"I really appreciate you coming by to interview, Summer." "Your résumé is extremely impressive." "You know, my best skills aren't listed on there." "What makes you think you're qualified for this position?" "Trust me, Mr. Jones." "I'm qualified for every position." "All right, sir." "High-profile crime in the Valley." "An oxymoron." "DOA's Tyson Shaw, 35, one in the chest while he was in the Jacuzzi." "How do I know that name?" "Internet porn." "Guy's a zillionaire, major sleazebag." "Beat raps on extortion, racketeering." "Right." "He came to me for representation a couple years ago." "You turned him down?" "Guy made Larry Flynt look like Mary Poppins." "No sign of forced entry." "Place wasn't tossed." "SID's pulling the body out now." "Okay, so this is the part where you tell me the cops found the murder weapon." "Why don't we ever get the stupid murderers?" " Let me go." " Uh, is there a problem here?" "Yeah." "We have a 7 a.m. call for Skindivers 3." "Who's the new girl?" "I'm afraid there's a change of plans." "Whatever, we're flexible." "We just need to get changed and oiled." "Hello." "There is a dead guy in the Jacuzzi." "Whoa." "No one said anything about a dead guy." "That's gonna be extra." "Tyson Shaw, used to produce soft-core movies for cable TV." "Two years ago, he left his business partner to launch Dirty Boy Productions." " Internet porn." " Spoke to Vice." "Shaw's people troll Union Station and bus depots to find "actresses," the younger the better." "Has he ever been prosecuted for abetting statutory rape?" "Guy's smart." "Barely legal's still legal." " Anything from the crime scene?" " Lots of unmatched prints." "Ballistics says the slug pulled out of Shaw's from a.38." "Security guards made a black Honda speeding away just after the murder." "We got a partial plate." "Unfortunately, there's 193 cars that match the profile." "So our suspect pool includes Shaw's former business associates the girls he exploited..." " And their boyfriends." "Fiancé of one of Shaw's girls went after him at the Erotic Video Awards." " Shaw had to get a restraining order." " See if he's got an alibi." "Get with L.A.P.D., track that Honda." "Isaac, Shaw's phone records and finances." "And you are about to become familiar with Tyson Shaw's adult-film library." " Why does he get porn duty?" " Going with experience." " Hello?" " What exactly am I looking for?" "Anything that'll figure out who whacked this guy." "Whoever killed this lowlife did the world a favor." "What can I tell you?" "In this great country of ours, even dirtbags get justice." " Hey." " Hey." "Welcome back." " Thanks." " Your week off good?" "Yeah." "I wish I didn't have to be held hostage for 14 hours to get it, but..." "Yeah, I meant to call you." "Don't worry about it." "Beautiful, baby." "Both you guys." " It's okay." " I'm Gretchen 's boyfriend." " Oh, yeah?" " Yeah, remember her?" "Hey!" "Hey." "I just wanted to talk to Shaw." "Looks more like kick his ass." "Well, after what he did, he had it coming." "What did he do?" "Gretchen answered an ad for calendar models." "Shaw smooth-talks her, gives her some wine." "God knows what else." "Next thing, a buddy of mine e-mailed a video of her with three guys." " Where were you last night?" " Shaw say I came after him again?" "He's not saying anything." "He's dead." " Yeah, well, I can't say I'm sorry." " Where were you?" "With my new girlfriend." " You're welcome to call her." " We will." "Where's Gretchen?" "Last I heard, she was staying at some women's shelter off Cahuenga." "My little sister ran away from home." "That's why I decided to open this place." "Would you mind?" "A girl reaches out, we do everything we can, no questions asked." "You ever help a Gretchen McGuire, Mr. Gilroy?" "Uh, name doesn't ring a bell, but most girls don't use real names." "Wannabe model, fell into porn." "Her boyfriend kicked her out." "You know, that's a pretty common story here." "These girls come to L.A. with big dreams." "Most of them get involved in drugs, prostitution, pornography." "They're desperate." "They're trying to survive." "You know a guy named Tyson Shaw?" "By reputation, which wasn't good." "And, um, I read about what happened." "Any of your