The Listener S2E11 - English Transcript

I really can't stay very long. Eu realmente n�o posso ficar muito I have to be up in early hour. Did I say something at dinner that i should know about? No, I'm just exhausted. Its all. Look, you can You can spend the night, you can crash here. i can get you to work in the morning. I'll sleep on the couch. No funny business, I promise. Of course if you started any funny business Look, I have this rule Yeah No sleepovers on a first date. Right. unless it involves fitsy pyjamas. Perfect. Do you like cowboys or dinosaurs. Cause I've got both. Well then, maybe I should have some coffee? All right I've got a French Press. Oh God. What's going on? I can't stay. Yes you can. Billie, sure you can. You have cats? No I dont. I hate cats. Why would I have a cat? I have to get out of here before my face swells up and my lungs collapse. Let's talk about this. Wait a minute, what? Woah, what the hell. You told me you had no pets. That is not mine. I will not be lied to. Billie. I do not know how it got out of his cage. You brought a ferret into my house. Look I was just trying to do Sandy a favor, okay. My place does have a strict no pets clause. Woah, this is Sandy's ferret? Sandy's niece. Went to asia for six months. and then, Sandy was gonna watch it but her landlady's like The ferrets are disease carriers. Which a total fallacy by the way. All right, look, okay. The ferret is out. I want my keys back and you no longer have privileges at my place. All right, that's fair. Hey, what's going with the your new assignment you told me about the chef. Yeah, Dylan Morris, he's this guy is testifying against a mob boss. Are you serious? The witness protection guy? Uh-uh. That's huge news, it's everywhere. Yeah. It's like good fellas meets admiral. Sure. Wow. So what you gonna do for him, i mean read him his last rights? I don't know, I don't know, if I knew I Yeah, you wouldn't tell me. Right. That's fine, it doesn't bother me. You're okay with it? yeah? I'd lied about it. I I'm thinking about a barn. A barn? One those old not quite falling down places that you see out in the country Yeah, there's one in Prince Edward County I've had my eye on. Unfortunately Dylan, I don't think that you're gonna be opening up any restaurants in witness protection, but. Hey, sorry I'm late. it makes you feel better to fantasize Well it's certainly better So what's going on? a bullet in my head at any moment. Uh, that's Dylan Morris our star witness. Right. In the next two weeks until trial, we will have people on all of our witnesses twenty four-seven. We've got you covered. Says the spider to the fly. And who's this? That's the Crown Counsel Isabelle Desante. I want to take you back to the night of the shooting. Well, you don't bore easily. The jury hasn't heard it. The Crown Counsel is worried that Dylan's testimony won't be enough. Klein wants us to dig up whatever we can. Which is why you're here. We're hoping there is something he might have overlooked. Something he might be seeing. But not saying. Sigh, so the last customer had gun. My cousin Jack, he manages the restaurant for me. He and I are going over the index totals and we hear an argument. So I go into the wine bar. I see Will my business partner is having it out with Zapata. Your other business partner. Can you tell the court how you first came to meet Nick Zapata. This is for all the marbles, Dylan. You screw up in the stand, the whole case goes belly up. and so do I? That what you were going to say? Shall I repeat the question? Before Sterling got involved I went to Zapata for some start up cash. The two of them never got along from the beginning. And I did everything in my power to keep them apart. Clearly, they make an arrangement to meet at the restaurant after it closed. The second shot Stirling stopped moving. And I was afraid that Zapata was going to do me too. He just dropped the gun. told me to clean up and then he left. Well? I saw what he described exactly how he said it. No question? No, no. But he seem a bit nervous. Yeah, well the man is about to put away a mob boss, I think you'd be nervous too. Okay, so Dylan hears an argument in the wine bar and he finds his business partner, Will Sterling yelling at big time crime boss Nick Zapata. about how he wants his investment back. And then in front of Dylan, Zapata kills Sterling. Let's hope it's enough for the jury. So, in the beginning, Dylan covered up the ***, right? Yeah, that was our bargaining chip. We don't prosecute in exchange for Zapata's testimony. Well, then he points the finger at Zapata, I mean, doesn't that feel a little self serving? That's the downside of flipping a co-conspirator. Hopefully, the