The Practice (1997–2004): Season 6, Episode 21 - This Pud's for You - full transcript

DOLE: Previously
on The Practice...

My name is Hannibal Lecter.

Do you plan to argue insanity?

You murdered and ate
three people, Mr. Lecter.

O'MALLEY: I didn't kill them.

The other man killed them.

MAN: He has never denied
consuming the victims,

but it's always the other
persona who stabbed the girls.

Hello, Clarice.

Does Bobby know?

Does he know what?



That you're in love with me.

Instead of persecuting me,

you should be looking for him,

especially since
he's planning to kill Clarice.

DOLE: I got stabbed
two years ago.

A man stuck a knife
into me three times.

I have never gone back
to being okay,

no matter how much
that you insist that I have!

MAN: We find the defendant,
Lawrence O'Malley, not guilty.

GAMBLE: What I'd like to do
is get him civilly committed.

I need you to testify
against him.

Just get him,

and if he resists,
shoot him.

He's a cannibal,



and he has
made it clear

that he is coming after me!

The petition is denied.

Come near me,
I'll kill you.

(door bell rings)

O'MALLEY: You'll go to heaven,

and I will
take you there myself.

Why don't you go on ahead
without me?

(gunshot)

Lindsay!

DOLE: I told you--

I wasn't gonna go
through it again.

(music playing)

WOMAN (over phone): 911.
Is this an emergency?

Yes, it is.

A man has been shot.

It may be fatal.

My name is Robert Donnell.

WOMAN (over phone):
Slow down, sir.

I'm not speaking
very fast, ma'am.

The address is 1312
Beacon Street.

WOMAN (over phone):
There's a gunshot victim?

Yes.

We need an ambulance
right away at 1312 Beacon.

WOMAN (over phone):
And who shot the man?

A man has been shot.

Please get an ambulance
to 1312 Beacon.

(beeps)

(music playing)

You okay?

Yes.

Is he dead?

I think so.

Did I kill him?

(music playing)

(sirens wailing)

(tires screeching)

O'Malley?

Three shots.

Where are they?

In the bedroom.

There's an army in there.

What happened?

We need
a few minutes, please.

Everybody here okay?

We need
a few minutes, please.

This room is considered
part of the crime scene.

The police will need
to come in.

No crime was committed.

Please give us two minutes
and we'll be out.

Okay, there is no way
you talk.

FRUTT: Whoa, whoa, whoa!

I know conventional wisdom says
don't talk, but here,

given our relationship
with Helen?

Helen can't cut this off.

FRUTT: Look, this is exactly
the kind of scenario

where the conclusion tends
to follow the assumption.

If we don't cooperate,

the assumption will be
possible murder.

YOUNG: The man was unarmed,
three gunshots.

They're gonna be thinking crime.

FRUTT: Possibly, and if
we don't talk, definitely.

Everybody shut up!

This is what we're gonna do,

she's in some shock.

She needs medical attention.

We need to get her
to a doctor now.

That'll give us some time.

We can take this time

and go over
what we'll give them.

Are we clear?

I'll get you admitted
to the hospital.

You'll stay there tonight.

Bobby, you'll stay with her.

We'll have your clothes sent.

When you check out tomorrow,
you come directly to the office.

I'll have security
at your room.

Other than the doctor,

you'll talk to nobody.

Now, say absolutely nothing
on our way out.

I'll talk with Walsh,

Walk right out.

Don't even break stride.

Ellenor, you and Jimmy
stay behind

till they kick you out.

We need some ears in the room

to get a sense
of what they're thinking.

Let's go.

Lindsay's in no shape
to talk right now.

She needs medical attention.

We're gonna get her
to a doctor.

Could we just ask--

She's in some shock.

We can try to set
something up for tomorrow.

Come on.

Were you here
when it happened, bobby?

I need to be
with Lindsay.

Manslaughter?

WASHINGTON: We should
consider it.

Consider it?

Consider this!

They got no body.

You can't prove no slaughter
without the man.

Rodney, they can prove murder
without a body.

I don't want to have
to tell you that again.

They found remnants
of her in your car.

Well, pet the pud, then,
for luck.

We need--
Nor do I want

to tell you again
to stop asking me

to pet the pud.

Sucky sucky, gimme gimme?

Rodney, I will get off
this case right now.

I swear.
I'm sick of it.

No plea.

