Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) s10e04 Episode Script
The Last Street in Manhattan
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.
- Medina Stavro, 31, brunette.
She's a pediatrician at mt.
Sinai.
She's the niece of Nicholas Stavro.
Of course, you know the Greek shipping family.
- Hmm.
No sports in her background, huh? - Oh, she's very athletic.
David, look at those eyes.
- Mm.
Not feeling it, Steph.
- Andrea stiles.
She modeled in paris.
She has a PHD from Yale.
She teaches French lit at Columbia And look at her.
- Does she have a lazy eye? - David, you are paying me $200,000 for my services.
Now, let's do one more meet and greet, and see how it goes.
And then you can go back to doing what or whomever you're doing.
- Okay.
Okay, Stephanie.
Good boy.
- But is there such a thing as too perfect? - No! Let's hope that you feel it with Andrea.
And by the way, she has an I.
Q.
Of 175.
You better brush up on your proust.
- If you don't want to go to code- the city's not gonna let us go code, so it's gonna be- the operation's gonna be- - how you doing, Shawn? - Hey, Mr.
Driscoll- You ratted me out to this guy? - What- jeez, what are you talking about? - You're a snitch.
- What? - Take it easy, dad.
- I'm a bookie.
I'm not a snitch.
Why the hell would Jack Driscoll do something like that to me? - Hey, have you eaten? What? - You look just like your mother, God rest her soul.
You know, life is essentially a cheat, and its conditions are those of defeat.
- Let me guess F.
Scott Fitzgerald.
- Mmm.
That's my girl.
- So you hit it big on wall street, and you know your way around a proust novel.
I'm impressed.
- What if I'm a serial killer? - Well, you take the good with the bad.
You're not into this, are you? - No, no, you're great.
I'm just-I'm a little- - David.
Hi.
Nice to see you.
- Nicki.
- Did he get to the part about his quest to discover his spiritual identity yet? - Uh, no, I'm afraid not.
- I don't usually bust that out until dessert, so Seriously? - It's undignified, I know.
But I don't care anymore.
I'm on to the next, David.
We're done.
- I'm happy for you.
- Thank you for dinner.
- I'm sorry about all that.
- You've got things on your mind.
I'm around if you get them off.
- Thanks.
I live close, so I'm gonna walk.
There you go, pal.
I know what you're doing, Skinner, I do.
And you're a deman! Learn how to drive! Adriano_csi Black male, 40.
Business card says he was the CEO an investment bank.
Took two to the chest.
Looks like a 38.
Time of death around - Witnesses? - None so far.
Shooter wasn't in range of any of the surveillance cams.
- There's no signs of struggle.
No scratches, no scrapes.
His tie is still nice and tight.
- The shooter took the cash, left the wallet and the credit cards.
- He's got two in the chest.
It's personal.
It's not a pro.
- Maybe our shooter resisted the robbery, but I don't see it.
- Silk tie, Italian shoes, custom suit.
- Another master of the universe goes down, hence major case.
- No wedding ring.
The only thing missing from the perfect investment banker profile is an expensive timepiece.
This is a department store watch.
Under $80.
Tan line.
Discoloration It's square.
The watch he's wearing is round-faced.
- Until recently, he was wearing a different watch.
- So he's on the street, it's late night.
Shooter takes cash from the wallet, leaves the wallet to make it look like a robbery.
I think our guy here was ambushed.
- Last night, David had dinner at le chat blanc.
- Do you know who with? - It was personal.
He mostly kept his private life to himself.
- Who did he work most closely with? - Aston Skinner.
He was David's number two.
But he's out of the office, traveling.
- David kellen, "the merger king.
" It's a competitive environment.
Is there any reason to think that the killing had something to do with his work? - No.
- You said he kept his private life private.
Do you know anything about girlfriends, lovers? - He never shared that stuff with me.
But over the last few months, he was acting different.
- Different how? - He wasn't putting in those 20-hour days.
He seemed happy.
- Study guide to proust.
- He brought it in to work yesterday.
Didn't say why.
- I tried proust in college.
I gave up after the first million pages.
- It picks up after the second million pages.
- Mr.
kellen, he was here with a woman, like always.
- Any idea who she was? - No.
Stunning.
Model-gorgeous.
Early 30s.
Her legs went on forever.
Good to be rich.
- Unless, of course, you're dead.
- Right.
Sorry.
- Aside from legs that go on forever, do you remember anything else? Name? Accent? Scars? - As they were walking out, I think I heard him call her "doctor.
" She said something to him in French.
I'm rusty, but I think it was "le temps recherche.
" - Le temps retrouve? Marcel proust- "the past recaptured.
" - Yes, that's what she said.
- Okay, thanks.
David's number two, Aston Skinner, he's back in town.
- I zipped back from southampton the minute I heard.
- You were in southampton last night? - Yes.
- David's last call was to you at 11:29 p.
M.
- You know that we can recover deleted messages, right? - And obstructing a murder investigation is a felony.
- Yes, David called me.
He was upset.
He said that I was a dead man.
- A dead man? - Yeah.
Sounds ominous, I know, but it's just David being David.
He liked to talk like a tough guy.
- Can you elaborate? - He thought I was in southampton meeting his top client, trying to develop my own personal relationship.
He got pissed, he left that ridiculous message.
- And what were you doing in southampton? - No, I was meeting his top client, trying to develop my own personal relationship.
- So you weren't friends.
- WeRespected each other.
We made a lot of money together.
Just last week we closed a $34 billion acquisition of salton foods.
- Congrats.
Was he dating someone? A doctor, maybe? - We only talked shop.
- Now that David's dead, I imagine that you've positioned yourself fairly well.
- Well, it's bittersweet, of course, but I've been named CEO.
The board made their decision this morning.
- According to the journal, David kellen grew up on staten island.
Father hauled trash, his mother worked at a local diner.
- He's a rich man.
He thinks he needs a woman with an a-list resume.
- Got the warrant.
Found what you were looking for in David kellen's dresser drawer.
- Thanks, detective.
Investment-grade.
Square face.
Looks like it would match the tan line on his wrist.
- It's still in working order.
He made a choice to wear the cheapie.
- David kellen was a star.
The CEOs of major investment banks are worried that this is a calculated attack on bankers.
- Unlikely.
He was on a date with a woman he identified as "doctor.
" - A female doctor in new York? There are 13 hospitals in Manhattan alone.
- She quoted him a line in French- le temps retrouve.
A section in proust's novel.
Maybe she has a doctorate in education, not medicine.
- And how many French lit professors have perfect legs? - We only had one date, so I don't know much about him.
But I could tell his mind was somewhere else.
- How did you meet? - Through a dating consultant.
