Doubt

Previously on Doubt...

24 years ago, 16-year-old Amy Meyers

was murdered in Gramercy Park.

The defendant was the last person seen with her.

You know, you never asked me if I did it.

I'm your lawyer. I'd defend you whether or not...

You're not just my lawyer.

Do I need to take you off

Billy Brennan's case?

Don't make the same mistake I did.

Can we leave her out of this?

You went to jail when I was two

and robbed me of a mother.

Calvin, what's going on?

We found the murder weapon.

It has her blood on it.

And they just discovered it

has somebody else's blood on it, too.

I'd like to submit my blood.

I'm gonna prove to everyone that I am innocent.

I want there to be no doubt.

* Mama, take this badge off of me *

Amy was mad

that I was always busy working on my dad's campaign.

And so she broke up with me that night.

But this was '91.

Your dad was elected the previous year,

so you weren't working on the campaign.

Well, I was also really busy with sports.

So, you were lying when you said Amy broke up with you

because you were busy with your dad's campaign.

No, I wasn't lying. I had been working on the campaign.

The year before. Yes, and then I got really busy with sports.

Which is it? Sports or the campaign?

Well, if you give me a chance to explain...

I keep giving you chances and you keep lying. I'm not lying.

It's complicated.

Two minutes.

That's all it took

for him to rattle you.

He's gonna need a Q-tip.

He's gonna need a lot more than that.

We'll give you a Q-tip.

You can keep it in your pocket

while the D.A. questions you.

It's an acronym for Quit Taking it Personally.

I don't need a Q-tip, guys.

I'm telling you, when the DNA results...

I don't even want to talk about the DNA.

For the record, I was against that move.

And this isn't TV,

the DNA's not coming back overnight.

Well, don't talk to me like I'm an idiot.

I'm being a pussycat compared to how the D.A.'s gonna be.

Trials are war and you need to toughen up.

Your testimony seems smug and evasive,

and if I were in the jury box

I'd be jumping up and down to convict you.

So, let me ask you this again,

why did Amy Meyers break up with you?

Isaiah is waiting for us.

All right, we're still a month away from trial.

We'll get another prep session on the books for next week.

You might want to get your story straight by then.

I wasn't sure you'd be here today.

You shouldn't have kissed me.

I know. It can't happen again.

I know. I don't want to put you in a position

that would threaten your career.

I'm not worried about me. I'm worried about you.

Keeping you out of prison.

I have my first surgery tomorrow

since being released.

A two-year-old boy with a heart malformation.

I was going through the steps of the surgery

in my head last night, and I realized

for the first time in a long while,

I wasn't lying in bed worried about my case.

Well... hopefully the future is full of nights

worrying about sick kids.

No, that's... I don't mean that.

I don't want there to be sick kids. You know what I mean.

I do.

I got to get to court.

Okay.

Well, thanks for... worrying about me.

I'm your lawyer, it's my job to worry about my clients.

Yeah.

I have an extra ticket to Hamilto tomorrow night.

You free?

I feel like the speaker of the House,

third in the line of succession.

You break up with Gemma, you and Sadie aren't talking,

so I get to go to Hamilton.

My pain is your gain.

Exactly.

Isaiah said ten, right?

Morning meeting starts at ten?

Yup, usually.

Why? You got somewhere you need to be?

Uh, no, I'm good right here.

Tiffany, Nick.

No onion bagels?

I'm sorry, sir.

Do you want the other half?

This will never happen again.

We can't stay.

Darryl Smallins trial. Remind me.

19-year-old kid got a ride with his cousin and cousin's friend.

The cousin ended up in a gang dispute

and shot an innocent bystander. And your client?

Was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

He's in culinary school,

trying to make something out of his life.

No more bagels? The new guy ate the last one.

Has everyone met Nick?

I haven't. Hi. I'm Sadie and I'm leaving.

I have to be in court.

Your buddy Judge Porter's trial starts today.

Jonah. How is he?

Well, he's a know-it-all blowhard,

and if I survive this case it'll be a miracle.

And how's the Brennan case?

Good. A disaster.

His testimony needs some work. He'll be fine.

I'm glad everyone's on the same page.

Okay. Go, do, conquer.

Um...

Uh... what exactly should I go conquer?

Jonah Porter is a retired judge.

A lot of people in this room, they have Judge Porter stories:

Charming, funny, sometimes a little gruff.

The story I'm gonna tell you today, though,

is not funny or charming.

It's the story of a man who wouldn't take no for an answer

from a woman who couldn't say yes.

Gina Porter suffers from Alzheimer's,

a disease that has left her unable to recognize her husband.

He is a stranger to her.

And yet, Judge Porter still regularly engaged

in sexual intercourse with Gina Porter,

whose disease has robbed her of the ability

to knowingly consent to this unwanted contact.

Over the course of this trial, we will prove

that Jonah Porter raped his wife...

repeatedly.

Jonah met Gina in 1999

when he sat next to her on an uptown bus.

At one point, she leaned over and gave him the answer

to a crossword puzzle clue.

They got off at the same stop

and he suggested they finish the puzzle over dinner.

The way Jonah tells it,

they were in love by the time they finished the crossword

and had decided to get married before dessert.

It was a 15-year love affair that ended four months ago

when Gina's children brought these absurd charges.

By pressing criminal charges,

they are using the power of the government

to resolve a family dispute, to hurt

the stepfather they never really liked.

But even worse, is that the person

they're really hurting here is their mother, Gina.

When Jonah was arrested he was barred from seeing her.

Over the coming days, we will prove that Gina Porter

was able to consent to sexual activity with her husband.

Jonah loves his wife

and he would never do anything to hurt her.

Mr. Markes.

You may call your first witness.

In my 37 years on the bench,

I have witnessed some tremendous opening statements.

That was not one of them.

Thank you. Hi, Tanya.

Oh, no. You're not Tanya.

Oh, she quit.

That's too bad.

I'm Sadie.

I'm Tanya.

Oh.

I know. What are the odds?

Tanya quit?

Already?

No, the old Tanya.

Yeah, she's training for the New York Marathon.

So she quit her job?

No, I meant the new Tanya's training

for the New York Marathon.

I'm pretty sure the old Tanya isn't training

for the New York anything.

This conversation's hurting my head.

You got a delivery.

Please tell me it's a pizza.

It's not a pizza.

D.A. sent over the discovery for the Brennan case.

I can see that.

We need to go through this stuff with a fine-tooth comb.

I'm buried under Judge Porter's case right now,

but I'll have Lucy block out a few nights later this week?

Don't worry about it. I got it.