Law & Order (1990) s24e09 Episode Script

Enemy of the State

1
In the criminal justice system,
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.
[STEAM HISSING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[POP MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]
[TENSE MUSIC]

[PANTING]
Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry.
It's just

[PANTING]
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING INDISTINCTLY]
Come on. Pick up.
Leave a message, please.
I know I screwed up,
but you said I could
always call, so I'm calling.
I saw something.
Something bad. And just call me, please.

Hey! What's up?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER]

[TRAIN TRACKS CLACKING]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
- Which train was it?
- J train to Brooklyn.
Train pulled in at 11:53 p.m.
Looks like the guy
was waiting to get on.
Oh, boy.
Lines have been shut
down in both directions.
This is the northbound.
Trying to get the
southbound back up ASAP.
Where was the point of impact?
By this column.
Oh. [SIGHS]
We got a name for this guy?
- Yes, sir.
- His ID was left in his pocket.
Raymond James Clark.
Hey, see if you can get a TARU guy
and tap into this DAS
cam on the fly, huh?
Yes, Detective.
Listen, you know me.
I never like to sound callous,
but guys jump in front
of trains all the time.
Why is Homicide here?
Yo, Duke.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Duke Archer.
Been driving this train 27 years.
Tell him what you told me.
Saw that man's face.
I'll never forget it.
I've had dudes step in
front of me on purpose.
Twice.
This wasn't that.
Detectives, the DAS footage.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Thanks.
Damn.
Duke was right.
That's not a man who wanted to die.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Oh, there she is. Welcome back.
Hey. How was your vacation?
Fantastic.
But I'm glad to be back
and getting paid again.
What do you got?
No reports of any mentally ill people
or disorderlies threatening
anyone in the subway station.
- So if it wasn't random?
- It was personal.
Techs cleaned up the
video. We got a bracelet.
Leather, braided, some kind of insignia.
Um, we got some footage
from outside of the station.
It's no help, though.
60 or 70 people come and go
and there's no sign of that
bracelet on any of them.
What do we know about the victim?
Not a whole hell of a lot.
He was a three-sport
athlete in high school.
Apparently, a pretty good one.
No sheet.
LKA on the license was
a bust. No forwarding.
Cell phone was crushed by the train.
But according to the cloud,
he made a quick call two
minutes before he died.
Number's unregistered.
[LINE TRILLS]
This is Sergeant Chen.
Did you say sergeant?
Who the hell is this?
19, 20, 21.
[WHISTLE TRILLS] 22, 23, 24, 25.
Really brings you back, huh?
Yeah, I like the past where it is
in the past.
- Freddy Chen.
- Thanks for meeting us, Sarge.
I was out cold when Raymond called.
Got his message this morning.
I tried him back, got voicemail.
- [WHISTLE TRILLS]
- Now I know why.
I know I screwed up,
but you said I could always
call, so I'm calling.
I saw something. Something bad.
And just call me, please.
Any idea what he might have seen?
Wish I did.
He was a great kid.
So Raymond was in the Academy?
Till he flunked a random drug test.
Said he had a bum shoulder,
high school football thing.
And once he got into the Academy,
he knew he wasn't gonna
pass our physical exam.
Too much pain. Tried
masking it with pills.
Just bad judgment.
You got a current address for him?
Ms. Clark
Now, you have any idea
what Raymond was doing
in the city last night?
Nothing unusual about that.
[SNIFFLES]
But I I can't tell
you why he was there.
Was Raymond having any problems?
I think he was a little
lost, honestly. [SNIFFLES]
Didn't know where he
fit, where he belonged.
That's why he wanted to be a cop so bad.
Ma'am, do you know of any reason
why anyone would want to hurt Raymond?
No.
He was a gentle soul.
[SOBS SOFTLY]
Though
the other night, there was this guy.
He came by banging on the
door yelling for Raymond.
I didn't open the door. I was scared.
I told him Raymond wasn't home.
And then they left?
Yeah.
I watched him leave through the window.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
But he said he'd be coming back.
Can you tell us what
this man looked like?
Hey. A man fitting the description
Raymond Clark's mom gave just
popped up on a security camera
from the bodega next door.
Took off on a motorcycle
after he left the mom's house.
License plate came back to a Luke Bragg.
Luke Bragg?
