Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) s03e07 Episode Script
A Murderer Among Us
In New York City's war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the Major Case Squad.
These are their stories.
Thank you for the dance, Mr.
Fineman.
Oh, you are bruised.
- Did I do that? - No, no, it wasn't you.
- Are you okay? - I'm fine.
You aren't the one who decides.
I don't know how it happened.
Let's not make a fuss.
Is everything all right at home, Lena? Everything's fine.
Please, I'm okay.
Thank you for the meds, Doctor.
The down payment was present enough.
But if you want to, you can make empanadas for my party.
Honey, we can't go.
Your dad's got a huge deadline.
He always does.
But you can come, can't you? It's better I stay home.
I'm so proud of you.
Claire, you got a good job.
And now your own home.
This is what a mother works for.
Love you too, Mom.
Oh, that's nasty.
How'd you get that? From work.
Don't worry.
Let's find you something nice.
Honey, I'm home.
Honey? How long are we gonna be married before you know how I like my burgers? Stay out of my way.
! Yankees lose again, Lance? - Lance, what's - Help me! I need a crowbar.
- What's going on? - Lena's locked herself in the basement bathroom.
I don't have a key, and she's not answering.
There's There's blood.
I think she's hurt.
Lena.
! I saw her feet.
She's leaning up against the door.
- I think - There we go.
Lena! Lena! Lena! Oh, my God, Lena! Oh, my God! Law & Order CI Neighbors heard them arguing around 7:00.
Brody's story goes that they made up, went to bed.
When he woke up, she was gone.
- What does Brody think happened? - He hasn't said.
You have the murder weapon? I'm still lookin'.
That bruise on her wrist is a few days old.
He's gone after her before.
But, uh, this one she got tonight, huh? Mm, the argument, do you know what it was about? Well, he claims that she threw out one of his model boats.
He killed her over a toy boat? Yeah, men, they get very attached to toys.
Okay, she was stabbed, choked, beaten.
That's three types of assault.
Most spousal murders only involve one.
This is as simple as it gets.
It's an argument that got ugly.
Uh, can I get a hand? Ready? Swedish carving knife.
So, Brody just doesn't assemble boats, he carves each piece out of wood.
And leaves murder weapons where we can find them.
Well, he drops it, she falls on it.
He panics.
He locks her in.
Wasn't she leaning against the door when the neighbors found her? Listen.
If Brody hadn't been involved in that bid-rigging case in Queens, Major Case wouldn't even be here.
Uh, excuse me.
Um, did he say what kind of boat she threw away? Some kind of Rainbow.
Uh, uh, theJ-Yacht Rainbow? This is a New York boat.
Won the America's Cup in 1934.
Well, you might be right about Brody, Detective.
If he's the killer, I don't want somebody else to take the fall.
Let's give him some options.
I woke up, and she wasn't there.
If she had heard something, sh-she would have gotten me up.
I just don't Is there anyone who might have wanted to harm your wife? Or you? Maybe someone connected with the bid-rigging case? I was cleared of that.
But four other suppliers were arrested.
Maybe one of them blames you.
For what? I didn't know anything.
Yerba mate.
Your wife is from South America.
Argentina.
My grandparents sent her to live here when she was a teenager.
It's mate.
It's a tea.
Gives you a boost.
Was your wife under a lot of stress? Lena's been a little disorganized lately.
Disorganized? Do you mean depressed? Mom was a positive person.
She was She was happy yesterday.
She was helping me with my housewarming party.
We need to know if any of your wife's injuries predated her attack.
This could be difficult, but if you could look at these photos.
Those bruises were on her neck.
No.
She didn't have these.
This one was on her knee.
Her right knee.
What is it, Mr.
Brody? Nothing.
I just never saw this.
Well, these cuts and bruises were on her hands.
Uh, that bruise on her wrist, she told me she got that at work.
Yeah, that's right.
Mr.
Brody, if you need a moment, you know, to let go, it's all right.
What makes you think I Well, you're pressing your thumb into your forefinger.
Some people, they bite their lips.
They clench their fists.
Can we just get on with this? I know, it's hard.
You feel the guilt.
About the argument, you know.
You're thinking that she was selfish to get so upset about a boat.
Of course, I wish it didn't happen.
Yeah, you were thinking about all the hard work that you did, you know.
TheThe months that you put incarving and putting each plank into place.
It was on your bench.
I don't understand.
It wasn't there last night.
This is some kind of trick.
I know how you people work.
You make the truth sound like a lie.
I'm not talking to you anymore.
Come on, sweetheart.
Brooklyn Home for the jewish aged Brooklyn New York, Wednesday, July 15 She ever show up with any unexplained bruises before? No.
But right away you suspected her husband? Why is that? You'd met him? When he'd pick Lena up on his way home from work, he'd always come half hour early just to sit in the sunroom.
He was checking up on her.
Is that what you thought? Yes.
How often did he do this? The first time was when she first started to work here, last September.
But then he stopped after a couple of weeks.
And then, a few times, two months ago in May.
She was friendly.
She's attractive.
Maybe her husband had a reason to be suspicious.
No.
But some men don't need a reason to pick on their wives.
This is the fatal cut here.
But these abrasions are superficial.
The blood vessels in her eyes were uncontracted.
He didn't apply enough pressure to strangle her.
She fought him off.
Maybe.
Look.
These cuts on the top of the wrists.
You know, if she was defending herself You mean defending herself like a girl.
What if she was defending herself like a boxer? Hey, score one for the new kid.
Now, this old bruise on her wrist, that's another superficial injury.
This bruise on her knee, not enough to put her down.
No, the kneecap's not bruised.
If Brody had hit her with enough force, he would have split the patella in three.
There's no getting up after that.
Even ifhe didn't kneecap her, he was still looking to hurt her.
Yes, but this lady wasn't feeling anybody's pain.
Tox screen showed 30 milligrams of Percocet in her bloodstream, taken within three hours.
Hmm.
All for a sore wrist? Well, maybe she knew it'd be a rough night.
The contract was for window gates for schools in Queens.
Four of the suppliers conspired to jack up their bids.
Brody bowed out.
Said he couldn't meet the delivery schedule.
He still could have rolled on those guys.
alk to Charlie Reid in the Rackets Bureau.
He owes me one.
If it's all right, I'd like to go with you.
Sure.
You can carry me up the stairs.
If it's not cars, it's boats.
There's something stuck in the rigging.
Oh, how exciting.
Well, I'm off to the D.
A.
's office.
Coming? What is it? Lint? Uh, blue sweater lint.
Last call for the D.
A.
's office.
Thanks.
Maybe next time.
Like something is broken off the top of the masthead, right above the shroud.
Maybe a flagpole.
