Doubt (2017) s01e10 Episode Script
Finally
1 Previously on Doubt I might sleep with you and then hate you, and then I'll have to see you in court, - and it'll be really awkward.
- PETER: You might.
BILLY: Molly's here.
She's a witness for the prosecution.
What are you going to tell them? I'm gonna say what I saw, Mother! These are her psychiatric records, tapes of her sessions.
Save my boy, Sadie.
- Are you sleeping with Billy? - Yes.
The only way out of this mess is for us to win, so that's what we're gonna do.
And then I'm gonna walk away.
(knocking on door) Yeah, yeah.
- Sadie, what? - Can you for just one minute forget what a disappointment I am? You're not.
And just be my dad, okay? And not my boss.
Because I'm gonna tell you something, and you're not gonna like it, and you're gonna want to yell, and I'm telling you right now I can't handle it.
Go ahead.
It's bad.
Well, tear the Band-Aid.
I'm sleeping with Billy, and Albert found out.
ISAIAH: Five days.
I'm gone five days, and my firm is falling apart.
I told him everything.
Sorry.
Your secrets and lies put this entire firm at risk.
Everything I spent my life building.
ALBERT: Do I really need to be here? Being that I'm the only one here who hasn't been keeping secrets.
What secrets have I kept from you? You knew about Billy.
- That's a big deal.
- So is quitting the firm.
- CAMERON: What? - You told him? - Was it a secret? - You're leaving? I was gonna tell him myself.
And I was gonna tell you about Billy.
Don't do that.
Don't make it like this is the same thing.
Okay, you're right.
I'm sorry.
Albert, you're leaving the firm? - Yes.
- Because of Sadie? - She lied to me.
- So you're gonna quit? Doesn't that strike you as overreacting? Says the person nobody lied to.
TIFFANY: Oh, my God, what is going on? This is serious.
You know what else is serious? Sadie asking me to look into D.
A.
Russo to find the smoking gun of corruption that they're pinning the whole Brennan case on.
Russo's squeaky clean, no scandals.
- Oh, no.
- What? TIFFANY: You know that thing that Isaiah does with his right hand when he's really angry? - NICK: Yeah.
- Now he's doing it with both hands.
Oh, man, Sadie and Albert have been acting super weird around each other recently.
Do you think that maybe they were dating and then they broke up? You got all that from Isaiah's hand gestures? TIFFANY: (sighs) And Cam is there because She's in love with Albert, Sadie found out, thus the breakup.
- Oh, my God, do you think that's it? - No.
The graffiti kid's parents are here for you and Cam, but I'm afraid to interrupt.
TIFFANY: What do you think is going on here? Well, Billy Brennan's trial starts today.
Maybe it's a pep talk.
Can we please just put this aside until after the trial? ALBERT: No, we can't.
You are sleeping with our client, which means that your judgment is bad.
So you don't get to be his lawyer anymore.
You're gonna sit at the defense table and not speak.
You're a potted plant.
What did you just call me? Enough! This is not who we are.
We don't fight each other.
We fight them, out there.
So no more secrets.
Is that clear? - Yes.
- Yes.
I'm sleeping with a prosecutor.
He said no more secrets.
SADIE: I know the case.
I've been preparing for weeks.
Just let me do the open, then I'll be a plant.
I'm opening.
What are you gonna say? I'm gonna talk about how great your boyfriend is.
You'll love it.
There they are.
I told them to leave the limo at home, at least try to seem relatable.
Never again.
He drove like a maniac.
REPORTER: There he is! (reporters clamoring) REPORTER: Mr.
Brennan, how do you feel? I feel He feels happy to finally have his day in court.
Now if you'll let us through.
Don't talk.
Just smile, look good.
All right, make sure you get everything now.
All right, here he comes Here he comes.
(siren wailing) Please don't shoot! Please don't shoot! That's my son! He's my son! - Dad? - We're unarmed! - Dad! - All right, he's unarmed.
- He's - Turn around.
Get your hands up.
- OFFICER: Show me your hands! - It's all right! - Don't shoot, please! - Down on the ground, now.
We're surrendering, we're surrendering! All right, get your hands up.
- Down on the ground! Get on the ground! - Mom! Mom! - Hands where I can see them! - Don't shoot! Do not shoot! Their hands are up! Their hands are Don't shoot my child! Get that phone out of my face! IRIS (sobbing): Don't shoot, don't shoot, don't shoot.
So, what, they-they just drag our son away, and now we can't see him? They're transporting Heyward to family court.
We'll be waiting for him when he gets there.
Can you at least tell us what he's been charged with? Well, he was caught tagging, so that's a misdemeanor called making graffiti.
CAMERON: And the police pursuit was all over the news.
I'd expect additional charges: Resisting, obstructing No, that-that's on me.
I told him to come home.
TIFFANY: Well, the good news is that he's under 18, so the maximum sentence they can give him is two years in a juvenile facility.
Good news? No, no.
My son has a 3.
8 average.
He is going to college.
You know, if Heyward were white, I don't think you'd be talking to me like two years in juvie was good news.
Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't, I didn't mean to imply No, it's not about what you're implying.
It's about white kids and black kids - don't get treated the same.
- ERIC: Hey.
They're trying to help us.
Did you bring us his transcripts? His grades, his honors, certificates of merit.
I mean, it's-it's all there.
But what those papers don't show is how good he is.
Make them see who he is, Ms.
Wirth.
Please.
BURRIS: This is Amy Meyers as her mother liked to remember her.
Kind warm alive.
This is 1991, before Billy Brennan cut her life short by smashing her head with such force that shards of her skull came to rest inside the gray matter of her brain.
Over the coming days, we will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Billy Brennan had the motive and the opportunity to kill Amy Meyers.
We have an eyewitness putting him at the scene of the crime, standing over Amy's dead body.
His own sister says he did it.
She said it 26 years ago, and she was silenced.
She now finally gets the opportunity to tell the truth: That Billy killed Amy.
Pure and simple.
Guilty.
ALBERT: Billy Brennan saves lives, he doesn't take them.
The man they want to call a murderer is actually a brilliant pediatric surgeon.
The best of the best.
During this trial, you'll hear a lot about the Brennans, about their power, their sense of being above the law.
But that is not, and has never been, Billy.
The evidence will show you that Billy is good, generous, kind, and most of all, honorable.
A man falsely accused by an overzealous prosecutor, based on tainted, even fabricated evidence.
A man who deserves not our scorn and suspicion, but our praise and respect.
Time tatters evidence and fades memories, but character endures.
Billy Brennan is the best of the best.
(quietly): So are you.
The best of the best.
Thanks.
Mom, Dad? Heyward.
I'm so sorry about this.
Okay.
Okay, baby.
It's okay, it's okay.
We are here.
It'll be okay.
(scoffs) Look at what the cat dragged in.
Peter.
What an ass.
I'm so glad you didn't go out with him.
Remember when I thought he was hot for, like, one second? Before he opened his mouth.
PETER: Cameron.
What are you doing here? This is family court.
A.
D.
A.
s When a car chase makes the news, Russo tends to send in a handsome rising star just to make sure the charges stick.
So, voilà .
CAMERON: These charges are absurd.
They're piling on just to make a point.
It's called prosecutorial discretion.
We're allowed to bring whatever charges we think are appropriate.
And it's his job to dismiss the stupid ones.
JUDGE ROUTBORT: Easy, Ms.
Wirth.
Let's keep the name calling in check.
CAMERON: People v.
Brown makes clear that flight from the police, as a general rule, is not a crime.
He can't be charged with obstructing.
- And yet he is.
- Which is utterly unsupported by statute or precedent.
Like I said, stupid.
Running from the police made it harder to get arrested.
So, obstruction, resisting Without an authorized arrest, running can't be resisting.
Which is why we're also charging him with escape and unlawfully fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle.
CAMERON: He can't be charged with escape if he was never in custody in the first place.
