Lie to Me (2009–2011): Season 2, Episode 13 - The Whole Truth - full transcript
Cal agrees to testify for the prosecution until he learns that his ex-wife is representing the innocent defendant: a beautiful younger woman accused of killing her much older, and extremely wealthy, husband.
[ Woman ]
Victor?
Victor, l need your help with something.
Honey, I got water boiIing.
Dinner can wait.
You wanna heIp me out of this?
- Hmm?
- Whew.
Honey, you reaIIy make it hard on an oId man.
I do, don't I?
How did I get so Iucky?
You didn't. I'm using you for sex.
[ ChuckIes ]
I Iove you, CIara.
I Iove you more.
I'II be back in an hour.
Oh, where are you off to?
Strawberries.
Champagne.
Don't you Ieave this bed.
Mm-mmm.
[ ExhaIes ]
[ Camera Shutter Clicks ]
- [ Police Radio Chatter ]
- [ SniffIes ]
Oh, my God, Leo.
What am l gonna do?
- [ MaIe Reporter ] Did you kiII your husband?
- No. I Ioved my husband.
- [ MaIe Reporter ] Did you kiII your husband?
- No. I Ioved my husband.
If you're acquitted, you'II be a biIIionaire.
How does that make you feeI?
- My cIient has no comment.
- [ Woman ] What's it like sleeping alone now?
- By the way, how was the sex?
- Get her inside.
What station are you from?
Where are your credentiaIs?
This is a pubIic street and a free country.
I don't need credentiaIs.
You're no journaIist.
Someone toId you to ask those questions.
- Look, I'm just doing my job.
- I think I can guess who for.
So, what are you getting off Mrs. Musso?
WeII, it's more sadness than guiIt, reaIIy.
Yeah, weII,
the evidence is rock soIid.
There's a partiaI print
on the syringe containing cyanide.
There's no sign of forced entry,
and she is the primary beneficiary of the wiII.
WeII, you got aII that going for you, Crosby.
What do you need me for?
Never underestimate the vaIue
of an expert witness.
Doc, you wanna do this?
[ Cell Phone Rings ]
It's been a Iong time.
What do you need? You need a reference?
[ Laughs ] I haven't had any troubIe
getting offers so far.
You sent one of your minions to ask vicious
and personaI questions to my cIient...
just so you couId read her reactions on TV.
I can't hear you.
Can you say that again?
Hear me now?
Oh. CIear as a beII.
- CounseIor.
- CounseIor.
I'd Iike to speak with my ex-husband
in private if that's aII right.
AbsoIuteIy. I'd Iike an answer...
by the end of the business day.
Otherwise, I gotta go to the Rader Firm,
and I don't reaIIy wanna do that.
- So-
- Fair enough.
- Let me guess.
He wants you to be his expert witness.
- Yep.
And your cIient is hiding something, so-
ProbabIy of a sexuaI nature. And granted,
that is wishfuI thinking on my part, but-
You see how she's bringing
that hand up to her face? She's got a secret.
I wiII tear you apart on the stand, CaI,
and you know it.
That's charming, that is.
So you reaIIy think she didn't kiII her husband?
- Yes, I do.
- What makes you so sure?
The evidence is circumstantiaI.
And as for motive, there is none.
My cIient didn't want for anything.
It was a Ioving and faithfuI marriage.
She got an aIibi?
Uh-oh. How much she paying you?
- ExactIy what I'm worth.
- WeII, drinks are on you then.
StiII, no aIibi.
WeII, the trauma of finding her husband dead
caused CIara to Iose her memory...
for the 40 minutes
between the Iast time she saw him aIive
and when she discovered his body.
- [ Hitting Buttons ]
- [ Sobs ]
Look at it. I mean reaIIy.
She is pushing those tears out, she is.
OnIy she's faking it.
[ Sighs ] We both know that this ''science''
of yours has a serious margin for error...
- and it just won't cut it in a court of Iaw.
- And what wiII?
Tears for a dead husband
that Ieft her $1 .2 biIIion.
I know why you're doing this, and you're
not gonna get under my skin, or my skirt.
That's a Iie, that is. I mean, the skin part.
This is funny to you?
The most important case of my career?
- I haven't even taken the bIoody job yet, Zoe.
- Unlike you...
I don't need to have studied Amazonian
pygmies for six years to know that that's a Iie.
You want me to do this.
You don't know why you do, but you do.
Did I say serious margin for error?
I was being generous.
Or couIdn't you teII?
It's gonna be a shame
to disappoint you in the courtroom.
[ Man ]
Dream, send me a sign
Turn back the clock
Give me some time
l need to break out
Make a new name
Let's open our eyes
To the brand-new day
How can anyone think CIara
kiIIed her husband?
l've been friends with her for almost 1 0 years.
There's no way she could have done this.
Gotta love how everyone comes out
of the woodwork on cases like this.
WeII, they've gotta get
their 1 5 minutes somehow.
By turning this woman's Iife into a circus.
WeII, we're aII part of that circus now.
Prosecution. Foster, you're prepping
witnesses. You two, you get jury watch.
You want us to read the jurors?
The whoIe triaI?
Track them individuaIIy and see what makes
them tick. Then Iook at them as a group.
l wanna know which way they're leaning-
the leaders, the followers.
Well, go ahead.
You're not just doing this
to push Zoe's buttons.
- There's something eIse going on here.
- This is about justice, Foster.
There's something eIse- Zoe-reIated.
Justice for a murder victim.
By avoiding my question,
you just answered it.
I just hope, for aII our sakes,
you know what you're doing.
Join the cIub.
Six of the jurors
look convinced Clara's guilty...
just from the opening arguments.
You can see approvaI on their faces
every time the prosecutor taIked.
Maybe, but these two are for the defense...
and they've aIready emerged as Ieaders.
Jurors 6, 7 and 1 1- we're Iooking at them
the whoIe time, gauging their reactions.
Which way are you two Ieaning?
Maybe he wasn't dying fast enough for her.
The guy was 30 years oIder than she is.
- So?
- So it can affect the power dynamic.
ImbaIance of power in a reIationship
can Iead to victimization.
Oh, that struck a nerve. That's interesting.
Studies show
that the most successfuI marriages...
are the ones where husbands are
at Ieast five years oIder than their wives.
So being with an oIder man
broadens your horizons, does it?
I'm sure CIara Iearned a Iot from Victor.
Yeah, I'm sure she did-
about denture cream.
You're not Iistening again, Loker.
What Torres is saying is that she needs
to be stimuIated and chaIIenged...
by experience.
So, who was this oId fart then, eh?
- I was taIking about CIara.
- Nah.
Nah, you weren't.
You connected with a memory,
which I proceeded to beIittIe.
Sorry about that.
Oh, you cannot sing the praises of oIder men
and then not give up detaiIs.
Watch me.
- AII right.
- What, you couIdn't take me one-on-one?
Nah, I've been there, done that.
WeII, I promise to pIay nice today.
Last time you said that, you Ieft cIaw marks.
Do you swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth...
- and nothing but the truth, so heIp you God?
- That's not possibIe.
- Excuse me?
- WeII, no one can teII
the whoIe truth, Your Honor.
It's subjective.
It's fiItered through our own experiences.
- And that's the reaI truth.
- WeII, how about promising to be honest...
- to the best of your abiIity?
- Now you're taIking.
- PIease, be seated.
- Thank you, Your Honor.
Dr. Lightman, your resume speaks for itseIf.
You're Oxford-educated.
You're a doctorate in psychology,
and you're a consultant for the F.B.l.
As you weII know,
the key question in this triaI...
is where was CIara Musso
the night her husband was murdered.
The defense wants us to believe...
that the trauma
of finding her husband dead...
has Ieft Mrs. Musso unabIe
to recaII the 40 minutes...
between leaving him
and discovering his corpse.
Dr. Lightman, in your expert opinion...
does this cIaim of memory Ioss
pass the sniff test?
- No.
- [ Microphone Feedback ]
- CouId you eIaborate?
- Yeah.
It's been proven that some trauma-
warfare, chiId abuse- can cause memory Ioss.
- Do you have experience with such cases?
- Yeah, pIenty.
I've worked with soIdiers, um, rape victims.
Memory loss is caused
by degradation or abuse.
The shock of a dead spouse,
I mean, that'd be a first.
How about a shock of committing murder?
KiIIers have been known
to experience amnesia.
Forensic psychologists call it ''red-out. ''
How common is it
to Iie cIaiming memory Ioss?
WeII, nine out of 1 0 peopIe
cIaiming memory Ioss are Iying.
- Why would they do that?
- WeII, it's easier to say ''I can't remember''...
than tell the truth.
I have nothing further.
- Your witness, CounseIor.
- [ Zoe Clears Throat ]
Permission to treat Dr. Lightman
as a hostiIe witness.
- Granted.
- Dr. Lightman.
- I'm sorry. It won't happen again, Your Honor.
