"The victim's husband," "Judge Franklin Trelane, Central Division." " When did he get here?" " Some marshals drove him over about a half-hour ago." "He was right in the middle of a trial." "What's the trial about?" "Asian gang bangers." "Death penalty case." "We've already started running down the defendant's known associates." "Her car was in the shop." "She borrowed his." "I mean, we take the oath, they give us a gun, we go into public service with our eyes open." "But nobody tells us our families are fair game." "They're not." "The spray pattern suggests that the guy waited for her to pull in, for the garage door to close, and he opened fire." "Probably waiting on this side." "He could've rubbed up against this stuff." " Let's check this." " Yes, sir." "Suspect's breaking into the garage, the victim comes in and surprises him." "A 12-gauge isn't a burglar's tool though." "Yeah, four shots point-blank ain't a surprise." "That's premeditation." "So murder was the object?" "I'm just wondering who the target was." "The wife or the judge?" "We all use math every day." "To predict weather, to tell time, to handle money." "Math is more than formulas and equations." "It's logic." "It's rationality." "It's using your mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know." "I searched the criminal histories and the psych profiles that might have a tilt towards retaliation, and the inclination to act on it." "Now, are you assuming that Alison Trelane's killer is someone that the husband put in jail?" " Yeah." " We're thinking the judge was the intended target, not the wife." "Right, no." "Yeah, I understand." "But your suspects aren't limited only to people who were convicted by the judge, right?" "That's right." "There's also family members, friends, co-conspirators." "The possibilities are exponential." ""Exponential" would mean that the growth rate is proportionate to its size, so..." "The mathematically correct term would be "more."" "Call it whatever you want, Charlie, but, I mean..." "I mean, this is gonna take a lot of time." "Not necessarily." " We can create a Bayesian filter." " I could, if I had any idea what that meant." "You ever get any junk e-mail, or spam?" " Yeah." " That's why they create spam filters." "To filter out junk e-mail from regular e-mail." "And spam filters are Bayesian filters." "And what they do is they calculate the probabilities that an e-mail is spam, given that it has certain words, like "refinance," "stocks," "Viagra."" "And you can do something similar to narrow down the list of suspects?" "I can create a filter that uses your criteria to reduce the list of suspects to people most likely to kill a judge's wife." "Judge Franklin Trelane's been on the bench 18 years, 12 before that as a federal prosecutor." "I figured I'd start generating threat assessments." "Threat assessments?" "Yeah, Granger." "Behavioural analyses based on documentation." "Court transcripts, death threats, pre-sentencing psych evals." " Right." "In other words, profiling." " You make it sound like a bad word." "Just never thought "could've, would've, should've"" "figured very well into a homicide investigation." "What's she gonna tell us?" "The guy we're looking for had a bad childhood?" "No." "Not all sociopaths have bad childhoods." "As a matter of fact, some law-enforcement personnel exhibit the same characteristics." "Yeah, well, not this one." "If it quacks like a duck..." "Defendant facing the death penalty in front of Trelane." "Fits the profile of a guy who might wanna whack his judge, huh?" "Yeah." " Sorry for the timing." " Don't be, agent." "We both have our work to get to." "Can you think of anyone who might have a motive for killing your wife?" "Someone who objected to her work for the American Heart Association?" "Or a fellow member of her horticulture club?" "This murder was an attack on me." "On the bench." "We both know that." " And the case you're trying now..." " Duc Lu Phan." " The leader of a local street gang." " Facing you for the death penalty." "I realise that, but if I talk to you any more about him," "I'll have to walk away from the case." "We'll try to run it down another way." " But you should be prepared." " His lawyer will make a motion to have me step aside." "I'd rather make that decision." "Yes, I understand." "Violence and tragedy, they walk through my courtroom five days a week, and I assign them