Homicide: Life on the Street s07e13 Episode Script

One more murder in this town It don't mean a thing Just lock your doors and drive around One more murder in this town Don't worry, the rain will wash the chalk marks from the ground Saturday night, shots ring out Add one to the body count You come alive To see another's end Plead it to a lesser count DA says, "Without a doubt" In three to five You're on the street again One more murder In this town Turn, turn! There! There! The big one, the big one! That's a lot of points.
This depravity is the upcoming moral of apocalypse.
Systemic desensitisation geared to controlling our aggression and sexual drives, keeping us docile puppets, with our senses held hostage by a computer.
It's just a CD game.
It's just a way of exploring the arbitrary nature of winning and losing.
This is the route to enlightenment? The hero's a big-breasted woman blowing away aliens.
Hey, Tara Greenwood makes the world safe from evil.
She's two-dimensional animation.
Didn't you have a little something for Wilma Flintstone, huh? Watch it.
Wilma's sacred.
Got a body in Highlandtown.
Meldrick seems to be missing in action.
I need a partner.
I'm in the middle of a game here.
What about you, Bayliss? Wanna battle evil in the real world? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sure.
Let's ride.
Yeah.
Yeah, go ride.
Good riddance.
Oh! Shana Siegel.
25.
A friend, Melissa Chambers found her when she came to pick Siegel up.
They worked at Sip 'N' Bite.
No signs of a struggle.
No bloody footprints.
No smears on the door.
Well, that's not nice.
Not leaving us any clues.
- The killer did leave us something.
- Huh? - Look at this.
- "Too little too late.
" Hey, where have you been? Signing up for a self-defence course at the Academy.
Why? Something up? No.
I just haven't seen you around.
Self-defence, huh? Uh-huh.
Are you following me? If you're interested in protecting yourself on the street, I could show you some box moves.
Oh, you and me? Boxing? Yeah, you know, a little floor work, holds.
- Tight clinches.
- Working up a sweat.
- Discussing a case, Detectives? - Absolutely, Gee.
Does my heart good to see two professionals hard at work.
Yeah I better See you around later, Laura.
Detective Ballard.
Yes, right er Falsone.
OK.
Thanks.
Miss Chambers? - Miss Chambers? - Were you saying something to me? I need to ask you a few more questions.
Do you have any idea who would hurt Shana like this? No.
I don't know her well.
We just drove to work together.
She talked a lot in the car, but if I was driving, I couldn't read her lips.
I missed a lot of what she said.
Did you see anyone exiting her house? See anything suspicious? Nothing.
The door was open when I arrived.
Shana always left the door open.
I told her it wasn't safe, but she wouldn't listen.
Did Shana have any family in town? Only the person she ever mentioned was her sister.
- Her sister? - Yes.
I think she's from Detroit.
Hey.
Was Shana's friend any help? Not much.
Getting anything on that computer? Only that Shana and the killer might have had an audience.
Yeah, you see there's a card in the computer that you hook a video camera up to, and you send the images over the internet.
So does that mean that there might be a video tape existing somewhere out there in cyberspace, or it might be somewhere in that computer? - We're gonna need Computer Crimes.
- Stage lamp, fake knife.
- What are these? - Oh, they're squibs.
You tape them to the body, pierce them, and you've got instant fake blood.
My undergrad minor was drama.
So we've got items that point to a stage performance.
Mm-hm.
Complete with a real-life dead body.
I feel energised, you know.
Ready.
First real case since the beatdown.
I can barely see the bruises.
Everything's OK? - Yeah.
Everything else is great.
- Good.
You know, I just thought you and Lewis being partnered up, you wanna work this case with him, it's all right with me.
Did Lewis say something to you about me? No, nothing.
If you two wanted to get your rhythm back, I didn't want to stand in your way.
Lewis wasn't around.
You were.
There's no reason we can't finish what we started.
It's not like these partnerships are set in stone, right? Right.
Ahem.
- Hey.
- Rene.
Tim.
Detectives Bonaventura, LZ Austin.
What brings you here off-shift? Heard over KGA, you guys paid a visit to Shana Siegel's house.
- Yeah.
You know her? - We talked to Shana yesterday.
She was a witness of ours on an online murder hoax.
- A hoax? - A fake slash film.
Simulated murder.
It was broadcast over the internet night before last.
