Whoa. Pat, help your brother
with that tackle box.
Shotgun!
Nuh-uh. You had it last time.
So? I called it. And I'm the oldest.
Uh, Dad, you're still
wearing your badge.
I don't think the fish
will be impressed.
Very funny, wise guy.
Everyone buckled?
Buckled.
- Me, too.
- All right, then.
[CAR ALARM BLARING]
[DOG BARKING]
WOMAN: The beauty of this
bracelet is it can be casual.
You could wear it
for an elegant evening out.
Just look at this.
- Unbelievable, the detail.
- WOMAN : Mm.
Just so beautiful.
- WOMAN : Right here.
- WOMAN: Yep.
Just beautiful, and look
how beautiful it looks layered.
Can you get a close-up on it?
- MAN: Freeze! FBI! Don't move!
- [CHILD WAILS]
[CRYING] Stay where you are!
Stay where you are! Do not move!
WOMAN: Please,
I-I need you to tell me where my son is.
And I need to go home.
MAN: Well, then just answer
the question, Mrs. Doherty.
Where is your husband?
I told you, I don't know where he is.
I can only tell you where he was.
He-he was at dinner with his cousin.
He was gonna ask about a job.
When was the last time
you spoke with him?
Earlier this evening.
I really need you to tell me
where my son is
and that he's okay.
Does the name Jackson Miller
mean anything to you?
He's the Special Agent in Charge
of the New York Division
of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and expl*sives.
He was m*rder*d a few hours ago,
along with his two little boys.
Car b*mb.
You know anything about that, Alicia?
No, of course not.
Did your husband ever talk
about making bombs,
Mrs. Doherty?
- No.
- Is he a member of a group
called the ' Righteous Crusaders?
I've never heard that name.
What about the Old World Army?
No. What are those?
- T-Teams? Clubs?
- Did he ever talk about wanting
to hurt federal law enforcement?
Ever thr*aten to hurt anyone?
I need to see my son.
I need to see Max.
[DOOR OPENS]
Hi, Mrs. Doherty.
I'm Special Agent Easley.
I've been watching and listening
to you from the other room.
Now, I know you want to get out of here.
I know you want to see your little boy,
and I really want to make that happen.
- Okay.
- Here's my problem.
You know this building?
Yeah.
You have a storage unit in this
building, don't you, Mrs. Doherty?
Yeah.
This your storage unit?
I-I think so.
It... it looks like it.
I... I haven't been there
in a long time.
It's the same number.
Hmm. NYPD went in there with
a search warrant, all right?
Took them minutes to take off
all these locks here.
This is what they found.
See that?
Got enough firepower in there
to take out half of Woodside.
I've never seen any of this before.
Where's your husband, Mrs. Doherty?
[CRYING]: I don't know!
BENNY: Got a U.S. senator on here.
The heads of the New York division
of both the FBI and Homeland Security.
You're looking
at Adam Doherty's hit list?
[SIGHS]: Oh, yeah.
Almost a dozen names.
He was convinced the federal government
was out to m*rder its own citizens.
Said he wanted to "return the country
to the purity of its founding."
I hate to say it, but the more
I learn about this guy,
the happier I am he d*ed
in that police sh**t-out.
How do you feel
about representing his wife?
Well, let's not pretend
we have a choice here.
When the Federal Defenders Office calls,
they're not asking.
Adam made me get the storage unit.
He said we had too much stuff.
So you rented the unit.
Did you know about the weapons?
No. Right after I rented it,
Adam took the keys.
He said he didn't want me to lose them.
The one time I asked for them back...
I wanted to hang on
to some of Max's baby things,
even though he'd outgrown them...
Adam, he...
What?
He choked me...
and knocked me down to the floor...
in front of my son.
Did you help your husband
m*rder that A*F agent
and his two little boys?
Did he force you to help him?
Did you do it to...
protect yourself and your son?
I would never...
I could never hurt anyone.
And Adam knew that.
And I need you to believe me.
