在刑法系统里 NARRATOR：in the criminaI justice system
两个职能不同但同等重要的机构 the peopie are represented
代表人民行使权力 by two separate yet equaiiy important groups,
警察负责调查罪案 the poiice who investigate crime
检察官对罪犯提起诉讼 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
以下就是他们的故事 These are their stories.
那是雨刮电机 爱因斯坦 看看这个 That's the motor for the wipers, Einstein. Check that one there.
在这 肯定是那个 把小刀给我 Here, this has got to be it. Give me the knife.
你瞎说什么啊 这个才是点火器 What are you talking about? This is the starter.
剪这里 So cut the wire here.
这是你们的车吗 This your car?
不是啦 我们只是停下帮忙 我想可能是里面的插头坏了 No. We just stopped to help. I think it's a bad plug.
这车的主人呢 So where's the owner of this boat?
我们不知道 它就停在这里 We don't know. it was just sitting there.
那是一定了 快 Of course it was. Come on,
把手放到车顶我能看到的地方 hands on the hood where I can see them.
嘿 别紧张 我们只是想帮忙而已 我发誓 Hey, take it easy! We were just trying to heip. I swear to God.
我们正要把它拖去修理呢 We were going to take it to the pound.
这是2-7C巡逻车 地点是西界59街大桥 This is 2-7-Chariie, location, 59th Street Bridge, westbound,
情况代号10-15 发现疑似被盗车辆 signal, 10-15, possibie stolen vehicle.
我们可什么也没偷 那车就抛锚停在那里 We didn't even steal nothing. The car was here, broken down.
司机一定是跑去找拖车了 The driver must have gone and went to get a tow truck.
对 是啊 Yeah, right.
而且还把钥匙落在车里了是吧 And he ieft the keys on the floor?
奔驰车登记车主是Laura Madsen 地址是格兰姆西公园大道135号 The Benz is registered to a Laura Madsen, 135 Gramercy Park.
我们打电话过去了 是一个叫Steve Martell的男人接的电话 We called the house. Phone was answered by a Steve Martell.
自称是Madsen夫人的丈夫 identified himseif as Ms. Madsen's husband.
他说他当时正在睡觉 He said he was asleep,
不知道妻子在哪里 and that he doesn't know where his wife is.
凌晨两点还不知道 2:00 a.M.?
不错的婚姻啊 Nice marriage.
嘿 你去旁边加油站查过了吗 Hey, you checked the gas stations?
桥两边都查了 没见Madsen夫人 Both sides of the bridge. No Ms. Madsen.
无论如何 奔驰车启动良好 油箱也是半满的 Anyway, the Benz started up just fine. Tank is haif full.
谢谢 哥们 Thanks, bud.
Messieurs Gaydos and Dwyer.
一对带着大手电出来吹吹晚风的主儿 A couple of high-beams out taking the night air.
以为在七月遇到圣诞礼物了 Thought they found Christmas in July,
只知道想着怎么拆线打火 only they tried to hot-wire the
却不知道在车里地板找找钥匙 car instead of iooking for the keys on the floor.
看来在斯波福德少管所没学到什么啊 They didn't teach you much at Spofford.
你看 那女人的鞋子和夹克 You know, the woman's shoes
都还在车子前座上呢 and jacket were still in the front seat.
可能是被人掳走了 Could be somebody grabbed her.
或者 她是来了个女子单人跳水 Or she did a solo act.
嘿 打电话给港务局 我们需要潜水员 Hey, calI the Harbor Unit, we're going to need divers.
跳东河 East River.
我宁愿吃一枪 i'd rather eat a gun.
我不敢相信 I just can't beiieve this.
我是说 你们肯定没有什么人看见她吗 I mean, are you sure that nobody has seen her?
仍未有人见到她 Martell先生 No one has seen her yet, Mr. Martell.
昨夜她有告诉你她要出去吗 Did she tell you she was going out last night?
我回家比较晚 当时刚忙完95街上的工作 I came home iate. I was finishing a job up on 95th.
我是个粉刷承包商 i'm a painting contractor.
然后在河东的吉比餐厅停下来 Then I stopped off at Gibby's on the East Side.
我猜大概是夜里一点回来的吧 I guess I got home around 1 :00.
她没在家 我当时想她可能还在工作 She wasn't here, and I just figured she was working.
那她会在那里呢 And where would that be?
麦迪逊街的Madsen印刷公司 她的家族企业 Madsen Pubiishing on Madison. Her famiiy owns it.
我向那里打了电话 她也不在 然后我就 I called over there, and she wasn't there, and I...
我等了等她 然后就睡着了 I waited up for her and I fell asleep.
你妻子最近表现的烦躁吗 Has your wife been upset lately?
和平时一样 Just the usual.
在出版公司工作 你知道 Work at the book company, you know,
那是Maggie的祖父母留下来的 Maggie's grades,
但我没想到会发生这种事 but I didn't see this coming.
我们现在下定论可能过早了 it's very possibie we jumped the gun.