- That Luke Bragg?
- Boxer?
Yeah, who turned into
a men's rights activist.
Guy's a real charmer too.
He doesn't think women
should drive or vote.
Yeah, his latest venture
is the Alpha Institute,
a self-help course
helping to turn young men
into business gods like him.
[CHUCKLES]
Runs it out of a boxing gym in Midtown.
Go ruin this prick's day.
[BOXERS GRUNTING]
[BOXING GLOVES THUMPING]
Gotta be better than that, gentlemen.
Come on. You're fighting for all of us!
Prove that you belong here!
Prove that you are an alpha!
[BOXERS GRUNTING]
All right, fellas.
Let's wind it down for a minute, yeah?
What's this about?
NYPD. That's what this is about.
What do you want?
Raymond Clark is dead.
- So?
- So you sent him an email.
"You're a beta, Raymond.
And the only good beta is a dead beta."
[BOXERS LAUGHING]
Oh, that's funny?
Let's take a ride, Luke.
I got nothing to hide.
I meant every word about Raymond Clark.
Raymond Clark spent his entire
life savings on your institute.
You should have been
sending him flowers,
not banging on his door.
I wanted to chat.
About what?
Look.
I didn't do this, lady.
Lady?
I prefer Lieutenant.
But whatever.
Listen, we can do this two ways.
You can answer my questions and go home
or you can play tough guy
and we'll hold you for 48 hours or so.
You know, I gave Raymond Clark
his place in the world.
I turned him into the
man he wanted to be.
So what happened?
He spit in my face,
rejected my teachings,
and left the program.
Well, you already had all his money.
What did you care?
Because I was trying to help him.
[CHUCKLING] Seriously?
Why did you care?
Okay, fine.
Raymond tried to blow me up.
He tried to convince my other
students that I was a fraud.
Made lots of defamatory
TikToks about me.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
So he threatened your business empire
and you killed him.
No.
I didn't kill Raymond.
Then where were you last night?
- [ELEVATOR BELL RINGS]
- Luke Bragg's alibi is good.
Not gonna lie, I was
really hoping it was him.
I get it, but it's not.
Bragg was right about one thing, though.
Raymond Clark was coming after him.
Raymond figured out that
Bragg's self-help crap
was just a pyramid scheme
to sell protein powder,
so he made a bunch of videos
to make sure the rest of the world knew.
Hey. Finally got Clark's texts.
And?
The last text he sent
was to someone named Noah.
Clark said he was worried about him
and that he was heading
to Noah's apartment now.
Which means this Noah
could be the last person
to have seen him alive.
Okay, run the number.
Find out where he lives.
- [KNOCK AT DOOR]
- Police. Open up.
We're looking for Noah Turan.
My son's not here.
You mind if we come in?
Just have a few questions for you.
Of course.
What's going on? Is Noah okay?
We're not sure. You know where he is?
No, not at the moment.
This your son's bracelet?
Yes.
Ma'am, when was the
last time you saw him?
Uh, this morning. What is this about?
We need to talk to him about
his friend, Raymond Clark.
What about Raymond?
He's dead.
What? Raymond's dead?
Check this out.
- M112.
- That's C-4.
It was in his bedroom.
What is your son doing with explosives?
Is he building a bomb?
A bomb? Of course not!
He works at my restaurant.
He's a good boy.
Good boys don't play with C-4.
Let's go.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Mother's downstairs if we need her.
What do we have?
Suspect is Noah Turan, age 22.
Do we have his electronic devices yet?
We recovered his laptop,
and Vince is with the techs right now
trying to break into it as we speak.
What are you thinking?
I don't know, but
something just feels off.
I mean, Turan lives a
quiet life, no record.
He delivers food for
his mom's restaurant
and as far as Raymond Clark goes,
they've been best
friends since third grade.
They're like brothers.
Since when does murder make sense?
Hey. Guys, we cracked the laptop.
We got into Turan's messages.
Someone sent him a PDF
from an encrypted number
a couple hours ago.
It's in Arabic.
We don't know what the hell it says yet,
but it did come with these
instructions in English.
"In three hours, the world will learn
they cannot ignore the injustice
suffered by our people.
Post this before your triumph.
Allah will meet you in paradise."
He's planning a terrorist attack.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Stop the work!
We have a potential terrorist attack.
Our suspect, Noah Turan,
received a text placing him in Brooklyn
somewhere near Grand Army Plaza.
I need a TTL ping on his phone now.
917-555-0167.
Let's track him in
real-time. Come on, move it.
[SIREN WAILS]
- [PROTESTERS CLAMORING]
- Jesus.

