In the criminal justice 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.
Multiple stab wounds, neck snapped.
Pervert's at it again. It's about time the K-9 Unit got here.
Detectives? Got another Jane Doe.
Same MO as the others. Judging from rigor,
been dead maybe 20 minutes.
Killer could be one of the lookie-loos.
Perp gets off watching us clean up his mess.
Go get him, Angus. Come on. Find the scent.
Hey! Bloody corpse over here!
Stupid mutt can't even hit his mark.
Cut! Reset. Tony, find what's-his-name, the trainer.
His dog just ruined my shot.
I need a 20 on the dog handler. Watch out. God.
Where the hell's he going? Hey, come on, come on.
Get out of here. What are you howling at, boy?
Get over there.
Jessie. Jess, you okay? Jessie? Jessie.
Jess...
Franco Marquez, executive producer of Girl Undercover.
That's Jessie. She's my star. What happened?
Looks like the perp bashed her head into the kitchenette then raped her.
She gonna be okay?
Pupils are reactive, she's responding to painful stimuli,
but the E.R. Will have to scan her.
How'd this happen?
I found her lying right here on the floor.
Who has access to Jessie's trailer?
Just the crew. Security has strict orders.
No one's allowed on the set unless they work for me.
Anyone on the crew have a problem with Jessie?
No, we've been together for three seasons.
I know it sounds cornball, but we're like family.
What's all this?
"Jessie the Slut"? "Teen Tramp"?
Rag magazines.
They have a field day any time that Jessie wears something slinky.
She ain't wearing much of anything, here.
"Jezebel Jessie"? It's just words.
Sticks and stones, right?
"The world will be a better place once we're rid of Jessie Dawning. "
Sticks and stones, huh?
Tox screen found enough opiates in her system to knock out Lennox Lewis.
Any chance she took those pills herself?
Well, she didn't give herself the contusion. Okay, so he drugs her,
and maybe she starts to come to,
and then he puts her down for the count.
I don't want to talk to them! I told you...
Started yelling the minute she woke up.
For a second there, I thought her head was gonna start spinning.
Why are you doing this to me? The X-ray tells us that...
I don't know!
Miss Dawning.
I'm Detective Stabler, this is... I don't remember anything, okay?
I went to take a nap in my trailer. Next thing I know, I wake up here.
You have anything to drink before you fell asleep?
Just a diet soda with lemon, on the set.
Who gave it to you? I don't know. It was just by my chair.
Where the hell are my shoes? Jess, Jess.
Listen, you have to talk to the police.
I've gotta go. We have, like, no time before the entire world finds out.
Please. I just wanna go home.
Now, she's 16 years old. She can't sign herself out of a hospital
without her parents' consent.
They're in California.
Jessie was emancipated when she was 14
so they could stop blowing through her money.
She doesn't need their permission.
Where were you when Jessie was raped?
I know how this works. I write this for a living.
I'll give you a DNA sample and so will everyone else on the crew.
You write this for a living,
you should know that you can't compel them to do that.
They're like her big brothers.
Last week a couple of nutbags egged Jessie's trailer.
The grips were on them like the Secret Service.
Who were these nutbags?
Carolyn Spencer and her anti-smut brigade.
They're always picketing our set.
What do they have against your show? Well, they think that Jessie
is corrupting the morals of our youth.
You know that quote about getting rid of Jessie?
Spencer's the one who said it.
"The world will be a better place once we're rid of Jessie Dawning. "
Did you say that, Mrs. Spencer? I didn't mean it literally.
So how did you mean it?
Just that I wish my daughter had better role models than Jessie Dawning.
Jim, where's that one of her in her underwear?
This is what young girls aspire to today.
Not this. This is what they'd kill to be. A half-naked size 2.
Mom, we're running late.
I don't think we're going to make the bus.
Danny, I'm... I'm busy today. I can't drive you.
What? Dad would.
Well, then go live with him.
I can take them. School's on my way to work, anyway.
Thank you, Mr. Willoughby.
I don't see what makes Jessie such a bad role model.
She's young, successful. What's wrong with that?
Look at this.
A 16-year-old
done up like a hooker.
We don't want that marketed to fifth-graders.