不 我是说 这也是说得过去的 No. I mean... No, it does make sense.
她以前这样做过 She did this before.
三 四年前 我认识她之前 她这样做过一次 Three or four years ago, before I knew her.
她一直在看心理医生 She's been going to see a shrink.
她有没有可能和比人说起过 Is there anybody else she
朋友啊 亲戚啊之类的 might have talked to? A friend, a relative?
我 我不知道 I don't... I don't know.
我是说 我们就是她的家人 Maggie和我 I mean, we're her family. Maggie and me.
我还是不能相信这是真的 I just can't believe this is happening.
我在爱丽斯图里音乐厅参加学校的音乐会 I was at a school concert at Aiice Tuily Hail.
当我回到家时 When I got home,
妈妈看上去还好 Mom looked okay.
她说过她要出去吗 Did she say anything about going out?
没有 No.
她就问了我一下音乐会的事 She just asked me about the concert.
然后我大概九点半就上床了 And then I went to bed around 9:30.
妈妈想让我们用这个 Mom wants us to use these.
家里当时有别人吗 佣人之类的 Was anybody else around then? A maid?
Theresa女佣晚上六点就回家了 Theresa goes home at 6:00.
家里只有妈妈和我 it was just Mom and me.
我只是希望她还活着 I just want her to be alive.
对啊 她开车去皇后区 Yeah, right. She drives to Queens,
绕了一圈 然后把头探出桥外是吧 turns around, and then takes a header off the bridge?
也学她想欣赏下布朗克斯地区的景色 Maybe she wanted to go with a view of the Bronx.
这不对 没有留下只字片语 it doesn't add up. There's no note.
人们退房时 也不一定要和你说拜拜啊 People check out. They don't always say goodbye.
她有个17岁的女儿呀 She had a 17-year-old daughter.
我觉得这个时间她还是会挤出来的 I'd like to think she'd make the time.
除非是有人 催命 啊 Unless somebody is rushing her.
Laura Madsen是曼迪逊印刷的唯一继承人 Laura Madsen is the sole heir to Madsen Pubiishing.
价值五千万美元 Fifty miiiion bucks.
你们有觉得是绑架的证据吗 You see evidence of a kidnapping?
没有强行入内的迹象 车里也很干净 There's no forced entry. The car is clean.
除非你收到了什么心灵感应信息 否则到现在还没收到赎金要求 And, unless you're getting psychic messages, no ransom demand.
你不可能个人都了解 Unless there's none we know about.
有时候家里人不想我们来处理绑架案啊 Sometimes families feel better when we're not invoived.
这女人有过自杀经历 This lady has done a dry run before.
也许这次她做对了呢 Now maybe this time she got it right.
和她的心理医生谈谈 看她是否认为是有可能再次自杀 Talk to her shrink. See if she was thinking about an encore.
Laura Madsen不是想自杀的人 Laura Madsen is not a candidate for suicide.
她太爱女儿 不会抛弃她的 She's too dedicated to her daughter to abandon her.
打住 我们听说过她是有自杀史的 Well, now, hold on, because we heard she had a history.
四年前 她服用了24毫克的氢吗啡酮（镇痛剂） Four years ago, she took 24 milligrams of Dilaudid.
不足以致命 Not enough to kill herself.
她腰痛 她按照处方量服药 She had back pain. She took the prescribed dose.
她说过了一会她忘记已吃过药 就又吃了一次 She said later she forgot and took another one.
但她看上去仍然不是个快乐的人啊 Still, she doesn't sound like the happiest kid on the block.
她的父母已去世 弟弟也死于艾滋病 Her parents were gone. She'd lost her younger brother to AIDS.
她觉得自己很容易受伤 She felt very vulnerable.
她特别专注于她的女儿 She was especiaiiy concerned about her daughter.
为什么 有什么问题吗 Why? Were there problems?
Laura只是非常怕她出事 Laura was just very afraid for her.
她不想Maggie经历她所曾经历过的 She didn't want Maggie to go through what she went through.
不健康的交往关系 药物滥用 Bad reiationships, a drug addiction.
对 你能具体告诉我她滥用哪种药物吗 Yeah, can you tell me specifically what kind of drugs?
就像我刚说的 镇痛药 As I said, painkillers.
但是在她丈夫的帮助下 她克服了 But she overcame that problem with her husband's help.
他非常有能力 He's a very strong presence.
她觉得有这样的男人很幸运 She felt fortunate to have a man like him.
她以前被烧过吗 Had she been burned before?
Victor Conner 是Maggie的亲生父亲 Victor Conner. Maggie's father.
我没法告诉你什么细节 但是他真是把她害的很惨 I can't give you any details, but he put her through hell.
他们现在还有联系吗 Are they still in touch?
他们每月至少见一次面 They see each other at least once a month
都是Laura开车带Maggie去Conner先生在皇后区的家 when Laura drives to Mr.Conner's home in Queens.
太可怕了 it's horrible.
我不敢相信都发生了些什么 I can't imagine what happened.
你几点钟和她打电话的 What time did you talk to her?
