Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) s05e08 Episode Script
Saving Face
In New York City's war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the Major Case Squad.
These are their stories.
You promised you'd start paying this off.
And they've gone in, put a hold on your account.
I'll call them as soon as I get back.
How could you go leave everything like this? What happened to the money grandma left you? Everything's gonna be fine, I promise.
I have to go, daddy.
Say hi to mommy.
- But - I love you.
Bye.
Sit down.
You speak Spanish? A little.
You can go.
My plane gets into Newark at 9.
No, I haven't talked to anyone.
But what Ramon said No, I trust you.
I do.
Okay, see you then.
Here in America they call it win-win it's good for everybody.
- But the Immigration - Let me worry about them.
I have to make a call.
Don't worry, everything will be good.
What were you doing in Guatemala? Just sightseeing.
Is that food? It's fruit.
You'll have to dump that in the receptacle next to the column.
Welcome home.
Need a car, miss? Town car to the city? No, it's all right, my ride's here.
No.
No, go away! Please don't! No! Don't call my Law & Order CI The kids found her.
She looks to be in her 20s.
Were they playing back here? No, the mom said they were walking by on their way to school.
They took her hands.
They carved her up like a turkey.
Stomach's gone.
Intestines are gone.
I think the reproductive organs are intact, so I guess it's not a lust killing.
Maybe a window.
Hi, I'm detective Barek.
Can I talk to your kids? - What's your names? - I'm Ellesandra and he's Benny.
Thank you for helping me this morning.
Where do you live? The white one on the third floor.
Is one of those windows your bedroom? Why do you ask her that? Because they didn't see the body behind the dumpster on their way to school.
I mean, you can't see the body from here.
But maybe they saw it last night from the window.
People with big eyes get hurt.
You want your children to do the right thing.
They won't get hurt.
I'll make sure of that.
They saw a car in the alley last night.
A man put something behind the dumpster and then he made the sign of the cross.
Like this.
There's buttons popped off the blouse.
- The perp undressed her in a hurry.
- A remorseful killer.
He made the sign of the cross over her body after he dumped her.
Yeah? Well, he's a day late and a dollar short.
We got something here.
Laxatives, missing guts.
You wanna take a wild guess she's a drug mule? Her blood tested positive for an opiate derivative, but her eyeball juice was negative, so she wasn't a user.
Heroin how do you pronounce this? Phenolphthalein.
Active ingredient in some laxatives.
She would have taken it to pass the heroin balloons out of her system.
If one of the balloons burst, she'd start overdosing.
Her handlers couldn't wait to get to the goods.
Sorry, excuse me.
You know, the incision in her belly is very clean, but those other cuts The hack work? His cutting got worse as his hand got tired.
Hey, doc.
There's some kind of gunk in her teeth.
It looks like a seed.
I'll take a look at it.
Well, the neighborhood she was dumped in were mostly central American immigrants.
The heroin was probably funneled from Mexico or Columbia.
Time of death was between That puts her flying in within 24 hours of that.
Should be a piece of cake.
Homeland Security Office Newark International Tuesday, October 18 Never thought I'd get tired of looking at women.
That seed Pitaya fruit.
Native to central America.
Dragon fruit.
Wanna see what it looks like? That could be our girl.
Can you give us an ID on this woman here? / Sure.
Station 16920.
Hairline's right.
So are the ears.
Kerri Livanski.
Cleveland.
Arrived on flight 980 from Guatemala city.
A medical student.
Yeah, she was in Guatemala for a month on a tourist visa.
The last time her parents heard from her was the day she was coming home.
Guatemala's a major trans-shipment point for Columbian heroin.
She might not have been the only mule on that plane.
Well, there probably would have been a chaperone keeping an eye on them.
Someone they used before.
Check the flight manifest.
See who's been racking up some frequent flier miles.
Apartment of Yolanda Salvo Bronx, New York Friday, October 21 No, I didn't see her on the plane.
Well, you were sitting in the last row, Mrs.
Salvo.
If anybody got up and went to the bathroom, - you would have seen them.
- No.
No, sorry.
So, um it's just you two alone, huh? Yes, he's my nephew Oscar.
You, stay right where you are.
Don't make a move.
Out, out, come on, come on! Go, go, go! The thing about balloons is, they don't flush that easily.
You, come on.
Come here.
They work for Oscar.
He just pay me to fly with them.
So the girl in the picture is one of Oscar's girls? No, I don't know who she works for.
But you know for a fact she was working.
I see her eat on the plane.
Little bites like a rabbit.
Little bites of bread and fruit.
Like she was full.
Si.
Full of drugs.
Drugs? Not on your life.
Kerri was visiting clinics down there to see what the medical care was like.
She wanted to volunteer for a developing country after she graduated.
Where'd she call from the last time? Some little hotel, she said.
Some town named Zacapa.
Did she tell you she was coming home through New York? She worked here at a children's hospital this summer.
She probably wanted to visit friends and So what was the call about? Was there a problem? Her grandmother left her some money, $20,000.
She was supposed to put it towards her tuition.
I called her bank.
All the money my mother left her was gone.
She wouldn't tell me what happened.
She just said she'd get it back.
People don't make 20 grand being a mule.
Maybe she tried to skip out with the goods.
She wouldn't do that unless she had a way of selling it.
You know, a local connection.
All right, call Cleveland.
Make arrangements for a search of the girl's place.
Computers, journals.
- Send that all back here.
- You got it.
Little bites.
Mr.
Livanski, I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but the way that you're eating, breaking apart the bread It's hard for me to swallow.
I have a medical problem, achalasia.
Did Kerri have it too? Yes, hers started her senior year in college.
We think it was stress.
Achalasia is a motility disease.
The esophagus doesn't open properly, and food doesn't pass to the stomach.
I doubt if she could swallow anything bigger than a peanut.
So balloons filled with heroin She would have choked to death.
So much for her being a drug mule.
Yeah, well, I feel like we've been led around like a couple of mules.
Got it.
I didn't even know that she was in the city.
She'd just flown back from Guatemala.
That's Kerri, a third world country.
That's where she wanted to practice medicine.
You have any idea why she came back to New York? Maybe she met someone at the hospital here? Like one of the doctors? They wish.
She had a soft spot for the common man.
There's nothing wrong with that.
You happen to know who any of these common men are? No.
But one Saturday, I heard she brought one of them into the ER.
He'd had some sort of accident.
She paid for his treatment.
One of the nurses told me the guy looked like a plumber.
Any idea where she met him? She had a broken toilet? Look, I don't wanna sound judgmental.
Myself, I dated a fireman once.
It was a lot of fun.
You want fun? Date a cop.
Patient's name was Jules Delores.
Hispanic male.
