don't know
about these people?Copy !req
494. The State Department has the
father listed as an attaché.Copy !req
495. Diplomatic rank.Copy !req
496. Jaleel Amir just turned 21,
graduated NYU.Copy !req
497. He still lives
with his parents?Copy !req
498. Yes, he does.Copy !req
499. But he's not a student?Copy !req
500. Hello?Copy !req
501. His immunity expired the day
he turned 21.Copy !req
502. She died 10 minutes ago.Copy !req
503. Has Nafeesa Amir
been around lately?Copy !req
504. Yeah. She was here
Tuesday night.Copy !req
505. What time?Copy !req
506. Around 7:00.Copy !req
507. Woman gets out of a cab,
tries to run past me.Copy !req
508. I didn't know it was Nafeesa.
She wasn't wearing the get-up.Copy !req
509. She say anything to you?Copy !req
510. Too busy crying.Copy !req
511. I know she's family.
I just let her go up.Copy !req
512. Did you see her leave?Copy !req
513. No. But that doesn't mean
she didn't.Copy !req
514. I get off at 11:00.
Ask the night guy.Copy !req
515. Anyone else in her family,
you see them come in or out?Copy !req
516. Her brother came out.Copy !req
517. Jaleel.Copy !req
518. Bastard treats me
like his personal slave.Copy !req
519. What time was that?Copy !req
520. Around 8:00.Copy !req
521. He calls, orders me to bring
the big shopping cart upstairs.Copy !req
522. Did you?Copy !req
523. You kidding? The guy hasn't
tipped me in four years.Copy !req
524. Told him I couldn't leave the
desk, come get it yourself.Copy !req
525. Any idea
what he wanted it for?Copy !req
526. Whatever it was, he didn't
bring it through this door.Copy !req
527. Must have put it in his car
in the garage.Copy !req
528. I told you to leave us alone!Copy !req
529. Sir, your daughter passed
away, and you don't even care.Copy !req
530. Saleh?Copy !req
531. Go now.
Where's your son?Copy !req
532. Get out.Copy !req
533. We know Nafeesa was here
the night of the attack.Copy !req
534. Doorman saw her come in.
Nobody saw her leave.Copy !req
535. Because your son took her out through
the garage and dumped her in the park.Copy !req
536. Were you watching when he put
the knife through her heart?Copy !req
537. She was a whore, like you.Copy !req
538. She was your daughter!Copy !req
539. He is on his way home
to Afghanistan.Copy !req
540. Okay.Copy !req
541. My son is protected
by the Vienna Convention.Copy !req
542. Arresting him is a violation
of international law.Copy !req
543. You need to take a refresher
course in international law.Copy !req
544. The day he turned 21,
his number was up.Copy !req
545. Would you like some? No?Copy !req
546. Juice?Copy !req
547. No, thanks.
We're just visiting.Copy !req
548. Jaleel Amir?Copy !req
549. I am proud I killed her.
She deserved to die.Copy !req
550. This amuse you? Jaleel Amir, you're under
arrest for the murder of Nafeesa Amir.Copy !req
551. You have the right
to remain silent.Copy !req
552. You think you can arrest me? My father
will have me on the next plane home.Copy !req
553. I'll probably need Munch
for trial.Copy !req
554. Anticipating problems?Copy !req
555. A diplomat's son?
I expect a very heavy gun.Copy !req
556. Captain. Ms. Cabot.Copy !req
557. Something wrong, sir?Copy !req
558. All I want to know is,
did two of your detectives...Copy !req
559. harass a diplomatic attaché?Copy !req
560. No, sir. We went looking for his son.
But what we should have done was...Copy !req
561. arrest Saleh Amir as an accomplice
to his daughter's murder.Copy !req
562. If I may, I'd like to...Copy !req
563. No, you may not.Copy !req
564. Amir has filed a formal complaint
against the US government...Copy !req
565. for his ill-treatment by the NYPD,
and the Feds are eating it up.Copy !req
566. The case against Jaleel Amir is solid,
Deputy, and frankly, it's out of your hands.Copy !req
567. I've got two rogue cops who
browbeat foreign officials...Copy !req
568. two others who don't understand
the basic Miranda warning.Copy !req
