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thank you, sergeant.
hey, chief.
uh, so, our victim's name is carl nelson.
a 16-year-old high school junior.
he was riding his bike home from school
when an unknown assailant shot him 4 times
with a 9-millimeter weapon
from a slow moving car.
where are the victim's parents?
his mother died last january,
and his father's down there
talking to daniels. brought his priest
with him from his church.
do we know exactly why ph. d. is here?
deputy d. a. garnett asked us to pick this one up.
he said he'd explain everything when he got here.
he didn't call you?
oh, i can't find my purse.
it's got my new cell phone in it.
you lost your purse?
no, i didn't lose it, sergeant.
i just can't remember where i put it.
so, garnett's coming here? when?
he's stuck on the 405 right now,
but he said if we could wait--
no, we're not waiting, sergeant.
the killer's not waiting, and neither are we.
the very last thing i need is another deputy d. a.
telling me how to run my case.
i think he seems to think it's his case.
it isn't.
doesn't look like a gang member.
nope. these aren't shoot-me clothes.
he didn't have any weapons or drugs on him.
i'd want to search his room,
but no, nothing here says gangs.
put the sheet back over him, please.
thank you.
ok, chief.
father, uh, father watson over there...
the priest standing next to the boy's dad.
anyway, he tells us that carl here
was about to be the star witness
in a motion for a new trial.
i guess someone didn't like what he was going to say.
except he already said it.
our victim gave a deposition 2 weeks ago.
who's the defendant?
i knew you'd ask me that.
may i?
yes, sir, uh, father.
let me help you, father.
inmate's name is gerald curtis.
he's on death row.
convicted of killing husband and wife owners
of a kwikmart about half a mile from here.
well, that's one mystery solved.
garnett called us
'cause he's about to lose a good conviction.
i want to see my son!
sir, sir.
i want to see my son!
i'm deputy chief johnson.
i need you to hold yourself together
just a few minutes more.
i want to get him off the street.
he shouldn't be on the street. i want to get carl.
sir, we can go inside.
perhaps you can show me carl's room.
there might be something in there.
i'm not leaving carl on the street by himself like that.
no! this is what happens from doing the right thing.
richard, you cannot think that.
this! this!
you stay here with your son.
i'll show them through the house.
just relax.
i'll show you through the house.
all right, then.
if you're looking for drugs or weapons,
you're wasting your time.
carl wasn't that kind of a boy.
you were close to him?
yes. yes, i was. and i counseled his mother
when she was dying of cancer last january,
and carl would...
stop by my classroom sometimes.
you were one of his teachers, then?
no. he went to a public school,
but he knew a lot of the kids
at our lady queen of peace
because he's very involved in our church.
is this carl's girlfriend?
kendall price.
more like buddies. she's in my civics class.
so when carl's father said
this is what comes of doing the right thing,
he was referring to testimony
carl was about to give in the case of...
gerald curtis
and his motion for a new trial.
yes, but i can't imagine
that carl would've been killed over that.
really? can you think of another reason
someone would drive by his house
and shoot him to death?
do you know what carl had to say
that was important enough
to get mr. curtis a new trial?
i know he gave a taped deposition
to defense attorneys.
a couple of weeks ago.
d. a. : carl, can you tell us
about the events you witnessed at the kwikmart
on june 21, 2003?
it was really hot,
so i stopped to get a soda.
and then this really
tall guy came in, i mean, like,
way over 6 feet easy.
and he was wearing a red bandanna on his face.
like a robber in an old western or something.
at first, i didn't know what he was doing,
but then he pulled a gun.
and he shouted at us to all lie down
and not look at him.
and, uh...
the husband and wife that owned the store, koreans,
they were behind the counter.
and the robber guy yelled at them
to open the register.
but the husband wouldn't.
i mean, he started arguing with him,
and then just, boom! the guy just shot him.
garnett: you mind pausing the tape, please?
yes, sir.
chief johnson.
mr. garnett.
thanks for moving so quick.
you know how glad we are
to cooperate with the d. a. 's office.
right.
this is gerald curtis.
this is the man convicted
of killing the two owners of the kwikmart
you just heard about.
now, listen to carl's description
of the assailant.
yeah. like i said, he was way taller than me.
i don't know, maybe 6'1", 6'2".
and blonde hair.
but not like light blonde,
like in between, like darker.
and, uh...
it was pale.
not old, either.
like maybe 20.