We're gonna go look for it, aren't we? Yeah.
Who is it? It's me.
Leo.
Come in.
I just wanna say I'm sorry for Mrs.
Brody.
She was a very nice lady.
Thanks.
Good night, Mr.
Brody.
Ah, blue sweater.
The New York Yacht Club flag.
Lena hid the boat in here, but she told Brody that she threw it away.
To provoke an argument? Then she put the boat back when he was asleep? To make him look like a liar.
The defensive wounds that didn't defend.
The strangling that didn't choke.
The Percocet to dull the pain.
She staged it.
She killed herself.
Just to frame her husband? That's insane.
Or desperate.
All the defensive wounds are in straight up-and-down lines.
That's very uncharacteristic of an attack.
And they're superficial.
Most defense wounds are usually deep.
The blood near the workbench, that was her too? To make it appear there was a chase.
Her husband was abusing her.
Maybe she thought killing herself was her only way out.
And framing him was her payback.
I can go with the suicide, but what's the evidence he abused her? - One bruised wrist? - You know, maybe it was worse than abuse.
Something that she couldn't live with.
I'll keep it on the books as an open homicide.
Aprtment of Claire Brody Mondy, July 21 It's a nice place you have here.
You bought it, what, two months ago? It happened so quickly.
Brand-new Joy of Cooking.
My mother bought me one when I got my first apartment.
Was there a reason you decided to move out? Uh, it was Mom, actually.
She offered me the down payment.
Just out of the blue? Was there something going on at home between your parents? There was nothing.
I know what you want me to say, but my father did not kill my mother.
We know that.
We think your mother killed herself.
You told us that your mother was a very positive person.
Well, that's why it's important for us to figure out why she did this terrible thing to herself.
You You can't be right.
Well, maybe she told a close friend or her parents.
Her parents passed away in Argentina a few years ago.
And if there was anything, she would have told me about it.
Your mother left Argentina in the mid-'70s, right? There were death squads, kidnappings.
You sure there wasn't some trauma that triggered No.
No.
L-I volunteer with her at Refugees International.
I've heard all her stories.
Nothing like that ever happened.
Uh, Claire.
Some people, they hurt themselves out of shame or guilt.
And maybe your father did something to her.
- No.
- Or to you? Dad didn't do anything.
And Mom didn't do this to herself.
There's no reason.
She would have told me if there was.
Two months ago, Lena got her daughter out of her home and set her up in her own place.
She was clearing the decks for her final act.
Two months ago was the last time anybody saw Brody at the old age home.
Brooklyn Home for the jewish aged brooklyn, New York, Monday, July 21 Lena was lovely.
We used to have little chats together.
Uh, but then she got busy, I guess.
Actually, Mr.
Seligman, the office told us that Lena was caught accessing your financial information on the computer.
Yes, I heard about that, but I didn't care.
This man, do you know him? Lena's husband.
Uh I saw him once in the sunroom uh, when my daughter's family came to take me out to dinner.
And then I think we passed him as we pulled out of the home.
What was he doing, watching you? Uh, I wouldn't say watching.
He He was sitting in his car.
- Is this your daughter? - Uh, yes, that's Ruth.
And the kids areJeffrey and Sarah.
That's Sam, alav hashalom.
Alav hashalom.
Your son-in-law, he passed away.
Yes.
Uh, in May.
He was mugged.
Uh, Lena gave me a card.
I think I still have it.
She wrote something very nice in Spanish.
"En Gan Eden este.
" Uh, she said it meant, uh, "May his soul be in the Garden of Eden.
" My Spanish must be rustier than I thought.
Your son-in-law, was there an injury to his leg? They broke his knee, and then beat him to death.
How can I go to the funeral tomorrow? I don't even know who she is anymore.
Your mother had her dark moods.
She hid them from you.
We both did, to protect you.
You should have told me! You're always hiding your emotions.
- Both of you are always hiding from me.
- Claire, please don't be angry.
Don't hate me.
I know, I know you're angry.
Please, please, don't hate me.
I couldn't take it.
Sam Landau, 42, May 14.
He was coming from Fordham University Library.
Got mugged on the way to his car.
Case is still open.
Blunt instrument.
- Two whacks.
- Hmm.
And one to the right knee.
Shattered the kneecap.
That's what brought him down.
Brody tensed up when I showed him the photo of his wife's knee injury.
See, he knew.
This is why Lena made this bruise.
She was telling us what her husband had done.
Lena I recognize from my father's nursing home.
He talked about her all the time.
But her husband? Never seen him.
Did your husband have a lot of contact with Lena during your visits to the home? No, no.
I was the one who talked to the staff.
We believe that there is a connection between your husband and Mr.
Brody.
Maybe it was financial.
Maybe he borrowed some money or invested.
No, no, no.
My husband was an academic.
We were very careful with our money.
He's a complete stranger.
Why Why would he kill him? It doesn't make any sense.
Thank you for coming in, Mrs.
Landau.
We're sorry about your husband.
Um, one last thing.
Were you involved in a fender bender during the week after your husband's death? I was sitting shivah.
My car was in the garage all week.
Okay.
Uh, thanks.
What's that about her car? The D.
M.
V.
Said an insurance company called for the plates on Landau's car.
They wanted to know his particulars in regards to a hit-and-run fender bender.
- This was after Landau was dead? - Yes.
Any connection to Brody? The insurance company's not Brody's or Landau's.
Maybe we can't find a connection because there isn't one.
Well, Lena thought there was.
Um That's why she looked at the records of Landau's father-in-law.
And why she did this.
Landau was killed, what, May 14? What was Brody doing? On May 14? I don't remember.
I have to take my aunt to the Port Authority.
All we need to talk to you is for a minute.
I can take this for you.
Refugees International was having a leadership training program that night.
They told us your mother was there.
Uh, I went with her.
That's what they told us.
Do you know what time you got home? Some time between 9:30 and 10:00.
What does this have to do with Where was your dad? He was at home, taking a shower.
He'd just gotten back from work.
Is that what he usually does when he gets home, he takes a shower? No, he had trouble with his car.
He got dirty fixing it.
His clothes, were they dirty too? No.
He keeps a pair of coveralls from work in the trunk.
They were in the washer when we got home Mom put them in the dryer.
What? You're still on my dad's case? My mom committed suicide.
She had depression all her life.
And you just found that out from your father.
I always thought Dad was good at hiding his feelings.
Now I know they both were.
We have to go.
We're sorry about your sister.
Sister-in-law.
AuntJoy's my father's sister.
She came in for the funeral.
Now she has to catch a bus back to Albany.
Sam Landau was mugged just before 9:00.
Gives Brody plenty of time to get home, dump his bloody coveralls into the wash and jump into the shower.