569. Cases get dismissed
for much less.Copy !req
570. The suspect
was properly Mirandized.Copy !req
571. He did confess before he was warned,
but it was an excited utterance.Copy !req
572. Which makes it admissible.Copy !req
573. The only way this case will not
see the inside of a courtroom...Copy !req
574. is if Jaleel pleads out.Copy !req
575. I suggest that you
reconsider your position.Copy !req
576. And why would I want
to do that?Copy !req
577. To save your own skin?Copy !req
578. I need the five on your
tête-à-tête with Saleh Amir.Copy !req
579. I'm cleaning it up right now. If
it's not pig Latin, "now" means now.Copy !req
580. All right.
Where's the heat coming from?Copy !req
581. The Commissioner. Saleh Amir
told the State Department...Copy !req
582. that we violated Article 30
of the Vienna Convention...Copy !req
583. because you grilled him
about his son.Copy !req
584. We didn't grill him.Copy !req
585. If this had happened
back home...Copy !req
586. Jaleel would have done
three months in prison...Copy !req
587. and gotten a hero's welcome
when he came out.Copy !req
588. Well, this is the Afghanis
playing hardball.Copy !req
589. They didn't
Mirandize my client.Copy !req
590. It was an excited utterance. We
have a planeload of witnesses.Copy !req
591. Relax, Ms. Cabot.Copy !req
592. I'm not about to penalize the
police for doing their job.Copy !req
593. Mr. Amir's confession was an
excited utterance, and it's in.Copy !req
594. In that case, Your Honor, my
client is changing his plea...Copy !req
595. to not guilty by reason
of mental disease or defect.Copy !req
596. Give me a break.Copy !req
597. My client didn't know what he was doing
was wrong when he killed his sister.Copy !req
598. Ignorance of the law
is not an affirmative defense.Copy !req
599. He told the police
he was proud of what he did.Copy !req
600. That sound sane to you?Copy !req
601. Your Honor,
it's obvious what he's doing.Copy !req
602. He can't hide behind the Fourth
Amendment, so now it's insanity.Copy !req
603. And if I ignore him, it
could be reversed on appeal.Copy !req
604. I'm ordering Mr. Amir
be examined by a psychiatrist.Copy !req
605. You have nightmares
about Nafeesa?Copy !req
606. The Koran says Nafeesa's shame
before God is her own.Copy !req
607. That it can't be passed to you, that
she faces the consequences alone.Copy !req
608. Did Abraham have a choice when Allah
commanded him to kill his own son?Copy !req
609. I can't talk about this.Copy !req
610. Can't or don't want to?Copy !req
611. I have nightmares.
Isn't that enough?Copy !req
612. How long have you
had the nightmares?Copy !req
613. Since I was 8 years old.Copy !req
614. When it happened.Copy !req
615. Do they wake you up?Copy !req
616. After he slits her throat.Copy !req
617. Whose throat?Copy !req
618. My aunt.Copy !req
619. I can't do this.Copy !req
620. Because you couldn't
stop it?Copy !req
621. I was a child.
My father made me watch.Copy !req
622. How was I supposed
to stop it?Copy !req
623. Your father killed your aunt?Copy !req
624. My grandfather.Copy !req
625. His grandfather
killed his auntCopy !req
626. because she cheated
on her husband.Copy !req
627. Jaleel was just
following the rules.Copy !req
628. He's perverting holy scripture
to justify murder.Copy !req
629. It's what he was taught.Copy !req
630. His rite of passage
to manhood, to honor.Copy !req
631. Meaning he doesn't know
what he did was wrong?Copy !req
632. I think he does.Copy !req
633. I asked him if he has nightmares
about his sister. He wouldn't answer.Copy !req
634. His body language said yes.Copy !req
635. And a jury may be just
as confused as he is.Copy !req
636. Then you have to get a jury that
can see past their confusion.Copy !req
637. Mrs. Weinberger,
would you have a problem...Copy !req
638. finding a defendant from
the Middle East not guilty?Copy !req
639. Absolutely not.Copy !req
640. Thank you.Copy !req