and when he was emptying the register
and his bandana fell down,
he had this, like, scar running right here.
why are you just coming forward now, carl?
father watson's class put up all these fliers
asking for witnesses.
and i knew gerald curtis was about to die.
so i decided,
i had to do something.
buzz, thank you.
father watson, he's the priest
that took us through carl's room.
mm-hmm. and gerald curtis
said he was innocent all along?
pope: yeah, but they all do that.
lawyers for the freedom initiative
took him very seriously.
also, in complete frankness,
gerald's first attorney was not so hot,
so if we've got the wrong guy in line
for lethal injection,
i want to know about it, chief johnson.
given curtis' record, it made sense he did those murders.
two people put him in the store at the time
of the murders, and he never denied being there.
also, in fairness,
until we heard the deposition,
we weren't sure in which order
the victims were shot.
so his testimony is very good.
and now he's dead, which looks to me
like somebody didn't want him in court.
and it also makes it a lot harder for you
to get another conviction.
and we all know how much you hate to lose, mr. garnett.
well, it's gonna be hard to cross-examine
a videotape on the stand.
so who exactly knew
that carl was coming forward with this information?
me. gerald curtis' new defense team.
carl, of course, his dad, father watson,
his students, members of carl's church,
and probably curtis himself.
in other words,
the entire state of california.
mm-hmm. including our killer.
maybe carl didn't just describe the guy
who killed the koreans at the kwikmart, but...
his own murderer as well.
chief johnson...
a moment.
a little good news.
i paid most of the ransom estelle wanted,
and i have complete custody of my kids.
oh... that's wonderful.
oh, congratulations.
thank you.
thanks for your testimony.
you stuck your neck out, and that really meant a lot.
oh, no problem.
chief?
dinner's here.
oh, coming.
uh, i'll think of a more appropriate way
to thank you later.
don't. don't.
it's my good deed for the year.
oh, and there was something else i wanted,
it was kind of important, what was it, um...
can it wait?
sure, yeah.
yeah, i can't think of it anyway.
yeah, we'll talk later.
ok.
two weeks ago, this carl kid records his testimony.
and then 3 days before he gets to court,
where the deputy d. a. can cross-examine him,
someone blows the boy away.
doesn't that sound a little coincidental?
i don't believe in coincidence.
so let's take the systematic approach.
has anyone seen my purse?
i looked in my office and my car,
and where are my keys?
ok, good.
keys, lipstick.
what else?
daniels and i could pull the booking photos
of everyone with assault charges
who match the description in carl's deposition.
that would be white males, under 30, over 6 feet
with a scar from the mouth to the chin.
ok, sounds good.
how far back do you want us to go?
uh, let's start a year before the kwikmart murders
and take it through to today.
and then, lieutenant tao,
if you could follow up on the casings and bullets
that were in carl's body, see if we're lucky enough
to have any of them match up with the gun
that killed that korean couple, because if we are,
detective sanchez, i think someone else
might have seen carl's killer.
who's that?
gerald curtis.
he's visiting l. a. right now
to appear at his motion for a new trial
which means that the contents of his cell
at folsom have been vaulted.
we need a search warrant to go through them.
see if you can manage that
and have his things over-nighted to us.
thank you.
and then while we're waiting,
let's put together a removal order
and send it over to our new friends
over at the da's office
because tomorrow morning,
gerald curtis is gonna have to tell us
his side of the story.
listen, uh...
do you think the two of you could look
for my purse? it's big and it's black.
trust us, chief.
we know what your purse looks like.
ok, thank you. it's got my license in it,
and my credit cards, my ammunition clip,
my phone. brand-new cell phone.
it's got a ring.
um, have you tried calling it?
hundreds of times.
it's just, please see if you can find it.
i am losing
my ability to function.
thank you, officer.
gerald curtis.
i'm deputy chief johnson. i'm sorry to put you
through transport from county.
that's no problem.
i loved the trip.
did detective sanchez reappraise you
of your rights?
yeah. yeah. and, uh... i'm not sure
how much i can tell you without my lawyers.
i'm not investigating the kwikmart murders.
i'm looking into who killed carl nelson
yesterday afternoon,
and you're not a suspect in that crime,
so you don't need a lawyer.
and from those chains you're wearing,
i'm guessing that you had a pretty good alibi.
yes, ma'am, i do.
you know, more than that,
i really needed him alive, but i'm...
trying not to think about it so selfishly.