No insurance.
Ms.
Livanski assumed all financial responsibility.
Jules and Delores, the names of her parents.
What did Mr.
Delores put for an address? Fort Hamilton road at tenth avenue.
Brooklyn.
No house number? Just fort Hamilton and tenth.
What was he treated for? A puncture wound from a nail gun.
Construction work on a weekend.
I think I know where to look on fort Hamilton and tenth, right? It was in June.
He injured his hand We're not la migra.
We just wanna talk to you.
Hey, fellas, where are you going? We're keeping them from their economic opportunities.
Let's make sure their opportunities don't go anywhere.
Hey! Police, police! Hey, what are you doing? Don't make me get you out of that car! / Sorry.
Back off! All right, guys, you wanna talk to the driver, you talk to my lovely partner first.
Come here, please.
We're looking for a man.
He injured his hand with a nail gun.
Ramon Sanchez.
He's from Peru.
Where can we find Ramon? He disappeared two months ago.
Ramon from Peru.
Immigration probably got him.
Guy just disappears? Maybe there's another place we should look first.
Okay, fellas, go at it! Tuesday, October 25 Ramon Sanchez was found dead just off the Queensboro bridge.
This is everything he had on him.
Just sign the receipt.
Fallujah.
Yeah? I'm getting a prosthetic next month.
The first one was the wrong skin color.
Puncture injury to right hand.
Scar on lip.
Sounds like our guy.
Good news for him.
Being dead two months eliminates him as a suspect.
This is his wife and kid.
Him in better days, huh? Cause of death was another heroin overdose.
Miss, we're gonna take all of this with us.
Here you go.
Hey, thanks for your service.
You betcha.
You'll be conscious during the procedure.
But you won't feel a thing.
Even better, you won't remember a thing either.
Oh, then, before I forget, I have a check in my purse for the foundation.
That's very kind.
Now just relax.
She's ready.
- What are you doing? - Nothing, doctor.
Here.
Ramon was positive for an opiate derivative, just like Kerri.
No sign he was a junkie or a recreational user.
This just came in from Cleveland.
From Kerri's room.
Look at this.
Everyone deserves the chance to put their best face forward.
It's a charity that pays for reconstructive surgery for the poor in central America.
Check out Martin from Guatemala.
Martin is a farmer in Guatemala.
He hopes to get married one day and raise a family.
Help make his dream come true.
Martin look familiar? It's the same man.
Before and after surgery.
He got his harelip fixed.
Yeah, well, that's not the only thing he got fixed.
Ramon from Peru became Martin from Guatemala.
I wonder why.
Could just be a mistake.
Well, except the brochure says the foundation does its work in Guatemala.
You have to wonder where Ramon got his operation.
Maybe that's what Kerri found in Guatemala, an answer.
Yeah, one someone didn't like.
What's that thing say, best face forward? For some that means facedown in an alleyway.
The printer put the wrong photo over the caption.
Correcting it would have been a waste of money.
As it is, donations barely cover my expenses for the corrective procedures.
Your brochure says that you do your surgeries in Guatemala? Uh, where did Ramon get his done? Occasionally illegal immigrants find their way to me here.
I don't talk about it.
My wealthy donors don't mind helping the poor, as long as they stay on their side of the border.
Why are you asking me about Ramon? Well, Ramon died of an overdose about two months ago.
If I'd known he had a drug problem, I wouldn't have wasted my resources on him.
Just like that, huh? Boy, you can really switch it off.
Must be a doctor thing.
Anyway, he wasn't a user.
He was given a hotshot and left for dead on the street.
Oh, that's terrible.
Uh, let me ask you something.
Kerri Livanski, did she volunteer for you last summer? Yes, she stuffed envelopes for me on weekends.
She's accompanying me on my next trip to Guatemala over Christmas.
Look, I hate to tell you this, but Ms.
Livanski was found murdered a few days ago in Brooklyn.
She spent the last month in Guatemala.
I had no idea.
Did you know that she paid for Ramon's treatment in the hospital that she worked? Yes, he was afraid to go to the hospital.
Kerri took it upon herself to help him.
I was so proud of her.
Maybe you can clear something else up for us.
Kerri had $20,000.
Which she donated for airfare and supplies for the trip at Christmas.
Please tell her parents I'd like to return it.
If you'll excuse me, I'm really sorry, but I'm late for an appointment.
Thank you, doctor.
Doctors You don't like doctors? What, Dr.
Do-good here? On principle, I'd like to believe, but then again, I'm an agnostic.
Well, a little faith wouldn't kill you.
Hey, remember Ramon's sketch artist? Maybe he's got a friend here.
Ma'am? Excuse me.
Do you know who drew this? Antonio, our nurse's aid.
Duplex of Antonio Morales Queens, New York Wednesday, November 2 I don't remember Ramon Sanchez.
Okay, well maybe this will jog your memory? It's okay, Mr.
Morales, you can go put your bags down.
We'll wait.
Here you go.
Sure, Dr.
Ansel asked me to draw this for him.
To show him how he'd look after surgery.
Yeah, so you just whipped that up at the clinic? Yes.
Because it just occurred to me that maybe you did it in a restaurant.
Dr.
Ansel said that illegal immigrants like Ramon just find their way to her.
We're not really clear on how that happens.
- I'm just a nurse's aide.
- Well, do you have another job? Because with all this furniture, a leather couch in a duplex and the nice little car you got outside there.
I really don't see how you can afford it on a nurse's aide salary.
I manage, okay? You do a lot of traveling too, huh? Costa rica 2003.
Were you visiting clinics? I have cousins there in the medical field.
Clinica medica de la familia? Oh no, this is in Jackson heights.
What, do you get awards for generosity? This was nothing.
Now, please, I want you to leave now.
- I have to eat my dinner.
- Okay.
That really is a very nice couch.
La Clinica Medica De La Familia Brooklyn, New York Friday, November 4 Yes, Antonio volunteers here one morning every week.
Does he get a plaque for that? He buys supplies and he made a donation.
Is Antonio in trouble? - How big was that donation? - $5,000.
The money Antonio gave us, is it stolen? Don't worry, no one's gonna ask for it back.
Um, it's Antonio you're worried about? When he started coming here, giving money and supplies, I thought he was trying to impress me, but then I thought, maybe he really cares.
Excuse me.
Hey, Barek.
Check this out.
The mother with the kid with the cleft palate.
Lucia's baby girl can smile now thanks to Dr.
Ansel's recent mission of mercy to Guatemala.
Look at the back wall.
Either that wall gets around a lot, or we got another printing mistake.
We came north after Estella had her operation.
Where in Guatemala? - In Zacapa, in a clinic.
- Zacapa.
near the border with Belize? Up there.
