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I know you won't understand this and I'm sorry.
You're my family and I love you.
I can't carry it anymore.
Please try to believe this is what I want.
It's not sad, it's a relief.
It just hurt too much, what happened to my family,
what I did to those two men. I can't hold it anymore.
I want to lay it down.
I want to rest. I want to go.
Please let me go.
Okay. Thank you.
She's in ICU.
For how long?
They're not making any predictions,
but they're optimistic, so...
She awake?
She's breathing.
I don't know how I missed this.
- I should have known. - No, no, no. Don't say that.
Well, I say we should go home.
They'll call us if there's any news.
I'm staying.
But there's nothing for us to do here, son.
Somebody should be here when she wakes up.
They don't know when that is, Trey.
I'm staying.
I got to get to the office.
No, it's... it's fine.
I can just call the office and cancel the rest of my meetings.
Mom, you don't have to. I can get home on my own.
- Christine Rosa? - Loretta.
- Keep walking. - Is someone following you?
I don't know.
Don't look at me while you talk.
I was hoping we could sit down somewhere.
Nope.
Maybe you could come to the office tomorrow and...
No.
I'm leaving tomorrow.
Ask what you've got to ask or I'm going.
Uh, okay.
You were with Jared the night he was arrested?
- Yeah. - What did he tell you?
What did he tell you?
He said Terry Kucik wasn't there.
I don't know anything about him.
Jared was arrested first.
I want to know why they didn't have a funeral for him.
His body was never claimed.
It was given to a medical school.
Ida.
Cold bitch.
Do you know where she is?
No. Probably took the payday and split.
- Who would pay her to leave? - Nope. What else?
Did Jared tell you who was with him at the Butler house?
Wait, Loretta. Loretta, wait.
- Miss, miss. - Here, look, beautiful bags.
- Miss look. - I'm not buying anything.
Let me through. Hey!
Bet your friend Maxine would really love this one.
- Let me go. - Go wherever you like.
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- Hey. - Hi.
- You okay? - Yeah... yeah.
I... I shouldn't have called.
I feel stupid. It was no big deal.
If I take you back there, can you show me who they are?
They're already gone. I checked.
You went back alone? Are you out of your mind?
They were just trying to scare me.
No. I'm not telling Clark. I'll never hear the end of it.
But they knew about Maxine.
I don't want anybody to get hurt.
Maxine?
Clark told me I get three hours
once a week to take care of personal stuff.
I had to choose a time for the judge
and I asked if it could be today,
but, look, I'm sorry,
I didn't ask if that was okay with you.
No, no. It's all right.
Thank you.
Hello?
You have a collect call from state penitentiary
inmate Victor Rosa.
Do you accept the call?
Uh, could you hold on a minute, please?
- Terry. - Yeah?
Would you grab me some lemons and limes on your way back?
- Just about a dozen each. - Sure.
Thanks.
Sorry about that. Yes, I'll accept the call.
Hey. It's me.
Yep, it is.
How are you?
All right. You?
Still breathing.
What's the matter?
You sound like you have bad news.
What bad news could I have?
Just wanted to hear your voice.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
And I wanted to say...
I made a mistake.
Which one?
I thought that...
Looking at you was too tough for me.
And it turns out that...
Not seeing you is worse.
You can't treat me like this, Vic.
The back and forth.
You know, you just lock me out
anytime you feel like it and then you bring me back in.
I'm...
I can't do it.
I know.
And I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Would you come see me?
Oh, my God.
Please?
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So you got DNA and eyewitness testimony,
but the DNA is wrong and your eyewitness changed her story.
You know that's just not bad luck.
It was a setup. I was used.
I would use a more vulgar idiom.
By whom?
So, how does a simple robbery turn into a triple homicide
by a couple of guys with no prior history of violence?
Were they on drugs?
We arrested Jared three days later.
He was drunk, but no drugs in his system.
Terry Kucik had traces of weed, that's all.
Weed does not do this.
Do you think it was just supposed to look like a robbery?
No.
This Jared Bankowski,
he's got a record for small robbery.
So the man is a professional thief.
Not a very good one, but there's no need to speak ill of the dead.
But nothing was taken,
so you're thinking the killings weren't part of the plan.
Something went wrong.
All this evidence is cooked.
Rhubari, well, now he's your cook.
I want to know who paid him to do it.
Whoever it was, Rhubari said they're gonna know I'm going after them.
They're looking for somebody.
