Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) s10e08 Episode Script
To the Boy in the Blue Knit Cap
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.
- Danielle, sweetheart, relax.
Nobody's gonna take your company away from you.
- The Gaffneyss have money, connections.
- And we've got brains and guts.
No trust fund brat gets to swoop in and take away what we've built.
Nice, Rex.
Parker Gaffneys.
Speak of the devil.
- Enjoy yourselves while you can, 'cause the fun train is over.
You're on notice.
Lawyers have been hired and they're locked and loaded.
Guys, we can talk about this.
Those who can't do, sue.
Bring it on, Princeton.
You're a thief, Danielle.
- Okay, now I'm starting to lose my chill.
- A thief in a company of thieves.
Yeah, take a shot.
That'll add, what, another - Guys.
- Sit down, please.
- Parker, forget it.
- Guys, guys, come on.
Rex, what do you need? One douchebag escorted out.
Done.
- You used to be such a nice person, Danielle.
You should see yourself now.
I want her company eviscerated.
- Theft of intellectual property is notoriously difficult to prove.
- That's why your firm was hired.
- Then I need more than your word against hers.
I need evidence to put this over the top.
You bring me a smoking gun.
- When we started this company, it was fun.
How did things get so ugly? - Money changes people, but not us.
We're still the same, right? Yes.
- Look, I don't want the Gaffneyss and that whole nightmare to come between us.
Hey, it's you two! I love your site.
My fiance really loves your site.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Do you see? Us, the company, it wasn't coincidence.
It was destiny.
And the Gaffneyss can't fight that.
- A lawsuit is a huge waste of time.
When you're spitballing ideas, who's to say who came up with what? - That better not be what you say in your deposition.
If you let this girl play you for a fool, you'll be sucking hind teat for the rest of your life.
That's not the Gaffneys way.
- I'm not sure she did play us.
I saw the evidence.
It's hardly definitive.
We could spend years in litigation wasting time and energy that could be spent building our own company.
- You're gonna let these people screw you while you smile and say, "thank you"? Not my son.
Man up, boy.
Fight or die.
Quit being so soft.
- I keep telling you, the old man's right.
Adriano_CSI We got two bodies.
Janitor found them this morning.
The victims are Parker and Thomas Gaffneys.
- 30.
- Brothers? Identical twins.
Well, that's a first for us.
That's Danielle and PJ.
Kizmate.
It's a dating network.
- You're a subscriber? - No.
They are Internet legends.
They turned $12,000 into millions.
That's Parker.
Parker looks like he's got a stab wound through the jugular.
The khakis, that's Thomas.
Thomas we don't know about yet.
- Security cameras in the building? - Yeah, but they shut it down at 7:42 last night.
That's convenient.
We'll need the records on the swipe card access.
Heavy perspiration.
It's an unusual head wound.
Semi-circular.
You see the bruising around the edges? Mmm.
- Brain hemorrhage? - Could be.
The blood trail leads over here.
So Thomas' body was dragged from the area that he was killed.
Eames? Lever's bent.
And, uh, it's consistent to the wound on Thomas' head.
- He was pushed into the pinball machine, maybe during a struggle? Right.
The killer might have been dragging Thomas' body away when Parker showed up.
The killer doubled down.
- I have no idea what the Gaffneyss were doing here.
They didn't work for us.
- But you knew them? - Professionally.
They ran a venture capital firm.
- Were they investors in Kizmate? No.
Then why would they be here? I told you.
I don't know why they were here.
- Maybe they subscribed to your dating service.
We're not a hook-up service.
And we're not Facebook.
We're a networking site dedicated to romantic connectivity.
To Kismet.
- Right, fate, destiny, from the turkish.
- Isn't that how you met your partner? - I had developed an application, but I didn't know what it was good for.
Then two years ago, I dropped my wallet near the gapstow bridge in central park.
PJ found it.
He was cute.
He was wearing a blue knit cap.
But before I could get his name, he was gone.
- So you used your application to blast a message to him, to the boy in the blue cap? Yes.
We've been together ever since.
- And then you turned this into a website? - PJ and I just wanted to give others the chance to make their own happiness.
And now this-this- bad luck.
Or destiny.
I don't know.
I'm just a geek code writer who had one good idea.
That's all.
Danielle magee is a thief.
Kizmate was my boys' idea.
They pitched it to her two years ago.
- We weren't aware of that.
- Thomas had the idea to create an application that allowed people to trace chance encounters.
He and Parker met with Danielle to develop it.
My boys.
- We're very sorry for your loss.
- You fenced with your son? Thomas or Parker? - Uh, Parker.
Thomas enjoyed more benign pursuits.
Right.
Different personalities.
Yes.
You know, miss magee, she told us that she came up with the Kizmate application on her own.
- No, maybe the mechanics of it, but it was my sons' idea.
Then she ran with it all the way to the bank.
They were suing her.
- Did you see or speak with your sons last night? - I had dinner with Thomas at the university club.
- Did he mention going to the Kizmate office later? - No, but he did get a phone call after 10:00.
Uh, he said he had to leave.
Some business emergency.
"Business emergency.
" Who else would know what that might have been? - Their business partner, samir doss, he would know.
- No, I don't know what emergency Thomas was talking about, and no, I have no idea why he and Parker were at the Kizmate office.
- But you do have an idea about the lawsuit.
- Two years ago, we approached Danielle to write code for our site.
We had a couple of meetings.
She seemed decent, honest Very smart.
Six months later, she launched Kizmate.
Our idea.
You confronted her? - We asked for a fair share- tens of millions of dollars she didn't want to pay.
- Any chance she might have arranged to meet with the Gaffneyss last night to discuss a settlement? - Well, I'd like to think they wouldn't meet her without telling me first.
- But she knew that you were suing her? Most definitely.
Two nights ago, I was with Parker and we ran into Danielle at a nightclub.
He told her our lawyers were locked and loaded.
That's how Parker talked.
- I didn't say anything about the lawsuit because my lawyer said not to mention it to anyone.
- Uh, no, see, we're not "anyone.
" We're the police, and the two men who were suing you were found murdered in your offices.
Really? You think I killed them with my bare hands? - You? Those two big guys? No.
- All the same, where were you last night? I was at home.
- With me From 10:00 on.
We were watching videos on the net.
You have a cap.
You're the guy in the posters.
My boyfriend, PJ Edwards.
You work here? - PJ's on our board of directors.
- So you're a member of the board, so you're being sued as well? - Come on, you guys don't seriously think we have anything to do with this? - Thing is, girlfriend and boyfriend alibiing each other, that doesn't impress us.
You and Parker Gaffneys had words a couple nights ago at a nightclub.
