Previously on Medium
Why'd I dream that dream?
I was at school
and Owen´s mother was standing just past the fence, waving to him.
She poured gasoline all over herserlf and lit a match.
This Stacey case. This thing where this man sets his wife on fire
And are you aware that our old friend Manuel Devalos is representing the number one suspect in this case?
Yeah, I knew that, why?
Because I'm not about to let the man I replaced get the best of me in this matter.
Mr. Stacey, what would you say if I told you that we obtained a warrant
to retrieve the clothing that you sent down to the hotel laundry that night?
On what grounds?
And what if I told you that we found traces of an accelerant
one that matched the kind that was used to start the fire in your house?
I'd say I believe that. Like I said, we were in the garage,
it got heated, she started throwing things at me
There was a glass jar, it smashed. I thought it was turpentine.
I was wondering wheter you could have a look at these.
You see this missing girl? I think I just had a dream about her.
She was working as a prostitute.
A dentist picked her up, took her to his office.
You're telling me this man you keep dreaming about
drugged her, and then, when she was unconscious, performed dental work on her?
Mom, you know you're welcome to visit us anytime you want.
This week?
Sure.
What? She's bringing the money that I asked to borrow
Can I take you into my confidence?
Joe can't know what I'm about to tell you
I'm pretty sick, Allison.
It's not hopeless, there's treatment, an operation.
I'm flying to Minneapolis when I leave here, to the Mayo Clinic.
My odds are 60%
when I heard that number I thought of you.
I mean, if I go into the hospital knowing that I might not come out, then
obviously I'd do some things differently
I wish so badly I had something to tell you.
Not a word to Joe.
- So? - So what?
So, how'd it go?
How'd it go?
- It was a regular love fest - A love fest?
Uhm, I like that.
- I love you. - Love you.
Took a lot of work to get you up to speed, young lady.
Plaque, tartar,
gingivitis.
You really
put me through my paces.
Good news is
now your mouth is ready for anything.
Baby?
You starting to feel something?
My apologies.
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- He punched her? - Right in the face, in the mouth,
the very same mouth he spent the whole night slaving over.
That makes no sense.
Thank you.
You're welcome. For what?
For not biting my head off.
It's so much nicer hearing that my dreams make no sense from you than from Cynthia Keener.
Oh, you should have heard her, jumped out my throat yesterday morning.
I don't like that woman.
I'm not crazy about her either. But I kind of understand.
You'd think after 3 dreams I'd have one genuine clue that would make her job easier,
Or the name of the dentist, the location of his office, something.
Thank god I'm still working for Devalos.
Oh, there she is.
Well, I... I slept like a lamb
What about you, how did you sleep, dear?
Any... anything to tell me? any interesting dreams last night?
Not the one I wanted,
not the one I was hoping for.
I'm sorry, maybe tonight.
Is it what I think it is?
What the hell took so long?
What can I tell you? We're a little backed up.
There was a bug going around, you know, lot of people out.
But I guess you didn't hear anything about that, right? Detective.
Dammit.
Cynthia, listen to me, he's doing things to her.
Some kind of dentistry.
- He punched her in the face. - Allison,
I still have men in field, gathering information
on all the male dentists located downtown Phoenix.
Now, the second that data is complete. I'll call you. We can sit down...
Fine, fine, fine, I have to go.
How strange is this?
Very strange.
I feel like a guest in my own home?
Have you seen our guy?
Not yet.
Graham
Any idea why we've been summoned here?
Not much ****
Look at that.
All my favourite people in one place.
Manuel,
you're looking...
well-rested.
Mrs. Dubois.
Mr. Stacey.
Shall we adjourn to the conference room?
You may not believe this,
but I've actually found myself drawn in a very
personal way to this case.
We appreciate that, Tom,
I now it gets my client an enormous comfort to know that district attorney's office is as consumed with
finding the perpetrator of this horrible crime as we are
Tom.
Mr.Stacey, are you all right?
Why... why is that here?
The picture of Mary. Why is there a picture of my dead wife in here?
Why?
Well, I think it's important for us to stay focused, Mr. Stacey.
Your wife is what's brougth us to this room today.
Her heinous murder
The extraordinarily cruel circumstances under which she lost her life.
And until the person who is responsible for that is behind bars.
