"Bells will be ringin'" "The sad, sad news"
"Oh, what a christmas to have the blues"
"My baby's gone"
"I have no friends" "To wish me greetings"
"Once again"
"Choirs will be singing"
"Silent night"
"Christmas carols"
"By candlelight"
"Please come home for christmas"
So, do I get my kiss or not?
Tara, the way mistletoe works is the one standing under is the one who receives you.
Well, I'd prefer to meet in the middle.
Well, I do enjoy your approach tremendously,
but a kiss is really more traditional.
"Sure as the stars shine above."
Oh the anticipation is pure... Sally!
Hi, the last thing I want to do is come between all that collagen.
But, Alan, we have a little problem and believe it or not,
you are probably the best man to fix it.
This is Carmen Flores. She works in housekeeping here.
Her ex-husband kidnapped her two children.
This is the third Christmas he's done so.
He brings them to Peru when it's Carmen who has legal custody of them for the holidays.
Can't you just go to the judge?
She did that last year and it cost her a fortune.
The judge held him for contempt for a day.
He said it's worth it to spend Christmas with his kids in Peru.
His flight leaves tomorrow night.
I thought maybe... you could think of something?
Didn't you use to be a lawyer, Sally ?
Oh, I apologize. There go my lips again.
Must be wet collagens.
Ladies, perhaps you two should kiss in the name of Christmast.
Sorry, Sally.
Incredible dress, by the way. Hate you.
Ah, Alan. Mistletoe.
Whatever...
She came home that evening at 21.30.
Catching an early flight to surprise her husband.
But it was the defendant who was surprised.
Susan May discovered her husband, Ralph,
making love to a business associate, Marie Holcomb,
and it was more than she could bear.
The evidence will show that the defendant retrieve the gun from the kitchen,
return to the bedroom and fire 6 shots,
three into her husband, three into Marie Holcomb.
This is the holiday season.
You people should be home with your family right now.
I apologize for that.
Marie Holcomb, mother and father fly here every December from the West Coast.
This time, to attend the trial of their daughter's killer.
Susan May destroyed a lot of happy plans with that gun.
- Get in Christmas. - Sorry?
Chrismas is ours and Susan's. Don't let him claim it.
I, too, would like to apologize for taking you away from your families during this holiday season.
That's Susan's family, seated over there.
They would dearly love to be home with her.
She would dearly love to be home with them.
Imagine, if you can, as you prepare for your Chrismas.
Having a loved one murdered
and to that, the horror that the police can't figure out who did it,
and then, if you can possibly fathom
imagine that they decide to arrest you.
That's the defendant ladies and gentleman...
a law abiding, loving, faithful, advertising executive
an innocent woman
whose whole life was just suddenly and wrongly destroyed.
That's the defendant,
and that's what the evidence will show.
I... I report police twice. They say domestic.
He returned the children both times after Christmas.
Yes, that's why the police says it's for court to decide.
No one involved.
Ah, Denny. This is Carmen Flores.
- She works here in housekeeping. - Excellent.
- Why do I care? - Perhaps you don't.
First of, let me say how incredible you were last night.
The whole office is still... stunned.
Thank you.
Ah, on the topic far removed from you,
therefore much less entertaining,
though except for Carmen
her children have been snatched by her ex-husband.
Who do you know at the Boston Police Department?
I know everybody.
You hear that, Carmen ? The man knows everybody.
Her story didn't check out. It's as simple as that.
That story she gave you was...
She came home, found them dead in bed.
Was there evidence of anyone other than the victims or the defendant being at the house that night?
None.
And, detective, describe for the jury if you can
the defendant's demeanor when you arrive at the scene that night.
She seems pretty shook up.
There was blood all over her.
She claimed she got the blood on her when she went to her husband side
to see if she could revive him.
- You don't believe that. - I am sorry.
It seemed the detective is more than willing to give testimony against my client.
You don't really need to lead him.
Sustained.
Did you believe the defendant's claim?
No.
It was determine that she was standing
approximately 1.50 feet away when she fired the gun.
I am sorry. I hate to be a nuisant,
did I miss the point where she fired the gun?
Sustained.
Detective, what if anything,
led you to believe that the defendant fired the gun?
We did a trace metal test which revealed she held the gun,
and her fingerprints were on the gun.
Anything else?
We know her driver dropped her of at 9.30pm
She called the police at 11.07pm,
she told us she discovered the body as soon as she entered the house.
If so, why did she wait an hour and a half to call the police?
As I said, her story just didn't add up.
Seems from your tone, detective, you consider this kind of a no brainer.
