Close to Home (2005) s02e01 Episode Script

Officer requests rolling 702.
Cloverfield park.
We've got the surviving Jenkins boy.
Miss Chase? Jimmy Conlon.
Mr.
Conlon.
Congratulations.
Welcome aboard.
Call me Jimmy, please.
And welcome back, to you.
Thank you.
It's good to be back.
Sorry to drop a bomb on you your first day in.
Uh, excuse me? - You haven't heard? - No.
They found five bodies in a house on Ashland.
Bound, gagged, slaughtered.
Miss Scofield's on her way to the crime scene with detective Williams.
I have a meeting with the mayor and the chief of police.
We reconvene, one hour.
Conference room.
Okay.
You sure you're up for this? Yeah.
I'm fine.
Good.
Let's go to work, then.
Oh.
There was one survivor.
A survivor? A four-year-old boy.
Williams.
What are you doing here? Figured I'd come down and watch you guys sabotage a crime scene.
Must have a lot of time on your hands these days.
Prosecutor's office.
How's that working out for you? Well, what do we know.
We're still cops.
Okay, we'll take it from here, detective.
What's the working theory? Robbery home invasion gone bad.
Five doas.
Jenkins family.
Mom, three kids, Plus a neighbor lady who apparently just stopped by to drop off a cake.
Shells from a 45 and a 9, so figure two shooters.
Man, they shot the dog too.
What part of "no witnesses" don't you understand My reputation preceeds me.
- Is it always this bad? - Yeah.
Well, that'll teach you to be a whistleblower.
Well, you know what they say.
No good deed.
Hey.
Hi.
- Welcome back.
- Thanks.
- How's it feel? - Honestly.
A little weird.
The same but not.
We missed you.
I missed you guys.
- I'm ready to get to work.
- You been filled in.
Yeah, the murders on Ashland.
It sounds horrific.
Five dead? Yeah, we just came back from the scene.
A real bloodbath.
- Unbelievable.
- Annabeth.
Ed williams.
How are you? - Been awhile.
- Three months.
Yeah, that's right.
I transferred into the prosecutor's office just after Jack After you went on leave.
- You doing okay? - I'm fine.
Her first day back.
Picked a doozey.
Met the new boss? Yeah, he stopped by on the fly on his way to meet with the mayor.
- They're giving this case to Conlon? - Apparently.
- Wow.
Only been here a month.
- I know.
You know, when Steve resigned, I thought you were next in line for chief deputy.
So did I.
Okay.
I'll just shut up now.
Annabeth Chase? We'll be right there.
Conlon's ready for us.
- Investigator Ray Blackwell.
- Annabeth Chase, deputy prosecutor.
Maureen Scofield, senior deputy prosecutor.
Ladies.
Ray was my go-to guy in Manhattan.
He'll be an invaluable asset here in the office.
Investigator Ed Williams.
Williams I heard about you.
So, the Jenkins family.
Killed execution-style in their own home on a beautiful sunny summer day in a quiet neighborhood.
This was a massacre, people, plain and simple.
This cannot stand.
Talk to me about the victims.
Single-parent household, Lani Jenkins, the mother, 42.
Neighbors say she moved to Indianapolis four months ago, she and her four children.
She and the three older children were killed.
Tommy, 17, senior at Baldwin.
The two daughters, Mikki and Bella, 14 and 12.
Jefferson middle school.
What about the fifth victim? A woman from down the block, a Mrs.
Mina Lopez.
Apparently she dropped by for a neighborly visit with the Jenkins family at the wrong time.
Leaves behind a husband and two kids.
How about the survivor, the four-year-old boy? Frankie Jenkins.
A couple of plainclothes cops found him nearby.
- Did he witness it? - We don't know.
Pretty traumatized.
He's with the county shrink now.
He's lost his whole family.
Have we located any next of kin? Cincinnati pd's still looking.
So far, no luck.
He needs a home.
We should question him.
He may know something.
He's four years old.
Debrief him anyway.
You're a mother, you'll know how to talk to him.
What about Mr.
Jenkins? According to the neighbors, Mr.
Jenkins was a civilian truck driver.
Killed last year in Iraq.
Got a call in to the pentagon to confirm.
Shooters will be looking to get rid of the loot fast.
So check with the pawnshops, the fences.