I want that picture there. To keep me honest.
To keep me focused.
I'm not sure you understand, Tom. Just what is it we're all doing here?
Oh, isn't it obvious, Manuel?
We're here to arrest your client for the murder of his wife, Mary Stacey.
- Oh, my god! - What? What grounds?
What grounds would you like, Manuel?
We have your client at the scene,
we have traces of the accelerant used in the fire on his clothing
and now we have motive
Motive? What motive?
Send him in, please.
Detective Scanlon, would you be so kind as to share with our guests
the discovery you made this morning?
Manny
Allison
less than a year ago Mr. Stacey took out a seven million dollar life insurance policy on Mrs Stacey.
Is this true, Graham?
The life insurance policy was my wife's idea.
She wanted me to buy it, I was just trying to make her happy.
- Why don't you read him his rights, detective. - Wait, wait, wait a second.
I don't... I don't even want the money. I never wanted the money.
The charity can have it all for all I care.
- What charity? - My wife's charity,
she's got this thing, the Dearbrook foundation.
They do medical care for poor people.
Let's give it to them, they would have got it all anyway, I mean...
- if we had died together. - but you didn't die together, Mr. Stacey,
because I believed you killed her.
Read him his rights, detective.
You have the right to remain silent.
Anyathing you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You can't let them do this to me, there's gotta be a way you can stop this.
I understand how you feel, but if you could just hold down until the bail hearing
I think I can convince the judge that you're not a flight risk.
You think? you were the district attorney, that's the whole reason I hired you.
Manny,
hope you're not serious about this bail hearing bussiness
Trust me, as acting district attorney, that man is not gonna say daylight.
I don't care how much bail you pledge.
Take your hand off my shoulder.
Just trying to spare you the humilliation.
Although I do think it would be awfully entertaining.
- Hey - Hey
It's my locker.
Yeah, I know. Need to get in it?
No, not really.
You're Owen, right?
I'm really sorry about your mother.
You got my things.
You touched my things.
The principal asked me to.
I know about your mother.
I've heard stories about you.
Did you see anyting?
What do you mean?
I mean, when you touched my things.
There was a postcard in there from her.
I was just hoping that maybe...
I just heard that when people like you touch things from people who have...
No.
I didn't see anything.
Actually, it never happened to me before.
I love my dad, but he's a very serious guy.
He and my mom divorced when I was three.
But my mom...
she was crazy.
It was like a really cool kind of crazy, you know?
Playing practical jokes and throwing parties and going on trips.
When I'd get to be with her, which wasn't very often,
we always talked about running away.
- maybe moving to Europe. - Barcelona?
Yeah, Barcelona.
It's her favourite place in the world
She always said that's where she wanted to be buried.
I don't think that's gonna happen now.
- Think I should get to class. - Yeah, me too.
Come on.
You work with somebody for years, it's...
- Well, what did he say? - What did he say?
I'll tell you what he said.
He said that I probably ought to wrap my head around the possibility that my client is actually guilty.
But he can't know that.
Oh, he sure acts like he knows it.
- Did you mention the suicide thing again? - Oh, I certainly did.
- And? - And he thought the medical examiner
is gonna have a tough time with that.
What do you mean, medical examiner?
It turns out that the medical examiner just completed his examination on Mrs. Stacey's remains.
The skull revealed a variety of bump forced trauma to the face and head.
Well, okay...
Could she have maybe fallen, disoriented herself?
She was struck, Allison multiple times.
And in my experience, people don't normally strike themselves prior to commiting suicide.
You know, I've spent the better part of my adult life sending guilty people to prison
I know what guilty man look like, and this guy...
I just don't believe it.
Come on, let's get out of here.
February 9th, 1964.
- I'm lying in the hospital... - God, not this again, mom.
- waiting for this guy to finally arrive. - She knows that's not my birthday.
And on the television, The Beatles are making their 1st appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
You know, you know this is all a lie.
And they walk out on stage, the 4 moptops, they called them.
No, she knows when my birthday is, she's my wife.
She knows what year I was born.
And all the girls in the audience start screaming.
And at the same exact moment, amazingly, this one arrives.
And so, of course I start screaming then too.
Mom, I don't even think they had tv on hospitals back then.
