Diggstown (2019) s02e03 Episode Script
Willy MacIsaac Redux
1
Previously on Diggstown.
MARCIE: Mr. Elvins.
I need her to stop.
All you need to do is get me
a complete shareholders list.
LEAH: Sure, done.
MARCIE: Thanks Leah.
Julia's shareholders.
LEAH: You said you needed
that information for a client,
not to advance a hostile takeover.
How could you put me in this position?
EZRA: Marcie, it's Ezra,
the new CEO of Clarke Media.
I couldn't have done this without you.
- [AIR WHOOSHING]
- WILLY MACISAAC: I'm telling you,
there's something
wrong with your machine,
I haven't been drinking.
MARCIE: This is your fourth DUI.
Please, help me.
MARCIE: Honestly Willy,
I hope we never meet again.
[LAUGHS] That's fair.
- Woo!
- [SALSA MUSIC]
[SALSA MUSIC]
I feel it!
Give it your sweat.
Oh yeah!
Relax, no, you have
to surrender to him.
[SALSA MUSIC]
Yes, make it hotter, show me the heat!
Yes, spicy hips, spicy hips, yeah.
That's lovely.
Yeah.
INSTRUCTOR: Move your hips,
move your hips.
Can you help her with that?
You, come.
You're the man?
Lead me.
Good, that's it.
Good.
Woo, don't drop me!
Yes!
INSTRUCTOR: Oow, how's that?
Good. We'll work on trust.
Yep, we'll work on that.
You had enough?
Oh yeah.
Whose idea was this?
You know whose idea this was.
[CHUCKLING]
[PHONE RINGING]
INSTRUCTOR: Hips ladies!
Marcie Diggs.
WILLY: Marcie,
- it's Willy.
- MARCIE: Willy?
Willy, what's wrong?
[SIGHS]
[DRAMATIC BEAT]
I'm in trouble.
[TENSE MUSIC]
WILLY: And I don't think he
even knew the difference.
Sorry, I'm a little early, Willy.
Yeah, well you could have waited.
WILLY: Hey,
you guys take care of each other, okay?
MARY PAT: This isn't right,
you locked up in your own home
like some kind of criminal.
Ma, it's house arrest,
could be in a cell.
You be good for your grandmother.
He's going to Aunt Clara's,
Mary Pat's got her hands
full with this one.
Dad, are you gonna be okay?
Yes, yes, my secret
weapon just walked in.
Come on.
MARCIE: They wanna
talk to both of your kids.
The police feel that they might be able
to provide some insight into
- the relationship between you
- I-I can say no to this?
We can say no to this?
Oh.
Police ain't getting near my kids.
Prosecutor can issue a subpoena.
No, I don't wanna put
them through that Marcie,
I mean it's bad enough that they had to
- live through our marriage.
- MARCIE: Well if they don't appear
the judge can issue a bench warrant.
For kids?
MARCIE: Listen, this isn't a big deal-
You ain't hearing me,
I don't want my kids
anywhere near the cops.
MARCIE: Why are you
making this a thing?
WILLY: What if I take a plea?
You wanna plead guilty?
You've been saying you're innocent
for the last three months.
Okay, if you're telling
me that you did this, then
Fine, I-I'll work this out, but
Willy are you really
prepared to go to jail
for six to ten years,
for something you didn't do?
What's going on in that head of yours?
MARY PAT: Quit bullying him.
Mrs. MacIsaac,
Willy and I are having a
private conversation here.
He said he wants to take a plea.
Just go do your job.
This is my guy,
he's mad 'cause I'm late.
[LAUGHS]
- Hey, Mr. Paul.
- DOUG: Hey, Neve.
GARETH: Sorry, man.
My alarm didn't go off,
the bus was late,
she can't miss her appointments.
DOUG: Don't worry,
I'll explain that to the judge.
We should go.
Mr. Paul
Yeah?
You're gonna keep my dad out of jail.
Right?
GARETH: Hey, come on now honey,
innocent people don't go to jail.
Right, Doug?
That is the hope.
Yeah, that's fine.
Okay, I gotta go, mmhmm.
- Good morning.
- Well.
I was just thinking about
you and here you are.
What can I do for you?
I'm going after your boy, Ezra Elvins.
Tax evasion, fraud,
insider trading, tipping,
- the whole thing.
- Oh.
Well, good luck with that.
Look, I know you were on his legal team
when we were at M&M,
you provided him with legal advice.
That's also privileged
communication, okay.
I gotta go.
What about his takeover
of Clarke Media?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
I wasn't
Ezra Elvins told Clarke
Media shareholders
a story about the owner of the company,
being unstable,
unfit following the death of her son.
Several of those shareholders say
he got the story from you.
Where are you going with this Avery?
They backed him in a takeover
which put him at the helm
of Clarke Media, Marcie,
and he sold it for parts.
Marcie, these cronies
of your Mr. Elvin's,
they don't want their money back,
they wanna see him
behind bars for the rest
of his natural life.
And I've been the one chosen to do it.
Well I can't help you.
Marcie, I'm gonna give you some time
to think about this, okay?
If you know anything,
or if you're involved
in this mess in any way,
then you need to tell me now.
Later
I may not be in a position to help you.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You never change.
[SIGHS]
Did you ever meet a ladder
you couldn't resist climbing?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I'm so confused, Marcie,
are we starting a preliminary hearing,
or is your guy pleading?
Mr. MacIsaac's willing to take a plea.
And admit to murdering his ex
- Manslaughter.
- Whatever,
admit to committing a crime,
he just spent the last
three months denying.
What changed?
Well, he knows that if
I'm to defend him properly,
there are some unflattering
things about the deceased
that'll show up in court.
Willy doesn't want
his kids to see that,
he wants us to work out a fair deal.
Oh, and what is considered fair,
when it comes to pushing your ex-wife
down a flight of stairs and
cracking open her skull, huh?
Ten years? Fourteen?
I'm gonna say five, out in two.
[LAUGHS] This is like negotiating
screen time with my kids.
I say 15 minutes, they want two hours.
Six I will think about.
Whaddaya got, a couple of old 911 calls
from when they were
going through a divorce,
and an eyewitness who can testify to
Willy racing into his ex-wife's house,
with her blood on his
hands and his clothes?
- Come on.
- What I have,
is motive, opportunity, pathology
Preliminary.
That proves our theory of the case,
plus there is the contusion
on the victim's cheek,
bruising around her neck,
which my guys will say is from a fight
with your client prior to being
pushed down a flight of stairs.
Sera, you have a theory,
you do not have a case.
Notice you're the
one looking for a plea?
Six years, two in prison,
four years probation.
Six, he serves four,
and I'm only making that offer
because you are not about
to waste the court's time
arguing an owl flew
in through the window
and knocked her down
a flight of stairs.
Come to think of it
SERA: Take it to your client, Marcie,
I am due in court.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Having to negotiate with pawnbrokers
for the return of family heirlooms.
I can't begin to tell you
how humiliated I felt.
My sister
My sister wanted to call
the police immediately.
I guess I just wanted to believe
that it was all just a
big misunderstanding.
Mom's elderly,
she gets confused,
but then the money,
the cheques,
the tens of thousands of dollars.
It became clear we needed
the police to intervene.
PROSECUTOR: Mr. Zehr,
have you had the opportunity
to ask your mother how
her money and possessions
ended up in Mr. Norton's hands?
MR. ZEHR: No.
Unfortunately, my
mother's been in a coma
for the last three weeks.
PROSECUTOR: And prior to that,
did your mother give you or your sister
any indication of the relationship
between her and Mr. Norton?
MR. ZEHR: There was no relationship.
He's a thief.
- DOUG: Objection, Your Honour.
- I agree.
PROSECUTOR:
We're done with this witness.
You were in Halifax
five weeks ago for work?
Yes.
Did you visit your mother?