values." "Your grief is worth five years, hers is worth 20." "One of those decisions killed Alison." "What is my grief worth?" "So what's "JFM," Duc?" "Name's Danny." "Danny." "What's "JFM," Danny?" "It stands for "Just For Money."" "It's a L. A. - based Vietnamese street gang." "Community support organization." "The community support includes the kidnapping and murder" " of Asian immigrants?" " Okay, I got that right here." "I see you were just convicted on multiple kidnapping and murder charges." "Look at this." "Presiding judge is Franklin Trelane." "Why am I not surprised?" "Judge's wife gets killed, you blame it on the guy you could find the fastest." "You know, the fact is, you are the name on everyone's lips." "I wouldn't wanna be you in Franklin Trelane's courtroom." "That's exactly what I'm saying." "I got no motive to put a hit out on her." "What about someone trying to do you a favour?" " What kind of favour would that be?" " That's exactly what I'm saying." "Raymond." "You mean Raymond Hmong, your number-two man?" "We've had a few beefs since I've been locked up, but..." "But you get the needle, Raymond's up to number one, right?" "It's my favourite G-man." "Nadine." "You know, I was just thinking about you." " Yeah?" "What was I wearing?" " Yeah." " Well, actually, I didn't get that far." " Well, that sounds familiar." " What are you doing down here?" " Judge Trelane." "Oh, you're investigating his wife's murder." "That's right." "You're in front of him for Duc Lu Phan, aren't you?" "Yeah." "I didn't think he'd be able to get back to work so quickly." "He wants to do his job." "What do you make of this?" "Could it have been Phan who ordered the hit?" " Yeah." " He's certainly violent enough." " But I really hope it wasn't him." " I didn't expect to hear that from someone trying to get him the death penalty." "If Trelane thinks that Phan's responsible for his wife's death," " he'll have to recuse himself." " If he can't render a decision," " it'll lead to a mistrial." " And a waste of 7 months of my life." "Not that I've had much of a life the past seven months." "Tell me about it." "I know what you mean." "So I heard Terry Lake transferred to Washington." "Yes, actually, I guess she wants to give her marriage a second shot." " Have you had lunch yet?" " No, I haven't." " But..." " Hi." "Perfect timing." " Hi." " What are you doing here?" "I..." "What do you think?" "I'm here looking for you." "Can you give me a ride home?" "Yeah." "I'm sorry." "Nadine Hodges, this is my brother, Charlie." " Oh, hey." " I was at the DMV." "They gave me my learner's permit back again." " Again?" " Yeah, I may have mishandled my learner's permit the first time around." "I still take issue with the methodology utilized in radar speed detection." "It is..." " Did you get through Trelane's files?" " He's working with you on this?" " Yeah." "I think I'm on to something." " All right, I gotta deal with this." " How about a rain check, okay?" " Sure." "All right." "I'm sorry." "Boy, I could've just taken the bus back to CalSci and went home." "Yeah, well, you're about 15 seconds too late with that thought." "Sorry." "What kind of biker gang doesn't ride Harleys?" "The urban kind." "Besides, only investment bankers can afford Harleys anymore." "Why am I gonna kill the judge's wife?" "Even in jail, Danny still calls the shots, right?" "The only way for you to sit in the big chair is for Danny to go out of the picture, right?" "This is a family." "We don't do each other like that." " It's a family, huh?" " Bro, we're done here." "No, no, no." "You got it backwards." "This conversation's over when we walk out of here." "I'll tell you what." "Let me run those serial numbers against the hot sheets." "This ain't right, yo." " FBI." " Back off." "FBI." "Back off, or everybody gets arrested." "Federal agents." "FBI." "Let this go any further, Raymond, and everybody in here is gonna end up with bullet holes." "I have better places to be tonight than the hospital." "You got no warrant." "You come in here," " you wanna step to me like that?" " We'll leave the same way, if you give us a choice." "Anybody shows his gun, we do not have a choice." "Let him go." "You good?" "Danny thinks you did it, Raymond." "He pointed us in your direction to send you a clear message." "The message is, cooperate." "You understand?" "Cooperate." "Look, David, I get that you're