Parker's a hothead.
What about you, PJ? Are you a hothead? What do I have to do with this? Well, your girlfriend here doesn't look like the type to go to a nightclub on her own.
You probably went with her, got into it with Parker Gaffneys.
I was there with Rex Tamlyn.
Oh, who is Mr.
Tamlyn? He's a partner in Kizmate.
Our principal business strategist.
- And another name to party in the lawsuit? Sorry, vips only.
- We're on the list.
- Guess you are.
- We're looking for Rex Tamlyn.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Am-scray, ladies.
We need some face time with Mr.
Tamlyn.
- It's okay.
It's all right.
I know what this is about.
The Gaffneys brothers? Horrible what happened.
- Yeah, you seem really broken up about it.
Hey, I mean I barely knew 'em.
- Excuse me.
But they knew you.
They were suing you.
Sorry, excuse me.
- Yeah, completely without merit.
They're just looking for a payout from Danielle.
It's my job to protect her, all right? She's brilliant, but she's into Kismet.
I'm into cash.
By any means necessary.
We looked you up.
Your last Internet venture was interactive porn? - Uh, please.
Virtual eroticism.
It's all about packaging.
It was my idea to have Danielle and PJ as the poster kids for Kizmate.
- What better way to prove that Kismet works? Exactly.
- Well, here's some more Kismet.
Two nights ago, Parker Gaffneys rolls up on you and Danielle, threatened you, and then last night, he and his brother end up dead in your office.
- And I'm the only guy in this city Parker Gaffneys had a beef with? Listen, I- not to speak ill of the dead, but the guy had a major chip on his shoulder.
- You know, we keep hearing that.
What about his brother Thomas? Thomas? Thomas had nothing to prove.
Thomas had made millions off his own ideas.
Dollars to donuts, Parker was the one behind that lawsuit.
- Thanks for the insight, but we still need to know where you were last night.
- Right here, ass on leather.
You can ask Billy the owner.
Hell, ask the girls.
I was here till last call.
Listen, I don't know who killed the Gaffneys brothers, but it wasn't me.
That lawsuit was nothing.
They had no proof of anything.
Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna hit the dance floor.
Care to join? Pass.
- Aww.
Your loss.
- Maybe that's what the Gaffneyss were looking for- proof Danielle stole their idea.
- Maybe what Parker was looking for.
Under arms.
Sweat.
I'd really like to dance, you know? We should call Rodgers.
I was looking out for you.
By lying to the police? - Well, I knew you were home, so why not just stop the cops right there? I know where I was.
Where were you? Okay.
Fine.
I'll call the cops right now and tell them I lied, and you went along with it.
Hmm? I'm just trying to keep us together, Danielle.
- Well, even though I kick myself every time I say this, you were right.
I found Thomas Gaffneys's deodorant on Parker Gaffneys's hands.
Sweat mixed with antiperspirant.
Sweat from Thomas's armpits? - So Parker grabbed his brother under the arms, dragged him away from the pinball machine The pinball machine where he killed him.
Wha-I beg your pardon? Twin number one killed twin number two? We think.
- Well, so much for brotherly love.
One killer down.
One more to go.
I know about what a kin is able but someone killing their twin? According to witnesses, Parker was the fire-breather in the family.
The lawsuit was his idea.
So was probably breaking into Kizmate.
- Thomas, he got a call while he was having dinner with his father from a no-name cell phone.
That might have been Parker telling him what he was about to do.
Thomas went and tried to stop him.
- And push came to shove and Thomas ended up taking a header into the pinball machine? Something like that.
Thomas didn't die right away.
- Parker would have noticed that he was still alive.
He wouldn't abandon his brother.
- But he didn't want to call 911 while they were still in the offices of Kizmate.
Right.
So he tried to get his brother outside, you know, down on the street, call for help.
- That's what he was doing when he ran into whoever killed him.
So you have three suspects.
- Three people who stood to lose big if the Gaffneyss won their lawsuit.
- That's assuming that the lawsuit has merit, that this girl did indeed steal the Gaffneyss' idea.
- That's what we think Parker Gaffneys was looking for-proof.
- Well, why don't you finish what he started? - At our first meeting with Danielle, Parker and Thomas were spitballing their idea for the site.
Danielle got this excited look on her face and started scribbling in a yellow notepad.
- It's a complex mathematical algorithm she had a moment of inspiration.
- She tore the page from the yellow pad, but her pen left an indentation on the page below it.
We had a handwriting expert verify it.
It's proof that she came up with the algorithm for the application during that meeting.
It's not enough.
You needed to prove that this algorithm was the basis for Kizmate.
The only way to find that was by hacking into their main computer.
- I'm sure that's what Parker was hoping to do that night.
- We'll need a copy of this doodle.
It's better late than never.
Building security tracked a swipe card entry into the Kizmate offices at 10:12 P.
M.
Card belonging to a Kizmate employee.
One Hildy Whitmore.
- I didn't give my card to anybody.
I lost it or somebody stole it.
I don't-I don't know.
Okay, we buy that.
So I can leave? Not quite.
So you're a secretary at Kizmate? I'm Danielle's assistant.
Oh, you're an assistant.
That's long hours, I bet.
We checked your work station.
You logged off your computer at 7:36 the night of the murders.
- Like you said, long hours.
Hmm.
You were there all alone just holding the fort down.
Danielle counts on me.
That's ironic.
It is ironic.
- Ironic, because six minutes later, someone turned off the security cameras.
And since you were the only one in the fort- - you think I helped those Gaffneys creeps break into our offices? Why would I do that? Money, for starters.
You don't understand.
I've worked for Danielle for a year.
She gave me shares in Kizmate.
Why would I want to help people who want to take down the company? I know, right? That's a good question.
Why would you? You know what? I'm not under arrest, so I'm leaving.
Pants on fire? Totally.
- I don't like it, Rex.
- Trust me.
You keep saying that.
Listen If you know what's good for you, for all of us, you will keep your mouth shut.
- There it is, right there in the Kizmate source code.
The same algorithm that was on that piece of paper.
- It doesn't look the same.
- Oh, sorry.
Let me express it as an algorithm.
Better? Hmm.
- I had to patch it together by breaking down the Kizmate app and searching their offline archives.
So there's the proof.
Danielle came up with this idea in the Gaffneyss' office.
They had a case.
- Danielle had reason to be worried.
- Danielle and the other two musketeers, PJ and Rex.
What if Hildy had second thoughts about helping the Gaffneyss? What if she told Danielle what the Gaffneyss were up to? - Danielle might have gone to her office that night with her musketeers to deal with Parker Gaffneys.
- Hildy, I need the p&l from last quarter.