Lou, what's going on in
the Brooklyn Public Library?
Let's go. I need answers now.
Lou, there's a conference
at the Brooklyn Library.
Chinese dignitaries are meeting
with the U.S. Trade Representative.
Jalen.
Lou, we're approaching the library.
We need the suspect's location now.
This has got to be the target.
I'm gonna go east.
JOC's up and running.
Counterterrorism and FBI are on board.
Where's my ping?
Here.
Well, we need to refine it.
I'm working on it.
[PROTESTERS CLAMORING]

[COMPUTER CHIMES]
Lieutenant Brady, I got him.
Suspect's on the north side
of the library heading west.
And who's that?
It's Shaw.
Jalen, you're right on top of him.
PROTESTORS: [CHANTING] End forced labor!
End forced labor! End forced labor!

I got a positive. He's
headed for the entrance.
Noah Turan! Police!
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Show me your hands! Show me your hands!
No, no, no! Do not reach in that bag!
Everybody, clear the area!
Everybody, move!
Kid, I will shoot you!

- Detonator's secure!
- Detonator's secure!
Get the bomb techs in here now!
[SIGHS] We'll talk about the bomb later.
I just wanna know why
you killed Raymond Clark.
I'm not talking about that.
Okay, that's your right.
In China
2 million Uyghur Muslims
are being held in camps.
Why did you kill Raymond Clark?
Children are separated
from their parents.
Women are gang-raped.
Men are sterilized.
They have to renounce their own faith.
We have video of you.
57 seconds before Raymond
died, you entered the subway.
30 seconds later, you exit, hood up.
I think you regret it already.
The bracelet you were wearing,
we found that in your apartment.
This is not theory. This is fact.
Your life as you know it is now over.
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Sit tight.
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
The bomb was fake?
Or a mistake.
Either way, bomb squad
took apart the device
that he had on him when we arrested him.
It was never gonna work.
Take a look at this.
The blasting cap had no ignition charge
and the C-4 was fake.
So there was nothing to explode
and nothing to ignite it.
What the hell's going on here?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Okay, now, let's talk about the bomb.
Your blasting cap had no charge.
You were carrying around
four packs of "C-4,"
which was, in fact, molding clay,
the kind you buy at an
arts and crafts store.
It was basically Play-Doh.
You were carrying a toy bomb.
No.
No, that can't be true.
You didn't know?

I'm gonna ask you one more time.
Why did you kill Raymond Clark?

He was your best friend.
I
I thought I had no choice.

How strong is our murder case?
It appears to be a slam dunk.
The evidence backs up the confession.
Which is?
According to the defendant,
Raymond Clark went over
to Noah Turan's apartment,
saw that he was building a bomb.
Clark got spooked, ran out.
Turan chased him down, killed him.
- To protect the mission?
- Correct.
What about terrorism-related charges?
Not easy to charge someone
for not bombing something.
Yeah. Even if we could,
it's not gonna be as
serious as murder, so.
- Until we know more
- [NOTIFICATION CHIMES]
Let's move forward with
what we know to be true.
Noah Turan murdered Raymond Clark.
Nolan?
Turan wants to proffer.
[DOOR BUZZING]
Okay, so what's this all about?
My client is prepared to
plead out to reduce charges.
And why would we agree to that?
He confessed to killing Raymond Clark.
We know that.
But he's willing to give up his boss.
"What gives you life
is jihad. Live to die."
The script that Noah
was supposed to post.
But those are not his words.
They're the words of a jihadist,
the man who radicalized my client.
Who knows how many other
men are out there right now
getting groomed by this man?
You could look at this
cynically or practically.
You can save lives.
Do you know who this jihadist is?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
He said his name is Karim.
I've seen him.
Noah was a foot soldier.
And for that, he's willing
to take responsibility
and plead guilty in the
death of Raymond Clark.
But this jihadist
he's at war with America
and using kids like Noah
to do the dirty work.
Where might we find this jihadist?

I got eyes on a man
that resembles Karim.
Black jacket, gray pants.
Let's go.
[TENSE MUSIC]

Hey. NYPD.
Do not move.
Uh-uh. Don't do it. Don't move.

You don't wanna do this.
Oh, yes, we do. Trust me.
Hands behind your head. Take a knee.
Just relax. Let me explain.
Get on the ground.
Get on the ground!
You're making a mistake.
Yeah?
And why is that?
I'm FBI, sweetheart.

