" And what is the music du jour?" " Jazz fusion." "Oh, gee." "You know, the Stones are playing in Anaheim." "And that baby could get us there in 45 minutes." " That show was sold out today." " I know Keith way back." "Long story." "I don't think that I'm dressed for a rock concert." "Pop a T-shirt over that dress, big tongue hanging down, brown sugar." " Sebastian?" " Of course, jazz fusion is always good." " Don't even think about it." " It's work." " You're off duty." " Yeah." "Uh-huh." "I do know where that is." "I'll be right there." "They found Emily Forrester." "The girl who went missing?" "Well, that's great." " Oh, my God." "She was 8 years old." " Found her body in a field north of here." "I'm gonna send a car for you." "I'm sorry." "Just call me later." "This is gonna make jazz fusion seem like paradise." "MAN 1:" "Yeah, I'll notify County right now." "MAN 2:" "Go ahead and cordon it off." "You okay?" "I've been to murder scenes before." "Never a little kid." "I need to check the body." "Stay here." "No." " Hold it." " Hang on." " Okay." " Can I see her, please?" "I've never seen anything like this." "I have." "There better be a good reason you're at my house." "This is when I recover from our time together." "Needed to talk to you about Emily Forrester." "They called me when they ID'd the body." "I know all about it." "I don't think you do." "Tanya Blake?" "What's a murder 15 years ago have to do with Emily Forrester?" "Let me show you." "The victims were the same age." "Similar disposal sites." "Both girls were abducted from public parks." "And now the piece de résistance." "Similar markings around the mouth." " Case got tons of press." "A copycat." " Fifteen years later?" "Kind of a stretch." "Yeah." "Kind of like a killer taking 15 years off between victims." "The ones we know about." "Okay, a jury convicted Charlie Davis of murder." "You represented him." "You didn't take the deal we offered, put him on the stand." "You lost." "Let it go." "Given you're the prosecutor that helped put him away and you made a name for yourself in the process, I'm sure you would like that." " Don't make this personal." " It already is." " Grab me a pickle?" " Hello?" "I'm working too." "Let me break down the parent-child dynamic for you." "So I got a weird phone call today." " From whom?" " Some guy named Scott Natterson." "He sounded like he was a few years older than me." " Natterson?" " Yeah." "You know him?" " No." "What did he want?" " Mom's phone number in New York." "Said he was an old friend but I've never heard of him." " What did you tell him?" " That I would ask you and call him back." "Good." "Just forget about it." "Probably a damn telemarketer." "Those guys are relentless." "Thanks." " Can you make me an English muffin?" " Ugh." "Emily Forrester was abducted from Palisades Park four days ago." "Her father runs the largest supermarket." "Cops hoped this would be ransom case." "I want the name of everyone arrested or questioned." "I don't care if they were cited for unlawful barbecue." "ME will release his report today." "Hopefully, that will explain these markings around Emily's mouth." " Aspirated stomach acid." " How do you know that?" " I'm psychic." " Might have a tip on the body drop." "A commuter called in a partial plate ID on a suspicious van parked off to the Gold Line Metro Rail." "L.A.P.D. Ran the numbers against the van model, came up with 10 suspects." " Suspects who could've dumped Emily." " Bring them all in." "We should wait for the cops to ID their top suspect or we could just bring them all in." " Great idea." "I need you to look into a similar case." "Death of an 8-year-old girl in Echo Park, 1991." " What was the victim's name?" " Tanya Blake." "The man convicted of the crime was Charlie Davis." " You think the two cases are connected?" " Pull everything." "Police files, photos, autopsy reports, interviews." "Don't discuss this with anyone." "Raina, not with anyone." "Charlie." "Been a long time." "Fifteen years, seven months, 13 days." " Thing is I'm a prosecutor now." " Yeah." " We get the paper in here." " Right." "I just caught this child murder case." " And the details are remarkably similar..." " Emily Forrester?" "Yeah, we get TV in here too." "Then you understand why I might wanna run a few photographs by you." "You never wrote me back." " Excuse me?" " I wrote you a letter?" "After I lost my appeal?" "Never heard from you." "Sorry." "Things got busy." "Appeals were exhausted." " There wasn't much I could do for you." " Could've let me know you gave a damn." "Anyway, Emily Forrester was killed with the exact same m." "O as Tanya Blake in 1991." "I believe the same person could've committed both murders." " So you don't think I killed Tanya Blake?" " No, Charlie." "I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now." "Show