Trial & Error (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 6 - Secrets & Lies - full transcript

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We have two weeks
until the jury selection,

so it's really important
that we keep our momentum.

A trial is all about momentum.

That's what rollercizing
is about, too... momentum.

And grace, with just a dash of humility.

I love those Mo-mentos candies.

You put one in a soda pop,
turns it into a missile.

Yep. That's how this one went.

You guys heard me say "momentum," right?



[Doorbell rings]

[Sighs]

[British accent] Sorry I'm late.

I had to go to the dentist.
What did I miss here.

- You're talking in English again.
- [Normal voice] Am I?

[British accent] I have something
called Foreign Accent Syndrome.

Sometimes after I have anesthesia,

I wake up having a strange accent.

Anne's now British. Why not?

That's why I don't go to the dentist.

With the trial coming up,
we need to amass

as much reasonable doubt as possible.

So we're going to focus
on our new suspect,

Jeremiah Davis,



and our new possible
murder weapon, a 7-iron.

[Bleep]

We're still hoping
to find Margaret's DNA on it,

but unfortunately,
the lake it was pulled from

serves as an overflow pit

for the Davis Tobacco
& Candy Corporation,

and it is filled with toxic chemicals.

On the bright side, the chemicals

are also the reason that the severed arm

Dwayne found in the lake
was so well preserved.

I am so sick of talking about that arm.

That arm is the best thing
that ever happened to me.

It's finally my time.

Almost everybody in my family
has had some kind of fame.

My uncle got half his face
ripped off by a bear.

My granddad got hit
by a train and lived.

Not well, but, you know,
it made him a star.

I never had much attention

because I was always just the smart one.

[Chuckles]

The best thing we got going
is that our anonymous benefactor

left us a clue as to her identity.

And it's subtle,
but I think I figured it out.

[Doorbell rings]

Hey, guys.

May I help you, love?

Why are you talking like Adele?

She got it at the dentist.
Isn't that fantastic?

Did you guys see the news?

Uh, what's happening?

Ooh, I hope it's not about my arm.

I understand you have
a potential game-changer

in the Larry Henderson trail.

Well, you know, I don't like
the term game-changer.

It's not a game when a woman dies,

and nothing has changed.

Larry's still a murderer.

That being said, it is a game-changer.

We discovered this damning admission

after reviewing dozens of hours
Mr. Henderson recorded

for a little-watched
public access show in 1987.

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Yes, I admit it, I'm not to be trusted.

I'm a huge liar. But...

It was followed by a "but."
They cut me off.

Larry Henderson is 100% guilty.

Okay. Let's take some calls.

Your on, East Peck.

Hi. Uh, I think
Larry Henderson is a great guy,

and you should let him
finish his sentences.

What is your name, sir?

My name? Uh, Fairbanks Delacourt.

- Who?
- Uh, uh, Winston Lovelace.

Got to go. Love the show.

Carol Anne realizes
she's losing momentum,

so she wants to try this case
in the media.

She's playing dirty.

Oh, she is a dirty... dirty girl.

Josh.

Huh? Yes!

Anyway, we need someone
to get those tapes

from Carol Anne Keane
so that we can go through them.

We need to find that clip,
we need to put it into context

- so it's not so damning.
- Okay. I'll do it.

I just have to cancel
my date with Clanton.

[Scoffs] Clanton.

You still seeing that pyromaniac?

He's not a pyromaniac.

He's a volunteer fire... starter.

- [Scoffs]
- He keeps me warm.

Just, like... You know what,
just leave me alone.

[Normal voice] Aw, poor girl.

Hey, accent's gone!

I'm back to normal, Josh.

It's Dwayne.

Does everyone in this town
think I'm a liar?

Not everyone.
Half the office believes in you.

Half?

[Sighs] I need to clear my name.

Maybe I should take a lie detector test.

[Bleep] no! That's a bad idea.

Because if you pass...

When I pass.

Carol Anne Keane would
never allow it in court.

- And if you fail...
- When I fail.

Wait! I won't fail!

You know I believe you 100%.

But there's just no upside
in taking this test.

Fine.

I won't take the test.

And neither will Fairbanks Delacourt

or Winston Lovelace.

Damn it!

- [Bottle clatters]
- Oh!

Where am I?

Hi, Mrs. Davis.

You're in our office.

- Did... Did we, uh...
- No.

Can we?

