All language subtitles for NYPD Blue S12E13 Stoli with a Twist

Previously on "NYPD blue"...

I'm Steve mcclintock.

Where were you last night?

I was with my girlfriend.

Carly landis?
Where was Steve last night?

With me. Why?
That's when Tina most
was murdered.

Why are you lying
for the guy who did it?

He said that if I said anything,
he would kill me.

I'm scared to be alone
right now.

Maybe I'll stick around
for a little while.

The judge excluded
Carly landis' statement.

I thought you said
the motion was a long shot.

It was till it came out
that your partner slept

with the defendant's
girlfriend.

You should think
about selling real estate.

Pretend we're a team
and see how you do.

We're going to be putting you
into a rotation

of a. A. Meetings
in lower Manhattan.

The object is
to draw our guy out

and have him approach
one of you

the same way
he approached his victims.

We're dealing with somebody
who is turned on by weakness.

He approaches his victims
after a meeting

and finds a way
of enticing them to drink.

Once he gets them loaded,
he kills them.

I feel like all I do
is come in here and whine.

My sponsor gave me
a list of things to do.

And I didn't do them,
and I guess she got tired

of hearing excuses for not
doing it, so she fired me.

And, I start in.

"She's wrong --
she should've stuck with me."

I got three and a half weeks
without a drink or a drug,

and I'm flunking out.

I keep waiting for it
to get better, and it doesn't.

I'm alone except
for when I'm at a meeting.

And I'm lonely.

God, I'm lonely.

I, guess I'm supposed
to stop now.

Thank you.
We'll take a 15-minute break.

Please, no smoking
on the church grounds.

Thank you so much
for sharing.

You're welcome.

You have such honesty.

Thank you.

Do you mind if I ask you
a personal question?

It's all pretty personal
in here.

Is that your hair's
natural color?

-

would you consider
selling it?

Selling my hair?

I wholesale hair
to wigmakers,

and your hair
is the shade and texture

that I'm currently
looking for.

And it would be
an opportunity for you to earn

and get your foot
in the door.

I don't want
to sell my hair.

Do you want to hear the going
rate for hair like yours?

Kind of attached to it.

That's good.

Will you think about it?

I will.

You heard of "h. A. L. T."?

No.
What is that?

Hungry, angry,
lonely, tired.

Any one of those is when you're
most at risk of drinking.

Right now, I guess I could
check the box next to all four.

After the meeting, do you want
to get some breakfast?

Cross at least one
off your list.

Okay.

Woman: You don't
have a sponsor?

Um, it might
just be temporary.

But you don't have
a sponsor now.

No.

I'll be your sponsor.

Um...

That's okay. We'll...
We'll do it another time.

Okay.

Then after the meeting
we'll go out.

Well,
I've gotta get to work.

Well, this is my card.
I want you to call me.

When's the next meeting
you're going to?

I'm not sure.

Do you have a schedule?
Yeah.

Well, I'm at this meeting
every Tuesday morning.

Thursdays I'm at the 8:00 A.M.,
79th street workshop.

Call me.
I will.

I'll be there
in 15 minutes.

Could you excuse me
a second?

Sure.

Thanks.

We got another one.

Morning.
Name's Maya Heath.

Strangled?

Yeah,
with lipstick smudged.

Who called it in?

The sister. She called, got
no answer, decided to come by.

Where's the sister now?

In the other room.

Miss Heath? You mind having
a seat out here, please?

I'm detective sipowicz.
This is detective Clark.

I know this is a bad time,

but we really need to ask you
a couple of questions.

When's the last time
you spoke with your sister?

Last night.

I called her
when I got back from work

to see what she was doing,

and she said that she was
on her way out to a meeting.

Do you know what time it was
you were speaking to her?

6:30, quarter to 7:00.

So if she was on her way,
that'd be what, a 7:00 meeting?
I don't know.

She tell you
where the meeting was?

Yeah.
She said it was in a school.

