Homicide: Life on the Street s01e08 Episode Script

There's a 9 mm here.
Yeah.
OK, Charles, Chantal.
- Whoa! - Yeah, that's a hell of an exit wound.
Big time malice and the intent at issue.
Somebody was really miffed at this guy.
- I guess it wasn't about toilet paper.
- Some strange Baptist boy.
- That could be foreign ammo.
- What, bullets from elsewhere? What about "Made in America"? If you kill here, buy here.
This is funky.
Look at the pillow case round his head and the bruising on his neck and shoulders.
Look at his fingers.
Charlie, look at his fingers.
Every finger's broken.
Bruising like this, the delivery is measured.
And the spacing between the bruising.
Well, I'm willing to call it suicide, if you are.
- It was a message.
- Hold on! - His name is Lin Cheng Wong.
- You know this guy? - He was a student here, at university.
- Do you know the man, Miss? - And who are you? - Tan Rui Chow.
- Wait, what's your name again? - Tan Rui Chow.
Tan Rui Chow.
Dengshu knew this was going to happen.
He was one of the student leaders in Tiananmen Square.
He escaped and has been hunted ever since.
He knew they'd catch up with him.
Wait, who is they? Come on.
Who's they? The other ones who would call you in the night and play funeral music over the phone.
They're the ones who send you a list of all your relatives back in China, and where your relatives live.
They're the ones who are behind you in a check-out line at the supermarket, taking notes of every item in your shopping cart.
Now, this may go on in China, but you're in America now and You don't believe that the old leaders in Beijing would do this in America? They wouldn't dare.
That's what they'd like you to think.
That's what they're counting on.
You always start your day with a soda pop and a candy bar? What can I say? Every day's a holiday, every meal's a feast.
What have we got? So far, no ID on the body, no plates on the van.
- This guy was a farmer? - Farmer? How do you know? Well, these buds are yellowed.
That's when they run off of phosphate from the fertilizers in the farm.
Yeah, this is low-grade trade harvested dope grown in an irrigation ditch of a farm, near a main highway.
- Near a highway? - Yeah.
See the brown speckling near the crown of the bud? That's from sulfur gas emissions near where it was grown.
Very impressive! Did you know Washington and Jefferson grew this stuff? Washington and Jefferson grew marijuana? They had hemp plantations and marijuana comes from hemp.
Wait, hold on! - This George Washington? - Yes.
How else did he finance his campaigns? By chopping down cherry trees and posing for postage stamps? The foundation of this country is hemp.
The flag was sown from hemp, our declaration was written on hemp.
Take a stroll in the National Archives and take a whiff.
That's not papyrus you're smelling.
Munch, you know too much about this.
Hey, Munch, is there anything you wish to admit to statement? Yes, I love the way Hendrix played the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock.
Ready? You come ten minutes before we go to Court and ask me if we're ready? - Don't screw this up! - How can I? It came in pretty screwed.
I wanna see Ida Mae avenged.
She was a user, but a good mother.
She never hurt anybody but herself.
The evidence we have connecting Johnson to the murder is sufficient to get a conviction, but not by much.
No murder weapon, no confession, no motive, no witness.
- A witness? Call William Lyness.
- No! Success in this case rests on your testimony.
It's credibility in the eyes of the jurors.
Call Lyness, he gave the bullets that killed Ida Mae.
Was William selling cocaine for Johnson? Yes.
Does he own a.
38? Yes.
Is he a viable suspect himself? Yes.
He's a loose cannon on a leaky rowboat.
Rowboats don't have cannons.
Lyness heard his own mother being tortured and killed in the exact same way by Johnson on the exact same night Ida Mae was.
This case concerns only the murder of Ida Mae Keene.
We can't mention Alexandra Lyness.
When you're on the stand, don't.
- You're making a big mistake.
- When did you get YOUR law degree? - Is the medical examiner here yet? - I think so.
- Maggio from the Crime Lab? - What about him? - I told him he could go fishing.
- Well, I need him today.
- Let's give him a call.
Got his number? - No, please.
Both of you just go! We just passed Dr Scheiner and Maggio in the hall.
Why did you lie to him? - I don't know.
Cos I can - Oh! Wow, it's a beautiful city.
