Proven Innocent (2019) s01e04 Episode Script

1 Previously on Proven Innocent - We're dating? - Well, you know, we're out on a date, so, yeah.
So, you want to create a new law for victims' rights? I want the world to remember the name Rosemary Lynch.
- What do you want, Bodie? - Dinner.
Foreplay.
- Aah! - What's for dinner? - So, what do you want? - Besides the pleasure of your company? - Are we flirting? - Is it working? Hello, Madeline.
Just couldn't pass up a chance to dance with you again.
Should be fun.
I'll lead.
[OVERLAPPING SHOUTING.]
Excuse excuse me.
Out of the way, please.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
- WOMAN: Baby killer! - MAN: Baby killer! NEWSWOMAN: Sarah Bukhari received a violent response from protesters on the first day of her trial for murdering her unborn child.
To this day, I still can't believe the judge made her sit in court like that.
He did everything he could to show the jury his disdain for her.
Why do you want us to take over her appeal for you? The only reason they tried her for both murder and feticide was because she was Muslim.
It's been seven years, and the hatred for our people has only gotten worse.
I believe you will do much better with this judge than I ever did.
The key piece of evidence against her was the Mexican abortion pills she bought online.
She never took those.
There-there was no trace - of mifepristone in her system.
- Just because you can't detect the parent drug doesn't mean it wasn't taken.
Even if she did take them 25 years for a late-term abortion? It's draconian.
And if she didn't, her whole life has been ruined over a miscarriage.
Let's not forget, she left a fetus in a construction site trash bin.
That's why she was convicted.
Why did she do it? Because she was ashamed.
VIOLET: Shame is a cancer.
It eats away at us from the inside.
It is the sworn enemy of the truth, which may be its only cure.
On this week's episode of Until Proven Innocent, we'll follow the story of Sarah Bukhari, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for trying to hide her shame.
I knew I was pregnant, but I didn't know how far along.
So when I delivered, I was in shock.
The baby wasn't alive, but there was so much blood, I [CRYING.]
I ju I I panicked, and I tried to hide what happened.
How did you not know you were five months' pregnant? I was scared that if I went to a doctor, my parents would find out.
They are very religious.
And an unwed pregnancy would bring great shame.
One of the most damning pieces of evidence in your trial was the abortion pills you bought online.
I didn't take them.
I changed my mind and threw them away.
Jury didn't buy it.
I know how it looks, but it's not what happened.
Sarah, even if you did take the abortion - But I didn't take - Even if you did, the severity of your sentence was to make an example of you.
It was to scare other women from seeking abortions.
Maybe I deserved this.
Hey, Big Time, why don't you just kill yourself? We're all sick of looking at your mopey-ass face.
Screw you, bitch.
Maybe I should end the appeal and accept this as my fate.
No, you accept nothing.
Your baby was stillborn, and you panicked.
You don't deserve to lose the rest of your life for one mistake.
NASHER: Let them fight for you, Sarah.
I already got them permission to try this case in Indiana.
I'm scared to go through this again.
So was I.
But Easy believed in me, and now we believe in you.
No, I don't want to touch this.
Hey, I know you're pro-life, but at its core this is a religious bias case.
A white woman never would have been charged with this.
Leaving a fetus in a trash can sadly happens a lot, but when the mother is located, she is always charged with unlawful disposal of a fetus.
Never murder.
Ever.
They also charged her for feticide.
That just shows how badly they wanted to railroad her.
Feticide laws are designed to protect pregnant women from attackers.
They're never used against the woman for ending her own pregnancy.
Ever.
That shows you how ugly this case is.
They threw everything they could at her, and the jury bit.
Would you have a problem taking this case if you were pro-choice? I can separate my personal feelings from the law.
Can you? Because I see a Muslim woman who got a 25-year sentence as a pro-life statement, and I'm not gonna stand for it.
And I see a woman who threw her baby in a trash bin.
- I'd rather work on other cases.
- Fine.
I'm taking this case.
I'll do it alone.
I canceled my mani-pedi, so this better be good.
I would never ask to meet with the greatest legal journalist - of our times - Keep kissing.
My ass loves it.
And most attractive, I might add.
Yes, you might.
As you know, I'm trying to get Rosemary's Law passed to keep convicted criminals from getting back on the streets.
Which the state senate will never pass.
