" It's about time." " What's the big rush?" " Oh, my God." "Is he dead?" " No, he's faking it for the attention." " You see, I'm in need of legal advice." " Joey, what...?" "All right, I know." "This time I've gone too far." "I'd be confessing to my priest right now if I wasn't such a bad Jew." " Let me have it." "What do I do?" " What do you mean, "What do you do?"" " You've done enough, Joey." " You're my lawyers." "Advise." "This guy's not getting any older." "What do I do?" "Do, do, do?" "Eugene, advise him." "Joey, excuse us a sec." "I told him he shouldn't smoke cigarettes." "They'll kill him." "Do we have to call the police by law?" "I don't know, I mean..." "I don't know." "It's obstruction of justice if we don't." "I don't think so." "This is privileged." "Eugene, we could be considered witnesses." "Am I on the meter for this?" "Look, if he's not dead, we have..." "He is dead?" " This is my feeling." "Yes." " You better check." " You check." " You did a stint as a nurse, Ellenor." " Go check and see if he's dead." " For God's sake." "Don't touch him." "He's evidence." "He's dead." "Are you okay?" "Oh, my God." "Is he dead or not?" " He is now." " Are you okay?" "Yeah." "It's Peter Fineman." "It's the city councilman." "Don, tell her what's she won." "They thought I was kidding." "You're on probation, Jennifer." "Next time, it's jail." " How many times do I gotta say it?" " I'm broke." "Well, I don't care." "This is not how you make your money." " Which one is it?" " It's the next right." "What?" "Were you out looking for me?" "No, I wasn't out looking for you." "And I didn't need to be, did I?" "You're standing out on the street corner in a well-lit area wearing that." " What are you thinking?" " Sorry." "Apologize to yourself." "It's you you're hurting." "Listen, Jennifer." "You're a smart girl." "A good girl." "I can judge character." "Don't be doing this." "Please." "Here." "Here." " Sixty bucks." "That's something." " You don't have to do that." "No, take it." "Take it." "You pay me back when you get it." " Thank you." " Go." " Wipe that stuff off your face." " I will pay you back." "Yeah." "Well, in the meantime, get a paper route or something." "Don't be doing this, okay?" "Jimmy, remember the song "The Little Drummer Boy"?" ""The Little Drummer Boy."" "He didn't have any money or presents fit for a king." " So he played his drum instead." " What's the point?" "Well, you've done so much for me." "I mean, you've basically represented me for free." "And now you've loaned me money." "Maybe I can do something for you." "Something I'm very good at." "Are you talking about what I think you're talking about?" " Jennifer, are you nuts?" " No." "I'm just attracted to a very nice man." "Somebody I wanna give a little something back to." "Jennifer, this ain't such a good idea." "All right, kids." "Step out of the car, please." " He killed him." " Yes, he did." "Well, I think we can all agree on that." "There's debate about what I should do next." "Three lawyers, triple time." "Give me something useful." " Nobody call the police?" " He doesn't want us to." "It's privileged information." "I don't believe this." "You're criminal defense attorneys." "You've had clients who have stabbed people before." "Could you stop talking and let us think a minute?" "What do we do?" "Well, we don't have to tell the police, but we can't advise you to break the law because anything you do next is..." "Oh, let me think." "Oh, come on." "Look, look, my lover is found dead." "Obviously, I'm gonna be considered a suspect." "Just because I'm gay, every homophobe across America will think I did it." " He's gay." "He'd kill." "It's practically a jingle." " You did do it." "All right, the way I see it, I have three options here." "One:" "Confess." "Go for manslaughter." "Heat of passion." "Two:" "I plead insanity." "Statistically, I've got a shot there." " A lot of people think we're sick anyway." " I wouldn't go to the bank on that one." "Three:" "Self-defense." "My word against his." "I mean, how convincing can he be?" "He's dead." "Or, I didn't do it at all." "I came home." "I found him this way and my prints got on the knife when I tried to help him." "When I pulled it out." "That was really stuck in there." "What are your thoughts?" " Turn left." " Jimmy." "I'm his attorney." "Turn right." "He's done." "He's yours." "Are you gonna tell me?" "I need another minute." "Watch your backs." "Coming through." "He'll talk to you." "He just needs a little time, that's all." " He found him this way?" " He said he pulled the knife out." " He tried to do CPR." " Yeah." " Homosexuals." " I killed him." " This is all my fault." " Joey?" "No, no, no." "It was..." "Because I was seeing somebody else." "He killed himself because of me." "It's as if I took that knife and put it in his heart myself." "Seeing somebody else?" "Another homo." "I'd imagine." "This was because of me." "I, you know, saw her there." "And I told her to get into the car." "Which she did." "And I was just driving her home." "You saw a hooker on the corner of the street so you offered to give her a ride home." " Yes." " And why were you seen giving her money?" "Because she was flat broke." "And I felt bad." "Why was she seen grabbing your belt buckle?" "Something about "The Little Drummer Boy."" "It's true." "She didn't have money so she wanted to play an instrument or something." "I don't really remember." "I'm completely innocent." "And the thing is, I wasn't even going to leave him." "The other was more..." "More of an affair." "The other lover." "That would be another man?" "Yes." " Can I have the name of this man?" " I would prefer to keep him out of this." "Look, a well-known city councilman is dead." "I'm gonna need the name of that other man." "Marty." "Andleman." "And when is the last time you saw this Marty Andleman?" "Why?" "Look, he has nothing to do with this." "This was a simple suicide." "I just need to check things out." "When was the last time you saw Mr. Andleman?" "I don't want you to worry about it." "Don't..." "I'm talking to the lawyers right now." "Marty, please." "Calm down." "How did it go?" "I think they suspect the boyfriend." " Should we keep cooperating?" " Probably." "They haven't given him Miranda or anything." "Be careful." "The arraignment's pushed up to first on the list." "Hopefully, we'll be out before most lawyers even get there." "I called Helen Gamble." "If she covers it, maybe we can make it go away." "I still can't believe this is even happening." "What's up?" " We had a little incident." " What incident?" "Jimmy got arrested for solicitation." " What?" " It was all a big mistake." "I went out to get something to eat." "I saw a client who's, you know, a lady of the evening." "I drove her home." "I gave her money because she was broke." "Then she started rubbing me and the police suddenly showed up." "I'm completely innocent." "Hey." "This is the worst moment of my life." "And you think it's funny?" "What's going on?" "I'm not sure." "I'm gonna have to feel it out." "As far as I can tell, you're still not a suspect." "But if I tell you to stop talking, Joey, just stop." " Mr. Herrick..." " I can't believe I am being brought back in here." "I have a funeral to plan." "This is the last thing I need." " Please, sit down, Mr. Herrick." " Sit?" "Detective, Peter is Jewish." "By Jewish law, he should be in the ground today." " I'll have this place surrounded by rabbis." " Peter is not going into the ground today." "There was no suicide." "Your friend was