to subscbe to our msnbc prime-time newsletter or for information on upcoming programs go to prime.msnbc.com. you are about to become a witness. it was an accident. and you want him just hurt in an accident. >> captured on camera, some of the dumbest, most fumbling attempts to hire hitman. >> she's got glasses and a very small mouth, until she talks. >> okay. you have 30. >> i'm going to kill the whole family for $30, $50. that's not just one. you're just an idiot. >> you're about to learn the

easiest ways to get busted when trying to hire an assassin. number one, do it from jail. >> i will accept whatever it takes. >> number two, solicit a cop to do your dirty work. >> i explained to her it's guaranteed death, and she said go for it. >> number three, ask for proof. >> yeah. do that, take a polaroid. >> some of the most unbelievable murder for hire solicitations captured on camera. >> you are about to witness what could easily be auditions for the amateur hour in the murder for hire business, people who defy all common sense defy someone to do a job they can't bring themselves to do. what has been captured on camera may seem foolish, but there's no doubt these attempts to hire hitmen are real and the police take them very seriously. >> what would you like me to do

for you? >> get rid of her. >> okay. let's get rid of her. how do you of the it done? >> gary douglas' intensions are crystal clear. he wants his ex-wife killed. and at a meeting at a local diner in texas which is secretly videotaped by the police, lee unknowingly hires undercover sergeant tony belltray to do just that. >> he had lost a judgement in family court of some nature that he would have to pay money to his ex-wife. he was going through a custody battle with his kids and he didn't want to pay this money and he didn't want to go through with this. >> my ex-wife, she got mared to another guy, and he beats her with a ping-pong paddle. my kids, he brought in a 14 and

11-year-old into the marriage, the 14-year-old boy keeps pulling a knife on my kids that are 8 and 9. >> you have the informant hook up a meeting with lee and me. >> how much money have you got? >> like i said, i owe don a favor, but i can't do it for free. >> wait, did lee just offer a grand total of $50 for the contract murder of his ex-wife? >> $50. foo 50 bucks is kind of cheap. >> you know, i ain't doing to do that for $50. can you come up with $500. >> i just got back to work two weeks ago. >> is there a way you can get $500? >> their 200. >> what can you give me right

now? right this minute. >> right this minute? >> this is where the case goes downhill right here, the amount of money. how am i going to deal with this? i don't know what he was thinking with $50. i was just shaking my head. lee is unshame about the low-bid offer and comes up with what he thinks will be a solid alibi being recorded by a security camera at the local convenience store where he will be working the night of the hit. if it happens friday night i'll be on camera at the store. >> 7-eleven has two cameras. >> okay. okay. >> and nothing traumatized the kids. he's concerned about his kids and i was thinking you're an idiot, look what you're having me do is enough. >> lee's careful attention to his alibi convinces belland his

team that he is serious, but they still need him to make a payment and hopefully provide a picture of his target in order to show intent. >> i need some down money, okay? i need some down money. if you can work on the photograph, great. i mean, it would be better for me. >> i want to get out of there and take a shower. that's all i wanted to do. it was just incredibly lame. >> lame may be an understatement when it comes to ordinary folks trying to hire hitmen. we asked rick griffith, a former undercover agent if he ever wanted to shake some sense into these people before they go and ruin their lives? >> you'd like to reach out and touch them, but unfortunately you can't do that. you think, my god, you know? where do these people come from? i think about that every day. where do these people come from? do they come out of the woodwork? it's unbelievable. >> these are the same people that you see in the grocery store tonight, that you perhaps

go to church with, sit by in a movie. they all have different things. life has dealt them a hand that they can't handle. >> gary johnson is a senior investigator with the harris county district attorney's office in houston, texas. because he specializes in undercover work, he requested that we shoot his interview in partial shadow. >> they've gone through all their reserves and nothing's worked and then this seems like a way to handle it. and as they become more frustrated it gets to be a better and better idea. >> although their motives may be different, the amateurs who try to hire hitmen usually make the same mistake. most people do not know people who can go out and find people to hire someone and kill somebody so they'll start asking around and asking friends. this isn't worth my life because this person is having a bad time. this person will come to the police. >> as someone didglas lee.

