Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) s10e06 Episode Script
Cadaver
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.
I'm going to connect the robotic arm to the trocar.
We can start our robotic prostate surgery.
Bloodless surgery without scalpel.
- The surgeon controls the robotic arm from the console guided by video.
- Wow, that's amazing.
Surgery of the future, and it's here now.
- Thanks to your generosity.
Speaking of which, any hints on who will receive this year's Langston grant? - I'll announce at the dedication.
- We're all on pins and needles.
Till tonight.
- So do you think I could take this thing for a spin? Looks like a lot of fun.
- Why not? The patient's already dead.
- Did you read my amended proposal on spinal cord regeneration? - Uh, I did.
- Imagine a world without wheelchairs, wounded soldiers walking again.
The military contract alone will be worth a fortune.
- It's not about money.
- Says the man with all the money.
- I see you still like to make jokes.
- Langston played it close to the vest.
Any of us could be the winner tonight.
- Nice for you, giving him the tour.
Last chance to self-promote.
- Don't worry, he still hates me.
- You ask me, Langston's a wannabe.
- Who personally controls a $20 million research grant.
- Look, he flunked out of bedford.
He made his fortune developing a pill coating.
He's a pharmacist.
I don't even want to go tonight.
- How bad can it be? Cheese cubes, bad wine, and we can bring a date.
How 'bout it, you and me? - Sorry, I'm taking my mom.
- You really are the good girl.
- You should see these surgical robots, boy.
Tiny cameras on the instruments.
Like you're actually inside the human body.
- Fascinating.
That's a nice shirt.
- Yeah? - Mm-hmm, I like it.
- Hmm.
You know, I was thinking I might drive.
Or do you want to take a limo? - Why don't you take the car? I might have to duck out.
I feel a migraine coming on.
- Okay.
Ah.
- Look, daddy, it's you fighting a dragon.
- Oh, yeah, it looks just like me too.
You got the horns, you got the wings, you got the- that's the dragon! - Get going.
And I'm honored to be here tonight as head of Langston pharmaceuticals to dedicate the Da Vinci surgical training suite.
And I'm proud to support our next generation of researchers, the best and the brightest.
You young doctors, who one day will wipe out disease and eradicate suffering.
So drum roll please.
It's time to announce this year's winner of the Langston research grant.
Dr.
Maya zhuang.
For her work on creating a vaccine to help cure childhood leukemia.
Congratulations, Dr.
zhuang.
- I alady thanked Langston.
- Okay, thank him again.
It's a big honor.
Oh, Maya, I'm so proud of you.
- Don't try and charm me.
I'm not an idiot, all right? I know that you pour money into the institution.
You think that it's gonna save everything, okay? No, I don't want anything from you.
So stay away from me.
Stay away from me, all right? - This isn't a good time.
- Shh.
- And you're a phony, and you're a son of a bitch! All right? - Stella, what are you still doing awake? - Where's daddy? - He must still be at the party.
- I've been calling him.
He won't pick up.
Why are you home so late? - Uh, get her to bed, florelle.
- Yes, Mrs.
Langston.
- Night-night, Stella.
- I--I need to report a dead body.
Adriano_CSI My husband's been missing all weekend.
He's not answering his cell.
His office hasn't heard.
I'm worried sick.
- And when's the last time you saw him? - Friday night.
We were at an event, the bedford institute.
He's a big donor there.
I left early.
- What time was this? - About 9:00.
I had a migraine.
When I came home, my daughter said that he wasn't answering his cell.
- I don't mean to be insensitive, but were the two of you having problems in your marriage? - None.
We never fight.
Something must have happened to him.
- Missing persons has checked hospitals, paramedics, the morgue.
No one matching his description.
- Oh, maybe it was a carjacking.
Police still haven't found his Bentley.
- If he had the car, how did you get home? - I took the limo.
We went separately.
I had a migraine, and I wasn't sure I could manage all the glad-handing.
- That's a very impressive collection of medical instruments.
Your husband's? - Yes.
Ben made his money in pharmaceuticals, but he always dreamed of being a doctor.
- Mommy, I'm scared to be alone.
- All right, sweetie, I'll be right there.
I'm sorry, detectives.
- Ben Langston seems to have vanished into thin air.
He hasn't bought a plane, train, or bus ticket.
- Langston's loaded.
Any indication this might be a kidnapping? - The wife hasn't been contacted.
- Any evidence of foul play? - Well, the m.
E.
'S caught some interesting John does the last 48 hours, none of them fitting Langston's profile.
- Last call on his cell was to his home at 9:30.
Two hours later, he shut it off.
- Maybe someone who doesn't want to be found.
- If he is holed up with a mistress, he's being discreet.
- Rich man, a lot to lose, he'd be careful.
- He may have made his first mistake.
They found Langston's Bentley in a parking structure at pier 92.
- That's a cruise ship terminal.
See if any boats left this weekend.
- Thanks.
So four cruise ships left from the pier this weekend.
Langston's name wasn't on the passenger list for any of them.
Parking structure security cameras caught the car's entry at 2:40 A.
M.
Saturday, but the driver was obscured.
- You know, Langston is 6'2".
He's a little smaller than I am.
This seat has been moved in.
He didn't drive this car.
There's a very nice feature about this particular vehicle, that the trunk is big enough to fit a body.
- Smells like formaldehyde.
- If there was a body in this trunk, it was already embalmed.
A John Doe turned up in riverside park Saturday morning, unusual cuts on his body.
He was slit from stem to stern like a dissection.
- You hear about Ben Langston taking a powder? - No.
- Front-page news.
You gotta get out of this lab more.
I could help you with that.
- I'd rather hang out with the rats.
- What did he want? - Nothing.
He's a jerk.
- You know, that was really nice the other night.
What I said, it's just between us.
- Of course.
- Maybe we can do it again sometime.
- I don't know, Sam.
I have a lot of work to do.
- Well, in all my years this is a first.
Body's already been dissected.
- I smell formaldehyde.
Embalming fluid? - Mm-hmm.
This gentleman's been dead over a year.
Embalmed, refrigerated.
- So a medical school cadaver? - Well, either that or an escapee from someone else's morgue.
- Bedford institute has a medical school.
They must use cadavers.
- He was found propped up in riverside park.
He was wearing a suit.
- Uh, it's pink.
The missing persons report on Langston said he was wearing a pink dress shirt, dark-gray pinstripe suit.
- Let's find out if bedford's lost any bodies.
- Oh, yeah, that's popeye.
- Popeye? - For the anchor tattoo on his biceps.
The students usually give their cadavers a nickname.
His real name was Joseph slobotnik.
He was in the Navy.
Died of meningitis.
His family donated his body to bedford.
- Any idea how Mr.
slobotnik ended up in riverside park Saturday morning? - There is a code of ethics regarding cadavers, but it's a high-stress environment and we do have pranks.
- Oh, you have-- you have pranks.
What kind of pranks? - Taking a cadaver out to a party.
Posing with them.
Putting the pictures up on Facebook.