murdered." "What?" "And I'll have to know a little bit more about this Mr. Andleman." "Excuse me." "Before we respond, call me the nervous lawyer but is this little session custodial?" "There's nothing custodial about it." "I mean, he's free to go." "We're just having a conversation." " Go ahead." " Go ahead, what?" "There's no way Marty had anything to do with this." " That's for us to learn, Mr. Herrick." " Detective, look." "It's Marty..." "The thing is Marty is not out yet." "If you know what I mean." "Now, if this gets written up in some greasy tabloid..." " Mr. Herrick..." " Look, I'm trying to tell you something here." "You're barking up the wrong sissy." "Marty couldn't..." "He couldn't pierce a crepe, but much less a sternum." "The man faints phonetically at the sound of blood." "Mr. Herrick, we're hearing that Mr. Andleman made threats against Peter Fineman." "You heard this from who?" "I think it's time that you answer my questions." "There was no way I could get the case." " Why?" " Because Dickie Flood has it." " Oh, great." " Who's Dickie Flood?" "He and Bobby don't like each other." "He thinks this is a chance to stick it to your firm." " He said that?" " No, I could smell it." " But you got a bigger problem than him." " What?" " The girl." " Jennifer?" "She's prepared to testify against you." "What?" "That's crazy." "She can't..." "How?" "It's a lie." "Would you excuse us a second?" " I don't know your boy here." " I do." "He's telling the truth." "We've got two different stories." "You want my advice?" "Plead this quick and bury it." "You don't wanna give Dickie boy the chance to go after you." " No." " Jimmy?" "No." "How can you even suggest I...?" "This is my reputation too." "No." " Jimmy." " No." "I heard no." "Stop saying no for a minute and just listen." "Look at me." "You got a cop who'll testify that he saw you give a known prostitute money." " And saw her begin to..." " She was attracted." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Add to that testimony from the Jane that it was prostitution." "I don't understand why she would do this." "She's fussy about where she sleeps." "She doesn't want it to be jail." "But she's being dishonest." "Gee." "Look, I think she's gonna testify at the probable cause hearing." "I'll try to shake her." "But Jimmy, you gotta think about a plea." "You see, forgive me, sir but I don't think you've been totally forthcoming." "If I wanted to hide anything from you I would just use polysyllabic words." "Okay." "You say that Mr. Andleman never left his apartment but yet we have witnesses that say that he left at ten past five exactly six minutes after other witnesses say that he heard you and Mr. Andleman in an argument." "A heated argument." "In which he threatened Mr. Fineman." "Okay." "Let's start all over." "Did Mr. Andleman leave his apartment yesterday evening?" "Detective, there is no way that Marty committed this crime." " How do you know that?" " Because I know." "For one thing, it isn't in Marty to kill anybody." "It just isn't." "Did he tell you that he was gonna kill Peter?" "Look, Mr. Herrick Joan Lundstrum said that she was out on her balcony when she heard you and Mr. Andleman fighting." "She said that she heard things." "She heard the word "kill."" "Now, did Marty Andleman tell you that he was gonna kill Peter Fineman?" "I need to speak with my lawyer." "Joey?" "Joey, did you not kill him?" "Are you just covering up for this Marty?" " I need to speak to Bobby." " No, you talk to me." " I need to speak to Bobby!" " I'm your law..." "What happened next, Miss Cole?" "He said he might want..." " He asked for oral sex." " As a favor?" "No." "I told him, for him, I'd just charge $60." "And he said okay, and he gave me the money." "But before we..." "The police came." "Thank you." "That's it for me." " Miss Cole, you were arrested too, right?" " Yes." " Your third arrest?" " Yes." "In fact, one more conviction means going to jail, right?" " I don't know." " You don't know?" "Did you make any deals with the district attorney?" "Such as, say, you testify against Mr. Berluti and the charges against you get dropped?" " You make a deal like that?" " That doesn't mean I'm lying." "Did I mention anything about lying?" "But since you bring it up, you do agree you'd have an incentive to lie here, right?" " No." " No?" "Avoiding jail." " That's not an incentive to lie?" " I'm not lying." "You're not." "Could you please look at my client?" " Objection!" " Sit down." "Let's be nice, counsel." "The objection's overruled." "Could you please look at my client, Miss Cole?" "You're giving testimony that this man solicited you for sex last night." "Is that your testimony today, Miss Cole?" "Yes." "Okay." "Let's try this once more keeping in mind that perjury is a punishable crime." " Objection!" " Sit down." "Miss Dole." "Jennifer did James Berluti really solicit you for sex?" "Yes." " What's up?" " I don't have a clue." " I'm not even sure he killed the guy now." " What?" " She's right." "She doesn't have a clue." " The focus is on the boyfriend." " I thought the boyfriend was dead." " No, no, no." "The other boyfriend." "Look, this is more complicated than it seemed at first." " Can she be trusted?" " What's going on?" "Obviously, Marty was involved and they're on to it." "Now, right or wrong, I don't want to turn him in." " Plus, I have my own problems." " Wait, wait, wait." "For what?" "To tell you?" "I'm about to tell you." " Then do it!" " Come on, let's have it." "It happened pretty much how they pegged it." "But what they don't know is that Peter threatened to kill Marty." " Wanna take some notes?" " Bite me." "Come on." "That set Marty off." "He said he'd kill Peter." "That's what the old woman heard on her balcony." " So, what the hell happened?" " Marty was ranting." "Then he left." "I didn't know where he was going." "I certainly didn't think..." "And then later, I went over to Peter's." "And I walked in and that's when I found him there." "Dead." "Then why did you tell us you did it?" "Because I didn't want Marty to get caught." "Plus, I thought I had the best chance of getting away with it." "And what would make you think that?" "I was practically living there." "I knew my prints would be everywhere." "I knew there couldn't be any witnesses, since I really didn't do it." "I just didn't want to incriminate Marty." " Are you keeping up?" " Look, look." "The game is over." "They've tumbled to Marty." "You're not gonna be able to save him." "So you better worry about saving yourself." " And there I have a problem too." " What?" "Excuse me?" "What's the problem?" "During the argument when Marty said he'd kill Peter, I..." "I kind of dared him." "What do you mean you dared him?" "I accused him." "I might have said something like:" ""You fey little fly." "You don't have the stones to kill a roach."" "Then I tossed him the keys to the apartment and I said, "Go ahead." "Show me."" "I didn't for a moment think that he would..." "But I may have incited him a little." "All right." "We might be able to wiggle you out, but you're gonna have to give them Marty." " I can't do that." " Well, you don't have a choice." "You covered up after the fact and they may be able to make an accessory charge before the fact!" "You gotta play ball now." "Joey?" "Marty?" "These are my lawyers." "It's fine." "They think I did it." "They're asking me all kinds of questions." " No, no, no." " Joey?" "They're after me." "They're after me." "They are." "It's okay." " Helen, this is a major screw