Profiler (1996) s01e16 Episode Script
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PROFILER TRANSCRIBED FROM DVD You ok, now? Yeah, no, the door was screwed up.
You ought to have wider doors, Hal.
Yeah.
Take it easy.
Get me home.
Oh, boy.
Uhh! "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I did till we loved - if ever any beauty which I desired and got 'twas but a dream of thee.
" You awake? I am when you talk like that.
Who said it first? Uh a poet, 16th century - John Donne.
A tender word's nice to hear.
That's two reasons to like you.
What's the other one? What's wrong? - Nothing.
You may know sweet words, but you're a lousy liar.
My daughter Francis.
She's 17, great kid.
She had some problems - little problems, teenage stuff - and Well, now they're turning into bigger problems.
And daddy's a workaholic.
Mommy's the divorce was ugly, and, uh, she didn't get a lot of things she should've.
I think I'm losing her, and she's losing herself.
I don't want that.
Hmm.
I feel like a hooker.
- What? Isn't that what men do with hookers? Tell them all their problems? I, uh I wouldn't know.
I mean, men tell their problems to a lot of people.
Like who? Well friends, for instance.
Shrinks.
Whoever's on the next bar stool.
Or in the next bed? Would you like me to change the subject? - Uh-huh.
Hey, you.
- Hey.
Bailey paged me.
Do you know what's up? Mm-mmm, I don't.
I got pumpernickel, sesame, cream cheese, french roast.
I got the works.
Thank you.
You're a doll.
Ooh, yum, cholesterol heaven.
Why is it that everything I like to eat is terminal? Oh, well, maybe you should've been a sponge, you know? No heart, no brains, no lungs, no nervous system, no locomotion, no means of self-defense, you know, but they have survived for millions of years now.
Sounds like permanent bliss to me.
Or boredom.
You're not eating? No, I've been queasy this morning, you know? I got up at 4:00 two nights in a row now.
You ok? - Eh, it's probably just the flu, you know? So where is Herr Lord and Master? On the way to the command center.
Bring your bagels.
Check, please.
- See you.
- Mm-hmm.
We've got a self-appointed executioner working in upstate New York.
Two local tv stations - one in Niagara Falls, the other in Syracuse - received videocassettes, portions of their own broadcasts.
At first, no one thought anything about it.
Syracuse, five days ago.
The jury in the trial of accused serial rapist Craig Gentry returned a verdict of not guilty.
Gentry, the 34-year-old unemployed construction worker from Onondaga had been charged with the rapes of five Syracuse women.
DNA evidence introduced by the prosecution was judged to be inconclusive.
In Jamesville They received this next piece last night.
He seems to have a pattern: First, the newscast, then, his own tape.
And where'd they get it? U.
S.
Mail.
Point of origin is a local box in New York City.
We're checking.
WELCOME TO ONONDAGA POP 11,323 ELEV 1,243 That's the victim's house, rented it for three years.
That's Gentry.
He's stalking him.
Like a rapist might stalk a victim.
When do we get enhanced video? We'll have digitals by tonight.
Hey, what the hell-hey! Aah! Aah! Mace? - The preliminary autopsy said pepper spray.
What are you doing? I don't know who you are.
Listen, I got some money in the basement.
Come on, man.
At least let me know what this is all about.
No! Aah! No! God! Stigma and retribution, that's what it's about.
Put this on your news instead of your inane false moralizing.
Let people see and hear shame and discipline - expressive functions - rather than bleeding-heart editorials and inconclusive evidence.
The crime - Rape.
The verdict - Guilty.
The sentence - Appropriate.
He was castrated, then bled to death.
We're reprocessing the voice, so we can remove the distortion.
Now we have Niagara Falls, two weeks ago.
In other news, Carl White was released today after the jury reached no verdict in his trial for vehicular manslaughter in the deaths last April of Betty Carmodie and her two infant children.
The defense claims that blood analysis tests were compromised.
The family died in a fiery crash on Fulham Road, and the case has outraged many in Niagara Falls.
They got this three days later.
Get me home.
Broadcast this on the news.
Show people they may slip through the cracks in the justice system, but you can't get away with murder.
Law is either condoned or abused.
For those who abuse the law, punishment should be an expressive function.
The crime - Drunk driving.
The verdict - Guilty.
The sentence doesn't hold a candle to the shame.
We're dissecting the cassettes and checking on the camera he's using.
Are these the only two incidents? The only two we know about.
There's no witnesses, no prints, no visible connection to the victims.
I don't think there will be.
Vigilantes are usually driven by personal revenge, but this guy is different.
He wants revenge against the system.
The newscasts are his way of saying "this is how the system works," and his own tapes reflect the way he feels that it should work.
He taped the crime very carefully.
He knows that if it's too graphic, they won't show the public.
Well, so far, the stations are keeping quiet, but that's not going to last long.
If it's somebody who thinks the court system is screwed up, it's a - it's a long list.
Bailey, I want to get transcripts of his words.
He's gone to a lot of trouble to send society a message.
John, would you coordinate travel to New York? You and Sam need to be on a plane later today.
Sam, we don't have anything new on Jack, but I'm putting extra security on Chloe and Angel.
Also, St.
Angela's children's home.
You okay with that? Yeah.
What are you thinking? That he's probably not very far away.
It's hard to believe that a man of such evil could have made such beautiful roses.
Well, good and evil - sometimes it's hard to see the difference.
Mm-hmm.
Yes, I had more contact day-to-day with him than anyone, even Sister Agnes.
What I find so frightening is that a person like Carruthers - that Jack, as you call him - was living with us, and we never knew it.
Well, he needed a place where he thought that no one would ever look for him.
Sister Mary, is there anything else you can tell me about Carruthers, something that you might've forgotten to tell me already? No, your questions were pretty thorough.
Well, sometimes the smallest, most insignificant detail can trigger a memory - I mean, something about the roses or something he said.
Anything, anything at all.
He did say something about the roses once.
He said, "It takes a lot of time to make a rose.
" Well he was willing to make the time.
Can something like that help you to find a man like Jack? It confirms what I already know about him, that he's determined and patient.
Yes.
Ah I don't know how it is that you do what you do, but maybe it's the old testament teaching in me.
I am glad you're doing it.
Well, thank you, Sister.
The feeling is mutual.
Listen, if you do remember anything else, please feel free to call me.
Yes.
- Thank you, sister.
We figured the camera was here.
The guy must've parked out on the hardtop.
The only tire tracks we found were White's.
No footprints? Was White well-known? He was to us.
He had multiple DUIs.
We figured he'd smack up one day and maybe kill some innocent people.
The shame's that he walked out of court.
Well, the killer agrees with you.
He said the sentence couldn't hold a candle to the shame and he's talking about the shame of the court that didn't convict.
So he wants everybody who sees that tape to see, hear, and feel exactly what that crash was like, so that they can feel that shame.
Well, he sure wanted White to feel it.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
- Thanks.