Thurston Black will never go for it.
Well, what do you think of our chances if Madeline Scott decided to take on the Sarah Bukhari case? - No, she didn't.
- Yeah, she did.
This morning.
[BOTH CHUCKLING.]
First, you come up with this genius law that puts a clock on a defendant's right to appeal, for the sole purpose of kneecapping that hack.
Then she takes on the perfect case to prove exactly why we need the law.
Just trying to serve the greater good.
You get Rosemary's Law passed, it'll gut her firm and silence your greatest critic.
Gore that's hot.
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE.]
Are the rumors true? About your marriage? What rumors are those? Hey! [MOANING.]
I'm gonna call your name Like no night before - Maybe we should slow down - Yeah.
No, wait, really, I just I need a minute.
Okay.
Listen, we don't have to do this if you don't want to.
- I do.
- Yeah? - Just it's just been a while.
- Mmm.
I just don't want you to be disappointed if it's awkward.
I'm flattered, but don't worry, all right? You know what's worse than awkward sex? - Not having sex? - Not having sex.
Well, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Oh.
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE.]
[YELLING.]
You had a good night last night, didn't you? What? Oh, my gosh, you're glowing.
You got some, didn't you? - I did not.
- Uh-huh.
Okay, maybe I did.
- Yes! - [LAUGHS.]
Dude, yes! As a gentleman, I shall not ask, but as a pervert, I got to know all the details.
- You got to tell me.
- Okay, moving right along.
Our first hearing is today.
What do you got for me? I got nothing.
I still can't find an expert in the state of Indiana that will touch this case.
- I can look out of state.
- No, it's got to be Indiana.
Judge Bryant will view any out-of-state expert - as a Yankee carpetbagger.
- That's true.
Bryant's definitely your biggest obstacle in this case.
He's the most conservative of all the Christian conservative judges, and I should know.
I got all their trading cards.
Seriously, though, if you ask me, I don't think he's ever gonna grant you a new trial.
Well, it's good I didn't ask you.
Find me an expert, Bodie.
Your Honor, the feticide law was passed to validate the rights of pregnant women who are crime victims, not to prosecute them.
The prosecution of my client under the law runs contrary to the intention of the legislature.
It is this court's obligation to interpret the law as written.
And it's my opinion that, even though this may be a unique application of the statute, the original prosecution was lawful.
In that case, since you interpret the law strictly as written, I move to dismiss on grounds of legal impossibility.
My client was charged and convicted with feticide and murder.
It's impossible to be guilty of both killing an unborn baby and killing a baby who was born alive, as the two scenarios cannot coexist.
Yes.
I have to agree with you on that.
I'll dismiss the feticide charge.
Your Honor, we request an evidentiary hearing on our motion for a new trial solely on the murder charge.
Our client was prejudiced where the jury's deliberations were confuscated by these two opposing charges.
I see what you did there.
Thank you, Your Honor.
I've been practicing all morning.
[LAUGHTER.]
BRYANT: I'll hear arguments on the motion for a new trial next week.
Yes, Your Honor.
Fancy meeting you here.
Just here to lend you moral support.
Thank you.
Got her down to a murder charge.
- Yay! Murder! - [CHUCKLES.]
70% of female wrongful convictions occur in cases where there was no crime to begin with.
This causes a problem in terms of their exoneration, since there's no chance the "real killer" will ever be caught.
The prosecution's entire murder case is based on the hydrostatic test, commonly known as "the float test.
" At autopsy, the lungs are placed in water, and if they float, that shows they had air in them, which means the baby was able to take a breath outside the womb.
And therefore was born alive, so the trash bin wasn't disposal of a dead fetus, but murder of a live baby.
Which sounds completely convincing until you actually look at the fact that [CACKLING.]
- Did you forget to take your meds? - Yes.
[HIGH-PITCHED.]
: But that's not why I'm pretending - to be a witch.
[CACKLING.]
- [LAUGHS.]
All right.
Animal, vegetable or mineral? It's your defense.
It's witchcraft.
She was basically convicted on 17th century science.
Exactly the point I was about to make.
It's junk science.
But I don't just need a broomstick.
I need an expert who will demolish it.
Oh, that's great, because I found you one.
Unfortunately, I don't think Judge Bryant's gonna like him.
- Why? - Why? It's judicial helter-skelter, man! We're talking 1693 Salem here.
