Blue Bloods s02e05 Episode Script
A Night on the Town
I'm dropping the boys over at Henry and Frank's around 6:00, - Right.
- and then cabbing it to the hotel.
What do you mean you're cabbing it, babe? You going to cab it all the way from Bay Ridge? I'll have both our suitcases.
Babe, but it's from Bay Ridge all the way into the city.
That's a very expensive cab ride, honey.
The whole weekend is free of charge, Danny.
No, the room, the food and the show are free of charge.
But you've got your incidentals, honey, and they add up.
You really want your wife schlepping two suitcases on the subway? No.
I want my wife to be relaxed all weekend long.
So we can make sweet, sweet love.
Now that's more like it.
Love you.
Love you more.
Love you most.
Don't forget this.
It's supposed to shower.
Babe, there's not a cloud in the sky.
Trust your wife.
Thermos.
It's on the roof.
All right.
I'm taking Lizzie's shift tonight so I won't be home till 8:00 or so.
Bring something for supper.
If you get kibble for the cat.
Do you need some money? - No, I've got work today.
- Timmy Kelly's cousin came through? It looks that way.
Text you later.
Love you.
How does this sound? Museum of Natural History, then the Intrepid, then dinner, then tickets to a Broadway show I can't remember the name of, but my ticket guy says is the hottest show in town? What about nap time? The boys are too old for naps, Francis.
I meant for us.
Ah.
Oh, hey, you home for dinner? Erin and Nicky want to cook for everybody.
Is that a promise or a threat? I'll have a backup.
Reagan, you decent? Depends who you ask.
The cell you were issued when you went undercover at the bar, they wanted to reassign it, but there's voice mail for you on it.
Five messages the last couple of days from a Noble Santino, something like that.
Sanfino.
Yeah.
The guy O.
D.
'd.
I called a bus, took him to the hospital.
Yeah, you want to call him back? I want to think about it.
Can I hold on to it? Sign it out in the log.
Let me know when you're done with it.
You got it, Sarge.
Heads up, everybody.
That's our bump up ahead the green Explorer.
Here we go.
Okay, everybody, brace yourself.
Is everyone all right? What the hell's the matter with you?! You just stopped for no reason! You hit me! The middle of the street! Yeah, I'd like to report an accident.
Somebody call an ambulance! I'm not sure.
We just called him Scotty, you know.
Scotty.
- Yeah.
- On account of he was Scottish? Yeah, with the accent.
Right, except it was an Irish accent.
Huh? His name was Liam Keogh.
He was from Dublin, Ireland.
I thought he was Scottish.
Yeah, I'm sure you did.
And how long has this guy been hired on to your painting crew? I don't know recently.
I can barely stand.
I really got to see a medic.
Go on, get out of my face.
Make sure you get good I.
D.
on him.
All right, same story from all the guys in the Explorer.
Yeah, of course.
- Yeah, is this what it looks like? - Well, we got a painting crew with not a drop of paint on their shoes, and we got half a soccer team on their way to a game without a ball or a single pair of cleats in sight.
And we've got one that rear-ended the other, and not an inch of a skid mark.
Yeah, it looks a lot more like a date than an accident.
Wonderful.
Look at this performance.
Oh, my arm is killing me! Bravo.
Bravo.
Encore.
Oh.
Yeah.
How it works is, they then get seen by the clinic who set up the bogus accident in the first place.
The clinic pays the victims a little something for their troubles, while at the same time, bilking Medicaid out of tens of thousands of dollars for every phony claim.
The thing is this time, it just happened to go bad.
Oh, Liam.
Tess, did Liam ever say anything about this to you? Did he ever come home flush with cash you know, the kind of cash he couldn't make from a day's work? There was this clinic he went to, every couple weeks, to sell blood.
He was some rare type.
They paid him pretty good.
And they recruited him for the big show.
You got a name, would he have a card at home? No.
I had to go get him once.
He was too dizzy after he gave.
It's on Delancey.
Hygienic Medical, something like that.
Okay, thank you.
We're sorry for your loss.
Thanks a lot.
Yeah.
Hello? Oh, I had just about given up on you.
Who's this? Only a guy owes you his life.
Noble! Jimmy, how are you, man? Hey, I'm hanging in there.
How about you? Long story short, just got out of 30 days in rehab.
But it's like the whole world's in high-def.
Where are you? Subway.
I'm gonna lose you.
All right, real quick, reason I called I want you to come out to dinner on Saturday night.
We've got a new chef at my restaurant, we're doing a soft opening, big dinner, friends and family.
- Uh, tomorrow? - Yeah, I've been trying you all week, man.
Thing is, I've got a thing.
So move the thing.
Look, I want to say thank you, and so does my family.
All right, look, I'll see what I can do.
Later.
All right.
I'll say it again, Dr.
Roth Liam Keogh is not covered by doctor-patient confidentiality.
He's not a patient, he's a corpse.
Which is a tragedy that neither I nor any of my staff had a hand in.
Why don't you let us take a look at his records.
The moment I see your subpoena.
Oh, so you really want to play hide and go seek with me? No, Detective, I want to get back to work.
I've got lawyers for this== good ones and lots of them.
I suggest you contact them my secretary will be happy to give me the runaround.
Like you're doing.
You see my waiting room.
I treat the left-behind, the fallen through the cracks, the uninsured.
In what kind of world is an honest healer on the top of the suspect list? Do I get a lollipop with that story? Good day, Detective.
Any luck? No, they're so tight-lipped around here I think they're on the verge of a major medical breakthrough.
Oh, yeah, the cure for low cash-flow.
Be sure to wear your neck brace at all times, Mrs.
Alvarez, especially out of the house, where someone might see you.
See you soon.
Okay.
Thanks.
Excuse me.
My G.
G.
's.
Did you get the Shark Week DVD? All cued up in the sun room.
Oh, boy, let's go.
I'll be with you you in a minute.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the boys.
The pleasure's all mine, believe you me.
- Where's Frank? - He's in with Jamie having a father-son.
Okay, then, a few things you need to know about the boys.
First of all, Sean won't eat anything green.
You got to watch him with that.