Let the network move the show to 10:00, I'll shut up.
People think they can't do anything about this trash.
I'm proof that one person can make a difference.
Last season, the FCC fined the network twice, just for content.
They listen to my group now.
Were you and your group picketing Jessie's set yesterday?
Yeah, until about 3:30.
Why are you asking?
Did something happen to Jessie? Is she okay?
She's fine. We just need to know which of your members were there.
I'll get you my membership list.
"Neighbors Investing in Clean Entertainment. "
Well, they got over 800 members.
It's stated mission is to protect the children.
In their newsletter,
it says, "A 12-year-old girl was raped in California
"walking home in leather bra and panties. "
It was her Halloween costume. She was dressed up as Girl Undercover.
This website has got over a hundred thousand hits.
It's not just about Jessie, there's a list of dirty movies,
music, radio shows...
"Click here to complain to the FCC."
"Click here to learn which corporate sponsors to boycott. "
Click here so your children will never again be exposed to the mind-warping trauma
of a nipple on television.
Olivia, the extradition express leaves in half an hour.
You miss that plane, you're gonna be on the redeye.
I'm out.
Okay, what are the chances that a member of this N.I.C.E. Group
had anything to do with Jessie's rape?
Looks like all they do is write letters and picket.
Crime scene report from Jessie's trailer.
CSU lifted her prints off the soda she was drinking before the rape.
It wasn't spiked.
They found these. A dozen different painkillers and sleeping pills.
Oxycontin, Vicodin, Percocet...
All these were refilled the day of the rape.
You knew Jessie was taking pills. Why'd you lie?
Well, it's been a tough season.
How Jessie gets through it is between her and her doctor.
Jessie goes undercover as a stripper,
as a lifeguard, as a lingerie model.
You know, maybe the kid wouldn't have such a hard time
if you didn't make her run around half-naked every week.
You know youth.
There's my star.
Shouldn't you be home, taking it easy?
I didn't feel like being alone. Can I just sack out on your couch?
Well, they're just giving me a lack-of-progress report.
Give me two minutes.
We've been through enough.
I don't need you bitching about how Jessie is playing "inappropriate material. "
Look, pal, basically you got her stripping for money
and sleeping with the teacher.
It's called drama.
It's called pimping out a 16-year-old to jack up your ratings, come on.
The average girl loses her virginity by 16.
Now what's the responsible thing to do, pretend it doesn't happen?
Or show a girl in charge of her sexuality?
A 16-year-old girl may be having sex, but she ain't in charge of squat.
You don't know Jessie. You wanna see how in charge she is?
Watch the show.
And then do your job and go find the son of a bitch that raped her.
She may look like the girl next door,
but this is no ordinary girl.
She's smoking hot, but she's just 16.
You can look but you'd better not touch.
This girl has a badge and a black belt.
Red light to central, we have a problem.
I broke another heel.
Jessie Dawning is Girl Undercover.
16-hour days pretending to be a hooker,
and the other eight pretending to be a grown-up.
No wonder the kid knocks herself out with pills. No parents, no friends.
Everyone from her doctor to her boss lined up to get something out of her.
Sixty-eight DNA tests.
Every man on the Girl Undercover crew.
No matches to the fluids found inside Jessie,
but I caught a cold-case hit off the DNA.
One of the crew members, wanted for grand larceny and aggravated assault.
Franco Marquez.
No way. I didn't do it.
The DNA puts you at the scene. It's...
It's not my DNA.
Whose is it?
This out-of-work actor that I know. I paid him for his sample.
I gave him a studio ID badge with my name on it
and drove him to the M.E.'s office.
I wonder why you'd fake your DNA.
I want to make my phone call now.
I'm sorry about this.
But the law says we can't keep him from calling anybody he wants,
even his victim.
We'll make sure he doesn't bother you anymore.
What did he tell you? He clammed up pretty quickly,
but he's in trouble. He's just trying to protect me.
He knows it'll kill my image if he tells the truth.
The truth about what?
Lucky for me, my folks will do anything for a buck.
A marriage license. Signed by Mom and Dad.
Cost me a couple of Porsches.
I figure it's a small price to pay to sleep with my husband.