Would've been in custody if he hadn't fled.
Enough, you two.
It's just me here.
I want evidence, not argument.
All right, Mr.
Garrett, make your case.
We'll see where the chips fall.
And for now, Ms.
Wirth, your motions are denied.
Amy was always so good, so responsible.
It's why, that night The night she didn't come home.
I wasn't worried right away.
I knew she'd gone to a party with Billy Brennan.
So I waited.
And waited.
BURRIS: Around 2:00 a.
m.
, what happened? I started calling.
First I called the Brennans.
Margaret answered.
She told me that Billy was in bed and didn't know where Amy was.
I can still hear her, "Don't worry, Gail.
I'm sure she's fine.
" BURRIS: And when did you realize that she wasn't fine? About 5:00 a.
m.
The police knocked on my door.
They told me that a body had been found in the park.
She was just lying there.
There was blood everywhere.
And then I saw him.
- Billy Brennan? - GAIL: Yes.
When I looked at him, he turned away.
Couldn't face me.
I knew then.
He murdered my daughter.
ALBERT: Before you found Amy dead, you spent a fair amount of time with Billy Brennan? Regrettably.
In fact, you let him into your home, spent weekends and holidays with him.
Well, he came from a very chaotic family.
ALBERT: You did those things because you trusted him, because you never even saw a hint of violence before you say he killed her.
Obviously, I misjudged him.
Is this your signature? It appears so.
Could you tell us, precisely, what is that document? It's a letter of recommendation.
It's a letter to the headmaster of one of the most prominent schools in Manhattan? Yes.
Can you read the last sentence of the third paragraph? "Billy Brennan is a young man of supreme integrity and the highest moral character.
" Like he's the best of the best? - I think I found something.
- What's this? Grace Russo's victory party from a year and a half ago.
Look who's there Gail Meyers.
This was just weeks before Billy was charged with Amy's murder.
Grace Russo and Gail Meyers were friends.
So? You don't find that unusual? That a wealthy socialite is at a victory party with an ambitious politician? - So that's a no? - Mm.
The worst thing I've found out about Russo is that she quit her a cappella group in college.
- I hate a cappella.
- Exactly.
So quitting actually speaks to her character.
Keep digging.
Is everything okay around here? I certainly hope so.
Gail I want you to know how sorry I am for your pain.
I'm glad it came through.
I wasn't sure it would.
Excuse me? I was afraid that the sheer joy of finally being able to testify against your son would impede my grieving mother act.
I'm glad it didn't.
You want to know when I was in pain? The day I realized that there was no death penalty in New York, and Billy wouldn't die in the chair.
I cried that day.
I've dealt with my grief, Maggie.
What I want now is revenge.
There was a time when we were friends, Gail.
And I really do mourn the loss of Amy.
But if you think I'm going to let you use your misguided vendetta to destroy my son's life (elevator bell dings) well, then, you don't know me quite as well as you think you do.
OFFICER DIXON: I observed the defendant spray-painting a concrete pillar.
I approached, I ordered him to stop.
- And did he comply? - He stopped tagging, but he ran to his car and took off, which made everything more dangerous.
How so? First off, kids in cars are scary.
They can be reckless, you know? But then, does he have a gun? Is he under the influence of drugs or alcohol? - Is he mentally unstable? - You pursued him? Sure, but I took it slow, I gave him room to maneuver, I didn't want to escalate.
And what would the procedure have been if the defendant had simply obeyed your instructions? I would've confiscated the spray paint, issued a citation and contacted his parents.
He's here today because of his choices, not mine.
What's the number on the bottom right? The 29.
That's miles per hour.
Heyward ever exceed the speed limit? No.
Did he run a stop sign? - Blow through any red lights? - No, ma'am.
- Use his turn signals? - Yes.
Yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk? He did.
In fact, during the entire 35-minute pursuit, did he commit a single traffic infraction? Other than disobeying repeated requests to pull over, no.
And as soon as he reached his residence, did he surrender peaceably? Yes.
But the first thing that you did was jump out of your cruiser, with your guns drawn.
Because he could have been a threat.
A 16-year-old who uses his turn signals? Look, I know you wanna make this a black thing, but it's not.
Statistically, it is a black thing.
Unarmed black Americans are five times more likely to be shot and killed by a police officer than unarmed white Americans.
You can shout racism all day long, if you want, but I have black and brown brothers on the force, and we put our lives on the line every day, go out in a world that is dangerous and is armed to the teeth.
You want us to holster our guns? Be social workers? TIFFANY: Where was the danger here? From Heyward? You saw his hands.
From his dad? He had his hands in the air and was begging you not to shoot.
Did you take this picture of Billy Brennan - on November 1, 1991? - Yes, ma'am.
And did Mr.
Brennan tell you how he got the scratch? His cat.
Did he say how his cat managed to scratch him with only one claw, in a way that looks like, I don't know, a a fingernail scratch? - Objection.
- Sustained.
Fair enough.
ALBERT: Are you aware that when they scraped Amy's fingernails, Billy's DNA was not under them? I heard that, yeah.
So is this exactly what - Billy's face looked like? - Yes.
Because if you're gonna use it as evidence, it should fairly and accurately - depict the scratch.
- Sure.
This is from a photographic analyst.
Any chance that you asked the photo unit to use a red filter to make the scratch more visible? I asked them to highlight the scratch to make it clearer.
You mean fresher, right? Because scratches tend to get duller over time.
I-I don't know.
Okay, so how about we take a look at the original negative from the picture? The People concede that the negative was lost or misplaced.
BOTH: Your Honor, I'd ask that you instruct the jury ALBERT: Your Honor, I'd ask you to instruct the jury that they can consider the possibility that this evidence has been intentionally destroyed.
No, we never said it was destroyed.
ALBERT: But it's not here, and a misleading fake is.
Therefore, the jury should be allowed to conclude that this evidence was tampered with on the orders of Grace Russo - and the D.
A.
's office.
- Your Honor Save your breath, Ms.
Burris.
I'm instructing the jury that, given the absence of the negative, they may disregard any evidence concerning a scratch on Mr.
Brennan's face.
Sorry I jumped up.
Instinct.
To be honest, I'm amazed you held it in that long.
I have speeches planned, you know.
Long speeches, where I tell you how sorry I am and convince you to forgive me.
They're pretty good.
I compliment you a lot.
Let's just finish this trial, okay? Want some? Look, I know after the past few days it seems like the whole world knows, but really, this is just me offering you a candy bar.
I would never use you as my get out of jail free card You know that.
Yeah, I know.
I was at work when Heyward called.
He was totally panicked.
CAMERON: What did he tell you? He said he was in his car being chased by the cops.
I told him to keep his hands where they could see them, drive safely, and to come home.
Why did you tell him to come home? All I could think about was Tamir Rice, the young boy they shot down in Cleveland, and I felt that, if he was home, maybe I could control the situation protect my child.
And I just started praying, please, God, don't let 'em kill my son.
CAMERON: While you were praying, what did you do? ERIC: I kept talking to Heyward, trying to keep him calm.
Make sure he didn't do anything to make things worse.
And I was at work, so I asked my colleague to call my wife and tell her to meet me in front of the house with her phone.
If something went wrong, I wanted the world to see.
Do you hate the police, Mr.
Taylor? No.
My uncle's a cop.
I-I know it's not easy.
I know that.
But watching your son walk out each day, wondering if he's gonna be all right, that's not easy either.
Did you ever have "the talk" with your son? If you're asking if I talked to Heyward about the realities of growing up as a young black man in America yes.
Did you tell him to listen to the police? Of course.
That the most important thing was to comply, and always show your hands? Yes.
And that lesson goes against everything I want my son to be.
I want to raise a strong, independent young man.
But instead, I have to teach my child that every time he sees blue, he has to submit.
Lay down on the ground like a dog.