Shana Siegel was the star.
Shana Siegel, a grad student at Grant's College, and an acquaintance, Lemmy Caution, hacked into the college's website, and broadcasted a faux slash film.
Siegel as the victim, Caution as the killer.
These invitations were sent by email.
They were advertised as a new-age ritual.
In their investigation, Bonaventura and Austin found Siegel alive and well and warned her against staging another performance.
Then last night they got a call about what sounded like another staged murder, so they sent those calls onto Computer Crimes, done and done.
Until Shana shows up dead.
What about Lemmy Caution, the fake killer? Maybe he's the real killer.
If he is our murderer, he also used a fake name.
Wait, Lemmy Caution was a character in a 1960s French Film called "Alphaville".
It was about a computer that ran a whole society.
Do we have anything on this case? Bonaventura and Austin have a videotape of the fake murder, and there were rituals involved, including body painting.
According to their research, the ritual was: "A pastiche of Afro-Cuban syncretic religious rituals, "including voodoo, Santeria and Candomble.
" Work with Bonaventura and Austin, find this Lemmy, whatever his name is, and how many people saw last night's murder on computer.
- Right.
- Ask Mike to help.
The FBI has the most up-to-date computer analysis equipment.
Computers, internet, cyber world gives me agita.
- I'll be right there.
- OK.
Got yourself a new partner, huh? You weren't around when the call came.
I was over at Jimmy's getting myself an egg sandwich.
You didn't tell me that.
I never said I didn't wanna work cases with you.
- I know.
- So I'm able to jump in there.
No need.
Bayliss and I have got it under control.
Fine.
OK.
OK.
What have you got? This is the fake murder of Shana Siegel shown the night before last on the Grant's College website.
Some kid turned it over to us.
- Ouch! - It's all fake.
Blood squibs.
Fake knife.
Looks real enough to me.
Siegel and Caution hacked into the college's website two nights in a row.
- We need to know how they did it.
- The name of the file was ritual/murder.
Let's see who their provider was.
Your hacker used Plegma.
The identification number is 1 PL422636.
Wait.
That's Shana Siegel's account.
When someone signs onto the net, they can be tracked by their ID number.
It's like fingerprints.
It tells us that Lemmy Caution knew computer records.
He didn't want anything to come back to him so he used his victim's account.
For you.
Sheppard.
Would the hacker have to be someone who is familiar with your system? You get a goober with a God complex and a computer, he can find his way into any system.
So anyone.
Right.
- Excuse us.
- OK, thanks.
Bonaventura got a call from one of the witnesses.
They received an email invitation to view another staged new-age ritual performance.
Tonight at midnight.
This time on Whitley University's website.
Uh-huh.
So another performance? - Or another murder.
- Yeah.
Congratulations.
I think you just downloaded your first red ball.
We have email invitations for another ritual killing tonight at 12 midnight, to be broadcast on the Whitley University website.
Maybe the next victim is from Whitley University.
Question is do we have time to interview every student? No, and we have no idea whether the murder will take place in Baltimore.
All we can go on is the information we know about Siegel's murder.
- Got any idea who aced her? - No.
He was wearing a mask.
All we know is he gave himself a fake name, Lemmy Caution.
So far Crime Lab has come up with nothing.
They've got no clues, no hairs, so we're waiting for the ME's report.
Neighbours didn't recall any disturbance.
No one saw anyone enter or leave Siegel's house.
Her family has been contacted, as well as co-workers.
We now have eight phone calls from viewers who witnessed Siegel's death on their computer last night.
We're calling them in for interviews.
Lewis, you and Munch interview Siegel's sister.
She's flying in this morning.
Bonaventura, you and Austin reinterview the students at Grant's.
And Ballard, you and Lewis recanvass Siegel's neighbourhood.
You wanted me and Munchkin to see Siegel's sister.
Lewis and Munch, why don't you stay with the Siegel family? Ballard, Gharty, Falsone and Stivers recanvass the neighbourhood.
Speak with the witnesses who saw the video.
Coordinate here with Mike.
I want you to talk to the Computer Crime.
Find out the source of today's email invitation, all right? I don't have to remind all of you that we have 15 hours until midnight.
I will be my usual pleasant self until this case is solved.
We should go to the ME's office.
Give Griscom a nudge.
Don't tell me how to run this case unless you want to be the primary.
