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- 9-1-1. What's your emergency?

- It's my wife. She's not breathing.

- Does she have a pulse?

- No, and...

there's all this blood!

- Sir, what is your name?

- Kevin. Kevin O'Neil.

Please, help me!

Murder near Malibu.

Caitlin O'Neil, 34,was found dead in her mansion swimming pool.

Police have always focused on one suspect, Kevin O'Neil, the victim's own husband.

Now live, you're watching as LAPD units move in to arrest O'Neil in his home.

A stunningly quick arrest in a case that has shocked the city of Los Angeles, today on

That's right, sweetheart. Keep it up. The meter's running.

We're suing you for defamation now.

A week ago, O'Neil hired the law firm of TNT&G, headed by attorneys

Ron Trott and Tom Nicholson. Trott, the master of media spin, and Nicholson, the

all-american face of

She keeps saying I did it like it's true. Why is she doing that?

Because it's her act. It's what gets her ratings.

And you're a great news hook, Kevin.

O'Neil allegedly beat his wife to death and threw her in the pool to wash away

evidence.

Everybody thinks the husband killed the wife.

Ron, please.

Mr. O'Neil, as your lawyers, we want this. We want a trial.

And you're innocent, and when we win, everybody's gonna know that.

Police say he bludgeoned her with a golf club,

but so far, the murder weapon has not been found.

Tom, wait. So I'm being arrested for sure?

I though the D.A. said I could turn myself in if I was being charged.

He lied, Kevin. They do that.

You're the district attorney. If we can't trust your word, just tell me.

You agreed that he could turn himself in on Monday and that he would be released

until trial.

That agreement was with his old lawyers, Luther.

Once he hired the great Ron Trott, all deals are off.

Ron gets no breaks from me or this office ever.

D.A. set us up.

It's friday. They arrest you now, they can hold you all weekend without bail.

Monday, after you've spent two nights in jail and you look like crap,

they perp walk you into court.

Nothing says

Alden, what are your contacts downtown saying?

This is all a media play.

The D.A. put out a press release before the warrant was even signed.

Nice.

Police and media vans are arriving simultaneously to the O'Neil house.

Things have got to be tense inside, where Kevin is meeting with his attorneys.

Okay, the D.A. screwed us. What are we gonna do about it?

Get Kevin out the back. We surrender him before they arrest him.

Nice. There's nothing illegal about it.

A guy's got a right to turn himself in anytime he wants.

Great way to get him shot.

If Kevin stays here, we'll be giving the D.A. just what he wants--

photos of Kevin looking guilty as hell.

I'm not saying run him to Mexico. I'm saying surrender him to face the charges.

Yeah, they see us, and this becomes a high-speed chase, prime time.

we will not get a fair jury.

- So don't drive fast.

- What?

What's going on?

The D.A.'s playing hardball, partly because this case has gotten a lot of press.

Mostly because he's an ass.

Turning you in would give us a better chance of getting you bail.

What we need to do is turn you in someplace quiet with no cameras, no press.

Does Malibu have a substation?

Yeah, a nice one. I handled one of Downey's rearrests there.

I don't want Kevin dragged out in front of his neighbors.

He's still gotta live here when this is over.

Daddy, who's there?

- Grace.

- Grace,

look, your daddy and I have to go somewhere.

What's wrong?

Nothing. We're taking care of it, okay?

I don't want her to see her father in handcuffs. Get him out of here!

Pull the car around the back.

Baby, I have to go in a second, but--

Kevin, go now.

We gotta go. come on. We gotta go.

Go ahead.

- What if the police see us?

- They better not.

The minute you go over that wall, they're gonna say you're a fugitive.

Look, don't worry about it.

You're only a fugitive if we don't turn you in.

All right?

You good?

- Um, yeah.

- Let's do this.

It's okay. It's our ride. Come on.

Hurry up, we gotta get to the sheriff's station.

Detective Franklin, are you here to arrest him?

Free air, and it buys us time while Kevin's turning himself in.

Franklin, you the lead detective on this?

Yeah. you got a problem with that?

No, but Ron's gonna make a statement first. Is that a problem for you?

