Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011): Season 1, Episode 7 - Poison - full transcript

Narrator: 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.

(beeping)

- Get a crash cart, stat!
- All right, I'm on it.

Code Blue on Ward
11-B, north block, bed five.

- Any peripheral pulses?
- No.

V-fib. She has a
shockable rhythm.

- Start at 200 joules.
- Charging to 200.

- Clear.
- (thumps)



Alton on post on
11-B, north block.

(sighs)

Better catch your breath, or
we'll need the crash cart for you.

I am so glad I was there
when Mrs. Taylor coded.

Not as glad as she is, I bet.

She's going to be fine.
Dr. Gardetta's going

to keep her sedated with
Valium. Good work, Colleen.

- Looks like you're a hero.
- No, I'm not.

Did you see in the papers?

They're having a book fair
on Third Avenue this Saturday.

Yeah? Well, I'm, you know,

headed out to Sheepshead
Bay, check on my folks.

I'll see you later.

PA: Maintenance to cafeteria
annex. Maintenance to cafeteria annex.



Will you come see our
new goldfish, Grandma?

Of course, honey.

Ma, are you all right?

I heard they had an emergency.

Mrs. Taylor. She had a
little thing with her heart.

Okay, kids, let's let
Grandma go to sleep.

Goodbye, Grandma. We love you.

I don't know what
I would've done if...

Stop staring.

How's your chest feel?

It's better. The doctor
says my lung is healing fine.

I'm going to need some help at
home when they let me out of here.

We'll get one of
those home nurses.

- Medicare won't pay for that.
- How do you know that?

You're always so negative.

Can't you come stay
with me for a while?

Ma, I've fed your cat and watered
your plants for two weeks already.

Time for your pills.

Taylor: No, I just
want to sleep.

It's all right, dear, you can
take them when you wake up.

Oh, I brought the paperwork
from Cutie Bear to sign.

You know, I think of you

in your apartment
all by yourself.

Lenny's things everywhere.

And for the last time, leave
that poor woman alone.

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PA: Code Blue on ward 11-B.

Code Blue on ward
11-B, north block, bed five.

Mrs. Taylor, she's dead.

Do the families know?

No, and they haven't
requested autopsies.

Did you advise them
against autopsies?

I'm a risk management officer.

I always advise
against autopsies.

What about the risk
to other patients?

- We have an obligation.
- Our obligation is unclear.

I've asked Ed to advise
us on a course of action.

You need a lawyer
to tell you what to do?

Matt, I understand
your feelings.

We will deal with
this situation ethically,

but we won't fall on our sword.

Hello? I'm calling
from Bellmore General.

I want to report a...

I want to report three murders.

(theme music playing)

Your anonymous caller
is grossly misinformed.

It's a statistical anomaly.

A long way from a murder.

- Did you do autopsies
on these "anomalies"?
- No.

Toxicology on blood
or tissue samples?

If tests were done, the results are
covered by patient confidentiality.

What makes these
anomalies anomalous?

All three patients were
on the surgery ward.

None had been admitted
for life-threatening conditions.

You're saying they
were misdiagnosed?

That's not what I said.

Okay, so they...

developed
life-threatening conditions

after they were admitted?

Either way, the
hospital's on the hook.

Here are the
names of the patients

we got off the 911 call.

We want the addresses
of their families.

Then you can fax us the
names of everybody here

who had anything to
do with their treatment.

We'll expect it
by this afternoon.

We know what a shock
this must be for you.

I can't believe...

anybody would want to hurt her.

We're not sure anybody did.

The only surgery your
wife had was on her knee?

Yes. But then she
got an infection

from the cortisone shots.

That's why she was
still in the hospital.

Did anything
unusual happen to her

before she passed away?

Well, just that afternoon
her heart stopped.

She had what they
call a Code Blue.

They resuscitated her.

She have a history
of heart problems?

Just high blood pressure.
It was under control.

(sniffs)

It's almonds.

Cyanide?

I can tell you already
how it's going to play out.

Angel of death.

Probably not a doctor, more
likely a nurse or an orderly.

Single, late 20s to early 30s,

lives alone or with a parent.