- So Noah Turan was your mark?
- Mm-hmm.
I've been working him hard undercover.
Yesterday was the big day.
He was supposed to meet
me at the service entrance
of the Brooklyn Library
to deliver the bomb
and I was going to arrest him.
Then what?
Sayonara. Enjoy Gitmo. I move on.
So you knew that the bomb
Noah was carrying was
Of course. I gave him the components.
- But he did not know?
- No.
He's an idiot,
an idiot who hates our
country and our freedoms.
What's going on?
Your mark committed a murder.
He what?
His friend, Raymond Clark.
He pushed him in front of a train
and he claims he did
that because of you.
And you're listening to him?
You people screw up a
three-month operation,
put me on my knees at gunpoint
now you're blaming me for
some moron killing his friend?
[SCOFFS]
Have a nice day and kiss my ass.
We went fishing for a jihadist.
We caught the FBI instead.
Agent Joshua Haddad.
Mm.
We got a guilty plea out of this.
Noah Turan is spending
ten years in prison,
so we didn't come away empty-handed.
Beyond that, we're done.
- We're not so sure, Nick.
- What does that mean?
Noah Turan's plea required him
to share his encrypted
conversation with Agent Haddad.
Three months' worth, 24,000 texts.
- And?
- Well, it's s-shocking.
Agent Haddad was extremely aggressive.
That's his job.
No, no, he crossed a line.
He didn't find a monster,
he created a monster.
What do you mean?
Turan had no interest in hurting anyone.
But Agent Haddad wouldn't let it go,
wouldn't take no for an answer.
Just kept at it until
Turan became radicalized.
Sit down with Turan.
Talk to him about Haddad, his tactics.
If we're gonna go after
the FBI, we better be right.
The first time Agent Haddad
brought up the idea of a bomb,
I said, hell no, I'm out.
And the response?
He got nasty.
This isn't an organization you quit.
You're in too deep.
He told me this went way up.
It was one thing to let him down.
That would be bad. But
the people he worked for?
I mean, you just didn't do it.
Did he say who that was?
Daesh.
The Islamic State?
Yeah. Look, I'm not a
I deliver kebabs on a
bicycle, you feel me?
So I blocked him on Telegram.
But he tracked me down.
Showed up to my mother's restaurant,
sat down like he was a customer.
Said his name was Karim,
the guy I'd been talking to on Telegram.
Had you mentioned your
mother's restaurant to him?
No. It was creepy.
And then it got
evil, man.
He started talking about the
restaurant, the laminate walls.
Said they burn real easy.
One match, the whole place goes up.
And my mother's
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

I mean, she killed herself
making that place work,
you know, so we could have a life.
Karim didn't have to say another word.
I said, I'll do anything you want.
Just
leave her out of this.
And at some point,
you became a believer?
You were ready to kill.
You didn't know that bomb was fake.
No. [SIGHS]
Over time, I guess I
broke or something.
He made me feel like family.
Took me to Yankees games.
And the stuff he kept telling
me about my mom's people,
it was real.
People are dying every
day and no one cares, so

He gave me a purpose.
Why did you kill Raymond Clark?
Karim told me to do it.
He said I needed to "take
care of the problem."

- [KNOCK AT DOOR]
- Sean, come on in.
How are you?
How am I?
I just got a call you
executed a search warrant
at Joshua Haddad's apartment.
Whoa. Slow down.
He's a decorated FBI agent, Nick.
You don't just show up at
his door with a warrant.
Not without calling me first.
It's more complicated than that.
The hell are you talking about?
We're charging him with manslaughter.
Manslaughter?
Who are you claiming he killed?
Raymond Clark.
The kid who died in the subway?
Have you lost your mind? He
had nothing to do with that.
We believe differently.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
You know what this
type of work requires,
what it looks like. You did it.
We did it together.
We didn't do it like this, Sean.
Please spare me the lecture.
You're making a mistake.
A very dangerous mistake.