Zacapa is in the south, near Honduras.
You don't know that because you're from Nicaragua.
I hear it in your voice.
Hold on a second.
Hold on.
You speak English, don't you? Yes.
All right, well, you're not in trouble.
Just tell us the truth.
Where'd your baby have the operation? In the city.
Antonio drive us.
A lady doctor, a Gringa.
She fix Estella.
She did a beautiful job.
Antonio ask you for any money? No, it didn't cost nothing.
He say they just want to help us.
Who told you to lie about Guatemala? Antonio.
He say if I don't say Estella was fixed in Guatemala, the lady doctor will get mad and she will call immigration.
If he's not getting it from the patients, where is his money coming from? Maybe from the clinic in Guatemala.
The woman said Antonio had her sign some forms in Spanish to the effect that her baby had the operation there.
Yeah, the clinic might be getting some kind of subsidy for every operation they can prove took place there.
Then Antonio, he gets the finders fee.
Only one way to be sure.
Clinica De Zacapa Zacapa, Guatemala Tuesday, November 8 The young woman says she came here? Yeah, the clerk at her hotel said his friend brought her here.
Yes, yes.
The medical student, no? She worked with Dr.
Ansel.
She was curious about our methods.
Said she wanted to be prepared for when she returned in December to assist a doctor.
Did she do something wrong? The young woman was murdered in New York City.
Your cooperation with the American is expected, doctor.
Of course.
Dr.
Hernandez, have you seen this brochure from the Frederick foundation? Dr.
Ansel does fantastic work.
She has been here many times and helped so many people.
- I am very grateful to her.
- Let me explain something to you.
Some of the operations this brochure says were done here, we know for a fact they weren't.
Dr.
Ansel does fantastic work.
She's been here many times and helped many people.
Lieutenant Gaitan, could you give us a few minutes alone with Dr.
Hernandez? So how does it work? Do you get a government subsidy for every operation that's done here? Subsidy? Does it look like we get a subsidy from this government? You know what, you got a point.
What about this centrifuge here? Looks brand new.
That must have cost you five, six grand US.
It was a gift from the Frederick foundation.
Dr.
Ansel brought it on one of her many trips.
You keep saying that.
So just how many trips did she make exactly? Many.
The lieutenant can find out from his customs office exactly how many times Dr.
Ansel came into this country.
You want us to ask him? How many is many? One.
She came two years ago with a man.
Yeah, that's him.
How many operations did she perform? Not one.
She sends supplies twice a year.
And if anybody came, I'm supposed to tell them that Dr.
Ansel's been here many times and helped many people.
Did you tell Kerri Livanski the truth? She asked me questions that I couldn't answer about Ramon Sanchez.
She knew something wasn't right.
You know, medical care here for the poor is not I take help from wherever it comes.
Even from hands that are not so clean.
My last trip I performed up to five surgeries a day.
The patients presented with a variety of disfiguring conditions from birth defects to farming accidents.
Their lives had been dictated by the misfortune on their faces.
On the fourth day, I performed on a young boy.
I had to stop.
I felt all of a sudden, I was looking into my late brother's eyes.
My brother Frederick died before he could realize his dreams.
Even as a young boy, he wanted to make a difference.
I am asking you now to join me in making his dream come true.
Everything you subpoenaed here.
Copies of her passports, travel receipts.
I never agreed to do surgery at Dr.
Hernandez's clinic.
I visited his clinic two years ago.
It was inadequate.
He wanted to charge me outrageous fees.
But I felt sorry for his patients.
So I donate supplies when I can.
Sign this receipt.
Bottom of the second page.
So where in Guatemala do you perform your surgeries? I've advised her not to answer other than to say it's in a politically sensitive area.
That doesn't really explain all the printing mistakes on your brochure.
Shouldn't you sign this? The important thing is, people are being helped.
I would really hate to see anything get in the way of that.
So would we, doctor.
Thank you so much for coming in.
Thank you.
Her passport backs her up.
Multiple stamps from Guatemala and El salvador, Honduras.
Yeah, maybe she was working on her tan.
Those pictures of Antonio in Costa rica.
Do you remember the date? Uh, May 2003.
Dr.
Ansel was there at the same time.
He wasn't working for her then.
Right, he was working at a hospital in Texas.
After they came back from Costa rica, June 2003.
That's when he went to work for Ansel.
And three months later she opened the Frederick foundation.
They conspired together to concoct this fraud? A surgeon and a nurse's aide? Kerri's body had two cuts.
One clean and one sloppy.
I think what we're saying is that they carved her up together.
And let me guess where.
It's an operating room.
They sterilize it who knows how many times a week? We can always hope.
Tuesday three weeks ago? I'm sorry, I don't remember.
I'm gone by 4.
- Anybody else in the office? - No.
Well, who assists Dr.
Ansel during surgeries? Antonio.
It's all minor procedures, you know.
Chin tucks, eyelid folds.
Well, can you check Dr.
Ansel's calendar and see what she had going on Tuesday night? Ansel's running a bare-bones operation here.
One nurse's aide and one receptionist? Yeah, well, it's not like she can't afford a staff.
She's pulling in 30 to 40 grand a week.
This practice pulls in two to three times what that foundation raises.
Tuesday night three weeks ago Dr.
Ansel was at her parents'.
Thank you.
Apartment of Leo and Anna Ansel Monday, November 14 Christine was here speaking at a small reception to benefit the foundation.
We host one every week.
Is this about the volunteer who was killed? Christine's terribly upset.
Frederick Ansel.
Is that who the foundation's named after? Our son.
He was 13 when leukemia took him.
Is this him too? Dressed up as a doctor for Halloween? My own family couldn't afford medical school, so I went into business.
But Freddy, he was going to be a healer.
When he was ten, he read about the children starving in Biafra.
He raised enough money through his school to fill up a plane with food.
That's quite a kid.
And you have Christine.
She's a doctor.
A cosmetic surgeon.
And you don't approve? It's a little even Christine had to take a break from it.
Then she came back and started the foundation.
Meaningful work.
Something Freddy would have done.
We're very proud of her.
Well, her mother said she took a sabbatical from surgery right before she started the foundation.
That's when she would have went to Costa rica and met Antonio.
Whoa, her income dropped by more than half that year.
Biafra.
That was 1968.
The boy was ten.
That's why there's no pictures of him and Christine.
He died before she was born.
Must have been hard growing up in her brother's shadow.
Not to mention the only reason you're around is because your parents go back to the drawing board after he died.
That's a race you can never win.
The same year Christine took her sabbatical, her malpractice insurance doubled.
Maybe that's why she took a break.
She got sued and lost.
She botched a routine chin tuck.
She cut too deep, hit a nerve.
