Jagged Edge

No.

--details of the brutal slaying of Page Forrester

at the Forrester's Baker Beach retreat are still sketchy.

Her husband, John C. Forrester, has been rushed to St. Paul's Clinic.

--Times-Lofton Publishing empire, founded by her grandfather in 1 876.

She was a prominent socialite--

I'm District Attorney Krasny. Yes, sir, Mr. Krasny.

[PEOPLE CHATTERlNG OVER POLICE RADIO]

What are you doing outside? Needed air.

You got a lot of headlines in there.

It's a forced rear-entry window at the back. We're upstairs.

It's the maid.

Consuela Martinez.

That's Page Forrester.

Christ.

We got multiple stab wounds.

The wounds are jagged. The blade must have some serration.

I'll know much more tomorrow. Cause of death is obvious.

Where was Forrester?

Over here. He comes in, he gets hit, blacks out.

He comes to and goes upstairs and finds them.

And saw what? The bodies.

Where is he now? St. Paul's Clinic.

There he is.

Mr. Krasny, was she raped? Is it a ritual killing?

Were they both stabbed? We have no comment.

Mr. Krasny--

We have no comment. Oh, give us something.

No sign of sperm.

No evidence of any real sexual pattern,

apart from the specific wounds we found on the wife.

The knife used was a heavy blade,

6 inches long with a serrated upper edge.

MARTlN: I'm betting a hunting knife.

The rope you could buy at any Safeway.

There were no prints found except Forrester's, his wife's and the maid's.

The blood on Forrester's clothes was that of the wife's, but not the maid's.

What about his head wound?

No concussion. Some bleeding. Blunt object.

Come on, Al. You know what I'm asking you.

Possibly self-inflicted.

Got it. Everything was in her name.

The corporate stuff, the personal stuff, everything.

I mean, she owned the guy.

He was an employee, and you know what? He gets it all.

Jack Forrester is the direct beneficiary

of all of Page Forrester's corporate and personal assets.

You really think he could've done that to his own wife?

What the hell is that, you murder your wife to take the money?

That is the oldest crime in the world.

Only you're real smart,

so you make it look like some fucking Charlie Manson did it.

You want people to say, "You think he could've done that to his own wife?"

If l was gonna kill my wife,

that's the way I'd do it.

Mr. Forrester, why didn't you go out to the beach house with your wife?

I had dinner at the Union Club,

then I went back to the paper and checked on the Sunday editorials.

You don't write those yourself, do you?

I didn't think editors wrote their own editorial.

Sometimes they do.

Did you write the ones about me? Yes, l insisted on writing all of those.

Is that relevant here? The editorials I wrote on Mr. Krasny.

I was just going to object to that. Objection sustained.

I was just curious, that's all.

Page was a woman of great generosity and compassion.

I think the thing I'll miss about my sister the most

is her great sense of resolve.

Page always did whatever she set out to do.

I'll miss her more than I know how to say.

Thank you.

Nice service.

Krasny.

Now? Yes.

He's gonna ride my ass into the Senate.

He can't do that, you're innocent. The fuck he can't.

You've been coming here for weeks,

putting the best apples on top of the barrel. I'm not buying it.

You say you were happy? You ever argue? Any problems?

We've been over and over this.

And we're gonna go over it again and again and again.

Frank, there's no need to badger Mr. Forrester.

Right, counselor?

I'm not trying to get you to admit

you whacked your wife around on a daily basis.

I wanna know if you ever argued.

I never said we didn't have arguments.

So you argued. What did you argue about?

I told you. I told you, we had the usual arguments.

We were married. Mr. Arnold needs to speak to you.

I thought you had the only perfect marriage in the state of California.

Fine, Mr. Fabrizi, let's get back to the bit about the lockers.

The club gives me a passkey, so l go through them.

The members don't even know I been there.

I seen all their stuff, their rubbers and everything.

So that's when l saw it.

The knife? Yeah, the knife.

When did you see it? When?

Right after New Year's last year.

