"hey." "What, what happened?" "Mm, it's nothing." "It doesn'tk like nothing." "Just lost my temper." "At what, a brick wall?" "No, at ted at work." "The guy's a major tool." "Okay, please don't tell me you hit him." "No, I'm not an idiot, okay?" "I put my fist a bathroom mirror." "The guy's a major N." "I have to do what he says?" "Welcomto the wonderful world of work, sport." "Imagine what my dad's employees say about him." "I'd rather be feared than loved." "Smile, work hard, and then once you're the boss, just crush everyone who ever screwed you over a the way." "Lovely advice, dad." "Hang in there." "Revenge makes it all worthwhile." "Look like the party's over, huh?" "The deceased is id'd as shaun mason, 25 years old." "Maid found the body this morning." "Along with some cocaine residue and marijuana." "I usually just leave ten bucks on the dresser." "Coroner said the guy was asphyxiated." "Another anonymous hollywood wannabe buys it in a five-star hotel room." "Sad, but not my job description." " See you guys at greenblatt'S." " ?" "Uh, problem." "The room's registered to justin bishop." "As in rock star justin bishop?" " You know him?" " Hello, itunes guy." "Okay, so julie has his poster up in her room." "All right, his first album was huge." "The record-release party for his second one was downstairs last night." "And I wasn't invited?" "He's been getting a ton of bad press lately;" "photos of him passed out drunk at the four seasons bar, doing lines off a table at hyde." " That's a nightclub." " Thanks for the update his label is worried about hiimage affecting album sales." "This certainly isn't gonna help." "Talk to everyone who had access to this place last night." "That's gonna take some time." "Yeah, the front desk said there were a hundred people in and out of here last night." "They issued 20 key cards." "Yeah, these guys just hand out the keysto girls at the concert and then invite them back to the room to party." "From wt I hear." "I got to start a band." "Shark 211" "Capture:" "Aihua Sync:mzinfo" "We all grew up together in philly." "Me and my brother rob, and, uh, brody and shaun, uh, moved out here a couple years ago and we've been living together ever since." "Look, I know this is tough, justin, but I need to know everything you guys did last night." "Justin played house of blues." "It went great." "We went to the hotel right after." "We messed around in the suite for about an hour, and then we went down to the party." "How long were you there?" "2:00, 2:30, whenever they kicked us out." "Yeah, then we came back here." "You didn't go back up to the suite?" "Shaun was gone." "We figured he was up there with a girl." "You guys know anyone who wanted to hurt shaun?" "No." "No way." "Everybody loved him." "Lapd found drugs in his room." "Sometimes deals go south." "I know how it looked, but drugs had nothing to do with shaun's death." "How can you be so sure?" "Drugs weren't his thing." "He was into gambling, poker mostly." "He played a cash game at the hotel last night until about 1:00 A.M." "" "Then he ca down to the party and said he dropped about 12 grand." "I didn't have that kind of cash on me or else I would have given it to him." "So he lost $12,000 and couldn'tay." "Who hosted the game?" "Shaun didn't say, but whoevr it was, couldn't have been real happy." "" "Justin?" "" "If shaun died over a gambling debt, that's his fault." "It's not yours." "Shaun was like A... he was like my brother, mr." "Stark." "We started our first band when we were, like, 14 years old." "Brody, too." "Rob used to tell us how much we sucked, and it was true, but it didn't matter 'cause we were all up there together." "We've been together ever since." "The hotel valet confirms that rob, justin and brody left at 2:20 A.M." "Me puts the time of death at around 2:00, which means they were still at the hotel." "So, one of them could have gone upstairs, killed shaun, then made it back down to pick up the car." "Not justin." "Multiple witnesses saw him walk directly from the party to the valet." "And the other two?" "Justin swears they were with him." "What about key card swipes?" "Front desk shows dozens, but it's against hotel policy to keep security cameras in the rooms or hallways." "I guess three grand a night buys a lot of privacy." "What about the poker game?" "Madeline's coming up empty trying to id the players." " What's the holdup?" " The hotel manager won't talk." "He says the information is unrelated to the murdeinvestigation." "You got to be kidding me." "Yeah, well, like you said, $3,000 a night buys a whole lot of privacy." "Yeah, not for long." "As I told your associate, we only release guest information if required to do so in a criminal investigation." "What do you call the dead guy on the tenth floor?" "Different room, different guest." "Well, we think the victim was playing poker in another suite." "Our guests rely on our discretion." "We already have a pr nightmare on our hands, and I don't intend to make it worse." "You want to check those girls out?" "Yeah." "Excuse me, ladies." "I'm with the da's office." "I'm gonna need to see some id." " Is there a problem?" "Yeah, there is... if