Newport Beach, California sits just south of Los Angeles.

It's 2012, and the owner of a marijuana dispensary has been kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead in the Mojave Desert.

It began a decade-long game of cat and mouse between investigators and a perpetrator, a mastermind of escape.

It's a psychopath.

Oh, my God, they let Hannibal Lecter out?

Devil in the desert is out now.

28 days of testimony.

34 witnesses for the prosecution, zero witnesses for the defense.

Over 1,000 pieces of evidence. All of it has brought us here.

Closing arguments and USA v. Sean Combs.

This is Bad Rap, the case against Diddy.

I'm Brian Buckmeier, an ABC News legal contributor and practicing attorney.

This episode, power, violence, and fear.

This is an important part of the trial for both sides. I like to describe closing arguments as the anchor of a 4x100 sprint.

Yeah, you could trip up in the first leg, maybe not be as fast in the third, but that anchor,

that attorney making closing arguments, they're sprinting to the finish line.

Sprinting to win it all.

Thursday, the prosecution summarized the case they've spent over six weeks laying out for the jury.

Prosecutor Christy Slavic gave a nearly five-hour-long presentation.

She recalled the witnesses and evidence they presented, all in the hopes of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Sean Combs ran a criminal enterprise, among other charges.

We'll hear the defense's closing argument Friday, where they'll likely remind the jury

that Sean Combs might be a flawed man, but reject any allegations of sex trafficking or running

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