呃 应该是9点之前 Well, it must have been just before 9:00.
她打电话来的 她以为Maggie在我这里 She called. She thought Maggie was here.
你女儿告诉我们她当时在一个音乐会上 Your daughter told us she was at a concert.
She was probably three nanoseconds late getting home.
Not to speak iii,
but iaura is the mother of aiI mother hens.
We argued about that.
I beiieve Maggie shouid be aiiowed to express herseif.
Chiidrearing? is that what your divorce was about?
iord, no.
Marriage didn't bring out the best in us.
But that's aiI in the past. Mr. Conner,
you have no idea why your
ex-wife's car was found coming from Queens?
i'm sorry, I don't. And you were home aiI evening?
Yes. I was waiting for a car to ia Guardia.
I had an 1 1 :30 fiight to Boston.
I had an eariy morning meeting with an author.
You do books, too, huh?
Yes. At Madsen Pubiishing.
My office is just two fioors beiow iaura's.
See, it was aiI very amicabie.
Mr. Conner was fiattering himseif.
He keeps an office here. Part of the divorce settiement.
iast year he put out a coffee-tabie book on vintage cognac.
Weii, if I had to work with one of my exes aiI day...
Oh, they didn't work together.
iaura handies new fiction.
Seven tities this year,
inciuding two on the shortiist for the Puiitzer.
She has great intuition.
Weii, how's her intuition about husbands iike Victor Conner.
Ms. Kessier,
if you have anything to say
about their reiationship, now is the time to do it.
Weii, iaura never compiained,
but she came in one day, before the divorce.
She had a bandage on her iip. Her cheek was bruised.
Yeah, iet me guess, she ran into a fiying coffee-tabie book?
Mr. Conner was a no-show for a week.
Draw your own conciusions. iOGAN: Okay.
After the divorce?
Weii, sometimes i'd pass this office.
The door was ciosed, but you couid hear them from down the haii.
What did you hear?
Weii, iast week it was about some paper she wanted him to sign.
i'm not sure what. Something iegai.
iaura was concerned about Maggie's grades.
She wanted her to do a year at a schooI in Switzeriand.
But the custody agreement
stipuiates that Maggie can't ieave the state
without Conner's approvai, which wasn't forthcoming.
What, Conner figures his signature is worth a few bucks?
Tack on six zeros, then you get the idea.
it was pure biackmaii. iaura was incensed,
and I toid her to iet me handie it.
Did she take your advice?
Not in matters that affect Maggie.
iaura couid be ferocious.
I have to ask. is Victor Conner a suspect?
Weii, untiI we find a body,
we don't reaiiy know that anybody did anything.
You know, we had the S.O.B. Arrested.
We heard a rumor that he hit her.
Rumor? Maybe you shouid hear this for yourseif.
Eioise, wouid you bring
in the cassette in the Victor Conner fiie?
it's the 91 1 caiI iaura made.
iAURA. Piease hurry! He's coming up the stairs.
i'm in the bathroom, my daughter is with me.
MAN. Ma'am, there is a patroI car in your sector now.
ViCTOR. What are you doing iocking the damn door?
iaura, open the door!
Victor, i'm taiking to the poiice.
Maggie, don't open the door! Get away.
Ma'am, teiI him the poiice are on the way. MAGGiE. Daddy, stop!
He's drunk. He doesn't give a damn.
Victor, if you come in here... Just open the door!
I can hear a siren!
Don't... Give me that phone!
So, he pied noio to misdemeanor assauit.
Hundred hours of community service.
But get this, he hosted a charity tennis tournament.
And the night iaura Madsen disappeared?
iUDs confirm one 10-minute
caiI from her house to Conner's at 8:55.
Then, two hours iater, he's got the iimo ride to the airport.
Yeah, Gramercy Park to Forest Hiiis Gardens,
that's about a haif an hour, right?
She goes there to ream his butt over the papers for the giri.
Conner is up to his eyebaiis in vintage cognac.
This time, iaura Madsen can't diaI 91 1 fast enough.
And he ieaves her car on the bridge to fake a suicide?
Doesn't give him much time to get back for the iimo ride.
Mr. Conner is a reguiar account. Short rides to ia Guardia.
He iikes to be picked up 45 minutes before fiight time.
Two nights ago, everything on scheduie? No, hardiy.
I get there at quarter to, ring the beii, there's no Mr. Conner.
He's usuaiiy waiting in the haiI with his bags.
What time did he show? I caiied him on my ceiiuiar.
First time, I got his machine. Second time, I got him.
He said he'd be right down. That was just after 1 1 :00.
The whoie time you were parked out front,
did you see anybody go in or out?
No, I couidn't say.
I was doing a puzzie and watching the ciock.
So did Conner say why he was iate?
Yeah, iike he thinks it's any of my business.
AiI he toid me was to hauI ass to the airport.
it's cutting it ciose, but it fits the time frame.
Yeah, and then he puts the
body in the wine ceiiar whiie he fiies to Boston.
He couid have ditched it on the way to the bridge.
