"'In New York City's war on crime, 'the worst criminal offenders are pursued 'by the detectives of the Major Case Squad." "'These are their stories.'" "Let's see what the birds are doing in the park." "Can you see 'em?" "Yes." "They're playing in the trees." "Time for Daddy to go to work." " Good morning, everybody." " How you doin'?" "Good morning." "First patient's prepped in room two." "19, single, in the tenth week." "Name is Patricia." " Who's with her?" " A friend." "Her boyfriend hasn't showed up." " How is she feeling?" " Scared." "Let's see what we can do about that." " Lunch time." " Close our books, pencils down." "Does everybody wanna help me with these?" "You can put 'em on the floor." " Everybody ready?" " Yes." "Let's give thanks." "Thank you, God, for your bounty, today and every day." "Amen." " Amen." " Oh, and thank you, Dennis," " for making lunch." " Thank you." " What's a baby cow?" " A calf." " Right." "And what's a baby chicken?" " An egg." " I'm gonna make tea." "Want anything?" " Juice." "What comes outta the egg?" " Baby chicks." " Yeah." " I wanna see the cars, Daddy." " OK." "Come here." "Lord, steady my hand..." "and let thy justice find its mark." " You see the cars?" " Yes." "Honey, are you sure you don't want any...?" "Get into the bedroom." "Quick, quick!" "Oh, my God, Leo!" "Hold on!" "Hold on." "Hello?" "My husband's been shot." "Our address is 845 Central Park West, apartment 4A." "My name's Maria Cavella." "Hurry!" "Oh, my God!" "Leo, hold on!" "They're coming, honey." "They're coming." "Hold on!" "I love you!" "Hold on!" "It looks like he was 80 to 100 feet into the park." "That makes it about a 200-yard shot." "This guy had practice." "Make sure you cover him up." "In our own living room!" "In front of our baby!" "These people that say they love children so much!" " Did your husband get threats?" " There was this website." "His name was on a hit list of abortion providers, with our old address in Dobbs Ferry." "It's why we moved to the city, to be safer." "Our phone's unlisted, the condo's in my maiden name," " we have a post-office box." " Where was your husband's clinic?" "In Bethel." "Two hours each way every day because he wanted to help people." "They have no right." "Oh, God!" "Leo!" "We're very sorry, Mrs Cavella." "According to calculations, the shot came from this tree." " Any footprints?" " Ground's too hard." "He would've put his knee down here." "He tied his rifle to the tree to stabilise it so he'd have a shooting platform." "He was an experienced hunter or he had military training." " How we doing on witnesses?" " We got one homeless lady, calls herself God." "Saw a male, white, going into the woods half an hour before the shooting." "Put God together with the sketch artist." "Eames!" "It's a Remington 700 .308, with a Burris 3 by 10 scope." "He brought it here piece by piece, assembled," " buried it till he needed it." " Catching this mutt's gonna be a walk in the park." "The people who kill abortion doctors, there's two types of those." "The martyr kills without planning, in daylight, with witnesses, with a shotgun or handgun." "Doesn't care if he gets caught." " Then there's this guy." " Prepares, stalks his target, plans his escape, he kills from a distance." "No intention of getting caught." "He's in it to create fear." " Kill one, scare a thousand." " Three witnesses, including God, saw a male white come out of the woods near 97th Street." "30s, medium to tall, baseball cap, maybe a moustache, maybe brown hair." "Maybe we put up flyers, maybe get better witnesses." "Take a look at this website." "Lists abortion doctors in every state." "Here, Leo Cavella." "Still his old address." "What does the slash through his name mean?" "It's a hit list." " Protected by the First Amendment." " Of course." "Report on the rifle." "Figures, no fingerprints." "Rifle traced to a gun dealer in Pennsylvania who sold it in Honesdale eight weeks ago." "No ID on the buyer." "Honesdale's just across the state line from Cavella's clinic in Bethel." "My husband never noticed anyone following them." "The people with the signs, they regulars?" "Every day since the clinic opened." "We video-tape them." " We'll need those tapes." " They're always calling us names, yelling at the patients." "Who on Dr Cavella's