Average to above
average intelligence,

narcissistic, immature, likely
to be a screw-up on the job...

Chronic lateness,

minor errors that would
show up on a work record.

The hospital sent
over a list of 114 people

who had one thing or another
to do with the three victims.

Okay. I want to make sure
Mrs. Taylor's not an isolated case.

You're gonna talk to your other
families, you're going to get autopsies.

No problem.

And when you
talk to the families,

try to curb your enthusiasm.

I'll curb it when we get
this freak locked in a box.

Poor Lenny. Who
would've imagined?

Pulmonary embolism at age 44.

That's according
to that city doctor.

You don't believe him?

Lenny was a lot of things,
but he was never sick.

What're you doing?

Just want to make
sure it's not all frozen.

What did you want
to do, plant tomatoes?

It's for when they
put the headstone.

We haven't even ordered one yet.

We know where he is.

Trudy, he was your husband.

At least pretend
you're sorry he's gone.

I am sorry.

Let's go before you catch cold.

My husband wasn't
supposed to die.

He had his gall bladder removed.

He was a day away
from being released.

- Did anything unusual
happen to him?
- No.

But the man in
the bed next to him,

he had a Code Blue the
day before Aaron died.

But him... they saved.

Excuse me.

Seems like a lot of Code
Blues for a surgery ward.

When there's a Code Blue,

security has to go up and
cover the nurses' station.

Except up on the surgery ward,

you're the only security
that showed up every time.

Doesn't this seem
strange to you?

There's not a lot of room
to move around in here.

So any chance I get,
I go out on the floors.

So when there's a Code Blue,
you're "Johnny on the spot."

I guess so.

I heard some of these
are worth a lot of money.

You collect them?

No. They're gifts.

From your wife,
or your girlfriend?

No, I'm not married.

They're from a nurse.

- She likes you.
- Yeah, she's not really my type.

Is she on the 11th floor?

How'd you know that?

Magic.

So what's this nurse's name?

Derrick's a nice man.

I'm sure he'd
never hurt anybody.

He seems to pop up every
time there's a Code Blue.

Is that your mom's
or your dad's?

- My dad's.
- You live here alone with him?

Looks like he
needs a lot of care.

Is that why you're
always late for work?

I'm not always late.

I'll bet your dad
doesn't appreciate

all the effort that you put out.

But they appreciate
you at the hospital.

- I don't know about that.
- You save people's lives.

Like James McKee six weeks ago?

When his heart stopped,
you called a Code.

I just happened to be there.

And Bruce Sonshein
in the same week.

People look up to you.

People like Derrick
Alton. It feels nice.

- Yes.
- It makes up for
the other looks you get...

when you're late
or make a mistake.

What'd you give them, Colleen,

to make their heart stop?

Oh God.

(sobbing)

I gave them adenosine.

- It's a heart medication.
- For rapid heart rate.

But if you give it to someone
with a normal heart rate?

Their heart stops, just
for 20 or 30 seconds.

- It's not lethal.
- But it's enough
to call a Code Blue.

Okay, Colleen.

Now tell us what you
did with Aaron Berkowitz,

George Malloy and Jenny Taylor.

- They were poisoned with cyanide.
- I didn't do anything!

Saving people wasn't
exciting enough for you.

No, I didn't kill those people.

All I did was give
Mrs. Taylor adenosine

just to make her heart stop.

But I did not give
her cyanide. I didn't.

You made her heart stop

the afternoon before she died?

Yes, but please,

I didn't kill anybody.
I didn't kill her.

Okay, Colleen, stand up.
We're placing you under arrest.

Is there somebody who can
come take care of your dad?

- My sister.
- Better call her.

I'll call CSU, have them
check the place for cyanide.

She didn't do it.
She's not the one.

She lives with her
father, she's a screw-up,

she wants attention, she's
all the wonderful things

you said our angel
of death would be.

- And she admits inducing
34 Code Blues.
- Yes.

And when she got tired of
that, she graduated to murder.

So why are we
having this discussion?

Because once these people graduate
to murder, they don't look back.

She wouldn't have induced
a Code Blue on Jenny Taylor

before poisoning
her six hours later.

That wouldn't fit the profile.

