01x15 - Hayden Tract

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01x15 - Hayden Tract

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In the city of Los Angeles,

the people are represented

by two separate yet equally
important groups...

The police, who
investigate crime,

and the district attorneys who
prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

- As you know,

my last job was in a
building across the street

at Helix Eight.

I remember what
this area was like

15 years ago.

Let's face it-- it was a dump.

But now it's become L.A.'s
answer to silicon valley.

That's how we rebuild
our economy.

With private enterprise

and strategic
government support.

- Can I get a picture with you?

- Oh, sure.

You work at terravision.

- I do.
- Mm-hmm.

- Is Sandy still making
his midnight margaritas?

- Where's my daughter?

What have you done
with my daughter?

- Who said that?

- We have seven dead, including
state senator Kelman.

No count on the wounded yet.

Suspect's at large.

Male, white, with a handgun.

25 to 30.
Baseball cap and sunglasses.

- One guy did all this?

- S.I.D.'S collected 26
shell casings so far.

Witnesses describe
continuous sh**ting.

- He didn't even
pause to reload.

Must have had an
extended magazine.

- Most of the sh*ts
went this way.

- Gather up all these cameras.

- I could have stopped them.

I should have been
here to stop them.

- Excuse me, sir.

Did you know the gunman?

- No.

I was on my way here,

but I stopped to buy a soda.

I heard the sh**ting. I ran.

But it was all over.

If I hadn't bought a soda,

I could have stopped him.

- What makes you think you
could have stopped him?

- I have a carry permit.

I should have been here

instead of buying a damn soda.

I was standing 3 feet from her.

It was supposed to
be a homecoming.

Celeste used to run a
video game company here.

Those maniacs k*lled her.

- Which maniacs are those?

- Take your pick.

Right-wing nuts who ran ads

with a bull's-eye
on her district...

Or the left-wing
kooks who threatened

to use a second amendment remedy
if she cut union pensions.

Those stupid bastards.

- Did you see the gunman?
- No.

I got distracted.

Somebody in the crowd
shouted something

about their daughter.

I saw a man there with two kids.

When I heard sh*ts,
I hit the ground.

I should have protected Celeste.

- We're sorry for your loss.

Mr. John.

We're very sorry
about your daughter.

- My daughter? No, uh...

Jenny's my son's friend.

She lives next door.

I brought him here today
to meet senator Kelman.

They're both so
into video games,

and I thought if they met
someone like senator Kelman,

someone who tries to
make a difference...

- It would inspire them.

- It was stupid idea.

I just told Jenny's mom...

I'd have
her back in an hour.

- Mr. John, just before
the sh**ting started,

someone in the crowd was
heard shouting something

about their daughter.

- Yeah, the-- the guy behind us.

The guy who sh*t everybody.

I turned around, I
saw he had a g*n.

I grabbed the kids and ducked
just as he started sh**ting.

But I didn't realize Jenny...

- Can you describe
what he was wearing?

- Uh, sunglasses...

Black shirt.

His shoes had a
checkerboard pattern.

My son says they're
skateboarder shoes.

- Skateboard shoes?

You know what make?

- Hey, hey. It's okay.

It's okay.

- We're very sorry
about your friend.

- Where's my daughter?

What have you done
with my daughter?

- Who said that?

- It sounds like he means
somebody took his daughter.

- There's the dad
with the two kids.

- And there's our man.

- Come on. Turn around.

- That one.

That's a glock 17.

- Looks like a 33-round clip.

- Number nine. Rewind it.

Witness said checkerboard shoes.

- He got away through
the building.

- You need a swipe
card to access

the elevators and staircases.

If he ran in here, he'd
have nowhere to go.

- Unless he's an
employee with a card.

- Come on, we got nothing but
computer geeks working here.

- What's behind this door?

- Hallway to a
maintenance closet.

- It it secured?

- No, it's a shortcut
to a fire exit.

- Mr. tancock, sir?

A week ago, I found someone

from a messenger
service in there.

He said he got lost.

- That's John Freeman.

He was always grabbing the runs
to the high-tech companies.

- Was?

- Well, he hasn't been
in since last week.