Your sister ever talk to you
about people at those meetings?

She said she met
some nice people.

She said she met
some weird people.

She didn't go
into specifics.

How long had she
been going to meetings?

Three weeks.
Something like that.

I know it was
less than a month

because a month ago, she
had gone to Atlanta on business

and wound up
getting fired.

For drinking?

Drinking,
missing appointments,

just generally
making a mess of things.

Do you know if your sister
kept a diary of some kind?

I know she used to.

Do you know where we might
be able to find it?

It was in her computer.
It's under "Martha."

That was our dog
when we were little.

All right, thank you
very much for your help.

When we know something,
we'll get in touch with you.

When she got back
from Atlanta,

I told her that she was
a candidate to wind up homeless

if she didn't do something
about her drinking.

It hurt her
that I would say that.

It hurt her
that I was mad at her,

and she couldn't stand that.

She started going to meetings
and she wound up dead.

You can't blame yourself
for that.

I can't?

Fit the pattern?

Like a glove.

We have any idea
which meeting she was at?

We know roughly what time it was
and that it was at a school.

Signs he got her to drink?
Yeah.

We might also allow
for the possibility
that it's not a "he."

Female victim,
strangulation.

This woman that approached me
could strangle somebody.

She coming on to you?

I'd say she plays
for the other team.

Whether she was
reaching out to help me

or she had something else
in mind, that I don't know.

Is there some other way
you can check her out?

Yeah, she gave me
a business card.

Given that he or she
got the d. O. A. To drink

before he killed her,
we should canvas nearby bars.

D.O.A. wouldn't be
drinking in a bar.

And why is that?
Too ashamed.

If she was gonna drink,
she'd do it privately.

Clark:
If we were covering

one of the meetings
that she went to,

we'll have videotapes of people
who were going there.

Whoever it is waited
a month between the first two,

three weeks between
the second and third,

and one week
before this one.

We need to step it up,
get him to go again.

I got a call about a homicide
at 13th and 3rd. Male, stabbed.

Who's up?
I am.

I don't want to take sipowicz
off the task force.

Clark,
you partner up with Jones.

Medavoy,
you work with sipowicz.

Looks like
a burglary gone bad.

Guy busted in the window,
surprised the d. O. A.,

then it's stab, steal,
hasta la vista.

Well, he's got
the whole thing figured out.

I'm just trying to tell you
what I see.

Yeah, maybe we'll
take a look, too,

just for the heck of it --
you get a name of the d. O. A.?

Steve mcclintock.
You're kidding.

That's what the neighbor says.
Matches the name on the mailbox.

Who called it in?
Downstairs neighbor.

She heard the fight.
Didn't see anything.

Said it happened a little
before 8:00 this morning.

I'll be damned.

Mcclintock?

He was involved
in that adoption scam, right?

Yeah, he killed
one of the pregnant girls.

We, got him,
but the case was thrown out.

There's some money here.

Whatever they were after,
it wasn't cash.

Hey. We got something here.
Down there.

What is this?
Some kind of drug?

Good job.

Mcclintock, he had
a girlfriend, right?

Name's Carly landis.

Yeah, well,
we should talk to her.

Yeah, we should.

Have a seat, Carly.

Where were you
around 8:00 this morning?

You want to tell me
what this is about?

Just answer the question.

I think I have a right
to know why I'm here.

Just answer a few questions
and we'll tell you.

I was helping a woman
named rhoda weiss.

I'm her home
healthcare worker.

I got to her apartment
a little before 7:00.

I left around 10:00.

I thought you worked
at a clinic.

I got fired
when Steve was arrested.

You still with Steve?

That also ended
when he got arrested.

Why'd you break up with him?

Finding out that
he killed somebody, for one,

and two, because he threatened
me with a gun and he hit me.

Other than that,
really great guy.

When's the last time
you saw him?

About a month ago.

And you haven't talked to him
since then?

No. What's he done?