To be clear, you did teach him to submit, and your son knew what he was supposed to do, he just didn't do it.
WOMAN: Amy died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head.
A portion of Amy's skull was actually crushed, causing a large subdural hematoma Bleeding inside the brain.
Do you recognize this? - Yes, that's the murder weapon.
- How do you know? The contour is a match for the indentation on the side of Amy's head.
And what is this? MAYA: It's a latent print lifted from the murder weapon - Billy Brennan's.
- Were there any other prints - on the weapon? - Yes, quite a few.
Amy's, other kids at the party.
The weapon was passed around.
Anything different about Billy Brennan's prints? Yes.
Dr.
Brennan's prints were lifted from two loci A thumbprint, at the base of the scepter, and an index finger, just below and at 45 degrees to the thumbprint.
Dr.
Reyez, what do you conclude about the position of the two prints? Well, unlike the rest of the prints, which appear at various locations on the scepter, Dr.
Brennan appears to have gripped it at the base, which is consistent with using it to inflict the lethal blow.
Did you run a DNA analysis of the blood on the scepter? MAYA: Yes.
It was Amy's.
BURRIS: Was there any other blood? MAYA: A minute trace, almost invisible.
Was it Billy Brennan's? It was not.
Oh, before the defense makes a big deal out of that (chuckles) did this finding surprise you? No.
Given how small the quantity was, I just assumed it was the result of transitory crime scene or laboratory contamination.
If someone else's blood were on the scepter, wouldn't that be powerful evidence of Billy Brennan's innocence? Well, that depends Let's put it a different way.
If the DNA matched, wouldn't you be here claiming that was powerful evidence of Billy's guilt? - Possibly.
- But since that other blood sample would point to his innocence, you've chosen instead to suggest it was contamination.
It has all the hallmarks of contamination.
From the lab, probably.
ALBERT: And if a lab is contaminated, you can't trust the results of any tests they perform? It would certainly prove more difficult.
The last four times you testified, when you wanted to nail someone with DNA evidence, you insisted that, quote, "Contamination is a virtual impossibility.
" MAYA: Yes.
So when the prosecution wants the DNA to match, contamination is "a virtual impossibility;" when they don't like the results, they see contamination everywhere.
It's heads I win, tails you lose, except the winner is always Grace Russo, and the loser is always the person she's prosecuting.
SADIE: Albert's killing it.
- That's great.
- Yeah.
It really is.
Except I mean, is he ever gonna forgive me? You just have to give him time.
God, I really messed things up.
Yeah.
I invited you to drinks to cheer me up.
How's Billy? I don't know, it's weird.
It's like we got caught making out under the bleachers, and now we can't look at each other in the hallway.
Peter's the D.
A.
on my graffiti case and he's trying to put my client in jail.
Ouch.
I know.
I listen to him argue, and I actually I hate him.
But then we get outside the courtroom and he smiles and asks to come over and I just say yes.
He's a good guy in a bad job.
Doesn't that just make him a bad guy? You're asking the person sleeping with the guy on trial for murder.
Who are we? (Laughs) You know you have to disclose your relationship, right? To who? Your clients, the judge.
We're not letting it interfere.
Yeah.
That's what I said.
Now look at me.
(sighs) Baby, I can't breathe.
Look who I found in the break room searching for snacks.
I'm gonna be here all night prepping for Molly's testimony, so I brought him.
- Need any help? - I got it.
Scott Davis, tell Albert if he needs help, I'll be in the other room, and I'm an expert on Molly's testimony.
Scott Davis, tell Sadie she can go home because I'm fine.
Tell him that I literally have the tapes committed to memory.
I'm really fine.
Let's let Scott Davis decide, shall we? I'll put him in the middle of the room.
Whoever he goes to does Molly's cross.
I'm doing the cross.
(gasps) He's such a smart little guy.
I'm doing the cross.
Okay.
If you have any questions at all, I'll be in my office.
Sadie, go home.
You just have to get an opening to introduce the tapes.
I know.
And if there's any contradiction to anything on the tapes, it's not hearsay anymore, you can use it to impeach her.
I know.
She's gonna be totally blindsided, so you have to attack right then.
I know.
I know you know.
(sighs) I'm just a little bit sad, and a little bit drunk, and I don't want to miss the moment when you decide to let go of your totally justifiable anger and forgive me.
(exhales) Hey, buddy.
You don't think I'm a potted plant, do you? (inhales, exhales) WOMAN (on TV): Hey, why do you even bother coming in to work? Hey, you are putting the kid on the stand tomorrow, right? We shouldn't be talking about the case, that's a conflict.
I'm not asking anything specific.
You're trying to put my 16-year-old client in jail.
- I'm not gonna help.
- Sorry.
You're working on your cross of my client while you're watching TV with me? When was I supposed to prepare? See? That's the problem right there.
What's going on? I think we should disclose our relationship to my clients and to the court.
Really? It's the right thing to do.
Yeah.
Yeah, it probably is.
You know that means that everyone will know we're dating.
Are you ready for that? Are you ready? Yes.
Okay.
Get up.
What? Where Get dressed and have some coffee.
I'm gonna drop Scott Davis at daycare and meet you at court.
I was up all night prepping for Molly's cross.
Then I realized I was letting my feelings get in the way of my job.
Our client deserves the best defense, and the fact is, you know Molly's tapes better than I do, so you'll be doing the cross.
Also, you snore.
Oh, God, thank you.
You're not making a mistake.
I won't let you down.
I mean, I know that I have already let you down, I'm just saying I won't again.
You get it.
Okay.
Sorry, we're not there yet.
You can't be thinking about Billy's feelings up there.
- We need to destroy her.
- I will.
I mean I won't.
I mean, won't think, will destroy.
I'm gonna get dressed.
- Good.
- I don't snore.
I don't snore.
Hey, Tiff.
So I need to tell you something.
I'm in a relationship.
- With Albert.
- What? Oh, I knew it.
I have to tell Nick.
I'm not in a relationship with Albert.
I What's A.
D.
A.
Lowman doing here? Where's Mr.
Garrett? A.
D.
A.
Garrett's home sick, so I'll be taking over the case.
Meet the new jerk, same as the old jerk.
So, who are you in a relationship with? No one.
(wand chirping) You nervous? Yeah, I didn't sleep very well last night.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
- Good morning, Isaiah.
- Uh, Sadie, give us a minute.
Yesterday, you asked me to be your father.
I'm obliging.
I promised her mother I'd take care of her.
I take that job very seriously.
- I know you do.
- Sadie loves you.
And if we win this trial, I will welcome you into my family with open arms.
Thank you for that.
But we both know that might not happen.
She won't give up on you, so you have to be the one to let her go.
Am I being clear? Everyone at school was tagging and Instagramming pictures, so I hit this place in the Bronx, and I'm doing it.
And then this cop walks up, and I just panic.
And when he said "Stop," it was like instinct, I just took off.
I wasn't thinking straight.
I thought I was gonna die.
What made you think that? 'Cause I see it.
YouTube, the news, people who look like me getting shot and, and choked out.
And then I thought, maybe the cop would see, see that I have a mom and a dad and this nice house.
See that I'm, I'm somebody, you know? And then, I-I see my dad, on the lawn.
I saw his face.
And I knew it didn't matter.
Why? 'Cause they came at us with their guns, like we're nothing, like my dad is nothing.
And then my dad's grabbing me, and my mom's screaming I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm so I'm so sorry.
Amy and I were friends.
Really good friends.
So, she confided in you? Yes.
She told me all kinds of things, personal things, about life and school, and Billy.
She was gonna break up with him that night.
Do you know why? He was awful.
Abusive, controlling.
Abusive? He'd make fun of the way she dressed, or if she said something stupid.
He slept with her best friend while she was away at camp.
And he didn't even try to hide it.
So the night of the murder I was on my way to the party to check on her, and I walked past the park.
