In the criminal system
Sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous.
In new york city, the dedicated detectives
Who investigate these vicious felonies Are members of an elite squad
Known as the special victims unit.
These are their stories.
Morning. Weekend quiet, I hope.
Yeah, except the blackouts Friday night on 58.
- What the hell happened? - Uh, friedman and sons.
Scheduled renovaon, rewiring.
Oh, yeah. Um, cameras come back online okay?
- Tony's checking it now. - Boss, you better see this.
- What's wrong? - She's there.
Then the power went out.
Someone pulled her into the men's room.
Call the cops. Special victims unit.
And let's search 58.
- Do you mind? - Sorry.
Lady, come on!
- No evidence of a crime. - Look at the picture.
A guy pulled a woman into the men's room.
It screamed rape.
Well, you can't have a rape without a victim.
Thanks. We're on it.
Cleaning woman valerie martin swiped her I.D. Badge
Into the building Friday night at 6:00 p.M.,
But never swiped out.
Could she have left without using her badge?
No, she would've set off the alarm.
-What floors does valerie clean? -This one and the one below.
I already searched 57, boss.
Check the storage room and utility closets?
- Yes, sir. - Any unoccupied office space?
There's an empty suite, northeast corner.
Janitors use it for storage.
Rise and shine. Valerie martin?
"martine".
You've been here all weekend.
I got roommates. Me and hector needed some privacy.
Let's get them dressed and out of here.
All right, you two, let's go.
If that's valerie, who's this?
And where the hell is she?
So jane doe gets yanked into the 58th floor men's room.
Any video showing how she got up there?
- No record of her entering the building.
No video of her face. No sign her anywhere.
Other than the cleaning woman,
Anybody else spd the weekend here?
All workers and visitors who entered the building
Friday morning are on record as leaving.
How we doing on the canvass?
It's before 8:00 a.M., captain.
It's gonna be a few hours until everyone's present
-And accounted for. -Get patrol to help you out.
Hopkins, what the hell is going on here?
Richard morgan owns the building.
Police situation, sir.
There may be a crime victim missing on the premises.
I'm captain cragen.
These are detectives stabler and benson.
They're not searching without a warrant, richard.
Each of our attendants has a right to privacy.
Which we have no intention of violating, miss...
Block. Ingrid's my chief counsel.
Runs my life.
I'm telling you, richard, if we let them Traipse through every office,
We could be in breach of our leases.
This woman is somewhere in your builng,
Maybe hurt, barely alive.
We really need your cooperation.
You got it. What else can we do?
Puthe word out to all of your attendants
To get us the name of anybody who didn't show up for work.
Done. Hopkins, keep me posted.
- Updates every hour. - Yes, ma'am.
-Unit one, please repeat. -What's up?
Csu wants you on 58. Men's room.
Blood smears all over this wall.
Nothing on the stalls or the sink.
Or on the floor. How did the perp manage that?
No idea. Even if he cleaned up with bleach,
There'd still be traces of blood.
Ghosts don't bleed so she's got to be here.
You got a bloody victim,
Five minutes of blackout to get rid of her.
What's the quickest way out?
Service elevators in the trash room Down the hall.
These elevators have a camera?
Yeah, they weren't affected by the power shutdown.
We checked the video, didn't see our perp Or the victim.
- Any cameras in the stairwell? - No. They're never used.
Could he have gotten out this way without setting off the alarm?
- Sure. If he knew the combination.
-Ready when you are. - Do it.
Floors look clean. Walls.
There's something on the trash can.
Yeah, we got blood inside.
When and where does the trash go out?
The dumpster's out by the loading dock
Right about now.
Hey, hey, hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Stop that thing! Hey, hey, drop it!
Drop it! Police!
Did you find anything?
- Check it out. - Bloody paper towels.
He must've used it to clean up the bathroom.
Everybody grab a dumpster.
Whoa. Don't even bother.
Oh, god.
Wrapped her up nice and tight.
Hope he left trace evidence inside for warner.