I got to go.
Miss magee, you mind? We need a few minutes with you.
- But I'm in the middle of a meeting.
We won't take long.
- I don't know what more I can tell you.
- It's not about telling.
It's about explaining.
- We found the algorithm in your source code.
So the Gaffneyss, they weren't lying.
You stole the idea from them.
No.
- You found out Parker was breaking into your office.
You came here to stop him.
That's not true.
I didn't kill anybody.
We need to talk to you.
She's telling the truth.
Danielle was with me the night of the murder.
We were together all night.
Now that's Kismet.
What I said all night, I didn't mean it in a sexual way.
Right.
It's an American idiom.
Yes.
What I meant was Danielle and I met at the cherry Lane tavern on the lower east side from 8:00 to 2:00 A.
M.
Six hours? So if you weren't having sex, what were you doing? Working on a settlement.
Only Parker wanted the lawsuit.
I was the peacemaker.
I offered Danielle a deal.
- Why didn't you tell us that before? - Because I didn't think it had anything to do with Parker and Thomas' deaths.
- Did they know about the settlement? No.
I wanted Danielle on board first and then I was gonna tell them in the morning.
But it was too late.
- I lied about PJ because I had to keep the settlement secret.
I was trying to save my company.
But I swear I was at the cherry tavern.
Samir is telling the truth.
- He's got about as much credibility as you right now.
Why would samir lie for me? - I can think of a million reasons.
The lawsuit's still on.
If he can keep you out of jail long enough to sign off on this settlement, he stands to win big.
- The settlement I proposed was more than fair.
The twins and I would receive and a percentage of royalties based on sales.
- All right, which at the current valuation of the company comes- $37 million.
A drop in the bucket for Danielle.
- Right, and worth it to her to avoid the bad publicity of a lawsuit.
- In business, sometimes you win by surrendering.
Or lying.
I wonder how much the shares of Kizmate would be worth if the CEO was in jail.
I'm not protecting Danielle.
- Yeah, see, 'cause it just occurred to me that by alibiing her, you're alibiing yourself.
Why would I need an alibi? Twins out of the way.
You gain most from the settlement.
That's motive.
- What? I murdered- are you insane? - The jury's still out on that one.
That's it.
I'm calling my attorney.
- Your company is worth millions.
You would say anything to protect that.
- I didn't care about the money.
I never did.
I just wanted to write code, be creative, have fun, to enjoy my life with PJ.
- The Gaffneys twins were trying to spoil your dream.
That must have made you angry.
It was all Parker.
He was ruthless.
Not Thomas? No.
Thomas too.
- I thought you barely knew them.
I don't.
I was ready to settle.
I would have paid anything to have my old life back, to have everything the way it was.
Just me and PJ.
- You were making a deal with samir and you weren't gonna tell me? - I was, but- - I lied to the cops for you! - Whoa, guys, guys! Let's chill out, okay? - You still haven't told me where you were that night.
- Oh, you're interrogating me now? This is ridiculous.
- Oh, PJ! God, I hate this! I hate the company! I hate this life! - All right, listen! You guys can bitch at each other all you want, but let's not forget why we're here in the first place, huh? Kismet, baby! People believe in it.
So you better keep living it.
- Samir closed out his tab at the cherry tavern at 11:30.
It proves he was there, but not necessarily with Danielle.
Why would he lie? - He made a deal with her that could put 40 million bucks in his pocket.
It's worth nothing if she's in jail.
- But even so, if Danielle made a settlement with samir, I don't see her having a motive to stab Parker Gaffneys in the neck.
Agreed? Sure.
She had no financial motive.
- Good.
So who did? Danielle's partners were in the dark about this settlement? Apparently.
So which one? Granola boy or the ex-pornographer? The ex-pornographer.
I owe him a dance.
- Uh, yeah, I mean, I told you guys I wasn't here that night.
I'm hardly ever here.
Well, you're here now.
Turns out, your buddies at the club, Billy and the ladies, they can't remember if you were there or not.
Uh, great.
So now I have to prove a negative? Well, it'd be a lot easier if all your friends weren't cokeheads.
Looks like you have a pretty nasty habit yourself.
- What are you, my father? - No, I'm a concerned citizen with a badge.
You know that stuff impairs your judgment, right? It makes you erratic.
Aggressive.
- Also makes you highly sexualized.
You know Hildy, Danielle's assistant.
You know, she was here that night.
- Oh, okay.
Well, great.
Then she can tell you that I wasn't.
- She's too scared to say much of anything.
She's pretty good-looking.
Don't you think, Rex? Maybe you figured you'd have a go at her that night.
- Maybe you turned off the security cameras so Danielle couldn't see your bare butt bouncing around her office.
- Where do you guys come up with this stuff? Experience.
- And then after that, you curled up to have a nap.
- But you were woken up by a ruckus and you found Parker Gaffneys dragging his dead brother.
- All that marching powder up your nose, you went after Parker.
- With scissors.
That's what the autopsy showed.
Very good.
Very good.
Only problem is it didn't happen.
Wasn't me.
- Then who, Rex? Who did it? - I don't know.
I don't- but, but all that stuff about Hildy and the security cameras is pure fantasy and I can prove it.
And I'll show you right now.
Come on.
I had the security system installed with a secret feature.
Here, you see the cupid, the bellybutton? - Let me guess.
It's a camera.
Yes, exactly.
So anytime the system is shut down, the camera takes one last shot of the security room.
- It takes a picture of whoever turns off the system.
Who else knows about it? Just me and Danielle.
Maybe she told Hildy.
So let's see.
So last Tuesday night.
Here we go.
Great camera work.
- No, it's blocked by something.
Yeah.
Open-weave pattern like a sweater, blue.
A blue knit cap.
It's crap.
Have a seat.
Lying to the police is serious business.
I find it very annoying, yourCap.
I mean, you don't see anybody else wearing caps or hats or anything else silly in here, do you? This is one police Plaza.
Have some respect.
Uh Look at this.
The perfect hat rack for a cap.
Don't you agree? - I don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, okay.
I'm talking about this.
Your cap over the camera.
Tuesday night, 7:42.
What were you doing in those offices you didn't anyone to see? - You can't prove that's my cap.
- I bet she can prove that it's your cap and a lot more.
You and Hildy Is that Kismet or, you know, hormones? You want a soda? No, I just- oh, I forgot to tell you.
We asked your friend to come in too.
Oh, God.
- If you want to say hi, you can just wave or- oh, God.
Am I in a lot of trouble? - Yes, sweetie, you are in a lot of trouble.
- I'm not a big believer in Kismet either, you know? It's bound to fade.