I want anyone who's ever handled stolen goods in this town rousted now, today.
I'll get a list of all b and e arrests in the last 8 months.
Thanks.
Somebody used Lani Jenkins' debit card at an atm.
Security cams picked up a pretty clean image of this clown.
Great.
I want hardcopies, asap.
Uh how asap? I'm holding a press conference in 40 minutes.
When Conlon says asap, he means asap in New York, not in Indiana.
Welcome to eastern standard time.
Season 02 Episode 01 Good people of community have been taken from us, brutally, senselessly and in cold blood.
Their lives ended without compunction or qualm.
A little boy has been left orphaned.
I promise you, we will bring these killers to justice.
Not vengeance, but justice.
We must persevere with strength and courage.
We need the help of every good citizen of this community.
We cannot do this alone.
This picture, taken just hours after the shooting, shows a suspect using an atm card from one of the victims.
If anyone has information about this man, please call the number on the screen.
This plays 24-seven until they're caught.
Wonderful statement.
Exactly what the community needed to hear.
I'll be frank with the two of you.
I find the level of preparedness in this office pathetic.
We should already be making arrangements to empanel a grand jury.
It's only been a few hours since we discovered the bodies.
In this office, sir, we usually proceed with a prosecutor's information memorandum.
A watered-down indictment which only comes after an arrest.
That's fine for a run-of-the-mill domestic, but a major case? In New York, we use grand juries for everything.
We are not in New York.
And doing it our way, Maureen and I have somehow managed a 93% conviction rate.
Well, we can do better.
Ladies, I would like someone arraigned for these murders within the next 24 hours.
We got a lot of work to do.
Go.
I want my mommy.
We talked about that, Frankie.
Remember.
Mommy's not here.
I want my mommy, please.
Well, this nice lady just wants to talk to you for a minute, okay? Can you do that? For me? Hey, Frankie.
I have a little girl.
Do you know that? Her name's Haley.
And she's just a little baby, not a big boy like you.
Where is she? She's home with her baby-sitter.
Frankie, can you be a big boy for me? Can you tell me what you heard when you were hiding? You mean when the bad man came to my house? Yeah.
I don't think so.
Well, maybe if you close your eyes I can't.
Too scared.
Okay, we're not going to play this game anymore.
Okay.
It's all right.
- I want my mommy.
- I know you do, honey.
I know.
He can't help us.
Have we found any of his family yet? We're still looking.
The immediate purpose of this community meeting is to find our suspect.
Anybody with information on the man in this photo should call the tips hotline.
- Mrs.
Scofield.
- Mrs.
Scofield.
Sir.
We know if he's from around here or someplace else? Well, we are pursuing every lead.
He's armed and presumed very dangerous.
Korean shop owner gave Ray a positive id on our guy and a partial plate on a late model blue chevy.
Dmv just faxed over the list.
I want the owners of every car on that list contacted today and if the pd doesn't have enough manpower, let me know, I'll call the state troopers.
What can I tell you.
Indianapolis, it's a chevy town.
Also, on the victim's husband, pentagon says they still can't locate any civilian truck driver named Robert Jenkins killed in Iraq the last year and a half.
- Tell them to keep looking.
- Will do.
Me and Blackwell are going to jump on this.
- How's that going? - It's going.
We're both pros.
Least he's not local.
Still got a fighting chance.
- Have at it, gentlemen.
- Yes, ma'am.
Any luck? I was thinking maybe these bad boys are from out of town and that blue chevy's long gone.
Atm hit was just traveling money.
It's entirely possible.
I mean, you got to ask yourself what kind of moron would kill five people and stick around town.
A homegrown kind of moron.
Nowhere else to go.
Exactly.
Local yokel with a local record.
So I ran the names in the partial plate hits against the database.
I was going to suggest that.
- Our atm guy.
- Yep.
Antoine Maracheck Homegrown rap sheet with at least one known associate.
Dave Garr There were two shooters.
Guess what.
Dmv has got an address on that blue chevy.
Antoine keeps his registration up to date.
Hey, a guy like Antoine doesn't want to get pulled over for having expired tags, does he? See.
He ain't so dumb.
Antoine, cops! Freeze! Police! Get up here.
Get your arms up.
What'd I do? Let's do this.
You okay back there? In the alley? Oh.
Yeah.
I had a stone in my shoe.