And profiling is an
art and not a science,

isn't that so, Detective?

Science didn't find a trace of
cyanide in Colleen Baxton's home.

The ME found partially-digested
gelatin caps containing cyanide

in all three of the victims.

The capsules had the
same color and brand marks

as an over-the-counter headache
medication called Necedrol.

Whoa, I take that stuff.

So do the patients
at Bellmore General.

It's what they give
them for minor aches.

Nurse Baxton spiked the pills.

I'm telling you,
she's not the one.

There's someone else.

Look, tie her to
those poison pills.

I'll get the FDA into the loop.

That nurse Colleen
brought my boy

those Necedrol
pills around noon.

You saw him take them?

Yeah.

Why?

Mr. Malloy, your son
died four hours later.

Cyanide would've
acted quicker than that.

Your son was in a
motorcycle accident.

He must've been
in a lot of pain.

He complained they weren't
giving him enough pills.

I talked to the nurses about it,

but they said they couldn't do
anything without the doctor's okay.

It must've been tough
for you to see him like that.

Yeah.

You wanted to do
something for him.

You gave him some extra pills...

Some Necedrol... that afternoon?

- Yeah.
- Where did you get them?

At the drugstore across
the street from the hospital.

- I bought a bottle.
- Do you still have it?

Yeah.

For once, I was really
hoping you were wrong.

I told him I didn't see nobody

fooling with Mrs.
Taylor's medication.

Why do you think
they were asking?

Why do you think, Ma?

Probably somebody did
something to Mrs. Taylor.

Oh my God.

It could've been you.
Just think about that.

Oh, you look tired. Why
don't you go sit down?

There's a chair in front
of the prescription counter.

I don't know why
we had to come here.

There's a perfectly good drugstore
just around the corner from me.

The prices are better
here. Now go sit down.

- I'll be done in a minute.
- All right.

Yes, any cyanide deaths
in the last three months.

Look, anything comes
up, you let us know pronto.

Looks like he's getting the
crap pounded out of him.

Here it comes, Necedrol
headache number 14.

Yes, that's right,
death by cyanide.

No, we're not kidding.

Yes, Goren, Major
Case Squad. Call me.

- We hear from the lab yet
on that bottle?
- No.

Upstairs has a
theory. Want to hear it?

On her lunch break one
day, Nurse Colleen Baxton

walks across the
street to the drugstore

and plants a couple of hot
pills in a bottle of Necedrol.

What do you want
me to say? It's brilliant.

They want you to
look at the nurse again.

And they want me to
shut down the phone bank.

What, are they insane?

They're worried we're
going to start a panic.

A panic might save lives. They have
any idea what they're dealing with?

It's terrorism. Everyone's
a potential victim.

Okay, got it. Thanks.

Over at the 2-7 in Midtown,

22-year-old female. Cyanide
poisoning six days ago.

Jeanine King was out
dancing with her boyfriend.

They get home, he passes out.

Next morning he trips over
her on his way to the john.

Tox screen came back
positive for cyanide.

So our gut reaction
was go for the boyfriend.

How'd he get his
hands on cyanide?

That's the thing. The
kid's just a bike messenger.

With no access to a chemical
supply house or university lab.

If he wanted to kill the
girl, it'd be easier for him

to crack her over the
head with his tire pump.

- What came up in the search?
- Green: Nothing yet.

So are you going to tell us where to
look, or do we have to play 20 questions?

The medicine cabinet.

- We got a nut job out there?
- Eames: You didn't hear it from us,
but yeah.

Someone's spiking
tablets of Necedrol.

Oh really? Okay, two questions:

how long have you
known about this

and just when were you planning
to share it with the rest of the world?

That's up to the
commissioner's office.

Those idiots.

But if it were to leak out,

it wouldn't be a bad thing.

The lab found two
cyanide-tainted capsules

in the Necedrol bottle in
Jeanine King's bathroom.

The tox exam turned up both
cyanide and Necedrol in her system.

The boyfriend said they bought
the bottle of Necedrol in the city

three weeks ago, before
the deaths at the hospital.

Toss in the bottle
Mr. Malloy bought for his son,

we got a product
tamperer out there.