- A matchmaker for rich guys? - Something like that.
It's called the swan club.
A friend told me about this woman who works with accomplished men.
But it's all very professional.
I had to interview three times before I was accepted.
- The shooting's been on the news, in the papers.
Why didn't you come forward? - I was worried about the attention.
I didn't want people to know I used a matchmaker.
It's embarrassing.
It makes me look like I'm only interested in dating rich men.
- You said his mind was somewhere else.
Do you know where? - I don't know.
But the highlight was definitely his ex-girlfriend stopping by our table.
- What'd she say? - She made a joke about him pretending to be spiritual, or something like that.
She even followed him into the bathroom.
- The swan club is a high-Echelon marriage broker.
Clients pay an annual retainer of $200,000, and if a client marries one of my girls, I get a $500,000 success fee.
Some people think it's unseemly, but why shouldn't your soul mate be vetted by a professional? - Because it's soulless? - How many women did you introduce David to? - Oh, a dozen or so over the last year.
And every one of them amazing.
- "Came from humble roots.
" How do you deal with those Ivy league runway models- you know, with their doctorates and their trust funds? - When it came to women, poor David was strange.
He always complained that he didn't feel it.
His longest relationship, by far, was with Nikki vansen.
It was three months.
She was shocked when he broke it off.
He didn't explain why.
- Okay, uh, thank you, Ms.
Miller.
- Oh, well, you're very, very welcome.
You know, if you're ever in the market for a date, I'd be happy to put you in our database.
- Oh - Sorry, he can't afford your meat market.
- 12 pieces? They said 14.
What is this? Come on, I thought you were gonna bring the same as before.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's okay, guys.
- We need to talk.
- Sure.
- My dad had absolutely nothing to do with this! And you go beat him up? - So it was you.
- Yeah, it was me.
- You know, you've been going to bat for that welcher father of yours since your mom died.
- Yeah.
And you've been bleeding him this whole time.
- Look, I swear on my children's lives I had nothing to do with this.
- I saw David.
Had dinner at le chat blanc with a friend, and we bumped into each other.
- Did you talk to him? - No, not really.
Just said hi-could you not talk to the actors, please? We gotta move.
- And after dinner? - I went home around 10:30.
- Was there a specific reason you two broke up? - Frankly, I'm too busy making this movie for universal, and he was too busy making deals in London.
It goes that way sometimes.
Looks like our next shot's up.
I hope I've been helpful, detectives.
- You have.
No, you have.
Except for the lie.
His date Andrea told us you followed David into the bathroom.
- Can anyone confirm you were home at 10:30? - Yes, someone can confirm I was home at 10:30.
- Who? - My boyfriend.
- New boyfriend already? - Swim fast or die.
- What's his name? - Aston Skinner.
David's number two.
You told us you took your boss's job, but you didn't bother to tell us you also merged with his girlfriend.
- Oh, I didn't realize I had an obligation to disclose the names of my sexual partners.
- You do when she's the angry ex and you're taking over the dead guy's office.
- I can assure you that I didn't kill David Kellen.
- And you're sure that you weren't a little bit upset over David trying to fire you? I subpoenaed your general counsel.
They told me that David tried to have you fired over the salton food merger - our accounting department alerted David to possible insider trading on the salton merger.
He accused me of being the leak.
- Were you? - Of course not.
The trade in question is nothing$70,000.
When David tried to boot me, the board told him to shove it, gave me a new deal.
I had no reason to kill him.
- So who wanted to hurt David? - Everybody on his rolodex? Look, David printed money when he made these deals.
But if anybody messed with him, lied, tried to cheat him, he pushed back.
Hard.
As I said, he liked to talk tough.
- I'll have a forensic accountant check the principals' trading activity in the salton foods deal.
- Skinner snatches David's job and girlfriend in one fell swoop.
He got the job because he was number two, but how'd he get the girl? - No, I do not set up one client with another client's castoffs.
Nikki met Aston Skinner while she was in a relationship with David.
And when David dropped her, she gravitated to Aston.
- So competition between he and David was fierce on every level.
- And either way, you collect the 500k matrimonial bonus.
- What can I say? I've always been a romantic.
- You've established a very clear motive as to why Skinner would have killed David Kellen.
Love and money.
- You're not getting it.
Aston and David were not in competition for women.
David was not interested in Nikki.
She told me that he dumped her for someone else.
- She say who? - Uh, some teacher in inwood.
- We met at Louie's charcoal pit diner.
I had a client on the hill, where the rich people live.
He came in.
I was at the counter, talking to my friend Sally, and we just, uh Connected.
- Vanessa, you live in inwood.
- 218th street.
- Last street in Manhattan Where the Hudson meets the east river.
- How long did you and David date? - Uh, two months.
I think I was too ordinary for him.
- When was the last time you saw him? - A week or two before he died.
He took me out for coffee, said it wasn't gonna work out.
- That must have been tough to take.
A guy with that kind of money.
- Well, I didn't get the cover of vogue.
I'm a regular girl.
- And he was a regular guy from staten island.
- Was that the attraction for him? - Probably.
But that faded fast, I think.
I'm just- I'm sad he's dead.
- Where were you the night David was killed? - Working in my father's bar.
Check the cameras if you want.
- Okay.
Thanks, Vanessa.
- Thanks.
Does it feel weird to be home? - I went to school here.
It's smaller than I remember.
- Here's my plan.
I'm gonna knock out that back wall.
That'll double the size of this place.
Be able to do weddings, wakes- maybe even a black-tie gala.
- Nice.
- Was your daughter working here the night of the 24th? - Yeah.
My daughter works here every night but Sunday.
- Is there some surveillance footage we could look at? - Joanne called.
She just quit.
- You got glaucoma? You see I'm talking with the detectives? Sorry about that.
- It's tough running a business.
- Yeah, tell me about it.
- You running a little book to make ends meet? You're lucky we're not vice.
- You know, this renovation's gonna take a lot of dough.
How 'bout I show you that video, huh? Come on.
Terrible thing about that guy getting killed.
Vanessa told me she was involved with somebody, but she never mentioned anything about him having any dough.
- No mention? - Come on.
What's the chances of a girl telling her dad anything about a guy she's seeing until he slips a ring on her finger? But she seemed, you know, happy.
- How did she react when she heard David was dead? - She was devastated.
But I told her pray for him and move on.
Show friendship for a man when he's alive, not after he's dead.
- F.
Scott Fitzgerald.
- Yeah.
I knew I liked you.
- What do we know about the teacher from inwood? - Worked at her father's bar until 1:30 A.
M.
The night of the murder.
We saw videotape.
And architectural drawings of his new live-music venue Supper club.
- Bless the dreamers.