You take Antoine, I'll take his partner.
I didn't kill anybody.
Then your boy next door did.
Which means you're on the hook for this too.
Ain't fair, I told you where to find him, didn't I? It was all Dave's fault anyways.
I didn't want to use that damn atm card.
Come on, man, you know how it looks, dog.
You got the dead lady's debit card, her purse, stuff from her house.
I found that stuff, all right.
- He told you he found it in the trash.
- Over on 15th street.
I didn't think it would work, but, hey Lucky for us, she had a pin printed right on a post-it.
You're never supposed to do that, you know.
Hey, just out of curiosity, where were you that morning? Please, don't tell me home alone.
My mom's.
Your mom's That's even better.
Call her.
You don't believe me.
- 718-273-8 - Wait,wait,wait.
- That's New York.
- Brooklyn.
You were in Brooklyn when those people got killed.
And I got a plane ticket to prove it.
Our two suspects are telling the truth.
Garr flew to New York 3 days before the killings and returned one day after.
Maracheck has an even better alibi.
He was with his parole officer at the time of the killings.
So the question is why the real killers dumped the stuff they took from the house.
Because they were never after it in the first place.
Take a gold star out of petty cash.
Annabeth, it was a hit.
Somebody wanted the family or someone in it dead.
Take a harder look at Lani Jenkins' life.
I'd like a motive and an arrest before the weekend.
I hold Maracheck and Garr in possession of stolen property.
I'm impaneling a grand jury.
We're going to indict them on murder, five counts.
You're going to charge two petty criminals with murder and use the grand jury to investigate a crime you know they didn't commit? If the killers think these mumps are taking the fall, they'll relax, make a mistake.
I intend to incite anyone whoever so much as looked crosswise at Lani Jenkins.
My experience? People tend to open up voluntarily when you give them no choice.
Talk softly and carry a big subpoena.
Grand jury's a prosecutor's best friend.
Unless its powers are abused.
Well, that's why god invented appellate courts, Mo.
He's really going to charge those guys with murder? You really think this is how they do things in New York? Come on, "Mo".
Hey, it's late.
Pack it in, go home.
Everybody we talked to says the same thing about Lani Jenkins.
Nice lady, nice kids, details? Forget it.
I knew more about you in four days than Lani Jenkins's neighbors knew about her in four months.
I got a big mouth.
Question.
Why did you bring Lani Jenkins's landlord before the grand jury? I like to carpet bomb a case.
I prefer the sniper approach, holds down on the collateral damage.
But carpet bombing works sometimes I suppose.
Lani Jenkins's application for a rental lists her married name as Waters.
Lani Waters Well, if that's her real name, maybe we can find out where she came from.
Nice work.
That thing about the midnight oil? A couple more hours won't kill you.
Albany, Georgia pd has a file on Lani Waters, aka Lani Jenkins.
- She has a record? - As a victim not a perp.
Spousal abuse.
That was the doherty county da.
Seems that Mr.
Waters didn't limit the abuse to his wife.
Wait, back up, I thought Mr.
Jenkins Waters, was killed in Iraq? Well, we should be so lucky.
Robert Waters is in jail in Georgia, awaiting trial on multiple sexual assaults.
- His own daughters.
- The two girls who were killed in the attack.
Who just happen to be the only witnesses in his sex crimes trial starting next month.
So, what are you saying? He had them killed to shut them up? It's a thought.
It's a motive.
Our victim, Lani Waters, aka Jenkins, was running from an abusive husband, Robert Waters.
She'd been in protective custody in Georgia.
The local cops there felt her husband posed a threat even from jail.
They think she got spooked and headed north.
Indianapolis seemed like a safe place to hide.
If Robert Waters is in prison in Georgia, then who pulled the trigger? Waters had a cell mate in Georgia, Ricky Price.
Six priors, all violent.
He was awaiting trial on attempted homicide.
Was? Witness recanted, charges were dropped.
He walked.
Do we have a current whereabouts? Because without Price, this is conjecture.
We put out an apb on him at 3:00 a.
m.
this morning.
We need to interview Waters.
He's in the Doherty county jail infirmary recovering from a burst appendix.
Well, we should pay him a visit, don't you think? Bring him some flowers.
I can't go to Georgia, I have a hearing tomorrow.
