"'In New York City's war on crime, 'the worst criminal offenders are pursued 'by the detectives of the Major Case Squad." "'These are their stories.'" "This one is you, Karen." "Martinis in Millbrook or punch in Palm Beach." "It's so versatile." " Sydney, really!" "I gotta go." " Do you know what you're doing?" " If Bernie ever found out..." " Just be happy for me." " I know I'm late." " I had to give the appointment away." "Rochelle, this is an emergency!" "I have a date." "With him?" "I can't help myself." "He's French." "Even when he's just ordering a sandwich, it makes you feel like you're in a movie." "'He says he loves me.'" "Talk is cheap." "So, what colour?" "Just give me the usual." " I have to go, I'm late." " He won't care how long he's waited" " when he sees you in this." " Mmm!" " Wanna try it on?" " I can't, I'm late." "Just wrap it." "Cheri?" "Yoo-hoo." "Denis?" "Oh, damn, I can't believe I broke my nail!" "Denis?" "His name is Denis Dupont." "He checked in around one." "He's stayed with us before." " Always the same lady?" " Lady?" " The champagne, strawberries." " I never paid attention." "I know he had business meetings here." "How long will you be?" " Depends." "Business?" " This room is reserved for tomorrow." "The more you help me, the faster we'll be outta here." " Finance, I believe." " Any phone calls in or out?" "The operator put one call through, a woman at ten to two." "Then Mr Dupont asked not to be disturbed." "Do you have his home address?" "No, but I believe he lives in town someplace." " How did he pay?" " Credit card from a Paris bank." " He never gave you a local address?" " No, and we never asked." "It's a woman's fingernail." "I brought him champagne and strawberries." "He was by himself." "See anybody go in his room?" "Anybody on the floor who didn't belong?" "I saw a woman by the elevator and she was not a guest." "She was in a hurry." "She kept pressing the button to go down." " What did she look like?" " She was redhead." " Fat?" "Thin?" " Medium, maybe." "In big fur coat, Russian sable." "Very rich lady." "There's no wallet." "Just an international driver's licence." "With...a very bad picture." " Denis Dupont, Paris, France, 33." " The maid said he was good-looking." "This makes him look like all three of the Three Stooges." "Maybe it was a pay-date." "Ordered a girl, got the pimp." "Champagne and strawberries for a hooker?" "There's too much blood and guts for a robbery." "Dupont was attacked when he opened this door." "Blood spatter on the door jamb." "The beating carried into here and ended with a broken glass ashtray." " And the face mutilation makes it personal." " Jealous husband." "If Dupont chose his girlfriends as carefully as he chose his jackets, he'd still be alive." "Custom-made." "Things like this do not happen to our customers." "Three weeks ago he picked up his new suit, ordered two summer suits." "No, I do not have an address for him." "This is a disaster." "The cloth's been cut." " Phone number?" " He's travelling." " How'd you tell him his suits were ready?" " He called me." "He's a busy fellow." " Busy doing what?" " I don't know." "Mr Dupont did not use his personal life for small talk." " What did he talk about?" " Business, politics, stock market." " Told me to invest." "As if I could." " So he walks in off the street and orders $5,000 suits?" "He was referred to us by a very good customer." "Jonathan Phelps." "I ran into him at dinner parties." "He was fun." "It's tragic for the family." "First John Dupont killing the wrestler, now this." " Denis was one of those Duponts?" " Yes." "By his father." "His mother was French." "He was raised there." "So, what's the inside story?" "We think he was meeting somebody at the Newbury." "Any candidates?" "Wouldn't know." "I've been out of touch with Denis." "I thought he could talk his way out of any tight spot." " He had a talent for that?" " Speeding tickets, social blunders." "He could charm his way in or out of anything." " And the last time you saw him?" " A few weeks ago." "I ran into him." "He was hanging out with a new crowd." "Roy Markham, the investment banker, and his wife, Sydney." "Denis and I threatened to call each other, but we never did." "'Dead?" "'" "We had no idea." "We just came