girls have a problem with him?" "Hey, look, other than the basics, um, I don't like to ask too many questions." "Girls who come to New Beginnings they come here to start over, focus on the future." "What happens when they leave?" "I like to say that they all make it but we've got a lot of repeat customers." "We're not miracle workers." "Oh, this one's nice." "If you're 50." " What's with the earth-tone fetish?" " I'm not into bright colors." "Trust me." "Major blast of Dolce will get you over that." " Ladies." " Hey, how was the fundraiser?" "No matter how big a check I write to Jessica's reelection campaign I still get the same rubber chicken." "You guys building a bonfire?" "Oh." "Nice tie, Mr. Stark." "Brioni?" " Good eye." " I need new clothes." " I've never seen you wear this stuff." " Exactly." " It's all about dressing for success." " This should be good." "We'll be going on college interviews soon." "First impressions." "You're the one who says a jury judges you before you open your mouth." "And they say it never snows in L.A. All right, put it on my card." "Just leave me something for the mortgage." " You're a genius." " We'll have him trained in no time." "Ladies and gentlemen, the poster child for Porn Freaks Anonymous." "It was fun for the first 10 hours." " Sounds like my marriage." " The older videos were pretty tame." "But this Internet stuff..." " Pretty raunchy." " And?" "Early stuff lists Turnabout Pictures as the production company." "It was a limited partnership between Shaw and Maya Snider." " The porn star?" " Turned producer." "Only in America." "When the company split, Shaw and Snider started to sue each other." "Apparently, it got nasty." "So Madeleine and I are gonna take a trip to Maya's production company." "We understand you and Tyson Shaw didn't exactly part on good terms." "Tyson was a soulless bastard who'd slit his own mother's throat film himself doing it and sell it on the Internet, rest in peace." " Why did you split up?" " Creative differences." "Unpuff her lips." "I'm strictly soft-core." "Professional actors, HIV tests." "Not runaways screwing up their lives." " When did you last speak?" " A year ago." "Cops are checking my alibi." "We were hoping you could point us towards anyone else who may have a grudge." "How much time you got?" "Hey, Maya, can you come here a sec?" "Go like this." "There was one guy who came by here looking for Tyson." " Seemed pissed off." " What happened?" "We get a lot of nut jobs here." "I told him Tyson didn't work here." "About a week later, he's back." "I almost called the cops." " Do you remember his name?" " I think it was Gilroy." " Brent Gilroy?" " Yeah, that's it." "Shelter boy has a.38 registered in his name." "Same caliber that killed Shaw." "Not enough for a search warrant." "Hey." "At 3:04 a.m., Shaw placed a call to a pager registered to New Beginnings Shelter." "But Gilroy will say Shaw was calling one of the girls there." "What's he gonna say about the fact that his prints were all over the scene?" "Come again?" "Minors come through New Beginnings." "Law required Gilroy to register his prints." "Those prints were at Shaw's which gets us a warrant for Gilroy's shelter and his home." "You, genius." "We got Gilroy's gun." "Gonna run it through ballistics." " What's with the DVDs?" " Found in a box in Gilroy's closet." "They're labeled masters, Dirty Boy Productions." "Shaw's Internet porn company." "Looks like Brent Gilroy isn't Mother Teresa after all." "Gilroy had till 5 to turn himself in." "And it's 5:01." "I gave him a one-minute grace period." "I'm going soft." " But why the courtesy?" " The press will be all over this case." "I drag him out of his shelter, the jury thinks I'm the bad guy." "But accommodate him and he takes advantage, it's on him." "You got it, Green Hopper." "Hold it." "My client will make a statement." "We'll be unable to take questions." "Mitchell Latimer is Gilroy's lawyer?" "On April 3rd, 2007, I went to Tyson Shaw's house." "I fired one shot from a.38 revolver into his chest and killed him." " What the hell?" " Tyson Shaw was a predator." "He emotionally and physically brutalized dozens of young women and somebody had to stop him." "I'm proud of what I