job." " I don't know what to tell you." "Things look like they look." "There's no way he wasn't gonna find P.C." "Jimmy?" "Can I talk to you in private?" "I'm so sorry for this." "Just tell me why." "They told me that I would go to jail." "But nothing would really happen to you." "Something's already happened to me, Jennifer." "I gotta go." "Wouldn't be trying to obstruct justice now, would we?" " You don't know me, Mr. Flood." " Really?" "Tell me about yourself." " I'm just a Joe with a long memory." " Funny." "So am I." "All right, listen, I need an appointment with the DA tomorrow at 10 a.m." "Okay?" "Great." "I'll hold." "I told you I'd keep you out of it." "So don't worry." "Don't worry." "The point is, you haven't kept me out of it, Joey." "I think it's time for me to go get a lawyer." "Well, if you do that, you could look more suspicious." "I would just wait to see how things go." "Now, I told you I can handle this." "But I can't unless you let me." "Okay." " What the hell am I doing?" " Saving your ass." "He's the main suspect and we're saying, "No worries." "You don't need a lawyer."" "If he gets another lawyer, it could turn into a free-for-all." "I can't turn on him." "I just can't." "Oh, yes, you can." "You dared the guy to commit murder." "You threw him the keys, and after he did it, you played with the evidence." "Accessory, aiding and abetting, obstruction of justice." "The only way you avoid jail is to turn against Marty." "Now, I understand you don't like the choice." "But, Joey, it is your only choice." " How'd it go?" " Not good." "Bound over." "What's with this DA Flood?" "Yeah." "We butted heads a few times." "I caught him playing fast on discovery once." " Reported him to the Bar." " He's out for revenge." "He coerced the girl into giving false testimony." " Can you prove it?" " We'd be a little more cheerful if we could." " What are you guys doing?" " Boning up on immunity." " Things took a turn with Joey Herrick." " They're not gonna be granting immunity." "Hey." " Hey." " You okay?" "Jimmy, what can you do?" "She's lying to save her neck." "You know you're innocent." " I'm not so sure." " What do you mean?" "I wasn't paying her, Rebecca." "Don't get me wrong." "But I didn't push her hand away neither." "And I'm not sure I was gonna." "A hooker gets me off for money or she gives me a freebie." " What's the real difference?" " There is a difference." "I've disgraced myself." "Jimmy, you say you're not sure you were gonna push her away." "Which means you also might have." "Look, I'm not an expert but when a pretty woman puts her hand on a single man's genitalia I bet on average most men give a little pause." "I will grant immunity only if we convict." "Not a chance, Jean." "Even with his testimony, you got a wobbler." " Without it, you are nowhere." " We're just beginning here." " Don't bluff, detective." " Just shut up." "You've done enough investigating to know you're in trouble." " You may not make probable cause, Jean." " We're not too worried." "How can you not be?" "There is a city councilman who is dead." "People wanna know who killed him." " And they will." " How?" "When?" "You've got one lousy witness who said she saw Andleman leave his own apartment." "Another with 80-year-old ears who said she heard the word "kill."" "And a cop with a sociological bent on homos." "Great." "This man gives you the threats." "This man gives you the motive." " Well, let's hear some more about that." " Okay." "Now, you say that the victim threatened Marty first?" " Several times." " Last time being the morning of the murder?" " Yes." " Did you hear the threats?" " Yes." " And what were the words, exactly?" "Peter said that he was a powerful city councilman and that he had friends in the north end." "He'd make sure Marty was found face down with his underwear around his ankles so that the whole case would just be thrown in the nobody-cares file." "If he gets us the conviction, then he gets his immunity." "Do you think I'm stupid, Jean?" "Total immunity for any involvement or he doesn't testify." " I'm not sure I'll testify no matter." " Joey..." " No." " Would you sit down?" "You're asking me to betray a man I love." "A man who committed murder." "I don't know that he did." "He never admitted it to me." "You know, it's possible he's just a victim of a lot of terrible circumstances." "I don't know." "What I do know is I love him." "I'm not gonna wind up being one of those terrible circumstances that puts him in prison forever." "Just draw up the contract." "I'll make sure that he signs it." "Jennifer." "Hi, I'm Rebecca Washington." "I'm not supposed to talk to anybody." "Jennifer, please?" "Hey, Tommy." "Could I just speak to you for a second?" "They told me not to talk to anybody." "Jennifer?" "Jennifer, could you please just listen?" "Everybody makes mistakes." "There are two kinds:" "The kind you get over, and the kind you don't." "And there's the kind that you go to jail for and the kind you don't." "Jennifer, 15 years from now, you are going to be a different person in a different place." "The hooking?" "You'll be able to put that behind you." "For what you're doing to Jimmy..." "I'm here trying to save him." "But you might wanna try saving yourself a little too." "He knows who my pimp is." " What?" " That DA Flood." "He knows who my pimp is." "And he says if I don't do this he'll tell my pimp that I turned on him." "It doesn't take long for girls to end up dead, you know?" "It's extortion." "I say we go after him." "But she is scared to death." "She is not going to talk." "I think I need to pay this district attorney a little visit." "You can't beat him up." "That won't help." " I'll just talk to him." " Right." " Let's just talk to Bobby first." " Well, if they ever get out of there." "You want jail?" "They got enough to make it happen." "No, I don't want jail." "It's hard to turn against someone you care about." "I do." "Just sign the paper, Joey, before he comes and stabs you next." " I sign this paper, I sign Marty's life away." " He killed a guy." "You sign it and you guarantee your freedom." "You don't sign it and you pretty much guarantee yourself jail." "Either you do it, or you get yourself new lawyers, because we're done with you." " I'd have to say everything on this paper?" " At the probable cause hearing." "Every word." "And if you don't, no immunity." "It would really break my heart, Joey, to see you suffer." "Why don't you go grab a pizza, jumbo?" "Okay, I've had enough." "You know what?" "See you in court, okay?" "There." "Happy?" "Happy?" "Like you're doing this for me?" "I'm glad you can look at this as some game." "How nice it must feel to be putting us through all the exercise." " That's not what it's about." " It is what it's about!" "It's always what it's about with you." "You strutting around being smarter than the rest of the world." "Well, you don't look so smart right now, do you?" "32124, Commonwealth v. Andleman." " Murder in the first degree." " Steve Robinson for the defendant." "We'll waive what's left of the reading and ask for bail." "We are opposing bail, Your Honor." "This was a vicious murder." "We consider the defendant both a threat and a flight risk." "Simple stab wound, crime of passion." "There's no danger to society and no flight risk." " No bail." " I'll also seek a probable cause hearing." " These charges are..." " Agreed." "We can do the P.C. Tomorrow." " Ten o'clock?" " Splendid." "Put the defendant back in lockup." "And see you all tomorrow, 10 a.m. Sharp." "Hang in