in from Bedford." "I don't know what we could tell you." "He was really just an acquaintance." "The people at the restaurant said you ate there a number of times." "As part of a group." "Denis was a good extra man to have around." " This is awful news." " We're having a hard time" " pinning down where he lived." " On the park, right?" " Mm-hm." " If you leave me your card," "I'll ask around." "We'll do everything to help." " Luisa?" " We'll be expecting your call." " You said no one would get hurt." " Will you shut up?" "This guy lived in the ether." "You'd think the family'd keep track of their heirs." "We called them, Interpol..." "You found a fingernail at the scene?" "The polish was fresh." "Forensics matched it to a polish sold at exclusive salons." "Only a few hundred of those in the city." "Detective Eames speaking." "Yes!" "Thank you for returning my call." "The question came up if Dupont was using." " Only champagne was found." " That was the consulate." "Dupont was a guest at a reception last month." "They mailed the invitation to his home." "It's a sublet." "The owners live across town." "The Blackstones." "Maybe you should talk to them before you start going through Mr Dupont's things." "Was he a friend of theirs?" "Mrs Blackstone told me that he was a close personal friend of hers." "Did Mr Blackstone know that Mr Dupont was living here?" " Can't see that he couldn't." " Dupont have many visitors?" " Lady friends?" " No." "He was minding his p's and q's." "The residents are thin-skinned about any kind of bad behaviour." "He was already on notice for smoking in the elevator." "The French, you know." "We'll need the Blackstones' address." "There's something so chilling about picking up the paper and reading about an old lover being murdered." "When did you stop seeing Mr Dupont?" "Months ago." "And...we only slept together once." " The French are highly overrated." " He lived in your apartment?" "He needed a place to stay while he was house-hunting." " What about your husband?" " He didn't mind." "He travels a lot." "He's rarely in town." " Dog show, funerals, the US Open..." " Yes, I see he likes tennis." "That's not what I meant." "Did your husband have a relationship with him?" "Denis wasn't a switch-hitter and if he were, he wouldn't have been my husband's type." " Mind if I ask how you...?" " The photos." "Your husband and his male tennis friends." "You and your horses." "No photos together." "No children." " Separate but equal lives." " Very good." "Well, if you want to know who Denis was sleeping with, why don't you ask Felix?" " Who's Felix?" " Felix Perez was Denis's gofer." " Do you have an address for him?" " Heavens, no!" "Why would I?" "The blows were intended to inflict the most pain." "The variation in colour of the bruises indicates the victim was worked over for an hour." " A professional?" " I'd say so." " Internal injuries?" " Ruptured spleen, broken ribs." "Somebody wanted something from Dupont." "Information." "You can't talk clearly with your face like that." "That damage was postmortem." "Cause of death was asphyxiation." "Somebody tortured him for an hour, suffocated him and then beat his face into hamburger?" "I guess they didn't get what they were after." "Charity balls, gallery openings, nightclub passes, receipts for Le Cirque..." " He was living a high-octane existence." " I'm off for a commstat." "Any news on Dupont to liven up my presentation?" "Sure." "DMV shows an address on his assistant, Felix Perez." " Progress." " Building was torn down last year." " No forwarding address." " Thank you." "What's all this?" "Dupont's personal effects." "Whatever the bad guys wanted" " might be in his papers." " Page me." " He has George W's number in Texas." " Really?" "I have a letter here from Donald Trump thanking Dupont for his timely advice." "And he misspells the word investment." "You'd think Trump's secretary would use spellcheck." "Here we go." "Washington Livery, Felix Perez." "Maybe he did work here, but I had nothing to do with anything he was doing." "What was he doing?" "Other drivers said he'd pick up Asian businessmen at the airport, offer to get them hookers, take a couple of hundred off them and disappear." " So you fired him?" " No, he got a better