Well, good.
You know I love the spotlight.
This Rhubari,
he's done this before for money, hasn't he?
It's got to be big money, too.
You say he's got a small-time teaching gig.
I'm gonna need a car.
Oh, and a driver's license,
because I don't want to be breaking any law, so...
Hey, it's Billie.
I'm gonna have to cancel the rest of my meetings for today.
I'm sorry.
You can't be here now.
We'll let you know when she can have visitors.
Please.
- How's it going? - I don't know.
They're all blurring together.
Right now, you look like one of 'em.
Look, I have this appointment I've got to go make.
You gonna be okay if I leave you alone?
- What am I, a girl? - You're a badass.
I'm gonna take you away this weekend. What do you say?
I can't. I have to visit my grandmother.
It's her birthday.
I didn't know you had a grandma.
Oh, I have a grandmother.
Want to come?
Eric's office is right through here.
Does his father come around here much?
No, actually, I've never met Mr. Zale sr.
All right. Thank you.
Of course not. Why?
Any lower and I'm losing money on this.
I'm barely breaking even on this tear-down.
Hey, I've got some people in my office.
Let me call you back. Okay.
Hey, Eric.
Jesus.
It's like I'm seeing a ghost.
I got your message.
What happened? They let you out?
Not officially.
It's a long story.
How you doing?
Come here.
God, I don't know what to say.
- I'm speechless. - That's a first, right?
Honestly, it's good to see you.
Yeah, you, too.
I'd like to thank you all for coming today.
As you know, just showing up
is an important part of the journey.
We've got some new people today.
Cindy, would you like to come up?
Hi, I'm Cindy
and I'm a compulsive gambler.
Hi, Cindy.
Yeah, yeah, so it's all good news, right?
Well, we'll see. It's gonna take a long time.
And you're living with your folks.
How's that?
Things are pretty bad with my dad, you know?
I've got this part-time job,
but it's gonna take me forever to earn any money.
But if I stick to the agreement,
you know, impress the judge,
they might allow me to move into my own place.
I'll still be monitored,
but anything's better than living in my old room, right?
I hear that, yeah.
After rehab, I went to my mom and dad's.
Both times. It didn't really take right away.
But, yeah, I've been nine years sober now.
- That's great, man. - Yeah.
Yeah, and I'm married, too.
Can you believe I'm a dad?
- No way. - Yeah.
Wow.
Looks like you're doing really well, man.
I am. I am.
I can't believe how crazy I was.
Yep.
Man, it's like I... I don't even know that guy.
I can... I can't believe we're sitting here bs-ing.
No, I know, it's nice.
Look, I don't want to put you on the spot,
but I was wondering if you've got any extra work around here.
I mean, it would really help me out, you know?
Yeah.
Most of my stuff I subcontract out.
But, look, look. I'll make a few phone calls.
Call in a few favors.
And I'll see what I can get you.
All right, thank you. I appreciate it.
- So you found the place. Good. - Yeah. Hi.
- Hey. Come on in. Come on in. - Thanks.
Pumpkin, be quiet.
I was just on the phone with my publisher.
Have a seat.
Oh, let me clear this.
I was just on the phone with him
and I said, "what a massive stroke of luck it was you called."
Pumpkin, please. As you know, Victor Rosa's last appeal is coming up.
Nobody thinks he'll get a stay, so my publisher wants me to revise the book
I wrote about the murder and publish a new edition around his execution.
It's smart.
Well, you know, I'm not officially investigating.
- I'm more just helping out. - Oh.
Pumpkin!
The truth of the matter is you know more about the murder than I do,
and I was...
Information that you...
Pumpkin, shut up!
God, you should move in.
Sorry.
Like I was saying,
I was just wondering if maybe there was anything
you found out that you didn't put in the book.
Are they trying to find new evidence for the appeal?
Is that what this is?
Something like that.
Well, they won't find anything.
The Danners made sure of that.
What do you mean?
Nonfiction is really just fiction with real people.
I mean, we're talking the Danners,
the Kennedys of Philadelphia.
But then, you read my book.
Oh, no, I actually just read the article.
Oh, let me give you a book.
The only reason that Claire Danner
married that Victor Rosa was rebellion.
So cliched it almost ruined my book.
The family hated him.
They called him Victor Rosa the Polish puck pusher.
I'm very close with the family.
In his defense,
he was quite the up-and-comer at the time.
I mean, he was well on his way to being a hockey superstar.