Have you talked to OCCB? No, I want to talk to you first.
I have no interest in breaking my own chain of command.
I know that.
This is vet to rookie.
Okay.
What do you want to do? Part of me turn back the clock, never meet that guy undercover in that bar in the first place, never take him to the hospital when he O.
D.
'd, never take his phone call.
Not an option.
I want to step up but my stomach goes in knots.
You scared or anxious? Well, both, I think.
Comes with.
- But what's that make me if I don't? - If you mean chicken, that's a playground taunt.
Any particular call to duty has to be measured against what you truly believe you're ready for and capable of.
Going undercover to hang with mobsters is serious business.
In anybody's book.
It's supposed to be brown on top.
This looks more like a spray-on tan.
I would put it back in, turn the oven up to 450, and maybe grab the takeout menus from the drawer on the left.
Aren't you supposed to be in some fancy hotel indulging your every whim? Yeah, well, Danny caught a case.
And I had to school the tribal elders on the boys' routine.
How did that go? How do you think? Henry looked at me like I was some kind of tiger mom.
I'm gonna go say hey to the boys.
You guys are way overdue for this weekend.
I know.
And yet I'm not sure why.
We used to plan a "dirty weekend" every month or so; time out to be boyfriend and girlfriend, you know, keep that whole thing going.
It's been a while.
A little rusty? It's just I mean, can you really put aside kids and the money worries and the job, on cue, after all this time? Well, I hear it's just like riding a unicycle.
This is Noble.
You know the drill.
Hey, Noble, Jimmy.
I moved that thing around.
I'd love to join you tomorrow night.
Leave me a message with the when and where.
Later.
Dinner! "Or what"? "Or what" is I call your parole officer and I ask if you practicing without a license at a Medicaid mill is a violation of your parole, that's what.
What do you think the answer's gonna be? Okay, yeah, they set it up.
Of course, no one was supposed to die.
Well, somebody did die.
But you're never gonna find a paper trail.
They got, like, a dozen of these doc-in-a-boxes, all with a legit side.
These guys are smart.
Well, I have you.
And you're gonna record a conversation between you and Dr.
Roth.
And you're gonna get him to give you some little nugget or at least to say that he knew about this in advance.
And that makes me smarter.
You know, I should've just done the full nickel the first time you busted me.
Now it's like I'm your snitch for life.
Will you give me a break? If it wasn't for the kindness of my heart you'd be in Bedford Women's right now, scamming for Nicorette.
Yeah, well, I quit smoking.
Do you think I'm joking? I got a dead guy and I want to know who's responsible.
Now you are gonna get me something that I can use on tape from Dr.
Roth.
You do that, you'll bank some serious good will with me.
Now call him.
Now.
Relax! Fine.
What is it, exactly, you think you're gonna accomplish with this physical therapy scam anyway? You're not gonna make any real money doing that, are you? Visiting nurse service.
All I need is a couple of rich gimps.
You hear about these guys falling for their nursie all the time.
You are a real piece of work.
Oh.
Dr.
Roth.
Go ahead, answer it.
You know, I've never had a Jewish guy.
It's kind of on my bucket list.
Answer the phone.
Hola, Glenn.
Thanks for calling me back.
Yes, your offer for dinner.
Um, are you free tonight? Great.
Um, let's say Cask 24 on Metropolitan at 8:30.
No, no, I'm already here.
Okay, see you then.
Now, was that so difficult? Of course not.
He's been trying to get in my pants since the minute he set eyes on me.
I know I said I wouldn't be late, but they were just a couple of kids fresh off the boat, honey.
I don't know.
She reminded me of you.
Who knows? Different circumstances, they could've been us.
How were they us, Danny? I don't get it.
I mean, we were both born in America, and you didn't get yourself killed in a fake accident.
I don't know.
They were Irish, okay? You know what I mean, honey.
I know what you meant, and I love that you care, I do.
It's just, right now, I don't give a rat's Half-hour tops.
Okay? Did you eat yet? No, and I'm starving.
Listen, Danny don't blow this, okay? Please? I'm begging you.
I won't, I won't.
Dr.
Roth, where are you going? You see that young lady I was with? Rosalita! Hey! Sorry.
Hey, pretty girl around five-five, she go out that door? Couple of minutes ago.
Was she with anyone? Nah, she was by herself.
Damn it! Oh, that's so good.
I was up till 3:00 skip-tracing her all over town.
Oh, yeah, right there.
You got anything? Her phone had nothing outgoing or incoming after 9:30 last night.
Ooh! Danny! All right.
You know what? Her, um, her CI registration form's probably got two other working aliases on it.
Why don't you see if there's any cell phones registered in those names? Yeah, I'm pulling them up now.
All right, what else? Danny? One second, babe.
Oh, that feels good.
Right there.
Oh, right there! Oh! Well, it's gonna be tough getting to Roth without her help.
Yeah! Special Frauds has had charges against him dropped twice on account of the way his lawyers have him set up.
You know, nothing goes straight back to him.
Right.
Danny, could you get off the phone for a little bit of take it in the other room, please? One second, honey.
Okay, get dumps on Roth's phone, see what pops up.
Maybe he might have made her a better offer.
If he did, he'll probably check in with her.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
That feels good.
Sorry.
In couples massage, we encourage couples to talk to one another only.
Right.
You're very tense here.
You think? Okay, the tickets were in your inside left breast pocket where I always keep tickets.
You look in all your coats? Even ones I don't wear.
Raincoat, maybe? I'll remember.
Just give me a minute.
Hey, Erin took that course at John Jay to help witnesses with their recall.
Let's get her over here.
We'll have backup in the immediate area, but we can't get a ghost in there with you.
You're on your own once you're at the location.
This kit contains a valid driver's license for Jimmy Riordan and two working credit cards.
We'll be taking your photos down from all the NYPD databases and putting up a substitution.
Uh, Lieutenant, so we're clear, I'm just getting my feet wet here, I'm not committing to a career undercover.
Right.
And though it's highly unlikely, if you find yourself in a situation where a crime is being committed or about to be, you're to steer clear of any interference.
So just play dumb? No, there's a difference.
You can take information in, you just can't actively participate in the course of events.