We applied all our mental faculties just the same
and concluded that your client committed the crime.
You concluded to quickly I might add
to place her under arrest.
By the way, was the splatter analysis done in a day?
- No. That came in later. - I see.
So, when you place Susan May under arrest you were going on...
Her fingerprints were on the gun for starters.
- It was her gun, was it not? - The fingerprints were fresh.
God there perhaps, when she picked the gun up after?
We also have motives, her evasive demeanor.
She called the police, did she not?
Yes, but she wasn't truthful.
Wasn't truthful when she said she didn't shoot them?
That, and she obviously wasn't truthful
about calling the police immediately after finding the bodies.
You had her examined by a psychiatrist that night?
Yes.
The psychiatrist said she was in shock.
Yes.
Possible that the shock of discovering her murdered husband caused her the delay in calling the police?
I doubt that's what happened.
This doubt is based on your psychiatric training.
It's based on 30 years of experience as a homicide detective.
30 years as a homicide detective
told you that delay in calling the police
could not have been caused by shock.
Let's turn back to the blood splatter evidence.
This is the blouse my client was wearing, is it not?
Yes.
Lot of blood. That's all splattering?
Most of the blood came from handling the bodies.
So where's the splatter you spoke of, detective?
There are two elongated markings on the left shoulder.
- Right here... these tiny marks here. - Yes.
She supposedly fired 6 shots.
There's only two tiny marking?
The other marks are likely covered up
with the blood from when she handled the bodies.
Did you analyze these marks yourself, detective?
I did.
Are you the person in Boston Police Department who does this?
Well there are others obviously, but I started in the lab
so I am trained as well.
Was there anyone else in the lab who analyzed the shirt?
- Yes, we have a junior member... - Junior member?
It's a high profile case.
Went to a junior member?
As I said, I analyze the close with my
- 30 years of experience. - 30 years in the lab?
No.
- How many years in the lab? - Five
How about the junior member? How many years did he have?
I am not sure...
- More than five? - I believe so.
Just out of curiosity, what was his findings?
Inconclusive.
He could not determine that my client fire the gun?
Nor he can rule it out.
He could not determine that my client fire a gun?
Correct, but I determine she did.
Trace metalled my client,
did you test for powder residue on her hand?
- Yes, she tested negative. - Gee, how could that be?
We determine that she wore gloves when she fired the gun.
So, she was careful to wear gloves when she shot them,
but, afterwards, she took the gloves off and handled the gun.
If she went to shock as you say, she probably made a mistake.
Murderers often do.
So, for the purpose of explaining the delay of calling the police, you don't buy shock.
But to explain why she picked up the murder weapon bare-handed
after firing with gloves, you do buy shock
and, in fact, you seem to be selling it.
- Objection. - Withdrawn.
- Did you find the gloves? - No.
You search the entire house? I am asking, I don't want to presume.
We search the house. We did not find the gloves.
Any evidence of her leaving the house after she came home that night?
No.
Any unsolved burglary in this neighbourhood in the last year?
A couple.
That went well, right?
Yes, it went extremely well.
The problem, Susan, is we've explained...
the burden of proofs is really on us.
I still don't understand that,
as much as you keep saying it.
When you have the scorned wife, being the only one there
and her fresh fingerprints on the gun...
Trust me, we'll argue burglar but with no sign of a break in...
So my chances are the same?
No, we did very well with the witness today.
Our chance is just got a little bit better.
But if we just... we stick to the plan.
We'd like you to meet with Dr. Waylon one more time.
- Why? - In case we need to call him.
We want to be ready.
I am not too comfortable being treated like some patient.
Susan, you put your life in our hand, did you not?
You need to let us do what we do.
Can I ask you something?
I am not sure why I want to ask this now, but...
Do you believe me?
I don't know.
I certainly want to believe you, but when I look at the evidence...
I, at least, appreciate your candor.
The question the jury is going to be asking: If not you, then who?
And we've got no answer to that.
The fatal wounds for both victims were to the head.
Death was instantenous.
And Doctor, will you be able to determine the time of death?
Between 9.30 and 9.45pm.
Doctor, did you examine the stomach content of the victims?
- Yes. - What did you find?
They were both relatively full.
After eating, how long does food stay in the stomach
before emptying to the small intestine?
Generally one to two hours.
So if the victim finished dining at 7.30 as reported,
those stomach should have been empty,
unless there were killed before 9.30, correct?
Or unless they eat again after leaving the restaurant.
Was there any sign, to your knowledge, that they were eating at home?