offer." " From?" " A customer he picked up at JFK." "A rich guy." "Perez said he was gonna be this guy's personal assistant." "Good luck to the both of 'em." "The landlady says Felix has been MIA since the murder." "Signatures." "Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch, Prince Ernst of Hannover." "Perez was practising forgery." "And here, letters of reference for Denis Dupont unsigned." "Why would the heir to the Dupont fortune need phoney character references?" " Low self-esteem?" " We can always ask the Duponts." "I'm sorry I was tardy in responding to your inquiry about Denis Dupont." "All the newspapers were calling and I had no information, naturally." " Why naturally?" " I did an in-depth search of the family records regarding Denis Dupont, this time concentrating on the French side of the family." "Dupont's a very common name in France but he's not one of ours, there's no connection." " You said you made another search?" " Mm-hm." "A few weeks ago." "For whom?" "A Mr..." "Bernard Cove." "Said he was in real estate." "Dupont kept hawking me to invest with him, so I checked him out." "When the Duponts said they'd never heard of him, well..." "I decided to keep my money were it was." "We should have known." "His manners, his name-dropping." "He just didn't feel like old money." "Did he find other investors?" "I don't know." "Where'd you meet him?" " Gallery opening?" " Mm-hm." "Somebody introduced us." "I don't remember who." "Women found him attractive." "Did you find him attractive, Mrs Cove?" "I suppose." "What was it about him specifically?" "Being a man, I'm curious." "I couldn't tell from his photo." "Was it his mouth?" "His eyes?" "You'll have to excuse me." "His finances track like a game of snakes and ladders." "Transfers to five accounts, withdrawals by cashier's cheques." "The money's missing." "Two million." " Missing?" "Out of the country?" " I checked for foreign transfers." "Nothin'." "The money's here somewhere." " Where does the money come from?" " He had some investment club." "Heavy hitters at 300 grand apiece." "Roy Markham, Mindy Blackstone, George Reid." "And guess who?" "Bernard Cove said he never invested with Dupont but here's a receipt for 250K from his account, payable to Dupont, four weeks before he called the Dupont office." "He found out Dupont was a phoney after he gave him the money." "We don't like Perez?" "He's missing." "Or now his boss is dead, he's running scared." "Think Cove knew Dupont was schtupping his missus?" "Might've." "Might've used the affair to set up Dupont." "If the guy was picking my wallet and bed, I'd want him whacked." "How do you wanna proceed?" "A search warrant?" "What are you looking for?" "A fur coat." "Save yourself a lot of trouble and show us where it is." "My husband left..." " Turn this way." " What are you doing?" "A photo to show the staff at the Newbury Hotel." " What for?" " The warrant is valid for nail polish products or any records of visits to nail salons." "Someone left a broken nail in Denis Dupont's room." "Oh, my God." " I could use a drink." " You wanna tell us something?" "I didn't kill him." "He was already dead when I got to the room." " There was nothing that I could do." " Did your husband know" " you were meeting him?" " My husband?" "Absolutely not." "Why?" "We suspect he was setting a trap for Dupont." "Not over an affair." "Besides, he did not know about Denis and me." "Who knew you were going to the hotel?" "Nobody." "Just Sydney." "Sydney Markham is a friend of yours?" "Yes, a very good friend." "She introduced Denis to me." "Sydney Markham, whose husband gave Dupont...$325,000?" "I had no idea they'd invested." "She never said a word." "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God, how could I have been so stupid?" "It must have been all of them." "They were all in on it." "They came to my house." "Two of them." " They won't find out." " How can you be so sure?" " They got this far." " There's no point arguing." " We just pay him off." " We paid him to get our money back, which he didn't do, now we pay him more for botching the job?" " We want him to leave town, period." " Don't you people get it?" "We killed a man." "We might not have meant it to happen," " but we are responsible." " OK...we're