you're serving alcohol to minors." "Yeah, maybe I should call alcohol beverage control." "Good idea." "That won't be necessary." "Okay." "I'm gonna let you go with a warning." "The man you're looking for is andy zahai." "He hosts an occasional poker game at the hotel." "You know where we can find him?" "Mr. Zahai runs a car dealership on olympic." "This guy throws around a lot of cash for a car salesman." "Wait till you see the cars." "" "My lease is up in a month." "What do you think?" "I think you make a lot more money than I do." "Look, I ran zahai's sheet." "He's definitely not the kind of guy you want to short 12 grand." "He was busted a year ago for battery in a domestic dispute." "Do any time?" "No, his girlfriend refused to testify, so zahai walked." "Can I help you?" "Mr. Zahai?" "I'm sebastian stark with the da's office." "This is my colleague, isaac wright." "We're investigating the murder of shaun mason." "We understand he was killed shortly after losing $12,000 in a private poker game that you host." "You must be mistaken." "I run a friendly game." "We don't play for money." "Right, and those famous extended warranties you sell on these jalopies really do cover everything." "Look, I play poker myself." "I know all about your game." ""Friendly" isn't the word that pops to mind." "You're welcome to sit in anytime." "Stakes are too high for me." "Shaun mason lost really big last night-- his life, to be exact." "Look around." "Why would I kill somebody over chump change?" "Maybe you wanted to teach this kid a lesson soou got rough with him, like you did your old girlfriend." "Maybe you should talk to my lawyer." "He's full of it." "Oh, yeah." "According to the me's report in addition to strangulation, shaun's body showed signs of physical altercation:" "Bruising, scratches." " It makes sense:" " He fought back." "Yeah, but these injuries occurred several hours prior to the time of death." "Like andy zahai's poker game." "Exactly." "Now there was an unusual cut on shaun's scalp." "The me thinks it was caused by a bracelet or watch." "Well, according to statements, a room service waiter saw blood on the floor of zahai's suite." "So we get a warrant to search zahai's house, see if he has a bracelet or watch that matches the cut on shaun's scalp." "Yeah, good luck." "He has lawyered up and is refusing to cooperate." "He won't have to." "Without more evidence, we'll never get a warrant." "You know what?" "Maybe we don't need one." "Where's zahai now?" "He's playing in a high-stakes poker game at a restaurant downtown." "Problem is, it's private." "I can't get in." "Well, I know someone whoan." "I just..." "I can't believe this." "Brutal.?" "mr." "Stark," "I see you've decided to take me up on my offer." "Unfortunately, this is a private game." " I have an invitation." "From whom?" "Lapd vice task force." "You can call them if you don't believe me." "Buy-in's 20 grand." "$1,000." "Call." "let's make it $4,000." "I though you said this was a friendly game." "For you..." "I make an exception." "Here's your exception." "I call." "All righty." "Check." "Check." "Eight." "I'm all in." "Ooh, you like that card, huh?" "I'd mortgage my house for it, mr." "Stark." "Too bad your house isn't here, 'cause I got you covered." "What about, ten, 15 grand?" "What is that, a patek philippe?" "Yeah, it is." "Is it, like 15...?" "Try 20." "Well," "I guess it's gonna end here." "I call." "All right, there you go." "full house, kings over sixes." " Whoa." "There on the river." " yeah" "Two pair." "Sixes and sixes." "Thanks, andy." "Looks like time's running out." "Excuse me one moment." "No offense, gentlemen, but i i think these cars are a little out of your price range." "Clasp on yourwatch matched the cut pattern on shaun mason's scalp." "Andy zahai, you're under arrest for the murder of shaun mason." "This is a joke." "Well, you won't be laughing when the boys I lockup take you for a test drive." "I want my money." "I don't have it." "Let's get to the point, jessica." "My client's a busy man." "Forensics matched a cut on the victim to your client's watch." "A watch illegally obtained through a warrantless search." "No warrant was required." "The watch was confiscated in a gambling sting." "Your client's looking at life in prison." " I didn't kill anyone." " Andy..." "I got into an argument with the kid." "That's it." "Okay?" "What'd you argue about?" "He gambled with money he didn't have." "You don't do that where I come from." "You thought you'd teach him a lesson." "I slapped him around a little bit." "You ask me, he deserved it." "What happened next?" "Nothing." "I threw him out of my room." "I never saw him again." "So you didn't kill shaun mason?" "No way." "Once he was gone, we continued with the game." "It's a nice story." "Unfortunately, that's all it is until someone backs it up." "Names of my client's guests on the night in question." "Any one of them can serve as an alibi for my client." "" "I think number five will interest you." "Illegal gambling." "Perry, honestly, I'm shocked." "I can't tell you how disappointed I am." "It was a friendly game." "There's no such thing." "Not to mention you swore an oath