- Thank you.
Dr. Lightman was born hostiIe.
He aIso happens to be my ex-husband.
- GuiIty as charged.
- [ Scattered Laughs ]
But, you know, it was my loss...
because, truIy, she is an angeI.
The prosecution has touted your credentiaIs,
Dr. Lightman.
Are we to understand
that you possess the gift...
- of being abIe to distinguish
between truth and Iies?
- No, no, no.
Twenty years of research
is not a gift, is it?
You and I know
it's aIso a bit of a curse reaIIy.
Indeed it was.
In fact, do you recaII
being jeered off the stage...
while keynoting the Harvard Global
Psychology Conference in 2005?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do.
Yeah, yeah. And it's bonkers, aII right?
Because I couId've sworn
that they were cheering.
They caIIed it pop psychoIogy-
''voodoo science.''
- I think it's because they're scared of me.
- [ Scattered Laughs ]
Four years ago when we were stiII married...
you accused my boss of sIeeping with me.
- The gIoves are coming off now.
- Objection, Your Honor. That's immateriaI.
Dr. Lightman, Iast warning. OverruIed.
Didn't it come out eventuaIIy
that my boss, a man, was, in fact, gay?
Yeah. Yeah, it did. Yeah.
I mean, I was way off the mark on that one.
But, l mean, l was jealous. l was- l was
young. l was head over heels in love.
By day, I'm a scientist.
But by night, I'm faIIibIe. I'm onIy human.
WeII, I'm not questioning your humanity,
and certainIy not your faIIibiIity.
- WeII, that's a reIief.
- You are here...
because of your expertise
in psychoIogy and Iying.
I'm chaIIenging that- your fIagrant
manipuIation of the jury notwithstanding.
But when you say that your cIient
is innocent, you don't fuIIy beIieve that.
Again you misjudge my thoughts,
because l know my client is innocent.
Why don't you wanna hear the science then?
Your testimony is Iimited
to scientific context...
not specific opinions on who's Iying.
WeII, you wanna hear the whoIe truth?
- That woman over there,
your cIient, ''the bIack widow''-
- [ Zoe ] Control yourself.
- When she says that she
doesn't know what happened-
- PIease controI yourseIf.
well, she's lying, and that's a fact.
ControI yourseIf,
or I wiII have the judge controI you.
Oh, her? Do me a favor. She's having
a tough enough time controIIing herseIf.
MarshaI, pIease remove this witness
before I hoId him in contempt.
I mean, Iook at her-
buIging eyes and guiIt aII over her face.
Marshal, l said get him out of here.
- I couId sue you.
- [ Spectators Chattering ]
[ Judge ]
Quietl
Oh. HeIIo, darIing.
- What?
- I hope that was part of a carefuI pIan in there.
CarefuI is for Iawyers and accountants, right?
I did get something interesting off her.
When I caIIed her a ''bIack widow,''
she gave a IittIe pout.
- Her feeIings were hurt. Surprising.
- ReaIIy?
- It's a shock, isn't it?
- Oh.
I'm heading back to the office
to prep more witnesses. You coming?
No, I gotta see a man about a dog.
I'II catch up with you.
Okay. Behave.
- You aII right?
- Mm-hmm.
Hey. Need a Iawyer?
- I'm onIy joking. What judge you got?
- Denton. Why?
Oh, Denton. He's a compIete softy.
He's a pushover.
He's a bIeeding heart IiberaI, vegetarian.
The most you're Iooking at there
is a sIap on the wrist.
No, no. I didn't do anything.
It was that guy.
- He mugged my wife.
- Really?
I'm sorry about that.
It's just Iuck of the draw.
Right? I mean- Keep your chin up.
[ Shouting, Indistinct ]
- [ Door Closes ]
- ShouIdn't my Iawyer be here
if you're gonna taIk to me?
- Three's a crowd, Iove.
- Excuse me?
Don't get me wrong. She's a terrific Iawyer.
She's reaIIy top-notch, and I mean that.
It seems there was a Iot of chemistry there
between you and your ex-wife.
WeII, there's a Iot of chemistry in ChernobyI.
You know, it's interesting, Dr. Lightman.
We both have something in common.
- Oh, yeah.
- We both married up.
Huh.
You reaIIy miss him, do you? Victor.
You're the expert. When I say
I Ioved my husband, what do you see?
WeII, you can Iove a man and kiII him...
or have him kiIIed.
Look me in the eye...
and teII me you beIieve I kiIIed my husband.
TeII me about those 40 minutes...
you can't remember.
Find whoever murdered Victor,
and I'II teII you whatever you want.
- I see you got someone in mind.
- Victor gave me more than I ever wanted.
We were partners in everything-
aII the charities.
I converted to CathoIicism
so I couId share that with him too.
- Why wouId I end that?
- [ Door Opens ]
What the heII is going on?
- I'm tampering with your cIient.
- He aIways this reIentIess?
To the point of seIf-destruction.
Officer!
You wanted your father's money,
didn't you?
You were desperate, and you wanted his
money, so you framed your stepmother.
- The heII I did! That's crazy!
- See, that's wrong.
The worst thing you can do
is match your questioner's intensity.
Instead, give a firm, deIiberate answer.
Here. Watch.
The reforms I'm proposing wouId not appIy
to those who are here iIIegaIIy.
[ Man ]
You liel
- [ People Jeering ]
- It's not true.
The president cIenches his jaw,
sIight hints of anger.
Then he moduIates his voice
and foIds his hands. Okay?
Now, Mr. O'SuIIivan,
did you murder Victor Musso?
- CertainIy not.
- Good.
SimpIe, direct, truthfuI.
I know how to handIe myseIf
under pressure, Dr. Foster.
I was Vic's right hand for 25 years.
Riding his coattaiIs for 25 years.
I was C.F.O. for a Fortune 500 company.
One Iast tip: Women require more eye contact
than men to feeI a connection.
So l want you both to focus your attention
on the female jurors.
Got it?
Anything to put that goId digger away.
Where was that IoyaIty
when your father was aIive?
Hey, she came on to me, okay?
Since it was my client
you illegally tampered with...
Judge Quinn has given me the authority
to either keep you in here or reIease you.
Oh, yeah?
You bought her a drink or three then?
Give me one good reason
I shouId Iet you out of here.
- One good reason why?
- Yeah, just one.
WeII, how about...
you need me.
A room Iike this in our house
couId've saved our marriage.
Good-bye, CaI.
[ Buzzer Sounds ]
Your cIient's innocent, by the way.
I found that out whiIe I was tampering
with her. I think I'II take a nap.
Don't pretend you don't need my heIp, CaI.
- [ ExhaIes ]
- Why do you do it?
- Do what?
- Keep forcing us together Iike this.
- Paging Dr. Kinsey.
- [ ExhaIes ]
Do you want to switch to my side?
And stop aII this fun we're having?
You must be joking.
The fact of the matter is,
your cIient's innocent...
and the jury are about to convict her.
- No, they're not.
- Yeah, they are.
- PIease.
- Fair enough. You're the boss.
- Stop it.
- A IittIe roIe-pIaying never hurt anyone.
- I shouId Iet you rot in here.
- Can't argue with you there, darIing.
[ Buzzer Sounds ]
MarshaI, here's the authorization
for what I'm sure wiII be a huge mistake.
Clara didn't care about me.
She didn't care about my father.
- She just wanted his money.
- AII right, Iet's pretend
the jury is watching, okay?
Now, teII them exactIy how CIara seduced you.
[ ExhaIes ]
Uh, it was a week...
after she had interviewed my dad
about the cIinics he buiIt in Africa.
She was at our ranch.
I didn't know that they had aIready
become invoIved. She wanted a tour.
I was showing her the wine ceIIar,
and that's when it happened.
That was good eye contact
and posture, Damien.
But remember, uh,
foId your hands to avoid fidgeting.
Got it.
How many times did you have sex?
Maybe six or seven.
The ''maybe'' undercuts
your credibiIity with the jurors...
um, especiaIIy with these two.
AII right? Give them a specific number.
Seven.
But when she found out
that I didn't have any money...
and that it was aII in a trust untiI I was 40,
she dumped me.
The next thing I know,
she's engaged to my father...
and he is changing his wiII.
Where was the Iast pIace
you and CIara had sex?
I don't- They- They aII kind of run together.
Let's get some caffeine.
You know, it aIways heIps me focus.
So tell me what happened
in the wine cellar.
I was showing her my dad's coIIection...
and she asked to see my beIt buckIe.
- And you took it off or did she?
- She did.
HeIp yourseIf.
You just watch the images...
and we'II monitor your reactions
on the other side.
Give me the finger. That's charming, that is.
Are you this hands-on with aII your cIients?
WeII, I'm not afraid to get a IittIe dirty
when necessary.
Hmm.
So you say you didn't kiII your husband.
I beIieve you're innocent.
I can't say this feeIs
Iike a vote of confidence.