responsible." "This is what the son of a bitch is asking for." "I divided it four ways." "Good God!" "We pay this and we never have to worry about it again." "You hope." " A murder conspiracy?" " By our more prominent citizens." "I'm as shocked as you are." "If Dupont was ripping them off, why not go the police?" "Embarrassment?" "Businessmen taken in by impostor with Continental accent." "There'd be cautionary tales in the Journal." " Their credibility would be shot." " Evidence?" "Can you substantiate Ms Cove's story?" "Dupont got a call at two o'clock from a woman." "Karen Cove said it wasn't her, Sydney Markham delayed her." "Sydney might have called Dupont to make sure he was in place for his beating." "They wanna subpoena her phone records." "I'll make it happen." "No, I did not call Dupont at his hotel." "I didn't even know he was at a hotel." "Your phone records show the call came from here." " I don't know how that's possible." " I do." "You're not gonna like my explanation." " Sydney, your driver's downstairs." " Tell Sammy I'll be 20 minutes." "You're forcing me to betray a confidence." "Karen Cove was here that afternoon and I believe she was having an affair with Dupont." "Now, if there was a phone call, it must have come from her." "She already told us about the affair and...she denied making the call." "Well, I don't like to say this about a friend, but Karen is lying." "She called him." "I overheard her." " Your licence and registration." " What's the problem, Officer?" "You're parked too close to the hydrant." " I thought the rule was 15 feet." " You look about 14 feet to me." "OK, Sammy, here you go." "Samuel Bell's been arrested for bookmaking and a couple of dope pops." "In the bookmaking, who were his associates?" "Two." "Tommy Doonan." "Looks like he was the bank." "And Leslie Roche." "Convictions for assault, assault, assault." " A collector." " He's still on probation." "A couple of phone numbers." "Let's track him down." "Hi, is Les there?" "It's Sandy." "Well, I owe him some money and you know how he is." "Florida?" "Oh, shoot, I'd so love to talk to him." "You think you got his number down there?" "Thanks a bunch." "Bye." "Boca Raton, sport fishing." "What do you know?" "A parole violation." "I don't do things like this." "I'm a professional." "No muss, no fuss, no murder." "Check my rap sheet." "We looked in that doctor's bag of tricks the Boca Raton police got off you." "Slapjacks, brass knuckles - all of which are illegal, by the way." "My client collects those for entertainment purposes only." "He never hit anybody with them." "Then Mr Dupont must have bumped into his brass knuckles." " They match the bruises on his body." " We're all grown-ups here." "You have one chance to take your chestnuts out of the fire and tell us who hired you, or...go down for this all by yourself." "Roy Markham got my name from his driver." "Some guy ripped off him and his friends." "Markham told me to go to this hotel room." "They sent me to reason with him." "The guy head-butts me, makes for the door, so I knock him down." "It took me a while to get control." "When I did, I asked where the money was." "He kept saying he didn't know." "About a half-hour later, he passed out." "It was time to quit." "I left." "He was still breathing." "I did not kill him." "I did not break an ashtray on his face." "You said it took a while for you to get things under control." " This guy was fighting you?" " From the get-go." "I think he liked to fight." "Might have had a little training." " Is this the guy you beat up?" " No." "Yeah, that's the guy." " Felix Perez." " Who's Perez?" "He's the guy you beat up." "The wrong guy." "Somebody tipped Dupont off." "He put Perez in the room to get the beating meant for him." "He came back after Roche left, finished off Perez, disfigured him" " and left him unidentifiable." " Do we know Dupont's identity?" "We sent his prints to France." "No hits yet." "So now he's free to disappear." "While the people he conned take the rap for his murder." "There's a chance he's still around." "He's flamboyant and narcissistic." "He'll wanna witness his handiwork." "And he still has two million bucks stashed somewhere." "Then, it's just a question of flushing him out." "The