- You have a copy
of his license?

- I hope you guys have
good news for him.

- What kind of good news?

- About his daughter, Ariel.

She went missing last year.

That's all he talked about.

I mean, when he talked,

which wasn't all that much.

- What else did hehe
say about Ariel?

- She disappeared on
her way to school.

Broke up his marriage.

He was always
handing out fliers.

Address is in the Bay area.

Did Freeman have
a local address?

No. He only started
here six weeks ago.

I think he was living
out of his car.

- You have any of
his flyers here?

I really felt sorry for John.

I mean, for real.
Losing your kid like that?

But he managed to get
out of bed every day,

come into work.

Keep it together.

- Or not.

- Ariel Freeman's name isn't
on the national registry

of missing children.

But her name pops up on websites
about missing children.

A paper in Elko, Nevada,
even published an article

about Freeman's search for her.

This guy's all over the map
looking for his daughter.

- Including the mormon
temple in west L.A.

Freeman got picked up a
month ago for trespassing.

- He caused a disturbance
in our visitors center.

He accused the church

of protecting the people who
kidnapped his daughter.

- Did he name these people?

- We didn't recognize
any of them.

He said he had been at the
Elizabeth smart trial

in Utah.

He said that the people
who kidnapped her

belonged to the same group
who took his daughter.

We told him the church

has nothing to do
with those people.

- I see you declined to press
charges against Mr. Freeman.

- Well, he was so distraught
over his daughter.

He had already had
problems with the police

at the trial in Utah.

We didn't want to
add to his burden.

We just had the police
escort him off the property.

Why? What did he do?

- He k*lled seven
people two days ago.

- Sad to say, turning
the other cheek

doesn't always work out.

- Any connection between
Kelman and the mormon church?

- None that we found.

- Salt lake city
police arrested a man

outside the federal
courthouse four months ago,

attempting to approach
Elizabeth smart's parents.

Another catch-and-release.

They're sending his particulars.

- That's our guy.

- With a different name.
Lawrence Sheppard.

And a street address in lodi.

Run him.

- Sheppard must have
switched identities

after the Utah bust.

No criminal
record for Mr. Sheppard.

Oh, but he bought
a g*n in a store

just outside lodi
three years ago.

Glock 26.

- Maybe he's running
home to Lodi.

Larry Sheppard, open up!

It's the police!
- Excuse me!

That's my house.

We're looking for
Larry Sheppard.

- My brother's in stockton.

He hasn't lived with us
since two years ago.

- When's the last time
you spoke to him?

- Maybe eight months ago.

What do you want with him?

Why all the g*ns?

- We need to talk to him
about his daughter.

- His daughter?

- Ariel, she's missing.

We may have some news about her.

- Larry doesn't have a daughter.

He doesn't have any kids.

Fact, he hasn't had a girlfriend
in at least ten years.

- We don't understand.

- Larry is schizophrenic.

He couldn't even
take care of a cat.

Larry was diagnosticated in college.

He has never been violent.
He's never hurt anybody.

I trust him with my kids.

You like your Uncle
Larry, right?

- Yep.
- Mm-hmm.

- You sure he doesn't
have a daughter?

- When he got out of the
mental ward in 2002,

he got a vasectomy.

Showed me the scar.

- Is there anyone he'd
be in contact with?

A therapist or a friend?

- No. You're looking at
all the friends he has.

Okay, kids. You can get in.

- Did you know Larry
bought a g*n in 2008?

- Look, I feel sorry about
the people who were sh*t.

But...What can I do?

He's my brother.

I don't want him getting hurt.

- Neither do we.

But he now poses a danger to you

and your family.

We'll have someone
watch the house,

but if he gets in
touch with you,

you have to let us know.

Do we understand each other?

- Sheppard's
landlady in stockton

hasn't seen him in six months.

We found this in his apartment.

A business luncheon
with the senator

four months ago.

He bought a ticket under
his company name.

He's a freelance programmer.

- Apparently, he
didn't mingle much.

Never touched his food.

But he did ask the
senator one question.

- My question's about
the encampment, um...

Can the tracks only
be seen by burnell,

or can the park
rangers see them too?