All we've got to do is go to the Chinese embassy to ask what they know about Ling Chang Wong's murder.
- Any idea where you're going? - Yes.
Look.
The cradle of our nation.
I don't know why I let you talk me into this.
The map is too big.
Stop looking at the map.
You missed the Embassy Road cutoff back there.
It's the White House.
We want Embassy Road here.
We'll find Embassy Road.
Look at this, man.
It's the Washington Monument.
See? We're not - This is wrong.
- I know a short cut.
- You know a short cut? - Yes, relax! This is the problem.
Whenever you tell me to relax, that's my cue to not relax.
I'm surprised, the traffic isn't bad.
Considering it's midday and it's DC.
It's a big city.
I don't think we're doing bad for timing at all.
What are you doing? It's not the embassy, it's a restaurant.
Would you get back in the car? Look at this.
I can't believe I'm here.
- Where? - This is ah It's like we're purified.
I can smell the electric It smells like a storm coming along, like rain is coming.
It smells like history.
It smells like Chinese food.
Would you get in the car, please? This is the Surratt House.
This is the house where Mary Surratt lived.
This is the house where Mary Surratt's son meets with John Booth and they together conspire the assassination of President Lincoln.
And this is 125 years later.
This is a car from the City of Baltimore, and we're 45 miles away from Baltimore.
Would you get back in the car? Would you get back in the car, please? I'd like to call to the stand Dr Scheiner, the ME for Baltimore.
I hate not being allowed in the courtroom.
I hate only being allowed in to testify.
I hate being sequestered.
That's because you don't know how to pack.
- Where did you get that from? - It's not just a TV it's a VCR, it plays 8 mm films! I got it at the Property Division auction for unclaimed stolen merchandise.
I also got a circular saw, a gas grill and a rowing machine.
The place is a gold mine.
Best deals in town.
Objection, your Honour.
Then Danvers picks Scheiner to put on the stand.
He's the least dynamic coroner in town.
- Carrot stick? - No.
- Orange juice? - No.
- Celery? - No thanks, Beau.
- Wanna watch Oprah? - Will you stop? - What are you doing this weekend? - I don't know.
- How about you? - I'm driving my wife up to her hometown.
- Oh, yeah, where is she from? - Boring.
You're the one who brought it up.
No, it's the name of the town.
Boring, Maryland.
- She's from a place called Boring? - You wonder why we're in counselling? What do Boring people I mean the people of Boring, what do they do? They go to the Boring firehouse where the Boring PTA has boring Bingo every night.
Every June, they have the Boring gas engine show.
Your Honour, I'd like to request Thank you.
- How is it going? - More detail than called for.
I told the jury how much the victim really suffered.
- How did Johnson react? - He adjusted his crotch and yawned.
That sonofabitch! Just wait till I get on the stand.
Is that Chinese for embassy? - Mr Dengshu? - Ni hao ma? - Xie xie.
Ni? - Hai hao.
There's a lot about me you don't know.
Mr Dengshu, I'm Detective Lewis, this is Detetective Crosetti.
- How are you? - Baltimore PD.
Baltimore? What would the Baltimore police want here? You speak beautiful English, sir.
I graduated from Ohio State.
I sure recognise that Midwestern twang.
We're here about the apparent murder of a Chinese student.
- In Baltimore? - At the university.
- We found his body this morning.
- A Chinese student at the university? - His name is Lin Cheng Wong.
- We believe Mr Wong feared for his life.
I knew Wong, we once had a conversation in Beijing.
- Was it in Tiananmen Square? - Yes.
He was at the end of one bullhorn, I was at the end of another.
A remarkable and articulate young man.
Bullhorns are not very conducive for conversation.
- Especially when the tanks are rolling.
- Right! Sir, do you have any idea why someone would wanna hurt Lin Cheng Wong? I would have thought that someone in Wong's own circle is the murderer.
So, you're saying that you and your government have nothing to gain by seeing Mr Wong hurt? And everything to lose.
Tiananmen Square is a long time ago.
We are more interested in our "favourite nation" status than in one youth.
- Mm-hm, great.
- Yeah.
- Well, thank you very much, sir.
- You're welcome.
Xie xie.
Do you believe all that? All I know about Chinese people is old Charlie Chan movies.
He was played by a white man.
