"You have one new message." "Ellen." "Ellen, it's me." "Look, there's something here that you really got to see." "Katie brought you a videotape that Gregory Malina made." "Gregory confessed everything about what happened in Florida." "I'm going to leave it in our hiding place, okay?" "You go in, you get the tape, and you get out." " You ready?" " Yeah." "Give me your penlight." " Where's yours?" " I'm not sure." "Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am." "I'll take a look." "David!" "Bloody, half-naked, wandering the streets at 7:00" "Just your type." "You get a name?" "All we found on her was this." ""Hollis M. Nye, Attorney-at-Law."" "You her lawyer?" "No." "A friend." "You have a current address?" "Yes, certainly." "She... she lives with her fiancé?" "We have a problem." "The police just came to see me about Ellen Parsons." "Your mom made these for us." "I'm accused of murder, and my mom bakes cookies." "Sounds about right." "Who attacked you?" "I don't know." "I never saw him before." "Your mom said..." "Patty Hewes posted the bail." "She knows I'm innocent." "She's representing me now." "When is David's funeral?" "I can't go." "Why not?" "Conditions of... my bail." "I..." "I can't travel." "Patty can petition the judge for an allowance." "I don't know if..." "David's family even wants me to be there." "I am so sorry, El." "Could you help me?" "I'm looking for Lot 77." "Yeah, you want to stay on the path, then swing a right at the oak grove." "Thank you." "You don't look like you're from around here." "It's been 35 years." "Anything I can do?" "I'll be up in a minute." "How does Ray Fiske's suicide affect our case?" "Judge Toomey granted the opposition a one-month continuance, which we expected under the circumstances." "And Marshall Phillips has assumed lead counsel for Mr. Frobisher." "He a good attorney?" "He's one of the best." "Has there been another offer since we turned down the 500 million?" "No, not yet." "I want to reiterate that none of what's happened can detract from our case." "We know what Frobisher did, and we're ready to prove it to a jury." "Your office is finished." "I promise you, Patty, the place is as good as new." "Thank you, Pete." "DNA tests confirm that the blood of... an unknown male was found in my apartment and on my client's clothing." "That corroborates her story that she was attacked." "By who?" "There was no body found in your apartment." "Our detectives did a thorough forensic search, they canvassed the building, they talked to the neighbors." "The blood evidence..." "Is inconclusive at best." "No, Ms. Parsons still had the motive, the opportunity, and her fingerprints were in the victim's blood on the murder weapon." "She explained that." "Can you explain why her apartment was ransacked?" "A file cabinet broken into with contents stolen?" "I mean, not exactly consistent with a crime of passion, is it?" "Look, a young doctor was found murdered on Riverside Drive..." "And people are scared, which is why you want this to go away quickly." "I mean, hell, if, if I lived on the Upper West Side, I wouldn't sleep tonight." "In fact, I might not want to reelect my district attorney." "Ms. Hewes, Ellen Parsons worked for you." "I don't think you can be objective" " about this." " I'm not!" "I'm not objective at all, and I'm going to turn my passionate, irrational anger against your office." "I am going to go on every talk show, every media outlet I can find to expose how you ignored key evidence in your incompetent rush to accuse..." " Ms. Hewes..." " how, for political ends, you destroyed the life of an exceptional young woman, while the real murderer walks the streets." "This would be a lot more pleasant if I were dealing with you, Hollis." "I tried to reason with my client, but she insisted on Ms. Hewes representing her." "What do you want?" "The DA's agreed to reopen the crime scene." "OK." "You still know where the tape is?" "Of course." "And it's safe?" "It's safe." "Get the charges dropped, and it's yours." "Ellen pushed me aside." "Shit." "Who's representing her now?" "Patty Hewes." "She got the DA to reopen the murder investigation." "All right, how would you like us to play it?" "Has the videotape been put into evidence?" "I don't think so." "No." "Then maybe Patty Hewes doesn't have it." "What are we doing, playing guessing games?" "There's a goddamn gun out there pointed right at me, and you don't know if it's loaded." "What about David Connor?" "Do I have to worry about him?" "No." "There's nothing that could get back to you." "Good." "Christ, what a mess." "You're looking for anything incongruous, anything that didn't belong to you and your fiancé?" "Anything that's not in the right place." "Got to go." "Take your time, Ms. Parsons." "Excuse me." " Hey, Rick." " How's it going?" " Hey, Rosie." " How you doing, Rick?" "This is Detective Rick Messer." "He