So what happened?
Nothing.
That's just it, nothing happened.
It was the hardest part of the book to write.
Victor Rosa had all this attention,
all these endorsement deals,
he married socialite Claire Danner,
then nothing happened.
His team started to lose.
His endorsements wouldn't sell.
Claire Danner had this big life she was used to.
Thought he could give it to her without the family strings.
When he couldn't, she ran back to the family.
- With the daughter? - Only for a few years.
Claire wanted her freedom, so she sent...
Uh, God, I'm blanking on the name...
- Christine. - Christine to boarding school.
So were there any other suspects?
Not in court.
So, what, you think he was framed?
No. In my book, he was guilty.
When she left him, he was arrested half a dozen times for drunken assault.
Jealousy, life on the skids, kills ex-wife's fiancé.
"If I can't have her, nobody can" kind of thing.
Story wrote itself. The easiest money I ever made.
So what did the Danners not allow you to print?
Here, want me to sign it?
No.
I'm good.
I'm so sorry.
- I'm so sorry. - No, no, no, no.
Come here, sweetie pie. Come here.
- I felt so bad. - I know, baby.
I know.
I didn't know what to do.
It's gonna be okay, Jenny, I promise you.
Listen to me.
Baby, you got to come to me, okay?
When you feel like this, you got to come to me.
Is Adam mad?
I promised I wouldn't do this
- after last time. - No.
Of course he's not mad. Nobody's mad at you.
We understand.
I just don't know what to do anymore.
We are going to figure this out together.
You and me are going to figure this out
and I will sit here for as long as it takes.
You are beautiful, you are young,
and you deserve to have a great life.
Okay?
Oh, honey, I love you.
Commissioner, your grandson is at security.
Get someone to bring him up.
So is she gonna be all right?
Mom's at the hospital talking to the doctor,
and he said she's gonna have to stay in, like, a rehab place or something.
I was with her the night before.
- I should have helped her. - There's nothing you could have done.
But that's the thing. I could have.
She came to me. She was looking for help.
And I didn't hear it. I was too busy giving her my slam.
My words of her being strong. But she wasn't.
And I didn't hear it.
Still, there's nothing you could have done.
That poor child has seen horrors
you had nothing to do with.
Yeah, but she was good. Then it all started again.
After the execution when she went back to work with my mom,
I don't know what, but something happened.
Your father doesn't know when to leave well enough alone.
Wh... What do you mean?
Please.
Your father thinks the world has changed.
Some post racial America nonsense.
He's forgotten his history, forgotten the struggle.
Back when I was a beat cop in an all-white force,
they used words that we're not allowed to use any longer
and I just had to take it.
Like my father did and his father before him.
But, no, I harnessed my rage and my anger
and I fought.
And I climbed over them. Now I'm the Commissioner.
But if you think those words aren't still in their heads,
then you got another think coming.
Nothing has changed.
It's just morphed into something else.
Black folks like the butlers,
they got too high, they got fooled.
They forgot the anger, the struggle, the history.
And so people like Jenny, they get knocked down
because no one wants to tell them the truth.
Son...
The worst thing, the most dangerous thing
we can do is to forget our history.
Jenny was left alone
because her family believed that lie.
They forgot the struggle. They forgot the history.
Don't you ever, ever forget yours.
Polaski.
What was the other one's name?
Walinski.
I mean, is this what retired cops do?
They join the posse?
No, this has nothing to do with them being cops.
This has to do with them being assholes.
Okay, so what do retired cops do when they want to keep working?
Like, I guess it
kind of depends on the kind of cops that they were.
Guys who want the boring life, it's boats and bus drivers.
Guys who want to stay in the action,
security firms.
Like personal security?
Like for someone who could afford personal security?
Yeah.
What, you already have this all figured out?
We can't tell Clark.
Come here.
Are you gonna help me?
You want to play cops?
You all right?
Yeah.
I'm not gonna lie. I was pretty shocked to see him.
Did he say why he came?
- He wants a job. - A job?
Can you believe that? I thought this was all taken care of.
He's not supposed to be looking up old friends.
Do we report him? Would that help?
No. Might bring up some questions.
We don't want that.
So what do I do?
Maybe it's a good idea giving him a job.
Easy to keep track of him.
I... I... I can't have him around me all day.
Do you understand that?
We got to find another site for him.
All right. We will.
Have you seen your kids?
Uh... I've got visitation this weekend, but I'm gonna cancel it.