'Cause after I
installed the patch,

I could control burnell better,

but his pov image rendition
was degraded, so...

I'd like an answer-- -
what's he talking about?

- An answer to that.

- Hey, next question.

- No, I'll-- I'll
answer the gentleman.

While this isn't the best
time to discuss shadow hills,

uh, the problem could
be your patch.

The help line can walk
you through a fix.

Now I'll take the next question.

- What was that about?

And what's shadow hills?

- It's a computer game.

"Shadow hills is an interactive
fiction video game

"set in a city in the southwest

where a father searches for
his missing daughter."

- That's a game?

Sounds like a complete bummer.

- A bummer Shepherd
believes is real.

- A bummer straight from the
mind of senator Kelman.

Her old company, helix
8, makes the game.

- Shadow hills is the last
game Celeste developed

before she left to
get into politics.

- She worked out the main
character's emotional journey.

She wanted the player to have
an authentic experience.

- Well, unfortunately
for her, she succeeded.

We're looking for
messages from someone

who thought the game was real.

- Uhh! Well...

You think Celeste...

All those people were
sh*t because of the game?

- We should get our
lawyer in here.

- He'll tell you
one of two things.

Either cooperate or
force us to come back

with a subpoena.

That might suit your timetable.

But our suspect is a
diagnosed schizophrenic.

He has his own timetable.

It might include other targets.

- Umm...We always get
inquiries from players

looking for secret levels
or, uh, trap doors.

But one player was
asking for source codes

to bypass our
abstraction layers.

- You're losing me.

- He was trying to get inside
the architecture of the game.

- Our help lines told him

that he was asking for
proprietary information.

Then they ignored him.

- How did that work out for you?

- He hacked into our mainframe.

He managed to get past
two levels of encryption

before security shut him down.

- I found messages on a
shadow hills website

that could be from Sheppard.

Three days before the sh**ting:

"The missing child
can wait no longer.

"As a father, I'm ready
to sacrifice everything

for the one I love."

And then, uh, the day
after the sh**ting:

"Still alive.

"The ones who live
in the shadows

"now know I have their
lives in my hands.

"I will trade only for
the innocent life

they took from me."

- He's still on the hunt.
- And he has a friend.

Uh, sam2u has been
leaving replies

to all his messages,

encouraging him,
offering him help.

- Now, that's interesting.

The hacking attempt on
the video game company

used two computers.

One is untraceable,
but the other one

tracks back to an isp
address in Fontana.

- That's not me.

I'm a computer dummy.

- Well, I'm sure your buddy

at the shadow hills forum

gave you the step-by-step.

Sam2u.

That's your screen name,
isn't it, Samantha?

- We need to talk
to your friend.

Have you been in touch with him?

- I haven't done anything wrong.

I just told John,
"don't give up."

That's all.

- Don't give up searching
for his daughter?

Ariel.
- Yes.

Please don't stop him.

You don't know what
it's like for her.

She probably thinks that
everyone's forgotten about her.

- Samantha, you know,
because it happened to you.

Is that right?

- When...I was 13.

He kept me in a cabin.

In the woods.
For almost two years.

I escaped.

No one came to rescue me.

Please don't let that
happen to Ariel.

Just leave John alone.

- Samantha, Ariel doesn't exist.

John doesn't have a daughter.

- What? You're lying.

- John's real name
is Larry Sheppard.

He has a mental illness

that makes him think
he has a daughter.

- But he's in so much pain.

- We know.

Five days ago, he did
a terrible thing.

He sh*t and k*lled seven people,

including a young girl.

- Oh, my God.

What did I do?

I just--I just didn't want
him to give up on Ariel.

- Where is he, Samantha?

- I don't know.

He--he wrote me yesterday.

He said he was...Waiting.

That something
would happen soon,

and Ariel would be free.

- We need you to get
a message to him.

Tell him you have good news.

- Let's make this quick, Sam.
Give me the key card.

Did you ask your friend
if helix 8 uses a code,

or is the card all you
need-- what the--

- Aah!

Aah!

- Police!

Put the g*n down!

- Put the g*n down, now!

- Larry, don't!

Who's gonna look after Ariel?