Marquez is 40, Jessie is 16. It's legal pedophilia.
So she had consensual sex, she took a fistful of knockout pills,
fell and hit her head. But the M.E. Report says
Marquez isn't the only one who had sex with Jessie.
The rape kit turned up a pubic hair.
DNA doesn't match Jessie, Marquez or anybody on the crew.
Captain, we're going to base a whole rape investigation on a single pube?
We don't even know if she was raped, here.
It's the best evidence we got, so we're going to run with it.
She could've picked up that hair during one of her costume changes.
I don't think they change their panties, Elliot.
We gotta find out who else was on the set that day.
A bunch of paparazzis.
A couple of tabloids today have pictures of Jessie
being taken away in an ambulance.
Third one went a little bit further.
What kind of bottom-feeder
sneaks into a girl's hospital room and takes her picture?
Same kind that sneaks into her trailer and rapes her.
I'll get a subpoena for the hospital's security cameras.
You two talk to Marquez and Jessie,
see if they saw anybody hanging around outside her room.
Yeah, I spent the whole night by Jessie's bed.
I didn't see anyone but doctors and nurses.
Here's the Ledger photograph. Now, the hospital monitor
says the photo was taken at 5:08. Your chair is empty.
Why would he take the stupid picture?
I... I went to go get some coffee around 5:00. He must've taken it then.
These photos were taken right outside Jessie's set.
You know by who? Probably the same losers
who are camping outside of our house right now.
You know any of their names? There's like a million of them.
I can't sneeze it doesn't end up in the tabloids.
"Jessie walks her dog. " "Jessie buys a tampon. "
It's three years now they've been stalking her.
A couple of weeks ago, I go to pick my car up from the valet
and this guy just jumps in.
I think he's a carjacker.
All he does is take my picture and run off.
What did he look like? He looks like a big flash
going off in my face.
You tell the police?
Yeah, they wrote down a bunch of crap,
and then asked for my autograph.
The cops said there wasn't much you could do
about invasion of privacy.
It would have been a different story if he would have touched her.
Guess it's a different story now, huh?
Captain checked out the surveillance tape from the hospital.
Guess who checked in on Jessie at 5:08?
You violated a patient's privacy. I was pre-rounding.
I checked her IV and her vitals and then I moved on to my other patients.
You were the only one in Jessie's room when this picture was taken.
You know the trouble I'd get in for that? I'd lose my job. Probably my license.
Why would I risk it? People do a lot of stupid things for money.
What do they pay you? Twenty grand? Thirty?
No. We got you on the security camera.
I owe $90,000 in student loans.
This photographer offered me $50,000.
Look, if you don't want your picture taken
be a school teacher. Not some international superstar.
You have no right questioning me.
We're not done here. Just, relax, okay?
Where were you Tuesday afternoon, say about 4:30?
Look, I don't get off on raping 16-year-olds, okay?
Prove it to us.
I was trying to get a shot of Jessie on the set.
I'll show you. Okay.
All my photos are time-stamped.
Not that I got anything. She is pretty good at dodging us.
Maybe if you stopped stalking her, she wouldn't have to run.
She needs us as much as we need her.
Tell you something, the minute someone stops taking your picture
is the minute you become a has-been.
Here you go. It's right here, all right?
4:28. I was outside the set.
Who are these guys? Couple of morons.
Security caught them sneaking on the set.
What about this guy with his back turned to us?
I don't know.
Maybe the third moron got in.
All we wanted was a pair of Jessie's panties.
It was just a prank.
Security says you told them it was to get on the BJ Cameron radio show?
Yeah, BJ wants to know if she wears a thong in real life,
like she does on the show.
And if you can prove that they're her panties, he'll put you on the air.
That's what shock jocks are up to these days, huh?
They tell their listeners to steal an actress' panties?
BJ's pretty wild. You should check out the show sometime.
I like my comedy funny.
There was a third kid with you. Where is he?
No clue. We met him there that day, hanging out.
Told him about the panty raid.
Said he wanted in, then he weinered out at the last minute.
Waits for us to get busted, and then sneaks past while security's distracted.
Ass-clown.
You remember his name or what he was wearing?
Said his name was Speed. Like that's not made up.