jury sees Zapata is the greater evil. Right. Dylan's cousin Jack is on his way up if you wanna observe. and one of my people is on the sous chef Magda Desmond So that should do us for the witnesses. Isabelle, I'd like you to meet Toby Logan. Toby, this is the Crown Counsel, Isabelle Desante. Pleasure, Mr. Logan. Desante. Mr. Logan is our resitting consultant on facial expressions. Stuff like that. Uhmm. So tell me, how do you know if a witness is lying? Their lips are moving. Remind me to get you to screen my next jury pool. Thank you. Hey Jack. How you doing? Oh, hanging in there, you know. You? Good. I'm getting kind of tired coming to this place though. Right this way Mr Nassiter. It'll all be over soon, all right. All right. It should have been me who walked into that wine bar instead of Dylan. The guy who's done time for aggravated assault would have been a better peacemaker, is that it? Like I said, I'm not proud of my past. I did some things. things that I paid a price for. But Dylan, he helped me get around that And in gratitude you hooked him up with Zapata? My cousin came to me for help. his restaurant was going under. What's so difficult for you to get about that? Oh, we get he was in trouble, but not everybody goes to the mob for a loan. Well not everybody's tapped out of the banks. Know what I mean? I'm supposed to sit there and watch my cousin's dream go up in smoke? when I had a direct line to some easy money? Two weeks from now, you're talking to the jury. We're sitting there, we hear this yelling and. it's obvious is coming from the wine bar. so I get up to go and have a look but Dylan's like. No, no, no, no. I'll go see. I hear two shots. I go for the wine bar, I see Zapata running out. I go in, find Sterling, dead. So you know Zapata says it was you who had a bad blood with Stirling. That if anyone had motive, it was you. He says a lot of things. But you don't deny wanting Sterling out. I knew bringing him aboard would be a bad news. but Dylan, he had big plans. want to expand and what not. But then ***, ***. Dream's over. Anything? Well. the only difference between his memory and Dylan's memory. is that Jack off to go check the argument. Other than that, pretty much the same. Sorry. Amy Sterling the victim's wife. She's downstairs. Okay, have her come up. She was hoping she didn't have to. I wish I had more confidence that monster will be convicted. Well, the Crown Counsel believe she can make her case. I can barely get that woman to return my calls. She's doing everything she possibly can, I promise you. People say, Zapata is too powerful to be touched. Not this time. When Will found out who his partners really were he felt like he'd been kicked in the gut. We were blind sided. And now he's dead and the whole world thinks that Will was a crooked businessman. I can't even begin to imagine how difficult this has all been for you. They killed my husband, then they destroyed his reputation. I can't bring him back. I just wanna save his good name. We will. Don't irritate it. It can't get out right I mean everything is No, no, no. How's it going to get out It doesn't have opposable thumbs. All right. Well I guess look, if it's for Sandy I guess you can keep it in the locker room. Thanks, I really appreciate it. Smells bad enough in there as it is. Right. So, uh how long you figure it's gonna all right, he or she or whatever is gonna be here? Oh, it's just a couple of days. My parents is gonna take it but they live above the restaurant. So, they can't Hey, wait a second. You wouldn't consider? Consider what? Taking the thing. I mean you got kids. I know you love your kids. I mean this thing is hours of fun. Look at the way it's playing with those Forget it, Mr Bey. It's just I couldn't think of a nicer family and a better home really. I said NO! You want to drop the case? Not at all. In fact, I want to raise the ante. I'm sorry, are you trying Zapata on *** charges or not? What Isabelle is getting at Thank you Alvin, but I think I can get at what I'm getting at. You traded your little fish chef for a bigger fish, Zapata. Now I want to use Zapata to trade up to a really big fish. Well, now I know I'm missing something. We had an unexpected breakthrough late last night from Interpol. We think we can tie Zapata to an international money laundering scheme involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Great, so we can get him for *** and money laundering. Why throw up the baby with the bathwater? It's not about throwing anything up. Michelle, it's about It's about using it, leverage. We plea bargain our way into a case against the International Syndicate. And you think he's gonna give up his crime pals to beat a *** rap. If he thinks the *** rap is going to stick, then yeah, you bet. You support this? Uh. I like to accuse myself if possible. I've been working this case since we took over from Metro. Getting Dylan to turn wasn't a matter of saying please and thank you. And now you want me to tell him to just forget it? She's got a point. What happens if your star witness gets cold feet on the day of trial. what then, you lose Zapata on ***. and any chance of landing the whales that he was swimming with. She's also got a point. Well, I just told Will Sterling's widow that the man who killed her husband would pay. Well that's a limb you went out on Sergeant Mcclusky. Not me. I don't know what you hoped to get from dragging me down here, again. Well it's not the *** I'm so interested in per se Mr. Zapata, it's a trip that you took to Europe last fall. October 2nd, this is you emerging from a bank in Zurich. Now those two gentlemen that you're with there, they've since been brought up on money laundering and racketeering charges. Some people just take the wrong path in life. Well, you're not aware that new international banking regulations require reporting of suspicious transactions. That's good to know. Arthur, take a note of that. Now we know that you opened a common account with both of those gentlemen. and that withdrawals and deposits from said account are in excess of ten million dollars a month. What do you got against a businessman trying to make a legitimate living? You go to trial in two weeks for the *** of Will Sterling. A *** I did not commit. Well I have an eye witness that says different. And quite frankly Mr Zapata with your background, I don't see a jury being disabused of that notion. Arthur, she's now accusing me of abusing the jury. No, Mr. Zapata, what I'm saying. What the Crown Counsel wants is for you to give evidence against these men and others in exchange for the *** charges being dropped. Well that is very interesting. Isn't that interesting Arthur? You gals just blew it. I'm sorry? You told us you have nothing. I said no such thing. Your *** case just flamed out. We know you were at the restaurant that night. I never said I wasn't. You got into a heated exchange with Mr Sterling. Because he was ***. I told you he wanted to pull his money out. Jack was furious, he had more of a beef than I did. When I left there were still going at it. Like I told you ten times, Jack should be on trial here. not me. And as far of the plea bargain, you can shove it lady. cause the only deal that I'm interested in from you is for you to drop all the charges. and make a public apology. Sad to say that didn't go well. Well, it might have gone better if you let me do the talking. But i guess you got what you wanted. No, offering to negotiate the *** charges showed weakness. Michelle, this is not the slamdunk case that you seem to think that it is. Dylan Morris could be playing us for fools hoping that we put away a very powerful man who wants him dead. If we don't get him on money laundering, you better hope to hell that the *** charge sticks because if Zapata doesn't go down, one of us just might. We better find some new evidence soon. or this trial could be over before it starts. No pressure. So you're saying that Zapata threw the wine glass and then left. Yeah. He never fired the shot. No, I mean I mean the reading ended before the shot was fired. Let's say let's say Dylan has rehearsed the story so many times that when he when he tells it, what he sees, what i saw is the fictional version of what actually happened. Which means Zapata could be telling the truth. Jack shot Sterling and Dylan is covering for him. Let's go talk to the chef. This is my associate Toby Logan. How you doing? I brought you some Cannoli from Scott Chillis. I appreciate the thought but Scott Chillis isn't quite the restaurant it used to be. Okay, well, you don't want them, I'll take them home. No. No, no. That's fine, it can stay. So what's up? You are aware that terms of your witness protection are null and void if you perjure yourself on the stand, right? Whoa, whoa who said anything about perjury? What did you say about these? It's a gift, if you don't want them That's a day old. Do you see how soft the pastry is? You don't serve day old. Have you been completely honest with me and the Crown Counsel? Do you think I'm crazy? You think that I'm going to screw around with my life on the line. You knowingly got into business with the mob, yeah. I think you're capable of high risk behavior. What is this really about, sergeant? What, suddenly you don't trust me? I don't think trust was ever in the equation. Simple question. How did Will Sterling end up dead at your