me what you got." "You recognize anyone from that day in Echo Park?" "No." "No." "This is useless." "It's been 15 years." " Charlie, look..." " Look, forget it." "That's him." " You know this guy?" " He's the one I told you about." "I saw him that day talking to Tanya Blake in the park." "He's older now, but I swear to God that's him." "Thank you for coming in, Mr. Bemis." "I have a client over in Silver Lake, so I was in the neighborhood." "Are you a gardener?" " A landscape architect." " Oh, right." "Were you spending any time near downtown on Tuesday?" "Downtown?" "No." "No, I don't think so." "Spend any time near Palisades Park on Saturday?" "As a matter of fact, yes, I did." " What were you doing there?" " Playing softball." " Really?" " I've been in a league there for years." "We played a double-header on Saturday." "I'm still sore." "You heard what happened in the park there Saturday?" " Oh, the little girl." "Yeah." " Unbelievable." "Her name was Emily Forrester." "Right, right." "I saw the police cars." "Didn't know what was going on." "But I heard it on the radio coming home from the game." "It's just horrible." "I got two kids myself." " Every parent's worst nightmare." " Exactly." "Did you see Emily or anybody resembling her that day?" "No." "I mean, I wish I could help you, but there's so many kids at that park." "And like I said, I was playing ball." " Happens like that." "Strange." " Yeah." " Sorry." " Thank you for coming in." " We'll call you if anything else comes up." " Okay." "You wouldn't mind taking a peek at this photo." "See if it jogs your memory?" "That's not the girl that they showed on the news." "No?" "Oh, you're right." "Yeah." "They get these files mixed up." "Listen." "If you guys need anything else, you just give me a call, okay?" " You betcha." "We'll be in touch." " Okay." " Thanks." " Yup." "Okay." "How do you spell that name?" "All right." " Get that photo of Tanya Blake?" " Yeah." "Notify L.A.P.D. I want Bemis put under 24-hour surveillance." "He tries to leave, I want him arrested." "Find out if he worked at a pizza place." " What?" " I'll explain later." " Who's this girl you showed Bemis?" " A mistake." " You don't make mistakes." " I reviewed the file." "Woman reported a guy spoke inappropriately to her daughter at the park the same day Emily disappeared." " Guy have a name?" " Kevin Olmstead." "L.A.P.D. Interviewed and released him." "No local record, but I ran a check." "He has a child abuse record in Tacoma." " How old is he?" " Twenty-six." "Keep tabs on him." "But we got our guy." "Start preparing a search warrant for Sam Bemis." "What about Kevin Olmstead?" "He's got a record of abusing minors." "Why are we dismissing a plausible suspect?" "When I want your advice, I'll stop ice-skating in hell and ask." "How's that?" " Excuse me, Julie Stark?" " Yeah?" "I'm Scott Natterson." "We talked on the phone the other day." " Are you a stalker or something?" " Oh, no." "Please." "I'm trying actually to get in touch with your mother." "The thing is about three months ago, my dad died of cancer." " I'm so sorry." " Thanks." "But he left a lot of stuff behind." "And I was going through it, I found letters here from your mom." " What kind of letters?" " There's not really an easy way to say it." "I think my father and your mother had an affair." " You're seeking warrant for Sam Bemis." " Word travels fast." "You found a guy with an abuse record." "You bugging my office?" "Yet we're not going after the guy with the abuse record." "Instead, we're going after Sam Bemis, a suspect with a solid alibi?" "I have a source who says Bemis is our guy." "You mind telling me who that source might be?" "Very much." "But when I nail down my case, you'll be the first to know." "Which case is that, exactly?" "I'm helping the police figure out who killed Emily Forrester." "I was worried that you were using the facts of the Tanya Blake case to determine who we go after in the Emily Forrester murder." "Clearly my concern was unfounded." "Kevin Olmstead was at the park earlier that day." "But at the time of abduction, he was at a restaurant in Santa Monica." "Kevin Olmstead is our guy with the abuse record." " We can cross him off the list." " ME's report came back." "They figured out what caused the markings." " It wasn't aspirated stomach acid." " So?" "Diazinon." "A pesticide, used to knock her out." "Pesticide." "Sam Bemis is a landscape architect." "How's that search warrant looking now?" "Cops found gallons of Diazinon in a storage shed and several blond hairs in the back of the van." "A likely color match for Emily Forrester." "You got away with it last time." "This time, I am sending you straight to hell." "CHPjust issued a sig alert on the westbound accident." "If the lab confirms the hairs in Bemis' van belong to Emily Forrester, we're