there, Marty." "Hey, Bobby?" "Your guy better come through for his own sake." " Yeah, why?" " Because Marty figured out who's pointing the finger." "All I've got is Joey's testimony to make P.C." "And if he doesn't get the job done, then Marty walks." "And we know what a temper he has." " Sorry." "All full." " Right." "Mr. Flood." "What a pleasure." "What are you doing?" "Did you tell Jennifer Cole you might have a conversation with her pimp?" "Oh, okay." "So far I got you on false imprisonment." "You wanna keep going?" "I'm thinking about it." "You crossed a line, Dickie." "You coerced that girl." "Made her afraid for her life." "And how that must shock the sensibilities of your firm." "Bobby had me up on a rule 11 once so he could buy time to find a lost witness." "Another time, he tried to whack me with discovery sanctions just to pull another stall." " He never extorted you..." " No!" "He does what he does to get his results, Eugene." "Well, I can play that game too." "If I gotta squeeze some Jane to make a John I got no problem sleeping." "She's afraid?" "Yeah." "She should be." "I think I'll take the stairs." "Yeah." "Going down." "I can't go through with it." " I beg your pardon?" " You're asking me to lie." "No." "No, Jennifer." "I am asking you to tell the truth." "Exactly as it happened." "And if you don't stick to the truth that's when things are gonna get ugly for you, okay?" "You'll lose our deal, you violate probation, and you're looking at a jail sentence." "And what's your captain gonna say when he finds out I got his name from you?" "Please?" "Just tell the truth." "It's only a threat." "Marty wouldn't hurt me." "He thinks you're the one who's putting him away." " Maybe I shouldn't be putting him away." " Just review the document." "Marty's defense will be able to subpoena the immunity agreement." "So if your testimony waivers from this, you screw it all up." "You're on." "Let's go." " What's up?" " What's up?" "What's up is you've got a vendetta against Bobby Donnell." "You think so?" "Yeah, I do." "He does what he does to get the results he needs." "Well, I can play that game too, Eugene." "If I gotta squeeze some Jane to make some John I'm gonna have no problem sleeping." "He was wearing a wire." "He's got one of those fillings that picks up radio signals." "So what?" "I didn't say anything there." "We always squeeze during plea-bargaining." "And what's your captain gonna say when he finds out that I got his name from you?" "Please?" " What is this, Dateline?" " Bodily harm you threatened." "What are you doing?" "We all know you don't like Bobby Donnell." "This doesn't smell good, Dickie." "Let it go." "What the hell is your interest in this, Helen?" "I don't like it." " Let it go." " And if I don't?" "I'll get involved." "You think you got a shot?" "You take it." "I will." "Keep going ahead with this case, I definitely will." "I gave Berluti a lie detector." "He passed it." "Drop the case, or we've got a war." " It's over." "Case dismissed." " Really?" " Consider it expunged." " Oh, my God." "Thank you." "For the rest of my life, I..." " You don't even know me." " No." "I know her." " Congratulations." " Jimmy?" "Can you ever forgive me?" "She did a good job getting him on tape." "She was very brave in the end." "I know I can't really undo what I did." "But I am sorry." "I believe you." "And I'd forgive you, but I'm afraid you'd get all grateful on me which is kind of what started everything." "So Mr. Fineman first threatened Mr. Andleman's life?" "Yes." "Peter..." "He said that since Marty was gay the police would probably fob it off to the vice squad where it would collect dust." "He said the file would probably decompose before Marty did." "Do you have an opinion as to whether Mr. Andleman took these threats seriously?" "I know we both did." "When was the last of these threats made, Mr. Herrick?" "The day of Peter's death." "Could you describe the events of that day which led up to the time that you discovered Mr. Fineman?" "Yes." "Marty had just been threatened again and he was reacting in an out-of-control manner." " Out of control?" "How so?" " He said he'd kill Peter." "I mean, he was just saying it in my mind." "Or so I thought." " Then he and I got into it." " You two got into it?" "Marty was blasting me for letting it get to this point." "We shouted." "All of a sudden, I'm accusing him of not having the courage to kill Peter." " You said that to him?" " Yes." "I suppose in a way I challenged him to do it." "Then I tossed him the keys to the apartment and said, "Go ahead." "Do it."" " And then what happened?" " He left." "I still..." "I still didn't think he would do it." "About an hour passed and he hadn't come back." "I decided to drive over there." "And when you drove over to Peter Fineman's apartment what did you find?" " Peter." " Dead?" "Not yet." "He was still alive when I got there." "It hadn't happened yet." "Well, then, what happened next?" "Peter and I got into a huge argument." "I lost my temper." "I picked up the knife and stabbed him." " You stabbed him?" " Right in the heart." "He went down like a sack of bricks." " What is going on here?" " Pardon me?" "Mr. Herrick, yesterday you told me that Mr. Andleman did it." "I did not." "I said he had threatened to do it." "If you remember, I specifically said that I was responsible for the death." "You never came out and said that you had done it." "Of course not." "I didn't have immunity then." "Now I do." "I never said he did it." "I maintained how inconceivable it was that he could have done it." "Don't get cute, Mr. Herrick." "The entire spirit of this agreement was for you to deliver Marty Andleman, and you damn well know it." "I testified as to absolutely everything on that paper." "I was word perfect." " Could I see that, judge?" " No." " Did you know about this?" " Of course not." "I was as duped as you." "I'm sorry, Jean." "So wait a second." "When Marty left to go to the victim's apartment..." "He never went there." "He went to the Public Gardens and fed the ducks." "Can you believe it?" "Says he's going to kill somebody and he feeds the ducks." "Told you he didn't have it in him." "Nobody listens." "The immunity should be voided on the grounds of fraud." "Well, he did testify in accordance with its terms." " The threats, the keys..." " Your Honor, this entire..." "Did you ever ask him if he did it?" " I didn't think it was necessary." " Everything here is the truth." "Everything he said on the stand may be the truth." "I mean, did you ever ask him flat out if he was the killer?" "No." "But this entire thing was premised on the..." "On that Marty was the killer." "Well, he is guilty of murder and you are guilty of a god-awful sloppy immunity agreement!" "But the bottom line is, it's enforceable." "He is a free man." "And you wonder how I can strut around feeling smarter." "Your Honor, I wanna conduct a hearing to establish the validity of that contract." "The contract says what the contract says." "Unfortunately, I signed off on it." "I'd like to know what part you two played in this." "None." " He spun us from the beginning." " You bet I did." "And it was delicious." "I had him shoving that agreement down my esophagus." "You should have seen it." "We can still file federal claims." "Oh, come on, skinny." "You don't think I checked that out?" "Your only appeal is on the talk shows." "Go sell a book." "Okay." "What happened?" "Well, everything worked out for Joey, too." "He's free and clear." "Well, this is good." "Listen, I would