Danny Messer [to Lindsay]: Remember what I said about having a son?
Yeah.
Never mind.
S7 E3Damned If You Do
You want to take the front door or you want the bedroom?
I'll leave the bedroom to you two.
[Danny giggles]
Thanks. Bed or floor?
I'll take the floor.
Billy Travers [after his mother identifies him as the one who beat her and killed her husband]: I don't understand. Why would she do this to me?
Do this to you? Maybe because you beat her within an inch of her life.
I wasn't even at the house. I haven't been home in over a month.
JRJules Roday
He didn't do it. He doesn't have it in him to do something like this.
Okay, Jules, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Everyone has it in them to do something like this. Everyone.
JRJules Roday
No. Not Billy.
How long have you been going out?
JRJules Roday
Five months.
Five months? I usually like to wait at least six months before I can attest to somebody's lack of homicidal tendencies.
JRJules Roday
You're kind of a bitch, you know that?
[Flack smiles]
So from about 8:00 to 11:00, I'm just supposed to take your word for it that you were in your room? And the only person who can account for your whereabouts earlier that day is your girlfriend [starts writing down]
What are you doing?
Math. Because you're not man enough to admit what you did. Now I gotta do Math. I hate Math. Half hour by train to get to your parents' place. 25 minutes to stand outside and build the courage to kill them. Another 40 minutes inside to do the deed and change your clothes. 15 minutes to puke and then find a place to ditch the bloody clothes. Another half hour to travel to your room (she sums up) Five... ten... carry one... two hours and 20 minutes, give or take. Plenty of time for you to commit the murder and get back to your room.
The human skull is composed of one of the most durable substances found in nature. It takes approximately one ton to reduce the diameter of the skull by one centimeter. Unfortunately for Walter Travers, when you get whacked in the head multiple times with a blunt-force object, that doesn't mean a whole lot.
Sid Hammerback [to Jo]: You came from D.C., right?
Yeah.
It's an interesting town. I've only been there once to testify before Congress.
Oh, on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences?
Oh, no, no. I was there to testify that they have no business restructuring the College Bowl system. I never got past the door. But the town is... is quite... lovely.
Okay.
Is the mother gonna make it?
She's not conscious yet but the doctors say she'll pull through. It's nothing short of a miracle. I've never seen anyone take a beating like that and survive.
I wonder if I'd even want to. How do you go through life knowing your kid killed his father and tried his best to kill you?
[to Manny Ravarra] We're here about a homicide that was committed last night in Jamaica Estates. Couple was bludgeoned to :death.
And we don't make you for it. In fact, we have an eyewitness who says it wasn't you.
MRManny Ravarra
All right.
But your cell mate, he says you did it. Said you were bragging about it.
But Owen Hicks is looking to get out from under a robbery charge that will most likely send him upstate for the next 15 years, so...
Yeah, not the most reliable source. We figured we'd come here, lay our cards on the table, give you an opportunity to respond.
MRManny Ravarra
Let me see if I got this right. My crackhead cell mate gives me up for a murder that an eyewitness says was committed by someone else, and you two drop by here to give me the opportunity to say that I didn't do nothing? I got that right?
What about it, Manny?
MRManny Ravarra
What about it? Sometimes crackheads actually tell the truth.
So what are you saying?
MRManny Ravarra
I'm saying your eyewitness is wrong. I killed that couple.
(about Billy Travers) He was either extremely careful or we have to consider that he didn't do this.
At the scene, I thought that might be the only chance to talk to her. When they said there was no forced entry, that prompted me to show her a photo of her family.
And she was responsive, right?
She was. She looked me in the eye and understood me. But maybe I pushed too hard in the moment.
(sitting in the sidewalk) I can just picture Manny Ravarra, sitting the cafeteria with a stupid grin on his face, eating a bologna sandwich, gloating to the other inmates how two mope detectives are knee-deep in crap for absolutely no reason.
(coming out of the sewer) Actually, I only see one mope detective down here. You want to join me?
I don't do sewers. It's like he said... he's doing life, he's got nothing to lose, so why not jerk us around?
Looks like Manny Ravarra's playing you.
Why would he want to go down for a murder he didn't commit?
Mrs. Travers, do you remember what happened last night?
GTGrace Travers
No. I just remember waking up in this room.
I realize this is hard, but can you tell me why your son would have done this?
GTGrace Travers
Billy?
Yes.
GTGrace Travers
You think Billy did this to me?
Last night, you identified your son. To me. I showed you a photograph and you indicated that he had done this.
GTGrace Travers
No... no, I did no such thing. No, Billy didn't do this. He would never do anything to hurt me or his father.
Mrs. Travers, I know you've been through a lot...
GTGrace Travers
Who are you?
My name is Mac Taylor.
GTGrace Travers
Why did you come here? To tell me that my son did this to me? To tell me these lies?
I don't want to upset you...
GTGrace Travers
No, you listen to me! You leave Billy alone, do you understand me? He would never do this! Now, go! Get out! Leave my family alone!
Oftentimes, damage to the temporal lobe results in seizures and those seizures have a tendency to start in the hands.
So it's possible the movement of her finger up and down was involuntary. You think I made a mistake showing her the photograph?
Well, like you said, she was responsive and obeying commands. I hate to play devil's advocate here, Mac, but a defense attorney would have a field day with that ID. Bottom line, we don't have a picture of what happened in her brain when she moved her finger. So there's just no way to know if her ID is reliable.
And now she's defending her son.
Ravarra come through the 116 last night around 2:00 A.M. Same time and precinct as Billy Travers.
So Flack's going at Billy in the interrogation room and Manny's sitting in the bullpen being processed? Rookie cops.
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