She said her father was good at hiding his feelings.
Let's see how good he is at hiding them at us.
Enterprise Sheet Metal Bronx New york, Wednesday, July 23 What's the deal with the coveralls? Can we get a pair, - see what they look like? - Sure.
- Might need to show them around.
- Mm-hmm.
You suffer from anxiety? I, uh Xanax.
You, uh, you take Xanax.
My wife committed suicide.
I'm not sleeping.
Yeah, I'm anxious.
I'll get those coveralls, and then I'll have to ask you to leave.
You told your daughter your wife suffered from depression.
Was she seeing anyone for it? No, no.
She didn't believe in shrinks.
You know, people that have depression, they're, well, they're manipulative.
Did you notice that? She was.
She was.
You know, I mixed that up.
Actually, uh, manipulation is not a symptom of depression.
Manipulation is a symptom of the psychopathic personality.
Well, Lena was a complicated person.
Well, maybe she's manipulative because she's hiding something.
Uh, don't touch anything on the floor.
- You ever handle one of these? - Hey, I worked the line 12 years.
I worked my way up to partner.
This thing would come in handy in a dangerous situation, you know.
You keep one of these in your car for protection? You know, bad guys, they really do that, you know.
One good hit in the knee, bring you down for good.
The kneecap, just shatters into pieces.
- Why don't you put that thing down - Like this.
before you hurt somebody.
By the way, that kneecap? Belongs to Sam Landau.
- Who? - Son-in-law of one of Lena's patients.
He was murdered last May.
I don't know the man.
There you go doing that thing with your thumb and your forefinger.
That's because I'm trying to control myself, to keep from physically throwing you out of my plant.
That right there, that's irritability.
That's one of the paradoxical side effects of Xanax, you know.
It's used to keep people calm, but sometimes it Well, you use it.
Describe how it's making you feel.
I wouldn't know.
This is my first time taking it.
Is it? You should be careful, 'cause it can sneak up on ya.
Well, he's a better boat builder than he is a liar.
- The pill bottle? - Mm-hmm? It indicated a refill.
He's taken Xanax before.
Seems like a petty thing to lie about.
Well, it's the little lies that tell the big story.
The previous refill was on May the 12th.
Two days before Landau was killed.
He was settling his nerves for the big event.
There was another refill before that? Yes.
Let me see.
Last September.
When Lena started working at the nursing home.
And the first time that Brody dropped in on her.
Jeff Demsky, killed in Jersey City last September.
Same M.
O.
As Landau.
Blow to the right knee, two whacks to the head.
Classified as a mugging.
He's the nephew of a resident at Lena's nursing home.
Both crimes at night, deserted area, no witnesses.
He's pretty good.
He's a work in progress.
In addition to his shattered kneecap, Demsky had a hairline fracture to his lateral condyle.
Now, Brody hit him twice in the knee.
With Landau, he only needed one shot.
He's on a learning curve.
It's not your fault.
I know you're good.
It was him.
We were fine before What do you want? I'm not weak anymore.
Eight murders over seven years.
All of them with similar M.
O.
's.
The first one, uh, Mark Simmons.
Multiple hits to both knees.
Multiple hits to the head.
Went into a coma for two days and died.
Brody's aim improved.
And all the victims have a connection to the Brodys? Only four.
Besides Landau and Demsky, we have Rafe Benjamin and Eric Sumners.
They both worked in New York Hospital when Lena worked there.
Then maybe all we're dealing with is a statistical anomaly.
The M.
E.
Noted "special requests" for the handlings of the bodies.
Uh, the first one, uh, Mark Simmons? The family requests burial within 24 hours.
Jean-Michel Levigne family refuses autopsy.
Eric Simmons burial within 24 hours.
And Rafe Benjamin, Jonathan Daniels, Phillip Burns all the same requests.
They're allJewish.
Brody's killing Jews.
And Lena found out.
No swastikas, no anti-Semitic literature.
We're still checking the computer, but I came across this.
Uh, Mr.
Prescott.
We found your business card in, uh, Brody's kitchen.
- Y-You're an insurance adjuster.
- Uh, yes.
You didn't happen to look up a license plate of a Sam Landau a while back? Yes.
Lena asked me.
She bumped into a parked car.
You know, you don't remember what she wrote it on, do you? A folded little scrap of paper.
It was hard to read.
Paper had gotten wet.
From the wash in Brody's coveralls.
Lena found a number.
She was suspicious.
When she knew whose car it was, she started putting things together.
Hey, uh, I thought she killed herself.
That's what it's looking like.
Brody, he's he's very angry.
He says that those people drove her to it.
What people? You know, from the nursing home.
- That's forJewish people.
- Yeah, right, those people.
You know, he must be quite an open-minded guy, you know, otherwise he wouldn't have let her work there.
No, Lance isn't a big fan ofJewish people.
Well, why'd she take the job? I don't think she knew before.
She sure found out after.
Why? What happened? Lena kept after him to go with her to this, uh, meal, at the home.
This This religious meal.
And finally, he just said, uh, "I'm not missing the play-offs to eat cracker ball soup with a bunch of" Well, he used the "K" word is what you call it now.
Right, uh, the "K" word.
Thanks.
Well, Lena was testing him, goading him into showing his true colors.
You know, she wanted to make sure about his anti-Semitism.
All these years she didn't know? Well, or didn't know how vicious it was.
The first victim was killed seven years ago.
I mean, it just didn't happen out of the blue.
Home of Joy Brody Troy New york, Friday, July 25 Yes, that's right, seven years ago.
Our mother died of cancer.
She was 64.
Could have told you that on the phone.
Uh, well, we like getting out of the city.
Um, how did your brother take your mother's death? I'm not sure I wanna discuss my brother with you.
Well, we're thinking that they were pretty close.
I mean, she lived up here in Troy, but he buried her in Queens, near to where he lives.
Lance thought he let her down.
How? By not making sure that she got the best of care? Her doctors wereJewish? Asian? No, he was Indian.
He was very caring.
Even Lena thought so.
She was close to your mother? Lena and Mom liked each other.
She Lena called her "esfuegra.
" That's Spanish for "mother-in-law.
" - You mean, "suegra.
" - Esfuegra.
Lena had to write it down so I could sound it out.
I don't think Lance tried to learn one word of Spanish his whole time with Lena.
Your brother didn't put himself out much for people, did he? Must be, uh, painful, being estranged from your only brother.
What happened between the two of you? That's none of your business.
We stopped by the Troy Police on our way over here.
Your father was arrested three times for assaulting your mother and your brother.
He never beat you? I never tried to get in his way.
Um, but Lance did? He tried to protect your mother? Yeah.
The more he tried, the harder Dad beat her.
Once he broke her shoulder with an andiron.
