Homicide: Life on the Street s04e13 Episode Script
Justice, Part 1
Hey! Get back here! Get your ass on the ground! Oh, sh Argh! He got away.
Good.
Oh! I need more layers.
Come on, Munch.
It's not that cold.
You're a woman.
You got nine exra layers of fat under that skin.
I'm a bone-thin male.
The cold cuts through me.
- Yeah, why are you so thin? - I consume 1500 calories a day, no fat, no salt, and aside from the odd bender I go on, I don't drink with as much verve as I did.
I'm pacing myself.
To live for ever.
That's no way to live.
When you're in a nursing home, drooling into a cup, using a bath mat for underwear, you'll wish you lived like me.
- So you prefer quantity to quality? - All junkies do.
I may be in a nursing home, but I'll have drunk great wine, eaten great food - and lived a great life.
- And I'll be 100 years old, observing all the wondrous advances that mankind will surely achieve.
Sure, but your closest friends will be part of the water table as you while away the years playing, virtual canasta.
Not everyone shares your bon vivant attitude.
Lives of quiet desperation can be very appealing.
I mean, look at Kay.
She's satisfied with her solitude and her profession.
She needs no one to complement her ascetic yet satisfying lifestyle.
Well? Let's go get a double cheeseburger with mayonnaise.
- Hey.
- Hi.
I spotted it at noon.
Swung back around 15 minutes later, and he's still there, sitting in the same position.
Is there any sign of cause? - Injury, OD? - Nothing.
Then what makes you think it's homicide? Take a look in the back seat.
Eugh! Blood! Usually a sure-fire sign that somebody did something to somebody.
Except for his body.
- Doesn't have any blood on it.
- Why do people choose cloth seats? Look how they absorb stains.
Leather's the way to go, for this reason.
I agree.
- So is there any ID? - There's no wallet but the car's registered to Nikki Brant.
- Yeah.
Was it reported stolen? - Nope.
- Hey, Scheiner.
- You done? - Yeah.
- Then get out of here.
So, Doc, you gonna page me when you got something? - I always do.
- OK.
Maybe the guy in the car got stung by a bee.
You can't die from a bee sting, can you? Oh, yeah.
Sure you can.
You allergic to anything? Strawberries give me a rash, but Get stung by a bee once, and your skin swells, maybe you run a low fever.
But it happens again, boom! Your heart stops beating.
That's it, out of the game.
What do you want? To roust every hive in the neighbourhood? Oh, no.
No.
I'm not saying that the guy got stung by a bee.
- I'm saying it's a possibility.
- Oh.
To bee or not to bee? Go away, Angel.
I ain't gonna open it.
We're Detectives Bayliss and Pembleton, Baltimore PD.
- He with you? - Nobody's with us.
- We found your Mustang.
- Just tell me he's dead.
Who's the he that you're referring to? Who's Angel? - My boyfriend.
- We found a deceased person in your vehicle, but we haven't made a positive ID yet.
We do, however have this.
His real name is Gabriel Slayton.
Angel Gabriel, get it? When did you last see him? This morning.
We had sex, breakfast, and then he beat me up for asking when he'd be home.
- Did he steal your car? - He took what he wanted.
You know where he was headed? - To see his partner.
- And what's this individual's name? - He's called MC.
- Why was Angel going to see MC? MC had been ripping Angel off, and he went to even the score.
- You OK in there, Nikki? - Give me one minute.
I called some friends to come over after he left, in case he came back.
He won't be back, ma'am.
We can promise you that.
It just figures, you know.
The last time he touches me and it'll probably leave a mark.
Gabriel Francis Slayton, aka Angel, attempted murder, armed robbery.
Spent more time in jail in Juvie than he did in the free world.
That's one angel ain't getting into Heaven.
Just what the world needs, another dead loser.
Maybe that's exactly what the world needs.
- What's that supposed to mean? - I don't know.
- What did what you said mean? - Not the same thing you meant.
How do you know what I meant if I didn't even know what I meant? Besides, I was just talking.
Can't a guy just talk? Yeah, a guy can talk, if he keeps insisting on it.
Well You still got a little bit of redneck in you.
No, I don't have any redneck in me.
A scumwad who beats the piss out of his girlfriend is dead.
I weep for him.
What? Why are you hovering? - I'm incredibly curious.
- About what? Whose lips you were locked with this morning.
- Get to work.
- Come on, Kay.
After years of speculation and innuendo, you're caught groping with Antonio Banderas' cousin.
Is it serious? It's private, OK? He wrote down the licence.
He'll find out.
Not from me.
Find a tree.
Hide behind it.
One squad car? We're trying to arrest King Kong, and that's what you order for back-up? Hey, Wolsky pulls that rag-doll stuff again, we'll blast him, fire at will.
- In a crowded pool hall, great idea.
- You wanna get QRT, for one man? - Be the laughing stock of HQ.
- What makes someone go berserk, that they drop a 32-inch TV on their father's head while he sleeps? Who knows? The guy ain't wrapped too tight.
You seriously think he's gonna come back here today? Him and his dad own this joint.
He ain't got no place else.
Hey! Here comes our man-child.
Let him get in.
Stay down! Maybe we should tranquilise him like the rhinos on "Wild Kingdom".
Take thataway.
- How long has MC lived here? - A year or so.
I thought he was out of town until I heard the hullabaloo.
Yelling, screaming Damn key doo-dad! Looks like somebody broke in.
Mr Gudden, it's the police.
Wow! Mr Gudden? Hey, check this out.
It's alphabetical.
Like I said, a real hullabaloo this morning.
Well, whoever was shot here lost a pint, maybe more.
I should never have let MC talk me out of the cleaning deposit.
He said he was anal-retentive about dirt.
I thought that was a nice quality to have in a tenant.
Law-abiding is better.
Oh! Scheiner.
Phone? Great.
Caught it doing the prelim exam.
It appears Slayton made a visit to an ER recently.
He was shot and sewed up right below the testicles.
This wound is the source of all the blood in MC's apartment and the car.
Well, what are we doing looking at this man's groin for? - Couldn't you sum it up in a report? - Could it have killed him? From the gun shot? No.
He died of massive internal bleeding.
Look, a guy gets shot, a guy dies, right? The two are not mutually exclusive.
OK, patients treated for gunshot wounds at area ERs in the last three days.
- A long list, I'll bet.
- Yep, with Gabriel aka Angel Slayton right in the middle.
- Madison Medical Centre, 10:40 today.
- Get over there.
- No sign of Wolsky? - No, but he's not going far.