I assume he's the reason
I'm here.

He was killed this morning.

Really?

You don't sound
too broken up about it.

The last time I saw Steve,

he gave me a black eye and
he split my lower lip, so, no.

Do you know anybody
who'd want to kill him?

Steve ripped off so many people.
Have you talked to any of them?

Do you know
if he was in any trouble?

I know he needed money.

He couldn't find a job
after the arrest.

He paid his way through college
dealing pharmaceuticals.

Maybe he started
that up again.

He use drugs himself?

No, not that I ever saw.

Look, I am working to forget

everything that I ever knew
about Steve.

Whatever it is
that you're trying to find out,

I can't help you.

You're sure about that?

Yes, John, I am.

The number of the woman
you were with this morning.

Can I speak to you
for a second in private?

What do you want
to talk about?

I understand
that you're angry at me.

I guess I can't
blame you for that,

but I just want you to know

that what happened between US
that night was genuine.

At least it was for me.

And your boyfriend getting
sprung on account of it --

that was coincidence?

No, I told a friend about you.
Word got back to Steve.

I didn't tell him anything.
You expect me
to believe that?

His lawyer came to me and said
that I had to help Steve out.

She made it very clear that
if I didn't, I would get hurt.

I believed her.

I knew how violent he could get
when he was desperate.

Why didn't you
tell somebody?
I was too scared.

I think this is
where I came in.

You told me
how scared you were,

how you needed someone
to take care of you.

Which was true.

You don't have to like me,

but can you consider
the possibility

that I'm not the person
you think I am?

I just got the lab report
on that stuff you found

in Steve mcclintock's
apartment.

It was steroids.

Some high-end,
state-of-the-art stuff.

Was he a user?

I don't think so.
He was big, but not that big.

Whatever you find out,

be sure to bring narcotics
into the loop.

If you need to liaison
with the feds, just let me know.

Jones: We dumped mcclintock's
phone -- there's calls

to somebody named
Darien lasalle.

We're gonna
go talk to him.

Good.

Find anything in that diary?

She mentions someone named Roger
from the meeting in school.

Based on the time, we figured
out which meeting it was,

got the phone list
from that meeting,

and got the number
for a "Roger h."

Comes back
as being Roger harborn.

Two arrests for domestic
violence in five years.

Gonna go bring him in.

Let me know
after you talk to him.

Darien lasalle?

Yeah, that's right.

Give US a minute?
Sure, man.

Can we talk to you?
Sure. What about?

We're investigating an incident
that occurred this morning.

Where were you around 8:00?

This morning?
Right here.

I handle all
the personal training clients

between 6:00 a. M. And noon.

The guy at the front desk
tells US

you're a competitive
body builder.

I've been on the circuit
about three years, now.

You know Steve mcclintock?

No, afraid not.

No idea who he is?

No.

You talked to him on the phone
for five minutes yesterday.

Steve! Right.
You know, it's funny.

In my head, I thought you were
talking about somebody else.

Yeah,
I talked to Steve.

What did you talk about?

You know, "hello. How ya doin'?
What's up?"

And that was it?

Pretty much.

You ever use
steroids, Darien?

No, man.
No, I work clean.

I got the test results
to prove it.

So you weren't talking to
Steve mcclintock about steroids.

No! No.
I stay away from that stuff.

Darien, Steve
was killed this morning.

This is
a homicide investigation,

so I want you to take a moment
and think before you lie again.

Look, I wasn't lying
to you guys.

Then you're coming in.

Hey, wait!
Guys, all right.

Look, man, I got
the semis this weekend

for the "Mr. Natural pro-power
physique olympiad."

Dude, if word of this gets out,
they're gonna disqualify me.

I won't be able to compete.

What you need
to focus on now is prison

because you are
this close to going inside.

Okay.

Word was out on the street that
Steve was selling "the clear,"

so I called him up.

What's "the clear"?

