Ironside (2013) s01e05 Episode Script

Hell on Wheels

- 10-30 on astoria - get and 14th street.
Und.
Pursuit of the robbery suspect.
Keep an eye out.
It's gonna start raining money.
- Don't worry about the cash.
Just stay on him.
- Don't worry about the cash? Just stay on him.
- Say it like I said or don't say it at all.
You know what, when I nod, just key your mic.
- Damn, you're fast.
- Captain of the track team.
When I catch you, I'm tossing you over.
Be careful up there.
I don't want to be scraping anybody off the ground.
Freaking orangutan.
- Don't even think about it.
- Get on the ground.
Get down before you kill yourself.
- Gun.
Backpack.
Go find 'em.
20 yards of roof left.
Do something quick.
- Captain of the football team.
- The harpo bandit.
11 banks in seven days, And you guys caught the pinch.
Keep it up and you're gonna make me look good.
Better you than me.
I'm a big fan of out of sight, out of mind.
That's exactly how the world sees you, bob Quiet, demure, like a little kitty cat.
Where's teddy? I'm right here.
What are you two waiting for? Get your scuba suits on and dive in.
Let's go.
- Investment banker turned dumpster diver.
Should we tip barron's? - Oh, this is great.
God knows I didn't deal with enough garbage On the trading floor.
- Oh, show me on the doll where wall street hurt you, teddy.
I found the backpack, And I'm still looking for the gun.
Found the gun.
Found something else.
â™a Just talked to midtown north.
Looks like you picked up a new case.
What about harpo? - I'll have groucho here drop him off at major crimes.
- They get my collar, and I get an unsolved felony? - You catch it, you clean it.
- We don't even know what we're cleaning.
- You chop up a body for two reasons Stop us from identifying your victim And to let the world know you're an animal.
He might have achieved both.
So far we got no fingers to pull prints off of.
- Start by looking for a white guy missing an arm.
Start with the tattoo.
- Union? - Local 136.
Sandbadgers.
- Benny schwartz.
Hasn't been to work in a week.
I was hoping he was on a bender.
- How can you be so sure it's him? - We dig every tunnel in the city.
There's only 100 of us.
We're family.
- So you guys play with dynamite all day, And we find benny schwartz's arm In a dumpster.
Not sure that's a coincidence.
- Like we accidentally blew him up And threw pieces of him in the garbage? I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt And assume you don't understand What it's like to be a sandbadger.
- So you said he was on a bender.
Does that happen a lot? He just got out of rehab.
You know how that goes.
And he had a new piece on the side.
Don't think that helped matters.
- Has this new piece have a name? Don't remember.
But she had a hell of a face.
- All right, so he wasn't hiding it.
Benny had a lot of qualities.
I wouldn't say smarts or discretion Were high on the list.
I'm gonna need you to send me A copy of that photo.
Sure thing.
- Thanks for your time.
- Gentlemen.
- I know what you're gonna say.
"I'd never hurt benny.
" But you already have.
Two domestic violence charges, You hitting him.
He missed our anniversary And came home two days later drunk.
- So you cracked his skull with a five-iron.
- Putter.
- Second time, you pushed him Down the stairs.
- I never pushed him.
He was so drunk, he thought he was going out the front door And fell down the basement stairs.
My father was a drunk.
I never knew what dad I was gonna get when I came home.
- So what'd you do? - I stopped coming home.
Benny never came back after rehab, did he? No.
- 'cause he didn't want to get pushed down the stairs.
- Because he found some 34-year-old who didn't care That he was covered in hair and hung like a doorbell.
Her? He never brought her home.
What did she see in benny? - Why did you push him down the stairs? I guess I saw this coming.
- She could have pushed him again, Broke his neck, and then hacked him up.
The M.
E.
says it was a chainsaw.
- Big chainsaw or small chainsaw? - Eh, she loved him too much to cut him into pieces.
- So we're back to the side piece? Yup.
Oh, damn, that was amazing.
Hey, you trying to kill me, woman? - Mm-hmm.
- Uh-huh.
Whoo! Hey, what's the hurry? Huh? That was round 1 of a 12-round fight now.
Time to go.
Now or for good? I'm not sure.
- Okay, am I missing something? I thought we were still having fun here.
Six months of fun.
But I can't find someone serious while I'm doing this.
I can try serious.
- I don't want you to be someone you're not.
- Six months with you, I don't even know who I am anymore.
And I damn sure want to find out.