BURRIS: What did you see? Billy standing over Amy.
Over her body.
And he had this look.
BURRIS: Ms.
Han.
What did you do when you saw the defendant standing over Amy's dead body? I freaked out.
I ran home, I told my mom "I think Billy did something to Amy.
" And how did your mother respond when you said that? She told me she'd take care of it.
And a few weeks later, she did.
She put me on a plane back to Korea.
She told me my birth mother sued to get me back.
And I never saw her or Billy again.
When we're asked to apply laws to facts, context matters.
So let's talk about the context of this case.
About Mike Brown, Eric Garner and young Tamir Rice.
We've all seen the videos.
Black men, black children, some with their hands up, gunned down by the police.
People are scared.
Parents, cops.
So when your child calls you, terrified and being chased by the police, you can't be surprised when a black father tells his only son, not to pull over, but to drive carefully, obey the laws, keep your hands where they can see them, and to come home now.
The prosecution wants you to convict this young man, for what? Escape? He never tried to get away.
For obstructing? He didn't obstruct anyone.
Heyward wasn't trying to avoid arrest.
He was just trying to make sure he didn't wind up dead.
26 years of never telling this to the police or anyone, but then Grace Russo's office tracks you down in Korea, and suddenly you remember all of it? I always remembered, just never told.
And we should believe you now? I'm not lying, if that's what you're asking.
SADIE: You just testified that the night of the murder you were on your way to the party to check on Amy.
- That's right.
- The Halloween party - that you were invited to? - Yes.
- And you're sure about that? - I'm sure.
SADIE: As sure as you are about the rest of your testimony? - What you claim you saw that night? - MOLLY: Yes.
YOUNG MOLLY: I don't know.
Amy's spending all her time with Billy, - and it just all sucks.
- Wait.
They didn't even invite me to the Halloween party.
- What was that? - I'm gonna ask you again.
Objection, I have no idea what that tape is.
They are Ms.
Han's therapy tapes, and I am allowed to use them to impeach her.
Not without a foundation.
Those are private.
You gave them to her? JUDGE MENDOZA: Sounds to me like she just laid the foundation.
Sorry, Ms.
Burris.
SADIE: Ms.
Han, were you invited to the Halloween party or not? Because if you weren't invited, I find it hard to believe that you went, and if you didn't, then why would you have been in the park that night? You gave those to them? Tapes to my therapy sessions? To my therapy sessions? That's enough.
Tell her to stop.
If you want to win, shut up.
SADIE: Were you really in the park that night? MOLLY: No.
No, I'm not gonna let you do this to me.
Sit down.
Ms.
Han.
Please.
They can't do this to me, - I'm not on trial here.
- Please, Ms.
Brennan.
I am not a Brennan! I never was! Don't Don't you see what they're doing? They're evil.
He killed her.
You killed her! I know it! - I saw it! - JUDGE MENDOZA: Ms.
Han.
Please.
Ms.
Ellis.
There's something else I'd like you to listen to.
Please, it's not fair.
It's not fair.
YOUNG MOLLY: I got the pills, and I just I just thought, anything's better than this.
Just two weeks before you claim you saw Billy standing over Amy's body, you tried to kill yourself.
You people are sick.
You know that? (crying) Trying to destroy me to protect him.
I understand why you would say that now.
After 26 years of choking on anger and alienation.
I have just one more thing.
A statement from the same session.
YOUNG MOLLY: I'm so messed up.
I don't even know what's real or what's true anymore.
Nothing further.
(sniffling) JUDGE ROUTBORT: On the counts charging escape, obstructing, resisting, and unlawful flight in a motor vehicle, I find the respondent not guilty.
As to the charge of making graffiti, I am entering a finding of guilty against the respondent.
Your Honor, the People would like to be heard as to sentencing.
On a misdemeanor? Under the Family Court Act, you are obligated to consider not merely the nature and circumstances of the offense, - but also the character of the child.
- Honor roll, student council.
This is a young man who doesn't listen.
The People are asking you to send a message that ignoring law enforcement will not be tolerated.
We request a term of one year in juvenile detention.
Literally nothing will be gained - by incarcerating this kid.
- Actually, Ms.
Wirth, incarceration is a powerful tool, and, unfortunately, my job requires me to consider whether subjecting a decent young man to time in a penal institution is just.
But that does require context and it also requires me to acknowledge that we all have a problem.
We're living in a world where kids fear cops, and cops fear kids.
And the sad thing is, I only have jurisdiction over one part of that problem.
And that's the children that I am required to judge.
So no, I will not be sending you to jail.
But I will be sentencing you to up to 200 hours of community service, to be attended by Officer Dixon.
So if he doesn't commit, you get off.
But if he invests, then you are required to attend.
And maybe maybe, at the end of all this, you'll finally be able to see each other.
That-That's all.
Thank you, sir.
(gavel bangs) (sighs) BILLY: I've asked you here because I believe there's some confusion about my relationship with Sadie, and to this firm.
I've been told that I am using Sadie as a get out of jail free card.
I have also been warned that, should I go to prison, I should break up with Sadie because, apparently, she's helpless in the face of love.
Now I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically it, - right, Isaiah? - You got the gist.
What? BILLY: And I've noticed how you look at me lately.
Like you're wondering if they're right.
They're not.
I was furious and I felt misunderstood.
But after I got over myself, it occurred to me that they're only doing it to protect you.
And I think that's good.
See, I failed my sister.
She came here fragile, and after Amy's death (voice breaking): Something broke inside of her.
And I failed Amy, I left her alone in the park that night.
But I am not gonna fail you.
I had the family attorney draft an affidavit which waives any past and future conflicts of interest, knowingly and voluntarily surrenders any claims that I might have against Sadie, Albert or this firm in any appellate proceeding.
Now, you want to be angry, be angry.
You want to feel betrayed, I get it.
But it's like you said in your opening statement, I am an honorable man.
I just love your friend.
Your daughter.
There you go.
I just threw away my get out of jail free card.
Now you better win.
Footsteps echo On the flagstone You can let go How are you feeling? Good.
Really? That's not what I heard.
I brought you some chicken soup.
I can explain.
No, I can explain.
You're okay with dating me, but this morning it hit you, you could actually be in a room full of people staring at you, judging you, because of me.
Suddenly things got real, you panicked, so you called in sick.
Okay.
Yeah.
Something like that, but, look, I just needed a day You just need some time to figure things out, right? You'll get there.
This is all just so new to you, Peter? Well, it's feeling very familiar to me.
I thought I was ready, Cam.
And I thought you were different.
And the old me would have given you a day, a week, a year.
But you know what I decided? I'm never gonna be someone's secret again.
And not that you care, but Heyward got community service.
Enjoy your soup.
Windsong.
Nick just earned his bonus.
What? Two weeks before the election, Grace Russo was down three points.
Then all of a sudden she gets a huge donation.
$175,000 from a super PAC.
- That money traces back to - Windsong? On the therapy tapes, back when Molly would go to Amy's summer home, Gail and her husband would let the girls sleep on the sailboat.
- I'll give you one guess.
- No way.
Windsong is the name of the Meyers' sailboat.
The sole owner of the Windsong group? Gail Meyers.
This whole time we've been looking at Grace Russo, she's just a part of it.
So you're saying Billy Brennan's prosecution was bought and paid for by Amy Meyers' mom? Do you know what this means? It means we have a real chance of winning.
(chuckles) Sadie just gave Albert a really big hug.
- What do you think happened? - She told him she loves him, now they're getting married.
Really? No.
They're just having a good five minutes.
Which I think is all you can ask for, a good five minutes.
This could get really bad, really fast.
Oh, I know.
Found some dirt on Russo.
We're having pizza to celebrate.
(gasps) My kid got to go home.
We're having a good five minutes, too.
(chuckles) Take a little step to the east For freedom and for peace Take a big step to the west For flavor and for passion Take a big leap down south For fashion of the season Take a tall hop up north No fear, just cross the bridge It's all right to flip your lid
- PETER: You might.