Csu combed the dumpsters. Nothing other than the corpse.
How did the perp get into the men's room Without being seen?
Well, it had to be during the first blackout,
Which means he knew when the 58th floor Was going to go dark.
Victim walks down the hallway.
He pulls her in a split second before blackout number two.
Timing is too precise to be a random grab.
He must've known her and lured her there.
Then what? - He bashed her head in.
That explains the blood on the bathroom wall.
He laid down plastic
So her blood wouldn't get on the floor.
Then he wraps her up. He wipes up the blood.
Drags her down this hallway into the trash room.
He knew the blackout schedule,
When the garbage got picked up, and his escape route.
Had to be an inside job.
We're interviewing all the maintenance And security employees.
It's amazing he pulled it off.
- What's even more amazing, it happened before.
- When? - October, 1987.
Nancy pierce, 27.
Raped, strangled, and left to decompose in an air vent
Two blocks away at trent towers.
- Perp got away with it? - The perp got popped.
Daniel hardy, maintenance man at trent towers.
Doing the full monty at sing sing for nancy's murder.
So he's been in prison for 2 decades. Can't be the same guy.
Unless he had an accomplice we never collared.
Hopefully, jane doe will tell us more
When she's unwrapped. Any word from warner?
She said she's swamped. It's gonna be a few hours.
Well, take a good book to the m.E.'s, john.
Liv, elliot, head up to sing sing.
See if mr. Hardy had help murdering nancy pierce.
Sing sing Prison Monday, December 14
I didn't have a partner because I didn't kill nancy.
You're eligible for parole in three years.
Now, the board could let you go you come clean.
I'm not gonna admit to what I didn't do.
Then why won't you look at her?
- Because I loved her and she loved me.
Until she didn't anymore.
So you raped her and choked her to death.
They found semen inside her at matched your blood type.
Except it wasn't mine.
I was convicted before there was dna.
Take a swab from me. Compare it.
It's not our job. Call your lawyer.
Really. My lawyer gave up after the supreme court ruled
We didn't have the right to demand dna tests
To prove our innocence.
If I raped nancy, if I killed her,
Then why would I ask you to do this?
Here you go.
We find the dna from nancy pierce's murder, We should run it.
'cause you think hardy's innocent?
Because I once put an innocent man Away in prison...
Before we had dna.
Benson.
Liv, warner's unwrapping jane doe now.
We'll send you a photograph.
She's got head trauma and a wide ligature on her neck.
- Do you recognize her? - Renee simmons.
She was a secretary In mr. Morgan's accounting department.
And why didn't you report her missing?
Because she wasn't.
She wasn't speaking to you, counselor.
I laid off renee And 12 others Friday morning.
We... we collected their id badges and swiped them out.
They, uh... they all left the building immediately.
Is there a reason renee would come back Friday night?
Clean out her office?
- We did it for her. - I'll handle this, ingrid.
You don't have to answer to them.
- Ingrid, please. Renee is dead.
- We're gonna need to speak with her coworkers.
Maybe one of them knows who did this.
- Well, anyone who knew renee knows who did this.
Her husband matt simmons.
Guy went nuts after she divorced him.
-What do you mean "nuts"? - Enough for an order of protection.
But we couldn't legally keep him out of the building.
He works for friedman and sons as a stockbroker On the 58th floor.
Simmons didn't swipe out.
Well, if renee left the building After being laid off,
How'd her ex get her back in without being seen?
Let's ask him. Hey, matt!
Got a sec?
Hey, what are you doing?
Where you going? He's closed.
Weed. Felony weight. At least 8 ounces.
No wonder you had the munchies.
Please. Cut me a break on the weed, man.
The s.E.C. Will yank my trading license.
License? Your...
your whole life's about to go up in smoke, pal.
Renee? Oh, my god.
Was... was she the one that was killed On the 58th floor?
You should know. Medical examiner says
you bashed her head in And strangled her.
- No. I didn't... I didn't do that. - Yeah, you did.
