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They'll talk to you.

All right,

I'll make some inquiries,

but you're wasting your time.

'Cause the guys

who do what he does,

they don't talk about it.

They never do.

You should tell him

to keep his head up.

It's the victims' families,

they staring at him.

That's his parents,

his sister antoinette.

At about 18:
00,

on a deserted road

near the magazine hill quarry,

the accused forced

the minibus in which

the deceased were

traveling from the road,

then shot all seven

victims with a pistol.

Detective,

is this pistol, which is

registered in

the name of the accused,

the firearm that was used

to fire the bullets

found at the scene?

This is the pistol, m'lord.

That's all I have for

this witness, my lord.

Mr. weber?

No questions, my lord.

What are you doing?

I'll explain later.

The bakkie found

parked next to the body,

that too was registered

in the name of the accused?

Yes.

According to your report,

the vehicle would not start.

Correct.

He was forced to flee on foot.

That's all, my lord.

No questions, my lord.

Why didn't you

cross-examine anyone?

We can't argue facts.

If we admit everything,

we deny them the opportunity

for a parade of

emotional witnesses,

and rob

the case of its impact.

So, after a couple of days,

they'll have nothing left.

They found him,

they found the gun,

they found the bakkie.

That's all they've got.

That's all?

What have we got?

Leon is nearly comatose,

Dr. schlebusch will

barely speak to him...

If it goes that way tomorrow,

gentlemen,

we'll soon be

finished on our side.

Good night.

Good night.

And you were going to say,

a senior advocate

who hasn't handled

a murder case in 15 years?

I don't know

what you said

to him last time,

but he was grouchy

when he came home.

More than usual?

I'm the one who has

to live with him, John.

Here, take that.

Seems to me he's

guilty of murder

and you're trying to turn it

into a political case.

Well, every case involving

the death sentence

is a political case.

Could've just been road rage,

you ever think of that?

He shot seven people 13 times.

A very bad case of road rage.

The only thing I've

accomplished so far

is to keep our

strategy a secret,

but that ends when

the defense starts.

Well,

see if this is of any use.

What is it?

It's a table of drops.

How much do you weigh?

About 70 kilos.

So, you divide 840 foot-pounds

by the weight of the prisoner,

in this case 70,

which means that you,

John weber,

would need five feet,

three inches of rope

for a nice,

clean break.

He was very good

at it, apparently.

They relied on him,

calculating the drops.

And how do you know this?

You don't wanna ask.

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