He looked like a regular kid. Kind of full of himself, though.
Kept bragging that if he didn't get Jessie's panties,
that he was gonna take a picture of her trailer to get on BJ's show.
It's all talk.
I don't tell them to actually do anything.
No, of course not. Then you'd be liable for their actions.
Well, legally, I could do a whole lot more,
but with Big Brother all up in my business,
I don't wanna get fined.
Did you suggest that your fans rape Jessie?
Rape ain't funny.
The panty thing I said to piss off the uptight bitch.
She's 16 years old. Why you trying to piss off a kid?
She comes on my show,
only wants to talk about her craft.
Like I could give a rat's ass.
I say, "Let's hear about your titty job. "
She walks off mid-interview.
I have to fill up the rest of the hour with a call-in show.
About Jessie, the uptight bitch.
Yeah. Callers were totally pissed off at her.
I said she needed a good banging to loosen her up.
You see, that sounds like another one of your suggestions to me.
I didn't say "rape her. "
On in five, Beej.
Listen, I don't like Jessie, but I do like ragging on her.
It's good for ratings. Okay, are you ready?
Doesn't mean I want to see her hurt. It's time for your morning BJ.
The BJ Show is back, with two of New York's finest,
talking about the bangtastic Jessie Dawning.
Put on some headphones, fellas.
Anyway, let's hear it for...
You want mail, we got it. Threat mail, fan mail, hate mail,
not to mention thousands of e-mails.
Lot of people write in about Jessie?
Oh yeah, especially since she walked off the show.
Ton of guys fantasizing about doing dirty things to her.
Okay, we'll take everything you've gotten in the last month.
Yeah? Happy to help the fuzz.
You guys... You guys know BJ's harmless, right?
He's just playing. It only takes one crazy.
"Roses are red, violets are blue, when Jessie's dead, her corpse, I will... "
You get the rest. And there are hundreds of them like this.
This BJ guy really brings out the best in people.
And we got a transcript from The BJ Show.
"I'd like to break Jessie down like a shotgun and fill her full of slut shot. "
This is BJ talking, not some fan.
This guy makes a living demeaning women.
And two million rabid fans tune in every day to hear him do it.
They want sex and violence, why not give it to them?
He's encouraging people to rape.
What, "Jessie needs a good banging, go out and give it to her"?
This guy knows his law, though.
He's protected under Brandenburg unless his intent is to go out
and produce an imminent and probable lawless act.
He could say to you, "Elliot Stabler, I command you to rape Jessie Dawning,"
you wouldn't have a case against him. How is that possible?
Elliot, he doesn't really mean for you to do it. It's a joke.
Except this time, someone really went out and did it.
Yeah, well, there's your bad guy, not BJ.
They're both just as bad. Elliot, you're 0-for-3.
There's no intent, no imminent act and no likelihood
that his words would be taken seriously.
Our rapist took BJ seriously. He e-mailed him.
"BJ, your wish is my command. "
Hair's in her face, but that's Jessie in the same clothes she was wearing
when she was raped. Her couch and her trailer.
A couple of more pictures were attached to the same e-mail.
That's the N.I.C.E. Picket line. Carolyn Spencer. And this.
Who's that?
Carolyn Spencer's son, Danny.
Mrs. Spencer, this is an arrest warrant for your son, Danny.
What? Wait, wait. You can't just barge in.
What are you talking about?
He raped Jessie Dawning Tuesday afternoon.
That's ridiculous. No, he comes home from school every day
and goes right to his room. This is wrong. You've made some mistake.
You thought he was home Tuesday. Here he is with Jessie.
What is this? Your son took that with his camera phone,
and sent it to The BJ Cameron Show. He's a shock jock.
I know who he is.
Go back to your room.
Daniel Spencer, you're under arrest for the rape of Jessie Dawning.
What? I didn't... I didn't rape anybody!
It's okay, honey. It's a mistake. It's all a mistake.
No mistake.
That look like a mistake to you?
What did you do? Tell me, what did you do?
I didn't do anything! I was just trying to get on The BJ Show.
That show is not allowed in this house.
You promised. Mom.
You have the right to remain silent.
Mom? It's all right, honey.
It'll be all right.