Lance tried to protect your mom.
But you didn't.
Did you think that she deserved it? Did you think that she disappointed you? No, no, not just me, the whole family.
- She had an affair.
- Yeah, and got pregnant.
Dad made up a story she was taken advantage of.
I knew.
I saw her with him.
She worked for him.
I was 16.
I knew what flirting looked like.
And Lance was 12, and he believed the story.
And he didn't blame your mom, he didn't blame your dad.
He blamed the man he thought raped his mother.
Her boss.
Her Jewish boss.
Having an affair is one thing, but with a Jew? How could she? Brody idealized his mother.
He saw her as an innocent victim that was raped by a man that had power over her.
Now, her death triggered a rage that he repressed for 30 years.
So he vented this rage on innocent Jewish men.
Men, who were the same age, with the same physical characteristics as his mother's employer.
Maybe the same perpetrator committed these crimes, but that perpetrator may not be Mr.
Brody.
Well, his wife staked her life on it.
And people also commit suicide out of shame and helplessness.
You know, there's something there's something about this crime that it just cuts so deep.
I have to call my friend Steven from Princeton.
He's a linguist.
Ladino.
Lena was speaking Ladino.
We need to call Buenos Aires.
This isn't possible.
My mother was depressed.
She was delusional.
She saw the truth, and she was overwhelmed.
What truth? The reason why she got you out of the house.
These are her parents' death certificates.
Copies were sent to her from Argentina four years ago after her father died.
I don't see what this has to do with anything.
Look.
Your mother had no idea until she saw these.
My God.
This doesn't matter.
You don't know my dad.
He's not a bigot.
He's not a murderer.
All right.
Prove us wrong.
Honey, what are you Claire, are you okay? She's fine, Mr.
Brody.
We're about ready to close the file on your wife's death.
We found some new evidence in your wife's suicide.
Your daughter wanted us to share it with you.
What is it? They found the death certificates from Mom's parents.
Okay.
Those names on there Diego and Eva Calderera.
Calderera.
That was Lena's family's name.
The name underneath it.
It says "Levinson," doesn't it? This must be a mistake.
These are for the wrong people.
No, Dad.
Mom's parents changed their name when they got married.
They wanted to move up in Argentinean society.
They figured they'd have a better chance with the name Calderera.
Levinson's a Jewish name.
Lena wasn't, so her parents couldn't be Jewish.
You know those Spanish words that Lena used to use? You know, like, um, "esfuegra.
" It's actually a Jewish dialect of Spanish.
It's called Ladino.
And she picked that up from her parents.
Lena was not Jewish.
I would have known if she was.
I could tell.
Really? You can tell? She would have told me.
Twenty-two years of marriage, she would have said something.
She didn't know till she saw the certificates.
This is not possible.
Dad, if Mom was Jewish, then so am I.
- Don't say that! - It's true.
You are not Jewish.
You are my daughter.
And don't you dare accuse your poor deceased mother of being a Accuse? My wife was not a Jewess.
You are not a Jewess.
Claire.
Claire.
Claire.
Claire, please stop! Tell her these are lies.
If this were true, Lena would have told me.
Uh, you think so? Knowing how you feel aboutJews? I don't care aboutJews.
You don't care about them? Even after what that Jewish man did to your mother? Your sister told us.
Be quiet about my mother.
- I don't wanna hear about - I do.
I wanna know.
His mother was raped by herJewish boss.
That's the way the story goes.
I mean, maybe she just, you know, liked Jewish men.
You know? They excited her.
The whole forbidden fruit.
You shut your dirty mouth.
He took advantage of her.
He raped her.
Is that why your dad beat your mom, huh? Why he broke her shoulder with an andiron? Because he couldn't do it to theJew.
That guy had connections.
My dad would have lost his job.
- You could have done something? - What? I was too young.
So you did nothing.
You just watched your dad beat your mom to a pulp.
Watched him tear your family apart.
- All because of theJew? - Yes.
You couldn't protect your mom? Even when she got sick, that was his fault too? She got cancer down there where the Jew had been.
- He infected her.
- Stop it! The disease, it ate her up.
And you could do nothing, except for, well, choke on your rage and your hate.
And then her death, well, that was too much, Lance.
You couldn't keep it in anymore.
You had to make him pay.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
But he was long dead, huh? Long dead, but there were plenty.
Plenty of men like him, huh? Pushy, grabby, arrogantJews.
Thirty years you waited, right? How'd it feel? Did it feel good? - I didn't kill anyone.
- Mark Simmons.
Rafe Benjamin.
- No! - You owed it to her, huh? Jeff Demsky.
Sam Landau.
Stop it! Lena figured it out.
Imagine how she felt.
- A Jewish woman married to a Jew killer.
- I'm not.
The horror that you used her to find your victims.
Not true! The terrorthat one day you might turn your rage against your own daughter.
- Never.
I would never do that.
! - Your own Jewish daughter.
Never! Lena wasn't gonna take that chance.
She couldn't prove that you killed those men, But she knew.
And if she couldn't send you to jail for killing them, she was gonna send you to jail for killing her.
This is all a bunch of lies.
All of it.
Claire, I know these people.
They'll say anything.
Claire, come on.
I loved your mother, but she was sick.
Why, because she was Jewish? Stop saying that! You know, there's one thing that Lena overlooked.
She had the proof.
She just didn't realize it.
The piece of paper she found in your coveralls.
The one with Landau's plate number.
She made a photocopy of it and gave it to your neighbor.
Oh, what, so now you're gonna bring Richie into this? Lena asked him to call the D.
M.
V.
That's how she found out it was Landau's number.
And the paper is gone.
I mean, you probably got rid of it.
But your neighbor, he made a photocopy of it.
This is Landau's plate number in your handwriting.
This is some damn trick.
Let me see that.
- No, sorry.
This is - Let me see it! Anybody can copy handwriting.
You're trying to scare me.
This isn't even the right number.
- It's not Landau's number? - No.
It's Well, how do you know it's not? Oh, God! Claire.
You know, because you stalked Sam Landau.
You memorized his number.
You tricked me.
You see this, Claire? You see this? This is just the kind of sneaky thing you people do.
Sneaky? - Like seducing your mother? - Tha tJew raped her.
ThoseJews got everything they had coming to them.
I had a right, after what they did to your grandmother.
Your mother.
! They killed your mother.
! - All right, enough.
- Get your filthy hands off of me! Lance Brody, you're under arrest.
I know what you are! Look what they do to your father, Claire! You're not one of them.
! Don't believe it.
! She's not a Jew! My daughter! Can't you tell? Just look at her! She's not one of them! Claire.
!Claire.
! Lena got what she wanted.
She stopped a killer.