staff had his address?" "I did, in my address book, which I kept locked up in my office." "His cheque register." "Cheques to Con Ed, to his condo board." "After he paid his bills, what'd he do with them?" "Some he took home, some he threw away." "Any problems with his trash bin?" "Yes." "The police said it was racoons." "We bought animal-proof lids." "How'd that work out?" "Two weeks later they got broken into again." "Those lids!" "We don't give racoons enough credit." "Your money's still on the racoons?" "I can't imagine anyone scrounging around garbage for a bill." "Cavella's address'd be on it." "What'd your investigation turn up?" "Not much." "Somebody saw a car parked across the street." "A car is something." "The plates traced to Mr and Mrs McLeish of White Lake." "They're in their 60s." "I don't figure they'd climb that fence around the trash cans." "Any history of anti-abortion activity?" "They chained themselves to the door of the clinic last year." " Got 12 months probation." " That would include a restraining order" " to stay away from the clinic?" " Yes, it did." "Sounds like they violated their probation." "You don't have a choice here!" "You gotta let us in!" "You ain't gonna need those." "You didn't see the hole in Cavella's chest." "Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." "We have a warrant for your arrest, for violation of your probation." "They're not going without the radiator." "The locks are through it." "..trespass against us." "Hey, Bobby." "The neighbours say they had somebody staying with them six weeks ago." "Male, white, mid-to-late 30s, brown hair, beard." "They saw him driving their car." " Damn!" " What's the problem?" "The blade's stuck." "Somebody put steel pipes around the locks, then stuck metal rods inside the pipes." "My blades are just spinning." "I gotta change blades." "Y'all better get comfortable." "What'd they use when they were chained to the clinic?" "Just a padlock and bicycle chain." "We cut 'em loose in a minute flat." "Nine hours to cut 'em out." "Great!" "We have a sketch of the house guest." "We tried one without the beard and showed it to the witnesses." "No hits, but it's close." "Got him." "The old couple didn't have the materials to make the locks." "I figured the house guest made them." "I did a search for protesters who blockaded abortion clinics by chaining themselves to the doors." "The longer it takes to remove them, the longer the clinics have to shut." "One guy got famous in Wisconsin for teaching people how to make locks that took up to 12 hours to remove." "He did it with steel pipes, metal rods, abrasives." "Meet Dennis Griscom." "From locks to lock 'n' load." "Next stop for Mr Griscom is lockup." "Two convictions for anti-abortion activities in Wisconsin and Florida." "He served 60 days." "He's been off the radar the last four years." "There's fibre evidence." "A hair left at the scene matched a hair in the McLeish's house." " Not conclusive." " What's the old folks' involvement?" " They're coming in for questioning." " He's done with them." "Well, he'll seek support from other zealots." "He's a terrorist with a profound dedication to an overvalued idea, one that's his sole focus in life." "Zealot, terrorist." "Loaded terms, Detective." "I hope you're not suggesting he represents a movement." "Well, I'm suggesting he might think he is and act accordingly." "This is a murder case." "Let's not turn it into a litmus test on abortion." "Sounds like it already is." "I couldn't sleep the night before." "I had a lead weight in my chest." "The closer I got to doing it, the worse I felt." "I didn't feel brave" " or full of fire." " Providence spoke to you, Dennis." " You had no choice." " When I looked through the scope..." "..it was like the Lord slipped his hand inside mine." "Like a glove, you know?" " He put his finger on the trigger." " That's exactly what he did." "He helped you save the babies." "I just..." "I can't shake this sadness I'm feeling." "You're not alone in this." "People will help you." "OK?" "Here's $500." "If you need any more, send a message." " Thank you." " Hey." "Thank you." "We have witnesses who saw him near the shooting, forensic evidence linking him to it." "How can you protect him?" "I saw books in your home by Gandhi, Martin Luther