I didn't rape her.
Then explain these.
I... I snuck into her trailer
to steal her panties so that I could get on The BJ Show.
She was sleeping, so... I took some pictures, and then...
You raped her. He did not rape anybody.
She woke up.
I told her I was a fan.
I read her this poem that I'd written for her. She... She thought it was nice.
Then we did it.
So, you read her a poem and then she just said,
"That's nice, let's have sex. "
Let's hear the poem.
It's... It's private. It's a crock.
What about the cut on her head? How about that?
I don't know. Must've happened after I left.
Why are you so surprised?
This girl is a slut. My son did a stupid thing, but he is not a criminal.
There was no rape.
Just two teenagers having consensual sex.
You believe this poem crap? We've gotta ask.
Why? Why? Just because I make out with boys on TV
doesn't make me a whore.
A suspect gave us his version of what happened.
It's what his lawyers are going to say in court.
We need to hear your version.
The only man I've ever slept with is Franco.
Why would I just all of a sudden sleep with a stranger?
Okay, okay. Do you recognize the boy who raped you?
No.
Danny Spencer's DNA matches the hair from Jessie's rape kit. He's our guy.
She still didn't pick him out of the photo array.
Well, the toxicology report confirms her story.
She was too stoned to remember, she was too stoned to consent.
Unfortunately, the tox screen can't specify her level of awareness.
It just shows she took a whole lot of pills.
So she's a pillhead. She's still a rape victim.
Whom the defense will say is a sexually-precocious drug addict
who's prone to blackouts.
She practically had a pharmacy in her trailer, and her co-star will testify
that she threw herself at him.
Either way, Danny Spencer's version of events isn't a hard sell.
Especially on the radio.
I was flipping the stations in the car,
and who comes on The BJ Show but Danny Spencer,
talking about his sexual encounter with everybody's favorite floozie.
Well, I mean, you know, I don't know where she's been,
probably a good idea to wear a rubber.
Dub will be done in a minute.
You rode that cow good, huh? Did you last the mandatory eight seconds?
What kind of dipstick goes in front of two million people
knowing they're going to be humiliated?
Getting ripped on is a badge of honor for BJ's fans.
He's going to get laid left and right off of this.
How'd Danny get on the show in the first place?
We called him.
Five minutes later, he calls us back and he says,
"I'll come on the show if I can sneak out without my mom knowing. "
That's all she wrote.
That's only 10 minutes' worth. Where's the rest of the interview?
It's as far as we got.
The station got so many phone complaints about our obscene show,
they yanked us off the air.
We're not on the air, we don't roll tape.
It's a shame, too. It got cut off just before the best part.
What, something heavy fell on BJ's head?
No, when Danny told BJ,
Jessie was passed out when he did her.
Where's BJ right now?
What possible reason would I have to tell you anything?
A 16-year-old girl was raped. Your testimony will put a rapist in jail.
That Danny kid's so screwed up he'd say anything for a laugh.
What, do you think raping Jessie was funny?
You're not going to get me to talk about this.
Why not? Because people like you
cut off my show. Did you get a big happy when the anti-smut crusaders
yanked my show off the air this morning?
You were humiliating a rape victim.
Great, take me off the air.
You know what I find offensive? Catcher in the Rye.
Let's find every copy and burn it. Give me a break, here.
You're pissed off because your show got pulled.
I'm pissed off because a couple of hundred crackpots
want to decide what's appropriate for two million people to listen to,
and you're letting them win.
We're not trying to shut you down. We're trying to catch a rapist.
And I'm exercising my right not to speak.
Son of a bitch wants to turn himself into a martyr for free speech.
Didn't the producer hear Danny admit to raping Jessie?
BJ told him that later, and the station doesn't record
unless they're broadcasting.
So we can't use the confession unless BJ gives it up.
We subpoena him, he's going to turn that trial into a free speech circus.
BJ likes whining about his freedom of speech?
Let's give him something to really cry about.
I'll take a page out of Carolyn Spencer's playbook.
How do you hurt Howard Stern? Go after Clear Channel.
So you gonna put the screws to Entropy Broadcasting?
And their sponsors and their advertisers.
Ask them how they feel about Entropy's star personality
hindering the prosecution of a rapist.