good." "Except for Bemis' alibi." "He was playing softball from 11 a.m. To 2:30 p.m." "There's a 20-, 30-minute break between each 90-minute game." "Bemis' break would've overlapped the time of the abduction." "Bemis left the field, found Emily, led her to his van, knocked her out all in 20 minutes, then went back to play?" "I didn't say it was probable." "I said it was possible." "Something tells me Raina can provide us with more details." " What are you talking about?" " Who?" " Name Tanya Blake ring a bell?" " Who's Tanya Blake?" "Fifteen years ago Tanya Blake was abducted from a playground in Echo Park and murdered." " The m.o. Match the Forrester case?" " I don't know." "When I went to pull Tanya Blake's file, it was already signed out." "You're working another angle?" "Stark ordered me not to say anything." "He represented the guy convicted of Tanya Blake's murder 15 years ago." " I guess he does lose." "Why didn't Stark tell us he likes Bemis for both murders?" "Why don't you ask him yourself?" "This is the last place Tanya Blake was seen alive." "June 3rd, 1991." "Witnesses saw a 19-year-old male, Charlie Davis, near that swing set around the same time Tanya was playing with two other children." " Had priors." "Small stuff." "Nothing violent." " They convicted him based on that?" "They convicted him because I was an idiot and put him on the stand instead of taking the plea that Rudy Hill was offering." " Hill, bigtime prosecutor." " The best." "Badass." "Would throw his own mother in jail." " Where is he now?" " Long gone." "Two-pack-a-day guy." " Never stood a chance." " What was Davis' defense?" "He saw another man talking to Tanya before leading her out of the park." " The pizza guy?" " Yeah." "He said he was wearing a pizza delivery uniform." "But I contacted every restaurant that served anything resembling pizza and came up empty." " Then Charlie Davis was convicted." " I just paid Charlie a visit in prison." "He ID'd Bemis as the man he saw talking to Tanya." " Did Bemis deliver pizza?" " Not from his tax records." "Okay, even if we can convict Bemis of Tanya's murder can't use prior bad acts to nail him for Emily Forrester." "We can if we use those acts to establish a specific pattern of behavior..." " That points to his modus operandi." " Thank you." "So why did you put Charlie Davis on the stand?" "For the worst possible reason." "I thought he was innocent." "If we find traces of the same pesticide in Tanya Blake's remains it ties the two murders together." "I'm not putting Tanya's parents through that." " What's this?" " Blakes' home number." "Talked to them an hour ago." "Said if an exhumation can determine who killed Tanya, we have their blessing." "You're going through this to prove Charlie Davis is innocent?" " The wrong guy went to jail." " Not according to the jury." "I'm telling you our 2006 case isn't strong enough." "The 1991 case will make it stronger." "It can help establish Bemis' m.o." "Admit it." "You're afraid that if I clear Charlie Davis the press will nail you to the cross for having put away the wrong man." "You wanna dig up that little girl, go for it." "But when nothing comes of it, you're explaining that to her parents." "Give me some good news." "I went back over the prosecution file on Tanya Blake." "A beat cop canvassing the crime scene said that he talked to someone that he called B. D who spotted a suspicious male close to the time that Tanya disappeared." " Under B.D. In the file, it says red hair." " Which mean B.D. Had red hair or..." "Or that he saw someone with red hair like Sam Bemis." "Now, two guys with those initials worked in the Parks Department in Echo Park back in '91." " Internet's beautiful." "Names?" " Beau Dawkins and Bill Dupree." "Outstanding." "See if either of them saw Bemis in Echo Park in '91." "But..." "Kind of strange that you never heard of a potential exculpatory witness off a police interview." " I was thinking the same thing." " Got the exhumation results." "Traces of chemicals in Tanya Blake's remains identical to the pesticide used on Emily Forrester." "Wouldn't you think that I'd get tired of being right?" "Yet it never gets old." "But the blond hair found in Bemis' van has no follicular DNA." " We can't link it to Emily." " Not good." " We have got to place Emily in that van." " You also have a visitor." " I'm trying to get your son out of prison." " Charlie has been through hell." "They target child killers in there." "Abuse like you don't even wanna think about." "He tried to kill himself twice, all right?" "And there's times I wish, for his sake..." "You got any idea what that's like, to wish for that for your child?" "If there's any chance this can work, Charlie's still young." "He can have a life." "If you'd taken the plea, he'd be out after two years." " We listened to