I had no idea what Adam was planning.
I swear.
Look, Alicia, according to the FBI,
your DNA was all over
those homemade detonators
they found in the storage unit.
Adam had me buy him circuit
boards and electrical tape.
He... he said he was gonna do
freelance computer repairs.
I had no idea
he was using that stuff to make bombs.
BULL: Okay, but why are
the antigovernment militias
and hate groups
that Adam mentions in his manifesto
on your computer's search history?
ALICIA: Have you ever
been around someone
who believes something so hard you...
you start to think maybe
you'rethe one who's crazy?
Adam would talk about the A*F
stealing people's g*ns
to k*ll kids with.
And, I mean, in my mind
I knew it was nuts,
but he was so certain,
and so sometimes I...
I would Google what he said
to see if maybe it was real.
The websites that came up, they...
they were crazier than he was.
So why not tell the FBI any of that?
I mean, they questioned
you for hours that night,
and all you did was lie about Adam,
about his beliefs, about everything.
Why?
I didn't know he was dead.
I figured I still had
to live with the man.
M-My son still had to live with the man.
[ALICIA SNIFFLES]
Did they tell you where he is?
My son?
'Cause they won't tell me.
Yes. He's been placed
with a foster family,
pending the outcome of your trial.
I have to see him.
C-Can you make them let me see him?
We'll ask, but,
uh, you shouldn't get
your hopes up, Mrs. Doherty.
- In cases like this... I
- f you can't get me to see him,
will you let whoever he's with now
know that he needs a night-light?
He can't sleep without a night-light.
A-And, then, even with a night-light,
sometimes you just have to hold him
while you watch television.
And that-that will get him
to sleep, too.
Night-light, television.
We'll tell them.
Okay, Mrs. Doherty...
I'm sorry, I...
[SIGHS]
I've forgotten your names.
I'm Dr. Bull. This is Mr. Colón.
Bull. Colón.
A doctor of lies.
A perfume man.
Nice to meet you.
And thank you...
for your help.
[KNOCKING]
Hey!
Are we interrupting anything?
I was over at A.D.A. Kiehl's office,
and we were talking
about you and the campaign,
and we were gonna call, and we realized
you're seven blocks away, so we walked.
- Benny.
- No, no, come on in. Come on in.
KIEHL: First and foremost,
thanks for sending your sister my way.
She's got a hell of a Rolodex,
and that is gonna come in very handy
when it comes time to do
some fundraising.
Well, Izzy's my name,
and arm-twisting's my game.
So,
you ready to have a tough conversation?
- What do you mean?
- What kind of tough conversation?
[SIGHS]: You need to know...
not everybody at the prosecutor's office
is exactly thrilled
about your new client.
Oh. And why is that?
Well, there's a lot of
people that work over there...
Yours truly included...
That want to endorse you.
- And?
- And a lot
of those people are gonna have trouble
speaking up for a guy
who's defending a t*rror1st.
Particularly when that guy
is running to be the
city's top prosecutor.
"Miss amm*nit*on," huh?
- Benny,
- I'm on your side.
You were my idea.
You know, maybe one of us
can talk to Jason
and just see
if you can sit this one out,
have him put Chunk on it.
No, no, no, no, no. I'm not doing that.
It's a really, really tough case.
This girl is in a hell of a jam.
She's a kid, a victim of abuse.
Lied to authorities. It's her
word against the government.
How can I walk away from that?
And you know she's innocent?
I have no clue.
I just know she needs me.
I can't stop doing the job I have now
just because I want a new one.
And hopefully,
the voters will understand that,
and if they don't,
then maybe I'm not their guy.
Well, it's not actually the voters
I'm worried about at the moment.
We're asking people
to write some big checks,
volunteer their time, and we're
already getting some pushback
with these headlines.
I don't know what to tell you.
Why don't we just take a breath.
There's a long way till April,
there's a long way till Election Day,
and we even have some time
before I have to do
any real arm-twisting.
Actually, we don't.