Why don't we talk in my office?

Thank you for... for financing our case.

But I'm confused as to why.

Are we alone?

Ish.

My husband has done some bad things.

Did he kill Margaret Henderson?

I cannot say.

But what I can say is...

[Gulps]

Oh, God. That's... Oh.

Just follow the money.

Check his bank account.

Whoa!

[Grunts]

Oh, hey, Anne. Hey, Dwayne!

Heard about that arm. Congratulations.

Sherman, don't jinx it.

I got two more days before it's mine.

In East Peck,
if no one claims a body part

within two weeks, you get to keep it.

But I can't get too excited,
because I have been here before.

I, uh, I found a toe once.

I had it for 10 days
before someone came to claim it.

That's the hardest I ever cried.

Sorry, Dwayne. That was bad form.

I should have known better.

What can I help y'all with?

Is Jeremiah Jefferson Davis
still a customer here?

Well, let's see.

Yep. Yep, sure is.

We're doing an investigation,

and it would be great
if we could take a look at...

Well, now, hold on a minute, guys.

I know this is unconventional.

My wife is in labor. I got to scoot.

Y'all mind locking up
for me when y'all leave?

- No problem!
- Seriously?

Go... Go ahead.

He just left us alone in the bank?

Josh, look. You'll find
this interesting.

It says here someone recently accessed

Jeremiah's account one minute ago.

That was you.

You can't trust anybody.

It also says that Jeremiah transferred

$250,000 to a Mr. Jitt Munger

one day before Margaret was killed.

- Guys?
- Aah!

What was I thinking?

We were just checking on the...

Can't lock up without a key.

Just leave it
under the fake rock out front.

[Cow moos]

So you think this is Jitt's place?

I do, Dwayne.

Why would Jeremiah
give this guy $250,000?

I don't know.

Stranger things have happened
in this case.

Well, I take that back.

Hey, you're the guy on the news
that found my arm.

[Bleep]

What business did you have
with Jeremiah Davis?

I'm not talking till I get my arm back.

Dwayne...

Give the man his arm.

How do I know it's his?

What did it look like?

Like this one, but left.

Damn it.

Come on, all of this
is for the one interview

my dad did for the public access show?

Mm-hmm.

And you can't just tell me
which one of the tapes

- the quote is from?
- Nope.

If I had to suffer through
watching all of them, so do you.

Get ready for the most tedious
day of your life.

Around hour 16,
a moth flies through the studio.

It's a godsend.

Well, I look forward to every minute.

You ever think about switching teams?

[Chuckles]

Okay, I'm flattered,

and I did have a fling
in a youth hostel in Copenhagen.

I meant joining the prosecution.

You're a smart girl
with a neck like a swan.

Surely, you have some doubts
about your father.

Absolutely not.

He adopted me when I was 2 years old,

and no one knows him better than I do.

And, by the way, even if I were
gonna switch teams,

you would not be on my list.

We'll see. It's a small town.

You'd be surprised
who gets on your list.

We're done, pussy cat.

Fine.

Here it is.

You want to see it one more time?

No. Get it out of my sight.

I don't love it anymore.

You hear that, arm? We're through!

Okay, so why did Jeremiah
pay you $250,000?

I'm done talking.

You haven't started talking.

I can't say anything about the money.

Wait, you have a prosthetic arm.

Yeah.

If you can find someone with no prints

on their left hand, that's your killer.

You realize what this means?

Yeah! He's got three arms!

How is that fair?

I'm still learning how to use it.

When I was in Turkey back in 1977,

I came upon an old man...

a Kurd with a woven basket
full of withered jackfruit.

To understand the significance
of this moment,

I-I need to take you back to 1973.

Oh, where the hell is that moth?

The bloody handprint
with no fingerprints

at the crime scene
must have belonged to Jitt.

That means that the $250,000
that Jeremiah paid him

was for a hit on Margaret.

I appreciate that you're trying
to take my mind off the arm.

Dwayne, I know some day...

hopefully later today,

you will appreciate
how big a break this is.

If we can prove this Jeremiah theory,

we will finally have something

that takes the spotlight off of Larry.

I must say, this was a surprise.

I just can't sit home while my name

is being dragged through the mud
over and over again.

I'm not blaming you,

but a lot of it seems to come
from the local media.

I promise I will be fair.
You are in a safe place.

Thank you.

Man: We're on in three, two, and...