I think I heard that bell For round two.
- Yeah, that's right.
Mm-mm.
- At 1:00 A.
M.
? - You're kidding me.
Everybody knows I'm a cop In the neighborhood, So it could be something.
Robert, it's 1:00 A.
M.
Sit tight.
- What the hell, zoe? - I got trouble, bob.
I got to get off the street.
- That's not how it works.
You can't just - I saw something.
I'm not safe.
I got to get off the street.
- All right.
Come on, come on.
Sit.
Main order of business.
- Locating benny's thing on the side.
- It's not on the side if you're split up.
- How's your marriage working out? Oh, pretty good.
Got a happy wife and kids.
How's that fridge full of haagen-dazs working out? Oh.
- So benny left the typhon treatment center, Checks into a transient hotel on 20th and 11th.
- The bonner? - I don't want to know How you know that.
The clerk recognized The girlfriend, said she's been in and out, But she doesn't live there.
- All your clothes are thrift shop chic.
On purpose if you're On the upper west side.
By circumstance if you're in the village.
What are you doing pulling nooners With a rummy sandbadger? Hey, teddy, I'm gonna need you - Bank accounts, pension info, and atm withdrawals Because I'm teddy phipps, Police accountant.
Only if you found something.
- Maybe motive.
Benny pulled 60,000 Out of his 401k last week.
- Why are there garbage trucks lined up downstairs? - I told sanitation to reroute any trucks From the area we found the arm.
We're gonna find the rest of benny.
Well, teddy should go.
He's already an experienced dumpster diver.
Good point.
Go with him and learn.
Yeah, come on.
- Oh, if I wanted to deal with dirty diapers, I would have just stayed home.
- Come on, this is awesome.
What? I'm serious.
This is why I left hedge funds.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
To dig through the garbage? - No, to stop crunching numbers all day.
Man, I've been on street sweeps, Wiretaps.
I've been on more than my share of capers.
The sarge still has me behind a computer Most of the time.
You think he's punishing me For the undercover op? - I think you'd know if sarge was punishing you.
You used to be on wall street.
Not putting you on money trails is like asking Wonder woman not to use her lasso.
- How about wolverine not using his claws? Nah.
- You guys hit the carcass lottery? - Yes, but I decided to take it in payments Rather than a lump sum.
- I feel like I'm standing in gallagher's meat locker.
Please give me something better Than "we're making calls And following leads" To take upstairs? - Okay.
You can tell them we have a related homicide.
- What the hell are you talking about? - Unless benny was white and black, I'm pretty sure we have another victim.
- We deshawn kimball,t hit male, black, 42.
Chief content officer at wikibubble, A tech startup in midtown.
- Why is he in the system? - Blew double the legal limit driving home From the office christmas party.
And it wasn't the first time.
Last known address Is two years out of date.
But his facebook page is littered With pictures of him partying at bevy house.
- Sounds like the kind of richy-rich douche bag place You'd hang out.
Man, you got me, dude.
I like to hang out with pretty people That speak in complete sentences.
Have the D.
A.
subpoena his financials.
See if he pulled his money like benny.
- Hit him with your lasso, wonder woman.
- Three duis and no jail time.
- He must have had a damn good lawyer.
Nobody's that good.
He beat the third by going to rehab.
Typhon treatment center.
- Hey, that's the same place where benny went.
- Let's see if they bunked together.
- Typhon that's where the job sent gary.
Yeah? - You didn't know where your partner went for rehab? - I was in my own rehab at the time.
Spinal cord injury and all.
- Well, these places have confidentiality issues.
Might be smart to bring someone who's already been there To smooth over the bumps.
- That's a good idea.
He's in fleet services.
Virgil, swing by And pick him up on the way out.
- Me? - Any reason not you? Come on.
- Yeah, I'm definitely being punished.
- â™a whoa, I shoulda hit it â™a â™a I shoulda hit it, I shoulda hit it â™a â™a one last time â™a I shoulda hit it, I shoulda hit it â™a - He's a member.
Can't really talk about it.
- He's dead, so I'll bet you can.
- Not even surprised.
Drugs, right? He was chasing the lifestyle.
Credit cards started getting declined, Checks started coming late.
He goes from bottle service To bringing in his own beers.
You could see the crash coming.
Is tabitha involved? yeah.
Some chicks, right? - Do you know where we can find her? - No.
Kept my distance.
Yeah? - Deshawn pitched me a drug deal.