senior agent, okay?" "But you could've backed my play in there." "Man, it was a bad play." "You can't sell wolf tickets to hard-core bangers." " Wolf tickets?" " A badge isn't a magic wand, okay?" "You try to arrest people without cause, you back them into a corner, guess what?" "They're gonna fight you." "You say her name is Hodges?" "Yeah." "Nadine." "She seemed pretty interested in him too." "Although I'm not good at reading those kinds of signals." "No, you're not." "You know that term "dark matter"?" "It has always perplexed me." "It fallaciously implies that the 95 percent of our universe that can't observed is some amorphous, eventless..." "Just emptiness." " I'm sorry?" " I suppose it's all too human." "Instead of just admitting to the present limits of our knowledge, we simply declare things to be unknowable." "And this somehow relates to dating?" "No, I'm sorry, to reading signals." "And, of course, to Rhonda Pickford." "I'm not familiar with her work." "She had a crush on me in 5th grade." "And, of course, girls in 5th grade suddenly became 95 percent unknowable." " Isn't that the truth?" " I'm not following." "Well, you see, I labelled her to be dark matter, and I just moved on to more accessible pursuits." "Like Space Invaders, actually." "So, what happened to this Rhonda?" "She became a professional cheerleader." " Really?" " She did." "Yeah, she did." "I doubt that Don actually views women as dark matter." "Well, she's a prosecutor." "I'm sure he'll see her again." "Don thinks there's a chance that the man she's prosecuting may be behind the murder of the judge's wife." "Actually, under that reasoning, wouldn't that make this prosecutor just as likely a target?" "Raymond Hmong has the motive, he's the number two, but I don't think he has the nerve." "Yeah, Danny Phan's got the nerve for sure, but no motive." "Problem is Colby." "He really pushed Raymond's buttons out there, you know?" "Yeah?" "So?" "Look, just keep an eye on the JFM." "If we pick up that Hmong's making a move, then we hit him." "Okay?" "No problem." " It's Colby." "I think he's running hot." " Before you say anything more, he was just in here bitching about you, so..." " What are wolf tickets?" " It's a bad bluff." "It's the boy who cried wolf." "Don, I'm just trying to say" "Colby has this Army mentality." "He thinks everybody's a private who has to follow orders." "Don, he goes in too hard, throws his weight around..." "David, you were the new guy last year, and you were too laid back." "Took you too long to take initiative." " You got better." "You improved." " I just..." " Guys." " I was just coming to get you." "Don wants us to check out some gang intel." "Yeah, well might not have to." "I ran Trelane's address through the dispatch database, to see if there are any prowler reports or anything." "Look at this." "Between May, 2001, and June, 2003," "LAPD responded to five domestic disturbance calls at Trelane's residence." "Apparently they had some knockdown-dragouts." " No criminal reports filed?" " Well, the guy's a federal judge." " No surprise there." " No, but look." "On two occasions, Trelane was instructed to vacate the premises." "We've been assuming the shooter was after the judge and got the wife by mistake." "We've been looking at this all wrong." "The thing is, you neglected to mention your history of domestic disputes." "Because that's what it was: history." "You ever been unhappy with your job, Agent Eppes?" "Yes, I have, sir." "I'm talking about the kind of unhappy that takes an hour of silence and three drinks to come down from." "Sitting in judgement does not come naturally to a reasonable man." "The drinking got worse and so did I." " We're talking about violence here." " I was never arrested." "You're a federal judge." "Even at my lowest point, I never laid a hand on Alison." "I was angry with myself, not with her." " She called the police." " Yes, and she left me." "But that was my wake-up call." "I've been in the programme ever since." " When did she come back?" " Last August." "Our last year together was the happiest of our marriage." "Look, knowing that she'd probably still be alive, that coming back to me and my work is what killed her..." "Do your job." "Check my alibi, my bank accounts, whatever you need." "Then find the bastard that killed my wife." "So Bayes' theorem states that uncertainty, degrees of belief can be measured