Dirty dishes, recent garbage?
To my knowledge, there was no evidence of that.
Thank you.
But they could have stopped on their way home from the restaurant,
have dessert or something.
Oh, Not a medical question, but,
- yes, possible. - Thank you.
You may step down sir.
Mr. Shubert ?
Prosecution rest, you honor.
Ms. Colson.
Let them see some serious thinking going on.
What's your taking for free agency?
- It's killing baseball. - Hockey ?
- Salary cap in hockey. - Soccer.
Nobody cares.
You honor, the defense call Susan May.
It's just that we regarded more as a domestic custody dispute.
Her recourse would be with probate
Well, there's where we were wrong, Denny.
I thought if you were to physically and unlawfully grab somebody
and hold them of to a foreign country, it would be a crime.
- Well, I'll be damned. - So, we were wrong then.
By the way, does one need to be related to the victim to escape charges?
There's this junior member that I have my eye on.
I thought I might borrow her for the long weekend, perhaps the Bahamas.
As we understand it, the father always brings the kids back.
That's what I do. Mere joyride.
We're wasting time here. You two look like good men.
The Department full of good men.
That's why Denny Crane and this firm invest so much money in your annual ball.
Look, you arrest the husband, because "a", Denny Crane wants you
- and "b"... - I play poker with some reporters
one in particular would be curious as to why
ethnic child snatching don't get your attention,
- and "c"... - The children were kidnapped, et "d"...
You're officially on notice.
You're good when you get testy.
Came easy today.
My balls hurt.
Let's have that be the one and only time you tell me that.
I was hurrying home,
because... well... I have been away for about a week,
and I was excited to see him.
and when you got home?
I pulled into the garage, went to the kitchen, call Danny's name.
His car was there, so I was sure he was home.
It was only about 9.30. I couldn't imagine him being in bed.
But... he was.
And not alone.
No.
What happened, Susan ?
I started upstairs,
and call Danny's name again.
Still no response.
Then I went to the bedroom,
looked in.
and I saw it.
Saw what?
At first, just blood.
And then I saw one body. And then another.
What did you do?
I, first, screamed.
I looked at my husband and...
His eyes were open and there was a hole on his temple
and I went to him to see if he was still breathing.
Was he?
No.
What happened next?
I don't know.
You don't know?
I remember talking to the police at some point.
I remember I... them taking Ralph away, but...
Do you remember calling the police?
Non.
Do you remember touching the gun?
- No. - Seeing the gun?
No.
That's a very convenient memory loss, don't you think?
You recalled not doing it, finding the bodies dead.
But as your fingerprints on the murder weapon,
why you gave the police false information after,
delaying and calling the police...
- Gee, just can't remember. - Objection.
What a perfect way to tell your story
without really being subject to cross-examination.
Was this amnesia your idea or your attorney's?
- Objection ! - Sustained.
Nothing further.
The witness may step down.
The defense calls Dr. Herbert Waylon.
Approach?
This witness is not on their list.
- He's on the rebuttal list. - What's he being called a rebuttal?
You just accused my client faking her memory loss
Short leash, council.
Step back.
Dr. Herbert Waylon.
Just get up and down.
Sorry?
You don't need to ask a 64,000-dollar-question.
Because?
He will, and you can object to it.
It's basically a post-traumatic amnesia.
She saw her husband murdered and it triggered a black out.
- And she blacked out for an hour. - In terms of memory.
She unconscious.
She could have been sitting on a catatonique state.
She possibly even watched television
The prosecution thinks that her memory loss was... convenient.
Well, I personally examined this woman the day after the murders.
She was suffering from dissociative amnesia then,
as I believe she is, now.
Thank you, Doctor.
He's your witness.
I hope you're right.
You can't state to a medical certainty
that the defendant suffered from post traumatic amnesia, can you?
To a medical certainty, no.
And you can't medically rule out
the possibility that the defendant pulled the trigger that night, can you doctor?
- Bingo. - No, I cannot rule it out.
In fact, while I happen to believe her version of the events,
I make room for completely different scenario.
Which is?
Well, it's possible she looked into this bedroom,
saw her husband making love to another woman,
and that threw her to a dissociative state.
And in that state, she shot them.
I am sorry.
You're now saying that she killed them?
Well, I believe she found them as she says.
But it's possible she saw them making love,
went into dissociative state,
something we refer to, medically, as automatism,
and in that state, she may have killed them.
Then her brain creates say... false memory
of something less horrifying to her.
I have nothing further.
Her brain created a false memory?