But at what cost? Maybe that's what she couldn't live with.
These are their stories.
Thank you for the dance, Mr.
Fineman.
Oh, you are bruised.
- Did I do that? - No, no, it wasn't you.
- Are you okay? - I'm fine.
You aren't the one who decides.
I don't know how it happened.
Let's not make a fuss.
Is everything all right at home, Lena? Everything's fine.
Please, I'm okay.
Thank you for the meds, Doctor.
The down payment was present enough.
But if you want to, you can make empanadas for my party.
Honey, we can't go.
Your dad's got a huge deadline.
He always does.
But you can come, can't you? It's better I stay home.
I'm so proud of you.
Claire, you got a good job.
And now your own home.
This is what a mother works for.
Love you too, Mom.
Oh, that's nasty.
How'd you get that? From work.
Don't worry.
Let's find you something nice.
Honey, I'm home.
Honey? How long are we gonna be married before you know how I like my burgers? Stay out of my way.
! Yankees lose again, Lance? - Lance, what's - Help me! I need a crowbar.
- What's going on? - Lena's locked herself in the basement bathroom.
I don't have a key, and she's not answering.
There's There's blood.
I think she's hurt.
Lena.
! I saw her feet.
She's leaning up against the door.
- I think - There we go.
Lena! Lena! Lena! Oh, my God, Lena! Oh, my God! Law & Order CI Neighbors heard them arguing around 7:00.
Brody's story goes that they made up, went to bed.
When he woke up, she was gone.
- What does Brody think happened? - He hasn't said.
You have the murder weapon? I'm still lookin'.
That bruise on her wrist is a few days old.
He's gone after her before.
But, uh, this one she got tonight, huh? Mm, the argument, do you know what it was about? Well, he claims that she threw out one of his model boats.
He killed her over a toy boat? Yeah, men, they get very attached to toys.
Okay, she was stabbed, choked, beaten.
That's three types of assault.
Most spousal murders only involve one.
This is as simple as it gets.
It's an argument that got ugly.
Uh, can I get a hand? Ready? Swedish carving knife.
So, Brody just doesn't assemble boats, he carves each piece out of wood.
And leaves murder weapons where we can find them.
Well, he drops it, she falls on it.
He panics.
He locks her in.
Wasn't she leaning against the door when the neighbors found her? Listen.
If Brody hadn't been involved in that bid-rigging case in Queens, Major Case wouldn't even be here.
Uh, excuse me.
Um, did he say what kind of boat she threw away? Some kind of Rainbow.
Uh, uh, theJ-Yacht Rainbow? This is a New York boat.
Won the America's Cup in 1934.
Well, you might be right about Brody, Detective.
If he's the killer, I don't want somebody else to take the fall.
Let's give him some options.
I woke up, and she wasn't there.
If she had heard something, sh-she would have gotten me up.
I just don't Is there anyone who might have wanted to harm your wife? Or you? Maybe someone connected with the bid-rigging case? I was cleared of that.
But four other suppliers were arrested.
Maybe one of them blames you.
For what? I didn't know anything.
Yerba mate.
Your wife is from South America.
Argentina.
My grandparents sent her to live here when she was a teenager.
It's mate.
It's a tea.
Gives you a boost.
Was your wife under a lot of stress? Lena's been a little disorganized lately.
Disorganized? Do you mean depressed? Mom was a positive person.
She was She was happy yesterday.
She was helping me with my housewarming party.
We need to know if any of your wife's injuries predated her attack.
This could be difficult, but if you could look at these photos.
Those bruises were on her neck.
No.
She didn't have these.
This one was on her knee.
Her right knee.
What is it, Mr.
Brody? Nothing.
I just never saw this.
Well, these cuts and bruises were on her hands.
Uh, that bruise on her wrist, she told me she got that at work.
Yeah, that's right.
Mr.
Brody, if you need a moment, you know, to let go, it's all right.
What makes you think I Well, you're pressing your thumb into your forefinger.
Some people, they bite their lips.
They clench their fists.
Can we just get on with this? I know, it's hard.
You feel the guilt.
About the argument, you know.
You're thinking that she was selfish to get so upset about a boat.
Of course, I wish it didn't happen.
Yeah, you were thinking about all the hard work that you did, you know.
TheThe months that you put incarving and putting each plank into place.
It was on your bench.
I don't understand.
It wasn't there last night.
This is some kind of trick.
I know how you people work.
You make the truth sound like a lie.
I'm not talking to you anymore.
Come on, sweetheart.
Brooklyn Home for the jewish aged Brooklyn New York, Wednesday, July 15 She ever show up with any unexplained bruises before? No.
But right away you suspected her husband? Why is that? You'd met him? When he'd pick Lena up on his way home from work, he'd always come half hour early just to sit in the sunroom.
He was checking up on her.
Is that what you thought? Yes.
How often did he do this? The first time was when she first started to work here, last September.
But then he stopped after a couple of weeks.
And then, a few times, two months ago in May.
She was friendly.
She's attractive.
Maybe her husband had a reason to be suspicious.
No.
But some men don't need a reason to pick on their wives.
This is the fatal cut here.
But these abrasions are superficial.
The blood vessels in her eyes were uncontracted.
He didn't apply enough pressure to strangle her.
She fought him off.
Maybe.
Look.
These cuts on the top of the wrists.
You know, if she was defending herself You mean defending herself like a girl.
What if she was defending herself like a boxer? Hey, score one for the new kid.
Now, this old bruise on her wrist, that's another superficial injury.
This bruise on her knee, not enough to put her down.
No, the kneecap's not bruised.
If Brody had hit her with enough force, he would have split the patella in three.
There's no getting up after that.
Even ifhe didn't kneecap her, he was still looking to hurt her.
Yes, but this lady wasn't feeling anybody's pain.
Tox screen showed 30 milligrams of Percocet in her bloodstream, taken within three hours.
Hmm.
All for a sore wrist? Well, maybe she knew it'd be a rough night.
The contract was for window gates for schools in Queens.
Four of the suppliers conspired to jack up their bids.
Brody bowed out.
Said he couldn't meet the delivery schedule.
He still could have rolled on those guys.
alk to Charlie Reid in the Rackets Bureau.
He owes me one.
If it's all right, I'd like to go with you.
Sure.
You can carry me up the stairs.
If it's not cars, it's boats.
There's something stuck in the rigging.
Oh, how exciting.
Well, I'm off to the D.
A.
's office.
Coming? What is it? Lint? Uh, blue sweater lint.
Last call for the D.
A.
's office.
Thanks.
Maybe next time.
Like something is broken off the top of the masthead, right above the shroud.
Maybe a flagpole.
We're gonna go look for it, aren't we? Yeah.
Who is it? It's me.