BILLY: Molly's here.
She's a witness for the prosecution.
What are you going to tell them? I'm gonna say what I saw, Mother! These are her psychiatric records, tapes of her sessions.
Save my boy, Sadie.
- Are you sleeping with Billy? - Yes.
The only way out of this mess is for us to win, so that's what we're gonna do.
And then I'm gonna walk away.
(knocking on door) Yeah, yeah.
- Sadie, what? - Can you for just one minute forget what a disappointment I am? You're not.
And just be my dad, okay? And not my boss.
Because I'm gonna tell you something, and you're not gonna like it, and you're gonna want to yell, and I'm telling you right now I can't handle it.
Go ahead.
It's bad.
Well, tear the Band-Aid.
I'm sleeping with Billy, and Albert found out.
ISAIAH: Five days.
I'm gone five days, and my firm is falling apart.
I told him everything.
Sorry.
Your secrets and lies put this entire firm at risk.
Everything I spent my life building.
ALBERT: Do I really need to be here? Being that I'm the only one here who hasn't been keeping secrets.
What secrets have I kept from you? You knew about Billy.
- That's a big deal.
- So is quitting the firm.
- CAMERON: What? - You told him? - Was it a secret? - You're leaving? I was gonna tell him myself.
And I was gonna tell you about Billy.
Don't do that.
Don't make it like this is the same thing.
Okay, you're right.
I'm sorry.
Albert, you're leaving the firm? - Yes.
- Because of Sadie? - She lied to me.
- So you're gonna quit? Doesn't that strike you as overreacting? Says the person nobody lied to.
TIFFANY: Oh, my God, what is going on? This is serious.
You know what else is serious? Sadie asking me to look into D.
A.
Russo to find the smoking gun of corruption that they're pinning the whole Brennan case on.
Russo's squeaky clean, no scandals.
- Oh, no.
- What? TIFFANY: You know that thing that Isaiah does with his right hand when he's really angry? - NICK: Yeah.
- Now he's doing it with both hands.
Oh, man, Sadie and Albert have been acting super weird around each other recently.
Do you think that maybe they were dating and then they broke up? You got all that from Isaiah's hand gestures? TIFFANY: (sighs) And Cam is there because She's in love with Albert, Sadie found out, thus the breakup.
- Oh, my God, do you think that's it? - No.
The graffiti kid's parents are here for you and Cam, but I'm afraid to interrupt.
TIFFANY: What do you think is going on here? Well, Billy Brennan's trial starts today.
Maybe it's a pep talk.
Can we please just put this aside until after the trial? ALBERT: No, we can't.
You are sleeping with our client, which means that your judgment is bad.
So you don't get to be his lawyer anymore.
You're gonna sit at the defense table and not speak.
You're a potted plant.
What did you just call me? Enough! This is not who we are.
We don't fight each other.
We fight them, out there.
So no more secrets.
Is that clear? - Yes.
- Yes.
I'm sleeping with a prosecutor.
He said no more secrets.
SADIE: I know the case.
I've been preparing for weeks.
Just let me do the open, then I'll be a plant.
I'm opening.
What are you gonna say? I'm gonna talk about how great your boyfriend is.
You'll love it.
There they are.
I told them to leave the limo at home, at least try to seem relatable.
Never again.
He drove like a maniac.
REPORTER: There he is! (reporters clamoring) REPORTER: Mr.
Brennan, how do you feel? I feel He feels happy to finally have his day in court.
Now if you'll let us through.
Don't talk.
Just smile, look good.
All right, make sure you get everything now.
All right, here he comes Here he comes.
(siren wailing) Please don't shoot! Please don't shoot! That's my son! He's my son! - Dad? - We're unarmed! - Dad! - All right, he's unarmed.
- He's - Turn around.
Get your hands up.
- OFFICER: Show me your hands! - It's all right! - Don't shoot, please! - Down on the ground, now.
We're surrendering, we're surrendering! All right, get your hands up.
- Down on the ground! Get on the ground! - Mom! Mom! - Hands where I can see them! - Don't shoot! Do not shoot! Their hands are up! Their hands are Don't shoot my child! Get that phone out of my face! IRIS (sobbing): Don't shoot, don't shoot, don't shoot.
So, what, they-they just drag our son away, and now we can't see him? They're transporting Heyward to family court.
We'll be waiting for him when he gets there.
Can you at least tell us what he's been charged with? Well, he was caught tagging, so that's a misdemeanor called making graffiti.
CAMERON: And the police pursuit was all over the news.
I'd expect additional charges: Resisting, obstructing No, that-that's on me.
I told him to come home.
TIFFANY: Well, the good news is that he's under 18, so the maximum sentence they can give him is two years in a juvenile facility.
Good news? No, no.
My son has a 3.
8 average.
He is going to college.
You know, if Heyward were white, I don't think you'd be talking to me like two years in juvie was good news.
Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't, I didn't mean to imply No, it's not about what you're implying.
It's about white kids and black kids - don't get treated the same.
- ERIC: Hey.
They're trying to help us.
Did you bring us his transcripts? His grades, his honors, certificates of merit.
I mean, it's-it's all there.
But what those papers don't show is how good he is.
Make them see who he is, Ms.
Wirth.
Please.
BURRIS: This is Amy Meyers as her mother liked to remember her.
Kind warm alive.
This is 1991, before Billy Brennan cut her life short by smashing her head with such force that shards of her skull came to rest inside the gray matter of her brain.
Over the coming days, we will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Billy Brennan had the motive and the opportunity to kill Amy Meyers.
We have an eyewitness putting him at the scene of the crime, standing over Amy's dead body.
His own sister says he did it.
She said it 26 years ago, and she was silenced.
She now finally gets the opportunity to tell the truth: That Billy killed Amy.
Pure and simple.
Guilty.
ALBERT: Billy Brennan saves lives, he doesn't take them.
The man they want to call a murderer is actually a brilliant pediatric surgeon.
The best of the best.
During this trial, you'll hear a lot about the Brennans, about their power, their sense of being above the law.
But that is not, and has never been, Billy.
The evidence will show you that Billy is good, generous, kind, and most of all, honorable.
A man falsely accused by an overzealous prosecutor, based on tainted, even fabricated evidence.
A man who deserves not our scorn and suspicion, but our praise and respect.
Time tatters evidence and fades memories, but character endures.
Billy Brennan is the best of the best.
(quietly): So are you.
The best of the best.
Thanks.
Mom, Dad? Heyward.
I'm so sorry about this.
Okay.
Okay, baby.
It's okay, it's okay.
We are here.
It'll be okay.
(scoffs) Look at what the cat dragged in.
Peter.
What an ass.
I'm so glad you didn't go out with him.
Remember when I thought he was hot for, like, one second? Before he opened his mouth.
PETER: Cameron.
What are you doing here? This is family court.
A.
D.
A.
s When a car chase makes the news, Russo tends to send in a handsome rising star just to make sure the charges stick.
So, voilà .
CAMERON: These charges are absurd.
They're piling on just to make a point.
It's called prosecutorial discretion.
We're allowed to bring whatever charges we think are appropriate.
And it's his job to dismiss the stupid ones.
JUDGE ROUTBORT: Easy, Ms.
Wirth.
Let's keep the name calling in check.
CAMERON: People v.
Brown makes clear that flight from the police, as a general rule, is not a crime.
He can't be charged with obstructing.
- And yet he is.
- Which is utterly unsupported by statute or precedent.
Like I said, stupid.
Running from the police made it harder to get arrested.
So, obstruction, resisting Without an authorized arrest, running can't be resisting.
Which is why we're also charging him with escape and unlawfully fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle.
CAMERON: He can't be charged with escape if he was never in custody in the first place.
Would've been in custody if he hadn't fled.
Enough, you two.