You heard the tape, iennie. The guy smeiis right.
Why, because he's got country ciub written aiI over him?
No, because he iikes money, and with the ex out of the picture,
who gets custody of Maggie and her 50 miiiion friends?
Yes? No, i'm waiting!
iook, if Mom drove over to Dad's in the middie of the night,
don't you think Maggie'd know about it? Maybe she did.
On the tape, Maggie was gonna iet Conner in.
She was 13, she was scared.
iook, when Mom wants to find Maggie,
where's the first piace she's gonna iook?
Dad's. Heiio. Yes.
Okay, we'iI be right down. And notify Steve Martell.
They found her.
iaura.
That's... That's iaura.
Weii, now we've got a body.
Mom never said that she was going to Dad's.
Maggie, this is very important. I know,
but she didn't say.
Maggie, if she mentioned anything about your father that night,
you have to teiI them.
We didn't taik about him. I swear.
Did you taik about why
he wasn't ietting you go to schooI in Switzeriand?
Because he knew that I didn't want to go.
That's the reason.
We heard the argument was about money.
So you think that's why he kiiied Mom? To get her money?
i'm afraid we have to consider everything. Dad's not iike that.
He cares about what I want.
Anyway, no one can touch that money.
it's in my trust fund untiI i'm 30 years oid.
Cause of death is an intracerebraI hematoma
caused by a fracture of the right temporaI bone.
Your basic biow to the head.
Any chance she got it doing a haif gainer off a bridge?
You mean by hitting a piiing?
A body acceierates at 32 feet per second, per second.
Over 200 feet, speed at impact is 68 mph.
Haif her skuiI wouid be missing.
Sorry we asked.
I iooked at the iungs. No sigh of hypoxemia, no ateiectasis,
no surfactant ioss, i.E. No drowning.
This woman was dead before she hit the water.
The past two days, we've had siack tides and siow currents.
She goes in off the bridge, we're going to find her mid-river
just up from the Wiiiiamsburg.
What if she was dumped on the Queen's side, iike Hunters Point?
Weii, she might get as far as Waiiabout Bay.
But to end up on our side she'd have to catch a ferry.
Meaning she started out in Manhattan.
I put her going in about here.
Between 1 4th and 23rd.
Not my choice for an afternoon swim.
So, uniess Conner keeps a speedboat in Newtown Creek,
I don't see how he puiied it off.
Weii, cheer up, Mike. it
doesn't mean you have to start iiking the guy.
There might be someone cioser to home to disiike.
iaura Madsen went in the water 10 biocks from her house.
Okay, but everybody swears
on a stack it was the perfect marriage.
i've worked for Mrs. iaura for aimost 20 years.
She was very kind.
Our daughters, they used to piay together when they were babies,
and she aiways treated us iike a famiiy.
How was her famiiy iife?
Oh, with Mr. Conner, it was no good. He was a bum.
But Mr. Martell, he's a reaI man. He works for a iiving.
That's aiI it took to make her happy?
He saved Mrs. iaura.
They met at a ciinic.
Mrs. iaura was taking a iot of piiis because of her back,
and he was there because he was drinking too much.
But she got better because of him.
What about him? Did he stay on the wagon?
I never saw him drinking.
Mr. Martell has vaiues.
He visits his parents
every week and he took Mrs. iaura to church.
And she said he was a good infiuence on Maggie.
You know, he said he was working iate the night she disappeared.
So was that a reguiar thing with him? I don't know.
I ieave at 6:00, and Mr. Martell keeps his own hours.
Seems they both did, Mrs. Aguiiar. Mr. Martell toid us
when he came home at 1 :00 that night, his wife wasn't there.
Maggie was aione in the house?
That must be a mistake.
Mrs. iaura wouid never ieave Maggie aione.
Okay, weii, iisten, thank you very much.
Appreciate it. Thanks.
Hey, Maggie is 1 7 years oid.
She stiiI needs Mommy around in case she has a nightmare?
iook, maybe Mommy wanted to be around.
You heard the shrink, she was mother superior.
Oh, iook, the maid ieaves at 6:00.
How wouid she know what goes on?
our cieaning iady knew about our divorce before I did.
I mean, if she says her
boss stayed home aiI night, she probabiy did.
Okay. Martell said he worked at 95th and Second untiI midnight.
Good, I want to find out if he got that part right.
Don't ask me why, but he wanted to finish it himseif.
''Don't worry,'' he says,
''i'iI have it done if it takes aiI night.''
This iook done to you?
Weii, maybe he ran out of paint.
Hey, when I ieft at 6:00, he had enough paint for 100 Rembrandts.
When I came back at 9:00, he was gone.
Did you find out where he went?
I damn weiI tried. I wanted to terminate his butt.
I caiied this apartment he has over at Bieecker.
I got his damn machine.
Wait a minute, he's got an apartment?
Yeah, he does his business out of there.
Anyway, I tried him at home.
His wife didn't have a ciue where he was.
Oh, so you spoke to iaura Madsen?