did and I'm willing to pay the price." " Full confession, we got him." " Actually, he's got us." "They're playing the hero card, vigilante justice." "They're gonna argue that Shaw deserved to die and the jury is gonna lap it up." "No." "We're not gonna take any more." " say it again." "Take your hand off of her." "How did you meet Brent?" "I was turning tricks." "Brent gave me a place to stay." "How long have you been at the shelter?" "Three months, till I got my GED." "Brent even helped me study." "He even helped me get my first real job." " I owe him everything." " Does he get angry?" "No, he's so patient with us." "Never even heard him raise his voice." "We understand you've been working with Brent Gilroy for a long time." "Eleven years." "I was a meth addict." "He got me off the street and into a program." " Now I'm giving back." " You two close?" "Close enough to know if Brent shot someone, the guy had it coming." "So you think he's capable of violence?" " I didn't say that." " Has Brent seemed troubled lately?" "If he was, he'd never let on." "People here depend on him." "He keeps everyone going." "Did he have a personal life?" "None of us do." "Running the shelter's a 24-hour commitment." "Did Brent ever get involved with the residents?" "He'd never do that." "These girls have been exploited, abused." " Brent's trying to break that cycle." " He's a human being." "That's right." "He tries to help people in trouble, rather than throwing them in jail, like you." "Brent Gilroy's the best person I know." "The best person any of us know." "You should leave him alone." "To argue defense of others, Mr. Gilroy must prove he killed Mr. Shaw because lives were in imminent danger." "Our offer of proof includes testimony of women who felt their lives were in peril." " From what?" "G-strings?" " These were porn actresses." " Mr. Stark." "We also offer statements from family members of seven young women who committed suicide or OD'd while working for Tyson Shaw." "There's no proximate causation between Mr. Shaw's being a jerk and these women's deaths." "It's a stretch." "But not unprecedented." "People's motion is denied." "Mr. Gilroy may argue defense of others." "At least we'll have something to appeal." "One caveat, Mr. Latimer." "If you fail to meet the burden of that defense, I'll instruct the jury to disregard testimony relating to it." " You can't unring that bell, judge." "Careful I don't ring your bell, Mr. Stark." " How'd the motion go?" " Don't ask." " Judge shot you down?" " He's up for reelection." "Doesn't wanna be the judge who threw a hero in jail." "Defense of others will never work." "If the jury wants to believe it, it'll work." "What do we know about Gilroy?" "Trust-fund baby from Marin." "B.A. from Berkeley." "Spent two years at a seminary school in Austin." "Opened New Beginnings with his money." "I didn't ask for his press bio." "Where's the dirt?" " Everybody loves this guy." " This case is about jury nullification." "Twelve people will ignore facts, law even the brilliance of yours truly if the defendant is sympathetic." "Which is why Gilroy's witness list is full of porn refugees, social workers." "We have to give the jury a reason to hate this guy." "Exactly." "People who kill always have a personal agenda." "Trick is finding out what it is." "Maybe Gilroy really did kill Shaw to make the world a better place." "A, that's God's job." "And B, altruism is not a viable defense to murder." "Where are we on the car?" "L.A.P.D.'s got two teams of detectives on it." "Nothing so far." "I wanna know who was driving that car." "Ah, the vice man cometh." "I watched the DVDs the cops found." "They're all rough cuts." "He got his hands on Shaw's unreleased porn." " Anything unusual?" " Just what you'd expect from Shaw." "Young girls doing things you'd never dream of." "When you have a daughter, "nightmare" is better." "Three girls in every DVD." "Tawny Rivers, Simona Ravage and Clarissa Faith." "Probably aliases." "You're a bloodhound." "Find them." "Find something." "Gilroy confessed." "It would be nice if we could actually convict the guy." "You rang?" "You see the editorial about the Gilroy prosecution?" "Try not to read my press." "Don't want a