restaurant? Sterling found out about the operation. and he wants a piece. That cannot happen. I told you he was trouble. From the begining. So let's get him down here, Right now. It was Zapata. Look I don't know how many ways I can say this. You're forgetting who's on trial here. I'm the one that's put my neck on the line to bring down a guy that you couldn't lay a glove on. Yeah, when the trial is over. we can show our appreciation. Well perhaps you could show it now. I wanted to cook one last supper. If you will. For the three of us who started the restaurant. Me, Jack, Magda. It would mean a hell of a lot to me. You're a target, Dylan. I don't think you want to show up at your own restaurant. this close to the trial. The defence is going to scream collusion. It's over anyway. You know whether I take a bullet or end up in some godforsaken suburbia. I'm done. I'm done. Dylan, Jack and Zapata met the night before Sterling arrives. They were talking about how Sterling had found out about the big money laundering operation. The international scheme at Interpol turned up. Right, now I can't figure out if Sterling wanted a cut of it. or he wanted hush money. Right, and Zapata wasn't having it. Right, neither was Jack. So then what happened? That's it I need another crack at them. I gotta get them when their guard's down. Yeah, okay. I just need to figure out how to tell Isabelle all of this without letting her know where I got my information. You'll figure it out. So you say you want to go after the big fish well, Sterling was killed because he threatened to expose those big fish. And you know this suddenly how? I reviewed all the physical evidence in light of the new Interpol information including everything Sterling left behind. He was researching a bunch of companies the days before he died Nothing looked suspicious, we thought he was just looking for new investments. But now You think they could be tied to our global money launderers. Yeah. Okay, say Sterling stumbled upon the bigger scheme. Maybe he went to Zapata and threatens to expose him with it. You think? Why wouldn't Sterling go to the authorities? Because the authorities don't pay extortion fees. Seems like nobody's hands were clean on this one. But only one person pulled the trigger. Oh So you think she knows about us? Michelle? she's pretty smart but I think we've been pretty discreet. Forgetting the odd copy room encounter. I wish that I was as confident about her smartness as you are. Trust me, there is nobody better. Well thanks to her I've built a case on marginal evidence and witnesses who stand to gain from the prosecution of Nick Zapata. Are you sure this is about the case, and it's not just about two accomplished, ambitious women, letting their personal animosity get in the way of their professional duty? We have a history. Something I don't know about? Yeah that's because she made sure it never crossed your desk. We had a run in. You remember those arrest in the financial district last Christmas? Well she accused me of grandstanding because I insisted that there was press at the perp walk. And I said something that I shouldn't. And we never did work it out. Answer it. I'm going to take a shower. Hey. Hey. Am I calling too late? No, no it's fine. Where are you? Me? Um, um, I'm at home. I think you left the shower running. What's on your mind? I have a proposition for you. I'm all ears. Well good. Bring your ears and your playmate down here first thing in the morning and I will explain. Crap. He wants to go back to the restaurant and cook a final meal? He is very passionate about it And of course he wants to invite the other witnesses. Look, I know it sounds like a bad idea but just think about it for one minute, here. We could bug the entire place there would be no chance of them colluding without our knowing. We may learn more in four hours than we did in four months. And none of it's admissible. Yeah, I could seek a court order but then we risk entrapment. The wine would certainly flow, lips would loosen. It's not the worst idea I've ever heard. I have a far more per se it concerns, security. How much safer as he pinned to a hotel room? Look I'll make sure the entire place is locked down. And I suppose that you wouldn't want to chill the coversation with your presence? No, I'll have a man there. Let me guess your behavioural whizz. Mr. Logan. Yes. Yeah, you want to prove you're right that much. No, I want to get to the truth that much. Dinner at eight, back in their cages by twelve. Armed escorts both ways, all raw Intel comes directly to me. This backfires I will deny that I ever agreed to it. I know we'd find some common ground. Jeez, I'll do like a cavity search for