- You know that because? - Because he's an idiot - with only one oar in the water.
- Idiot? The guy's a little crazy.
We all are.
You're kidding me! Wolsky threw you for a forward pass, and then drops you on your butt, - and you defend him? - He's mentally tweaked.
Is it his fault? Would you take this out of my office? Dropped you on your butt too.
I didn't notice you Trying to make another obscene call on the internet? No, trying to run a DMV on that Corvette, but it's inaccessible.
Why are you so obsessed with Howard's private life? Cos she never had one.
Her keeping it secret now is driving me nuts.
Hey, John? Any luck? Probable hit-and-run.
BP is 100 over 60.
- Get your hands off me! - Start an IV, a litre of Ringer's lactate.
- Let me go! - Excuse me, I'm looking for Dr Wystan.
That's her.
No breath sounds, left side.
Get your hands off me, you slut! - His O2 is dropping.
- You just want to touch me, you slut! He's got a pneumothorax.
Scrub him.
I'm gonna need a 40 French chest tube and a scalpel.
Get the Pleurovac ready.
Coming up.
Scalpel.
- Argh! You whore! - Tube! Get ready to lift him up.
Where's the Pleurovac? OK! You whore! My mother wanted me to be a doctor.
"Why couldn't you save a life every once in a while?" she still says.
I'll tell you, watching Dr Wystan work, I can see what my mum meant.
- Er - Yeah, you were there.
You saw with your own eyes.
He was gonna die, and she brought him back.
She used her own hands, and it was amazing.
It's like she was doing God's work.
How can we compare? - Sorry.
I know you've been waiting.
- No, it's fine.
You've been busy.
Since they closed the only other trauma centre within ten miles of here, we ought to hand out frequent-suture awards! What you and I do is different.
Doesn't make us any less amazing.
Wow! What it must be like for her at the end of the day, to feel that satisfied, invigorated.
Invigorated.
I understand you had questions about another patient.
Yes, Gabriel Slayton.
Came in around 11.
- You'll have to be more specific.
- He was hit in the groin.
Ah! Severed femoral artery.
Yeah, how is he? - Dead.
- Not from that injury.
We were there less than an hour.
We saw her save someone's life.
The other half of the time, the patient dies.
How does she feel then? We may be looking at a homicide charge.
- You caught whoever shot him? - Not yet, but we're close.
She goes home as exhausted, as worn out as the rest of us.
I know you're busy, but is there anything more - you could tell us about the injury? - By the time we got him, he'd suffered blood loss and tissue damage, but we were able to do good repairs and close up the artery.
He seemed in fine shape.
- I was just making an observation.
- We put a killer away.
A violent man, who had he stayed on the streets would have killed four more in the nex month.
That's saving lives! How about his mental state? It was agitated and impatient.
Out of control.
Rude.
Did Mr Slayton tell you how he was wounded? No, but it was fairly obvious that it was during the commission of a crime.
- Really? How is that obvious? - We get 30 patients a day in here, and at least a quarter of them come in as a result of crime, as either victim or perpetrator.
I've got keen to determining which is which.
- How did Slayton get released? - He didn't.
He left without permission.
He probably had a record a mile long.
Sherman is working a double.
He's overtired.
Any more questions, because I have patients waiting? I think that's it.
We may want to talk to you later.
OK.
Well, you can find me here.
I'm always here.
We don't get the credit doctors do.
Or the attention.
Right.
OK.
Just forget I said anything.
- You want glory? - Forget it.
Go work at ER.
Homicide's fine by me.
- Who cares? - She's hiding something.
I don't blame her.
A fishbowl like this? This ain't no place to bare your soul.
If not here, where? If not us, who? We're her closest friends.
That's where you're messing up.
We work 12-hour shifts together, but at the end of the day, we don't know jack about each other.
Third time a charm.
Crusher has returned to the nest.
Peter Wolsky! Remember us? Baltimore City Police.
Would you please let us arrest you now? - What are you doing? - Digging up my mother.
Your mother? I want to bury her nex to Daddy.
We could take care of that for you.
- You could? - Sure.
It's all part of our motto.
"To protect and serve.
" But you gotta let us arrest you now.
You come peacefully.
Top of your head, please.
Let's go.
Get up.
MC got back a half-hour ago, dropped off by a cab.
Carried a bunch of bags with him.
God only knows what's in them.
You stay here.
Police! Frank.
Look at this.
Spic and span.
Except for the bullet hole.
Come on.
Go to the backyard.
Hear that? Yeah.
Give me a shake And if you think I'm dreaming Give me a shake Long as you can love - Don't move.
- I ain't moving! Don't.
Put that stuff down.
Please, don't don't don't shoot.
I was just cleaning.
Turn around! You came back to your place and cleaned up the evidence because you like things neat, is that it? - I didn't know it was evidence.
- But you knew you'd shot someone? Accidentally, yes.
You don't understand.
- I caught Angel red-handed.
- Doing what? Breaking and entering.
Wait.
Your partner in burglary was burglarising you? We had a system.
He'd go out and do the ugly work, the robbery, burglary, warehouse rips, whatever, and I catalogued everything, set up an inventory and sold it.
- Then he got greedy? - No, paranoid.
- He thought I held out on him.
- You did and you shot him.
Look, Angel had the gun.
He was gonna shoot.
I lunged for the gun, we struggled.
It went off.
This is how I see things.
You were shorting our hard-working Mr Slayton and he confronted you with it.
You went for the gun, but as the white-collar side of the partnership, you could not hit the broad side of a barn! You aimed for the chest, and shot him in the groin.
- But the intention's the same.
- If I wanted to kill Angel, why would I have driven his sorry ass to a doctor? - You drove him to the hospital? - In Nikki's car.
And when I saw him last, he was his same, healthy, sour self.
He even got in a fight at the hospital.
- With whom? - Some male nurse.
Kicked his butt.
Good.
OK.
OK.
Good.
So what's MC stand for? Mr Clean.
Didn't hear a statement of guilt.
Let the State's Attorney type that up.
Maybe.
But Danvers says the lawyer representing the victim's mother is naming an accomplice in a civil suit.
Mrs Slayton used to be a nurse.
Yeah? She thinks the shot to the groin wouldn't have killed her son.
She claims the hospital as complicit in the murder of Gabriel Slayton.
The hospital didn't shoot him.
He did! He shot him, but he didn't kill him.
If someone at the hospital's negligent, I wanna know.
I wanna know, Bayliss.
I wanna know.
Lieutenant, the hospital is in no way or fashion complicit in Gabriel Slayton's death.
