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Cell phone number'son the counter,
so is the doctor,so is the dad.
Do your best.We'll be home by midnight.
1:00 at the latest.Got it.
1:00?
I don't do 1:00. I do, like, 10:00.
You do, like, 9:00.
Well, you'rein New York,
and I only get to see you once a year.
So tonight we're going out like grown-ups,
which means we'll get home when we get home.
Okay. All right, kiddo.
Mwah. Lights out at 10:00.
Hey, hey. Hug before I go.
All right.
See you in the morning, sweet boy.
And then
they asked me if I'd consider becoming vice principal.
Caroline, you never told me.
I know. I never told anyone.
And I never got back to them, either.
But you love teaching.You love education.
You love all that.
Well, yeah. I mean, I do, or...
at least I did when I was 20 and I didn't understand
how the world worked.
I mean, I know I'll probably do it for the rest of my life
and I get a ton of satisfaction from it,
but it is so hard to make ends meet.
Mm.
I mean, Henry's just six years away from college.
I-I can't even imagine how I'm gonna pay for that.
And, I don't know, someday I'd...
just love to have somebody do my nails for me.
You know?
Ugh, Caroline.
And sometimes,
in the middle of the night, I-I can't sleep,
so I'll watch a couple of those house-flipping shows
and I think, I could do that.
I just need a hundred grand and six months to myself.
You know if I had a hundredgrand, I'd give it to you.
I would make us so crazy rich.
Tomorrow we're gettingour nails done.
Then flip a house?
Caroline!
Please!
My friend!
Call 911! Hey, come on, get in the damn car!
We got to go! Now!
No!
No, no. God, no!
Somebody help me!
Anything new?
No. She's still in surgery.
Mauricio still with the sitter?
Yeah, so is Caroline's son.
Have you called his father?
There is no father. He's adopted.
Danny have any luck finding the car?
No, but she is all over her contacts at the NYPD.
Should have gotten the license plate number.
Uh, Taylor, how many black Lamborghini SUVs
can there be in the city?
We will find it.
Ms. Rentzel?
You came in with Caroline Collins?
Yes.
Maybe we should go somewhere more private.
Why?
I'm sorry, but your friend died on the operating table.
When we got into surgery, we discovered
one of her broken ribs pierced her aorta.
We did everything we could,
but the internal bleeding was simply too severe.
No! I'm so sorry.
It's gonna be okay. It'll be okay.
It'll be okay.
It's gonna be it's gonna be okay.
Taylor, Taylor, Taylor.
Taylor...
Come in!
Taylor.
I'm so sorry.
Oh...
Come on, have a seat.
Marissa tells me you've been best friends forever.
We met in the second grade.
How is her son doing? Henry?
He's... destroyed.
I brought him with me.
I didn't know what else to do.
Chunk's giving him the grand tour.
Trying to, anyway.
I think he just wants to crawl into a corner and cry.
Hmm.
All right, well, I'll get right to it.
The NYPD found the driver who struck and killed your friend.
She is an 18-year-oldyoung woman named
Sonya Waliczek.
Oh, my God. That's amazing.
Who is she? Was she drunk?
Was she high? Is she in jail?
Actually, she is the daughter of a foreign diplomat.
Which means, even though she broke the law,
even though she killedyour friend,
she's protected by diplomatic immunity.
She can't be charged, she can't be held.
She can't even be triedfor what she did.
Just before you came in,
I was on the phone with your friend's attorney.
Are you aware that, in the eventof her untimely death,
she had appointed you Henry's legal guardian?
Wow.
Okay.
It was a conversation we had when she first adopted Henry,
but it's not something we've talked about ever since.
Well, according to the attorney,that's the plan.
That's what's in the will.
How do you feel about that?
How well do you know this boy?
I see him once a year when his mom comes to visit.
But, honestly,if it's what Caroline wanted...
You know, just because it's what she wanted for her baby
a dozen years ago doesn't necessarily mean
it's what she would have wanted for him today.
He's a preadolescent.
I'm betting his life is pretty full.
Uprooting him from Denver,
moving him to New York,
on top of all the other changesin his life
he has no control over...
I don't know, Taylor.
Even Caroline might have thoughtdifferently if she was
presented with the choice today.
He's gone for the day!
Are you heading out soon?
Oh, yes. Mere minutes away.
Just have to find a way to look Taylor in the eye and say,
"We're gonna prosecute that girlwho mowed down your friend,
"so the most interesting thing about her life won't be
"that the person who killed her got away with it.
We're gonna make this right."
Honestly? Mere minutes away.
I'm sorry, I just can't believethe government not only allows
diplomats to run people down,
it gives their kidsimmunity, too.
Well, it's a necessary evil.
Without diplomatic immunity, our diplomats would be at risk
of prosecution on trumped-up charges in foreign countries.
Especially in places where the U.S. is unpopular.
Taylor.
Sorry to startle you.
Taylor, what are you doing here?
You're supposed to be taking the day off.
It's okay. Henry and Mauricioare at the movies with my ex.
The thing is, I found something.
On the night of the accident,
Sonya posted tons of picsof herself out partying.
And there's the same girl
in almost every photo.
Her name is Jade Bennington.
See how Sonya's wearinga black dress?
Okay.
So, right after the accident,
the driver got out of the car
for just a second and I saw her.
She was wearing a red jacket.
Well, maybe Sonya
was cold and borrowed her friend's jacket?
I thought of that, but that'snot the only thing that I found.
Now let meshow you something.
Why is her arm in a sling?
Exactly. And see the abrasions on her face?
Kind of looks like she might have been on the wrong side
of an airbag, don't you think?
Meanwhile,
Sonya doesn't haveso much as a scratch
in any of the picturesfollowing the accident.
So, then what if Sonya
wasn't driving at all?
What if it was her friend,who almost certainly
doesn't havediplomatic immunity?
Exactly. What do you think?
I think maybe you, me and Benny take a trip
to the D.A.'s office in the morning.
Mr. Rentzel, I reviewed everything you sent over.
And I'm sorry.
I'm not gonna bring charges against Jade Bennington
for the death of your friend.
A.D.A. Fredericks, you've got an eyewitness
who puts Ms. Bennington in the driver's seat.
You've got visual evidence of injuries
that puts her in the driver's seat.
The ambassador's daughter confessed.
Excuse me?
Uh...
Sonya Waliczek? The owner of the Lamborghini?
She confessed she was driving the car
when your friend was struck and killed.
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