swelled head." "They are making this guy to be the Second Coming." "Oprah, Ellen, they're all lining up to canonize him." " It's Latimer working the media." " What is it we're doing?" "We're putting together our case." "There has to be a personal connection." "Can you prove it?" " Yeah." "Offer a plea." " You're just worried about bad publicity." "I'm worried about losing." "And, yes, I'm up for reelection in two weeks." "It's a tight race." "Tossing Gandhi in jail's probably not gonna goose my numbers." "We win the court battle, we win the PR war." "That is catchy, except that no jury in L.A. is gonna convict Gilroy." "He killed a guy in cold blood." "You'll be doing a favor when you take him off the street." "I'm not asking, Sebastian." "Make a deal." "Manslaughter, eight to 15." "Take it or leave it." " You're kidding, right?" " FYI, Mitch." " If I'm not smiling, I'm not kidding." " I'll tell you what." "You drop all charges and I won't turn you into public enemy number one." "The last time I lost a case where I had the murder weapon and a confession was, uh, never." "Then why are you looking to deal?" "Because my boss believes a plea is in the public interest." "She knows the polls say 73 percent of that same public believe charges should never have been brought." "You know damn well you can't win this." "Shaw paged your client the night he killed him, which makes this personal." "And when I put it all together for a jury and trust me, I will, you will die in prison." "Address me, not my client." "Fine." "Advise your client the deal will never get better than this." " Mr. Stark?" " Brent, please." "I have something to say." "I know you think I'm a monster." "You're wrong." "I'm a good person." "And if I were a priest, I would offer you absolution." "But I'm no priest." "And we both know you're no choirboy." "Finished going through Shaw's financials." "Found a number of $50,000 transfers into his account." "Two hundred grand in the past eight months." "Subpoenaed the bank records." "The transfers were from a nonprofit foundation." " Care to take a guess?" " Uh, New Beginnings Shelter?" " Oh, man." " There's more." "To avoid taxes, Gilroy and Shaw cosigned documents to verify the funds were for charity." "Bank officer remembers the two of them shook hands." "I am deeply in love with both of you." "Tell me why Gilroy would cut checks to a porn mogul he hates enough to kill?" "New Beginnings was a revolving door." "What if Gilroy was steering to Shaw?" " Why wasn't Shaw paying Gilroy?" " Maybe he was." "But Gilroy figured he could make more investing in Dirty Boy Productions than getting paid a smalltime finder's fee." "Shaw screws over his business partner like always, Gilroy takes him out." "The Saint and the Porn King." "I smell Oscar." "And a life sentence." "This is an unusual case." "Why?" "Because you will not be asked to decide whether the defendant is a killer." "Brent Gilroy has admitted to shooting Tyson Shaw." "In fact, he is proud of it." "So the only question is, was that killing legally justified?" "It wasn't." "The victim, Mr. Shaw, was not some random evildoer the defendant decided to usher from this world." "He was actually his business partner." "If you find that shocking, well, fasten your seatbelts." "Because we will demonstrate how the noble Brent Gilroy plundered his women's shelter and used it to fund the porn empire of Tyson Shaw." "How this fraud steered the damaged young women who came to him for help into the soiled hands of a shameless pornographer and then murdered his partner in smut because the return on his investment didn't measure up." "Was Tyson Shaw a bad guy?" "Yes." "He most decidedly was." "But he's not on trial here." "The man who killed him is." "And that man is Brent Gilroy." "And he's no hero." "Heroes don't murder people in cold blood." "Was Brent Gilroy sending Tyson Shaw money?" "Absolutely." "But he wasn't investing in Shaw's business." "He was paying him to stop exploiting girls from Mr. Gilroy's shelter." "And for a while, it worked." "Till one day, money was no longer enough to keep the wolf from the door." "And on that day, Mr. Gilroy decided the suffering had to stop." "The law says that if someone poses