you." "Said you could win." " You're right." "I screwed up." "Charlie paid the price." "And now, I'm trying to make things right again." "Charlie has accepted the reality of the rest of his life." "If you give him hope again and then you take it away, he's not gonna survive." "And his blood is gonna be on your hands." "I am not gonna let you do it." "You're his father." "He needs you in court." "Especially if he has to testify." "Testify?" "The last time you put him up there, they destroyed him." "No." "I'm not gonna let you do that again!" "Sam Bemis could be the guy that Charlie saw." " The one we could never find." " It's too late!" "That day in court when I put Charlie on the stand your wife was in the courtroom and you never showed up!" "Why not?" "I've been doing this a long time, pal." "And I have seen the families of accused murderers by the dozens!" "Just for one moment, you lost faith in your son." "How dare you." "What happened that day was your fault, not mine." "And I'll be damned if I'm gonna live through it again." "So you remember that guy who called me the other day, Scott Natterson?" " He came by my school." " Mm-hm." "You don't seem surprised." " What did he want?" " His father just died." "Tom Natterson." " He was a lawyer, just like you." " Look, Jules..." "You knew him, right?" " Yeah." " And Mom knew him too?" "Just because some kid comes by your school, spinning tales doesn't mean you can..." "Can I believe these letters in Mom's own handwriting?" "Honey, that's a very dangerous door to open." " Why didn't you tell me?" " Tell you what?" "For the past 10 years, I've lived with the idea that everything was your fault." "That you were the bad husband and the lousy father." " I was." " But she's the one who had the affair." "You're a smart girl, Jules." "Just throw those things away and forget you ever saw them." "How am I supposed to do that?" "So, Mr. Dawkins, you were interviewed by the police back in 1991?" " Yeah." "They wanted to know what I saw the day that girl disappeared." " Tanya Blake." " Right." "And?" "I remember a red-headed guy talking to a little girl in a blue jacket, like the Blake girl was wearing." " How old was the guy?" " I don't know." "Thirty?" "After you spoke to the cops, never heard back from them?" "No." "But I heard from the DA's office." "No record of you with the prosecutors and you were never called as a witness." "Yeah." "I guess they had what they needed, huh?" "The guy you spoke to from the DA's office, was his name Rudy Hill?" "There was a guy there." "I don't remember him much." "The lady asked the questions." " A female prosecutor?" " Oh, yeah." "Her I remember." "Kind of looked like you." "Tall, blond, body for days." "I was bummed out when she never called me to testify." "Be in touch." " You suppressed a witness." " I don't know what you mean." "Beau Dawkins saw a red-haired guy around 30." " Charlie Davis doesn't fit the description." " Dawkins' credibility was suspect." " You kept exculpatory evidence." " I don't have to listen to this." "Would you prefer to hear it in front of the Bar Association or a judge?" "It was Rudy Hill's call." "He was first chair." "You were what?" "Following orders?" "They would've loved you at Nuremberg." "From the first day we met, you were doing this holier-than-thou tap dance." "Integrity of the system and justice for all." "But at the end of the day, you're just as big a shark as I am." "Multiple witnesses pointed to Charlie Davis." " One man's statement was immaterial." " That wasn't your call to make." "You had an obligation to tell me about Dawkins' statement!" "This case was all over the news!" "We were getting calls claiming to have seen Tanya Blake." "There was no conscious suppression here." "You saw a chance to score points by nailing a child killer and you jumped at it." " You put Charlie Davis on the stand." " And you destroyed him." "I did my job." "You would've done the same thing." "You're right." "So let me tell you from experience." "This isn't going away, Jess." "Nothing stays buried forever." "I'm gonna win this thing." "And I don't intend to cover your ass in the process." "No, no." "You done?" "Oh, you're not done." "Okay." "L..." "I didn't tell her, Claire." "No." "Tom's kid came to her." "He had your letters." "I told Julie that it was complicated and that she should forget all about it." "What was I supposed to...?" "Look, can I call you back?" "Claire?" " Don't ever get married." " I thought you were divorced." " I rest my case." "Speak." " We're having trouble on Forrester." "It'll be tough to link Bemis to the body disposal site." "His van is a company vehicle." "People had access to it." "We still have Beau Dawkins' testimony." "Dawkins has been busted for marijuana possession." "The first time was three months before he allegedly saw Sam Bemis