- And I'm convinced that something magical happened - I don't think they even had tv on hospitals back then.
because ever since then, we can't get this boy to get a proper haircut.
- Moptop. - Mom, please...
- what are we gonna do with you? - put your hands out of my hair.
- What are we gonna do with him? - Okay, that's it, that's it.
That's enough.
I'm not gonna be manhandled and ******** by my mother.
Not unless there's another check in it.
Gimme a kiss.
I got kids to take to school in the morning.
I'm just saying...
Bye mom. Don't keep her up too late.
I heard you, Ringo
I have to tell him.
I have never kept a secret from him, not ever.
Really?
So you can keep a secret from me for 15 years
but you can't keep a secret from your husband for a week and a half.
I find that hard to believe, Allison.
Come on, it's time for bed.
Who knows? maybe you'll dream me some good news.
Marjorie...
it almost never works with people I'm close to.
And I've never been able to make it work on demand.
You know what the doctors told me?
60% of this battle is being positive, thinking positively.
So think good thoughts, Allison.
Dream good dreams.
I don't understand!
What is there to understand? I don't want to see you.
I want you out of here, I want you off my property.
Wait a second... our property! this is still our property.
If you don't want me over here what the hell was that phone call about?
I don't know, I don't know, Graham
I had some wine at dinner, maybe I drunk too much.
Just... leave, loser.
- I don't get this! - Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's the entire reason this marriage no longer works,
because you don't get anything. You certainly don't get me.
which is why, for the rest of all time you don't get me. Get me?!
Would you keep your voice down? *******neighbours, do you?
He don't get it, and now he ain't never gonna get it!
And even when he could get it, he didn't know how to give it!
Hey, you...
What the hell are you doing?
Are you crazy? That's turpentine!
- Get out, get out. Get out! - Come on!
You get him?
Smelled like a paint locker when he left here
Oh, coffee. You shouldn't have gone into all that trouble, what do I owe you?
What are you doing in my office? How'd you get in here?
You know how I got in here.
Breaking and entering? that's illegal.
You're right, tell you what... when we're done here,
I'll arrest myself.
Get off from beyond my desk.
Absolutely. Listen, Manny, I don't mean to upset you.
It's this Graham Stacey thing.
I'd like it to work for everyone, and I think maybe I can make it happen.
Really?
Yeah, I mean, if you wanted to make some kind of a deal I would be willing to take it to the district attorney and
use every bit of influence that I have.
Really, you? influence?
And as far as deals are, no deal is coming, I told you.
- I believe Graham Stacey is innocent. - Manny, wake up and smell the coffee.
No, you wake up and smell the coffee,Lee the man you work for, you want me to make a deal
with my old friend Tom Van Dyke? He can't be trusted.
He's a ruthless. arrogant dangerous man.
Exactly, that's why I'm here.
Manny, he wants to squash you with this case. it's not enough that he has your job,
he wants to discredit you, embarrass you.
and he's got at me gathering evidence to do it, and I have to tell you,
his case against Graham Stacey isn't getting weaker.
Make the deal, Manny. Do it now
and let me out.
You didn't mention that Lee was gonna be joining us.
Yeah, well, I'm not psychic.
You may wanna hear this too.
I had a dream last night.
It was about the night that Graham Stacey's wife was killed.
I saw them argueing in the garage.
Everything happened the way that Graham said it did.
Okay.
Except, after the fight was over after Graham left,
I saw someone else in the house. Another man.
A dentist.
I've been dreaming about him lately, he's a bad man.
I think he may have killed Mary Stacey
Did you say dentist?
Wouldn't be this guy, would he?
As soon as you said dentist, jogged my memory.
Do you remember when you asked Graham about the insurance policy on his wife?
That he said he didn't care about the money, that it could go to his wife's charity, for all he cared.
- The Dearbrook Foundation. - This man, this dentist?
Leo Krane.
He's chairman at that foundation.
Oh, my god, I didn't realize there would be 3 of you.
I'm detective Lee Scanlon
This is my colleague Allison Dubois
- Manuel Devalos - Doctor.
He's an attorney, from one of the principals involved in the case that we're investigating.
Well, this must be important?
Oh, we're investigating the death of a woman named Mary Stacey.
It's our understanding that you were acquainted with her.