641. Mr. Post.Copy !req
642. We thank Mrs. Weinberger for her
service, and ask that she be excused.Copy !req
643. Approach, Your Honor?Copy !req
644. All 10 of his peremptory
challenges have been women or Jews.Copy !req
645. I don't have
to give a reason.Copy !req
646. If this continues I'll have
to ask for a Batson hearing.Copy !req
647. You can't let her
stack the jury...Copy !req
648. With women? People v. Blunt.Copy !req
649. The appellate division specifically
applied Batson to gender discrimination.Copy !req
650. It applies to religion, too.Copy !req
651. Your Honor...Copy !req
652. Careful, Mr. Post.
Ms. Cabot is right.Copy !req
653. You don't want a Batson
hearing in this court.Copy !req
654. We boarded the plane.Copy !req
655. The defendant was sitting
in the first-class cabin.Copy !req
656. Did he know
you were there for him?Copy !req
657. Yes. He smiled.Copy !req
658. Tell the jury
what happened next.Copy !req
659. Before we could read him
his Miranda Rights...Copy !req
660. Mr. Amir confessed
to having killed his sister.Copy !req
661. What were his exact words?Copy !req
662. "I'm proud that I killed her.
She deserved to die. "Copy !req
663. Thank you, Detective.Copy !req
664. So, Mr. Amir showed no remorse
for having murdered his sister?Copy !req
665. On the contrary,
he was proud of it.Copy !req
666. In fact, you said
he seemed glad to see you.Copy !req
667. I said he smiled.Copy !req
668. He smiled at you
and said he was proud.Copy !req
669. Doesn't seem like something
a sane person would do.Copy !req
670. Objection! Detective Munch
is not a psychiatrist.Copy !req
671. Withdrawn.Copy !req
672. Detective, how many people have
you arrested in your career?Copy !req
673. I don't know the exact number.Copy !req
674. More than 100, correct?Copy !req
675. Probably.Copy !req
676. How many of them smiled at you
and said they were proud...Copy !req
677. of having killed someone?Copy !req
678. One.Copy !req
679. And the defendant is that one
person, isn't that right, Detective?Copy !req
680. Yes.Copy !req
681. No further questions.Copy !req
682. He shows signs
of severe trauma.Copy !req
683. What signs?Copy !req
684. Delusional thinking...Copy !req
685. night terrors, vivid,
recurring dreams that wake him.Copy !req
686. He avoids talking about it
if he can.Copy !req
687. In your professional opinion,
Doctor...Copy !req
688. do these symptoms
prevent Mr. Amir...Copy !req
689. from knowing the difference
between right and wrong?Copy !req
690. No.Copy !req
691. Thank you.Copy !req
692. Dr. Skoda, you say the defendant knows
what he did was wrong by our standards.Copy !req
693. Yes.Copy !req
694. Doctor,
if I wake in the night...Copy !req
695. and I hear a noise, and I take my gun,
and I shoot an intruder in my house...Copy !req
696. I know killing is morally wrong,
yet I did what I had to do...Copy !req
697. to save my family from harm.Copy !req
698. How is that different
from what the defendant did?Copy !req
699. Objection. Relevance?Copy !req
700. Goes to the defendant's
state of mind.Copy !req
701. If you're arguing self-defense,
this is an insanity case.Copy !req
702. And this question goes directly
to what was in my client's mind.Copy !req
703. I'll allow it. Please answer
the question, Doctor.Copy !req
704. Jaleel's sister wasn't
threatening to kill him.Copy !req
705. But Jaleel thought his sister's actions
threatened to destroy his life...Copy !req
706. and the lives of his future
children. Isn't that right, Doctor?Copy !req
707. It's not a valid comparison.Copy !req
708. Please answer
the question, Doctor.Copy !req
709. Isn't it true
my client believed...Copy !req
710. his sister's actions threatened
the lives of his family?Copy !req
711. It's possible.Copy !req
712. I can't say with certainty
what he was thinking.Copy !req
713. Exactly. Thank you, Doctor.Copy !req
714. In Deuteronomy,
the Bible says...Copy !req
715. if a man meets a virgin in