King..." "Apostles of non-violence." "I know that you follow in their footsteps." "A conscientious objector in the '50s." "Voter registration in the '60s." "You marched against Vietnam... ..apartheid...abortion." " Always by non-violent means, right?" " Yes." "I found these...in your home." "You and your wife at candlelight vigils." " You oppose the death penalty." " Any kind of killing." "I have a lot of respect for that position, Mr McLeish." "Er...there's no hypocrisy to it, no double standard." "Even for doctors like Leo Cavella." "Even for him, right?" "God forgive us." "We didn't know what he was planning." "How'd you meet Griscom?" "At a movement conference in Memphis last spring." "There were old friends from Operation Rescue and some people we didn't know." "Radicals who said the Lord wanted us to pick up the sword and kill more abortionists." " Was Griscom one of the radicals?" " No." "He just listened." "He never said anything about Dr Cavella, or buying a rifle." " What did he do?" "Did he have a job?" " No." "He had savings, he said." "Mostly, he helped around the place." "Took him bird-watching." "There's a bald-eagle preserve near Goshen." "Even gave him an old pair of binoculars." " What kind?" " Zeiss." "He was a serious young man who didn't know what direction he was supposed to go." " How'd he end up staying with you?" " We invited him to visit." "One day he showed up." "Did he talk about any friends, people who might help him?" "No." "Only people he talked about were his parents." "His father mostly." " And what did he say about him?" " He told me he was an engineer and he said his father was proud of him." "And that mattered to him?" "Sure." "His father sounded like a hard man to please." "Any idea where he stayed after he left?" " I think with family." " What makes you say that?" "Before he left, we went to Wal-Mart to buy some gifts for his nieces." " Is that who he said they were for?" " No." "But he bought two key chains with kittens on and the initials K and R, so I assumed that's who they were for." "Dennis doesn't have any nieces." "He has a nephew, my daughter's son, in Seattle." "When was the last time you talked to him?" "Hmm, maybe six months ago." "I'm not sure." "I see your husband was a marksman in Vietnam." " Is this him hunting with Dennis?" " Yes." "They look like they're good pals." "Are they?" "My husband died a year ago." "Dennis looked up to him." "Well, he told people that his father was proud of him." " When was this taken?" " Maybe last year." "It's, er, Zeiss binoculars." "This was taken two months ago in the area where Dr Cavella had his clinic." "He didn't shoot that doctor." "Ten years ago he became a missionary to help people." "He couldn't hurt anyone." "He won't be safe unless he talks to us." "Please." "How did you get this picture?" "I found this on the porch a month ago." "It's just books and letters." " Was there a note?" " No." "He just left it on the porch." "He didn't even ring the doorbell." "I found that picture inside." "Did you recognise any of the people" " in these other pictures?" " No." " Do you know Laura Carlson?" " No." "This is addressed to Dennis." ""We hope this finds you well." ""We took Katie and Ruthie to the botanical gardens." ""They loved witnessing the Lord's wonders." ""We all miss you." "Please call." Signed, Laura Carlson." "It's postmarked last October in Brooklyn." "K and R. Katie and Ruthie Carlson in Brooklyn." "It's a start." "Laura Carlson?" " Yes." " This is a search warrant." " What?" " Stay with your children." " Upstairs." "You, with me." " Are there any other adults here?" " No." "Why are you here?" " We're looking for Dennis Griscom." "Mrs Carlson, we're conducting a murder investigation." "Now is not the time to lie to the police." "Dennis left four days ago." "I don't know where he went." " What room was he in?" " What's happening?" "Down the stairs." "Shh!" "Eames, I need a bag." "Suspicious dust balls?" "It's spun glass, commonly used to make silencers." "There was no attachment for a silencer on the Remington." "Then it's from a second rifle." "He's not done yet." " I don't know where he was going." " He mention other doctors?" "No." "He didn't talk about that." "I don't believe he did what you say." "If he did, he must believe he's