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out on the shelf,

and that's no less than 700

feet away, wouldn't you say?

Is that true?

Look, I know

what I saw.

The guy was well-built,

kind of tall.

Did you actually see

his face?

Ask Callendar.

I ID'd the photo.

What color eyes

did he have?

Did you see what color

his eyes were?

Look, lady, I could never

have seen that,

not even from

100 feet away.

Really? Because I remember

you on the stand

saying they were hazel.

Mark Gannon...

there's a name I haven't

heard in a while.

Hey, why don't you guys

come back in the cage?

Yeah, he was transferred

after his testimony

at the Midnight trial.

Lucky him...

Pleasant Valley

down in Fresno.

Yeah, here we go.

Uh, arrested for

breaking and entering,

assault and battery,

attempted murder.

This guy gets

a transfer.

Says here he testified

for the prosecution

in four criminal trials

in addition to

the Midnight case.

Why, he's a real advocate

for justice, isn't he?

Eh, these guys are locked up

in cement boxes 23 hours a day.

They start talking.

Everyone does.

Mark saw an opportunity.

Would you have his

visitor log by chance?

Yeah, I should.

You think someone told Mark what

to say in exchange for the transfer?

Yeah, I do, just

like I think

somebody told the fisherman

what color Evan's eyes were.

Well, you know, this is

what frustrates me.

- What's that?

- The log...

it's missing.

So what do we have?

Looks like a forensic

investigator testified

that Evan's prints were present

on both the blade and the handle.

Well, that could have

happened at the store.

Yeah, but according

to Nathan's notes,

there were also several partial

prints that were never matched.

That wasn't in

the forensic testimony.

Including one

on one of the bags

pulled out

of the landfill.

And one more thing...

Evan's girlfriend told Nathan

the police served a search

warrant at their apartment,

took several items with them,

except there's no reference

to anything

in the evidence log.

They just disappeared.

Wow.

They covered it up.

Yeah.

Can you imagine

being convicted,

being executed for

something you didn't do?

Evan's put to death.

The prosecutor

Charles Richardson

is serving his

second term as D.A.

If it were me,

I'd want revenge.

Tomorrow's day three.

What are we gonna do?

We're gonna finish this.

So what do you think?

I worked for over a year

on that case,

interviewed hundreds

of witnesses,

dozens of suspects.

You want to tell me

what was so urgent,

you had to wake me up

in the middle of the night?

Look, I'm obviously

not a detective.

No.

You have a witness who

clearly lied about what he saw,

partial prints

on the murder weapon

that weren't even

accurately examined,

and evidence that just

kind of disappeared.

Hmm, and a jailhouse

confession

in which Lucas told

his cellmate everything...

how he chose his victims,

where he hid the bodies.

You don't think Mark Gannon could

have read that in "The Examiner"?

Including the details we

didn't release to the public?

You know, I don't mean

any disrespect, Detective.

Did you actually interview

Mr. Gannon yourself?

Tell me she's not serious.

Of course I did.

Was that before or after

somebody told him what to say?

Are you listening to this?

Come on, John, you gotta admit there

are a couple of holes in the case.

A couple?

Come on.

Midnight Murderer had

the whole city on edge.

Every time

you turned on the TV

or opened a newspaper,

we were pulling another

body out of the bay.

You know, people were

afraid to go outside.

They stopped going

to work.

Kids stopped

going to school.

Was there pressure

from the D.A.

to wrap it up?

Absolutely.

Did I cut a few corners?

Possibly.

But before you

come down on me,

waking me up

in my own home,

you need to remember

one thing.

And what's that?

The moment we took

Evan Lucas,

put him into custody,

the murders stopped.

No.

No. Well,

you just tell them

I'm not gonna budge,

not for that.

No. No, they're gonna have

to work a little bit harder.

Sorry, that's

the way it is.

- Charles.

- I'll call you back.

- Hey, John, good to see you.

- You too, buddy.

We missed you at the

fund-raiser last month.

Yeah, well, listen, I need to

talk to you about Evan Lucas.

Hey, I'm a busy man. You know

what? Why don't you call Amy,

set up a lunch? We'll go

to Danko. You like that.

No, no, I mean now.

- Now?

- Now. Now.

All right, well, if you don't

mind talking in my other office.

After you.

All right, so what's

troubling you, John?

Don't tell me that juror

suicide has you spooked.

Hmm, you heard

about it.

Half the people in my

office are talking about it.

They think

there's a curse,

if you believe in

that kind of thing.

I don't.

You?

I believe

in two things, John:

justice and

the death penalty.

Everything else

is just smoke

and mirrors.

So what's this

really about?

Mark Gannon.

Yeah, he's doing life in

Fresno last time I heard.

Eh, minimum security.

The guy's 5'4".

He's got arthritis

worse than my grandmother.

I still think he had

the right friends.

These are hardened

criminals, John.

We're not gonna win them over

with "please" and "thank you. "

You're right.

Hey, did you know

his visitor's log

in the jailhouse archives

was missing?

Half the city's

understaffed.

Clerical's a mess. I don't

even know how I do my job.

Yeah, so I checked

the front logs.

You want to guess

who visited him

right before he gave up

Evan's confession?

Five years later,

and you want to have

this conversation now?

- Did you coach him, Charles?

- You were with me.

You know the evidence

better than I do.

It wasn't enough,

not until the cellmate

came forward...

came forward and told

everybody Evan confessed.

We convicted

a guilty man.

You swore to me.

You assured me

that you had testimony

proving his guilt.

That was a lie.

I suppose your conscience

would prefer more people die.

Like Evan Lucas?

What are you gonna do,

John, huh?

Destroy your reputation,

jeopardize everything you've

spent your whole career building?

I'm just gonna

deny everything.

Because that's what politicians

do best now, isn't it?

City

Hall was rocked today

with the unexpected

revelation

that evidence

may have been manipulated

in the infamous Midnight

Murderer case, a conspiracy...

A conspiracy

which goes all the way up

to District Attorney

Charles Richardson himself,

who is accused of tampering with

the key witness. Meanwhile...

Meanwhile,

the judge is currently reviewing

the evidence against Evan Lucas, who was

executed for the murders two years ago.

Hi. This is Laura. Please leave me a mess...

Hello.

Hey, Vick.

Yeah, I changed it.

What's up?

Oh, I can't.

I have plans tonight.

Michael's here.

Yeah.

Well, tomorrow, okay?

Tomorrow.

Bye.

That was my

girlfriend Vicki...

the one that works

at the art gallery.

She may be doing the background

check on you right now.

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