We're gonna win this thing, Bec.

You, me, and Pugsly,
we're a team!

Now come on, let's go!

You don't remember
shooting him at all?

No.

I remember he said the thing
about me going to heaven,

and then I--

I mean, then I was
in my room.

And I went to the door
to look out.

Bobby was calling
the police.

O'Malley was on the floor.

The press
is already calling.

I assume
we have no comment.

YOUNG: None for now.

Public opinion could sway

the decision to indict.

We should probably
issue something.

You learn anything
last night?

Pretty tight-lipped.

Helen said they'd probably
be open to self-defense,

but Lindsay's got
to give them a statement.

Where are we?

No decisions
have been made yet.

Let's get everybody
in the conference room.

Where's Rebecca?

She's in trial.

After impounding the vehicle,

we did an inventory search.

We found some blood
in the trunk.

Did you do any DNA testing?
DETECTIVE: We did.

It was an exact genetic match
to the victim, Nancy Connell.

GAMBLE:
What else did you find?

DETECTIVE: Also in the trunk,

a hammer

with dried blood
and hair on the head.

GAMBLE: And, sir,
were you able to determine

who owned this vehicle?

It was registered
to the defendant.

GAMBLE: Thank you,
and at some point,

you located the defendant.

DETECTIVE: Yes,
he was arrested

trying to purchase merchandise

with a stolen credit card.

Whose credit card?

The victim's,

Nancy Connell.

WASHINGTON:
You say "the victim."

was any victim ever found?

No, we never found her,

but the blood on
the hammer indicates--

Thank you.

Any witness
ever place Nancy Connell

with my client?

No.

You really can't move
this idiot?

He says he'll accept
trespassing.

Don't look at me.

I can't even get him
to take it seriously.

He keeps demanding
I pet his pud.

How's Lindsay?

Not good.

What's gonna happen?

I'm not really in the loop.

Walsh has it.

That can't be
a good sign.

It isn't.

(knocks on door)

MR. CONNELL: Ms. Gamble?

WASHINGTON:
I'll see you back in there.

Okay.

You wanted to see us?

Yes.

The defendant may be
taking the stand.

I'm not sure you're gonna want
to be there for that.

I don't know what he might say
about your daughter.

We've prepared ourselves.

We choose to be there.

Well, even so--

MR. CONNELL:
We choose to be there.

BERLUTI:
I still say don't talk.

DOLE: In which case,
they'll arrest me.

Lindsay, the likelihood

is that there's going
to be an arrest here.

Why? He was a serial killer

violating his T. R. O.

He had no gun.

DONNELL:
She didn't know that.

FRUTT: His pattern

was to kill by knife, Bobby.

She knew that.

All I knew is that
he had come to my house

and he wouldn't leave!

Let's dial it back.

If they don't have
enough to indict,

rule of thumb,
we don't talk.

But they do, Eugene,

unless they exercise
discretion not to,

and the only way

they're ever going
to exercise that discretion

is if bobby and I
give them a statement!

YOUNG: I'd agree
if the goal here

is to avoid arrest,

but that may not be
a reasonable goal.

FRUTT: Exactly.

We should be thinking trial,

how to win at trial,

and in that case,
we give them nothing.

DONNELL: Wait a second.

You all just heard her story.

What is she going to say
that could hurt us at trial?

What?

It's your version
that concerns me.

My version?

What you said she said
before she fired.

He made the crack
about heaven.

Lindsay said,
"You go on ahead without me."

that sounds
a little too clever,

reflective, even.

We don't tell the police then.

Look a cannibal

showed up at my door,

entered the premises,

he had made threats
about killing me before.

No jury is gonna convict me
for defending myself,

and the prosecution
isn't gonna waste time

trying a case they can't win!
Lindsay--

DOLE: I am not standing trial
for murder!

It'll destroy my career.

I have a child.

We need to squash
this thing now.

And if I have to talk
to do that,

then I'm going to talk!

What if you say something--

DOLE: I won't!

I know the drill, Eugene!

We might want to argue
diminished capacity,

and we don't need
detectives testifying,

"Gee, she seemed
to know the drill."

My state of mind
today doesn't bear

on what it was yesterday.
Even so--

DOLE: If I don't talk,
they'll arrest me!

It's my decision.

I want to give them
a statement.

Bobby, my office, please.