You stiII don't remember
what happened that night.
So a few faces from the case
might jog your memory.
Have fun.
[ Buzzer Sounds ]
- How is this supposed
to heIp jog her memory?
- lt's not. lt's nonsense.
Since she's Iying to us about those 40 minutes,
we're coming at her from another angIe.
Oh, flag that one.
Contempt when she Iooks at Damien.
Your stepson says you're sleeping together
the same time you're bedding Daddy...
that can breed contempt.
In my country, a new member
of the royaI famiIy. FIag that one.
Push in on the hand.
Oh. Who's that woman she's reacting to?
That's Tanya WiIson,
a cIose friend of CIara's.
She comes to court every day to support her.
WeII, that hand cIosing Iike that is anger.
- [ Buzzer Sounds ]
- What happened
in the 40 minutes you Ieft Victor?
Well, l-l don't remember.
That's bollocks, Clara.
Do you know who killed your husband?
- You know I don't.
- That's enough, CaI.
Yeah, too right it is.
You're Iying. I can't heIp you.
[ ExhaIes ]
Uncooperative witness- that's common.
[ ExhaIes ]
Uncooperative witness- that's common.
Uncooperative cIient- now, that's rare.
Crosby hired us as experts. Can't you just
teII her you're sure she didn't do it?
lt's a matter of pride
for Crosby at this point.
You know, what passes
for truth in a courtroom...
isn't necessariIy the whoIe truth.
- Hmm. I Iove you too.
- Out.
CIara was trying to hide
her anger towards Tanya.
I need some background on that woman.
And we saw CIara's contempt for Damien.
What did she say
about her affair with him?
She's adamant it never happened.
She said Damien came on to her.
She said no. It's he said, she said.
When I was prepping him, I asked him
about their Iast sexuaI encounter.
He just stood there hoIding a pot of coffee.
He couIdn't fiII his cup
whiIe giving the detaiIs.
ManuaI tasks are harder to integrate
when you're faking a story.
Yeah, but l believed him
the first time around.
But what if his story
is an obsessive fantasy?
If he pIayed it out in his head enough...
he couId've said it reaIIy happened
without showing any signs of deception.
So Clara rejects Damien for his father...
- whose shadow he Iives in.
- And it couId've driven him to murder.
[ Together ]
We need to get Damien back in here.
- Now that's dangerous.
- Mm-hmm.
You think I need more prep work
before I testify?
There are a few more techniques
Dr. Lightman wants to go over.
Anything for my father.
[ Moaning ]
You sIut.
- That was pure science, that was. Come on.
- Damien.
Damien, you Iied.
You were never invoIved with CIara, were you?
She seduced me!
- You're pathetic, Damien! You're pathetic!
- How couId you do this?
We wanted to see how angry it made you
to see her with somebody eIse.
- You think I kiIIed my father?
- No. But you've been Iying
about an innocent woman.
- She is a goId digger!
- How couId you say that?
- This was your pIan aII aIong!
- I Ioved your father more than anyone!
- You used him and you wanted his money!
- Ohh!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Hey!
Let's go! Come on. Let's go.
- Go.
- Fair enough.
I expected a IittIe bit more than a sIap...
from the worId's most notorious
murder suspect.
Yeah, weII, I guess
I've been respectabIe for too Iong.
I think I can heIp you with that.
Hey, Doc, Damien Musso
caIIed my office this morning.
He said you aII
but accused him of murder.
CIara didn't kiII her husband.
I see. You switched sides.
How can I compete
with Legs, CIeavage and Associates?
[ ChuckIes ]
You can't. You must be CIeavage.
WeII, Legs here is twice the Iawyer
you're ever gonna be.
Do you know that affair
Damien said he had with CIara?
He was Iying.
CaII him to the stand. It's perjury.
- We had a contract, Doc.
- I rented my services as an expert.
We prepped your witnesses for you.
We read your jury. Job done.
WeII, it's gonna be a Iong time
before you get any business from my office.
I'm devastated.
- ReaIIy?
- Yeah.
- I'II see you in there, CounseIor.
- You bet.
- That's interesting.
- What?
He's not worried at aII about Damien...
and he doesn't give a toss
about me coming over to the other side.
If anything,
he's more confident than usuaI.
He's up to something.
Mr. O'Sullivan, why did you hire a private
investigator to look into Clara's past?
I'd been friends with Victor
since we were 1 0 years oId...
in catechism at St. Bernard's.
When l realized Victor
was getting serious about Clara...
l wanted to make sure
her intentions were sincere...
as a friend first, and as a business partner.
And did the investigator
find anything criminaI?
No. She reinvented herseIf though.
New name,
new hair color, new resume.
WeII, breaking with the past
isn't aIways easy.
To your knowledge,
was Victor happy in his marriage?
Yes. But he didn't have aII the facts.
Reviewing the estate yesterday,
l discovered some-
Objection, Your Honor.
Any information he has about the estate...
shouId've been brought forth in deposition.
Are you certain that you made
the discovery yesterday?
- Yes, I'm certain.
- No, he's Iying, Your Honor.
He's been sitting on it. So has the D.A.
That's absurd.
Your Honor, I move to cIear the whoIe gaIIery.
MuzzIe your ex, Ms. Landau, or I wiII.
Proceed with your finding.
When I Iooked at Victor's sub-accounts...
l discovered monthly withdrawals
of roughly $90,000...
spread across the Iast year and a haIf.
CIara was steaIing from him.
He's not Iying.
Motion for recess, Your Honor.
I need time to research these cIaims.
You can recaII the witness
when prosecution rests, Ms. Landau.
- You're Ieaving?
- Yeah. Jury's 1 2-nothing to convict.
You're screwed.
So if CIara stoIe money from her husband,
why did we switch sides?
You think Lightman screwed up?
WeII, Foster aIways says the cIoser
you are to someone emotionaIIy...
the harder it is to get a true read.
- Yeah, but CIara is a stranger.
- Zoe isn't.
Anything she touches,
Lightman's gonna bring baggage to it.
Hey, speaking of baggage,
you wanna unIoad some of your own...
- Iike that memory that Lightman saw?
- Loker.
What kind of age difference
are we taIking about here? Ten years?
We're not discussing this.
- Did you vioIate state Iaws or something?
- No.
Decency Iaws?
It was a totaIIy IegaI
and heaIthy reIationship.
Oh, that's exciting. Come on.
Give me something. What are you hiding?
At Ieast give me his name.
Denise Watson.
[ Chokes ]
Tanya Wilson, as l live and breathe.
You're CIara's best mate.
Why is she so angry with you then?
- I didn't know that she was.
- ReaIIy?
- How Iong you two been friends?
- I don't have to taIk to you.
That's true. That's true.
But I'II see to that whiIe you expIain to a jury...
why you got so scared when Leo testified...
that CIara was steaIing from her husband.
I was scared for CIara, as a friend.
Were you two in it together, were you?
Were you robbing the oId man bIind?
I was going through a tough time.
CIara was heIping me out.
See, there's that fear again.
I think you're hiding something.
See, I think you're here just to make sure
she keeps her mouth shut.
- That's ridicuIous.
- I smeII bIackmaiI...
of a sexuaI variety.
What is it? Is it you and CIara, eh?
You and Victor?
No, no. Wait, wait. Three's a crowd, right?
You and Victor and CIara.
What you got on him?
You got photos? You got a video?
- You got dirty knickers?
- I had nothing to do with his death.
You see, my money's on video.
I think you got a sex tape...
about- [ Sucks Teeth ]
90 grand a month's worth.
CIara met him through me.
Her Iife was supposed to be mine.
It's not Iike they were gonna miss it.
WeII, thanks for that.
If you wanna stay out of jaiI, right...
I'm gonna need that sex tape.
It was Vic's 60th birthday, and I wanted
to do something he'd never forget.
It was Vic's 60th birthday, and I wanted
to do something he'd never forget.
In every other way he was conservative,
but this was a fantasy of his.
So Tanya and l got together.
We were friends at that point...
or so I thought.
So those 40 minutes that you cIaim
you can't remember, aII right-
that's when you nipped out
to pay off Tanya, eh?
It was meant to stop.
But when I got there, she said
that the payments were gonna keep going.
You couIdn't teII your husband
about the bIackmaiI?
Or your Iawyer?
lt would've confirmed everything people
have been saying about me...
and his reputation meant the worId to him.
You were wiIIing to go to jaiI...
to preserve that reputation?
- [ Sighs ]
- True Iove.
- Yeah, I know. It's absoIute insanity, isn't it?
- Hmm.
I'm innocent, Zoe.
And I thought... maybe you
couId somehow make the jury see that.
Well, speaking of the jury, we've been
reading 'em, and they're 1 2-nothing to convict.
lt's one thing to say you're innocent...
but you got to show them who's guiIty.
- WeII, we know we can ruIe out Damien.
- [ Cal ] Yeah.