doing God's will." " It's up to God to deal with him." " Maybe God's too busy dealing with Leo Cavella's five-year-old daughter." "She was next to him when your friend's bullet tore into him." "I noticed that there are no posters of pop singers in your daughters' rooms or pictures of athletes." " We don't approve of that." " Well, how about... soccer and tennis?" "I didn't see any equipment." "We don't participate in those parts of the culture that don't bring glory to God." "Dennis dragged this abomination, this execution, into your living room." "How can that bring glory to God?" "We have every reason to believe that he's gonna kill again." "Dennis, erm..." "Dennis was on the computer a lot... talking to other people when we weren't home." "Please, don't hurt him." "Ple..." " We found some of Griscom's e-mails." " Just tracks." "The e-mails are gone." "Most of the e-mails are to and from one address." " Zach thinks he can chase it down." " Zach has chased it down." "It's a link to a website." "Whoa!" "This is extreme." ""Stop abortion on demand by the most direct means possible."" "Griscom found a friend." "There's a PO-box address in Long Island." "Any way we can monitor his emails in case Griscom contacts him?" "You can if you install a spying application on his computer." "You can look all you want, you won't find any guns here." "Your site said, "The most direct means possible."" "Everyone knows what that means." "It means whatever you need it to mean." "I'm just a truck driver." " I never threatened anybody." " The Supreme Court?" " I wouldn't hurt those gentlemen." " But the two women, they're fair game?" " Ma'am, God's never told me to kill." " But if He did, I bet you would." " I'd obey Him, like Abraham did." " I heard a threat." " The hell you did." " I'm taking you in." "Turn around." " This is bull." " Shut your mouth!" "Maybe you read only the parts of the Bible you like, but what I remember is that God stopped Abraham from killing." "I'll get downtown started on the complaint." "Erm, let's step in here, Mr Cutler." "Hey, Harland, it's me, Eames." "I need you to fill out a complaint for me." "The suspect's name's Lorne Cutler." " You take orders from that lady?" " She's got seniority." "You know these women on the force." "They come with an extra set of brass ones." " Is that better?" " Yes, thank you." "The TPO is the suspect's home at 428 Powell Street." "Bayside, New York." "OK, I'll hold." "You admire this man, the one who shot the doctor?" "He killed to protect innocent life." "He heard God's command and he obeyed." "Yeah, like Saint Joan and the Knights Templar." "I read your website." "I get it." "The government is using these statutes and lawsuits by pro-abortion groups to cut off all legitimate protest." "So if you believe that the soul enters a body at conception" "you have to take the next step." "Shutting down those killing fields." "It's the only cause left worth dying for, isn't it?" "There is no higher calling." "I'm glad this person skipped the state." "I don't have to be involved in his arrest." "Where do you think he went?" "Well, let's just say he's not on this side of the Mason-Dixon." "We gotta kick him." "Downtown won't sign off on the complaint." "What'd I tell you?" "Cutler is writing emails." ""There's reason to hope." "We have friends in surprising places," ""even in the New York City Police." ""I met a detective who thinks picking up the sword" ""is the only option left to stop the abortion factories."" " You told him that?" " Mm-hm." "To earn his confidence." "Not to mention his love and admiration." "True believers expect everyone to think like them." "What do you really think?" "I'll tell you when I get pregnant." "You're gonna have to do a lot better than that, Bobby." "OK." "Life is full of uncertainty." "People need to have options." "Abortion has got to be one of those options." " That's what I think." " He just got pulled into a private chat." "OK, that's Griscom." "I gave Cutler misinformation about our investigation." "Can you trace him?" "He's a guest on somebody else's account." "The account is registered with, er, Barbara's Place." "It's a copy store chain." " I know this place..." " Susan!" "Dennis." "What are you doing here?" "The alumni office told me where you worked." "Are you