with Tanya Blake." "Why, God, why mock me in front of other people?" "If we wanna establish Bemis' behavior, we have to put Charlie on the stand." "Because it went well the first time?" "Guy's been through hell." "He wasn't exactly a rock 15 years ago." "Charlie saw Bemis back in '91." "You said it was the key to tie the cases together." "The jury will never take him seriously." "He's trying to get out of jail." "Plus, he said he saw a pizza man." "Bemis never delivered pizza." "Man, oh, man." "The landscaping firm Sam Bemis worked for in 1991 was part of an urban renewal project in Chinatown right near the train tracks where Tanya's body was found." "But we're not trying to convict the guy who killed Tanya Blake." "We're after the guy who killed Emily Forrester." " It's the same guy." " Bemis is charged with killing Emily." " Yeah." "So far." " Meaning?" "The traces of pesticide." "Dawkins' and Charlie's testimony." "And now we know that Bemis was familiar with the dump site." "We may have enough evidence to push for new charges in the '91 case." "Trying Bemis for both murders." "That's risky." "Sam Bemis molested and killed two girls." "He should have to pay for both crimes." " Jury's empanelled." "Jeopardy's attached." " Our Forrester case is in trouble." "This is the only way to get Bemis for both murders." "We need to talk." " There's nothing to talk about." " Your mother called." "She's really upset." " Imagine how I feel." " Julie." "I need to accept the fact that my mother's a slut..." "Don't you ever say that again." " She cheated on you." " Your mother is a human being." "She made a mistake." "It was rough for a while." " We moved on." "End of story." " So how come you never told me?" "It doesn't pop up in a conversation between father and daughter." "She ruined your marriage." "My marriage to your mom didn't end over an affair." " There were a million different things." " Like what?" "What happened was between your mother and me." "Don't pretend that this is none of my business." "I hated you for so long, and she let me." "Now I hate her." "Julie." "Jules." "You were right about Dawkins." "His statement should've been available to you." "Why wasn't it?" "After we talked to Dawkins, I wrote a report and gave it to Rudy." "When we did our discovery, I saw the report wasn't on the list." "Why didn't you say something?" "I should have." "I knew it was wrong." "But I was 25." "Rudy Hill was one of the DA's big guns." " I knew he could help my career." " And he did." "I was so sure that Charlie Davis killed Tanya Blake." "If I hadn't been..." "You wouldn't have deprived him of his due process?" "I told myself it wouldn't make a difference." "Davis was guilty." "The ends justify the means." "You're singing my song." "Is it true you're going after Bemis for both murders?" " Yeah." " Well, this might help." "Remember the anonymous phone call that tipped off the police to Charlie Davis in 1991?" " Yeah." " It was made from a payphone." "Back in '91, the police couldn't find any connection." "But they didn't know about Sam Bemis." "The payphone's located across the street from the office where Bemis worked." "Bemis knew that Charlie was a suspect." "So he called the cops, ID'd him and sealed the deal." "Wow." " And why are you doing this?" " You deserve to know what happened." "And if this information helps you free Charlie Davis, use it." "That might not help your reelection campaign." "I'll see you tomorrow." "Jess." "Thanks." "Your Honor, we'd like to add new charges against the defendant." " Proceed." "First degree murder in connection with the 1991 murder of Tanya Blake." "This is absurd." "Adding new charges is one thing, but a whole new case?" "Two weak cases don't add up to one good one." "You wanna try the defendant for the 1991 crime, try him for that crime." "Choose one or the other." "The people wish to proceed with the 1991 case." " The murder of Tanya Blake." " This is out of the blue." " We request a continuance to prepare." " Denied." "You were put on notice that these issues would be relevant." "You've had time to prepare." "Sam Bemis will stand trial for the 1991 murder of Tanya Blake." " We'd like to make a motion." " Proceed." "In 1991, Mr. Stark defended Charlie Davis." "The man convicted of murdering Tanya Blake." "We request Mr. Stark be recused from this case due to conflict of interest." "This is a desperate attempt to derail the prose..." "Yes, I have to agree with Miss Sussman." "Your defense of the man previously convicted could prevent you from fairly prosecuting this case." "Effective immediately, Mr. Stark, you're off the case." "So that didn't exactly go according to plan." "Choosing to prosecute the Forrester case was the more conventional call." "I never thought the judge would uphold the conflict motion." " Appeal the