So you didn't consider
yourself a radical?
An extremist?
No. I was just trying to
stand with Uyghur Muslims back in China.
I was born here, but
that's my mom's people.
And it's it's horrible.
And that's how the
defendant, Agent Haddad,
found you in the first place, isn't it?
Yes.
I, uh,
commented on a couple of Reddit posts
about the Uyghur people
and I just was trying to show support.
And then Agent Haddad,
back when he was posing as Karim,
he DM'd you to start a conversation.
Yes.
And we started talking
privately through Telegram.
Encrypted messages.
And what was the first
thing that Karim taught you?
That I needed to take
the rage I had for China
and put it on America.
He said that if it was any
other country doing this,
the U.S. would do something.
Did Agent Haddad teach
you how to make a bomb?
Yes.
Did he buy you the
materials for that bomb?
Choose your target?
Yes.
And on that fateful night,
when Raymond Clark saw the
bomb in your apartment and ran,
was your first act to
chase him down and kill him?
No.
I loved Raymond like I
would love my own brother.
No.
The first thing I did
was, I called Karim.
Your jihadist handler,
the man we now know is Agent Haddad.
And what did you tell him?
I said, you know, my
friend saw the device.
Please, call it off.
Call the whole thing off.
And how did Agent Haddad reply?
He told me that nothing could stop us.
And that I needed to
take care of the problem.
How did you interpret that?
I mean, he'd already
threatened my family,
warned me not to disappoint
the Islamic State.
I thought if I didn't obey
he'd kill me.
Or my mom.
I have nothing further.
You're here because you're
required to be here, yes?
I made a plea deal.
Did Agent Haddad explicitly tell you
to chase down Raymond Clark?
No, he didn't have to.
Did you follow Raymond Clark,
whom you loved like your own brother,
into the subway,
push him from behind with
the intent to kill him?
Yes.
And I'm so sorry.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
I have nothing else.
May I, Your Honor?
Would any of this have happened
were it not for the
actions of Agent Haddad?
No.
He left me no choice.

We targeted Noah Turan
through an operation
called Lure and Trap.
And how does that work typically?
It's a type of sting operation.
We identify individuals
who are susceptible
to extremist ideology, pose as radicals,
fundamentalists, and create scenarios
to determine whether
or not they're a threat
to public safety and national security.
And Noah Turan fit that bill?
Terrorist groups believe men like Turan
are especially good recruits
because they are U.S. citizens,
so they can fly under the radar.
And many of them feel
hopeless, rootless,
eager to join a movement.
Most people in our country
have never heard of Uyghur Muslims.
Are they really so dangerous?
The vast majority are not.
And they are, in fact, persecuted.
But some have radicalized.
Some have traveled
to Syria, Afghanistan,
trained with the Taliban, with al-Qaeda.
Nothing further, Your Honor.
Your witness, Mr. Price.
If you are conducting a
Lure and Trap operation
and you determine that a target
is not a threat to public
safety, what happens?
The investigation doesn't move forward.
So we can assume that
because your investigation of
Noah Turan was moving forward,
you believed he posed a
threat to public safety?
I believed he was capable of
committing an act of terrorism.
Provided you radicalized him
and taught him how to build a bomb.
Objection. Counsel is testifying.
Ask a question, Mr. Price.
You have testified [CLEARS THROAT]
That when you told Noah Turan
to take care of the problem,
you couldn't possibly have envisioned
that he would then kill Raymond Clark.
- Correct?
- Correct.
But what I'm failing to grasp
is if you were so certain
that Noah Turan was prepared
to blow up the Brooklyn Library
full of 1,200 people,
how you could be equally certain
that he would be unwilling
to take one more life?
[SCOFFS SOFTLY] I couldn't have known.
You chose him because you
thought he was a killer.
You trained him to be a better killer.
You gave him a cause worth killing for.
A-and when you provoked him,
he behaved like a killer.
So it sounds to me like
you got what you wanted.
Objection! Your Honor
Sustained.
Nothing further.
Chief Agent Merrill, how many
special agents work at the FBI?
Over 10,000.
And how many of them have been awarded
the FBI's Shield of
Bravery, Medal of Valor,
and the Medal for
Meritorious Achievement?
About 45.
Is Agent Haddad one of them?
Yes, he is.
As Agent Haddad's supervisor,
were you aware of his orders?
I certainly hope so.
Did Agent Haddad follow those orders
in the operation targeting Noah Turan?
To the letter.
He was doing his job, doing it well.
Do your agents prepare for the
possibility of collateral damage?
We're taught that collateral damage
is a necessary consequence of war.
We work hard to keep America safe.
Most of the time, folks don't
even know that's happening
because we're pretty good at what we do.
And on occasion, something
tragic happens along the way.
No one is happy when
an innocent is killed.
But the person who actually
caused Raymond Clark's death
is already in prison.
His name is Noah Turan.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
In the last year,
how many young men did
Agent Haddad approach
through the Lure and Trap program?
And how many of them agreed
to carry out an act of terrorism
to extinguish American lives?
Four. One of them was Noah Turan.
And how many of them killed someone
they thought might interfere
with a phony terror event?
One, Noah Turan.
He's the reason Raymond Clark
is dead, not Agent Haddad.
Nothing further, Your Honor.