Our investigator made the exact same point - while riding a broomstick.
- Oh, that's wild.
Sh-Should I do that in court? - No.
- No.
Do you have any 21st century arguments for why the float test is junk science? [SCOFFS.]
Only about a dozen.
Put me in the game, man.
Let's tear it all up.
I can't tell you how thrilled we are that you're willing to testify.
Thank you.
There's just well, I think there's just one other thing that we need to ask of you, if you don't mind.
Anything to tear down these fascists.
Would you be willing to get a haircut? And trim your beard? Wha Wrote her name in lights in the sky From planet to planet, the words did fly I keep writing, I'll just turn my page I'm a hard-working boy, got my luck saved Hi, Maddie.
Hi.
It's great to see you again.
Easily done I'm sorry that it took me so long to reach out, Mr.
Lynch.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's okay.
It's okay, I'm glad you did.
And, you know, I've been following you.
You have been just tearing it up.
[CHUCKLES.]
And-and you look great.
So? I'm so sorry about your marriage.
Oh.
Well [CHUCKLES.]
thank you.
Rosemary's death destroyed so much there.
But, then you know that as well as anyone.
- I think about her all the time.
- I do, too.
Every day.
- It's, uh - [CLEARS THROAT.]
[CLEARS THROAT.]
it's actually why I'm here.
I'm trying to find out who really did it.
[SNIFFLES.]
No, Maddie, I [SIGHS.]
I've been down this road before.
I hired a private investigator, and he didn't come up with anything.
I think we should keep trying.
I can't go down that road again.
I'm sorry, I can't.
It's, um it's just too hard.
But it was great seeing you.
And, uh, I hope to see you again soon, but I ha [CLEARS THROAT.]
I have work to do.
- You take care of yourself.
- Okay.
Easily done, easily done Hey, ladies.
Hey, how much you make? Or should I ask how much you want to make? - $300.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Go get that money, girl.
Yeah.
- Okay.
[LAUGHS.]
That's right.
[WOMAN WHOOPS.]
Your prices have skyrocketed.
Worth every penny.
You gonna say it? You're under arrest, sugar.
Yes.
What should I do if my jaw is still numb in an hour? Oh, I don't know, call a doctor.
Or a shrink.
With you, I'm gonna need both.
Hey, wait.
Wait, wait, where you where you going? It's the middle of the night.
Just - just crash here.
- I'm a cop, Bodie.
I bailed halfway through my shift.
I got to put a few more hours in.
How about, uh, how about tomorrow night? Why don't we go to The Publican together? I'll wear my good shirt.
It's got buttons.
- Bodie.
- What? We talked about this.
Yeah, I know, but Aren't you tired of hiding our relationship? Come on, it's not like your cop pals actually care - that we're dating.
- Yeah, no, not at all.
They they love the Jihadist Baby Killer.
- They got all her albums.
- BODIE: [CHUCKLES.]
You are so demented.
You're more demented than me, which is why we should be more open about our relationship.
I could introduce you to my friends.
You'd make me seem normal in comparison.
Look, Bodie, look, we don't got to keep doing this if you're gonna be all wound up about it.
This is all it is for me.
Okay.
Yeah, no.
I mean, I love the sex-only thing, because I love the sex.
Only.
So Yeah, we're good.
No stress.
Yeah, I'll see you, Bodie, all right? - [DOOR CLOSES.]
- Uh, I'll see you.
Think of a trial as a show, except in this case we have an audience of one.
Okay, I-I'll wear the suit, but that's it.
Dr.
Winkler, this is my friend Chaz, who is one of the top stylists in Chicago.
Oh, my God, Vi, he's adorable.
Why didn't you tell me how cute he was? Hey, man, how you doing? Oh, better now that I met you.
We just need to trim a little bit of that shag away, so your beautiful eyes can take center stage.
I don't know, you know? Like, my hair is my spiritual identity.
It-It's who I am, you know? You're so much more than your hair.
Trust me.
You're gonna look great.
- Okay, if-if I do this - Mm-hmm.
how much you gonna cut? Oh.
Just a touch.
Oh, my God, you look amazing.
Really? Yas, queen.
[SIGHS.]
: And now the final touch.
Oh, wild, man.
And please don't say "man" in court.
In your expert opinion, is the so-called "float test" reliable? No.