Who else is in the mix? - Ask me, the leader in the clubhouse is Aston Skinner.
He alibis out in the Hamptons, but it's not hard to hire a shooter with his kind of dough.
- Got a holler from midtown north.
Some square-John citizen says that he saw who shot David Kellen.
- So, Mr.
connelley, you ided the shooter as female.
Recognize any of these women as the person you saw? Her.
You're sure? Not surePositive.
Our witness said he saw you under the awning of the remsen building on little W.
12th street.
a 38.
The same caliber used to kill David Kellen.
- That's insane.
- He I.
D.
Ed your picture.
- I don't even own a gun! - You despised David for breaking up with you.
You were at the same restaurant the night of the murder.
Yes, I was.
- And the problem with Aston's alibi for your whereabouts is that he was in southampton that night.
- Okay, I lied.
I was embarrassed I went to the restaurant.
But I didn't kill him.
- Fine.
So you're innocent.
Who, other than you and Aston, had a motive to kill David? - That girl from inwood Vanessa Whatever her name is.
- Why would Vanessa do that? - A) Because she's white trash.
B) Because he dumped her, just like he dumped me.
- She hates him, but I don't think she killed him.
- You say David leveled an insider-trading allegation against her new boyfriend for the salton foods deal.
So you got motive.
And opportunity, she stalked him to the restaurant.
- Her version of revenge is raising a ruckus in public, shacking up with Skinner Not shooting a guy on little west 12th.
Which casts doubt on our witness, Mr.
connelley.
- When a witness seems too good to be true, he usually is.
- Michael connelley.
Grew up in the bronx.
Lives on the upper east side.
Married.
Sells software for some tech company based in palo alto.
- Jacket? - Clean as a whistle.
- Sounds pretty honest for someone who waited two days to tell the truth about a murder.
Any connection to Vanessa? - Nothing obvious, anyway.
But he is connected to Inwood.
- Really? - His brother Greg lives there.
Bunch of junkie busts.
Contacted narcotics.
I'll dig up more.
- Maybe Mr.
squeaky clean is doing his brother or someone his brother owes a favor.
- Either way, all roads lead uptown.
- Hey.
What's the matter, angel? - I never wanted him to die.
- What does that got to do with you? - Nothing.
- Sweetie, David Kellen was from a different world.
Hmm? My advice to you is Stick to home.
This way you don't get hurt.
Hmm? - Mm-hmm.
- Gotta go.
- This place used to be called Mr.
k's.
Cherry popsicles were a quarter.
And Danny quinlan dumped me right there in front of moran's.
- Not for being ordinary.
- For kissing Nick Farrell at recess.
- Ooh, lucky Nicky! - Michael connelley- I've never heard of him.
- What about his brother Greg? He lives two blocks away from you.
- No.
Why? - Well, Michael said he saw who shot David.
But now, both Michael connelley and his brother Greg are in the wind.
- Yeah, I told you, I don't know them.
- Kinda weird that the brother of a guy who lives two blocks away I.
D.
S the shooter - A woman who also dated David.
He dumped you for being regular.
Which is really just another way of saying white trash from inwood.
- Well, I gotta go.
Happy hour starts in 30 minutes.
- What was your prize out the door? A tee shirt that said "I got dumped by a master of the universe"? - Hmm.
Well, you've clearly been hurt by men.
- This is not about me.
- Listen, David was a good man.
Kind and decent.
And you're not gonna get me to crap on his memory.
I'm done talking.
- She had a chance to bag on him, and she didn't.
- Even more, she defended him.
- She's talking about how great he is.
Did you notice she didn't ask any questions about the murder? She knows more than she's letting on.
- Eames.
Okay, thanks.
They found our witness, Michael Connelley.
Someone shot him execution style, dumped him in the river at tubby hook.
Abrasions make me think they chained him, but his body slipped loose, and he floated.
Tubby hook's the harbor at inwood.
There's no place like home.
Checked with Inwood Division.
Michael Connelley's brother Greg worked for some lowlife named Jack Driscoll.
- Jack is listed as a suspect involved in crimes like extortion, loan sharking, and murder.
- Finally, a suspect I like.
Bring him in, have a chat.
- I don't know anyone named David Kellen.
Wall street The farthest south I go is Washington heights.
- You know Shawn colway? - Yeah.
Of course.
An old pal.
He owns a bar.
- Runs a little book on the side.
- Yeah.
That's inwood.
- Maybe he got in a jam, you lent him some money.
- There's rapists and killers out there who would love to know that a friendly loan qualifies as major case.
Besides, he settled up.
- It's major case because David Kellen took two in the chest on little w.
12th street.
- Oh, yeah.
I heard about that.
- Did you know that Shawn colway's daughter was dating him? - Vanessa? - Mm-hmm.
- Get out.
- No, they were lovers.
- Wow.
Well, good for her.
Better the merger king than Vinnie scrivarni from 215.
- So you don't know Kellen, but you know that he was called "the merger king"? - Yeah.
I can read, detective.
It's in the poevery day.
- Right.
Right.
Good.
You know, I saw that you've invested in legitimate businesses.
You know, garbage hauling, trucking, meat packing.
You know, it's funny how guys in those fields, they get tagged with the ugly stuff like extortion, loan sharking, you know.
I don't think it's fair.
- Yeah, I agree.
- You're a sophisticated businessman.
- Very.
- You have an understanding- mergers, acquisitions.
You know, when it's right for one company to take over another company.
- No, not me.
I stick to betting the over/under on the jets.
- You bet on stocks? Salton foods? We have forensic accountants looking into an allegation of insider trading.
- I want my lawyer.
- This guy breathes douche bag.
- Never spent a day in lockup.
Made him cocky.
- Why didn't you bring up our dead witness Connelley? - We think that Driscoll used him as an alibi, and then knocked him off when he thought that Connelley would admit being a false witness.
We're working on a different angle.
- Do tell.
- We need Driscoll's motive for killing David Kellen.
- Jack Driscoll? The name sounds vaguely familiar.
- Yeah, he's into the game of loans and protection.
You know, someone- a guy with expansion dreams might want to do business with.
- No, he's into meat.
I'm into booze.
- How much do you owe Driscoll? - Do you see us standing here? We're detectives.
You see us? This is a murder investigation.
And you're running book in this bar.
- 70 grand.
- That's interesting.
'Cause Driscoll told us you settled up.
- Who's lying, you or him? - I'm not a snitch.
I'm not saying nothin'.
- It turns out that he's a drunk, he's a gambler.
You know, she does everything for him, he does nothing for her.
He's not a parent.
- You're angry at him.
- Well, the guy's a user! You know? He's a piece of- sorry.
- Don't be.