These next couple of weeks are
about endorsements and money.
One gets you the other,
and right now we have neither.
Well, you have my word
that when the time comes,
I will get you all the money you need.
But for now,
let's let the defender defend.
I mean, who knows,
maybe this whole...
innocent-till-proven-guilty
thing will catch on.
And would you go so far as to say
that Mrs. Doherty
hindered your investigation?
Absolutely.
She repeatedly made
false or misleading statements
on the night of the bombing
about her husband's whereabouts,
beliefs, behaviors.
She withheld information,
even though we warned her
doing so could be putting
innocent lives at risk.
And when you informed Mrs. Doherty
that her husband had been k*lled
exchanging g*nf*re with police,
what was her reaction?
Uh, she burst into tears.
Completely inconsolable
for a good ten minutes or so.
I guess that's to be expected
from a grieving widow
who loved and supported her husband.
- Objection!
- Counsel is testifying.
Sustained.
The jury will disregard
the A.U.S.A.'s assertion.
YOUNG: Agent Easley, other than
the DNA and computer forensics
you've detailed so far, is there
further evidence that Mrs. Doherty
knew of her husband's plansand
assisted in their execution?
Yes. We actually have video
of Mr. and Mrs. Doherty visiting
and surveilling the scene of the
crime a week before the bombing.
Objection, Your Honor!
The defense has not heard of this video,
and it certainly hasn't
been authenticated, either.
This is a clear violation
of the rules of discovery.
Your Honor, the FBI was finally able
to decrypt Adam Doherty's phone
late last night.
There was no time to turn it over
before Agent Easley took the stand.
But I know he can testify
to the phone's chain of custody
and authenticate the video.
I'm gonna take you at your word,
Ms. Young, and allow it.
Adam, look, it's Daddy!
Oh, now's your big chance.
Are we gonna do it for Daddy?
Can you show him?
Adam, are you getting it?
[CHUCKLES]:
Adam, babe, are you getting it?
ADAM: Oh, yeah. Don't worry.
I got it all right.
I thought he was filming Max.
I-I was talking about Max.
He was doing a backwards roll
like in his baby gym class.
Agent Easley.
[SUCKS TEETH]
We all saw your video
and we all heard your video.
And I got to tell you, I'm not
sure I heard what you heard,
and I'm certainly not sure
I saw what you saw.
Well, it is what it is.
Actually, I'm not so sure about that.
I mean, yes,
Adam was photographing the home
of the A*F agent he ultimately k*lled.
The home, the car...
No doubt about that.
But isn't it possible
that Mrs. Doherty had no idea
what he was actually filming?
Isn't it possible that when
she said, "Are you getting it?"
She was actually referring
to the backward roll
her three-year-old son was doing
to impress his father?
Objection, Your Honor.
Calls for speculation.
BENNY: I beg to differ, Your Honor.
My question requires no more speculation
than the AUSA's assertion
that this video
somehow shows my client
casing a crime scene.
Mr. Colón has a point.
The witness will answer the question.
I suppose it's possible.
Isn't it also possible that...
[INHALES, SIGHS]
...Alicia Doherty, uh,
thought she was just spending
a beautiful day
at the park with her family?
Isn't it possible that she had no idea
what her husband was up to,
that he was simply using her
and their child
as pawns in his depraved game?
I suppose anything is possible.
Anything's possible.
Thank you. No further questions,
Your Honor.
Your Honor, may I be heard on redirect?
- Go ahead.
- Agent Easley,
how far is that park
from the Doherty apartment?
It's minutes. Two subway rides.
Are there any closer parks
for a family outing,
if that was indeed what Mrs.
Doherty thought was going on?
Dozens. Which is why I'm all but certain
Alicia Doherty went
to that specific park
for one reason and one reason only:
To help her husband plan
a t*rror1st att*ck.
[QUIET MURMURING]
YOUNG: How long had your late
husband been an A*F agent, Mrs. Miller?
years.
And how old were your little boys?