I understand where he's coming from.
- Frustration.
Yeah, you go through all that crap cops go through.
What made you go through it? Why was I a cop? Yeah.
I figured I could make a difference, help some people, and I was damn good at it.
You think that a cop could've killed white? Could have, sure.
I hope not.
It's got to be somebody who's a part of the system, but feels alienated from it.
Kind of like a love affair.
What? I- I read this article in scientific something or other.
It said when two people are in love, I mean, really in love, the emotion burns up everything between them, until, sometimes-sometimes there's nothing left.
Wait a minute.
So, love turns to nothing? Or worse.
It's like - it's like, if you're a part of something, and you love it, and it doesn't work out, all that emotion can turn into alienation.
I figure maybe friendship is better.
You get all the pluses, and you don't get burned.
You settle for half the meal.
How far to Onondaga? Oh, about two appetizers and an entree.
We found him right there.
He was down about three quarts, also missing his privates.
Were any of these rape victims tied to their own beds? They all were.
The killer likes symbolism and symmetry.
No forced entry, signs of a struggle? Whoever did Gentry had a good plan.
Well, he knew how to make his point.
What's that? That the son of a bitch was guilty? That people didn't have enough feeling for the crime.
What rape is - the humiliation, the degradation.
People don't.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I don't know who you are.
Listen, I got some money in the basement.
Come on, man.
At least let me know what this is all about.
Aah! He's very well-prepared, thinks through all the angles.
He didn't take the money.
There was eight hundred bucks.
It isn't about money.
It's about punishment and punishment fitting the crime.
Gentry took a long time to bleed to death.
Rape victims suffer for a very long time.
White burned in seconds, just like the family in the car crash.
An eye for an eye.
Maybe we're looking for a rabbi.
It's like an old testament lesson.
The techies pulled a reflection off a window from a car in Niagara Falls.
For those who abuse the law, punishment should be an expressive function.
KILLER: The crime- Drunk driving.
The verdict- Guilty.
The sentence doesn't hold a candle to the- Hey.
Anything? Yeah, we I.
D.
'd the camera.
It's a pretty expensive little toy.
It's a high-8 model.
It costs about 2,000 bucks.
What about the cassettes? Well, based on the lot numbers, they were all purchased at a discount store in New York City.
All right, listen to this.
We cleaned up the distortion now.
There.
Show people they may slip through the cracks in the justice system, but you can't get away with murder.
Hey, hear the part about murder? But you can't get away with murder.
Broad vowels, very nasal - it's obviously east coast.
Sounds like New York.
Or New Jersey.
You still think it's cop? Well, the way he ends his statements on the tapes, it's almost like a judge.
It could all be an act, but - I don't know, he wants to take it public, so he's sophisticated.
I mean, revenge against a single person is easy, but revenge against an entire system requires a certain amount of sophistication.
So, somebody inside the justice system? Well, maybe it's like you said.
Somebody had a love affair, got burned, and the love turned to alienation.
Violent alienation.
Well, lovers kill each other all the time.
You don't have to be in love.
We've got another one, this time from Albany.
He's an alleged dealer, William Andersohl, sprung on a fourth amendment technicality.
In criminal court today, the case against alleged drug dealer William Andersohl was thrown out.
Judge Marian Shepard ruled the search and seizure of Andersohl's van was illegal.
Andersohl was suspected of selling black heroin to the son of Albany city Alderman Jerry Sherman.
Sherman's 17-year-old son died of an overdose after describing Andersohl and the van to some friends.
Drunk driving, rape, drugs- this guy's covering all bases.
That's Andersohl.
The building's on an alleyway off western avenue in downtown, Albany's version of needle park.
Uh, forensics found a cement block.
Debris in the wound and the blood matched.
He killed him with a cement block? No, this is the murder weapon, speedball cocktail laced with black heroin.
The fourth amendment was never intended to shield the guilty.
It's a perversion when it does.
Do the right thing.
Put this justice on the air.
The crime - Drugs.
The verdict - Guilty.
The sentence - The ultimate high.
The ultimate high lasted less than a minute.
Again, no prints, no hair, nothing.
Except for what he wants us to see - the humiliation, the punishment, the shame of the victim.
About as subtle as the gas chamber.
He's got a lot of rage, but he's very controlled, very precise.
I mean, look at the way he edits the tapes - all the right close-ups in all the right places.
He's taking us exactly where he wants us to go.
And-and the legal jargon, the phrasing - the intention of the fourth amendment, "Do the right thing.
" The tapes are like a brief, like a visual brief for the jury.
It's like he's trying to get them to see his point of view.
A prosecutor who's become judge and executioner? I know a couple of dozen who'd like to.
We should get a list of all the prosecutors in New York, especially those who endorse the death penalty.
This guy has time to travel.
Maybe he is retired.
Or disbarred.
Actual juries wouldn't listen to his case, so now he's taking it to a higher court - the public.
Yeah, well, it's not going to get to the public.
There's no way we're allowing these to be broadcast.
He's going to find a way.
Well, that's why we have to find him first.
We should get these transcripts to the law schools.
Maybe one of the professors can recognize the phrasing, the philosophy.
Like we did with the unabomber's manifesto.
Ok, I'll get the ram-jammers on the list.
You two get to Albany.
I'll have to stay here and coordinate, in case we get more tapes.
Yeah.
Hey, Bailey, where's Grace? We sent her home.
She was feeling a little rocky.
Huh.
Okay.
You ready? You ok? Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Fisher said there'd be some days like this.
Fisher's a doctor.
He doesn't know anything.
You're a doctor.
Same problem.
We love you, even if you don't know anything.
When all the geniuses tell you that something can't happen, that it is not possible, I cannot help but worry.
Well, geniuses aren't what they used to be.
There are no Leonardo da Vinci's smelling today's roses.
Morgan every test I took over the last three years came out negative.
Grace, you try to make sense out of life, you'll drive yourself crazy.
Tests are wrong sometimes, thank god.
Well, I don't want anything to go wrong.
I want it to be perfect, and I don't want to tell anyone until we know that it will be.
I mean, you know how many cases- Grace.
No, no, I mean good things, like women who were told that they could never get pregnant, so they adopted, and after they adopted, they got pregnant.
It does.
It happens all the time.
Like we said, doctors don't know anything.
You listen to me.
We're going to have this baby, and it's going to be beautiful.
Accountants know everything.
- Oh! Did you hear that, Fuzzy? Not about the accountants, though.
You're going to have a new playmate.
Trust me.
Andersohl was a wannabe a street dealer.
Never really cut it with the big boys.
Was he carrying when he showed up here? Couple of nickel bags.
Figured it was just another deal that went south until we saw the tape.
Uh, he must've come here with a purpose.
Maybe the killer contacted him.
Maybe he knew Andersohl.
Everybody knew Billy Andersohl.
Have you looked at his phone records? I practically have them memorized.
This kind of stuff was always from pay phones.