- Try and stay in one place.
So who has access to this cadaver room? - Well, we have a key code lock, but the number gets out, so - We'll need to look at the refrigerator where you usually store Mr.
slobotnik.
- Of course, but it's the end of the semester.
Slobotnik's cadaver was scheduled to be cremated on--today.
His coffin was picked up by a driver from woodhurst funeral home in yonkers at 6:00 this morning.
- Some families who have donated cadavers elect to have a funeral.
Some just want us to dispose of the remains.
Joseph slobotnik's getting the full service.
- The body you cremated, we have reason to believe it might not be Mr.
slobotnik.
- Um, that's, um, that's distressing.
- Now where are the remains? - What am I going to tell the family? - Tell them they might want to reschedule.
- Hello, Ben Langston.
The lab couldn't pull any DNA from the cremated ashes, but they did recover a titanium pin.
The serial number matches a pin inserted into Langston's foot - So the ashes are Langston.
So somebody killed him, switched his body with a cadaver? That's pretty elaborate.
- Killer dressed the body in Langston's clothes.
He propped him up in the park, make it look like a prank, buy time while Langston's body was being cremated.
- Congratulations, it's a homicide.
- With no crime scene, no cause of death, no motive, and our victim was last seen at an event with 100 suspects.
- You'll earn your paycheck this week.
Now wasn't Langston at that event to award a $20 million grant? Maybe one of the losers took offense.
- Langston's dead? That's terrible.
- Did you know him well? - Just by reputation.
He did a lot for bedford.
- I read your grant proposal.
It was very impressive.
A successful plaque-removing drug, that could eventually eliminate heart disease.
- Yeah, well, coronary disease is the number one killer in the world, and it's entirely preventable.
Closer in our sights than curing cancer.
- You must have been disappointed when you didn't hear your name called.
- Part of the game.
- Friday night, what time did you leave? - Around 10:00 I went home.
- Can anyone verify that? - Are you asking me if-- I live alone.
I did go out after midnight to meet a colleague at a bar, Dr.
zhuang.
- Maya zhuang, the grant winner? - Yeah.
- You must have had a lot to talk about.
- I congratulated her.
Look, I have to go.
I'm sorry, I have a seminar at Sloan-kettering.
- I'm late for an appointment off-campus.
- This is not gonna take a lot of your time.
- Friday night, did you meet up with Dr.
Harris? - Sam? Yes.
At McSorley's for a few drinks.
- What time was this? - Oh, I don't know.
Midnight maybe.
- Till when? - Past one.
The push for grant money is intense.
I thought we needed to take a break.
- Sam say anything about Ben Langston that night? - Well, obviously we talked about the grant.
- Hey.
- That's my mom.
- Maya, hi.
- Hi.
These are detectives.
They're asking about Ben Langston.
- Oh, it's a terrible thing.
Do you know what happened? - Oh, uh, well, we're still investigating.
- Well, they should talk to the Dean about the incident last year.
- I don't think that has anything to do with this.
- Ben Langston was furious.
- What incident was this? - One of the researchers, Theo Kendall, made a joke at the benefit last year.
He was reprimanded by Dean Johnson.
- Theo Kendall, one of the grant finalists? - I'm sure it all blew over.
- Maya zhuang needs to relax.
She's had a stick up her ass about me for years.
- Oh, you mean the harassment complaint she filed against you? - It was dropped.
I was joking.
- You put an embalmed penis on her desk.
Sounds hilarious.
- Come on, it was fun.
Work is stressful.
Laughter breaks the tension.
- Yeah.
We're more interested in the laughs you got at Langston's expense.
- The prank you pulled.
The Dean was mortified when she told us about it.
She was more upset to find out you still had this up on your Facebook page.
A prank with a cadaver as Lauren Langston? You slipped this picture into a fundraising reel in front of a room full of board members and benefactors? - That's what this is about? Again, just a joke, and I apologized.
- Langston didn't seem too amused.
He pulled you from the running for the grant last year.
- His money, his prerogative.
- And then passed you over this year again.
- You guys are sharp.
- You know, jokesters, they have trouble with authority.
Maybe you resent Langston.
You know, you resent the fact that your career depends on the whim of these deep-pocket benefactors, these non-doctors who couldn't possibly understand your work.
- I had no problem with Langston.
- This is a nice piece.
Langston, he also collects antique instruments.
- Oh, I didn't know.
- Yeah.
Theo Kendall showed us his antique microscope.
Was that a gift from your husband? - It might have been.
Ben was generous that way.
- Even after Theo dressed up a cadaver with your name on it? - Ben was upset about that prank, but I actually thought it was funny.
- Is that why he passed over Dr.
Kendall for the research grant? - Ben was a fair person.
He judged the projects on their merits.
- Theo Kendall might not have thought so.
- You don't believe that Dr.
Kendall-- - we think someone at bedford murdered your husband, Mrs.
Langston.
- But it wasn't Theo Kendall.
- It wasn't? How do you know? - He just doesn't seem the type.
- She's in her room reading Harry Potter.
You said I could leave at 6:00.
- Oh, if you have to go, go.
- Do you mind if I use your bathroom? - Um, down the hall.
- My niece loves Harry Potter.
- My favorite character is Hermione.
- Mine too.
I'm really sorry about your dad, Stella.
- I miss him.
- Friday night when you called him, was that because you were scared to be alone? Your mom was home though, right? Was it just your nanny? Is that why you were afraid? - I woke up and went into the room, but the bed was empty.
Then my mom came home.
I could tell she had a playdate.
She seemed fuzzy.
- Playdate.
With who? - She was always talking to him on the phone.
I think his name was Theo.
- Theo? My client lied to the police to protect the reputation of a married woman.
He was with Lauren Langston Friday night.
He still coulda killed her husband after his rendezvous.
- I didn't murder Langston.
- You were ang at him for passing you over for the grant.
Is that why you seduced his wife? - I don't know, maybe.
I seduce a lot of women.
- Because it's fun? - Is that necessary? We're here to cooperate, detective.
- It's all right, Serena.
Yeah, sex is fun.
And you know what, killing somebody, that doesn't sound fun.
- Not like playing pranks with dead bodies? - That doesn't make me a murderer.
- Theo didn't do it.
He and I were together Friday night at the ritz-Carlton.
- Driver told us he dropped you off at 9:30.
- I took a cab to the hotel.
My nanny covered for me.
If Ben had come home, she would have said I was at my sister's.
- We can provide evidence that my client and Theo Kendall were in room 734 at the ritz-Carlton from 10:00 until 3:00 A.
M.
Saturday morning.
- I lied to protect Stella.
I'm guilty of infidelity.
I'm not a murderer.
I loved Ben.
- Another marriage built on true love.
We get a lot of that around here.
- Ben was just so Single-minded.
He was so consumed with his legacy.
- You said that you two never fought.
- That's true.
- Is that because there was no passion? Dr.
Kendall make you laugh? - I went to his lab to tell him I wasn't offended by the prank.