She's in no place
to be making decisions

if she's that emotional.
Eugene--

YOUNG: And neither are you
if you can't see that.

I have half a mind
to get her judged incompetent.

DONNELL: What she's saying
isn't necessarily wrong, Eugene.

If she's screaming it,

I have to question
where it's coming from.

DONNELL: I agree.

It's a close call.

But I think
we should cooperate.

If we do this,

it's under my control.

If I don't like
what I'm hearing,

I'm shutting it down.

Okay.

I just left Helen.

Walsh has the case.

She thinks
if there's any noise,

he'll indict
to protect his ass.

She also thinks you guys
have to say something.

Otherwise,
you give them no choice.

We've decided to talk.

Okay.

YOUNG: Bobby?

Are you sure?

Set it up.

FRUTT: We all, of course,

stand united

in our support
of Lindsay Dole.

It's always tragic when there's
a loss of human life,

but in this situation,
Lindsay was defending

her own life.

As you know,

this office tried to get

Mr. O'Malley
civilly committed.

We regarded him as a danger
to himself, to others,

and especially to Lindsay

since he had repeatedly
threatened her.

(indistinct chatter)

REPORTER: Is there a reason
she won't speak to police

about what happened?

The only reason was medical.

Lindsay was naturally
suffering from some shock

and was taken to a hospital.

She plans to fully cooperate

with this investigation.

In fact, members of this office
are arranging for her

to meet with police as we speak.

(indistinct chatter)

WASHINGTON: If you tell me
to kiss Pugsly one more time,

I'll file a motion
to withdraw.

Rebecca...

WASHINGTON:
Stop touching yourself!

It's a problem, okay?

One doctor told me
I could cut back

if I got others to touch it--

sucky sucky.
That's it!

EDSEL: Come on,
come on, come on.

No judge is gonna let you off
middle of trial.

Like I'm the first client
ever ask you

to lick his chopper.

Hmm? Huh?

(chuckles)

Do I testify or not?

If you don't testify,

the victim's blood
in your car,

your prints
on the hammer,

her blood and hair
on the hammer--

all that goes unanswered.

You do testify,
your record can be introduced.

There are risks
either way, Rodney.

I think the jury
has to hear from me.

They don't get to hear
about the other, right?

The other murder/rape?

No. Since
you were acquitted,

that can't come in.

Excellent.

I'll testify.

Anything she said
to her husband, out of bounds--

marital communication.

Anything she said to us,

out of bounds--
lawyer/client.

Anything she said
to her doctor, out of bounds--

privileged.

Can we ask her her name?

Look, she doesn't have
to talk at all.

We can arrest her right now

whether she talks or not.

Oh, why haven't you?

Would you like us to?

All right.

We're here to cooperate.

YOUNG: We're offering you more
than you're legally entitled to.

We're just setting up
the ground rules.

It's your choice.

Bring her in.

No.

You talk to her
at our firm.

Why?

Because that's the way

it has to be.

Eugene and Jimmy just called.

Walsh agreed to meet here
under our control.

They'll no doubt want
separate statements from us

sequestered from each other.

Just tell them he was coming
toward me when I fired.

He wasn't.

Bobby, in my mind,
which is what's relevant--

Lindsay,

let's get something
very straight.

If we lie and they catch us
in a lie,

you're dead.

The truth supports you here.

You were in fear
for your life.

You just say what you saw
and remember, nothing more.

But if they think I executed
him, they'll arrest me.

Did I execute him?

I think you snapped.

Are you gonna tell them
what I said

right before I fired?

No.

I think we should say
that he was coming for me.

Lindsay--
DOLE: I threatened him

in the court room.
That doesn't mean--

DOLE: People heard me say
that I'd kill him!

Hold on!
DOLE: You hold on.

You're not the one
they might arrest!

You need to calm down!
DOLE: I won't calm down!

DONNELL: Shut up!

Just shut up.

Now listen to me.

Forensics will show
whether the guy was moving.

They'll be able piece together
everything that happened.

Don't even think about trying
to change the facts.

And beyond this trial--

if there is a trial...

you're a wife
and a mother.

You will never survive
this emotionally

if you try to lie
or cover it up.

Lindsay,

you did nothing wrong here.

I killed the man.

DONNELL: No.

You snapped.

You were under
extreme stress,

oppression.

You snapped.

That's what happened.

That's what we say happened.