have said this an hour ago but I was afraid I'd get weepy." "The way you three stuck up for me..." "I'm never gonna forget that." "I remember sitting with my dad when I was little, when this limo drove by." "I said, "I wanna grow up to be rich someday too."" "He said, "You can't tell from limos if a guy's rich." "You gotta measure his friends."" "Well, working with you guys being able to count you as my friends I feel pretty..." "I know you went to her hotel and I know what you said." "I wish my dad could have met you." "He'd see how rich I turned out to be." " Marty, did you know?" " No, I had no idea." "I found out in the courtroom like the rest of you." "I was stunned." " Why'd you kill him, Mr. Herrick?" " I didn't like his politics." "Plus, he threatened a loved one." "I was prepared to go with self-defense." "Fortunately, I was granted immunity." "I think the main thing is, justice was served." "And I'm proud to be an American." "Aren't you afraid of being sued civilly?" "All my assets are in offshore trusts." "They can have my Heisman." "Are you afraid to be with him?" " I mean, you now know he killed somebody?" " I have no comment on that." "You know, I think that eventually Marty and everyone, will realize I didn't have to get on the stand and admit it." "But the truth has always been my final destination." "I think we can agree the truth came out here today with a splendor." "It was rich." "Well, we got another one off, I guess." "Yep." "You gotta admit, we're pretty good at what we do." "Yep." "I can't take this much longer." "It's almost over, Vicky." "How are we doing?" "It's close." "You'll have to testify." "We knew that going in, didn't we?" "We assumed it, but there was always the chance they couldn't make their case." "And you think they have?" " Not motive, but..." " But what?" "If you had shot him just once, I would rest right now." "But the other four shots, you gotta get up there and explain that." "Don't buckle now, Vicky." "You've made it this far." "I should stop watching the news." "The things they are saying..." "People have been talking since this whole thing began." "They'll talk long after it's over." " It's a juicy, sexy murder trial." " Yeah." "We're almost done." "The psychiatrist testifies, then you, and you're done." "Okay." "We'll make it." "What the hell is this?" "What are you thinking?" "It's none of your business, Eugene." "None of my business?" "I'm second chair in this trial." "She's my responsibility." "It's a personal thing." "It's got nothing to do with you." "This is a murder trial." "She's charged with murder in the first degree." "You got a personal thing with a client who's also my client, my business." "I knew it." " Get out." " No, I won't get out." "I knew it, I smelt it, but didn't wanna believe." " Believe what?" " Him and Victoria Keenan." " Get out." " Are you insane?" "Look, I'm not an idiot." "I know how it looks." "I know the potential danger here, so just spare me the lectures." " It's not affecting me as a lawyer." " Everybody, get out now." " I need to talk to him." " Rebecca, who runs this place?" " Right now, me." "Everybody get out." " No." "You got something to say, say it in front of them." "Go ahead." "Okay, fine." "First, as a lawyer, I don't even need to tell you that part, Bobby." "Second, as Bobby, she did it." "She's a killer." "How could you get involved with somebody like that?" " She's not a killer." " She pumped five bullets into the man!" "You're blinded by her beauty, man." "She's a killer." "If that gets me fired, then fine." "We all agree with Rebecca?" "Lindsay?" "Oh, well, I would definitely agree that she's, you know, pretty." "And a good shot." " But I think it could have been self-defense." " You lie." " You can't read my mind, Rebecca." " No." "I guess I shouldn't trust my ears when you said she was innocent." "No, I said it looks that way." "She's not a killer!" "I defend murderers all the time and I know them when I see them." "Victoria Keenan is innocent." "Helen?" "How's it look on Keenan?" "End of the week, we should be finished." "I feel pretty good." "Why?" "Oh, press coverage is heating up." "Look, not to put pressure on you, but I thought I'd just..." "Put pressure on me." "Sorry." "We need this one." "You treated the victim for how long, Dr. Gale?" "Just under six years." "And during the course of your therapy sessions with Mr. Adler did he ever talk about my client?" "He just said that she was a neighbor who lived on the same apartment floor and that he and his wife would frequently visit with her." "So you've heard the prosecutor's suggestion that the victim was perhaps having a sexual affair with my client." "Well, my response would be that it's ridiculous." "I knew almost every detail of Robert Adler's life." " There was no such affair." " Well, is it possible that he would have kept this from you?" " Frankly, no." "Bob Adler would pour out his deepest intimacies in my office." "If he were having an affair with somebody, I would have known about it." " On this you're positive?" " Very." "The only relationship he had with your client was that of a neighborly friendship." " What were you treating Mr. Adler for?" " Very mild depression." "And do you remember how he first came to you?" "Anybody refer him?" " Yes." " Do you remember who?" "His wife, Mary." "And how did Mary Adler know of you?" "She's been my patient for nine years." "I see, so you would have kind of a trusting relationship with Mary Adler, then?" " Yes." " In fact nine years, I'd imagine you two have built up quite a trust." " We have." " And given that trust if you knew somebody to be betraying Mary Adler wouldn't you feel some obligation to tell her?" " I didn't know of any affair." " Please listen to the question." "If you knew of someone to be betraying Mary Adler a client you'd established a nine-year trust with, would you tell her?" "It's not so easy." "If I learned it from another client, there'd be tremendous conflicts of interest, counsel." ""It's not so easy," you say." "So there would be some pull on you to tell her, wouldn't there?" "I mean, Mary Adler trusts you." "If you were to find out she were being betrayed there would be some pull on you to tell her whether you'd end up doing it or not, right?" " Obviously." " Obviously." "And this would be obvious to Robert Adler too, wouldn't it?" " Perhaps." " Perhaps." "So couldn't it be Robert Adler thought it best not to tell you he was sleeping with Victoria Keenan?" " Objection!" " Overruled." "Isn't it at least possible, given your conflicts of interest your fiduciary relationship with his wife, that Robert Adler chose not to tell you he was committing adultery with that woman?" "I don't think that that was the case." "Is it your testimony, doctor, that such a scenario is impossible?" "No, I am not saying it's impossible." "Thank you, doctor." "The truth isn't so painful after all, is it?" "This is why I hate psychiatric experts." "In the end, they always wobble." "It's not exactly a black-and-white science." "Look, they still haven't proven any affair." "All they have are witnesses who saw him go into her apartment a lot." "Yes, but I was just holding out the hope that she wouldn't have to testify." "Excuse me?" "I just hate to subject her to it all unless it's absolutely..." "You hate to subject her to it?" " Are you seeing straight on this?" " Excuse me?" "If you're wondering whether or not she takes the stand, you're not seeing straight." "Eugene, in all the time that you have known me have you ever