Leo.
Come in.
I just wanna say I'm sorry for Mrs.
Brody.
She was a very nice lady.
Thanks.
Good night, Mr.
Brody.
Ah, blue sweater.
The New York Yacht Club flag.
Lena hid the boat in here, but she told Brody that she threw it away.
To provoke an argument? Then she put the boat back when he was asleep? To make him look like a liar.
The defensive wounds that didn't defend.
The strangling that didn't choke.
The Percocet to dull the pain.
She staged it.
She killed herself.
Just to frame her husband? That's insane.
Or desperate.
All the defensive wounds are in straight up-and-down lines.
That's very uncharacteristic of an attack.
And they're superficial.
Most defense wounds are usually deep.
The blood near the workbench, that was her too? To make it appear there was a chase.
Her husband was abusing her.
Maybe she thought killing herself was her only way out.
And framing him was her payback.
I can go with the suicide, but what's the evidence he abused her? - One bruised wrist? - You know, maybe it was worse than abuse.
Something that she couldn't live with.
I'll keep it on the books as an open homicide.
Aprtment of Claire Brody Mondy, July 21 It's a nice place you have here.
You bought it, what, two months ago? It happened so quickly.
Brand-new Joy of Cooking.
My mother bought me one when I got my first apartment.
Was there a reason you decided to move out? Uh, it was Mom, actually.
She offered me the down payment.
Just out of the blue? Was there something going on at home between your parents? There was nothing.
I know what you want me to say, but my father did not kill my mother.
We know that.
We think your mother killed herself.
You told us that your mother was a very positive person.
Well, that's why it's important for us to figure out why she did this terrible thing to herself.
You You can't be right.
Well, maybe she told a close friend or her parents.
Her parents passed away in Argentina a few years ago.
And if there was anything, she would have told me about it.
Your mother left Argentina in the mid-'70s, right? There were death squads, kidnappings.
You sure there wasn't some trauma that triggered No.
No.
L-I volunteer with her at Refugees International.
I've heard all her stories.
Nothing like that ever happened.
Uh, Claire.
Some people, they hurt themselves out of shame or guilt.
And maybe your father did something to her.
- No.
- Or to you? Dad didn't do anything.
And Mom didn't do this to herself.
There's no reason.
She would have told me if there was.
Two months ago, Lena got her daughter out of her home and set her up in her own place.
She was clearing the decks for her final act.
Two months ago was the last time anybody saw Brody at the old age home.
Brooklyn Home for the jewish aged brooklyn, New York, Monday, July 21 Lena was lovely.
We used to have little chats together.
Uh, but then she got busy, I guess.
Actually, Mr.
Seligman, the office told us that Lena was caught accessing your financial information on the computer.
Yes, I heard about that, but I didn't care.
This man, do you know him? Lena's husband.
Uh I saw him once in the sunroom uh, when my daughter's family came to take me out to dinner.
And then I think we passed him as we pulled out of the home.
What was he doing, watching you? Uh, I wouldn't say watching.
He He was sitting in his car.
- Is this your daughter? - Uh, yes, that's Ruth.
And the kids areJeffrey and Sarah.
That's Sam, alav hashalom.
Alav hashalom.
Your son-in-law, he passed away.
Yes.
Uh, in May.
He was mugged.
Uh, Lena gave me a card.
I think I still have it.
She wrote something very nice in Spanish.
"En Gan Eden este.
" Uh, she said it meant, uh, "May his soul be in the Garden of Eden.
" My Spanish must be rustier than I thought.
Your son-in-law, was there an injury to his leg? They broke his knee, and then beat him to death.
How can I go to the funeral tomorrow? I don't even know who she is anymore.
Your mother had her dark moods.
She hid them from you.
We both did, to protect you.
You should have told me! You're always hiding your emotions.
- Both of you are always hiding from me.
- Claire, please don't be angry.
Don't hate me.
I know, I know you're angry.
Please, please, don't hate me.
I couldn't take it.
Sam Landau, 42, May 14.
He was coming from Fordham University Library.
Got mugged on the way to his car.
Case is still open.
Blunt instrument.
- Two whacks.
- Hmm.
And one to the right knee.
Shattered the kneecap.
That's what brought him down.
Brody tensed up when I showed him the photo of his wife's knee injury.
See, he knew.
This is why Lena made this bruise.
She was telling us what her husband had done.
Lena I recognize from my father's nursing home.
He talked about her all the time.
But her husband? Never seen him.
Did your husband have a lot of contact with Lena during your visits to the home? No, no.
I was the one who talked to the staff.
We believe that there is a connection between your husband and Mr.
Brody.
Maybe it was financial.
Maybe he borrowed some money or invested.
No, no, no.
My husband was an academic.
We were very careful with our money.
He's a complete stranger.
Why Why would he kill him? It doesn't make any sense.
Thank you for coming in, Mrs.
Landau.
We're sorry about your husband.
Um, one last thing.
Were you involved in a fender bender during the week after your husband's death? I was sitting shivah.
My car was in the garage all week.
Okay.
Uh, thanks.
What's that about her car? The D.
M.
V.
Said an insurance company called for the plates on Landau's car.
They wanted to know his particulars in regards to a hit-and-run fender bender.
- This was after Landau was dead? - Yes.
Any connection to Brody? The insurance company's not Brody's or Landau's.
Maybe we can't find a connection because there isn't one.
Well, Lena thought there was.
Um That's why she looked at the records of Landau's father-in-law.
And why she did this.
Landau was killed, what, May 14? What was Brody doing? On May 14? I don't remember.
I have to take my aunt to the Port Authority.
All we need to talk to you is for a minute.
I can take this for you.
Refugees International was having a leadership training program that night.
They told us your mother was there.
Uh, I went with her.
That's what they told us.
Do you know what time you got home? Some time between 9:30 and 10:00.
What does this have to do with Where was your dad? He was at home, taking a shower.
He'd just gotten back from work.
Is that what he usually does when he gets home, he takes a shower? No, he had trouble with his car.
He got dirty fixing it.
His clothes, were they dirty too? No.
He keeps a pair of coveralls from work in the trunk.
They were in the washer when we got home Mom put them in the dryer.
What? You're still on my dad's case? My mom committed suicide.
She had depression all her life.
And you just found that out from your father.
I always thought Dad was good at hiding his feelings.
Now I know they both were.
We have to go.
We're sorry about your sister.
Sister-in-law.
AuntJoy's my father's sister.
She came in for the funeral.
Now she has to catch a bus back to Albany.
Sam Landau was mugged just before 9:00.
Gives Brody plenty of time to get home, dump his bloody coveralls into the wash and jump into the shower.
She said her father was good at hiding his feelings.