The opposite.
The float test has been proven to be extremely unreliable.
So many factors can cause the test to give a false positive.
There's a consensus among forensic pathology practitioners the test lacks scientific validity.
MADELINE: How could the test give an inaccurate result? Decomposition could produce, uh, postmortem gases.
If there was any attempt at resuscitation, that could expand the lungs, which would, like, cause them to float.
So a lung could test negative and, even then, still float? Absolutely, man Uh [CLEARS THROAT.]
Heuristically speaking, it's not only possible, it's likely.
The test is so flawed, it's been outlawed in several states.
Thank you.
Thank you, Dr.
Winkler.
That was very informative.
Let me ask you a few questions.
Is it possible the baby still took a breath? It's highly unlikely.
But is it possible? WINKLER: It's possible, Your Honor, but the float test isn't accurate enough to prove it.
BRYANT: So, if it's possible, it's also possible the baby was born alive and died from neglect.
[MOUTHS.]
Your witness.
No more questions, Your Honor.
Why would she? You've asked them all for her.
I'm just trying to get to the truth, Ms.
Scott.
Of course you are, Your Honor.
EASY: I'm really torn up about this case.
I hate the facts of it but the the hearings are so unfair.
The judge can't look past his own bias.
He's human.
What she did was so abhorrent to him, he can only see what he sees.
She grew up with ultra-religious parents, which made her panic when she got pregnant.
When the baby was stillborn, she panicked again.
So, Easy, why are you so reluctant to get involved this time? - I'm pro-life.
- Mm.
Sarah bought abortion pills she may have taken, and I can't say for certain she didn't.
And if she had, do you think she still deserves that long sentence? I don't.
So you feel trapped between your beliefs and your sense of justice? Very much so.
[SIGHS.]
Jesus taught kindness, compassion and mercy.
Do you feel compassion for her? I do.
And I also think she deserves our mercy.
So all that's left is kindness, and you are the kindest soul that I know.
I'm really glad you called, Mr.
Lynch.
Do you mind if I ask what changed your mind? [SIGHS.]
: Well, I just thought that if Rosemary ever came to your father for help, that maybe I'd want him to help her find some peace.
Oh, my God.
I got this for her.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
- Rosemary was on Adderall? - What? No.
No, she wasn't.
There's a pill bottle right here with her name on it.
Says it was prescribed by Dr.
Dupinski.
That's Heather's dad.
Was he even her doctor? No, Larry was my podiatrist.
I mean, that doesn't even make any sense.
Unless, of course, Rosemary asked his daughter for the pills.
No.
I heard that your judge became your prosecutor.
Molina can't even get a word in.
I've never seen anything like it.
Well, it's not really surprising from someone - who believes in a float test.
- So, what's our next move? EASY: Mens rea.
We need to establish Sarah's state of mind.
Get Bryant inside her head, so he can understand what she was going through.
Then maybe he'll stop judging her pun intended and finally listen to the facts.
That mean you want to join us? I came in all dramatic, saying "mens rea," didn't I? [CHUCKLES.]
Why the change of heart? My heart hasn't changed.
I just want to help.
If you still want it.
You had me at "mens rea.
" [OTHERS CHUCKLING.]
All right, so what's up with Sarah's parents? Yeah, that's a long shot.
They didn't even come to the original trial.
Well, maybe having their daughter spend seven years in prison softened them up.
It is very difficult being a Muslim in this country.
There is much hatred, and she has made that hatred much worse.
She's devastated by what happened, but we both strongly feel she doesn't deserve to be in prison.
MADELINE: Have you ever thought about visiting her? We have not.
When she was pregnant, what was her state of mind, best you could tell? We had stopped communicating with her before she became pregnant.
Your defense for hiding the pregnancy was you had brought great shame to your parents, but you weren't talking to them when you became pregnant, which means you weren't telling the truth.
We had stopped talking right before it all happened.
Why? Because he was the father of the child, and he wasn't Muslim.
He was Catholic and white.
We started dating in college.
And your parents forbade all of it.
Dating outside your religion, sex.
Did he know you were pregnant? Yes.
But I wasn't myself.
I was angry all the time, I was very emotional, and I broke up with him right before I lost the baby.
What was his name? Ben Bollinger.
I had kept it a secret because I didn't want anything bad to happen to him.