Oh... my god, yes.
Lovely lady.
Lots of fun.
She did work for the Deerbrook Foundation.
That's a charity I'm involved with.
We provide dental and medical care for marginalized members of the community.
It's horrible what happened to her.
Just horrible.
I heard on the news you arrested her husband?
They certainly didn't. I'm actually representing Mr.Stacey in this matter.
Well, I only met him once, but I'd be lying to you if I told you I saw any incline he was capable of this sort of thing.
Were you aware there was a $7 million life insurance ******** Mary Stacey?
No.
I mean, I worked with her, but we were hardly what you would call close
You wouldn't be to share any light on who the beneficiary might be?
I've no idea.
Her husband, maybe?
But I would think that information would be pretty easy to get.
- Are you thinking that's why he killed her? - Actually, Dr. Krane,
the police are already well aware that my client is the primary beneficiary.
But the second beneficiary, should Mr.Stacey be unable to collect, either
because he perished at the same time as Mrs. Stacey,
or say because he was accused of murder and faced a life or incarceration
would be the Deerbrook Foundation.
I swear to you I had no idea.
I mean, I sensed Mary got a certain satisfaction from the work she did with us. But I mean...
why would a person do such a thing?
I suppose if they didn't have kids, and no one to pass the money on to.
Actually, she did have a child.
A son from a previous marriage, she didn't see him much.
It was an ugly custody situation, but still...
Did you know, as chairman of the Foundation, that you would have sole discretion
in deciding how to spend any moneys that found their way into Deerbrook?
Dr.Krane,
it would really help us if you could tell us where you were 3 nights ago.
Around 9:30 p.m.
- Should I be calling an attorney? - I don't know.
Should you be?
I've done a lot of charity work for this city.
9:30 p.m., Dr.Krane, 3 nights ago.
- You know, I'm divorced, 6 years now. - Dr.Krane.
Are you all familiar with Van Buren street?
I got through my last patient at around... 8 o'clock.
I closed up the office, I went up to my car...
I drove by Van Buren.
It's not the 1st time.
There was this girl...
dark hair,
pretty mouth...
21 or 22. This isn't exactly something I'm proud of.
You're saying she's your alibi?
Were you with her all night?
Did you bring her back to a motel or some place where somebody could have seen her?
No.
I brought her to my office.
- Did you get a name? - What for?
But she's always there.
I mean, I've seen her there since, through my windshield out of Van Buren
I'll be right back, I've got patients backed up
Let me just let them know I will be running late.
Interesting alibi. Hooker with no name. I know I'm convinced.
Actually for the most part I think he's telling the truth.
Great. So now, you're this doctor's alibi?
No.
Well, kind of, I suppose, but he doesn't know that.
It's hard to believe a man of his standing in the community
would admit to the kind of things he's admitted to if they weren't true.
you know, if he wasn't trying everything in his power to prove us he has nothing to do with Mary Stacey's murder
Yeah, did he mention anything about drugging her?
doing all that dental work? hitting her?
No, neither did I.
I've been wrong about so many things,
Devalos is so devastated.
He really wants to believe that his client's innocent.
And Cynthia Keener is thrilled
now that Scanlon has every cop on the street looking for Sally.
She was more than happy to call Sally's parents to take all the credit.
♪Psychic's my kick
Nothing ever turns out the way I suspect.
You think I'd know by now.
******* this obviously is not the moment, to ask my instinct about something?
*********** for punishment
Do you think maybe my mom is keeping something from me?
Like what?
I don't know, I'm starting to think that this whole thing is really kind of strange.
Her flying out of here to spread the moment and gimme a check that she could quite easily have mailed.
That 'do it' look she gets in her eyes whenever she so much as glances at you, me, the kids.
*****she's taking a nap on the phone, right?
It was the airline, confirming a flight back and saying that ********* business.
Okay, so?
Okay, so they were confirming a flight back to Minneapolis
She lives in Crosspoint, Michigan, not Minneapolis.
I don't know what to say, maybe you should ask her.
Yeah, I did, when she woke up.
And she said that she was visiting a friend
but I never heard her mention anyone in Minneapolis before.
Well, I don't know what to tell you, maybe it's a man,
maybe she's embarrassed.
I hadn't thought about that.