to uphold the law." " You're one to talk." " Andy zahai." "Now you played this poker game from 11:00 P.M. To 3:00 A.M." " The night of the murder." " That's right." "And he never left the room?" "Not that I recall." "Was shaun mason there?" "He played for about an hour, lost a lot of money." "When he couldn't pay up, zahai got angry." "They got into an argument." "And what did you do?" "As soon as zahai hit him, I put a stop to it." "Was shaun hurt?" "He may have been bleeding, but it wasn't bad." "Zahai apologized and told the kid to leave." "Okay, well, thanks for your time, judge." "I assume there's no reason to make my involvement public?" "I'll let you know after my next appearance in your courtroom." "So I pulled the phone records from justin bishop's house over the last month." "Someone's been calling jillian parks' office." "Who's jillian parks?" " Hello?" " You're kidding, right?" "She's the editor of celebrity buzz magazine, the hollywood gossip rag." "You guys actually read that crap?" "Oh, nice try." "I've seen it on your desk." " That was isaac's." " Oh..." "The point is celebrity buzz has been publishing some less-than-flattering photographs of justin bishop." "Yeah,I've seen these pictures." "There's no way the paparazzi has that kind of access." "Somebody close to justin had to have taken them." "If one of justin's crew was selling pictures to celebrity buzz behind his back... we might've just found our motive." "We have dozens of witnesses who saw the guys downstairs at the bar at the time of the murder." "They saw justin." "No, you yourself said that rob or brody could have gone up to the room and made it back down in time to meet the valet." "I say we lean on parks, get her to reveal her source." "Yeah, I called her office." "There's no way she's talking." "And if there's anything these guys know, it's their first amendment rights." "Yeah, well, somebody in this house has been calling jillian parks;" "we need to find out who." "This guy barely knows three chords and he sells half a million records?" "What?" "!" "cut cut!" "okay guys take five?" "you guys, uh, here for the memorial show?" "No, we actually, we had a few more questions for you." "All right." "You, uh... are you familiar with celebrity buzz magazine?" "Yeah, more than I'd like to be." "Seems like I'm their favorite subject lately." "Phone records show calls were made from your house to the editor's office." "Yeah, it's possible one of your palsay be selling you out, cashing in on some of your finer moments." "No, there's no way." "Phone records don't lie." "Listen, my boys would take a bullet for me, all right?" "They wouldn't do something like that." "They might if the pricewas right." "If you'll excuse me, I'm, uh..." "I'm doing a show to remember my friend." "Look at these guys." "One of them knows about the photos." "Yeah, good luck finding out which one." "There's no way you're going to get them to turn on each other." "We need to divide and conquer." "Yeah, but how?" "I mean, these guys have been friends their whole lives." "Two of them are brothers." "Funny thing about loyalty." "At the end of the day, the last ass you cover is always your own." "Your point?" "I'll show you." "You're high, stark." "My brother's not a murderer." "His dna's all over the crime scene." "Crime scene's our hotel room, all our dna's in there." "Well, then you'relucky I didn't arrest you, too." "Dozens of people saw justin at the party during the time of death." "You know this arrest will never stick." "It doesn't have to." "I just needed justin's posse to see him get arrested for murder." "So you think this will get one of them to talk?" "Justin's their meal ticket." "If he goes down, it's back to philly." "Cheesesteaks, the eagles-- trust me, one of 'em is going to talk." "You know, I'd expect this from stark, but i thought you'd act with a little more restraint, jessica." "Your client is refusing to cooperate in a murder investigation, julian." "Which is his right." "Fth amendment, remember?" "His right, yes, a good pr move, not so much." "Your client's already got a reputation." "Getting arrested for murder might not be the image booster your label was hoping for." "I didn't kill shaun." "You have no witnesses, no forensic evidence." "I'll tell you what." "If your client agrees to cooperate, we'll have him out of here in half an hour." "Look, if you want me to turn on my friends, that's not gonna happen." "Here's my counter:" "Release my client immediately, and you may avoid a massive lawsuit for wrongful arrest." "brody miller's here." "He wants to talk." "Would you gentlemen excuse me." "You guys are making a huge mistake." "Yeah, well, until we hear something solid, justin's facing murder charges." "You've arrested the wrong guy." "Says who?" " Justin didn't kill shaun." " okay" "So your best friend and only management client gets arrested for murder." "You come in here and say we've got the wrong guy, and I'm just supposed to just let him go?" "I'm telling the truth." "If justin didn't kill shaun, who did?" "It was rob." "Justin's brother?" "How do you know?" "I saw him do it." "We were about to leave the party." "I saw shaun and rob