Presumed Innocent
- R
- Year:
- 1990
- 127 min
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I am a prosecutor.
I'm a part of the business of accusing...
...judging...
...and punishing.
I explore the evidence of a crime...
...and determine who is charged...
...who is brought to this room...
...to be tried before his peers.
I present my evidence to thejury...
...and they deliberate upon it.
They must determine
what really happened.
If they cannot...
...we won't know if the accused deserves
to be freed or to be punished.
If they cannot find the truth...
...what is our hope ofjustice?
Where's Nat?
Burying a goldfish.
That he forgot to feed.
Kid's gotta learn responsibility.
He's nine.
When you were nine,
you fed the animals on the block...
...and made dinner,
did everyone's homework...
...and, in your spare time,
you practiced law.
I didn't practice law until I was ten.
Listen to this.
"ln their first face-to-face debate,
Nico Della Guardia...
"...appeared to throw
Raymond Horgan off stride...
"...with an opening swipe
at the prosecuting attorney's...
"...twelve-year tenure as
'an uninterrupted retreat from reality...
"'...and slow-motion surrender to thugs,
punks and hand-wringing liberals."'
The guy's unbelievable.
I'm finally starting to get used to that rug
on Della Guardia's head.
Don't eat standing up. Sit down.
Food goes down easier.
It has the help of gravity.
Oh, God.
Yet another lawyer.
I won't be home till late.
I got a game after school.
Like his father, he doesn't come home
till he has to.
If Raymond loses this election,
I could be home a lot.
Rick, I looked this over last night.
Top count, max.
It's a first offense!
No plea to anything
but the A-1 felony. Period.
On all of them?
All of them.
And no promises on the sentence.
-Good morning.
-Good morning.
This is for you.
Someone put it under the door last night.
I found it when I came in.
Mr. Big Cheese wants to see you now.
I'll be right along.
He said "now," now.
What's wrong?
Carolyn Polhemus was murdered last night.
Her cleaning lady found the body
this morning.
Some creep got into her place
and strangled her.
It looks like she was raped.
He tied her up...
...he beat her with some instrument
and strangled her.
No weapon. No sign of forced entry.
Unless you want me here,
I'm supposed to meet the coroner.
That's all right. Go on, get out of here.
"lf Raymond Horgan can't protect his own
attorneys, how can he protect citizens?"
Tommy Molto's secretary said
he wasn't coming in today.
Some f***ing Acting Head of Homicide
he turned out to be, the little creep.
I should have fired him when we fired Nico.
If I had balls, I'd do it now.
I want you to handle this case personally.
I will assign it to somebody.
Who will you assign it to? Homicide?
Tommy Molto? For Christ's sake!
Della Guardia would love that.
Molto would tip him off on everything.
They're so close you can see Molto's nose
sticking out of Nico's bellybutton.
Listen to me.
What a waste.
Beautiful, sexy gal. Hell of a lawyer.
That's her ending. That's her au revoir.
The first thing we got to think about...
...is what the public thinks
in the middle of an election.
Take charge of this one for me, okay?
If you care about my health.
You're the only around here I can trust.
Greer's a good investigator, but I'd prefer
someone I'm used to working with.
Lipranzer.
Whatever you want.
Just catch me a bad guy.
So, I'm here.
What the hell was she doing with a B file?
Bribery of elected officials.
The case number is on her computer.
But the case itself isn't among
the papers in her files.
Why? Did she take it home? What?
Maybe it was taken?
Check the apartment.
What do you got here?
Bunch of pictures of a dead lady.
-No weapon found, yet?
-Nada.
It's a weird one.
She was strangled by the ropes
but by the way he tied her...
...it's like he put himself
between her legs and pumped...
...so they tightened up like he was trying
to let his weight strangle her.
Like he was trying to f*** her to death.
Look at the next one.
Check the computer for sex offenders
and cross match on Carolyn's name...
...or this business with the ropes.
Find out which of the creeps she put away
is out on parole.
I never did understand why you put her
in charge of rape and all that sicko sh*t.
She wanted it. And she was good.
Yeah, too good, maybe.
I'm not grabbing this, yet.
You worked with this broad.
She wouldn't leave her f***ing door
and windows wide open.
She was drinking with him. She gave him
a glass of beer, like she was entertaining.
-Fingerprints on the glass?
-Yeah.
Greer sent it down to the lab.
You mean somebody she let in opened
the windows so it looked like a break-in?
She wasn't going to let some sex maniac
she sent to jail in for a beer.
On the other hand, we're talking Carolyn.
Mac...
...tell me what Carolyn Polhemus
was doing with a bribery file.
I had no idea Carolyn was interested
It's on her computer,
but not on mine or the department's.
That makes no sense.
Why don't you ask Raymond?
Ready for something else?
Molto's left.
His secretary came back from lunch
and found his desk cleaned out.
Exercise?
Masturbation.
The refuge of the lonely housewife.
Missed the 8:
35. I tried to call,but you weren't here.
Nat had dinner at Josh's,
and I was at the university.
I tried to get in a little extra time
on the mainframe.
Get anything done?
Who am I kidding?
Still working on my dissertation at my age.
It's ridiculous.
You were the best mathematician
in your class.
Second best just made
full professor at MIT.
All I've made are beds.
And now, the Channel Six local news.
Carolyn Polhemus, assistant prosecuting
attorney in Raymond Horgan's office...
...was found brutally murdered
in her Southside apartment.
Police are about to release a statement
about the circumstances of her death....
You hear?
Eugenia was thrilled to be messenger
of bad tidings.
Yeah, I'll bet.
From top to bottom
we are riddled with cruelty.
We must expose and punish it...
...especially when inflicted
upon the impotent and the ignored.
You sound like a woman with a mission.
I am.
The murder of Ms. Polhemus--
You have a suspect?
We have diddly-sh*t.
So Dan Lipranzer and Rusty Sabich
will work night and day for two weeks...
That's the strategy.
You're in charge of this investigation?
Raymond insisted I take it on.
With 1 50 lawyers, they couldn't find one
who didn't f*** her to put in charge?
Did you tell Raymond?
This is a conflict of interest.
Is that professional?
Barbara, I'm Raymond's chief deputy.
You are so predictable.
It's your way of reliving the whole thing.
She's dead and you're still obsessing.
Rusty.
Nico.
She was just....
-Splendid.
-That's it. Very good.
Raymond's pressing hard
on that case, I imagine.
Raymond presses hard on every case, Nico.
You know who would've been hard
to beat? You.
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