- Have you seen Pembleton? - Not today.
I beeped him but he didn't respond.
On the drug killing, we identified the man in the van as one Andros Erban.
He's a middleman for a drug dealer named Elwan Jones, aka Hendrick Hanson, aka Chuck the Cellist.
Anything on this Charles Hanson guy? We got an address in Dickeyville, but he wasn't home.
Bolander is there right now.
- Go away or I'll call the police.
- I am the police, Ma'am.
- I don't wanna talk to you.
- Just a minute.
I am not gonna say anything bad about Elwan Jones.
- No, I am not.
- That's fine.
- Is that cos he was a friend of yours? - That's right.
Wow! He would kind of help you out and carry up the groceries? You've been watching me.
No, I haven't been watching you.
No, Ma'am.
I'm just trying to find out the truth about something that happened.
I'm afraid the truth is that your friend is a dangerous man.
He's not! He's just a child.
Sweet man-child.
Did you hear about the body that was discovered in Lincoln Park? Yes.
You know what happened? I heard some yelling and I looked out the window and I saw Elwan holding a gun to another man's head.
Then they left in the other man's van.
And that is all I know.
"Basic Instinct".
Hmmm, the uncut version.
Is it the knife you recovered from the scene? Yes, sir.
It is.
We found the knife on the bed.
Did the blood stains on the Should we try to catch someone higher up the food chain at the embassy? Give me six bucks.
- Put it on your gas card! - What? - Put it on your gas card! - No, I'll never get reimbursed.
Put it on your gas card and I'll verify you paid the 12 lousy bucks.
Give me the six bucks.
Come on.
I pay taxes, I know how it works.
I'm not gonna out on a limb for the whole schmoo.
The whole schmoo? Secret Service? What the hell they want? Just as I expected, the Federallies! What's up, fellas? Is it about messing up a mahjong game or something? It's the unsual nonsense.
Office gets a call about two detectives harassing a person at the Chinese embassy.
Mr Gruszynski, we didn't harass anybody, it was very civil.
Work in this circle long enough and you'll see how fickle these diplomatic people are.
No matter the country, they all get hair-balled when people come around on a homicide investigation.
I'm not gonna romance you but there isn't the remote possibility that you'll interview anybody at the embassy.
Give it up.
- You're saying we can't do our job? - I'm saying, "Don't waste your time".
We share reciprocal protection with the Republic of China.
You know something It doesn't matter if I do.
We're not pursuing an investigation.
You know who did it, don't you? - Bayliss, where's Pembleton? - I don't know.
Don't say I dont know.
He's your partner.
Like a lover, he should never be far from your thoughts.
- That was poetic.
- I'm not in the mood! Captain Barnfather and Colonel Granger wanna see him.
How does it look that I don't know where one of my men is? How does it look when Pembleton doesn't check in with me? It reflects badly on my authority as Chief Commander.
Why did the bosses wanna talk to Pembleton? The bosses are definitely up to something.
Munch? I don't care.
All I wanna do All I want you to do is to find Pembleton.
And I will.
He had a pillow round his head like some kind of animal as a friend of his told us.
- Tan Chow? - Er, Tan Rui Chow.
- Tan Rui Chow.
- Tan Rui Chow doesn't exist.
What are you talking about? We talked to her.
We interviewed her at the crime scene.
We know you talked to a woman.
There's no Tan Rui Chow in our records.
Whoever she was boarded a plane for Montreal ten minutes after you guys interviewed her.
Then she got on an Air France flight, which is now somewhere over the Arctic, on its way to China.
You're saying this woman shot Wong? I don't know but it's strange to leave the country so quickly, isn't it? So, you're saying it wasn't anyone from the Chinese embassy in DC, right? I don't know.
He doesn't know.
So, this woman knows we'll find out that she's not who she said she is.
- Yes.
- All right.
It's All right.
Say I wanna contact you tomorrow.
- Say I wanna call Gr Cr - Gruszynski.
Right, I call here.
I call here and I say, "I'd like to speak to Agent Gruszynski.
" Cos you'll be Gruszynski tomorrow.
I hope so.
Whether it's me or not who can tell? I'm kidding.
I'll be here tomorrow.
Now is there some place you'd like to go while you're visiting the capital? Right now, he's gonna be our tour guide.