as probabilities." "Charlie, do you realise I spent two days putting these files in order?" "Yeah, right." "Newest to oldest." "Why did you do that?" "Because a criminal is much more likely to act on his or her rage right around the time of conviction," " while the focus is still sharp." " Couldn't the opposite hold true?" "A grudge festering over time, new developments aggravating it?" "It would depend upon the personality and the situation." "So if time functions differently on different people, then a chronological approach would be no more effective" " than choosing a folder at random." " Okay, yeah, but you have to start somewhere." "No, you have to start everywhere." "These are report cards, okay?" "But we're not looking for the newest students or the oldest." "We're looking for the highest grade point average." "With the grades being for quantifiable behaviour, such as the nature of the crime, severity of the sentence, the potential for gain." "Yeah, but this isn't just a handful of A's and B's, Charlie." "These are really raw human motivations, like rage and revenge." "Origami." "In origami, there are six basic folds." "Mountain, valley, diagonal, fold-and-unfold, reverse and turn-over." "Each fold is a simple, finite, eminently quantifiable action." "But the infinite number of combinations creates the possibility for an infinite number of forms." "Decision theory contends that we should use the same basic criteria with every action we take." "Risk, reward, consequence, certainty." "Human behaviour is not that rational." "Well, that's why my system is not meant to be a replacement for your skills." "Simply a tool to help you use them much more efficiently." "I have to get it." " Reeves." " Megan, it's David." "We just heard from an informant." "The JFM might take another shot at the judge." " Does Don know?" " He's at the courthouse right now." " What's up?" " Hey." "We just got a tip the JFM are looking for payback." "That could be Raymond Hmong just talking big for his gang members." "Given the timing, we're taking the threat seriously." "The marshals are gonna put on additional men, we'll have a second metal detector out there." " Does Trelane know?" " Yeah." "He's a brave man." "He didn't let on in court." "He wants everything as discreet as possible, so I'm gonna supervise, all right?" "So we're gonna be seeing a lot more of each other." "Yeah." "The marshals'll give you 24-hour protection." "Just make sure they have a copy of your schedule." "Okay?" "You hear me?" "Sure." "I'll get right on it." " FBI!" " Everybody get down!" "Get down!" "Get down!" "What happened to the clerk?" "Is she coming back?" "Get down!" "Get down!" "Don't do it!" "Don't do it!" "Don't move!" "Don't move." "I'll put two bullets right in your back." "Put your hands behind your back, Raymond." "So?" "Well, suddenly Raymond here doesn't have much to say." "Understand what you're facing here, Raymond?" "Murder." "Attempted murder." " I didn't murder no one." " Come on." "You killed Alison Trelane." "You didn't realise that she was borrowing her husband's car that day." "Then you went back to finish what Danny Phan sent you to do." "I told you to cooperate, remember that?" "I wanna know how Phan arranged for all this." "Testify against him and I'll see what I can do about the wife's murder." "I didn't kill nobody." "Self-defence." "Self-defence?" "Trying to gun down an unarmed judge?" "Is that what a JFM soldier calls self-defence these days?" "I wasn't aiming at no judge." "That bullet was for Danny." "Bro gave me up to you, right?" "Ain't no way he gonna do me like that." "Not with him in there and me out here." "I gotta have my respect now, you know what I'm saying?" "So Raymond Hmong figures" "Danny Phan's trying to put the murder off on him." "Well, you know, Hmong's DNA tested negative for the Trelane crime scene." "So that's the thing, he's not our guy." "Well, on the bright side, Trelane's free to sentence Phan" " without having to recuse himself." " Yeah, so you get your case back, and I'm at square one with the wife's murder." "So I guess we're not gonna be seeing much of each other after all." "You know," "I had you written off earlier." "Then what do you do?" "You go and you save my life." "Don't write me off." "I just get focused on the work, you know." "I don't know, Don." "We always got along, timing never seemed right." "I just