Major Crimes (TV Series)

Return to Sender: Part 2 (2014)

Jeri Ryan: Linda Rothman

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• Linda Rothman : How are you holding up?

  Rusty Beck : Fantastic. Thanks for asking.

  Linda Rothman : Fantastic? Is that why your guardian asked the psychologist Dr. Joseph Bowman to perform an evaluation of your mental status, because you're fantastic?

  Rusty Beck : No. That was... um... that was for another reason.

  Linda Rothman : What reason?

  Rusty Beck : It was related to a lie that I told Captain Raydor.

  Linda Rothman : So you're still lying to the police? Surprised. About what this time? About what did you lie to the police?

  Rusty Beck : I don't think I can say.

  Linda Rothman : Your Honor?

  Rusty Beck : I, I, I can't... I can't answer that. I really can't...

  Linda Rothman : Your Honor?

  Judge Grove : Rusty, you will answer truthfully, as you have been sworn to do: About what did you lie to the police?

  Rusty Beck : I lied about all of the threatening letters I had received about my testimony against Phillip Stroh.

  Linda Rothman : Your Honor, I object!

  Judge Grove : To your own question? Too late. You asked and demanded an answer, and now these letters are on the record. I'd like to read them, DDA Rios, if you could hand them over after we're done here today.

• D.D.A. Emma Rios : That's the call the people's witness described making to the authorities, the call that helped the LAPD find and unearth four murdered girls buried in Griffith Park, the call that led this young man to be detained by the police, to be attacked by Phillip Stroh, to be threatened at the defendant's instigation from giving his testimony here today...

  Linda Rothman : Objection! Your Honor, the prosecution can present no evidence that my client attempted to intimidate Russell in any way.

  D.D.A. Emma Rios : Your Honor, we have almost thirty threatening letters sent to...

  Linda Rothman : The authenticity of those letters is doubtful at best.

  D.D.A. Emma Rios : Doubtful? Doubtful? That's not what you were saying three hours ago...

  Judge Grove : Hold on, ladies! Hold on. I don't allow cross-talk in this courtroom. You'll address me, not each other. First... what are these threatening letters?

  D.D.A. Emma Rios : Your Honor, both this boy and his guardian Captain Raydor received menacing letters suggesting terrible things would happen if they continued to assist the prosecution. The people intend to link those letters...

  Judge Grove : What you intend to do and what you can prove today are two different things. Neither the prosecution, nor the witness may enter these letters into the record during the hearing if Ms. Rothman objects.