Evil

I need to see hands out the window now!

I want this window down, and I need to see hands right now!

Police!

Hands up right now!

Police!

Do not move!

Do... not... move!

Stop!

This was a tragic accident.

Officer Turley fired four shots, killing the driver instantly.

It was at 10:30 at night,

the lighting on the street was nonexistent,

and the driver, Ms. Burke, reached for an object

that resembled a firearm on the passenger seat.

Tragically, it was a cell phone.

Do you have... have any questions?

I've asked my team to hold their questions and comments

until we've had a chance to speak afterwards.

Okay, well, complicating matters, of course,

is that Officer Turley is white,

and the victim was African American.

But I... I just want to be clear.

There are no previous

use-of-force complaints against Officer Turley.

Up until this moment, he'd never fired his gun.

Uh, so I'm here from the police union.

Uh, we've supplied Officer Turley with a lawyer,

he will appear before the grand jury later this week,

and most certainly will be put on trial within the year.

Uh, the lawyer believes that the-the best defense

would be for Officer Turley to plead temporary insanity.

He did actually see a gun.

And now you're probably wondering why I'm here.

Why go to the Church

instead of a state-sanctioned psychiatrist

for an evaluation?

Well, one of the reasons

is Officer Turley's faith.

He's Catholic.

The other is Officer Turley's

sincere belief that there was a, uh...

a demonic intrusion

into the events of that night.

He believes that he was momentarily possessed

when he saw a gun.

I understand that this seems like a convenient excuse.

Okay, but I would ask you to be objective

and consider the facts carefully.

Thank you, Louie.

Do you want me

-to explain myself? -Yes, that would be good.

-I took this meeting as a favor. -Well, great.

We took the meeting. Favor fulfilled.

- What's next? - Wait.

-We need to discuss this. -What "this"? A racist cop

killed a Black mother, and now he wants

the Catholic Church to give him a...

-Twinkie defense? -Yeah.

I want you to meet with him.

The racist cop?

You don't know if he's a racist.

Oh.

We have to learn to withhold judgment.

David, as a man of God, you must withhold ju...

Where are you going?

To withhold judgment.

Hi.

Hello.

So-so do you want me to start or...?

Yeah, why don't you start?

Yeah.

I know you, don't I?

-Do you? -Yeah.

Oh, I know. Holy Conception.

-My girls go there. -Oh, right.

You're in the carpool.

-Dahlia and, uh... -Becky. Right. Yup.

You're the one with the four girls, right?

The... the funny ones?

-Yeah. -I'm sorry. I mean,

it's a good... good funny.

-Anyway, um... -Yeah, sorry. Um...

Look, now, I-I... I know it must sound like

I'm-I'm trying to take advantage of my religion

to-to stay out of jail,

but I just really want to understand what happened to me.

Because I saw a gun.

I know it's not a gun now.

But I saw one. Ms. Burke was reaching for it.

My training required that I fire. All I can say is

I just wish I could take those 15 seconds back.

I went to her funeral, and, uh...

and I watched her family.

Watching them, watching her boys...

You knew she was African American

-when you approached the car? -Yeah.

-Yeah, dispatch told me. -Would you have

behaved differently if it were Kristen you had pulled over?

-If I knew it was Kristen? -No.

If you knew the driver was Kristen's race,

would you have fired?

I don't know.

Thank you for your honesty.

But I do know,

if I saw Kristen reach for a gun to shoot me,

I would do what I did.

I'd order her to stop, and I would fire if she didn't.

That's my training.

I saw a gun.

== Evil == Season 2 - Episode 6

Episode Title: "C is for Cop" Aired on: July 25, 2021

Hey, Grandma!

What did I say about that word?

Hey, Rad G, it's on!

This was a polygrapher not sympathetic to the police.

And all Officer Turley's answers were determined

to be consistent with his seeing a gun.

Does it matter?

Does it matter that he thinks it was a gun?

That doesn't mean he's possessed.

Just means he expected there to be a gun

-due to the driver's race. -Is it not also possible

that Satan uses racism as a form of diabolical oppression?

-Cheers. -Cheers.

Hey, I wanted to ask you something

about someone you know.

Yeah, I know. Jim Turley.

He told me he made a mistake.

Do you know what he's arguing?

Yeah, that he was possessed when he saw the gun.

And you think that makes sense?

Well, I don't believe in demons, but I do know

that cops see guns in everyday objects all the time.

In everyday objects of Black people?

Oh, come on.

Not everything is about race.

This is about street sense--

a cop making a snap decision that can save a life.

Like with me.

We, uh, got a call.

This was before I was in Homicide.

Mm-hmm.

We heard a dad had a gun to his two-year-old's head,

threatening to kill her.

Oh, we go to the apartment, we hear screaming,

we burst through, and I see a man

with his baby in his arms, raising a rifle at me.

So I raised my gun. It was him or me.

And then I heard my partner screaming at me to stop.

The guy was using a mop to clear out spiderwebs.

And I saw it as a rifle.

I swear to this day, it was a rifle.

And I was a split second from blowing him away.

So, what do I do with that?

The next time if I hesitate, I get killed,

or the guy kills his infant?

So you tell me.

We're talking about a split-second decision.

Right.

And, yes, I know that race enters this, but only because

70% of my arrests up until that point were African American.

I'm not saying there aren't bad cops.

There are.

But Officer Jim is one of the good ones.

And so am I.

At least I think I am.

So, now I have a question for you.

Shoot.

Sorry. That was a bad joke.

It's about the LeRoux case.

Wife, Emily, has an alibi.

I heard.

But her new boyfriend doesn't.

Del Ruben. Did Emily ever mention him to you?

No.

Well, the new thinking is

that Emily had her boyfriend kill LeRoux

to give her an alibi.

-Really? -Yeah, it's elaborate.

But the boyfriend's got a criminal record.

So, it seems like good old Emily has a type.

Yeah, we're hoping to charge them both.

So if you hear from Emily, let us know, okay?

Yeah, of course. Okay.

Hey, do you want me to call you an Uber?

No, I'm good. Take care.

I'll see you later.

A polygraph test measures pulse,

blood pressure, respiration and skin conductivity.

These physiological reactions are recorded

via the instruments attached to the subject.

A polygraph test subject can trick the mechanics

by controlling their breathing and blood pressure.

Some criminals, for example,

exhibit a relaxed demeanor under interrogation,

making it difficult to detect lying.

With practice, a person can control their blood pressure

with the use of a blood pressure cuff at home.

Breathing techniques...

Ben, sweetie.