You wrapped her up, hauled her down the steps,
And dumped her like some trash.
- I-I-I didn't... I didn't kill renee.
I swear. - This is your big chance.
You knew they were going to cut the power
To your office and you knew she got laid off.
You knew she needed money.
Is that how you lured her back, matt?
Offer to give her some?
Had to creep in through the loading dock.
Walk up all those steps to the 58th
Where you snatched her in the men's bathroom.
Please. Why would I kill her?
The same reason she got a restraining order against you.
-You're obsessed. - I was pissed.
She... she was banging that sleazeball boss of hers, Morgan.
Richard morgan.
How do you know that?
I followed them.
Lunch at the same hotel every Tuesday.
What they were eating wasn't on any menu.
I wanted renee out of my life.
But not like this.
- Richard morgan, 56. Ceo of richmore investments.
15 years on the fortune 500.
Big philanthropist. Martial arts enthusiast.
He teaches karate to underprivileged kids.
Also a tenant at trent towers in 1987
When nancy pierce was murdered there.
Same m.O. As renee simmons. Same murder weapon.
Ligature marks are identical.
22 years between murders is a long time.
If morgan is our guy, why no similar killings?
Maybe he just didn't need to.
Or we haven't found his other victims yet.
We think he was screwing nancy way back when?
He was having an affair with renee simmons.
He could have killed them both to cover up his dalliances.
Or some other secret they learned during pillow talk.
And daniel hardy takes the fall.
Anything in nancy pierce's case file that can help us?
There are vouchers for blood and semen From her body.
Got the property clerk looking for them now.
Well, I meant anything that could help us suss out
Morgan's motive for killing nancy.
Well, according to morgan's testimony at hardy's trial,
It was all hardy.
Let's see. "daniel hardy had the master keys to the building".
Daniel hardy had a temper".
Ah. Listen to this one.
"that night, I saw hardy yelling at nancy in the hallway.
Next thing any of us knew, she had disappeared".
Morgan was master of the universe.
I was a slave. A nobody.
-I still am. - Okay.
Nancy. She was an accountant?
She was a junior partner at a small firm.
Around the time she disappeared,
Did she seem nervous?
No. The opposite. She was... she was excited.
She... she... she tells me she's gonna pay for me To go to college.
She was gonna buy an apartment.
She was gonna be rich.
How rich?
Half a million bucks. From morgan.
He was gonna buy out her firm.
Nancy was gonna take her piece of the action and quit.
He flipped out.
Said she had to stay on to get the money.
And the next day,
Goes back to the office to get her stuff.
And then Sunday...
They find her dead.
Nancy was murdered Friday, October 23, 1987.
That was four days after the stock market crashed On black Monday.
Now the market tanks again.
Any cat with morgan's kind of scratch Must've taken a bath.
Well, that's reason to lay people off, Not motive to murder two women.
Not if he had something to hide That both women knew about.
- Like his money. - What do you got?
Richard morgan's broke.
Morgan's books show investments totaling Almost 800 million bucks,
But all his accessible bank accounts Show that he only has $5 million on deposit.
So he would've been wiped out If one of his big clients cashed out.
Or a bunch of smaller ones. We called some of them.
Morgan's been stalling on paying them back.
It sounds like he went to the bernie madoff School of investing.
Makes sense to me.
That's more than enough motive to murder nancy pierce And renee simmons.
- They both worked in accounting.
They both had access to his books.
They must've stumbled onto his ponzi scheme.
- Renee didn't just stumble onto it.
Buddy at the irs says she was their informant.
He found out. He whacked her. And he tried to blame it on the ex.
Old habits die hard.
And two women paid with their lives.
This guy knows we're onto him, he's gonna skip town.
Not if we clip his wings first.
Guy shows me the yacht he buys with his bailout bonus.
You know what he says, "your tax dollars at work".
- I'm done with you guys harassing my client.
- We've only just started. - Stand up, mr. Morgan.
You're under arrest for fraud and grand larceny.
You're ruining his reputation.