The pinheads at Entropy say I gotta testify against Danny Spencer
if I want to keep my show.
Oh, I know, it's tragic.
Do you wake up every morning and think,
"How can I trample on the First Amendment today?"
I wake up and think, "How can I put away a rapist?"
The only reason you don't have a confession is
the Thought Police took me off the air.
You want me to let a rapist walk free
so you can stick it to the Thought Police?
If that's what it takes to protect free speech, yeah.
You know the deal. You testify, or your advertising goes away.
Just tell me when to be there. I'll even wear a suit.
What do I have to do? You'll go on the stand first,
and I'll lead you through what happened.
Everything? Including how he found me passed out on my couch?
We can explain that. You'd been working 16-hour days,
you were exhausted.
Will I have to tell them about the pills?
If the defense asks you, yes.
Great.
They're going to say I'm a slut and a junkie.
I can't imagine how hard this must be for you, Jessie,
but your testimony will help put your rapist in jail.
Please, can you just do this without me?
Carolyn, this is a good offer.
Danny only went on that show to impress BJ.
Danny confessed to rape.
BJ Cameron is the one you should be going after.
Danny wouldn't have done anything if BJ hadn't egged him on.
Mom. You don't have a say in this.
Actually, he does. I am his mother.
You don't get to decide for him.
You're here as a courtesy, Mrs. Spencer.
This is a one-time offer. Rape three, he does one-to-three
and tells the court everything he did.
We should consider the deal. No.
There is no way you can prove he did anything wrong.
It's his word against that junkie tramp.
And who do you think the jury's going to believe?
I thought you were a role model, Mrs. Spencer.
Whatever happened to teaching kids to tell the truth?
I'm doing what's best for my son.
What's best for her son?
She's all about morals and decency until it becomes inconvenient.
I can bully BJ onto the stand,
I can present all the evidence that I want,
but, without Jessie, I got nothing.
Any chance of talking to Danny without Carolyn running interference?
Yeah, and saying what? "Lgnore your mom, listen to me and go to jail"?
Okay, well, look. Maybe the guilt has been eating away at this kid.
Make him face what he's done.
My mom says I can't speak to you without my lawyer.
You don't have to talk. You just listen.
Look...
Jessie,
what are you doing here?
What am I supposed to say to him? Look,
I'm sure you hate me. Shut up!
You don't get to defend yourself. What you did to me...
You think I'm trash, don't you?
No. No, I... I don't.
But all those things that BJ said about me you think are funny.
Breaking into my trailer and stealing my panties.
It was just a stupid prank.
You call raping me a prank?
I wish I could take it all back.
I'm sorry.
You're sorry?
How could you be sorry when you went on the radio
and bragged about what you did to me?
BJ started making jokes.
I was just trying to keep up.
Was your mom just trying to keep up, too? Because...
She said she wished I was dead.
No. No, she didn't mean it like that.
She thinks she is so perfect, but all she does is give kids
somebody to blame when they do something wrong.
Kids shoot up a high school, blame Marilyn Manson.
You raped me,
blame BJ Cameron.
Danny,
you're the only one who knows what really happened.
You can own up to it like a man,
or you can hide behind your mother.
Mr. Spencer, do you wish to change your plea?
I do, Your Honor. I plead guilty.
And this is a decision you've reached of your own free will,
with no coercion or undue influence? Yes, Sir.
Miss Novak? All that remains to satisfy the terms
of the plea arrangement is for Mr. Spencer to allocute the details of his crime.
Go ahead, Mr. Spencer.
I went to Miss Dawning's work
thinking maybe I could steal her underwear to get on The BJ Cameron Show.
I thought that'd be cool. Maybe even get some girls.
I didn't think she'd be in her trailer.
I almost bolted when I saw her sleeping,
then I thought how cool it would be to get a picture of her.
So, I took one. And she didn't wake up.
I lifted up her skirt to take another,
and she didn't wake up.
I pulled down her panties
and I began to have sex with her.
I was wrong. I was stupid.
She started to wake up a little bit.
I pushed her away, and I ran.
I deserve to go to jail.
I'm sorry.
Are the People satisfied, Miss Novak?