seen me get involved with a client?" "No." "Previously, you've been too smart for that." "If I thought that it compromised my objectivity or ability even slightly I would be off, and I don't appreciate having to convince you of that." "And what about her?" "I mean, this could be like a patient falling for her shrink." "The deck isn't level for her." "That isn't happening." "And let's just keep this discussion about the case." "Fine." "If you're even wondering whether or not she takes the stand you're not seeing straight." "I suppose if it were him in this situation, you'd be giving him the same speech." "Maybe, but he's been with me long enough to know I don't go getting involved with my clients." "If I thought for one second that..." "He did say one thing that..." "That what?" "Nothing." "Bobby." "Your feelings for me." "They could have something to do with, you know like I'm your protector in all this." " And that could make you more prone to..." " Well, that is a possibility." "I know that's not what you wanna hear, but..." "Let's face it." "My life is basically in your hands, so it's possible that..." "And once the trial is over, do you think you'll feel different?" "Of course not." "But we have to admit, we are in the middle of something we've never been in before." "Maybe we should just pull back until the trial is over." "Okay." " Mr. Donnell, please?" "Mr. Donnell." " Excuse me." "Mr. Young, do you have a comment?" " Hey, hey, you want a comment?" " Yes, we do." "The next one of you to push me, I'm gonna push back." "That's my comment." "There she is." "What's your comment, Helen?" "I never have any comment." "Why would I have one today?" "Ms. Gamble, how do you think she was capable of five shots?" "I don't." "I think it was suicide." "He shot himself five times." "I'm just prosecuting her because I don't like her outfit." "Don't rush with your answers." "And no matter how hard she comes at you, stay calm." "Gamble likes to play the nervous school girl." "And as soon as you think she's harmless, she gets you." "How long will it take?" "It won't be quick, Vicky." "This could be a long day." "Okay." "Just tell them what happened." "You're gonna do great." "Well, he had come over like he had so many other times before." "And what did you and Mr. Adler do on these visits?" "Well, for most of them, Mary, his wife, she would come too." "Sometimes we'd watch TV or play cards or just talk." "Yes, but on this occasion, Mr. Adler came alone." " And at 11:00 at night." " Yes." "He said that he was troubled about something, he asked if he could come in." " And you said yes?" " Well, like I said, we were friends." "And then what happened?" "Well, we had a nightcap." "And then out of nowhere, he told me that I was beautiful." "But not in a conversational way." "It was more of a seductive tone." "And what did you do?" "Well, I was thinking to myself:" ""How do I get out of this with the least amount of embarrassment?"" "I figured he must have been drinking before he came over." "I don't know, I..." "I guess I was trying to save him from himself a little bit." " Well, how'd you do that?" " Well, by laughing it off pretending not to be as uncomfortable as I was." "Then he said that when he was with Mary, that he would often think of me." "And what did you say to that?" "Have you been drinking?" "That's why you think I'm saying these things?" "Alcohol?" "I don't know why you're saying them..." "I'm saying these things because I'm in love with you." "You know this." "Robert, we're friends." "I'm friends with Mary." "You know what?" "This is making me really uncomfortable." "I think you should go." " And did he go?" " No." " I think you're in love with me." " What?" "I know your friendship with Mary makes it prohibitive, but..." " Look, Robert, please leave." " Hey, I'm not leaving, Victoria." "Come on." " Come on." " Robert, let go of my hands." "Hey, come on, let's stop pretending, all right?" " Robert, please." "Let go of me." " Is that part of the game?" "This denial?" "Is this what arouses you?" "Robert, look, I'll ask you one more time to let go of me and then I scream!" "But he wouldn't." "He wouldn't let go." "Maybe I should just take you, huh?" "Then we could both have each other." "You'd be spared the morning-after remorse, huh?" " No!" " Come on, come on." " Come on." " No!" "Come on." "No!" "I don't really remember the other shots." "I remember pulling the trigger." "But not how many times." "Your story seems so traumatic, Ms. Keenan." " I'm a little struck by how poised you tell it." " Objection." " Overruled." " You talked about an attempted rape." "Then shooting a man repeatedly to his death and you seem so unaffected by it all." " Objection." " Sustained." "It's your testimony that the victim came over to your apartment alone on many occasions." " Yes." " Sometimes late at night." " Yes." "And it's your testimony that there was nothing sexual between you two?" "That's correct." "In the last, say, oh, five years have you had a romantic relationship with anybody?" "As a matter of fact, no, I haven't." "Gee, such an attractive, affluent woman." "You would think there'd have to be somebody." " Objection." " Ms. Gamble." "You testified that you screamed that night." "Anybody hear those screams to your knowledge?" "No, not to my knowledge." " The walls of my apartment are very thick." " You would know this?" " Objection!" " Overruled." "You ever screamed in the company of the victim and not been detected?" " Objection!" " Objection." "Sustained." "Stop it." "Did Mr. Adler keep pursuing you after you shot him the first time?" "I don't really remember." "I recall squeezing the trigger and then seeing him lying on the floor." " You don't remember seeing him fall?" " I was in shock, Ms. Gamble." "I don't remember a lot of what happened that night." "I was shaking." " Do you remember dialing 911?" " Yes." " When?" " Right after." "Right after." "Seconds after?" "Minutes?" "Lmmediately after." "I saw him lying on the floor, I picked up the phone and called." "While you were still shaking." "Yes." "At this time, Your Honor, I'd like to play the recording of the 911 call." "Say that again, please?" "A man just tried to rape me." "I shot him in self-defense and I think he might be dead." "Where are you calling from, ma'am?" "I'm at the Devonshire Place, apartment 14-C." "It's my residence." "That's the sound of your voice in shock?" "I don't know what I sound like." "I do know I was in shock, yes." "I see." "While in shock, you had the presence to assert your legal claim of self-defense?" " Objection." " Overruled." " Shall I play the tape again, Ms. Keenan?" " I said self-defense as a descriptive way." "I wasn't asserting any legal claim, Ms. Gamble." "It just came out that way." "It just came out that way." "I think you did great." "I really do." "You heard that tape." "I did sound calm, Bobby." "I did." "You sounded shut down." "That's normal under the circumstances." "I think we had a very good day, Vicky." "I wouldn't say so if I thought otherwise." "What?" "I remember pulling the trigger on the first shot, but..." "But maybe the reason I can't remember the other four shots is because I blocked it out." "Maybe they were deliberate, and that's why I blocked them out." "Don't start going down that path." "Look, I don't know anymore." "When I was testifying, I could see the image..." "Maybe those last four shots, maybe they were revenge." "Listen to me." "The man tried to rape you." "He might have killed you." "The first shot was