It's a tell.
He presses a lot of your buttons.
Why> - you think that he represents my father? - Do I? We haven't talked about your father.
- He's in my file, isn't he? - No, not much.
Only that he's deceased.
- Well, then, there's not much to talk about.
I mean, he's long gone.
You know, he didn't really father me.
- How do you mean? - I did some handiwork around the house when the husband wasn't there.
Which was often.
- Nothing.
It's just He would go away, which was often.
And when he was around, he was a charming man.
Loved a good time.
- How so? - He used to take me to ball games, hockey.
- Sounds like fun.
- Didn't actually take me to games.
He took me to this woman's house.
Maggie's- to her apartment.
You know, I would watch the game in front of a big color tv, and he would, you know- he would go into the bedroom with her.
I remember the first time that he took me there.
On the way back, he stopped to buy us some ices.
And he told me, "let's just keep this between us men, okay, Bobby?" - He had you cover for him? - Yeah.
- Do you remember how that felt? - Lying to my mother? I got used to it.
- Okay.
How does it feel now? - Well, uh My father taught me an important lesson.
Everybody lies all the time.
- You don't really believe that.
- I do! It's one of those early survival skills.
It serves me well in my .]
Ork.
- Actually, in your work, some people lie, and some people don't.
And you figure out who's who.
- No, I try.
And sometimes I believe people, even though they could be lying.
- Your work isn't the only place that you've applied this lesson, is it? - I mean, do you ever get tired of asking questions that you know the answer to? - I'm sure we both do.
- Then say what you mean.
- Okay.
Okay.
When you tell yourself everyone lies, that includes me.
You're letting me know that you can't trust me, that i lie to you.
And you're putting a distance between us.
You may be right about me.
I hope you're not.
But either way, we both know it isn't the first time that you've placed this rule around an intimate relationship.
- Thank you for your help, Mr.
eames.
- Go easy, dad.
- Jack Driscoll.
Hard case.
He once beat a kid to death with a wrench in broad daylight.
Middle of the street.
No one saw a thing.
He's a monster.
- But smarter than he looks.
- Just like you, Bobby.
- Eat your sandwich.
- It's amazing you can get a corned beef sandwich with all the burrito stands around.
- Yes, everyone's out to ruin the white man's paradise.
- So, Driscoll, he never spent a day in jail.
- No one snitches.
You know that.
When you know everyone, you also know someone they care about.
Driscoll knows everyone and their half-brother.
- What about you? - I got my daughter to protect me.
- I carry a gun.
- And a badge.
But no grandchildren.
- He has Irish Alzheimer's.
Forgets everything but the grudges.
- It's good he has you.
- Ye, whatever.
They take care of you when you're little, you care for them when they're old.
Circle of life.
Blah blah blah.
- Uh, I think I know how the salton foods info got leaked.
We need to move before someone else gets killed.
- It's my father's bar! - It's okay.
She's his daughter.
- What happened? Where's my dad? - Your father was- - no.
- We think Jack Driscoll did it.
I'm sorry.
I am.
And I'm even sorrier that we have to do this now, but you need to answer some questions.
- The woman David Kellen went to dinner with the night that he died She told us that his mind was on something else.
- He did big deals.
Rome, London.
- Yeah, I don't think his mind was on London.
I think it was on the last street in Manhattan.
When we found David's body, he was wearing a $5,000 suit and an $80 watch.
Our officers searched his $12 million pad and found a $60,000 watch in his dresser drawer.
Instead, he wore the one that you got him.
A regular watch for regular people.
- I really have to go.
- You told us when he broke up with you, it was because you were too ordinary for him.
But you bought him a watch.
- As a parting gift.
- No, I don't think so.
David could have had any girl he wanted, but he wanted you.
You never broke up with him, did you? - Uh, he said The summer he was 14 He got all these seeds from the burpee seed company, and he went door to door selling seeds so he could buy himself a watch.
Can you imagine Staten island covered in marigolds? He got the watch, and he lost the thing a year later.
I love that story.
So I got him a new one.
I don't think that's a crime.
- Vanessa, we need to talk about your dad.
With all due respect, he was aA dreamer.
He had big thoughts.
Jay gatsby big.
He wanted to open a night club.
You know, have black-tie galas.
It's a curse to have that many ideas.
You need to take action.
- And action takes money, which he never had.
So he had to borrow it.
- Which gets complicated when you borrow from a guy like Jack Driscoll at seven points a week.
Now, most people would run from thatComplexity.
Not you.
- My- my mom died when I was 11.
Dad was the only parent I had.
- You were the parent, weren't you? I mean, you made sure that he got up on time.
You paid his overdue bills, bought his groceries.
- He needed me.
- And how much did he need this time, 70 grand? I mean, that's chicken feed for a guy like David Kellen.
He could peel that off like I could peel off a fiver for a cup of coffee.
You weren't gonna ask him for money.
You wouldn't do that, would you? 'Cause you didn't love David for his money.
And you didn't want to compromise the relionship to make him think you did.
But at the same time, you didn't want your father's kneecaps to be broken either.
- We subpoenaed Driscoll's phone records.
A call was recorded from your cell to his the week before David's hedge fund acquired salton foods.
- Is that how you paid back the 70 grand your dad owed? - My dad had nothing to do with this.
- No, you fixed things behind his back.
That's what it was like growing up and having to be the parent.
- Did you overhear phone conversations while you were together? See documents laying around? - It's barely illegal.
Just a stupid stock trade.
Rich guys do it all the time.
Why couldn't you do it Just once Just to save you father's life? - I was so naive to think it would be a one-time thing.
I should have known that Driscoll was gonna see David as a golden goose.
- And you betrayed the man who loved you.
- I know! - He picked you over all the so-called extraordinary women.
- I, um- I called Driscoll, and I told him about salton foods.
I know it was wrong to do that.
- Oh, I see, you confessed.
You told him you jeopardized his career to get your father out of a jam.
- Yes.
I'm the one that told David, not my dad.
I'm the snitch.
You see? - I do.
And David forgave you.
But he wasn't gonna let you fight this on your own.
He's not the type, you know.
He threatens to make dead men out of his business rivals.
To a thug who threatens his girl, he's gonna come on pretty hard.
So he unloaded his tough talk on Driscoll, and Driscoll put two in his chest.
- I'm the reason David's dead.
- No, no.
You didn't kill David.
Jack Driscoll killed David.
- Tell me what you need me to do.
- There's something we have to tell you.
We hated doing something like this, but I'm from inwood too, and we knew there was only one way to get you to tell the truth.
- Dad? Dad.
- Come on.
It's all right.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
- Daddy.
- Mm.
- She tried to save her father's life, and it cost David his.
- Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Fitzgerald.
These are their stories.
- Medina Stavro, 31, brunette.
She's a pediatrician at mt.
Sinai.
She's the niece of Nicholas Stavro.
Of course, you know the Greek shipping family.
- Hmm.
No sports in her background, huh? - Oh, she's very athletic.
David, look at those eyes.
- Mm.
Not feeling it, Steph.
- Andrea stiles.
She modeled in paris.
She has a PHD from Yale.
She teaches French lit at Columbia And look at her.
- Does she have a lazy eye? - David, you are paying me $200,000 for my services.
Now, let's do one more meet and greet, and see how it goes.
And then you can go back to doing what or whomever you're doing.
- Okay.
Okay, Stephanie.
Good boy.
- But is there such a thing as too perfect? - No! Let's hope that you feel it with Andrea.
And by the way, she has an I.
Q.
Of 175.
You better brush up on your proust.
- If you don't want to go to code- the city's not gonna let us go code, so it's gonna be- the operation's gonna be- - how you doing, Shawn? - Hey, Mr.
Driscoll- You ratted me out to this guy? - What- jeez, what are you talking about? - You're a snitch.
- What? - Take it easy, dad.
- I'm a bookie.
I'm not a snitch.
Why the hell would Jack Driscoll do something like that to me? - Hey, have you eaten? What? - You look just like your mother, God rest her soul.
You know, life is essentially a cheat, and its conditions are those of defeat.
- Let me guess F.
Scott Fitzgerald.
- Mmm.
That's my girl.
- So you hit it big on wall street, and you know your way around a proust novel.
I'm impressed.
- What if I'm a serial killer? - Well, you take the good with the bad.
You're not into this, are you? - No, no, you're great.
I'm just-I'm a little- - David.
Hi.
Nice to see you.
- Nicki.
- Did he get to the part about his quest to discover his spiritual identity yet? - Uh, no, I'm afraid not.
- I don't usually bust that out until dessert, so Seriously? - It's undignified, I know.
But I don't care anymore.
I'm on to the next, David.
We're done.
- I'm happy for you.
- Thank you for dinner.
- I'm sorry about all that.
- You've got things on your mind.
I'm around if you get them off.
- Thanks.
I live close, so I'm gonna walk.
There you go, pal.
I know what you're doing, Skinner, I do.
And you're a deman! Learn how to drive! Adriano_csi Black male, 40.
Business card says he was the CEO an investment bank.
Took two to the chest.
Looks like a 38.
Time of death around - Witnesses? - None so far.
Shooter wasn't in range of any of the surveillance cams.
- There's no signs of struggle.
No scratches, no scrapes.
His tie is still nice and tight.
- The shooter took the cash, left the wallet and the credit cards.
- He's got two in the chest.
It's personal.
It's not a pro.
- Maybe our shooter resisted the robbery, but I don't see it.
- Silk tie, Italian shoes, custom suit.
- Another master of the universe goes down, hence major case.
- No wedding ring.
The only thing missing from the perfect investment banker profile is an expensive timepiece.
This is a department store watch.
Under $80.
Tan line.
Discoloration It's square.
The watch he's wearing is round-faced.
- Until recently, he was wearing a different watch.
- So he's on the street, it's late night.
Shooter takes cash from the wallet, leaves the wallet to make it look like a robbery.
I think our guy here was ambushed.
- Last night, David had dinner at le chat blanc.
- Do you know who with? - It was personal.
He mostly kept his private life to himself.
- Who did he work most closely with? - Aston Skinner.
He was David's number two.
But he's out of the office, traveling.
- David kellen, "the merger king.
" It's a competitive environment.
Is there any reason to think that the killing had something to do with his work? - No.
- You said he kept his private life private.
Do you know anything about girlfriends, lovers? - He never shared that stuff with me.
But over the last few months, he was acting different.
- Different how? - He wasn't putting in those 20-hour days.
He seemed happy.
- Study guide to proust.
- He brought it in to work yesterday.
Didn't say why.
- I tried proust in college.
I gave up after the first million pages.
- It picks up after the second million pages.
- Mr.
kellen, he was here with a woman, like always.
- Any idea who she was? - No.
Stunning.
Model-gorgeous.
Early 30s.
Her legs went on forever.
Good to be rich.
- Unless, of course, you're dead.
- Right.
Sorry.
- Aside from legs that go on forever, do you remember anything else? Name? Accent? Scars? - As they were walking out, I think I heard him call her "doctor.
" She said something to him in French.
I'm rusty, but I think it was "le temps recherche.
" - Le temps retrouve? Marcel proust- "the past recaptured.
" - Yes, that's what she said.
- Okay, thanks.
David's number two, Aston Skinner, he's back in town.
- I zipped back from southampton the minute I heard.
- You were in southampton last night? - Yes.
- David's last call was to you at 11:29 p.
M.
- You know that we can recover deleted messages, right? - And obstructing a murder investigation is a felony.
- Yes, David called me.
He was upset.
He said that I was a dead man.
- A dead man? - Yeah.
Sounds ominous, I know, but it's just David being David.
He liked to talk like a tough guy.
- Can you elaborate? - He thought I was in southampton meeting his top client, trying to develop my own personal relationship.
He got pissed, he left that ridiculous message.
- And what were you doing in southampton? - No, I was meeting his top client, trying to develop my own personal relationship.
- So you weren't friends.
- WeRespected each other.
We made a lot of money together.
Just last week we closed a $34 billion acquisition of salton foods.
- Congrats.
Was he dating someone? A doctor, maybe? - We only talked shop.
- Now that David's dead, I imagine that you've positioned yourself fairly well.
- Well, it's bittersweet, of course, but I've been named CEO.
The board made their decision this morning.
- According to the journal, David kellen grew up on staten island.
Father hauled trash, his mother worked at a local diner.
- He's a rich man.
He thinks he needs a woman with an a-list resume.
- Got the warrant.
Found what you were looking for in David kellen's dresser drawer.
- Thanks, detective.
Investment-grade.
Square face.
Looks like it would match the tan line on his wrist.
- It's still in working order.
He made a choice to wear the cheapie.
- David kellen was a star.
The CEOs of major investment banks are worried that this is a calculated attack on bankers.
- Unlikely.
He was on a date with a woman he identified as "doctor.
" - A female doctor in new York? There are 13 hospitals in Manhattan alone.
- She quoted him a line in French- le temps retrouve.
A section in proust's novel.
Maybe she has a doctorate in education, not medicine.
- And how many French lit professors have perfect legs? - We only had one date, so I don't know much about him.
But I could tell his mind was somewhere else.
- How did you meet? - Through a dating consultant.
- A matchmaker for rich guys? - Something like that.