MR. ZEHR: I was here
for less than 48 hours,
my schedule was back-to-back,
there was no time.
Your Honour, I'd like
to direct the witness
to defence exhibit CC-12,
a receipt from the Gio Restaurant
at the Prince George Hotel.
Sir, can you tell me the time,
printed at the top of the receipt?
It says 5:30 pm.
But your reservation was for 7?
Your mom lives on Ogilvie,
which is a 15 minute drive from Gio.
You arrived an hour and a half early
for a 7 o'clock reservation,
yet you couldn't make
the time to see her?
I didn't want to disrupt her schedule.
DOUG: Isn't it true you've
made 15 trips to Halifax
in the last 12 months,
and you haven't made the
effort to see her once.
I call her, all the time.
DOUG: Mr. Zehr,
isn't this entire criminal complaint
driven by my client's refusal
to return a set of wedding rings
your mother gave him
as a gift for his daughter?
She would never part with those rings.
DOUG: You know the
value of those rings?
I don't see why that's relevant.
Your Honour, I
Answer the question.
The set's been appraised at $30,000.
No time to visit your elders,
but plenty of time to have
her valuables appraised.
PROSECUTOR: Objection,
Mr. Paul is testifying.
DOUG: I think I'm done with
this witness, Your Honour.
DIANA: So my youngest
is getting married this year,
and I've told her, if I pay,
I get a say.
She changed her tune
pretty quick after that.
BLAIR: [LAUGHS]
I'm trying to pay off
my kids' student loans,
and at this rate I'm
gonna be working forever.
[LAUGHING]
Hey, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
- where do you think you're going?
- Home.
Well what are you so sour about?
Oh, ex-spouses,
and kids with their hands out,
I've been there, done that,
I'm done talking it to death.
Oh, come on, man, have another beer.
On me.
Ooh, magic words, hey Reggie?
One.
BLAIR: There you go.
Two Keith's.
Hey, I've been meaning to ask, ah,
I need you to do me a little favour.
[LAUGHS]
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
No no, come on, don't be like that.
Now listen, I gotta get
outta town tomorrow,
I'm not gonna be back until mid-week,
I wanna know if you'll sub in for me
with my first year
class at the law school?
[LAUGHS] I don't think you want that.
BLAIR: Come on, it's nothing.
I'm sure you've got enough war stories
they can learn from.
DIANA: Now, Reggie is right.
I mean,
you're not the voice of a generation,
are you?
You know what Blair?
Why the hell not?
Are you sure buddy?
I got ya covered.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
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♪
♪
♪
PAM: How's it going?
- Do you have a minute?
- Yeah.
Good.
So he's smiling.
- Right?
- Mmhmm.
MARCIE: Then, he gets a phone call,
and then he just trips
out of his senses,
he's-he's angry.
PAM: Who do you think he's talking to?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[PHONE DIALLING]
OPERATOR: The number you
have reached is not in service.
MARCIE: I saw you joking and laughing,
with the Commissionaire,
when you crossed the bridge,
and then you get a phone call,
then you just go nuts.
I have no idea what
you're talking about.
- Why are you lying to me?
- I'm not.
Here's what I know.
This phone number,
was registered to a cell
phone plan that you had,
so that your kids could call you
when they needed to.
Come on Willy, just tell me the truth.
Becca called me,
Gloria was getting
after her for nothing.
I got Gloria on the phone,
I reamed her out,
I mean, that woman was
ruining my life, Marcie,
and the way that she would
go after those kids-
So you confronted her
WILLY: No, I wanted to.
But I, uh
I went to get some flowers,
for a lady I was dating,
when I got to Gloria's
Becca-
Becca-
She was sobbing.
I tried to get her to
tell me what happened,
but she was, sh-sh-shaking,
like she was in shock.
I cleaned her up.
I called my ma,
and I got her to pick
her up at this park,
it's just a couple blocks from there.
I-I just had to get her
out of there, Marcie.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Well we have to tell the prosecutor.
We can fight this.
I know how the law works, Marcie,
and they're gonna try to
turn this all around on her.
And I will not gamble
with my daughter's life.
And I want you to go and tell them
that I'm gonna do the time.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
RANDY: You need to stop
running off at the mouth.
MARY PAT: You're threatening me, Randy?
RANDY: I didn't kill Gloria.
MARY PAT: Don't mistake me for her.
RANDY: Yeah, well I know people.
MARY PAT: Oh yeah? Come for me,
- see what happens.
- RANDY: You gotta stop
spreading lies about me and Gloria.
Lies?
Don't pretend like you
weren't knocking her around.
Yeah, but I didn't kill her.
Neither did my son.
Mrs. MacIsaac
Bye, Randy.
You see I've got company?
[CAR ENGINE FIRES UP]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
I need to talk to Becca.
Not happening.
Better I speak to her than the police.
BECCA: Grandma, it's Dad,
He says he wants me to talk to her.
[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL]
[SIGHS]
Dad said I can trust you.
You can tell me anything.
Mom and I were having a fight,
she was so mad,
'cause I forgot to get
Miles to soccer practice, and,
she was, going off about,
how we were the reason,
that Mr. Slaney didn't
want to see her again, and,
she said if
She didn't need the money
she'd let Dad have us full-time.
Miles started to cry and,
she told him to stop,
but he ran off.
MARY PAT: He took the bus here.
BECCA: I tried to follow him but,
she blocked my way.
She was yelling and
I called Dad.
I could hear him screaming
at her through the phone.
I tried to go up the stairs,
but she grabbed for my arm
and scratched me.
I just wanted her off.
I, I didn't mean to.
[CRIES] Her insulin
thing started going off,
I thought that was the reason that,
she wasn't moving but
Then I saw the blood.
There was so much.
MARY PAT: It's okay, girl, it's okay.
You're gonna be all right.
[SOFT CRYING]
MARY PAT: You're gonna be okay. Shh.
It's okay. It's all right.
She needs counselling.
Don't need her running off
her mouth to strangers.
I can take care of my granddaughter.
Did you know that
Gloria was a diabetic?
She used to wear
some kind of silly belt,
to get attention, yeah.
Listen, you should have the
cops look into Randy Slaney,
Gloria's ex-boyfriend.
According to the kids,
those guys fought like cats and dogs.
Apparently she got rotten
because he wouldn't leave his wife.
Wasn't going quietly,
if you know what I mean.
I can't mount an
alternate suspect theory
I know to be false.
MARY PAT: Bloody lawyers.
Any excuse not to do your job.
- Jesus.
- [PHONE RINGS]
MARCIE: Marcie Diggs.
EZRA: Marcie, it's Ezra,
I need to see you.
Mr. Elvins, I, uh
EZRA: Marcie, it's not a request.
I'll see you in an hour, Duncan's Cove.
[OMINOUS INSTRUMENTAL]
♪
♪
[DISTANT MOTORCYCLE REVVING]
What have you been saying, Marcie?
I don't wanna be involved in this.
You are involved.
Because you involved me.
You were supposed to sell the shares,
buy yourself a gown,
a surfboard, whatever it is you do.
It wasn't meant to be a keepsake.
What do you want from me?
Your fealty.
You and that prosecutor,
pretty friendly.
Don't allow that friendship
to cloud your judgement,
or cause you to forget who I am.
[SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL]
I'm well aware of who
you are, Mr. Elvins.
Of course you are, Marcie.
DOUG: PI report from the prosecutor.
[SIGHS]
Explain.
[SIGHS] It's true.
DOUG: This makes you look really bad.
Doug, come on man, I was
I was 19, I was 20
Uneducated, I barely had a pot to,
piss in,
so
Those old folks, they just, uh
They just want somebody to pay
a little attention to them, you know.
Somebody to listen to the
stories about the glory days,
if they wanted to give
me a little extra
Or
You took a little extra?
Yeah.
But that was 15 years ago,
that's before Patricia and Neve.