moment he knows we're on to him, he's gone." "We need to maintain his sense of security." "So what do you suggest?" "Charge Markham and his friends with Dupont's murder." "Charge them for a murder they didn't commit of a person who isn't dead?" "I can't begin to count the violations that entails." "Mr Carver, this man Dupont, or whatever his name is, has had us chasing our tails for weeks." "I do not like to be made a fool of." "Payback is a healthy human response here." "I suppose Mr Roche could be lying and did kill the man at the hotel." "Since the identity of the deceased is still a matter of conjecture, it's proper that we charge them with the murder of John Doe, AKA Denis Dupont." "We'll give this to the papers." "The bigger the headlines, the better." "We want Dupont to take the hook." "'The people charged in the murder include financier Roy Markham, 'his wife, hat designer Sydney Markham, 'real-estate developer Bernard Cove...'" "Didier, why are you hiding here?" "I always hated that picture." "It doesn't even look like you." "Come on." "I have someone I want you to meet." "Quentin?" "This is my boyfriend, Didier." "He's opening the nightclub I was telling you about." "Simone, I told you not to talk about it." "I only did it because Quentin is so nice." "He's looking for a place to..." "How do you say?" "Park your money?" " Yeah." " I have to be honest." "I'm not really looking for investors." "May I ask, did you get this suit at Savile Row?" "Yes." "I was in London for some meetings." "I get very intrigued by a man who doesn't want my money." "So, tell me about your club." " Not guilty." " Not guilty." " Not guilty." " Not guilty." "Not guilty." " People on bail?" " Million dollars each." "Such high bail when the charges are ridiculous?" "There's no motive for murder." "The moneys my clients paid were venture capital with no expectation of repayment." "They made $2 million gifts to strangers, and here they are squawking about bail?" "The protestations do sound hollow." "Bail is set at a million for each defendant." "Next." "Docket number 3922, People v Nanette Cove." "Two counts of larceny..." "My client, Mrs Markham, wants to talk." "All right." "I warned Denis." "My husband put this scheme in motion to get our money back." "But I couldn't go through with it, so I called him from my showroom." "I told him they were sending a man to his hotel and he should leave." "I don't understand why he didn't." "Since she renunciated the plan, she's off the hook for the murder." "I'll consider it." "Mrs Markham, were you and Mr Dupont lovers?" "Briefly." " You knew he wasn't who said he was?" " Yes." "Before my husband or the others." " You didn't care?" " No." "To see someone like him trick my husband and his friends..." "Someone like him?" "What do you mean?" "He was raised in an orphanage." "My father owned a grocery store." "I know what it's like to climb up." " We were very good friends." " Er..." "Well, how'd he show it?" "Like my hat business." "Roy called it a money drain, a hobby." "But Denis made me take it seriously." "He helped me develop a business plan." " He organised my books." " Organised your books?" "Yes." "He believed in me." "Mrs Markham brought him in a couple of months ago like he was some kind of business god." "He didn't know a line sheet from an order form." "Did he ask about banking information?" "Routing numbers, that sort of thing?" "No." "But he asked for the articles of incorporation and the corporate seal." " Did he say why?" " No." "I know he kept them overnight." " I don't know what for." " To open a bank account, for one thing." "Do you know about this letter from the IRS?" "It's a tax lien." " Tax lien?" " It's dated three weeks ago." "They had $65,000 in unpaid payroll taxes." "With penalties and interest, it comes to $90,000." "Your letter says you seized that money from the bank." "The bank has no record of the seizure." " They should." "Nissay Bank." " Whoa!" "That's not their bank." "We found their account there." "It opened two months ago." " How much in the account?" " As of two weeks ago," "$1,865,000." "The account's frozen until we get a notarised release." "A release signed by whom?" "The sole shareholder, Mr Sydney Markham." "It takes a couple of weeks to