It's called the swan club.
A friend told me about this woman who works with accomplished men.
But it's all very professional.
I had to interview three times before I was accepted.
- The shooting's been on the news, in the papers.
Why didn't you come forward? - I was worried about the attention.
I didn't want people to know I used a matchmaker.
It's embarrassing.
It makes me look like I'm only interested in dating rich men.
- You said his mind was somewhere else.
Do you know where? - I don't know.
But the highlight was definitely his ex-girlfriend stopping by our table.
- What'd she say? - She made a joke about him pretending to be spiritual, or something like that.
She even followed him into the bathroom.
- The swan club is a high-Echelon marriage broker.
Clients pay an annual retainer of $200,000, and if a client marries one of my girls, I get a $500,000 success fee.
Some people think it's unseemly, but why shouldn't your soul mate be vetted by a professional? - Because it's soulless? - How many women did you introduce David to? - Oh, a dozen or so over the last year.
And every one of them amazing.
- "Came from humble roots.
" How do you deal with those Ivy league runway models- you know, with their doctorates and their trust funds? - When it came to women, poor David was strange.
He always complained that he didn't feel it.
His longest relationship, by far, was with Nikki vansen.
It was three months.
She was shocked when he broke it off.
He didn't explain why.
- Okay, uh, thank you, Ms.
Miller.
- Oh, well, you're very, very welcome.
You know, if you're ever in the market for a date, I'd be happy to put you in our database.
- Oh - Sorry, he can't afford your meat market.
- 12 pieces? They said 14.
What is this? Come on, I thought you were gonna bring the same as before.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's okay, guys.
- We need to talk.
- Sure.
- My dad had absolutely nothing to do with this! And you go beat him up? - So it was you.
- Yeah, it was me.
- You know, you've been going to bat for that welcher father of yours since your mom died.
- Yeah.
And you've been bleeding him this whole time.
- Look, I swear on my children's lives I had nothing to do with this.
- I saw David.
Had dinner at le chat blanc with a friend, and we bumped into each other.
- Did you talk to him? - No, not really.
Just said hi-could you not talk to the actors, please? We gotta move.
- And after dinner? - I went home around 10:30.
- Was there a specific reason you two broke up? - Frankly, I'm too busy making this movie for universal, and he was too busy making deals in London.
It goes that way sometimes.
Looks like our next shot's up.
I hope I've been helpful, detectives.
- You have.
No, you have.
Except for the lie.
His date Andrea told us you followed David into the bathroom.
- Can anyone confirm you were home at 10:30? - Yes, someone can confirm I was home at 10:30.
- Who? - My boyfriend.
- New boyfriend already? - Swim fast or die.
- What's his name? - Aston Skinner.
David's number two.
You told us you took your boss's job, but you didn't bother to tell us you also merged with his girlfriend.
- Oh, I didn't realize I had an obligation to disclose the names of my sexual partners.
- You do when she's the angry ex and you're taking over the dead guy's office.
- I can assure you that I didn't kill David Kellen.
- And you're sure that you weren't a little bit upset over David trying to fire you? I subpoenaed your general counsel.
They told me that David tried to have you fired over the salton food merger - our accounting department alerted David to possible insider trading on the salton merger.
He accused me of being the leak.
- Were you? - Of course not.
The trade in question is nothing$70,000.
When David tried to boot me, the board told him to shove it, gave me a new deal.
I had no reason to kill him.
- So who wanted to hurt David? - Everybody on his rolodex? Look, David printed money when he made these deals.
But if anybody messed with him, lied, tried to cheat him, he pushed back.
Hard.
As I said, he liked to talk tough.
- I'll have a forensic accountant check the principals' trading activity in the salton foods deal.
- Skinner snatches David's job and girlfriend in one fell swoop.
He got the job because he was number two, but how'd he get the girl? - No, I do not set up one client with another client's castoffs.
Nikki met Aston Skinner while she was in a relationship with David.
And when David dropped her, she gravitated to Aston.
- So competition between he and David was fierce on every level.
- And either way, you collect the 500k matrimonial bonus.
- What can I say? I've always been a romantic.
- You've established a very clear motive as to why Skinner would have killed David Kellen.
Love and money.
- You're not getting it.
Aston and David were not in competition for women.
David was not interested in Nikki.
She told me that he dumped her for someone else.
- She say who? - Uh, some teacher in inwood.
- We met at Louie's charcoal pit diner.
I had a client on the hill, where the rich people live.
He came in.
I was at the counter, talking to my friend Sally, and we just, uh Connected.
- Vanessa, you live in inwood.
- 218th street.
- Last street in Manhattan Where the Hudson meets the east river.
- How long did you and David date? - Uh, two months.
I think I was too ordinary for him.
- When was the last time you saw him? - A week or two before he died.
He took me out for coffee, said it wasn't gonna work out.
- That must have been tough to take.
A guy with that kind of money.
- Well, I didn't get the cover of vogue.
I'm a regular girl.
- And he was a regular guy from staten island.
- Was that the attraction for him? - Probably.
But that faded fast, I think.
I'm just- I'm sad he's dead.
- Where were you the night David was killed? - Working in my father's bar.
Check the cameras if you want.
- Okay.
Thanks, Vanessa.
- Thanks.
Does it feel weird to be home? - I went to school here.
It's smaller than I remember.
- Here's my plan.
I'm gonna knock out that back wall.
That'll double the size of this place.
Be able to do weddings, wakes- maybe even a black-tie gala.
- Nice.
- Was your daughter working here the night of the 24th? - Yeah.
My daughter works here every night but Sunday.
- Is there some surveillance footage we could look at? - Joanne called.
She just quit.
- You got glaucoma? You see I'm talking with the detectives? Sorry about that.
- It's tough running a business.
- Yeah, tell me about it.
- You running a little book to make ends meet? You're lucky we're not vice.
- You know, this renovation's gonna take a lot of dough.
How 'bout I show you that video, huh? Come on.
Terrible thing about that guy getting killed.
Vanessa told me she was involved with somebody, but she never mentioned anything about him having any dough.
- No mention? - Come on.
What's the chances of a girl telling her dad anything about a guy she's seeing until he slips a ring on her finger? But she seemed, you know, happy.
- How did she react when she heard David was dead? - She was devastated.
But I told her pray for him and move on.
Show friendship for a man when he's alive, not after he's dead.
- F.
Scott Fitzgerald.
- Yeah.
I knew I liked you.
- What do we know about the teacher from inwood? - Worked at her father's bar until 1:30 A.
M.
The night of the murder.
We saw videotape.
And architectural drawings of his new live-music venue Supper club.
- Bless the dreamers.