dinner. Give me a call if you need anything, all right. Yeah, I will. Hey, let me ask you a question before you go. Sure, what? Ryder seem like he's acting strange to you lately? No, not really. I don't know he seems kinda touchy. Like moody, sullen, not really himself. You know, it seems pretty normal to me. Look I'm a little busy with this case right now, so I don't really want to It's worth the shot. I gotta go feed the ferret. Good luck with that. Thanks. Thanks. Hey, how you doing? Are you sure, you don't want to join me for dinner? No, I'm good. But I'm just gonna be right around the corner if you need anything. Okay. These guys are gonna let me in? Yeah, you good. All right. Mr Logan, right? Yeah. I'm Jack. What can I get you? I'll take uh two fingers of your best Irish. You bet. Sorry gentlemen. Jack. I see you've met Mr Logan. Toby, you can call me Toby. Please tell me Magda's in there. She's been chopping and mincing since 5. Care to see the kitchen? Sure, yeah. This is where the magic happens. Nice. Magda, this is Toby Logan. Hey, how you're doing? Toby is a cop, who is not here for food. But we'll pretend otherwise. Love lobster. We use them to perfume the white asparagus. Okay shoo, no one is allowed in my kitchen. unless he prepared to work in it. It's not your kitchen yet Magda. Sorry slip of the tongue. Mmm. Killer. Who wants to get fed? What the hell are you doing here, Mr. Bey? I came to feed the ferret, sir. What are you doing here? I moved out. Of your house? Yes, of my house. Oh Well may I ask the nature of the problem? The nature. My wife kicked me out. Oh that sucks. Yeah, it does. Is it another woman? No. no, um apparently the problem is me. Can you believe that? All me. and My anger. She wants me to go to anger management and I said no. Well I don't know what to say. You can say good night Mr Bey. Okay, good night. Can you feed the ferret or You know what, I'm sure I can take care of that. Okay, just half of that bowl, should be fine. It's all right. To my friends. May we always remember the happier times. Salute. I'm going to get the dessert. Pardon me. Would you mind telling me what the point of all this is? Oh I don't know, the end of my life as i know it. Thought maybe I'd mark the occasion. You're not the only one whose life is going to change. You know what Jack, have a drink. In fact have a bunch of drinks. Is that supposed to make it all better? Is that gonna get our lives back? Dylan? Look, I wanted to make sure that you, me and Magda are on the same page. That's all. How do I know that what you're telling the cops is the same thing you're telling me? Getting all paranoid on me know Jack They're already asking about my being pissed off that Sterling was brought in. We all stick to the same story. And nobody gets hurt. Voila. Crème Brule. Thank you. Do you mind? Of course. Listen I gotta check in with the boss. A short leash? Something like that. Know the feeling. Must be a little nerve wrecking with the trial coming up. Yeah. Yeah. Takes a lot of guts to stand up to a guy like Zapata. I'm not so sure guts is the right word. It's more like a death wish. Say, this must be where you passed Zapata, right? What? I read your deposition. You said that you passed Zapata as you were coming into the wine bar. and he was leaving. He is going to bring all of us down. End this right now, end it right now. Do it. So you're saying that Jack was actually in the wine bar with Dylan, Zapata and Sterling. Yeah, it was Zapata who put the gun in Jack's hand and Jack is apparently the one who shot Sterling. Okay, well let's see if you can put Dylan through his paces again. I'm gonna text you some questions I'd love to get answered. Alright, got it. Mmm three words un freakin believeable. This is wow. Anyone can give you the taste but it's the aromatics, the mouth feel that's what sublime. I noticed on your wine list, that you've got an '05 Sauterne. That's my favorite. Excellent choice. I've got a bottle in the wine bar, Give me two secs. Do you mind if I join you? Please. After you. Something on your mind Mr Logan? I don't really think you're interested in the wine bar. No I'm not, but it's a nice wine bar though. Just, I'd be cool whatever with a few new facts. How? Yeah, we can confirm that Zapata brought a gun to the restaurant that night. I told you that from the start, not exactly a revelation. True but the fact that he gave it to Jack and told him to shoot Sterling is. No that's ridiculous. Zapata is just tying to save his skin. End it. Do it! Jack was scared, his hands were trembling, maybe he missed on purpose. Dylan, we know that Jack shot Sterling. Just the first shot. All right it's the one that grazed him. I didn't