And we started talking, and Yes, he made me laugh.
- You were at the event.
You have access to the cadaver room.
You're a trained surgeon.
How'd you kill him? You slit his throat with a scalpel? - When I left the party, Langston was alive.
Alive and well, talking to Sam Harris.
- What about? - I don't know, but they were intense.
I figured Langston wouldn't notice that I followed his wife out of the room.
- Yes, I did speak to Langston that night.
So did a lot of people.
- We have a witness says you two were pretty heated.
- Okay, look, I may have called Langston a phony, but in private, to colleagues.
- Why a phony? - He said he wanted to help people, and I think for him it was more about ego.
- Is that what you talked about with him on Friday night? - No.
- What did you talk about? - I told him I thought the leukemia vaccine was a worthy project.
And no, no one can confirm that.
Look, are you asking me if I killed Langston? - Did you? - No.
I had no reason to.
And I feel like I've wasted enough brain cells talking about the man.
- So Sam Harris and Ben Langston do have some history.
Sam was arrested for trespassing six years ago at Langston pharmaceuticals.
A protest against animal testing.
- That's interesting.
Medical researchers like Sam, they rely on animal testing.
- The charges were dropped.
A woman was arrested with him, Claire Morton.
- I met Sam on the bus.
I thought he was cool, a med student.
We dated a while.
- How did you two end up getting arrested at Langston pharmaceuticals? - I heard they were testing drugs on, like, monkeys, which is uncool.
So I staged a protest.
Sam came with.
- Sam was against animal testing? - He said he was.
I don't know, he was pretty fragile.
His mom had just died.
- So what happened at the protest? - A bunch of us picketed the entrance, signs, chants, demanded to see Ben Langston.
After a few hours, I figured we'd made our point.
- Langston ever show? - No.
And Sam got weird.
He refused to leave, said Langston couldn't treat us like that.
I guess his mom used to work with the guy.
Anyway, Sam and I broke up when I saw the white mice in his lab.
Hewore they were happy, but their eyes looked sad.
- Even he wants out of the rain.
- Thanks.
Regina Harris, Sam's mother, worked at quoro labs in Philadelphia from 1982 until 1986, the same time as Ben Langston.
- So his wife said that Ben was dating a lab tech when they met.
- Yeah.
Regina and Ben both quit quoro in 1986.
Ben moved to New York, married Lauren.
- Sam Harris was born nine months later in Philadelphia.
When'd you find out that Ben Langston was your father? - He's not my father.
- He and your mother dated.
You were born nine months after they broke up.
- I meant he's not a real father in any sense.
He's a sperm donor.
He left me and my mother like--like trash.
- That's what your mother told you, that she felt abandoned by Langston? - She was abandoned.
- Did she ever try to contact him to get child support? - Yeah, of course she did.
She wanted what's best for me.
- So Langston, he just ignored you? - He couldn't be bothered.
- He denied you.
- He denied us both.
- So you spent your whole life trying to be better than him.
You became a doctor, a brilliant researcher.
Everything that he wasn't.
- I am better than him.
- Hey, hey, sit down.
Sit down.
So what happened Friday night? He denied you the grant, and that was the last straw for you? He's denied you your whole life, so you confronted him.
- I didn't even want his money, his precious grant.
Listening to him spew his lies, how he cares about people.
I said he should have cared for my mother, for me.
- Maybe he didn't know you even existed.
- Are you calling my mother a liar? - We checked records.
No request for child support.
No public record of Langston as your father.
- He is a monster.
He used my mother.
He got her pregnant and then ran off and married somebody else.
I listened to her cry every single night.
Look, he got what he deserved.
I hate him.
- Your mother, she loved you a lot.
- She did.
- Why wouldn't she try to get something from him? Anything? Get some child support from a multimillionaire father.
Why wouldn't she try to get anything? She poisoned you against him.
You killed Ben Langston.
- So Sam Harris hated Ben Langston.
Enough to kill him? - Parental alienation is akin to brainwashing.
If he grew up hearing that Langston was a bastard, true or not, he believes it.
- Maybe Langston really was a bastard.
- That kinda thing is hard to keep secret in a marriage.
Find out if Mrs.
Langston can shed some light.
- Ben had an illegitimate son? This is news to me.
- That's something a husband might want to hide from his wife.
- No, no, Ben must not have known.
- Well, you said yourself that your marriage wasn't ideal.
- Ben was all about his legacy.
He adored Stella, but he would have done anything for a boy.
We tried but-- if Ben knew he had a son who was a doctor, he would have given him grant money from here to kingdom come.
- No, I don't believe you.
My mom said that she begged him to help us.
- Did she show you any evidence of that? Phone calls, letters? - She didn't have to prove herself.
- Did she hire a lawyer? - We could not afford a lawyer.
- Please, do you know how many lawyers would take a paternity case against a millionaire on contingency? - How did your mother react when you told her you applied to bedford? - She wasn't happy.
It was empty nest anxiety.
- She didn't want you to meet Langston.
She was afraid that he was gonna take you away from her.
That's why she indoctrinated you to hate him.
You killed a man who would have loved to have you for a son.
- I pulled him aside that night after the reception, and I yelled at him.
I was angry.
I told him that I was his son.
- What did he say? What did he do? - He tried to hug me.
Said he'd fund all of my research as his top priority.
I called him a son of a bitch, and I left.
But I did not kill him.
Look, you can ask Maya if you don't believe me.
- You told Maya? - I never told anyone, just--just Maya.
She called me that night to get a drink.
I told her that Langston was my biological father.
- When you met her at the bar? - Yeah.
Yeah, maybe it was the beers, maybe it was just cause she was acting like she liked me for once.
- She didn't usually like you? - No.
No.
Not like that.
Affectionate.
I thought maybe-- - what, that you'd get lucky or - I misread the signals.
A couple of days later, we were back to the friend zone.
I don't know, maybe she was just being nice.
She could tell I needed somebody to talk to, so - If Sam Harris killed Langston, why would he confess to Maya zhuang that Langston was his father? - He was shaken, not thinking clearly, and he thought she was his alibi.
- Except she called him.
Yes, Maya's here.
She's studying.
- We just have a few questions.
- I told Maya she should stay away from work until they catch whoever did this.
Maya.
- Well, I already told you I called Sam because things had been tense.
- To clear the air after the grant competition.
- That's right.
- It must have been a surprise for you to learn that Dr.
Harris was Langston's son.
- I guess he told you that.
Yes, it was pretty shocking.
What's this about? Do you think Sam killed Langston? - Do you? - I don't know.
He was upset.
- When you left Dr.
Harris at the bar, it was 1:00? - That's right.
- And did you come home? - Actually I went to a few more bars to celebrate winning the grant.
See? - Yes, I do see.
Is that your sister? It's a nice photo.
- Orli.
My older sister.
- Yeah, I-- no, it's just I haven't seen any other photos of her on the walls or - No, um, my mother took them down when orli moved out.
- That bedroom, a shrine to achievement.