Her insurance company settled, par for the course.
Wow, except she stopped cutting for eight months.
She might have lost her nerve.
I was set to be a thoracic surgeon until halfway through med school.
Cutting into something red and throbbing finally got to me.
In the DA's office, she had troubled separating the sheets of paper of a receipt.
It was her eyes.
She was rubbing them.
And she was blinking a lot.
- Were her eyelids drooping? - Yeah, a little.
Could be myasthenia gravis.
It's neurological.
Occurs in women.
Typically in their 30s.
Patients get double vision.
Especially while doing close-in work.
Like surgery.
A surgeon not only has to visualize in three dimensions what they're going to do, they have to see in three dimensions to do it.
Doesn't a surgeon have to visualize what a patient will look like after plastic surgery? - It's probably the most important skill.
- So what do you think? Somebody who drew this, is it possible they could be a surgeon? If they have steady hands.
- Surgery's mostly about technique.
- And the rest is easy.
As long as you have a real doctor looking over your shoulder.
He's a nurse's aide, detectives.
He doesn't get paid enough to second guess what Dr.
Ansel tells him to do.
Dr.
Ansel ordered him to tell the patients to lie about the surgery.
- Is that what he's saying? - He's not saying anything.
Hey, that hospital in Texas.
They say you worked in the OR.
You watch a lot of surgeries? - I didn't have time to watch.
- No? Let me ask you something.
Is surgery something you could just, you know, pick up? Like playing a piano? You know, like some people hear a tune once and they can play it? I mean, some people are just natural born surgeons.
Somebody with no medical training but the hands of an angel? See, we think Dr.
Ansel has someone like that on her team.
She'd need one.
You know, with her eyes going bad and all.
She can't operate.
Not when her incisions look like this.
She can't maintain the right depth.
She stops, she starts.
- It's hack-work.
- Not like this one.
Straight, clean line.
That's the work of a sure hand.
That's the work of your hand.
I am just a nurse's aide.
I didn't do that.
Yes, you did, and you fixed Ramon too, didn't you? And you fixed Louise's baby.
You fixed them all.
Not to mention Dr.
Ansel's botox belles on the upper east side.
- That's crazy.
- So how did it play out? She found you in Costa rica.
You were passing yourself off as a surgeon, right? - Don't answer him, Mr.
Morales.
- What, did she threaten to expose you unless you work for her? She threw you a couple of bucks? No! / You like helping people and Kerri was gonna end all that.
So you butchered her like a pro.
Please, please, please! I can't hear this, okay? You were seen dumping her body, Antonio.
You made the sign of the cross over it.
You were remorseful.
We could see it.
- I didn't mean to kill her.
- Mr.
Morales, don't say anything.
I want to tell them, okay? Please, I want to.
Kerri came into the office with Dr.
Ansel.
And she started getting sick.
Having some stomach cramps and chills.
And Dr.
Ansel, she said it was her appendix.
And we didn't have time to get to the hospital.
I had to operate right away.
She was gonna show me how.
It was bad.
All because I only work on faces, you know? There's something wrong, I don't know why.
She She died.
She died right there.
What were you doing at the clinic in the first place? Dr.
Ansel, she asked me to work late to fill in the requisition forms.
I'm sorry.
I was only trying to help her.
You didn't kill her, Antonio.
Cramps, the chills, the fever.
She was dying of an overdose of morphine.
Dr.
Ansel drugged her.
Just like she did Ramon.
She set you up.
She set you up.
Oh, god, what did I do? What did I do? What did I do? Hats off, detectives.
We're still short of corroborating evidence against Dr.
Ansel.
I wouldn't count on remorse moving her into a confessional state of mind.
Yeah.
Is that a mechanical pencil? Can I see it? I'm sure you're worrying for nothing.
They'll go through your papers.
They see everything's fine, and that'll be the end of it.
Be aggressive.
You're finally doing something worthwhile.
Defend it.
I am.
I am, but it's just me out there.
Someone's early.
You have us.
And everyone who admires you for the good work you do.
You make us very happy.
Uh, it won't take long, Mr.
Ansel.
I'm sorry, Christine.
Please.
They said they have documents for you to look over.
Well, we're expecting guests.
And I can't sign anything unless my lawyer is here.
Well, actually we need your help as a witness.
We just arrested your nurse's aide for fraud.
Antonio? / Yeah, we think he's doing a little fund raising on his own.
- Shaking down patients.
- Now, hold on.
Since he doesn't work for the foundation, the foundation's not at fault, am I right? No, the foundation would be a victim here.
We just need you to go through this list of patients and check off the ones you operated on.
I think you should do what they ask.
Ah, just Oh, I'm sorry.
I hate those things.
The lead always falls out.
Here you go.
Just stick it in.
Uh, why can't I just use a pen? Oh, I'm sorry, it has to be in pencil in case you make a mistake.
This nurse's aide.
You wouldn't believe what he told one of your daughter's patients.
He was saying that he deserved all the money because he did all the operations.
A nurse's aide.
You okay, doctor? Should be as easy as threading a needle for a surgeon.
I guess I'm just tired.
Oh, Antonio did say that there was something wrong with your eyes? There is nothing wrong with my eyes.
Then why can't you fix the pencil? Even I could do it.
Well, why don't you then? You have myasthenia gravis, don't you? Doctor, we can subpoena your medical records.
It's true that Antonio did the surgeries, isn't it? Oh, my god, Christine.
Mom, don't people are being helped.
That's what matters.
Doesn't it? No, what matters is, how it reflects on your family and the memory of your brother.
Did you ever think of that? I bet that's all she thinks about.
Maybe if you hadn't have treated her like a spare tire, - she wouldn't be in this mess.
- We resent that.
Dad, I did the math when I was 11.
Frederick died and nine months later I know my place in this family.
A distant second to the perfect son.
- Do you even wanna be a doctor? - Of course she does.
I'm gonna guess not.
The foundation that was a brilliant move.
You almost caught up to the little guy.
The only people who could trip you up were Ramon and Kerri.
No.
- No, I had nothing to do with that.
- Kerri knew you were a fraud.
Kerry, with her, what did you tell Antonio she had acute appendicitis? Antonio told us everything.
Okay, yes - but he couldn't follow my instructions.
- No.
Kerri died because you fed her morphine the moment she got off the plane.
Oh, Christine, you didn't.
- You killed her.
- Don't say that.
This is obscene.
You took her life.
- You dragged Frederick into this.
- Oh, shut up.
Shut up with Frederick.
I am sick of hearing his name! Sick of it! Yes, I took her life.
- But you took mine! - Hold her! Guys! You never let me have a life! You're under arrest.
He's the lucky one.