What are you talking about? Me dropping the ball back there, doing that briefing for a second, you jumping in to save my ass, I don't need that.
I was trying to help.
I know that I've never been the primary on a red ball.
I know what everybody's thinking about me.
No one is thinking you cannot handle this case.
- Right.
- Listen Gandhi said one time that he only had three enemies.
His favourite enemy was the British Empire.
The second favourite enemy was the Indian people.
But his third and most formidable opponent was Gandhi himself.
Spare me your crunchy philosophy.
Let's go see Griscom.
- Yeah, let's do that.
- Yeah.
I'd water her plants when she went out of town.
Did you ever see Shana with anyone, or talk with her about friends? - No.
- If you think of anything, call us.
I'm sure I won't.
I'm glad you and Falsone are cooling it on company time.
Oh, well, actually, we are cooling it altogether.
- Oh? - Mm.
Your idea or his idea? A little bit of both.
Yeah? - You OK about that? - Mm-hm.
You don't need for me to bust his chops? Uh-uh.
Cos if he broke your heart or something like that, you just have to ask and kapow.
There's no need, but thank you.
Did your sister ever talk to you about her friends, specifically Lemmy Caution? She never mentioned that name.
She never mentioned anyone.
- I knew this would happen.
- How did you know? Shana has to move to the only city with a higher murder rate than Detroit, and surprise, surprise, she gets murdered.
I guess that's my sister for you.
Always trying to buck the odds.
Always losing.
Here are Shana Siegel's autopsy results.
It took me a while to figure out the precise sequence of events, but I teased it out and came up with the following scenario.
First, she was stabbed in the chest.
The initial strikes severed her aorta.
So probably she was dead before the third strike.
Then the killer used A straight-edged hunting knife.
Then stabbed her six more times.
We saw a copy of the killer's MO.
He staged a fake murder the night before the actual murder.
- You could've told me.
- Yeah.
Griscom, we need to know if you found any traces.
Skin under the fingernails? Hair? Anything that might give us a lead.
The lab has been examining her clothes, but so far Don't tell me nothing.
How about bupkis? Or nada or nichevo? Or maybe you'd prefer zero or zip or zilch? You take your pick, Detective.
It means nothing to me.
How did you hear about the murder? My girlfriend forwarded an email invite to me.
Her brother had forwarded it to her, but I don't know who clued him in.
I'm a professor of philosophy at Grant's College.
I heard several of my students talking about the cyber murder.
I wanted to keep up with what they're interested in, so I watched.
The entire murder? Keeping up with college kids these days, it's not for the squeamish.
The technology was good, but the effects were smoke and mirror stuff.
You see it every day on television.
It's not like the woman was killed.
What you saw was a real murder.
Oh man.
Oh, man! That's so That's so cool.
Sheppard? What's the status on the Siegel murder? We're working on the case, Gee.
There's a strong possibility, around midnight tonight, another young woman will lose a life.
I want a more specific answer from you than, "We're working on the case.
" Nothing from the Crime Lab or the ME.
Neighbours have heard nothing.
Family, friends know nothing.
Where's Bonaventura and Austin? I think they're at the college questioning the students.
You think? You're the primary of the case.
You've got to know where everyone is, so if you want them, you can get them.
- Do I make myself clear? - Yes, sir.
- Tell me you've found something.
- No.
I'm checking the BBS.
See if anyone has a copy of Siegel's murder.
- BBS? - Internet bulletin boards.
You can set up a site where people log in, and, you know, share their opinions about a specific topic.
Someone's set up a BBS on Siegel's murder.
I've also checked Cyber Slash chat rooms.
These people are having real-time conversations about Siegel's murder.
- You've got 20 names there.
- Yeah.
This is just Cyber Slash chat room number four.
There are six in all.
Don't they have better things to do than sit in front of a screen and talk about a murder? Apparently not.
Let me know if anyone has anything important to say.
"Officer at the scene was Franke Keane.
" - How do these inter-nuts know that? - They follow the investigation.
They know all the detectives involved.
Their names, facts of life.
What facts of life? Someone's looked up what cases we worked on, where we went to school, where we live.
Wait a minute.
My particulars are floating around in cyberspace? - Don't they need my permission? - Not if it's in the public record.
And who reads this? Well, anyone hooked up to the net can access it.