- You're serious? - Yeah.
- There's a place I'd like to see.
- Let's do it.
My partner and I arrived to find Mrs Keene lying on her back.
She'd been pronounced dead at 4:40.
- Was there a sign of forced entry? - No, the burgler alarm was turned off.
- Which tells you - She knew her attacker.
Objection.
Calls for speculation.
Judge Madden, Detective Howard is a decorated Homicide investigator.
She's been a primary on 50 cases and involved in a hundred others.
Her powers of speculation are more than valid here.
Overruled.
What else makes you think that Mrs Keene knew the attacker? Her clothes were in a neat pile, as if she had undressed while standing.
- Undressed, for her lover? - Yes.
Mrs Keene was first attacked while lying on her back in bed.
The knife scratches on the headboard prove it.
Your Honour, can we let the jury determine what proves what here? Yes, Detective, stop swerving in your lane.
Sorry.
No further questions.
Although I do wish to recall the detective later.
Mr Russom, cross-examination? The victim was stabbed how many times? Several dozen.
- You don't know the number exactly? - Several dozen! - The victim was also shot, once! - Yes.
At least, you're sure about that, huh? - Was the apartment tidy? - Yes, very well kept.
A laboratory technician discovered human hair on the bed sheets.
Were they checked to see if they belonged to someone else? You can't tell from a hair who it belonged to.
Can you at least determine if it comes from a black or a white person? Yes, but you can't go much farther.
So, the hairs recovered were never compared to anyone else's.
That doesn't sound very thorough.
- Objection.
- Sustained.
- Was the victim a smoker? - I don't know.
You don't know.
These cigarettes were recovered at the scene.
Did it occur to you to find out if the victim was a smoker? Or if Mr Johnson smoked? Or perhaps they belong to someone else entirely, like the real murderer? - Objection.
- Sustained.
For the record, Mr Johnson does not smoke.
One last question, Detective.
The victim was pronounced at 4:40.
What is the estimated time of death? Rigor mortis was fully set.
The blood underneath the victim's head was dry, coagulated.
It seems to me she had been dead for at least 24 hours.
- 24 hours? - Er, no Not So in your expert's opinion, the murder took place I'm sorry, I take that back.
at 5pm the previous day, not around midnight? I got confused.
I meant to say less than er at least 12 hours.
Are you You get confused a lot, don't you, Miss? No further questions.
Court will recess for one hour.
You made a slip about the time of death, which you corrected immediately.
- Stop beating yourself up.
- You heard Danvers this morning.
The case rests on the jury being able to believe our word over Johnson's.
- Ed, listen, I'm so sorry.
- It's OK.
- No, it's not OK.
- It's OK.
- It's not OK! - It's OK, Kay! - Are you stuttering? - Just stay out of this.
The damage is fixable.
Russom's clearly gonna go for the "shoddy police work" defence.
I'll call LaToya Kennedy to the stand to put holes in Johnson's alibi.
- You'll put me back on the stand, right? - Maybe.
"Maybe.
" - Got a gun? - Always.
Put me out of my misery, would you? - Gee, look who popped up.
- There you are.
I'm sorry, Lieutenant.
I was working on the Lily case.
I don't care.
Go to Colonel Granger's office.
Now.
Yes, sir.
Trials and tribulations of the civilised world.
- Gee, you want this last cruller? - Yes.
- You want the whole cruller? - I'll split it with you.
All right.
- Hey.
- Oh, Munch.
I always knew you were buzz at smoke camp.
I'm gonna change my hair, get a bigger badge, maybe a tattoo.
What's the matter? I don't think I'm projecting the proper cop aura.
As I was parking my car, this 20-year-old guy comes running by, looks at me and throws me his dope.
A few seconds later a squawker comes by chasing him.
This guy scoped me up, thought I was John Q Moron and tossed me his dope.
Tell me why that kid tossed you a bag of dope.
I don't know.
Maybe I don't look like a cop.
- I've got a face you could trust.
- No, you don't.
- Did you catch the kid? - He's dead.
He pulled out a.
38 and my partner had to shoot him.
That's great.
Another homicide.
Half the killings in this city are from drugs, drug-related murders.
If they legalised drugs, the killings would stop overnight.
If you legalise drugs, this city will drown.