Then why settle with the dead man's mother? It's a nuisance suit and I don't need the publicity or litigation.
I'm trying to build a trauma ward.
That means soliciting benefactors, and, oddly enough, people are less apt to donate money to a hospital that gets named in public wrongful-death suits.
Just because you blink doesn't mean we have to.
I don't care about your budgets.
I have detectives investigating a homicide.
- I understand that.
- Do you? A quiet investigation is all I ask.
I'll ask them to whisper, but I'll expect full cooperation from your staff.
- Of course.
- Thank you.
He's a paranoid schizophrenic.
Not texbook, but it's close enough for the court to diagnose.
Look at him rocking like that, like he's rocking himself to sleep.
It's a joke that this bastard won't have to answer for what he did.
He killed both his parents, and goes to a cosy loony bin, weave baskets all day and get the best drugs our tax money can buy.
He's already paying for what he did.
Nobody gives a damn about him.
Nobody'll visit him.
Nobody's gonna sing happy birthday to him.
It's like a slow death.
Why weep for John Wayne Gacy here? He's a sicko killer.
Screw him! I'll tell you why.
The last time I saw my brother Anthony, he was wearing a coat just like that.
- So you had a crazy brother? - Still do.
He lives at Sheppard-Pratt.
- What's so funny? - I don't know.
It's just you and I have been partners now for four months, and you know I've tried to quit smoking 50 times.
You know the sordid details of my divorce.
You know I sleep on a pillow covered with my favourite cartoon characters and you didn't have the decency to mention your brother, - Anthony, let alone a crazy brother.
- I never should've opened my mouth.
- It just slipped out.
- Do you visit him? - Once.
- When was that? - Christmas, 1978.
- Oh, so you guys are really close! I'm gonna knock you out.
He just made hard things harder.
He just Always causing trouble for the family, being nuts and all.
- Did he ever hurt anyone? - Yeah, he hurt people.
He used to beat up the neighbourhood kids, set people's pets on fire.
He almost burned our building down six times.
- When did you commit him? - About 20 years ago.
Yeah, we were still living at Lafayette Courts.
Came home from school one day, I must've been about 14 and I came home and there he was, sitting on that window ledge.
He always used to do this, see, try to kill himself on me.
So I come home and see him on the ledge.
He sees me, goes to make his move, and then I normally would try to stop him, but this time I didn't.
What? You let him fall? He broke his hip, his collar bone, both his legs.
- It's amazing he didn't die.
- Yeah, I know.
I was hoping that he would.
- What the hell are you doing? - Investigating.
I'm looking for a love letter or floral card, or any evidence to lead me to Kay's secret smoocher.
I'm using my skills as a homicide detective to uncover his identity.
I think this is called an illegal search.
Yeah, right.
What if she comes in and sees you? I'm not stupid, I know she left for the day already.
No, she didn't.
Hey, sarge, you haven't seen my dreidel, have you? Get your coat.
Come with me.
- Let me explain.
- No.
Let me explain.
My personal life is off limits to the squad room.
All right? I learned that when I dated Danvers.
You were the biggest sinner.
- The jokes, the gossip - I can't disagree with you, but that was the old me.
The new me is Is worse.
Look, I know you may find this hard to accept but I believe in secrets.
I believe we have to have truths about ourselves that we keep from our colleagues, our neighbours, our loved ones.
I don't want any one person knowing everything about me.
I want you to have a few pieces of the puzzle, Gee a few pieces, my sister.
Every day all we do is ferret out secrets.
It's our job.
Not today, Munchkin.
I'll make a deal with you.
Tell me who the mystery Casanova is and I'll tell you the deepest, darkest secret of my life.
I don't want to know your deepest, darkest secret.
It'd keep me up nights.
Young guy, big.
Yeah, I remember him vaguely.
Did you participate in Mr Slayton's treatments? I was dealing with a head-on collision.
It was just Dr Wystan and Nurse Sherman with him.
I was working in the area over by the trauma room.
I heard a scuffle.
I came in, I saw Sherman on top of the patient.
I helped pull him off.
Dr Wystan was there.
Was there a moment you were aware of when either the doctor or the nurse was alone with him? At one point Dr Wystan was alone with him, and at another point Sherman was, but that's nothing unusual.
I heard about the mother filing suit against the hospital.
Right.
We live in a litigious age.
People come in here DOA and their families wanna believe something that could've been done, and you, as the doctor, should've done it.
- Why do you think Slayton died? - He needed to rest.
The last thing he should have been doing is business as usual.
Do you think that there was anything that anyone here could have done that might have led to Slayton's death? We had about a dozen patients waiting at the time.
I left Nurse Sherman to finish up the procedure.
Could there be purposeful wrongdoing? - Mmm.
- I doubt it.
We were informed that Mr Slayton got into a fight with you.
It' s odd to me that you didn't mention that yesterday, when you were eavesdropping.
Oh, he was arrogant, all right.
He had a problem with authority.
So he takes a swing at you.
Did you hit him back? I didn't get a chance to.
I was dismissed by Her Royal Highness.
You have some kind of problem with Wystan too? Look, I gotta get back before she notices that I'm gone.
Have you and Nurse Sherman had conflicts? I don't know that you'd qualify them as conflicts.
We have differences.
Oh.
What? Poor performance, tardiness, personality clash? Sherman is harsh in his views.
Judgmental, I guess you'd say, and patients pick up on this, and it's proven troublesome before.
Oh, and is that why he got in a fight with Slayton? I should've mentioned that when we first spoke.
- Well, why didn't you? - I didn't think it mattered.
Sherman was texbook perfect in his treatment of Slayton.
- He was first-rate.
- I understand the hesitation.
No one wants to incriminate a colleague.
Hospitals are so noisy.
This is not a smart move, pulling me away during a shift.
You left the ER understaffed.
Don't worry.
We made sure you were covered.
- By whom? - We didn't ask.
If those patients do not get proper care, I won't be to blame.
No.
We believe Gabriel Slayton received less than adequate care - when you were on duty.
- I'm the best nurse in that hospital.
I know more about medicine than most doctors, - including Kate Wystan.
- Do you realise that several people - at the hospital complained about you? - I'm not surprised.
Some of my co-workers have a problem seeing a Black man on the other end of a syringe.
Maybe you're the one with the problem? Thousands of Slaytons out there, and you choose to badger a hard-working professional like me.
Maybe you've got this backwards? We could be talking with Gabriel if he were alive.
I took an oath.
When I am on my job, I do my job.