Patrick was .
Teddy was ten.
MARISSA:
Wow. Even with no mirror jurors,
I can tell you from here
they're all red.
Not a one of 'em on our side.
[QUIETLY]: Marissa,
your job is to tell me what I don'tknow.
Now, tell me about the day it happened.
The day you lost your husband
and your children.
Jack was late
coming home from work.
And the boys were... [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
...the boys were stir-crazy,
between school at home and not
getting to see their friends.
So when...
When Jack took them...
...I was relieved.
Of course, now I-I wish...
I wish I would have
never let them out the door.
[SNIFFLES]
Uh...
I had just turned on the computer,
and there was... this flash.
It lit up the whole house.
The front windows shattering.
The SUV blowing apart.
And what I realize now
was probably screaming.
Then I ran outside,
and there was just this heat.
A wall of fire and smoke.
And that smell.
And I knew
that that smell was my babies.
[SNIFFLES]
IZZY: Jason?
Try to contain your happiness,
but... [SIGHS]
I have a feeling this whole
"Benny for D.A." thing
is gonna go away.
Did you say something or was I dreaming?
I said I think this whole
"Benny for D.A." thing
is just gonna evaporate.
Okay.
Well, can you help me out here?
Do you want me to cry or...
throw a party?
I just want to make you happy.
[SIGHS]
I learned something today in my new,
voluntary campaign finance job.
Oh, gosh.
I'm... all ears.
Which actually isn't a very
attractive look, but...
Endorsements beget contributions,
and contributions beget endorsements.
It's symbiotic.
Everybody wants to back a winner.
You know, the electorate sees
that someone gets an endorsement,
they want to contribute.
If the press,
opinion makers, fellow politicians
see that someone's raking in
the finance money,
then they are happy to endorse.
Please don't take this the wrong way,
but I'm not sure that
was worth waking up for.
No, I'm not done.
Nobody wants to endorse or contribute
to someone who defends a woman
who may very well have aided
and abetted an anarchist
that k*lled three people,
two of them children.
I don't know what to tell you.
We're already into the trial.
I mean, even if I wanted
to make a change...
Throw Chunk in there, maybe...
I think the damage is done.
That's all you got for me?
No.
[GRUNTS]
Do you mind if I share
some words of wisdom
from this really beautiful
Puerto Rican woman
I used to date,
then married, then divorced,
then we had a child together but
I plan on marrying her again?
I knew you were keeping secrets from me.
She always used to say...
And did I mention that she had
this really successful company
that she sold for millions of dollars?
Something called a lifestyle company.
Which is essentially
a fancy way of saying
that she would sell people products
they never would have
thought that they needed,
but she convinced them
that they weren't products...
They were essentials,
essentials they had to have.
Otherwise, their lives
were completely meaningless.
Are you making fun of me?
Of my work?
She said...
every setback,
every potential disaster,
every product that hasn't been
successfully sold
by some maverick maven
is an opportunity.
A roll of brown toilet paper
is a very off-putting idea
until you show people how chic it can be
in a bathroom fitted with gold fixtures.
This isn't gonna work.
Quoting me to me?
That's just another form of
marketing. You're trying to...
compliment me out of my misery.
But, Izzy,
take a step back.
What your brother's doing
is a very noble thing,
and you know that.
He believes in the justice system.
He believes everybody
deserves their day in court.
There's got to be some way
to turn that into a positive,
particularly for somebody
running for D.A.
Hmm.
Should I give you the...
digits of that beautiful Puerto Rican
girl I used to date?
Oh. Roll over.
Go back to sleep. [GRUNTS]
Okay.
But only because you're making me.
[GRUNTS]
RENFROW: We had my daughter Grace's
birthday party at this tots gym
a few months back.
Gracie was so excited
that Alicia brought Max.
She just adores him.
And the kids were having a great time.
That is, until Max's dad showed up.
You mean Adam Doherty?
Yeah. That's who I mean.
And what happened after Mr.