Yeah, I busted Andersohl twice once in one night.
He got out the same night? It's a hand slap, unless you can get the guy to cop a confession.
Doesn't sound like Billy was too smart.
Guys who sell dope, like guys that rob gas stations, are not exactly society's bright lights.
Now, my opinion, if I wanted to start killing dealers, I'd go higher up the food chain.
Oh, he isn't interested in the top dog.
He killed Andersohl because he represents a part of the system that didn't work.
I don't know.
Seems like Billy got due process to me.
Detective! You'll get us those phone records? If you want 'em.
Excuse me.
Just a minute, please.
Is it me, or do you get the feeling that none of the cops working these three murders are working overtime? I can't blame them.
I didn't say it was right, but I know how they feel.
Yeah.
This tape just showed up from a tv station in New York city.
He's changed his pattern.
How? You'll see.
His reasoning's pretty clear.
News media, why aren't you listening? Are you as deaf and blind as the courts? You've failed to take an opportunity to right wrongs, to show people there is a way to help justice prevail.
Your failure leaves me no choice.
In your eyes, this woman is innocent, but her crime is worse than those of the others.
If you don't do the right thing, I will.
Now the son of a bitch is gonna kill innocent people.
Technically, he already has.
Doesn't justify giving him a public forum.
If we did release part of the tape, maybe somebody would recognize his voice.
And then fifty other nutballs will start to copycat.
No way.
He changed his M.
O.
because he's angry.
Maybe he'll make a mistake.
It's gonna lead to this woman's murder if we don't find out who she is.
Let's try to narrow it down.
Oh, well, she's been coached.
Look at her arms, the way she holds her head.
She checks her watch at regular intervals.
She's, uh not a jogger.
She's more like a runner, a distance runner.
A woman in training.
And she's in terrific shape, which means she works out, so somebody must've seen her.
We'll need to locate every all-weather track in the city.
You know, from the light, it looks like this tape was shot just after dawn.
So she's dedicated.
Probably knows her own self-worth.
Probably also a loner.
Distance runners usually are.
And look at her clothes, no fashion logo.
She dresses for a purpose over style.
We'll get some stills.
- Yeah.
A runner in her twenties who went on trial for a violent crime in New York City and got off.
Big haystack.
He said that her crime was worse than the others.
The question is, what's worse in his mind? All right.
This tape made it to the tv station in time for the 7:00 news, but they didn't run it.
He'll act fast.
He's done a lot of work, and he hasn't gotten the attention he wants.
Nice to meet you, FBI.
My name is Ben Ferrarini.
Anybody want coffee? No, thank you.
Uh decaf? I don't allow it in homicide.
You can probably find some down in vice.
You Sam Waters? No, I'm Bailey Malone.
This is Dr.
Sam Waters.
How do you do? I'm John Grant.
Interesting case.
Yeah? Why is that? The guy's getting to the heart of an important matter.
We risk our butts to nail the sickos.
Judges and juries open the doors and let 'em out.
Pisses me off.
Yes, well, I don't think vigilantism is the answer.
I didn't say he was taking the best route.
But he could win a public service award in this building.
Is that how you feel? All the children of my imagination do not have equal stature.
Well, where exactly do cold-blooded killers fall? About one notch above lawyers.
Mmm.
Well.
I've got the feeling that our guy may be both.
Uh, lawyers practice relativism, especially with respect to morality.
Personally, I think that stinks.
You one of those cops who thinks he'd make a better arbiter of morality? I'd be, uh appalling.
That's why we need lawyers.
Detective, his next victim is an innocent woman.
We need to find her.
Yeah.
Well nobody's innocent.
And I don't know who the hell she is.
But I looked at your tapes.
I found the track.
It's at a college in Brooklyn.
Someone once said the reason they built the subway to Brooklyn was so that people who live there could get home without being seen.
I love New York.
It's full of paranoids and people like Farrarini - Farinni - whatever the hell is name is.
What's wrong with being paranoid? Did anybody call Grace? Morgan's taking her to the doctor.
They're gonna run some tests.
But she's never sick.
Well, sometimes I think the whole world is sick.
The problem is trying to get well.
Did you get any sleep last night? I'll sleep when we get this jerk.
If he is a lawyer, what is it about her crime that makes it worse than the others? Maybe she lied on the witness stand.
Wouldn't cooperate? Lawyers hate hostile witnesses.
No.
He's too smart.
I don't get the feeling he'd let anybody on the stand that he wasn't sure of.
Almost anywhere we could've seen the city.
He picked a track where he could hide it.
He knew we'd find this track.
He knows we're looking for her.
Hunhh! Bailey.
So, have you seen this girl? - Ask her coach.
Ashley Bernarding.
Her braids are a dead giveaway.
She almost made the '96 olympics, 5,000 meters.
Is Bernarding her married name? I don't think she's married.
Was she here this morning? I don't know.
What's the matter? What can you tell us about her habits, routines? She does track workouts maybe twice a week.
Give me the listings you have for an Ashley Bernarding.
I try to get some of the students to watch, you know? How often do you get a chance to see world class right up close? Do you know if Ms.
Bernarding has been in the news lately? I know she missed the Milrose games.
I don't know why.
Any of them in Brooklyn? She's kind of a loner.
A lot of distance runners are like that.
Meet you there.
Four listings for Ashley Bernarding.
Only one in Brooklyn.
John! Excuse me.
She in some kind of trouble? Well, we hope not.
Thank you very much.
Sure.
Miss Bernarding.
Clear! He's got her.
We need a floor-to-floor search! They may still be in the building! Pauly, you're with me.
Upstairs.
This doesn't fit.
He didn't take the others anywhere, so why her? Bailey.
Maybe he killed her here and took the body someplace else.
No, this is different.
She may still be alive.
Tell them that if they hear from her, I want to know about it A.
S.
A.
P.
She works part-time for the canarsie beach harriers.
It's a running club over on Hargrove.
They haven't heard from her, but they don't expect to till monday.
Anything from the court records? No defendant with the name Ashley Bernarding.
So far, they've checked back two years.
None of the neighbors on this floor saw or heard anything.
What about upstairs? We're still checking.
Anything here? Nothing that'll help us.
Just rent and groceries, stuff like that.
I'll stay on it.
What about her car? She doesn't have one.
Well, if she's walking everyplace, maybe - Cabs, bus, train - I got 16 men working a 10-block radius.
It's a long shot.
She keeps trophies in a cardboard box in the closet.
She's very self-assured.
Maybe she just doesn't care about them.
No, she cares.
This is her workout diary.
Over a hundred pages.
She just isn't showy.
She's good, and she knows it.
Question is, what did she do to deserve being victim number 4? We got something.
A law professor at Peterson Law School called about the transcripts.
Let's go.
I admit when I first read these, I was a little bit upset.
I mean, your organization and I have rarely been on the same side of the bench.
Well, that's a fair assessment.
The notion of actually aiding and abetting the FBI it's a little bit like deciding to vote republican.