a deadly threat to the safety of others, you can protect them." "Even if you have to kill to do so." "Tyson Shaw was responsible for the suicides and drug overdoses of young women." "He destroyed lives for profit." "He was a brutal parasite who had to be stopped." "Your sisters, your daughters they could have been the victims of a predator like Tyson Shaw." "But mercifully, he's gone." "You can thank Brent Gilroy for that." "Dr. Keppler, you testified that actresses in adult films suffer what you term a psychosis." " Correct?" " That's correct." "So are you telling this jury that all porn actresses commit suicide?" "Obviously not." "Every time, the metrics trend down on him." "In other words, the mock jury hates him." "They're here because they answered an ad, which means they read the paper." "They know Gilroy and they love him like the real jury." "We have to know how our jury feels." "You ask me, the world's a better place." " No argument here." " I've got an 18 year-old daughter." "An animal like Shaw ever got his hands on her, I'd shoot him." "I don't know." "Killing for justice?" "Isn't that what the legal system's for?" "Yeah." "But this guy Shaw..." "You guys look smart." "You'll evaluate all the evidence and come to a fair decision." "Hey, it's Madeleine." "Jurors two and nine are gonna be a tough sell." "Your Honor, the defense would like to mark as Exhibit 7-B the DVD of a film from Dirty Boy Productions called Gonzo Time." "Objection." "Approach." "Judge, Tyson Shaw is not on trial here." "He's busy being dead." "This is instrumental to our defense." "The jury must see the brutality Mr. Shaw inflicted on his victims." "No way." "It's inflammatory, prejudicial, misleading..." " Should I go on?" " I'm going to allow it." "The defendant's theory rests on the claim that lives were in danger." " Please tell me you're kidding." " Step back." "If he's not smiling, he's not kidding." "Just FYI." "The following is a sample of the films of Tyson Shaw." "The cavalry." "It better be good, we're getting killed in there." "We ran down the three girls that appeared in the DVDs." "Simona Ravage and Clarissa Faith have no link to Gilroy." "But Tawny Rivers, a.k.a. Katie Paget from Riverside stayed at New Beginnings Shelter." "Unfortunately, we can't find her." "She's a newbie." "No credits, no agency representation." "Her mom's coming." "Maybe she can help us." "Outstanding." "Gilroy and Shaw were already connected by money." "If Katie Paget's some kind of link between them we're really getting somewhere." "So, um, what did you wanna talk to me about?" " About us." " What do you mean?" "You see, dating someone you work with someone wants out, someone doesn't..." "Isaac, don't even worry about it." "You know, we're friends, we're colleagues." "Okay?" "Good." "Because, um, I really like you." "A lot." "Me too." "Yeah?" "Okay." "I'll be right there." "I gotta run." "Yeah, all right." "Yeah, I'll see you back there." "Thanks for the coffee." "I don't know where she is." "Katie moves all the time." "That's what it's like for a struggling actress." "You said Katie left home when she was 17?" "I couldn't give her much." "Her dad was never in the picture." "Money's always been tight." "So when Katie decided that she wanted to be Julia Roberts who was I to stop her?" "Do you have a number for your daughter?" "No." "But she calls every other Sunday." "Always says she's going to help me out, make me proud." "No phone number, no address?" "There's this place that I send her mail." "Some swanky apartment complex that she stays at sometimes." "I have a photo and address right here." "New Beginnings." "She says the building manager looks after her." "Brent something." "He's a real sweetheart." "It's nice to know that she has someone like that in her life." "Yeah." "She's a lucky girl." " Bye, Dad." " Bye, sweetie." "Whoa!" "Whoa." "Whoa." "Where do you think you're going?" " Megan and I are hitting the mall." " Not dressed like that." "You're not serious." "I got this stuff at Nieman." "Perfect." "They have a return policy." "Okay." "But Megan is waiting for me right outside." "Then you better change fast." "Katie Paget is our link between Gilroy and Shaw." "According to