all i keep thinking about
is how close i came to having a new trial,
and now... i don't know.
but on the other hand, you know,
i only made it this far
because the kid stood up for me.
i guess i should do the same for him,
but i'm not really sure what i can tell you.
well, did you ever meet him? carl?
no. no, i didn't even know his name
until my lawyers told me about him
a couple of days ago.
you tell anyone in prison about carl?
any of your friends?
i don't have any friends in prison, ma'am.
and no,
i didn't tell anyone. you know, i mean,
that was something that my lawyers
and father watson warned me not to do.
you were in touch
with father watson personally?
yeah.
well, a little.
through the freedom initiative.
i was, like, a project for his class.
you know, it was a good thing for me.
it's a really good thing because
carl came forward.
and i mean, you know, i know
that in some ways, i didn't deserve
a second chance.
oh, excuse me.
i keep thinking about myself.
and i know that that's wrong. i'm sorry.
you're disappointed. that's understandable.
i am.
i am, because...
i'm different now.
you know?
i mean, i admit, i admit i have made a lot of mistakes
when i was young.
but the reward
for change isn't freedom. it's, uh...
supposed to be spiritual.
at least that's what my priests tell me.
so maybe i've been wishing for the wrong thing anyway.
sorry, how else can i help?
you said you were in the kwikmart
during the killings,
and i was wondering if you might have remembered
anything about the gunman.
you may have to revoke your right to counsel
to answer that question.
thank you.
oh...
i have been waiting years
for somebody to ask me that question.
i can answer you without my lawyers.
i'll just, i'll go ahead
and just tell you what i told them, ok?
i appreciate that.
i was...
i was high on pcp at the time.
i wasn't even sure what the guy was doing, really,
probably because he had this, uh...
handkerchief, you know, tied around his face.
it looked like a joke, you know, but he had a gun,
and he told everybody to put our heads down.
i thought, you know, in case this isn't a dream,
i better stare at the floor.
uh, what else.
he was really tall.
he had lighter hair than mine. i remember that.
you have any idea why two of the witnesses
thought that you were the killer?
i hadn't showered in a couple of days.
and i was...
out of my mind.
as soon as the guy left, i ran up to the counter,
and if people had looked up then, they would've seen me
taking all the beef jerky.
it's so stupid. i stuffed it in my pants.
i thought, you know,
free stuff.
and he's been paying for it ever since.
which made him ideal for me to introduce
to my civics class, the freedom initiative.
chief.
we got the report back on the casings
and the gun that killed carl--
completely different
from the one used at kwikmart.
ok, so it won't be easy.
thank you, lieutenant tao.
but you knew gerald before his arrest.
no.
but i was looking for someone just like him.
really, why?
i want my students to see from personal experience
that injustice can be found in their very own neighborhood
and maybe even at the kwikmart
and, that the consequences of that injustice
could be life and death.
well, i'd say you made that point very clear, father.
this way.
have a seat.
but carl wasn't one of your students, though.
no. no, he wasn't.
so how did he become involved
in giving mr. curtis a new trial?
i called the freedom initiative
to see what they were doing in our area,
and they sent over copies of everything they'd obtained
from gerald's trial, and i noticed,
from the timestamp of the kwikmart's register
that about 15 people had come in and out
of the store minutes, maybe even seconds,
before the murders took place.
but the lapd only interviewed 4 of those people.
so we papered the neighborhood looking for a witness
that the police might have missed.
and the person who finally turned up
just happened to be someone you knew.
didn't that strike you as... coincidental?
struck me as a miracle, ms. johnson.
you saw carl's testimony.
didn't you find it compelling?
i found it convenient.
excuse me?
carl nelson, a young boy,
with whom you were extremely familiar,
suddenly turns up with crucial,
never before heard information
about a murder involving a death row inmate
that you had made the personal cause
of your class. soon after the boy
gives his video deposition,
he is conveniently shot to death
before the prosecution
has a chance to question him.
a young man performed an act or rare moral courage.
he stood up for the most powerless
and needy in society.
and he was senselessly murdered for it.
i don't find it convenient, ms. johnson,
because it's also the story of christ.
the foundation of my faith...
which is not to say that i am
any less than horrified by carl's death.
but now it's a responsibility
to make sure that gerald curtis
receives the benefit of carl's sacrifice, isn't it?
that is not my job, father.
no.
my responsibility
is to find and arrest
the person who killed carl nelson.