Annabeth? You want to come with me? I can't leave Haley.
Bring your nanny.
You do have a nanny? Yeah, but, uh - I mean I can't afford to bring her.
- We'll cover the cost.
The taxpayers of Indiana are going to pay for her nanny to go to Georgia? It's on my nickel, relax.
I didn't know.
No idea, been out of circulation.
The kids They're my girls.
Frankly, I'm a little surprised at your reaction, Mr.
Waters.
You're not exactly in here for carjacking.
I didn't do what they said I did to those girls, and I never killed nobody either.
Those girls, your daughters Mikki and Bella, one shot each.
Nice, neat, professional.
Your wife, was shot twice in the abdomen and once in the head to finish her off.
Take a look, Mr.
Waters.
Don't be squeamish.
Your eldest son, Johnny, he fought back.
They had to chase him down.
Shot once in the leg, and then again just below the left thigh.
Funerals are on thursday.
Somebody ought to be there.
We weren't able to locate any other family.
Your son, Frankie's about to go into foster care.
My My folks might take him.
- You're in touch with them? - No.
There ain't nobody else.
And I'd like to go to that funeral, if I could.
Well, we'll see what we can do.
What exactly were you doing in there? The state of Georgia just lost the only witnesses it had in the sex crimes trial against Mr.
Waters.
Sooner rather than later, they're going to have to drop charges.
We can't let Waters walk.
Waters was working awful hard in there to convince us he was shocked by the deaths.
I played to his bluff.
If he turned down a chance to come to the funeral, he looks like a liar.
The funeral services were two days ago.
He doesn't know that.
You tricked him into waiving his rights.
If we can get him, we can hold him.
The moment he sets foot in Indiana, he's ours.
Do not pass go, do not contest extradition You know, there's a pretty decent restaurant at the hotel we're staying in.
Why don't you let me buy you dinner? Good.
Okay.
I'll be up in a little while to say good night.
Okay.
No, thank you.
Well, it took a little massaging but the warden has agreed to release Waters for the funeral.
Pretty slick.
What about the grandparents? They're on their way from Georgia to pick up little Frankie.
I know this is none of my business.
Go on.
Why the move? I mean, who leaves the big apple? Little fish, big pond.
Big fish, huge pond.
Manhattan D.
A.
wasn't showing signs he'd ever retire or die.
I mean, you want to talk about a glass ceiling.
Spencer's running for governor.
You could've gone after his job.
A republican in New York? Tides are running the other way.
Besides, I miss the midwest.
I was born in Saginaw.
Oh, I get it.
You climb the ladder here, a couple years, run for Marion county prosecutor, then attorney general, then after that, who knows, huh? Sounds good.
You really think the people of Indiana would put a carpetbagger in the state house? Who are you calling a carpetbagger? My parents and grandparents were all hoosiers.
I spent my summers at the family farm downstate.
- My mistake.
- What about you? Local girl, ball state, iu law.
You never got the urge to spread your wings? Are you content to be a line assistant the rest of your life? I love my work.
I love Indianapolis.
This is my home.
Little fish, little pond, huh? You don't know anything about me.
No, I don't.
However, I do need to know one thing.
I know you've suffered a loss.
A huge loss.
- Are you over it? - Over it? Can you do the job? That's all I need to know.
You bet your ass I can.
Good.
'Cause you're lead counsel when Robert Waters stands trial on five counts of murder.
Sit down.
Please When we get back, I'll reconvene the grand jury.
Now, we're going to need to find Ricky Price and his accomplice.
- Did you guys have fun today? - She loved the pool.
She just loved it.
Aw, I'm so sorry I missed it.
Yeah, we had fun, didn't we Haley? Yeah, good night.
- Good night, Annabeth.
- Good night.
Thanks.
Oh, what did you do today without me? Mommy misses you.
- Welcome home.
- Thanks.
Successful trip? I'll say.
Managed to get Waters out of Georgia without an extradition hearing.
Under false pretenses.
Pretty slick.
Safely under lock and key here in Indianapolis until we indict him.
His parents are here, by the way, to take custody of their grandson.
- You should talk to them.
- Will do.
While you two were way down yonder, I ran a background check on Waters' criminal associates.
That was ambitious.
You said to follow every lead.
One name popped out at me, Paul Jameson.
He attended one of our community meetings.