Save it for arraignment, counselor.
It'll all work out.
Excuse me.
Arraignment Court Monday, December 21
- Docket ending 245, people v. Richard morgan.
-Charges are... - is this right?
230 counts each grand larceny and fraud In the first degree and 20 counts
Of income tax evasion?
- Your honor, you're looking at bernard madoff,
The karate kid edition.
That's prejudicial, judge. I want her censured.
- I don't see any jury here, miss block.
And she certainly isn't going to prejudice me.
How do you plead, mr. Morgan?
Not guilty.
The defend has a private plane and ample means To flee the country.
We request remand to rikers.
Remand is excessive.
My client wasn't charged with a violent crime.
Yet. Mr. Morgan is also being investigated For rape and murder.
And when he's charged with either of those, He'll await trial in rikers.
The defendant will surrender his passport
And be confined to his home With an electronic monitoring device.
Bail is denied. We're in recess.
Press is staked out at every exit.
News travels fast. - Well, you're not kidding.
The u.S. Attorney called. They're indicting tomorrow.
- Well, if we're gonna get morgan on those murders,
It's now or never.
- You're wasting my client's time.
Well, your client better get used To having a lot of time on his hands.
That's not all he hands on his hands though, is it?
Is something about this funny?
- Well, I was just thinking about your accusation
That I bilked my clients Out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
You don't seem too sorry Considering you ruined a lot of lives.
Including the poor bastard who's sitting in prison
For the murder you committed 22 years ago.
- As memory serves, daniel hardy was convicted
By a jury of his peers.
- That's interesting that you remember his name.
- I don't know what you mean.
- If you had dna to prove any of this,
We wouldn't be having this little chat.
Unless you're going to arrest my client again,
He's going home.
- I am going to get daniel hardy out of prison
And make sure he takes every cent that you have left.
- Good luck on your hamster wheel.
Shall we?
- That bastard will do anything to protect his money.
- Even the ice princess can't get him out of this.
You ruined me!
Drop the gun! Drop it, now!
Okay, calm down, sir.
Get against the wall. Get against the wall.
- All right. Okay. - Both hands on the wall.
- No pulse. - What the hell happened?
We were taking morgan out
When the old geezer got off the elevator and shot him.
He stole everything from me.
All I've worked for my whole life is gone.
You okay?
I'm fine.
- I heard him before I saw him.
He pointed the gun right at me
And then he fired twice.
I saw the blood on me and thought I was hit.
- Well, that's, uh, that's really all I need from you.
Is there... is there somebody that I can call To take you home?
No. Thank you.
I'm sorry about your client.
The guy's name is thomas rooney.
80 years old. Wife recently died of cancer.
Morgan would not give him his money back.
Said he had nothing left to lose.
- How did he know that morgan was here?
El, property clerk on 2.
Yeah. Stabler.
I've got vouchers that say it is there.
Well, did... okay.
Yeah. Thanks.
Dna from the nancy pierce case is gone.
Which means daniel hardy Is now officially, eternally screwed.
He's staying in prison for the rest Of his miserable life.
- Miss block! Miss block.
- Everything okay? - Yes. I'm sorry.
Um, I realized I just need to ask you a few more questions.
So if you don't mind.
- I've told you everything about the shooting.
- This isn't about the shooting.
This is about the pictures of the two women That your client murdered.
I saw how disturbed you were by the photos, counselor.
And yet, when your boss of 25 years gets murdered
In cold blood right in front of you,
You seem relieved.
Why is that?
I don't know.
Yes, you do.
You've known all along.
- I don't know what you want me to tell you.
I just want the truth.
Did you help richard morgan carry out his ponzi scheme?
- Absolutely not. - Did you know about it?
No.
I had suspicions.
But I was his lawyer.
And attorney-client privilege forbade me
From revealing anything richard ever said to me.
- That bastard stole millions of dollars.
He killed two women.
- He never told me he planned to kill anyone.
- Come on, liv, ask her about hardy.
I'm gonna wring it out of that bitch.