Doherty showed up to the party?
He just...
went off on his wife.
On Alicia.
He started calling her words
that you should never use
in front of children.
Words you should never use at all.
A lot of the kids were crying,
and it was ugly.
BENNY: And do you recall, Mrs. Renfrow,
what, uh, Mr. Doherty
was so angry about?
It was something about the car.
He was mad that Alicia
had driven to the party.
Apparently, he had arranged
to sell the car that day,
and when the buyer came
to get it, it wasn't there.
Only Alicia didn't know that
because he never told her.
Uh... [SCOFFS]
So, let me get this straight.
Mr. Doherty was going to sell
the family's only car
and didn't tell his wife?
That's the way I heard it.
And when Alicia tried
to remind him of that
to defend herself, he said
of course he didn't tell her,
because she's too stupid
to tell stuff to.
Objection, Your Honor. Hearsay.
I beg to differ, Your Honor.
The witness is testifying
to what was said
in what was
a very public display of temper.
She's not testifying as to the veracity
of the events themselves,
only that they were
spoken about loudly in front
of many adults and children.
Overruled.
"Too stupid to tell stuff to."
So let me ask you, Mrs. Renfrow,
does that sound like someone
who would trust their wife
- to help them plan a t*rror1st att*ck?
- Objection.
Calls for speculation,
relevance, no foundation.
The list goes on, Your Honor.
Sustained. Watch it, Mr. Colón.
Forgive me, Your Honor.
I have no further questions.
Mrs. Renfrow, do you know a woman
by the name of Hannah Hinson?
Sure. She's my best friend
at the office.
Did you ever discuss the
defendant with your colleague?
Once, yes.
YOUNG: And what was the nature
of this discussion?
W-Well, I needed some advice.
I mean, Alicia had asked me
a pretty big favor,
and I wasn't sure how to respond.
What was the favor?
She asked if I would look after Max
if anything ever happened to her.
Objection. Hearsay.
No, it is not hearsay
because it's not being offered
for the truth in the matter discussed,
but as evidence
of Alicia Doherty's mental
and emotional state at the time.
I'm going to allow it.
You may continue, Ms. Young.
And when did Mrs. Doherty
make this request, Mrs. Renfrow?
Sometime in early November, I think.
Early November.
Well, that's just before Adam Doherty
m*rder*d Agent Miller
and his little boys.
Sounds to me like Alicia
knew what was coming.
Sounds to me like she was making plans
in case she got caught in the fallout.
BENNY: Objection.
Counsel is testifying, inflammatory.
It's not true, I swear.
HANCOCK: Objection
sustained. The jury will disregard
Ms. Young's assertions.
MARISSA: Oh, my.
Is this going as badly as it sounds?
No.
It's worse.
It had been a bad few days,
so I promised Max
we could do something fun.
And I always used to love making
those snowflakes when I was a kid.
You-you know, the ones
where you fold the paper
and you cut-cut out the pieces?
But I-I couldn't find the scissors,
so I started looking in
Adam's desk, and that...
...that was a no-no.
No one was supposed
to go near Adam's desk.
So I'm looking...
...and all of a sudden I feel something
pressed against my head...
...and it's Adam's g*n.
And he cocks it
and he tells me that
if I ever touch his stuff again,
he'll end me.
And I looked over and Max
was standing in the doorway.
And he wasn't crying anymore,
he was just staring at us,
at his dad and his mom and the g*n.
[SNIFFLES]
And that's why I asked Mrs. Renfrow
if she would look after Max.
I was just scared.
Adam had been acting
really extreme lately.
A-And I... I don't know,
maybe I should have known
that he was up to something,
- but I just...
- Okay.
I'm gonna stop you right there, Alicia.
Don't second-guess yourself.
Don't say things like
"I should have known."
I don't understand.
When you apologize or editorialize,
you're giving the prosecutor
fuel for her cross-examination.
"How could you not know
what your husband was up to?
You're his wife." Does that make sense?