Like prohibition worked! This war on drugs should take a hint from the past.
The war on drugs? Give me a break.
It's more like a pea shoot.
We spent 61 billion dollars kicking Saddam out of Kuwait.
We spend 11 million fighting drugs.
If coke and heroin were taxed, we could pay off the national debt.
Oh, yeah! Why not let the mafia make all the money? Let's get the Government involved too.
- Get them into extortion, loan sharking - They're not now? We could take the revenue from sales to create rehab clinics and educational programmes.
The Government can't even deliver the mail, you know that.
Now you want them doling out grams and joints with integrity? There's more deaths from a year of legalised smoking than from ten years of illegal drugs.
Man, that is my point exactly.
Tobacco and alcohol are legal.
They're drugs and when they're abused they kill.
We don't get a whole lot of street killings over a Marlboro Light.
It happens, but it's very rare.
- You're gonna drive yourself crazy.
- I'm not.
- You're gonna drive me crazy.
- I want to know what's going on in here.
He's had LaToya Kennedy on the stand for over an hour.
It's hard working a case.
When it goes to trial, we get sent to the showers.
I haven't lost the case yet that went to jury trial.
And I sure don't wanna lose this one.
Don't worry about it.
Danvers will get Pony.
Danvers is the best State Attorney in in the state.
- Danvers never listens to my advice.
- He listens, he evaluates.
- And then he argues the case his way.
- He's fair, I guess.
He preps hard.
His closing arguments are very persuasive, sometimes even moving.
Sure he bitches and moans, but he is a fighter.
He hates to lose.
There's more than that, though.
He doesn't like to see a guilty man go free.
- You are smitten.
- What? - With Danvers.
- Oh, come on.
No, no, no.
It's a classic syndrome.
You're both pissing each other.
But underneath you're both fighting intense sexual desires.
- Will you stop? - Look how dressed up you got today.
I wanted to make a good impression.
- On Danvers.
- On the jury.
Kay, you have to learn to face your inner passions.
I am not in love with Ed Danvers.
I'm gonna call you again in about ten minutes.
And then I'll be finished and I can sit in the courtroom, right? Yeah.
Oh, listen You can't mention Alexandra Lyness unless Russom leads you to it.
And when you take the stand, watch out for the blood on the floor.
- Blood? - LaToya Kennedy, the girlfriend.
I killed her, I destroyed her.
I shoved her head first into the high speed blender of justice.
I puréed Johnson's alibi.
Sometimes you're good, sometimes you're lucky.
Today, damn it, I was both.
What? Detective Pembleton.
Welcome, sit down.
- Thank you, sir.
- Can I get you a beverage? Coffee? No, thank you, sir.
If I may speak frankly, I feel as though I'm about to be disciplined or perhaps fired.
No, no.
Not at all.
We've called you here on a matter of the utmost importance.
And delicacy.
Don't discuss what we're about to say with anyone.
- Especially Lieutenant Giardello.
- Why especially him? We understand we're putting you in a potentially awkward situation.
- But necessity demands.
- Just trust us, OK? OK.
We're in the process of reorganising the Homicide unit, to increase efficiency, credibility - Morale.
- Yes.
Morale.
Are you with us? Sure, morale has been down lately.
And the retirement of Jim Scinta as the commander of the other shift, gives us an opportunity to shake the second floor up.
Since you joined the unit, your performance evaluations have been exemplary.
Your investigative work has been consistently outstanding.
I don't know.
My last case was Jake the dog.
I wouldn't call that outstanding.
More like, pathetic.
Your swift capture of his killer saved this department much embarrassment.
We'd like to place your name on a very short list of people to replace Scinta.
What? We want you to work alongside Giardello, as the other Commander of Homicide.
Er Well - Think about it.
- Oh, yes! Thank you, sir Yes.
We know the defendant got the wadcutter bullets from William Lyness the night of the murder.
The car Mr Johnson drives matches the one seen outside of Mrs Keene's apartment.
In the trunk of that car were the same wadcutter bullets used to kill her.
Thank you, Detective Howard.
Detective, given the fact that two very different weapons, a gun and a knife, were used to kill the victim, isn't it probable that she was killed by two different people? - No.
- Oh, come on, Detective.