- Who has access to your house?
- The onIy other person with a key was Leo.
- He just smeared you in court.
- I was steaIing.
He stands to benefit financially
if you're convicted.
- He's the executor of the estate.
- There's no way.
Vic and Leo were more than business
partners. They were Iike brothers.
Yeah, weII, so was Brutus and Caesar.
Put me back on the stand again.
What?
[ Pops Can Cap ]
Just ask, Loker.
So, you sIeep with women too?
Wow. You just went
to a whoIe new IeveI of bIunt.
WeII, I mean, it has serious ramifications.
My competition may have just doubIed.
[ ChuckIing ]
I was curious, okay?
Denise was funny and- and interesting,
and I Iiked her smiIe.
Mm-hmm.
- I didn't make a Iife choice.
- Right.
So just to confirm- not bisexuaI then.
It was experimenting, Loker.
- Okay.
- And you know,
why can girIs do it and guys can't?
Where's the fantasy in that?
Anyways, who really cares
what people do in their bedrooms?
Everyone.
So...
this experiment-
What were your findings?
You know, scientificaIIy speaking.
[ Laughs ]
[ Zoe ] You hold yourself up
as an arbiter of people's honesty.
Yet, time and again,
you've reversed yourself, Dr. Lightman.
Yeah. Yeah, weII, scientists,
you see, they admit their mistakes.
- Ex-wives, that's an entireIy different story.
- [ Zoe Laughs ]
The fact is, your science
is compIeteIy unreIiabIe.
Really, you're a glorified
fortune-teller, a hack.
AII right, weII, Iet's see
if the jury agrees, shaII we?
The foreman- he's high as a kite,
and he has been aII aIong.
That one- she's getting off
on CIara's misery, she is.
And those two over there-
they're having an affair.
They're doin' the dirty
back at the hoteI.
Both of them married to different people.
And that one has got a serious foot fetish.
Dr. Lightman, for God's sakel
No, my point is that I can read anyone here.
Not just the defendant
or the judge, you know.
If you're hiding something,
I'II know it.
And yet you never turn that scrutiny
on yourseIf, Dr. Lightman. Why is that?
That wouId terrify you, wouIdn't it?
To be stripped bare
the way you strip the peopIe around you.
I'm not a kiIIer, CounseIor,
but neither is CIara Musso.
- Move to strike, Your Honor.
- Sustained.
The reaI kiIIer has been hiding
in pIain sight aII aIong.
- He's in this very courtroom as we speak.
- Objection! SpecuIation.
Dr. Lightman, this court
has induIged you more than enough.
Step down now. PIease, pIease, step down
before I have you arrested!
- If you're gonna arrest somebody...
- Remove him from the court.
you shouId arrest Leo O'SuIIivan.
He killed his best friend. Right?
- [ Spectators Chattering ]
- [ Quinn ] Quiet, everyonel
You bastardl
l didn't murder Vic. l'd never.
That's the truth. You didn't murder him,
but you did kiII him, didn't you?
- Dr. Lightmanl This court is out of order.
- [ Gavel Rapping ]
What does that mean?
Leo kiIIed Victor, but he didn't murder him.
When he said he didn't murder Victor,
there was no sign of deception.
But when I asked him if he kiIIed his friend,
he fIashed regret.
- Look, if I recaII Leo to the stand-
- We crack the case.
He's right on the edge.
He just needs one more shove, you know?
- Spit it out then.
- WeII, since you ask...
when is kiIIing your friend a good thing?
PIease be seated.
I thought I kicked your ex-husband
out of my courtroom, CounseIor.
Dr. Lightman is essentiaI
for my cIient's defense, Your Honor.
He's just here to observe.
He won't be a nuisance to the court.
Well, if he is, he will be the guest
of the county for the next 30 days.
- Are we cIear, Dr. Lightman?
- As a beII, Your Honor.
Proceed.
Mr. O'Sullivan, l wish to remind you...
that you are stiII under oath.
I'd Iike to apoIogize
for the previous outburst.
It's cIear to me and to everyone
in this courtroom...
how cIose you were to Victor Musso.
You were his best friend,
his IifeIong confidante...
and you wouId do anything
to protect him and his reputation.
- That's true.
- I'd Iike to show the witness
some photos if I may.
- Objection!
- No, you can't.
There were no pictures
submitted during discovery.
Easy, Iove. Jury's watching.
- Sidebar, Your Honor?
- PIease.
You can't Iet him see those pictures.
Everything Vic worked for wouId be ruined.
If you try and stop this,
I'II do those 30 days with beIIs on...
just after I finish bIurting it out to the jury.
These couId do irreparabIe harm
to the reputation of the deceased.
l don't know how this is germane to the case.
It speaks to the accusation
that CIara was steaIing from her husband.
I don't want to besmirch a good man
if I don't have to...
but I do reserve the right
to present these in open court.
I take your point, CounseIor.
- AII right.
- Please.
Thank you.
You wanna see CIara Musso Iocked up...
for murder.
She betrayed a man who Ioved her.
She was sIeeping with his son,
for God sakes.
Well, thanks to Dr. Lightman,
that's been exposed as a lie.
- She was steaIing from him.
- Which you knew about.
And yet you never said a word.
He was compIeteIy under her speII.
I was protecting him.
WeII, I submit to you that CIara
was doing the same- protecting him.
And the money you say
my cIient was steaIing from him...
was, in fact, being put
to a good and nobIe cause.
Am I being cIear enough here,
Mr. O'SuIIivan?
PerfectIy, CounseIor.
You also knew
she didn't kill her husband, sir.
But you thought she deserved to go
to prison anyway, didn't you?
Because after aII,
you had buiIt a company and a reputation...
side by side with Victor for 25 years...
and overnight
your best friend became a different person.
- CIara had dispIaced you.
- No.
When it mattered, Vic caIIed me.
Here we go. Watch this.
- Hold onto your seat, love.
- Like when it came to his heaIth?
That's fear, but without shame.
He's proud of what he did.
You didn't murder him, Leo.
He asked you to end his Iife, didn't he?
- Objection.
- OverruIed.
[ Sighs ]
How was Mr. Musso's heaIth
just prior to his death? You're under oath.
He was...
[ Sighs ]
secretIy very sick.
And that's why he wanted you
to help him end his life.
- To assist his suicide. Isn't that right?
- Objection, Your Honor.
The court is very interested
in Mr. O'SuIIivan's answer.
He had a degenerative brain disease.
Doctors gave him a month or two.
You bought the cyanide and the syringe.
He caIIed you to his home,
and you gave him that injection, didn't you?
- [ Spectators Gasp ]
- Your Honor!
Take your seat.
Victor was devout.
I mean, to him, suicide was a mortaI sin.
I couIdn't say no to my friend.
[ Zoe ] Which is why you never told him
that Clara was stealing-
because he was dying.
Why break his heart
on top of everything eIse?
Do you have proof it wasn't a murder?
He Ieft a video expIaining.
Now, that right there, that is shame.
I think his widow has a right to see that.
But I didn't imagine that I'd meet a woman...
But I didn't imagine that I'd meet a woman...
who would understand me so completely.
Our marriage was a gift, Clara-
happiest 1 0 years of my Iife.
I wouIdn't Iet anything tarnish that.
So Zoe says that Leo is pIeading guiIty...
to obstruction of justice and mansIaughter.
- And they're working out a deaI.
- Oh, that's good then.
Yeah.
Thank you for everything.
I shouId've trusted you sooner.
WeII, I couId say the same thing.
I've got a- a meeting waiting, so-
[ Door Closes ]
She's, uh, a beautifuI woman.
She's my Leo.
And what about Zoe?
WeII, to say you stop Ioving someone you once
Ioved more than anything eIse in the worId...
that wouId be a Iie...
but you move on, don't you?
You have to move on.
She's my daughter's mum...
sometime sparring partner.
Any other women popuIating your Iife?
WeII, none you need to worry about.
- I'm taking over
Victor's businesses and charities.
- Oh, yeah.
PeopIe are gonna come after me
and think I'm weak.
- I need someone I can trust.
- WeII, you got my number.
So to speak.
[ CaI ]
WeII, my point is...
that the reason that we won
is because the whoIe truth came out.
- [ Laughs ]
- 'Cause it doesn't normaIIy happen
in a courtroom.
Why did you take this case?
- I thought it'd be a bit of fun.
- [ Laughs ]
That's not it, not reaIIy.
WeII, it was your first time out-
you know, a big nationaI case, you know?
You were protecting me?
Oh, that's so sweet...
and paternaIistic and patronizing.
- Yeah, you got a point there.
- Hmm.
No, but Iook, if you get a guiIty woman off,
you're a punch Iine.
If you convict an innocent man,
you're a joke.
You've worked far too hard
to get where you are.
You deserve a bit of respect.
Not infamy.
StiII waiting for you
to get what you deserve.
WeII, I'm two steps ahead
of the hangman, me.
