LOS ANGELES — With a grainy surveillance video and an impossible wish to turn back time, three days of closing arguments in Phil Spector's murder trial ended Friday.

A prosecutor, gazing toward a security camera image of Lana Clarkson walking the music legend to his car hours before her fatal shooting, told jurors, "You want to say, 'That's Phil Spector. Don't go. You don't want to go. You don't want to go with him. Don't get in that car.'"

Jurors are to begin deliberating a second-degree murder charge against the 67-year-old Spector Monday. He faces 15 years to life if convicted.

The nine men and three women listened to final pitches from both sides Friday. Prosecutors are permitted to deliver a rebuttal to the defense's argument because they shoulder the burden of proof.

Phil Spector could learn his fate next week as jurors begin their deliberations.

The futile desire to save Clarkson from her fate was a theme throughout the prosecution summations and in concluding his argument Friday afternoon, a deputy district attorney acknowledged nothing could change the fact of her Feb. 3, 2003, death.

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"She got in the car. She ended up in the house and she ended up dead," Deputy District Attorney Patrick Dixon said.

Pointing to Spector at the defense table, the prosecutor said, "He killed Lana Clarkson and, based on all the evidence in this case, I would ask you to hold Phil Spector responsible for Lana Clarkson's murder."

Earlier in the day, a defense attorney, Linda Kenney-Baden, concluded a six-hour argument by urging jurors to focus on forensic evidence which she said proved Clarkson killed herself.

She said jurors should disregard accounts of five women who said Spector threatened them with guns when they tried to leave his home or hotel room at night.

"They want you to convict him on this alleged motive to kill even though these women have nothing to do with the night in question," she said.

Kenney-Baden suggested the number of women who testified about gun violence by Spector was proof that he was not a serial abuser of females. If he was, she said, many more women than five would have taken the stand.

"The man was 63 years old — how many dates had he had over the course of his life?" she said.

The argument drew objections from prosecutors who noted outside the presence of the jury that they had evidence of more than 14 incidents in Spector's past involving brandishing weapons. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler ruled only five were admissible.

The judge agreed that Kenney-Baden had given jurors a false impression, turning "a shield into a spear." He said he would instruct jurors that they could not draw the inference Kenney-Baden made, but would not inform jurors about the other incidents as the prosecutors had requested.

Responding to the defense address, Deputy District Attorney Patrick Dixon talked about few of the scientific specifics raised by Kenney-Baden, but offered jurors a computer-generated animation of the shooting which he described as "our view of what happened here."

Deputy District Attorney Patrick Dixon showed the animated video to jurors.

The animation depicted a cartoon version of Spector holding a gun in Clarkson's face as she sat in a chair in his mansion foyer. In the video, Spector held the weapon with his right hand while Clarkson attempted to fight back, grabbing at the hand that held the gun and pushing at Spector with her right.

The animation showed the gun discharging in Clarkson's mouth and the recoil sending Spector's arm upward.

Dixon said the position of his arm immediately after the gunshot would explain how blood spatter got on the back of his jacket sleeve.

Also Friday, Fidler threatened to impose a gag order after Spector's wife, Rachelle, gave an interview to Court TV insisting on her husband's innocence. Without naming the 26-year-old, the judge said he believed "family members" were giving media interviews in a bid to sway jurors' opinions. He said that, even though the panelists were admonished to avoid media coverage, such interviews concerned him.