Mom, dad, he was the lucky one.
Yeah, lucky.
These are their stories.
You promised you'd start paying this off.
And they've gone in, put a hold on your account.
I'll call them as soon as I get back.
How could you go leave everything like this? What happened to the money grandma left you? Everything's gonna be fine, I promise.
I have to go, daddy.
Say hi to mommy.
- But - I love you.
Bye.
Sit down.
You speak Spanish? A little.
You can go.
My plane gets into Newark at 9.
No, I haven't talked to anyone.
But what Ramon said No, I trust you.
I do.
Okay, see you then.
Here in America they call it win-win it's good for everybody.
- But the Immigration - Let me worry about them.
I have to make a call.
Don't worry, everything will be good.
What were you doing in Guatemala? Just sightseeing.
Is that food? It's fruit.
You'll have to dump that in the receptacle next to the column.
Welcome home.
Need a car, miss? Town car to the city? No, it's all right, my ride's here.
No.
No, go away! Please don't! No! Don't call my Law & Order CI The kids found her.
She looks to be in her 20s.
Were they playing back here? No, the mom said they were walking by on their way to school.
They took her hands.
They carved her up like a turkey.
Stomach's gone.
Intestines are gone.
I think the reproductive organs are intact, so I guess it's not a lust killing.
Maybe a window.
Hi, I'm detective Barek.
Can I talk to your kids? - What's your names? - I'm Ellesandra and he's Benny.
Thank you for helping me this morning.
Where do you live? The white one on the third floor.
Is one of those windows your bedroom? Why do you ask her that? Because they didn't see the body behind the dumpster on their way to school.
I mean, you can't see the body from here.
But maybe they saw it last night from the window.
People with big eyes get hurt.
You want your children to do the right thing.
They won't get hurt.
I'll make sure of that.
They saw a car in the alley last night.
A man put something behind the dumpster and then he made the sign of the cross.
Like this.
There's buttons popped off the blouse.
- The perp undressed her in a hurry.
- A remorseful killer.
He made the sign of the cross over her body after he dumped her.
Yeah? Well, he's a day late and a dollar short.
We got something here.
Laxatives, missing guts.
You wanna take a wild guess she's a drug mule? Her blood tested positive for an opiate derivative, but her eyeball juice was negative, so she wasn't a user.
Heroin how do you pronounce this? Phenolphthalein.
Active ingredient in some laxatives.
She would have taken it to pass the heroin balloons out of her system.
If one of the balloons burst, she'd start overdosing.
Her handlers couldn't wait to get to the goods.
Sorry, excuse me.
You know, the incision in her belly is very clean, but those other cuts The hack work? His cutting got worse as his hand got tired.
Hey, doc.
There's some kind of gunk in her teeth.
It looks like a seed.
I'll take a look at it.
Well, the neighborhood she was dumped in were mostly central American immigrants.
The heroin was probably funneled from Mexico or Columbia.
Time of death was between That puts her flying in within 24 hours of that.
Should be a piece of cake.
Homeland Security Office Newark International Tuesday, October 18 Never thought I'd get tired of looking at women.
That seed Pitaya fruit.
Native to central America.
Dragon fruit.
Wanna see what it looks like? That could be our girl.
Can you give us an ID on this woman here? / Sure.
Station 16920.
Hairline's right.
So are the ears.
Kerri Livanski.
Cleveland.
Arrived on flight 980 from Guatemala city.
A medical student.
Yeah, she was in Guatemala for a month on a tourist visa.
The last time her parents heard from her was the day she was coming home.
Guatemala's a major trans-shipment point for Columbian heroin.
She might not have been the only mule on that plane.
Well, there probably would have been a chaperone keeping an eye on them.
Someone they used before.
Check the flight manifest.
See who's been racking up some frequent flier miles.
Apartment of Yolanda Salvo Bronx, New York Friday, October 21 No, I didn't see her on the plane.
Well, you were sitting in the last row, Mrs.
Salvo.
If anybody got up and went to the bathroom, - you would have seen them.
- No.
No, sorry.
So, um it's just you two alone, huh? Yes, he's my nephew Oscar.
You, stay right where you are.
Don't make a move.
Out, out, come on, come on! Go, go, go! The thing about balloons is, they don't flush that easily.
You, come on.
Come here.
They work for Oscar.
He just pay me to fly with them.
So the girl in the picture is one of Oscar's girls? No, I don't know who she works for.
But you know for a fact she was working.
I see her eat on the plane.
Little bites like a rabbit.
Little bites of bread and fruit.
Like she was full.
Si.
Full of drugs.
Drugs? Not on your life.
Kerri was visiting clinics down there to see what the medical care was like.
She wanted to volunteer for a developing country after she graduated.
Where'd she call from the last time? Some little hotel, she said.
Some town named Zacapa.
Did she tell you she was coming home through New York? She worked here at a children's hospital this summer.
She probably wanted to visit friends and So what was the call about? Was there a problem? Her grandmother left her some money, $20,000.
She was supposed to put it towards her tuition.
I called her bank.
All the money my mother left her was gone.
She wouldn't tell me what happened.
She just said she'd get it back.
People don't make 20 grand being a mule.
Maybe she tried to skip out with the goods.
She wouldn't do that unless she had a way of selling it.
You know, a local connection.
All right, call Cleveland.
Make arrangements for a search of the girl's place.
Computers, journals.
- Send that all back here.
- You got it.
Little bites.
Mr.
Livanski, I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but the way that you're eating, breaking apart the bread It's hard for me to swallow.
I have a medical problem, achalasia.
Did Kerri have it too? Yes, hers started her senior year in college.
We think it was stress.
Achalasia is a motility disease.
The esophagus doesn't open properly, and food doesn't pass to the stomach.
I doubt if she could swallow anything bigger than a peanut.
So balloons filled with heroin She would have choked to death.
So much for her being a drug mule.
Yeah, well, I feel like we've been led around like a couple of mules.
Got it.
I didn't even know that she was in the city.
She'd just flown back from Guatemala.
That's Kerri, a third world country.
That's where she wanted to practice medicine.
You have any idea why she came back to New York? Maybe she met someone at the hospital here? Like one of the doctors? They wish.
She had a soft spot for the common man.
There's nothing wrong with that.
You happen to know who any of these common men are? No.
But one Saturday, I heard she brought one of them into the ER.
He'd had some sort of accident.
She paid for his treatment.
One of the nurses told me the guy looked like a plumber.
Any idea where she met him? She had a broken toilet? Look, I don't wanna sound judgmental.
Myself, I dated a fireman once.
It was a lot of fun.
You want fun? Date a cop.
Patient's name was Jules Delores.
Hispanic male.
No insurance.
Ms.