EmiIy's sIeeping at a friend's.
What, the whoIe night? Right.
- I'II get the check.
- Yeah.
ENGLISH - US - SDH
Victor?
Victor, l need your help with something.
Honey, I got water boiIing.
Dinner can wait.
You wanna heIp me out of this?
- Hmm?
- Whew.
Honey, you reaIIy make it hard on an oId man.
I do, don't I?
How did I get so Iucky?
You didn't. I'm using you for sex.
[ ChuckIes ]
I Iove you, CIara.
I Iove you more.
I'II be back in an hour.
Oh, where are you off to?
Strawberries.
Champagne.
Don't you Ieave this bed.
Mm-mmm.
[ ExhaIes ]
[ Camera Shutter Clicks ]
- [ Police Radio Chatter ]
- [ SniffIes ]
Oh, my God, Leo.
What am l gonna do?
- [ MaIe Reporter ] Did you kiII your husband?
- No. I Ioved my husband.
- [ MaIe Reporter ] Did you kiII your husband?
- No. I Ioved my husband.
If you're acquitted, you'II be a biIIionaire.
How does that make you feeI?
- My cIient has no comment.
- [ Woman ] What's it like sleeping alone now?
- By the way, how was the sex?
- Get her inside.
What station are you from?
Where are your credentiaIs?
This is a pubIic street and a free country.
I don't need credentiaIs.
You're no journaIist.
Someone toId you to ask those questions.
- Look, I'm just doing my job.
- I think I can guess who for.
So, what are you getting off Mrs. Musso?
WeII, it's more sadness than guiIt, reaIIy.
Yeah, weII,
the evidence is rock soIid.
There's a partiaI print
on the syringe containing cyanide.
There's no sign of forced entry,
and she is the primary beneficiary of the wiII.
WeII, you got aII that going for you, Crosby.
What do you need me for?
Never underestimate the vaIue
of an expert witness.
Doc, you wanna do this?
[ Cell Phone Rings ]
It's been a Iong time.
What do you need? You need a reference?
[ Laughs ] I haven't had any troubIe
getting offers so far.
You sent one of your minions to ask vicious
and personaI questions to my cIient...
just so you couId read her reactions on TV.
I can't hear you.
Can you say that again?
Hear me now?
Oh. CIear as a beII.
- CounseIor.
- CounseIor.
I'd Iike to speak with my ex-husband
in private if that's aII right.
AbsoIuteIy. I'd Iike an answer...
by the end of the business day.
Otherwise, I gotta go to the Rader Firm,
and I don't reaIIy wanna do that.
- So-
- Fair enough.
- Let me guess.
He wants you to be his expert witness.
- Yep.
And your cIient is hiding something, so-
ProbabIy of a sexuaI nature. And granted,
that is wishfuI thinking on my part, but-
You see how she's bringing
that hand up to her face? She's got a secret.
I wiII tear you apart on the stand, CaI,
and you know it.
That's charming, that is.
So you reaIIy think she didn't kiII her husband?
- Yes, I do.
- What makes you so sure?
The evidence is circumstantiaI.
And as for motive, there is none.
My cIient didn't want for anything.
It was a Ioving and faithfuI marriage.
She got an aIibi?
Uh-oh. How much she paying you?
- ExactIy what I'm worth.
- WeII, drinks are on you then.
StiII, no aIibi.
WeII, the trauma of finding her husband dead
caused CIara to Iose her memory...
for the 40 minutes
between the Iast time she saw him aIive
and when she discovered his body.
- [ Hitting Buttons ]
- [ Sobs ]
Look at it. I mean reaIIy.
She is pushing those tears out, she is.
OnIy she's faking it.
[ Sighs ] We both know that this ''science''
of yours has a serious margin for error...
- and it just won't cut it in a court of Iaw.
- And what wiII?
Tears for a dead husband
that Ieft her $1 .2 biIIion.
I know why you're doing this, and you're
not gonna get under my skin, or my skirt.
That's a Iie, that is. I mean, the skin part.
This is funny to you?
The most important case of my career?
- I haven't even taken the bIoody job yet, Zoe.
- Unlike you...
I don't need to have studied Amazonian
pygmies for six years to know that that's a Iie.
You want me to do this.
You don't know why you do, but you do.
Did I say serious margin for error?
I was being generous.
Or couIdn't you teII?
It's gonna be a shame
to disappoint you in the courtroom.
[ Man ]
Dream, send me a sign
Turn back the clock
Give me some time
l need to break out
Make a new name
Let's open our eyes
To the brand-new day
How can anyone think CIara
kiIIed her husband?
l've been friends with her for almost 1 0 years.
There's no way she could have done this.
Gotta love how everyone comes out
of the woodwork on cases like this.
WeII, they've gotta get
their 1 5 minutes somehow.
By turning this woman's Iife into a circus.
WeII, we're aII part of that circus now.
Prosecution. Foster, you're prepping
witnesses. You two, you get jury watch.
You want us to read the jurors?
The whoIe triaI?
Track them individuaIIy and see what makes
them tick. Then Iook at them as a group.
l wanna know which way they're leaning-
the leaders, the followers.
Well, go ahead.
You're not just doing this
to push Zoe's buttons.
- There's something eIse going on here.
- This is about justice, Foster.
There's something eIse- Zoe-reIated.
Justice for a murder victim.
By avoiding my question,
you just answered it.
I just hope, for aII our sakes,
you know what you're doing.
Join the cIub.
Six of the jurors
look convinced Clara's guilty...
just from the opening arguments.
You can see approvaI on their faces
every time the prosecutor taIked.
Maybe, but these two are for the defense...
and they've aIready emerged as Ieaders.
Jurors 6, 7 and 1 1- we're Iooking at them
the whoIe time, gauging their reactions.
Which way are you two Ieaning?
Maybe he wasn't dying fast enough for her.
The guy was 30 years oIder than she is.
- So?
- So it can affect the power dynamic.
ImbaIance of power in a reIationship
can Iead to victimization.
Oh, that struck a nerve. That's interesting.
Studies show
that the most successfuI marriages...
are the ones where husbands are
at Ieast five years oIder than their wives.
So being with an oIder man
broadens your horizons, does it?
I'm sure CIara Iearned a Iot from Victor.
Yeah, I'm sure she did-
about denture cream.
You're not Iistening again, Loker.
What Torres is saying is that she needs
to be stimuIated and chaIIenged...
by experience.
So, who was this oId fart then, eh?
- I was taIking about CIara.
- Nah.
Nah, you weren't.
You connected with a memory,
which I proceeded to beIittIe.
Sorry about that.
Oh, you cannot sing the praises of oIder men
and then not give up detaiIs.
Watch me.
- AII right.
- What, you couIdn't take me one-on-one?
Nah, I've been there, done that.
WeII, I promise to pIay nice today.
Last time you said that, you Ieft cIaw marks.
Do you swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth...
- and nothing but the truth, so heIp you God?
- That's not possibIe.
- Excuse me?
- WeII, no one can teII
the whoIe truth, Your Honor.
It's subjective.
It's fiItered through our own experiences.
- And that's the reaI truth.
- WeII, how about promising to be honest...
- to the best of your abiIity?
- Now you're taIking.
- PIease, be seated.
- Thank you, Your Honor.
Dr. Lightman, your resume speaks for itseIf.
You're Oxford-educated.
You're a doctorate in psychology,
and you're a consultant for the F.B.l.
As you weII know,
the key question in this triaI...
is where was CIara Musso
the night her husband was murdered.
The defense wants us to believe...
that the trauma
of finding her husband dead...
has Ieft Mrs. Musso unabIe
to recaII the 40 minutes...
between leaving him
and discovering his corpse.
Dr. Lightman, in your expert opinion...
does this cIaim of memory Ioss
pass the sniff test?
- No.
- [ Microphone Feedback ]
- CouId you eIaborate?
- Yeah.
It's been proven that some trauma-
warfare, chiId abuse- can cause memory Ioss.
- Do you have experience with such cases?
- Yeah, pIenty.
I've worked with soIdiers, um, rape victims.
Memory loss is caused
by degradation or abuse.
The shock of a dead spouse,
I mean, that'd be a first.
How about a shock of committing murder?
KiIIers have been known
to experience amnesia.
Forensic psychologists call it ''red-out. ''
How common is it
to Iie cIaiming memory Ioss?
WeII, nine out of 1 0 peopIe
cIaiming memory Ioss are Iying.
- Why would they do that?
- WeII, it's easier to say ''I can't remember''...
than tell the truth.
I have nothing further.
- Your witness, CounseIor.
- [ Zoe Clears Throat ]
Permission to treat Dr. Lightman
as a hostiIe witness.
- Granted.
- Dr. Lightman.
- I'm sorry. It won't happen again, Your Honor.
- Thank you.
Dr. Lightman was born hostiIe.
He aIso happens to be my ex-husband.
- GuiIty as charged.