Have you ever had a case where a victim was killed by a knife wound and a gun wound and there was only one perpetrator? - Yes.
- How many cases? Name one.
Name it.
The death of Alexandra Lyness indicates that there was only one murderer.
I should ask for a mistrial.
The Lyness case is off limits here.
- You asked the question.
- I wasn't expecting that answer.
Good attorneys never ask a question they don't know the answer to.
What's your request? What do you want me to do? Hell, I don't know.
No further questions.
You may step down, Detective.
Hey, Gee.
- So? - So what? What did Barnfather and Granger need to speak to you about? A recruitment programme for minorities.
They want me to look at brochures.
I guess they consider me a good sounding board, cos I'm such a hip cat.
- That's it? - Yeah.
- That's all? - Yeah.
There was no other reason? Do you wanna take me in the box and interrogate me? Not yet.
First I've gotta figure out why you're lying to me.
- The jury is coming back.
- That was fast.
- Is it good or bad? I can't remember.
- It's good.
We'll have dinner soon.
Will the defendant please rise and face the jury? Mr Foreman, please stand.
How do you find the defendant, Aloysius Johnson, not guilty or guilty? Guilty.
They carry Lincoln's body out here and they bring him to that Whoa! You've actually got the clout to get into these places whenever you want? I can get into museums.
But I can't fix a traffic ticket to save my life.
Hey! You heard about There's a stage door which John Wilkes Booth runs out of.
Where is it? Originally, Secret Service is in charge of hunting down counterfeiters.
When Lincoln died, everything changed.
Booth would have shot Lincoln whether the Secret Service was invented or not.
Secret Service is the best at what it does.
Better than any other agency in any other country.
I've got one word for you, Dallas.
We had warned the local cops about the parade route and the threats.
Sorry, I'm wondering, did they cordon off the area to find I mean, have you read about what happened? You must think I'm crazy.
I'm sorry, I'm excited.
Why don't I buy you dinner? I'll take you over to White House Mess.
- No, we've gotta get back.
- I'm hungry.
I'd like to go.
Take advantage of being out of Baltimore.
- What's that supposed to mean? - Washington's a beautiful city.
Washington has the highest capital murder rate in the country.
Well, Baltimore leads the country in cancer deaths.
- We got the National Aquarium.
- We got the Kennedy Centre.
The Lincoln Memorial, the Smithsonian - And we got the Orioles.
- We have the Redskins.
- I rest my case.
- Gentlemen, gentlemen Yours is a good city and so is yours.
Let's call a truce.
Detective Lewis, in Baltimore murder's wrong and the bad guys get punished.
But none of the prevailing rules of law and decency pertain to Washington.
The stakes are too high.
I'll quote the man who got shot in that building right there.
It's supposed to be "Of, by and for the people".
Not for some of them.
The myth about Secret Service agents is that we die for the people.
But we don't.
It's for the institution.
No politician's worth my life.
If I die, it's for my country, not those bastards.
Gruszynski, you are more full of crap than a stadium toilet.
Wong was flat out murder.
Someone put a bag over his head, someone shot him in the back of the head and someone held him down while they did it.
If you don't see what's wrong, maybe you're dying for the wrong country.
I guess we're not gonna be able to have dinner at the White House! Thanks.
I can see you buying me several more beverages and a steak.
I can hear, "Yes, it's gloating.
It's definitely trash talk time.
" Beer and beef maybe, but I'm not patting myself on the back.
Detective Howard, Kay Could I buy you dinner tonight? That's sweet of you, but Beau and I already made plans.
No, no.
You guys go ahead.
I need my sleep tonight.
I'm visiting the in-laws tomorrow.
It takes a lot of energy to get to Boring.
Great.
How's Hampton's then? - Oh, no! I'm not dressed for Hampton's.
- You look terrific.
I'll go to my office and I'll see you in the lobby in ten minutes, all right? All right.
Careful.
You may wanna strip off his legal briefs.
Would you stop? Ready for the ceremonial eye screw? He was no fun.
Got a date with Ed.
- "I'm not in love with Ed Danvers.
" - I'm not in love with Ed Danvers.
I'm having dinner with Ed Danvers.
You're stuck in there, like you're stuck on Danvers! - Mary.
- Mmm? - Mary? - Yeah.
We can't afford this place.