Maya grew up in a house ere failure isn't an option.
- She didn't fail.
Langston awarded her the grant.
- Maybe she had reason to believe that Langston might change his mind.
She couldn't let her mother down.
- Why should I talk to you about my family? - Are you afraid your mother wouldn't like it? She can't be too happy about you working in a bar.
- Unlike my sister, the doctor? What's Maya done anyway? - She could be in trouble.
You know, she kept a lot of pictures of you on her iPhone.
I think you mean a lot to her.
- No way she's done anything wrong.
- It's very stressful being perfect all the time.
Sometimes people, they crack.
- Not Maya.
She never flinched, never cried.
Not even the time my mother threw out her dolls because she missed a note in her cello recital.
- You had a strict upbringing.
- No tv, no sleepovers, no pets.
Maya got a "b" in chemistry, so my mother got rid of our dog.
That's when my father walked.
- And you left too.
It was just the two of them.
No wonder Maya felt responsible for your mother's happiness.
- She was living my mother's life.
Classic good girl.
Maya didn't even want to be a doctor.
She wanted to be an artist.
- She painted, abstract florals.
- Yeah, how did you-- - I saw one of the paintings in her bedroom.
- Maya thought our mother's attention was out of love.
It damaged her.
Why do you think I had to leave? - Rerun the test at 80%.
See if that increases the protein level.
- Okay.
- I knew you'd be here.
I mean, you're hardly anywhere else.
- More questions? I'm kinda busy.
- Medical research, it's so enervating, isn't it? The hours, the concentration.
You never take time to relax, do you? - I don't have the time.
- You never have any fun.
Certainly don't go to four bars a night.
Just the photos on your phone.
They were a little phony.
You know, I think you overcompensated.
You tried too hard.
And the call to Sam to meet you at the club, that was just to alibi yourself, wasn't it? - No, that's not true.
- Well, not entirely.
But you did know that Langston was Sam's father before Sam told you because you overheard the confrontation between Langston and his son.
So did someone else.
- Maya, stop talking.
- Mom, what are you doing here? - Your mother was worried about you.
- I'm here to take you home.
- You always do everything your mother says, don't you? - We're leaving.
- You always have, right? - Even becoming a doctor was your mother's idea, wasn't it? - That is absurd.
- We talked to your sister, found out how she left, how your father left, how it was all your fault.
- No, no.
- Don't listen to them.
- Do you feel guilty about that? Your mother was unhappy, so you wanted to do whatever she told you to do.
But you could never work hard enough, right? Her standards were unachievable.
- Whatever my mom did for me was for my own good.
She wanted me to reach my potential.
- The good girl, the perfect daughter, the one who cleans up the mess.
- But you're not a killer.
You took a hippocratic oath.
First do no harm.
But your mother didn't take that oath.
- So when you killed Langston, Maya took care of it.
You switched the body with a cadaver slated to be cremated.
- You also overheard that Sam was Langston's son.
You know, any rational person would think, well, they announced the grant.
Maya won.
Did you know that Sam told us that during the confrontation his father told him that he would get research money.
See, you knew that.
You panicked, because you believed that from now on he would favor his own flesh and blood, because that's what you would do.
- No, I killed him.
I killed him! I did it! - Are you gonna let your daughter take the fall? Go to prison, death row, for something you did? Not very maternal.
- So you killed Ben Langston because you had to, because you couldn't help yourself.
You had no choice.
- Mom.
Mom, no.
- Stop it.
- No.
- We heard Langston and Sam talking.
I'd had a few drinks.
I asked Langston to come to Maya's lab, some excuse, she'd show him test results.
Maya had no idea what I was planning.
There was a centrifuge on the counter.
It was heavy.
Langston sat down with his back to me.
I picked it up, I smashed him over the head with it.
He fell over.
Maya was horrified, but she said she could get rid of the body.
- Then you switched Langston's body with a cadaver slated to be cremated.
You dressed the cadaver up, made it look like a prank.
You put the cadaver on a gurney, wheeled it to Langston's car, met Sam, alibi'd yourself at the other bars, and then dumped the body in the park and left Langston's car by pier 92.
- You can't prove any of that.
You can't.
You can't prove any of that.
- No, you made a mistake.
Dressing the cadaver in Langston's clothes.
I guess your mother wasn't there to help you out.
And you're not allowed to make mistakes because your dog would get taken away.
You'd get taught a lesson.
You know what I think? - I think your daughter wanted to be caught.
Because you're a doctor.
And you save lives.
You don't take them.
- I'll sign a full confession, but only if my daughter goes free.
- She covered up a murder, disposed of the body.
- No, she did that to protect me, because I told her to.
- Mom! Mom! - Stop it.
- No.
- A full confession, and I won't contest the sentence.
- No, no.
I love you, mommy.
I love you.
- Stop it! No, I know.
Honey, I was hard on you.
I was strict.
But just look at you.
Look how brilliant and accomplished you are.
My daughter is not going to prison, because she is going to cure cancer.
- It's a beautiful day today.
- Yes, finally we get a spring.
- You don't suppose we could take this session outside, do you? I guess you've heard that one before.
- We have more privacy in here.
Or is that why you wanna be outside? - Do you always do that? You think that everything is about something else? Or us? - I was thinking about last session.
I was challenging you more than I had.
- You asked me if I-- if I'm lonely.
- Mm-hmm.
- You asked if I could ever have feelings for some-- - romantic feelings.
- For someone I respect.
But you didn't answer my question.
Is it too late? - Um, you're worried that you've missed the boat? I think as we start-- - can you stop? Can you just-- you know, we don't have a lot of sessions left.
You know, and I'm a big boy.
You know, I'm a grown man.
And what is it that you said? My emotional drawbridge, it's up.
Okay, I can take it.
Just tell me if you think I can have what other people have.
You know, a home, a relationship.
- If you wanna work towards those goals, then, yeah, we can do that.
- "Work towards those goals.
" What is that? I mean, what does that mean, no? I mean, is that couched-in shrink speak? - I'm not the one saying no or it's too late.
You are.
Where's this coming from? - I mean, I look in the mirror every day, and I see what you see.
You know, it's not working, this.
You know, I ask you for your professional judgment, and then you turn it back on me.
I mean, come on, you're smart.
You're someone that I respect.
- And you want to know if I see you as someone capable of being in a relationship.
- That's what-- you think that I'm hitting on you, is that-- - no.
- Come on! - That's not what I was saying.
- No? Look, I know what you do, doctor.
You seem open, empathic, and you listen.
You know, you're beautiful.
So you get your patients to trust you, and then you pull back.
You toy with them, and that's your game, isn't it? - Detective-- - isn't it? Isn't it? Look, this is not working for me.
- I know that I have inadvertently-- - you know, you should call my captain, or, you know, ONE P.
P.
, or whoever that you report back to, and you should tell them that I am not a good candidate for therapy.
- I need you to help me understand what I did wrong.
- If they want to take my badge away again-- - right when you feel you need to run-- - this isn't working.