Livanski assumed all financial responsibility.
Jules and Delores, the names of her parents.
What did Mr.
Delores put for an address? Fort Hamilton road at tenth avenue.
Brooklyn.
No house number? Just fort Hamilton and tenth.
What was he treated for? A puncture wound from a nail gun.
Construction work on a weekend.
I think I know where to look on fort Hamilton and tenth, right? It was in June.
He injured his hand We're not la migra.
We just wanna talk to you.
Hey, fellas, where are you going? We're keeping them from their economic opportunities.
Let's make sure their opportunities don't go anywhere.
Hey! Police, police! Hey, what are you doing? Don't make me get you out of that car! / Sorry.
Back off! All right, guys, you wanna talk to the driver, you talk to my lovely partner first.
Come here, please.
We're looking for a man.
He injured his hand with a nail gun.
Ramon Sanchez.
He's from Peru.
Where can we find Ramon? He disappeared two months ago.
Ramon from Peru.
Immigration probably got him.
Guy just disappears? Maybe there's another place we should look first.
Okay, fellas, go at it! Tuesday, October 25 Ramon Sanchez was found dead just off the Queensboro bridge.
This is everything he had on him.
Just sign the receipt.
Fallujah.
Yeah? I'm getting a prosthetic next month.
The first one was the wrong skin color.
Puncture injury to right hand.
Scar on lip.
Sounds like our guy.
Good news for him.
Being dead two months eliminates him as a suspect.
This is his wife and kid.
Him in better days, huh? Cause of death was another heroin overdose.
Miss, we're gonna take all of this with us.
Here you go.
Hey, thanks for your service.
You betcha.
You'll be conscious during the procedure.
But you won't feel a thing.
Even better, you won't remember a thing either.
Oh, then, before I forget, I have a check in my purse for the foundation.
That's very kind.
Now just relax.
She's ready.
- What are you doing? - Nothing, doctor.
Here.
Ramon was positive for an opiate derivative, just like Kerri.
No sign he was a junkie or a recreational user.
This just came in from Cleveland.
From Kerri's room.
Look at this.
Everyone deserves the chance to put their best face forward.
It's a charity that pays for reconstructive surgery for the poor in central America.
Check out Martin from Guatemala.
Martin is a farmer in Guatemala.
He hopes to get married one day and raise a family.
Help make his dream come true.
Martin look familiar? It's the same man.
Before and after surgery.
He got his harelip fixed.
Yeah, well, that's not the only thing he got fixed.
Ramon from Peru became Martin from Guatemala.
I wonder why.
Could just be a mistake.
Well, except the brochure says the foundation does its work in Guatemala.
You have to wonder where Ramon got his operation.
Maybe that's what Kerri found in Guatemala, an answer.
Yeah, one someone didn't like.
What's that thing say, best face forward? For some that means facedown in an alleyway.
The printer put the wrong photo over the caption.
Correcting it would have been a waste of money.
As it is, donations barely cover my expenses for the corrective procedures.
Your brochure says that you do your surgeries in Guatemala? Uh, where did Ramon get his done? Occasionally illegal immigrants find their way to me here.
I don't talk about it.
My wealthy donors don't mind helping the poor, as long as they stay on their side of the border.
Why are you asking me about Ramon? Well, Ramon died of an overdose about two months ago.
If I'd known he had a drug problem, I wouldn't have wasted my resources on him.
Just like that, huh? Boy, you can really switch it off.
Must be a doctor thing.
Anyway, he wasn't a user.
He was given a hotshot and left for dead on the street.
Oh, that's terrible.
Uh, let me ask you something.
Kerri Livanski, did she volunteer for you last summer? Yes, she stuffed envelopes for me on weekends.
She's accompanying me on my next trip to Guatemala over Christmas.
Look, I hate to tell you this, but Ms.
Livanski was found murdered a few days ago in Brooklyn.
She spent the last month in Guatemala.
I had no idea.
Did you know that she paid for Ramon's treatment in the hospital that she worked? Yes, he was afraid to go to the hospital.
Kerri took it upon herself to help him.
I was so proud of her.
Maybe you can clear something else up for us.
Kerri had $20,000.
Which she donated for airfare and supplies for the trip at Christmas.
Please tell her parents I'd like to return it.
If you'll excuse me, I'm really sorry, but I'm late for an appointment.
Thank you, doctor.
Doctors You don't like doctors? What, Dr.
Do-good here? On principle, I'd like to believe, but then again, I'm an agnostic.
Well, a little faith wouldn't kill you.
Hey, remember Ramon's sketch artist? Maybe he's got a friend here.
Ma'am? Excuse me.
Do you know who drew this? Antonio, our nurse's aid.
Duplex of Antonio Morales Queens, New York Wednesday, November 2 I don't remember Ramon Sanchez.
Okay, well maybe this will jog your memory? It's okay, Mr.
Morales, you can go put your bags down.
We'll wait.
Here you go.
Sure, Dr.
Ansel asked me to draw this for him.
To show him how he'd look after surgery.
Yeah, so you just whipped that up at the clinic? Yes.
Because it just occurred to me that maybe you did it in a restaurant.
Dr.
Ansel said that illegal immigrants like Ramon just find their way to her.
We're not really clear on how that happens.
- I'm just a nurse's aide.
- Well, do you have another job? Because with all this furniture, a leather couch in a duplex and the nice little car you got outside there.
I really don't see how you can afford it on a nurse's aide salary.
I manage, okay? You do a lot of traveling too, huh? Costa rica 2003.
Were you visiting clinics? I have cousins there in the medical field.
Clinica medica de la familia? Oh no, this is in Jackson heights.
What, do you get awards for generosity? This was nothing.
Now, please, I want you to leave now.
- I have to eat my dinner.
- Okay.
That really is a very nice couch.
La Clinica Medica De La Familia Brooklyn, New York Friday, November 4 Yes, Antonio volunteers here one morning every week.
Does he get a plaque for that? He buys supplies and he made a donation.
Is Antonio in trouble? - How big was that donation? - $5,000.
The money Antonio gave us, is it stolen? Don't worry, no one's gonna ask for it back.
Um, it's Antonio you're worried about? When he started coming here, giving money and supplies, I thought he was trying to impress me, but then I thought, maybe he really cares.
Excuse me.
Hey, Barek.
Check this out.
The mother with the kid with the cleft palate.
Lucia's baby girl can smile now thanks to Dr.
Ansel's recent mission of mercy to Guatemala.
Look at the back wall.
Either that wall gets around a lot, or we got another printing mistake.
We came north after Estella had her operation.
Where in Guatemala? - In Zacapa, in a clinic.
- Zacapa.
near the border with Belize? Up there.
Zacapa is in the south, near Honduras.