I'll run this up so they can contact
the manufacturers about a recall.

We're keeping a lid on this. The
last thing we need is public hysteria.

- (phone rings)
- Deakins.

No, sir.

Call you back.

Sources inside the
27th precinct said

the 22-year-old victim
took two Necedrol capsules

minutes before her death.

The sources also
told News Channel 4

the death might be
related to recent deaths

at Bellmore General
Hospital. Linda Mc...

Who the hell opened
their big yaps?

(phone rings)

Deakins.

Hold him for a second. What?

Phone canvass turned up
two more cyanide deaths.

(sighs)

Goren: The FDA turned up
10 bottles of tainted Necedrol.

The green dots show

where the original bottles

were purchased by the tamperer.

The blue dots show
where each bottle

was purchased by the victims.

We fed this stuff into
geographic profiling program.

We start with the
"least effort" principle.

Most people who run
out for a gallon of milk,

they go to the
store nearest home.

Criminals work the same
way, but out of caution,

they keep a buffer
zone around their home.

This is the buffer zone.

Outside that is the strike zone.

And here... is the hot zone.

A three-block area
where the tamperer lives.

Have you identified
any possible suspects?

We fed the addresses
of hospital employees,

the six victims' families
and close friends

and present and past employees

of the Necedrol
manufacturer into the program.

There're no matches.

This program is reliable.

The killer lives
in the hot zone.

Thank you, Detective.
You can leave us now.

Now, Captain, you
started working off

another of Goren's profiles.

We had a shrink look
at Colleen Baxton.

She was a hop, skip and
a jump from going lethal.

Goren's profile saved lives.

And meanwhile, the
person who was lethal

was operating with impunity.

We're getting a thousand
phone calls per hour.

Nobody knows how much of
this poison there is out there.

You should've conducted
a two-track investigation.

My point, sir, is however
many tracks we have,

we will catch this
hump. That's a promise.

I'm concerned because
I think my husband

may have taken
Necedrol before he died.

A month ago.

I guess it would be
okay to dig him up.

No, I can come
down to your office.

Can I ask you, how long
would a lawsuit take?

Well, I'm not really
the kind of person

who goes around suing
people, it's just that Lennie,

he'd want me provided for.

The FDA analyzed the cyanide...

It's all from the same batch,

but they're still trying to get
a line on where it came from.

- I put out the word
to my own sources.
- What sources?

Watchdog groups who keep track
of shipments of dangerous chemicals.

- Tree huggers.
- Might be helpful to get
a line on a motive.

We haven't found anybody with a
motive against any of the six victims.

What about the great
American pastime?

Which one, dieting or
cheating on your taxes?

Suing.

So far, our nationwide recall's

costing us tens of
millions of dollars.

Not to mention the cost of
redesigning our packaging.

Anyone file a suit against you?

Nine lawsuits so far. We plan to
settle them as quickly as possible.

You said nine lawsuits?

Two class-action suits,
but those are non-starters,

plus the suits by the
families of the seven victims.

Seven? We only know of six.

So did we until a
couple of days ago.

Leonard Pomeranski of Manhattan.

Died of cyanide
poisoning five weeks ago.

Why did it take five
weeks to hear about it?

Mr. Pomeranski was
originally diagnosed

as having died of a
pulmonary embolism.

When the tampering story broke,
his widow had his body exhumed.

An autopsy found cyanide

mixed with Necedrol
in his system.

If we can be helpful in any
other way, please let us know.

You bet.

Thanks for coming in.

Pomeranski doesn't
live in the hot zone.

He was the first to
die, first to be poisoned.

Somebody had to be first.

As Leonard
Pomeranski might say...

"Why me?"

I know you're very selective
about your franchisees.

This is the second
time I've applied.

I see your boutique
experience is a little...

Lacking, I know. But I
have learned so much

about children's clothes
working at Macy's.

I've been taking
business classes.

May I speak frankly,
Ms. Pomeranski?

I'm quite concerned
about financing.

Now despite the fact that you
had someone co-sign for the credit...

Oh, that's not a problem.

See, I'm expecting a large
check at the end of the month.

It's a settlement
from a lawsuit.