Did she say something to you?
About a man? No.
Actually, that would kind of make sense.
****** believe that.
Explains the 'do it' looks too.
Hey, maybe you're not on the fritz after all.
♪♪♪♪♪♪♪
Wait, wait, wait.
Now you're saying Leo Krane did kill Mary Stacey?
I know, I know, I sound like I'm contradicting myself.
But I just saw it, I just dreamt it,
and there's nothing vague or uncertain about it.
Leo Krane, the dentist that we visited this afternoon,
**** house with something and burnt that woman alive
Okay, if you say so.
What is that supposed to mean?
What does that mean? That means it's barely 4 o'clock in the morning.
And frankly, I don't know what you expect me to do about it.
You say Leo's innocent, the evidence says otherwise.
Wait, what evidence?
Well, for one thing, his alibi checks out.
You're kidding me.
We recanvassed the Van Buren area,
turns out one of the working girls actually does remember seeing Sally Greer
getting into a car matching Leo Krane's that night.
Mom?
I know, I saw that too.
Look, I want Manny to be right just as much as you do.
But it's hard to understand why Leo Krane would go to all the trouble of picking up a hooker out on Van Buren Street
just so ************* and set Mary Stacey on her house on fire.
I'm sorry but all the evidence still points to Manny's client being guilty as hell.
I know he ***** that bail hearing tomorrow.
I really wish I had something for him.
But, you know, you got about 30 hours left, anything can happen.
Yeah, anything can happen.
Mom, you're okay?
Yeah.
Honey, what are you doing up? it's barely 4 in the morning.
I had that dream again.
Heard you walking down the hall.
- You're sure you're ok? - Yeah.
Tell me about your dream.
There's really nothing to tell, it's the same thing,
the woman pours gasoline all over herself and then lights herself in fire.
Except for this time she did it in Barcelona.
Barcelona?
I don't know how.
I just know it was there.
Owen told me it was one of her favourite places.
She actually wanted to be buried there.
But what I don't understand is why I keep seing it.
When you told me that's not how it happened.
She didn't kill herself at all,then why do I keep seeing it that way in my dreams?
I don't know, sweetie, I keep seeing things I can't make sense of, either.
I mean, if she were alive, I'd understand that we've something to do
some place to go, something to stop.
Wait a second. Say that again.
- What? - What you just said.
If she were alive, there would be something to do, some place to go, something to stop.
- Well, you just said it. - Honey, do me a favour,
when daddy wakes up tell him I need him to take you guys to school.
- Where are you going? - I'm going to see Cynthia Keener.
But it's really early in the morning.
You know, she loves it when I do that.
Allison
I hope you have something more meaningful to tell me this time.
I don't.
Excuse me?
I have nothing to offer you as an employee.
I would like to hire you, though. Do you have a passport?
I simply didn't do it.
Order, please.
If you interrupt the District Attorney one more time...
Mr.Devalos? Will you remind your client
to ************** until such time as he's asked a question?
or I will have him return to his cell and this hearing will go on without him.
Begging the Court's forgiveness, Your Honor. It won't happen again.
District Attorney Van Dyke,
If you will, please proceed.
Your honor, Graham Stacey is the very definition of a flight risk.
He was caught with the murder weapon, he as a $7 million motive.
And he was placed, by his own admission at the scene of the crime.
Now, with all this against him
Bail would send the wrong message to the people of this community.
That all a criminal needs to do to gain the favour of the Court
is to hire the former District Attorney.
Duly noted.
Mr.Devalos, do you have a retort before I reach a ruling?
Mr.Devalos?
My apologies, Your Honor.
Begging the Court's indulgence, I would like to recall detective Lee Scanlon.
I'll allow it.
Detective, to the best of your knowledge,
was the identity of the victim, was the identity of Mary Stacey ever confirmed through DNA?
No, it was not, the body was too thoroughly burned, there was nothing to test.
The id was made through dental records and personal effects left on the body.
Then, based on your professional experience,
and, mind you, this is purely hypothetical,
do you think it's possible that a dentist, a specialist,
could alter another woman's teeth to make her a match for Mary Stacey's dental records.
I don't know, he'd have to find someone with the same build,
similar teeth, similar jaw line...
Objection, Your Honor.
