Alvin Maleth

And I'm Maurice Shema.

This is the final episode of The Last 12 Weeks.

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I'm with Greg, who's a couple hundred miles away in Livingston, Texas.

For this final push in the case, Greg has decided to set up a one-man war room at a Holiday Inn here, about 15 minutes from death row.

He's in a pretty Spartan suite on the third floor that overlooks a parking lot and a dollar store.

A desk covered in papers, a small mountain of bottled drinks.

He's got more than one novel on his bed stand, which seems a little optimistic given the circumstances.

Greg could do his legal work from anywhere with an internet connection, but he chooses to do it from here so that he can visit David as much as possible in these next few days.

That and because it was in this exact Holiday Inn years ago that he won a stay of execution for another client.

He figures he'll take all the luck he can get.

I plop down on a faux leather couch in his room as he gets to work.

The legal specifics of what Greg and the other lawyers are going to be up to in the run-up to the execution are interesting, and I'll get to them.

But there is one not-strictly-legal thing I've been wondering about this moment for Greg.

I'm curious about his relationship with David, what potentially losing him might mean for Greg.

He explains it to me by way of comparison.

A lot of his other death row clients, Greg tells me, have had severe mental illnesses, like schizophrenia.

Communicating with them could be challenging.

Greg cared for these men and fought for them, but he wouldn't describe those relationships as all that close.

Over those 16 years, Greg has shared more about his personal life with David than he otherwise might have with a client.