so, unless you can think of any other connection
between your work and carl's death.
no.
i wonder, ms. johnson.
do you believe in god?
right now, i believe in god
a whole lot more than i believe you,
father.
we looked at the register tape, too.
asked for witnesses on the news,
only so many responded.
and when it comes to this carl nelson kid,
summers in l. a. ,
we got more stray bullets than rain.
you're suggesting that 4 bullets strayed
into carl nelson's chest?
the wrong kid may have been hit. yeah.
his death could be completely random.
what physical evidence do you have
suggesting otherwise?
well, you might try investigating.
look, we are not being defensive about it.
it's possible, too, that detective ross
did everything right in his investigation
and the d. a. convicted the wrong man.
if you know what you want to do,
we're here to help.
if gerald curtis
didn't kill that couple at the kwikmart,
it's possible that someone passing themselves off
as one of the witnesses did.
did anyone who testified
or that you interviewed, detective ross,
match the description
that carl gave of the killer?
it's been awhile. i don't remember exactly,
but, twenties, white, tall, male, blonde, a scar.
doesn't narrow down very much, does it?
you think?
so far, we have found 323 men with priors
who could be the assailant.
we're still running more searches, but i've got
their booking numbers, their photos, so...
ok, detective ross, if you could look through
those people with us. see if you recognize anyone--
estelle: where is she?
mrs. pope, who are you looking for?
you know who.
where is she?
estelle.
hello. can i help you?
ok, we have the contents of gerald curtis' cell.
excuse me.
estelle, why don't we go into my office?
i don't need to go into your office.
i just came by to say
that if you think that now that my husband is free,
you're gonna pick up your little affair with him
where you left off,
and take over as the mother of my children,
you had better think again.
i--i'll take care of this.
maybe we should continue this--
get your hands off of me.
and don't you ever even step
into my house, i am warning you.
because if i find out
that you are sleeping with will again,
i will reopen this custody issue,
and i am not kidding.
sorry.
sorry, about that, uh...
little interruption.
detective sanchez, is that the...
contents of mr. curtis' cell?
uh, yes, ma'am. straight from folsom.
so if we could maybe get organized a little.
um, sergeant gabriel
and detective daniels,
if you could pass the booking photos
off to detective ross,
and he can look through them
and see if there's anyone he recognizes,
and then maybe lieutenant flynn--
wait a minute. you mean, we're
not gonna talk about what just happened?
no, i don't, i don't think so. no.
chief, listen--
if you could look through--
chief, wait one second.
did you go deaf all of a sudden? she said no.
gabriel: so you want us to go through the boxes.
yes, and, um, if...
chief pope. chief pope.
and if, um, someone could please
set up some interviews,
with the old witnesses from the kwikmart,
to see if any of them...
are tall and blonde.
excuse me just one moment.
chief pope.
i can take care of this.
what have you been telling estelle?
why does she hate me so much?
estelle is angry about the terms of our divorce.
she's guilty about having basically
sold our children because her husband to be
doesn't want them. she's lashing out at me.
at you? my god.
i may have just lost the respect
of everyone who works here.
look, before you were hired,
i made a full disclosure to the chief
about our previous relationship.
what? you told the chief we had an affair?
oh... god.
is that the thing you forgot to tell me last night?
no, no, no.
that was about, i don't know.
i forget what i forgot to tell you,
but, look, it's not as important as this.
i will manage the fallout from estelle.
give me a day. i'll take care of it.
how am i supposed to go back in there and face my people?
ahem. chief, we found something you should see.
ok.
excuse me.
these are gerald curtis' pen pals.
this is kendall price.
look familiar?
the same kendall price
from carl's bedroom.
i think i'd like to see this girl in person.
kendall, i'm deputy chief brenda leigh johnson.
and this is sergeant gabriel.
now, i don't want to scare you,
but everyone who comes into this room...
i'll tell you why it matters.
because if pope
pulled her into our department because she's his ex,
i mean, come on, how does that sound?
i don't give a flying you know what.
it's nobody's business
what she did with pope then or now.
i mean, even if she has fooled around with him,
who does a better job around here, you?
ah! ah!
i don't want to hear another word about it.
and neither does tao or buzz, do you guys?
ok, guys.
but you guys don't think that taylor
isn't gonna have a field day with this?
i mean, it's bad.
i mean, if she's banging the boss,
i want to know.
well, now that we've got that out of the way,
we can go on to more important matters.
you were close to carl nelson.