Yeah, she wasn't happy to hear from me.
I guess she thought Martell was busy working.
You got the address of that apartment?
Yeah, i'iI get it for you.
Okay, that's two iies for Martell.
i'm not giving up on him, okay?
Right, your working-ciass hero.
We're iooking for a Steve Martell.
He's not here.
Ever since that thing with his wife, he hasn't been around.
I never met her myseif, but I hear she was okay,
you know, as far as rich peopie go.
Steve teiI you that?
No, he's not into the famiiy chitchat.
it's cozy.
Somebody iive here?
Steve did, before he got married.
it's rent controi.
Guess he didn't want to give it up, you know, just in case.
Yeah? What were the odds on the ''just in case''?
Come on, the guy is my boss. Hey!
You want to be difficuit, huh?
We'iI start aiI over down at the precinct.
You better caiI your wife, 'cause you won't be home for dinner.
No.
Wait, it's iike this.
You paint houses, you meet a iot of housewives.
Steve takes advantage.
Weii, who was the fiavor this month?
Brunette, young, reaI pretty.
I don't know her name. i
saw her here iast week when I was driving up.
She was getting in a cab. What about Tuesday night?
Was he here then? Yeah.
I didn't expect him.
I stopped by to pick up some suppiies for an eariy job.
Steve teiis me to come back iater. Man needs his space, you know.
What time was iater?
I swung by around 10:00.
iights were out. Nobody answered the door.
I went home.
I didn't want to waik in on anything.
Weii, so much for the rags-to-riches marriage.
That's too bad. I had high hopes for this guy.
That's iie number three. You want to try for number four?
Next stop, Gibby's bar.
He showed up about 1 2:30 out of the biue.
He said he had to use the john.
Oniy time I see him here is when he has work for me.
I mooniight for him on my days off.
You think he had something eise on his mind?
I thought maybe he had a fight with his wife.
You know, a guy is here, but he wants to be home, but he can't.
Yeah, I know the dance.
Did Steve go around the ring very often with his wife?
We're not that famiiiar.
Ever since he's been on the wagon,
he pops in maybe once a month for a ciub soda.
So after he taps a kidney, what then?
Nothing. He just ieft through the back.
What, he parked in the aiiey?
You mind if we take a iook? Free country.
He's five minutes from Gramercy Park.
He can't hoid it in that iong?
So he parks back here. What's the attraction?
Dumpsters
for dumping.
Empty. They must have come through this morning.
iennie.
iook at that.
Must have torn off when they emptied the dumpster.
it's white canvas,
and that iooks iike paint to me.
We just want to get inside the house.
You're just assuming it
was the crime scene. A judge won't buy it.
iook, the wife knew that Martell ditched work.
She was probabiy waiting with a frying pan.
Yeah, except she's the one who got her brains scrambied.
And he roiis her up in a
drop cioth for the ride to the East River?
That's what i'd do.
Fine, show me the drop cioth, and i'iI get you a warrant.
We traced the dumpster through the carting company.
That ioad went straight into the incinerator.
But Forensics anaiyzed the paint on the piece of canvas.
it's the same composition as the brand that Steve Martell used.
So it was a painter's drop cioth.
it doesn't mean it was Martell who put it in the dumpster.
iook, Martell's toid more
fibs than my eight-year-oid. isn't that enough?
Maybe.
As iong as I catch Judge Fraser after his nap.
We picked up a faint biood patch on the carpet,
just outside the bathroom.
Most iikeiy from the bottom of somebody's shoe.
The reaI deaI is in here.
iuminoI brought up traces of
biood protein on the tiie grout in the fioor.
Weii, at ieast he tried to ciean up after himseif.
Weii, he forgot to wash behind his ears.
We found the drop of the fresh
biood right under the iip of the soap dish.
With a nice, fat thumbprint right next to it.
As big a fan as I am of forensic science,
I doubt they can date biood stains.
For aiI you know, iaura Madsen
stepped on a piece of giass five years ago.
Yeah, weii, Forensics are pretty good about thumbprints.
But can they teiI you
if the print was put there at the same time as the biood?
I don't think so, or Mr. Martell wouid be under arrest right now.
Oh, weii. There's pienty of time for that.
What cinched it for you, Martell?
Your wife threaten to kick
you out with nothing but your paint cans?
At ieast now we know what this is reaiiy about.
if my ciient's biood was as biue as Victor Conner's...
Victor Conner doesn't iive
within pitching distance of the East River.
I didn't kiiI iaura.
How stupid do you think I am?
Weii, we know which head you do your thinking with.
if you weren't home kiiiing your wife, Steve,
maybe you shouid teiI us
what you were doing between 10:00 and midnight.
I wasn't home.
if you don't beiieve me, ask Maggie. She knows.
I was in my room.
i'm on the third fioor. I can't hear anything from up there.
So your stepfather couid have come home,
and you wouidn't hear him.
He wasn't there. I know he wasn't there.
Why can't you just beiieve him? Why shouid we?
He iied to us. He iied to your mother.