We are, Your Honor.
Court officer, please remand Mr. Spencer into custody pending a sentencing hearing.
Court is adjourned.
You did the right thing, Danny. You get away from him.
Hey, take it easy. Thanks.
BJ walks outside, goes right to the press and tells them how happy he is
that justice has been served.
A soundbite gets him on the 6:00 news,
his ratings go up, the idiot's loving life.
Not anymore. That was the 27.
Somebody just took a shot at BJ outside his radio station.
I'm dying! Stupid bitch shot me!
I'm type O-negative. I need a transfusion.
You're gonna be fine, just take it easy.
What happened? Took a slug in the shoulder.
Vitals are stable, not much blood loss.
Who saw what?
At least five bystanders saw what happened.
She walked right up to him and pulled the trigger.
Why did you do this?
I had to.
Couldn't let him ruin another family.
Here's my case.
The attempted murder of BJ Cameron, memorialized on film
by some shutter-happy tourist.
You're going to jail. No deals.
We don't want any deals.
Carolyn shot BJ because she was distraught over what he'd done to her son.
Extreme emotional disturbance isn't gonna fly.
She went to the radio station, waited for BJ to come out, and then shot him.
He should be dead.
He turned my son into a rapist.
He's ruined Danny's life.
Danny ruined his own life.
He wanted to be a doctor.
He wanted to help people. Until he started listening to The BJ Show.
Then he decided he didn't want to go to college
because BJ didn't.
How many more kids do you think this man is going to ruin?
So you didn't shoot BJ just because of Danny,
you did it to keep him from corrupting other kids.
No mother should see her son go to prison
because some foul-mouthed pig thinks rape is funny.
And I'm guessing there's at least one person out of every 12 who'll agree.
Come on, Carolyn.
What did I do? You don't even say hi to your boss?
Hi. What did I do?
Just wondering why you're taking this Spencer case to trial.
She doesn't want to plea. Her lawyer's going with some bogus
extreme emotional disturbance defense.
Bogus or not, you take this to court, you could lose.
Even the candid camera helps her.
You shoot someone in broad daylight, you're obviously not thinking straight.
Police interview the photographer? He was gone by the time they got there.
They're still looking, but the paper won't give up a name without a subpoena.
I'll see what I can do to help.
In the meantime, push harder for a plea.
Carolyn Spencer shot BJ Cameron because she's a zealot.
We offer her a slap on the wrist, it's just giving a green light
to every vigilante in the city.
Carolyn will be judged by a jury of her peers.
She's not the only one out there sick of being surrounded by trash
like The BJ Show. BJ has the right to say what he wants.
Carolyn doesn't have the right to shoot him. That's the law.
But you get one overprotective parent in your jury, you've got yourself a mistrial.
Did the defendant appear distracted or even upset when she shot you?
She seemed totally calm.
Walked up to me, pulled the gun, squeezed the trigger.
Thank you. Nothing further.
In your show,
have you ever directed any of your listeners to commit a violent act?
No.
I have here some transcripts from your show.
Would you please read from the highlighted passage?
"The undercover bimbette is nothing but an uptight little bitch.
"She needs a good banging to loosen her up. "
And this one.
"Someone needs to throw her down
"and nail her like she's never been nailed before. "
But, according to you, these words were never meant
to incite violence toward Jessie Dawning?
No. They're jokes.
They were meant to be funny.
Do you see anyone laughing? I didn't use my funny voice.
No further questions. Re-direct, Your Honor.
Mr. Cameron, do you think that the KKK
or Aryan Nations are funny?
Only in that they're the most ignorant bunch of jackasses in the country.
So you don't agree with their views.
But do you think they should still be allowed to express them?
They may be hate-mongering idiots,
but they still have the right to speak their minds, like everyone else.
So, as much as you dislike their views,
do you think it's okay just to go out and shoot them?
No.
Thank you. Nothing further.
Danny was...
He was the sweetest kid before he started listening
to The BJ Cameron Show.
And then all of a sudden, women were bitches and...
And hos... Even his little sister.
Wasn't it your job as his mother to keep him in line?
Yes, absolutely.
But it was like there was another parent in the house,
contradicting everything that I said.