Yes, sometimes if a person's action is so repugnant to them,
they can actually create a false version which is more psychologically acceptable.
- And they believe this is the truth? - Absolutely.
So, it's possible that she committed the murders?
No. Murder suggests an intent she would have been incapable of.
If she did this and I am not saying that she did,
she would have likely loss all conscious control.
She would have acted outside herself.
And as a defense, her brain might would have manufactured this other memory,
that she walked in and found them already dead.
Your honor, chambers.
They just backdoored insanity.
That's an affirmative defense. They did not plead.
We are not arguing.
The witness just testified she lost all her conscious control.
That witness was simply called to rehabilitate.
You are the one who impeached my client truthfulness.
You said that she was feigning her memory loss.
You went beyond my cross. Your honor, this is a ploy.
They try to sneak in alternative defense here.
"A" she didn't do it, and "B" if she did do it, she was insane.
Did you gauge the witness to get insanity?
I call the witness to rehabilitate, to support her claim of memory loss.
Knowing full well he believes the possibilty
that she committed the murder while in dissociative state.
I did not illicit that testimony, he did.
Your honor, if we want to argue insanity, we simply could have pled it.
Except you don't want to argue it, council.
You want to argue not guilty and have insanity as a fall back.
Two defenses for the price of one.
I am sure you're properly instruct against insanity.
Yes, and I am sure the jury will listen.
I move for an immediate mistrial.
Mr. Shubert, you open the door on all this with your cross.
- which was their plan. - Maybe so,
but you did the damage.
I give you time to call your own expert, but the case goes on.
Mr. Chase, Ms. Colson, I keep score cards of all the lawyers who appear before me.
Now you're being desperate.
- Too much? - Just a bit.
I never figure you to place such a premium on a kiss.
A kiss is the promise of what's to come, Tara.
A kiss is...
A Christmas eve of sex.
I actually favor...
A Christmas eve...
of Christmas eve.
I am sorry.
It's not the part where the lips actually touched.
It's the part just before that...
when they're so close...
and you know it's about to happen.
You can almost feel it, taste it.
I like that bit to last forever.
Don't you just love to make it last...
forever?
No.
Mr. Shore. I am sorry.
There's a man here.
He says he's delivering gifts for you and Mr. Crane,
and he says it's urgent.
Mr. Crane is out of the office.
Gifts?
- May I help you? - Are you Alan Shore?
Not if you are a process server.
- Silence ! - Mister...
You, shut up!
Somebody shut down the elevators!
If I hear a ding, I shoot this man on the head!
Sir, I must tell you, the last time somebody point a gun at me,
They shot me and it hurt. Terribly.
You think this is a joke? You got me arrested!
You got my kids taken away!
My kids are all I've got!
Well, it seems you have a gun. Perhaps if you trade the gun...
Alright. This is between you and me.
You have a hostage.
Everybody else, pick a door and get behind it now.
Let's clear the floor.
Kill the elevators. Kill the phones!
Everybody, go into an office, close the door.
Now!
Okay, Mr. Flores, let's talk.
Christmas is family.
I go to Peru to be with family.
- My kids are part of them. - I understand, sir.
It's not what the no-child-left-behind-act in mind.
I am going to kill you.
I'd prefer you didn't.
His name is Julio. I believe his last name is Flores.
Yes, he already fired a round, so...
- the gun is fully loaded. - 14th floor, that's right.
Yes, you can call me on 617-555-0197.
You're here because of your children.
So I ask you to think about your children.
If you go to prison, they lose their father.
With an arrest, I am gonna lose all custody.
They already lost their father!
First forensic specialist to analyze the blood splatter pattern said they were inconclusive.
This is the police expert, by the way.
Said splatter cannot prove that she fired the gun.
He's asking you to believe she wore gloves to commit the crime
to explain the lack of powder residue on her hands
but then she took the gloves off to handle the murder weapon.
It is possible there's a burglary.
The prosecution certainly can't eliminate the idea,
and yes, it's possible,
that Susan May,
seeing her husband making love to another woman,
went to a dissociative state,
acted outside of her consciout control.
But it doesn't really matter whether she pull that trigger or not,
Because she formed no legal mental intent to do so,
which is the element of the crime.
Reasonable doubt...
to whether or not she did it...
no evidence point to her that she did,
all leads to the same verdict.
Not guilty.
It's been almost 30 minutes.
You have to know the building is surrounded by now.
The police is probably in every floor.
I don't care!
My life has ended anyway.
No evidence of anyone else being there, but the defendant.
Time of death : 9.45,
15 minutes after she arrived at home.