This is fascinating, but where are we going with all this?
This is a hearing about setting bail, about this man being a flight risk.
Not about the merits of dental records for the purpose of identification.
You'll have your chance to respond, Mr. District Attorney. Proceed.
I'm sorry, detective. You were saying...
And once you found the right person
a dentist would have to place the right kind of fillings and crowns.
Seems like a lot of work, I don't know why anyone would do that.
What if I told you that, with Graham Stacey in prison
Mary Stacey $7 million life insurance policy would go to a charity called the Deerbrook Foundation.
The what?!
Your Honor, counsel is tourning this hearing into...
A foundation that happened to be headed up by a local dentist by the name of Dr.Leo Krane
A man we believe colluded with Mary Stacey to fake her own death,
frame my client, so that she could cash in her own life insurance policy.
Your Honor, this is ridiculous.
We believe that the woman who died in that house was not Mary Stacey at all,
But a young **** named Sally Greer, who acted as a double.
having her teeth altered so she could provide a false positive dental match.
That's absurd.
You can't... you can't prove that.
So Mr.Devalos, can you prove any of this?
Well, I may not be able to prove who the burnt body is, but I believe, with the help of a friend,
who's working with a private investigator that I can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt who the burnt body isn't.
Ladies and gentlemen.
I give you direct from Barcelona, Spain,
Mary Stacey and her accomplish in crime Dr.Leo Krane
Your Honor, I move for immediate dismissal of all charges against my client
who clearly did not kill his wife, as anyone could plainly see,
she is still very much alive.
I'll see you both in my chambers. Right now.
Hope you have an explanation for this, Mr.District Attorney.
Detective,
when you finish here, you should report your captain for reassignment.
Nothing will please me more, Mr. District Attorney.
You're okay?
Did you dream, was it about Marjorie?
Marjorie? What are you doing here?
I asked you a question, now my poor widow wife is getting ready to fly back to Michigan
and she's waiting for you to tell her whether she's gonna be alright.
Now, what seems to be the hold up?
What's the hold up?
Hold up is that I haven't dreamt about her, that's the hold up.
You're dead, so you tell me.
You're supposed to be able to see all, know all...
so tell me, is she gonna pull through?
I don't know.
I don't know. It doesn't work that way, not with people you love.
What do you mean 'not with people you love'? you tell me you can see everything
But not nothing that had really to do with the people you love?
I know, I know. Sounds crazy, doesn't it?
I mean, I asked about it at the orientation. You know what they told me?
They said if you could see everything that there's to see about the people that you love,
if you could know everything that there is to know about the people you care about,
well, there'd be no reason for you to watch over them.
And the whole damn system would go to hell.
Ah, um, sorry.
Okay. I don't get it.
What do you want from me?
You should let me call a cab.
Don't be silly, I like driving you, mom.
You know what, this is just wrong.
Let me wake Allison and the kids.
No, no, it's barely 6 o'clock, we said our goodbyes last night.
But she never ***, she never sleeps in, because she usually has these dreams...
Marjorie, I'm so glad I didn't miss you.
You didn't have to pull yourself out of bed.
No, no, no, don't be silly. I wanted to.
The only reason I wasn't up earlier is that I...
is that I was having a dream
about you...
About me? Why on earth would you dream about me?
What was that dream?
We were... we were in your living room.
It was Ariel, Bridgette, Marie...
Bridgette had just graduated from college.
And then we came in your living room and Joe had his hands over your eyes
and then it was like... Surprise!
and there was this big birthday cake, and you were the picture of health and...
oh, this was a lovely dream!
You're right, that's a lovely dream, lovely dream.
Well, yeah, it's a nice dream, isn't the best dream I've ever heard, but...
Now, I think you have something to tell someone on the way to the airport?
Yes, yes I do.
Okay, I have no idea what is going on here.
Don't worry about it. We have a plane to catch.
Allison
I'll see you soon.
Marjorie, I'll see you soon.
Allison, I'll see you soon.
Get out of here!
You know what doctors say? 60% of the battle is thinking positive.
So I've heard.
You did a good thing.
I don't even know why I lied.
Don't worry about it.
I know some people.
Well, know some people who know some people.
It was a goog thing.
But the next time I tell you to get out of town...
I'm gone.