I mean, two people in a relationship forever and exclusion with all others, I mean, it's against our nature.
I mean, that kind of possessiveness is not what assured us our survival when we were out there, you know, foraging on the Savannah.
Ah-la-la-la-la! What do you think? You and Danielle on the posters.
That was a dream, right? It's real.
- Yeah, I think that that woman out there would have a different opinion.
Come on, PJ.
What happened in those offices that night? Okay.
Well, I'll just get it out of her.
Well, that's it.
I got everything.
Oh, God.
So you and PJ? Yes.
For the past two months.
PJ told me that he and Danielle hadn't slept in the same bed in months.
- You and PJ'd hook up at the office? Only when I had to work late.
PJ knew how to turn off the security cameras so nobody'd know.
- And Tuesday night? - Yeah, same thing.
Um, but we left around 8:30.
- Are you sure about that, Hildy? Yes.
PJ wanted to hang out more, but But I knew Parker Gaffneys was gonna be there later.
- You knew because you'd given him the swipe card? Yes.
I had no choice.
He blackmailed me.
How'd he do that? - He knew that PJ and I were He threatened to tell Danielle.
I own shares in the company.
I would have lost everything.
How did he know? Did he say? - I don't know.
He just knew.
- I told you, I didn't know anything about the break-in.
- You just happened to have settlement talks with Danielle that same night Parker was breaking into her offices? - Got to admit that's a big coincidence.
Maybe so.
I just wish I worked out the settlement sooner.
- No, see, you're gonna wish you stopped lying to us sooner.
- I'm sure an obstruction charge will impress the investment banks that you deal with.
All right.
Maybe I had an inkling of what Parker was up to, but I advised him against it.
That counts.
- Parker blackmailed Danielle's assistant Hildy to giving him an access card.
Did you know about that? Yes.
Parker said his scheme was foolproof.
- Parker knew that Hildy was sleeping with Danielle's boyfriend? Yes.
- How did Parker know that? Hmm? - Well, I think Thomas told him.
I have no idea how Thomas knew.
- I want you to send a text for me on your cell phone.
Hello.
See, now I know why you fell in love on this bridge.
Sure is romantic.
Where's samir? He sent me a message.
We did, from his phone.
- I see.
I'm leaving.
We know about the affair.
PJ and Hildy.
Hildy told us all about it.
They did the deed that Tuesday night right in there at Kizmate.
- That's why PJ turned off the security cameras, 'cause he didn't want you to find out about him and Hildy.
Well, it worked Because I didn't know.
- Really? It was news to you? She look brokenhearted to you? Hardly.
Don't tell me how I feel.
You just told me the man of my dreams was cheating on me.
- Oh, you mean the romance of a lifetime? The fluff that you sell on your website? - Apps for saps.
- In caps.
- I don't need to listen to this.
You knew.
You knew about the affair and you told Thomas Gaffneys.
He told Parker.
Parker blackmailed Hildy to get access to your office.
That makes no sense.
I didn't tell Thomas anything.
- You did.
'Cause you'd tell the man you love everything.
The man I loved? He was suing me.
Parker was.
He was the ruthless one.
You said so yourself.
Thomas was different.
We heard your hesitation The way your voice softened when you spoke his name.
You're wrong.
None of it is true.
You called him that night after meeting with samir to tell him the good news about how you settled the lawsuit.
No.
- You called him from your no-name cell phone, Danielle.
The one you used so PJ wouldn't find out about your affair.
- And that's when Thomas told you that Parker was on his way to break into your offices and that he was gonna try and stop him.
You were gonna meet him there.
But you were too late.
Thomas probably left the door open for you.
We couldn't find a card swipe for your entry, but you entered that office.
And you found Parker standing over the body of the man that you loved.
Isn't that right, Danielle? It's now or never, Danielle.
Oh, God.
- Danielle, you said that you'd pay anything to get back to what you had, that state of grace, the innocence that you felt on the bridge that day.
There's only one way back there.
That starts with the truth.
Everything got So damn complicated.
I understand.
Do you? You called it fluff.
You don't believe love is possible? True love? I want to believe.
Make me believe.
So that's how you felt about Thomas? We were so different.
It didn't seem possible.
ButI loved him.
- Thomas was your real destiny, your true love.
Yes.
So you need to help me Believe that he was your true love, that you would do anything for him.
I would.
Even kill a man? The man who took his life? That you were willing to give everything up that night for Thomas? What did you do, Danielle? I felt I'd lost everything.
Parker said it was my fault, that I turned Thomas against him.
He came at me.
I had to do something.
I grabbed scissors from a desk and I stabbed him.
I'm sorry.
I have to arrest you now, Danielle.
But it was in self defense.
- We'll let a jury sort that out.
I'm sorry.
I was in love with Thomas.
I'm sorry.
True love.
We all want to believe.
You lied to me last week.
I mean, it's okay.
Everybody does.
When did I do it? - Well, you said that these sessions are so that I can get to know about my own mind, but that's not what this is really about.
Because NYPD sent you here? - No, because NYPD is paying you to assess my stability, my temperament, right? - So what you're saying is that I can't really be helping you and evaluating you for that? When you malfunction, I'm trying to find out what happens and when.
Yes, I'm evaluating you, but I'm also trying to help you.
Right now, I think the job is vital to you.
The job gives you structure, sense of purpose.
But you're convinced that it's the only thing that defines you.
You think, without the puzzle, you don't matter.
It's a lie, but it's the only one you've chosen to believe.
Consider this.
If everyone lies, by definition, that has to include you.
And if that's true, there's no way you can trust your own judgment.
Not when you put the job before the man.
There's so much more to you than that.
- Are you gonna take my job away? - I'm gonna tell them that you are more than capable of holding down your job and That you have anger and trust issues that would benefit from further treatment.
- Yeah, well, I've been to anger management.
It only managed to make me angrier.
- But you need to learn how to curb your anger to keep your job.
And it's gonna be hard, but you're smart.
Smart enough to learn how to game yourself.
And I could recommend a couple of therapists.
- What? Recommend? What, you're passing the buck? - No, I didn't mean it like that.
- No, no, no, no.
Look.
I'm not starting with somebody new.
No.
No.
You've gotten to know me.
You know what you're getting into.
You'll be fine.
You're gonna be fine.
Come on.
Oh, I'd thought about the riddle, the doors, the guards.
- One guards heaven, the other, hell.
You have one question to ask.
What will it be? - What will the other guard say if you ask him if his is the door to heaven? Very good.
Same time next week? Okay.
Alex? How'd it go? Good.
A call came in.
D.
O.
A.
At a bank on west 44th street.
The feds are already on their way, but I thought we might want to get there first.