You don't know that because you're from Nicaragua.
I hear it in your voice.
Hold on a second.
Hold on.
You speak English, don't you? Yes.
All right, well, you're not in trouble.
Just tell us the truth.
Where'd your baby have the operation? In the city.
Antonio drive us.
A lady doctor, a Gringa.
She fix Estella.
She did a beautiful job.
Antonio ask you for any money? No, it didn't cost nothing.
He say they just want to help us.
Who told you to lie about Guatemala? Antonio.
He say if I don't say Estella was fixed in Guatemala, the lady doctor will get mad and she will call immigration.
If he's not getting it from the patients, where is his money coming from? Maybe from the clinic in Guatemala.
The woman said Antonio had her sign some forms in Spanish to the effect that her baby had the operation there.
Yeah, the clinic might be getting some kind of subsidy for every operation they can prove took place there.
Then Antonio, he gets the finders fee.
Only one way to be sure.
Clinica De Zacapa Zacapa, Guatemala Tuesday, November 8 The young woman says she came here? Yeah, the clerk at her hotel said his friend brought her here.
Yes, yes.
The medical student, no? She worked with Dr.
Ansel.
She was curious about our methods.
Said she wanted to be prepared for when she returned in December to assist a doctor.
Did she do something wrong? The young woman was murdered in New York City.
Your cooperation with the American is expected, doctor.
Of course.
Dr.
Hernandez, have you seen this brochure from the Frederick foundation? Dr.
Ansel does fantastic work.
She has been here many times and helped so many people.
- I am very grateful to her.
- Let me explain something to you.
Some of the operations this brochure says were done here, we know for a fact they weren't.
Dr.
Ansel does fantastic work.
She's been here many times and helped many people.
Lieutenant Gaitan, could you give us a few minutes alone with Dr.
Hernandez? So how does it work? Do you get a government subsidy for every operation that's done here? Subsidy? Does it look like we get a subsidy from this government? You know what, you got a point.
What about this centrifuge here? Looks brand new.
That must have cost you five, six grand US.
It was a gift from the Frederick foundation.
Dr.
Ansel brought it on one of her many trips.
You keep saying that.
So just how many trips did she make exactly? Many.
The lieutenant can find out from his customs office exactly how many times Dr.
Ansel came into this country.
You want us to ask him? How many is many? One.
She came two years ago with a man.
Yeah, that's him.
How many operations did she perform? Not one.
She sends supplies twice a year.
And if anybody came, I'm supposed to tell them that Dr.
Ansel's been here many times and helped many people.
Did you tell Kerri Livanski the truth? She asked me questions that I couldn't answer about Ramon Sanchez.
She knew something wasn't right.
You know, medical care here for the poor is not I take help from wherever it comes.
Even from hands that are not so clean.
My last trip I performed up to five surgeries a day.
The patients presented with a variety of disfiguring conditions from birth defects to farming accidents.
Their lives had been dictated by the misfortune on their faces.
On the fourth day, I performed on a young boy.
I had to stop.
I felt all of a sudden, I was looking into my late brother's eyes.
My brother Frederick died before he could realize his dreams.
Even as a young boy, he wanted to make a difference.
I am asking you now to join me in making his dream come true.
Everything you subpoenaed here.
Copies of her passports, travel receipts.
I never agreed to do surgery at Dr.
Hernandez's clinic.
I visited his clinic two years ago.
It was inadequate.
He wanted to charge me outrageous fees.
But I felt sorry for his patients.
So I donate supplies when I can.
Sign this receipt.
Bottom of the second page.
So where in Guatemala do you perform your surgeries? I've advised her not to answer other than to say it's in a politically sensitive area.
That doesn't really explain all the printing mistakes on your brochure.
Shouldn't you sign this? The important thing is, people are being helped.
I would really hate to see anything get in the way of that.
So would we, doctor.
Thank you so much for coming in.
Thank you.
Her passport backs her up.
Multiple stamps from Guatemala and El salvador, Honduras.
Yeah, maybe she was working on her tan.
Those pictures of Antonio in Costa rica.
Do you remember the date? Uh, May 2003.
Dr.
Ansel was there at the same time.
He wasn't working for her then.
Right, he was working at a hospital in Texas.
After they came back from Costa rica, June 2003.
That's when he went to work for Ansel.
And three months later she opened the Frederick foundation.
They conspired together to concoct this fraud? A surgeon and a nurse's aide? Kerri's body had two cuts.
One clean and one sloppy.
I think what we're saying is that they carved her up together.
And let me guess where.
It's an operating room.
They sterilize it who knows how many times a week? We can always hope.
Tuesday three weeks ago? I'm sorry, I don't remember.
I'm gone by 4.
- Anybody else in the office? - No.
Well, who assists Dr.
Ansel during surgeries? Antonio.
It's all minor procedures, you know.
Chin tucks, eyelid folds.
Well, can you check Dr.
Ansel's calendar and see what she had going on Tuesday night? Ansel's running a bare-bones operation here.
One nurse's aide and one receptionist? Yeah, well, it's not like she can't afford a staff.
She's pulling in 30 to 40 grand a week.
This practice pulls in two to three times what that foundation raises.
Tuesday night three weeks ago Dr.
Ansel was at her parents'.
Thank you.
Apartment of Leo and Anna Ansel Monday, November 14 Christine was here speaking at a small reception to benefit the foundation.
We host one every week.
Is this about the volunteer who was killed? Christine's terribly upset.
Frederick Ansel.
Is that who the foundation's named after? Our son.
He was 13 when leukemia took him.
Is this him too? Dressed up as a doctor for Halloween? My own family couldn't afford medical school, so I went into business.
But Freddy, he was going to be a healer.
When he was ten, he read about the children starving in Biafra.
He raised enough money through his school to fill up a plane with food.
That's quite a kid.
And you have Christine.
She's a doctor.
A cosmetic surgeon.
And you don't approve? It's a little even Christine had to take a break from it.
Then she came back and started the foundation.
Meaningful work.
Something Freddy would have done.
We're very proud of her.
Well, her mother said she took a sabbatical from surgery right before she started the foundation.
That's when she would have went to Costa rica and met Antonio.
Whoa, her income dropped by more than half that year.
Biafra.
That was 1968.
The boy was ten.
That's why there's no pictures of him and Christine.
He died before she was born.
Must have been hard growing up in her brother's shadow.
Not to mention the only reason you're around is because your parents go back to the drawing board after he died.
That's a race you can never win.
The same year Christine took her sabbatical, her malpractice insurance doubled.
Maybe that's why she took a break.
She got sued and lost.
She botched a routine chin tuck.
She cut too deep, hit a nerve.
Her insurance company settled, par for the course.
