Chicago Justice

Danny was a scholar, you know?

He was studying for his PhD in physics.

He had a big future, Mr. Stone.

I know how painful this must be.

He had dinner with us every Sunday night.

The night that he was killed...

They know all this, honey.

We usually walked him to the bus stop.

That night...

I was too tired, and you had to watch your game.

Mr. and Mrs. Nasiri,

I'm so sorry about Danny.

Get him away from us.

Damn, dude. I just wanted to tell you I didn't kill him.

Byron, come on. Let's go.

Danny didn't do anything to that boy.

Except look different.

I assure you: most Americans will not tolerate

the murder of an innocent boy.

We should go.

Monday morning, around 1:45 a.m.,

we found the body in an abandoned building

on South Kimbark.

He was already deceased when we arrived.

You didn't just happen by the building, I assume.

It isn't counsel's place to assume facts not in evidence.

Rephrase: did you merely happen by

the building on South...

Counsel is leading the witness.

And counsel forgets this is a preliminary hearing,

not a trial.

Rephrase: what brought you to that abandoned building

on South Kimbark, Sergeant?

An anonymous call from what we later learned was

a tweaker who was squatting in the building.

What condition was Danny Nasiri in

when you found him?

He was dead.

He had been beaten to death with a tire iron

that we found in an adjacent dumpster.

Is this how you found Danny Nasiri?

It is.

- And this? - Yep.

What initially led you to suspect the defendant,

Byron Welch?

We learned from campus police

there had been a prior altercation

between him and Danny Nasiri.

And why did you eventually arrest Byron Welch?

We found a sweatshirt that was stained

with what turned out to be Danny Nasiri's blood.

It had been shoved into the back of Byron's closet

under his dirty underwear.

Dude, knock it off.

You think this is some kind of joke?

Stop.

How dare you?

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

- No! Mrs. Nasiri! - Order!

Byron Welch, a sophomore lacrosse player over at CCU,

brutalized a physics grad student

named Danny Nasiri.

He left him to die in an abandoned building

on South Kimbark.

Jealousy, money, or revenge?

Danny was Muslim.

Ah.

Byron must have wiped the tire iron.

There were no prints on it.

But we did find traces of Danny's blood.

Oh, it gets better.

This wasn't Byron's only run-in with Danny.

Six weeks ago, he left Danny with a bloody nose,

black eyes, and broken ribs.

Danny reported it to campus police,

but for some reason withdrew the complaint.

Aside from that, any motive?

CPD checked both their computers, phone records,

and class schedules.

There wasn't any obvious connection.

What can I say? It looks like a garden-variety

hate crime to me,

but Stone wants us to dot all the Is.

Last time I was at a frat house...

Never mind.

Come on. You know you're gonna tell me eventually.

You do know there's free porn on the Internet now.

Whoa, Nagel, I didn't say anything about porn.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, stale beer and something nasty.

That's called hormones.

We're investigators from the State Attorney's Office.

What's that? Like, better than cops?

It's, like, different.

You're here about Byron, right?

Look, there's no way he killed that guy. He's a good dude.

As in he's a good beer pong partner?

Yeah. That, too.

All right, so, what was his problem with Danny Nasiri?

Yeah, why don't we all just get along? Uh...

Are you saying Byron didn't like Muslims?

You know what the school does

- for the towel heads. - Not now.

They know what I'm talking about.

I mean, they're part of the soon-to-be white minority.

Take another look, pal.

All Joey's trying to say is

that the school bends over backwards

for a small group of students...

They play the damn call to prayer

during Islam Awareness Week.

It's like... who's not aware of Muslims, you know?

- Damn it, Joey. - So Byron was just

doing the majority a favor?

Byron didn't even know the guy.

Look, his brother was killed in Kabul.

When he beat up Danny, he was drunk,

and, I don't know, morose about Bobby.

Oh, so it could've been any Muslim?

Yeah. Wrong time, wrong place.

Maybe we can see Byron's room.

There's our motive: his brother getting killed in Afghanistan.

- Yeah, you've seen one Muslim... - That's not what I meant.

Look, I'm not saying what those assholes said was right,

but we do seem to go out of our way

to make them feel comfortable.

When I was in uniform, me and McKay,

we would drive past a mosque every day.

And every day when they saw us, the people would scatter.

One day, McKay buys an extra coffee...

He gives the extra cup to this old dude, Ameer,

before he can get away.

Next day, we drive by... Ameer's there with a box of donuts.

The day after that, Ameer brings his wife, Fadi,

and his cousin Saad.

Donut diplomacy.

Why does Byron have a Koran?

Maybe he wants to get to know the enemy.

"From Addie." Who is Addie?

You knew Danny?

He was a good friend.

Actually, I'm the one who convinced him

to drop his complaint against Byron.

Why would you do that?

Just doing my part in showing

that Islam is a religion of peace.

Um, I'm a member of Come Together.

We promote understanding between Muslims

and students of other religions.

Byron felt really bad after he beat up Danny.

He came to a meeting. That's when I met him.

- And you gave him the Koran? - I wanted him to see

there's nothing in there about blowing up Westerners.

The truth is I'm sure Byron didn't kill Danny.

Because he read the Koran?

Because he was with me...

all night.

He's about to go on trial for murder, Addie.

You didn't maybe think to tell someone?

I wanted to, but...

my dad...

He doesn't know about me and Byron.

He wouldn't approve?

My real name is Adara.

It means "virgin."

If he found out...

Byron was only thinking of me.

He made me promise to keep my mouth shut

unless things turned really bad for him.

They have.

Is there anything else, Addie?

We made it the night Danny was killed.

It doesn't prove anything.

Proves Byron didn't hate all Muslims.

It's time stamped 12:30 a.m. the night Danny was killed.

Before that, he was with his buddies

from about 9:30 to 11:00.

And that still leaves a gap in the timeline.

So, he commits a brutal hate crime,

and then makes a sex tape with his Muslim girlfriend?

I once convicted a bookie who cut off his client's arm

and then went to his daughter's bat mitzvah.

That's different. That's about money.

This is about...

I don't really know what this is about.

So find out.

When I was in school, I would have six roomies

in a place like this.

Saturday nights must have been fun.

"The Schrodinger Equation."

Who writes a whole book on one equation?

Same filing system I used.

Check this out: it's a receipt to a local dry cleaner.

Dated three months ago, addressed to Jafar Boustani.

Maybe Danny did have a roomie.

Maybe he knows something.

Danny and I were roommates for six years.

Admissions put us together when we were freshmen.

One Muslim's got to get along with another, right?

Did you and Danny get along?