thought..." " Anyway, good luck with the case." " Nadine," "I hope you realise it's not about you." " Oh, I know that." " Good." "Thank you, for today." "And if you figure out the rest, you can take your chances." " Okay." " Okay." "You know what?" "It's fun to be doing a little combinatorics again." "Combina-what?" "Combinatorics." "It's a branch of computer science." "Amita's not satisfied with just one measly Ph.D." "She's now moved on to astrophysics." "Well, a girl's gotta have skills." "And yet somehow, we still get stuck with the typing." "You're familiar with the programme." "I'm not familiar with the programme." "This is where the fun is, huh?" " Professor Fleinhardt." " Hi, Larry." "This is Megan Reeves." "She's working with Don." " Hi." "I hope you don't mind, I'm..." " Oh, no, not at all." "You realise all your food is white?" " Yes, I prefer white food." " Why is that?" "Supersymmetry." "It's a theory that describes the nature of connectivity in complex multi-dimensional space." "You know, symmetry is also a term we use in behavioural science" " to explain obsessive behaviour." " Oh, well, is it now?" "I have a 2-year-old nephew who won't eat anything but pasta with butter." "We're a little worried he might be a budding scientist." "Larry has a tendency to live out his theories." "Amita, are you ready to show us a 3-D scatterplot" " distribution of all the relevant cases?" " Sure." "It looks like a random buckshot of points." "Except for a small number of cases that stand out." "That's a lot less files than I originally gave you." "And we're not even done yet." "Amita, do you think you can filter the rest through something like this?" "It looks kind of like decision theory." "It's reverse decision theory, actually." "In decision theory, options are evaluated by risk and reward." "Corporations use it to weigh business plans, what products to develop," " companies to do business with." " Like a hunter searching for food." "He's constantly evaluating his terrain, his available prey, rival predators." "Weighing them against his own appetite, his own strength, his needs." "Until he makes what he considers an optimal decision." "However, with reverse decision theory..." "You take the optimal goal and you reverse the process." " You start with the final decision?" " The murder of Alison Trelane." "That's right." "And then determine which predator is most likely, by inclination, by opportunity, to have made that decision." "Charlie's work distilled our suspects down to two." "My lawyer didn't give me adequate representation." "I got stuck with an incompetent, underpaid public defender." "I'm completely innocent of these charges." "Number one is Orson Hardee." "If I were to meet the guy who killed that cop," "I'd buy him a beer for a job well done." "All right, so Hardee's a cop killer." "He shot Detective Josh Kalen in a drug deal in 1994." "Trelane was the judge." "The jury came back in less than an hour." "Since conviction, he's become a jailhouse attorney." "He's filed 16 appeals, all of them denied." "Now he's gunning for a new trial in front of Trelane." "Trelane's not buying it." "Kill Trelane, and he gets a chance at another judge?" "Perhaps." "Number two is Lance Dolan." "Currently wanted on a bench warrant for assault." " LAPD believes he's still in the area." " I don't see Trelane's name here." "Because Lance Dolan has never been to court with Judge Trelane." "However, what's significant is, Lance Dolan was the only name that entered the data pool through a Crimestopper tip." "What, you're saying an informant says this guy killed Alison Trelane?" "Yes." "We're running that angle." "His psych profiles are in line with this kind of act." "The only thing that connects them is the tip?" "There were only two cases that spiked extremely high values on my analysis," "Orson Hardee, Lance Dolan." "Well, I mean, you know, I don't see a motive." "Yeah, but what if you had no motive, but you had, like, a partial fingerprint?" "I'd follow the evidence." "What's the difference between my math and a partial fingerprint?" "And at this point, the Asian gang is a dead end." "All right, we'll see what Dave and Colby come up with about the tip." "Meanwhile, we should be looking at this guy, hard." "It was a drug deal that went bad." "Only, when this animal Hardee realized Josh was a cop, he just shot him." "Just shot Josh in cold blood." " Have a