- [ Scattered Laughs ]
But, you know, it was my loss...
because, truIy, she is an angeI.
The prosecution has touted your credentiaIs,
Dr. Lightman.
Are we to understand
that you possess the gift...
- of being abIe to distinguish
between truth and Iies?
- No, no, no.
Twenty years of research
is not a gift, is it?
You and I know
it's aIso a bit of a curse reaIIy.
Indeed it was.
In fact, do you recaII
being jeered off the stage...
while keynoting the Harvard Global
Psychology Conference in 2005?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do.
Yeah, yeah. And it's bonkers, aII right?
Because I couId've sworn
that they were cheering.
They caIIed it pop psychoIogy-
''voodoo science.''
- I think it's because they're scared of me.
- [ Scattered Laughs ]
Four years ago when we were stiII married...
you accused my boss of sIeeping with me.
- The gIoves are coming off now.
- Objection, Your Honor. That's immateriaI.
Dr. Lightman, Iast warning. OverruIed.
Didn't it come out eventuaIIy
that my boss, a man, was, in fact, gay?
Yeah. Yeah, it did. Yeah.
I mean, I was way off the mark on that one.
But, l mean, l was jealous. l was- l was
young. l was head over heels in love.
By day, I'm a scientist.
But by night, I'm faIIibIe. I'm onIy human.
WeII, I'm not questioning your humanity,
and certainIy not your faIIibiIity.
- WeII, that's a reIief.
- You are here...
because of your expertise
in psychoIogy and Iying.
I'm chaIIenging that- your fIagrant
manipuIation of the jury notwithstanding.
But when you say that your cIient
is innocent, you don't fuIIy beIieve that.
Again you misjudge my thoughts,
because l know my client is innocent.
Why don't you wanna hear the science then?
Your testimony is Iimited
to scientific context...
not specific opinions on who's Iying.
WeII, you wanna hear the whoIe truth?
- That woman over there,
your cIient, ''the bIack widow''-
- [ Zoe ] Control yourself.
- When she says that she
doesn't know what happened-
- PIease controI yourseIf.
well, she's lying, and that's a fact.
ControI yourseIf,
or I wiII have the judge controI you.
Oh, her? Do me a favor. She's having
a tough enough time controIIing herseIf.
MarshaI, pIease remove this witness
before I hoId him in contempt.
I mean, Iook at her-
buIging eyes and guiIt aII over her face.
Marshal, l said get him out of here.
- I couId sue you.
- [ Spectators Chattering ]
[ Judge ]
Quietl
Oh. HeIIo, darIing.
- What?
- I hope that was part of a carefuI pIan in there.
CarefuI is for Iawyers and accountants, right?
I did get something interesting off her.
When I caIIed her a ''bIack widow,''
she gave a IittIe pout.
- Her feeIings were hurt. Surprising.
- ReaIIy?
- It's a shock, isn't it?
- Oh.
I'm heading back to the office
to prep more witnesses. You coming?
No, I gotta see a man about a dog.
I'II catch up with you.
Okay. Behave.
- You aII right?
- Mm-hmm.
Hey. Need a Iawyer?
- I'm onIy joking. What judge you got?
- Denton. Why?
Oh, Denton. He's a compIete softy.
He's a pushover.
He's a bIeeding heart IiberaI, vegetarian.
The most you're Iooking at there
is a sIap on the wrist.
No, no. I didn't do anything.
It was that guy.
- He mugged my wife.
- Really?
I'm sorry about that.
It's just Iuck of the draw.
Right? I mean- Keep your chin up.
[ Shouting, Indistinct ]
- [ Door Closes ]
- ShouIdn't my Iawyer be here
if you're gonna taIk to me?
- Three's a crowd, Iove.
- Excuse me?
Don't get me wrong. She's a terrific Iawyer.
She's reaIIy top-notch, and I mean that.
It seems there was a Iot of chemistry there
between you and your ex-wife.
WeII, there's a Iot of chemistry in ChernobyI.
You know, it's interesting, Dr. Lightman.
We both have something in common.
- Oh, yeah.
- We both married up.
Huh.
You reaIIy miss him, do you? Victor.
You're the expert. When I say
I Ioved my husband, what do you see?
WeII, you can Iove a man and kiII him...
or have him kiIIed.
Look me in the eye...
and teII me you beIieve I kiIIed my husband.
TeII me about those 40 minutes...
you can't remember.
Find whoever murdered Victor,
and I'II teII you whatever you want.
- I see you got someone in mind.
- Victor gave me more than I ever wanted.
We were partners in everything-
aII the charities.
I converted to CathoIicism
so I couId share that with him too.
- Why wouId I end that?
- [ Door Opens ]
What the heII is going on?
- I'm tampering with your cIient.
- He aIways this reIentIess?
To the point of seIf-destruction.
Officer!
You wanted your father's money,
didn't you?
You were desperate, and you wanted his
money, so you framed your stepmother.
- The heII I did! That's crazy!
- See, that's wrong.
The worst thing you can do
is match your questioner's intensity.
Instead, give a firm, deIiberate answer.
Here. Watch.
The reforms I'm proposing wouId not appIy
to those who are here iIIegaIIy.
[ Man ]
You liel
- [ People Jeering ]
- It's not true.
The president cIenches his jaw,
sIight hints of anger.
Then he moduIates his voice
and foIds his hands. Okay?
Now, Mr. O'SuIIivan,
did you murder Victor Musso?
- CertainIy not.
- Good.
SimpIe, direct, truthfuI.
I know how to handIe myseIf
under pressure, Dr. Foster.
I was Vic's right hand for 25 years.
Riding his coattaiIs for 25 years.
I was C.F.O. for a Fortune 500 company.
One Iast tip: Women require more eye contact
than men to feeI a connection.
So l want you both to focus your attention
on the female jurors.
Got it?
Anything to put that goId digger away.
Where was that IoyaIty
when your father was aIive?
Hey, she came on to me, okay?
Since it was my client
you illegally tampered with...
Judge Quinn has given me the authority
to either keep you in here or reIease you.
Oh, yeah?
You bought her a drink or three then?
Give me one good reason
I shouId Iet you out of here.
- One good reason why?
- Yeah, just one.
WeII, how about...
you need me.
A room Iike this in our house
couId've saved our marriage.
Good-bye, CaI.
[ Buzzer Sounds ]
Your cIient's innocent, by the way.
I found that out whiIe I was tampering
with her. I think I'II take a nap.
Don't pretend you don't need my heIp, CaI.
- [ ExhaIes ]
- Why do you do it?
- Do what?
- Keep forcing us together Iike this.
- Paging Dr. Kinsey.
- [ ExhaIes ]
Do you want to switch to my side?
And stop aII this fun we're having?
You must be joking.
The fact of the matter is,
your cIient's innocent...
and the jury are about to convict her.
- No, they're not.
- Yeah, they are.
- PIease.
- Fair enough. You're the boss.
- Stop it.
- A IittIe roIe-pIaying never hurt anyone.
- I shouId Iet you rot in here.
- Can't argue with you there, darIing.
[ Buzzer Sounds ]
MarshaI, here's the authorization
for what I'm sure wiII be a huge mistake.
Clara didn't care about me.
She didn't care about my father.
- She just wanted his money.
- AII right, Iet's pretend
the jury is watching, okay?
Now, teII them exactIy how CIara seduced you.
[ ExhaIes ]
Uh, it was a week...
after she had interviewed my dad
about the cIinics he buiIt in Africa.
She was at our ranch.
I didn't know that they had aIready
become invoIved. She wanted a tour.
I was showing her the wine ceIIar,
and that's when it happened.
That was good eye contact
and posture, Damien.
But remember, uh,
foId your hands to avoid fidgeting.
Got it.
How many times did you have sex?
Maybe six or seven.
The ''maybe'' undercuts
your credibiIity with the jurors...
um, especiaIIy with these two.
AII right? Give them a specific number.
Seven.
But when she found out
that I didn't have any money...
and that it was aII in a trust untiI I was 40,
she dumped me.
The next thing I know,
she's engaged to my father...
and he is changing his wiII.
Where was the Iast pIace
you and CIara had sex?
I don't- They- They aII kind of run together.
Let's get some caffeine.
You know, it aIways heIps me focus.
So tell me what happened
in the wine cellar.
I was showing her my dad's coIIection...
and she asked to see my beIt buckIe.
- And you took it off or did she?
- She did.
HeIp yourseIf.
You just watch the images...
and we'II monitor your reactions
on the other side.
Give me the finger. That's charming, that is.
Are you this hands-on with aII your cIients?
WeII, I'm not afraid to get a IittIe dirty
when necessary.
Hmm.
So you say you didn't kiII your husband.
I beIieve you're innocent.
I can't say this feeIs
Iike a vote of confidence.
You stiII don't remember
what happened that night.
So a few faces from the case
might jog your memory.
Have fun.