- Hold on, elliot. You're not going anywhere.
What do you want from me?
- Something that will help us free daniel hardy.
I can't help you with that.
Well, you are his only chance.
Thomas rooney made sure of that when he murdered your boss.
- I have a duty to preserve my client's confidentiality.
He's dead.
- The law says it doesn't matter.
- Richard morgan let an innocent man
Take the fall for a murder that he committed.
- I took an th. - You're protecting a corpse!
My life was protecti him.
Don't you understand?
If I betray him now,
I betray everything I've stood for!
Ingrid.
Morgan's gone.
You don't have to cover for him any more.
An innocent man is going to spend the rest of his life
In prison
Unless you step up.
- I realized richard murdered renee simmons
On Friday afternoon
After he did it.
Because he told you?
He didn't have to.
But I knew.
Because I knew 22 years ago,
He murdered nancy pierce.
How did you know?
- Have you ever seen a shadow box?
- Sure. A small display case that you hang on the wall.
- Richard had one in his office.
It held every karate belt he'd ever earned.
- I didn't see that in his office the other day.
- Because last Friday afternoon,
Richard brought it to my office
And asked if I could hold on to it for awhile.
- After he murdered renee simmons.
So you're saying that richard morgan
Did the exact same thing
22 years ago in trent towers.
- Richard brought me the shadow box that day too.
Said he was renovating
And asked if he could leave it with me.
Were all in sho when nancy's body was found
D richard was busy with his "renovation".
It got me thinking.
I knew he just bought out nancy's accounting firm
And at she wanted to leave.
It didn't take a genius to put t and two together.
So several days later,
I asked him if he had anything to do With nancy's murder.
And he said
"as a matter ofact, yes".
I pleaded with him.
I told him "richard, dan hardy, a maintenance guy,
Is going to jail for killing her".
Do you know what he did?
He giggled and said "I know. Isn't it great?"
So all these years...
You've known...
That daniel hardy's an innocent man.
- There isn't a day that goes by
That I haven't thought about that poor man.
Yeah, boo-hoo-hoo.
She let him rot in prison for two decades.
What the hell is wrong with her?
If she had come forward,
She would've been disbarred, maybe gone to prison.
For providing evidence
That would set a wrongfully accused man free?
- Only massachusetts allows an attorney to break privilege
He or she knows of actual innocence.
And since privilege doesn't die with the client,
E just committed career suicide.
- So what did you with the box
After you realed why morg gave it to you
The first time?
- I went home. I couldn't sleep.
The next day when I me into t office,
It was gone.
When I went to see richard,
It was already back on his wall.
And now? Is it still in your office?
- Yes. In the back of the credenza
Behind my desk.
He wasn't lying.
I found nancy's epithelial cells
All over t belt anmorgan's.
- Arrogant bastard didn't even clean it up.
He just hung it back on s ll like he was untouchable.
Lucky for us.
Lucky for us ingrid block cleared her conscience
She dius a huge solid.
- Yeah, years too late. - There'more.
I found renee mmons' dna and blood on the belt too.
- That's why the ligature mark looked the same as nancy's.
The son of a bitch used the same belt
To murder both women.
- And now we have bulletproof evidence
That morgan killed nancy and daniel hardy did not.
- You want to tell me what's going on?
- You're getting out, daniel. - That simple? It's over?
- Richard morgan. He killed nancy.
Richard morgan.
Are you sure about that?
Both their dna was on the karate belt
That he used to strangle her.
Belt from his office?
How'd you found out?
Because I gave it to them.
You?
You're morgan's attorney.
- Until he was killed two nights ago.
- Did you know richd killed nancy?
Did you know...
That richard killed nancy?
You knew.
You knew and you didn't say anything.
- The law says I couldn't. - The law?
You had that power to get me out 20 years ago
And you didn't say anything?
You let me sit here?
How do you live with yourself?
20 years!
Let's go.
- The english judge william blackstone said
"better that ten guilty persons escape
Than one innocent suffer".