We can, on special occasions.
This is a special occasion.
And if you take this promotion, we could have a lot more special occasions.
I have to admit the bump in salary would be nice.
- It'd be nice to get the roof fixed.
- What are you gonna have? Oh! I guess that means we're not gonna talk about it anymore.
Cold water lobster tails stuffed with imperial crab.
- Frank.
- What? Don't take the job because of the money, but because of the job.
This is an enormous honour that's been offered to you.
A detective as young as you are, a man of colour.
Think of the good you could do getting things done your way.
Mary, you and I will be together even less than we are now.
We'll make it work.
The question is, do you want this job? Great! The murderer's in the house and we're waiting for backup.
I'm worried about you.
Oh, yeah? All this pro-drug stuff you've been spewing out.
What is that? Theoretical opinions, or am I hearing a cry for help here? - Have you ever been high? - Be serious.
I am.
There's a reason it's called "high".
For some people who are stuck in low rent depraved hopelessness, there's a short respite from the stone cold reality that they live in a racist country, run by bigoted old white guys who won't give them a education and bitch when they go on welfare because they're jobless.
So, we're supposed to let them do drugs because they're feeling depressed? If I had to wake up to that everyday, I'd hang naked from Shot Tower to spite the tourists.
Yaddi yaddi yadda.
So, you get high? Do you smoke pot? I don't have to answer that.
Nurse, can I have a cup over here? I wanna test this man's urine.
Here we go.
- Where's narcotics? - Out on another call.
There's gonna be a ton of drugs in there.
I don't wanna submit that stuff to Evidence Control.
- Why? - Cos of the paperwork.
- Why don't you cut these lights? - I knew this would happen.
Narcotics won't be available for an hour or so.
That means one of you two guys will have to submit the stuff to evidence.
- Let's not find any then.
- We're gonna have to pick it up.
We might need something on this guy, OK? I'll take the dope.
I've gotta run by HQ anyway.
- Which house is it? - That one.
Get to the wall.
Get to the wall or I'll blow your head off.
Move and your brains are on the floor.
If that bad boy goes off, we'll be writing reports forever.
I'm sure Mr Jones here wishes to cooperate.
Why don't you cuff him? That sign, City Pier Broadway I never noticed it before.
I guess I never came out this far before.
This used to be a ballroom.
A big, beautiful ballroom with a huge chandelier and a full orchestra.
My parents had their wedding reception here.
The city needed space.
They took the chandeliers down and cut the room into pieces.
The changed it into something else for the better, I guess.
Sitting in my office late at night, I think sometimes I hear the orchestra.
Gee - I lied to you earlier.
- Uh-huh? The bosses offered me acting shift commander.
I know.
- How did you find out? - They told me.
- They told me not to tell you.
- This is the kind of games they play.
Are you gonna take the job? Gee, I never see you out on the street, unless there's a red ball crisis.
You never investigate.
You're at your desk, shuffling papers, balancing budgets, fending off the bosses, playing kindergarten teacher to Felton, Munch, Crosetti - You.
- Yeah, me too! You've got a crappy job, Gee.
I don't want any part of it.
I can't stand being in that room even when I'm supposed to be.
I know.
- I'm sorry I lied to you.
- Yeah.
Me too.
Only in Charm City, you have Pickwick and Wetheredsville.
What kind of name is that? Wetheredsville Who thinks these up? It was to honour John Wethered, who owned a cotton mill in that area.
He made all his money, it is said, by selling uniforms for the confederates and the yankees.
That was a rhetorical question.
You can't touch me.
I almost had dinner at the White House.
- It's true.
- Keyword, "almost".
Hey, you guys.
Do you mind if I join you? You've never come in here before and had a drink with us.
- Yeah, I know.
- So get out! - Come on.
Cop squad.
- I appreciate it.
I've heard about a certain Homicide Detective being promoted to shift Commander.
Well, fortunately, I don't believe in rumours and such.
And such? Are you familiar with "The last man in" theory of the universe? The last man in - Come on pays! - Yeah! - Next round's on you.
- How can you say that? - Cos we're murder police.
- We're erudite.
- We're the height of subtlety here.
- We are, I guess.
- Oh, man! # Farewell and adieu to you all, Spanish ladies # Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain # Spain! Spain! #