The guy in this report's not me.
DOUG: He is you,
Your regret, it doesn't change
GARETH: Except I didn't
steal anything from Isabelle.
DOUG: She's in a coma Gareth,
we don't have her evidence,
we have this.
And if the judge allows
that into evidence
Yep.
You're telling me that
I'm gonna go to jail?
No, but you should start considering
who'll be a good guardian to
So after court tomorrow,
you should come to the office.
Our social worker, Iris Beals,
she'll run you through all the
No, I, look,
I didn't do anything.
I didn't do anything.
Isabelle's my friend.
She's good to me, she's good to Neve.
She gave us these things
because she wants to help.
- Gareth, I
- GARETH: Please, Doug.
My daughter needs me.
Don't you let them do
this to me, please.
Okay.
Marcie!
Hey, I didn't see
any mention of an insulin pump,
in the logbook of items
from the crime scene.
SERA: I will talk to the investigators,
but we have a bigger issue.
Hot off the press, pathology.
Seems like your client,
tried to cover up his crime.
What are you talking about?
SERA: They found tissue
under the victim's nails,
can't be conclusively ID'd,
but someone, your client,
soaked the victim's fingers
in bleach after killing her.
He's clever, I will give him that.
Tell him if he agrees to 15,
I will agree to let him out in 10.
See you inside.
[DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL]
MARCIE: These things come out, Willy.
However smart you think you are,
the investigators,
the-the scientists,
the lawyers,
they're smarter.
The truth will come out.
Yeah, why do you think
I was trying to take the plea?
Now look what you got us into.
MARCIE: You wanted me to negotiate,
- I could have closed this.
- Well, go back.
Go back, tell 'em.
Tell 'em I'll take it.
I know that you think
that taking a plea
is gonna protect Becca, but,
I gotta tell you,
the young woman that
I saw the other day,
she needs her father.
You take this plea,
and your kids haven't
only lost their mother,
they lose their dad too.
WILLY: Yep.
I mean, you're asking me,
to put my faith in a system,
that guts people like me and my kids.
No Willy,
I'm asking you to have faith in me.
Don't take a plea,
when you know that we can fight this.
PROSECUTOR: The private
investigator's report
provides a clear picture
of the defendant's pattern
of befriending and
defrauding elderly patients.
DOUG: It's hearsay, Your Honour.
Miss Keen knows this.
If they'd like to place
a pause on the trial,
until they're able to
bring forth the folks
that are interviewed
in Mr. MacNeill's report,
we're happy to agree.
What do you he to say
to that, Miss Keen?
That's very, generous of
Mr. Paul, Your Honour.
However, that is impossible.
And why is that?
They died, Your Honour.
The victims interviewed
by Mr. MacNeill have died.
That's unfortunate,
as Mr. Paul is correct.
Allowing Mr. MacNeill's
report would be hearsay.
The PI report will not
form part of the evidence.
REGGIE: So your client comes in,
facing a drug charge,
heroin,
what's the first question you ask?
[LIGHT-HEARTED MUSIC]
DEE: Did you do it?
Were you properly Mirandized?
We don't have "Miranda" here.
No, you're all wrong.
It was a trick question.
You don't ask questions.
You listen, you watch.
Not all clients are created equal.
How are they dressed?
Is it a man or a woman?
What's their racial or
cultural background?
OLIVER: So we're back
to blaming the victim?
REGGIE: Yeah,
you could put it that way.
A good lawyer starts
building his defence
the moment that a client
walks in the door.
Now I have 30 or 40 open files
on the go at any given moment.
It's important that you
assess very quickly,
who you can get an acquittal
OLIVER: And who you feed to the wolves.
REGGIE: And who is
best off with a plea.
OLIVER: Same thing.
Hey, just 'cause it worked in 1962
doesn't mean it's gonna work now, bruh.
Bay Street lawyer or surgeon?
You lost me, dude.
Your parents?
The only people I know
that show up at law school
and waste everybody's time,
are folks that don't need to
be here in the first place.
Is there a lecture hall,
with your family's name on it
around here somewhere?
Look, I'm here because you
guys and your future clients
deserve real talk,
not something that you're gonna read
in a bloody textbook.
Now you wanna be glib,
and put on a show, you can leave.
No, actually leave.
I'm sorry?
Pack up your things and go.
[LIGHT-HEARTED MUSIC]
♪
You're gonna regret this, man.
I doubt it.
Now, where were we?
SERA: Marcie.
Well the investigators went
back out to the crime scene,
and lo and behold,
there was a dislodged insulin pump
wedged behind the door and the rack.
Bloody rookie didn't know what it was
and just left it there.
The pathologist will be issuing
a revised report this afternoon.
- Thanks.
- Any response from your client,
regarding my offer?
Nothing I'd repeat in polite company.
PROSECUTOR: We have him on camera
pawning Mrs. Zehr's belongings,
we have cheques made out to him,
for thousands of dollars,
I'm just saying,
this isn't a slam dunk for you.
For you either.
I have a witness who will testify
to Mrs. Zehr's fondness for my client.
Yes, fondness he took advantage of.
Doug, take the 18 months and
MR. ZEHR: She's
dead you son of a bitch.
- [DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL]
- [GARETH GROANING]
- MR. ZEHR: Mom's gone!
- Hey!
What the?
My mother died this morning.
I hope you rot in prison.
Okay.
[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL]
♪
How's it going with
your repeat customer?
What do you know about insulin pumps?
Not much.
It says here an examination
of the insulin pump
was undertaken and
revealed that the device
became dislodged at 5:15 pm.
This suggests time of injury,
occurred at that time.
- You have something?
- MARCIE: Hmm.
4:50 pm, the bridge.
5:05, flowers.
Gloria's house is a good
25 minutes from the florist,
which puts Willy at Gloria's
He would've never made it.
This proves that he
couldn't have done this.
I-I gotta call Sera.
[PHONE RINGS]
Oh.
Sera, no I was just about to
[SOFT DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL]
Okay, I know, I
[SOFT DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL]
You're dismissing the charges?
SERA: When I want the
pathologist to tell me time of death,
they insist they can't,
but time of injury
Bloody technology.
WILLY: I knew you'd
come through for me.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
RANDY: You piece of garbage!
You and that bitch mother of yours,
thinking you can pin this on me?
Burn in hell, Slaney.
RANDY: You're not gonna
get away with it, you hear me.
He deserveeverything
that's coming to him.
RANDY: You're not
gonna get away with it!
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Hey, Reggie.
Yeah.
Well that's the last time
I ask you to do me a favour.
The dean ripped me
from rooter to tooter.
Oh, "Beckham" went crying
to the dean, did he?
Yeah, well, good,
the kid needs to learn
to shut up when adults are talking.
Yeah, Reggie, "Beckham"
is the dean's son.
And that gives him
licence to act like an ass?
Look, the kid needed someone
to straighten him out,
thank you for the opportunity.
You know, you're the ass.
She suspended me.
MARCIE: Are you really willing
to allow an innocent man
to go to jail?
No, I don't want to, but
It's not my problem now.
We both know
that your mother's
behind the anonymous tip
that put the cops on Randy Slaney.
When the police make that connection,
she could be charged with
making a false report.
Or maybe they start asking themselves,
where was she,
the night her son's ex-wife was killed?
And I don't see her,
sacrificing her golden years for Becca.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I know what you're doing,
but look, my ma, she would never
Okay.
We all know that Slaney's innocent,
but
He can go and,
get a good lawyer like you, and,
they can get him off.
MARCIE: Or maybe he agrees to the plea,
because five years is
a lot easier to accept
than facing the possibility of 15
for a crime he didn't even commit.
Come on Willy, we can't do this.
We?
We're out of this.
Slaney can fend for himself.
- Willy!
- WILLY: No.
Marcie, what are you doing?
Randy Slaney can rot in jail.
You hear me?