Why can't I even
remember it?

EDSEL: I don't deny
being with her.

I met her, all right.

She met me,
my family, Pugsly.

She met your family?

EDSEL: Well, she would
if I had one.

Orphan at 9.

WASHINGTON: How did you meet
Nancy Connell, Rodney?

Well, I was driving home.

It was late,

and I saw this man
assaulting her.

Where?

Side of the road
in Newton.

I get out to help her,
and this guy,

he's swinging
this hammer at her.

So I did this kind of body block
on him, knocked him over.

He took off.

I helped her, and her head
was bleeding a little,

but other than that,
she was okay.

We ended up going back
to my place.

She spent the night.

Next morning, I wake up,
she's gone.

My car is gone.

I figure she must have
stole it or something.

Next thing I know,

I'm being arrested
for killing her,

which I never did.

GAMBLE: You just came
across her one night

while another man
was hitting her

on the head with a hammer.

Yes, ma'am.

And you saved her.

Yes, ma'am.

You also saved
the hammer.

I threw it
in the trunk, yeah.

You didn't call the police
to report the assault.

She didn't want that.

GAMBLE: Why, did she know him?

She didn't say.

GAMBLE: Well, surely
you discussed this other man.

I don't think we did.

She's being attacked
with a hammer.

You don't ask
what it's about

or who this guy is.

You just take her back
to your place.

Well, to be honest,

the only thing
I was interested in

was introducing her
to Pugsly.

Who's Pugsly?

My penis.

(spectators murmuring)

GAMBLE: Did you have
sexual relations

with Nancy Connell?

Yes.

GAMBLE: And the next morning,
when you woke up...

Gone.

You know, it's happened
to me before.

GAMBLE: Really?

Do they always
steal your car?

No.

GAMBLE: Why didn't you report
your car as stolen,

Mr. Edsel?

Had drugs in it.

Didn't want
to get arrested.

GAMBLE: Your car
had drugs in it.

Yes, ma'am.

GAMBLE: Well, the police
didn't find any drugs.

They did find
the murder weapon,

and they did find
Nancy Connell's blood and hair.

Well, the police probably
stole the drugs.

They do that, and her blood
must have come from the hammer.

Several witnesses
heard Lindsay Dole

threaten to kill Mr. O'Malley
in court yesterday.

Thus far, no charges
have been filed,

but police investigators
are in the building behind me

listening to what Lindsay Dole
has to say.

McGUIRE: Did you know it was him
when you opened the door?

No.

WALSH: I'm sorry.

Do you plan to supply
the answers?

I was reminding her
what her answer was.

She's still in some shock,
Mr. Walsh.

WALSH: Yes, well,
this meeting is worthless

if you're to supply signal
or influence her responses

in any way, Counsel.

Are we clear?

Ask your questions.

DOLE: I didn't know
who it was.

My door doesn't have
a peep hole.

And you just opened it?

Look, it ran through my mind

it could be him.

I thought
the likelihood is, it isn't,

but I thought it could be.

But I wasn't gonna spend
the rest of my life

afraid to open
my front door,

so I opened it,

and when it was him,
I just backed up,

and I called Bobby,
and I called the police.

Right away.

Yes.

Where was Bobby?

I was in the bedroom
checking on our son.

When she screamed,
I ran out.

O'Malley was there.

In the house.

Just inside
the front door, yes.

What was Lindsay doing?

She was calling
the police.

DETECTIVE: And Mr. O'Malley,
he was just standing there?

DOLE: He was saying,

"Why did you betray me,
Clarice?"

Bobby kept telling him
to get out,

threatened to throw him out,

and that's when
he threatened Bobby.

What'd he say to Bobby?

He just looked at me
and said,

"You might get hurt."

It was at this point

his other persona

seemed to come out.

How could you tell?

He just suddenly
looked mad, crazy.

Bobby kept going
"Who are you? Who are you?"

Then he looks at me.

Bobby.

DOLE: No, O'Malley,

and he said,
"You're going to heaven.

I'm taking you to heaven."

It looked like he planned
to kill me right then.

And what happened?

That's the last thing
I really remember.

I heard Bobby
calling the police

saying a man had been shot,

And I thought to myself,

"Oh, my God.

Maybe it was me
who shot him."

Come on, I nailed it.

Give it up.

WASHINGTON:
You didn't nail it, Rodney.