Do you understand? Yes.
Philip Sanfino, that's your guy.
Don't get taken in by the "Uncle Philly" act.
He's a sociopath in a Brioni suit.
But if you can make a favorable impression in the kind of intimate family gathering this reads like, then you've jumped us over a lot of quicksand.
Got it.
Eyes wide open.
Check.
Good luck.
Yes, they'd be in an envelope.
A small envelope.
It has advertising on it a credit card, I think.
Yes.
So now you're taking the envelope out of your pocket.
Try to visualize the room, the other objects as you're placing the envelope down.
Am I supposed to be seeing something? Take your time.
All I can see are those little white dots you see when you close your eyes.
Let's try this again.
You took the train? Hey.
I would've picked you up, man.
No problem.
How are ya? Good in my new ride.
Ooh, nice.
You like it? It's yours.
Okay, but I'm gonna trade it in for something slightly less top-gun orthodontist.
Oh, look at that! It started with the car.
Yeah, I was kidding about the car, but look, let me be serious for a second, and just don't interrupt me because I suck at being serious.
Got it.
Thank you for saving my life.
You're welcome.
Okay, you're done.
Okay, good.
I've told the truth I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but "Hallelujah" It's my sister Bianca.
Don't want what you can't have.
Hallelujah Hallelujah.
Come on, sing something from Mamma Mia! Exactly.
Jimmy Riordan.
Thanks for saving my brother's life, I guess.
Oh That was really, really good.
That was really, really not.
You don't have to suck up to me, I don't have any juice around here.
Whoa.
Sorry.
And if anyone yells for Mamma Mia! or "Volare"" I am walking off stage, I swear to God.
We'll make an announcement.
Thank you.
No problem.
Later.
Don't take it personally.
It's her time of the month every day of the month, lately.
Angie, due Sambuca? No.
Uno, grazie.
You can still drink.
Yeah.
It wasn't Sambuca that put me in the hospital.
But I am doing the 12 steps.
And step nine is what we are doing here tonight.
Making amends.
In person, if possible.
So that's why I'm here.
You, I needed to thank.
That guy who sold me the bad mash, I need to make amends with him, too.
But different.
He's coming here tonight? You got a problem with that? No.
I'm not sure where we're meeting up.
But I am not asking you to get involved.
Okay? I know you don't have a beef with him.
Got a beef with anybody who puts a friend of mine in the hospital.
Then you'll enjoy the show.
Salud.
Why aren't we going to the play? Well, the lesson there is, never hide anything like tickets so well even you can't find them.
So what else about restaurants should we know besides no mayo on pastrami? You can order lobster at a steakhouse, but never order steak at a lobster shack.
And never the chili in a fast-food chain, ever.
And you should learn to cook a couple of things for yourself, because there'll be a few years between eating in a restaurant on your parents' dime and when you'll be able to afford it on your own.
- When does that happen? - After high school.
What do we cook? Sandwiches, mostly.
But you should know how to make dinner for a girl.
- Really? - Really.
Linguini with garlic and oil, a simple salad, good bread.
How long are we going to be too poor to eat in a restaurant? Well, you won't be poor, exactly, but you'll be paying for everything that used to come free, so you'll feel strapped.
That sounds kind of scary.
Not really.
But always remember this: if a month comes when you can make rent or the car payment, but not both, make the car payment, because you can live in your car, but you can't drive your house.
And no matter how great a deal it sounds, never buy anything from someone who's out of breath.
Who's for dessert? - I am.
- Eat your vegetables first.
What are we doing next? A little live-bait night fishing on the pier, followed by a private screening of a great American Western, sodas and popcorn included.
Yes! I thought so.
Excuse us a sec.
Sure, Uncle Philly.
Come on.
So Riordan, huh? Yeah.
How do you spell that? R-i-o-r-d-a-n.
You got any family, Jimmy? Uh, no, I'm single.
No, no, no.
Family you come from.
Oh.
Uh, my father, my brother, my sister.
Your mother? She passed away.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
I miss her every day.
Yeah.
There's one thing I don't get.
You take Noble to the hospital, you get him checked in yet you don't wait around for someone to get there.
Not sure I understand the question.
What was the hurry? No hurry.
I just thought, an overdose, they'd probably notify the cops.
The cops want to question me, do I know this, did I see that? Good.
Good Noble.
Yeah? - Come inside.
- Right.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Everybody.
Thank you, thank you.
Good evening.
Welcome, everyone.
Before my beautiful niece Bianca serenades us, I wanted to introduce a very, very special guest.
Jimmy, here, is the Good Samaritan who we have to thank for Noble being alive to host us tonight.
So Jimmy, from the bottom of all our hearts, molto grazie.
Cheers.
Salud.
Thank you.
Prego, Signor Sanfino.
Pretty good for a Mick, huh? So, you know the Farleys from the next block over? - They listed their house for $499,000.
- They'll never get it.
Though, it'd be nice for us if they did.
Mm-hmm.
Go ahead, Danny, get it.
Go, Jack.
All right, Tara has one of Rosalita's alias cells triangulated.
She's at, uh, 29th and Madison.
There's a hotel on the southeast corner, probably your location.
Roth's tracking from Forest Hills and towards the 59th Street bridge.
All right.
Can you stay with it? I told you, it's my mom's birthday.
I can't stand her up.
Of course.
Look, I got my laptop at the hotel, okay? Just zip everything over to me there.
All right.
Sorry, partner.
Don't say sorry.
Come on, it's your mom's birthday.
Tell her happy birthday from me and Linda.
Sure.
Bye-bye.
The theater's on 44th, between Broadway and 8th.
You're a pal.
South side of the street.
Yeah.
Okay, I'll see you there.
So Lisa's going to meet me there.
Which means you're off the hook for the show.
I hope you understand, Linda.
It is what it is.
I heard there was A secret chord David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care Hey, there.
For music, do you? Yeah.
Yeah.
No, just, uh just take him to the place that we talked about.
And listen to me: I do not want a scratch on him till I get there.
Uh, around 10:00.
Okay.
Hallelujah Hallelujah hallelujah Hey.
Is she as good as any one of those American Idols or what? Definitely.