You gotta stay alive, Larry!

- Turn around, put your
hands behind your head.

- How much?!

How much are they payin' you?!

You work for them, don't you?!

How much?

How much are they paying you?

People V Larry Sheppard:

seven counts of m*rder
with special circumstance.

16 counts of attempted m*rder.
Your plea, Mr. Sheppard?

- My client will enter
a plea of not guilty

by reason of insanity,
your honor.

- I
don't want that.

- Your honor, Max Hearn.

I'll be representing Mr.Sheppard.

Thank you.

Go on, Larry.
Tell the judge what you want.

- I want "not guilty," period.

- Very well.

Mr. Decker, will you
be pursuing death

or life without parole?

- Death, your honor.

- Judge, they took my daughter.

They took my little girl,

and the only way they can
keep me from finding her

is by k*lling me or having
me declared insane.

They took my daughter!

- That so?

Mr. Sheppard, I'm
ordering a 1368 exam

to determine your
competence to stand trial,

and I'm ordering you
held without bail.

- I get it now.
- Good-bye, Mr. Sheppard.

- Larry... I'm here for you.

- Mr. Hearn, have you even
read the psychiatric report?

Not guilty by reason of
insanity was the right plea.

- But an ngi plea
wouldn't be any fun,

now, would it, Max?

No soap box, no Anderson Cooper.

- Not to mention Mr.
Sheppard didn't sh**t anyone.

- He was arrested with
the m*rder w*apon.

- There's more than one
bloody hand on that g*n.

Stay tuned.

Pasaporte.

- Bien.

See you.

- The real culprit here

is the failure of civil
discourse in this country.

Celeste Kelman was k*lled

because she defied both extremes

of the political spectrum.

Larry Sheppard is just
a convenient patsy

served up by lazy cops

and cynical prosec--

- you see, Hearn made his bones

by defending gangbangers.

He turned down plea bargains

while he collected his
fees from drug money.

After he bled his clients dry,

he'd get one of his flunkies
to cut them a quick deal.

- Now, instead of drug dealers,

he's exploiting a
mentally-ill man.

Asking for the death penalty
just plays into his hands.

- You know perfectly
well that insane people

can commit crimes for
perfectly sane reasons.

And if that's what Sheppard did,

he doesn't qualify for
an insanity plea.

- And if he did do it
for an insane reason?

- That's for his lawyer
to make that argument.

Our job is to keep
Sheppard off the street

by any lawful means possible.

Including the death penalty.

♪ ♪

Si.

- Cuando?

- Go back to your hotel.

Enjoy the pool.

- They don't have a pool.

- Finish your beer.

- Sheppard understands
what a trial is.

He can assist in
his own defense.

He's competent.

I could have saved you
the trip to chino

and sent you my report.

- I have a question
about his sanity.

- What sanity?
He's a paranoid schizophrenic

f*ring on all cylinders.

- Doest he fit the guidelines
for an insanity plea?

- It would depend on his motive

for committing the offense.

But that wasn't within the
slope of my examination.

- If he's found guilty and
he goes to state prison,

what kind of treatment
would he get?

- In a state prison?

- This is where we
conduct group therapy

for mentally-ill inmates.

- Cages?

- They're not cages.
Therapeutic modules.

The inmates are locked inside.

There
is a spit guard.

The therapist wears
a shank-proof vest

and sits there, out
of urination range,

and then he plays Kumbaya
for them for an hour.

That's the kind of treatment

Mr. Sheppard will get
in state prison.

Hannibal Lecter would be proud.

- And if he's found not
guilty by reason of insanity?

- He'd go to patton
state hospital.

No bed of roses, but he'd
get actual treatment

appropriate to his condition.

- Senor Omar said I
could trust you.

- Do you trust senor Omar?

Ah. That's not why I came here.

Does...Cesar vargas like you?

- He likes a lot of girls.

- Do you like him?

- Cesar doesn't know who I am.

Last year in cananea,
they k*lled ten people

in a birthday party.

They even k*lled the cooks.

They were my mama and papa.

I need to know that
you're serious.

- Cesar k*lled my partner

in front of his wife
and little girl.