We're here live with violent
murdered Larry Henderson,

who, as we all know,

brutally killed his wife, Margaret.

Nice to have you on the show.

Nice to be here, Heidi.

This whole thing is one
misunderstanding after another.

For instance, in the tape this morning,

you cut me off right
after I said "I am a liar."

How did you put that up there so fast?

You see, I'm being portrayed
as such a bad guy.

Stop that!

This is why everyone
thinks that I'm a liar.

That's why I wanted
to take a lie detector test...

to prove myself.

So you would be willing
to take a lie detector test?

Yes, I would!

Coming up in the next hour,

we'll have murderer Larry Henderson

strapped to a lie detector,

answering the question,
did you kill your wife?

Nice job, Larry.

Yeah, I felt good about it.

Josh: Excuse me, Mr. Davis!

- [Gunshot]
- Damn it!

I almost hit that eagle.

You made me miss.

What do you want?

Do you know a man named Jitt?

I know a lot of men named Jitt.

You'll have to be more specific.

He's got three arms and you paid him

to kill your sister, you son of a bitch.

Whoa, Dwayne, what's going on?

I feel like I got nothing left to lose.

I didn't pay Jitt Munger
to kill Margaret,

I paid him as part
of a very generous settlement

for losing a limb at my tobacco plant.

Well, we are going to check up on that

because that is a real bummer
for me and my alternate theory.

I got a question for you.

Do you have any other limbs
lying around your factory?

I'll take a finger at this point.

Son, contrary to what you may think,

I have nothing to hide.

But I know someone who does.

This number is a safe deposit box.

I think you'll find the contents
very interesting.

Do you have a key, or...

Just bang the wall. It'll pop out.

Hey.

Don't think about leaving town,

'cause I will come after you,
and I will find you.

All right, stand down, Dwayne.

No, he thinks he's above the law.

Ain't nobody above the law.

I have no idea where you get that from.

[Gunshot, wings flutter]

In all fairness, sir,
you are hunting in a park.

Well, there are so many things
that inspire me...

art, nature...

light, dark, ocean, cosmos...

nature, dark.

Man: And yet you can't have experienced

all the things you've written about.

Yes, I admit it, I'm not to be trusted.

I'm a huge liar. But...

through my art, I find a higher truth.

In reality, I'm one of the
world's great truth-tellers.

Yes! Ah, that's it! That's the quote!

Oh, God! Okay, it's tape 14.
Take it to Josh.

If I hurry, I can still
make my date with Clanton.

We're making s'mores...

in a hallowed out Fiat.

Let's welcome Stanza Awardwinning poet

Claudia Ramirez.

I assume you've met.

Not before today.

But her poetry has stirred
the cockles of my heart.

You're quite the cockle-tease.

Claudia: I have been warned
about you, Mr. Henderson.

Hey, that's you!

Dwayne, this interview
is from like 29 years ago.

I don't think I've ever seen
eyes that color.

They're moss.

I think that could be my mom.

[Door opens]

May I help you?

It's josh. Why are you still here?

Oh, I tried to leave,
but the customers kept coming.

I just approved a small-business loan.

Great work, Anne.

Listen, I need to get
safety deposit box 213.

I'll be right back!

You know, they say rates
are supposed to go up.

Now is the time to refinance.

Thanks, Anne.

This is Josie's.

And, wait, these are all letters
that Josie wrote to Larry.

Let me see.

There's no postmark.

That is a federal offense.

Oh, it's okay.

I just gave a mortgage to a 14-year-old

to open a yogurt store.

I'm already in neck-deep.

"I hope one day I'll have
the courage to send this.

You're the most exciting man
I've ever met in my life.

The thought of
your giant hands on my..."

Wow. This got real dirty, real fast.

Josie was in love with Larry.

That means she had reason
to want Margaret out of the picture.

Anne, I don't want to jinx this,

but this is rock-solid momentum.

- [Laughs]
- Oh.

- Hello?
- Josie: You've got some nerve pulling

that kind of horse[bleep]
with me, Counselor.

- What are you talking about?
- Turn on the television, you [bleep]

We're going to ask some questions

just to establish a baseline.

How tall are you?

6'8" in skates.

How about not in skates?

I would have no idea.

He's telling the truth.

[Bleep]

All right. Now the big question.

Larry Henderson,
did you murder your wife?

His answer after the break.

You're doing really great.