Hallelujah Look, Linda I always love you.
I don't always show it.
Tonight I can't show it the way you deserve, but I do.
You know, when I married you, I knew I would have to share you with the job on some nights.
Right.
I'm just sad that tonight is one of those nights.
Me, too.
Because you look amazing in that dress.
It's a little short, but I actually kind of like that.
It is short.
And I'm not wearing any underwear.
All right.
So there's a party at Tabu, and then I got a table for the late show at the Blue Note.
Then I'm in.
I call shotgun.
No, no, no! Girls cannot call shotgun in a Porsche.
What? Come on, I don't mind.
You are such a jerk.
Come on.
Fine.
What are you doing? All right.
Wait here.
Why? 'Cause I asked you to.
Then can Jimmy wait with me? If he wants.
It won't be long.
I get shotgun, then.
Let's go, Jimmy.
Be back in a minute.
Richie.
You look like crap.
I'm so sorry, man.
Please, let me make it up to you.
Oh.
Yeah.
- You're gonna.
- Please.
Yeah, because of you, I spent two nights in the hospital, and then got sent up for 30 days in rehab.
I got that stuff from my usual guy.
I had no idea Because of you, my life didn't just fall off the rails, man.
I-It went down the embankment, through the orphanage, and into the gas tanks.
I mean I ought to kill you.
- Please - But step nine of the 12 steps instructs us to make amends.
So let's you and me make amends, huh? No Yeah.
It's on me.
No Come on.
Come on, Richie, down the hatch now! Come on! Richie, come on! Oh.
Do it.
Okay, okay, fine.
Do you want to know what my friends here really wanted to do with you? No? Take your medicine then, buddy.
Come on.
Go! Go! All right.
Okay, okay.
Take it easy, huh? What's in it? Oh, it's, uh, crystal meth.
And some smack to, uh, counter the meth.
And a heaping helping of pure LSD so the whole thing will be a lasting memory.
How we doing, Rich? Hey.
Over here.
What are you doing here? I told you I got this.
I don't work on your timetable, you work on mine, you understand? Now light up.
I told you, I quit.
And I'm assuming you told Roth you were going for a smoke, right? So you better smell of smoke when you go back upstairs.
What the hell happened to you last night? Glenn got a call, I think, about the accident.
So he had to book.
What the hell does that mean? I didn't feel like dealing with you, - so I slipped out the back.
- Why? I like the guy, okay? I needed a little more time to think this through.
Oh, you like the guy, so you screw me over instead.
Glenn and his family lost all their money to Madoff.
You think I give a rat's ass what that scumbag lost to Madoff? So he's got a story.
And he's attractive and he's Jewish, so I decided to sleep with him.
Where's my evidence? I can't screw the guy before I do the guy.
It's got to be the other way around.
I got a code, too.
Okay, here's the deal, Rosalita.
You're gonna get me a tape in the morning or your ass will be in Rikers by lunch.
You follow me? Don't test me again.
Cool your jets.
Don't test me again.
I will bury you.
Where do you want me to drop it? Drop it at the Dandridge hotel at the front desk.
Cop can afford the Dandridge? The wife and I won a romantic weekend together.
So what are you doing here? That's a good question.
I got this.
Okay? You better.
Go.
Now, be a good boy and take your medicine.
Come on.
Come on! Shh-shh-shh.
Are those bats?! Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I'm yanking your chain, dude.
Come on.
Bats? All right.
Just gonna leave him here? Cut him.
Loose.
Cut him loose.
Come on.
Knock-knock.
Linda? You dropping by or you staying? I'm staying.
How was the show? Really good.
You missed it.
Yeah? Sorry about, uh, you know, messing things up tonight.
Whatever, Danny.
Will you put on SNL? I hear Alec Baldwin's hosting.
Sure.
I brought dessert.
So did I.
Think they had fun? Of course they did.
I can remember you and Grandpa took me for a night on the town when I was about their age.
We went to see Spartacus at the old Rivoli and had dinner at Jack Dempsey's.
I've still got the picture somewhere of you and the champ.
You were ten.
And the two of them had advice for me.
Oh, yeah.
And it always ended with, "But don't tell your mother I said that.
" I know where the tickets are.
Oh.
Okay.
If you ever got tickets to a musical, it would've been for Mom, not yourself.
So you would've put them where she kept her treasures.
The wooden box over the fridge.
Voila.
Very impressed.
Grandpa, you got them tickets to The Book of Mormon? What? It's a Broadway musical about some American missionaries in Africa.
Okay, well, I've seen it; it's not for kids.
You dodged a bullet.
I think that's a little overstated.
Oh, well, that depends on your appetite for explaining jokes about Jesus, AIDS, the finer points of the female anatomy to your grandsons.
Really? Mm-hmm.
Oh.
And how was your stay, Dr.
Roth? Just perfect, thank you.
Here's a copy of your bill.
Do you need any help with luggage or transportation? We have his ride right here.
What are you doing here? Glenn Roth, you're under arrest for criminally negligent homicide in the death of Liam Keogh.
Ah, this is ridiculous.
I want my lawyer.
Well, you're gonna need a new one of those.
We're arresting your lawyer, too.
You're gonna regret this, Detective.
Not as much as you.
We'll get his bags.
Hey! Mom! Dad! Oh.
Hey.
You guys behave? Yeah.
They were angels.
Yeah, right.
No kidding.
Dad, you have to see The Magnificent Seven.
It's the best movie ever.
Magnificent Seven I already saw that movie when I was your age.
And I saw it with the same two old cowboys as you.
Really? Where's Dad? He's with Jamie, in the living room.
All right.
Dinner in 15.
All right.
It was pretty brutal.
Guy's okay? Yeah, he's in King's General stable.
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the family tree.
That's the thing, though.
Isn't the wise guy way like, "You put one of ours in the hospital, we put one of yours in the morgue"? Noble didn't do that.
What are you getting at? Just that this was more "an eye for an eye.
" Biblical, not gangster.
Still pretty damn sadistic.
Yeah.
All right, so what are you gonna do about it? Only thing I can do.
Wait for OCCB to put me back in.
You still have a choice.