Get there first.
Let's go.
These are their stories.
- Danielle, sweetheart, relax.
Nobody's gonna take your company away from you.
- The Gaffneyss have money, connections.
- And we've got brains and guts.
No trust fund brat gets to swoop in and take away what we've built.
Nice, Rex.
Parker Gaffneys.
Speak of the devil.
- Enjoy yourselves while you can, 'cause the fun train is over.
You're on notice.
Lawyers have been hired and they're locked and loaded.
Guys, we can talk about this.
Those who can't do, sue.
Bring it on, Princeton.
You're a thief, Danielle.
- Okay, now I'm starting to lose my chill.
- A thief in a company of thieves.
Yeah, take a shot.
That'll add, what, another - Guys.
- Sit down, please.
- Parker, forget it.
- Guys, guys, come on.
Rex, what do you need? One douchebag escorted out.
Done.
- You used to be such a nice person, Danielle.
You should see yourself now.
I want her company eviscerated.
- Theft of intellectual property is notoriously difficult to prove.
- That's why your firm was hired.
- Then I need more than your word against hers.
I need evidence to put this over the top.
You bring me a smoking gun.
- When we started this company, it was fun.
How did things get so ugly? - Money changes people, but not us.
We're still the same, right? Yes.
- Look, I don't want the Gaffneyss and that whole nightmare to come between us.
Hey, it's you two! I love your site.
My fiance really loves your site.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Do you see? Us, the company, it wasn't coincidence.
It was destiny.
And the Gaffneyss can't fight that.
- A lawsuit is a huge waste of time.
When you're spitballing ideas, who's to say who came up with what? - That better not be what you say in your deposition.
If you let this girl play you for a fool, you'll be sucking hind teat for the rest of your life.
That's not the Gaffneys way.
- I'm not sure she did play us.
I saw the evidence.
It's hardly definitive.
We could spend years in litigation wasting time and energy that could be spent building our own company.
- You're gonna let these people screw you while you smile and say, "thank you"? Not my son.
Man up, boy.
Fight or die.
Quit being so soft.
- I keep telling you, the old man's right.
Adriano_CSI We got two bodies.
Janitor found them this morning.
The victims are Parker and Thomas Gaffneys.
- 30.
- Brothers? Identical twins.
Well, that's a first for us.
That's Danielle and PJ.
Kizmate.
It's a dating network.
- You're a subscriber? - No.
They are Internet legends.
They turned $12,000 into millions.
That's Parker.
Parker looks like he's got a stab wound through the jugular.
The khakis, that's Thomas.
Thomas we don't know about yet.
- Security cameras in the building? - Yeah, but they shut it down at 7:42 last night.
That's convenient.
We'll need the records on the swipe card access.
Heavy perspiration.
It's an unusual head wound.
Semi-circular.
You see the bruising around the edges? Mmm.
- Brain hemorrhage? - Could be.
The blood trail leads over here.
So Thomas' body was dragged from the area that he was killed.
Eames? Lever's bent.
And, uh, it's consistent to the wound on Thomas' head.
- He was pushed into the pinball machine, maybe during a struggle? Right.
The killer might have been dragging Thomas' body away when Parker showed up.
The killer doubled down.
- I have no idea what the Gaffneyss were doing here.
They didn't work for us.
- But you knew them? - Professionally.
They ran a venture capital firm.
- Were they investors in Kizmate? No.
Then why would they be here? I told you.
I don't know why they were here.
- Maybe they subscribed to your dating service.
We're not a hook-up service.
And we're not Facebook.
We're a networking site dedicated to romantic connectivity.
To Kismet.
- Right, fate, destiny, from the turkish.
- Isn't that how you met your partner? - I had developed an application, but I didn't know what it was good for.
Then two years ago, I dropped my wallet near the gapstow bridge in central park.
PJ found it.
He was cute.
He was wearing a blue knit cap.
But before I could get his name, he was gone.
- So you used your application to blast a message to him, to the boy in the blue cap? Yes.
We've been together ever since.
- And then you turned this into a website? - PJ and I just wanted to give others the chance to make their own happiness.
And now this-this- bad luck.
Or destiny.
I don't know.
I'm just a geek code writer who had one good idea.
That's all.
Danielle magee is a thief.
Kizmate was my boys' idea.
They pitched it to her two years ago.
- We weren't aware of that.
- Thomas had the idea to create an application that allowed people to trace chance encounters.
He and Parker met with Danielle to develop it.
My boys.
- We're very sorry for your loss.
- You fenced with your son? Thomas or Parker? - Uh, Parker.
Thomas enjoyed more benign pursuits.
Right.
Different personalities.
Yes.
You know, miss magee, she told us that she came up with the Kizmate application on her own.
- No, maybe the mechanics of it, but it was my sons' idea.
Then she ran with it all the way to the bank.
They were suing her.
- Did you see or speak with your sons last night? - I had dinner with Thomas at the university club.
- Did he mention going to the Kizmate office later? - No, but he did get a phone call after 10:00.
Uh, he said he had to leave.
Some business emergency.
"Business emergency.
" Who else would know what that might have been? - Their business partner, samir doss, he would know.
- No, I don't know what emergency Thomas was talking about, and no, I have no idea why he and Parker were at the Kizmate office.
- But you do have an idea about the lawsuit.
- Two years ago, we approached Danielle to write code for our site.
We had a couple of meetings.
She seemed decent, honest Very smart.
Six months later, she launched Kizmate.
Our idea.
You confronted her? - We asked for a fair share- tens of millions of dollars she didn't want to pay.
- Any chance she might have arranged to meet with the Gaffneyss last night to discuss a settlement? - Well, I'd like to think they wouldn't meet her without telling me first.
- But she knew that you were suing her? Most definitely.
Two nights ago, I was with Parker and we ran into Danielle at a nightclub.
He told her our lawyers were locked and loaded.
That's how Parker talked.
- I didn't say anything about the lawsuit because my lawyer said not to mention it to anyone.
- Uh, no, see, we're not "anyone.
" We're the police, and the two men who were suing you were found murdered in your offices.
Really? You think I killed them with my bare hands? - You? Those two big guys? No.
- All the same, where were you last night? I was at home.
- With me From 10:00 on.
We were watching videos on the net.
You have a cap.
You're the guy in the posters.
My boyfriend, PJ Edwards.
You work here? - PJ's on our board of directors.
- So you're a member of the board, so you're being sued as well? - Come on, you guys don't seriously think we have anything to do with this? - Thing is, girlfriend and boyfriend alibiing each other, that doesn't impress us.
You and Parker Gaffneys had words a couple nights ago at a nightclub.
Parker's a hothead.