go up to the suite." "I went after them a few minutes later." "When I walked in," "I saw rob standing over shaun's body, holding a plastic bag over his head." "I tried to stop him, but it was too late." "He was dead." "Why would rob kill shaun?" "Shaun wanted to open a bar." "Ride justin's coattails a little." "Look, we're all guilty of it." "I manage the guy." "But rob was pissed about it." "He said shaun was trying to profit off his brother's name." "they fought about it a lot." "I guess rob just lost it." "Why didn't you come forward with this before?" "My best friend has just died and my other best friend had just killed him." "Didn't really know what the hell I was supposed to do." "I told rob that he had to turn himself in." "He begged me not to say anything." "Rob is like a brother." "I couldn't just turn on him." "But with justin arrest, everything changed?" "I've looked out for justin my whole life." "Kept him out of trouble." "He's done the same for me." "I couldn't let him take the fall fomething he didn't do." "Brody claims rob is the killer, but unless we find evidence to back him up, his statement's worthless." "Well, he knew specific details about the murder." "Shaun was strang with a plastic bag." "That was never made public." "For all we know, brody killed shaun and he's trying to frame rob." "Do we know where rob is right now?" "Yeah, at his house." "Unless we book him, his lawyer won't let him talk." "And we can't keep arresting people without endangering our prosecution." "Even if we talked to rob, it's still his word against brody's." "Which is why we need to find out who was selling photos of justin to celebrity buzz magazine." "Did you talk to the editor again?" "Still won't give up her source." "Yeah, but now we have a credible eyewitness naming rob as the killer." "Maybe that will change her mind." "And if it doesn't?" "Then we're screwed." "Sebastian, it is so nice to see you." "You look great, jillian." "Personal trainer?" "Box." "oh, you remembered." "How touching." "Celebrity buzz is doing well." "Scandal's a growth industry, but let's face it, the celebrity legal scene's not the same since you cleaned up your act." "Sorry to let you down." "Cochran's gone." "Shapiro's pimping legal web sites." "You switched sides." "Things just aren't the same." "Spector must've been good copy." "How many wacky hair shots can you run?" "you know what this town needs?" "It needs another O.J." "Two people dd in O.J., Remember?" "This new murder investigatio of yours sounds promising." "Young, up and coming rocker arrested for killing his best friend." "I smell money." "Well, actually, that's what I wanted to talk to you about." "You of all people know I cannot give up my sources." "If I went public with half of the stunts you pulled... an innocent kid is dead, jillian." " Sebastian!" " No, I just need to know if rob bishop was selling pictures of his younger brother to celebrity buzz, that's all." "I can't." "It's a matter of journalistic integrity." "Your last cover was "baby diets:" "How to keep your toddler skinny."" "And circulation jumped 100,000 copies." "Here's the deal." "You help me nail down a motive on our prime suspect," "I'll get you exclusive photos of justin bishop behind bars." "Mug shots?" "The whole enchilada." "Rob bishop, justin's brother, sold me the pictures." "Thanks, jillian." "Throw in a strip search of justin, I might even testify." "apparently, grief takes all forms." "What's up?" "" "Your number, bro." "Put on your pants." "You're under arrest for the murder of shaun mason." "This is crazy." "What's going on here?" "Your big brother's taking a little trip downtown." "What are you talking about?" "You can't do this." "Oh, yeah?" "Watch me." "I only arrested you so someone would step forward and tell the truth." "Well, someone did." "What...?" "Oh, you son of a bitch!" "how could you do this?" "He did it for you." "" "Shaun mason was a popular young man with his whole life in front of him until he was brutally murdered." "He suffered the last moments of his life gasping for air." "But for shaun, the real horror must have been knowing that hisiller was one of his best friends." "Shaun and rob bishop were friends since childhood, so what possibly could have come between them to lead to murder?" "Money." "Plain and simple." "" "The editor of celebrity buzz magazine will testify that rob bishop was selling compromising photos of his brother, justin, to her magazine." "Shaun found out about that betrayal and threatened to expose rob for what he was:" "A backstabbing judas, and rob killed him for it." "How do we know this?" "Because brody miller-- another lifelong friend-- saw it happen." "Four friends came to hollywood to make their dream come true." "Rob bishop killed that dream with his bare hands." "Don't let him get away with it." "The prosecution's case is based on one thing and one thing only, and that's the testimony of brody miller." "Mr. Miller is a liar." "He never saw rob bishop kill shaun mason because that never happened." "Mr. Miller relies on my client's brother for his living." "He's always felt threatened by the close bond between rob and justin bishop,"