Not a very significant episode in my opinion. A nine year old boy's remains are found in basement of a building. The boy died 30 years ago. Investigation leads to a man who killed the boy. A girl who was a neighboring kid when the boy was killed had seen her father washing the boy's bloody sweater in their bathroom.
Good point: During the trial the defendant's lawyer calls into question the witness daughter's sanity as she had spent time in psychiatry recently. She is also accused of hating her father because she has had a life full of bad decisions which her father disliked about her, for which they were not on good terms. When she recounted the day's story on which she witnessed her father in the bathroom with bloody sweater she was accused of having fabricated the story in her mind because she was not sane and had hatred for her father. Her mind was said to have constructed memories of things that never happened. Stone later makes the father plead guilty on manslaughter charge (which he had earlier pleaded not guilty on) even though he had good chance to get a conviction on murder charge. He explained the reason: He didn't want the daughter to get nightmares about indicting her father with a story made up by her insane mind. This way she will know that her father did really commit the crime. What a human being, Stone!
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