It's just me here.
I want evidence, not argument.
All right, Mr.
Garrett, make your case.
We'll see where the chips fall.
And for now, Ms.
Wirth, your motions are denied.
Amy was always so good, so responsible.
It's why, that night The night she didn't come home.
I wasn't worried right away.
I knew she'd gone to a party with Billy Brennan.
So I waited.
And waited.
BURRIS: Around 2:00 a.
m.
, what happened? I started calling.
First I called the Brennans.
Margaret answered.
She told me that Billy was in bed and didn't know where Amy was.
I can still hear her, "Don't worry, Gail.
I'm sure she's fine.
" BURRIS: And when did you realize that she wasn't fine? About 5:00 a.
m.
The police knocked on my door.
They told me that a body had been found in the park.
She was just lying there.
There was blood everywhere.
And then I saw him.
- Billy Brennan? - GAIL: Yes.
When I looked at him, he turned away.
Couldn't face me.
I knew then.
He murdered my daughter.
ALBERT: Before you found Amy dead, you spent a fair amount of time with Billy Brennan? Regrettably.
In fact, you let him into your home, spent weekends and holidays with him.
Well, he came from a very chaotic family.
ALBERT: You did those things because you trusted him, because you never even saw a hint of violence before you say he killed her.
Obviously, I misjudged him.
Is this your signature? It appears so.
Could you tell us, precisely, what is that document? It's a letter of recommendation.
It's a letter to the headmaster of one of the most prominent schools in Manhattan? Yes.
Can you read the last sentence of the third paragraph? "Billy Brennan is a young man of supreme integrity and the highest moral character.
" Like he's the best of the best? - I think I found something.
- What's this? Grace Russo's victory party from a year and a half ago.
Look who's there Gail Meyers.
This was just weeks before Billy was charged with Amy's murder.
Grace Russo and Gail Meyers were friends.
So? You don't find that unusual? That a wealthy socialite is at a victory party with an ambitious politician? - So that's a no? - Mm.
The worst thing I've found out about Russo is that she quit her a cappella group in college.
- I hate a cappella.
- Exactly.
So quitting actually speaks to her character.
Keep digging.
Is everything okay around here? I certainly hope so.
Gail I want you to know how sorry I am for your pain.
I'm glad it came through.
I wasn't sure it would.
Excuse me? I was afraid that the sheer joy of finally being able to testify against your son would impede my grieving mother act.
I'm glad it didn't.
You want to know when I was in pain? The day I realized that there was no death penalty in New York, and Billy wouldn't die in the chair.
I cried that day.
I've dealt with my grief, Maggie.
What I want now is revenge.
There was a time when we were friends, Gail.
And I really do mourn the loss of Amy.
But if you think I'm going to let you use your misguided vendetta to destroy my son's life (elevator bell dings) well, then, you don't know me quite as well as you think you do.
OFFICER DIXON: I observed the defendant spray-painting a concrete pillar.
I approached, I ordered him to stop.
- And did he comply? - He stopped tagging, but he ran to his car and took off, which made everything more dangerous.
How so? First off, kids in cars are scary.
They can be reckless, you know? But then, does he have a gun? Is he under the influence of drugs or alcohol? - Is he mentally unstable? - You pursued him? Sure, but I took it slow, I gave him room to maneuver, I didn't want to escalate.
And what would the procedure have been if the defendant had simply obeyed your instructions? I would've confiscated the spray paint, issued a citation and contacted his parents.
He's here today because of his choices, not mine.
What's the number on the bottom right? The 29.
That's miles per hour.
Heyward ever exceed the speed limit? No.
Did he run a stop sign? - Blow through any red lights? - No, ma'am.
- Use his turn signals? - Yes.
Yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk? He did.
In fact, during the entire 35-minute pursuit, did he commit a single traffic infraction? Other than disobeying repeated requests to pull over, no.
And as soon as he reached his residence, did he surrender peaceably? Yes.
But the first thing that you did was jump out of your cruiser, with your guns drawn.
Because he could have been a threat.
A 16-year-old who uses his turn signals? Look, I know you wanna make this a black thing, but it's not.
Statistically, it is a black thing.
Unarmed black Americans are five times more likely to be shot and killed by a police officer than unarmed white Americans.
You can shout racism all day long, if you want, but I have black and brown brothers on the force, and we put our lives on the line every day, go out in a world that is dangerous and is armed to the teeth.
You want us to holster our guns? Be social workers? TIFFANY: Where was the danger here? From Heyward? You saw his hands.
From his dad? He had his hands in the air and was begging you not to shoot.
Did you take this picture of Billy Brennan - on November 1, 1991? - Yes, ma'am.
And did Mr.
Brennan tell you how he got the scratch? His cat.
Did he say how his cat managed to scratch him with only one claw, in a way that looks like, I don't know, a a fingernail scratch? - Objection.
- Sustained.
Fair enough.
ALBERT: Are you aware that when they scraped Amy's fingernails, Billy's DNA was not under them? I heard that, yeah.
So is this exactly what - Billy's face looked like? - Yes.
Because if you're gonna use it as evidence, it should fairly and accurately - depict the scratch.
- Sure.
This is from a photographic analyst.
Any chance that you asked the photo unit to use a red filter to make the scratch more visible? I asked them to highlight the scratch to make it clearer.
You mean fresher, right? Because scratches tend to get duller over time.
I-I don't know.
Okay, so how about we take a look at the original negative from the picture? The People concede that the negative was lost or misplaced.
BOTH: Your Honor, I'd ask that you instruct the jury ALBERT: Your Honor, I'd ask you to instruct the jury that they can consider the possibility that this evidence has been intentionally destroyed.
No, we never said it was destroyed.
ALBERT: But it's not here, and a misleading fake is.
Therefore, the jury should be allowed to conclude that this evidence was tampered with on the orders of Grace Russo - and the D.
A.
's office.
- Your Honor Save your breath, Ms.
Burris.
I'm instructing the jury that, given the absence of the negative, they may disregard any evidence concerning a scratch on Mr.
Brennan's face.
Sorry I jumped up.
Instinct.
To be honest, I'm amazed you held it in that long.
I have speeches planned, you know.
Long speeches, where I tell you how sorry I am and convince you to forgive me.
They're pretty good.
I compliment you a lot.
Let's just finish this trial, okay? Want some? Look, I know after the past few days it seems like the whole world knows, but really, this is just me offering you a candy bar.
I would never use you as my get out of jail free card You know that.
Yeah, I know.
I was at work when Heyward called.
He was totally panicked.
CAMERON: What did he tell you? He said he was in his car being chased by the cops.
I told him to keep his hands where they could see them, drive safely, and to come home.
Why did you tell him to come home? All I could think about was Tamir Rice, the young boy they shot down in Cleveland, and I felt that, if he was home, maybe I could control the situation protect my child.
And I just started praying, please, God, don't let 'em kill my son.
CAMERON: While you were praying, what did you do? ERIC: I kept talking to Heyward, trying to keep him calm.
Make sure he didn't do anything to make things worse.
And I was at work, so I asked my colleague to call my wife and tell her to meet me in front of the house with her phone.
If something went wrong, I wanted the world to see.
Do you hate the police, Mr.
Taylor? No.
My uncle's a cop.
I-I know it's not easy.
I know that.
But watching your son walk out each day, wondering if he's gonna be all right, that's not easy either.
Did you ever have "the talk" with your son? If you're asking if I talked to Heyward about the realities of growing up as a young black man in America yes.
Did you tell him to listen to the police? Of course.
That the most important thing was to comply, and always show your hands? Yes.
And that lesson goes against everything I want my son to be.
I want to raise a strong, independent young man.
But instead, I have to teach my child that every time he sees blue, he has to submit.
Lay down on the ground like a dog.
To be clear, you did teach him to submit, and your son knew what he was supposed to do, he just didn't do it.
WOMAN: Amy died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head.