asked if he could take a look around, see if... the scene fits the profile of a case he's working downtown." "Any luck?" "No." "I'm very sorry for your loss." "I hope they find the guy." "Can we have a moment, please?" "Hi." "I'm... sorry, Patricia." "I'm terribly sorry." "Mr. Frobisher?" " You wanted to see me?" " Yeah." "Yeah, I do." "What...?" "She turned down $500 million, Larry." "What the hell's going on over there?" "Does she have something?" "I don't know." "She's not telling us anything." "Then what do I have you for?" "Larry, you know, you haven't given me anything in weeks." "What can I do?" "All right, look." "Has she said anything about a videotape?" "Think... a videotape?" "A confession?" "What?" "No." "I don't know nothing about that." "What tape?" "What are you talking about?" "No... forget it." "I got to tell you, Mr. Frobisher, ever since your deposition," "I don't think she's going to settle for any amount." "God damn it!" "You know something..." "I don't pay you to think." "Do I, Larry?" "You haven't paid me for anything, Mr. Frobisher..." "I need facts." "I need information, that's all I want." "Mr. Frobisher, I know!" "No, you actually don't know!" "You don't know shit, and you've done shit... which is exactly what you're going to get from me." "I ain't paying you a penny." "I don't need your money, you prick!" "I have to admit," "I think there's something you're not telling me." "Arthur, why hasn't this case already settled?" "What's this?" "Ray with Gregory Malina." "Jesus." " Was Ray having a thing with this kid?" " I don't know." "Maybe." "I mean, the kid's a hustler, for Christ sake." "He's a liar." "Ray brought him down to Florida the same weekend I was there." "The kid took advantage of him." "He tried to extort money from him." "How?" "He made up some bullshit videotape, confessing crap that never happened." "What did happen in Florida, Arthur?" "I stepped into that condo and she was staring right at me." "That girl was high and out of her mind." "My assistant assured me, she didn't see a thing." " And you believed him?" " Hey, relax." "We'll take care of the girl." "You have my word on that." "Now tell me." "It's not good." "This is the report we're going to be filing next week." "The SEC has evidence that the accounting fraud in your company has been going on for years." "What kind of evidence?" "You use shell corporations to hide your debt." "You book potential earnings as current earnings to artificially boost profits." "I can't even tell what I'm looking at here." "I've known you 40 years." "Don't give me that shit, Arthur." "Arthur... what happened in Florida?" "Nothing." "Absolutely nothing." "So this tape... have you viewed it?" "No." " Did Ray?" " I don't know." "But..." "Malina wrote him a letter saying the tape was out there." "And you think Patty has it?" "She might." "Well... there's a way to find out." "We file for summary judgment." "We get the judge to rule on the case now." "It'll force Patty to show her hand." "But what if she does have the tape?" "Well, then at least we'll know where we stand." "But if she doesn't, based on the evidence I've seen," "I'm betting the judge will dismiss the whole case." "Summary judgment." "Why wait for a trial when a judge can decide the case now?" "If I file today, this all could be over by next month." "We're going to trial." "I'll be in touch." "Turn this over to a judge?" "What is he, crazy?" "He's desperate." "He needs to know if we have the tape." "So Phillips is forcing your hand?" "I need the tape, Ellen." "If the judge rules against us, we lose the case." "That would be unfortunate." "I'm doing everything I can to exonerate you." "I had the crime scene reopened..." "There was nothing there." "I've hired my own investigators." "I'm puttI'g as much pressure on the DA as I can." "I don't think so." "He's a DA." "DAs want to be reelected." "Yes, they do." "So cut a deal with him." "Give him what he wants." "Right over there, it's going to be the RD building." "You know what that is?" "Yeah." " It's research and development." " There you go." "That's the brain center of any company." "Hub of creation, that's where... that's where dreams are forged into reality." "Are we losing the house, Dad?" "Holly said she and Bethie are moving out to Aspen." "Well, whatever happens, you're going to be living with your mom in San Diego." "Well, why can't I stay here with you?" "I've got a lot on my plate right now." "So what, I just have to pick up and just move across the country?" "Hey, you know something?" "You need to grow up." "I'm dealing with some..." "Hey, listen to me." "I'm dealing with some major shit here." "I'm a guy who always lands on his feet." "But right now, I need to focus on making things right." "You understand that?" "No..." "Yeah." "Whatever." "Come here." "Come here, come here." "I did something stupid, Owen." "I made a... big mistake." "I'm going to be paying for the rest of my life." "What mistake?" "I trusted too many people." "All right." "What's it going to take?" "What's what going to take?" "For you to drop these preposterous charges against Ellen Parsons." "You didn't find any new evidence." "Let's cut the bullshit and talk business." "You're a free woman." "You struck a deal?" "The DA dropped the charges." "The investigation's been reopened." "They'll be a press conference later today." "You can go to David's funeral now." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Now where's the tape?" "I don't have it." "You told me you did." "I told you it was safe." " You got five minutes." " Thank you." "Good evening." "Got have a few minutes?" "In 2002..." "I met Ray Fiske." "I didn't know this at the time, but he was Arthur Frobisher's lawyer." "Shortly after, Mr. Fiske sent me down to Florida to help set up a meeting." "I didn't know what this meeting was about, but I know that Arthur Frobisher was in contact with a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission." "The name of that member is..." "George Moore... tipped you off." "That's going to get you quite a few years in the federal penitentiary." "Tell me what you want." "Well, we have a couple of options." "What are they?" "If I turn this over to the U.S. attorney's office, you either plead guilty or you fight it in court." "Either way, you lose years of your life, and I'm still waiting in the wings to bleed you dry in a civil trial." "And the other option?" "We settle." "At my price." "The videotape?" "It goes away forever." "You'll sign a nondisclosure agreement?" "All the evidence I have against you will never come to light." "So think about it." "But not for too long." "If I don't hear from you by the end of the day tomorrow," "I'm going to treat some friends of mine at the Justice Department to dinner and a movie." "Boy, you really enjoy this, don't you?" "It's my job." "Why do you hate me so much?" "Someone was attacked in our home." "You haven't said a word about it." "I didn't get attacked." "Ellen saw you, Michael." "You said you were going to Henry's house for the weekend." "I did." "Then what were you doing here?" "I left my laptop, so I came back to pick it up." "Why, am I a suspect?" "No." "Then why are you interrogating me?" "We'd just like to know why you feel the need to lie." "Maybe it just runs in the family." "I've gone over all of it with your money managers." "Now, remember, this is just a theoretical dismantling of your asset structure." "What did they come up with?" "You'd have to give up 93% of your net worth." "They'd start with your bonds preferred stock, and then move on to real estate." " The houses?" " Yes, all the houses." "Fine." "Liquidate all of it." "Foreign holdings, domestic holdings." "I don't really care about anything else, but I need to know that I can keep the new land that I'm developing." "Arthur, you don't have to do this." "We could still win." "Can I keep the goddamn land, Marshall?" "Yes." "Promise me that." "We would find a way for you to keep your land." "All right." "Pay her." "This is ludicrous." "Let's just cool down and think this through." "I have thought it through, Marshall, and it's my call." "Pay her." "What about our motion for summary judgment?" "A settlement like you're talking about, we have nothing to lose." "I have everything to lose, Marshall." "That number is astronomical." "Even if we lose at trial, you may never have to pay a figure so high." "I'll give a jury a dozen reasons to award your employees less than that." "Marshall..." "I will build all this back up again, believe me." "But right now, I'm done with this." "I need to move on." "Miss Hewes, Marshall Phillips is here to see you." "Thank you, Betty." "Send him in." "Marshall." "This is a surprise." "Oh, I doubt that." "Please." "Can you believe it's almost fall?" "What sign are you?" "We're dropping our motion for summary judgment." "My client... has instructed me to extend to you... this settlement offer." "There's a condition." "He wants a nondisclosure agreement." "All evidence sealed." "Nothing comes out." "Whatever you've got is buried." "Otherwise, the offer evaporates." "Understood." "Tell him we accept." "You knew my father, didn't you?" "I never liked him." "Oh, he never liked you." "He always thought your cases had a stink to them." "Good to see you, Marshall." "Together, we hit a few bumps along the way, but in the end you believed in me and in our justice system." "Your trust won this case." "Here we go." "There we are." "We're billing you for this by the way." "Congratulations." "There's a psychiatrist there." " Why'd you come in this room?" " Larry?" " Do you have a moment?" " "The light was on."" "Don't sit, Larry." "This won't take long." "What's going on?" "We know you were leaking information to