I am gonna protect my
daughter at all costs.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
The redaction is going to be an issue.
There's very sensitive financial
information in my mother's will.
I'll give it a try.
PROSECUTOR: I'll offer 18 months.
He'll be out in a year.
My client maintains his innocence.
JUDGE: Council, can we proceed please?
Don't say I didn't try.
Your Honour, in light of the
death of Mrs. Isabelle Zehr,
I would like to submit her
last will and testament,
prepared by Mrs. Zehr's
lawyer, Fisher Bloom.
A copy of which I
received from her children
to prove the level of coercion
the defendant exerted
over the deceased.
Mrs. Zehr changed her
will less than a month
before falling into a coma.
The defendant is not only
mentioned in the will,
but actually arranged the
appointment with the lawyer,
and was at her home at
the time of the meeting.
DOUG: Your Honour, we object.
JUDGE: I'll stop you there, Mr. Paul.
Miss Keen, you know better,
than to bring redacted documentation
- before the court.
- PROSECUTOR: Your Honour,
Mrs. Zehr's will contains personal
and confidential information.
JUDGE: I don't care
if the will contains
the Cadbury Caramilk secret.
Bring the court an original
copy of the unredacted will,
and I'll consider it's
value as evidence.
We're in recess.
BAILIFF: All rise.
Nice stunt.
You didn't think the
judge would go for that?
It saved me the trouble of serving
Fisher Bloom with a subpoena.
[DOUG CHUCKLES]
MARCIE: I know his mother did this,
okay?
That woman is an OG, let me tell you.
Willy is your client and he's free.
You've done your job, it's done.
MARCIE: But Randy
Slaney is facing jail time
for a crime he didn't commit.
- Did you arrest him?
- Pam.
Is it your decision whether
to prosecute him or not?
No, that's your boyfriend's.
Exactly.
- You've done nothing wrong.
- MARCIE: I know, but, [SIGHS]
PAM: Listen, go home,
go have a drink, go surf,
go flirt with a guy, I don't know,
focus on your win.
Whatever happens to
Mr. Slaney isn't on you.
Sorry, I gotta run.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
MARCIE: Leah,
I thought you were long gone.
Not gone far enough.
MARCIE: Where've you been?
LEAH: I'm working in Thunder Bay.
It's not M&M but at least
I can sleep at night.
Listen, the RCMP raided
M&M two days ago.
All of the files involving Ezra Elvins
have been placed under seal.
They took Tessa Cox out in handcuffs.
You and I both knew,
the second Ezra took over Clarke Media
the fact that I gave you
the list of shareholders
was gonna come back on us.
Not if you kept quiet about it.
I'm working for Kinna-aweya,
I don't wanna put them in
the crosshairs of the RCMP,
just because I did you a stupid favour.
[SCOFFS]
I love how I'm the bad guy here.
Aren't you?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
MARCIE: What did you tell Avery?
That you requested
information on the shareholders
and that I gave it to you.
MARCIE: And in exchange,
you get to keep practicing, yeah?
I didn't know that being a lawyer
meant so much to you, Leah.
So what are you gonna do?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[LIGHT-HEARTED MUSIC]
♪
Hey, I think we have a
bit of a misunderstanding.
Do we have an appointment?
Oh, I'm-I'm, uh, Reggie Thompson.
Yes, I know who you are.
What happened between your son and me,
that had nothing to do with Blair,
he just asked me to sub in for him,
that's it, so if you want to
So, you're here to apologize?
Apologize?
No, I just don't think it's fair
that you suspended Blair
because I set your son straight.
[LAUGHS]
Is that what you think?
Listen, he acts like an entitled jerk,
because, well,
because his mom runs the place,
and I think that's garbage.
Hm.
Professor Cleary has missed
49% of his classes this year.
He has two written
reprimands in his file,
That's why he was suspended.
Now, please get the
hell out of my office,
I'm due to have lunch with my, uh,
entitled jerk of a son.
Oh, right, sure.
[LIGHT-HEARTED MUSIC]
♪
Goodbye.
DOUG: Mr. Bloom, I'm Doug Paul.
My client was Isabelle Zehr's
homecare worker.
Mr. Paul,
I'll tell you the same thing
I told Madison Keen.
As Mrs. Zehr's estate lawyer,
my duty of confidentiality,
extends beyond her death.
My intention is to respect that duty,
subpoena or no subpoena.
Mr. Bloom, all I need to know
is if this redacted version of the will
reflects Mrs. Zehr's intention?
Mr. Paul, here's what I can tell you.
I drove to Mrs. Zehr's home,
Mr. Norton was not present,
her family doctor was though.
Mrs. Zehr did not leave
Mr. Norton any cash.
But the redactions suggest
she left him $750,000?
Will you testify on my client's behalf?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
You've seen this, Miss Keen?
Yes, Your Honour.
Mr. Bloom, you're excused
from the witness stand.
Mr. Norton, please rise.
I will read the relevant section
of Ms. Zehr's last will and testament.
"To my caregiver and dear
friend Gareth Norton,"
"I leave my 2004 Volvo."
"You've put enough
labour and love into it,"
"it's practically yours anyway."
"Further, I leave the
lump sum of $750,000"
"for the continued treatment
and post secondary education"
"of his daughter, Neve Norton."
"I only wish I enjoyed"
"the relationship you
have with your daughter"
"with my own children."
There is no crime here.
Only the greediness of
two neglectful children.
Mr. Norton, the charges
against you are dismissed.
[COURTHOUSE MURMURING]
BAILIFF: All rise.
Hey, you won.
MARY PAT: I really
don't have time for this.
You know what you and
Willy are doing is wrong.
Looking out for his kids?
No, I'm sorry, I can't
agree with you there.
You're setting up an innocent man.
There ain't nothing
innocent about Randy Slaney.
Well, we know that he
didn't kill Gloria.
I'm running late.
WILLY: Ma, Becca's school called.
MARY PAT: What?
- WILLY: She's in the hospital.
- MARY PAT: Jesus.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
MARCIE: How's your girl?
Yeah, uh
Doc says that she had a severe
Panic attack.
My little girl was so scared,
that she thought she was
having a heart attack.
Willy, I know how hard
it can be to believe
in the system that we have.
I've seen it
firsthand how it can swallow people up.
But your little girl,
I have to believe that they'll
get it right this time.
I have to.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Do-do you think you could come say hi?
Of course.
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC]
Ah
Mr. Thompson, thank you for joining us.
Thank you for the call.
Oliver has something
he wanted to say to you.
Don't embarrass yourself any further.
I'm sorry for disrupting your class.
Apology accepted.
Now, now that that's done.
Ah, Mr. Thompson.
You can leave now, Son.
Sit, please,
I hate eating alone.
Well.
I've always wanted
to try the grub here.
[LAUGHS]
It's a pleasure to be of service.
Perhaps you can return the favour.
I am short a lecturer.
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
BECCA: And she grabbed
my arm and scratched me.
I pushed back with my elbow but
A-all I wanted was just,
for her to get off.
But she fell.
I didn't mean for Mom to
It was an accident.
I didn't want to hurt her.
We won't be pursuing charges.
[SIGHS]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Hey, keys to the Volvo.
- Thank you.
- Take care, man.
MARCIE: Avery.
Haven't heard from you, Marcie.
Well, I can't help you, Avery.
Come on Marcie,
don't force my hand here.
Force your hand?
Why do I feel like the one
with the hand on their throat?
Look, whatever I know about Mr. Elvins
and his business dealings,
is protected by
solicitor-client privilege.
Now you may not like that truth,
but it is what it is.
And this?
Shares.
In Clarke Media issued to you,
the exact same day that Ezra Elvins
took control of the company.
Marcie.
Whatever you're thinking,
Ezra Elvins will toss you under a bus
[SNAPS FINGERS]
AVERY: Like that.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
Solicitor-client privilege.