seat." " Thanks." "I'm very sorry." "Have you heard from anyone connected to Hardee?" "Phone calls?" "Threatening letters?" "Anything like that?" " You think he's coming after me now?" " He's not going anywhere, but you've been very vocal about keeping him in prison." "And we'd like to take precautions." "Right." "I understand." "It never stops." "Even with my husband's pension," "I had to work two jobs to keep this house." "My daughter ran away the day she turned 17." "My son would be in jail if some of Josh's friends on the force hadn't stepped in." "People need to see all of Hardee's crime." "Not just Josh's murder, but what it cost his family." "And you've been at all the court dates, huh?" "Every hearing." "Every appeal." "But each time it gets a little harder." "People don't want to remember." "They wanna forget." "Forget about what this man did to Josh." "But I won't let them." "So Charlie tells me you were shot at this afternoon." "Again?" "Oh, yeah?" "What Charlie should've said was, it was more like..." "I was in the vicinity of shooting." "Let's put it that way." "He saved this prosecutor." "And yet, he still won't ask her out, for some reason." "Really." "What's the problem?" "Yeah, she's hot, man." "She's perfect." " She's not." " She's interested." "You said she was perfect." " No, I didn't." " So now you date only women" " with something wrong with them?" " I'm not dating anyone." " So I noticed." " Yeah, what's that about?" "Look." "You know..." "With what I do, relationships are..." "They're just not easy, okay?" "Would you just trust me?" "Come on, Don." "Just because something might go wrong, doesn't mean you don't take a shot." "You don't know what you're talking about, okay?" "It's more complicated than that." "Among other things, I don't wanna put anyone at risk." "I don't wanna be a risk for someone." " You understand?" " I see." "Which means that police and lawyers and judges shouldn't get married?" "Yeah, well, look at Judge Trelane." "Think I wanna go through that?" "No, sir." "Waitresses work on tips, Hector." "You are Hector Machado, right?" "Maybe." "We wanna talk about Lance Dolan and the Alison Trelane murder." "How'd you find me?" "Actually, we know quite a bit about you, Hector." "LAPD says you have a knack for getting thrown in jail and hearing things." "I don't know what you're talking about." "How about a phone call you made to a Crimestopper tip line?" "I thought that was supposed to be confidential." "From the public, Hector." "Not from the FBI." " Can't trust nobody no more." " The name you gave, Lance Dolan." "What can you tell us?" "Where's my 25 G's?" "Where's Lance Dolan?" "Figures." "All right." "I met the guy in a bar." "He had that look, like someone who has something to say, so I got him drunk." "Out of the kindness of your heart, huh?" "Story comes out on the TV about the judge's wife." "Dolan laughs, then he tells me, there aren't gonna be any arrests made, as long as he gets some cash together, gets out of town." "Being the good citizen that I am," " I called the Crimestoppers line." " Right." "Guys, I just got back from the LAPD Warrant Squad." "Turns out Lance Dolan's got a girlfriend." "Stacy Manning." "Arrests for burglary, stolen property." " Twice as his co-defendant." " Yeah?" "Where's she at?" "Venice." "We have her under surveillance in case Dolan shows." "You know, we're basing all of this on the word of a career informant." "Well, no, it's not just based on the tip, it's also based on my analysis." "I'm gonna have to explain why I got four agents chasing down Lance Dolan." " As I can tell from this equation..." " Expression, Don." "What?" "Expression, equation, you know." "I don't understand why Dolan gets such a high number." "Well, there's the tip itself." "And there's also his record and the psych profile." " Sure." "But there's also..." " What?" "Sometimes math finds something that we can't explain." "And why Dolan is showing up as part of this case, I can't fully explain." "It's... it's pi." " Pi?" " The ratio of circumference" " to the diameter of a circle." " I know what pi is." "Okay, but did you know that if you randomly drop needles onto a sheet of lined paper, the probability that a needle will cross a line relates directly to pi?" "It's called Buffon's needle." "And pi appears in quantum mechanics, relativity theory and number theory." "But do you know why pi would