Let's see how good he is at hiding them at us.
Enterprise Sheet Metal Bronx New york, Wednesday, July 23 What's the deal with the coveralls? Can we get a pair, - see what they look like? - Sure.
- Might need to show them around.
- Mm-hmm.
You suffer from anxiety? I, uh Xanax.
You, uh, you take Xanax.
My wife committed suicide.
I'm not sleeping.
Yeah, I'm anxious.
I'll get those coveralls, and then I'll have to ask you to leave.
You told your daughter your wife suffered from depression.
Was she seeing anyone for it? No, no.
She didn't believe in shrinks.
You know, people that have depression, they're, well, they're manipulative.
Did you notice that? She was.
She was.
You know, I mixed that up.
Actually, uh, manipulation is not a symptom of depression.
Manipulation is a symptom of the psychopathic personality.
Well, Lena was a complicated person.
Well, maybe she's manipulative because she's hiding something.
Uh, don't touch anything on the floor.
- You ever handle one of these? - Hey, I worked the line 12 years.
I worked my way up to partner.
This thing would come in handy in a dangerous situation, you know.
You keep one of these in your car for protection? You know, bad guys, they really do that, you know.
One good hit in the knee, bring you down for good.
The kneecap, just shatters into pieces.
- Why don't you put that thing down - Like this.
before you hurt somebody.
By the way, that kneecap? Belongs to Sam Landau.
- Who? - Son-in-law of one of Lena's patients.
He was murdered last May.
I don't know the man.
There you go doing that thing with your thumb and your forefinger.
That's because I'm trying to control myself, to keep from physically throwing you out of my plant.
That right there, that's irritability.
That's one of the paradoxical side effects of Xanax, you know.
It's used to keep people calm, but sometimes it Well, you use it.
Describe how it's making you feel.
I wouldn't know.
This is my first time taking it.
Is it? You should be careful, 'cause it can sneak up on ya.
Well, he's a better boat builder than he is a liar.
- The pill bottle? - Mm-hmm? It indicated a refill.
He's taken Xanax before.
Seems like a petty thing to lie about.
Well, it's the little lies that tell the big story.
The previous refill was on May the 12th.
Two days before Landau was killed.
He was settling his nerves for the big event.
There was another refill before that? Yes.
Let me see.
Last September.
When Lena started working at the nursing home.
And the first time that Brody dropped in on her.
Jeff Demsky, killed in Jersey City last September.
Same M.
O.
As Landau.
Blow to the right knee, two whacks to the head.
Classified as a mugging.
He's the nephew of a resident at Lena's nursing home.
Both crimes at night, deserted area, no witnesses.
He's pretty good.
He's a work in progress.
In addition to his shattered kneecap, Demsky had a hairline fracture to his lateral condyle.
Now, Brody hit him twice in the knee.
With Landau, he only needed one shot.
He's on a learning curve.
It's not your fault.
I know you're good.
It was him.
We were fine before What do you want? I'm not weak anymore.
Eight murders over seven years.
All of them with similar M.
O.
's.
The first one, uh, Mark Simmons.
Multiple hits to both knees.
Multiple hits to the head.
Went into a coma for two days and died.
Brody's aim improved.
And all the victims have a connection to the Brodys? Only four.
Besides Landau and Demsky, we have Rafe Benjamin and Eric Sumners.
They both worked in New York Hospital when Lena worked there.
Then maybe all we're dealing with is a statistical anomaly.
The M.
E.
Noted "special requests" for the handlings of the bodies.
Uh, the first one, uh, Mark Simmons? The family requests burial within 24 hours.
Jean-Michel Levigne family refuses autopsy.
Eric Simmons burial within 24 hours.
And Rafe Benjamin, Jonathan Daniels, Phillip Burns all the same requests.
They're allJewish.
Brody's killing Jews.
And Lena found out.
No swastikas, no anti-Semitic literature.
We're still checking the computer, but I came across this.
Uh, Mr.
Prescott.
We found your business card in, uh, Brody's kitchen.
- Y-You're an insurance adjuster.
- Uh, yes.
You didn't happen to look up a license plate of a Sam Landau a while back? Yes.
Lena asked me.
She bumped into a parked car.
You know, you don't remember what she wrote it on, do you? A folded little scrap of paper.
It was hard to read.
Paper had gotten wet.
From the wash in Brody's coveralls.
Lena found a number.
She was suspicious.
When she knew whose car it was, she started putting things together.
Hey, uh, I thought she killed herself.
That's what it's looking like.
Brody, he's he's very angry.
He says that those people drove her to it.
What people? You know, from the nursing home.
- That's forJewish people.
- Yeah, right, those people.
You know, he must be quite an open-minded guy, you know, otherwise he wouldn't have let her work there.
No, Lance isn't a big fan ofJewish people.
Well, why'd she take the job? I don't think she knew before.
She sure found out after.
Why? What happened? Lena kept after him to go with her to this, uh, meal, at the home.
This This religious meal.
And finally, he just said, uh, "I'm not missing the play-offs to eat cracker ball soup with a bunch of" Well, he used the "K" word is what you call it now.
Right, uh, the "K" word.
Thanks.
Well, Lena was testing him, goading him into showing his true colors.
You know, she wanted to make sure about his anti-Semitism.
All these years she didn't know? Well, or didn't know how vicious it was.
The first victim was killed seven years ago.
I mean, it just didn't happen out of the blue.
Home of Joy Brody Troy New york, Friday, July 25 Yes, that's right, seven years ago.
Our mother died of cancer.
She was 64.
Could have told you that on the phone.
Uh, well, we like getting out of the city.
Um, how did your brother take your mother's death? I'm not sure I wanna discuss my brother with you.
Well, we're thinking that they were pretty close.
I mean, she lived up here in Troy, but he buried her in Queens, near to where he lives.
Lance thought he let her down.
How? By not making sure that she got the best of care? Her doctors wereJewish? Asian? No, he was Indian.
He was very caring.
Even Lena thought so.
She was close to your mother? Lena and Mom liked each other.
She Lena called her "esfuegra.
" That's Spanish for "mother-in-law.
" - You mean, "suegra.
" - Esfuegra.
Lena had to write it down so I could sound it out.
I don't think Lance tried to learn one word of Spanish his whole time with Lena.
Your brother didn't put himself out much for people, did he? Must be, uh, painful, being estranged from your only brother.
What happened between the two of you? That's none of your business.
We stopped by the Troy Police on our way over here.
Your father was arrested three times for assaulting your mother and your brother.
He never beat you? I never tried to get in his way.
Um, but Lance did? He tried to protect your mother? Yeah.
The more he tried, the harder Dad beat her.
Once he broke her shoulder with an andiron.
Lance tried to protect your mom.