It promotes muscle growth,
improves recovery,

doesn't show up
on the tests.

What did he say to you?

He said he got
a big shipment in.

We were gonna
get together in a few days.

That was it?
Yeah, that was it.
I swear to you.

I don't know anything
about him getting killed.

You know anyone else
who was buying from him?

Well, no, not personally,

but you go into any gym,
you might find somebody.

Listen, guys, is there any way
you can keep me out of this?

This is my career
we're talking about here.

Man, you know
the stuff you're taking

is gonna shrink your balls,
give you tits,

and probably
destroy your liver?

Your point being?

Have a seat, Roger.

Something to drink?

No, no, I'm okay.

What do you need
to talk to me about?

You're a member of a group
that meets at a school.

Is that right?

You're talking
about my 12-step group?
Right.

How'd you find out
about that?

There was a robbery
in the school.

We're talking to everybody
who's been on the premises.

Okay, well,
I've been on the premises.

Anyone in your group
raise any flags?

No.

How about a girl
named Maya Heath?

How about her?

What can you tell US
about her?

You think she's involved
in a robbery?

We're covering all angles.

You know her?
Yeah.

When's the last time
you saw her?

Last time was the meeting.

Which was when?
Last week.

Not last night?

W-What's going on here?

Where were you
last night, Roger?

I had to work late.

I thought you said
you sell copy machines.

What do you have to do late?

Sales calls.

Sometimes they don't let me in
during business hours,

and I gotta go late.

That doesn't
ring true, Roger.

People don't stay late
to talk to salesmen.

You were drinking
last night.

No.
No, no, I wasn't.

Yeah, you were.
I can smell it on you.

Where'd you take Maya
from the meeting?
I didn't go to the meeting.

I want a list
of those sales calls.

Well, I'd have to go home
and look for it.

You can forget
about going home.

You're gonna sit here
until we can verify

that you were
where you say you were.

If we can't, then we're gonna
have a different conversation.

Did somebody
do something to Maya?

Yeah.

What'd they do?

They killed her.

Hey, stranger.

Hey, what's up?

I have to meet a guy
about approving a wire.

Can I interest you in lunch?
I have an hour.

I'd like that,
but I'm kind of snowed in.

Task force thing?

No, actually I got
pulled off that.

It's another homicide.

Remember Steve mcclintock?

Sure.
Is he the victim?

Stabbed. Looks like he was
moving some drugs.

Any sign of Carly landis?

She says they broke up. She
doesn't know anything about it.

So you've already
talked to her.
Yeah.

Well, we know
how trustworthy she can be.
Yeah.

Right now we've got
nothing pointing to her.

So maybe lunch,
day or two?

Sure, fine.
Just let me know.

I'll do that.

Keep me posted
about the mcclintock thing.

Absolutely.

Hey, John,
I just talked to narcotics.

They picked up a guy
named Nathan creek

carrying a couple hundred doses
of that steroid we found

in mcclintock's
this morning.

Who's creek?

A drug dealer.

He's also got a burglary
and assault on his sheet.

When they pick him up?

About an hour
after mcclintock got killed.

He's at the tombs.

Where'd you get
the steroids, Nathan?

Don't know
what you're talking about.

Couple hundred glass vials that
were in the trunk of your car.

Don't know anything
about that.

We found fingerprints that
belong to a Steve mcclintock.

He was stabbed this morning.

Is any of this starting
to ring a bell to you?

No.

Must've been the guy who killed
him and put that dope in my car.

Nathan, I don't
think you appreciate

how thoroughly screwed
you are.

We're gonna find your prints
in mcclintock's apartment.

We're gonna find
his blood on your clothes.

And we're gonna find the knife
you killed him with

if we gotta go
through every garbage can
south of 42nd street.

The game's over.
Do yourself a favor
and tell US what happened.

This is a felony murder --
that buys you the death penalty

unless there were circumstances
that you want to explain.

Would circumstances include

someone else coming up
with the idea of me going in?