He wanted to buy six keys of coke, needed the cash.
150% return, and you never had to touch any drugs.
- But you didn't bite? - Wouldn't be talking About it if I did.
- Figured she was behind the deal? - Everything about her vibed too good to be true.
Tabitha's the kind of girl that's got one hand On your leg - The other on your wallet.
- Yeah.
He never saw it coming.
- Talking about killing that greek guy, And then petey realizes I'm in the room.
And he didn't say anything? Yeah, which was worse.
They're gonna kill me, robert.
I know they are.
- Nothing's gonna happen to you, zoe.
We'll find some place for you safe.
- Yeah? Where's that gonna be? Just let me stay here.
Just for, like, a night or two.
You know I feel safe here.
Yeah, okay.
Bob, you got a sec? You are not gonna let her stay here.
- What am I supposed to do? Put her in a cell? - Rule one: I don't care what their history is, You don't let criminals into your home.
- She's a witness.
- That's rule two.
Rule three is you don't let anyone who looks like zoe Stay with you if it's gonna screw up the first solid woman I've ever seen you with.
Would you like some coffee? - Sure.
- I'm gonna call the feds, Set up a meet on neutral ground, And then we're gonna get zoe straight out of here.
Yeah.
- Hey, gary, you got any squares? - Hey, sorry, I quit three months ago.
- Nice to see you, mr.
Stanton.
- You too, ms.
Costello.
What's up, gary? - Could we wrap up the stroll down douche bag memory lane And try to find these files? What do you say? - That's what we're doing.
Trey! - Hey, gary.
Hey, everything okay? - Yeah.
Listen, man, I'm a little light, but I'm working on it.
- A little light? Do me a favor.
- Really? You take this opportunity To shake down some poor bastard Who used to clean the puke off your sheets? That's classy.
- That poor bastard Runs a dice game after lights out, I hit him on a hard eight for three bills.
You got a problem with me, Why don't you spit out the particulars? - Nah, you know what, it's not you.
It's just guys like you Who climb into a bottle, Let everybody down.
And then when you come out you're smiling And grinning like everything was just a joke.
Guys like your old man.
Great damn cop.
If it's any consolation, You're nothing like him.
You want to swing on me? You want to roll around the floor 'cause you disapprove of me? - Maybe after work.
Meantime, I got a job to do, And it has nothing to do with screwing around, Trying to collect gambling debts.
yeah, me too.
we're good? - All good.
Get out of here.
Tell your boss That these cost me $300, So I want dinner at the palm.
Her name's tabitha gates.
She's the counselor for benny and deshawn At typhon.
- Fired for sleeping with her clients? Now we know why gary Went there.
- Did he cross paths with this tabitha? - No, he says no, but 100 patients, 40 counselors, The place is a conveyor belt of boozers.
- Two of you end up fighting in the parking lot? - Sending me there with him, Is that supposed to be some kind Of cautionary tale or something? Depends on what you learned.
You see a home address? - Yeah.
East village somewhere.
- Not just somewhere.
Let's go.
â™a I just gotta be â™a I notice your facility Isn't wheelchair-accessible.
Any reason for that? Probably 'cause we don't care.
- So you want me to arrest you now or should I wait Till you're a full-fledged member? - I'm not afraid of no cop in a wheelchair.
in retrospect Maybe you should have been.
- Back up.
Nypd.
Back up.
Against the wall right now.
Both: Police! Hands in the air! - Hello, ladies.
Does this belong to any of you? I guess not.
- Nypd.
Back up.
Back up.
We're looking for tabitha gates.
- What's going on? - Tabitha gates.
You got a warrant? I like how you said that With a straight face.
Yo, virgil, pick someone else up and throw him at the man.
- You got it.
Come here, buddy.
â™a it always made me flow You guys fighting about me? - It wouldn't be the first time, now would it? Get back in there.
We got some people Don't know where they are.
It's about to get bloody.
It's okay, baby.
You know I've got it under control.
- â™a she said don't play with guns â™a â™a don't play with guns So what brought your country ass moto the big city?.
- Same things as other people.
- You figured, if every man wants to get in those panties, It was better in the penthouse than the back of a pickup truck.
- I still don't know what I'm doing here.
- Benny schwartz and deshawn kimball.
Now you do know.
Just a couple of drunks looking for help, And a sexy little thing like you comes along, And you hit on 'em when they're vulnerable.
it's funny the way you put that.
Vulnerable.
It's like I'm some kind of predator.