Wow, except she stopped cutting for eight months.
She might have lost her nerve.
I was set to be a thoracic surgeon until halfway through med school.
Cutting into something red and throbbing finally got to me.
In the DA's office, she had troubled separating the sheets of paper of a receipt.
It was her eyes.
She was rubbing them.
And she was blinking a lot.
- Were her eyelids drooping? - Yeah, a little.
Could be myasthenia gravis.
It's neurological.
Occurs in women.
Typically in their 30s.
Patients get double vision.
Especially while doing close-in work.
Like surgery.
A surgeon not only has to visualize in three dimensions what they're going to do, they have to see in three dimensions to do it.
Doesn't a surgeon have to visualize what a patient will look like after plastic surgery? - It's probably the most important skill.
- So what do you think? Somebody who drew this, is it possible they could be a surgeon? If they have steady hands.
- Surgery's mostly about technique.
- And the rest is easy.
As long as you have a real doctor looking over your shoulder.
He's a nurse's aide, detectives.
He doesn't get paid enough to second guess what Dr.
Ansel tells him to do.
Dr.
Ansel ordered him to tell the patients to lie about the surgery.
- Is that what he's saying? - He's not saying anything.
Hey, that hospital in Texas.
They say you worked in the OR.
You watch a lot of surgeries? - I didn't have time to watch.
- No? Let me ask you something.
Is surgery something you could just, you know, pick up? Like playing a piano? You know, like some people hear a tune once and they can play it? I mean, some people are just natural born surgeons.
Somebody with no medical training but the hands of an angel? See, we think Dr.
Ansel has someone like that on her team.
She'd need one.
You know, with her eyes going bad and all.
She can't operate.
Not when her incisions look like this.
She can't maintain the right depth.
She stops, she starts.
- It's hack-work.
- Not like this one.
Straight, clean line.
That's the work of a sure hand.
That's the work of your hand.
I am just a nurse's aide.
I didn't do that.
Yes, you did, and you fixed Ramon too, didn't you? And you fixed Louise's baby.
You fixed them all.
Not to mention Dr.
Ansel's botox belles on the upper east side.
- That's crazy.
- So how did it play out? She found you in Costa rica.
You were passing yourself off as a surgeon, right? - Don't answer him, Mr.
Morales.
- What, did she threaten to expose you unless you work for her? She threw you a couple of bucks? No! / You like helping people and Kerri was gonna end all that.
So you butchered her like a pro.
Please, please, please! I can't hear this, okay? You were seen dumping her body, Antonio.
You made the sign of the cross over it.
You were remorseful.
We could see it.
- I didn't mean to kill her.
- Mr.
Morales, don't say anything.
I want to tell them, okay? Please, I want to.
Kerri came into the office with Dr.
Ansel.
And she started getting sick.
Having some stomach cramps and chills.
And Dr.
Ansel, she said it was her appendix.
And we didn't have time to get to the hospital.
I had to operate right away.
She was gonna show me how.
It was bad.
All because I only work on faces, you know? There's something wrong, I don't know why.
She She died.
She died right there.
What were you doing at the clinic in the first place? Dr.
Ansel, she asked me to work late to fill in the requisition forms.
I'm sorry.
I was only trying to help her.
You didn't kill her, Antonio.
Cramps, the chills, the fever.
She was dying of an overdose of morphine.
Dr.
Ansel drugged her.
Just like she did Ramon.
She set you up.
She set you up.
Oh, god, what did I do? What did I do? What did I do? Hats off, detectives.
We're still short of corroborating evidence against Dr.
Ansel.
I wouldn't count on remorse moving her into a confessional state of mind.
Yeah.
Is that a mechanical pencil? Can I see it? I'm sure you're worrying for nothing.
They'll go through your papers.
They see everything's fine, and that'll be the end of it.
Be aggressive.
You're finally doing something worthwhile.
Defend it.
I am.
I am, but it's just me out there.
Someone's early.
You have us.
And everyone who admires you for the good work you do.
You make us very happy.
Uh, it won't take long, Mr.
Ansel.
I'm sorry, Christine.
Please.
They said they have documents for you to look over.
Well, we're expecting guests.
And I can't sign anything unless my lawyer is here.
Well, actually we need your help as a witness.
We just arrested your nurse's aide for fraud.
Antonio? / Yeah, we think he's doing a little fund raising on his own.
- Shaking down patients.
- Now, hold on.
Since he doesn't work for the foundation, the foundation's not at fault, am I right? No, the foundation would be a victim here.
We just need you to go through this list of patients and check off the ones you operated on.
I think you should do what they ask.
Ah, just Oh, I'm sorry.
I hate those things.
The lead always falls out.
Here you go.
Just stick it in.
Uh, why can't I just use a pen? Oh, I'm sorry, it has to be in pencil in case you make a mistake.
This nurse's aide.
You wouldn't believe what he told one of your daughter's patients.
He was saying that he deserved all the money because he did all the operations.
A nurse's aide.
You okay, doctor? Should be as easy as threading a needle for a surgeon.
I guess I'm just tired.
Oh, Antonio did say that there was something wrong with your eyes? There is nothing wrong with my eyes.
Then why can't you fix the pencil? Even I could do it.
Well, why don't you then? You have myasthenia gravis, don't you? Doctor, we can subpoena your medical records.
It's true that Antonio did the surgeries, isn't it? Oh, my god, Christine.
Mom, don't people are being helped.
That's what matters.
Doesn't it? No, what matters is, how it reflects on your family and the memory of your brother.
Did you ever think of that? I bet that's all she thinks about.
Maybe if you hadn't have treated her like a spare tire, - she wouldn't be in this mess.
- We resent that.
Dad, I did the math when I was 11.
Frederick died and nine months later I know my place in this family.
A distant second to the perfect son.
- Do you even wanna be a doctor? - Of course she does.
I'm gonna guess not.
The foundation that was a brilliant move.
You almost caught up to the little guy.
The only people who could trip you up were Ramon and Kerri.
No.
- No, I had nothing to do with that.
- Kerri knew you were a fraud.
Kerry, with her, what did you tell Antonio she had acute appendicitis? Antonio told us everything.
Okay, yes - but he couldn't follow my instructions.
- No.
Kerri died because you fed her morphine the moment she got off the plane.
Oh, Christine, you didn't.
- You killed her.
- Don't say that.
This is obscene.
You took her life.
- You dragged Frederick into this.
- Oh, shut up.
Shut up with Frederick.
I am sick of hearing his name! Sick of it! Yes, I took her life.
- But you took mine! - Hold her! Guys! You never let me have a life! You're under arrest.
He's the lucky one.
Mom, dad, he was the lucky one.
Yeah, lucky.