No, no. No. Bring them up to the house.
Freddy and Melissa, they love it up there.
They can bring the dog, run around.
Get them out of the city.
This is all gonna go away.
Hey, where's Christine?
She's upstairs getting dressed.
She's coming right down.
Are you going like that?
Yeah, why?
Hey, Terry, would you please put the candles on the tables?
- Sure. - Have you two met?
Danny, this is Terry. Terry, Danny.
How's it going?
Good.
Hey.
Did I leave my keys down here?
- Yep. - Thanks.
Am I under-dressed?
No, you look perfect.
Come on, I want to get there early.
Bye.
- Thank you. - Oh, that's better.
Here. Thanks.
Hi, aunt Margaret.
Christine! What are you doing here?
- I was invited. - Yeah, but you never come.
Your mother's in Switzerland, you know.
I know. Where's grandma?
I need an audience with the queen.
She's upstairs. And this is?
Danny. It's really great to meet you.
Hello! It's my old friend.
Hey.
Oh...
We know each other.
Griffen Dunleavey.
Actually, we met a few years ago
in the King of Prussia mall parking lot.
You had an accident with your car.
No, I was trying to run you over and I missed.
It's nice to see you. I'm going up.
Griffen, why don't you take Mr....
Danny's fine.
Mr. s'fine to get a drink?
Come, I'll tell you all the dirt.
Margaret, I'll be down in a moment.
It's your granddaughter. Want to see her?
You were born knowing how to make an entrance.
You got that from my side of the family.
Come in.
Are you my present?
Happy Birthday.
You've lost too much weight. You look tired.
You're a year older. How does that feel?
Sit.
Your mother didn't even bother to call.
I'll hear from her tomorrow.
She'll say the time difference confused her.
Who is she seeing now?
A German banker, I think.
He's married,
but his wife's in a mental hospital.
Why didn't we ever commit my mother?
Because psychotic narcissism is too common a disorder.
If we put them all away, Washington and Los Angeles would be empty.
Why are you here?
I made an appearance last year.
Exactly. An appearance.
I can't remember the last time
that you came to see me alone for no reason.
So?
What's the reason?
We've got a new visitor today.
He'd like to speak. Come on up.
Thank you, Francis.
Hi, my name is Lancey Howard
and I am a compulsive gambler.
Hi, Lancey.
I lost everything to gambling.
The same old story, I guess.
Always thinking the next one's gonna be the big win.
But it never happens,
does it, brothers and sisters?
No, I had to go way, way down below bottom
before I realized that it wasn't losing the money
that was destroying my life.
It was being able to look in the mirror
and believing what I saw
that I lost.
See, my debts got so huge,
I didn't have any way to pay it back
except with my own self-respect.
And I was a doctor.
Forensic research.
Worked mainly out of Jersey.
Well, things got bad
and I found myself six figures in the hole with no way out.
There was a case that came to court.
A murder case.
And some people, who will remain nameless,
approached me about falsifying some DNA evidence.
Well, I did it.
And several years later,
the man who I falsely identified...
Was executed.
It was a terrible thing.
A terrible thing that I'm going to have to live with
for the rest of my life.
Well, now I got a small teaching job.
I get by.
I can't get laid,
but that's just something I'm gonna have to learn
to live with, I guess.
The thing is...
The people who paid me to sell my soul...
I'm never out of their grip.
Their eyes are always on me.
No matter what I do,
wherever I go,
I live in constant fear
that one day they will find me
and they will punish me
for all of my wrongs.
Boy,
that felt good to get that off my chest.
Thank you.
Thank you, Lancey.
The details are different, but I'm sure many of us
hear ourselves in the story of losing self-respect
to pay our debts.
I think me and you should go for a drink a little later, Rhubarb.
What? If we're drinking, we ain't gambling.
Come on.
Do I make it out to you?
No, the innocence initiative.
- What's that? - Where I work.
We exonerate the wrongfully convicted through DNA evidence.
We have a client I need some extra money to help.
Is this about your father?
No. There is no DNA evidence in his case.
We can't help him.
One day you're going to have to face the truth about him, you know.
Well, one of us will.
I...
I want something back for this.
A visit once a month.
I don't have a lot of time left, you know.
You'll never die.
God doesn't want you.
Hi, Roberta. Hi, Maxwell.
Hi, I'm Christine Rosa.
I'm Elizabeth's granddaughter.