is that right, kendall?
i knew him.
he went to our church,
and i saw him a few times after school
in father watson's classroom.
oh. i thought you were good friends, no?
not really.
that surprises me.
because...
this picture was the only one
carl had in his room of anyone.
and i know that his mother just passed away.
i didn't give him this picture.
i think it's off of his cell phone
or something.
carl and his mom fought a lot.
he said that she drank,
and stuff like that.
so he spoke with you about his home life?
that sounds like you were pretty close to me.
we just started spending more time together.
recently.
i mean, you know how it is.
when you only really like someone
but they have a really big crush on you,
and you don't want to hurt their feelings,
but you know, you just want to be friends.
i know exactly what that's like, yes.
that was me and carl.
was that you and gerald curtis as well?
did he have a little crush on you?
do you know how he got this photo?
actually, did you know he had this photo?
i sent it to him.
brenda: you were in contact with gerald?
we all wrote to gerry. gerald.
it was part of our class assignment.
how often did you write to him?
i don't know. only a few times.
we didn't find any of your letters in gerry's cell.
prison mail isn't private. they can read it
if they want to.
so gerry threw away all of his personal letters.
so the letters that you wrote to gerry were personal?
no.
no, he had a small cell,
and he didn't have a lot of room
to keep things, so you know,
he threw away my letters.
how do you know that? did he write you back?
well...
yes.
how often?
only a few times.
and it was not at all personal.
gabriel: hmm. then why did you send him the photo?
it's just a school photo.
is there anything wrong with that?
nothing. nothing, kendall. not one thing.
now, do you mind if i look at the letters
that gerry wrote you
since they are not at all personal?
i didn't save them.
i, um...
shredded them.
and threw them away.
gabriel: you shredded them?
well, kendall,
you certainly are careful with how you dispose
of your meaningless correspondence.
so just right down this hall, to the left.
ok.
ok, thank you.
so, now what?
let's get a search warrant for her house,
and let's get there before she does.
hi.
i still can't find my purse.
i think i should cancel my credit cards.
what do you think?
did you have a bad day? what is it?
yeah, i had a bad day.
did you?
i think i need a glass of merlot.
yeah, well, i'm not surprised.
that must've been a big shock.
having estelle pope burst in on you
like that.
dredging up the past.
making all those... wild accusations.
oh, i know that look.
you're trying to figure out
how angry i am. so you can decide
how much you ought to explain.
look... i don't know what you heard.
but i don't like what happened today either.
how do you know about all this anyway?
that's not important. what's important
is that estelle accused you
of wanting to get back together with pope.
and she wouldn't have done that
if she didn't think it was true.
and why does she think that?
i don't know, because it's--
it's not true.
it is not what i want.
it doesn't matter what you want, brenda.
i know what you want.
just like estelle knows what pope wants.
which is why she burst in on your murder room today,
and now everybody else knows how pope feels.
and you're not doing anything about it. nothing.
you just, it just goes on.
well, i don't know what you want me to do.
i mean, i can't help how pope feels.
see, that's why i'm mad, brenda.
because you can help how pope feels
by being absolutely clear with him.
i'll show you how it's done.
all right?
i will be clear about how i feel.
i love you, brenda.
i love you.
how is that for clarity?
fritzy, is that you?
uh, chief? chief?
we searched kendall price's house.
do you need help there?
no. no.
oh.
uh, and?
we didn't find any letters from gerald curtis.
so maybe she really did get rid of them.
i don't think so.
no.
in fact, i'd be surprised if she dumped a single one.
they may not be at her house,
but they might be at school.
so i think we should give father watson a call.
ok.
it's my locker.
kendall, let me handle this.
this is a violation of a student's trust.
i think you probably should look--
high school students don't have any
reasonable expectation of privacy.
there is no trust to violate.
what this boils down to, father,
is that i'm investigating the murder
of a young boy who yesterday
you compared to jesus christ.
and now you are standing in my way here.
because you're using gerry's innocent love letters
to undue everything carl died for.
i guess i'm not the only one listening to confession.
so, you want to finish this now, father,
or do you want us to post a guard around this locker
while we get the archdiocese involved?
father watson, don't.
i'm sorry, kendall. we have no choice.
let's arrange gerry's letters to kendall
in a timeline.
february 3, first contact.
march 12th,
they start writing each other every other day.
then there's the first, i think i might love you
from gerry, march 18,
and his happiness at her having said
i love you back, march 23.