I am outraged and disgusted that the D.A. continues to persecute my client.

Trials are supposed to be conducted in courtrooms before juries.

This is trial by TV.

This was an accident, and Grace asked me if I killed mommy.

You got any idea how that feels?

She's heard it on the TV.

And I try to-- I keep her away from it,

but it's on all the time, everywhere. It's a nightmare, but I can't wake up.

I mean, who's gonna raise Grace if--if I go to prison?

Hey, you are not going to prison. All right?

We're going to win this.

I've watched the D.A. since day one.

The press leaks, the rumors, what he just tried to pull--

they don't do that if they have a good case.

They do it if they have a bad case.

I am not gonna let them convict you for something you didn't do.

The D.A. doesn't want to try him on the facts.

He wants to lynch him in the media.

They were married almost ten years.

They had a beautiful daughter Grace.

Kevin loved his wife. He did not kill her.

This is my client, Kevin O'Neil. There is a warrant out for his arrest.

You either book him in now or you turn him loose. Either way,

you write this down-- he's here voluntarily and he's...

innocent.

Kevin O'Neil is 100% innocent.

Listen to me. Not

Innocent.

In fact, he's so eager to fight these charges,

he just turned himself in to the sheriff's office in Malibu.

Show's over.

No comment at this time.

We beat 'em on the arrest. Now we just got to beat 'em at trial.

Transcript: RaceMan - Synchro: jh26

All I'm saying is that there are as many reasons to love someone

as there are reasons to kill them.

Ron's wife ends up dead. He's probably good for it, right?

Kevin? No way.

The man's not angry enough.

That's funny about my wife, Tom, but, um...

I wouldn't mention it in your closing.

- So you're sure Kevin's innocent?

- Does it matter to you if he is?

No, but I know it matters to you, and you're the one trying the case.

You do better when you think they're innocent. It's a weakness.

Yes, Ron. I am sure he's innocent.

Great. Tom's first chair, front man,

the good-looking, all-american face of

Alden takes the physical evidence.

Nobody does scientific testimony like you or scares experts more.

I'll hire Dr. Palermo to do our accident re-creation.

What? the man's a genius.

That's his problem, he's too smart. Can't talk to juries.

I'll take charge of Palermo, remake him. I've done it with enough boyfriends.

Luther, get inside the D.A.'s head. You know how these guys think.

Figure out what he's gonna prove and tear it up.

I'll keep spinning. Biggest media case we've had in years.

Be nice to win it.

Bail, not jail,

is what attorney Ron Trott seeks today in a downtown L.A. courtroom.

This isn't my suit.

Yours are too nice.

We don't want people thinking you're rich.

Here, put these on.

- I haven't worn those in years.

- Cover up those bags under your eyes.

Better.

When we walk into that courtroom,

make sure you look the judge in the eye-- not to the side,

not down, in the eye.

And when the judge asks how you plead, you're gonna say loudly

and with sincerity...

Not guilty.

I'm shocked the judge gave O'Neil bail.

That man is a dangerous, cold-blooded killer.

I just hope he doesn't flee before trial.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if he left the jurisdiction.

Again.

Losing my wife was a nightmare. So was being...

wrongly accused of causing her death. Now that I'm free on bail,

- I wanna be with my daughter--

- Grace. Say

Grace, right. Does this have to be word for word?

Look, you're the defendant in a high profile murder case.

We don't get to trial for months, which means you're gonna be under

a microscope and analyzed 24 hours a day until then. You know why? entertainment.

Right now, your guilt or innocence is determined by a 60-second video byte on CNN.

Losing my wife was a nightmare. So was being wrongly accused of causing her death.

And now that I'm free on bail, I want to be with my daughter Grace.

I look forward to proving my innocence at trial.

I can't go back to jail, okay. I can't. They're animals in there.

I never appreciated being free before--

You're not free. Your jail has just gotten bigger.

I've filed an in liminemotion with the court.

It puts the cops on notice that you're invoking your right

not to be interviewed except with an attorney present.

It's as close to a restraining order as I can get on them.