You can still walk away.
Not if I want to really contribute.
Dinner.
- and then cabbing it to the hotel.
What do you mean you're cabbing it, babe? You going to cab it all the way from Bay Ridge? I'll have both our suitcases.
Babe, but it's from Bay Ridge all the way into the city.
That's a very expensive cab ride, honey.
The whole weekend is free of charge, Danny.
No, the room, the food and the show are free of charge.
But you've got your incidentals, honey, and they add up.
You really want your wife schlepping two suitcases on the subway? No.
I want my wife to be relaxed all weekend long.
So we can make sweet, sweet love.
Now that's more like it.
Love you.
Love you more.
Love you most.
Don't forget this.
It's supposed to shower.
Babe, there's not a cloud in the sky.
Trust your wife.
Thermos.
It's on the roof.
All right.
I'm taking Lizzie's shift tonight so I won't be home till 8:00 or so.
Bring something for supper.
If you get kibble for the cat.
Do you need some money? - No, I've got work today.
- Timmy Kelly's cousin came through? It looks that way.
Text you later.
Love you.
How does this sound? Museum of Natural History, then the Intrepid, then dinner, then tickets to a Broadway show I can't remember the name of, but my ticket guy says is the hottest show in town? What about nap time? The boys are too old for naps, Francis.
I meant for us.
Ah.
Oh, hey, you home for dinner? Erin and Nicky want to cook for everybody.
Is that a promise or a threat? I'll have a backup.
Reagan, you decent? Depends who you ask.
The cell you were issued when you went undercover at the bar, they wanted to reassign it, but there's voice mail for you on it.
Five messages the last couple of days from a Noble Santino, something like that.
Sanfino.
Yeah.
The guy O.
D.
'd.
I called a bus, took him to the hospital.
Yeah, you want to call him back? I want to think about it.
Can I hold on to it? Sign it out in the log.
Let me know when you're done with it.
You got it, Sarge.
Heads up, everybody.
That's our bump up ahead the green Explorer.
Here we go.
Okay, everybody, brace yourself.
Is everyone all right? What the hell's the matter with you?! You just stopped for no reason! You hit me! The middle of the street! Yeah, I'd like to report an accident.
Somebody call an ambulance! I'm not sure.
We just called him Scotty, you know.
Scotty.
- Yeah.
- On account of he was Scottish? Yeah, with the accent.
Right, except it was an Irish accent.
Huh? His name was Liam Keogh.
He was from Dublin, Ireland.
I thought he was Scottish.
Yeah, I'm sure you did.
And how long has this guy been hired on to your painting crew? I don't know recently.
I can barely stand.
I really got to see a medic.
Go on, get out of my face.
Make sure you get good I.
D.
on him.
All right, same story from all the guys in the Explorer.
Yeah, of course.
- Yeah, is this what it looks like? - Well, we got a painting crew with not a drop of paint on their shoes, and we got half a soccer team on their way to a game without a ball or a single pair of cleats in sight.
And we've got one that rear-ended the other, and not an inch of a skid mark.
Yeah, it looks a lot more like a date than an accident.
Wonderful.
Look at this performance.
Oh, my arm is killing me! Bravo.
Bravo.
Encore.
Oh.
Yeah.
How it works is, they then get seen by the clinic who set up the bogus accident in the first place.
The clinic pays the victims a little something for their troubles, while at the same time, bilking Medicaid out of tens of thousands of dollars for every phony claim.
The thing is this time, it just happened to go bad.
Oh, Liam.
Tess, did Liam ever say anything about this to you? Did he ever come home flush with cash you know, the kind of cash he couldn't make from a day's work? There was this clinic he went to, every couple weeks, to sell blood.
He was some rare type.
They paid him pretty good.
And they recruited him for the big show.
You got a name, would he have a card at home? No.
I had to go get him once.
He was too dizzy after he gave.
It's on Delancey.
Hygienic Medical, something like that.
Okay, thank you.
We're sorry for your loss.
Thanks a lot.
Yeah.
Hello? Oh, I had just about given up on you.
Who's this? Only a guy owes you his life.
Noble! Jimmy, how are you, man? Hey, I'm hanging in there.
How about you? Long story short, just got out of 30 days in rehab.
But it's like the whole world's in high-def.
Where are you? Subway.
I'm gonna lose you.
All right, real quick, reason I called I want you to come out to dinner on Saturday night.
We've got a new chef at my restaurant, we're doing a soft opening, big dinner, friends and family.
- Uh, tomorrow? - Yeah, I've been trying you all week, man.
Thing is, I've got a thing.
So move the thing.
Look, I want to say thank you, and so does my family.
All right, look, I'll see what I can do.
Later.
All right.
I'll say it again, Dr.
Roth Liam Keogh is not covered by doctor-patient confidentiality.
He's not a patient, he's a corpse.
Which is a tragedy that neither I nor any of my staff had a hand in.
Why don't you let us take a look at his records.
The moment I see your subpoena.
Oh, so you really want to play hide and go seek with me? No, Detective, I want to get back to work.
I've got lawyers for this== good ones and lots of them.
I suggest you contact them my secretary will be happy to give me the runaround.
Like you're doing.
You see my waiting room.
I treat the left-behind, the fallen through the cracks, the uninsured.
In what kind of world is an honest healer on the top of the suspect list? Do I get a lollipop with that story? Good day, Detective.
Any luck? No, they're so tight-lipped around here I think they're on the verge of a major medical breakthrough.
Oh, yeah, the cure for low cash-flow.
Be sure to wear your neck brace at all times, Mrs.
Alvarez, especially out of the house, where someone might see you.
See you soon.
Okay.
Thanks.
Excuse me.
My G.
G.
's.
Did you get the Shark Week DVD? All cued up in the sun room.
Oh, boy, let's go.
I'll be with you you in a minute.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the boys.
The pleasure's all mine, believe you me.
- Where's Frank? - He's in with Jamie having a father-son.
Okay, then, a few things you need to know about the boys.
First of all, Sean won't eat anything green.
You got to watch him with that.
Have you talked to OCCB? No, I want to talk to you first.
I have no interest in breaking my own chain of command.