- This is a number
only for my family.

When you're ready, call me.

- We directed Samantha lorber

to arrange
a meeting with Mr.Sheppard

on the pretext that she had
an access card to helix 8.

At the appointed time,

Mr.
Sheppard approached the decoy

and we placed him under arrest.

He was carrying a glock 17
with an extended magazine.

Tests determine this
was the m*rder w*apon.

- Thank you, detective.

- Isn't it possible

that someone else
sh*t the senator,

then dropped the w*apon
and, out of panic,

my client picked it up
and ran away with it?

- Well, it's possible,
but not likely.

- Did you investigate
the possibility

that the sh**t was
inspired by this ad,

with a bull's-eye over
senator Kelman's name?

- No, we didn't.

- This statement from
a union member...

"If she doesn't keep her
hands off our pensions,

"we're going to use a
second-amendment remedy

to stop her."

- No.

It's political rhetoric.

- It was a death thr*at.

Thank you.

- Witness is excused.

- Your honor,

the people have shown that Mr.
Sheppard

premeditated his att*ck.

And, most damning,

he was arrested with
the m*rder w*apon.

The people have shown cause
to proceed to trial.

- The people's case
has more loose ends

than a shag rug.

But fine... Bring it on.

We welcome the chance to expose

the real conspiracy
behind these murders.

- Mr. Hearn, in view of your
client's psychiatric history,

is he sure he doesn't
want to change his plea?

- He's sure, your honor.

- Then the court finds the
people have met their burden

to proceed to trial.

- This is appalling.

If Hearn won't change his plea,

we should make a proffer.

- Why would we do that?

- Because Hearn isn't acting
in Sheppard's best interest.

- Our experts found
Sheppard competent

to assist in his own defense.

It's not for us to interfere.

- I don't really get what Mr.
Hearn's doing.

I mean, all that evidence.

I just can't see Larry
b*ating the rap.

- Have you talked
to your brother?

- He's worried if people
think he's crazy,

they won't look for that girl.

- You want him to get help.

If he goes to prison...

It's not gonna happen.

- Uhh!

I don't know what to do.

- Talk to your brother.

Get other legal advice.

We'd be willing
to take a plea of

not guilty by
reason of insanity.

Larry'd get treatment
in a hospital.

He'd be where he
can't hurt anyone.

- Sheppard wants
to change his plea

to not guilty by
reason of insanity.

I got a call from Hearn.

He said you talked
to Sheppard's sister

and suggested there'd be a deal

if he changed his plea.

- I didn't make any promises.

- No, you had no business
suggesting anything

to the sister,

much less without talking to me.

- Joe, Sheppard belongs
in a mental hospital.

Have you seen the way they treat
the mentally ill in prison?

They lock them in these cages.

- Then run for office, damn it,

and campaign for prison reform.

But do not use this office
to push your social issues.

The fair administration
of justice

is a social issue.

- I had dinner with Mike
cutter when I was in New York.

And he told me that you

had pulled this sort
of thing before.

Now, if you thought that L.A.

Would be much more laid back,

you're mistaken.

We have a higher crime
rate than New York,

more murders...

Which leaves no room
for a loose Cannon.

- Hand on your head, white boy.

- Uhh!

- You left Mexico so fast.

You don't like the food?

We're gonna take you back, man,

for some barbacoa.

- Uhh!

Agh!

- Aah!

- Uhh!

- Aah!

Ohh!

Uhh!

Gah!

These were in their car.

Plastic ties, duct tape.

And a secret compartment
under the backseat

big enough to hold you.

They had travel plans
for you, hombre.

- Come here a sec.

- What's this about, tj?

Is it vargas?

- Maybe he didn't like
my size 13s in his face.

- That's all it better be.

- I called your cell
phone last weekend.

I got re-routed to Mexico.

- I went diving.
- In caborca?

That's in the middle
of the sonora desert.

What's goin' on, partner?

What?

- It's Casey's address.

You have to pack up the kids,
take them to your mother's.

- Why? What's happening?

- Vargas sent two guys after me.

- What?
- They had your address.

I started something.

I have to finish it.

I'm sorry, Casey.