Yeah, I guess so.
Okay.
I know it's been a long day,
I know you're tired.
But this is our last chance
to prepare you
for your testimony tomorrow.
And what I'd like to do
is have Mr. Palmer here pretend
to be the A.U.S.A. cross-examining you.
Okay?
CHUNK: Then at : p.m.,
two and a half hours
after the b*mb detonated,
you placed a call to your husband. Why?
To see when he'd be home from dinner.
CHUNK: Well, if that's all that it was,
then why didn't you leave a message?
I-I don't know. I-I just didn't.
Are you sure that you weren't
calling him to see
if he'd made his escape?
If everything had gone
according to plan?
There was no plan.
I thought he was at dinner.
I didn't know what was going on.
I just thought he'd be home
by : or-or : ,
and I hadn't heard from him.
So it's your testimony, then,
that at the time that
you placed that call,
you had no idea about the bombing?
- Yes.
- Remember,
Ms. Doherty, you are under oath.
Is something the matter?
Can the other side tell
what I was watching on TV?
I mean, could, like, the cable
company tell them or something?
Is there a record somewhere?
Uh, why do you ask, Alicia?
The truth is, I didn't know
what Adam was gonna do.
And I definitely didn't help him do it.
But that night, Max fell asleep
and-and I was flipping
through channels and...
and a news report came on
about an att*ck.
So I changed the channel
right away because,
because I didn't want Max
to wake up and see it.
But I heard "bombing,"
and I heard "A*F,"
and-and I don't know,
I couldn't help it.
I thought that-that maybe...
You thought it might be Adam?
You thought that your husband
was responsible for the att*ck,
and you decided to call him
and not the authorities?
What if he had been planning
to hurt more people?
[CRYING]: I don't know.
I don't know... I-I didn't know
for sure that it was him.
And-and I thought
that maybe I would call him
and-and he would be with his cousin
and everything would be fine.
But-but then he didn't answer
and then suddenly the FBI
was at the door and it all just ha...
It all happened so fast.
You know what?
I think we can still
put Alicia on the stand.
Now...
what she told us back there
wasn't great,
but it doesn't
materially change the case.
I mean, she didn't know about
Adam's plans beforehand
or share his intent
on committing that bombing,
so she's still not guilty
of aiding and abetting.
BULL: Well,
technically, you are right,
but I don't think
the letter of the law
is gonna to save us here, Benny.
Jury's looking for someone to blame,
and if they hear that Alicia
was even slightly suspicious of Adam,
even if it was after the fact,
I'm worried they will feel
that's reason enough
to hold her accountable.
Come on, guys, she thinks
her husband did it,
but she didn't call
the police or tell the FBI
when they showed up?
I'm sorry. Game over. [CHUCKLES]
I don't think the
"It all happened so fast"
is gonna fly as an excuse.
Wait a second.
What time was the bombing?
Sometime around : .
And what time did the FBI
get to Alicia's house?
About : .
Am I the only one
who thinks that's awfully fast?
All rise for the honorable
Judge Tia Hancock.
[DOOR OPENS]
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[WHISPERS]: You can sit right here.
HANCOCK: Mr. Colón,
you may call your next witness.
Yes, Your Honor.
The defense would like to recall
FBI Agent Easley to the stand.
Agent Easley, you are part
of the FBI's Joint Terrorism
Task Force, are you not?
- I am.
- And I'm guessing, as part
of that task force, you are familiar
with the extremist group
the ' Righteous Crusaders?
Yes, I'm very familiar with them.
They're a paramilitary fringe group.
- Organized mostly online.
- Ah.
And... uh, what is it, exactly,
that they stand for?
Well, the Righteous Crusaders
idealize America
at the time of its founding.
They believe that since that time,
the ideas and principles
upon which this country
was founded have,
one by one, become eroded.
And that the federal government
has become
increasingly more tyrannical
over the last years,
and that to be a true patriot
is to take up arms against it.
So they incite v*olence,
against their own government?