I am sad to say that in this case,
Our system fell far short of that standard.
- This court can never repay you
The years you were wrongfully imprisoned.
I can only apologize
For this gross miscarriage of justice
Which made you a victim.
That said, daniel hardy,
I am hereby setting aside your conviction
Of murder in the second degree.
I order your record expunged and your immediate release
From custody of the state department of corrections.
We are adjourned.
Thank you for everything.
- I just wish there was more we could do.
- There is. Ingrid block.
Detective stabler.
- You're under arrest for facilitating a murder.
Elliot, what are you doing?
- I'm getting justice for renee simmons.
She put the murder weapon right back
In richard morgan's hands.
- So do you understand your rights
As I've explained them to you?
- I've already told you everything I know
And I'll act as my own attorney.
- Well, if I were you, I'd hire someone more ethical.
- Detective stabler, please understand...
- You can save that for a jury.
- Do you have any idea what you've just done?
Job I was hired to do.
- You didn't clear this arrest with me or alex.
You didn't even tell your partner.
- I followed the law. - We're not finished, detective.
Though you're awfully close. - Captain, it was a good collar.
I read the facilitation statute.
- Proof that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Morgan gave his lawyer the black belt
He used to strangle his first victim.
E returned it to him.
Which she had a legal right to do
To preserve attorney-client privilege.
- Ingrid block knew morgan had killed once.
She knew he was capable of doing it again.
When she handed that belt back to him,
She facilitated renee simmons' murder.
- I am tired of defense attorneys
Hiding behind privilege to withhold evidence.
Supreme Court Tuesday, January 19
Miss block told us that in 1987,
Mr. Morgan confessed to her
That he had strangled nancy pierce
With the, uh, black belt from this box.
- And how do you know mr. Morgan later killed miss simmons
With the same black belt?
- His dna was on the belt with both victims.
- Thank you, detective. Nothing further.
- Detective stabler, who is this man?
-Objection. -Goes to the witness' credibility.
Overruled. Answer the question, detective.
That is victor tate.
I arrested him in 1998 for rape.
Did you later learn he did not commit that crime?
Yes.
- Where is victor tate now, detective?
- He's serving out his sentence in sing sing.
- How is that possible if he's innocent?
- The only man that can prove he is innocent, The real rapist...
committed suicide.
While in police custody.
So an innocent man remains in prison
Even though you did your job.
Yes.
Detective stabler,
Do you believe I'm responsible for leaving daniel hardy
- In prison? - Ye I do.
- But that's not the only reason you arrested me.
You did it to assuage your own guilt
About victor tate, correct?
- Objection. - Withdrawn.
Nothing further.
As a lawyer, I took an oath
Never to reveal a client's secrets.
This trust is so sacred it is protected by law.
Which means that if you,
You, or you are ever arrested,
You can be sure I will maintain your confidentiality.
Attorney-client privilege is a fundamental basis
To your right to a fair trial.
Richard morgan gave this shadow box to me in 1987
And admitted using the black belt
To strangle nancy pierce because he knew
I couldn't tell the police.
I agonized about it.
I knew I couldn't keep this
Because I'd be guilty of obstructing justice
By concealing evidence.
My only legal option
Was to give it back.
But before I could,
The shadow box disappeared from my office.
To this day, I have no idea how richard got it back.
Your witness.
So... The belts were stolen
And magically reappeared on richard morgan's office wall.
Did you ask him how it happened?
- Yes. He wouldn't tell me.
- But, of course, you have no way to prove this,
Do you, because your only corroborating witness
Is richard morgan and he's dead, correct?
- I'm telling the truth. - Really?
Because you just told this court
You had a sacred duty to protect client confidentiality,
Which you violated, did you not?
- To get an innocent man out of prison.
- If you were so concerned about daniel hardy,
Why didn't you come forward 22 years ago?
Every day...
I wanted to come forward.
A wrongfully convicted man sat in prison
Because of my actions.
- Until you decided to break your oath.
