Primal Fear Page #7

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I f***ing love that sh*t. I really do.

But guess what?

It's not it.

- You go to Las Vegas?

- Yeah.

I don't go to Vegas.

Why don't I go to Vegas?

Marty, it's late.

I think we should just get up and...

Why gamble with money when you

can gamble with people's lives?

That was a joke.

All right, I'll tell you.

I believe in the notion that people

are innocent until proven guilty.

I believe in that notion

because I choose to believe

in the basic goodness of people.

I choose to believe that not all crimes

are committed by bad people.

And I try to understand

that some very good people

do some very bad things.

You know when I was working

for Shaughnessy,

I did something very, very bad.

Illegal. I was a prosecutor then.

This thing I did. I was very upset by it

and decided to leave.

So I left.

I became a defending attorney.

The irony being that everyone

assumed I was lying anyhow.

I made myself this little promise that...

...l would reserve my lies

for other than my public life.

You print any of this,

I'll sue your f***ing ass.

- All right, so I made a little mistake.

- No sh*t.

What do you want? A new suit?

I'll buy you a new suit.

You made a mistake?

You told us the third man did it.

You got your third man.

And a fourth man and a fifth man...

What are you going to do, Marty?

I don't know. I really f***ed up here.

You were right.

- So how are you gonna get him off?

- I don't know.

What I know is that Aaron did

not commit first-degree murder.

- He stabbed him a billion times...

- Not Aaron.

To convict someone of a capital crime

the State must prove intent.

- Roy had intent, Aaron didn't.

- Then you have to plead insanity...

...which we can't do mid-trial,

unless you plan a career change.

I could've been mistaken,

but I wasn't wrong.

Aaron is innocent.

It's Roy who is guilty.

He doesn't need a lawyer,

he needs an exorcist.

You're full of sh*t.

You weren't there. You didn't see it.

He's one sick boy who's been f***ed

around by his father, by his priest.

It's our job to make sure the jury

believes he doesn't deserve to die.

- OK.

- OK. How do we do it?

By somehow introducing

this whole abuse thing.

- The tape.

- That's crazy. That gives him motive.

No, it looks like that, but it's...

No, actually,

it turns this whole thing around.

It gives concrete documentation

of what Rushman did to this kid.

But we can't put it in. You know that.

But we're not going to.

Oh, f***!

- OK.

- Good.

What the hell are you doing?

You know damn well who it is.

- Barleycorn's, Marty. Now.

- Janet?

Cute porno. Part of your collection?

Hey.

Where did you get it? Steal it?

- From the crime scene?

- I don't know anything...

- You are such a liar.

- Think about it.

If it contains that,

I wouldn't give it to you. It's motive.

You had to give it to me.

If you introduced it, the jury'd despise

you for dishonouring the bishop.

If you get me to show it, motive or

no motive, I'm the one who looks bad,

and you gain sympathy

for your poor, little, abused boy.

- You think so?

- I hate you.

Don't use it.

I have no intention of using it.

- The usual, Stu.

- You got it.

- You're up to even more than that.

- I'm not up to anything.

You're opening a door for me with

a tiger on the other end, and I don't...

You know who you'd really upset?

Shaughnessy.

- F*** him.

- F*** him?

F*** you.

Thanks a lot.

- If this is not your motive, what is?

- I have motive.

Yeah, what is it?

I'm really gonna tell you.

Better tell the jury soon.

Time's running out.

Here you go.

You think you've got me, huh?

You think because you know me as

well as you do, you know how I think.

Well, I know how you think.

You know what I'm thinking?

What happened to your face?

I... I bumped it

in a medicine cabinet.

No, that was a girl on her way out.

- We should come back here later.

- They close in ten minutes.

No, after.

After the trial.

When we got nothing to lose.

How can your timing

be so good in a courtroom

and so bad in real life?

I'll think about it later.

I hate you too much right now.

You got a visitor.

Here she comes.

Talk to you later.

Janet.

Morning.

So where's the tape?

There's some pretty ugly stuff

on that tape.

- Yes, there is.

- Who would've thought?

- Where did it come from?

- Landed on my front door. No note.

- Vail?

- Who else?

Clever prick.

What do you think he's up to?

- I honestly don't know.

- Cut the crap.

You know him well.

You were balling him.

- Where is it?

- At home.

I have some advice for you.

If you have aspirations beyond

this particular office,

pick up your handbag,

go home and destroy this tape

you should've destroyed, like I did.

You don't think Vail has a copy?

You don't think there's an original?

Stampler is on trial,

not the Catholic church.

If you haven't found another motive

to hang him on, God help you.

All rise.

Please, sit down.

Madame Prosecutor.

Miss Venable.

The State calls Thomas Goodman.

Objection, Your Honour.

Prosecution knows Mr Goodman

is my investigator in this case,

and under the Work Product Rule

he can't be compelled to testify.

- Permission to approach the bench?

- Granted.

I have important evidence

which the witness can authenticate.

That's Mr Vail's privilege. If he doesn't

want Goodman to testify, he won't.

Make a decision, Mr Vail.

- You ever been to my apartment?

- No.

- By that I mean my apartment building.

- Allegedly.

I'm sorry. You have or you haven't.

"Allegedly" doesn't figure into it.

I have...been there, yes.

- Why did you go there?

- I was delivering something.

For whom?

Martin Vail.

Mr Vail sent you

to deliver something to me.

- Yes.

- What was it?

A video tape.

Could this be the tape

you delivered for Mr Vail?

I have a feeling it is, yes.

The People place

this video tape in evidence.

So ordered. Please index.

Where did Mr Vail get this tape,

if it is the same one?

He took it from the closet

of Archbishop Rushman.

- Stole it.

- Borrowed it.

Once I made the transfer for him,

I returned it.

Can you describe what's on the tape?

There was a sermon

by Archbishop Rushman, a rehearsal,

followed by...

- ..a kind of home movie.

- A home movie? Of what?

- Some altar boys.

- And?

- A girl.

- Doing what?

An altar boy lesson of some kind?

Having sex.

Quiet.

A porno movie.

- Mm, yes.

- Yes. Now.

How is it that this tape, this porno tape,

was in the Archbishop's closet

in order for Vail to find it there?

- He was the...director.

- Who was?

- Archbishop Rushman.

- Quiet!

And was the defendant one of

the altar boys performing in the movie?

- Yes, he was.

- Was his girlfriend, Linda Forbes?

Yes, she was.

Did it appear to you

that the defendant was enjoying

performing in this film

with his girlfriend?

No, he does not.

I will not ask you if you

think we've uncovered motive here.

We will decide that for ourselves

once we've all seen the video tape.

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