Law & Order

In the criminal justice system,

the people are represented by two separate

yet equally important groups--

The police who investigate crime

and the District Attorneys who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

- I put the new budget on your desk.

- Stay out of my office, Caroline.

Charles.

- Anything you have for me, give it to Amy.

- I'm sure you understand my position.

- You obviously don't understand mine.

- You can't seriously expect me to.

- What I expect is a little consideration.

Good night, Caroline.

- Guy going out to get pampers for his kid

called it in from his cell.

We got a canvass started.

So far, no witnesses.

- All right, let's see.

- Looks like knife wounds from the back.

Ruined a pretty good suit.

Crockett and Jones wingtips--

obviously not from the neighborhood.

No wallet.

Just a business card case here.

"Charles Whitley.

Executive Director of the Boland Initiative."

Pretty big charity.

- Yeah, they got 100 bucks off me last year.

Hey, check this out.

Ligature marks on his wrists.

Somebody had him tied up.

What's this?

It's not a tattoo.

It looks like fresh ink.

A bank account, password.

One thing I know for sure,

it's definitely not his lucky number.

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- Charles was usually home by 7:00.

I thought he'd stopped to have a drink with a colleague.

I fell asleep.

When I woke up and he wasn't home...

- You have any idea why he'd be up in Inwood?

No.

Was this a robbery?

- Maybe. He ever mention any threats?

Or people following him?

No, nothing like that.

- Executive Director at the Boland Initiative--

What did that involve?

- He oversaw their philanthropic projects.

- Your husband, did he talk about problems at the office?

No, he loved his work.

He even turned down a generous retirement package.

- He had this written on his arm.

See?

That mean anything to you?

- It's not like Charles to do that.

That doesn't even look like his handwriting.

- Contusions on his limbs and torso,

bruised ribs, welts on the back of his legs,

all leading up to the tercio de muerte.

- The final act of a bullfight.

- Five stab wounds to the right lower back.

That's a nice cluster.

Might be somebody with training.

- What do you make of the numbers on his forearm?

- It was applied with a regular pen

not more than a day before you found him.

As for the numbers themselves,

I've seen this before.

Survivors from Auschwitz--

The only death camp where prisoners

were tattooed with serial numbers.

- Maybe someone put this number on his arm as a message.

- Anti-Semitic threats? Charles wasn't Jewish.

- well, maybe somebody thought the Boland Initiative

Was too sympathetic to Jewish causes.

That would surprise me.

We spread the money around very equally.

- Do you spread any of it up in Inwood?

- We have grant recipients all over the city.

But I spoke with Charles yesterday.

He didn't mention going to Inwood.

- His wife said he was offered a retirement package.

That was pro forma.

When Charles turned 62, he was eligible for early retirement.

We were relieved when he decided to stay on.

- Mrs. Reeves, your conference call.

Oh, excuse me.

- This is all of Mr. Whitley's personal correspondence.

- Thank you. - I see his date book

has every other Tuesday blocked off between 5:00 and 6:00.

- That's right. I'd call a car for him

for a 4:15 pickup, and off he'd go.

Off he'd go where?

- I never asked, and he never told me.

I just told the dispatcher to take Mr. Whitley as directed.

- NYPD. Can we come in?

Oh, sure.

You must be here about the murder down the street.

- Let me put up some fennel tea for you.

It's great for the digestion.

- We're good. You were here last night?

Ms...? - Lorraine Flockhart.

Yes, I was.

- A car service sent-- oops, sorry.

Uh, a car service said that they dropped

the victim off at this address.

Oh, my God!

It's Charles Whitley.

He was one of my clients.

You were his nutritionist?

Yes, I was.

He had a standing appointment here for years.

How did he seem yesterday?

- He said he was a bit run-down, actually.

I reviewed his glycemic index

and we made some changes to his diet.

And then he left, just after 6:00.

- He had this written on his left forearm.

Sorry.

He had his jacket on the whole time.

- There are plenty of nutritionists

near his office in midtown.

You sure this wasn't about sex?

- We didn't get that vibe. - Because?

- The woman's practically as old as his wife.

What would be the point?

- I can't believe you said that, detective.

What?

I can't believe it, either.

Van Buren.

Yes, put her through.

You want this closed?

This is Lieutenant Van Buren.

Yes, that's our case.

Of course we're interested.

- It arrived at the metro desk this morning.

No return address, no note.

This is a copy.

When I saw that Whitley was on this, I called you.

Let's play it.

- Bring the prisoner here. - On your knees.

Yes, Fraulein Vera.

- Hey, hey. It's Lorraine, the nutritionist.

Lick her boots, you scum.

Oh.

- Talk about your low calorie diet.

You didn't say please.

- May I please lick your boot, fraulein?

Lick it clean.

And don't get your lice on her.

- What I do is completely legal.

Mr. Whitley got exactly the treatment

he paid for and agreed to.

- Getting abused as a prisoner,

the number on his arm-- that was all his idea?

Yes. Don't ask me why.

- Maybe providing S&M services is legal,

but making blackmail videos isn't.

- I didn't spend 15 years building a reputation

just to ruin it by blackmailing a client.

- This was shot in your office.

Without my knowledge.

Charles came over two weeks ago.

He was furious.

He said that someone had sent a DVD to his work

and now they were trying to fire him.

- So if you didn't make the video, who did?

Maybe one of your...elves.

- They didn't know where Charles worked.

Okay.

So last Tuesday...

why did he come over?

For his usual session.

After being videoed?

- I fired my two girls. We moved to a different room.

He needed this.

He couldn't stop.

- Somebody sends a DVD to Whitley's boss

to try to get him fired

a month after he was offered a retirement package.

Which he turned down.

- Somebody wanted him out of that job badly.

- They got him out of that job now...badly.

- I didn't tell you about the DVD

because I didn't want to embarrass Charles' family.

- Do you have the DVD and the envelope it came in?

- No, on the advice of our council,

those materials were destroyed.

Why?

Wouldn't you need the DVD if you were trying to fire Mr. Whitley?

Charles refused to resign

and he threatened to sue if we fired him.

He was completely unapologetic.

He said he wasn't breaking any laws,

that this was his private hobby,