Who else is in the mix? - Ask me, the leader in the clubhouse is Aston Skinner.
He alibis out in the Hamptons, but it's not hard to hire a shooter with his kind of dough.
- Got a holler from midtown north.
Some square-John citizen says that he saw who shot David Kellen.
- So, Mr.
connelley, you ided the shooter as female.
Recognize any of these women as the person you saw? Her.
You're sure? Not surePositive.
Our witness said he saw you under the awning of the remsen building on little W.
12th street.
a 38.
The same caliber used to kill David Kellen.
- That's insane.
- He I.
D.
Ed your picture.
- I don't even own a gun! - You despised David for breaking up with you.
You were at the same restaurant the night of the murder.
Yes, I was.
- And the problem with Aston's alibi for your whereabouts is that he was in southampton that night.
- Okay, I lied.
I was embarrassed I went to the restaurant.
But I didn't kill him.
- Fine.
So you're innocent.
Who, other than you and Aston, had a motive to kill David? - That girl from inwood Vanessa Whatever her name is.
- Why would Vanessa do that? - A) Because she's white trash.
B) Because he dumped her, just like he dumped me.
- She hates him, but I don't think she killed him.
- You say David leveled an insider-trading allegation against her new boyfriend for the salton foods deal.
So you got motive.
And opportunity, she stalked him to the restaurant.
- Her version of revenge is raising a ruckus in public, shacking up with Skinner Not shooting a guy on little west 12th.
Which casts doubt on our witness, Mr.
connelley.
- When a witness seems too good to be true, he usually is.
- Michael connelley.
Grew up in the bronx.
Lives on the upper east side.
Married.
Sells software for some tech company based in palo alto.
- Jacket? - Clean as a whistle.
- Sounds pretty honest for someone who waited two days to tell the truth about a murder.
Any connection to Vanessa? - Nothing obvious, anyway.
But he is connected to Inwood.
- Really? - His brother Greg lives there.
Bunch of junkie busts.
Contacted narcotics.
I'll dig up more.
- Maybe Mr.
squeaky clean is doing his brother or someone his brother owes a favor.
- Either way, all roads lead uptown.
- Hey.
What's the matter, angel? - I never wanted him to die.
- What does that got to do with you? - Nothing.
- Sweetie, David Kellen was from a different world.
Hmm? My advice to you is Stick to home.
This way you don't get hurt.
Hmm? - Mm-hmm.
- Gotta go.
- This place used to be called Mr.
k's.
Cherry popsicles were a quarter.
And Danny quinlan dumped me right there in front of moran's.
- Not for being ordinary.
- For kissing Nick Farrell at recess.
- Ooh, lucky Nicky! - Michael connelley- I've never heard of him.
- What about his brother Greg? He lives two blocks away from you.
- No.
Why? - Well, Michael said he saw who shot David.
But now, both Michael connelley and his brother Greg are in the wind.
- Yeah, I told you, I don't know them.
- Kinda weird that the brother of a guy who lives two blocks away I.
D.
S the shooter - A woman who also dated David.
He dumped you for being regular.
Which is really just another way of saying white trash from inwood.
- Well, I gotta go.
Happy hour starts in 30 minutes.
- What was your prize out the door? A tee shirt that said "I got dumped by a master of the universe"? - Hmm.
Well, you've clearly been hurt by men.
- This is not about me.
- Listen, David was a good man.
Kind and decent.
And you're not gonna get me to crap on his memory.
I'm done talking.
- She had a chance to bag on him, and she didn't.
- Even more, she defended him.
- She's talking about how great he is.
Did you notice she didn't ask any questions about the murder? She knows more than she's letting on.
- Eames.
Okay, thanks.
They found our witness, Michael Connelley.
Someone shot him execution style, dumped him in the river at tubby hook.
Abrasions make me think they chained him, but his body slipped loose, and he floated.
Tubby hook's the harbor at inwood.
There's no place like home.
Checked with Inwood Division.
Michael Connelley's brother Greg worked for some lowlife named Jack Driscoll.
- Jack is listed as a suspect involved in crimes like extortion, loan sharking, and murder.
- Finally, a suspect I like.
Bring him in, have a chat.
- I don't know anyone named David Kellen.
Wall street The farthest south I go is Washington heights.
- You know Shawn colway? - Yeah.
Of course.
An old pal.
He owns a bar.
- Runs a little book on the side.
- Yeah.
That's inwood.
- Maybe he got in a jam, you lent him some money.
- There's rapists and killers out there who would love to know that a friendly loan qualifies as major case.
Besides, he settled up.
- It's major case because David Kellen took two in the chest on little w.
12th street.
- Oh, yeah.
I heard about that.
- Did you know that Shawn colway's daughter was dating him? - Vanessa? - Mm-hmm.
- Get out.
- No, they were lovers.
- Wow.
Well, good for her.
Better the merger king than Vinnie scrivarni from 215.
- So you don't know Kellen, but you know that he was called "the merger king"? - Yeah.
I can read, detective.
It's in the poevery day.
- Right.
Right.
Good.
You know, I saw that you've invested in legitimate businesses.
You know, garbage hauling, trucking, meat packing.
You know, it's funny how guys in those fields, they get tagged with the ugly stuff like extortion, loan sharking, you know.
I don't think it's fair.
- Yeah, I agree.
- You're a sophisticated businessman.
- Very.
- You have an understanding- mergers, acquisitions.
You know, when it's right for one company to take over another company.
- No, not me.
I stick to betting the over/under on the jets.
- You bet on stocks? Salton foods? We have forensic accountants looking into an allegation of insider trading.
- I want my lawyer.
- This guy breathes douche bag.
- Never spent a day in lockup.
Made him cocky.
- Why didn't you bring up our dead witness Connelley? - We think that Driscoll used him as an alibi, and then knocked him off when he thought that Connelley would admit being a false witness.
We're working on a different angle.
- Do tell.
- We need Driscoll's motive for killing David Kellen.
- Jack Driscoll? The name sounds vaguely familiar.
- Yeah, he's into the game of loans and protection.
You know, someone- a guy with expansion dreams might want to do business with.
- No, he's into meat.
I'm into booze.
- How much do you owe Driscoll? - Do you see us standing here? We're detectives.
You see us? This is a murder investigation.
And you're running book in this bar.
- 70 grand.
- That's interesting.
'Cause Driscoll told us you settled up.
- Who's lying, you or him? - I'm not a snitch.
I'm not saying nothin'.
- It turns out that he's a drunk, he's a gambler.
You know, she does everything for him, he does nothing for her.
He's not a parent.
- You're angry at him.
- Well, the guy's a user! You know? He's a piece of- sorry.
- Don't be.
It's a tell.