instead of talking to a hitman about killing his ex-wife, lee ends up talking to tony veltray. here in a diner parking lot three days after their get together they go through the details of the hit. veltray surveillance team videotape from the inside of a van. >> she's 5'8", 200 pounds, blond, short, curly hair. she's got a very small mouth until she talks. it sounds like a joke, but i'm serious. her lips are about that wide. >> although lee first suggests making the hit look like an accident, veltray, in character, tries to convince him that scenario is a bit of a gamble. >> the accident -- it -- there are a lot of things that you have to do to a car to make it have an accident, and i don't think that i'd really want to risk hurting anybody else. >> okay. >> have you got any other way you want it done? >> lee's next suggestion shocks

even the sergeant who has heard almost everything. >> robber? >> i don't know if you'd want to rape her or anything like that. >> that took me off guard. that was, like, you're joking around with me about assaulting her first and then killing her. killing her and then assaulting her. do you mind if do i that. that never crossed my mind, knockinged cap of her out on the street, you've got to be kidding me. he even suggests that veltray might want to knock off his ex-wife's husband and children as part of the package. >> he should be at home with his two kids. >> okay. okay. i have to consider them, too. >> i don't give a [ bleep ]

about them. >> lee seals his fate and he gives veltray a down payment for the hit, but it is not $200 or even $50. >> how much have you got here? >> it's only 30. >> 30. >> this guy is just way out there. i'm going to kill the whole family for 30 bucks, 50 bucks. that's when i wanted to slap him and say you're just an idiot. >> with a payment, a map to his ex-wife's house and a picture of her, veltray has anything he needs. >> i don't see any problem. consider it a done deal. i think it will go easy. >> i don't think we'll have any problems with it. >> you're going to be on tape at 10:00? >> we'll do it and make sure it's after 10:00. >> great. excellent. >> be careful. >> the last two minutes of the conversation, please -- can i just turn around, can i arrest him now? that's what i wanted to say. let me do it. >> veltray, practically gets his wish, as he leaves the scene,

officers arrest lee on the spot. >> it's a capital offense, hiring someone to have someone killed. i saw a picture of him on my desk. if you think you're having a bad day, i look at his picture. one of those things. when we come back, two of the most unique and bizarre real-life murder for hire stories. >> we found her in jail. >> whatever it takes. >> i just want him -- she had a plan. her plan was to run him off the road on his way to or fro work. [ female announcer ] when kate collects her pink yoplait lids

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>> a bartender looking to cash in on her older husband's life insurance, an accused drug dealer looking to settle a score with an informant. no, they're not the female villains in your favorite daytime soap opera, but these women are the stars of two of the most unique and bizarre real-life murder for hire stories. >> women are more cold blooded than men. women have a very, deep down inside they have a very calculating and violent streak. >> former colorado bureau of investigation undercover agent rick griffith may have been influenced in this opinion by one of his strangest cases, that of drug dealer donna sills. >> i was kind of dumbfounded. i thought someone was playing a joke on me, and i thought this is ridiculous, i've never seen anything like this.

>> but this case is no joke, considering that sills tried to hire a hitman from of all places. >> she was in jail for doing narcoti narcotics. >> donna was looking for someone to kill, an informant hence the reason she was in jail awaiting trial. >> it saul started when she began asking fellow inmates if they knew anyone who could help her out of her situation. >> there was another person in jail. and then arranged to make contact with donna in jail over the telephone. >> not only did she try to hire the hitman from jail, she has the nerve to bring him there to personally interview him for the job. griffith played the role of a biker living in denver and in mexico. he and sills corresponded over the telephone and through the mail before they met in person. >> we made the phone

arrangements in jail while she was incarcerated. >> i have about 18 years in prison and that's bull [ bleep ]. you can take a gamble and end up doing 18 years or you can do a sure thing and end up -- nothing. >> see, if you could rough him up and try to scare him off, right and then if i don't want show for the first one, then they'll throw it out. and then the other. i'm serious. i'm serious. >> sills signs over a promissory note, witnessed by a guard who was in on the sting. it guarantees payment for the job. >> i will sign it, the promissory, and i don't want to know anything else, do you understand? >> anyone in the facility that's monitored, recorded. i was aware she knew that and could still go through the