That testimony
was laughable.

You think the jury's
gonna believe

you just happened upon her
being hit with a hammer?

Reasonable doubt.

WASHINGTON: You need
to think seriously

about taking manslaughter

because that
little performance--

They have no body.

They got no witnesses
to contradict me.

That is reasonable doubt,

and you argue it,
you got that?

I don't have to do anything.

Look...

you don't make
a good impression, Rodney.

You just came off not only
as if you're lying

but as if you don't care.

Her parents are sitting
in that courtroom.

I saw the jury
looking at them.

I saw the jury
looking at you.

They are looking at you
with contempt.

Now, you need to get
your mind off your penis

and start thinking
about your neck,

because in my
professional opinion,

you are looking
at murder one,

life in prison.

Try to get that.

YOUNG: Preliminary
forensics puts you

between Lindsay
and O'Malley.

I didn't deny that.
Did you?

I didn't even talk
about where you were.

FRUTT: They also show
he wasn't moving forward.

Are they going to file?

They're giving us
no indication,

but if it looks that way,

I'd like to surrender you
down there.

The press is all over
our building.

How could they make a case?

The guy was a cannibal.

The sticking point is
he wasn't armed.

HATCHER: Rebecca,
this tape came for you.

What tape?

(sighs) There was no note.

It was just delivered.

Should I pop it in?

My name is Nancy Connell.

I'm being held.

The date is May 10th, 2002.

Here's a copy
of today's paper.

Please help me.

Please.

(sniffles)

Please.

Who was that?

It's the victim
from my murder trial.

Victim? She's alive.

I see that, Lucy.

Lindsay Dole?

Let us surrender her.

I wish I could.

Walsh ordered me
to take her here.

Oh, come on.

Please place your hands
behind your back.

Bobby...

I'm coming with you.

McGUIRE: Lindsay Dole,
you're under arrest

for the murder
of Lawrence O'Malley.

You have the right
to remain silent...

You say absolutely nothing.

All talking stops.

I need to take care
of a few things here.

Then I'll be down there.

McGUIRE: Someone will be
appointed to you.

Do you understand
these rights

as I read them to you?

NANCY (over TV):
The date is May 10th, 2002.

Here's a copy of today's paper.

Please help me.

This came to you when?

Either late last night
or early this morning,

left at the door.

And you don't know
who delivered it?

WASHINGTON: No.

Obviously,
you have to dismiss, Helen.

There's been no murder.

I'll show it to the parents
to confirm it's her.

Have you talked
to your client yet?

He hasn't arrived
from jail yet.

The transport's due,
well, now.

All right, when he gets here,

tell him the murder charges
will be dropped.

He'll be re-arrested
for kidnapping,

and I'm adding
a torture charge.

Looking at the same
life sentence.

I'll drop the torture charge

if he tells us where she is.

Rebecca...

how is she?

How would you be?

MAN: Commonwealth
versus Lindsay Dole,

murder in the second degree.

YOUNG: Eugene Young
for the defendant.

We waive reading,
enter a plea of not guilty

and ask that
the defendant be released

on her own recognizance.

WALSH: Kenneth Walsh
for the Commonwealth.

We do not oppose bail,

but we would seek to have
the firm of Donnell-Young

disqualified from
representing the defendant.

They are potential witnesses.

YOUNG: The only potential
witness would be Robert Donnell,

who cannot be forced to testify
against his wife.

Is counsel representing
to the court

that Mr. Donnell
will not testify?

We are making
no representations to the court.

In which case,
I renew my motion

to have this firm
disqualified.

YOUNG: Any such motion
would be premature

at an arraignment.

I'd ask the court
to give Ms. Dole time

to weigh how she wants
to proceed.

I won't rule for now,

but, Mr. Young,
I highly recommend another firm.

YOUNG: We'd also be seeking
an immediate trial date.

Ms. Dole is a respected
lawyer in the community

and we do not want
these baseless charges

hanging over her in perpetuity.

Commonwealth
can be ready in a month.

WEST: Trial date
is set for June 23rd.

Anything else?

The defendant is released
on $200,000 bail.

(gavel bangs)

Adjourned.

(overlapping chatter)

YOUNG: Get her
out the back.

(overlapping chatter)

Don't they have to let me go?

No, they're filing
kidnapping charges.