Thank you. Your witness.
BJ Cameron's demographics.
Two hundred thousand listeners under the age of 16.
Only one rapist.
So, why did his show affect your son differently than the others?
Danny didn't have a male influence in his life after his father left.
When he found BJ,
he practically worshipped him.
Why didn't you stop him from listening? I tried.
He bought a radio with his allowance and he hid it from me.
I work. I can't watch him 24 hours a day.
You mean you couldn't watch him because you were too busy
trying to shut down The BJ Show.
Objection. Argumentative.
I'll rephrase.
Do you put your work with N.I.C.E. Ahead of raising your children?
No. My job is about protecting my children.
But isn't it true that you shot BJ Cameron, not because he ruined your son's life,
but because he made a mockery of your crusade to rid the world of filth?
People like BJ have taken over television,
the Internet, movies, music. And you want to silence them?
I want my children to have a childhood.
I'm all alone raising two kids, and it is almost impossible
to keep that obscenity away from them.
And that justifies shooting BJ?
That man
took away everything I believe in.
He took... He took away my family,
my baby's future,
and I had to stop him. I didn't know what else to do.
You lose yet?
I'm working on it. Told you.
You put Carolyn Spencer next to BJ, she's gonna look like Mother Teresa.
It's an extreme emotional disturbance case.
I can't object to the defense painting a picture of the heartbroken mother.
You want to convince the jury Carolyn's guilty?
Show them she's responsible for her actions, just like Danny was.
Wish I could put him on the stand, but he won't say boo against her.
Maybe he'll change his mind when he hears about this.
Got a hold of mom's phone records.
Look who his mom was talking to right before she shot BJ.
Why are we here? People's exhibits eight and nine.
The defense hasn't gone over those documents.
You will. We're just waiting on one more person.
And here he is.
Danny.
Why is he here?
So I can convince him to testify against his mother.
I told you, no way. People's exhibit eight.
A copy of Carolyn Spencer's LUDs showing two phone calls
to N.I.C.E. Vice-President James Willoughby
on the afternoon BJ Cameron was shot.
Is there a point to all this?
People's exhibit nine.
A copy of the check the New York Ledger wrote to the same James Willoughby
as payment for pictures of BJ Cameron's shooting.
Mr. Willoughby took those pictures?
You asked him to.
Bet you didn't think anyone would find out, did you?
I don't know what you're talking about.
You talked to him for 20 minutes that afternoon.
You told him to take pictures of the shooting.
No, I didn't.
We'll see what Mr. Willoughby says on the witness stand.
He'll say the same thing.
You planned it?
Why?
So the whole world would see her as a martyr for her cause.
It was just a publicity stunt?
No. No, don't listen to her.
I did it for you.
You're so full of it.
I want to testify.
I'll tell them she didn't shoot BJ because of me.
I'll tell them she just wanted to get her stupid crusade on the news.
No, I did it because I love you.
I want to go back to my cell.
Danny, no, wait...
Wait, Danny. Wait, Danny.
Last chance.
I'll drop the attempted murder if she pleads guilty to assault.
I didn't do anything wrong.
And this has all been fascinating,
but it doesn't prove a thing.
Then we'll let a jury decide.
Mr. Foreman, you've been deliberating for two weeks.
What's the division of votes?
Six to six, Your Honor.
Is there any chance with more time you could reach a verdict?
We've tried. We're deadlocked.
Then I have no choice but to declare a mistrial.
Yes!
Defendant's bail is continued pending the People's decision for a retrial.
How do you deadlock with a mountain of evidence in front of you?
The jury thought BJ deserved what he got.
He flapped his mouth on the radio, she picked up a gun and shot him.
There's no question who broke the law here.
No, but after hearing BJ on the stand,
half the jury would've done what Carolyn did.
You gotta hear this.
BJ's been in full-rant mode for the last five minutes.
Carolyn Spencer's not just a bitch with a capital C,
she's a fascist who should be tried and fried for crimes against democracy.
Strap her into "Old Sparky" and shoot a million volts
through that Nazi brain of hers.
Think they'll let me pull the switch?
And you wonder why people want that guy to shut up.
No one's forcing them to listen.
Let me tell you, that woman is just...