They do.
That sounds more like treason
than patriotism.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY] Well,
that's why they're classified
as a t*rror1st organization.
And isn't it also true that the A*F
is a favorite target of this group?
Well, the Righteous Crusaders
very much view
the A*F as a thr*at
to the Second Amendment.
There's a lot of conspiracy
theories revolving around
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and expl*sives
if you spend any time at all
in these, uh,
Crusader chat rooms.
Ah, yes, the chat rooms.
Turn up the volume.
Here comes the good stuff.
Can't wait.
BENNY: Agent Easley...
...I have a transcript...
...of an online conversation
between Adam Doherty
and some members of the, uh,
' Righteous Crusaders.
And in it, Adam writes...
And I'm quoting here...
"When are we gonna slaughter
those murderous A*F bastards
"like the pigs they are?
"I'm going to b*mb them to hell and back
"and make them rue the day
they perverted our country
and all it stands for."
Then there's a response
from someone named "Minuteman ."
Um, would you be so kind as
to read that response for me?
"You, sir, are a true patriot.
"Death to the A*F.
"Be sure to hit me up.
"I can get you all the expl*sives,
and firepower that you need."
Whoa.
"All the expl*sives
and firepower you need."
Sounds like scary stuff.
You know what it also sounds like?
It sounds like Minuteman
and Adam Doherty were
working together on something.
Maybe even had a hand
in the very murders
we're talking about here today.
Which makes me curious.
You ever look into this guy?
This Minuteman ?
You know, send out agents
to talk to him?
Follow him? See what he's up to?
No, we did not.
Really? Huh.
Just sounds like
such a no-brainer to me.
[LAUGHS]
Here's something funny.
I had a cyber analyst
I work with do some digging,
and she found the most amazing thing.
It turns out that several
of Minuteman 's posts
can be traced back
to an IP address at the FBI's
New York field office.
Does that surprise you?
No.
Here's another funny thing.
The IP address associated
with those posts
is actually registered...
to you.
Isn't that right, Agent Easley?
He's so good at this stuff.
Yes, it is.
So how do you explain that,
Agent Easley?
"Minuteman " is an online alias.
It's my online alias.
I used it to go undercover to try
and infiltrate the Righteous
' Crusaders online
so that the Bureau could have
their eyes and ears
on the group, know what they were up to
and... and monitor potential bad actors.
And is that when you first
became aware of Adam Doherty?
Yes.
Was he one of the bad actors
you were monitoring?
Yes, he was.
So, let's review.
You knew Adam Doherty wanted
to build bombs
so as to wreak havoc on the government.
You knew he hated the A*F.
So in fact, isn't it true
that you knew so much
about Adam Doherty,
that the second that b*mb went off,
you knew exactly who set it?
I had a strong suspicion, yes.
Of course you did, because
you'd been following him,
you had agents following him,
you saw him case the Miller home.
Isn't that right?
I asked you a question, Agent Easley.
Isn't that why
you were able to get a warrant
less than two and a half hours
after it happened,
and go to his house
and break down his door?
Yes.
So explain something to me and the jury.
If you knew all of this,
then why didn't you arrest Adam Doherty
before he k*lled Agent Miller
and those two little boys?
Before Monica Miller
lost her entire family?
Before we all ended up here?
Objection! Agent Easley
is not the one on trial here.
Well, maybe he should be!
Objection overruled.
The counsel, for the defense will
ask the question one more time,
and the witness will answer it.
Agent Easley,
why in the world did you not
arrest Adam Doherty
before he k*lled Agent Miller
and his two young sons?
Because we couldn't.
Because as disturbing
as Doherty's threats were
online in that chat room,
they were vague enough
to be under the safety net
of constitutionally-protected speech.
That's why I was attempting
to try and sell him those
expl*sives in that conversation.
I wanted to get him on something solid,
something that would stick
in a court of law.
But ultimately,
he-he wouldn't make a deal.
And without him actually
buying the contraband,
we didn't have enough
to bring him in on.