EDSEL: Hold on. I maybe
never went to no law school--

Funny, I thought you did.

But my friends
say that kidnapping

would be what they call
a lesser included offense,

which double jeopardy
counts for that, too.

The kidnapping
is ongoing, Rodney.

They can file for
as long as you have her.

EDSEL: Well,
I don't have her.

WASHINGTON:
Then, who does?

How do I know?

Maybe the man
with the hammer came back.

Well, it's unfortunate
you don't have her

because she's
your only ticket out.

You are facing
kidnapping and torture.

You're looking at life,
and they will get you on it.

Oh, really? Gee,

and you've been
so encouraging up till now.

You listen to me.

It's time for you
to get on my side.

Fire me any time.

The deal is this...

I walk free and clear,

or I don't help
with that girl.

They're not going
to let you out.

Well, you know what?

I can survive prison.

I can live there just fine.

Now, where Nancy Connell is,

who knows whether
she can live fine...

or not...

or for how long.

YOUNG: The hurdle we face
is whether the judge

will even allow us
to argue self-defense.

What?

FRUTT: This is just like
the Pearson case, Lindsay.

That was a wrong ruling.

Even so, we need
to brief it and prepare,

because if we can't argue
justifiable use of force,

that leaves us
with diminished capacity.

What about
mistaken self-defense?

FRUTT: That helps
with the first gunshot,

but the second two,

I'm more comfortable
with diminished capacity.

The fact that
you can't remember

pulling the trigger--

what did the doctor call it?

Psychological Amnesia.

That may be the way to go.

YOUNG: We need
to start lining up

and preparing
our medical testimony now.

We should also hire
our own forensics team.

If we could at least
make the argument

that he was leaning
towards you, that'll help.

Bobby, wait.

Before you go,

I don't see
how you don't testify.

The jury will wonder
if you don't.

Which means we might
get bounced off the case.

YOUNG: We need to prepare
a list of lawyers

who we think can handle this.

I want us doing it.

We may not be allowed to do it.

Let's fight that one first.

I want us doing this case.

We'll get through this.

We?

I'm the one
they arrested, Bobby.

I didn't see you
wearing handcuffs today.

You don't think
this involves me, Lindsay?

Not enough, it doesn't.

What does that mean?

It means I feel alone, Bobby,

like I'm always--

I was alone when I got stabbed,

then Hinks, now here.

I don't feel like
you're ever with me, Bobby,

that you understand
what I am going through

or that you care to, and I--

this is too much for me
to take on alone.

I'm sick of it.

You know what I'm sick of?

I'm sick of you
isolating yourself

only to declare
you're alone.

Let me tell you something,

would you--
Get out.

You acted alone here.

You pulled
that trigger alone.

And now my son is faced
with losing his mother.

Get the hell out.

You don't think I'm in this?

Leave me alone.

Fine. Be alone.

(door opens and closes)

(sobbing)

He says if he's not
given his freedom,

he won't reveal
where Nancy Connell is.

Helen, I believe him.

I can't let him walk.

(sighs)

Is it considered privileged
who his friends are?

Look, somebody has her.

Somebody made that tape.

I've heard him speak
of this one friend he has,

only friend I'm aware he has.

If it's an ongoing case,

you have discretion
to blow the privilege.

What's his name?

Rebecca...

she could be dying.

Walter Errol.

This is his address.

If that favor is to count
for anything, Helen.

Please let it count
for Lindsay.

GAMBLE: Personally,
I think it is a mistake

for you to represent her.

DONNELL: It wouldn't be me.

GAMBLE: I mean
your firm, Bobby.

You're too close,
let alone all the conflicts.

Name another lawyer
who would be better?

Something tells me
that isn't

what you came here
to discuss.

(sighs)

No.

Remember when you came
to see Lindsay and me

about possibly
entrapping O'Malley

or getting him
committed civilly?

Lindsay said something
at the end of the meeting.

I'm not sure
you'd even remember.

"If he resists, shoot him."

You remember.

Actually--

(sighs)

I forgot.

Have you told anybody
what you forgot?

No.

(phone rings)

GAMBLE: Helen Gamble.

What?

Dead?

They showed up
at his apartment.

Evidently,
he pulled a gun on them.

The police opened fire.

He was killed
almost instantly.

You were only supposed
to question him.

GAMBLE: Rebecca...

You just shoot him?