So
That's your choice.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Previously on Diggstown.
MARCIE: Mr. Elvins.
I need her to stop.
All you need to do is get me
a complete shareholders list.
LEAH: Sure, done.
MARCIE: Thanks Leah.
Julia's shareholders.
LEAH: You said you needed
that information for a client,
not to advance a hostile takeover.
How could you put me in this position?
EZRA: Marcie, it's Ezra,
the new CEO of Clarke Media.
I couldn't have done this without you.
- [AIR WHOOSHING]
- WILLY MACISAAC: I'm telling you,
there's something
wrong with your machine,
I haven't been drinking.
MARCIE: This is your fourth DUI.
Please, help me.
MARCIE: Honestly Willy,
I hope we never meet again.
[LAUGHS] That's fair.
- Woo!
- [SALSA MUSIC]
[SALSA MUSIC]
I feel it!
Give it your sweat.
Oh yeah!
Relax, no, you have
to surrender to him.
[SALSA MUSIC]
Yes, make it hotter, show me the heat!
Yes, spicy hips, spicy hips, yeah.
That's lovely.
Yeah.
INSTRUCTOR: Move your hips,
move your hips.
Can you help her with that?
You, come.
You're the man?
Lead me.
Good, that's it.
Good.
Woo, don't drop me!
Yes!
INSTRUCTOR: Oow, how's that?
Good. We'll work on trust.
Yep, we'll work on that.
You had enough?
Oh yeah.
Whose idea was this?
You know whose idea this was.
[CHUCKLING]
[PHONE RINGING]
INSTRUCTOR: Hips ladies!
Marcie Diggs.
WILLY: Marcie,
- it's Willy.
- MARCIE: Willy?
Willy, what's wrong?
[SIGHS]
[DRAMATIC BEAT]
I'm in trouble.
[TENSE MUSIC]
WILLY: And I don't think he
even knew the difference.
Sorry, I'm a little early, Willy.
Yeah, well you could have waited.
WILLY: Hey,
you guys take care of each other, okay?
MARY PAT: This isn't right,
you locked up in your own home
like some kind of criminal.
Ma, it's house arrest,
could be in a cell.
You be good for your grandmother.
He's going to Aunt Clara's,
Mary Pat's got her hands
full with this one.
Dad, are you gonna be okay?
Yes, yes, my secret
weapon just walked in.
Come on.
MARCIE: They wanna
talk to both of your kids.
The police feel that they might be able
to provide some insight into
- the relationship between you
- I-I can say no to this?
We can say no to this?
Oh.
Police ain't getting near my kids.
Prosecutor can issue a subpoena.
No, I don't wanna put
them through that Marcie,
I mean it's bad enough that they had to
- live through our marriage.
- MARCIE: Well if they don't appear
the judge can issue a bench warrant.
For kids?
MARCIE: Listen, this isn't a big deal-
You ain't hearing me,
I don't want my kids
anywhere near the cops.
MARCIE: Why are you
making this a thing?
WILLY: What if I take a plea?
You wanna plead guilty?
You've been saying you're innocent
for the last three months.
Okay, if you're telling
me that you did this, then
Fine, I-I'll work this out, but
Willy are you really
prepared to go to jail
for six to ten years,
for something you didn't do?
What's going on in that head of yours?
MARY PAT: Quit bullying him.
Mrs. MacIsaac,
Willy and I are having a
private conversation here.
He said he wants to take a plea.
Just go do your job.
This is my guy,
he's mad 'cause I'm late.
[LAUGHS]
- Hey, Mr. Paul.
- DOUG: Hey, Neve.
GARETH: Sorry, man.
My alarm didn't go off,
the bus was late,
she can't miss her appointments.
DOUG: Don't worry,
I'll explain that to the judge.
We should go.
Mr. Paul
Yeah?
You're gonna keep my dad out of jail.
Right?
GARETH: Hey, come on now honey,
innocent people don't go to jail.
Right, Doug?
That is the hope.
Yeah, that's fine.
Okay, I gotta go, mmhmm.
- Good morning.
- Well.
I was just thinking about
you and here you are.
What can I do for you?
I'm going after your boy, Ezra Elvins.
Tax evasion, fraud,
insider trading, tipping,
- the whole thing.
- Oh.
Well, good luck with that.
Look, I know you were on his legal team
when we were at M&M,
you provided him with legal advice.
That's also privileged
communication, okay.
I gotta go.
What about his takeover
of Clarke Media?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
I wasn't
Ezra Elvins told Clarke
Media shareholders
a story about the owner of the company,
being unstable,
unfit following the death of her son.
Several of those shareholders say
he got the story from you.
Where are you going with this Avery?
They backed him in a takeover
which put him at the helm
of Clarke Media, Marcie,
and he sold it for parts.
Marcie, these cronies
of your Mr. Elvin's,
they don't want their money back,
they wanna see him
behind bars for the rest
of his natural life.
And I've been the one chosen to do it.
Well I can't help you.
Marcie, I'm gonna give you some time
to think about this, okay?
If you know anything,
or if you're involved
in this mess in any way,
then you need to tell me now.
Later
I may not be in a position to help you.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You never change.
[SIGHS]
Did you ever meet a ladder
you couldn't resist climbing?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I'm so confused, Marcie,
are we starting a preliminary hearing,
or is your guy pleading?
Mr. MacIsaac's willing to take a plea.
And admit to murdering his ex
- Manslaughter.
- Whatever,
admit to committing a crime,
he just spent the last
three months denying.
What changed?
Well, he knows that if
I'm to defend him properly,
there are some unflattering
things about the deceased
that'll show up in court.
Willy doesn't want
his kids to see that,
he wants us to work out a fair deal.
Oh, and what is considered fair,
when it comes to pushing your ex-wife
down a flight of stairs and
cracking open her skull, huh?
Ten years? Fourteen?
I'm gonna say five, out in two.
[LAUGHS] This is like negotiating
screen time with my kids.
I say 15 minutes, they want two hours.
Six I will think about.
Whaddaya got, a couple of old 911 calls
from when they were
going through a divorce,
and an eyewitness who can testify to
Willy racing into his ex-wife's house,
with her blood on his
hands and his clothes?
- Come on.
- What I have,
is motive, opportunity, pathology
Preliminary.
That proves our theory of the case,
plus there is the contusion
on the victim's cheek,
bruising around her neck,
which my guys will say is from a fight
with your client prior to being
pushed down a flight of stairs.
Sera, you have a theory,
you do not have a case.
Notice you're the
one looking for a plea?
Six years, two in prison,
four years probation.
Six, he serves four,
and I'm only making that offer
because you are not about
to waste the court's time
arguing an owl flew
in through the window
and knocked her down
a flight of stairs.
Come to think of it
SERA: Take it to your client, Marcie,
I am due in court.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Having to negotiate with pawnbrokers
for the return of family heirlooms.
I can't begin to tell you
how humiliated I felt.
My sister
My sister wanted to call
the police immediately.
I guess I just wanted to believe
that it was all just a
big misunderstanding.
Mom's elderly,
she gets confused,
but then the money,
the cheques,
the tens of thousands of dollars.
It became clear we needed
the police to intervene.
PROSECUTOR: Mr. Zehr,
have you had the opportunity
to ask your mother how
her money and possessions
ended up in Mr. Norton's hands?
MR. ZEHR: No.
Unfortunately, my
mother's been in a coma
for the last three weeks.
PROSECUTOR: And prior to that,
did your mother give you or your sister
any indication of the relationship
between her and Mr. Norton?
MR. ZEHR: There was no relationship.
He's a thief.
- DOUG: Objection, Your Honour.
- I agree.
PROSECUTOR:
We're done with this witness.
You were in Halifax
five weeks ago for work?
Yes.
Did you visit your mother?
MR. ZEHR: I was here
for less than 48 hours,
my schedule was back-to-back,
there was no time.