- That's 'cause that's what you are, isn't it? You sell a man a dream of the two of you, Then you steer him into a drug deal.
A drug deal? Is that what this is about? It's easy enough Getting a blue collar knucklehead Like benny to fall for you.
After, though, 60 grand Probably didn't seem worth it.
Deshawn eas easier to hit, Had more money.
- A lot of guys spend money on women.
Two of your three boyfriends Got chopped into little pieces.
Oddly enough, the only one who isn't Is a psychopathic biker capable Of chopping people into little pieces.
Was this ricky trying to get rid of evidence? Or was he worried you might have been enjoying yourself? - Interesting moment to give her a break.
- Sometimes you got to fill the room with noise.
Sometimes you have to fill it with silence.
- And sometimes you just don't want to be in the room at all.
- You have a more specific insight you want to share With me, detective? - Only that the one thing she spent her life being good at Is working men.
You think she's working me? You think that's an act? - I think if you're on your game You keep going until you find out.
- So go.
Find out.
- Is there a story here I haven't heard before? Hot girl, messed-up family.
Maybe some things happened as a kid.
Maybe they didn't.
You use sex like a morphine drip, And somewhere along the line You realize men Pay for morphine.
- You think I don't know you too? Hair and shirt pulled back tight.
Give the boys at the office a preview, But never the full show, right? - Not sure what you're afraid to look at.
You knew this is how they were going to end up, right? - This wasn't me.
- No, you just delivered them.
You used sex and loneliness against them Like anesthesia, and then ricky went to work With the scalpel.
Well, chainsaw.
- You don't get to pick your feelings.
Sometimes a lot of times they're the wrong ones.
- You're talking about benny and deshawn? Or are we talking about you? - The fact that you've got to ask Means you wouldn't get it.
- Sure.
I get it.
There are women who trade from millionaires To billionaires, and then there are women Who trade from bad to worse.
You think the scarier the guy, the safer you are.
I don't waste a lot of time With being scared anymore.
- I have no idea what you're doing, but it sure looks smart.
- I told you this was gonna happen.
- They put me in auto theft for two months.
If I ran one more vin number, I was gonna shoot somebody, But I didn't get it like you get this.
Let me show you something.
What do you see here? - Okay, benny and deshawn were buying and selling some stocks.
- Yeah, but how were benny and deshawn Buying and selling some stocks? - Um, with money? - Look at patterns.
They were buying high and selling low.
This is the exact opposite Of what you're supposed to be doing.
- All right, then they were idiots.
No, they were panicked.
They were day-trading their entire 401ks And taking a bath.
- Making them prime targets to be hustled.
Exactly.
So three weeks ago Benny pulls out 60,000.
Deshawn, 120,000.
Now ricky tybor's cousin Owns a motorcycle parts shop In north bergen.
And I ran their comps to L.
Y.
- Oh, no, no, no.
- No, compared their receipts To last year's, and guess how much they outperformed by? - 180,000.
Let's go show sarge.
- Can you tell him that you found it? Come on, this will keep me Behind the computer for another month.
It's a classic grift.
Find guys who are in trouble, offer 'em a quick way out.
- A too-good-to-be-true drug deal.
- Then when the check clears, she sends in the scary boyfriend To chase them away.
Only this ricky tybor goes too far.
- Or maybe she was there putting gas in the chainsaw.
I don't think so.
Based on what? - The situation, my read off her, And what do I base anything on? Seldom anything I can take to the D.
A.
So you want to offer her a deal? She won't take it.
She's in too deep with this guy.
Too confident she can handle him.
I think she's gonna walk out on me.
And? - And I need to hold her for a while, Let her marinate.
Only you got nothing on her.
No reason to hold her, not even a bad one.
If she walks out of here, Tybor's gonna kill her.
- Well, did you play that card yet? - No.
- Why not? She got you spun out? - Hey, hey.
- Shake it off, get in there, And lean on her.
If she doesn't take the offer, that's on her.
She made her bed, now she sleeps in it.
It's this simple.
You need ricky tybor out of your life, And a deal with me is your best shot to make that happen.
- What? Reduced jail time? Get out and wait for the shepherds to come after me? Or you cut me loose, you give me a new name And a job in minnesota.
- Don't tell me your game plan is to walk back Into the very clubhouse I just walked you out of And convince ricky that you didn't cooperate here.
- That is the only plan you've left me with.
- Ricky is not benny or deshawn.