I know that.
This is vet to rookie.
Okay.
What do you want to do? Part of me turn back the clock, never meet that guy undercover in that bar in the first place, never take him to the hospital when he O.
D.
'd, never take his phone call.
Not an option.
I want to step up but my stomach goes in knots.
You scared or anxious? Well, both, I think.
Comes with.
- But what's that make me if I don't? - If you mean chicken, that's a playground taunt.
Any particular call to duty has to be measured against what you truly believe you're ready for and capable of.
Going undercover to hang with mobsters is serious business.
In anybody's book.
It's supposed to be brown on top.
This looks more like a spray-on tan.
I would put it back in, turn the oven up to 450, and maybe grab the takeout menus from the drawer on the left.
Aren't you supposed to be in some fancy hotel indulging your every whim? Yeah, well, Danny caught a case.
And I had to school the tribal elders on the boys' routine.
How did that go? How do you think? Henry looked at me like I was some kind of tiger mom.
I'm gonna go say hey to the boys.
You guys are way overdue for this weekend.
I know.
And yet I'm not sure why.
We used to plan a "dirty weekend" every month or so; time out to be boyfriend and girlfriend, you know, keep that whole thing going.
It's been a while.
A little rusty? It's just I mean, can you really put aside kids and the money worries and the job, on cue, after all this time? Well, I hear it's just like riding a unicycle.
This is Noble.
You know the drill.
Hey, Noble, Jimmy.
I moved that thing around.
I'd love to join you tomorrow night.
Leave me a message with the when and where.
Later.
Dinner! "Or what"? "Or what" is I call your parole officer and I ask if you practicing without a license at a Medicaid mill is a violation of your parole, that's what.
What do you think the answer's gonna be? Okay, yeah, they set it up.
Of course, no one was supposed to die.
Well, somebody did die.
But you're never gonna find a paper trail.
They got, like, a dozen of these doc-in-a-boxes, all with a legit side.
These guys are smart.
Well, I have you.
And you're gonna record a conversation between you and Dr.
Roth.
And you're gonna get him to give you some little nugget or at least to say that he knew about this in advance.
And that makes me smarter.
You know, I should've just done the full nickel the first time you busted me.
Now it's like I'm your snitch for life.
Will you give me a break? If it wasn't for the kindness of my heart you'd be in Bedford Women's right now, scamming for Nicorette.
Yeah, well, I quit smoking.
Do you think I'm joking? I got a dead guy and I want to know who's responsible.
Now you are gonna get me something that I can use on tape from Dr.
Roth.
You do that, you'll bank some serious good will with me.
Now call him.
Now.
Relax! Fine.
What is it, exactly, you think you're gonna accomplish with this physical therapy scam anyway? You're not gonna make any real money doing that, are you? Visiting nurse service.
All I need is a couple of rich gimps.
You hear about these guys falling for their nursie all the time.
You are a real piece of work.
Oh.
Dr.
Roth.
Go ahead, answer it.
You know, I've never had a Jewish guy.
It's kind of on my bucket list.
Answer the phone.
Hola, Glenn.
Thanks for calling me back.
Yes, your offer for dinner.
Um, are you free tonight? Great.
Um, let's say Cask 24 on Metropolitan at 8:30.
No, no, I'm already here.
Okay, see you then.
Now, was that so difficult? Of course not.
He's been trying to get in my pants since the minute he set eyes on me.
I know I said I wouldn't be late, but they were just a couple of kids fresh off the boat, honey.
I don't know.
She reminded me of you.
Who knows? Different circumstances, they could've been us.
How were they us, Danny? I don't get it.
I mean, we were both born in America, and you didn't get yourself killed in a fake accident.
I don't know.
They were Irish, okay? You know what I mean, honey.
I know what you meant, and I love that you care, I do.
It's just, right now, I don't give a rat's Half-hour tops.
Okay? Did you eat yet? No, and I'm starving.
Listen, Danny don't blow this, okay? Please? I'm begging you.
I won't, I won't.
Dr.
Roth, where are you going? You see that young lady I was with? Rosalita! Hey! Sorry.
Hey, pretty girl around five-five, she go out that door? Couple of minutes ago.
Was she with anyone? Nah, she was by herself.
Damn it! Oh, that's so good.
I was up till 3:00 skip-tracing her all over town.
Oh, yeah, right there.
You got anything? Her phone had nothing outgoing or incoming after 9:30 last night.
Ooh! Danny! All right.
You know what? Her, um, her CI registration form's probably got two other working aliases on it.
Why don't you see if there's any cell phones registered in those names? Yeah, I'm pulling them up now.
All right, what else? Danny? One second, babe.
Oh, that feels good.
Right there.
Oh, right there! Oh! Well, it's gonna be tough getting to Roth without her help.
Yeah! Special Frauds has had charges against him dropped twice on account of the way his lawyers have him set up.
You know, nothing goes straight back to him.
Right.
Danny, could you get off the phone for a little bit of take it in the other room, please? One second, honey.
Okay, get dumps on Roth's phone, see what pops up.
Maybe he might have made her a better offer.
If he did, he'll probably check in with her.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
That feels good.
Sorry.
In couples massage, we encourage couples to talk to one another only.
Right.
You're very tense here.
You think? Okay, the tickets were in your inside left breast pocket where I always keep tickets.
You look in all your coats? Even ones I don't wear.
Raincoat, maybe? I'll remember.
Just give me a minute.
Hey, Erin took that course at John Jay to help witnesses with their recall.
Let's get her over here.
We'll have backup in the immediate area, but we can't get a ghost in there with you.
You're on your own once you're at the location.
This kit contains a valid driver's license for Jimmy Riordan and two working credit cards.
We'll be taking your photos down from all the NYPD databases and putting up a substitution.
Uh, Lieutenant, so we're clear, I'm just getting my feet wet here, I'm not committing to a career undercover.
Right.
And though it's highly unlikely, if you find yourself in a situation where a crime is being committed or about to be, you're to steer clear of any interference.
So just play dumb? No, there's a difference.
You can take information in, you just can't actively participate in the course of events.
Do you understand? Yes.
Philip Sanfino, that's your guy.