show up" " in all seemingly unrelated places?" " Actually, I don't have a clue." "Neither do I. No one does yet." "But although we can't fully explain pi, it keeps working, keeps turning up." "So you're saying that pi is like something that connects Dolan to Trelane, but we just can't figure it out yet." "Lance Dolan's bench warrant." "Guess who he's wanted for stabbing last year." " Hector Machado." " Oh, yeah." "Well, that could explain why Hector's so willing to snitch on Dolan." "Or set him up." "Alrighty, well..." "Pi." "When you gave up Lance Dolan for Alison Trelane's murder, you left out a detail or two, man." "Yeah, like the fact that he assaulted you last year." "Lance and I did some business together." " There was a falling out." " Falling out?" "The dude stabbed you, Hector." "Hector, how long did you think it was gonna take us to figure that out?" "I wasn't really sure." "There's no love lost between us, but one thing ain't got nothing to do with the other." "You can check the court records." "Lance got busted for stabbing me based on other witness accounts." "Not mine." "I never said word one against him." " Until now." " Now he's worth $25,000." "Hector could just be trying to get revenge" " against the guy who stabbed him." " Or he could be telling the truth." "Hey, Megan." "Where are we on Orson Hardee?" "I was going over this with Charlie." "Hardee is a sociopath who brags about killing a cop, then won't admit it." "He files legal documents to prove his legal acumen." "If he put together the hit on Trelane from prison?" " His intent would be to let us know." " Which brings us to Dolan, if we believe Hector." "But, I mean, as far as I can see, Dolan's got no motive." "Even though Dolan has no apparent motivation, my analysis still says he's a suspect." "Still no sign of Dolan at the girlfriend's house." "We gotta find this guy already." "Did you see if Hector can help us?" " We'll find out." " Let's do it." "Charlie, will you just go over this with me?" "Certainly." "Hey, Larry." "What brings you here?" "I had some work to go over with Charlie, but he couldn't get away from here, so the mountain comes, yet again, to Mohammed." "Yeah?" "So it's not the coffee, then, huh?" " Oh, it is bitter." " Splenda." "Hey, Don, are you familiar with quantum entanglement?" "I don't think so." "I'm not sure." "Okay." "It's a theory that holds that photons come in pairs." "They're separated by space and time, but always in instantaneous, inexplicable communication." "Einstein calls it "spooky action at a distance."" "But, you know, I find the notion fairly romantic." " How so?" " Well, we affect each other even when we don't mean to, even when we don't want to." "We're connected, you see, even when we try to be unaffected." "Why do I get the feeling you're talking about my love life?" "Don, the universe is accelerating at such a rate that someday, eventually, it will all fly apart." "And all matter will just drift alone and become disconnected." "And how sad that would be if human beings were to behave in a similar fashion." "And after considerable inner debate," "I find that the risks of human contact are more than compensated for by the rewards." " I'll keep that in mind." " Yeah." "That was not clear." "Hey, you know this guy, right?" "So this should be easy." "If she answers, ask for him." "Nothing fancy." " Yeah?" " Is this Stacy?" "Who is this?" "Hector." "I'm a friend of Lance's." "I need to talk to him." "He's not here." "Tell him I heard the feds are looking for him." " I don't know when I'll see him." " Whatever." "Just tell him I called." "I think I did pretty good." "She's making the call." " What?" " Feds are coming." "I think that Hector gave you up." " Now, what she?" " Okay, leave right now." "Pick me up." "Let's hit it." "Hurry up." "Come on." "Put your hands on the dashboard." "You hear me?" "Get them up right now." "Don't move." "Don't move an inch." "Get out of there." "Bring your hands behind your back, thumbs up." "Looks like we found the gun that killed Alison Trelane." "Really?" "Go figure." "Let's go." "Who?" "Alison Trelane." "We have DNA." "We have your shotgun." " And what kind of deal do you have?" " Look, we don't need a deal, Lance." "You killed a judge's wife." "Can you think of a defence attorney in town who's gonna wanna wear that bull's-eye on his back?" " I didn't know who she was." " Mrs. Trelane?" "I