It means I can make the entire
first year's license payment

as soon as I get that check.

I'm going to send your application
upstairs for further review,

and we will be in touch
with you very shortly.

The thing is, I knew it
wasn't a pulmonary embolism.

With Lennie, it was
like he ate something

that didn't agree with
him, like a bad heartburn.

He went back to lie down
and he never got back up.

I called 911 right
away, but it was too late.

What're they doing?

It's standard. All the
victim's homes got searched.

How did you know your
husband took the Necedrol?

Did you see him?

No, but I remember he had a bad
headache when he got home from work.

The drugstore where
you bought the Necedrol,

it's not exactly
around the corner.

They have better
prices over there.

I noticed that there's no
pictures of you and your husband.

We didn't like taking pictures.

Lennie always thought
he looked too fat.

Wedding pictures? I like
looking at wedding pictures.

I threw them all out.
It was too depressing.

I don't like to dwell.

Right. You got to
move on with your life.

Yes.

That's a franchise operation.

I thought you worked
in a department store.

I do.

It's just something
I'm thinking about.

More getting on with your life?

Yeah, like that.

With all the bad memories,

you'll probably
want to move soon.

Oh, no. This place
is rent-controlled.

Yes, both sides
of the application.

I understand. As soon
as possible. Thank you.

No trace of cyanide
in her apartment.

- Something here stinks.
- Too bad it's not almonds.

(pager beeps)

What do you know, a tree hugger.

The way the FDA works,

they call up the chemical
companies and say,

"Hey, did you ship
any cyanide lately?"

- No? Okay, thanks.
- How do you work?

Hey, the baby can
sign. It's his ocean, too.

Didn't Bobby tell you?

We got alternative methods
of gathering information.

You hack into the
companies' computers?

If you're going to
make it sound illegal...

What'd you find?

A company in the lovely state of
Oklahoma shipped 10 ounces of cyanide

to a photo supply store
in the West Village.

- Are you sure?
- What's the big deal?

They stopped using cyanide for
photo processing 10 years ago.

That was the first tip-off.
Second one was the cyanide

was shipped two weeks
before people started dying.

- What store?
- Marlon's Camera.

But they went out of
business two years ago.

Post office had the
forwarding address.

480 West 12th Street.

Right smack in the hot zone.

- Woman: Who is it?
- I'm a police officer, ma'am.

There's an emergency. I
need access to your apartment.

(door unlocks)

What's going on here?
What emergency?

This is. It's a search warrant.

This is a search for what?

A package of dangerous
chemicals was mailed to this address.

Well, I don't know
anything about that.

Marlon Camera
Supply. Is this you?

That was my husband's store.

He passed away two years ago.

- Are you Loretta Marlon?
- Yes.

Your Percocet... Had
an operation lately?

Yeah, two weeks ago.

Bellmore General?

- Mrs. Marlon?
- Who's this?

Why, that's my daughter.

Trudy Pomeranski.

They already asked me at
the hospital about Mrs. Taylor.

I told them, I don't
know anything.

Did you or your daughter
ever visit Mr. Berkowitz?

- He was five doors
down from you.
- No.

But Trudy went to the drugstore

across the street, right?

To get some magazines
and some candy?

- No.
- Are you sure?

- Because we heard
somebody saw her there.
- Not her.

And she was seen in the Dwyer's

on Eighth and Broadway.

That's where Jeanine King...

bought her Necedrol
that killed her.

Susan Cassadine,

she got hers at the ShopRite
at Seventh and Waverly.

And Ninette Wong's
daughter bought them

at the Gaydose's
near Union Square.

And then your
son-in-law, Leonard.

All these innocent people dead

because they took the cyanide

the chemical company
shipped to your address.

No.

When you were in the hospital,

who took care of your
cat and your flowers?

It was Trudy, right?

And she planted all
those tainted bottles

while she was coming
and going from your place.

Look at them, Mrs. Marlon.

Don't these people's families
have a right to know what happened?

You could tell them. It's
the decent thing to do.

I'm sorry.

I don't know anything.

Trudy did this.

I know it, Detective
Eames knows it...

you know it.