And as to why the defendant waited a full hour and a half before calling the police.
Oh, yes, the dissociative state.
That's handy.
However upset you maybe, sir,
you must realize that what you're doing is insane.
I wonder why they didn't plead insanity.
Because there's no powder residue on her hands?
How do you explain insanity,
yet has a presence of mind to wear gloves?
That's a tough one...
These are very good lawyers.
You think you're such a great lawyer.
You feel like a great lawyer now, Mr. Shore?
I feel like a busy one.
So, if you're gonna shoot me, let's do it.
I have plans.
What happened?
I don't know, I can't see.
Okay, I see Alan. He's alright.
Sir, the phone is going to ring.
I want you to pick it up and we want you to talk to us.
No!
See all the police outside?
We must have a jumper.
I hope it isn't Paul.
Denny, you know what's going on?
Why are you women in my office?
You really don't realize what's happening?
I think I do. Let's take off our clothes.
A man has a gun drain to Alan Shore out there,
That's why the police are here.
- Out there? - He's threatening to kill him.
Why didnt' anybody come and get me?
Alright then.
Are you mad?
Mr. Crane, I don't think that's a good idea.
- It's a fantastic idea. - Denny, the police are already here.
Yes, I can see they have everything under control.
Sir, we just want to have a conversation.
If the phone even rings, I'll shoot, you hear me?
Tara, when I saw open, you open the door.
- I certainly would not. - I am an ex-marine.
I was a trained sniper... or is it a pilot?
- Mr. Flores... - Don't use my name.
Put that gun down. You'll get everybody killed.
It's Alan out there.
I am mainly a skeet shooter now,
So when I yell "pull",
that'll be your cue to yank open that door.
- You are mad. - Don't be ridiculous.
- Pick up the phone! - Don't make it ring!
I am warning you! I'll shoot, you hear me?
Pull!
- Get that weapon! Got them! - Weapon!
Denny Crane.
Is he... Is he gonna live?
Took a hit to the shoulder. He'll be fine.
Tom Delay... is a friend of mine.
He advised me to keep a rifle in the office.
My question is: Did it appear that the suspect is about to shoot Mr. Shore
when you decide to take him out?
Non, why the hell would I wait for that?
Would you like some water?
Please, it's vodka.
You're still shaking.
I hope that was it.
The way I've lived my life,
I always believed homicide is what God has planned for me.
It's nice to know that you believe in God.
Well, it's an honor in this country, isn't it?
I love you.
I don't want to marry you.
I am not even sure if I want to date you.
But I love you.
For your information since you love me as well,
this is the point that the boy ask something poetically romantic like:
me too.
Perhaps something a little less on the nose like, "you smell good".
Are you trying to defuse my trauma because if so...
No. I nearly died once and...
I remember thinking that time of those who would grieve.
I wondered whether or not I was loved.
You are.
- More vodka? - Please.
You smell good.
The defendant will please rise.
Madame Foreperson, the jury reached unanimous verdict?
- We have, your honor. - What say you?
On the charges of murder in the first degree,
we find the defendant Susan May... not guilty.
On the charges of murder in the second degree,
we find the defendant Susan May... not guilty.
Oh, my God.
The jury is dimissed with the thanks of the court.
We're adjourned.
- Congratulations. - Thank you.
I don't know what to say to you.
You give me my life back.
The doctor says that you have a lot of healing ahead of you, Susan.
Let your family take care of you.
That theory Dr. Waylon had...
that my brain is tricking me,
making me believe that I found them dead when really...
Does he believe that?
He thinks it's possible.
Brain can do that?
So, how do I know?
"Have yourself a merry little christmas"
Remember when we went skeet shooting together?
I do.
I barely remember you hit a single skeet.
I am a game player.
This afternoon, did you consider that you might hit me?
I did.
It's a good feeling you know, to shoot a bad guy.
Really.
Something you democrats would never understand.
Americans where home stands.
You want to save home,
keep them you'll ever make,
and shoot bad guys.
And... save the life of someone you love.
Wow. Big day.
Even for Denny Crane.
I consider myself many things, Denny,
but being loved is never one of them.
and now twice on the same day.
- And the Red Sox won the World Series. - And the Red Sox won the World Series.
You know,
Tara told me that she almost died,
and she thought of those who loved her.
But I found on that moment... it wasn't loved me, but rather who I love.
You know whose face I saw, Denny?
- Mine. - Liza Minelli's.
Crazy son of a bitch...
Merry Christmas, my friend.
Can I say, Happy New Year, but...
Next year couldn't possibly be this guy.
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