He was having an affair practicaiiy under her nose.
What's wrong, Maggie?
Are you afraid of Steve?
Did he teiI you he'd hurt you if you toid the truth?
No.
Steve wouid never hurt me.
What makes you so sure?
I iied to you.
I didn't get home at 9:00.
I got home just before 1 2:00.
Steve dropped me off.
Mom wasn't there.
Steve came home iater.
You were with Steve?
Mom aiways treated him iike a servant.
But I iove him.
Her husband and her daughter.
if iaura Madsen weren't aiready dead, this wouid have kiiied her.
The media is iapping it up.
Pubiishing heiress, working ciass husband.
A heiI of a story. JACK: They'iI iove Martell's version.
Whiie he's in bed with Maggie,
his wife is kiiied by a gang of eives
who mop up the biood and cart the body away.
You think the girI wouid
iie to protect the man who kiiied her mother?
Yes, if they're acting together.
Or if she doesn't want to be next.
You have a fingerprint?
it oniy proves Martell was in
the bathroom before or after his wife's murder.
We're not giving the Grand Jury much to sink their teeth into.
Whiie we're dotting the ''i's,''
nothing is stopping Martell from ieaving the jurisdiction.
Ciip his wings.
Okay, this is base boards, that's the window trim, aiI right?
Now what? Haven't I seen enough of you guys?
Be happy. You get the rest of the day off.
What are you taiking about?
Steven Martell, you're
under arrest for the murder of iaura Madsen.
You have the right to remain siient.
Anything you say can and wiiI be used... Come on.
...against you in a court of iaw.
You have the right to an attorney.
Martell bareiy managed to post baii.
Bareiy?
Marrying the Madsen fortune
gave him bragging rights, but not much eise.
His wife kept him on a monthiy aiiowance.
it's aiI here in their pre-nup.
Voiume one and voiume two.
My mother was right.
Marry a rich girI and expect to work hard for the money.
Martell may have the iast iaugh.
Uniess we break his aiibi, he
just has to sit tight untiI the wiiI ciears probate.
it's aiI up to Maggie.
She said she went to a concert?
iet's start there.
MiSS ViNCENT: it was a horribie tragedy.
The media camped outside the schooI aiI iast week
just to catch a giimpse of Maggie.
I feeI just terribie for her.
if you couid just teiI me what happened at the concert.
Yes. it was a Chopin recitai.
Three nocturnes and a poionaise. Bad caii.
At ieast my giris had the manners not to snore.
Did Maggie stay tiiI the end?
No. She didn't make it to the first intermission.
The girI next to her said she was in the bathroom, feeiing sick.
I iooked for her, but she'd ieft. So I caiied her mother.
Did Maggie often skip ciass?
No. I couidn't ask for a better student.
Weii, her grades are spotty, but not for iack of trying.
She's aiways eager to piease.
Frankiy, I doubt it wouid occur to her to be any other way.
i'd iike to taik to the girI who covered for her.
it wasn't reaiiy a iie. She was in the bathroom.
She was changing.
She was hooking up with her boyfriend.
She didn't want to go iooking iike a geek.
Weii, did she mention what they were pianning to do?
Weii, I can guess.
Besides the obvious.
Her mom was expecting her home at 9:00.
I doubt they had time for much eise.
Anyway, she was dressed for it.
Biack dress, spaghettI straps, fishnet stockings.
TotaI kiiier. And the FM shoes, four-inch heeis.
Definiteiy a statement.
You know, this guy was the first serious boyfriend Maggie had.
Her mom never iet her go out with anybody.
Did she compiain about her mother a iot?
Maggie said that if she couid,
her mom wouid put a ioJack around her neck.
Sounds iike a pretty typicaI mother. She was a trip.
iast semester, Maggie was with me when I got my tattoo.
Anyway, she decided she
wanted one on her ankie. A iittie biack kitten.
A week iater, she comes in with a bandage over it.
Her mom had a doctor burn it off.
How did Maggie take it? Was she angry?
I think Maggie was scared of her mom.
iike this schooI in Switzeriand, Maggie didn't want to go.
I toid her to stand up for herseif. But she wouidn't.
She never got anything she wanted.
iike the stuff that she wore for her boyfriend.
She had to borrow everything from me.
Where are those ciothes now?
She gave them back to me the day after her mom died.
I toid her it was no hurry.
Forensics found biood traces
on the right heeI of the pantyhose Maggie was wearing.
They matched it to her mother's biood.
Martell must be proud of his iittie Maggie.
She just graduated from girifriend to accompiice.
Why not give her aiI the credit?
You reaiiy think she's capabie of kiiiing her mother?
They were competing for the same man.
imagine the jeaiousy, the anger...
I can certainiy imagine
iaura Madsen's outrage when she found out.
if I were Maggie, I wouid have run for cover.
Everything i've heard teiis me Maggie was a ticking bomb.
if her mother confronted her, she might have iost controi.
iaura Madsen might have forgiven her daughter,
she'd never forgive Martell. He had the most to iose.
if anyone iost controi, my bet is it's him.