ruling." " Waste of time." "He's never gonna let me back on the case." "Give the opening to Madeleine." "Let Raina handle the emotional appeal." "The jury will see any of my deputies as a stand-in for me." "I've got 400 lawyers working for me." "Choose any one you want." "I already have." " You want me to prosecute Sam Bemis?" " You're the perfect choice." "Judge won't let me prosecute because I defended it." "Why do you think he's gonna let me in?" "You were a prosecutor then." "You are a prosecutor now." "There's no conflict." "And as an added bonus, you're the one who put Charlie Davis away." "What about the Beau Dawkins statement from '91?" "We can win without it." "If I reveal that the prosecution suppressed it..." "You will destroy your career." " It will cast doubt on the '91 verdict." "The jury will look at Charlie as a victim." "We don't need it." "We're not obliged to reveal it." "I'll prep Dawkins." "It'll be fine." "This is crazy." "Take it from me, Jess." "You rarely get a chance to make things right." "What did you tell the police back in 1991, Mr. Dawkins?" "I told them I saw a red-haired man talking to a little blond girl." " Do you see that man in the courtroom?" " Yeah." "For the record, the witness has identified the defendant." "Is this the blond girl you saw talking to Mr. Bemis that day?" " Yeah, that's her." "Let the record show Mr. Dawkins has identified a photograph of the late Tanya Blake." " Isn't it true you have an abuse problem?" " No." "You weren't arrested for possessing drugs on two separate occasions?" "Well, yeah." " And were you selling drugs?" " No." "Well, then I can only conclude that you were using them." "Were you high the day that you allegedly saw Sam Bemis with Tanya Blake?" " Of course not." "But you were using drugs during that period?" "Yeah." "Nothing further." "JUDGE:" "Redirect." "Miss Devlin?" "Miss Devlin." "After you talked to the police, was there ever any follow-up from the DA's office?" " Yeah." "Did you tell the prosecutor exactly what you told the police?" " Yeah." "But you never testified for the prosecution in the 1991 trial of Charlie Davis?" " No." "Because your description of the man you saw with Tanya Blake didn't match Charlie Davis." " Is there a question here?" " Did the defense attorney ever call you?" " No." "I'm not surprised." "Your conversation with the prosecution was never made available to the defense as required by law." " Your Honor?" " Miss Devlin?" "Mr. Dawkins, do you remember the prosecutor with whom you spoke?" "Yes." "His name was Rudy Hill." " What the hell was that?" " What?" " You know what." " Memory's a funny thing." "I was there when Dawkins was questioned." "That was obviously a few thousand bong hits ago." "Clearly, you're not that memorable." "And this case isn't about you." "We still got work to do." "We got Dawkins' ID, the chemicals on the body we've got the payphone call, what more do you want?" "Sussman trashed Dawkins' credibility." "The rest is all circumstantial." "In order to convict Sam Bemis the jury has to believe that Charlie Davis is innocent." " You gotta be kidding." " Only shot." " Put Charlie Davis on the stand." " You saw what Sussman did." "With Charlie, he'll be begging to go to prison." "We'll work with him." "We?" "You want me to help prep him?" "You'll be the one questioning him." "Might as well get the tearful reunion over with." " What's she doing here?" " Sit down, Charlie." "Miss Devlin will be asking the questions about what happened in the park that day." "Sit down." " But you already know all about that." " Charlie." "How I met an 8-year-old girl in the park, took her to my car raped her, beat her, dumped her body on the side of the highway." "I know what happened was hard." "You mean being described as a sick, perverted freak in front of my mother?" " You think that was hard?" " She's here to help you." "You ruined my life and now you wanna help?" "!" "You'll work with us or you'll die here." "Is that what you want?" "Do you wanna die in here?" "It's your choice!" "I think we're okay, thank you." "I don't belong in here." "I thought you were guilty." "I was wrong." "I know I can't give you back the years you've spent in here." "And you have no reason to trust me." "But you also have nothing to lose." " Hey." " Hey." "So these are her numbers, home and cell." " And here are your letters." " I can make copies if you want." "No, actually, I'd rather never see those things again." "Well, I'm sorry if it messed things up for you." "I guess it's better to know the truth." "Yeah, I guess." "I know it's none of my business." "But what are you gonna ask my mom?" "I mean, what do you think she can tell you?" "I'm not really too sure." "I mean, my dad and I never really got along too well." "When I read these letters it's like there was another person in