Sorry about all the murdering stuff.

Eh, it's what's in the air.

Larry, stop!

As your attorney, I'm advising
you not to answer anything.

Heidi, you have no authority
to subject him to this test!

Actually, I do. He signed a release.

Oh, I signed it good.

You're really kind of
tying my hands here, Larry.

As assistant district attorney,

I'm advising you
to stop this test, or...

Can you just give me a second?

I ran all the way over here.

I'm sorry, Josh.

I know you don't want me to do it.

And, Carol Anne,
I know you're only doing

your job trying to execute me,

- which I respect.
- Thank you.

But I need to clear my name.

I want people to know
the truth... once and for all.

We're back. Let's go.

Three, two...

We're back live
with murderer Larry Henderson

for the moment of truth.

Come on, Larry.

Oh, my goodness.

You don't want him to take the test

because there's a part of you

that's afraid he may have done it.

Why don't you want him to take it?

Oh, my God! There's a part of you

- that thinks he didn't do it!
- That's nonsense.

- I'm not nervous at all.
- Me, neither.

Larry: I'm not a liar.

Okay, Larry.

For the hundreds of people
watching at home,

did you kill your wife,
Margaret Henderson?

I did not.

Gus?

He's telling the truth.

[Bleep]

Wow. That was exciting.

[Sighs]

Holy moly, that is some
freaking momentum.

Does it matter?

It's inadmissible, and you know it.

Only makes me want to fight harder.

And now you'll have to.
See you in court.

Oh, yes, you will.

We should probably let go.

I already did!

- Larry.
- Larry: No, no, no, no!

I know what you're gonna say...
You're proud of me.

No. I was going to say

never, ever do something
that stupid again.

But, wow, did it work in our favor.

I'm proud of you.

Thank you, Josh.

You've got to see this. It's a hoot!

- Ask me anything.
- Okay...

Are you my biological father?

What?

What... What kind of question is that?

Ask me if, uh, I like your outfit.

- Actually, ask me something else.
- Josh: What's going on?

Just answer yes or no.
Are you my biological father?

Of course not. You know I adopted you.

That registers as true.

Okay, well, then there's something wrong

with your machine,
because I saw those tapes, okay?

Claudia Ramirez.
She looks exactly like me.

And I saw the way
that you looked at her.

Dad...

don't lie to me.

All right, yes. I'm
your biological father.

Huh. That's true also.

Let me explain.

It was 1987... the heyday of poetry.

Your mother and I were
so beautiful and verbose.

We had one night of passion,
and then she disappeared.

It's true.

I was already married to Adelaide

or I would have married your mother.

That's a lie.

Oh, I-I didn't even know you existed.

And then your mother came back
after two years

and said she couldn't take care of you.

I adopted you so Adelaide would
never know about my infidelity.

And that is the only lie
I've ever told you.

Hold it, wait a minute. 1987?

So I'm 29? You told me I was 27.

Okay, two lies. Trust me.

- I can't trust you.
- If you lied about this, then...

who knows what else you've lied about.

[Doorbell rings]

Summer, it's Dad.

Please, can you please call me back?

[Sighs]

I've lost my daughter.

I know what you're going through.

I lost my arm today.

It's true what they say...

I can still feel it.

Larry, I know this is hard,
but she'll come around.

In the meantime,
we have got some great news.

We have another suspect.

Josie? Why is she a suspect?

Actually, it turns out
she was in love with you.

She was?

And real gross about it.

Well, that's some nice news
on a cloudy day.

Josie emptied out
my bank account and ran off.

You behind this, Henderson?

No. But I'm so sorry.

I know how much you loved your money.

Do you have any idea
where we can find her?

My guess... a long, long way from here.

My wife is a very bad woman.

Josh: In a murder trial,

things can change in an instant.

[Tires squeal]

Just when you think you have
something, it's taken away.

Fortunes rise and fall quickly.

Heidi: There is no new news

in the case of murderer
and lair Larry Henderson.

The only thing we do know
is that he did it.

And you don't always know
who to believe.

[Bleep]

But all trials have momentum,

and I know that when the door closes...

a window opens.

I know what I said.
Don't make it a thing.

Carol Anne: Am I worried? No.

No, I know I'm on the right side.

Thou shalt not kill.

And with the good Lord's help,

I will find a way to put
Larry Henderson to death.

[Knock on door]

I think I have doubts about my dad.