all right?" "How are your parents?" " Dad passed away last year." " I'm so sorry." " Your boyfriend?" " No." "I'm engaged." "I'm getting married in a few months." "Are you gonna have kids?" "Maybe." "I have something for you." "Not exactly a wedding present." "They were my dad's when he was in the army." "He always liked you a lot." " This is very sweet of you..." " Have a good life, Susan." "I was so angry for so long." "But I was angry at the wrong person." "Yeah, he's been in here using the computers a few times." " Last night, as a matter of fact." " How'd he pay?" " Cash." "Never on the computer long." " What did he use for ID?" "Didn't have any." "I think he's homeless." "I let him leave a meal card from St Mark's mission." "Buddy, if I were you, I'd taste it first." "Hey, ease off on him." "There's plenty to be grateful for, yeah?" "Go ahead, go ahead." "Say grace, Preacher." "Go ahead." "It wouldn't kill any of us to have a little gratitude." "Thank you, God, for your bounty, today and every day." "Amen." "Amen." " Easy!" " Our father, who art in heaven..." " Stand up." " Hallowed be thy name," " Thy kingdom come, thy will be..." " Carry him." "Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass..." "We have you pegged all the way." "Where you got the rifle, how you got his address, where you stayed." "The state's got you for second-degree murder." "That's 25 years to life, but the Feds also have jurisdiction." "The death penalty." "Cooperate or we're gonna let them throw you the party." "Let's talk about the second rifle, the one with the silencer." "You stashed it, buried it, whatever." "We need to find it before someone else does." "You don't want a kid to get shot, do ya?" "It won't be incriminating." "You can say you were throwing it away," " or you saw somebody put it there." " But you don't tell us and something happens, will the big guy forgive you?" ""The big guy"?" "You trivialise Him." "You pretend to know what He will or will not forgive." "I'm a soldier in the Lord's army." "My conscience is clear." "And you, you have a duty to protect innocent life." "So you're gonna do the right thing, now, aren't you?" "You're gonna open that door and let me walk out of here." "'In five, ten, maybe 15 years, people like whoever killed this Dr Cavella, 'they're gonna be heroes in this country.'" "What do we have on him?" "Hindering prosecution." "Nothing that implicates him in a conspiracy." " Griscom?" " The best evidence we have is still the hair we found at the scene." "A single hair?" "We have 48 hours to bring him up for arraignment." "With what we have now, I might not be able to hold him." " What's he doing?" " He's praying." "Speaking of litmus tests, assuming we get the goods on him, how do you try him without having it turn into a circus?" "By inoculating the jury against Griscom's defence." "He'll claim he killed to protect the unborn." "Inoculate them how?" "By telling the jury you agree with Griscom on abortion?" "Hmm, it crossed my mind." "You really believe abortion is murder?" "Like I said, long as you bring me the evidence, convicting this...gentleman shouldn't be a problem." "Promise me a margarita when this is all over." "The copying place sent over a list of websites" "Griscom visited on their computer." "Look at this one." ""Hudson University Alumni Association."" "The association said he looked you up." "When did you last talk to him?" "Three days ago." "I was on my way out to lunch" " and he just walked up to me." " What did he want?" "He had something for me from his father." "He died last year." "What was it?" "I don't know why Dennis thought I'd want them." "I was never particularly fond of his dad." " He was really hard on Dennis." " How long had it been" " since you talked to him?" " Almost ten years." "What happened between the two of you?" "I mean, something was eating away at him all these years." "These mementos were precious to him, but he gave them to you." "Why?" "Dennis had this idea that we were gonna get married and help the poor and have a lotta kids." "I respected those goals and I loved him, but I had another life in mind." "And then I got pregnant." "Dennis was so happy and I thought it was the worst thing that could've happened to me." "So I started talking about having an abortion." "Dennis