On the other side, I would vote for Orrin Hatch before I'd openly condone homicide.
Well, that's good to know.
How can you help us, Professor Bello? Well the words that first caught my eye were, "Law is either condoned or abused.
" I use that phrase in practically every lecture I give.
But what really rang my bell is, "Punishment should be an expressive function.
" Now Jung believes that reputational shame is an expressive function.
Humiliation.
Public execution.
Shaming the transgressor.
It goes back to the time of the pilgrims - stocks in the public square and so forth, although I doubt it would work today.
I don't think we have much of a sense of shame in our society.
Well, we agree on something.
Professor Bello, do you recognize this voice? You've failed to take an opportunity to right wrongs, to show people there is a way to help justice prevail.
No.
Not the voice, no.
The ideas, the thinking I had a student a few years ago in philosophy of law.
That's where I use some of Jung's writings.
He was a 5-timer.
He took five times to pass the New York state bar.
But he finally made it.
He became a prosecutor.
He believed very strongly in the death penalty, but he wanted it public.
He wrote several papers about it.
Do you remember his name? No.
I had to look it up.
It's amazing what age does to, uh, temper one's memory.
Michael Gillette.
Michael wanted to execute everybody.
Of course, I've felt the same way myself a few times.
But that hardly gets to the root of the issue.
Professor, in the mind of someone like Michael Gillette, what is the worst crime that a person could commit? Probably, uh disagreeing with him.
Mmm.
Michael Gillette did not exactly make the District Attorney's office proud.
He was disbarred three years ago.
Why? Oh, jury tampering, threatening witnesses, bribes, among other allegations.
What was the case? A woman named Maria Esperitto tried to murder her husband up in spanish Harlem.
Uh, she said that he beat her and was abusive, so she shot him in his sleep and claimed self-defense.
He lived.
Pretty violent alienation.
It's getting to be the norm.
She might be justified, but it doesn't sound like self-defense.
Well, that depends on how scared she was.
It says here she had witnesses who'd seen him hit her in public.
Any of them named Ashley Bernarding? She was one of the jurors.
So what happened? Gillette argued it was just an excuse to commit murder.
The jury almost believed him, but couldn't reach a verdict, so the judge sent them back to deliberate half a dozen times.
Ultimately, they hung.
And Gillette tried to bribe them.
Them, the witnesses, everybody.
Got him disbarred.
Now-now, here's the irony.
The woman walked, right? So the first thing she did was go find her husband in the shower and stabbed him 76 times.
So he's got it in for Bernarding because she didn't convict in the first place.
Where's this guy Gillette now? I got a "last known" on him in Long Island City.
Let's go.
Sergeant Bouchard, you're with the FBI.
Messina, you're with me! Position the troops.
Keep 'em calm.
Even he deserves due process.
All right.
Ok, I'll a squad around the back and converge with you.
Good.
What are you thinking? He knew we'd get here.
He led us, the same way he did when he edited the tapes.
Like you lead a witness.
But you never ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.
Yes? Mr.
Michael Gillette? Yes! Detective Ben Ferrarini, New York City Police Department, Homicide.
I'm here with some FBI agents.
We'd like to talk to you for a minute.
I know why you're here.
Put your hands above your head, Mr.
Gillette! Didn't take you long.
We had good directions.
You mean someone paid attention? I was afraid the whole system was deaf from its own ineptitude.
May not be perfect, but it still works.
It's a joke.
Anybody with half a brain can beat the law the way it's run in this country.
Is that what you're gonna do now? It's full of holes.
Judges are afraid to judge.
Lawyers are only in it for the money, and juries will not convict.
Well, I think they're gonna convict you.
Of what? I haven't done anything wrong.
Everything I've done is right.
And even if you do get me in court, you can bet there's gonna be one person in that jury box who's gonna agree with me - one honest citizen with enough reasonable doubt to hang that jury.
Do you understand your rights as I just explained? Yes! That was Ashley Bernarding's crime, wasn't it? Reasonable doubt? She was the jury member who held out in the trial where you were disbarred.
I remember that case.
Mrs.
Esperito was acquitted, and then she went home and killed her husband.
Where is she? Hmm? Where is Ashley Bernarding? Did you hang her? Get him outta here.
Let's go, let's go.
Now we need to find Ashley Bernarding.
All of his crimes have been recreations.
Where was the Esperitto trial held? Superior court building downtown, but it's Saturday.
Place is gonna be empty.
That's where she is.
The trial was in room 65.
Brennan.
- Yes, sir.
Check that right corridor.
- Right.
No.
You don't hang a jury in the courtroom.
Where do they take them to deliberate? Just down the hall.
In his mind, that's where she committed the crime.
Bailey.
Damn! Have your men cover us.
Sarge! I got the rope.
I got the neck.
Go easy.
All set on this side.
Easy does it.
Give her some slack.
It's all right.
Get her away from the table.
Careful.
Careful.
Clear! Unh! She's out.
Ok? - You got her? - Yeah.
All right? - You all right? There we go.
- Are you ok? It was that lawyer.
We know.
We know.
It's ok.
It's ok.
Let's get the paramedics.
Ok.
We got his tapes all his equipment and Ashley Bernarding.
Michael Gillette gets his day in court.
Let's hope he fries.
Kind of ironic he was banking on hanging a jury.
You ok? - I'm just not so sure.
About what? You put twelve people in a room, one of them might just see it his way.
Malone, you left your beeper in my bed.
Why don't you come and get it? - Hi.
We can pick up where we left off.
Now's a good time? - I would love to.
I'm ready for you.
Yeah? Well, I just can't commit to time and place yet.
I'll leave the door open.
- Ok.
That'll be great.
I loved it last time.
- Yeah, me too.
Bye.
Grace, everything is gonna be just fine.
Are you happy? Hmm? - I Are you? I'm happy I'm gonna be a father.
You know, once or twice a day I close my eyes, and without warning, I see you the night Jack tried to kill you.
When I came home and I found you drowning in the tub - Grace, I don't want to talk about that.
I know.
But it just made me realize how much I love you and how much I want you in my life.
I know that.
Ok, I'll get it.
Hello? Hey, Grace.
It's Sam.
I just called to see how you're feeling.
Hi, Sam.
Um, yeah, I'm ok, you know.
Dr.
Fisher took some tests, and he's probably gonna tell me tomorrow I need to take a week in the Bahamas.
Well, that sounds like my kind of doctor.
I just wanted to call and make sure you're okay.
Yeah, I'm okay.
Well, I miss you when you're not here.
Aw, that's so sweet.
I've only been gone two days.
Well, I can miss someone in two days.
I know.
How's New York? Oh.
Well, it was, uh Well, Bailey had a good time.
Yeah, I'm sure he did.
Ok.
Well, I'm glad you're ok.
Did you miss me, too, Sam? I know I missed you.
We gotta touch base, maybe have a drink together, talk about the good old days and the future.