What about you, PJ? Are you a hothead? What do I have to do with this? Well, your girlfriend here doesn't look like the type to go to a nightclub on her own.
You probably went with her, got into it with Parker Gaffneys.
I was there with Rex Tamlyn.
Oh, who is Mr.
Tamlyn? He's a partner in Kizmate.
Our principal business strategist.
- And another name to party in the lawsuit? Sorry, vips only.
- We're on the list.
- Guess you are.
- We're looking for Rex Tamlyn.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Am-scray, ladies.
We need some face time with Mr.
Tamlyn.
- It's okay.
It's all right.
I know what this is about.
The Gaffneys brothers? Horrible what happened.
- Yeah, you seem really broken up about it.
Hey, I mean I barely knew 'em.
- Excuse me.
But they knew you.
They were suing you.
Sorry, excuse me.
- Yeah, completely without merit.
They're just looking for a payout from Danielle.
It's my job to protect her, all right? She's brilliant, but she's into Kismet.
I'm into cash.
By any means necessary.
We looked you up.
Your last Internet venture was interactive porn? - Uh, please.
Virtual eroticism.
It's all about packaging.
It was my idea to have Danielle and PJ as the poster kids for Kizmate.
- What better way to prove that Kismet works? Exactly.
- Well, here's some more Kismet.
Two nights ago, Parker Gaffneys rolls up on you and Danielle, threatened you, and then last night, he and his brother end up dead in your office.
- And I'm the only guy in this city Parker Gaffneys had a beef with? Listen, I- not to speak ill of the dead, but the guy had a major chip on his shoulder.
- You know, we keep hearing that.
What about his brother Thomas? Thomas? Thomas had nothing to prove.
Thomas had made millions off his own ideas.
Dollars to donuts, Parker was the one behind that lawsuit.
- Thanks for the insight, but we still need to know where you were last night.
- Right here, ass on leather.
You can ask Billy the owner.
Hell, ask the girls.
I was here till last call.
Listen, I don't know who killed the Gaffneys brothers, but it wasn't me.
That lawsuit was nothing.
They had no proof of anything.
Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna hit the dance floor.
Care to join? Pass.
- Aww.
Your loss.
- Maybe that's what the Gaffneyss were looking for- proof Danielle stole their idea.
- Maybe what Parker was looking for.
Under arms.
Sweat.
I'd really like to dance, you know? We should call Rodgers.
I was looking out for you.
By lying to the police? - Well, I knew you were home, so why not just stop the cops right there? I know where I was.
Where were you? Okay.
Fine.
I'll call the cops right now and tell them I lied, and you went along with it.
Hmm? I'm just trying to keep us together, Danielle.
- Well, even though I kick myself every time I say this, you were right.
I found Thomas Gaffneys's deodorant on Parker Gaffneys's hands.
Sweat mixed with antiperspirant.
Sweat from Thomas's armpits? - So Parker grabbed his brother under the arms, dragged him away from the pinball machine The pinball machine where he killed him.
Wha-I beg your pardon? Twin number one killed twin number two? We think.
- Well, so much for brotherly love.
One killer down.
One more to go.
I know about what a kin is able but someone killing their twin? According to witnesses, Parker was the fire-breather in the family.
The lawsuit was his idea.
So was probably breaking into Kizmate.
- Thomas, he got a call while he was having dinner with his father from a no-name cell phone.
That might have been Parker telling him what he was about to do.
Thomas went and tried to stop him.
- And push came to shove and Thomas ended up taking a header into the pinball machine? Something like that.
Thomas didn't die right away.
- Parker would have noticed that he was still alive.
He wouldn't abandon his brother.
- But he didn't want to call 911 while they were still in the offices of Kizmate.
Right.
So he tried to get his brother outside, you know, down on the street, call for help.
- That's what he was doing when he ran into whoever killed him.
So you have three suspects.
- Three people who stood to lose big if the Gaffneyss won their lawsuit.
- That's assuming that the lawsuit has merit, that this girl did indeed steal the Gaffneyss' idea.
- That's what we think Parker Gaffneys was looking for-proof.
- Well, why don't you finish what he started? - At our first meeting with Danielle, Parker and Thomas were spitballing their idea for the site.
Danielle got this excited look on her face and started scribbling in a yellow notepad.
- It's a complex mathematical algorithm she had a moment of inspiration.
- She tore the page from the yellow pad, but her pen left an indentation on the page below it.
We had a handwriting expert verify it.
It's proof that she came up with the algorithm for the application during that meeting.
It's not enough.
You needed to prove that this algorithm was the basis for Kizmate.
The only way to find that was by hacking into their main computer.
- I'm sure that's what Parker was hoping to do that night.
- We'll need a copy of this doodle.
It's better late than never.
Building security tracked a swipe card entry into the Kizmate offices at 10:12 P.
M.
Card belonging to a Kizmate employee.
One Hildy Whitmore.
- I didn't give my card to anybody.
I lost it or somebody stole it.
I don't-I don't know.
Okay, we buy that.
So I can leave? Not quite.
So you're a secretary at Kizmate? I'm Danielle's assistant.
Oh, you're an assistant.
That's long hours, I bet.
We checked your work station.
You logged off your computer at 7:36 the night of the murders.
- Like you said, long hours.
Hmm.
You were there all alone just holding the fort down.
Danielle counts on me.
That's ironic.
It is ironic.
- Ironic, because six minutes later, someone turned off the security cameras.
And since you were the only one in the fort- - you think I helped those Gaffneys creeps break into our offices? Why would I do that? Money, for starters.
You don't understand.
I've worked for Danielle for a year.
She gave me shares in Kizmate.
Why would I want to help people who want to take down the company? I know, right? That's a good question.
Why would you? You know what? I'm not under arrest, so I'm leaving.
Pants on fire? Totally.
- I don't like it, Rex.
- Trust me.
You keep saying that.
Listen If you know what's good for you, for all of us, you will keep your mouth shut.
- There it is, right there in the Kizmate source code.
The same algorithm that was on that piece of paper.
- It doesn't look the same.
- Oh, sorry.
Let me express it as an algorithm.
Better? Hmm.
- I had to patch it together by breaking down the Kizmate app and searching their offline archives.
So there's the proof.
Danielle came up with this idea in the Gaffneyss' office.
They had a case.
- Danielle had reason to be worried.
- Danielle and the other two musketeers, PJ and Rex.
What if Hildy had second thoughts about helping the Gaffneyss? What if she told Danielle what the Gaffneyss were up to? - Danielle might have gone to her office that night with her musketeers to deal with Parker Gaffneys.
- Hildy, I need the p&l from last quarter.
I got to go.