He pulled a gun on them.

Oh, my God.

GAMBLE: Look, the media...

is onto the connection
with Nancy Connell.

I will talk to the parents
about that, but...

bottom line,
your client is back

to being the only one
with information

on where she might be.

Like he's really
gonna help now.

He had one friend in life.

You shot him.

I wanna meet with him.

It won't do any good, Helen.

I have nothing to lose.

MAN: There they are.
MAN: Mr. Donnell, could you...

WOMAN: Eugene. Eugene.
Can you give me a statement?

(overlapping chatter)

MAN: Bobby,
will you be testifying?

The only reason Mr. Young

wants his firm
to represent the defendant

is because it curtails
our investigation.

YOUNG: Not true.
There are people

we'd like to interview
at Donnell-Young,

and now we're cut off
because--

You already
interviewed Bobby Donnell.

There are others.
YOUNG: Look,

we're not going
to impede the investigation,

but Lindsay Dole should be able
to have the lawyer she wants.

Her life is on the line.

The benefit of the doubt
has to cut in favor

of the defendant here.

Who else do you wanna talk to?

Everybody.

They were with her all day long.

They may be able to inform
on her state of mind.

Mr. Young, if I'm to allow you
to represent her,

you can't use that
as a shield.

You're to make available
everybody in your firm.

We will.

WEST: Ms. Dole,

you're sure you want your own
people defending you here?

Yes, Your Honor.

Very well.

Do we have anything else?

We do. We'd like
to enter our defense.

I would ask the court
to deny self-defense

since there's no basis.

YOUNG:
Why don't you calm down

and hear what we have
to say first?

We're not going
self-defense, Your Honor.

We're pleading not guilty

relying on
Battered-woman Syndrome.

What?

We so enter it for the record.

(indistinct chatter)

MAN: Why Battered-woman
Syndrome?

MAN: Why not self-defense?

(overlapping chatter)

MAN: That's enough
right there, hold it.

Get out of my face.

I'm in your face, Rodney,

and I'm gonna stay
in your face

until you tell us
where Nancy Connell is.

Hey, you're the murderer.
I haven't--

You tell us where she is,

you eventually get released.

Get this bitch
out of here.

GAMBLE: I just issued
this little press release,

and I let it slip...

that you're
a suspected pedophile.

That'll crimp the quality
of life, won't it, Rodney?

How long you think
you'll live in prison now?

You can't do this.

You can't hang
no molester jacket on me.

I already did.

I put a clock on you.

You're a dead man, Rodney.

EDSEL: She can't do that,
can she?

Just say I'm a pedophile?

Well, what are you gonna do,

sue her for defamation
of character?

Tell her where
the girl is, Rodney.

I'll make the best deal I can.

How'd they know about Walter?

You told 'em, didn't you?

No, I didn't.

Well, let me tell you, Rebecca,

you just made me more valuable.

Besides me,
Walter was the only person

who knew her whereabouts.

They need me now
or that girl dies.

Rodney--

You get me out of here,
Rebecca.

WASHINGTON: Guards.
You had him killed.

WASHINGTON: Guards.

EDSEL: You had him killed.

You make that deal.

I know you had him killed.

I'm saying nothing, Rebecca.

You make that deal.

You hear me?

You make that deal.

(sighs) When I was up on murder,

did I take it out on you?

You got to know
I'm here for you.

I'm right here.

No matter what.

You got to know that.

I do.

I'm scared.

I've been in such disbelief,

saying they've got no case,

but what terrifies me,

I think they do.

We're not going to lose.

The day you hired me,

you said never promise
a result to a client.

I'm promising this.

We're not going to lose.

Jimmy and Bec
are gonna interview

and prepare the doctors.

They'll handle
the expert testimony.

I'll run sort of
a command center here.

I'll probably put Bobby
on ballistics.

I'll do forensics.

Okay.

I want you to try the case.

Okay.

(sighs) What's up?

Helen, what's wrong?

Rodney Edsel was stabbed...

40 minutes ago.

He's dead.

Just like that?

I'm sorry.

I never...

What happens now?

GAMBLE: I don't know.

I'm still getting
the details.

When I learn more,
I'll let you know.

Okay.

(breathes heavily)

Okay.

NANCY (over TV):
Here's a copy of today's paper.

Please help me.

Please.

Please.

Please.

(music playing)

You stinker!