conversations that we had. >> i'm willing to testify, whatever it takes. >> donna sills is convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison for the solicitation as well as drug charges. >> she thought she would be out on the streets and going to parties and hanging around with me, and i was going to take her to mexico and wherever else i was going to go. and she thought she was on easy street. >> another woman who thought she was on easy street was darcy lindenmeyer, a bartender in illinois. >> she worked at a local drinking establishment. that's where she met gilbert meyer. they knew each other for a brief time and got married. >> it's a marriage that darcy soon thinks is a mistake and three months after tying the knot she starts looking for a hired gun. >> she went to rick wheaton and that was a former boyfriend of her daughter at which time she

asked if he would kill gilbert for $1,000. >> frightened, wheaton goes to the police and that is where undercover agent wellbank of the illinois state police steps in. the sting is set up inside a car at a local shopping center. okay. and you don't just want him beat up? >> no, i don't want him to live anymore. >> but i want you to be sure, you know, that you understand that what you're doing because he could be dead in a couple of hours. >> okay, great. i have 500 now. >> she had a plan. her plan was to run him off the road on his way to or from work. i explained to her when i met with her that we couldn't guarantee his death doing that, and that i would need to shoot

him, and she said go for it. >> it soon becomes clear that when it comes to the financial impact of the hired hit, darcy lindenmeyer has done her homework. >> my husband works for chrysler. he's the chief engineer. he brings home $2999 a month. i get his retirement $350,000 life insurance policy. >> she provided money and she provided a picture. she provided the car. there was no misunderstanding as to their purpose in meeting me and what the aftermath would be. >> okay thp then we got a deal, all right? >> but there's no going back. >> no, no, no. i have had it. i can't take it no more.

i can't. >> that's enough for the arresting officers. >>. >> get out. >> what? put your hands where i can see them, but the strange story of dharsy and gilbert lindenmeyer doesn't end here. >> shortly afterward we had a couple of agents go and pick up gilbert and this is always one of the hardest things to tell people that that's what happened. gilbert's reaction was anything but the expected one. >> he was trying to raise enough money to get her out. i met with him several times and explained to him that that could be a very serious mistake that if he would have done that. >> three months after darcy pleads guilty. upon. >> he died of a heart attack. if she would have waited she would have gotten everything that she'd hoped for. >> darcy lindenmeyer was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

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ask undercover officers what makes a murder for hire sting successful, and they will probably agree on one thing. >> when you can videotape, it's wonderful. because a videotape, when you play it in a court it turns 12 jurors into 12 witnesses. the impact on a jury of hearing and seeing the person, demeanor, it's just unbelievable. >> reporter: so how do undercover officers prepare a location with hidden video

cameras and microphone. we asked larry brown, a surveillance specialist with the colorado bureau of investigation. >> this room is very easy. number one, there are several items in the room. there's a large bed. there's places to sit, and drawers if necessary to hide power supplies and things like that. >> hotel and motel rooms are often used for these types of sting operations as they provide another useful feature. >> another good point is the fact that there's an adjoining room. we always have to keep in mind the safety of the undercover agent. so therefore, if we have an adjoining room, cover agents can easily come through. that's always important to make sure we have quick access. >> once agent brown is comfortable with the location, he gets to work. >> i packed a few items and this is a microwave transmitter. the video connects here. there's also a microphone that

is with this. this is a two-watt transmitter and they're very small and concealable which is extremely important. this part here is the camera, and it's a black and white camera, very good for low light operations and they a pin hole lens on the end of it. you don't need much of an opening to get a good shot. >> i'll just put it inside this bag. even though the people will be several feet away, the microphone is very sensitive. just the fact that it will be here by the chair will be plenty. >> it takes brown approximately 45 minutes to set up a hotel room for a sting, but before he is done, he does a bit of set decorating. the towels are primarily to make the room look messier. throw this over here and i'll throw more towels on the another thing i'll do,cz want

the place to look like it's been used and mess up the bed and put some pillows and stuff. i don't want the room to be pristine. so just messing up the place a little and then canee myself o. and i'll have the target completely in view. >> when we come back. >> i understand this is your wife. what are the chances of removing her and removing her? making her disappear? >> no, that can be done. i've seen this before -- the old "impromptu in-law visit."

