Presumed Innocent Page #2

on the mainframe.

Get anything done?

Who am I kidding?

Still working on my dissertation at my age.

It's ridiculous.

You were the best mathematician

in your class.

Second best just made

full professor at MIT.

All I've made are beds.

And now, the Channel Six local news.

Carolyn Polhemus, assistant prosecuting

attorney in Raymond Horgan's office...

...was found brutally murdered

in her Southside apartment.

Police are about to release a statement

about the circumstances of her death....

You hear?

Eugenia was thrilled to be messenger

of bad tidings.

Yeah, I'll bet.

From top to bottom

we are riddled with cruelty.

We must expose and punish it...

...especially when inflicted

upon the impotent and the ignored.

You sound like a woman with a mission.

I am.

The murder of Ms. Polhemus--

You have a suspect?

We have diddly-sh*t.

So Dan Lipranzer and Rusty Sabich

will work night and day for two weeks...

...to catch Raymond a killer.

That's the strategy.

You're in charge of this investigation?

Raymond insisted I take it on.

With 1 50 lawyers, they couldn't find one

who didn't f*** her to put in charge?

Did you tell Raymond?

This is a conflict of interest.

Is that professional?

Barbara, I'm Raymond's chief deputy.

You are so predictable.

It's your way of reliving the whole thing.

She's dead and you're still obsessing.

Rusty.

Nico.

She was just....

-Splendid.

-That's it. Very good.

Raymond's pressing hard

on that case, I imagine.

Raymond presses hard on every case, Nico.

You know who would've been hard

to beat? You.

You would've been tough. Very tough.

You are really something.

Where's Tommy Molto?

Molto?

I thought he'd come to the funeral

of his favorite colleague.

You must really have him scrambling.

Judge.

Who's that with Raymond?

I'm told that's her ex-husband.

I didn't know she had one.

Teaches college someplace.

Carolyn Polhemus worked for me.

I hired her...

...over the objections of...

...many of our prosecutors

who felt shejust didn't have the stuff.

I see those prosecutors here today...

...along with thejudges she defied...

...and the defense attorneys she defeated.

Why are they all here?

They're here because Carolyn Polhemus

stood for something.

She stood forjustice.

The Prosecutor's Office,

under my leadership...

...has a conviction rate of over 91 percent.

Mr. Della Guardia, or...

...as he is known to those of us

who have had to work with him, "Delay"--

There's food here for 1 00 people.

A lot of no-shows.

They smell a loser.

-Good speech.

-What the hell is happening with Carolyn?

Everything's in the works.

I reassigned her cases, and this afternoon

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