And you did break it, didn't you?
Richard was dead.
There was no way my revelations could hurt him.
- So which is it, keep the oath, break the oath,
Keep the belts, give the belts back?
I told you...
They disappeared from my office.
- And into richard morgan's hands.
He used this black belt to murder renee simmons.
You're right.
I should've stopped him.
It's my fault.
Renee simmons' murder is my fault.
No more questions.
- You really took her apart in there.
- I'll take that as a compliment.
Alex...
this is wrong.
Am I missing something?
The only reason we're in that courtroom
Is because you arrested ingrid block.
I think I made a mistake.
I want you to drop the charges.
- Too late. Mccoy certainly won't let me.
And after what I just did in there,
The jury has no choice but to convict.
Unless I give them one.
- If I didn't owe you one, I'd never let you bring me back.
Why are we here?
- The guy with his back to us.
- What about him? - He's you.
- What are you talking about? - His name is victor tate.
I collared him 11 years ago for rape.
Last year, I found out he didn't do it.
I screwed up. He's gonna be serving out his sentence.
- Nothing you can do for him? - No.
But you can for ingrid block.
You want me to help her?
Do you remember richard's karate belts?
What about them?
- I don't think ingrid gave them back to richard
After nancy's murder.
Someone with access to her office did.
- Block stole 22 years of my life.
- Revenge isn't gonna get them back.
- Helping that bitch gonna get him out?
What do you care?
- Her hands were tied by the law.
Listen, man, she should be punished For what she did to me.
- Richard morgan put you in here.
He's the one who stole those years from you.
Now, if ingrid block hadn't come forward,
That'd be you.
You'd be pushing a mop for the rest of your life.
- Wednesday, October 28, 1987
Was my first day back to work
After my girlfriend nancy pierce's funeral.
As soon as I came in, I got a call from mr. Morgan.
What did he want?
- He asked me to take the shadow box
Out of your office and put it back up on his wall.
Why would he send you?
I was a building maintenance man. I had a master key.
Did you carry out his request?
Yes, I did.
- Why didn't you telme what you'd done?
- Mr. Morgan said if I did, he'd fire me.
- You didn't think that was unusual?
- When mr. Morgan asked, I delivered.
- What did he do when you brought the box
-Back to him? -He smiled.
And then said "when you've got a black belt,
You can do anything".
The next thing I know,
I'm being arrested for nancy's murder.
- Thank you. Nothing further.
- No questions for this witness.
The defense rests.
- Mr. Hardy, you may step down.
Rebuttal, miss cabot. - None, your honor.
- Then the defense moves for a directed verdict
Of not guilty on the grounds the people have not proven
Beyond reasonable doubt
I facilitated the murder of renee simmons.
- As reluctant as I am to take this decision
Away from the jury,
It's clear that the defendant had absolutely no intent
To commit a crime.
And for the record,
It is abhorrent to me
That a district attorney
Would so blatantly use our system of justice
As a means to a political end.
The defendant will rise.
Ingrid block, I find you not guilty
In facilitating a murder.
This court is adjourned.
- I owe you an apology, counselor.
- And I owe all of you thanks.
Uh, miss cabot, I represent thomas rooney
On his murder charge.
He's 80 years old. He's sick.
Any way you can plead him out?
I'll see what I can do.
- Ingrid's a glutton for punishment
Defending the guy who murdered her boss.
- I get it. It's her way of helping one of morgan's victims.
- If it were me, I'd move on.
- Maybe she's grateful to rooney
For taking the monkey off her back.
- Or she has a guilty conscience.
You called rooney two hours before he murdered morgan.
- You told him that morgan was here, didn't you?
Did you tell rooney to kill him too?
- No. I just told him where richard would be.
But you knew he was ready to explode.
You just lit the fuse.
- All I did was make a phone call.
- Knowing that we'd never be able to touch you.
Thomas rooney did
What I should've done 22 years ago.
I always hoped the law would catch up with richard.
- The law doesn't always guarantee justice.
But this time I did.