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his body is on display in a commercial freezer at a shopping center. they're deciding what to do with the ousting dictator's remains. a potential lead in the case of missing baby lisa irwin. police say cadaver dog reacted to the scent of decomposition inside the irwin home. the parents insist they had nothing to do with their daughter's disappearance. now back to "murder for hire." when it comes to amateur would-be killers, one thing seems apparent. desperate people do desperate things. take for example, the case of the pharmacist who pays for a person he believes to be a hitman with a boflths pills stole 14 his job or a doctor who asks for a photograph of his dead lover to prove the hired gun had done the job thoroughly. we're about to become an eyewitness to the misguided attempts including the case of a husband who can't wait for his

divorce to be finalized the traditional way. >> it is february 1997. james shoeman, a local businessman in lacrosse, wisconsin is in a motel man meeting with a man he hopes will kill his wife, but what he doesn't know is the hitman auditioning for the job is really wisconsin department of justice aaron sackowski and that they're meeting is videotaped. >> you want to get started here? >> how much is it going to cost me? >> how much have you got? >> not much right now. >> why don't we talk about it first and see what i can do for you. then we can talk about price. >> let's do that. >> all right. >> i understand this is your wife? okay. schumann, the owner of a local seed company and father of two is in the midst of a bitter divorce and custody battle with

his wife of 18 years, susan. >> it was such a devastatingly, emotionally draining divorce. it was fraught with so much, one crisis after another. he wasn't willing to share anything, not the children, not any of the marital property. he told a friend of ours that he'd spend a million dollars to see that i did not get even one. >> maybe not a million, but schumann was willing to pay something to get his wife out of the picture permanently. he set his ill-fated plan in motion when he approached an employee and asked him if he knew someone who would be able to kill his wife. the employee reports him to the local police department and agent sakowski is brought in. he asked that his interview be shot like this. >> so having that background and that knowledge, then i called him up on the phone. >> hello?

>> hey, is jim there? >> speaking. >> hey, jim, my name is eric. glen said that you were looking for somebody to do a job for you? >> his initial reaction when i talked to him was not one of surprised. he sounded like he was expecting the call, and it was very businesslike, very professional. >> as always, like an actor, agent sakowski prepares physically and mentally for the role he is about to play. >> basically, i stop shaving. i wear clothes that are grungy, dir dirty, i have a leather coat that i wear and along with the appearance is the attitude that you bring to that meeting, and i think it's very important that you sell yourself as the best hitman that money can buy and when you combine that attitude with your appearance, if the person intends to hire you

they're going to hire you. >> in the end, schumann's clumsy attempt to have his wife killed as in the case of many amateur would-be killers, lands him in a motel room wired with hidden cameras and microphones. just days before police set up schumann in a motel room they place a very difficult call. >> even though, you know, jim had threatened me, you know, it was such a shock to actually hear someone say your husband is trying to hire someone to get rid of you, and all i could say was oh, my god. oh, my god over and over. that's all i remember saying to him. >> after being told that her husband wants her dead, schumann's wife, susan, goes into hiding until the sting operation is over. >> i didn't know any particulars. i didn't anyone details. i didn't know when, where, how, but i knew that they had this

plan and that, you know, they were going to try to get him on tape and videotape and get the evidence that they needed to take it to court and win. but obtaining sufficient and legal evidence can be tricky in these types of cases. >> entrapment very simply is when a law enforcement officer induces or gets a person to commit a crime they are not already predisposed to commit. i could not tell him that if you don't hire me i'm going to the the police. if you don't hire me i'm coming after you. so it's really clear that we're just providing an opportunity. >> what's the chances of removing her and making her disappear? that can be done. >> is that too tough for you? >> no. that can be done.