Don't get taken in by the "Uncle Philly" act.
He's a sociopath in a Brioni suit.
But if you can make a favorable impression in the kind of intimate family gathering this reads like, then you've jumped us over a lot of quicksand.
Got it.
Eyes wide open.
Check.
Good luck.
Yes, they'd be in an envelope.
A small envelope.
It has advertising on it a credit card, I think.
Yes.
So now you're taking the envelope out of your pocket.
Try to visualize the room, the other objects as you're placing the envelope down.
Am I supposed to be seeing something? Take your time.
All I can see are those little white dots you see when you close your eyes.
Let's try this again.
You took the train? Hey.
I would've picked you up, man.
No problem.
How are ya? Good in my new ride.
Ooh, nice.
You like it? It's yours.
Okay, but I'm gonna trade it in for something slightly less top-gun orthodontist.
Oh, look at that! It started with the car.
Yeah, I was kidding about the car, but look, let me be serious for a second, and just don't interrupt me because I suck at being serious.
Got it.
Thank you for saving my life.
You're welcome.
Okay, you're done.
Okay, good.
I've told the truth I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but "Hallelujah" It's my sister Bianca.
Don't want what you can't have.
Hallelujah Hallelujah.
Come on, sing something from Mamma Mia! Exactly.
Jimmy Riordan.
Thanks for saving my brother's life, I guess.
Oh That was really, really good.
That was really, really not.
You don't have to suck up to me, I don't have any juice around here.
Whoa.
Sorry.
And if anyone yells for Mamma Mia! or "Volare"" I am walking off stage, I swear to God.
We'll make an announcement.
Thank you.
No problem.
Later.
Don't take it personally.
It's her time of the month every day of the month, lately.
Angie, due Sambuca? No.
Uno, grazie.
You can still drink.
Yeah.
It wasn't Sambuca that put me in the hospital.
But I am doing the 12 steps.
And step nine is what we are doing here tonight.
Making amends.
In person, if possible.
So that's why I'm here.
You, I needed to thank.
That guy who sold me the bad mash, I need to make amends with him, too.
But different.
He's coming here tonight? You got a problem with that? No.
I'm not sure where we're meeting up.
But I am not asking you to get involved.
Okay? I know you don't have a beef with him.
Got a beef with anybody who puts a friend of mine in the hospital.
Then you'll enjoy the show.
Salud.
Why aren't we going to the play? Well, the lesson there is, never hide anything like tickets so well even you can't find them.
So what else about restaurants should we know besides no mayo on pastrami? You can order lobster at a steakhouse, but never order steak at a lobster shack.
And never the chili in a fast-food chain, ever.
And you should learn to cook a couple of things for yourself, because there'll be a few years between eating in a restaurant on your parents' dime and when you'll be able to afford it on your own.
- When does that happen? - After high school.
What do we cook? Sandwiches, mostly.
But you should know how to make dinner for a girl.
- Really? - Really.
Linguini with garlic and oil, a simple salad, good bread.
How long are we going to be too poor to eat in a restaurant? Well, you won't be poor, exactly, but you'll be paying for everything that used to come free, so you'll feel strapped.
That sounds kind of scary.
Not really.
But always remember this: if a month comes when you can make rent or the car payment, but not both, make the car payment, because you can live in your car, but you can't drive your house.
And no matter how great a deal it sounds, never buy anything from someone who's out of breath.
Who's for dessert? - I am.
- Eat your vegetables first.
What are we doing next? A little live-bait night fishing on the pier, followed by a private screening of a great American Western, sodas and popcorn included.
Yes! I thought so.
Excuse us a sec.
Sure, Uncle Philly.
Come on.
So Riordan, huh? Yeah.
How do you spell that? R-i-o-r-d-a-n.
You got any family, Jimmy? Uh, no, I'm single.
No, no, no.
Family you come from.
Oh.
Uh, my father, my brother, my sister.
Your mother? She passed away.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
I miss her every day.
Yeah.
There's one thing I don't get.
You take Noble to the hospital, you get him checked in yet you don't wait around for someone to get there.
Not sure I understand the question.
What was the hurry? No hurry.
I just thought, an overdose, they'd probably notify the cops.
The cops want to question me, do I know this, did I see that? Good.
Good Noble.
Yeah? - Come inside.
- Right.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Everybody.
Thank you, thank you.
Good evening.
Welcome, everyone.
Before my beautiful niece Bianca serenades us, I wanted to introduce a very, very special guest.
Jimmy, here, is the Good Samaritan who we have to thank for Noble being alive to host us tonight.
So Jimmy, from the bottom of all our hearts, molto grazie.
Cheers.
Salud.
Thank you.
Prego, Signor Sanfino.
Pretty good for a Mick, huh? So, you know the Farleys from the next block over? - They listed their house for $499,000.
- They'll never get it.
Though, it'd be nice for us if they did.
Mm-hmm.
Go ahead, Danny, get it.
Go, Jack.
All right, Tara has one of Rosalita's alias cells triangulated.
She's at, uh, 29th and Madison.
There's a hotel on the southeast corner, probably your location.
Roth's tracking from Forest Hills and towards the 59th Street bridge.
All right.
Can you stay with it? I told you, it's my mom's birthday.
I can't stand her up.
Of course.
Look, I got my laptop at the hotel, okay? Just zip everything over to me there.
All right.
Sorry, partner.
Don't say sorry.
Come on, it's your mom's birthday.
Tell her happy birthday from me and Linda.
Sure.
Bye-bye.
The theater's on 44th, between Broadway and 8th.
You're a pal.
South side of the street.
Yeah.
Okay, I'll see you there.
So Lisa's going to meet me there.
Which means you're off the hook for the show.
I hope you understand, Linda.
It is what it is.
I heard there was A secret chord David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care Hey, there.
For music, do you? Yeah.
Yeah.
No, just, uh just take him to the place that we talked about.
And listen to me: I do not want a scratch on him till I get there.
Uh, around 10:00.
Okay.
Hallelujah Hallelujah hallelujah Hey.
Is she as good as any one of those American Idols or what? Definitely.
Hallelujah Look, Linda I always love you.
