The Star Chamber Page #4

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No, Your Honor, I don't.

In superior court, Hector Andujar...

the man accused of committing

the Southside Murders...

was released from custody this morning...

after the case against him

was dismissed on a technicality.

Despite confessing to all of the murders...

Andujar is now a free man.

Deputy District Attorney Martin Hyatt

said that the case will not be retried.

He spoke with reporters.

We cannot retry him, because

all of our evidence has been thrown out.

Than includes the confession,

the stolen articles...

the gun with his fingerprints on it.

All of it. We have no case against him.

- How do you feel about that?

- How do you think I feel? Nauseous.

I don't know what they expect us to do.

- We have a man who admits

to murdering five women.

Right now,

he's walking out of this building a free man.

This is all because a judge has ruled

that some ridiculous technicality...

What do you want?

- Hey, kiddo, what do you want?

- What?

Food. What we have here is a restaurant.

- They bring you food here. You'll love it.

- Sorry.

I'll, uh...

I'll have anything you're gonna have.

Can't read the menu. I forgot my glasses.

- Just testing.

- Deputy D.A. Hyatt, he looked at me.

He said I'm letting the man go.

I'm putting him back on the streets.

So? Nobody else was sitting on the bench,

so it must've been you.

I want soup.

I'm ready to put the guy away

for 150 years...

but it would have been thrown out

in the appellate court...

and that son of a b*tch, he knows it.

But he's sitting up there

trying to make me look bad...

while he's running for office

on the twelve o'clock news.

"Sizzling rice soup. "

I love the sound when they dump the rice in.

At my age, that's excitement.

Jesus Christ. I don't know what we're doing.

- Playing a game, kiddo.

- Yeah.

So that's why

my mother sent me to law school.

We've got, um, five women murdered...

and the killer's free

because a garbage man didn't pull a lever.

- Ben, that's not a game.

- Sure it is.

Who do you think we are?

Umpires, sweetheart.

Every day we get the lineup cards...

and then explain the ground rules

to the managers.

We tell 'em, uh, anything hitting the bull pen

is a ground-rule double.

And then in the eighth inning,

some clown hits one in the bull pen...

so the left fielder, he knows the ground rules,

he doesn't chase after it.

The runner, he figures "What the hell,"

so he keeps on going.

Then the manager comes

steaming out and he says...

"You send that runner

back to second base!"

And I say, "I'm sorry, they just changed

the ground rules. Today the bull pen's okay. "

So the run scores.

It's always been a game.

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