Well! When you draw blood from a gangbanger, you don't make finding his vein more difficult than it is? You don't jab the syringe harder than for a tax-paying homeowner, a professional like you? I treated Slayton like any other patient.
- You didn't do anything different? - He was bleeding! I considered the source and double-gloved.
- Slayton took offence? - Yes.
- As he should.
- Because I protect myself? - No, because he sensed your disdain.
- I grew up with kids like Slayton, same neighbourhood, same block, same building, but did I turn out like that? No.
I stayed in school.
I got a job.
I put myself through college, through nursing school, and I'll do the same with med school, and I will become a doctor.
And for what? So I can put in 70-hour weeks to keep the Slaytons alive and breaking the law? - You hated him? - Him particularly? - You wanted him dead? - No.
I am just sick and tired of seeing African-Americans dying at the hands of other African-Americans, so I swung at the son-of-a-bitch.
- You told me you didn't.
- Well, I did.
You messed up, somehow, some way.
You did or didn't do something so that 22-year-old kid, whom you had never laid eyes on before, would die.
Look, I am not the only person there with issues.
- Meaning what? - Mean Meaning ever since Dr Wystan's husband got the crap beat out of him at an ATM, even Mother Teresa of Madison Medical Centre has a problem dealing with the criminal element.
- When was he robbed? - Two weeks ago.
They got $200, and he got kicked in the face so hard he may lose an eye.
Oh, and they broke his arm too.
Are you saying that the doctor misperformed? - No, I am not saying that.
- Then what the hell are you saying? Huh? That I've seen her do better work.
- What you grinning about? - It's a secret.
You know, there's a candy and soda machine down the hallway.
No, I'm fine.
Thank you.
You you've been here before? Yeah, I was here a long time ago.
- Excuse me, Dr Battey? - Yes.
Mr Lewis? Right.
How you doing? Battey.
I'm sorry.
It's just a funny name, - working in a place like this.
- I know.
I know.
Look, this may not be the best time to visit Anthony.
Why not? What? He knows I'm here, right? He knows who I am and everything? - Yes, yes, but - But what? - But he doesn't wanna see me? - No.
I'm sorry.
He doesn't want to see me? - That's very funny.
Thanks, Doc.
- Yeah.
He doesn't want to see me.
That's very funny.
- Mr Wystan? - Yes.
Sorry to bother you this late.
We're from Homicide.
- Homicide? - Yes.
We need to ask your wife - about a patient she treated.
- Well, sit down.
- Can I get you anything? - No, thank you.
About what time is your wife gonna get home? The hospital said she'd finished her shift.
She had to pick up Lily at day care and some groceries.
Obviously, I'm still not able to drive - You got jumped, huh? - When you said you were the police, I thought maybe you'd caught the guys.
- They didn't make any arrest? - No.
Probably won't.
It must've been very unfortunate.
I was knocked unconscious for three minutes, a mild concussion, broken arm.
Still don't know if I'll lose the vision in my eye.
- Kate was pretty shaken - Hi! Daddy! Hi! - I drew you a Valentine, Daddy! - She made you the best Valentine! - Listen, these men are detectives.
- Yeah, we've met.
We had a conversation with Sherman Detectives, there was a three-car pile-up and eight injured.
I'm with my family.
Can't we wait until tomorrow? - It can't.
- We need to talk to you now.
- In private if we could, please? - I'm sorry.
Come on.
Let's go in the living room.
- I'm hungry, Mum.
- We'll eat soon, honey.
Spaghetti.
- Come on.
Show me what you made.
- Bye.
I really think you're making a mistake about Sherman.
He has his faults, but he didn't do what you're saying he did.
He really does care.
Put it over there.
We're not accusing him of anything.
He wasn't arrested.
- We brought him in for questioning.
- Oh.
Oh, good.
- Sorry about your husband's injuries.
- Yeah.
How long before he's able to see out that eye or before you know? Six weeks.
And the saddest thing is that he loves to read, both to himself and to Lily, and he can't now from the headache.
- Were you there when it happened? - No.
No, I was waiting in the car.
- Did you see who hurt your husband? - They ran by, but - I thought you guys were Homicide? - We are.
- Were you able to identify the suspect? - No.
- Could Slayton have been one of them? - Why are you asking me this? How many patients did you treat that day? 20? 30? - 40.
- Must have been tired.
- No more than usual.
- Must have been rushed.
I gave Slayton the best treatment that I could in the time that I had, and it would have been easier if he had cooperated.
A lot of patients are uncooperative.
Do a lot of them speak terribly to you, like the homeless guy the other day? - Excuse me? - Did Slayton say something upsetting? Patients say a lot of things when they're in pain.
Well, what did Slayton say? He said, "Hurry up, bitch, I've got business.
" - And is that when you decided? - "Decided"? Yeah.
Decided to hell with trying to save a violent incorrigible thug.
You know, even if he had gotten the best modern medical care, - he would have died anyway.
- From that wound? How? That same kid has probably been in my ER maybe ten times before.
I may have patched him up last time.
Who could tell? If it wasn't him, it was somebody exactly like him.
All day long, I stitch and re-stitch to send them out into the world to shoot and be shot, or hurt somebody else's husband.
So what does it matter whether I tie that last thread, you know? One way or another, it comes undone.
Maybe I didn't do my absolute best.
I left it in the hands of God.
And He made the call.
Do you realise that you've just confessed to murder, Doctor? No, no, no.
That is not what I meant to say at all.
I didn't I did enough for him.
I did enough! It's not the same thing as murder.
It's not.
It's not murder.
It's not the same thing.
It can't be.
It is.
Yeah.
Oh, my God! You're gonna arrest me? No, no, no.
What we're gonna do is lay out the facts to the District Attorney's office and then they're going to determine if they're going to go ahead with the indictment.
- Mummy, I'm starving.
- Oh, I know, I know, honey.
Listen, you just go ahead and feed your family, then.
Here, sweetie.
OK, what are we gonna do, Frank? - Do? - Yeah.
Exactly what you said.
We're gonna lay it all out for the State's Attorney and let them figure it out.
You know something? I gotta tell you, it seems a pity.
On the one hand, she is responsible for a person's death, so she deserves to be punished to the full exent of the law.
But She's a good mother, she's a good wife.
She is a good doctor.
She has helped thousands of people.
With her hands, she's saved thousands of lives, you know? Does one act, does one moment, does that wipe out a lifetime of good? Gabriel Slayton was a scumwad, Frank, and you know that in the larger scheme of things, that his death was not a loss.
If she doesn't practise medicine, more people are gonna suffer.
But she said what she said.
Help me out here, Frank.
The man is dead, Tim.