I have ruined so many lives.
I didn't want to ruin his, too.
Sarah, we're gonna need him as a witness.
He could be the key to your freedom.
SARAH: No.
No, if he gets hurt, I will never forgive myself.
I don't want anyone to ever get hurt again because of me.
All right, so, about right here, and you aim and fire.
Why don't we move the target a little closer? No! No, no, no.
I-I want to learn.
It's for the safety of my family, so I hear you.
There's nothing more important than keeping loved ones safe.
Hey, ain't that the truth? - What? - You know, I got this friend who's in prison right now, Sarah Bukhari.
I would do anything to make her safe.
What? I'm on her legal team.
We want you to testify on her behalf.
See that pretty lady? We just got engaged.
See, no one knows I was with Sarah.
Because she was a Muslim? She didn't want anyone to know, either.
Okay, well, why weren't you at the first trial? She didn't want me there.
Told me never to talk to her again.
She thought I'd make the case worse.
Mm, she could have just been trying to protect you, bro.
You know that she's basically facing a life sentence because of her religion.
And to make some antiabortion statement.
She didn't have an abortion.
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE.]
I threw the pills away.
Wait.
You threw the pills away? Yeah.
I told her I loved her and I wanted to keep the kid, and so did she.
So she gave me the pills, and I flushed them down the toilet.
You got to testify, man.
You're the only one who can show the judge - that she wanted to have that baby.
- No, no, no, sh If I do, it'll end my engagement.
It would completely destroy my life.
Right.
And if you don't, it will literally end Sarah's life.
I'm sorry, I can't help you.
No, I'm sorry.
Because if you don't testify, I'm gonna go get a court order for a DNA comparison between you and the fetal tissue.
And then I'm gonna leak those results to the press.
Guess what, buddy, it's going public either way.
Now, you can either be the hero who tries to do something about it, or you can be the villain who does nothing.
Was Sarah afraid of her parents' response to her pregnancy? She was terrified.
Scared of being disowned.
Um, they weren't talking to her because she was dating me, so she thought she'd lose them forever.
Did your parents approve of Sarah? I never told them.
They're very biased against Muslims.
But you're not? I never really thought about it much.
I guess maybe a little.
Until I met Sarah.
What made you change your mind? Thought she was hot.
[EASY CHUCKLES.]
Nothing like being hot to overcome a millennium of religious intolerance.
Once I got to know her, I fell for her really fast.
EASY: When Sarah told you she was pregnant, what did she say she wanted to do? She didn't know.
She'd gotten these pills online and was torn whether to take 'em.
Told her I'd support her decision either way.
Did she ask you what you wanted? Yeah.
I told her I loved her and I wanted to have the baby.
She said she loved me, too, and wanted to have it, and so we decided we were gonna do it.
What happened to the pills? I flushed them down the toilet.
EASY: So her mental state was that she wanted to have the baby? Yes.
Why didn't you testify at the first trial? She didn't want me to.
And I was scared of the consequences if I did.
My fiancée ended our engagement when she found out that I was testifying today.
But I'm glad I did.
I am deeply ashamed that I didn't come forward sooner.
I'm so sorry, Sarah.
No further questions.
- So - I have a question first.
Do you know if the defendant bought more of the abortion pills online? She told me to throw 'em away, so I don't know why she would've bought more.
But you don't know for certain? No, I don't.
Fine.
Witness is dismissed.
Court is adjourned.
I told you I didn't want him to testify.
We needed him.
He's our most crucial witness.
I don't care.
I didn't want to bring him into this.
I never want to hurt anyone.
This case is over.
You're-you're fired.
ALDERS: With crime skyrocketing, we need now more than ever a law to protect the rights of victims.
Rosemary's Law, named after poor Rosemary Lynch, is the perfect law for these imperfect times.
Let's take a look.
You dragged me up two flights of stairs to watch this wretched woman push your crap bill? I disagree, Senator.
Chicago is getting pummeled in the national media for excessive violence.
And your self-serving law does nothing to curb it.
Look, we all know you're trying to neutralize Madeline Scott's attacks on you.
Who, at this very moment, is trying to free the Jihadist Baby Killer from prison.
I agree it's not a great look.
But neither is having this famous victim here to try to sway me.
And if you don't vote for Rosemary's Law, I'll come after you in the press for being soft on crime.