Maybe. Who?
This chick.

She told me
this mcclintock guy

had this shipment of steroids
in his apartment, right?

I was just gonna go in
and grab them.

She was gonna sell them.

We were gonna split the take,
right? Simple.

Except she also said
that this guy

was gonna be out
of his apartment all morning.

Which he wasn't.

This chick got a name?

Carly landis.

She put you up to this?

Laid out the whole thing.
And how do you know her?

She worked at a free clinic down
on rivington I used to go to.

We've stayed in touch.

She say why she wanted
to rip this mcclintock guy off?

No, only that it would be easy
and the money would be good.

She didn't say
more than that?

That was enough for me,
you know?

So you went
into the apartment,

found mcclintock there,
and you stabbed him.

Found? Found?
Whoa.

I mean, he came at me
like a bull.

If I hadn't done him, he sure
as hell would have done me.

I mean, I can argue that.

That's like self-defense.

That's legit, right?

What, that
you were defending yourself

while you were breaking into
his apartment and robbing him?

Yeah. That's right.
That's exactly what I was doing.

Landis: He's lying.

Come on, Carly.

Yes, I know Nathan creek
from the clinic.

He came in
a couple of times.

No, we did not
keep in touch.

He basically stalked me.

It was so bad that I nearly
had to get a restraining order.

The guy is
a violent psychotic.

It sounds exactly like
what you were looking for.

I wasn't looking
for anything.

And I haven't seen or talked
to Nathan creek

in six months, thank god.

That's a pretty big
coincidence.

Creek just happens to bust into
your ex-boyfriend's apartment?

Steve knew
a lot of bad people.

For all I know, he and Nathan
were working together.

Why did creek say
this was your idea?

Because he's up for murder
and he'd say anything?

See, you didn't
want the steroids.

You sent creek to the apartment
because you wanted Steve dead.

No, I didn't.
Why?
Because he dumped you?

No!
And I told you, I left him.

Creek's lying, and I'm sure
that it is not the first time.

If he's telling the truth,
we're gonna find out,

so it's better
if you tell US now.

There is nothing to tell.

You aren't going
to find anything.

Do you have anything on her
besides creek's statement?

No.
She have an alibi?

Yeah -- Sally, the woman
she was with, confirmed it.

Then there's nothing
I can do.

We just want to hold her
while we do some digging.

If I try and indict her
without corroboration,

my boss will laugh me
out of the office.

Nathan creek is a convicted
drug dealer and a repeat felon.

Carly landis is a nurse.

Who do you think wins
that credibility contest?

We'll keep looking.

Do that.

And get me something solid

before you call me
down here again, okay?

So...

Carly tells Nathan creek

that mcclintock won't be
in his apartment that morning,

but she wants mcclintock dead.

So you've gotta figure she knows
he'll be there that morning.

But how'd she know that?

Good question.

Any progress
remembering their names?

I'm not sure.

I'm remembering
making sales calls,

but I'm not
remembering when.

What about Maya? You remembering
anything about her?

I liked her.
I wanted to go out with her.

She feel the same way?

No. She said that she wasn't
ready to be dating anyone.

She had issues with men,
whatever that means.

Maybe I just wasn't her type.
Who knows?

What'd you do after
she told you that, Roger?

I don't know.

What do you mean
you don't know?

I mean I don't know.
We were in a Chinese restaurant.

It was after a meeting and...

...i don't know
what I did.

What meeting was it?

The one on west Houston street
at noon.

I saw her at the meeting,
and I asked her to have lunch.

I remember being
at the restaurant...

Seeing
the other people drinking

these big bottles
of Chinese beer.

I remember waiting and I
remember that at a certain point

I...said to the waiter,
"bring me one."

What about Maya?
Did she have one?

No.
I don't think so.

I think she got mad at me
for ordering one.

And I think she left.

What's the next thing
you remember after the beer?

Getting woken up in my car
by a state trooper.