there that I never knew existed." "Must've felt pretty strange." "Yeah." "He loved your mother." "I think maybe she was like one of the people that did understand him." "I just wanna get to know my dad." "Never really got a chance when he was alive." " So I thank you." " Good luck." "And what did you see that day in Echo Park, Mr. Davis?" "I saw a man with red hair hanging around a young girl." "They were talking." "Can you identify that man for us?" "Yes, right there." "He's older now, but that's him." "Did you tell the authorities about him?" "Yes." "But the police never found him." "Is that correct?" " Right." " Thank you." "How long have you been in prison?" "Fifteen years." " 15 years of a life sentence?" " Yes." "But you could get out if someone else is convicted of killing Tanya Blake?" "I guess that's right." "I understand you had problems during the early years of your confinement." "It was hard." "Hard enough that you tried to kill yourself?" "Objection." "What does this have to do with what the witness saw in 1991?" " Goes to credibility." " Overruled." "Answer the question." " I was scared." " Speak up, please." "I was scared." "So scared that you tried to kill yourself?" "It was a mistake." "You know you'll go back if this doesn't work?" "They wouldn't leave me alone." " So you'd rather kill yourself than...?" " It was a mistake." "SUSSMAN:" "And if you were to go back now...?" "Charlie?" "You okay, Charlie?" "Mr. Davis, do you need a minute to collect yourself?" "Mr. Davis." "No." "Ask me anything you want." "So you said you saw a pizza man in the park that day." "But Sam Bemis has never delivered a pizza in his life." "Back then, a pizza man was responsible for this horrible crime." "Now it's Sam Bemis." "Is it possible that the right man has already been convicted of this crime?" "No." "Guy who killed Tanya is sitting right over there." "So you're saying a jury of your peers and an entire appeals system got it wrong?" "I wonder why you'd say that." "No further questions." "You stated back in 1991 that you saw someone wearing a pizza uniform near Tanya Blake." " Is that correct?" " Yes." "I'd like you to look at this photograph." "Objection." "No photo was shown to us during discovery." " It just came into our possession." " I'll allow it." "Charlie, could you tell me what you see?" " Softball team?" " And do you recognize anyone?" "Sam Bemis, front row." "Would you tell the jury what Mr. Bemis is wearing in the photograph?" "A softball uniform." " What does it say on his shirt, Charlie?" " It says "Pizza Castle."" "Is that the uniform you saw the day Tanya Blake disappeared?" " Yes." " Thank you, Charlie." "No further questions." "Keep it up." "You just might have a future in this business." " Thanks." " How'd you come up with the photo?" "Had the team go over Bemis' statement from the Forrester case." "He kept saying he's been playing softball." "And it was the most important thing in his life." "Made a few calls and got lucky." "You know, you're wasting your time in management." " You were born to be a trial attorney." " Yeah." "I didn't realize how much I missed being in court." "Jury's back." "This court is now in session." "Judge Chudacoff presiding." " Has the jury reached a verdict?" " We have, Your Honor." "The defendant will please rise." "What say you?" "In the matter of the State of California v. Samuel Bemis we find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree." "The defendant will be taken into custody and remanded to L.A. County Jail pending sentencing." "And the court directs that Charles Davis be immediately released." "This court is adjourned." "I don't know how to thank you." "Go see your son." " How does that feel?" " Pretty good." "So, Carla, we're willing to take the needle out of your client's arm and allow him to do the first decent thing he's ever done in his life." "We'll take the death penalty off if he pleads guilty to the murder of Emily Forrester." "Her parents deserve that." " I'll talk to the judge." " Thank you." "Hey." "Hey, yourself." "How's it going?" "Today was a very good day." "How was yours?" "I wish I could tell you that life gets less complicated but it really doesn't." "I guess I always knew that things between you and Mom were bad." "They weren't always." "So you guys loved each other at some point, right?" "Are you kidding?" "We were nuts about each other." "For a long time." "It was fantastic." "The day you were born, the best." " We never talked about that." " No contest." "The greatest day of my life." "Will you tell me about it?" "I was in the middle of a triple murder." "A call comes in that your mom's in labor." "I go bolting out of the courtroom in the middle of my cross." "The judge, his head nearly exploded." "He was just kind of..." "He had this Jimmy Stewart thing." ""Mr. Stark...""