Okay, that's the last of it.
Every official document
related to Haddad's operation.
There has to be something
in here to help us explain
that Agent Haddad wasn't
just doing his job.
- Because if not
- Yeah.
[SIGHS]
You got to be kidding me.
What?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

And who was the judge on that?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I know, Ed.
Hey, listen, I gotta call you back.
Okay.
You were the architect of the
FBI's Lure and Trap Program?
I wouldn't go that far.
But yes, I was on loan to the FBI.
They wanted me to help out with it.
After 9/11, we needed to
find more efficient ways
of locating and interrogating suspects.
That's one way to describe it.
My job was to help make the
Lure and Trap Program legal.
Good.
Then I need you to testify.
Testify?
Yeah, you're in a
unique position to prove
that Agent Haddad went beyond
the limits of his job and the law.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You know Haddad didn't
do this by the book.
[LAUGHING] Because you wrote the book!
I wanna win here no different than you.
But if I'm gonna be honest,
now that I am the DA, I
don't need the world to know
that I was involved with

Some tactics employed
in the aftermath of 9/11
don't necessarily look the
same through the lens of 2025.
Um
I will sleep well tonight
knowing that I am trying like hell
to get justice for Raymond Clark.
In the morning,
you will need to tell me
where you come down on that.

You may proceed, Mr. Price.
Could you describe this
document for the jury?
It's a 2006 memorandum
prepared by the legal advisory office
for the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Prepared by you, correct?
Yes.
Establishing a program
to locate extremists
who could threaten
our national security.
We called it Lure and Trap.
So this memo established the guidelines
for this FBI operation
and its guardrails,
or the rules, you could say.
You could.
Is that a yes?
Yes.
The rules, so that FBI
agents like Agent Haddad
could hunt online for
men like Noah Turan,
radicalize them, and
then hold them to account
without those agents
committing a crime in
the process, correct?
Correct.
You have had the opportunity
to review the testimony
of Haddad and Chief Agent Merrill
as well as documents
related to the operation
- targeting Turan, yes?
- I have.
Can you tell the jury what you learned?
There were instances
in which Agent Haddad
exceeded the legal
limitations I delineated.
Objection.
Overruled.
As the author of this memo
when agents target a subject
through Lure and Trap,
are they required to
submit regular FD-302 forms
to their supervisor to summarize
and report their actions?
Yes.
Haddad failed to do so.
Would that represent a
violation of the rules?
Yes.
Could you tell the jury
if an FBI agent is allowed
to threaten a subject's family
in order to coerce that
subject into committing a crime?
No, that is not permitted.
So as the author of Lure and Trap,
did Haddad operate within the bounds
of the guidelines you created?
No.
Was Agent Haddad simply doing his job
in the course of his
operation targeting Noah Turan?
No, he went far beyond the
legal boundaries of his mission.
Objection!
Sustained.
Which means Raymond Clark
would still be alive today
were it not for the reckless,
- rogue actions
- Objection, Your Honor!
- Of Agent Haddad.
- Sustained.
- Isn't that right?
- Mr. Price.
I have nothing further.
[TENSE MUSIC]

The notion of collateral
damage is real in war.
But we were not at war with Noah Turan.
Agent Haddad simply chose him
and then embarked on
a relentless campaign
to change him, manipulate
him, radicalize him.
District Attorney Baxter's
memo authorizing Lure and Trap
was a tacit acknowledgment
the government knew
they were pushing things
as far as they could,
so they created guidelines
and rules to legitimize
the aggressive tactics.
Agent Haddad did not abide
by those guidelines and rules.
No, he ignored them.
And his callous and reckless disregard
for those guidelines and rules
resulted in Raymond Clark's death.
It is really that simple.
And for that reason,
you must convict him of manslaughter.

Madam Foreperson, has the
jury reached a verdict?
We have, Your Honor.
In the charge of manslaughter
in the second degree,
we find the defendant,
Joshua Omar Haddad,
guilty.
[ONLOOKERS MURMURING]
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
we thank you for your service.
[GAVEL BANGS] You're excused.

Heck of a closing.
I was trying to make it clear.
You were trying to win your case.
Which I respect.
People like you feel
entitled to criticize
what we did after 9/11
accuse us of stretching
the limits of the law.
But the reason they feel so entitled
is because it hasn't happened since.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
No more buildings have
come down in this city.
You don't have to like what we did.
But it worked.
We saved lives.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[WOLF HOWLS]

[WOLF HOWLS]
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