He served time in Georgia With Waters? Better, with Waters' cellmate, the elusive Ricky Price.
Looks like Mr.
Jameson has a date with the grand jury.
Nice work.
Did Mr.
and Mrs.
Waters want to see their son? They seemed most concerned about their grandson.
Where is Frankie? He's with his grandparents now.
Child services brought him over this morning.
Okay.
I'll go talk to them.
We don't really need to see him, Miss Chase.
He's your son.
It's your right.
What she's saying is, we don't care to see him.
Mrs.
Waters and I, well, we lost our son a long time ago.
Been quite a while since we saw Robert.
More than a year.
Your son was originally charged with some other serious offenses vis-à-vis his own children.
His daughters.
The sexual assaults are the motive for the murders.
Now, it's going to be difficult to establish these assaults without the girls.
Are you saying he may not be punished for all this? We intend to see that Robert stands trial for the murders of your grandchildren and your daughter-in-law and any other crimes he's committed.
You have the two men who did the shooting in jail? Yes, Mr.
Maracheck and Mr.
Garr.
The investigation is ongoing.
Ma'am, will you be needing Frankie for the trial or can we take him home? No, sir, we're not going to put Frankie on the stand.
From what we can tell, he didn't see anything.
He was hiding when it happened.
Thank god for that.
My baby.
My little boy You're taking Frankie back to Georgia? Little fellow doesn't have anyone else.
I don't want you to worry, okay? We're building the strongest case we can.
My boss is with the grand jury even as we speak.
You attended a community meeting about the murders.
I was trying to help.
We appreciate that, Mr.
Jameson.
We ran a check of the names from the sign-in sheet from that meeting and since you have a criminal record Brother with a rap sheet.
He must have done it.
What I get, trying to be a citizen Mr.
Jameson, you're not a suspect.
We're just following every lead.
Now, your record indicates that you were incarcerated in the same facility in Georgia at the same time as one Richard aka "Ricky" Price.
Yes, sir.
Did you know Mr.
Price? You're under oath, Mr.
Jameson.
I know him.
Have you seen him in Indianapolis, sir, since your parole? Failure to respond constitutes contempt at these proceedings.
I seen Ricky at a bar, that's all.
Ain't supposed to be in places like that.
Mr.
Jameson, a contempt citation is already a parole violation.
If you wish to compound that citation with perjury I talked to him, all right? He was looking for work.
He said if anything came up, he was staying in one of them projects on Laird boulevard.
Freeze, police! Leave your hands right where they are.
- Don't move.
- I wouldn't dream of it.
Now stand up, put your hands behind your back.
- Where's Ricky Price? - Library.
Overdue book he had to return.
It was preying on his mind.
- Who are you? - Phil Rabb.
I'd shake your hand, but Well, well, Phil, what do we have here? A 09 and a 45.
Recently fired.
I'm gonna guess these sidearms aren't licensed pursuant to the laws of the great state of indiana.
Get him out of here.
Toss me sports.
Colts lost.
It's pre-season.
Don't count.
Six letters Hopeless.
Starts with "d".
Doomed.
Rabb's file, sir.
Ballistics just gets better and better.
Like the dry-cleaners.
Same-day service.
What does it say? Handguns from your apartment killed all those people over on Ashland.
It's your death warrant, pal.
You're good to go, brother.
Five counts murder, our interrogation is over.
- Don't I get to say my say? - For what? - If I were you, I'd lawyer up now.
- Hey, hold on, Ray.
You tell us where Ricky Price is and maybe we can get the prosecutor to back off on that death penalty.
Where's Price? He said all I had to do was watch his back while he grabbed the kids.
It'd be a piece of cake.
So you're saying it was a kidnapping gone bad, not a contract killing? Nobody was supposed to die, I wouldn't have signed on for that.
Didn't go down nothing like he said it would.
Piece of cake.
Afterwards, he didn't even want to give me my cut.
So, where's Price? Your witness, counselor.
Ricky Price in the flesh.
At least we know Rabb is telling the truth about something.
- You take a witness as you find him.
- We'll make a deal with Rabb? Life in prison in exchange for his testimony.
Meanwhile, I have 23 grand jurors I've kept nice and hungry.
I think I'll throw them some red meat and indict Mr.
Waters on five counts of murder.
You mind telling me how? Waters was in prison at the time of the killings.