That's all I wanna say.
OK! OK.
OK.
It's so quiet here.
Good.
Oh! I need more layers.
Come on, Munch.
It's not that cold.
You're a woman.
You got nine exra layers of fat under that skin.
I'm a bone-thin male.
The cold cuts through me.
- Yeah, why are you so thin? - I consume 1500 calories a day, no fat, no salt, and aside from the odd bender I go on, I don't drink with as much verve as I did.
I'm pacing myself.
To live for ever.
That's no way to live.
When you're in a nursing home, drooling into a cup, using a bath mat for underwear, you'll wish you lived like me.
- So you prefer quantity to quality? - All junkies do.
I may be in a nursing home, but I'll have drunk great wine, eaten great food - and lived a great life.
- And I'll be 100 years old, observing all the wondrous advances that mankind will surely achieve.
Sure, but your closest friends will be part of the water table as you while away the years playing, virtual canasta.
Not everyone shares your bon vivant attitude.
Lives of quiet desperation can be very appealing.
I mean, look at Kay.
She's satisfied with her solitude and her profession.
She needs no one to complement her ascetic yet satisfying lifestyle.
Well? Let's go get a double cheeseburger with mayonnaise.
- Hey.
- Hi.
I spotted it at noon.
Swung back around 15 minutes later, and he's still there, sitting in the same position.
Is there any sign of cause? - Injury, OD? - Nothing.
Then what makes you think it's homicide? Take a look in the back seat.
Eugh! Blood! Usually a sure-fire sign that somebody did something to somebody.
Except for his body.
- Doesn't have any blood on it.
- Why do people choose cloth seats? Look how they absorb stains.
Leather's the way to go, for this reason.
I agree.
- So is there any ID? - There's no wallet but the car's registered to Nikki Brant.
- Yeah.
Was it reported stolen? - Nope.
- Hey, Scheiner.
- You done? - Yeah.
- Then get out of here.
So, Doc, you gonna page me when you got something? - I always do.
- OK.
Maybe the guy in the car got stung by a bee.
You can't die from a bee sting, can you? Oh, yeah.
Sure you can.
You allergic to anything? Strawberries give me a rash, but Get stung by a bee once, and your skin swells, maybe you run a low fever.
But it happens again, boom! Your heart stops beating.
That's it, out of the game.
What do you want? To roust every hive in the neighbourhood? Oh, no.
No.
I'm not saying that the guy got stung by a bee.
- I'm saying it's a possibility.
- Oh.
To bee or not to bee? Go away, Angel.
I ain't gonna open it.
We're Detectives Bayliss and Pembleton, Baltimore PD.
- He with you? - Nobody's with us.
- We found your Mustang.
- Just tell me he's dead.
Who's the he that you're referring to? Who's Angel? - My boyfriend.
- We found a deceased person in your vehicle, but we haven't made a positive ID yet.
We do, however have this.
His real name is Gabriel Slayton.
Angel Gabriel, get it? When did you last see him? This morning.
We had sex, breakfast, and then he beat me up for asking when he'd be home.
- Did he steal your car? - He took what he wanted.
You know where he was headed? - To see his partner.
- And what's this individual's name? - He's called MC.
- Why was Angel going to see MC? MC had been ripping Angel off, and he went to even the score.
- You OK in there, Nikki? - Give me one minute.
I called some friends to come over after he left, in case he came back.
He won't be back, ma'am.
We can promise you that.
It just figures, you know.
The last time he touches me and it'll probably leave a mark.
Gabriel Francis Slayton, aka Angel, attempted murder, armed robbery.
Spent more time in jail in Juvie than he did in the free world.
That's one angel ain't getting into Heaven.
Just what the world needs, another dead loser.
Maybe that's exactly what the world needs.
- What's that supposed to mean? - I don't know.
- What did what you said mean? - Not the same thing you meant.
How do you know what I meant if I didn't even know what I meant? Besides, I was just talking.
Can't a guy just talk? Yeah, a guy can talk, if he keeps insisting on it.
Well You still got a little bit of redneck in you.
No, I don't have any redneck in me.
A scumwad who beats the piss out of his girlfriend is dead.
I weep for him.
What? Why are you hovering? - I'm incredibly curious.
- About what? Whose lips you were locked with this morning.
- Get to work.
- Come on, Kay.
After years of speculation and innuendo, you're caught groping with Antonio Banderas' cousin.
Is it serious? It's private, OK? He wrote down the licence.
He'll find out.
Not from me.
Find a tree.
Hide behind it.
One squad car? We're trying to arrest King Kong, and that's what you order for back-up? Hey, Wolsky pulls that rag-doll stuff again, we'll blast him, fire at will.
- In a crowded pool hall, great idea.
- You wanna get QRT, for one man? - Be the laughing stock of HQ.
- What makes someone go berserk, that they drop a 32-inch TV on their father's head while he sleeps? Who knows? The guy ain't wrapped too tight.
You seriously think he's gonna come back here today? Him and his dad own this joint.
He ain't got no place else.
Hey! Here comes our man-child.
Let him get in.
Stay down! Maybe we should tranquilise him like the rhinos on "Wild Kingdom".
Take thataway.
- How long has MC lived here? - A year or so.
I thought he was out of town until I heard the hullabaloo.
Yelling, screaming Damn key doo-dad! Looks like somebody broke in.
Mr Gudden, it's the police.
Wow! Mr Gudden? Hey, check this out.
It's alphabetical.
Like I said, a real hullabaloo this morning.
Well, whoever was shot here lost a pint, maybe more.
I should never have let MC talk me out of the cleaning deposit.
He said he was anal-retentive about dirt.
I thought that was a nice quality to have in a tenant.
Law-abiding is better.
Oh! Scheiner.
Phone? Great.
Caught it doing the prelim exam.
It appears Slayton made a visit to an ER recently.
He was shot and sewed up right below the testicles.
This wound is the source of all the blood in MC's apartment and the car.
Well, what are we doing looking at this man's groin for? - Couldn't you sum it up in a report? - Could it have killed him? From the gun shot? No.
He died of massive internal bleeding.
Look, a guy gets shot, a guy dies, right? The two are not mutually exclusive.
OK, patients treated for gunshot wounds at area ERs in the last three days.
- A long list, I'll bet.
- Yep, with Gabriel aka Angel Slayton right in the middle.
- Madison Medical Centre, 10:40 today.
- Get over there.
- No sign of Wolsky? - No, but he's not going far.
- You know that because? - Because he's an idiot - with only one oar in the water.
- Idiot? The guy's a little crazy.