a town and sleeps with her...Copy !req
716. you shall stone them both
to death.Copy !req
717. But, Professor, honor killing
isn't about religion.Copy !req
718. No. The Koran says
all humans are equal.Copy !req
719. It is about families and their honor
that determines their status in society.Copy !req
720. So if a man believes a woman in his
family is sexually promiscuous...Copy !req
721. she has reason
to fear for her life.Copy !req
722. Yes. But countries like Jordan
and Egypt are trying...Copy !req
723. to make honor killing as legally
heinous as any other murder...Copy !req
724. with the same penalties.Copy !req
725. Thank you, Professor.Copy !req
726. Prof. Husseini, honor killings are
part of ancient cultural tenets.Copy !req
727. Yes.Copy !req
728. Part of the cultural fabric
that pre-exists modern society.Copy !req
729. Yes.Copy !req
730. So if you're raised in the
tradition of this ancient culture...Copy !req
731. what would you believe would
happen to a family without honor?Copy !req
732. The men could lose their jobs, the
children could become outcasts...Copy !req
733. the family could be scorned and
mocked, with no chance of success...Copy !req
734. until the honor is restored.Copy !req
735. And for a man, that means
controlling his women?Copy !req
736. Yes.Copy !req
737. Isn't it true that last year,
three out of every four murders...Copy !req
738. in the Gaza Strip and West
Bank were honor killings?Copy !req
739. Yes. But the Palestinians...Copy !req
740. Isn't it true that the only way these
countries have to protect women...Copy !req
741. from their own families
is to put them in prison?Copy !req
742. In protective custody, yes.Copy !req
743. And isn't it correct,
Professor...Copy !req
744. that in this barbaric custom,
the more brutal the killing...Copy !req
745. the greater the honor restored
to the family?Copy !req
746. Yes.Copy !req
747. So it's reasonable, having
grown up in this world...Copy !req
748. my client may have come to accept
honor killing as necessary to survive?Copy !req
749. Well, he may have accepted it, but
I hardly think that it is reasonable.Copy !req
750. I had to restore my family's honor.
We would never survive the shame.Copy !req
751. You've had time
to think about it.Copy !req
752. Would you change anything
that happened, if you could?Copy !req
753. I would change
what Nafeesa did to us.Copy !req
754. Thank you.Copy !req
755. You killed your sister
because she was with a man.Copy !req
756. Her marriage was arranged.Copy !req
757. Being with another man
was not her decision to make.Copy !req
758. When you dumped your
sister's body in the park...Copy !req
759. why did you leave her
half-naked?Copy !req
760. To shame her
as she shamed us.Copy !req
761. And the stones?Copy !req
762. That is what we do
to whores in my country.Copy !req
763. You're proud
of what you did?Copy !req
764. Yes.Copy !req
765. Then, Mr. Amir,
why did you run away?Copy !req
766. What do you mean?Copy !req
767. You're a man, aren't you?Copy !req
768. A man stands up
and takes responsibility.Copy !req
769. A man isn't afraid to face the
consequences of his actions.Copy !req
770. I am not afraid.Copy !req
771. No? The police arrested you on
the plane. You were running away.Copy !req
772. Does that sound honorable
to you?Copy !req
773. Does that sound like something
a real man would do?Copy !req
774. You are twisting everything.Copy !req
775. Objection.
Badgering the witness.Copy !req
776. Even now, you were looking at
your father to tell you what to do.Copy !req
777. Does he tell you what to do?Copy !req
778. Did he tell you
what to do that night, too?Copy !req
779. Objection! Irrelevant.
Move to strike.Copy !req
780. The jury will disregard the previous
mention of the defendant's father.Copy !req
781. Move on, Ms. Cabot.Copy !req
782. You were afraid of spending the rest
of your life in an American prison...Copy !req
783. weren't you?