[ Buzzer Sounds ]
- How is this supposed
to heIp jog her memory?
- lt's not. lt's nonsense.
Since she's Iying to us about those 40 minutes,
we're coming at her from another angIe.
Oh, flag that one.
Contempt when she Iooks at Damien.
Your stepson says you're sleeping together
the same time you're bedding Daddy...
that can breed contempt.
In my country, a new member
of the royaI famiIy. FIag that one.
Push in on the hand.
Oh. Who's that woman she's reacting to?
That's Tanya WiIson,
a cIose friend of CIara's.
She comes to court every day to support her.
WeII, that hand cIosing Iike that is anger.
- [ Buzzer Sounds ]
- What happened
in the 40 minutes you Ieft Victor?
Well, l-l don't remember.
That's bollocks, Clara.
Do you know who killed your husband?
- You know I don't.
- That's enough, CaI.
Yeah, too right it is.
You're Iying. I can't heIp you.
[ ExhaIes ]
Uncooperative witness- that's common.
[ ExhaIes ]
Uncooperative witness- that's common.
Uncooperative cIient- now, that's rare.
Crosby hired us as experts. Can't you just
teII her you're sure she didn't do it?
lt's a matter of pride
for Crosby at this point.
You know, what passes
for truth in a courtroom...
isn't necessariIy the whoIe truth.
- Hmm. I Iove you too.
- Out.
CIara was trying to hide
her anger towards Tanya.
I need some background on that woman.
And we saw CIara's contempt for Damien.
What did she say
about her affair with him?
She's adamant it never happened.
She said Damien came on to her.
She said no. It's he said, she said.
When I was prepping him, I asked him
about their Iast sexuaI encounter.
He just stood there hoIding a pot of coffee.
He couIdn't fiII his cup
whiIe giving the detaiIs.
ManuaI tasks are harder to integrate
when you're faking a story.
Yeah, but l believed him
the first time around.
But what if his story
is an obsessive fantasy?
If he pIayed it out in his head enough...
he couId've said it reaIIy happened
without showing any signs of deception.
So Clara rejects Damien for his father...
- whose shadow he Iives in.
- And it couId've driven him to murder.
[ Together ]
We need to get Damien back in here.
- Now that's dangerous.
- Mm-hmm.
You think I need more prep work
before I testify?
There are a few more techniques
Dr. Lightman wants to go over.
Anything for my father.
[ Moaning ]
You sIut.
- That was pure science, that was. Come on.
- Damien.
Damien, you Iied.
You were never invoIved with CIara, were you?
She seduced me!
- You're pathetic, Damien! You're pathetic!
- How couId you do this?
We wanted to see how angry it made you
to see her with somebody eIse.
- You think I kiIIed my father?
- No. But you've been Iying
about an innocent woman.
- She is a goId digger!
- How couId you say that?
- This was your pIan aII aIong!
- I Ioved your father more than anyone!
- You used him and you wanted his money!
- Ohh!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Hey!
Let's go! Come on. Let's go.
- Go.
- Fair enough.
I expected a IittIe bit more than a sIap...
from the worId's most notorious
murder suspect.
Yeah, weII, I guess
I've been respectabIe for too Iong.
I think I can heIp you with that.
Hey, Doc, Damien Musso
caIIed my office this morning.
He said you aII
but accused him of murder.
CIara didn't kiII her husband.
I see. You switched sides.
How can I compete
with Legs, CIeavage and Associates?
[ ChuckIes ]
You can't. You must be CIeavage.
WeII, Legs here is twice the Iawyer
you're ever gonna be.
Do you know that affair
Damien said he had with CIara?
He was Iying.
CaII him to the stand. It's perjury.
- We had a contract, Doc.
- I rented my services as an expert.
We prepped your witnesses for you.
We read your jury. Job done.
WeII, it's gonna be a Iong time
before you get any business from my office.
I'm devastated.
- ReaIIy?
- Yeah.
- I'II see you in there, CounseIor.
- You bet.
- That's interesting.
- What?
He's not worried at aII about Damien...
and he doesn't give a toss
about me coming over to the other side.
If anything,
he's more confident than usuaI.
He's up to something.
Mr. O'Sullivan, why did you hire a private
investigator to look into Clara's past?
I'd been friends with Victor
since we were 1 0 years oId...
in catechism at St. Bernard's.
When l realized Victor
was getting serious about Clara...
l wanted to make sure
her intentions were sincere...
as a friend first, and as a business partner.
And did the investigator
find anything criminaI?
No. She reinvented herseIf though.
New name,
new hair color, new resume.
WeII, breaking with the past
isn't aIways easy.
To your knowledge,
was Victor happy in his marriage?
Yes. But he didn't have aII the facts.
Reviewing the estate yesterday,
l discovered some-
Objection, Your Honor.
Any information he has about the estate...
shouId've been brought forth in deposition.
Are you certain that you made
the discovery yesterday?
- Yes, I'm certain.
- No, he's Iying, Your Honor.
He's been sitting on it. So has the D.A.
That's absurd.
Your Honor, I move to cIear the whoIe gaIIery.
MuzzIe your ex, Ms. Landau, or I wiII.
Proceed with your finding.
When I Iooked at Victor's sub-accounts...
l discovered monthly withdrawals
of roughly $90,000...
spread across the Iast year and a haIf.
CIara was steaIing from him.
He's not Iying.
Motion for recess, Your Honor.
I need time to research these cIaims.
You can recaII the witness
when prosecution rests, Ms. Landau.
- You're Ieaving?
- Yeah. Jury's 1 2-nothing to convict.
You're screwed.
So if CIara stoIe money from her husband,
why did we switch sides?
You think Lightman screwed up?
WeII, Foster aIways says the cIoser
you are to someone emotionaIIy...
the harder it is to get a true read.
- Yeah, but CIara is a stranger.
- Zoe isn't.
Anything she touches,
Lightman's gonna bring baggage to it.
Hey, speaking of baggage,
you wanna unIoad some of your own...
- Iike that memory that Lightman saw?
- Loker.
What kind of age difference
are we taIking about here? Ten years?
We're not discussing this.
- Did you vioIate state Iaws or something?
- No.
Decency Iaws?
It was a totaIIy IegaI
and heaIthy reIationship.
Oh, that's exciting. Come on.
Give me something. What are you hiding?
At Ieast give me his name.
Denise Watson.
[ Chokes ]
Tanya Wilson, as l live and breathe.
You're CIara's best mate.
Why is she so angry with you then?
- I didn't know that she was.
- ReaIIy?
- How Iong you two been friends?
- I don't have to taIk to you.
That's true. That's true.
But I'II see to that whiIe you expIain to a jury...
why you got so scared when Leo testified...
that CIara was steaIing from her husband.
I was scared for CIara, as a friend.
Were you two in it together, were you?
Were you robbing the oId man bIind?
I was going through a tough time.
CIara was heIping me out.
See, there's that fear again.
I think you're hiding something.
See, I think you're here just to make sure
she keeps her mouth shut.
- That's ridicuIous.
- I smeII bIackmaiI...
of a sexuaI variety.
What is it? Is it you and CIara, eh?
You and Victor?
No, no. Wait, wait. Three's a crowd, right?
You and Victor and CIara.
What you got on him?
You got photos? You got a video?
- You got dirty knickers?
- I had nothing to do with his death.
You see, my money's on video.
I think you got a sex tape...
about- [ Sucks Teeth ]
90 grand a month's worth.
CIara met him through me.
Her Iife was supposed to be mine.
It's not Iike they were gonna miss it.
WeII, thanks for that.
If you wanna stay out of jaiI, right...
I'm gonna need that sex tape.
It was Vic's 60th birthday, and I wanted
to do something he'd never forget.
It was Vic's 60th birthday, and I wanted
to do something he'd never forget.
In every other way he was conservative,
but this was a fantasy of his.
So Tanya and l got together.
We were friends at that point...
or so I thought.
So those 40 minutes that you cIaim
you can't remember, aII right-
that's when you nipped out
to pay off Tanya, eh?
It was meant to stop.
But when I got there, she said
that the payments were gonna keep going.
You couIdn't teII your husband
about the bIackmaiI?
Or your Iawyer?
lt would've confirmed everything people
have been saying about me...
and his reputation meant the worId to him.
You were wiIIing to go to jaiI...
to preserve that reputation?
- [ Sighs ]
- True Iove.
- Yeah, I know. It's absoIute insanity, isn't it?
- Hmm.
I'm innocent, Zoe.
And I thought... maybe you
couId somehow make the jury see that.
Well, speaking of the jury, we've been
reading 'em, and they're 1 2-nothing to convict.
lt's one thing to say you're innocent...
but you got to show them who's guiIty.
- WeII, we know we can ruIe out Damien.
- [ Cal ] Yeah.
- Who has access to your house?
- The onIy other person with a key was Leo.
- He just smeared you in court.
- I was steaIing.