We're talking 70, maybe, 100 million terminals worldwide.
Sheppard, the FBI computer technician's found something on Siegel's computer.
- Bayliss is waiting for us downstairs.
- Let's go.
I was able to restore the victim's deleted email from her cache.
OK.
Who's Bytemyface? That's Siegel's email address.
Lovely.
"We'll need a few hours' preparation, so I'll come over at nine.
" This is a letter from the killer.
- Arnie at ICSN.
- Can we find out who that is? Do we have a subpoena for ICSN for release of subscriber information? - Absolutely.
- I'll find out who Arnie at ICSN is.
Gotcha, Arnie, you bastard.
Baltimore Police! Open up! Come here! - We're here to talk with Arnie Muller! - Listen, we're not gonna hurt you.
Can you tell us where he is? I'm Arnold Muller.
You are.
You're Arnold? We've been spoofed.
Son of a bitch spoofed us.
Used someone else's email address to cover his own identity.
How did he do that? He wrote a programme, so when he sends an email, it looks like it comes from Arnie at ICSN.
If someone tries to track Caution, they'll find Arnold.
Who doesn't know Caution from Adam.
Mike, can your technical services find out who sent those messages? Yeah, sure.
It'll just take time.
We have until midnight.
That gives us less than four hours.
There might be another way to catch this Lemmy Caution.
So we wait until he kills again? Each of the rituals Caution performed took almost 30 minutes.
It was a good 20 minutes before he began to injure his victim.
Caution also logged on using his victim's account.
We can monitor the computer logs as Caution's performance comes in.
Since Caution is using his victim's account, we can figure out the provider and ID number of the victim.
How do we know Mr Caution won't figure out what we're doing? Well, we don't, but it's our best chance.
Once we get the victim's ID number, we contact the provider and get the victim's name and address.
Then we got our man.
- How long will that take? - If it goes to plan, 15 minutes.
If it doesn't? - Unacceptable.
- There may be no other choice here.
We have talked to Siegel's family, acquaintances, questioned the witnesses, checked the crime scene.
I want you to go over every interview, every piece of evidence, every report.
Ten times, if you have to! Pull out other detectives if you need to! I do not want another woman to go through this torture again! Not for five minutes! Not for five seconds! June 1 st, 1996, Timothy Leary was gonna to commit suicide on the internet.
Died before the intended date.
June 16th, 1998, Elizabeth Oliver had her son, Sean, on the internet.
Rene Fluker had a quadruple bypass on the web ten months ago, but this is the first time anyone's been murdered on the web as far as we know.
Just my luck.
Here are the interviews with Shana Siegel's friends and co-workers.
Miss Siegel wasn't very communicative about her extra-marital activities.
Everything's set at Whitley University.
The FBI Regional Unit's standing by.
We have 30 minutes left.
Friends and neighbours told us nothing about Siegel meeting with Caution.
- Where do you want this? - Just add it on.
- She's feeling the pressure.
- Who? Quick Draw McGraw? - That's cold, Meldrick.
- It was a joke.
Come on, I'm the one who got shot at.
If that bullet had been an inch lower, I wouldn't be here to defend myself.
- Sheppard anything? - Not yet.
Get down to Whitley University.
- Tim, we're going.
- OK.
Mike, I need you at the FBI Regional.
Falsone, coordinate the radio cars and every available detective.
Once we get the victim's address, we have less than ten minutes to get to her.
Mike, it's time.
- Falsone? - City's covered.
All units are ready.
- They're good to go.
- OK.
I'm starting the trace, trying to get a read on the stream.
Can you get anything? - What happened? - Computer's frozen up.
Too many people logged on to see the murder.
They crashed the computer.
- Can you get the ID number? - Give me a minute.
- We don't have a minute - There's only so much I can do! You have got to do it faster.
Hold on Hold on.
Got it.
The signal came through.
Retenex.
Mike, the provider is Retenex.
- The number is 5XL - 5XL3299.
Good.
Hold a minute.
This is special agent Mike Giardello with the FBI.
I have a subpoena to find out the subscriber number 5XL3299.
Mm-hm.
Mike? Bayliss.
- 'Lnitial L, period Ryland.
' - Initial L, period Ryland.
Falsone, the address is 800, Henrietta Street.
At least we know Lemmy Caution's real name is Luke Ryland.