Yeah.
That's right, Samantha.
Let's talk about our future.
You ought to have wider doors, Hal.
Yeah.
Take it easy.
Get me home.
Oh, boy.
Uhh! "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I did till we loved - if ever any beauty which I desired and got 'twas but a dream of thee.
" You awake? I am when you talk like that.
Who said it first? Uh a poet, 16th century - John Donne.
A tender word's nice to hear.
That's two reasons to like you.
What's the other one? What's wrong? - Nothing.
You may know sweet words, but you're a lousy liar.
My daughter Francis.
She's 17, great kid.
She had some problems - little problems, teenage stuff - and Well, now they're turning into bigger problems.
And daddy's a workaholic.
Mommy's the divorce was ugly, and, uh, she didn't get a lot of things she should've.
I think I'm losing her, and she's losing herself.
I don't want that.
Hmm.
I feel like a hooker.
- What? Isn't that what men do with hookers? Tell them all their problems? I, uh I wouldn't know.
I mean, men tell their problems to a lot of people.
Like who? Well friends, for instance.
Shrinks.
Whoever's on the next bar stool.
Or in the next bed? Would you like me to change the subject? - Uh-huh.
Hey, you.
- Hey.
Bailey paged me.
Do you know what's up? Mm-mmm, I don't.
I got pumpernickel, sesame, cream cheese, french roast.
I got the works.
Thank you.
You're a doll.
Ooh, yum, cholesterol heaven.
Why is it that everything I like to eat is terminal? Oh, well, maybe you should've been a sponge, you know? No heart, no brains, no lungs, no nervous system, no locomotion, no means of self-defense, you know, but they have survived for millions of years now.
Sounds like permanent bliss to me.
Or boredom.
You're not eating? No, I've been queasy this morning, you know? I got up at 4:00 two nights in a row now.
You ok? - Eh, it's probably just the flu, you know? So where is Herr Lord and Master? On the way to the command center.
Bring your bagels.
Check, please.
- See you.
- Mm-hmm.
We've got a self-appointed executioner working in upstate New York.
Two local tv stations - one in Niagara Falls, the other in Syracuse - received videocassettes, portions of their own broadcasts.
At first, no one thought anything about it.
Syracuse, five days ago.
The jury in the trial of accused serial rapist Craig Gentry returned a verdict of not guilty.
Gentry, the 34-year-old unemployed construction worker from Onondaga had been charged with the rapes of five Syracuse women.
DNA evidence introduced by the prosecution was judged to be inconclusive.
In Jamesville They received this next piece last night.
He seems to have a pattern: First, the newscast, then, his own tape.
And where'd they get it? U.
S.
Mail.
Point of origin is a local box in New York City.
We're checking.
WELCOME TO ONONDAGA POP 11,323 ELEV 1,243 That's the victim's house, rented it for three years.
That's Gentry.
He's stalking him.
Like a rapist might stalk a victim.
When do we get enhanced video? We'll have digitals by tonight.
Hey, what the hell-hey! Aah! Aah! Mace? - The preliminary autopsy said pepper spray.
What are you doing? I don't know who you are.
Listen, I got some money in the basement.
Come on, man.
At least let me know what this is all about.
No! Aah! No! God! Stigma and retribution, that's what it's about.
Put this on your news instead of your inane false moralizing.
Let people see and hear shame and discipline - expressive functions - rather than bleeding-heart editorials and inconclusive evidence.
The crime - Rape.
The verdict - Guilty.
The sentence - Appropriate.
He was castrated, then bled to death.
We're reprocessing the voice, so we can remove the distortion.
Now we have Niagara Falls, two weeks ago.
In other news, Carl White was released today after the jury reached no verdict in his trial for vehicular manslaughter in the deaths last April of Betty Carmodie and her two infant children.
The defense claims that blood analysis tests were compromised.
The family died in a fiery crash on Fulham Road, and the case has outraged many in Niagara Falls.
They got this three days later.
Get me home.
Broadcast this on the news.
Show people they may slip through the cracks in the justice system, but you can't get away with murder.
Law is either condoned or abused.
For those who abuse the law, punishment should be an expressive function.
The crime - Drunk driving.
The verdict - Guilty.
The sentence doesn't hold a candle to the shame.
We're dissecting the cassettes and checking on the camera he's using.
Are these the only two incidents? The only two we know about.
There's no witnesses, no prints, no visible connection to the victims.
I don't think there will be.
Vigilantes are usually driven by personal revenge, but this guy is different.
He wants revenge against the system.
The newscasts are his way of saying "this is how the system works," and his own tapes reflect the way he feels that it should work.
He taped the crime very carefully.
He knows that if it's too graphic, they won't show the public.
Well, so far, the stations are keeping quiet, but that's not going to last long.
If it's somebody who thinks the court system is screwed up, it's a - it's a long list.
Bailey, I want to get transcripts of his words.
He's gone to a lot of trouble to send society a message.
John, would you coordinate travel to New York? You and Sam need to be on a plane later today.
Sam, we don't have anything new on Jack, but I'm putting extra security on Chloe and Angel.
Also, St.
Angela's children's home.
You okay with that? Yeah.
What are you thinking? That he's probably not very far away.
It's hard to believe that a man of such evil could have made such beautiful roses.
Well, good and evil - sometimes it's hard to see the difference.
Mm-hmm.
Yes, I had more contact day-to-day with him than anyone, even Sister Agnes.
What I find so frightening is that a person like Carruthers - that Jack, as you call him - was living with us, and we never knew it.
Well, he needed a place where he thought that no one would ever look for him.
Sister Mary, is there anything else you can tell me about Carruthers, something that you might've forgotten to tell me already? No, your questions were pretty thorough.
Well, sometimes the smallest, most insignificant detail can trigger a memory - I mean, something about the roses or something he said.
Anything, anything at all.
He did say something about the roses once.
He said, "It takes a lot of time to make a rose.
" Well he was willing to make the time.
Can something like that help you to find a man like Jack? It confirms what I already know about him, that he's determined and patient.
Yes.
Ah I don't know how it is that you do what you do, but maybe it's the old testament teaching in me.
I am glad you're doing it.
Well, thank you, Sister.
The feeling is mutual.
Listen, if you do remember anything else, please feel free to call me.
Yes.
- Thank you, sister.
We figured the camera was here.
The guy must've parked out on the hardtop.
The only tire tracks we found were White's.
No footprints? Was White well-known? He was to us.
He had multiple DUIs.
We figured he'd smack up one day and maybe kill some innocent people.
The shame's that he walked out of court.
Well, the killer agrees with you.
He said the sentence couldn't hold a candle to the shame and he's talking about the shame of the court that didn't convict.
So he wants everybody who sees that tape to see, hear, and feel exactly what that crash was like, so that they can feel that shame.
Well, he sure wanted White to feel it.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
- Thanks.
I understand where he's coming from.
- Frustration.
Yeah, you go through all that crap cops go through.