>> and not show up again? >> oh, yeah. i mean, you know i drove a couple hundred miles here. you know, there's a lot of places. >> it's best if she disappears and there's no corpse of corals. >> do you care how it's done. do you want her to go quick, in her sleep, do you want her to suffer? does it make a difference in. >> i don't give a [ bleep ]. >> when you're working on undercover capacity and people are nervous they try to dance around the words. they'll use words that appear to mean the same thing. i just want her gone. i want her to disappear, and if you look at that in the context of the meeting and what we're talking about, everybody knows what he wanted done. >> when we come back. >> one important factor in showing intent is a down payment. >> i can't get the money right now. >> i'll tell you what, i've got it buried. in america, we believe in a future

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what's the chances of removing her? making her disappear? that can be done, no. >> no, that can be done. >> and not show up again? >> it is february 20, 19 7 and james schumann, father of two and in the midst of a bitter divorce and custody battle is in a lacrosse, wisconsin, motel room hiring someone he thinks is a hitman to kill his wife 18 years, susan. it has led him instead into the clutches of wisconsin department of justice undercover agent eric

sakowski. >> you know, sometimes i can make it look like an accident. are there stairs in the house? i can maybe, snap the neck and throw her down and it can look like she fell down the stairs. you know, that's a possibility rather than, you know, just taking the body. i'm assuming that you'll be the first guy they'll look at. >> because agent sakowski still works undercover cases he asked that his interview be shot like this. >> as the hitman, i told him about the different ways that i can do it. i'm just being the best hitman that he can possibly hire. i want to do the job right for him, and we also talked about alibi which is very important. >> are you -- could you plan on maybe taking a trip out of town or something? >> he had his alibi all set up.

he was taking his kids to rochester to visit his girlfriend and they were going to be there for the weekend. i mean, i'm sure he thought he was pretty clever. >> agent sakowski knows that he has enough videotape evidence to show schumann's evidence and there was one crucial element missing. >> one important factor of showing intent is a down payment. obviously, a real hitman is not going to do it out of the goodness of his heart and just because he likes his client, so it's important to get a down payment to really prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this is what the person wanted to do. >> i can tell you what i've done before in the past. >> tell me. >> i usually do 10 grand a hit. >> i have ten. >> is that all right with you? >> yeah. >> in fact, i'll tell you what -- i -- i can't get the money right now. i'll tell you what, i've got it buried and there's frost on the

ground right now. >> i can get it done right now. i've got to tell you something, though. you look like a man of mean, okay? >> i am. >> it looks like you can take care of it, but this is something you're going to want to do, okay? because when i get this thing rolling there is no turning back. is this something that you want to do? you want this done because i'm going to do it for you. >> it's the only way i can do it, i think, at this point. she's ruining everything. >> i asked him for the opportunity to think about it, and think, we gave it to him. >> if i decide to pull out the last few days and pull out and send you some money or something to cover your expenses? >> well -- i don't think i'm going to, but -- i've been

living in a [ bleep ] for three years and i'm sick of everything and i'm losing everything to these [ bleep ] attorneys. >> he had ample opportunity to back out, to change his mind, but he's the one that called me a week later on the phone and said he wanted to go through with it. >> speaking of money and stuff, can i get, like a down payment? >> here's my situation, i cannot get to the stuff that's buried and i have to wait until this damn frost leaves and i can come up with a couple thousand dollars cash now for a down payment. would that work? >> mr. schumann offered as much as 20% early on which would have been $2,000 for killing his wife and he told me at the end that he wasn't able to gather up quite that much, but that he did get $1500 and he would leave it out from the country for me and he gave me directions to find

that, and it was left there. >> james schumann is arrested the following morning. >> pretty much just hard to believe. he was so cold in his presentation. there is no emotion. just so cold. i just want her gone. just make her disappear. it's just so hard for me to understand how somebody can have such total disregard for someone else, to have such hatred to someone else. you know, i did love him so much. i really did. schumann was sentenced to 35 years in prison twice. he was found guilty at his first trial, but 22 months later a new trial was order ed because the initial judge had not given jury instructions a charge about an entrapment defense. >> and so we went again and entrapment was used totally against me, and the real interesting thing is that first

jury was out for almost nine hours. the second jury, when they got the entrapment instruction was out for less than half that time. >> even though schumann is now behind bars, susan will always be looking over her shoulder. >> the thing that concerns me the most, of course is that he'll still try to get the job done. he probably hates me more now than ever. he has not taken responsibility for his actions. he has not taken any ownership for what he did. >> when we come back -- >> i'm right now at the point where it's an accident. >> do you want her just hurt in the accident? >> dead. >> okay.♪ ♪ [ doug ] i got to figure this out. i want to focus on innovation. but my data is doubling. my servers are maxed out. i need to think about something else when i run. [ male announcer ] with efficient i.t. solutions from dell, doug can shift up to 50% of his company's technology spend