It's not helping.
These are their stories.
I'm going to connect the robotic arm to the trocar.
We can start our robotic prostate surgery.
Bloodless surgery without scalpel.
- The surgeon controls the robotic arm from the console guided by video.
- Wow, that's amazing.
Surgery of the future, and it's here now.
- Thanks to your generosity.
Speaking of which, any hints on who will receive this year's Langston grant? - I'll announce at the dedication.
- We're all on pins and needles.
Till tonight.
- So do you think I could take this thing for a spin? Looks like a lot of fun.
- Why not? The patient's already dead.
- Did you read my amended proposal on spinal cord regeneration? - Uh, I did.
- Imagine a world without wheelchairs, wounded soldiers walking again.
The military contract alone will be worth a fortune.
- It's not about money.
- Says the man with all the money.
- I see you still like to make jokes.
- Langston played it close to the vest.
Any of us could be the winner tonight.
- Nice for you, giving him the tour.
Last chance to self-promote.
- Don't worry, he still hates me.
- You ask me, Langston's a wannabe.
- Who personally controls a $20 million research grant.
- Look, he flunked out of bedford.
He made his fortune developing a pill coating.
He's a pharmacist.
I don't even want to go tonight.
- How bad can it be? Cheese cubes, bad wine, and we can bring a date.
How 'bout it, you and me? - Sorry, I'm taking my mom.
- You really are the good girl.
- You should see these surgical robots, boy.
Tiny cameras on the instruments.
Like you're actually inside the human body.
- Fascinating.
That's a nice shirt.
- Yeah? - Mm-hmm, I like it.
- Hmm.
You know, I was thinking I might drive.
Or do you want to take a limo? - Why don't you take the car? I might have to duck out.
I feel a migraine coming on.
- Okay.
Ah.
- Look, daddy, it's you fighting a dragon.
- Oh, yeah, it looks just like me too.
You got the horns, you got the wings, you got the- that's the dragon! - Get going.
And I'm honored to be here tonight as head of Langston pharmaceuticals to dedicate the Da Vinci surgical training suite.
And I'm proud to support our next generation of researchers, the best and the brightest.
You young doctors, who one day will wipe out disease and eradicate suffering.
So drum roll please.
It's time to announce this year's winner of the Langston research grant.
Dr.
Maya zhuang.
For her work on creating a vaccine to help cure childhood leukemia.
Congratulations, Dr.
zhuang.
- I alady thanked Langston.
- Okay, thank him again.
It's a big honor.
Oh, Maya, I'm so proud of you.
- Don't try and charm me.
I'm not an idiot, all right? I know that you pour money into the institution.
You think that it's gonna save everything, okay? No, I don't want anything from you.
So stay away from me.
Stay away from me, all right? - This isn't a good time.
- Shh.
- And you're a phony, and you're a son of a bitch! All right? - Stella, what are you still doing awake? - Where's daddy? - He must still be at the party.
- I've been calling him.
He won't pick up.
Why are you home so late? - Uh, get her to bed, florelle.
- Yes, Mrs.
Langston.
- Night-night, Stella.
- I--I need to report a dead body.
Adriano_CSI My husband's been missing all weekend.
He's not answering his cell.
His office hasn't heard.
I'm worried sick.
- And when's the last time you saw him? - Friday night.
We were at an event, the bedford institute.
He's a big donor there.
I left early.
- What time was this? - About 9:00.
I had a migraine.
When I came home, my daughter said that he wasn't answering his cell.
- I don't mean to be insensitive, but were the two of you having problems in your marriage? - None.
We never fight.
Something must have happened to him.
- Missing persons has checked hospitals, paramedics, the morgue.
No one matching his description.
- Oh, maybe it was a carjacking.
Police still haven't found his Bentley.
- If he had the car, how did you get home? - I took the limo.
We went separately.
I had a migraine, and I wasn't sure I could manage all the glad-handing.
- That's a very impressive collection of medical instruments.
Your husband's? - Yes.
Ben made his money in pharmaceuticals, but he always dreamed of being a doctor.
- Mommy, I'm scared to be alone.
- All right, sweetie, I'll be right there.
I'm sorry, detectives.
- Ben Langston seems to have vanished into thin air.
He hasn't bought a plane, train, or bus ticket.
- Langston's loaded.
Any indication this might be a kidnapping? - The wife hasn't been contacted.
- Any evidence of foul play? - Well, the m.
E.
'S caught some interesting John does the last 48 hours, none of them fitting Langston's profile.
- Last call on his cell was to his home at 9:30.
Two hours later, he shut it off.
- Maybe someone who doesn't want to be found.
- If he is holed up with a mistress, he's being discreet.
- Rich man, a lot to lose, he'd be careful.
- He may have made his first mistake.
They found Langston's Bentley in a parking structure at pier 92.
- That's a cruise ship terminal.
See if any boats left this weekend.
- Thanks.
So four cruise ships left from the pier this weekend.
Langston's name wasn't on the passenger list for any of them.
Parking structure security cameras caught the car's entry at 2:40 A.
M.
Saturday, but the driver was obscured.
- You know, Langston is 6'2".
He's a little smaller than I am.
This seat has been moved in.
He didn't drive this car.
There's a very nice feature about this particular vehicle, that the trunk is big enough to fit a body.
- Smells like formaldehyde.
- If there was a body in this trunk, it was already embalmed.
A John Doe turned up in riverside park Saturday morning, unusual cuts on his body.
He was slit from stem to stern like a dissection.
- You hear about Ben Langston taking a powder? - No.
- Front-page news.
You gotta get out of this lab more.
I could help you with that.
- I'd rather hang out with the rats.
- What did he want? - Nothing.
He's a jerk.
- You know, that was really nice the other night.
What I said, it's just between us.
- Of course.
- Maybe we can do it again sometime.
- I don't know, Sam.
I have a lot of work to do.
- Well, in all my years this is a first.
Body's already been dissected.
- I smell formaldehyde.
Embalming fluid? - Mm-hmm.
This gentleman's been dead over a year.
Embalmed, refrigerated.
- So a medical school cadaver? - Well, either that or an escapee from someone else's morgue.
- Bedford institute has a medical school.
They must use cadavers.
- He was found propped up in riverside park.
He was wearing a suit.
- Uh, it's pink.
The missing persons report on Langston said he was wearing a pink dress shirt, dark-gray pinstripe suit.
- Let's find out if bedford's lost any bodies.
- Oh, yeah, that's popeye.
- Popeye? - For the anchor tattoo on his biceps.
The students usually give their cadavers a nickname.
His real name was Joseph slobotnik.
He was in the Navy.
Died of meningitis.
His family donated his body to bedford.
- Any idea how Mr.
slobotnik ended up in riverside park Saturday morning? - There is a code of ethics regarding cadavers, but it's a high-stress environment and we do have pranks.
- Oh, you have-- you have pranks.
What kind of pranks? - Taking a cadaver out to a party.
Posing with them.
Putting the pictures up on Facebook.