But are you sure? Someone at the Sip 'N' Bite put Siegel and Ryland together.
Ryland used his own account to log on.
You said he'd use his victim's account.
We thought he'd follow the pattern.
But he didn't and now we could have another dead woman.
- We've gotta find Ryland.
- We have put his name to NCIC.
How do we know he hasn't changed his records? Sir, we don't.
There's a lot we don't know.
Give me something I can work with.
We're fielding hundreds of calls and emails.
Each one saying they know the identity of the victim.
Just a lead.
Just one good lead.
Rene, patrolman in Canton thinks he's found the second victim.
Sheppard.
OK, Bonaventura and Austin, check the other rooms.
See if there's anything that might indicate how she knew Ryland.
Ryland's escalating the violence.
Beat her first before stabbing her.
- Did he leave a message? - No.
Can you disconnect that? Technical Service should look it over.
- No problem.
- Where's the Crime Lab? I want this place processed from top to bottom.
Do you have a suspect? We do have a suspect.
- When will you make an arrest? - Very soon.
We're completing our investigation.
Is there anything being done to prevent the circulation of copies on the internet? That's beyond our jurisdiction.
The police are investigating a murder.
We can't control content on the internet.
The press will be notified when we have our suspect in custody.
Thank you very much.
That'll be all.
I want a word with you.
- Bayliss.
- Yeah, Gee? If you don't make an arrest soon, Barnfather wants you as primary.
- Rene can handle it.
- I need results, understand? I need results.
Seven years ago, my first red ball, Adena Watson, the bosses wanted me off the case, and you backed me up.
As I recall, you never closed the Adena Watson case either.
Just organising all of the information.
Cleaning it up.
You know, Rene, you said one time that you wanted a friend that you could talk to.
You know what? I've got enough friends.
Hey! See, that is your mind when it's clear.
And this is your mind when you have got an attitude! I don't need emotionally, politically correct detective lessons from you.
Maybe this is how you came up the squad.
Listening at the feet of the all-powerful Pembleton.
I don't need a mentor.
I've survived this far.
I'll make it the rest of the way.
Not while you're doing a bang-up job.
Barnfather wants you off the case.
Arranging these files is not gonna help you catch Ryland - Get out of my face! - You don't need these files, Rene! You know every single thing that is in these files! You need to get over this everyone- thinks-she-can't-handle-her-case crap.
You can either let what happened wipe away every shred of your confidence and destroy your ability to be a detective or you can keep going.
You can work murders, close cases.
And what if I can't? What if I don't close the case? Then it stays up on the Board in red, and you go on, you move on to the next case, and the next one, and the next one after that.
Screw you, Bayliss.
Screw you, too, Rene.
Do your job! What? Or you'll take over as primary? What else are friends for? We've confirmed that Luke Ryland is from Annapolis.
Got no family.
His parents died leaving him a lot of money.
Dropped out of Cornell University four years ago.
Been living in Baltimore the last three.
No prior arrests.
- What about this latest victim? - Katherine Councill, 28.
Worked in a bookstore.
Friends say she met Ryland through the internet.
It seems that Ryland sent the signal in with a cellphone.
Can we trace him through the cellphone signal? We need a court order from the FCC to do that.
Serial murderers get high on the excitement they cause.
- They watch TV, read the papers.
- Right Would he be monitoring that bulletin board on the internet? OK.
We've logged on.
You're in charge.
"This is Detective Sheppard.
"I know you're out there, you sonofa" - Can you write that on a public? - Profanity is discouraged.
Too bad.
How do I send it? No one's responding.
Wait a minute.
Here's a message from Obermeier.
"Don't you know better than to use profanity?" Well, I told you.
There's another.
"Detective Sheppard, is it true you were Miss Anne Arundel?" - You were Miss Anne Arundel County? - This is getting us nowhere.
If Ryland's watching the internet, there's no guarantee he's looking at this BBS.
Give him time.
He might be shy.
You got an instant message.
Someone wants a private conversation with you.
"Is this from the detective in charge of the case?" Yes.
"You won't get a chance to catch me.
I'll take my business elsewhere.
" Sent by Brothinker.
Can we get some information on this character? If it's Ryland, he's probably spoofed another name for himself.
"How do I know you're Ryland?" Arnie at ICSN.
The public didn't know the killer used that address.