We'll talk to the DA. We'll
make sure she's not hurt.

There's a whole machine out
there waiting to chew her up.

You have it in your
power to save her.

I want someone to
help me! I want a lawyer.

Where's the evidence this
package was even delivered?

You said yourself it was
sent to an old address.

As soon as the company finds the
signed receipt, we'll have the evidence.

Oh for God's sakes, Ron.

You think this old lady
with one and a half lungs

ran around the hospital like
some tooth fairy from hell?

No, but her daughter probably did,
and your client is covering for her.

Then subpoena
her. In the meantime,

she's not under arrest. I'm
taking her home. See ya.

Quite a pistolero.

Question is how
tough is her client?

We might get her to talk
two or three months from now.

Oh.

She shut down in
there. She's in shock.

The idea that her daughter

is responsible for
seven murders...

It's too horrible
to contemplate.

We can't afford to
wait for three months.

The FDA planning a second look

at Trudy Pomeranski's apartment?

Yeah, we're also bringing
in the FBI lab as a backup.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

I feel bad for Mrs. Marlon.

She reminds me of my grandma.

You going to share
with the rest of the class?

It's a fax from Cutie
Bear Baby Clothes.

Trudy Pomeranski filled out
this application for a franchise.

And this is the
contract she signed.

It's a 100,000 bucks to buy in.

Funny how she can afford it now.

Here's your motive.

Trudy killed six innocent people

to hide the fact she killed her
husband for the lawsuit money.

You can lay that motive on everybody
who's suing the drug company.

Still doesn't get
you past square one.

Baby clothes?

The contract has
a morals clause.

"If a franchisee causes,
by whatever means,

negative publicity for,
or associations with,

the Cutie Bear brand, this
will constitute a material breach

and the company may
terminate the contract

without prejudice
or compensation."

Detective?

Get an indictment
against the mother.

For what? Murder.

With what? With whatever.

Don't you have the grand
jury eating out of your hand?

I bet you could
indict that clock.

I must be losing my mind. Didn't
we just agree the daughter did it?

Trust me. We start
with the mother.

Isn't it great?

My office'll be over there.

The company has this policy... they
won't take back what you can't sell.

But I already made this closeout deal
with this department store in Puerto Rico.

So you see, Ma, I
haven't even opened yet

and I'm already in profit.

You haven't heard
one word I've said.

Trudy, they think
you killed people.

If that was true,
I'd be in jail.

Anyway, I didn't do anything.
So don't worry about it.

Trudy...

did you use Dad's old account

to order cyanide from
that chemical company?

No. Look at these
clothes. They're so cute.

How... how much
is all this costing?

The settlement
money's taking care of it.

Would you quit worrying
and just be happy for me?

Trudy, what have you done?

Ma, don't talk like that.

Did you kill Lennie?

- They feel so soft.
- Answer me!

You are so negative! You
always think the worst of me.

The only reason I married
Lennie was so that you

wouldn't think I was a
slut for sleeping with him.

You never cared what I wanted.
Now I've got what I want, Ma,

and I'm not going to
let you spoil it for me.

Carver: This hospital record,

People's Grand Jury exhibit 4...

reflects the fact that Mrs. Marlon
was on the ward at the same time

as victims two and
three were poisoned

and that she shared a
room with victim number four.

That concludes the
People's evidence.

- Yes?
- Is there any evidence at all

that she tampered
with those bottles?

As your legal advisor,

I'm telling you that is not
relevant to your deliberations.

Ladies and gentlemen
of the grand jury,

let me remind you that the appropriate
standard of law to be applied here

is "legally sufficient evidence

and reasonable
cause to believe."

I will leave you to deliberate
and vote in this case.

I...

I'm going to ask you
to trust me on this one.

Thank you.

(buzzing)

Here we go.

Sir.

Thank you.

From a wink, to a nod,

to an indictment.

Docket number 709501,

People v. Loretta Marlon.

Seven counts of
murder in the first degree.

How do you plead, Mrs. Marlon?

Mrs. Marlon?

All right. Miss
O'Brien, we will enter

a plea of not guilty for your
client, if that will work for you?

- It does. Thank you, Judge.
- People on bail?