Even if he was capable of loving you, Capable of loving anything, he's still the president Of the new york chapter of satan's shepherds.
You know too much.
- You're right about one thing.
The longer I'm here, The harder it's gonna be to handle him.
- That's the same thing every lion tamer says The last time they get inside the cage Before they see the claws and teeth.
But if you walk out that door, Then I-I can't protect you.
- It's sweet that you thought you could In the first place.
- Yeah, okay, just hold a beat.
Fbi's down the block.
I'm gonna take a walk, make sure we're okay.
All right.
- You think I'd be used to getting passed around.
- Uh, it's not like that.
- What's it like? Gary and I are narcotics.
This isn't even our case.
We're putting you in good hands.
- I don't remember you giving away murder collars before.
This have to do with your latest? Hey, she Let's not talk about that.
- Think it was ever about me helping you fight crime? Or the money? - We closed that chapter, zoe.
All right? You made me feel safe.
It's just always ever been about what made me feel safe.
I gotta go wash up.
- Uh-uh.
You walk out the back, I can't help you anymore.
I was lying.
I didn't see anything, I didn't hear anything.
Just looking for an excuse to see you.
Guess in the cold light of day that all sounds Pretty stupid, huh? - All right, zoe.
We're set.
She ready? You let her go? Police, get down.
â™a â™a yeah - Get down on the ground right now! Get your ass down right now.
Put your hands on the desk.
Put your hands on the desk.
Show me the warrant.
Where's tabitha gates? - I haven't seen her since yesterday.
- Since she rode away on the back of your bike? We stopped for papaya dogs On 8th street, and she bolted.
Maybe you gave her the wrong idea about me.
- You better hope she's halfway through a bowl of gumbo Down in louisiana right now, Because your life is tied to hers.
Zoe, it's bobby.
Stop playing games and call me back.
This is my fifth message now.
I don't care who you're with Or what you're doing, But just let me know you're okay.
If you can't call me, text me, something.
Get back at me.
I can help you.
Through force and intimidation, You have convinced people you are powerful, But I'm gonna impart a lesson to you, a lesson About real power.
Anybody with a warrant will be found and put in jail.
Now I'm gonna go through your cell phones And randomly arrest your contacts.
You can thank your boy ricky here that each and every one Of you are on my radar, and there's only one way To make your problems disappear.
Give up ricky for the double murder And turn over tabitha gates.
- Shoulders on the wall, please.
Shoulder on the wall.
Thank you.
Come on.
- So we're going with the direct approach.
You can't slow-play tybor.
This kind of pressure, maybe I keep more bodies from dropping.
Like tabitha gates? Pull over to the curb.
Get off your bike.
- Sobriety checkpoint.
Let's go.
Off the bikes.
- I said get off your bike.
- Get off the bike.
Let's go.
I need you to blow into this.
- I was about to tell you the same thing.
- That's one.
- I told you To get off the bike, didn't I? I haven't had a drop all day.
The lugs on your forks Are worn down from being taken on And off so much, So what are you smuggling? - Yo.
That's my bike.
You kidding me? - Run it over.
- You need a search warrant to look inside my bike.
- Damn, you know, he's right.
Hey, teddy, why don't you go To the greek and get me a pepper and egg sandwich? - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What the hell are you doing? - Oh, my bad.
I thought it was in drive.
Oh.
- Yeah.
- Is that yours? Stolen vin numbers.
Such a large felony for such small pieces of metal.
Hands on your head.
Been two days off parole For a nickel bid up at attica.
Too bad for you, huh? Yeah, two burglary charges As a juvenile, three assaults, grand larceny.
Pretty decent little record there, milton.
Bagger.
- Yeah, I would have changed it too.
Where's ricky hiding tabitha? - Shepherds ain't beneath making house calls, Badge or no badge.
You sure are a bad ass, huh? The proof is right there.
- I don't know who or what you're showing me.
That's what sit down.
That's what a drug deal Gone wrong looks like.
Shepherds don't touch drugs.
- I got money for a drug deal turning up At a bike parts store in north bergen.
Same store you were delivering those stolen vins too.
Shepherds don't touch drugs.
It's the national mandate.
Ricky didn't get the memo.
He's striking out on his own, And that's gonna start a war, Taking down the whole chapter including you.
- He said he wanted to break off on his own.
I thought he was talking to hear himself talk.
I'm guilty.
I stole the bike, The parts.
Hell, I'll cop to shooting kennedy.
Just get me off the street.