- Try and stay in one place.
So who has access to this cadaver room? - Well, we have a key code lock, but the number gets out, so - We'll need to look at the refrigerator where you usually store Mr.
slobotnik.
- Of course, but it's the end of the semester.
Slobotnik's cadaver was scheduled to be cremated on--today.
His coffin was picked up by a driver from woodhurst funeral home in yonkers at 6:00 this morning.
- Some families who have donated cadavers elect to have a funeral.
Some just want us to dispose of the remains.
Joseph slobotnik's getting the full service.
- The body you cremated, we have reason to believe it might not be Mr.
slobotnik.
- Um, that's, um, that's distressing.
- Now where are the remains? - What am I going to tell the family? - Tell them they might want to reschedule.
- Hello, Ben Langston.
The lab couldn't pull any DNA from the cremated ashes, but they did recover a titanium pin.
The serial number matches a pin inserted into Langston's foot - So the ashes are Langston.
So somebody killed him, switched his body with a cadaver? That's pretty elaborate.
- Killer dressed the body in Langston's clothes.
He propped him up in the park, make it look like a prank, buy time while Langston's body was being cremated.
- Congratulations, it's a homicide.
- With no crime scene, no cause of death, no motive, and our victim was last seen at an event with 100 suspects.
- You'll earn your paycheck this week.
Now wasn't Langston at that event to award a $20 million grant? Maybe one of the losers took offense.
- Langston's dead? That's terrible.
- Did you know him well? - Just by reputation.
He did a lot for bedford.
- I read your grant proposal.
It was very impressive.
A successful plaque-removing drug, that could eventually eliminate heart disease.
- Yeah, well, coronary disease is the number one killer in the world, and it's entirely preventable.
Closer in our sights than curing cancer.
- You must have been disappointed when you didn't hear your name called.
- Part of the game.
- Friday night, what time did you leave? - Around 10:00 I went home.
- Can anyone verify that? - Are you asking me if-- I live alone.
I did go out after midnight to meet a colleague at a bar, Dr.
zhuang.
- Maya zhuang, the grant winner? - Yeah.
- You must have had a lot to talk about.
- I congratulated her.
Look, I have to go.
I'm sorry, I have a seminar at Sloan-kettering.
- I'm late for an appointment off-campus.
- This is not gonna take a lot of your time.
- Friday night, did you meet up with Dr.
Harris? - Sam? Yes.
At McSorley's for a few drinks.
- What time was this? - Oh, I don't know.
Midnight maybe.
- Till when? - Past one.
The push for grant money is intense.
I thought we needed to take a break.
- Sam say anything about Ben Langston that night? - Well, obviously we talked about the grant.
- Hey.
- That's my mom.
- Maya, hi.
- Hi.
These are detectives.
They're asking about Ben Langston.
- Oh, it's a terrible thing.
Do you know what happened? - Oh, uh, well, we're still investigating.
- Well, they should talk to the Dean about the incident last year.
- I don't think that has anything to do with this.
- Ben Langston was furious.
- What incident was this? - One of the researchers, Theo Kendall, made a joke at the benefit last year.
He was reprimanded by Dean Johnson.
- Theo Kendall, one of the grant finalists? - I'm sure it all blew over.
- Maya zhuang needs to relax.
She's had a stick up her ass about me for years.
- Oh, you mean the harassment complaint she filed against you? - It was dropped.
I was joking.
- You put an embalmed penis on her desk.
Sounds hilarious.
- Come on, it was fun.
Work is stressful.
Laughter breaks the tension.
- Yeah.
We're more interested in the laughs you got at Langston's expense.
- The prank you pulled.
The Dean was mortified when she told us about it.
She was more upset to find out you still had this up on your Facebook page.
A prank with a cadaver as Lauren Langston? You slipped this picture into a fundraising reel in front of a room full of board members and benefactors? - That's what this is about? Again, just a joke, and I apologized.
- Langston didn't seem too amused.
He pulled you from the running for the grant last year.
- His money, his prerogative.
- And then passed you over this year again.
- You guys are sharp.
- You know, jokesters, they have trouble with authority.
Maybe you resent Langston.
You know, you resent the fact that your career depends on the whim of these deep-pocket benefactors, these non-doctors who couldn't possibly understand your work.
- I had no problem with Langston.
- This is a nice piece.
Langston, he also collects antique instruments.
- Oh, I didn't know.
- Yeah.
Theo Kendall showed us his antique microscope.
Was that a gift from your husband? - It might have been.
Ben was generous that way.
- Even after Theo dressed up a cadaver with your name on it? - Ben was upset about that prank, but I actually thought it was funny.
- Is that why he passed over Dr.
Kendall for the research grant? - Ben was a fair person.
He judged the projects on their merits.
- Theo Kendall might not have thought so.
- You don't believe that Dr.
Kendall-- - we think someone at bedford murdered your husband, Mrs.
Langston.
- But it wasn't Theo Kendall.
- It wasn't? How do you know? - He just doesn't seem the type.
- She's in her room reading Harry Potter.
You said I could leave at 6:00.
- Oh, if you have to go, go.
- Do you mind if I use your bathroom? - Um, down the hall.
- My niece loves Harry Potter.
- My favorite character is Hermione.
- Mine too.
I'm really sorry about your dad, Stella.
- I miss him.
- Friday night when you called him, was that because you were scared to be alone? Your mom was home though, right? Was it just your nanny? Is that why you were afraid? - I woke up and went into the room, but the bed was empty.
Then my mom came home.
I could tell she had a playdate.
She seemed fuzzy.
- Playdate.
With who? - She was always talking to him on the phone.
I think his name was Theo.
- Theo? My client lied to the police to protect the reputation of a married woman.
He was with Lauren Langston Friday night.
He still coulda killed her husband after his rendezvous.
- I didn't murder Langston.
- You were ang at him for passing you over for the grant.
Is that why you seduced his wife? - I don't know, maybe.
I seduce a lot of women.
- Because it's fun? - Is that necessary? We're here to cooperate, detective.
- It's all right, Serena.
Yeah, sex is fun.
And you know what, killing somebody, that doesn't sound fun.
- Not like playing pranks with dead bodies? - That doesn't make me a murderer.
- Theo didn't do it.
He and I were together Friday night at the ritz-Carlton.
- Driver told us he dropped you off at 9:30.
- I took a cab to the hotel.
My nanny covered for me.
If Ben had come home, she would have said I was at my sister's.
- We can provide evidence that my client and Theo Kendall were in room 734 at the ritz-Carlton from 10:00 until 3:00 A.
M.
Saturday morning.
- I lied to protect Stella.
I'm guilty of infidelity.
I'm not a murderer.
I loved Ben.
- Another marriage built on true love.
We get a lot of that around here.
- Ben was just so Single-minded.
He was so consumed with his legacy.
- You said that you two never fought.
- That's true.
- Is that because there was no passion? Dr.
Kendall make you laugh? - I went to his lab to tell him I wasn't offended by the prank.