We all are.
You're kidding me! Wolsky threw you for a forward pass, and then drops you on your butt, - and you defend him? - He's mentally tweaked.
Is it his fault? Would you take this out of my office? Dropped you on your butt too.
I didn't notice you Trying to make another obscene call on the internet? No, trying to run a DMV on that Corvette, but it's inaccessible.
Why are you so obsessed with Howard's private life? Cos she never had one.
Her keeping it secret now is driving me nuts.
Hey, John? Any luck? Probable hit-and-run.
BP is 100 over 60.
- Get your hands off me! - Start an IV, a litre of Ringer's lactate.
- Let me go! - Excuse me, I'm looking for Dr Wystan.
That's her.
No breath sounds, left side.
Get your hands off me, you slut! - His O2 is dropping.
- You just want to touch me, you slut! He's got a pneumothorax.
Scrub him.
I'm gonna need a 40 French chest tube and a scalpel.
Get the Pleurovac ready.
Coming up.
Scalpel.
- Argh! You whore! - Tube! Get ready to lift him up.
Where's the Pleurovac? OK! You whore! My mother wanted me to be a doctor.
"Why couldn't you save a life every once in a while?" she still says.
I'll tell you, watching Dr Wystan work, I can see what my mum meant.
- Er - Yeah, you were there.
You saw with your own eyes.
He was gonna die, and she brought him back.
She used her own hands, and it was amazing.
It's like she was doing God's work.
How can we compare? - Sorry.
I know you've been waiting.
- No, it's fine.
You've been busy.
Since they closed the only other trauma centre within ten miles of here, we ought to hand out frequent-suture awards! What you and I do is different.
Doesn't make us any less amazing.
Wow! What it must be like for her at the end of the day, to feel that satisfied, invigorated.
Invigorated.
I understand you had questions about another patient.
Yes, Gabriel Slayton.
Came in around 11.
- You'll have to be more specific.
- He was hit in the groin.
Ah! Severed femoral artery.
Yeah, how is he? - Dead.
- Not from that injury.
We were there less than an hour.
We saw her save someone's life.
The other half of the time, the patient dies.
How does she feel then? We may be looking at a homicide charge.
- You caught whoever shot him? - Not yet, but we're close.
She goes home as exhausted, as worn out as the rest of us.
I know you're busy, but is there anything more - you could tell us about the injury? - By the time we got him, he'd suffered blood loss and tissue damage, but we were able to do good repairs and close up the artery.
He seemed in fine shape.
- I was just making an observation.
- We put a killer away.
A violent man, who had he stayed on the streets would have killed four more in the nex month.
That's saving lives! How about his mental state? It was agitated and impatient.
Out of control.
Rude.
Did Mr Slayton tell you how he was wounded? No, but it was fairly obvious that it was during the commission of a crime.
- Really? How is that obvious? - We get 30 patients a day in here, and at least a quarter of them come in as a result of crime, as either victim or perpetrator.
I've got keen to determining which is which.
- How did Slayton get released? - He didn't.
He left without permission.
He probably had a record a mile long.
Sherman is working a double.
He's overtired.
Any more questions, because I have patients waiting? I think that's it.
We may want to talk to you later.
OK.
Well, you can find me here.
I'm always here.
We don't get the credit doctors do.
Or the attention.
Right.
OK.
Just forget I said anything.
- You want glory? - Forget it.
Go work at ER.
Homicide's fine by me.
- Who cares? - She's hiding something.
I don't blame her.
A fishbowl like this? This ain't no place to bare your soul.
If not here, where? If not us, who? We're her closest friends.
That's where you're messing up.
We work 12-hour shifts together, but at the end of the day, we don't know jack about each other.
Third time a charm.
Crusher has returned to the nest.
Peter Wolsky! Remember us? Baltimore City Police.
Would you please let us arrest you now? - What are you doing? - Digging up my mother.
Your mother? I want to bury her nex to Daddy.
We could take care of that for you.
- You could? - Sure.
It's all part of our motto.
"To protect and serve.
" But you gotta let us arrest you now.
You come peacefully.
Top of your head, please.
Let's go.
Get up.
MC got back a half-hour ago, dropped off by a cab.
Carried a bunch of bags with him.
God only knows what's in them.
You stay here.
Police! Frank.
Look at this.
Spic and span.
Except for the bullet hole.
Come on.
Go to the backyard.
Hear that? Yeah.
Give me a shake And if you think I'm dreaming Give me a shake Long as you can love - Don't move.
- I ain't moving! Don't.
Put that stuff down.
Please, don't don't don't shoot.
I was just cleaning.
Turn around! You came back to your place and cleaned up the evidence because you like things neat, is that it? - I didn't know it was evidence.
- But you knew you'd shot someone? Accidentally, yes.
You don't understand.
- I caught Angel red-handed.
- Doing what? Breaking and entering.
Wait.
Your partner in burglary was burglarising you? We had a system.
He'd go out and do the ugly work, the robbery, burglary, warehouse rips, whatever, and I catalogued everything, set up an inventory and sold it.
- Then he got greedy? - No, paranoid.
- He thought I held out on him.
- You did and you shot him.
Look, Angel had the gun.
He was gonna shoot.
I lunged for the gun, we struggled.
It went off.
This is how I see things.
You were shorting our hard-working Mr Slayton and he confronted you with it.
You went for the gun, but as the white-collar side of the partnership, you could not hit the broad side of a barn! You aimed for the chest, and shot him in the groin.
- But the intention's the same.
- If I wanted to kill Angel, why would I have driven his sorry ass to a doctor? - You drove him to the hospital? - In Nikki's car.
And when I saw him last, he was his same, healthy, sour self.
He even got in a fight at the hospital.
- With whom? - Some male nurse.
Kicked his butt.
Good.
OK.
OK.
Good.
So what's MC stand for? Mr Clean.
Didn't hear a statement of guilt.
Let the State's Attorney type that up.
Maybe.
But Danvers says the lawyer representing the victim's mother is naming an accomplice in a civil suit.
Mrs Slayton used to be a nurse.
Yeah? She thinks the shot to the groin wouldn't have killed her son.
She claims the hospital as complicit in the murder of Gabriel Slayton.
The hospital didn't shoot him.
He did! He shot him, but he didn't kill him.
If someone at the hospital's negligent, I wanna know.
I wanna know, Bayliss.
I wanna know.
Lieutenant, the hospital is in no way or fashion complicit in Gabriel Slayton's death.
Then why settle with the dead man's mother? It's a nuisance suit and I don't need the publicity or litigation.