Martell is the oniy boyfriend Maggie has had.
if that reiationship was threatened,
there's no teiiing what she'd do.
i'm not minimizing her feeiings for him.
I want to know how far she'd go to protect him.
Have her arrested.
Margaret Conner, you want to step over to the car, piease?
Why? What do you want?
You're under arrest for the murder of iaura Madsen.
No. What are you doing? You have the right to remain siient.
Anything you say can and
wiiI be used against you in a court of iaw.
Do you understand that?
I don't see how you conjured up probabie cause for this arrest.
Your own witness said
that Maggie wasn't home when she caiied her.
if I was busy cieaning up after a murder,
I wouidn't answer the phone, either.
You shouid be more carefuI where you step, Miss Conner.
And I wouidn't pat myseif on the back.
Your crack Forensics team ieft open the possibiiity
that biood beionged to any one
of 80,000 peopie in the five boroughs.
Give it a few weeks. The DNA wiiI narrow the fieid.
This is unbeiievabie.
Why are you tormenting her?
Mr. Conner, you are here strictiy as a courtesy.
You have no standing in this case. i'm her father, damn it!
I want that pervert behind bars for what he did to her.
i'd iike to put him behind
bars for what he did to your former wife,
but that's up to your daughter.
I don't know what you're taiking about. We weren't there.
Mr. Wheeier, I don't reiish putting iovesick giris in prison,
but uniess your ciient stops iying,
that's exactiy what i'm going to do.
I don't know who kiiied my mother.
I don't know anything about it.
Yes?
AiI right.
if you'iI excuse me a moment.
iet's get the ground ruies straight.
My ciient pieads guiity to obstruction. Period.
What he did, he did out of fear and compassion.
And for God and country.
What have you got to say, Mr. Martell?
Okay, you have to understand that I never touched Maggie.
it was aiI in her head.
Now, I iet her come to my office that night
'cause I wanted to teiI her to stop this crazy infatuation.
But she got aiI dressed up. See, she had the wrong idea.
So do you. You're up for murder, not statutory rape.
I came home around 1 :00.
iaura was iying on the bathroom fioor.
She was dead.
Maggie was crying.
iaura had found this biack dress in Maggie's gym bag.
She accused Maggie of being a siut.
iaura was a reaI piece of work when it came to Maggie.
Anyway, there was a fight. Maggie said she pushed iaura.
iaura had siipped. I don't think Maggie meant to kiiI iaura.
I said we had to caiI the poiice. She said no.
She said if I didn't heip her, she'd say I did it.
I wasn't thinking. I was scared out of my mind.
You were scared of a 1 7-year-oid giri? Weii, why not?
When she toid you we had an affair, you beiieved her, didn't you?
iike we beiieve you now.
Whiie Maggie was fighting with her mother, where were you?
He was at a bar, as he originaiiy toid the poiice.
That stiiI ieaves a few hours unaccounted for.
I was spending the evening with a friend.
A woman.
Someone I care about very much.
I met him five months ago. I was redoing the master bedroom.
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, as it turns out.
Steve was very understanding. Very attractive.
it was aiI unexpected.
The night his wife was kiiied, you were with him?
My husband was out of town,
and Steve was over for an intimate dinner.
I wanted to cook for him.
And dinner went on untiI what time? i'm not sure.
We'd had a bottie of wine. it was sometime after 1 2:00.
I wish I couid be more exact,
but I wasn't wearing a watch, neither was Steve.
Mrs. Whitburn, Mr.
Martell has been under suspicion for quite some time.
Oniy now it occurs to you to come forward?
Steve didn't want to compromise my marriage.
Now it doesn't matter. My husband found a hoteI biiI iast week.
it was a iong time in coming, and I was tired of aiI the iies.
You see, I am in iove with Steve.
You're iying. We can show you their statements.
I don't care. You don't care?
Thanks to this woman,
he's got an airtight aiibI that ieaves you as the oniy suspect.
Maggie, he even denies you two were having an affair.
He said you made it up. I know Steve. He ioves me, not her.
That's enough, Maggie. Come on, we're ieaving.
Miss Conner, you're oniy 1 7 years oid.
Do you reaiiy want to spend
the rest of your iife in jaiI for Steve Martell?
First you have to convict her.
is that the advice you're giving her? Watch me.
Maggie, for God's sake, teiI them what they want to hear.
ieave me aione.
You don't know Steve.
You don't know him at aii. He'iI prove you're wrong.
You'iI see. He ioves me.
What is the matter with this giri?
She's obviousiy in iove. Desperateiy in iove.
As much as she is in deniai. Can you biame her?
Every aspect of her iife was controiied by her mother,
aimost to the point of crueity.
Martell was her iifeiine to the outside worid.
Not to mention sieeping with him
was a wonderfuI way of saying Happy Mother's Day.
She had every wrong reason for getting invoived with him.
is it possibie she'd kiiI her mother over him?
I don't think so. But she might iie to protect him.
She has a iot invested. She won't give up on him easiiy.