- A biker wanting to get arrested? That's a new one.
'cause there's a war brewing.
Going outside club policy, Branching into drugs.
- Tybor's building a war chest? Yeah, I'll let him know.
Teddy just called.
We got another body.
- Victim died from blunt force trauma to the head, Legs, and heart.
Tabitha.
No evidence, no street cameras, has no nothing.
Zed.
You knew she was dead already When she left the wheelhouse, didn't you? - The minute she walked out the door.
You got a big opportunity in front of you.
A ride in your chair? A chance to turn yourself in For tabitha's murder.
- Oh, she was a firecracker in the sack.
Double-jointed.
I'm gonna miss her.
- You want to thrown in deshawn kimball And bernard schwartz, I'm not gonna stop you.
- You've been harassing me around the clock.
Crime scene in and out of the clubhouse.
Every inch of my life picked over.
Fact that I'm here not in cuffs says it all.
You're done.
You lost this one.
- But in here, inside this building, Inside the criminal justice system Is the last place you're ever gonna feel safe again.
You walk out that door, It's out of my hands.
Streets can be rough.
Don't blame the shark For eating the tuna.
In her memory, though, When I ride back to the clubhouse, I'm gonna bang some broad, Get drunk, pass out.
When I wake up tomorrow, I'm gonna do it all over again.
Then I guess we're done here.
Drive me to the airport.
Where are you going? None of your business.
- Really? - If it ever goes to court, You have no knowledge of my whereabouts.
John covich.
National president doesn't see Every bum that comes rolling up on his gate.
Tell him the detective That's been shaking down His new york chapter Is sitting out front.
Then you tell him you turned me away Without finding out why I'm here.
- So you're my new york problem, huh? What, come out to cali looking for a handout? - Ricky tybor is your new york problem.
- If you had anything on him, you wouldn't have flown All the way out here.
no, you're right.
I came up empty.
Tybor roped these two men into a drug deal, Collected the cash, and then chopped them into little pieces.
- Now you know the problem with that story.
Yeah, it seems shepherds Are paragons of virtue Who don't handle drugs, And maybe that's true.
Maybe there weren't any drugs, But all I got left Is to get the D.
E.
A.
interested in a rico case, Which means wiretaps, Which means a half a dozen federal agencies Hearing you talk about whatever you're into That we don't even suspect yet.
- You've gotta leave before you hurt yourself.
No police department's gonna miss any crippled cop.
You're right.
I don't even know why I'm still here.
Drugs or not, I gotta wonder if ricky tybor kicked up Any of that 180,000 he made off his vics.
And, if not, I gotta wonder, What is he planning on doing with all that money? I'm not about plants.
They die.
Not if you water them.
- Tell you what - What? Why don't you water them? Be there to water them.
- Mm, when the man turns on a dime, he turns on a dime.
If I move in, the couch goes.
What's wrong with my couch? Oh, these will look nice In the living room.
Yeah.
- More body parts dropped.
- Whose? - We don't know yet.
Tybor strikes again.
Or it could be one we missed the first time.
Garbage truck driver called it in.
- Man or woman? - Don't know.
Haven't opened the right bag yet.
Hey.
Calling you out for how you dealt With tabitha I was out of place.
- If you were wrong, she'd still be alive.
Sarge.
Oh.
Ricky tybor.
Who do you think did this? - Could have been any number of people.
- So out on the street three years When I roll up on a domestic.
First on the scene, I walk in and find The wife knocked unconscious and the guy buck naked.
He had been up freebasing for days.
Backup arrives, and we finally cuff him.
Took six of us.
We're dragging him out when I look over And I see a diaper on the floor.
So I ask him where the kid is, But he won't answer.
So I search the house and finally find the baby, Ten months old, Just a little girl stuffed in a drawer.
She had a bow clipped in her hair, a yellow daisy.
And I sat at my desk all night long With a gun in my hand trying to figure out Why I shouldn't go to the holding cell and kill him.
And why did you figure? Because that's not my job, And it's not who I am.
In your heart I thought you were the same way.
That's why I always cover for you.
'cause I believed you were on the side of the angels.
- Well, then god bless the angel That killed tybor.
- Whoever he was, he wasn't a cop, Not on that day.
- You can't have it both ways.
You can't say tabitha made her own bed, Now she's got to sleep in it, And then get mad when that same justice Falls on the guy that killed her.
- You know what, I said my piece.
And I'm gonna sleep like an angel tonight.
How about you?
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