process." "Until then, the account's frozen." " I explained this to Mr Markham." " You spoke to him?" "Twice." "He even came in, he was so insistent to clear up the problem." "If only they were all like that." "Is this Mr Markham?" "Yes." "He thought he'd hidden his money, but he didn't count on the IRS." " Neither did Al Capone." " We still have time." "He has to forge ID for the notary, then there's IRS turnaround time." "Two weeks." "We haven't found him by then, we won't let that money go." "We can stall for a few days, but if he picks up our scent, he'll scoot." "You got your work cut out." "What's the plan?" " Engage his ego." " Oh." "He was a confidence man with too much confidence." "He overestimated his own charisma and died a fool." " Is that good for you, Tom?" " Perfect." "Thanks, Bobby." " Is that Santini from the Ledger?" " Don't worry." "I mentioned your name." "I'm going jogging." "What's wrong?" "What do you care what they think?" "It's done." "Get the papers signed, come to Rio with me and I'll make you forget them." "Where is your phone?" "Here." "I'll get you some food on the way back, OK?" "I want to place an international call, person to person." "The number is 212-555-0109." "Yes, New York." "Tom Santini." "My name is Denis Dupont." "'He said he was very much alive.'" "He wouldn't tell me where he was, but the operator said it originated from a cellphone prefix in Rio." "What else did he say?" "He didn't consider himself a criminal." "He was on a holy mission to cure the rich of their greed." " He was very funny about it." " What's funny is, we've had half a dozen people call claiming to be Denis Dupont." "Really?" "This guy had a French accent." "They all had French accents." "Quote me. "Detective Goren says that Denis Dupont is dead."" "Done." "It'll be in tomorrow's paper." "Goren?" "'Pleasure to put the voice to the name.'" " Who's this?" " 'This is the man you call Dupont.'" "You'll have to do better." "I get a lot of crank calls." "'It's such a shame what they did to my friend Felix." "'They killed him so brutally.'" "So, Mr Dupont..." "Or do you want to tell me your real name?" " Dupont opens so many doors." " 'Not this one." "'I'm gonna hang up now.'" "Wait." "One moment." "There's no intimacy without trust." "My name is Didier, a common enough name." "A common name for an uncommon beginning." "You were an orphan, right?" "No." "My parents were alive but unable to care for me." "It's a very different thing." "'If they were dead, they'd have had a better excuse.'" "'What was it like in an orphanage with all those kids nobody wanted?" "'Must have been hard to be special.'" "I was special." "You don't know what you're talking about." "Maybe you're special now, but back then you were abandoned." "You were a ward of the state, just like thousands of other poor kids." "I was not poor." "I was only in an orphanage a very short time." "'Don't be ashamed.'" "I'm not!" "Why are we even talking about this?" "Well, we can talk about anything you like." "Let's talk about... how far you've come." "Considering you were raised in some state orphanage with bad food, bad hygiene, abuse..." " Was there a lot of abuse?" " I told you I was not raised there." "The authorities in my canton returned me to my parents." "I'm sure your parents are impressed with everything you've accomplished." " Or maybe they don't care." " This is intolerable!" "I don't know how you make a living out of stupidity." "You made a mistake about me, Mr Goren." "'That's all I wanted to let you know.'" "Do we have the fingerprints for Mr Dupont?" "What's up?" "I just got a call from our dead Frenchman." "He said his canton gave him back to his parents." "Cantons are the equivalent of states." "He's not French." "He's Swiss." "Swiss police got a hit on the prints." "Didier Foucault, 33, aliases up the wazoo, convictions for fraud, cheque kiting." "No record of violence." "Last stretch seven years ago for six months." "The Swiss faxed us everything on Foucault's early years." "Swiss?" "That'll include dirty nappies." "Contrary to what he told us, he was in an orphanage run by nuns from age four to 15." "He was never adopted." "His mother was a prostitute." "He had medical problems through childhood." " Good." "We still have