January 24, 2003 Transcript
"I'm the Killer"

Ned tells Faith he knows she used Zander to trash Carly's club. He says if they don't work together then they won't bring Sonny down.

Felicia pays a visit to Coleman and tries to get him to spill some details about Ida. She knows he was part of the plan to pay her off.

Ric is in the hall of the courtroom talking to a mystery woman.

Ric: All right, I'll -- I'll meet you at the docks.

Woman: In a half-hour.

Ric: Yeah. First, I want to know what information you have about Alcazar's death.

Woman: Like I wrote on the mirror, Jason Morgan and Brenda Barrett are innocent.

Ric: Well, only the real killer would know that. Did you do it?

The caller hangs up.

(Camera switches back to the courtroom)

Scott: How can you be absolutely sure that Jason Morgan didn't kill Luis Alcazar, unless -- unless you did it yourself?

Brenda: When I left Luis' suite, he was alive. And then I ran out, and Jason ran up and grabbed me. How could he have enough time --

Scott: Whoa, whoa, whoa. So he was standing outside the door right when you ran out?

Brenda: No. Well, I ran out, and I -- I ran down the hall, and then he --

Scott: Well, how far down the hall?

Brenda: Well, I'm not sure exactly how far it was. I ran --

Scott: Well, was it just one hall?

Dara: Objection, your honor. Relevance?

Scott: Your honor, I am almost there.

Judge: All right, I'll allow it.

Scott: Was it one hall or not?

Brenda: Ok, I think it was maybe two halls, I don't know. I ran out, and -- the hotel is very big, you know? It's --

Scott: How long were you wandering around the hotel?

Brenda: Not very --

Scott: Was it two minutes? Was it three minutes? Was it five minutes?

Brenda: It was less than that.

Scott: Less than that?

Brenda: Yes. It wasn't very long.

Scott: So you were so distraught after you attacked Alcazar that you just went out in the hallway and you just wandered around for a couple of minutes?

Brenda: No. I -- I just said that it was less than a couple of minutes.

Scott: And then Mr. Morgan found you --

Brenda: Yes.

Scott: Right after he threw Alcazar to his death.

Brenda: No.

Dara: Objection, your honor -- leading the witness.

Judge: Sustained. Counselor, stick to the facts, please.

Scott: Ok, well, you admit that Mr. Morgan had plenty of time to enter the suite and then throw Alcazar to his death.

Brenda: No, I did not just admit that. When Jason found me, he didn't even know that anything had happened to Luis. And he hadn't been in Luis' suite.

Scott: Well, how could you be certain?

Brenda: Because he told me.

Scott: Well, then explain what he's doing on the 14th floor. We know that he drove Alcazar there. We have proof that he was on the balcony. You just admitted that he had time to get in there and kill Alcazar.

Brenda: No.

Scott: Look, Jason wanted Alcazar dead that night. One way or the other, he was going to get that done! You couldn't do it, so he did it for you! And now you've been covering for a cold-blooded killer for hire!

Dara: Objection, your honor.

Judge: Sustained.

Scott: Jason Morgan threw Alcazar off the balcony. Isn't that the truth? Isn't it?

Courtney faints as she starts to get up from her chair. Sonny helps her back up.

Courtney: I'm sorry.

Sonny: You all right?

Carly: I'll call a doctor.

Courtney: No, no, I'm fine.

Sonny and Carly take Courtney out into the hallway.

Judge pounds gavel. Brenda starts to get up but Scott stops her.

Scott: Just a second. Just a second. I'm not through with you yet, Mrs. Morgan.

Scott: So you contend that you merely just wounded Alcazar with the knife, and then you were taken out of the hotel by Jason Morgan, who ditched his plans, even though he had shut off the security cameras?

Dara: Objection -- speculation.

Judge: Sustained.

Scott: Mrs. Morgan, do you have any -- any proof to back up your story?

Brenda: Well, I swore to tell the truth.

Scott: All you got is your co-defendant, who also happens to be your husband.

Brenda: Yes.

Scott: He's all you got! He's your alibi!

Dara: Objection, your honor.

Judge: Sustained. Mr. Baldwin, would you rephrase that, please?

Scott: I'll tell you what happened -- you went to Alcazar's hotel. You wanted to confront him. You thought you were alone. You had no idea that Skye Quartermaine was in the other room, face to face with the man who held you captive for years. He was obsessed with you. He told you he would never, ever let you go! Is that true?

Brenda: Yes, it's true.

Dara: Objection, your honor. Prosecution is badgering the witness.

Judge: Wrap it up, counselor.

Scott: Alcazar kissed you. He would have forced you to have sex with him had you not broken away --

Dara: Objection.

Judge: Sustained.

Scott: Alcazar tried to murder Sonny Corinthos.

Brenda: Yes.

Scott: He shot and he injured Jasper Jacks?

Brenda: Yes.

Scott: Because you loved them, right? Sonny and Jax -- you loved them, and he only wanted you for himself.

Brenda: Yes.

Scott: He was threatened by anyone that you loved!

Brenda: Yes.

Scott: In fact, he had threatened Mr. Jacks again, hadn't he?

Brenda: Yes, he had.

Scott: So, you had to stop him, didn't you?

Brenda: Yes.

Scott: You wanted Alcazar out of your life! You hated him!

Brenda: Yes.

Scott: So, you went out looking for a weapon! Any weapon would've done!

Dara: Objection!

Scott: You wanted to kill him, right?

Brenda: Yes. I wanted to kill him.

Scott: No further questions.

Jason: Ok, get her off the stand. Get her off.

Dara: Brenda, did you kill Luis Alcazar?

Brenda: No.

Dara: Was he still alive when you left the room?

Brenda: Yes.

Dara: Defense rests, your honor.