Miss magee, you mind? We need a few minutes with you.
- But I'm in the middle of a meeting.
We won't take long.
- I don't know what more I can tell you.
- It's not about telling.
It's about explaining.
- We found the algorithm in your source code.
So the Gaffneyss, they weren't lying.
You stole the idea from them.
No.
- You found out Parker was breaking into your office.
You came here to stop him.
That's not true.
I didn't kill anybody.
We need to talk to you.
She's telling the truth.
Danielle was with me the night of the murder.
We were together all night.
Now that's Kismet.
What I said all night, I didn't mean it in a sexual way.
Right.
It's an American idiom.
Yes.
What I meant was Danielle and I met at the cherry Lane tavern on the lower east side from 8:00 to 2:00 A.
M.
Six hours? So if you weren't having sex, what were you doing? Working on a settlement.
Only Parker wanted the lawsuit.
I was the peacemaker.
I offered Danielle a deal.
- Why didn't you tell us that before? - Because I didn't think it had anything to do with Parker and Thomas' deaths.
- Did they know about the settlement? No.
I wanted Danielle on board first and then I was gonna tell them in the morning.
But it was too late.
- I lied about PJ because I had to keep the settlement secret.
I was trying to save my company.
But I swear I was at the cherry tavern.
Samir is telling the truth.
- He's got about as much credibility as you right now.
Why would samir lie for me? - I can think of a million reasons.
The lawsuit's still on.
If he can keep you out of jail long enough to sign off on this settlement, he stands to win big.
- The settlement I proposed was more than fair.
The twins and I would receive and a percentage of royalties based on sales.
- All right, which at the current valuation of the company comes- $37 million.
A drop in the bucket for Danielle.
- Right, and worth it to her to avoid the bad publicity of a lawsuit.
- In business, sometimes you win by surrendering.
Or lying.
I wonder how much the shares of Kizmate would be worth if the CEO was in jail.
I'm not protecting Danielle.
- Yeah, see, 'cause it just occurred to me that by alibiing her, you're alibiing yourself.
Why would I need an alibi? Twins out of the way.
You gain most from the settlement.
That's motive.
- What? I murdered- are you insane? - The jury's still out on that one.
That's it.
I'm calling my attorney.
- Your company is worth millions.
You would say anything to protect that.
- I didn't care about the money.
I never did.
I just wanted to write code, be creative, have fun, to enjoy my life with PJ.
- The Gaffneys twins were trying to spoil your dream.
That must have made you angry.
It was all Parker.
He was ruthless.
Not Thomas? No.
Thomas too.
- I thought you barely knew them.
I don't.
I was ready to settle.
I would have paid anything to have my old life back, to have everything the way it was.
Just me and PJ.
- You were making a deal with samir and you weren't gonna tell me? - I was, but- - I lied to the cops for you! - Whoa, guys, guys! Let's chill out, okay? - You still haven't told me where you were that night.
- Oh, you're interrogating me now? This is ridiculous.
- Oh, PJ! God, I hate this! I hate the company! I hate this life! - All right, listen! You guys can bitch at each other all you want, but let's not forget why we're here in the first place, huh? Kismet, baby! People believe in it.
So you better keep living it.
- Samir closed out his tab at the cherry tavern at 11:30.
It proves he was there, but not necessarily with Danielle.
Why would he lie? - He made a deal with her that could put 40 million bucks in his pocket.
It's worth nothing if she's in jail.
- But even so, if Danielle made a settlement with samir, I don't see her having a motive to stab Parker Gaffneys in the neck.
Agreed? Sure.
She had no financial motive.
- Good.
So who did? Danielle's partners were in the dark about this settlement? Apparently.
So which one? Granola boy or the ex-pornographer? The ex-pornographer.
I owe him a dance.
- Uh, yeah, I mean, I told you guys I wasn't here that night.
I'm hardly ever here.
Well, you're here now.
Turns out, your buddies at the club, Billy and the ladies, they can't remember if you were there or not.
Uh, great.
So now I have to prove a negative? Well, it'd be a lot easier if all your friends weren't cokeheads.
Looks like you have a pretty nasty habit yourself.
- What are you, my father? - No, I'm a concerned citizen with a badge.
You know that stuff impairs your judgment, right? It makes you erratic.
Aggressive.
- Also makes you highly sexualized.
You know Hildy, Danielle's assistant.
You know, she was here that night.
- Oh, okay.
Well, great.
Then she can tell you that I wasn't.
- She's too scared to say much of anything.
She's pretty good-looking.
Don't you think, Rex? Maybe you figured you'd have a go at her that night.
- Maybe you turned off the security cameras so Danielle couldn't see your bare butt bouncing around her office.
- Where do you guys come up with this stuff? Experience.
- And then after that, you curled up to have a nap.
- But you were woken up by a ruckus and you found Parker Gaffneys dragging his dead brother.
- All that marching powder up your nose, you went after Parker.
- With scissors.
That's what the autopsy showed.
Very good.
Very good.
Only problem is it didn't happen.
Wasn't me.
- Then who, Rex? Who did it? - I don't know.
I don't- but, but all that stuff about Hildy and the security cameras is pure fantasy and I can prove it.
And I'll show you right now.
Come on.
I had the security system installed with a secret feature.
Here, you see the cupid, the bellybutton? - Let me guess.
It's a camera.
Yes, exactly.
So anytime the system is shut down, the camera takes one last shot of the security room.
- It takes a picture of whoever turns off the system.
Who else knows about it? Just me and Danielle.
Maybe she told Hildy.
So let's see.
So last Tuesday night.
Here we go.
Great camera work.
- No, it's blocked by something.
Yeah.
Open-weave pattern like a sweater, blue.
A blue knit cap.
It's crap.
Have a seat.
Lying to the police is serious business.
I find it very annoying, yourCap.
I mean, you don't see anybody else wearing caps or hats or anything else silly in here, do you? This is one police Plaza.
Have some respect.
Uh Look at this.
The perfect hat rack for a cap.
Don't you agree? - I don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, okay.
I'm talking about this.
Your cap over the camera.
Tuesday night, 7:42.
What were you doing in those offices you didn't anyone to see? - You can't prove that's my cap.
- I bet she can prove that it's your cap and a lot more.
You and Hildy Is that Kismet or, you know, hormones? You want a soda? No, I just- oh, I forgot to tell you.
We asked your friend to come in too.
Oh, God.
- If you want to say hi, you can just wave or- oh, God.
Am I in a lot of trouble? - Yes, sweetie, you are in a lot of trouble.
- I'm not a big believer in Kismet either, you know? It's bound to fade.
I mean, two people in a relationship forever and exclusion with all others, I mean, it's against our nature.