flynn: may 2, he wishes some witness would come forward
to clear his name,
so he could get out of prison,
and "wrap my arms around you. "
signed, "yours in christ, " and then, "please burn this. "
and then again on may 12,
"i pray every night that someone will appear
and tell the truth about what happened, "
and then like all the other letters,
it's signed,
"yours in christ, please burn this. "
and then, for two weeks, no letters.
when they start back up again,
there's no mention of the gap. it's like it never happened.
then kendall's running errands for him.
forwarding mail, making phone calls,
and then the idea of a new witness
never pops back up.
she was forwarding mail? to whom?
gerald's mother in fullerton,
his uncle, someone named stevie,
and phone calls to him as well.
kendall's supposed to "ask if he got my letter.
tell him i need a response. "
last letter was 8 days ago.
"call stevie and tell him
"i'm coming to town, and i still don't know
what he wants to do. "
brenda: did detective ross
bring back the booking photos
of known perps matching carl's description?
yes, he said none of them were witnesses.
ok, let's look for someone named
steven, steve, stevie, initial s.
detective sanchez, would you help her
with that? sergeant gabriel,
do we have mr. curtis' rap sheet?
uh, yeah, but it's a little sketchy.
most of his offenses were committed
when he was a minor.
that's ok, i just need the dates of his arrests.
excuse me. sorry to interrupt.
just wanted to say a word or two
about what happened here yesterday.
that's not necessary, commander. thank you.
well, it is.
just had a long conversation with the chief,
and he feels
it's in the department's best interest
if i help put this episode with estelle pope behind us.
especially considering
the success rate of your division.
and the long and the short of it is...
there's nothing substantive to the terrible things
that were said about chief johnson.
and i'm also supposed to remind everyone
that there's a big blue line
at the door in this building,
and estelle pope crossed over it.
and i hope we all know how to behave
when one of our own is falsely accused.
so... pardon me for interrupting.
and if you need any further
help with this problem, chief johnson,
you know where i am.
thank you, commander,
for that spontaneous defense of my honor.
my pleasure, ma'am.
my pleasure.
you know they made him come down here
and say that.
yes. that's exactly what happened, lieutenant.
they agreed on their story,
and they went over what they wanted him to say.
i, uh, found 4 steves,
and this one, steven brand,
arrested 8:45, october 15, 1998,
possession of a controlled substance
by hollywood division.
gerald curtis, arrested october 15, 1998,
8:45 p. m. , possession of a controlled substance
by hollywood division.
steven brand arrested by valley division.
breaking and entering, robbery,
on august 3.
gerald curtis arrested by valley division
on august 3, 2000.
both sentenced to juvie for a year and a half.
steven and gerry were partners.
we arrested steven brand and executed a search
of his apartment and his car
looking for weapons
or any mail forwarded from folsom.
we found what we believe to be the murder weapon,
a 9-millimeter pistol
used to kill carl nelson,
under the driver's seat of his black honda accord.
we also found letters to the suspect
from gerald curtis in a lockbox under his bed.
subsequent to the search,
we checked phone records and discovered
that steven had received
4 phone calls from you, kendall.
is this the guy gerry had you forwarding mail to?
as you can see, he's white,
he's got dirty blonde hair,
a scar running from his mouth to his chin,
and if he were to stand up, he'd be pretty tall.
does that description sound familiar,
or do you need a red bandana to jog your memory?
kendall.
what'd you do?
nothing, father. i...
he just wanted steven to know
that he was back in town.
to have him come visit in jail.
they were friends, and gerry said
that steven was still using drugs,
and that he wanted to talk to him
about how sobriety had made a change in his life.
that's all.
i have looked through the letters
that gerry sent you from prison,
and i think some of them are missing, kendall.
you have everything.
look, you're making things very difficult for me
because like many hardened criminals,
your friend steven here has asked for an attorney.
that means we cannot question him directly.
you've got information i need, kendall.
and you're not telling me.
we'd like to do this without arresting you.
buzz, could you please turn on that other monitor?
yes, ma'am.
gerry.
i'm gonna give you one more run at this, kendall.
i want you to listen very closely
to what gerry has to say.
brenda: thank you, officer.
ma'am, it's great to see you again.
you, too, gerald.
i hope i'm not disturbing your sleep too much.
you've got your motion for a new trial tomorrow, right?
yes, ma'am.
well, you'll probably be glad to hear
that we found the person who murdered carl nelson--
steven brand.