He presses a lot of your buttons.
Why> - you think that he represents my father? - Do I? We haven't talked about your father.
- He's in my file, isn't he? - No, not much.
Only that he's deceased.
- Well, then, there's not much to talk about.
I mean, he's long gone.
You know, he didn't really father me.
- How do you mean? - I did some handiwork around the house when the husband wasn't there.
Which was often.
- Nothing.
It's just He would go away, which was often.
And when he was around, he was a charming man.
Loved a good time.
- How so? - He used to take me to ball games, hockey.
- Sounds like fun.
- Didn't actually take me to games.
He took me to this woman's house.
Maggie's- to her apartment.
You know, I would watch the game in front of a big color tv, and he would, you know- he would go into the bedroom with her.
I remember the first time that he took me there.
On the way back, he stopped to buy us some ices.
And he told me, "let's just keep this between us men, okay, Bobby?" - He had you cover for him? - Yeah.
- Do you remember how that felt? - Lying to my mother? I got used to it.
- Okay.
How does it feel now? - Well, uh My father taught me an important lesson.
Everybody lies all the time.
- You don't really believe that.
- I do! It's one of those early survival skills.
It serves me well in my .]
Ork.
- Actually, in your work, some people lie, and some people don't.
And you figure out who's who.
- No, I try.
And sometimes I believe people, even though they could be lying.
- Your work isn't the only place that you've applied this lesson, is it? - I mean, do you ever get tired of asking questions that you know the answer to? - I'm sure we both do.
- Then say what you mean.
- Okay.
Okay.
When you tell yourself everyone lies, that includes me.
You're letting me know that you can't trust me, that i lie to you.
And you're putting a distance between us.
You may be right about me.
I hope you're not.
But either way, we both know it isn't the first time that you've placed this rule around an intimate relationship.
- Thank you for your help, Mr.
eames.
- Go easy, dad.
- Jack Driscoll.
Hard case.
He once beat a kid to death with a wrench in broad daylight.
Middle of the street.
No one saw a thing.
He's a monster.
- But smarter than he looks.
- Just like you, Bobby.
- Eat your sandwich.
- It's amazing you can get a corned beef sandwich with all the burrito stands around.
- Yes, everyone's out to ruin the white man's paradise.
- So, Driscoll, he never spent a day in jail.
- No one snitches.
You know that.
When you know everyone, you also know someone they care about.
Driscoll knows everyone and their half-brother.
- What about you? - I got my daughter to protect me.
- I carry a gun.
- And a badge.
But no grandchildren.
- He has Irish Alzheimer's.
Forgets everything but the grudges.
- It's good he has you.
- Ye, whatever.
They take care of you when you're little, you care for them when they're old.
Circle of life.
Blah blah blah.
- Uh, I think I know how the salton foods info got leaked.
We need to move before someone else gets killed.
- It's my father's bar! - It's okay.
She's his daughter.
- What happened? Where's my dad? - Your father was- - no.
- We think Jack Driscoll did it.
I'm sorry.
I am.
And I'm even sorrier that we have to do this now, but you need to answer some questions.
- The woman David Kellen went to dinner with the night that he died She told us that his mind was on something else.
- He did big deals.
Rome, London.
- Yeah, I don't think his mind was on London.
I think it was on the last street in Manhattan.
When we found David's body, he was wearing a $5,000 suit and an $80 watch.
Our officers searched his $12 million pad and found a $60,000 watch in his dresser drawer.
Instead, he wore the one that you got him.
A regular watch for regular people.
- I really have to go.
- You told us when he broke up with you, it was because you were too ordinary for him.
But you bought him a watch.
- As a parting gift.
- No, I don't think so.
David could have had any girl he wanted, but he wanted you.
You never broke up with him, did you? - Uh, he said The summer he was 14 He got all these seeds from the burpee seed company, and he went door to door selling seeds so he could buy himself a watch.
Can you imagine Staten island covered in marigolds? He got the watch, and he lost the thing a year later.
I love that story.
So I got him a new one.
I don't think that's a crime.
- Vanessa, we need to talk about your dad.
With all due respect, he was aA dreamer.
He had big thoughts.
Jay gatsby big.
He wanted to open a night club.
You know, have black-tie galas.
It's a curse to have that many ideas.
You need to take action.
- And action takes money, which he never had.
So he had to borrow it.
- Which gets complicated when you borrow from a guy like Jack Driscoll at seven points a week.
Now, most people would run from thatComplexity.
Not you.
- My- my mom died when I was 11.
Dad was the only parent I had.
- You were the parent, weren't you? I mean, you made sure that he got up on time.
You paid his overdue bills, bought his groceries.
- He needed me.
- And how much did he need this time, 70 grand? I mean, that's chicken feed for a guy like David Kellen.
He could peel that off like I could peel off a fiver for a cup of coffee.
You weren't gonna ask him for money.
You wouldn't do that, would you? 'Cause you didn't love David for his money.
And you didn't want to compromise the relionship to make him think you did.
But at the same time, you didn't want your father's kneecaps to be broken either.
- We subpoenaed Driscoll's phone records.
A call was recorded from your cell to his the week before David's hedge fund acquired salton foods.
- Is that how you paid back the 70 grand your dad owed? - My dad had nothing to do with this.
- No, you fixed things behind his back.
That's what it was like growing up and having to be the parent.
- Did you overhear phone conversations while you were together? See documents laying around? - It's barely illegal.
Just a stupid stock trade.
Rich guys do it all the time.
Why couldn't you do it Just once Just to save you father's life? - I was so naive to think it would be a one-time thing.
I should have known that Driscoll was gonna see David as a golden goose.
- And you betrayed the man who loved you.
- I know! - He picked you over all the so-called extraordinary women.
- I, um- I called Driscoll, and I told him about salton foods.
I know it was wrong to do that.
- Oh, I see, you confessed.
You told him you jeopardized his career to get your father out of a jam.
- Yes.
I'm the one that told David, not my dad.
I'm the snitch.
You see? - I do.
And David forgave you.
But he wasn't gonna let you fight this on your own.
He's not the type, you know.
He threatens to make dead men out of his business rivals.
To a thug who threatens his girl, he's gonna come on pretty hard.
So he unloaded his tough talk on Driscoll, and Driscoll put two in his chest.
- I'm the reason David's dead.
- No, no.
You didn't kill David.
Jack Driscoll killed David.
- Tell me what you need me to do.
- There's something we have to tell you.
We hated doing something like this, but I'm from inwood too, and we knew there was only one way to get you to tell the truth.
- Dad? Dad.
- Come on.
It's all right.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
- Daddy.
- Mm.
- She tried to save her father's life, and it cost David his.
- Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Fitzgerald.