That's a lie!Copy !req
784. Because you knew
what you did was wrong.Copy !req
785. No! I did it
for our family's honor!Copy !req
786. I'm concerned the jury's
buying Jaleel's act.Copy !req
787. What? That anyone who kills his own sister
has to believe he's doing the right thing?Copy !req
788. Right. Which makes him guilty by
reason of mental disease or defect.Copy !req
789. Hard to argue with that logic.Copy !req
790. You can see my problem.Copy !req
791. When we collared him, he
was sitting in first class...Copy !req
792. no cap, no beads, styling in
totally westernized Internet casual.Copy !req
793. His wardrobe
isn't helping me.Copy !req
794. If the jury thinks Jaleel is
culture-programmed to kill...Copy !req
795. he gets his insanity verdict.Copy !req
796. Well, we're out of people
to say otherwise.Copy !req
797. His culture didn't program him
to kill. His father did.Copy !req
798. Jaleel is afraid of him.
Everybody is afraid of Saleh Amir.Copy !req
799. Except for one person.
We're forgetting Mrs. Amir.Copy !req
800. Mrs. Amir is out-of-bounds.Copy !req
801. Anyway, Mrs. Amir would never
give up her son...Copy !req
802. or go against her husband.Copy !req
803. She already has,
on both counts...Copy !req
804. when she told us that he was
on a plane home to Afghanistan.Copy !req
805. She testifies, she's
sentencing herself to death.Copy !req
806. She defied her husband once
because he's the reason...Copy !req
807. that her daughter's dead. She
wants justice for her memory.Copy !req
808. We reach out to her again, I think
she'll defy him again to get it.Copy !req
809. We can't ask unless
we're ready to protect her.Copy !req
810. We're ready, 24-7. Talk
to her. Let her know that.Copy !req
811. But don't cross
the diplomatic line.Copy !req
812. I have already lost Nafeesa.Copy !req
813. I don't want
to lose Jaleel, too.Copy !req
814. But Nafeesa hasn't
lost her honor.Copy !req
815. Have you lost yours?Copy !req
816. You don't understand.Copy !req
817. I think we do.Copy !req
818. Nafeesa was your husband's
ticket home.Copy !req
819. He promised her to a Taliban,
didn't he?Copy !req
820. And when he found out that she
was sleeping with somebody else...Copy !req
821. he had Jaleel kill her
in the name of honor.Copy !req
822. We can offer protection
to you.Copy !req
823. I don't want your protection.Copy !req
824. I want my daughter.Copy !req
825. Nafeesa came home
to be with us.Copy !req
826. My husband asked her...Copy !req
827. if she was still a virgin.Copy !req
828. She wasn't.Copy !req
829. What did he do?Copy !req
830. Hit her.Copy !req
831. She fell.Copy !req
832. Then Jaleel tried to help her.Copy !req
833. My husband said:Copy !req
834. "Let her lie there, like she lies
with her American boyfriend. "Copy !req
835. What happened next?Copy !req
836. My husband got a knife
from the kitchen.Copy !req
837. Jaleel, he begged him not to.Copy !req
838. But my husband
told Jaleel to kill her...Copy !req
839. for our honor.Copy !req
840. To kill her...Copy !req
841. to prove his manhood.Copy !req
842. And he stabbed her.Copy !req
843. And they took her away.Copy !req
844. Has the jury
reached a verdict?Copy !req
845. We have, Your Honor.Copy !req
846. Will the defendant
please rise?Copy !req
847. On the charge of murder in the
second degree, how do you find?Copy !req
848. We find the defendant guilty.Copy !req
849. This court is dismissed.Copy !req
850. Captain? Jaleel is convicted.
Murder two.Copy !req
851. Thanks.Copy !req
852. You know, Saleh Amir didn't miss
a second of this trial until today.Copy !req
853. You'd think he'd want
to hear the verdict.Copy !req
854. He's gone.
Saleh Amir?Copy !req
855. Left last night in a limo.Copy !req
856. All that baggage, looked
like it was for good.Copy !req
857. What about the wife?
She wasn't with him.Copy !req
858. Okay, we need the keys now.Copy !req
859. Olivia.Copy !req