As for the press, your neighbors--

Talk to no one, trust no one,

assume they all wanna sell your story to the tabloids or the D.A. because they do.

Our decoy mercedes is leaving the courthouse now.

It'll draw most of the media away, but not all of it,

so take side streets.

No freeways.

The trial isn't for weeks.

What am I supposed to do, hide in my house?

Pretty much, yeah. That's your schedule.

We can't afford to risk you being ambushed by a reporter or set up by the cops.

I don't want you getting convicted because you said or did something stupid

- before the trial.

- Take my daughter to church,

visit my wife's grave-- you gonna take photos of that?

No, but some media will probably be following you,

and they may grab a shot. Let's hope so.

I don't need you to tell me to spend time with Grace or visit my wife,

and I am not using my daughter or my wife's grave as a prop!

I'm not asking you to.

I'm a trial lawyer, Kevin, not a publicist,

and i've been trying cases a long time. I know what works.

When I started, it was about knowing the law.

Now it's about knowing the law and the press.

The jury that's going to decide your case, they're out there and they're watching.

We want to give them images of you as the grieving husband,

not a worried defendant.

If this offends you, I'm sorry.

You hired us to win your case. This is what we do.

Now that I'm free on bail, I want to be with my daughter Grace.

I look forward to proving my innocence at trial.

Oh, please. You can see Ron Trott's lips moving.

How does he get his hand that far up a guy's ass?

If you're just joining us, we're listening to Kevin O'Neil from earlier today.

Does he sound believable to you?

At trial, both sides tell the jury a story.

The best story wins, the one the jury thinks is based on the facts.

The D.A. can prove that Kevin had opportunity, means, access, motive--

her money.

The D.A.'s got the bomb-- a husband.

Everybody knows the husband did it.

Not a bad story.

I mean, a jury can follow that story.

What's our story?

What do we tell the jury to convince them that he didn't do it?

And don't say accident.

Kevin wasn't outside when it happened, all right.

He thinks she must have slipped coming out of the pool, hit her head.

She had five head lacerations, Tom.

She fell down five times?

That's not a story. That's a confession.

I'm not afraid to go with accident if it's the truth.

Accident is what my daughter says when she gets caught hitting my son.

If he had a good story, he wouldn't need us, right?

He could use any law firm.

If we're going with accident, our accident re-creation had better be great.

It will be. It's what I do.

Did you get it this time, doctor?

Possibly.

Let's rewind the motion capture.

This last take was the best.

So, Dr. Palermo, she falls, strikes her head, tries to stand...

falls, strikes her head again, then falls into the pool.

That might be what happened.

-

- Ron--

That's the best you can do,

Well, I could be 100% sure with exact measurements of the spatter size.

We don't have them.

We're the defense.

We only get to the crime scene after the cops are done picking through it

and cleaning it up. We're stuck with what they bother to get us.

Yes, but abyssus abyssum invocat.

Yeah, let's avoid latin with the jury.

There was blood spatter here and here where she could've fallen.

Unfortunately, autopsy photos show that she had five head lacerations--

Five lacerations?

She banged herself five times?

Actually, they're called hematoma laceriduras.

What? What is that? Is that a word?

Does that mean she fell?

Ron. go away.

Get him a haircut at least.

The D.A. has dumped a ton of discovery on us,

but he doesn't have to tell us what any of it is,

and we don't have time to read it all.

So we are going to scan every page of every document from the discovery boxes.

Then run a word search looking for documents relevant to the case.

Right now,we are looking at motive--

any motive, every motive.

Key words, people.

Scan every page for key words that could prove or disprove motive.

Look for what the D.A. buried but does not want us to find.

Be careful. Don't miss anything.

Because if you miss anything, it could cost our client everything.

I lost a 6-iron a year ago.

The cops took my clubs the night she died, but that one was missing.

Explains why they're saying it's the murder weapon.

Let's take a break, eat something. now, come on. We got you some more food.

I'll eat with you, and then we'll go over the timeline.

You know, I just--

I wanna do this now before my daughter gets home from school, okay?

Okay, so after I put Grace to bed,

I started to make dinner.

