Martha does some investigating for him and discovers (through her friend in the Justice Department) that the businessmen murdered were bankers who stole a large sum of money from their largest investor: a trucking company that happens to have ties to the Mafia. With this new evidence, Henry begins to believe that it was all a setup and the Brooklyn boys were likely just caught in the midst of it somehow. He is so determined to get the correct story that he leaves a dinner with Martha and his parents to go to the police station with McDougal (as they need police confirmation that the boys were not responsible for the murder before printing the story).
They corner McDougal's police contact, an officer named Richie, in the station bathroom and through repeated interrogation (and the promise of his anonymity in the story) get him to admit that the kids are indeed innocent and just happened to be walking by the scene of the crime when they were caught. The reason for their arrest was largely due to city officials' insistence that the media portray the NYPD as being on top of such high-profile crimes immediately in order to keep NYC tourism from dropping. Henry and McDougal race back to the Sun office, excited about their exclusive for the paper.
They discover that Alicia has okay-ed the paper's original front-page headline and story stating that the teens were guilty, despite Henry and McDougal having just returned with the evidence proving otherwise. This results in a physical fight between her and Henry, after he tries to stop the presses, which are already printing the papers with the wrong information.
Martha is later rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section due to uterine hemorrhaging. Alicia, accidentally shot by Sandusky in the bar and in the same hospital, has a change of heart, calls the Sun office, has the print room stop the run and the original headline is corrected to Henry's suggestion: "They Didn't Do It", along with McDougal's story. The new editions are printed just in time for the following morning circulation. The movie ends with Martha giving birth to a healthy baby boy, and a morning news radio report states that because of the Sun 's exclusive story, the Brooklyn teens were released from jail with no charges pressed, closing out a wild 24 hours.