his bank statements, Gilroy paid 14 grand to Cedars last November." "We showed the nurse some pictures." "Katie and Gilroy came in together." "Katie had her appendix removed, Gilroy footed the bill, didn't leave her." "Which the defense will say is consistent with his caring profile." "Except Gilroy was bringing her flowers, holding her hand." "So Gilroy plays Florence Nightingale to this girl." "He has her unreleased porn videos." "He's sending money to the pornographer who made them, who he later kills..." "Oh, man." "This..." "This isn't a porn investment gone bad." "Gilroy loves this girl." "He was paying Shaw not to release Katie's videos." " Crime of passion gets us a conviction." " But Latimer's good." "If we switch theories mid-trial, he will crucify us." "We need conclusive proof that Gilroy and Katie Paget were romantically involved." "How's this?" "DMV says there's a black Honda registered to a Katherine Paget." "Partial plates matches our mystery car." "Katie Paget was at Shaw's that night?" "Car registration comes back to an SRO near Koreatown." "The Saint, the Porn King and the Ingénue." "I should have gone to film school." "Have you seen this girl anywhere?" " Uh, no." " I don't know." "Katie Paget." "Katie Paget?" "We're from the DA's office." "Isaac." "Katie." " Let me go!" " We're not gonna hurt you." "Okay?" "But you need to come with us." "Why'd you run from us, Katie?" "I've got a million unpaid parking tickets." " Is that what this is about?" " How well do you know Brent Gilroy?" "I stayed at his shelter a few times." "Why?" "When's the last time you saw him?" "A few months ago, I guess." "How about the night Tyson Shaw was killed?" " I don't understand." " Your car was spotted leaving the scene." " That's impossible." " You're a lousy liar, Katie." "We know Gilroy and Shaw were fighting over you." "And the sex videos you were making." "Look, that's crazy." "I barely even know Brent Gilroy." "That's not what you told your mom." "I'm gonna make this simple." "You tell us everything you know about the night Tyson was killed or I charge you as an accessory to murder." "I wasn't there." "The girls in my building, we borrow each other's cars all the time." " You have to believe me." " Actually, I don't." "Hey, Jules?" "Hey." "Oh, no." "No, no, no." "No, no, no." "You gotta be kidding me." " What are you doing?" " You wanna explain this?" "You went through my stuff?" "This is a violation." "No, this is a violation." "You want me to cite the penal code?" " Not a big deal." " Wrong." "Where did you get this?" " Doesn't matter." " That's what you think." " You're done spending time with Megan." " First you say who I date." "Now you choose my friends?" "You don't get to decide..." "But it's a moot point, because you are grounded for the next three months." "You're telling me you never smoked pot?" "That is irrelevant to this discussion." "While we're talking about double standards you spent 20 years defending people who sold that stuff." "No, no, no." "Enough." "Katie's in lockup." "We're holding her." "A couple days will get her talking." "Don't count on it." "She's scared." "If she won't cooperate, we can force her to testify put her at the scene, establish she and Gilroy are involved." "You study at the feet of the master, yet learn nothing." "Cardinal rule: never call a witness unless you know exactly what she's going to say." " Turn on channel six." " Inches from a clean getaway." "We feel strongly about the case." "We know we're in good shape." "My client is anxious to take the stand and explain his actions to the jury in his own words." " Why would Gilroy do that?" " Who cares?" " Now we can rip his head off on cross." " Latimer's no dope." "He's winning." "He knows you never call a client unless you need a Hail Mary." "He knows we have Katie Paget." "Maybe he's nervous." "Latimer doesn't get nervous." "Uh-uh." "We're missing something." "And that, my friends, is a major problem." "Why did Katie Paget come to your shelter?" "Well, she was involved in pornography with Tyson Shaw." "She was in a downward spiral." "She needed help." "At some point, did you begin dating Katie Paget, Mr. Gilroy?" " Yes, I did." " How did you try to help