he also matched the description that carl
gave of the person who shot the korean couple.
he's not talking, of course. he has a lawyer.
wow, that's amazing.
when did you find him?
a couple hours ago.
so the only thing i have left for you
is a question or two
about some letters that we found
in his apartment from you
forwarded to him by a young girl
by the name of kendall price.
you know kendall.
you kept a picture of her.
in your cell at folsom.
she was one of several young ladies
you had photographs of.
so who are these women,
by the way, whose pictures you had up in your cell?
uh, just girls that i write to.
or who write to me.
some of my girlfriends.
was kendall one of your girlfriends?
no. not really.
no.
she was, uh, too young for me.
really?
that's not what you said
in the letters that you wrote to her.
ok... look.
i was nice to her
because she wrote me all this...
like fan mail.
and i didn't want to hurt her feelings.
that's all.
let's see if that story matches what you told steven brand--
your friend that kendall forwarded mail to.
look, here it is.
"dear stevie, good news.
"one of my girlfriends,
"i've mentioned her to you before,
butterface. " i think i know that nickname.
doesn't that refer to a girl
who has a great figure but her face isn't so great?
maybe you meant something else by it.
no? let's go on.
"butterface has helped me find
"a witness to the murders i was falsely accused of.
"his name is carl nelson,
"of 4503 patterson drive,
and he's a 16-year-old boy who wears glasses. "
gosh, that sounds an awful lot like
you did know who carl was
before your lawyers mentioned him.
see, this postmark was dated two weeks ago.
well, it's just chock-a-block with surprises,
this letter, isn't it?
well, let's go on.
"carl, " there's his name again,
"was actually in the kwikmart
"when the murders took place.
"and has just finished giving a sworn deposition
"describing the real killer. as being a tall, blonde man
"with a scar from his mouth to his chin.
"i know you'll be happy to have this information.
"just goes to show you, doesn't it,
"that things are never over.
yours in christ. gerry. "
here's what i believe.
i think you had a lot of time in prison
to plan how you might get out
and that you corresponded
with a lot of susceptible young women
who you hoped would lie for you.
or get a friend to lie.
and that kendall did just that.
and you know what else i think...
stupid, stupid girl.
i think the description that carl gave
was probably that of steven brand,
who i believe drove you away from the kwikmart
after the robberies.
and once carl gave that description
to your defense attorneys, you thought that steven
might be scared into killing him.
and you were right.
i wonder how steven will feel
when he knows that you gave a description out?
but you can't trust anyone these days.
go to hell. i want my lawyer.
and especially, you couldn't trust carl,
a 16-year-old boy
who might fall to pieces on the witness stand,
if examined too closely.
and if i were to find out that you had written
all that out for kendall so that she could help carl
make his testimony more believable, why,
that would be as good as a confession.
i said, go to hell.
you first.
i have the letters.
i have them.
uh...
i talked carl into saying he was there.
he had a crush on me, and i...
father watson, i was just trying--
oh, my god.
oh, my god, oh, my god. i killed him.
oh, god. i killed him.
i had no idea that gerry
had asked someone to lie for him.
i had no idea. none.
unfortunately, father, you don't answer to me.
i'm so sorry.
so did you find gerry's other letters?
yes. kendall kept them in her bible
that she got for confirmation.
and this is the letter that really does it
for gerald curtis.
writes out the entire script for carl,
and it's filled with stuff
that only the shooter would know about.
and it's in his own hand.
all right. you think that'll convince a judge?
yeah. and he signed it "yours in christ. "
so i hope taylor's visit cleared everything up for you.
i hope so, too.
you're not mad at me about all this, are you?
no. it's not your fault.
you doing some house cleaning?
what?
yeah--oh.
yes... just a little.
ok, all right. well, as long as we're good.
good work.
hey! hey!
hey, that tune you're whistling.
that's the ring on my new cell phone.
oh, that's what i keep forgetting to tell you.
your purse. it's in my office.
you must have left it there
sometime this week during all the...
i'll go get it.
no, that's ok.
i'll come up, and...
ok.
i have something, uh...
i do have something i want to say to you.
so...
will you wait?
sure. ok.
but you don't have to say anything.
i mean...
is it about us?
well, uh...
'cause we're, you know, we're good.
i, uh, i know, brenda.
i get it.
we're good.
so you gonna be long?
i'll... just be a minute.
ok. all right, great.
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