We have hearsay problems, best evidence rule problems, - rutin issues.
- I know.
Without a living, breathing witness, we can't connect Waters directly to Rabb, and without that connection It's a challenge.
Ricky Price told me about this cell mate he had, Robert Waters.
Waters wanted his kids snatched.
Ricky said it was a custody thing.
$4,000 bucks, grab the two kids and split.
Nobody gets hurt.
All I had to do was watch the door and drive.
- What happened that morning? - We get to the house.
The mom answers.
Just her and the two girls.
We start tying everybody up.
I'm in the other room.
I hear shots.
- So what did you do? - I go see.
This teenage kid, we ain't even know he was there, comes up from the basement.
Ricky said he tried to be a hero, so he shot him in the leg.
After that, everything went to hell in a hurry.
The doorbell rings.
It's a lady from next door with a damn cake.
So you just stood by and watched while Price slaughtered everyone in the house? No, ma'am.
Ricky started shooting.
I took my gun and shot the neighbour lady while he was doing the family.
What happened after you and Price had killed everyone? I was mad about how it went down.
Ricky said "get over it", like it was nothing.
Later, the s.
o.
n wouldn't even pay me what he owed me.
- So - So? I shot him.
Dumped him in his car and drove it into the lake.
Nothing further, Your Honor.
You made a deal with the prosecuting attorney's office in exchange for your testimony here today? Yes.
Five murders.
Well, six, if you count your erstwhile partner, Mr.
Price.
Life in prison Not a bad deal.
Your Honor, is counsel asking a question? You never met my client Mr.
Waters before, have you Sir? - No.
- Ever spoken to him on the phone? Emailed him? No.
Telegram, cable, fax, carrier pigeon? Have you ever in your life had any contact directly with Robert Waters? No, but I was there when Waters called him, set the whole thing up.
What exactly did you hear? I heard Ricky say,"how much".
Then he said, "that'd be just fine".
Two days later, we went to that house and we did what we did.
I know what I know.
You were there when somebody called Ricky Price.
- Ricky told me it was Mr.
Waters.
- And you believed him? Why? Prison phone records indicate that Mr.
Waters never made such a call.
Ain't no thing.
Smuggle a cell phone into the joint like anything else.
Well, you would know better than I.
Did you ever receive any money from my client, Robert Waters? The man right over there.
No.
Nothing further.
According to Rabb, Waters called Price from jail 2 days prior to set up the kidnapping.
Contraband cell phone, like he said.
Two days prior, Waters was in the prison O.
R.
having his appendix out.
He couldn't have called anybody.
Rabb only heard Price's end of the conversation.
I hate to say it Bockner's right.
Waters must have had someone else make the call for him.
Any visitors before the shootings? - His defense attorney.
- Bockner? He could've set it up.
We'll never know.
Think I'm gonna take a page out of Conlon's playbook.
This is unethical, outrageous.
I could have you disbarred.
Calling the defense attorney before the grand jury? Automatic mistrial.
According to the laws of the state of Indiana, we can call anyone before the grand jury.
Did you make the call to Ricky Price to set up the kidnappings on behalf of your client, Robert Waters? You think I made that call? You're the only one who had any contact with Mr.
Waters during this period.
I never met Price.
And the only calls I ever made on behalf of my client, Robert Waters, were to his parents to tell them how the operation went.
I thought they'd broken off all contact with their son after the molestation charges.
- Where did you get that idea? - From them.
Who do you think's been paying my fees? They're the only ones who still believed in his innocence on those charges.
Including me.
They led me to believe they were convinced of his culpability.
The evidence those girls gave the Georgia D.
A.
Waters was looking at 25 years, even with the plea.
But the old couple, they didn't want him to plead.
Insisted we take it to trial.
Okay.
Could they have made that call to Ricky Price on Robert's behalf? Would they have known how to contact him? He wrote them regularly.
The prison mail is censored.
We'd know if he told them about Price.
Sometimes, I'd mail a letter for him.
He gave me one just before.
Just before he arranged for Ricky Price and Phil Rabb to kidnap his daughters.
You dragged the defense attorney in front of the grand jury in the middle of a trial? I thought Bockner must be the intermediary between Price and Waters.
- I wanted to lock him down.
- Her instincts were right.
Bockner was the middle man, if unwittingly.