What made you go through it? Why was I a cop? Yeah.
I figured I could make a difference, help some people, and I was damn good at it.
You think that a cop could've killed white? Could have, sure.
I hope not.
It's got to be somebody who's a part of the system, but feels alienated from it.
Kind of like a love affair.
What? I- I read this article in scientific something or other.
It said when two people are in love, I mean, really in love, the emotion burns up everything between them, until, sometimes-sometimes there's nothing left.
Wait a minute.
So, love turns to nothing? Or worse.
It's like - it's like, if you're a part of something, and you love it, and it doesn't work out, all that emotion can turn into alienation.
I figure maybe friendship is better.
You get all the pluses, and you don't get burned.
You settle for half the meal.
How far to Onondaga? Oh, about two appetizers and an entree.
We found him right there.
He was down about three quarts, also missing his privates.
Were any of these rape victims tied to their own beds? They all were.
The killer likes symbolism and symmetry.
No forced entry, signs of a struggle? Whoever did Gentry had a good plan.
Well, he knew how to make his point.
What's that? That the son of a bitch was guilty? That people didn't have enough feeling for the crime.
What rape is - the humiliation, the degradation.
People don't.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I don't know who you are.
Listen, I got some money in the basement.
Come on, man.
At least let me know what this is all about.
Aah! He's very well-prepared, thinks through all the angles.
He didn't take the money.
There was eight hundred bucks.
It isn't about money.
It's about punishment and punishment fitting the crime.
Gentry took a long time to bleed to death.
Rape victims suffer for a very long time.
White burned in seconds, just like the family in the car crash.
An eye for an eye.
Maybe we're looking for a rabbi.
It's like an old testament lesson.
The techies pulled a reflection off a window from a car in Niagara Falls.
For those who abuse the law, punishment should be an expressive function.
KILLER: The crime- Drunk driving.
The verdict- Guilty.
The sentence doesn't hold a candle to the- Hey.
Anything? Yeah, we I.
D.
'd the camera.
It's a pretty expensive little toy.
It's a high-8 model.
It costs about 2,000 bucks.
What about the cassettes? Well, based on the lot numbers, they were all purchased at a discount store in New York City.
All right, listen to this.
We cleaned up the distortion now.
There.
Show people they may slip through the cracks in the justice system, but you can't get away with murder.
Hey, hear the part about murder? But you can't get away with murder.
Broad vowels, very nasal - it's obviously east coast.
Sounds like New York.
Or New Jersey.
You still think it's cop? Well, the way he ends his statements on the tapes, it's almost like a judge.
It could all be an act, but - I don't know, he wants to take it public, so he's sophisticated.
I mean, revenge against a single person is easy, but revenge against an entire system requires a certain amount of sophistication.
So, somebody inside the justice system? Well, maybe it's like you said.
Somebody had a love affair, got burned, and the love turned to alienation.
Violent alienation.
Well, lovers kill each other all the time.
You don't have to be in love.
We've got another one, this time from Albany.
He's an alleged dealer, William Andersohl, sprung on a fourth amendment technicality.
In criminal court today, the case against alleged drug dealer William Andersohl was thrown out.
Judge Marian Shepard ruled the search and seizure of Andersohl's van was illegal.
Andersohl was suspected of selling black heroin to the son of Albany city Alderman Jerry Sherman.
Sherman's 17-year-old son died of an overdose after describing Andersohl and the van to some friends.
Drunk driving, rape, drugs- this guy's covering all bases.
That's Andersohl.
The building's on an alleyway off western avenue in downtown, Albany's version of needle park.
Uh, forensics found a cement block.
Debris in the wound and the blood matched.
He killed him with a cement block? No, this is the murder weapon, speedball cocktail laced with black heroin.
The fourth amendment was never intended to shield the guilty.
It's a perversion when it does.
Do the right thing.
Put this justice on the air.
The crime - Drugs.
The verdict - Guilty.
The sentence - The ultimate high.
The ultimate high lasted less than a minute.
Again, no prints, no hair, nothing.
Except for what he wants us to see - the humiliation, the punishment, the shame of the victim.
About as subtle as the gas chamber.
He's got a lot of rage, but he's very controlled, very precise.
I mean, look at the way he edits the tapes - all the right close-ups in all the right places.
He's taking us exactly where he wants us to go.
And-and the legal jargon, the phrasing - the intention of the fourth amendment, "Do the right thing.
" The tapes are like a brief, like a visual brief for the jury.
It's like he's trying to get them to see his point of view.
A prosecutor who's become judge and executioner? I know a couple of dozen who'd like to.
We should get a list of all the prosecutors in New York, especially those who endorse the death penalty.
This guy has time to travel.
Maybe he is retired.
Or disbarred.
Actual juries wouldn't listen to his case, so now he's taking it to a higher court - the public.
Yeah, well, it's not going to get to the public.
There's no way we're allowing these to be broadcast.
He's going to find a way.
Well, that's why we have to find him first.
We should get these transcripts to the law schools.
Maybe one of the professors can recognize the phrasing, the philosophy.
Like we did with the unabomber's manifesto.
Ok, I'll get the ram-jammers on the list.
You two get to Albany.
I'll have to stay here and coordinate, in case we get more tapes.
Yeah.
Hey, Bailey, where's Grace? We sent her home.
She was feeling a little rocky.
Huh.
Okay.
You ready? You ok? Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Fisher said there'd be some days like this.
Fisher's a doctor.
He doesn't know anything.
You're a doctor.
Same problem.
We love you, even if you don't know anything.
When all the geniuses tell you that something can't happen, that it is not possible, I cannot help but worry.
Well, geniuses aren't what they used to be.
There are no Leonardo da Vinci's smelling today's roses.
Morgan every test I took over the last three years came out negative.
Grace, you try to make sense out of life, you'll drive yourself crazy.
Tests are wrong sometimes, thank god.
Well, I don't want anything to go wrong.
I want it to be perfect, and I don't want to tell anyone until we know that it will be.
I mean, you know how many cases- Grace.
No, no, I mean good things, like women who were told that they could never get pregnant, so they adopted, and after they adopted, they got pregnant.
It does.
It happens all the time.
Like we said, doctors don't know anything.
You listen to me.
We're going to have this baby, and it's going to be beautiful.
Accountants know everything.
- Oh! Did you hear that, Fuzzy? Not about the accountants, though.
You're going to have a new playmate.
Trust me.
Andersohl was a wannabe a street dealer.
Never really cut it with the big boys.
Was he carrying when he showed up here? Couple of nickel bags.
Figured it was just another deal that went south until we saw the tape.
Uh, he must've come here with a purpose.
Maybe the killer contacted him.
Maybe he knew Andersohl.
Everybody knew Billy Andersohl.
Have you looked at his phone records? I practically have them memorized.
This kind of stuff was always from pay phones.
Yeah, I busted Andersohl twice once in one night.