A portion of Amy's skull was actually crushed, causing a large subdural hematoma Bleeding inside the brain.
Do you recognize this? - Yes, that's the murder weapon.
- How do you know? The contour is a match for the indentation on the side of Amy's head.
And what is this? MAYA: It's a latent print lifted from the murder weapon - Billy Brennan's.
- Were there any other prints - on the weapon? - Yes, quite a few.
Amy's, other kids at the party.
The weapon was passed around.
Anything different about Billy Brennan's prints? Yes.
Dr.
Brennan's prints were lifted from two loci A thumbprint, at the base of the scepter, and an index finger, just below and at 45 degrees to the thumbprint.
Dr.
Reyez, what do you conclude about the position of the two prints? Well, unlike the rest of the prints, which appear at various locations on the scepter, Dr.
Brennan appears to have gripped it at the base, which is consistent with using it to inflict the lethal blow.
Did you run a DNA analysis of the blood on the scepter? MAYA: Yes.
It was Amy's.
BURRIS: Was there any other blood? MAYA: A minute trace, almost invisible.
Was it Billy Brennan's? It was not.
Oh, before the defense makes a big deal out of that (chuckles) did this finding surprise you? No.
Given how small the quantity was, I just assumed it was the result of transitory crime scene or laboratory contamination.
If someone else's blood were on the scepter, wouldn't that be powerful evidence of Billy Brennan's innocence? Well, that depends Let's put it a different way.
If the DNA matched, wouldn't you be here claiming that was powerful evidence of Billy's guilt? - Possibly.
- But since that other blood sample would point to his innocence, you've chosen instead to suggest it was contamination.
It has all the hallmarks of contamination.
From the lab, probably.
ALBERT: And if a lab is contaminated, you can't trust the results of any tests they perform? It would certainly prove more difficult.
The last four times you testified, when you wanted to nail someone with DNA evidence, you insisted that, quote, "Contamination is a virtual impossibility.
" MAYA: Yes.
So when the prosecution wants the DNA to match, contamination is "a virtual impossibility;" when they don't like the results, they see contamination everywhere.
It's heads I win, tails you lose, except the winner is always Grace Russo, and the loser is always the person she's prosecuting.
SADIE: Albert's killing it.
- That's great.
- Yeah.
It really is.
Except I mean, is he ever gonna forgive me? You just have to give him time.
God, I really messed things up.
Yeah.
I invited you to drinks to cheer me up.
How's Billy? I don't know, it's weird.
It's like we got caught making out under the bleachers, and now we can't look at each other in the hallway.
Peter's the D.
A.
on my graffiti case and he's trying to put my client in jail.
Ouch.
I know.
I listen to him argue, and I actually I hate him.
But then we get outside the courtroom and he smiles and asks to come over and I just say yes.
He's a good guy in a bad job.
Doesn't that just make him a bad guy? You're asking the person sleeping with the guy on trial for murder.
Who are we? (Laughs) You know you have to disclose your relationship, right? To who? Your clients, the judge.
We're not letting it interfere.
Yeah.
That's what I said.
Now look at me.
(sighs) Baby, I can't breathe.
Look who I found in the break room searching for snacks.
I'm gonna be here all night prepping for Molly's testimony, so I brought him.
- Need any help? - I got it.
Scott Davis, tell Albert if he needs help, I'll be in the other room, and I'm an expert on Molly's testimony.
Scott Davis, tell Sadie she can go home because I'm fine.
Tell him that I literally have the tapes committed to memory.
I'm really fine.
Let's let Scott Davis decide, shall we? I'll put him in the middle of the room.
Whoever he goes to does Molly's cross.
I'm doing the cross.
(gasps) He's such a smart little guy.
I'm doing the cross.
Okay.
If you have any questions at all, I'll be in my office.
Sadie, go home.
You just have to get an opening to introduce the tapes.
I know.
And if there's any contradiction to anything on the tapes, it's not hearsay anymore, you can use it to impeach her.
I know.
She's gonna be totally blindsided, so you have to attack right then.
I know.
I know you know.
(sighs) I'm just a little bit sad, and a little bit drunk, and I don't want to miss the moment when you decide to let go of your totally justifiable anger and forgive me.
(exhales) Hey, buddy.
You don't think I'm a potted plant, do you? (inhales, exhales) WOMAN (on TV): Hey, why do you even bother coming in to work? Hey, you are putting the kid on the stand tomorrow, right? We shouldn't be talking about the case, that's a conflict.
I'm not asking anything specific.
You're trying to put my 16-year-old client in jail.
- I'm not gonna help.
- Sorry.
You're working on your cross of my client while you're watching TV with me? When was I supposed to prepare? See? That's the problem right there.
What's going on? I think we should disclose our relationship to my clients and to the court.
Really? It's the right thing to do.
Yeah.
Yeah, it probably is.
You know that means that everyone will know we're dating.
Are you ready for that? Are you ready? Yes.
Okay.
Get up.
What? Where Get dressed and have some coffee.
I'm gonna drop Scott Davis at daycare and meet you at court.
I was up all night prepping for Molly's cross.
Then I realized I was letting my feelings get in the way of my job.
Our client deserves the best defense, and the fact is, you know Molly's tapes better than I do, so you'll be doing the cross.
Also, you snore.
Oh, God, thank you.
You're not making a mistake.
I won't let you down.
I mean, I know that I have already let you down, I'm just saying I won't again.
You get it.
Okay.
Sorry, we're not there yet.
You can't be thinking about Billy's feelings up there.
- We need to destroy her.
- I will.
I mean I won't.
I mean, won't think, will destroy.
I'm gonna get dressed.
- Good.
- I don't snore.
I don't snore.
Hey, Tiff.
So I need to tell you something.
I'm in a relationship.
- With Albert.
- What? Oh, I knew it.
I have to tell Nick.
I'm not in a relationship with Albert.
I What's A.
D.
A.
Lowman doing here? Where's Mr.
Garrett? A.
D.
A.
Garrett's home sick, so I'll be taking over the case.
Meet the new jerk, same as the old jerk.
So, who are you in a relationship with? No one.
(wand chirping) You nervous? Yeah, I didn't sleep very well last night.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
- Good morning, Isaiah.
- Uh, Sadie, give us a minute.
Yesterday, you asked me to be your father.
I'm obliging.
I promised her mother I'd take care of her.
I take that job very seriously.
- I know you do.
- Sadie loves you.
And if we win this trial, I will welcome you into my family with open arms.
Thank you for that.
But we both know that might not happen.
She won't give up on you, so you have to be the one to let her go.
Am I being clear? Everyone at school was tagging and Instagramming pictures, so I hit this place in the Bronx, and I'm doing it.
And then this cop walks up, and I just panic.
And when he said "Stop," it was like instinct, I just took off.
I wasn't thinking straight.
I thought I was gonna die.
What made you think that? 'Cause I see it.
YouTube, the news, people who look like me getting shot and, and choked out.
And then I thought, maybe the cop would see, see that I have a mom and a dad and this nice house.
See that I'm, I'm somebody, you know? And then, I-I see my dad, on the lawn.
I saw his face.
And I knew it didn't matter.
Why? 'Cause they came at us with their guns, like we're nothing, like my dad is nothing.
And then my dad's grabbing me, and my mom's screaming I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm so I'm so sorry.
Amy and I were friends.
Really good friends.
So, she confided in you? Yes.
She told me all kinds of things, personal things, about life and school, and Billy.
She was gonna break up with him that night.
Do you know why? He was awful.
Abusive, controlling.
Abusive? He'd make fun of the way she dressed, or if she said something stupid.
He slept with her best friend while she was away at camp.
And he didn't even try to hide it.
So the night of the murder I was on my way to the party to check on her, and I walked past the park.
BURRIS: What did you see? Billy standing over Amy.
Over her body.
And he had this look.
BURRIS: Ms.