say anything because I was trying to protect him. The same way we'd protect him when we were kids. Zapata shot him, the way that you would put down a dog. He fired the only shot that mattered. Sir. I'm sorry, I've been driving around all night. I've got to tell you something. Tell me what? Your wife is right, sir. Hang on just think about it for a second. look how you are with me. Not just me but mainly me. And you know sometimes I deserve it, but I don't think that I deserve this. I don't think anyone deserve this. Deserves what? That, that right there. You don't even know you're doing it when you're doing it. I mean I think you should take this anger management course and get your life under control. You know I care about you. We all care about you. Good night. Sure I knew Sterling, he was part owner. So how you swing getting the restaurant? Oh I have Dylan to thank for that one. His generousity or stupidity for getting involved with the wrong people. A little bit of both I guess. What do you have to do in return? Just keep up the restaurant's reputation make sure people never forget who made it what it is. That's it? It's all you have to do? It's pretty sweet deal. Good, he bought it. And so will the jury. Only I don't buy it. Neither will the jury. Hey, so tell me you have something. I think we have a game changer here. I think you may want to reconsider your dinner invitation. That's Dylan's story, and Magda sticking to it. Well, if she is lying, than Dylan is too. Right. I already told you everything Why would I lie? Maybe to get off from the shadow of Dylan? Take over the restaurant without having to lift a finger? I wouldn't do that. You know that the restaurant was used to launder money. I stayed out of the business side of things. Well, Dylan had a lot to hide and he needed help. I had to back up his lie, I didn't want to, I never wanted to. We know he made you lie. All three of your stories are in sync for a reason. You still say that you saw Zapata leave the restaurant after the shots were fired? After the first shot yes. Everyone says that there was two shots one after another but I'm beginning to think that maybe there was time between the two shots. It's gonna come out either here or in court, the different is you'll face perjury once you've been sworn. Zapata was literally walking out of the restaurant doors when the second shot was fired. That only leaves person left with Sterling. I'll be ready in a minute. You're not going anywhere until you tell us the truth. I've told you the truth. Several versions. Yeah, stitched together from bits and pieces of what actually happened. Look, I really don't know what you're hoping to get from me that I haven't already told you. You bought Magda's silence with the restaurant. You falsified Jack's involvement. So what else aren't you telling us? They know. We had a good thing covered. Why you'd have to go and ruin it? No you shot him. What? You shot him and you framed Zapata. Who set me up? I even know where you hid the gun. When Sterling found out how much money Zapata was making from the money laundering he wanted in. He knew who is he getting in bed with right from the beginning. That's not what his wife said. Well then, she's either a liar or blind. Then, I take it Zapata didn't want to share the wealth. Zapata gave the gun to Jack just like he said. Told him to shoot. Jack's always been the tough guy. But he didn't have the stomach to kill a man like that. But you did. Good morning. Am I the only one who thinks a celebration is in order? You know that was very clever of you setting up the scene of the crime so that Dylan would confess. Well thank you, if you hadn't signed off on the dinner none of this would have been possible. This is a surprise. What? Oh nothing, nothing it's just nice to see you two getting along. Why wouldn't we get along? Yeah, two strong women expressing our opinions doing our jobs. Why wouldn't we be supportive of one another? No I just mean What do you mean? I have no idea. That's what I thought. I gotta go. I'll call you about lunch. Terrific. Hey. Hi. Look, I'm uh I really overreacted about the whole thing. I mean How were you supposed to know that I was allergic to furry things. So I was thinking maybe if you're free tonight that Yes, I am, I'm free. C'mon no not again. Billie. Excuse you. You all right? Guys? Okay. Is there a problem? Okay, no You okay ma'am? Sir, it's okay. Oh, she's allergic to them, I'm sorry about that. Mr. Bey. Yes, sir. You know I'm just booking out from the ambulance take this little guy home to see the kids. That's great, sir. I just wanted to say Well Thank you. It's no problem sir. Have fun with Cynthia. She's a girl? I guess.