to find him." " Ten to one he'll call back." "He has something to prove to me now." "Ten to one?" "I've taken him on before, Mr Carver." "I'm down 18 bucks." "From Dr Steven Pitt. "Orphans live with a perpetual sense of shame." ""Some overcompensate through achievement." ""Some mollify their pain through substance abuse." ""Some invent fantasies with over-idealised parents." ""These individuals may develop into pseudologia fantastica, impostors," ""who, when confronted with evidence of their fraud," ""erupt in a rage and will go to any length" ""to persuade their audience that their fantasy is true."" "He'll call." "He could be using an alias." "Leonard Roche Foucault..." "Goren!" "Line four." "I'll call you back." " Goren." " 'Detective Goren, hello.'" "I wanted to apologise for losing my temper during our last conversation." "'I understand." "Your childhood's a sore subject.'" "I'm not the kind of person who loses his temper." "I was raised with good manners." "At the orphanage?" "Who raised you?" "Civil servants?" "Priests?" "Nuns?" "'What did you do when you wanted somebody to hold you?" "'" "To comfort you?" "Hmm, Didier?" "Did you make yourself sick and run to the nurse?" " What are you talking about?" " Kids like you, abandoned kids...are hypochondriac." "You have it all wrong." "My upbringing taught me how to survive." "You survived by pretending to be other people." "I survived because I was superior." "I am always three steps ahead." "The people you conned, you only got out by the skin of your teeth." " But I got out." " Only by killing Felix." " You screwed up." " Think what you want." "You're living up to your breeding." "I bet your parents were crooks." "Or drug addicts!" "I bet your dad pimped out your mom!" "You stupid cop!" "You have no idea!" "No idea!" "I have an idea you're terrified of prison." "It'd be like going back to the orphanage." "Prison is nothing." "Of course." "You've been to prison." "'Another mistake made by idiots like you, but I didn't care.'" "'It was a vacation.'" "Do you know how long it took me to get special privileges in prison?" "Less than 24 hours." "What's a special privilege in a prison?" "A tick-infested pillow?" "Fresh fruit, caipirinhas, women, anything I wanted." "'I had the guards like a palm in a fist.'" " Drugs?" " 'Drugs?" "'" "See how you think?" "You see the pedestrian level of your intellect?" "'It's the trouble with you police - so many guns, so little brains.'" "Think you'd make a good detective?" "I'd make the very best detective." "Do you know why?" "I understand human nature." "'You might profit from such a study, Detective Goren.'" "Caipirinhas." "He was in prison in Brazil." "Two years ago, he served eight months for credit card fraud in Brazil." "He was arrested in Rio with Simone DaSilva, Brazilian national." " Cellphone from Rio." " We figure he's here with her." "We're looking for her hotel registrations." "The IRS got the release." "We're pulling in the notary to verify." "We found the girl." "Soho East, room 1216." "I'll handle the warrants." "Is that you?" "I was just going down to the bar." "Put your hands on the back of your head." "Sit down." "Sit down!" "I got her." "Can I have bitters and soda?" "I'm trying to quit drinking." "Maybe happy hour isn't the best place for you." "At least I can smoke." "Nice to put a face to the voice." "You have the wrong man." "I don't think so." "Bail is denied." "Next case." "People vs Didier Foucault." "Murder in the second degree." " Larceny in the first." " How do you plead?" " Not guilty, sir." " People on bail?" "We want him remanded to custody." "My client's friends will put up any bail amount." "These friends are his victims." "He doesn't care about their money." "He was arrested with a ticket for Brazil and passports with three identities." "If there ever was a flight risk, he's it." "Thank you." "Bail is denied." "The defendant is remanded to custody pending trial." " Next case." " Docket number 4604," "The People v Christine Chandler..." "Try telling them they're victims." "Don't tell me you feel sorry for this guy?" "Well, someone to teach you how to ride a bike, two people that think you're special, it makes a difference." " Some people get by on a lot less." " They shouldn't have to."