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had a general practice in a small town nearby in the city of clayton. >> undercover detective scott harn has an appointment with dr. gary parkison, but it isn't for a checkup. >> basically, i need you to help he needs to just go away. he's trying to destroy my life. >> detective harn, of the concord, california, police department is posing as a hit man after his department learns from an acquaintance of parkison he is looking for a hired gun. >> basically, what do you want to know? you want to know why? >> yeah, i'd like to. >> well, this guy's been screwing me really, really bad and trying to get me arrested for a bunch of [ muted ] i didn't do. he's got a lot of money on it. >> what's this guy's relationship to you? >> he's an ex-lover. >> i could see his hand shaking and his voice was trembling a little bit when he was trying to light his cigarette, had problems. i thought he was going to burn up the interior of my car. it definitely put me at ease to see how nervous he was, and i felt more in control of the

situation. >> detective harn is in control of the situation as parkison makes all the right, or should we say wrong, moves? >> basically i need to make sure it doesn't come off on to me. >> parkison has a plan. >> well -- and this is something. because this happens in the gay world. this is hate crime type deal. >> explain it to me. >> basically, the real -- if it was real, what would happen is i would go out, pick some guy up and we'd go off to some cheap hotel and he'd murder me and take my wallet, whatever. or take my money and go and make it look like a sex thing. >> when he gave me the potential victim's name, address, phone number, his habits, a photo of him and half the money up front, i mean, it was very obvious he was going to cross the line between fantasy and reality. >> i tell you what. i'd rather we didn't meet again. can we do a drop somehow on the rest of the money or what?

i got half with me. i brought half with me. >> yeah, we can do that. >> but before he makes the final payment, parkison will want proof of his ex-lover's death? >> what do you want as proof? you want me to take a polaroid photo afterwards or what? >> yeah, if you could. if you could do that, take a polaroid. >> after the meeting, the potential victim is spirited away to a safe location. >> so it actually made it fairly easy for us to go there with a polaroid camera, have him lay on a bed with a belt around his neck, appearing to have been strangled. >> in fact, those who try to hire a hit man often ask for a picture of the corpse as a form of proof that their target is dead, and the police departments have learned how to accommodate them. amy zealand and peyton hobbs are sergeants in the united states air force. they specialize in creating fake wounds for the air force's disaster training unit and are often called in when the colorado bureau of investigation

needs to fake a death. >> the first thing we would do is to, you know, find out what the end result is, find out what kind of scenario that they're trying to create. >> using special makeup, the officers get to work on our volunteer. >> we want to make -- create a hole, you know, that kind of illusion there's a hole there. this stuff you can peel, it is like putty. we start by blending the wax, you know, wherever we wanted to do this. there are two different kinds of bloods that we have. this is a gel form. you can see it, it won't come out. this is stuff that if you will be filming for a long time or you want to have a very specific part of the wound that needs to stay in place. you can use this and stretch it and shape it and make it look like a drip and do all kinds of things with it. >> after creating a simple gunshot wound, the officers make it look like our victim has been roughed up a bit. after about 30 minutes, our victim is ready for his

close-up. a similar fake death photograph was created for california doctor, gary parkison, who asked for proof of his target's demise. one day after hiring undercover detective scott harn, parkison and his boyfriend meet with the hit man to exchange the final snapshot for the final payment. >> i hand him a plastic -- or a paper bag with the photo inside. and the gentleman opened the bag and took a glance at the photo, didn't really make any comment. and closed up the bag. >> parkison is arrested on the spot and is eventually convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life. but you might be surprised to know that in some murder-for-hire cases, prison sentences can be a lot more lenient. case in point, utah pharmacist jay allen roach. in 1999, embroiled in a bitter divorce and custody battle, roach came to this motel to try

was really detective skip curtis of the utah county sheriff's that i think the only way to solve it is an accident. accident then? >> it's got to look like an prescription drugs he steals >> there's 100. .

down payment, his team moves in for the arrest. >> get down! >> no, we're not going to kill

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