Okay, you turned on the oven.

Now do you remember turning it off?

- What?

- The oven. I was asking you--

You know what? We can do this later.

No, no. I'm okay. It's just....

seeing her picture still...

you know...

Uh, we went outside.

Um, Caitlin and I swam, we made love

we stayed out there for a while and then, uh...

I came in to check on Grace.

Kevin, any of your family or friends coming to the trial?

Ron, we're in the middle of something here.

I know, but a big case like this, the court only reserves the defendant five seats.

No, nobody's coming.

Since I got charged, nobody wants to have anything to do with me.

Too bad. Could've helped with jury sympathy.

No chance, huh?

Dominick Dunne called looking for a seat. I'll give him one of ours.

Great. Kevin, you wanna go upstairs, uh,

take a shower, get something to eat then? Thanks.

Wait-- wait a minute, you hate Dominick Dunne.

Yeah, because he writes terrible things about me,

and those things get us a lot of work, not to mention our own table at the Ivy.

- So how's Kevin doing?

- Not great, Ron.

The guy can't pay his bills because the court froze his assets.

I got a paralegal picking up Grace from school

because the press is there waiting for him. The guy's already in prison.

Is he gonna crack? They crack sometimes, you know.

I know. Look, don't worry. You handle Dominick. I'll handle Kevin.

Mr. Walsh...

Luther Graves.

So you're the O'Neils' business manager. Kevin speaks so highly of you.

Really?

Nice to meet you, Mr. Graves.

Oh, that's my father. You can call me Luther.

So tell me. Tell me about these ugly rumors

- I'm hearing.

- What ugly rumors?

The D.A. is telling people Kevin had a financial motive to kill Caitlin.

Is that true?

It's hard to answer. The O'Neils had a very complex family will.

Well, I'm very, very good at complex,

and I'm a fast learner, too, so...

Why don't you just give it a try

and explain it to me?

This way.

We found this during your key word search of their financial documents.

Why the hell are those words coming up in a financial document search?

The D.A. buried it. They were in a pathology report on Caitlin O'Neil.

Where'd you find this report?

In the discovery the D.A. gave us, stuck in the O'Neils' old bank statements.

A path report buried in old bank statements?

It's not good for us.

No.

It's not good for us at all.

You gave

Well, i'd rather spend my time trying cases than hanging out with reporters.

Ugh, math.

- No jury appeal.

- You wanted to see us?

We need to talk about motive.

According to the business manager and the discovery we went through,

when Caitlin died, all their money went to their daughter.

Kevin didn't get anything.

I love it. They can't prove motive. Take it off the board.

- Nice.

- Not so fast.

I said they couldn't prove money was a motive.

I didn't say they couldn't prove motive at all.

Path analysis report of Caitlin. It was hidden in the discovery.

It turns out it was Kevin's sperm inside her the night she died.

- That's no surprise.

- It wasn't all Kevin's sperm.

There was somebody else's, too.

How could you not know she was banging another guy, Tom?

Kevin didn't tell me. Maybe he didn't know.

Didn't know? Your wife's banging another guy, you know. Trust me.

Kevin found out his wife was cheating on him.

The D.A.'s gonna say that's why he killed her.

It was never about money.

Stormer was going with jealousy all the time.

Yeah, and counting the arrest,that makes twice he screwed us.

Now that's a story.

Don't you go speech lesson me. Did you know about the affair or not?

Listen, I loved her, all right? She swore she wouldn't see him again.

- Who is he?

- A man she works with.

I thought it was over. She told me it was.

The guy was in New York the night she died, all right? We already checked it out.

They must have made love that morning before he left.

Ever talk to the other guy or threaten him?

I never threatened him. Never.

We might be okay then.

We stipulate to the affair, we keep the other guy off the stand.

The D.A. has no evidence that Kevin was ever jealous enough to kill over this.

They don't need it. The jury will fill in the blanks for them.

I didn't kill her, all right!

I can't prove this. I can't prove anything, but I didn't do this!

I want proof that you loved her, understand?

Cards, letters, receipts that you sent her flowers, gifts.