I mean, that kind of possessiveness is not what assured us our survival when we were out there, you know, foraging on the Savannah.
Ah-la-la-la-la! What do you think? You and Danielle on the posters.
That was a dream, right? It's real.
- Yeah, I think that that woman out there would have a different opinion.
Come on, PJ.
What happened in those offices that night? Okay.
Well, I'll just get it out of her.
Well, that's it.
I got everything.
Oh, God.
So you and PJ? Yes.
For the past two months.
PJ told me that he and Danielle hadn't slept in the same bed in months.
- You and PJ'd hook up at the office? Only when I had to work late.
PJ knew how to turn off the security cameras so nobody'd know.
- And Tuesday night? - Yeah, same thing.
Um, but we left around 8:30.
- Are you sure about that, Hildy? Yes.
PJ wanted to hang out more, but But I knew Parker Gaffneys was gonna be there later.
- You knew because you'd given him the swipe card? Yes.
I had no choice.
He blackmailed me.
How'd he do that? - He knew that PJ and I were He threatened to tell Danielle.
I own shares in the company.
I would have lost everything.
How did he know? Did he say? - I don't know.
He just knew.
- I told you, I didn't know anything about the break-in.
- You just happened to have settlement talks with Danielle that same night Parker was breaking into her offices? - Got to admit that's a big coincidence.
Maybe so.
I just wish I worked out the settlement sooner.
- No, see, you're gonna wish you stopped lying to us sooner.
- I'm sure an obstruction charge will impress the investment banks that you deal with.
All right.
Maybe I had an inkling of what Parker was up to, but I advised him against it.
That counts.
- Parker blackmailed Danielle's assistant Hildy to giving him an access card.
Did you know about that? Yes.
Parker said his scheme was foolproof.
- Parker knew that Hildy was sleeping with Danielle's boyfriend? Yes.
- How did Parker know that? Hmm? - Well, I think Thomas told him.
I have no idea how Thomas knew.
- I want you to send a text for me on your cell phone.
Hello.
See, now I know why you fell in love on this bridge.
Sure is romantic.
Where's samir? He sent me a message.
We did, from his phone.
- I see.
I'm leaving.
We know about the affair.
PJ and Hildy.
Hildy told us all about it.
They did the deed that Tuesday night right in there at Kizmate.
- That's why PJ turned off the security cameras, 'cause he didn't want you to find out about him and Hildy.
Well, it worked Because I didn't know.
- Really? It was news to you? She look brokenhearted to you? Hardly.
Don't tell me how I feel.
You just told me the man of my dreams was cheating on me.
- Oh, you mean the romance of a lifetime? The fluff that you sell on your website? - Apps for saps.
- In caps.
- I don't need to listen to this.
You knew.
You knew about the affair and you told Thomas Gaffneys.
He told Parker.
Parker blackmailed Hildy to get access to your office.
That makes no sense.
I didn't tell Thomas anything.
- You did.
'Cause you'd tell the man you love everything.
The man I loved? He was suing me.
Parker was.
He was the ruthless one.
You said so yourself.
Thomas was different.
We heard your hesitation The way your voice softened when you spoke his name.
You're wrong.
None of it is true.
You called him that night after meeting with samir to tell him the good news about how you settled the lawsuit.
No.
- You called him from your no-name cell phone, Danielle.
The one you used so PJ wouldn't find out about your affair.
- And that's when Thomas told you that Parker was on his way to break into your offices and that he was gonna try and stop him.
You were gonna meet him there.
But you were too late.
Thomas probably left the door open for you.
We couldn't find a card swipe for your entry, but you entered that office.
And you found Parker standing over the body of the man that you loved.
Isn't that right, Danielle? It's now or never, Danielle.
Oh, God.
- Danielle, you said that you'd pay anything to get back to what you had, that state of grace, the innocence that you felt on the bridge that day.
There's only one way back there.
That starts with the truth.
Everything got So damn complicated.
I understand.
Do you? You called it fluff.
You don't believe love is possible? True love? I want to believe.
Make me believe.
So that's how you felt about Thomas? We were so different.
It didn't seem possible.
ButI loved him.
- Thomas was your real destiny, your true love.
Yes.
So you need to help me Believe that he was your true love, that you would do anything for him.
I would.
Even kill a man? The man who took his life? That you were willing to give everything up that night for Thomas? What did you do, Danielle? I felt I'd lost everything.
Parker said it was my fault, that I turned Thomas against him.
He came at me.
I had to do something.
I grabbed scissors from a desk and I stabbed him.
I'm sorry.
I have to arrest you now, Danielle.
But it was in self defense.
- We'll let a jury sort that out.
I'm sorry.
I was in love with Thomas.
I'm sorry.
True love.
We all want to believe.
You lied to me last week.
I mean, it's okay.
Everybody does.
When did I do it? - Well, you said that these sessions are so that I can get to know about my own mind, but that's not what this is really about.
Because NYPD sent you here? - No, because NYPD is paying you to assess my stability, my temperament, right? - So what you're saying is that I can't really be helping you and evaluating you for that? When you malfunction, I'm trying to find out what happens and when.
Yes, I'm evaluating you, but I'm also trying to help you.
Right now, I think the job is vital to you.
The job gives you structure, sense of purpose.
But you're convinced that it's the only thing that defines you.
You think, without the puzzle, you don't matter.
It's a lie, but it's the only one you've chosen to believe.
Consider this.
If everyone lies, by definition, that has to include you.
And if that's true, there's no way you can trust your own judgment.
Not when you put the job before the man.
There's so much more to you than that.
- Are you gonna take my job away? - I'm gonna tell them that you are more than capable of holding down your job and That you have anger and trust issues that would benefit from further treatment.
- Yeah, well, I've been to anger management.
It only managed to make me angrier.
- But you need to learn how to curb your anger to keep your job.
And it's gonna be hard, but you're smart.
Smart enough to learn how to game yourself.
And I could recommend a couple of therapists.
- What? Recommend? What, you're passing the buck? - No, I didn't mean it like that.
- No, no, no, no.
Look.
I'm not starting with somebody new.
No.
No.
You've gotten to know me.
You know what you're getting into.
You'll be fine.
You're gonna be fine.
Come on.
Oh, I'd thought about the riddle, the doors, the guards.
- One guards heaven, the other, hell.
You have one question to ask.
What will it be? - What will the other guard say if you ask him if his is the door to heaven? Very good.
Same time next week? Okay.
Alex? How'd it go? Good.
A call came in.
D.
O.
A.
At a bank on west 44th street.
The feds are already on their way, but I thought we might want to get there first.
Get there first.
Let's go.