And we started talking, and Yes, he made me laugh.
- You were at the event.
You have access to the cadaver room.
You're a trained surgeon.
How'd you kill him? You slit his throat with a scalpel? - When I left the party, Langston was alive.
Alive and well, talking to Sam Harris.
- What about? - I don't know, but they were intense.
I figured Langston wouldn't notice that I followed his wife out of the room.
- Yes, I did speak to Langston that night.
So did a lot of people.
- We have a witness says you two were pretty heated.
- Okay, look, I may have called Langston a phony, but in private, to colleagues.
- Why a phony? - He said he wanted to help people, and I think for him it was more about ego.
- Is that what you talked about with him on Friday night? - No.
- What did you talk about? - I told him I thought the leukemia vaccine was a worthy project.
And no, no one can confirm that.
Look, are you asking me if I killed Langston? - Did you? - No.
I had no reason to.
And I feel like I've wasted enough brain cells talking about the man.
- So Sam Harris and Ben Langston do have some history.
Sam was arrested for trespassing six years ago at Langston pharmaceuticals.
A protest against animal testing.
- That's interesting.
Medical researchers like Sam, they rely on animal testing.
- The charges were dropped.
A woman was arrested with him, Claire Morton.
- I met Sam on the bus.
I thought he was cool, a med student.
We dated a while.
- How did you two end up getting arrested at Langston pharmaceuticals? - I heard they were testing drugs on, like, monkeys, which is uncool.
So I staged a protest.
Sam came with.
- Sam was against animal testing? - He said he was.
I don't know, he was pretty fragile.
His mom had just died.
- So what happened at the protest? - A bunch of us picketed the entrance, signs, chants, demanded to see Ben Langston.
After a few hours, I figured we'd made our point.
- Langston ever show? - No.
And Sam got weird.
He refused to leave, said Langston couldn't treat us like that.
I guess his mom used to work with the guy.
Anyway, Sam and I broke up when I saw the white mice in his lab.
Hewore they were happy, but their eyes looked sad.
- Even he wants out of the rain.
- Thanks.
Regina Harris, Sam's mother, worked at quoro labs in Philadelphia from 1982 until 1986, the same time as Ben Langston.
- So his wife said that Ben was dating a lab tech when they met.
- Yeah.
Regina and Ben both quit quoro in 1986.
Ben moved to New York, married Lauren.
- Sam Harris was born nine months later in Philadelphia.
When'd you find out that Ben Langston was your father? - He's not my father.
- He and your mother dated.
You were born nine months after they broke up.
- I meant he's not a real father in any sense.
He's a sperm donor.
He left me and my mother like--like trash.
- That's what your mother told you, that she felt abandoned by Langston? - She was abandoned.
- Did she ever try to contact him to get child support? - Yeah, of course she did.
She wanted what's best for me.
- So Langston, he just ignored you? - He couldn't be bothered.
- He denied you.
- He denied us both.
- So you spent your whole life trying to be better than him.
You became a doctor, a brilliant researcher.
Everything that he wasn't.
- I am better than him.
- Hey, hey, sit down.
Sit down.
So what happened Friday night? He denied you the grant, and that was the last straw for you? He's denied you your whole life, so you confronted him.
- I didn't even want his money, his precious grant.
Listening to him spew his lies, how he cares about people.
I said he should have cared for my mother, for me.
- Maybe he didn't know you even existed.
- Are you calling my mother a liar? - We checked records.
No request for child support.
No public record of Langston as your father.
- He is a monster.
He used my mother.
He got her pregnant and then ran off and married somebody else.
I listened to her cry every single night.
Look, he got what he deserved.
I hate him.
- Your mother, she loved you a lot.
- She did.
- Why wouldn't she try to get something from him? Anything? Get some child support from a multimillionaire father.
Why wouldn't she try to get anything? She poisoned you against him.
You killed Ben Langston.
- So Sam Harris hated Ben Langston.
Enough to kill him? - Parental alienation is akin to brainwashing.
If he grew up hearing that Langston was a bastard, true or not, he believes it.
- Maybe Langston really was a bastard.
- That kinda thing is hard to keep secret in a marriage.
Find out if Mrs.
Langston can shed some light.
- Ben had an illegitimate son? This is news to me.
- That's something a husband might want to hide from his wife.
- No, no, Ben must not have known.
- Well, you said yourself that your marriage wasn't ideal.
- Ben was all about his legacy.
He adored Stella, but he would have done anything for a boy.
We tried but-- if Ben knew he had a son who was a doctor, he would have given him grant money from here to kingdom come.
- No, I don't believe you.
My mom said that she begged him to help us.
- Did she show you any evidence of that? Phone calls, letters? - She didn't have to prove herself.
- Did she hire a lawyer? - We could not afford a lawyer.
- Please, do you know how many lawyers would take a paternity case against a millionaire on contingency? - How did your mother react when you told her you applied to bedford? - She wasn't happy.
It was empty nest anxiety.
- She didn't want you to meet Langston.
She was afraid that he was gonna take you away from her.
That's why she indoctrinated you to hate him.
You killed a man who would have loved to have you for a son.
- I pulled him aside that night after the reception, and I yelled at him.
I was angry.
I told him that I was his son.
- What did he say? What did he do? - He tried to hug me.
Said he'd fund all of my research as his top priority.
I called him a son of a bitch, and I left.
But I did not kill him.
Look, you can ask Maya if you don't believe me.
- You told Maya? - I never told anyone, just--just Maya.
She called me that night to get a drink.
I told her that Langston was my biological father.
- When you met her at the bar? - Yeah.
Yeah, maybe it was the beers, maybe it was just cause she was acting like she liked me for once.
- She didn't usually like you? - No.
No.
Not like that.
Affectionate.
I thought maybe-- - what, that you'd get lucky or - I misread the signals.
A couple of days later, we were back to the friend zone.
I don't know, maybe she was just being nice.
She could tell I needed somebody to talk to, so - If Sam Harris killed Langston, why would he confess to Maya zhuang that Langston was his father? - He was shaken, not thinking clearly, and he thought she was his alibi.
- Except she called him.
Yes, Maya's here.
She's studying.
- We just have a few questions.
- I told Maya she should stay away from work until they catch whoever did this.
Maya.
- Well, I already told you I called Sam because things had been tense.
- To clear the air after the grant competition.
- That's right.
- It must have been a surprise for you to learn that Dr.
Harris was Langston's son.
- I guess he told you that.
Yes, it was pretty shocking.
What's this about? Do you think Sam killed Langston? - Do you? - I don't know.
He was upset.
- When you left Dr.
Harris at the bar, it was 1:00? - That's right.
- And did you come home? - Actually I went to a few more bars to celebrate winning the grant.
See? - Yes, I do see.
Is that your sister? It's a nice photo.
- Orli.
My older sister.
- Yeah, I-- no, it's just I haven't seen any other photos of her on the walls or - No, um, my mother took them down when orli moved out.
- That bedroom, a shrine to achievement.