But you didn't.
Did you think that she deserved it? Did you think that she disappointed you? No, no, not just me, the whole family.
- She had an affair.
- Yeah, and got pregnant.
Dad made up a story she was taken advantage of.
I knew.
I saw her with him.
She worked for him.
I was 16.
I knew what flirting looked like.
And Lance was 12, and he believed the story.
And he didn't blame your mom, he didn't blame your dad.
He blamed the man he thought raped his mother.
Her boss.
Her Jewish boss.
Having an affair is one thing, but with a Jew? How could she? Brody idealized his mother.
He saw her as an innocent victim that was raped by a man that had power over her.
Now, her death triggered a rage that he repressed for 30 years.
So he vented this rage on innocent Jewish men.
Men, who were the same age, with the same physical characteristics as his mother's employer.
Maybe the same perpetrator committed these crimes, but that perpetrator may not be Mr.
Brody.
Well, his wife staked her life on it.
And people also commit suicide out of shame and helplessness.
You know, there's something there's something about this crime that it just cuts so deep.
I have to call my friend Steven from Princeton.
He's a linguist.
Ladino.
Lena was speaking Ladino.
We need to call Buenos Aires.
This isn't possible.
My mother was depressed.
She was delusional.
She saw the truth, and she was overwhelmed.
What truth? The reason why she got you out of the house.
These are her parents' death certificates.
Copies were sent to her from Argentina four years ago after her father died.
I don't see what this has to do with anything.
Look.
Your mother had no idea until she saw these.
My God.
This doesn't matter.
You don't know my dad.
He's not a bigot.
He's not a murderer.
All right.
Prove us wrong.
Honey, what are you Claire, are you okay? She's fine, Mr.
Brody.
We're about ready to close the file on your wife's death.
We found some new evidence in your wife's suicide.
Your daughter wanted us to share it with you.
What is it? They found the death certificates from Mom's parents.
Okay.
Those names on there Diego and Eva Calderera.
Calderera.
That was Lena's family's name.
The name underneath it.
It says "Levinson," doesn't it? This must be a mistake.
These are for the wrong people.
No, Dad.
Mom's parents changed their name when they got married.
They wanted to move up in Argentinean society.
They figured they'd have a better chance with the name Calderera.
Levinson's a Jewish name.
Lena wasn't, so her parents couldn't be Jewish.
You know those Spanish words that Lena used to use? You know, like, um, "esfuegra.
" It's actually a Jewish dialect of Spanish.
It's called Ladino.
And she picked that up from her parents.
Lena was not Jewish.
I would have known if she was.
I could tell.
Really? You can tell? She would have told me.
Twenty-two years of marriage, she would have said something.
She didn't know till she saw the certificates.
This is not possible.
Dad, if Mom was Jewish, then so am I.
- Don't say that! - It's true.
You are not Jewish.
You are my daughter.
And don't you dare accuse your poor deceased mother of being a Accuse? My wife was not a Jewess.
You are not a Jewess.
Claire.
Claire.
Claire.
Claire, please stop! Tell her these are lies.
If this were true, Lena would have told me.
Uh, you think so? Knowing how you feel aboutJews? I don't care aboutJews.
You don't care about them? Even after what that Jewish man did to your mother? Your sister told us.
Be quiet about my mother.
- I don't wanna hear about - I do.
I wanna know.
His mother was raped by herJewish boss.
That's the way the story goes.
I mean, maybe she just, you know, liked Jewish men.
You know? They excited her.
The whole forbidden fruit.
You shut your dirty mouth.
He took advantage of her.
He raped her.
Is that why your dad beat your mom, huh? Why he broke her shoulder with an andiron? Because he couldn't do it to theJew.
That guy had connections.
My dad would have lost his job.
- You could have done something? - What? I was too young.
So you did nothing.
You just watched your dad beat your mom to a pulp.
Watched him tear your family apart.
- All because of theJew? - Yes.
You couldn't protect your mom? Even when she got sick, that was his fault too? She got cancer down there where the Jew had been.
- He infected her.
- Stop it! The disease, it ate her up.
And you could do nothing, except for, well, choke on your rage and your hate.
And then her death, well, that was too much, Lance.
You couldn't keep it in anymore.
You had to make him pay.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
But he was long dead, huh? Long dead, but there were plenty.
Plenty of men like him, huh? Pushy, grabby, arrogantJews.
Thirty years you waited, right? How'd it feel? Did it feel good? - I didn't kill anyone.
- Mark Simmons.
Rafe Benjamin.
- No! - You owed it to her, huh? Jeff Demsky.
Sam Landau.
Stop it! Lena figured it out.
Imagine how she felt.
- A Jewish woman married to a Jew killer.
- I'm not.
The horror that you used her to find your victims.
Not true! The terrorthat one day you might turn your rage against your own daughter.
- Never.
I would never do that.
! - Your own Jewish daughter.
Never! Lena wasn't gonna take that chance.
She couldn't prove that you killed those men, But she knew.
And if she couldn't send you to jail for killing them, she was gonna send you to jail for killing her.
This is all a bunch of lies.
All of it.
Claire, I know these people.
They'll say anything.
Claire, come on.
I loved your mother, but she was sick.
Why, because she was Jewish? Stop saying that! You know, there's one thing that Lena overlooked.
She had the proof.
She just didn't realize it.
The piece of paper she found in your coveralls.
The one with Landau's plate number.
She made a photocopy of it and gave it to your neighbor.
Oh, what, so now you're gonna bring Richie into this? Lena asked him to call the D.
M.
V.
That's how she found out it was Landau's number.
And the paper is gone.
I mean, you probably got rid of it.
But your neighbor, he made a photocopy of it.
This is Landau's plate number in your handwriting.
This is some damn trick.
Let me see that.
- No, sorry.
This is - Let me see it! Anybody can copy handwriting.
You're trying to scare me.
This isn't even the right number.
- It's not Landau's number? - No.
It's Well, how do you know it's not? Oh, God! Claire.
You know, because you stalked Sam Landau.
You memorized his number.
You tricked me.
You see this, Claire? You see this? This is just the kind of sneaky thing you people do.
Sneaky? - Like seducing your mother? - Tha tJew raped her.
ThoseJews got everything they had coming to them.
I had a right, after what they did to your grandmother.
Your mother.
! They killed your mother.
! - All right, enough.
- Get your filthy hands off of me! Lance Brody, you're under arrest.
I know what you are! Look what they do to your father, Claire! You're not one of them.
! Don't believe it.
! She's not a Jew! My daughter! Can't you tell? Just look at her! She's not one of them! Claire.
!Claire.
! Lena got what she wanted.
She stopped a killer.
But at what cost? Maybe that's what she couldn't live with.