Frobisher." "We want you to disclaim your interest in the settlement, voluntarily." "And cut myself out of two billion?" "You gotta be kidding me." "If you don't remove yourself, we'll turn you over to the U.S. attorney's office." "It's your choice." "But I made amends." "They've made their decision, Larry." "Hey, I'm 70 years old." "I lost everything." "The man came to me." "What was I supposed to do, huh?" "What am I gonna do now?" "!" "Before you go?" " If you'll excuse me?" " Sure." "Your first victory as an attorney." "Have you given any thought to what you're going to do next?" "I don't much care at the moment." "Your office is still empty." "I'm sure someone will make good use of it." "The job is yours, Ellen." "Anytime you're ready." "Thanks for the drink." "Ellen." "Mr. Nye." "Get in the car." "They know what you did, Ellen." "Who are you?" "I'm Agent Harrison." "This is Agent Werner." "We're with the FBI." "Miss Parsons, the night of Ray Fiske's suicide, you were seen leaving Hewes  Associates." "I worked there." "You were fired at the time." "What is this about?" "It's about Patricia Hewes." "And the Frobisher case?" "No, we were investigating Ms. Hewes long before the Frobisher case." "Arthur Frobisher had my fiancé killed, and you're investigating Patty Hewes?" "I tried to warn you, Ellen.?" "Not to take the job." "You talk to us, maybe we overlook what you were doing there that night." "This is your leverage?" "You're gonna have to do better than that, this... picture means nothing." "You don't want us pursuing it." "Go ahead." "Thanks for the chat." "We commend our brother, David Connor, unto you, Lord, now that he has passed from this life." "May he live on in Your presence." "Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him." "May he rest in peace." "May his soul, and the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace." "Amen." "Amen." "I'm trying to forgive you." "You don't have to." "It's my fault." "No." "This whole thing started because I took Frobisher's money." "The last time... the last time I saw David... we had a fight." "And he was right." "He was right about everything." "Thank you for... thank you for letting me come today." "David would have wanted you here." "I know you're not the enemy in all of this." "Thank you." "Call me when you get back to New York." "Okay, let me know." "We're square." "Indeed, we are." "You didn't get this from me." "You sound like my college girlfriend." "Sit on it till the next election." "When it comes out, there'll be a lot more lawsuits." "Shareholders are going to go after the rest of Frobisher's fortune." "And you can send him to jail." "Hey!" "Now we're even." "Oh, God." "I've been in touch with the DA's office every day." "And what have they found?" "Well, they've turned the crime scene inside out, but... even if they find the guys who did this..." "They'll never trace them back to Frobisher?" "I'm sorry." "So, Patty tells me that you're not coming back to work." "So you're in the loop again." "Now that you're partner, you must have got a nice chunk of change from that settlement." "So... what did, what did you and Patty do" "to win this thing?" "Enjoy your money, Tom." "There's a lot of great charities out there." "Hey, can I ask you something?" "Sure." "When Patty went away, did she ever tell you where she went?" "No." "Told me she was visiting family." "You, uh, had a little girl." "She died before delivery." "May I ask... is there a name you'd like on the certificate?" "You wanted to speak with me?" "The other night at my apartment... you asked me" "if I regret what we did." "I want you to know... that I do." "I deeply regret it." "Why are you telling me this now?" "Because you're right." "I've lied." "I hired you to get to Katie." "I've... manipulated you." "I am ashamed of what I did." "I hope you can forgive me." "Someday." "I have... a lot of flaws." "Come back, Ellen." "Give me a second chance." "I was thinking of going away for a while." "Without David, I..." "I don't have a reason to be anywhere." "I understand." "I don't believe in the law anymore." "But I believe in justice." "So I'll come work for you again." "On one condition." "What's that?" "Let me use the firm's resources to prove that Frobisher had David killed." "It's a deal." "Ellen?" "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Thanks for the chat." "What are you looking at her for?" "Fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice." "Now, Mr. Nye tells us you might have reasons of your own for wanting to take down Ms. Hewes." "Yes." "I do." "Do you regret what we did?" "Because I do." "You do?" "While I'm gone, you're welcome to stay here." "It's done." "She tried to kill me." "How do you know that?" "Because I know Patty." "See you on Monday." "You want me to go back and work for her?" "Ms. Parsons, you'll be working for us." "See you Monday."