I'm trying to build a trauma ward.
That means soliciting benefactors, and, oddly enough, people are less apt to donate money to a hospital that gets named in public wrongful-death suits.
Just because you blink doesn't mean we have to.
I don't care about your budgets.
I have detectives investigating a homicide.
- I understand that.
- Do you? A quiet investigation is all I ask.
I'll ask them to whisper, but I'll expect full cooperation from your staff.
- Of course.
- Thank you.
He's a paranoid schizophrenic.
Not texbook, but it's close enough for the court to diagnose.
Look at him rocking like that, like he's rocking himself to sleep.
It's a joke that this bastard won't have to answer for what he did.
He killed both his parents, and goes to a cosy loony bin, weave baskets all day and get the best drugs our tax money can buy.
He's already paying for what he did.
Nobody gives a damn about him.
Nobody'll visit him.
Nobody's gonna sing happy birthday to him.
It's like a slow death.
Why weep for John Wayne Gacy here? He's a sicko killer.
Screw him! I'll tell you why.
The last time I saw my brother Anthony, he was wearing a coat just like that.
- So you had a crazy brother? - Still do.
He lives at Sheppard-Pratt.
- What's so funny? - I don't know.
It's just you and I have been partners now for four months, and you know I've tried to quit smoking 50 times.
You know the sordid details of my divorce.
You know I sleep on a pillow covered with my favourite cartoon characters and you didn't have the decency to mention your brother, - Anthony, let alone a crazy brother.
- I never should've opened my mouth.
- It just slipped out.
- Do you visit him? - Once.
- When was that? - Christmas, 1978.
- Oh, so you guys are really close! I'm gonna knock you out.
He just made hard things harder.
He just Always causing trouble for the family, being nuts and all.
- Did he ever hurt anyone? - Yeah, he hurt people.
He used to beat up the neighbourhood kids, set people's pets on fire.
He almost burned our building down six times.
- When did you commit him? - About 20 years ago.
Yeah, we were still living at Lafayette Courts.
Came home from school one day, I must've been about 14 and I came home and there he was, sitting on that window ledge.
He always used to do this, see, try to kill himself on me.
So I come home and see him on the ledge.
He sees me, goes to make his move, and then I normally would try to stop him, but this time I didn't.
What? You let him fall? He broke his hip, his collar bone, both his legs.
- It's amazing he didn't die.
- Yeah, I know.
I was hoping that he would.
- What the hell are you doing? - Investigating.
I'm looking for a love letter or floral card, or any evidence to lead me to Kay's secret smoocher.
I'm using my skills as a homicide detective to uncover his identity.
I think this is called an illegal search.
Yeah, right.
What if she comes in and sees you? I'm not stupid, I know she left for the day already.
No, she didn't.
Hey, sarge, you haven't seen my dreidel, have you? Get your coat.
Come with me.
- Let me explain.
- No.
Let me explain.
My personal life is off limits to the squad room.
All right? I learned that when I dated Danvers.
You were the biggest sinner.
- The jokes, the gossip - I can't disagree with you, but that was the old me.
The new me is Is worse.
Look, I know you may find this hard to accept but I believe in secrets.
I believe we have to have truths about ourselves that we keep from our colleagues, our neighbours, our loved ones.
I don't want any one person knowing everything about me.
I want you to have a few pieces of the puzzle, Gee a few pieces, my sister.
Every day all we do is ferret out secrets.
It's our job.
Not today, Munchkin.
I'll make a deal with you.
Tell me who the mystery Casanova is and I'll tell you the deepest, darkest secret of my life.
I don't want to know your deepest, darkest secret.
It'd keep me up nights.
Young guy, big.
Yeah, I remember him vaguely.
Did you participate in Mr Slayton's treatments? I was dealing with a head-on collision.
It was just Dr Wystan and Nurse Sherman with him.
I was working in the area over by the trauma room.
I heard a scuffle.
I came in, I saw Sherman on top of the patient.
I helped pull him off.
Dr Wystan was there.
Was there a moment you were aware of when either the doctor or the nurse was alone with him? At one point Dr Wystan was alone with him, and at another point Sherman was, but that's nothing unusual.
I heard about the mother filing suit against the hospital.
Right.
We live in a litigious age.
People come in here DOA and their families wanna believe something that could've been done, and you, as the doctor, should've done it.
- Why do you think Slayton died? - He needed to rest.
The last thing he should have been doing is business as usual.
Do you think that there was anything that anyone here could have done that might have led to Slayton's death? We had about a dozen patients waiting at the time.
I left Nurse Sherman to finish up the procedure.
Could there be purposeful wrongdoing? - Mmm.
- I doubt it.
We were informed that Mr Slayton got into a fight with you.
It' s odd to me that you didn't mention that yesterday, when you were eavesdropping.
Oh, he was arrogant, all right.
He had a problem with authority.
So he takes a swing at you.
Did you hit him back? I didn't get a chance to.
I was dismissed by Her Royal Highness.
You have some kind of problem with Wystan too? Look, I gotta get back before she notices that I'm gone.
Have you and Nurse Sherman had conflicts? I don't know that you'd qualify them as conflicts.
We have differences.
Oh.
What? Poor performance, tardiness, personality clash? Sherman is harsh in his views.
Judgmental, I guess you'd say, and patients pick up on this, and it's proven troublesome before.
Oh, and is that why he got in a fight with Slayton? I should've mentioned that when we first spoke.
- Well, why didn't you? - I didn't think it mattered.
Sherman was texbook perfect in his treatment of Slayton.
- He was first-rate.
- I understand the hesitation.
No one wants to incriminate a colleague.
Hospitals are so noisy.
This is not a smart move, pulling me away during a shift.
You left the ER understaffed.
Don't worry.
We made sure you were covered.
- By whom? - We didn't ask.
If those patients do not get proper care, I won't be to blame.
No.
We believe Gabriel Slayton received less than adequate care - when you were on duty.
- I'm the best nurse in that hospital.
I know more about medicine than most doctors, - including Kate Wystan.
- Do you realise that several people - at the hospital complained about you? - I'm not surprised.
Some of my co-workers have a problem seeing a Black man on the other end of a syringe.
Maybe you're the one with the problem? Thousands of Slaytons out there, and you choose to badger a hard-working professional like me.
Maybe you've got this backwards? We could be talking with Gabriel if he were alive.
I took an oath.
When I am on my job, I do my job.
Well! When you draw blood from a gangbanger, you don't make finding his vein more difficult than it is? You don't jab the syringe harder than for a tax-paying homeowner, a professional like you? I treated Slayton like any other patient.
