The Trial/ Screenplay
- Retired school librarian Lorelle Henry comes to the stand. She was in the drugstore, looking for cough medicine, when the burglary went down.
- She heard an argument and heard one man ask Mr. Nesbitt where the money was.
- She saw one of the two burglars grab Mr. Nesbitt by the collar, at which point she thought it best to leave, so she did.
- She then points to King as one of the men in the store.
- She tells Petrocelli this all went down on December 22.
- Briggs takes his turn with Lorelle and discovers that she went to the police station after the incident, and the police showed her dozens of pictures of people.
- Briggs asks if she recognized King right off the bat. She says that she didn't at first, but then she did. She also says she doesn't know if King's was the voice she heard in the store.
- She tells Briggs it's hard for her to testify against a black man, but she thinks it's the right thing to do because she thinks he's the man she saw.
- Briggs wants to know if she recognized King in a police lineup, and she says she did, though there were only six people to choose from.
- O'Brien doesn't have any questions.
- Petrocelli confirms that Lorelle knows King was one of the men in the drugstore.
- Richard "Bobo" Evans takes the stand, wearing a prison jumper. Apparently Bobo refuses to change his clothes for trial. Now that's classy.
- Bobo is twenty-two. He's known King forever, and he met Steve right before the getover.
- Petrocelli wants to know what's up with the orange outfit, and he explains that he's doing time for selling drugs. But that's cupcakes—he tells Petrocelli he's been arrested for everything from breaking and entering to manslaughter.
- Bobo gives his lowdown on the drugstore murder: He and King showed up, waited for a sign from Steve, and then argued with the owner.
- Unfortunately, Mr. Nesbitt took out a gun. Bobo grabbed the cash and some smokes, King grabbed Nesbitt's gun, and bang—they both bolted.
- After the murder session, they plopped down for some fried chicken and hoagies, and split the rest of the moolah.
- He and King found out that night that Nesbitt died.
- As for Steve's role in the crime, Bobo says Steve didn't give any sign, so he and King figured it was all-clear.
- Bobo says the shooting was no accident, that King said he had to shoot or the old dude would beat him up.
- The cops found Bobo through Bolden and Zinzi. Bobo told them he wasn't involved, but he got arrested anyway. How? Selling drugs to an undercover cop. He's not sharpest tool in the shed.
- His plea deal is a lesser sentence if he talks.
- Now it's Briggs's turn with Bobo.
- Briggs confirms that Bobo took part in the felony murder act; if he's convicted, he's looking at twenty-five years to life in prison. Briggs implies that Bobo is ratting out King only to save his own hide, which Bobo basically agrees with, though he doesn't see why it matters much.
- Briggs continues to remind the jury (through questions) that Bobo is a piece of pond scum—he'll even chow down on fast food after taking part in a murder. Then he reminds the jury that as far as they know, Bobo could be the one who killed Nesbitt—he's just pointing the finger.
- Bobo says it was King, and that King was probably high when he did it.
- Briggs is done questioning, and now it's O'Brien's turn. Come on, O'Brien…
- She asks when Bobo talked with Steve. He didn't, he says—that was King's deal.
- She asks what the lookout symbols were supposed to be; Bobo doesn't know, he says, because King set it up.
- O'Brien then asks how Bobo knew King wasn't packing his own heat, which Bobo says he took on good faith.
- So basically Bobo knows nothing about the holdup except what he himself saw. He hardly ever spoke with Osvaldo either.
- O'Brien pushes him on that point: Was Osvaldo afraid of him? Bobo says he wouldn't ever take somebody on in a getover who didn't want to be there; he says you can't count on them otherwise.
- Bobo claims he didn't know Lorelle Henry was in the store during the burglary, and that a detective told him later.
- O'Brien nails him on this, saying that it seems like everyone else told Bobo what to think… so maybe he wasn't even there. But oh yeah, his plea deal depends on him being there. Hmmm.
- She asks if he talked with Osvaldo or Steve afterwards, which he denies.
- O'Brien presses this issue, though: What about giving them their share of the loot? Nope, Bobo says—he and King hid out once they found out Nesbitt died.
- Petrocelli asks Bobo what he and King were doing prior to the stickup, and Bobo says they were waiting for Steve to come out of the drugstore.
- O'Brien jumps up and asks again if he ever spoke with Steve. Nope is still his answer.
- She asks Bobo again if he gave Steve moolah, and Bobo says he doesn't know what King did, but he never gave Steve so much as a nickel.
- The camera suddenly changes to Steve's perspective: We see a juror looking right at him for a long time; the camera moves away, as if Steve looks away.
- Time for a cartoon break: A cartoon city comes to life with a cartoon man yelling, "The people rest!" (16.239) out a window; everything in the cartoon freezes and sleeps. "The people are resting" (16.240).
- Back in the courtroom, the judge adjourns the trial for the day.