went crazy?" "Yeah." "He ordered me not to do it." "He put pictures of aborted foetuses all around our apartment, told me I'd be murdering his child, as if what was inside me was more important to him than I was." "So that's when I made up my mind." "I waited until he went to work, I packed up and left." "I went to the clinic and I never saw Dennis again." "He's in front of a judge in an hour." "You got less time than that to get an admission out of him." " My client has a date in court." " There are things to clear up first." " He has the right to be silent." " But not the right to be deaf, so he'll have to listen to what we have to say." "First thing, there's nothing in your file about...children." "Do you have any kids?" " No." "I took a vow of celibacy." " You never wanted any kids?" " You don't like them?" " I love kids." "But that's not what God had planned for me." "You think you would've been a good parent?" "Better than your father?" "There's nothing wrong with how my father brought me up." "He thought there was a lot wrong with you." " He was proud of me." " Is that why you became..." "What is it you called yourself?" "A soldier in the Lord's army?" "To prove to him that you had the discipline or the commitment, the will to sacrifice yourself for a greater cause, like he did in Vietnam?" "Well, it was just a thought." "Maybe you were..." "one of those special people who heard the..." "heard the voice of God tell them to...join the movement." "Is that it?" "Yes." "It was divine guidance." "Not some base human passion, like anger or revenge." "Pride." "It was wounded pride, wasn't it, Dennis?" "She defied you!" "She killed your unborn child and it broke you!" " She was weak." "It's not her fault." " Who, then?" " Nobody held a gun to her head." " The ones who allowed it!" "The ones who kept my baby from being saved!" "You told her you were angry at the wrong person all these years!" "It was the doctors!" "They ripped that life out of her body!" "Were you thinking that when Cavella was in your scope?" "Your baby?" "The life that might've been?" "Your life with Susan?" " I don't think about that any more." " You think about it all the time." "You've given up hope." "You're giving everything away." "Touching base with old friends." "You're closing the book." "You're gonna kill yourself, but not before you pay them back." " Murderers, like Cavella." " Stop!" "We are..." " Pay them back for what they did!" " He is going to court!" "Pay them back the way your dad taught you!" "Come on, Dennis, say it!" "You took a life for a life." "His mother put her house up as bond for the bail." "Once the paperwork's done, he's out of our hands." "We'll put surveillance on him." "I'm thinking he's planning something close to home." " Girlfriend?" " The doctor who did the abortion." "Is that good?" "Surveillance followed him to his lawyer's office." "They waited until the lawyer went home." "They never saw Griscom leave." "Maybe he slipped out through the garage." "Terrific." "The doctor who did the abortion passed away two years ago." " I put a trace on everyone involved." " This guy has a death wish" " and he'll take somebody down." " Maybe he'll get the order mixed up and shoot himself first." "I need to run Griscom's name through Westlaw." "Go ahead." "What are you looking for?" "He said it's the ones who allowed it, the ones who kept his baby from being saved." "Here we go." ""Dennis Griscom in Re An Unborn Child."" "He sued on behalf of his unborn kid to stop Susan having an abortion." " The judge turned him down." " Judge Adam Yates." "You find him, you find the gun." "How you doing, Judge?" "Good to see you." "Might help if you had a firing pin." "Drop the gun, Dennis!" " Stay away from me." " Get off the ledge, Dennis." " Don't come near me." " Why do you wanna hurt yourself?" " Tell me why." " I don't answer to you!" "I know." "What about your mother and Laurie and her kids?" "They're gonna wanna know." "It looks like it's gonna rain tonight." " What?" " Yeah." "Looks like we'll get a good soaking." "What do you think?" "I don't know." "I saw some lightning from over the park." "Can you see anything?" "Come on, Dennis." "Let's go inside." " Grab him." " We got him." "Let's go." "Tell the judge we're all clear." "Till the next one."