Han.
What did you do when you saw the defendant standing over Amy's dead body? I freaked out.
I ran home, I told my mom "I think Billy did something to Amy.
" And how did your mother respond when you said that? She told me she'd take care of it.
And a few weeks later, she did.
She put me on a plane back to Korea.
She told me my birth mother sued to get me back.
And I never saw her or Billy again.
When we're asked to apply laws to facts, context matters.
So let's talk about the context of this case.
About Mike Brown, Eric Garner and young Tamir Rice.
We've all seen the videos.
Black men, black children, some with their hands up, gunned down by the police.
People are scared.
Parents, cops.
So when your child calls you, terrified and being chased by the police, you can't be surprised when a black father tells his only son, not to pull over, but to drive carefully, obey the laws, keep your hands where they can see them, and to come home now.
The prosecution wants you to convict this young man, for what? Escape? He never tried to get away.
For obstructing? He didn't obstruct anyone.
Heyward wasn't trying to avoid arrest.
He was just trying to make sure he didn't wind up dead.
26 years of never telling this to the police or anyone, but then Grace Russo's office tracks you down in Korea, and suddenly you remember all of it? I always remembered, just never told.
And we should believe you now? I'm not lying, if that's what you're asking.
SADIE: You just testified that the night of the murder you were on your way to the party to check on Amy.
- That's right.
- The Halloween party - that you were invited to? - Yes.
- And you're sure about that? - I'm sure.
SADIE: As sure as you are about the rest of your testimony? - What you claim you saw that night? - MOLLY: Yes.
YOUNG MOLLY: I don't know.
Amy's spending all her time with Billy, - and it just all sucks.
- Wait.
They didn't even invite me to the Halloween party.
- What was that? - I'm gonna ask you again.
Objection, I have no idea what that tape is.
They are Ms.
Han's therapy tapes, and I am allowed to use them to impeach her.
Not without a foundation.
Those are private.
You gave them to her? JUDGE MENDOZA: Sounds to me like she just laid the foundation.
Sorry, Ms.
Burris.
SADIE: Ms.
Han, were you invited to the Halloween party or not? Because if you weren't invited, I find it hard to believe that you went, and if you didn't, then why would you have been in the park that night? You gave those to them? Tapes to my therapy sessions? To my therapy sessions? That's enough.
Tell her to stop.
If you want to win, shut up.
SADIE: Were you really in the park that night? MOLLY: No.
No, I'm not gonna let you do this to me.
Sit down.
Ms.
Han.
Please.
They can't do this to me, - I'm not on trial here.
- Please, Ms.
Brennan.
I am not a Brennan! I never was! Don't Don't you see what they're doing? They're evil.
He killed her.
You killed her! I know it! - I saw it! - JUDGE MENDOZA: Ms.
Han.
Please.
Ms.
Ellis.
There's something else I'd like you to listen to.
Please, it's not fair.
It's not fair.
YOUNG MOLLY: I got the pills, and I just I just thought, anything's better than this.
Just two weeks before you claim you saw Billy standing over Amy's body, you tried to kill yourself.
You people are sick.
You know that? (crying) Trying to destroy me to protect him.
I understand why you would say that now.
After 26 years of choking on anger and alienation.
I have just one more thing.
A statement from the same session.
YOUNG MOLLY: I'm so messed up.
I don't even know what's real or what's true anymore.
Nothing further.
(sniffling) JUDGE ROUTBORT: On the counts charging escape, obstructing, resisting, and unlawful flight in a motor vehicle, I find the respondent not guilty.
As to the charge of making graffiti, I am entering a finding of guilty against the respondent.
Your Honor, the People would like to be heard as to sentencing.
On a misdemeanor? Under the Family Court Act, you are obligated to consider not merely the nature and circumstances of the offense, - but also the character of the child.
- Honor roll, student council.
This is a young man who doesn't listen.
The People are asking you to send a message that ignoring law enforcement will not be tolerated.
We request a term of one year in juvenile detention.
Literally nothing will be gained - by incarcerating this kid.
- Actually, Ms.
Wirth, incarceration is a powerful tool, and, unfortunately, my job requires me to consider whether subjecting a decent young man to time in a penal institution is just.
But that does require context and it also requires me to acknowledge that we all have a problem.
We're living in a world where kids fear cops, and cops fear kids.
And the sad thing is, I only have jurisdiction over one part of that problem.
And that's the children that I am required to judge.
So no, I will not be sending you to jail.
But I will be sentencing you to up to 200 hours of community service, to be attended by Officer Dixon.
So if he doesn't commit, you get off.
But if he invests, then you are required to attend.
And maybe maybe, at the end of all this, you'll finally be able to see each other.
That-That's all.
Thank you, sir.
(gavel bangs) (sighs) BILLY: I've asked you here because I believe there's some confusion about my relationship with Sadie, and to this firm.
I've been told that I am using Sadie as a get out of jail free card.
I have also been warned that, should I go to prison, I should break up with Sadie because, apparently, she's helpless in the face of love.
Now I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically it, - right, Isaiah? - You got the gist.
What? BILLY: And I've noticed how you look at me lately.
Like you're wondering if they're right.
They're not.
I was furious and I felt misunderstood.
But after I got over myself, it occurred to me that they're only doing it to protect you.
And I think that's good.
See, I failed my sister.
She came here fragile, and after Amy's death (voice breaking): Something broke inside of her.
And I failed Amy, I left her alone in the park that night.
But I am not gonna fail you.
I had the family attorney draft an affidavit which waives any past and future conflicts of interest, knowingly and voluntarily surrenders any claims that I might have against Sadie, Albert or this firm in any appellate proceeding.
Now, you want to be angry, be angry.
You want to feel betrayed, I get it.
But it's like you said in your opening statement, I am an honorable man.
I just love your friend.
Your daughter.
There you go.
I just threw away my get out of jail free card.
Now you better win.
Footsteps echo On the flagstone You can let go How are you feeling? Good.
Really? That's not what I heard.
I brought you some chicken soup.
I can explain.
No, I can explain.
You're okay with dating me, but this morning it hit you, you could actually be in a room full of people staring at you, judging you, because of me.
Suddenly things got real, you panicked, so you called in sick.
Okay.
Yeah.
Something like that, but, look, I just needed a day You just need some time to figure things out, right? You'll get there.
This is all just so new to you, Peter? Well, it's feeling very familiar to me.
I thought I was ready, Cam.
And I thought you were different.
And the old me would have given you a day, a week, a year.
But you know what I decided? I'm never gonna be someone's secret again.
And not that you care, but Heyward got community service.
Enjoy your soup.
Windsong.
Nick just earned his bonus.
What? Two weeks before the election, Grace Russo was down three points.
Then all of a sudden she gets a huge donation.
$175,000 from a super PAC.
- That money traces back to - Windsong? On the therapy tapes, back when Molly would go to Amy's summer home, Gail and her husband would let the girls sleep on the sailboat.
- I'll give you one guess.
- No way.
Windsong is the name of the Meyers' sailboat.
The sole owner of the Windsong group? Gail Meyers.
This whole time we've been looking at Grace Russo, she's just a part of it.
So you're saying Billy Brennan's prosecution was bought and paid for by Amy Meyers' mom? Do you know what this means? It means we have a real chance of winning.
(chuckles) Sadie just gave Albert a really big hug.
- What do you think happened? - She told him she loves him, now they're getting married.
Really? No.
They're just having a good five minutes.
Which I think is all you can ask for, a good five minutes.
This could get really bad, really fast.
Oh, I know.
Found some dirt on Russo.
We're having pizza to celebrate.
(gasps) My kid got to go home.
We're having a good five minutes, too.
(chuckles) Take a little step to the east For freedom and for peace Take a big step to the west For flavor and for passion Take a big leap down south For fashion of the season Take a tall hop up north No fear, just cross the bridge It's all right to flip your lid