He got out the same night? It's a hand slap, unless you can get the guy to cop a confession.
Doesn't sound like Billy was too smart.
Guys who sell dope, like guys that rob gas stations, are not exactly society's bright lights.
Now, my opinion, if I wanted to start killing dealers, I'd go higher up the food chain.
Oh, he isn't interested in the top dog.
He killed Andersohl because he represents a part of the system that didn't work.
I don't know.
Seems like Billy got due process to me.
Detective! You'll get us those phone records? If you want 'em.
Excuse me.
Just a minute, please.
Is it me, or do you get the feeling that none of the cops working these three murders are working overtime? I can't blame them.
I didn't say it was right, but I know how they feel.
Yeah.
This tape just showed up from a tv station in New York city.
He's changed his pattern.
How? You'll see.
His reasoning's pretty clear.
News media, why aren't you listening? Are you as deaf and blind as the courts? You've failed to take an opportunity to right wrongs, to show people there is a way to help justice prevail.
Your failure leaves me no choice.
In your eyes, this woman is innocent, but her crime is worse than those of the others.
If you don't do the right thing, I will.
Now the son of a bitch is gonna kill innocent people.
Technically, he already has.
Doesn't justify giving him a public forum.
If we did release part of the tape, maybe somebody would recognize his voice.
And then fifty other nutballs will start to copycat.
No way.
He changed his M.
O.
because he's angry.
Maybe he'll make a mistake.
It's gonna lead to this woman's murder if we don't find out who she is.
Let's try to narrow it down.
Oh, well, she's been coached.
Look at her arms, the way she holds her head.
She checks her watch at regular intervals.
She's, uh not a jogger.
She's more like a runner, a distance runner.
A woman in training.
And she's in terrific shape, which means she works out, so somebody must've seen her.
We'll need to locate every all-weather track in the city.
You know, from the light, it looks like this tape was shot just after dawn.
So she's dedicated.
Probably knows her own self-worth.
Probably also a loner.
Distance runners usually are.
And look at her clothes, no fashion logo.
She dresses for a purpose over style.
We'll get some stills.
- Yeah.
A runner in her twenties who went on trial for a violent crime in New York City and got off.
Big haystack.
He said that her crime was worse than the others.
The question is, what's worse in his mind? All right.
This tape made it to the tv station in time for the 7:00 news, but they didn't run it.
He'll act fast.
He's done a lot of work, and he hasn't gotten the attention he wants.
Nice to meet you, FBI.
My name is Ben Ferrarini.
Anybody want coffee? No, thank you.
Uh decaf? I don't allow it in homicide.
You can probably find some down in vice.
You Sam Waters? No, I'm Bailey Malone.
This is Dr.
Sam Waters.
How do you do? I'm John Grant.
Interesting case.
Yeah? Why is that? The guy's getting to the heart of an important matter.
We risk our butts to nail the sickos.
Judges and juries open the doors and let 'em out.
Pisses me off.
Yes, well, I don't think vigilantism is the answer.
I didn't say he was taking the best route.
But he could win a public service award in this building.
Is that how you feel? All the children of my imagination do not have equal stature.
Well, where exactly do cold-blooded killers fall? About one notch above lawyers.
Mmm.
Well.
I've got the feeling that our guy may be both.
Uh, lawyers practice relativism, especially with respect to morality.
Personally, I think that stinks.
You one of those cops who thinks he'd make a better arbiter of morality? I'd be, uh appalling.
That's why we need lawyers.
Detective, his next victim is an innocent woman.
We need to find her.
Yeah.
Well nobody's innocent.
And I don't know who the hell she is.
But I looked at your tapes.
I found the track.
It's at a college in Brooklyn.
Someone once said the reason they built the subway to Brooklyn was so that people who live there could get home without being seen.
I love New York.
It's full of paranoids and people like Farrarini - Farinni - whatever the hell is name is.
What's wrong with being paranoid? Did anybody call Grace? Morgan's taking her to the doctor.
They're gonna run some tests.
But she's never sick.
Well, sometimes I think the whole world is sick.
The problem is trying to get well.
Did you get any sleep last night? I'll sleep when we get this jerk.
If he is a lawyer, what is it about her crime that makes it worse than the others? Maybe she lied on the witness stand.
Wouldn't cooperate? Lawyers hate hostile witnesses.
No.
He's too smart.
I don't get the feeling he'd let anybody on the stand that he wasn't sure of.
Almost anywhere we could've seen the city.
He picked a track where he could hide it.
He knew we'd find this track.
He knows we're looking for her.
Hunhh! Bailey.
So, have you seen this girl? - Ask her coach.
Ashley Bernarding.
Her braids are a dead giveaway.
She almost made the '96 olympics, 5,000 meters.
Is Bernarding her married name? I don't think she's married.
Was she here this morning? I don't know.
What's the matter? What can you tell us about her habits, routines? She does track workouts maybe twice a week.
Give me the listings you have for an Ashley Bernarding.
I try to get some of the students to watch, you know? How often do you get a chance to see world class right up close? Do you know if Ms.
Bernarding has been in the news lately? I know she missed the Milrose games.
I don't know why.
Any of them in Brooklyn? She's kind of a loner.
A lot of distance runners are like that.
Meet you there.
Four listings for Ashley Bernarding.
Only one in Brooklyn.
John! Excuse me.
She in some kind of trouble? Well, we hope not.
Thank you very much.
Sure.
Miss Bernarding.
Clear! He's got her.
We need a floor-to-floor search! They may still be in the building! Pauly, you're with me.
Upstairs.
This doesn't fit.
He didn't take the others anywhere, so why her? Bailey.
Maybe he killed her here and took the body someplace else.
No, this is different.
She may still be alive.
Tell them that if they hear from her, I want to know about it A.
S.
A.
P.
She works part-time for the canarsie beach harriers.
It's a running club over on Hargrove.
They haven't heard from her, but they don't expect to till monday.
Anything from the court records? No defendant with the name Ashley Bernarding.
So far, they've checked back two years.
None of the neighbors on this floor saw or heard anything.
What about upstairs? We're still checking.
Anything here? Nothing that'll help us.
Just rent and groceries, stuff like that.
I'll stay on it.
What about her car? She doesn't have one.
Well, if she's walking everyplace, maybe - Cabs, bus, train - I got 16 men working a 10-block radius.
It's a long shot.
She keeps trophies in a cardboard box in the closet.
She's very self-assured.
Maybe she just doesn't care about them.
No, she cares.
This is her workout diary.
Over a hundred pages.
She just isn't showy.
She's good, and she knows it.
Question is, what did she do to deserve being victim number 4? We got something.
A law professor at Peterson Law School called about the transcripts.
Let's go.
I admit when I first read these, I was a little bit upset.
I mean, your organization and I have rarely been on the same side of the bench.
Well, that's a fair assessment.
The notion of actually aiding and abetting the FBI it's a little bit like deciding to vote republican.