fear, I think." "The other four were rage." "At least she's honest." "Yeah." "Bobby, either way, it wasn't premeditated." "So what, it's rage?" "What woman under those circumstances wouldn't just start shooting?" "Yeah." "This ain't bothering you because it's a client." "You love this woman?" "Come on, it's too soon." "Do you think that I should let Eugene take over?" "No." "That sends a message to the jury." "Besides, Eugene says you're doing good in there." "He thinks you're winning." "You're worried." "I don't know, Jimmy." "I don't know." "What is it about her?" "I mean, I know she's attractive." "But your valve in this area has been kind of shut off." "Exactly." "I don't have a clue as to what makes her different." "It's not like I'm in love with her, Jimmy." "But it could go that way." "Maybe I should have Eugene take over." "All right, this is how I see it." "He promised her he'd leave the wife, and when he doesn't, she shoots him." "See, she was in love with him." "Don't you think she'd have a plan better than gunning him down in her apartment?" "What do you mean?" "It's a great plan." "No witnesses, reasonable doubt." " Jimmy thinks she's innocent." " I do." "See?" "It's a great plan." "See, she did it." "I knew you were there the whole time." "Does anybody have work to do?" "Excuse me, Mr. Donnell?" "I know you're Bobby Donnell." "I recognize you from the papers." "Yeah, well, how can I help you?" "Actually, I am here to help you." "I live in the apartment across from Victoria Keenan." "And I have some information on that night." "Okay, I won't waste your time because I know that you must be running at a premium here." "Here is the thing." "I am a security nut." "I live alone and I have a recurrent nightmare that someone gets into my house and gives me a tracheotomy." "So I got into this high-tech security stuff, right?" "Including mini cameras and so forth." "And I got to thinking, I wonder if it picked something up that night." "And sure enough." "Do you want to take a little look at this?" "You got a tape of the night of the shooting?" "It's just hallway, but it may be helpful." "There's your deceased, Mr. Adler." "And that's her apartment." "It goes by quick if you wanna rewind it." "How long have you had this tape?" "Since the night of, I told you." "And you never thought to go to the police with it?" "I couldn't think of much else." "But I couldn't see much good in it." "At least, not much good in it for me." "And then this morning:" "Timing is everything, don't you think?" "I am willing to sell this to your client for 100,000." "You came here to extort us?" "Hey, you know, that's a legal term, and I am not a lawyer." "I am more like a Fuller Brush man." "I'm just hoping that you're gonna buy what I have to sell." "Well, you came to the wrong place because this office doesn't participate in blackmail or extortion." "Okay." "Again, I'm no legal expert but you do have some duty to take this offer to your client." "The tape is yours." "It's a copy." "Oh, you know what?" "Since you say it's illegal, maybe I should just go to the DA." "But you should probably think that if the district attorney springs that in court tomorrow you'll be hard-pressed to claim unfair surprise since I came to you first." "Mr. Walters, you had to know about this tape the night of the shooting otherwise, you wouldn't have known to save it." " So?" " So the police questioned you." "I got the reports, you withheld evidence." "That's obstruction of justice, Mr. Walters." "You could go to jail." "Gee, maybe I should just turn myself in now." "What do you want me to say?" "How about the truth?" "Okay." "We were having an affair." "But I had just shot the man." "I panicked." "I lied." " I told them that we were friends." " Why didn't you tell me?" "I was going to, but you basically told me not to." " What?" " Our very first meeting." "I remember your words exactly." "You said that whatever I told you, you were stuck with it." "You couldn't get me on the stand and say things you knew weren't true." " That didn't mean lie." " Bobby, don't deny it." "You steered me to stick with the version I gave the police." "I never told you to lie." "Because we both know you're not allowed to." "But you sure as hell warned me against the truth." "His shrink took the stand, for God's sakes." "How could you be so sure he wouldn't know?" "Because Robert told me that he never told him." "He was afraid for anybody to know." "The DA was exactly right." "Robert didn't tell his psychiatrist because he didn't want him telling Mary." "So you murdered this guy." " No, of course I didn't murder him!" " Tell me what happened." "A week before, Robert came by here and said that he wanted to leave Mary and marry me." "I had no interest in marrying him, so I turned him down." "Then that night he came back, he proposed again." "I said no again, and then he went into this rage." "And the rest is exactly as I told you before." "He tried to rape me, I went for the gun and I shot him." "That's the truth, Bobby." "If you choose not to believe me, I..." "I guess I wouldn't blame you." "Take a lie detector." " Excuse me?" " A polygraph." " I thought it was inadmissible." " In court." "For you." "Take a polygraph for you." "I'm a better lawyer when I believe in my client." "So it's in your interest, if what you're telling me now is the truth." "Fine." "Set up your polygraph." "Forget about what you read, Vicky." "They're deadly accurate." "Set up your polygraph, Bobby." "You have got to be kidding." "Yeah, that's why I set it up." "To kid you." " But he's giving her a polygraph?" " Yes." " Well, what's the point?" "He can't use it." " Exactly, it doesn't make any sense." "Eugene, what the hell is going on?" "I wish I knew." "He was trying to rape you?" "Yes." "Is your hair black?" "No." "Were you afraid Robert Adler was about to kill you when you shot him?" " Yes." " Were you in love with him?" "No." "In love with anybody?" "Maybe." "Him?" "Stay on the path, Johnny." "Did you plan to shoot Robert Adler before he attacked you?" "No." "Well, I guess congratulations are in order." "You have a client that not only seems to love you, but she's telling the truth." " So where are we now?" " I don't know." "I guess everything depends on that Walters guy and that stupid tape." "Bobby, Probation pulled a sheet for me." " He's got a prior on some insurance fraud." " Walters?" "He was also indicted in some travel agency scam." "But that hasn't gone anywhere yet." "Oh, no." "Why is that bad?" "It gives him motive to go to the police." "He can use that tape to make a deal." "You're friends with Gamble, sniff out whether she knows." "Jimmy, drop whatever you're doing and research unfair surprise." " I need to know if that tape gets introduced..." " lf you heard about it first..." "I wanna know, damn it!" "I want the research!" " Fine." " And suppose it isn't unfair surprise?" "Then we're in trouble." "We should just buy the tape from this guy." " That's illegal." " Look, Walters isn't going to the DA." "There's too much risk for him." "Check into this guy." "I don't care if you are up all night." " I need to be ready to discredit him..." " Video speaks for itself." "Why is everything a fight?" "I ask you something, why can't you do it?" "Bobby, lay off!" "We're all on the same side here." "Don't feed me that." "You're having a great time with this." " It's just one big hoot to everybody." " Bobby." "And don't you lecture me." "If that video gets put in tomorrow, we are dead." "So let's all just do our