As a famous victim, I bet there's plenty of voters interested in what I think about this subject.
Her anger and her disappointment might just force Isabel to run against you in the primary.
Hispanic.
Beautiful.
Intelligent.
Seems like an excellent time to primary an old white guy.
Since they're dropping like flies in every primary - in the country.
- All right, all right.
I'll take another look at it.
I won't forget this one.
Rosemary Lynch is never gonna go away.
We have to use her to your advantage, or she's gonna hang over your entire campaign.
All I ever did was try to get justice for that poor girl.
And her parents.
Now she's gonna haunt me to my grave.
- Ooh - Hey - Ooh - Hey - Ooh - Hey I'm taking over [BOTH PANTING.]
- Ooh - Hey - Ooh-ooh - Hey Hey, will you undo me, please? I'm taking over.
Hey, what's up? You, uh You seemed distracted.
- I did, huh? - Mm-hmm.
I'm not distracted, I just We've been working on this case, right? And there's this couple, and they Well, they come from different religions, so they keep their whole relationship a secret from everyone.
And they love each other, but, keeping their relationship a secret destroys it.
Come on, Bodie.
You knew what this was when we started.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
Let me ask you.
Would you feel differently about us if my job wasn't getting innocent people out of prison? Are they innocent? Is the Chicago PD never wrong? They never make a mistake? - They're just all a bunch of saints? - Well, some of us are.
We're not the ones getting killers, rapists, drug dealers set free.
People we risked our lives to put behind bars in the first place.
No, I'm protecting the innocent.
Okay? Unlike some cops, which, honestly, I think have a hard time telling the difference.
I'm out.
We're done.
[NIKKI SIGHS.]
Really? Yeah, really.
God, you know Whatever.
I can't believe I was so wound up on you.
Yeah, right back at you.
You were wound up about me? [DOOR OPENS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
I'm so sorry, Sarah.
I know how much you didn't want him there.
But we desperately needed his testimony.
I have ruined his life once, and now I've done it again.
All I do is hurt people.
My parents.
My community.
My baby.
I deserve this.
I deserve everything that has happened to me.
Since you're not gonna kill yourself, why don't you figure out how to get out of here? What are you talking about? Of course you don't.
All you did is what hundreds of millions of women have done for centuries.
You got pregnant.
You felt trapped and ashamed, and so you kept it a secret.
What happened to you was a tragedy.
You don't deserve any of this.
Sarah.
We're both people of faith.
We love God, and we want to follow His way.
He is punishing me for what I did.
Or-or was He testing you? Maybe He wants you to represent your religion to a country that discriminates against it.
Maybe He wants you to be a symbol of freedom by fighting for your own.
You really think so? I do.
We have a saying in my religion.
"The Lord works in mysterious ways.
" [CRYING.]
: We say "Allahu A'lam.
" [SNIFFLES.]
Which means "Allah knoweth.
" [SIGHS.]
Let us keep fighting.
We're gonna get you out of here, or we're gonna die trying.
Okay.
Let's keep fighting.
I started to bleed.
I was terrified because I I didn't know what was happening.
I went to the bathroom, and the next thing I knew, I had delivered.
I was shocked.
I I checked to see if the baby was breathing, and it it wasn't.
It Was the baby alive when you delivered? No.
It wasn't.
Why did you dispose of the fetus the way you did? I was so, so scared.
I didn't know what else to do.
And I bet your baby was scared, too.
Terrified from the pain.
Janice.
This is crazy.
I know, but that's Bryant.
How about we cut a deal? All right? She pleads guilty to unlawful disposal of a fetus and gets out for time served.
Come on.
I know you want her out.
If I do it, Bryant will hate me till the end of time.
And you'll go back to Cook County, and I'll still have to deal with him.
I can't help you.
[SIGHS.]
[LAUGHS.]
You sure this belt doesn't look stupid? No, it looks hot.
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
Thought all the ex-con bars were - on the other side of town.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Yeah, but I heard this is a great place to score Adderall.
You know where I can get some? - What? - What was your father doing prescribing Adderall to Rosemary? I don't know anything about this.
He didn't even know Rosemary.
Now, why don't you just leave us the hell alone? You know, nothing would make me happier, but your wife keeps popping back into my life.
And right when I started investigating Rosemary's murder.
Why do you think that is? I'll tell you exactly how you can find Rosemary's killer.