And I... and I convinced myself then,
since he wasn't able
to buy the expl*sives
that he was looking for,
that he... that he couldn't
really do any harm.
And clearly, I was wrong.
BENNY: Okay. Let's talk about
the, uh, woman on trial here,
his wife.
On what basis did you arrest her?
She was his wife.
It was her storage unit, and
it was her fingerprints we found
on some of the bombs.
All made from components
she freely admitted under oath
to purchasing
without having any knowledge
of what they were going to be used for.
- So she says.
- Okay.
So she says. So, you know what?
Now the burden falls on you.
Agent Easley, do you have a single piece
of concrete evidence that supports
your assertions against my client?
Do you have a single piece
of surveillance video that indicates
she's visited the storage unit
in the last months?
No.
The testimony of a single agent
that followed her there?
No.
Come on. Something!
A-a-a text? A-a-a cell phone transcript?
A single piece
of physical proof that indicates
she had anything at all to do with this?
No, I do not.
[SNIFFLES]
Your Honor,
the defense rests.
Alicia Doherty is charged with aiding
and abetting her husband. That means
she's charged with knowingly helping him
commit his heinous crime.
Now, ladies and gentlemen
of the jury, I've been
sitting in this courtroom
every day single day alongside of you,
and I've heard nothing that
proves beyond a reasonable doubt
that Alicia had any idea what
it was that Adam was planning.
I mean, she didn't know what was
on that tape in the park.
She didn't know
what was in the storage unit.
And she certainly didn't know
about the plans
he was hatching online
with his fellow extremists.
So what didshe know?
Did she know her husband
believed in conspiracy theories
and belonged to extremist groups? Yes.
Do you know who else knew?
The FBI.
Did she know her husband hated the A*F?
Yes, of course she knew that.
But you know who else knew that?
That's right.
The FBI.
Now here's the big one.
Did she know
her husband was getting ready
to plant a b*mb underneath
the family car of an A*F agent?
No, she did not.
In fact, the only person
who might have known that
was Minuteman .
And as you heard him testify,
he didn't believe Adam Doherty
had the expl*sives material
to pull off the things
he was threatening to do.
So, he kept the information to himself.
[SIGHS]
Ladies and gentlemen,
the only person we can blame
for the deaths of Agent Miller
and his two little boys is already dead.
Sure. Yeah, we can be
critical of the FBI,
with all of their expertise
and resources,
for not doing more to stop this madman.
But you cannot blame my client.
Because all that would accomplish
would be to add Alicia
and her three-year-old boy
to a parade of innocent victims,
both living and dead,
who have already suffered at the hands
of this misguided zealot
and his heinous crime.
And if that's not enough
to convince you to vote "not guilty,"
remember that-that...
that monstrous government?
That terrible country
that Adam Doherty
was striking out against?
Well, in that place we all call
"the United States of America,"
in that country,
we are all innocent until proven guilty.
And ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
nothing has been proven here today.
Except, hopefully,
Alicia Doherty's innocence.
Thank you for listening.
[QUIET MURMURING]
Guy's good, isn't he?
And if I lose him
to the D.A.'s office, then...
MAX: Mommy!
[GASPS]
- Mommy!
- Oh. [CRIES]
Thank you. Thank you so much.
You are very, very welcome.
Okay. Let's... Oh.
Ah. Oh!
Congrats on the verdict.
And what are you doing here?
I saw an opportunity, and I took it.
Quoting me to me? How dare you.
This is my new friend,
Vincent Moreau from the New York Ledger.
And what did you say
the title of the editorial
that you're writing
for tomorrow's paper's gonna be?
"Why Benjamin Colón is
the Right and Just Choice
for Manhattan's District Attorney."
Oh, my goodness. [LAUGHS]
Is the Ledger endorsing my candidacy?
New York needs a man like you.
Very impressive, Ms. Colón.
[WHISPERS]: I hate you.
[LAUGHS] You're making me blush.