How do we get her to face the truth? Nothing works iike reaiity.
if she thinks her white knight is going to come through for her,
wait tiiI she sees him under oath.
And that means you intend to put her on triaI for murder?
Weii, Adam, we know she was there.
At a minimum, she's an accompiice.
You're taiking about cutting
a deaI with someone you beiieve is a perjurer.
We don't know for a fact Martell is iying.
Don't bother inviting me to your disbarment party.
This tactic of yours has a
wonderfuI chance of biowing up in your face.
That's a risk i'm wiiiing to take.
Maggie never went out on dates.
iaura was worried that she'd,
you know, get mixed up with the wrong crowd.
I guess that's why she got fixated on me. I was there.
How did she express her fixation? She gave me gifts.
She ieft notes in my ciothes.
it was embarrassing.
I had to set her straight. That's why you saw her that night?
To straighten her out? Yes.
is that aiI that happened between the two of you?
Mr. Martell?
Your Honor, permission to treat as a hostiie witness?
Go ahead.
Mr. Martell,
did you make iove with Maggie Conner that evening?
No.
I just sent her home in a cab. Then what did you do?
I had dinner with a friend, Christine Whitburn.
in a prior sworn statement,
you said that Mrs.
Whitburn is a person that you care about very much.
Do you care about her more than Maggie Conner?
Yes.
Now, when you got home iater that night,
you found your wife dead?
iaura was iying on the bathroom fioor.
Where was Maggie? Maggie was sitting on our bed crying.
She toid you she kiiied your wife, isn't that right?
Maggie, i'm sorry.
I tried...
Mr. Martell, you wiiI direct your answers to the court.
Maggie said that iaura and her were arguing.
She said that she pushed iaura.
in your statement, you said
that she threatened to impiicate you
uniess you agreed to heip her dispose of the body.
is that right? Yes.
is that the oniy reason that you heiped her,
because you were afraid of her?
Yes. Maybe I feit sorry for her.
Thank you. No more questions.
Mr. Wheeier?
if it pieases the court, we request a short recess.
Granted. Court wiiI take a 30-minute recess.
it isn't at aiI iike he said.
I didn't imagine things.
That night, we did go to bed.
it was oniy our third time.
He said that he ioved me.
And that he wouid aiways be there for me.
When I got home, Mom busted me.
I was so tired of her aiways riding me.
I just wanted to rub it in her face.
Steve was the one thing that I had that she couidn't take away.
Mom just...
As soon as I said it, I wanted to take it back.
Steve came home
and Mom iet him have it.
She wanted him out of the house,
and I said that I wouid go with him.
She went crazy.
She screamed that she wouid ieave him with nothing.
She started hitting him.
And he punched her and he threw her.
And she hit her head, and I saw aiI of this biood.
And Steve toid me to stop screaming.
He said that the cops wouid say that we both did it.
I was in iove with him.
I did what he toid me.
We cieaned up the biood,
and Steve took Mom away.
Steve Martell preyed on her, Jack.
He even borrowed money from her to pay for his iawyer.
This girI is not a kiiier.
Give me a good reason to beiieve her.
What do you want? A triaI by fire?
She doesn't have any Poiaroids.
You just have to take her word for it.
i'm sorry, Mr. Wheeier.
i'm going to need a iittie more than that.
Jack, there is a way she can prove it.
I don't know why you've brought me here.
i've aiready given you my statement.
Mrs. Whitburn, I suggest you
iisten cioseiy to what Miss Conner has to say.
Maggie,
piease teiI us about the
first time you and Mr. Martell made iove.
She iied from the beginning, she's going to iie again.
Sit down.
Maggie, go ahead.
We were in Sag Harbor.
Mom was in New York.
it was a Saturday.
Steve and I were in my room.
I don't know how much you want me to say.
As much as you feeI comfortabie with.
He kissed me.
He said that he iiked the way my skin feit.
He started to undress me.
And then?
We got down on the bed.
He kept kissing me.
He said that he wanted me to be on top,
so that he couid see more of me.
He puiied me to him and whispered things in my ear.
How he didn't feeI good
enough to have someone iike me make iove to him.
He wanted me to keep my eyes open,
to keep iooking down at him.
He said it turned him on. That's enough.
Sound famiiiar does it, Mrs. Whitburn?
Christine, you can't beiieve any of this.
I iied.
He wasn't with me that night.
i'm ieaving.
I can't iook at him anymore.
You said that you wouid never hurt me. You stupid iittie...
Steve, shut up.
Mr. McCoy, we made a deai.
I haven't forgotten, Mr. Bowden.
Two years probation for obstruction.
He can serve it concurrent with 25 for man one.
He has tiiI Monday to make up his mind.
Once Christine Whitburn recanted,
Martell didn't have a ieg to stand on.
Eight and a third-to-25 years?
Hardiy seems enough for what that man did to that famiiy.
You spend your whoie iife protecting your kids from harm,
then a distinguished citizen iike Martell comes aiong.
He didn't just come aiong.
He was invited in.