On the other side, I would vote for Orrin Hatch before I'd openly condone homicide.
Well, that's good to know.
How can you help us, Professor Bello? Well the words that first caught my eye were, "Law is either condoned or abused.
" I use that phrase in practically every lecture I give.
But what really rang my bell is, "Punishment should be an expressive function.
" Now Jung believes that reputational shame is an expressive function.
Humiliation.
Public execution.
Shaming the transgressor.
It goes back to the time of the pilgrims - stocks in the public square and so forth, although I doubt it would work today.
I don't think we have much of a sense of shame in our society.
Well, we agree on something.
Professor Bello, do you recognize this voice? You've failed to take an opportunity to right wrongs, to show people there is a way to help justice prevail.
No.
Not the voice, no.
The ideas, the thinking I had a student a few years ago in philosophy of law.
That's where I use some of Jung's writings.
He was a 5-timer.
He took five times to pass the New York state bar.
But he finally made it.
He became a prosecutor.
He believed very strongly in the death penalty, but he wanted it public.
He wrote several papers about it.
Do you remember his name? No.
I had to look it up.
It's amazing what age does to, uh, temper one's memory.
Michael Gillette.
Michael wanted to execute everybody.
Of course, I've felt the same way myself a few times.
But that hardly gets to the root of the issue.
Professor, in the mind of someone like Michael Gillette, what is the worst crime that a person could commit? Probably, uh disagreeing with him.
Mmm.
Michael Gillette did not exactly make the District Attorney's office proud.
He was disbarred three years ago.
Why? Oh, jury tampering, threatening witnesses, bribes, among other allegations.
What was the case? A woman named Maria Esperitto tried to murder her husband up in spanish Harlem.
Uh, she said that he beat her and was abusive, so she shot him in his sleep and claimed self-defense.
He lived.
Pretty violent alienation.
It's getting to be the norm.
She might be justified, but it doesn't sound like self-defense.
Well, that depends on how scared she was.
It says here she had witnesses who'd seen him hit her in public.
Any of them named Ashley Bernarding? She was one of the jurors.
So what happened? Gillette argued it was just an excuse to commit murder.
The jury almost believed him, but couldn't reach a verdict, so the judge sent them back to deliberate half a dozen times.
Ultimately, they hung.
And Gillette tried to bribe them.
Them, the witnesses, everybody.
Got him disbarred.
Now-now, here's the irony.
The woman walked, right? So the first thing she did was go find her husband in the shower and stabbed him 76 times.
So he's got it in for Bernarding because she didn't convict in the first place.
Where's this guy Gillette now? I got a "last known" on him in Long Island City.
Let's go.
Sergeant Bouchard, you're with the FBI.
Messina, you're with me! Position the troops.
Keep 'em calm.
Even he deserves due process.
All right.
Ok, I'll a squad around the back and converge with you.
Good.
What are you thinking? He knew we'd get here.
He led us, the same way he did when he edited the tapes.
Like you lead a witness.
But you never ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.
Yes? Mr.
Michael Gillette? Yes! Detective Ben Ferrarini, New York City Police Department, Homicide.
I'm here with some FBI agents.
We'd like to talk to you for a minute.
I know why you're here.
Put your hands above your head, Mr.
Gillette! Didn't take you long.
We had good directions.
You mean someone paid attention? I was afraid the whole system was deaf from its own ineptitude.
May not be perfect, but it still works.
It's a joke.
Anybody with half a brain can beat the law the way it's run in this country.
Is that what you're gonna do now? It's full of holes.
Judges are afraid to judge.
Lawyers are only in it for the money, and juries will not convict.
Well, I think they're gonna convict you.
Of what? I haven't done anything wrong.
Everything I've done is right.
And even if you do get me in court, you can bet there's gonna be one person in that jury box who's gonna agree with me - one honest citizen with enough reasonable doubt to hang that jury.
Do you understand your rights as I just explained? Yes! That was Ashley Bernarding's crime, wasn't it? Reasonable doubt? She was the jury member who held out in the trial where you were disbarred.
I remember that case.
Mrs.
Esperito was acquitted, and then she went home and killed her husband.
Where is she? Hmm? Where is Ashley Bernarding? Did you hang her? Get him outta here.
Let's go, let's go.
Now we need to find Ashley Bernarding.
All of his crimes have been recreations.
Where was the Esperitto trial held? Superior court building downtown, but it's Saturday.
Place is gonna be empty.
That's where she is.
The trial was in room 65.
Brennan.
- Yes, sir.
Check that right corridor.
- Right.
No.
You don't hang a jury in the courtroom.
Where do they take them to deliberate? Just down the hall.
In his mind, that's where she committed the crime.
Bailey.
Damn! Have your men cover us.
Sarge! I got the rope.
I got the neck.
Go easy.
All set on this side.
Easy does it.
Give her some slack.
It's all right.
Get her away from the table.
Careful.
Careful.
Clear! Unh! She's out.
Ok? - You got her? - Yeah.
All right? - You all right? There we go.
- Are you ok? It was that lawyer.
We know.
We know.
It's ok.
It's ok.
Let's get the paramedics.
Ok.
We got his tapes all his equipment and Ashley Bernarding.
Michael Gillette gets his day in court.
Let's hope he fries.
Kind of ironic he was banking on hanging a jury.
You ok? - I'm just not so sure.
About what? You put twelve people in a room, one of them might just see it his way.
Malone, you left your beeper in my bed.
Why don't you come and get it? - Hi.
We can pick up where we left off.
Now's a good time? - I would love to.
I'm ready for you.
Yeah? Well, I just can't commit to time and place yet.
I'll leave the door open.
- Ok.
That'll be great.
I loved it last time.
- Yeah, me too.
Bye.
Grace, everything is gonna be just fine.
Are you happy? Hmm? - I Are you? I'm happy I'm gonna be a father.
You know, once or twice a day I close my eyes, and without warning, I see you the night Jack tried to kill you.
When I came home and I found you drowning in the tub - Grace, I don't want to talk about that.
I know.
But it just made me realize how much I love you and how much I want you in my life.
I know that.
Ok, I'll get it.
Hello? Hey, Grace.
It's Sam.
I just called to see how you're feeling.
Hi, Sam.
Um, yeah, I'm ok, you know.
Dr.
Fisher took some tests, and he's probably gonna tell me tomorrow I need to take a week in the Bahamas.
Well, that sounds like my kind of doctor.
I just wanted to call and make sure you're okay.
Yeah, I'm okay.
Well, I miss you when you're not here.
Aw, that's so sweet.
I've only been gone two days.
Well, I can miss someone in two days.
I know.
How's New York? Oh.
Well, it was, uh Well, Bailey had a good time.
Yeah, I'm sure he did.
Ok.
Well, I'm glad you're ok.
Did you miss me, too, Sam? I know I missed you.
We gotta touch base, maybe have a drink together, talk about the good old days and the future.
Yeah.
That's right, Samantha.
Let's talk about our future.