Reasonable Doubt Page #3

She processed my application

to the D.A.'s office.

Seeing as my ma never

officially married your dad...

yeah, you figured

why mention us, right?

Jimmy, it was best

for me not to have ties

to a criminal past, you know?

Once I'd lied on the forms,

- I couldn't tell...

- Yeah, I get it.

I understand.

- God.

- I'm not that kid anymore.

Riverdale, it's...

It was another life.

Well, lucky you.

I only got the one.

Hey.

Hello?

Hey, Mr. Brockden. It's Kanon.

Detective Kanon.

What can I do for you?

Just checking in.

We lost a point or two

on that forensic linguist.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know. It's, umm...

it's almost impossible to make

Davis the caller, so...

Right.

It's kinda late, detective.

Is there something you need?

No, just wanted to know

that you're ready for tomorrow.

- What was that?

- What?

You're recording this?

Why would I be recording this?

They say that cops are paranoid.

See you in court.

She's asleep. Hey.

Hey.

You smell like milk.

Ella was sick on me, again.

Nice.

Mitch. Hey.

Look at me.

Mitch.

What is it?

Is there something

you're not telling me?

Yes.

What?

Can't you just...

Tell me?

I love you.

I love you too.

All rise.

Be seated.

Before session begins, your honor,

I would like to approach the bench.

I will not tolerate

tardiness, Mr. Roberts.

I'm sorry, your honor,

but there has been

an important development.

Defense would like to

call a new witness.

Objection, your honor.

The prosecution wasn't informed of this.

Defense was unaware of their

identity until late last night.

What is the relevance

of this witness, Mr. Roberts?

He's the man who made the 911 call.

- What? What?

- Order!

Order.

- Your honor...

- I'm inclined to allow it, Mr. Brockden.

Yes, I understand that,

but if you could just...

- Mr. Brockden!

- Dr. Brown's lab

ran a voice analysis overnight

and we got a viable match.

How soon can defense

present this witness?

Right away, your honor.

He's been in the courtroom

- this entire trial.

- Your honor, please!

Can I just please say some...

Enough!

Call your witness.

The defense calls...

- Jimmy Logan to the stand.

- What?

In a surprise twist of events,

a witness came forward today

and ended the prosecution's case

against Clinton Davis.

The witness saw the victim,

Cecil Ackerman,

mowed down by a hit-and-run driver

in a red S.U.V.

And left on the road to die.

He then called 911.

It seems that Clinton Davis

was not the only

good samaritan in this trial.

Mr. Davis?

I just wanted

to wish you all the best.

Yeah, it's like you said...

if I was innocent,

everything would work out.

Yes, I did.

So what happens now?

- You go back to your life.

- No no no,

I mean with

the hit-and-run driver,

the one the witness saw.

Maybe he'll turn himself in.

Would you?

I f***ing love you,

you f***ing b*tch!

- Whore!

- Stop it!

- I'll f***ing kill you!

- Stop it!

- No! Leave me alone!

- Don't do this to me, you f***ing b*tch!

I f***ing love you!

- Hey!

- F***ing let me go!

I f***ing love you!

The mutilated body

of Pedro Gonzales

was found early this morning on

the bank of the Chicago river.

According to a source

at the coroner's office,

the back of his skull

was badly crushed,

possibly by a hammer.

His family says the last time

anybody saw him alive

was at the north mall on Saturday.

I ran some keywords

through the database.

It flagged a string

of unsolved homicides.

I can't stay here. Sh*t!

Oh f***. No. No.

I looked at the autopsy results.

The wounds on Ackerman were similar

to those found on Gonzales.

Ackerman was

a hit-and-run, remember?

The wounds were inconclusive.

You yourself pointed

that out at the trial.

Inconclusive, exactly.

What if it was both?

What if Ackerman ran

into the path of a car

because he was trying

to get away from Davis

who was in the process

of torturing him?

It explains why the

forensics was so confusing.

Anything else?

Thanks for coming by.

Hey.

Oh f***.

Sh*t. F***.

Yes sir...

Oh sh*t.

- Yeah, hello.

- You get my photograph?

- What do you want?

- Stop following me.

I know what you did.

And yet the cops

haven't come a'calling.

Why you think that is, Mitch?

If you knew I was the driver,

why didn't you

just turn me in, huh?

I didn't want to play my ace

in the police station.

I needed to go to court.

I had to get a jury of my peers

to see your card, find me innocent.

You wanted double jeopardy.

Bingo. A free pass.

- But you didn't expose me.

- There was no need.

I could see you were having

a crisis of conscience.

- Is this a f***ing game to you?

- Far from it.

I won't let you get away with this.

Yeah, you will,

or I will ruin you.

Besides, who's gonna

protect Rachel and Ella

when you get locked up

for hit-and-run, hmm?

What did you say?

Family is

a precious thing, Mitch.

It's our job as men

to protect 'em.

Davis.

Hey. Shut the door.

Is that Ackerman?

And the guy from the news.

Have to work out

what links all these men.

How he's picking

his victims and why.

How who's picking them?

Clinton Davis.

What?

These are the unsolved homicides

that Kanon thinks

match Davis's M.O.

Davis's M.O.?

Dav... Davis was innocent.

Hit-and-run, Mitch.

911 caller proved it.

Yeah, I wish it were that simple.

What the hell is going on?

What the hell

is going on, Mitch?

First you blow the Davis case,

almost get yourself disbarred

and now what?

You're trying to prove

that this guy is the

goddamn Boston strangler?

Stu, if I could

explain this, I would.

With what pathologists

think were tools.

The first took place eight months

after Davis's family was

tortured with similar tools.

You see, I think he picked 'em.

I think he picked all of them,

but what the f***

do they all have in common?

Well, Ackerman was

a child molester.

None of the others were.

Well, they do all have

criminal records.

So you think this behavior started

- with the death of his family, right?

- Yes, I do.

So remind me...

what happened there?

A man broke into their home

and systematically tortured

and butchered

his wife and child...

using similar tools to the

ones that killed these guys.

The guy made Davis watch

the whole goddamn thing.

Then he slit his throat

and left him for dead.

It was a miracle he survived.

The guy's name was Emanuel Fryer...

career criminal;

gunned down the following night

during another home invasion;

recently paroled; Blah blah blah.

- Broken home...

- Oh sh*t.

What?

Gonzales, recently paroled.

Fryer, recently paroled.

Ackerman was recently...

all these men are

recently f***ing paroled.

Stu, you are a goddamn genius!

Sh*t. I love you. I love you.

Okay, so you're saying

that the only reason

Ackerman was in the street

was because Davis was chasing him.

- Uh-huh.

- And then after you left,

- Davis finished the job?

- Exactly.

If I could just

get proof, you know?

Davis can't be retried

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