Your Honour, I'd like
to direct the witness
to defence exhibit CC-12,
a receipt from the Gio Restaurant
at the Prince George Hotel.
Sir, can you tell me the time,
printed at the top of the receipt?
It says 5:30 pm.
But your reservation was for 7?
Your mom lives on Ogilvie,
which is a 15 minute drive from Gio.
You arrived an hour and a half early
for a 7 o'clock reservation,
yet you couldn't make
the time to see her?
I didn't want to disrupt her schedule.
DOUG: Isn't it true you've
made 15 trips to Halifax
in the last 12 months,
and you haven't made the
effort to see her once.
I call her, all the time.
DOUG: Mr. Zehr,
isn't this entire criminal complaint
driven by my client's refusal
to return a set of wedding rings
your mother gave him
as a gift for his daughter?
She would never part with those rings.
DOUG: You know the
value of those rings?
I don't see why that's relevant.
Your Honour, I
Answer the question.
The set's been appraised at $30,000.
No time to visit your elders,
but plenty of time to have
her valuables appraised.
PROSECUTOR: Objection,
Mr. Paul is testifying.
DOUG: I think I'm done with
this witness, Your Honour.
DIANA: So my youngest
is getting married this year,
and I've told her, if I pay,
I get a say.
She changed her tune
pretty quick after that.
BLAIR: [LAUGHS]
I'm trying to pay off
my kids' student loans,
and at this rate I'm
gonna be working forever.
[LAUGHING]
Hey, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
- where do you think you're going?
- Home.
Well what are you so sour about?
Oh, ex-spouses,
and kids with their hands out,
I've been there, done that,
I'm done talking it to death.
Oh, come on, man, have another beer.
On me.
Ooh, magic words, hey Reggie?
One.
BLAIR: There you go.
Two Keith's.
Hey, I've been meaning to ask, ah,
I need you to do me a little favour.
[LAUGHS]
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
No no, come on, don't be like that.
Now listen, I gotta get
outta town tomorrow,
I'm not gonna be back until mid-week,
I wanna know if you'll sub in for me
with my first year
class at the law school?
[LAUGHS] I don't think you want that.
BLAIR: Come on, it's nothing.
I'm sure you've got enough war stories
they can learn from.
DIANA: Now, Reggie is right.
I mean,
you're not the voice of a generation,
are you?
You know what Blair?
Why the hell not?
Are you sure buddy?
I got ya covered.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
♪
♪
♪
PAM: How's it going?
- Do you have a minute?
- Yeah.
Good.
So he's smiling.
- Right?
- Mmhmm.
MARCIE: Then, he gets a phone call,
and then he just trips
out of his senses,
he's-he's angry.
PAM: Who do you think he's talking to?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[PHONE DIALLING]
OPERATOR: The number you
have reached is not in service.
MARCIE: I saw you joking and laughing,
with the Commissionaire,
when you crossed the bridge,
and then you get a phone call,
then you just go nuts.
I have no idea what
you're talking about.
- Why are you lying to me?
- I'm not.
Here's what I know.
This phone number,
was registered to a cell
phone plan that you had,
so that your kids could call you
when they needed to.
Come on Willy, just tell me the truth.
Becca called me,
Gloria was getting
after her for nothing.
I got Gloria on the phone,
I reamed her out,
I mean, that woman was
ruining my life, Marcie,
and the way that she would
go after those kids-
So you confronted her
WILLY: No, I wanted to.
But I, uh
I went to get some flowers,
for a lady I was dating,
when I got to Gloria's
Becca-
Becca-
She was sobbing.
I tried to get her to
tell me what happened,
but she was, sh-sh-shaking,
like she was in shock.
I cleaned her up.
I called my ma,
and I got her to pick
her up at this park,
it's just a couple blocks from there.
I-I just had to get her
out of there, Marcie.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Well we have to tell the prosecutor.
We can fight this.
I know how the law works, Marcie,
and they're gonna try to
turn this all around on her.
And I will not gamble
with my daughter's life.
And I want you to go and tell them
that I'm gonna do the time.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
RANDY: You need to stop
running off at the mouth.
MARY PAT: You're threatening me, Randy?
RANDY: I didn't kill Gloria.
MARY PAT: Don't mistake me for her.
RANDY: Yeah, well I know people.
MARY PAT: Oh yeah? Come for me,
- see what happens.
- RANDY: You gotta stop
spreading lies about me and Gloria.
Lies?
Don't pretend like you
weren't knocking her around.
Yeah, but I didn't kill her.
Neither did my son.
Mrs. MacIsaac
Bye, Randy.
You see I've got company?
[CAR ENGINE FIRES UP]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
I need to talk to Becca.
Not happening.
Better I speak to her than the police.
BECCA: Grandma, it's Dad,
He says he wants me to talk to her.
[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL]
[SIGHS]
Dad said I can trust you.
You can tell me anything.
Mom and I were having a fight,
she was so mad,
'cause I forgot to get
Miles to soccer practice, and,
she was, going off about,
how we were the reason,
that Mr. Slaney didn't
want to see her again, and,
she said if
She didn't need the money
she'd let Dad have us full-time.
Miles started to cry and,
she told him to stop,
but he ran off.
MARY PAT: He took the bus here.
BECCA: I tried to follow him but,
she blocked my way.
She was yelling and
I called Dad.
I could hear him screaming
at her through the phone.
I tried to go up the stairs,
but she grabbed for my arm
and scratched me.
I just wanted her off.
I, I didn't mean to.
[CRIES] Her insulin
thing started going off,
I thought that was the reason that,
she wasn't moving but
Then I saw the blood.
There was so much.
MARY PAT: It's okay, girl, it's okay.
You're gonna be all right.
[SOFT CRYING]
MARY PAT: You're gonna be okay. Shh.
It's okay. It's all right.
She needs counselling.
Don't need her running off
her mouth to strangers.
I can take care of my granddaughter.
Did you know that
Gloria was a diabetic?
She used to wear
some kind of silly belt,
to get attention, yeah.
Listen, you should have the
cops look into Randy Slaney,
Gloria's ex-boyfriend.
According to the kids,
those guys fought like cats and dogs.
Apparently she got rotten
because he wouldn't leave his wife.
Wasn't going quietly,
if you know what I mean.
I can't mount an
alternate suspect theory
I know to be false.
MARY PAT: Bloody lawyers.
Any excuse not to do your job.
- Jesus.
- [PHONE RINGS]
MARCIE: Marcie Diggs.
EZRA: Marcie, it's Ezra,
I need to see you.
Mr. Elvins, I, uh
EZRA: Marcie, it's not a request.
I'll see you in an hour, Duncan's Cove.
[OMINOUS INSTRUMENTAL]
♪
♪
[DISTANT MOTORCYCLE REVVING]
What have you been saying, Marcie?
I don't wanna be involved in this.
You are involved.
Because you involved me.
You were supposed to sell the shares,
buy yourself a gown,
a surfboard, whatever it is you do.
It wasn't meant to be a keepsake.
What do you want from me?
Your fealty.
You and that prosecutor,
pretty friendly.
Don't allow that friendship
to cloud your judgement,
or cause you to forget who I am.
[SUSPENSEFUL INSTRUMENTAL]
I'm well aware of who
you are, Mr. Elvins.
Of course you are, Marcie.
DOUG: PI report from the prosecutor.
[SIGHS]
Explain.
[SIGHS] It's true.
DOUG: This makes you look really bad.
Doug, come on man, I was
I was 19, I was 20
Uneducated, I barely had a pot to,
piss in,
so
Those old folks, they just, uh
They just want somebody to pay
a little attention to them, you know.
Somebody to listen to the
stories about the glory days,
if they wanted to give
me a little extra
Or
You took a little extra?
Yeah.
But that was 15 years ago,
that's before Patricia and Neve.
The guy in this report's not me.
