Law & Order

narrator: 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'm not saying you shouldn't pursue your dreams.

I'm just saying you need to be practical about it.

You want me to be practical about being a dreamer?

Isn't that, like, a paradox?

I'm just being honest.

Most dreamers don't succeed. Fact.

Oh, my God!

911, what's your emergency?

Hi, we--we just--

there's a dead body in Central Park.

DOA took two to the chest.

Found two discharged shell casings over here.

No ID, no wallet, no phone.

Looks like a robbery.

White guy walking through the park.

Just like the old days, right?

What's the saying? "History doesn't repeat itself,

but it rhymes"? - Mark Twain.

"Hythena,

working hard to keep you alive."

Not hard enough.

We're sorry to bother you, Ms. Ellis.

What's going on? Did something happen?

We're investigating a homicide.

A homicide? What's that got to do with me?

We found a pen in a victim's jacket

with your company's name on it.

We did some googling and he's one of your partners.

Oh, my God, that's--

That's Kyle.

I'm sor-- are you saying he's dead?

We're sorry, ma'am.

I can't imagine what you must feel.

We can come back at another time if you want.

I'm fine. - Good.

So the victim's name was Kyle Morrison, correct?

Yes. He's my COO...

and fiancé.

Was there anything unusual going on with Kyle?

Any problems?

What about you two? Any issues?

No. We were doing great.

We were in love.

Any money problems?

The company we started is doing very well.

Kyle owns--

owned 10% of the stock.

Can you tell us what Kyle was up to today?

Help us establish a timeline?

The company hosted a conference.

We do it every year. It's called Quest.

We were at the Peninsula Hotel from 8:00 to 4:00.

After that?

Kyle went back to the office.

- What about you? - I came home.

I made some calls, and then I met a few investors

for dinner around 8:00.

When was the last time you and Kyle talked?

Around 9:30, just after I finished dinner.

What did you talk about?

I told him that my dinner went well,

and that I was gonna take a walk.

A walk? At 9:30 at night?

Helps me wind down.

Hmm. Okay.

No, I didn't see anything unusual.

But I wasn't really looking either.

I was too busy making sure that Nina was happy.

Nina--I thought you were with Kyle most of the day?

I was, but he's easy.

Nina's the one in charge.

Has opinions on everything.

The signage, the lighting, the coffee cups.

The milk. Literally.

She wanted 1%, not non-fat, not 2%.

But it's hard to argue with her.

I mean, she's the founder of the hottest tech company

in the world. She's worth over $2 billion.

But, to be clear, there were no problems, right?

No, the event was a big success.

Even Nina was happy.

Kyle was definitely under a lot of pressure.

What do you mean?

He was the COO of a start-up tech company

on the verge of going public.

Mm-hmm.

He was in charge of putting together

the sales materials, the financial projections.

Any stressful issues that weren't work-related?

Not that I'm aware of.

Any altercations or arguments?

Hostile phone calls?

Yeah.

About a week ago, some guy called Kyle.

He was really upset.

Demanded to speak to him right away.

I said he wasn't available, and he went nuts.

Got really angry.

Said something like,

"If that coward doesn't call me back in the next hour,

I'm gonna come down there and beat his ass."

You got this guy's name and number?

Damn right I called Kyle Morrison.

Did you threaten to beat his ass?

Yes, sir.

Did you ever meet up with him or confront him?

No.

Tried to track his ass down a few times, but...

You actually went looking for him?

Yes, sir, I waited outside his office building two times.

Didn't find him. But I will.

Swear on the lives of my three daughters.

You might want to take that back.

Kyle's dead. Someone shot him.

You don't seem too upset.

I'm not.

Why all the hate?

What the hell did Kyle ever do to you?

He ruined my life.

How's that?

My wife took one of those cancer screening tests

his company sells. Came back negative.

Then ten months later, she didn't feel so good.

Went to the doctor, said she had Stage 4 uterine cancer.

Sorry to hear that.

But how is that Kyle Morrison's fault?

If she tested positive,

she would've gone to a doctor, nipped it in the bud!

Instead, she just sat there, watching TV,

ignoring the symptoms!

The cancer was spreading like wildfire.

Where were you last night, around 10:00?

At New York Hospital with my wife,

feeding her popsicles,

helping her to get through the chemo.

Morley's alibi checks out.

- His anger was very real. - What's that mean?

Good chance that Morley wasn't the only one

that found himself on the wrong side

of an erroneous screening test.

Medical tests aren't meant to be perfect.

Mistakes happen.

Yeah, until it happens to you.

I mean, imagine a loved one

gets a false negative, they get really sick.

Not really hard to imagine

somebody getting worked up about that.

I get it, but the company claims

its tests are 96% accurate.

So there's not gonna be a lot of false negatives out there.

- Not so sure about that. - What's that mean?

Just found a deleted email,

sent from the Chief Technology Officer

to Kyle Morrison a month ago.

Says, "We need to terminate

"all patient screenings immediately.

"The tests don't work.

This whole damn thing is a sham."

Big Tech has changed the world.

Electric cars.

Artificial Intelligence.

Virtual reality. - Hard to keep up.

Is that your crotchety-ass way of saying

you miss the way things were?

Just because it's new and shiny

doesn't make it good. - Huh.

To-may-to, to-mah-to.

Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

Okay.

This is a spread.

Derek Seaver?

I'm Detective Bernard. This is Detective Cosgrove.

We'd like to ask you a few questions.

About what?

Kyle Morrison.

I signed a non-disclosure agreement

when I left the company as part of my severance package.

So I-I can't talk about him--

We're investigating a murder, Mr. Seaver.

The NDA is non-applicable. - Sorry, I'm not talking--

We just have a few questions, sir.

The first one is, why did you send an email

to Kyle saying the company was a sham?

Like I said, I'm not talking.

Seaver was always sending hysterical emails,

looking to stir up trouble.

Thought it would distract us from realizing

how incompetent he was.

But to be clear, your screening tests work?

Of course they work.