It's Ryland.
"You're taking your business elsewhere? "Don't you want to play anymore?" "I've read all about you.
I thought you'd be tired of getting beaten.
" "I'm just getting warmed up.
Bring it on.
" - You're asking him to commit a murder? - No.
She's baiting him.
We might be able to track his cellphone use.
We might be able to get him this time.
He's not gonna answer back.
"Are you scared? Coward?" No.
He logged off.
But not before posting a message on the bulletin board.
"You are invited to another performance.
Twelve midnight.
"Www.
Inplainsite.
" - Whose website is that? - I'll check it out.
No, I'll check that out.
Bonaventura, get a subpoena to track the cellphone from the FCC.
Austin, organise the squad cars.
Mike, I need your FBI computer techs monitoring his video streams in.
We're gonna get him this time.
- I figured if we challenged Ryland - You figured? What if Ryland doesn't use his cellphone? What if he spoofs us again? This man is no hack at hacking.
Ryland's escalating the violence of his murders.
- He'll make a mistake.
- If you haven't already.
At least have the balls to take me off the case.
I strongly suggest that you rephrase that, Detective! If this is about your lack of faith in me as a detective, then I should just resign.
Wait a minute.
Back up right there! I had my ass on the line while you were still in diapers! Brothers like me in an all-white police department made it possible for a black woman to be a detective! You've been beat down and you're running a red ball, so I'm gonna forget that you used those words.
You're in charge of this case! Close it! I've got the whole south side covered.
Squad cars will be waiting by 11:45.
What about the subpoena for tracking the cell signal? - It's delivered to the FCC already.
- All right.
Tim, you find out about the owner of the inplainsite web page? Er it's not Ryland.
Maybe he knows Ryland.
Maybe he's somehow connected.
No, it's just a It's a random website.
That doesn't make sense.
Did you check? Rene It's er It's my website.
- Yours? - Yeah.
Why didn't you just say so? Because I prefer to keep my private life private.
Yeah.
Look what's on this website.
"Buddhist perspectives on bisexuality.
" Buddhism.
Right up your alley, huh, Bayliss? Yeah.
How about that? All units report? Holabird and Dundalk ready.
Albemarle and Eastern ready.
Gough and Linwood ready.
Start the trace.
I got the provider.
It's ICSN.
I need a subpoena for ICSN.
User ID number 346925R.
We don't know for sure that's the victim's account.
The FCC's got that cellphone signal? It's coming from 106, Fenchurch Road.
No sirens.
We don't want to tip him off.
Let's go.
Should my darkness prevail? Does your memory fail? Oh, love on the wing Carry my prayer Cherish this moment In times of despair Over the mountains Over the sea Angel of love Come back home to me Can you, can you carry my storm? Over the mountains Over the sea Angel of love Please come back home to me Oh, come back home I'm so guilty, I'm so guilty I'm so guilty Freeze! Police officers! Drop it! Drop it! Take the knife! Hook him up! No! No! Yeah.
Got him! All right, let's go.
Come on.
Detective Sheppard, nice to meet you face to face.
The feeling's mutual, you son of a bitch.
- Maybe see you later.
- I'll call you.
- Trouble in paradise? - Nah.
So Sheppard redeemed herself, huh? Caught the murderer.
Yeah.
It's computer crime.
It's a far cry from the street.
- Hey, Sheppard.
- Hey.
OK.
Rene, Danvers is on his way down.
Mike, how do you feel about giving second shift the benefit of your FBI expertise? - Sure.
What have you got? - We could use your help.
All right.
Sheppard, Barnfather's having a press conference in 20 minutes.
Be there so he can congratulate you.
- That's OK, Lieutenant.
- Be there.
That's an order.
I wanna see Barnfather eat his words.
- You should be there, too.
- Gee didn't say anything about me.
Besides, you closed the case, you deserve the glory.
- I don't wanna steal your thunder.
- Liar.
- You just wanna go home to bed.
- You got that right.
Good detective work.
- Good night, Bayliss.
- Good night, Rene.
One more murder in this town It don't mean a thing Just lock your doors and drive around One more murder in this town Don't worry, the rain will wash the chalk marks from the ground Saturday night, shots ring out Add one to the body count You come alive To see another's end Plead it to a lesser count DA says, "Without a doubt" In three to five You're on the street again