- But the defense attorney - You gave us the grand jury.
I just focused the crosshairs on Bockner.
My mistake.
Who said it was a mistake? I'm just not sure I would've used the grand jury quite that way.
Why not? 'Cause I'm not so sure I would've thought of it.
Gutsy and smart.
So do we have proof the grandparents were the go-between? They lied to us about having contact with their son after his arrest on the molestation charges.
The attorneys will argue they were just ashamed, that's all.
- We need a witness.
- Who? There's nobody.
Robert Waters Why on earth would he cooperate? So that his sole remaining child will have a set of grandparents to grow up with.
But he can't They'll be in jail.
Well, you don't tell him, I won't.
- Where's my lawyer? - You don't need him.
This is so far off the record, it could be happening on the moon.
We know you hired Price to kidnap your daughters.
And we know how.
Your parents.
Price was supposed to grab your daughters, give them to your parents, who'd hide them until the charges were dismissed, and you would go free.
But things went wrong, didn't they? Terribly wrong.
And now you and your parents are on the hook for felony murder.
Five counts.
I had nothing to do with any of it, and I ain't a murderer.
You know, some people like me might think you're worse.
No, I don't think you meant for anyone to die.
It's too bad you're looking at the death penalty.
You're offering me a deal like Rabb? I won't do that.
You're a child molester.
And you're responsible for the deaths of four of your family members and an innocent bystander.
If I could, I'd push that button on you myself.
Then what are we talking about? Why are you here? Your parents.
They're gonna spend the rest of their lives in prison unless you cooperate.
I really should have my lawyer here.
This ain't right what you're doing.
Plead guilty to the sex crimes in Georgia, - tell the truth about the kidnapping plot - What about my folks? Your folks will do a few years, and Frankie will see his grandparents again.
I don't know.
What you're asking me to do is testify against my parents.
Well, that shouldn't be too hard.
A guy like you who'd rape his own daughters All right.
Looking to end it.
I'm glad your lawyer arranged this.
He seems like a nice man.
You look thin.
Are you getting enough to eat? He said I'm gonna beat the charges.
That's great, son.
Not just the murder charges, but the others, you know, back home.
- You never should've married Lani.
- Ma - I told you that from the beginning.
- I feel horrible about what we did.
What happened to the kids Those children, Robert, they were the problem.
Mom, they're dead! Price killed them.
That wasn't supposed to happen.
Little liars.
She turned them against you.
They had to be quieted.
You couldn't trust them.
Son, we thought it was best that way.
What was? Your father and I We didn't think taking the girls was such a good idea after all.
They would've told those stories again.
Sometime to someone.
Oh, my god What'd you do? What did you tell Price? What did you say to him? We did it for you, dear.
Their own grandchildren We had to do it this way, son.
Don't you see? They called Ricky and offered him $4,000 to kidnap my girls.
To prevent them from testifying against you in the Georgia case? Yep.
Just kidnap them? Did they ask him to do anything else? They decided that it was too risky to just take the girls, so they called him back.
Ricky said, didn't make any difference to him one way or the other.
In fact, it was easier this way.
You asked him to kill them Like your mother said, we did it for you.
So when Ricky Price told Phil Rabb he'd been talking to Mr.
Waters he meant my father, not me.
Were you promised anything in exchange for your testimony today? No.
You have just directly implicated yourself in these five murders? - Yes, ma'am.
- Why would you do that? I thought I was saving my mom and dad from a life sentence.
I didn't know when I agreed to cooperate with you people what they'd really done.
I did it for you, mom and dad.
Yeah, I did it for you.
Hi, Frankie.
Hi.
So I hear you're gonna have a new family? We found a wonderful couple, three kids.
That's great, right, Frankie? We had more than 100 offers to adopt him.
The community really stepped up, opened their hearts.
Look at this face.
Good bye, Frankie.
Bye.
The little guy gets a home, we get convictions.
Everybody wins.
Yeah.
You have doubts about our methods.
Let's just say I have concerns.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
That stunt you pulled with the grand jury and the defense attorney, don't ever do anything like that again without asking me first.
Well, you know what they say, better to apologize after than ask permission before.
I'm going for a drink at the sidebar, you want to join me? Not tonight, thanks.
I'll give you a rain check.
Did you ever say you were sorry?