I don't always show it.
Tonight I can't show it the way you deserve, but I do.
You know, when I married you, I knew I would have to share you with the job on some nights.
Right.
I'm just sad that tonight is one of those nights.
Me, too.
Because you look amazing in that dress.
It's a little short, but I actually kind of like that.
It is short.
And I'm not wearing any underwear.
All right.
So there's a party at Tabu, and then I got a table for the late show at the Blue Note.
Then I'm in.
I call shotgun.
No, no, no! Girls cannot call shotgun in a Porsche.
What? Come on, I don't mind.
You are such a jerk.
Come on.
Fine.
What are you doing? All right.
Wait here.
Why? 'Cause I asked you to.
Then can Jimmy wait with me? If he wants.
It won't be long.
I get shotgun, then.
Let's go, Jimmy.
Be back in a minute.
Richie.
You look like crap.
I'm so sorry, man.
Please, let me make it up to you.
Oh.
Yeah.
- You're gonna.
- Please.
Yeah, because of you, I spent two nights in the hospital, and then got sent up for 30 days in rehab.
I got that stuff from my usual guy.
I had no idea Because of you, my life didn't just fall off the rails, man.
I-It went down the embankment, through the orphanage, and into the gas tanks.
I mean I ought to kill you.
- Please - But step nine of the 12 steps instructs us to make amends.
So let's you and me make amends, huh? No Yeah.
It's on me.
No Come on.
Come on, Richie, down the hatch now! Come on! Richie, come on! Oh.
Do it.
Okay, okay, fine.
Do you want to know what my friends here really wanted to do with you? No? Take your medicine then, buddy.
Come on.
Go! Go! All right.
Okay, okay.
Take it easy, huh? What's in it? Oh, it's, uh, crystal meth.
And some smack to, uh, counter the meth.
And a heaping helping of pure LSD so the whole thing will be a lasting memory.
How we doing, Rich? Hey.
Over here.
What are you doing here? I told you I got this.
I don't work on your timetable, you work on mine, you understand? Now light up.
I told you, I quit.
And I'm assuming you told Roth you were going for a smoke, right? So you better smell of smoke when you go back upstairs.
What the hell happened to you last night? Glenn got a call, I think, about the accident.
So he had to book.
What the hell does that mean? I didn't feel like dealing with you, - so I slipped out the back.
- Why? I like the guy, okay? I needed a little more time to think this through.
Oh, you like the guy, so you screw me over instead.
Glenn and his family lost all their money to Madoff.
You think I give a rat's ass what that scumbag lost to Madoff? So he's got a story.
And he's attractive and he's Jewish, so I decided to sleep with him.
Where's my evidence? I can't screw the guy before I do the guy.
It's got to be the other way around.
I got a code, too.
Okay, here's the deal, Rosalita.
You're gonna get me a tape in the morning or your ass will be in Rikers by lunch.
You follow me? Don't test me again.
Cool your jets.
Don't test me again.
I will bury you.
Where do you want me to drop it? Drop it at the Dandridge hotel at the front desk.
Cop can afford the Dandridge? The wife and I won a romantic weekend together.
So what are you doing here? That's a good question.
I got this.
Okay? You better.
Go.
Now, be a good boy and take your medicine.
Come on.
Come on! Shh-shh-shh.
Are those bats?! Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I'm yanking your chain, dude.
Come on.
Bats? All right.
Just gonna leave him here? Cut him.
Loose.
Cut him loose.
Come on.
Knock-knock.
Linda? You dropping by or you staying? I'm staying.
How was the show? Really good.
You missed it.
Yeah? Sorry about, uh, you know, messing things up tonight.
Whatever, Danny.
Will you put on SNL? I hear Alec Baldwin's hosting.
Sure.
I brought dessert.
So did I.
Think they had fun? Of course they did.
I can remember you and Grandpa took me for a night on the town when I was about their age.
We went to see Spartacus at the old Rivoli and had dinner at Jack Dempsey's.
I've still got the picture somewhere of you and the champ.
You were ten.
And the two of them had advice for me.
Oh, yeah.
And it always ended with, "But don't tell your mother I said that.
" I know where the tickets are.
Oh.
Okay.
If you ever got tickets to a musical, it would've been for Mom, not yourself.
So you would've put them where she kept her treasures.
The wooden box over the fridge.
Voila.
Very impressed.
Grandpa, you got them tickets to The Book of Mormon? What? It's a Broadway musical about some American missionaries in Africa.
Okay, well, I've seen it; it's not for kids.
You dodged a bullet.
I think that's a little overstated.
Oh, well, that depends on your appetite for explaining jokes about Jesus, AIDS, the finer points of the female anatomy to your grandsons.
Really? Mm-hmm.
Oh.
And how was your stay, Dr.
Roth? Just perfect, thank you.
Here's a copy of your bill.
Do you need any help with luggage or transportation? We have his ride right here.
What are you doing here? Glenn Roth, you're under arrest for criminally negligent homicide in the death of Liam Keogh.
Ah, this is ridiculous.
I want my lawyer.
Well, you're gonna need a new one of those.
We're arresting your lawyer, too.
You're gonna regret this, Detective.
Not as much as you.
We'll get his bags.
Hey! Mom! Dad! Oh.
Hey.
You guys behave? Yeah.
They were angels.
Yeah, right.
No kidding.
Dad, you have to see The Magnificent Seven.
It's the best movie ever.
Magnificent Seven I already saw that movie when I was your age.
And I saw it with the same two old cowboys as you.
Really? Where's Dad? He's with Jamie, in the living room.
All right.
Dinner in 15.
All right.
It was pretty brutal.
Guy's okay? Yeah, he's in King's General stable.
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the family tree.
That's the thing, though.
Isn't the wise guy way like, "You put one of ours in the hospital, we put one of yours in the morgue"? Noble didn't do that.
What are you getting at? Just that this was more "an eye for an eye.
" Biblical, not gangster.
Still pretty damn sadistic.
Yeah.
All right, so what are you gonna do about it? Only thing I can do.
Wait for OCCB to put me back in.
You still have a choice.
You can still walk away.
Not if I want to really contribute.
Dinner.