Maya grew up in a house ere failure isn't an option.
- She didn't fail.
Langston awarded her the grant.
- Maybe she had reason to believe that Langston might change his mind.
She couldn't let her mother down.
- Why should I talk to you about my family? - Are you afraid your mother wouldn't like it? She can't be too happy about you working in a bar.
- Unlike my sister, the doctor? What's Maya done anyway? - She could be in trouble.
You know, she kept a lot of pictures of you on her iPhone.
I think you mean a lot to her.
- No way she's done anything wrong.
- It's very stressful being perfect all the time.
Sometimes people, they crack.
- Not Maya.
She never flinched, never cried.
Not even the time my mother threw out her dolls because she missed a note in her cello recital.
- You had a strict upbringing.
- No tv, no sleepovers, no pets.
Maya got a "b" in chemistry, so my mother got rid of our dog.
That's when my father walked.
- And you left too.
It was just the two of them.
No wonder Maya felt responsible for your mother's happiness.
- She was living my mother's life.
Classic good girl.
Maya didn't even want to be a doctor.
She wanted to be an artist.
- She painted, abstract florals.
- Yeah, how did you-- - I saw one of the paintings in her bedroom.
- Maya thought our mother's attention was out of love.
It damaged her.
Why do you think I had to leave? - Rerun the test at 80%.
See if that increases the protein level.
- Okay.
- I knew you'd be here.
I mean, you're hardly anywhere else.
- More questions? I'm kinda busy.
- Medical research, it's so enervating, isn't it? The hours, the concentration.
You never take time to relax, do you? - I don't have the time.
- You never have any fun.
Certainly don't go to four bars a night.
Just the photos on your phone.
They were a little phony.
You know, I think you overcompensated.
You tried too hard.
And the call to Sam to meet you at the club, that was just to alibi yourself, wasn't it? - No, that's not true.
- Well, not entirely.
But you did know that Langston was Sam's father before Sam told you because you overheard the confrontation between Langston and his son.
So did someone else.
- Maya, stop talking.
- Mom, what are you doing here? - Your mother was worried about you.
- I'm here to take you home.
- You always do everything your mother says, don't you? - We're leaving.
- You always have, right? - Even becoming a doctor was your mother's idea, wasn't it? - That is absurd.
- We talked to your sister, found out how she left, how your father left, how it was all your fault.
- No, no.
- Don't listen to them.
- Do you feel guilty about that? Your mother was unhappy, so you wanted to do whatever she told you to do.
But you could never work hard enough, right? Her standards were unachievable.
- Whatever my mom did for me was for my own good.
She wanted me to reach my potential.
- The good girl, the perfect daughter, the one who cleans up the mess.
- But you're not a killer.
You took a hippocratic oath.
First do no harm.
But your mother didn't take that oath.
- So when you killed Langston, Maya took care of it.
You switched the body with a cadaver slated to be cremated.
- You also overheard that Sam was Langston's son.
You know, any rational person would think, well, they announced the grant.
Maya won.
Did you know that Sam told us that during the confrontation his father told him that he would get research money.
See, you knew that.
You panicked, because you believed that from now on he would favor his own flesh and blood, because that's what you would do.
- No, I killed him.
I killed him! I did it! - Are you gonna let your daughter take the fall? Go to prison, death row, for something you did? Not very maternal.
- So you killed Ben Langston because you had to, because you couldn't help yourself.
You had no choice.
- Mom.
Mom, no.
- Stop it.
- No.
- We heard Langston and Sam talking.
I'd had a few drinks.
I asked Langston to come to Maya's lab, some excuse, she'd show him test results.
Maya had no idea what I was planning.
There was a centrifuge on the counter.
It was heavy.
Langston sat down with his back to me.
I picked it up, I smashed him over the head with it.
He fell over.
Maya was horrified, but she said she could get rid of the body.
- Then you switched Langston's body with a cadaver slated to be cremated.
You dressed the cadaver up, made it look like a prank.
You put the cadaver on a gurney, wheeled it to Langston's car, met Sam, alibi'd yourself at the other bars, and then dumped the body in the park and left Langston's car by pier 92.
- You can't prove any of that.
You can't.
You can't prove any of that.
- No, you made a mistake.
Dressing the cadaver in Langston's clothes.
I guess your mother wasn't there to help you out.
And you're not allowed to make mistakes because your dog would get taken away.
You'd get taught a lesson.
You know what I think? - I think your daughter wanted to be caught.
Because you're a doctor.
And you save lives.
You don't take them.
- I'll sign a full confession, but only if my daughter goes free.
- She covered up a murder, disposed of the body.
- No, she did that to protect me, because I told her to.
- Mom! Mom! - Stop it.
- No.
- A full confession, and I won't contest the sentence.
- No, no.
I love you, mommy.
I love you.
- Stop it! No, I know.
Honey, I was hard on you.
I was strict.
But just look at you.
Look how brilliant and accomplished you are.
My daughter is not going to prison, because she is going to cure cancer.
- It's a beautiful day today.
- Yes, finally we get a spring.
- You don't suppose we could take this session outside, do you? I guess you've heard that one before.
- We have more privacy in here.
Or is that why you wanna be outside? - Do you always do that? You think that everything is about something else? Or us? - I was thinking about last session.
I was challenging you more than I had.
- You asked me if I-- if I'm lonely.
- Mm-hmm.
- You asked if I could ever have feelings for some-- - romantic feelings.
- For someone I respect.
But you didn't answer my question.
Is it too late? - Um, you're worried that you've missed the boat? I think as we start-- - can you stop? Can you just-- you know, we don't have a lot of sessions left.
You know, and I'm a big boy.
You know, I'm a grown man.
And what is it that you said? My emotional drawbridge, it's up.
Okay, I can take it.
Just tell me if you think I can have what other people have.
You know, a home, a relationship.
- If you wanna work towards those goals, then, yeah, we can do that.
- "Work towards those goals.
" What is that? I mean, what does that mean, no? I mean, is that couched-in shrink speak? - I'm not the one saying no or it's too late.
You are.
Where's this coming from? - I mean, I look in the mirror every day, and I see what you see.
You know, it's not working, this.
You know, I ask you for your professional judgment, and then you turn it back on me.
I mean, come on, you're smart.
You're someone that I respect.
- And you want to know if I see you as someone capable of being in a relationship.
- That's what-- you think that I'm hitting on you, is that-- - no.
- Come on! - That's not what I was saying.
- No? Look, I know what you do, doctor.
You seem open, empathic, and you listen.
You know, you're beautiful.
So you get your patients to trust you, and then you pull back.
You toy with them, and that's your game, isn't it? - Detective-- - isn't it? Isn't it? Look, this is not working for me.
- I know that I have inadvertently-- - you know, you should call my captain, or, you know, ONE P.
P.
, or whoever that you report back to, and you should tell them that I am not a good candidate for therapy.
- I need you to help me understand what I did wrong.
- If they want to take my badge away again-- - right when you feel you need to run-- - this isn't working.
It's not helping.