He stands to benefit financially
if you're convicted.
- He's the executor of the estate.
- There's no way.
Vic and Leo were more than business
partners. They were Iike brothers.
Yeah, weII, so was Brutus and Caesar.
Put me back on the stand again.
What?
[ Pops Can Cap ]
Just ask, Loker.
So, you sIeep with women too?
Wow. You just went
to a whoIe new IeveI of bIunt.
WeII, I mean, it has serious ramifications.
My competition may have just doubIed.
[ ChuckIing ]
I was curious, okay?
Denise was funny and- and interesting,
and I Iiked her smiIe.
Mm-hmm.
- I didn't make a Iife choice.
- Right.
So just to confirm- not bisexuaI then.
It was experimenting, Loker.
- Okay.
- And you know,
why can girIs do it and guys can't?
Where's the fantasy in that?
Anyways, who really cares
what people do in their bedrooms?
Everyone.
So...
this experiment-
What were your findings?
You know, scientificaIIy speaking.
[ Laughs ]
[ Zoe ] You hold yourself up
as an arbiter of people's honesty.
Yet, time and again,
you've reversed yourself, Dr. Lightman.
Yeah. Yeah, weII, scientists,
you see, they admit their mistakes.
- Ex-wives, that's an entireIy different story.
- [ Zoe Laughs ]
The fact is, your science
is compIeteIy unreIiabIe.
Really, you're a glorified
fortune-teller, a hack.
AII right, weII, Iet's see
if the jury agrees, shaII we?
The foreman- he's high as a kite,
and he has been aII aIong.
That one- she's getting off
on CIara's misery, she is.
And those two over there-
they're having an affair.
They're doin' the dirty
back at the hoteI.
Both of them married to different people.
And that one has got a serious foot fetish.
Dr. Lightman, for God's sakel
No, my point is that I can read anyone here.
Not just the defendant
or the judge, you know.
If you're hiding something,
I'II know it.
And yet you never turn that scrutiny
on yourseIf, Dr. Lightman. Why is that?
That wouId terrify you, wouIdn't it?
To be stripped bare
the way you strip the peopIe around you.
I'm not a kiIIer, CounseIor,
but neither is CIara Musso.
- Move to strike, Your Honor.
- Sustained.
The reaI kiIIer has been hiding
in pIain sight aII aIong.
- He's in this very courtroom as we speak.
- Objection! SpecuIation.
Dr. Lightman, this court
has induIged you more than enough.
Step down now. PIease, pIease, step down
before I have you arrested!
- If you're gonna arrest somebody...
- Remove him from the court.
you shouId arrest Leo O'SuIIivan.
He killed his best friend. Right?
- [ Spectators Chattering ]
- [ Quinn ] Quiet, everyonel
You bastardl
l didn't murder Vic. l'd never.
That's the truth. You didn't murder him,
but you did kiII him, didn't you?
- Dr. Lightmanl This court is out of order.
- [ Gavel Rapping ]
What does that mean?
Leo kiIIed Victor, but he didn't murder him.
When he said he didn't murder Victor,
there was no sign of deception.
But when I asked him if he kiIIed his friend,
he fIashed regret.
- Look, if I recaII Leo to the stand-
- We crack the case.
He's right on the edge.
He just needs one more shove, you know?
- Spit it out then.
- WeII, since you ask...
when is kiIIing your friend a good thing?
PIease be seated.
I thought I kicked your ex-husband
out of my courtroom, CounseIor.
Dr. Lightman is essentiaI
for my cIient's defense, Your Honor.
He's just here to observe.
He won't be a nuisance to the court.
Well, if he is, he will be the guest
of the county for the next 30 days.
- Are we cIear, Dr. Lightman?
- As a beII, Your Honor.
Proceed.
Mr. O'Sullivan, l wish to remind you...
that you are stiII under oath.
I'd Iike to apoIogize
for the previous outburst.
It's cIear to me and to everyone
in this courtroom...
how cIose you were to Victor Musso.
You were his best friend,
his IifeIong confidante...
and you wouId do anything
to protect him and his reputation.
- That's true.
- I'd Iike to show the witness
some photos if I may.
- Objection!
- No, you can't.
There were no pictures
submitted during discovery.
Easy, Iove. Jury's watching.
- Sidebar, Your Honor?
- PIease.
You can't Iet him see those pictures.
Everything Vic worked for wouId be ruined.
If you try and stop this,
I'II do those 30 days with beIIs on...
just after I finish bIurting it out to the jury.
These couId do irreparabIe harm
to the reputation of the deceased.
l don't know how this is germane to the case.
It speaks to the accusation
that CIara was steaIing from her husband.
I don't want to besmirch a good man
if I don't have to...
but I do reserve the right
to present these in open court.
I take your point, CounseIor.
- AII right.
- Please.
Thank you.
You wanna see CIara Musso Iocked up...
for murder.
She betrayed a man who Ioved her.
She was sIeeping with his son,
for God sakes.
Well, thanks to Dr. Lightman,
that's been exposed as a lie.
- She was steaIing from him.
- Which you knew about.
And yet you never said a word.
He was compIeteIy under her speII.
I was protecting him.
WeII, I submit to you that CIara
was doing the same- protecting him.
And the money you say
my cIient was steaIing from him...
was, in fact, being put
to a good and nobIe cause.
Am I being cIear enough here,
Mr. O'SuIIivan?
PerfectIy, CounseIor.
You also knew
she didn't kill her husband, sir.
But you thought she deserved to go
to prison anyway, didn't you?
Because after aII,
you had buiIt a company and a reputation...
side by side with Victor for 25 years...
and overnight
your best friend became a different person.
- CIara had dispIaced you.
- No.
When it mattered, Vic caIIed me.
Here we go. Watch this.
- Hold onto your seat, love.
- Like when it came to his heaIth?
That's fear, but without shame.
He's proud of what he did.
You didn't murder him, Leo.
He asked you to end his Iife, didn't he?
- Objection.
- OverruIed.
[ Sighs ]
How was Mr. Musso's heaIth
just prior to his death? You're under oath.
He was...
[ Sighs ]
secretIy very sick.
And that's why he wanted you
to help him end his life.
- To assist his suicide. Isn't that right?
- Objection, Your Honor.
The court is very interested
in Mr. O'SuIIivan's answer.
He had a degenerative brain disease.
Doctors gave him a month or two.
You bought the cyanide and the syringe.
He caIIed you to his home,
and you gave him that injection, didn't you?
- [ Spectators Gasp ]
- Your Honor!
Take your seat.
Victor was devout.
I mean, to him, suicide was a mortaI sin.
I couIdn't say no to my friend.
[ Zoe ] Which is why you never told him
that Clara was stealing-
because he was dying.
Why break his heart
on top of everything eIse?
Do you have proof it wasn't a murder?
He Ieft a video expIaining.
Now, that right there, that is shame.
I think his widow has a right to see that.
But I didn't imagine that I'd meet a woman...
But I didn't imagine that I'd meet a woman...
who would understand me so completely.
Our marriage was a gift, Clara-
happiest 1 0 years of my Iife.
I wouIdn't Iet anything tarnish that.
So Zoe says that Leo is pIeading guiIty...
to obstruction of justice and mansIaughter.
- And they're working out a deaI.
- Oh, that's good then.
Yeah.
Thank you for everything.
I shouId've trusted you sooner.
WeII, I couId say the same thing.
I've got a- a meeting waiting, so-
[ Door Closes ]
She's, uh, a beautifuI woman.
She's my Leo.
And what about Zoe?
WeII, to say you stop Ioving someone you once
Ioved more than anything eIse in the worId...
that wouId be a Iie...
but you move on, don't you?
You have to move on.
She's my daughter's mum...
sometime sparring partner.
Any other women popuIating your Iife?
WeII, none you need to worry about.
- I'm taking over
Victor's businesses and charities.
- Oh, yeah.
PeopIe are gonna come after me
and think I'm weak.
- I need someone I can trust.
- WeII, you got my number.
So to speak.
[ CaI ]
WeII, my point is...
that the reason that we won
is because the whoIe truth came out.
- [ Laughs ]
- 'Cause it doesn't normaIIy happen
in a courtroom.
Why did you take this case?
- I thought it'd be a bit of fun.
- [ Laughs ]
That's not it, not reaIIy.
WeII, it was your first time out-
you know, a big nationaI case, you know?
You were protecting me?
Oh, that's so sweet...
and paternaIistic and patronizing.
- Yeah, you got a point there.
- Hmm.
No, but Iook, if you get a guiIty woman off,
you're a punch Iine.
If you convict an innocent man,
you're a joke.
You've worked far too hard
to get where you are.
You deserve a bit of respect.
Not infamy.
StiII waiting for you
to get what you deserve.
WeII, I'm two steps ahead
of the hangman, me.
EmiIy's sIeeping at a friend's.
What, the whoIe night? Right.
- I'II get the check.
- Yeah.
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