figured it was just some guy who wanted to get rid of his wife." "You're saying Judge Trelane's involved?" "I should've known better." "Lance, what are we talking about here?" "It was a straight contract, 5000 down, 5000 after." "I just thought it was some guy's wife." "Yeah." "Charlie, I can't talk, all right?" "We just picked up Lance Dolan." "Oh, good." "Because I've re-evaluated my analysis." "And what's significant is the algorithm wasn't indicating Dolan or Hardee." "My math was connecting the two cases." "That's why Dolan spiked in the first place." "Don, these results clearly indicate that there's a common denominator." "Something connects Dolan to Hardee." "Yeah, we know, Charlie." "I'm looking at him right now." "Okay?" "I'm gonna call you back." "We have Lance Dolan talking next door." "That's right." "The first name that came out of his mouth was yours." " Yeah, well, we do have history." " Yeah, you do, Alison Trelane." "Contract killing that you set up." "I'm gonna give you five seconds to give me a name." "Otherwise I'll go grab Lance Dolan, put him in here and let the two of you guys figure it out yourselves." "You think I'm selling wolf tickets, man?" " Try me." " You got nothing on me." "I made an introduction, that's all." "You made an introduction to who, man?" "I don't owe anything to Lance Dolan." "I did to Josh Kalen." "Josh Kalen?" "You mean Detective Josh Kalen?" "The cop that Orson Hardee murdered?" "Kalen took care of me for a lot of years." "Treated me like a real person." "So you killed Trelane's wife after he sent his murderer to jail?" "I told you." "I introduced them." "Anything happens after that's got nothing to do with me." " Conspiracy law, you can look it..." " What are you talking about, Hector?" "I've done everything I can." "Kept her out of this as long as I could." "Who?" " Agent Eppes?" " You're gonna have to come with me." "Put your hands behind your back, thumbs up." "I don't suppose you could let me put these away first." "Hands behind your back." "I'm sorry, no." "Ten years of trials and appeals, parole hearings, my stomach in knots." "Always wondering if this was the time Orson Hardee would go free." "Judge Trelane put the guy in prison." "Trelane kept the man who slaughtered my husband alive." "The jury recommended the death penalty, did you know that?" "Only Trelane overruled them." "With that one decision, he destroyed my family." " Hardee killed your husband." " But it was the judge's decision that forced us to relive it." "With every appeal, my children had to relive their father's murder." "And now Hardee wants a new trial?" "I just I couldn't put them through that again." "Why the judge's wife?" "So Trelane would know what it's like to lose someone." "So maybe he'd think twice about the next killer he goes easy on." "Watch your head, please." "Goes easy on?" "I tortured myself over that decision." "I wanted to help her, give her closure." "It's just that Hector Machado was one of her husband's informants." "And I think she got his name out of one of his old snitch books." "I had a responsibility to the law." "I hope you know her death is not your fault." "Eventually I might believe that." "I don't think I can ever stop blaming myself for all that time I wasted being drunk, angry, busy when I really wasn't." "In spite of everything, I..." "I still love my job." "I just should've loved my life a little more." "Okay, guys, it's time to eat." " Hey." " You eat dinner yet?" "Lobster at the Ocean Front." " Charlie's buying." " Let's go." "I'm driving." "Yeah, well, that's not incentive, buddy." "That's why I need a witness:" "insurance purposes." "Nadine, this is my father, Alan." "Charlie you know." "Nice to meet you." "Good to see you again." "I need to grab something from my car." "Can I just meet you out there?" " I'll be two seconds." " All right." " Nice to meet you." " You too." "Good seeing you again." "Wow, she is one hot-Iooking prosecutor." "All right, easy there, Pop." "I know I'm your father." "She's still one hot-Iooking prosecutor." "We're trying to figure out what to do about Hector Machado." "This guy might end up collecting reward money for reporting a crime that he probably arranged." "So it's a working dinner." "Which explains the professional working dinner cologne." "I never ruled out the possibility of some kind of quantum entanglement." "That's not one of mine."