How? - Just look in the mirror.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Come on, Brian.
It's not the belt that's stupid.
Blood on the road A life left behind - Memories may vanish - [SIREN CHIRPING.]
Then dangle in your mind Change in your pocket Sockets feeling tired Spiral down the calendar A rocket in the fire NIKKI: License and registration.
[GARBLED RADIO TRANSMISSION.]
What are you stopping me for, Officer? For being a very bad boy.
Well, maybe I need to be spanked.
I'll let you off with a warning.
And if you want to keep getting off, you should come to my apartment right now.
Of course, Officer.
I always follow the law.
Somebody missed me.
Dangerous To live like us [OVERLAPPING SHOUTING.]
Keep back.
MADELINE: Shame by itself is not a crime.
But shame is the issue here.
The shame of a young woman, barely past her teen years, who felt she had to hide her pregnancy.
The shame of deciding whether to keep a baby she might not want.
The shame of hiding the identity of that baby's father to protect him.
Sarah Bukhari made mistakes.
And for those mistakes, she had her whole life taken from her.
She's being used as a tool for political advocates to punish women for having an abortion.
When the sad irony is she didn't even have one.
[GALLERY MURMURING.]
If protecting life is the goal of the State, why aren't we protecting a woman's life as well? Denying Sarah her freedom would not only be a lost opportunity at righting a great wrong.
It would place the greatest shame upon us all.
Ms.
Scott that was a moving closing argument, but I have a different view, and that is all life is precious.
Terminated pregnancies are seen as murder to tens of millions of people in this country.
Murder of a life that has no means of defending itself.
When a woman gets pregnant, she becomes God's partner in creation.
Whether your client had an abortion or simply failed to see a doctor which she admits she did not she did not protect that life.
Maybe she was filled with shame.
But a greater shame is her unborn child never even stood a fair chance.
Therefore I am denying your motion for a new trial.
[GALLERY MURMURING.]
Your Honor, the State has agreed to allow the petitioner to plead guilty to unlawful disposal of a fetus, and requests she be released immediately for time served.
Now, you listen to me, little lady The petitioner's evidentiary showing throughout these proceedings has led the State to believe the defendant has served her time.
MADELINE: And if the State rejects this plea offer, I'll appeal this all the way to the Supreme Court.
I'll never go away, Your Honor.
[SIGHS.]
That I don't find hard to believe.
And in the future, I would appreciate if the court referred to me as Deputy Prosecutor Molina or just Deputy Prosecutor.
That's fine, Deputy Prosecutor, and I look forward to seeing you again in my court.
As do I, Your Honor.
Defendant is released based on the plea deal and time served.
May the Lord save her soul.
- [GALLERY CLAMORING.]
- [CHEERING.]
So, I'm really free? - Mm-hmm.
- [EXHALES.]
[CRYING.]
[GALLERY CLAMORING.]
Thank you.
You hold your head up.
VIOLET: The worst part about shame is how it eats away at our souls.
It convinces us that we are the worst version of ourselves and destroys our hope that we'll ever find true peace.
So bring what you got Bring it now You can't knock me down - Oh, oh - Can't knock me down - Oh, oh, oh - [DOOR OPENS.]
Wow.
You look good.
I'm sorry I haven't been here in a while.
It's cool.
If I were you, I wouldn't come back here either.
I missed you.
I think about you a lot.
Is that why you came back? To see me? Mm-hmm.
And I feel ashamed that I haven't visited you in so long.
Ah, I just figured you were seeing someone new.
There's a guy.
A guy? [CHUCKLES.]
I'm not surprised.
- [CLEARS THROAT.]
- You like him? I do.
So, what do you want my permission? You don't me owe anything.
You know, we had a thing, but it's cool.
Uh, it was more than a thing.
You were the first love of my life.
It was all right.
You love him? [CHUCKLES.]
No.
It's way too early for all that.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Mainly, I just feel stupid around him all the time.
What do you mean? I don't know.
I'm always a afraid I'm gonna say the wrong thing, laugh at the wrong time.
I don't know how to be myself around him.
Never did this before.
WREN: Just relax.
Don't think about it too much.
He's a guy.
He probably doesn't notice anyway.
[BOTH LAUGH.]
It was never awkward with us.
We spent a long time together.
Those were the best years of my life.