Scott: Brenda Barrett Morgan was a woman who had the world at her feet. She's beautiful. She's successful. She's privileged. And she's accustomed to the adoration of men. Luis Alcazar -- rich, powerful. He has a lot of expensive things. He has mansions, yachts, property. Brenda lived with him, sailed on his yachts, and spent his money for years. Alcazar came to believe that he owned her, like a car, like an expensive piece of art. That's a horrible way for a woman to live. But he would pay a horrible price for that. Two women saw the ugly confrontation between Brenda and Luis Alcazar -- Ida Warren, Skye Quartermaine. Both testified that they saw Mrs. Morgan attack Mr. Alcazar with a knife while he stood there stunned, wounded, looking into the eyes of the woman that he loved. Her husband, professional killer. He came out to the balcony railing, and he pushed Mr. Alcazar over the railing, sending him to his death. I have a confession to make. Part of me didn't want to believe that this lovely woman, that she was capable of doing something like this. I wanted to believe that, in the end, it was Jason Morgan who was acting alone, who took advantage of the fight that she had with Mr. Alcazar. But I heard the words come from Mrs. Morgan's mouth just moments ago before I saw the videotape. Brenda Morgan lunging -- lunging at Alcazar with a pair of scissors. A videotape that he kept in a safety-deposit box marked "murder." Because he knew -- he knew that it would come to this. Brenda wanted Luis Alcazar dead, and she wasn't strong enough to kill him by herself. So she enlisted the help of a man that she trusted. A man that she knew was capable of murder. Her own husband -- Jason. Brenda and Jason conspired to kill Alcazar. But their victim -- he knew what they were capable of. So he wanted to speak from his grave, a cry for justice, and the only people that can hear that cry are you. That's why you must answer with a verdict of guilty. Guilty.

Dara: The District Attorney isn't interested in bringing Luis Alcazar's murderer to justice. His whole goal is to put Jason Morgan behind bars. He started out the day by trying to twist Brenda Barrett Morgan's words into some sort of confession that Jason Morgan committed this crime. But when that failed, he pulled the oldest trick in the book. He badgered the witness until he got her to say something that could be construed as some sort of admission of motive. Ok, that's very dramatic, but it's very predictable. It's the kind of trick a prosecutor uses when he knows he doesn't have a case. In Brenda's own words, she hated Luis Alcazar. She wanted him dead. Those are thoughts that most of us have had privately about someone in our lives. But Brenda Barrett Morgan never admitted to killing Luis Alcazar, and that's because she didn't do it. The district attorney so desperately wants to convict Jason Morgan of some sort of co-conspiracy that he wants you to make the leap from hatred to murder. He has intimidated witnesses, he has slanted evidence, all believing that you, the jury, are that easily led. Now, you know as well as he does that lives are at stake here. The prosecution's whole case is based on circumstantial evidence, and the eyewitness testimony of two women -- Ida Warren, who may have been coerced and bribed for her statement, and mysteriously died before she could even testify, and Skye Quartermaine Jacks, a known alcoholic who was drunk when she gave her testimony and who has some sort of vendetta against Brenda. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if you have a shadow of a doubt, you cannot convict. And there is more than a shadow of a doubt in this case. There is some sort of cloud over these proceedings, led by a district attorney whose whole motivation is to convict an innocent man. It is your job, it is your duty, to see to it that Brenda Barrett Morgan is not used as a pawn in his game to try to convict an innocent man. If you look closely at this case, the whole case just falls apart. The only thing that points towards the truth is a verdict of not guilty. Thank you.

Judge: The trial has ended. Jurors, please convene to decide your verdict. You may be excused.

Dara: Hey. I usually have a sense about which way the jury's leaning, but, honestly, this time I don't know.

Brenda: I shouldn't have let him upset me.

Dara: Hey, I'm sorry about that, Brenda. It was a tactic. I needed to let the jury see him badger you. But you were very convincing when you said you were innocent, so we'll have to wait and see, ok?

Jason: You did good.

Brenda: Great. Now I know I really screwed up.

Jason: No. Come on, come on. Somebody had to get up there and tell them what happened. I couldn't do it. And you did it, and you did a really good job, considering.

Brenda: Thanks.

Outside the courtroom Felicia speaks to Sonny.

Felicia: I need to talk to you.

Sonny: What happened?

Felicia: A.J. And Coleman are the ones who paid Ida to lie. They worked out the phony witness setup together.

Sonny: Can you prove it?

Felicia: Not yet, but I'm sure of it.

Sonny: Ok, if we have proof, we can get a mistrial. But we need it fast.

Felicia: I'll do it.

Rick arrives at the docks. It's dark and foggy. He looks around for the woman he's supposed to meet. Suddenly she comes up behind him and puts a gun in his back.

Woman: Don't move.

Ric: Ok. Who are you?

Woman: You don't need to know yet.

Ric: Ok, however you want to handle this. I'm just -- I'm just trying to keep innocent people from going to prison.

Woman: Then you will listen and do everything I tell you.

Ric: Why all the mystery, huh? What do you need a gun for?

Woman: This has to be done my way.

Ric: You know what? If this is a setup, you can --

Woman: No.

Ric: Then, why me?

Woman: Because I have to tell someone the truth.

Ric: Ok. You said on the phone that you knew that Brenda Barrett and Jason Morgan were innocent. How?

Woman: Because I'm the killer.

Everyone reassembles for the verdict.

Judge: Have you reached a verdict?

Forewoman: We have, your honor.

The bailiff hands the verdict to the judge who reads it.

Judge: Madam foreman, what say ye?

Forewoman: On the counts of murder in the first degree and conspiracy to commit murder, the jury finds Brenda Barrett Morgan and Jason Morgan guilty.