Katie?" "She thought the way to survive was to degrade herself in Shaw's videos." "I tried to convince her she had options." " Did she listen?" " No, she was terrified." "Shaw had her all turned around." "So, um, I had to do something." "If those videos had gotten out, they would have destroyed her." " So, what did you do?" " I paid him." "I started secretly paying Shaw not to release Katie's videos." "This guy's hanging himself." "In the early morning of April 3rd did you receive a page from Mr. Shaw's home?" "Yes, I did." "I knew it was from Katie." "She'd been hanging out at Shaw's place." "So I'd given her my pager number, told her to call me if he hurt her." " What did you do after she paged?" " I went over right away to Shaw's place." "And I found them in the back." "Shaw was in the Jacuzzi." "She was on the patio." "He threatened her." " She was scared to death." " What happened next?" "I told Katie that she was coming with me." "Tyson got very angry." "He said he would never leave her alone and that I could never save her." "I realized he was right and I shot him." " Why are you admitting all this now?" " I don't wanna live a lie." "I mean, I'm not ashamed of what I did." "I was protecting the woman that I love, and I would do it again." "Jury's been out for three hours." "Shouldn't be much longer." "It's a slam-dunk." "First call Katie Paget made after she was arrested Mitch Latimer." "She and Gilroy share the same lawyer?" "That's totally unethical." "You think that's bad, check this out:" "Latimer visited Katie Paget in lockup yesterday." "Twenty minutes later, he's with Gilroy." "A few hours after that, we hear that Gilroy's gonna take the stand." " Did you get to SID?" " They tested the gun for residue." "Came back positive for chlorine." "Which would be present if somebody who got out of a Jacuzzi handled it." "Wait." "So you're saying that Paget shot Shaw?" "Gilroy's been covering for Katie." "He loves her." "He's willing to protect her." " Even a murder charge?" " Gilroy hears we got Katie." "So he decides to take the stand, torpedo his own case so she doesn't go down." "HPCU." "Thanks." " Jury's back." " Which means they convicted Gilroy." "So unless we pull a rabbit out of the hat right now we just convicted an innocent man." "Hey!" "You just learned Miss Poe had ex parte contact with two of the jurors?" "I would have brought this to your attention sooner." "But my associate wasn't in court until closings." "She didn't know." "When she realized, she came forward." "It's still jury tampering." "The defense moves for mistrial." "Harmless human error." "Not according to the Supreme Court." "Mr. Stark, this is an uncharacteristically principled admission on your part." "I'm sworn to protect the process." "Uh-huh." "Miss Poe, if someone's wearing a juror's badge you don't talk to them ever." "I was standing behind them." "And by the time I saw their badges, it was too late." "One more accident and I will make it my personal mission to see you disbarred." "Yes, judge." "I'm declaring a mistrial." "Way to take one for the team." "That's why I've never been a team player." "I heard you had to shut down." "You don't have to talk to me, but I'm granting you immunity." "Which means when we indict Katie you're gonna have to explain everything." "I won't do it." "Look at me, Brent." "With you or without you, I got Katie for murder." "So if you're not there to put a sympathetic spin on what happened she's gonna grow old in prison." "You've done everything you can to help this girl, to protect her future." "And that's exactly what I'm asking you to do now." "I never meant for anything to happen between us." "There was just something about Katie." "Tell me what happened." "Well, I was scared." "I was afraid when I went over." "I thought he was gonna hurt her." " What did you see?" " Shaw and Katie on the patio, arguing." " Dumb bitch." " He grabbed her, hurting her." "You said you were gonna release those videos." " You promised me." " I didn't promise you anything." "He was angry, drunk." "I wanted to get her out of there." " Get back in." " Get your hands off her." " What are you doing?" " Get your hands off her." "He wasn't having any of it." "So I pulled