- You didn't do anything different? - He was bleeding! I considered the source and double-gloved.
- Slayton took offence? - Yes.
- As he should.
- Because I protect myself? - No, because he sensed your disdain.
- I grew up with kids like Slayton, same neighbourhood, same block, same building, but did I turn out like that? No.
I stayed in school.
I got a job.
I put myself through college, through nursing school, and I'll do the same with med school, and I will become a doctor.
And for what? So I can put in 70-hour weeks to keep the Slaytons alive and breaking the law? - You hated him? - Him particularly? - You wanted him dead? - No.
I am just sick and tired of seeing African-Americans dying at the hands of other African-Americans, so I swung at the son-of-a-bitch.
- You told me you didn't.
- Well, I did.
You messed up, somehow, some way.
You did or didn't do something so that 22-year-old kid, whom you had never laid eyes on before, would die.
Look, I am not the only person there with issues.
- Meaning what? - Mean Meaning ever since Dr Wystan's husband got the crap beat out of him at an ATM, even Mother Teresa of Madison Medical Centre has a problem dealing with the criminal element.
- When was he robbed? - Two weeks ago.
They got $200, and he got kicked in the face so hard he may lose an eye.
Oh, and they broke his arm too.
Are you saying that the doctor misperformed? - No, I am not saying that.
- Then what the hell are you saying? Huh? That I've seen her do better work.
- What you grinning about? - It's a secret.
You know, there's a candy and soda machine down the hallway.
No, I'm fine.
Thank you.
You you've been here before? Yeah, I was here a long time ago.
- Excuse me, Dr Battey? - Yes.
Mr Lewis? Right.
How you doing? Battey.
I'm sorry.
It's just a funny name, - working in a place like this.
- I know.
I know.
Look, this may not be the best time to visit Anthony.
Why not? What? He knows I'm here, right? He knows who I am and everything? - Yes, yes, but - But what? - But he doesn't wanna see me? - No.
I'm sorry.
He doesn't want to see me? - That's very funny.
Thanks, Doc.
- Yeah.
He doesn't want to see me.
That's very funny.
- Mr Wystan? - Yes.
Sorry to bother you this late.
We're from Homicide.
- Homicide? - Yes.
We need to ask your wife - about a patient she treated.
- Well, sit down.
- Can I get you anything? - No, thank you.
About what time is your wife gonna get home? The hospital said she'd finished her shift.
She had to pick up Lily at day care and some groceries.
Obviously, I'm still not able to drive - You got jumped, huh? - When you said you were the police, I thought maybe you'd caught the guys.
- They didn't make any arrest? - No.
Probably won't.
It must've been very unfortunate.
I was knocked unconscious for three minutes, a mild concussion, broken arm.
Still don't know if I'll lose the vision in my eye.
- Kate was pretty shaken - Hi! Daddy! Hi! - I drew you a Valentine, Daddy! - She made you the best Valentine! - Listen, these men are detectives.
- Yeah, we've met.
We had a conversation with Sherman Detectives, there was a three-car pile-up and eight injured.
I'm with my family.
Can't we wait until tomorrow? - It can't.
- We need to talk to you now.
- In private if we could, please? - I'm sorry.
Come on.
Let's go in the living room.
- I'm hungry, Mum.
- We'll eat soon, honey.
Spaghetti.
- Come on.
Show me what you made.
- Bye.
I really think you're making a mistake about Sherman.
He has his faults, but he didn't do what you're saying he did.
He really does care.
Put it over there.
We're not accusing him of anything.
He wasn't arrested.
- We brought him in for questioning.
- Oh.
Oh, good.
- Sorry about your husband's injuries.
- Yeah.
How long before he's able to see out that eye or before you know? Six weeks.
And the saddest thing is that he loves to read, both to himself and to Lily, and he can't now from the headache.
- Were you there when it happened? - No.
No, I was waiting in the car.
- Did you see who hurt your husband? - They ran by, but - I thought you guys were Homicide? - We are.
- Were you able to identify the suspect? - No.
- Could Slayton have been one of them? - Why are you asking me this? How many patients did you treat that day? 20? 30? - 40.
- Must have been tired.
- No more than usual.
- Must have been rushed.
I gave Slayton the best treatment that I could in the time that I had, and it would have been easier if he had cooperated.
A lot of patients are uncooperative.
Do a lot of them speak terribly to you, like the homeless guy the other day? - Excuse me? - Did Slayton say something upsetting? Patients say a lot of things when they're in pain.
Well, what did Slayton say? He said, "Hurry up, bitch, I've got business.
" - And is that when you decided? - "Decided"? Yeah.
Decided to hell with trying to save a violent incorrigible thug.
You know, even if he had gotten the best modern medical care, - he would have died anyway.
- From that wound? How? That same kid has probably been in my ER maybe ten times before.
I may have patched him up last time.
Who could tell? If it wasn't him, it was somebody exactly like him.
All day long, I stitch and re-stitch to send them out into the world to shoot and be shot, or hurt somebody else's husband.
So what does it matter whether I tie that last thread, you know? One way or another, it comes undone.
Maybe I didn't do my absolute best.
I left it in the hands of God.
And He made the call.
Do you realise that you've just confessed to murder, Doctor? No, no, no.
That is not what I meant to say at all.
I didn't I did enough for him.
I did enough! It's not the same thing as murder.
It's not.
It's not murder.
It's not the same thing.
It can't be.
It is.
Yeah.
Oh, my God! You're gonna arrest me? No, no, no.
What we're gonna do is lay out the facts to the District Attorney's office and then they're going to determine if they're going to go ahead with the indictment.
- Mummy, I'm starving.
- Oh, I know, I know, honey.
Listen, you just go ahead and feed your family, then.
Here, sweetie.
OK, what are we gonna do, Frank? - Do? - Yeah.
Exactly what you said.
We're gonna lay it all out for the State's Attorney and let them figure it out.
You know something? I gotta tell you, it seems a pity.
On the one hand, she is responsible for a person's death, so she deserves to be punished to the full exent of the law.
But She's a good mother, she's a good wife.
She is a good doctor.
She has helped thousands of people.
With her hands, she's saved thousands of lives, you know? Does one act, does one moment, does that wipe out a lifetime of good? Gabriel Slayton was a scumwad, Frank, and you know that in the larger scheme of things, that his death was not a loss.
If she doesn't practise medicine, more people are gonna suffer.
But she said what she said.
Help me out here, Frank.
The man is dead, Tim.
That's all I wanna say.
OK! OK.
OK.
It's so quiet here.