- Okay, give me ten minutes.

Uh, lily!

Lily, we're going
to grandma's house.

- Mr. Sheppard, at this time,
you may enter your new plea

to the charges
previously enumerated.

- Not guilty by
reason of insanity.

- May the people inquire?

Mr. Sheppard, you do realize

that by changing your plea,

you're admitting you committed

the crimes you're charged with?

- Yes.

- And you're claiming that
you acted under the delusion

that you have a
missing daughter?

You're saying you
have no daughter,

there was no kidnapping,

it was all a delusion.

Answer my question, Mr.
Sheppard.

You admit you have no daughter.

- Enough, Mr. Decker.

Court accepts Mr.
Sheppard's change of plea.

The trial to determine
sanity will be calendared

pending the completion of
psychiatric evaluations.

- That was classy,

trying to bait Sheppard
into changing his mind.

- Larry Sheppard is
a dangerous man.

If he goes to a state hospital,

he can be released if and when

doctors pronounce him cured,

whether next week or
50 years from now.

- Is it that you don't
think he's mentally ill,

or you just don't care?

- I'm not convinced

mental illness made him
pull that trigger.

The standard here is people v.
Stress.

Sheppard's insane
only if he acted

under the sincere belief

that k*lling those people
would rescue his daughter.

Now, thanks to you,
the burden of proof

is on us to prove he didn't!

That's why I'm putting
you in charge

of our team of experts.

If they can convince a
loose Cannon like you

that Sheppard wasn't
motivated by his insanity,

we should have no
problem with the jury.

- I knew that I could
get caught or k*lled,

but they had my Ariel,

and a man has to do what he
must to protect his child.

They were gonna sell her...

As a child bride.

- How did you learn about this?

- Clues were in the game.

They told me that
senator Kelman's death

would set the children free.

- Can you tell me about Ariel?

- My girl's the most...

Precious child.

Her mother...

Almost lost her in the
second trimester.

They had to put her
on an iv alcohol drip

to stop the labor.

I prayed for days

that Ariel would make it.

And my deal with God was
that he gave me that gift,

I would look after her with
ever fiber of my being.

- He articulates his motive.

He k*lled for the greater
good of rescuing children.

- And he also knows a
lot about miscarriages.

This alcohol iv for
premature labor...

They gave one to
my sister-in-law

during her first pregnancy.

She was as drunk as a skunk.

- Sheppard shored up his
delusion with facts.

- His facts are ten years old.

That's when they stopped
using alcohol ivs.

Ten years ago, he
was in college...

In northern California.

- That's when he was
first diagnosed.

- I really don't want
to revisit this.

- Ms.
Miller, we wouldn't be here

unless it was important.

- You were his
girlfriend in college?

- Yes, we went out
for two years.

- I'm sorry to ask you this,

but did you get pregnant by him?

- That's nobody's business.

- Ms. Miller, do you know why

Larry says he sh*t those
people in Los Angeles?

He thought, by sh**ting them,

it would save his
kidnapped daughter.

- No, it's a schizophrenic
delusion.R?

But he gave her a name.

Ariel.

- Oh, God.

- Was Ariel the name
of your unborn baby?

- Yes.

This picture...

It's me.

- We need to know what
happened between you and him.

- I got pregnant.

We talked about marriage.

When I almost miscarried,

he stayed with me every minute.

Then I started noticing
changes in his behavior.

I thought it was stress.

A few weeks later,
he had his crisis.

He went into the hospital.

- What happened to the baby?

- Larry was
never gonna be the same.

The boy I knew had disappeared.

I couldn't be tied to him
for the rest of my life.

- You had an abortion?

- Yes.

Larry was furious.

He tried to see me.

He...Wrote me letters

saying that he would k*ll anyone

who ever got between
him and his child.

- Do you still have
any of those letters?

- Our experts and your
experts all agreed

that my client meets
the standard set forth

in people v. Stress, namely,

that he thought he was serving
the greater public good.

- We have something we would
like to show your client.

- It's a sonogram of his
daughter at 18 weeks.

- Do you see the
name right here?

Ariel.

- Where did you get that?

- From sondra Miller's
old medical file

at the uc Davis clinic.