out my gun." "I'm not gonna say it again." "Let go of her." " What did Shaw do?" " Laughed at me." "You think I'm scared of you?" "Look at me." "Why don't you ask your boyfriend why you haven't become a star?" "Then he told Katie I'd been paying him not to release her videos." "Is that true?" " Yeah." " Was Katie angry?" "No." "No, she looked at me." "She looked at me like she was seeing me for the first time." "You know how I feel about you." "She understood what I did." "And then she stopped me from shooting him." "So why didn 't you just leave?" "Oh, we started to." "But Shaw wouldn 't let up." "What?" "You gonna run away together?" "Forget her." "You got your own problems." "You break into my house, point a gun at me?" "When I'm done with you, you're gonna rot in jail." "Your life is over." "No!" "I know you think Katie's a bad person." "She's made a lot of mistakes." "But she killed Shaw so that I wouldn't have to go to jail." "And when it counted, she protected me." "When it counted she protected me." "It's over, Katie." "I know." "Now, if you tell the truth, I can ask the judge to go easy so you'll still have a life when you get out." "I know you're not used to trusting people." "But I'm telling you, you can trust me." "I wanted to be an actress." "But, um, I couldn't get any work." "I couldn't even pay for my headshots." "Then this guy offered me $500 to pose nude." "And you thought porn was your ticket out?" "Do you know how much money that was to me?" "How did you meet Tyson Shaw?" "He saw my pictures and said that he could make me rich." " But he didn't?" " No." "But I knew if people could see my videos I could use them to get work." "Then I could help my mom, maybe even pay for school." " There were other ways, Katie." " For you, maybe." "All I ever had is the way I look." "Only problem was, as I was using my looks everyone else was using me." " Except for Brent." " Yeah." "He really believed in me, more than I did." "Then why did you let him take the fall?" "He wouldn't let me come forward." "He said that he'd never get convicted." "I never meant to hurt anyone." "Especially not him." "Good." "I gave Katie the names of a couple of public defenders." "Forget it." "I called in a favor from an old partner." " He's gonna handle it pro bono." " Full transport check." "She really got to you, huh?" "She's just a kid." "Katie Paget's in custody." "She'll be indicted tomorrow on manslaughter charges." " All's well that ends well." " Not really." "You know, advising that girl while representing Gilroy, not good." "I never represented Katie Paget." "And her interests were protected." "My client tried to take the rap." "She should have had independent counsel." " She could have gotten in front of this." " Katie's not my problem." "Brent Gilroy was my client, and I did what he asked." "End of story." "I don't know whether to report you to the bar or hire you." "Sebastian Stark lecturing me on ethics." "Rod Serling should be popping up soon." "If I were coming after you, I wouldn't even be here." "I think you're a damn good lawyer." "But you keep crossing that line and it's gonna bite you on the ass." "Nobody knows that better than I do." " Isaac..." " Look, I know it's late." "But can you give me a minute?" "I haven't been honest with you." "I don't know." "I think you made yourself pretty clear." "I, um..." "I got engaged three years ago." "And, um, Olivia and I made all these plans." "But I made detective and we put everything on hold." "I began pulling, uh, double shifts, trying to work my way up." "One night I got a call." "It was a push in." "Two in the morning." "Olivia fought back, but, uh, the guy had a knife." "And the thing they found out when they arrested the son of a bitch was that he'd been casing my place." "He knew I was never home." "I'm so sorry." "I'll never forgive myself for not being there." "It wasn't your fault." "That's what I told myself." "But then my partner died." "And I wasn't there for him either." "Hey, it's Julie." "Please leave me a message." "Hey, Jules." "It's me." "Sorry we haven 't spoken in a few days." "Been so swamped on this case." "Hey, listen, I didn't mean to blow up at you." "Let's talk when I get home, okay?"