In light of the severity
of these crimes,

we ask for remand, Your Honor.

In light of the weakness of
their evidence, remand's absurd.

The evidence passed
muster with the grand jury.

Right. Was my client indicted
before or after the ham sandwich?

Very amusing, Miss O'Brien.

Your client is remanded
without bail. Next!

Clerk: Docket number 734916.

People v. Louis.

That's docket number 734916.

You're absolutely sure?

This is her mother.

I don't want to tell
you your business,

but if it gets out that Trudy
bought one of your franchises,

Cutie Bear's going to become
Cyanide Bear to most people.

It's just something
to think about.

Have a good day.

I don't understand. I have all the
money I need from the settlement.

Yes, but that's not the issue.

Section 16 of the
Standard Terms.

The morals clause.

If a franchisee causes negative
publicity for the Cutie Bear brand,

the company may
void the contract.

But I haven't done
anything wrong.

Your mother is charged
with seven murders.

That doesn't have
anything to do with me.

Unfortunately, it does.

People will find out
who your mother is.

We sell baby clothes.

Baby clothes cannot be associated
in the public mind with a cyanide killer.

But my mother didn't do it.

And we will wait until
there's a final disposition.

But unless she's cleared,

the company will have no choice

but to void your
franchise agreement.

I'm sorry.

(squealing, grunting)

(sobbing)

This is just so
awful and so unfair.

Please, have a seat.

My mother never hurt
anybody in her whole life.

Sometimes, people do things

when they get old
and they're alone.

But she wasn't
alone. She had me.

She can't have done
this. She's innocent.

Well, no. See, Mrs. Pomeranski,

we have a lot of good
evidence against her...

The cyanide that
was sent to her house,

the fact that she
was in the hospital

when those people were killed.

She hasn't exactly been
jumping up and down

saying that she's innocent.
You saw her in court.

Innocent people
don't act like that.

She looked guilty.
Even the DA said so.

But she had no
reason to do this.

Maybe she got angry
about the tumor in her lung.

Maybe she decided to take
it out on the drug companies.

Eames: Or maybe she
just didn't like Lennie...

Didn't like the
way he treated you.

No, Lennie treated me fine.

Ma got along with him.

Or maybe she felt sorry for you,

she wanted to help you...

uh, to create a situation
where you could make money

suing the drug company.
You think that's possible?

Ma's not that smart
to think of that.

Well, whatever the reason...

there's just no way she's
not going to jail for this.

But she didn't do it. Can't
you see? It's not possible.

I'm sure you believe that,

but we can only go
by what's in front of us.

Now, we could be wrong.

Someone could walk in here
tomorrow and say they did it.

Does that happen?

Not a lot. But it's probably
more likely in a case like this.

Why? What do you mean?

Well, people who
commit this kind of crime,

they want attention.

If they see someone
else getting the credit,

they'll let us
know. They'll call,

or write a letter
to the newspaper.

But usually it turns out
it's just some crackpot.

How do you know it is?

They have to prove
to us that they did it.

They tell us something
about the crime,

something only they would know.

Goren: Or give us a piece of
evidence, like the murder weapon.

Eames: It takes something like
that to make us believe a confession.

Take our word for it,
without something like that,

there's nothing that's going to
change our mind about your mother.

I just can't believe this.

We don't want to give you
false hope, Mrs. Pomeranski.

You have to prepare
yourself for the truth

that your mother killed those
seven people. You understand me?

We're very...

sorry about your situation.

The officer will show you out.

Car three, you stay with her.

We'll stay with the mailbox.

(knocks)

Yes?

- Very nice.
- Oh, thank you.

- It's too bad.
- What's too bad?

You dropped this in the mailbox.

- No, I...
- We have it all on videotape.

It smells like almonds.

- I'll bet you know
what else smells like almonds.
- Trudy Pomeranski, you're under arrest.

- No.
- Please turn around...

No! No!

(sobbing) No!

- Eames: I don't want to hurt you.
- No, no, no, no!

I don't want to go,
please, please, please!

No! No!

Please don't make me go!

Come with us, ma'am.

You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.

You're adorable.

That's what dreams are made of.

Bad dreams.

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