Oh, yes. Yes, of course.
I don't think we've met,
but your grandmother's told me all about you.
You're the one studying to be a lawyer.
I'm the one. I'm interning at the innocence initiative.
We're the ones working on the Bankowski case.
Oh, well, that's all over now, isn't it, with the execution?
- Not really. - Oh.
Well, I haven't read anything in the newspapers.
I thought it was all finished.
No, we believe the real killer is still out there.
Real killer? I don't understand.
Hey, babe, time to go.
Danny. It's good to meet you.
Stanley Zale.
I know.
So great to finally meet you.
Good luck with everything.
You, too.
- Stanley - Hello.
I can't believe you got him out.
DNA test found another sample. Witness recanted.
We're cautiously optimistic.
He's a good kid, too.
I mean, considering everything he's been through.
Well, that's fantastic, honey.
Congratulations.
I just want you to know it can happen.
You never know.
Danny's been looking through your case, asking around.
He's got a few ideas.
Yeah, he talked to me about it.
I like him.
Good.
How's the bar? Busy?
Nah. Just breaking even.
Weather's got everybody home.
You...
You still got that damn picture of me?
Covered in lights.
I went to see grandma Elizabeth.
I didn't want Maxine to pay extra
for Terry when the bar is not even doing...
I don't want you seeing her.
- Vic, it's for the kid. - I don't care.
You promised me
that you would have nothing to do with them.
You gave me your word that you would never see that woman.
Daddy, I know we can't stand them,
but they're still my family.
They are not your family!
- I am your family, do you hear me?! - Hey!
- Shut up! - Vic, take it easy.
Don't tell me to take it easy.
You stay away from those people.
Get the hell away from me!
Do you understand that? Stay away from them!
Keep it down!
Stay away from them, Christine.
Stay away!
And in this, the city of brotherly love,
there's just too much out here to try and rise above.
But... rise I will, and fly I will.
And the next time you see me,
I'll be soaring still. Thank you.
Yes!
Give it up for James Winson.
Once again, James Winson.
Whoo, James!
Our next young speaker is Trey Page.
I'd like to dedicate this poem to Jenny Butler.
Who's surrounded by lies
and suffocated by the devil's right hand
trying not to step on a mine, who can she trust? No man.
But see, I'm finna make this story a happy ending,
because the only happy endings I see are the ones on tv
where heroes are never meant to look like me.
Black.
But see, they say see past that
because they refuse to see our past.
And our present is that of a poor story I promise won't last
because I'm proud and I'm black.
See, I once believed in justice for Jenny,
but now I see that justice seems to come on a penny.
Well, you can't buy back the Butlers.
You may be able to fool my father,
but he's not the only powerful black man,
so don't you dare gamble the last hand.
So no longer will our people be condemned for our being in this world.
I rise and I speak with words that are stronger than theirs that are weak
repeated on the news every single week.
I'm a one-man revolution. The solution to our world
that is filled with this society's confusion and delusion.
This art arose in arteries pumping rage at hateful diseases.
Freedom must reign.
No word in vain, my pens slayin' these demons.
Our crisis is that for hundreds of years
they've behaved pathetically bloodless.
Colonizing the world with diseases contagiously infectious.
You could be sure my cure is pure.
You could trust this while you people sit in those chairs
and are injected with my poetic justice.
All we need is love
by any means necessary.
By any means necessary.
Props. Trey Page.
- Hi. - You home?
Yeah, yeah, I just got back.
- How's your dad? - He was great.
Great?
- He seemed pretty good the other day. - Yeah.
- The man's a character. - Yeah, he said he liked you.
- Right. - I know.
No, he did.
So, was he feeling better about the case?
He was in really great spirits, actually.
Cool.
Yeah, we reviewed most of the details...
listen, Danny, I'm totally knocked out.
That drive always kills me.
Can I... can I just call you tomorrow?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem. - Okay.
- I'll check in with you then. - Great.
- You get some sleep. - Yeah, talk to you tomorrow.
- Okay, bye. - Bye.
- Hello? - Hi.
Hi. What's going on?
It's late. You okay?
Oh, my God, Terry, I'm so embarrassed.
I meant to call Clark. I pushed the wrong button.
It's okay. Don't worry about it.
I'm so embarrassed. I'm sorry.
- Look, just call me tomorrow. - I'm sorry. Yeah.
- I'll talk to you tomorrow. - I'll talk to you soon.
Okay, all right, bye.
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