DOUG: He is you,
Your regret, it doesn't change
GARETH: Except I didn't
steal anything from Isabelle.
DOUG: She's in a coma Gareth,
we don't have her evidence,
we have this.
And if the judge allows
that into evidence
Yep.
You're telling me that
I'm gonna go to jail?
No, but you should start considering
who'll be a good guardian to
So after court tomorrow,
you should come to the office.
Our social worker, Iris Beals,
she'll run you through all the
No, I, look,
I didn't do anything.
I didn't do anything.
Isabelle's my friend.
She's good to me, she's good to Neve.
She gave us these things
because she wants to help.
- Gareth, I
- GARETH: Please, Doug.
My daughter needs me.
Don't you let them do
this to me, please.
Okay.
Marcie!
Hey, I didn't see
any mention of an insulin pump,
in the logbook of items
from the crime scene.
SERA: I will talk to the investigators,
but we have a bigger issue.
Hot off the press, pathology.
Seems like your client,
tried to cover up his crime.
What are you talking about?
SERA: They found tissue
under the victim's nails,
can't be conclusively ID'd,
but someone, your client,
soaked the victim's fingers
in bleach after killing her.
He's clever, I will give him that.
Tell him if he agrees to 15,
I will agree to let him out in 10.
See you inside.
[DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL]
MARCIE: These things come out, Willy.
However smart you think you are,
the investigators,
the-the scientists,
the lawyers,
they're smarter.
The truth will come out.
Yeah, why do you think
I was trying to take the plea?
Now look what you got us into.
MARCIE: You wanted me to negotiate,
- I could have closed this.
- Well, go back.
Go back, tell 'em.
Tell 'em I'll take it.
I know that you think
that taking a plea
is gonna protect Becca, but,
I gotta tell you,
the young woman that
I saw the other day,
she needs her father.
You take this plea,
and your kids haven't
only lost their mother,
they lose their dad too.
WILLY: Yep.
I mean, you're asking me,
to put my faith in a system,
that guts people like me and my kids.
No Willy,
I'm asking you to have faith in me.
Don't take a plea,
when you know that we can fight this.
PROSECUTOR: The private
investigator's report
provides a clear picture
of the defendant's pattern
of befriending and
defrauding elderly patients.
DOUG: It's hearsay, Your Honour.
Miss Keen knows this.
If they'd like to place
a pause on the trial,
until they're able to
bring forth the folks
that are interviewed
in Mr. MacNeill's report,
we're happy to agree.
What do you he to say
to that, Miss Keen?
That's very, generous of
Mr. Paul, Your Honour.
However, that is impossible.
And why is that?
They died, Your Honour.
The victims interviewed
by Mr. MacNeill have died.
That's unfortunate,
as Mr. Paul is correct.
Allowing Mr. MacNeill's
report would be hearsay.
The PI report will not
form part of the evidence.
REGGIE: So your client comes in,
facing a drug charge,
heroin,
what's the first question you ask?
[LIGHT-HEARTED MUSIC]
DEE: Did you do it?
Were you properly Mirandized?
We don't have "Miranda" here.
No, you're all wrong.
It was a trick question.
You don't ask questions.
You listen, you watch.
Not all clients are created equal.
How are they dressed?
Is it a man or a woman?
What's their racial or
cultural background?
OLIVER: So we're back
to blaming the victim?
REGGIE: Yeah,
you could put it that way.
A good lawyer starts
building his defence
the moment that a client
walks in the door.
Now I have 30 or 40 open files
on the go at any given moment.
It's important that you
assess very quickly,
who you can get an acquittal
OLIVER: And who you feed to the wolves.
REGGIE: And who is
best off with a plea.
OLIVER: Same thing.
Hey, just 'cause it worked in 1962
doesn't mean it's gonna work now, bruh.
Bay Street lawyer or surgeon?
You lost me, dude.
Your parents?
The only people I know
that show up at law school
and waste everybody's time,
are folks that don't need to
be here in the first place.
Is there a lecture hall,
with your family's name on it
around here somewhere?
Look, I'm here because you
guys and your future clients
deserve real talk,
not something that you're gonna read
in a bloody textbook.
Now you wanna be glib,
and put on a show, you can leave.
No, actually leave.
I'm sorry?
Pack up your things and go.
[LIGHT-HEARTED MUSIC]
♪
You're gonna regret this, man.
I doubt it.
Now, where were we?
SERA: Marcie.
Well the investigators went
back out to the crime scene,
and lo and behold,
there was a dislodged insulin pump
wedged behind the door and the rack.
Bloody rookie didn't know what it was
and just left it there.
The pathologist will be issuing
a revised report this afternoon.
- Thanks.
- Any response from your client,
regarding my offer?
Nothing I'd repeat in polite company.
PROSECUTOR: We have him on camera
pawning Mrs. Zehr's belongings,
we have cheques made out to him,
for thousands of dollars,
I'm just saying,
this isn't a slam dunk for you.
For you either.
I have a witness who will testify
to Mrs. Zehr's fondness for my client.
Yes, fondness he took advantage of.
Doug, take the 18 months and
MR. ZEHR: She's
dead you son of a bitch.
- [DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL]
- [GARETH GROANING]
- MR. ZEHR: Mom's gone!
- Hey!
What the?
My mother died this morning.
I hope you rot in prison.
Okay.
[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL]
♪
How's it going with
your repeat customer?
What do you know about insulin pumps?
Not much.
It says here an examination
of the insulin pump
was undertaken and
revealed that the device
became dislodged at 5:15 pm.
This suggests time of injury,
occurred at that time.
- You have something?
- MARCIE: Hmm.
4:50 pm, the bridge.
5:05, flowers.
Gloria's house is a good
25 minutes from the florist,
which puts Willy at Gloria's
He would've never made it.
This proves that he
couldn't have done this.
I-I gotta call Sera.
[PHONE RINGS]
Oh.
Sera, no I was just about to
[SOFT DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL]
Okay, I know, I
[SOFT DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL]
You're dismissing the charges?
SERA: When I want the
pathologist to tell me time of death,
they insist they can't,
but time of injury
Bloody technology.
WILLY: I knew you'd
come through for me.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
RANDY: You piece of garbage!
You and that bitch mother of yours,
thinking you can pin this on me?
Burn in hell, Slaney.
RANDY: You're not gonna
get away with it, you hear me.
He deserveeverything
that's coming to him.
RANDY: You're not
gonna get away with it!
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Hey, Reggie.
Yeah.
Well that's the last time
I ask you to do me a favour.
The dean ripped me
from rooter to tooter.
Oh, "Beckham" went crying
to the dean, did he?
Yeah, well, good,
the kid needs to learn
to shut up when adults are talking.
Yeah, Reggie, "Beckham"
is the dean's son.
And that gives him
licence to act like an ass?
Look, the kid needed someone
to straighten him out,
thank you for the opportunity.
You know, you're the ass.
She suspended me.
MARCIE: Are you really willing
to allow an innocent man
to go to jail?
No, I don't want to, but
It's not my problem now.
We both know
that your mother's
behind the anonymous tip
that put the cops on Randy Slaney.
When the police make that connection,
she could be charged with
making a false report.
Or maybe they start asking themselves,
where was she,
the night her son's ex-wife was killed?
And I don't see her,
sacrificing her golden years for Becca.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I know what you're doing,
but look, my ma, she would never
Okay.
We all know that Slaney's innocent,
but
He can go and,
get a good lawyer like you, and,
they can get him off.
MARCIE: Or maybe he agrees to the plea,
because five years is
a lot easier to accept
than facing the possibility of 15
for a crime he didn't even commit.
Come on Willy, we can't do this.
We?
We're out of this.
Slaney can fend for himself.
- Willy!
- WILLY: No.
Marcie, what are you doing?
Randy Slaney can rot in jail.
You hear me?
I am gonna protect my
daughter at all costs.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
The redaction is going to be an issue.