- You see, this is the Ariel
that could have been.

Until her mother
decided to abort her

because she didn't want a child

with a crazy father.

- She had no damn
right to do that.

- Larry...

- It was my girl.
She m*rder*d my girl.

- You know this has nothing
to do with the case.

- I would like to read a
letter that your client wrote

to his former girlfriend
ten years ago.

"You took my child from me.

"I should do to you
what you did to her

"and tear you to pieces.

"You're a whore, a demon whore,

"who gorged on my
daughter's blood.

"I swear, anyone who ever comes
between me and my child again

will get smashed into dust."

Now, isn't that what
Celeste Kelman did--

came between you and your child?

Isn't that what she
did at the luncheon?

- That bitch...

Blew me off.

She blew me off!

- And you became frustrated

because her company
wouldn't help you.

- Those people wouldn't
give me the time of day.

I tried and tried and tried,

but they just wouldn't
listen to me!

- But it was because
of senator Kelman.

That's who you blamed!

- Who else?

She could have
just said "whizzo"

And doors
would have opened!

- So you got angry and
you punished her.

- You bet. I drilled it
right into her thick skull.

Pow!
Pow! Pow! Pow!

Rrr!

- Calm down! Come on!

- That's right, bring
on the trolls!

That's not gonna keep me
from finding my girl.

- This doesn't change anything.

- You think you can
control him in a court?

Because that's what
a jury will see--

an angry man with
m*rder in his eyes.

- You're not gonna stop
me from finding her!

- And they'll reject
his insanity plea!

And once they hear the
victims' impact statements,

they will give him
the death penalty.

- Save my girl.

I lost her. God, I lost my girl!

- Life without parole.

You take the death
penalty off the table.

- Ariel, she was
gonna be my little girl.

She should-- listen to me.

She'll be safe with me.

I'd have taken care of her.

Good care of her.

She'd have been safe with me.

She would have-- would
have been safe with me.

I loved her.

I would have been a
good dad to her!

- I'll get back to you.

- He, uh, k*lled my wife.

I'm gonna have a
b*llet in my spine

for the rest of my life.

I'm just so... Full of rage.

If I saw him in a courtroom,

I'd want to rip his damn...

I don't want people
to see me like this.

I don't want to be a spectacle.

- We lost our daughter Jenny.

And we don't blame
anyone else at all

except Larry Sheppard.

- We're private people.

We don't want to give
him the satisfaction

of seeing how much he hurt us.

- Well, as it stands...

Mr.
Sheppard will accept the plea

of life without parole.

Now, I could pursue
the death penalty,

but it would mean
that some of you

would have to testify.

Now, how many of you
are willing to do that

if it meant Mr.
Sheppard might get the death penalty?

- Mr. Decker, if there's
any other way...

Please, don't put us through it.

- She made me mad.

Her and her army of geeks.

They wouldn't help me, uh...

So I got mad and...

I sh*t her.

Everyone else just
got in the way.

That's it.

- Mr. Sheppard, you understand

that by pleading guilty

you will be sentenced
to a term of life

without possibility of parole?

- Yes.

- Your honor, in the event that Mr.
Sheppard

ever comes up for release,

in lieu of testimony
of survivors

and victims' families,

I'd like coroner nishizawa

to read into the record

the autopsies of the
seven m*rder*d victims.

- Very well.

- Celeste Kelman.

"The victim is a
light-skinned female

"of reported age of 42 years.

"Death of this female
is due to a single

"penetrating g*nsh*t
wound to the head

at the hairline on
the right side.

The manner of death is certified

as a homicide.

Jennifer sellers.

The victim is a
light-skinned female

of reported age of ten years.

Death of this female is
due to a g*nsh*t wound

to the torso.

After penetrating the
lower right back,

the b*llet passed rightward,

perforating the
descending aorta.

The b*llet then passed
through the liver

before exiting the
lower left abdomen.

The manner of death is
certified as a homicide.

Jeb morrell.

The victim is a
light-skinned male.

- This should be the last
we hear of Mr. Sheppard

for the rest of our lifetimes.

- Okay.

- He had some sick days coming.
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