They like me to go in at the beginning of the year and clean them out.

Start the year off with clean assholes, right? Excuse me.

They let you clean out private lockers?

They trust me. I've been working for them for 20 years.

Mr. Fabrizi, what kind of knife did you see?

A hunting knife, about 6 inches long, with a jag on the edge.

How'd you know it was Forrester's locker?

FABRlZI: Because it was numbered 122, and that's his number.

Right after I saw it I thought to myself:

"Jeez, I didn't know Mr. Forrester was a hunter."

So it kind of made me feel good, you know?

That he was a hunter. You know what I mean?

Yeah, l know what you mean.

I'm getting tired of this, Andrew. MARTlN: Admit it. She owned you.

I'm getting tired of this. MARTlN: We're all getting tired of it.

We've been doing this too long.

I had no quarrel with the financial structure of the company.

Do you hunt, Mr. Forrester?

What?

Have you ever been hunting?

No. Do you own a hunting knife?

No. What the fuck is going on?

Have you ever been in possession of a hunting knife?

No.

I'm giving you a chance to cop a plea.

You think I killed my wife? Prove it.

You're under arrest

for the murders of Page Forrester and Consuela Martinez.

Frank, read him his rights.

MARTlN: You have the right to remain silent.

If you give up that right, anything you say

can be used against you in a court of law.

Mr. Forrester is the editor of The San Francisco Times

and the president of Times-Lofton Publishing.

He is, however, charged with two capital-offense felonies.

Your Honor, the charges are based purely on circumstantial evidence.

Mr. Forrester has no prior criminal record.

I don't expect him to flee the jurisdiction.

Fine. Then set bail of $500,000 will stand.

I've made calls back East. We're gonna get a heavy hitter.

I don't want anybody from out of town. I don't wanna contribute to the circus.

Your firm has got to handle it.

We're corporate lawyers, we can barely handle a hearing.

Jack, got something for us? What do you think?

I'm innocent. That's all I can say.

What do you think about Krasny?

We have no comment.

Doesn't this have something to do with the Senate race?

No further comment.

Look, my paper has been critical

of Mr. Krasny's conduct as district attorney, that's no secret.

He's got big political aspirations. You can draw your own conclusions.

Excuse me.

Here he comes. No comments at this time. Please.

This is going to be a show trial.

We've only got one person who's had criminal experience.

Who is he? She.

And she hasn't practiced criminal law for four years.

She any good? Yes, she was a very good prosecutor.

She worked for Krasny.

Teddy, are you familiar with the Jack Forrester case?

I go out of my way not to be familiar with criminal cases.

Jack would like to speak to you about representing him.

I'm in the middle of a case.

I think whatever the case is, it can wait.

Oh, yes. Teddy--

There is nothing in the world that will make me go back to criminal work.

You know the decision l made.

There's nothing in the world I'd like less

than to lose Jack Forrester as a client.

Teddy, you know the affection that I've always had for you.

And nothing would please me more

than one day being able to speak to you as one of my partners.

So, please, do an old man a personal kindness.

Speak to him.

Who lives here anyway, Joe Montana?

I told you, a guy called Jack Forrester.

He killed his wife, l saw it on TV.

He allegedly killed his wife.

That means he's gonna get away with it.

So how do I look?

Weird. Weird.

Good morning. Good morning.

Mr. Forrester is expecting you.

No, I agree, but the murders happened over two months ago.

There's no leads because Krasny's locked into me.

Excuse me, I'll be right with you.

Look, l'll tell you what I'm gonna do at the meeting.

All right, listen, l've gotta go.

I'll be home all evening, so if you need me, you can catch me here.

All right. Bye.

Hello. Hello.

Glad you came. Nice to meet you.

Nice meeting you. We met at a party five or six years ago.

You probably don't remember.

Do you like horses? Yeah, very much.

Come on.

Andrew spoke to you? Yes, he did.

And?

The problem is I don't do criminal work anymore.

Yes, l know. He told me. I was hoping you'd reconsider.