There's very sensitive financial
information in my mother's will.
I'll give it a try.
PROSECUTOR: I'll offer 18 months.
He'll be out in a year.
My client maintains his innocence.
JUDGE: Council, can we proceed please?
Don't say I didn't try.
Your Honour, in light of the
death of Mrs. Isabelle Zehr,
I would like to submit her
last will and testament,
prepared by Mrs. Zehr's
lawyer, Fisher Bloom.
A copy of which I
received from her children
to prove the level of coercion
the defendant exerted
over the deceased.
Mrs. Zehr changed her
will less than a month
before falling into a coma.
The defendant is not only
mentioned in the will,
but actually arranged the
appointment with the lawyer,
and was at her home at
the time of the meeting.
DOUG: Your Honour, we object.
JUDGE: I'll stop you there, Mr. Paul.
Miss Keen, you know better,
than to bring redacted documentation
- before the court.
- PROSECUTOR: Your Honour,
Mrs. Zehr's will contains personal
and confidential information.
JUDGE: I don't care
if the will contains
the Cadbury Caramilk secret.
Bring the court an original
copy of the unredacted will,
and I'll consider it's
value as evidence.
We're in recess.
BAILIFF: All rise.
Nice stunt.
You didn't think the
judge would go for that?
It saved me the trouble of serving
Fisher Bloom with a subpoena.
[DOUG CHUCKLES]
MARCIE: I know his mother did this,
okay?
That woman is an OG, let me tell you.
Willy is your client and he's free.
You've done your job, it's done.
MARCIE: But Randy
Slaney is facing jail time
for a crime he didn't commit.
- Did you arrest him?
- Pam.
Is it your decision whether
to prosecute him or not?
No, that's your boyfriend's.
Exactly.
- You've done nothing wrong.
- MARCIE: I know, but, [SIGHS]
PAM: Listen, go home,
go have a drink, go surf,
go flirt with a guy, I don't know,
focus on your win.
Whatever happens to
Mr. Slaney isn't on you.
Sorry, I gotta run.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
MARCIE: Leah,
I thought you were long gone.
Not gone far enough.
MARCIE: Where've you been?
LEAH: I'm working in Thunder Bay.
It's not M&M but at least
I can sleep at night.
Listen, the RCMP raided
M&M two days ago.
All of the files involving Ezra Elvins
have been placed under seal.
They took Tessa Cox out in handcuffs.
You and I both knew,
the second Ezra took over Clarke Media
the fact that I gave you
the list of shareholders
was gonna come back on us.
Not if you kept quiet about it.
I'm working for Kinna-aweya,
I don't wanna put them in
the crosshairs of the RCMP,
just because I did you a stupid favour.
[SCOFFS]
I love how I'm the bad guy here.
Aren't you?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
MARCIE: What did you tell Avery?
That you requested
information on the shareholders
and that I gave it to you.
MARCIE: And in exchange,
you get to keep practicing, yeah?
I didn't know that being a lawyer
meant so much to you, Leah.
So what are you gonna do?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[LIGHT-HEARTED MUSIC]
♪
Hey, I think we have a
bit of a misunderstanding.
Do we have an appointment?
Oh, I'm-I'm, uh, Reggie Thompson.
Yes, I know who you are.
What happened between your son and me,
that had nothing to do with Blair,
he just asked me to sub in for him,
that's it, so if you want to
So, you're here to apologize?
Apologize?
No, I just don't think it's fair
that you suspended Blair
because I set your son straight.
[LAUGHS]
Is that what you think?
Listen, he acts like an entitled jerk,
because, well,
because his mom runs the place,
and I think that's garbage.
Hm.
Professor Cleary has missed
49% of his classes this year.
He has two written
reprimands in his file,
That's why he was suspended.
Now, please get the
hell out of my office,
I'm due to have lunch with my, uh,
entitled jerk of a son.
Oh, right, sure.
[LIGHT-HEARTED MUSIC]
♪
Goodbye.
DOUG: Mr. Bloom, I'm Doug Paul.
My client was Isabelle Zehr's
homecare worker.
Mr. Paul,
I'll tell you the same thing
I told Madison Keen.
As Mrs. Zehr's estate lawyer,
my duty of confidentiality,
extends beyond her death.
My intention is to respect that duty,
subpoena or no subpoena.
Mr. Bloom, all I need to know
is if this redacted version of the will
reflects Mrs. Zehr's intention?
Mr. Paul, here's what I can tell you.
I drove to Mrs. Zehr's home,
Mr. Norton was not present,
her family doctor was though.
Mrs. Zehr did not leave
Mr. Norton any cash.
But the redactions suggest
she left him $750,000?
Will you testify on my client's behalf?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
You've seen this, Miss Keen?
Yes, Your Honour.
Mr. Bloom, you're excused
from the witness stand.
Mr. Norton, please rise.
I will read the relevant section
of Ms. Zehr's last will and testament.
"To my caregiver and dear
friend Gareth Norton,"
"I leave my 2004 Volvo."
"You've put enough
labour and love into it,"
"it's practically yours anyway."
"Further, I leave the
lump sum of $750,000"
"for the continued treatment
and post secondary education"
"of his daughter, Neve Norton."
"I only wish I enjoyed"
"the relationship you
have with your daughter"
"with my own children."
There is no crime here.
Only the greediness of
two neglectful children.
Mr. Norton, the charges
against you are dismissed.
[COURTHOUSE MURMURING]
BAILIFF: All rise.
Hey, you won.
MARY PAT: I really
don't have time for this.
You know what you and
Willy are doing is wrong.
Looking out for his kids?
No, I'm sorry, I can't
agree with you there.
You're setting up an innocent man.
There ain't nothing
innocent about Randy Slaney.
Well, we know that he
didn't kill Gloria.
I'm running late.
WILLY: Ma, Becca's school called.
MARY PAT: What?
- WILLY: She's in the hospital.
- MARY PAT: Jesus.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
MARCIE: How's your girl?
Yeah, uh
Doc says that she had a severe
Panic attack.
My little girl was so scared,
that she thought she was
having a heart attack.
Willy, I know how hard
it can be to believe
in the system that we have.
I've seen it
firsthand how it can swallow people up.
But your little girl,
I have to believe that they'll
get it right this time.
I have to.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Do-do you think you could come say hi?
Of course.
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC]
Ah
Mr. Thompson, thank you for joining us.
Thank you for the call.
Oliver has something
he wanted to say to you.
Don't embarrass yourself any further.
I'm sorry for disrupting your class.
Apology accepted.
Now, now that that's done.
Ah, Mr. Thompson.
You can leave now, Son.
Sit, please,
I hate eating alone.
Well.
I've always wanted
to try the grub here.
[LAUGHS]
It's a pleasure to be of service.
Perhaps you can return the favour.
I am short a lecturer.
[SOFT PIANO MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
BECCA: And she grabbed
my arm and scratched me.
I pushed back with my elbow but
A-all I wanted was just,
for her to get off.
But she fell.
I didn't mean for Mom to
It was an accident.
I didn't want to hurt her.
We won't be pursuing charges.
[SIGHS]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Hey, keys to the Volvo.
- Thank you.
- Take care, man.
MARCIE: Avery.
Haven't heard from you, Marcie.
Well, I can't help you, Avery.
Come on Marcie,
don't force my hand here.
Force your hand?
Why do I feel like the one
with the hand on their throat?
Look, whatever I know about Mr. Elvins
and his business dealings,
is protected by
solicitor-client privilege.
Now you may not like that truth,
but it is what it is.
And this?
Shares.
In Clarke Media issued to you,
the exact same day that Ezra Elvins
took control of the company.
Marcie.
Whatever you're thinking,
Ezra Elvins will toss you under a bus
[SNAPS FINGERS]
AVERY: Like that.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
Solicitor-client privilege.
So
That's your choice.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]