work." "It's fun, actually." "I mean, I don't mean murder should be fun." "But this is the kind of trial we used to dream of in law school, remember?" "Hello?" "You dreamed of mergers and acquisitions, Helen." "Yeah, well, even so." "You know, rumor has it that Bobby and this woman got something going." "Yeah, I started it." "I know how gossip distracts you." "Do you still like him, Lindsay?" "Just eat your sandwich, Helen." "You should ask him out." "For his sake." "This woman's trouble." "Well, maybe I'll ask him out." "Go for it." "So you gonna rest your case tomorrow?" " Why do you ask?" " I'm just curious." " Yeah." " What?" "I don't know, I just feel like maybe we're going on a little fishing expedition here." "I can't have dinner with a friend?" "Well, I'll probably rest tomorrow." "Then again, I might not." "Stay back." "Stay back." " You didn't get my message?" " What's the matter?" "Do we know anything?" "Is that videotape coming in?" " DA would have to tell me." " Unless it happens like Walters said." "If we claim surprise, she'll say she knew about it." "Well, we'll just have to wait and see, Eugene, right?" "And from her symptoms, I concluded that she was in a mild state of shock." " Now you found signs of trauma." " Absolutely." "Doctor, is it possible a person could feign these symptoms?" "No." "No, this was real." "You examined the defendant how long after the shooting?" "I think a couple of hours." "Can you really diagnose shock to a medical certainty?" "It's a judgment thing." "And I made that call, yes." "I see." "And would it be possible for someone to go into shock after committing a heinous crime, as well as being the victim of one?" "Yes." "So it's possible, doctor, that the symptoms you saw in Victoria Keenan could have been triggered by her committing murder, right?" " Well, it's conceivable, yes, but..." " Conceivable." "Yes." "Thank you, doctor." "Counsel?" "The defense rests, Your Honor." "Ms. Gamble?" "The prosecution rests, Your Honor." "Closing arguments at 2." "Adjourned." " You knew." " What?" "Don't you play dumb with me, Vicky." "I saw your face." "You knew Walters wasn't coming forward and you weren't the least bit surprised when the prosecution rested." "You bought that tape." " How much do you wanna know, Bobby?" " Tell me everything." "Everything." "I bought the tape." "How could I not?" "If it comes into evidence, my life is over." "It's obstruction of justice." "It's illegal." "For you to be involved, maybe." "There's nothing illegal about it for me." "People snap your photograph in a restaurant ask if you wanna buy it." "People do." "The same thing here." "I liked the tape, I bought it." "It doesn't mean I committed murder." "I shot him in self-defense." "You're a liar." "I feel sick." " Could she have fooled that test?" " It is so unlikely." "I'm not looking for an apology, John." "I just want the information." " Could she have beaten that thing?" " It's like one in a million." "Does she fall into that category of the kind of person who could do it?" "Maybe." "She seemed pretty cool in there, Bobby." "Whether she's that pathological, it's anybody's guess." "Okay, you can go." "She's just that pathological, isn't she?" "We don't know that." "I'm not sure I can get up there, Eugene." "I beg your pardon?" "I don't know if I can stand on my feet and do the closing." "Well, you don't have a choice." "I mean, the judge isn't gonna let you out." "Not at this point." "I can't do it." "What do you mean, you can't do it?" "We do it every day." "The client is always guilty." "We always do it." "What do you mean you can't do it?" "I can't do this one." "The first thing they teach you in law school is never ever fall in love with the client." " They don't teach you that." " Well, they should." "Bobby..." "Maybe you're crazy about her, I don't know." "I don't really care." "What I do know is when the judge says, "I'll hear from the defense" you'd better get up." "He said he loved her?" "No, no, no." "Eugene said "love," but I couldn't make out the sentence because Big Head over here started up with the copy machine." "Don't make fun of my head, Ellenor." "That's rude." "How could he love her?" " Why, do you like him?" " What?" "I don't know." "You just seem defensive." " I'm not defensive." " You sound it." "Thank you, Big Head." "That's rude." "You see how big this is?" "You don't just fire off five shots in reflex." "This thing has kick." "You have to aim, to steady." "It isn't simple." "She says she only remembers pulling the trigger once." "Right?" "Five shots, ladies and gentlemen." "And she's asking you to swallow self-defense." "We'll now hear from the defense." "Bobby." "Bobby Donnell said to me last night:" ""Eugene, you've basically been sitting here listening like a juror." "What's your take on all this?"" "And when I told him, he thought that maybe I should be the one to tell you." "But if you've been listening to all the witnesses like I have weighing all the evidence, I don't have to tell you anything, do I?" "I mean, we all have the same question:" "Why?" "Why would Victoria Keenan murder Robert Adler?" "There is no evidence of any motive." "Oh, they suggest that there must have been some affair." "But they have to suggest that, otherwise, they're stumped." "But where's the proof?" "Did you hear any proof?" "Maybe I missed something." "Did you hear any testimony establishing an affair?" "You?" "Even Robert Adler's own psychiatrist, he got up here and he told you." "He told you there was no such affair, the idea was ridiculous and the lady over there, I suspect she knows it's ridiculous but she has to suggest it anyway, because she's stuck." "She's stuck for a motive." "Did the prosecution put up a single witness to contradict what Victoria Keenan told you?" "Anybody?" "They have wasted your time." "Their whole case is boom, boom, boom, boom and boom." "And they expect you to convict off of a bunch of booms." "Now, you have testimony that Robert Adler tried to rape her." "Evidence that she defended herself." "No evidence, none to the contrary, other than five booms and a big gun with a trigger that's hard to squeeze." "Reasonable doubt." "I don't think I have to tell you anything." "Ms. Gamble." "What you saw on that stand was a cold, ice-cold killer who figured the perfect crime was to invite the victim into her home shoot him and claim self-defense." "No witnesses, perfect." "But no screams, either." "No bruises on her body." "Just shock." "A man just tried to rape me." "I shot him in self-defense and I think he might be dead." "Word perfect." "When she's good, she's good." "When she's bad, she's a murderer." " Has the jury reached its verdict?" " We have, Your Honor." "The defendant will please rise." "What say you, Mr. Foreman?" "In the matter of Commonwealth v. Victoria Keenan on the charge of murder in the first degree, we find the defendant not guilty." "Members of the jury, the court thanks you for your service, which is now concluded." "This matter is adjourned." "The defendant is free to go." "Nice job, Bobby." " Good job, Eugene." " Thanks." "The door was open." "Come in." "Come in." "It's been such a whirlwind." "I haven't had time to settle yet." "Why didn't you get up to do the closing?" "Oh, I just figured that Eugene could offer a better perspective and..." "We're not gonna see any more of each other, are we?" "I don't know quite what to believe, Vicky." "That's too bad." "Well, thanks." "Thanks again for getting me acquitted." "Yeah." "Vicky." "Was it self-defense?"