Where was that?
Off the southern state.

He write you up?
No, sir.

He did a field sobriety test
on me,

but my head
had cleared by then.

You don't know what happened

between the time
you ordered the beer

and when the state trooper
woke you up?

The reason I got myself to start
going to these meetings

was because...

When I got drunk, there was no
telling what I was capable of.

I've been abusive.
I've been violent.

If you tell me I killed Maya,
I won't argue with you.

I'm so sorry.

This was just sent over for you.
I think it's from Bridget.

Man, she's sending
you presents now?

My man.

What's the note say, greggy?

"To celebrate
and so you don't catch cold."

Well, that's nice.

Yeah, I-I-I helped her
close a sale, so that's why.

That's not why.
She likes you.

Where are we
with the mcclintock homicide?

It looks like
this Carly landis set it up.

She sent this guy creek
allegedly to steal drugs,

knowing that this mcclintock
would be there.

Unfortunately,
we can't prove that.

So what are you doing?

Continuing to work our way

through mcclintock's
phone records.

There's a Henry del gado
we have to talk to.

Don't let me stop you.

Where do we stand?

State police confirm
that the stop was made

around 6:00 this morning

and the Chinese restaurant
confirms

that he was in there yesterday
and he was drinking.

Was the girl
in there with him?

The waiter says
that she walked out on him.
Which is what he said.

Still leaves the possibility
he went to her apartment.

He's a blackout drunk --
if he did it,

he wouldn't have been this
careful to cover his tracks.

Either of you
run into this guy?

He introduced himself to me
before a meeting.

I think he was just
being friendly, though.

Hold him.

He's not
the guy, boss.

He was the last person
seen with her.

He can't account for his
whereabouts at the time.

All the more reason.

If he did it,
he'd have a story.

You feel something
for this guy, detective?

That has nothing
to do with it.

Until you have a better suspect
in hand, I want him held.

Clark:
So the phone's in your name,

but the apartment's rented
to a Camille del gado?

Who's that?

My mother.
She's been there for years.

I moved in about a year ago,
got my own phone.

Why'd you move in?

My mom's pretty sick.

I'm taking care of her.

We're investigating a crime
involving a Steve mcclintock.

Going through
his phone records,

we found a call to him made
from your phone three days ago.

I was looking for another
home healthcare worker.

A service recommended
Mr. Mcclintock to me.

He wasn't available.

Mr. Mcclintock
was an ob-gyn nurse.

What service recommended him
to work with an elderly woman?

The particular service?

Yeah. Maybe you can dig up
the name for US.

I can try.
I don't know.

Now, you said you needed
another home healthcare worker.

You already have
somebody coming in?

Yeah.
Couple times a week.

Who's that?

A woman
named Carly landis.

Did she get you
to call Steve mcclintock

and set up a meeting
in his apartment this morning?

No.

This is
a homicide investigation.

You are an accessory
to the crime if you lie to US.

I'm not lying.

I talked to mcclintock
about nursing care.

Steve mcclintock
was stabbed to death.

If you're involved in any way,
you helped kill him.

Now, you need to think
about that a minute.

My mother needs
a lot of medicine.

Beta blockers, blood pressure,
cholesterol medication --

even with medicare
it's more than I can afford.

Carly landis said she'd get me
a supply of cheap meds

if I placed the call.

What did she tell you
to say to him?

That I wanted a drug
called "the clear"

and that I would be
at his apartment

between 7:00 and 10:00
this morning.

She say why
she wanted you to do it?

Something about mcclintock
owing her money.

I didn't ask
a lot of questions.

It sounded like
some sort of prank.

He really got killed?

Yeah.

I was just trying
to help my mother.

Whoa.

Take it easy, Greg.

All these years
going to bars,

I should've been
going to meetings.

That's a stupid thing
to say.

Why?

At least just pretend that
you're taking it seriously.

Come on, Andy.

It's not like
I'm not taking it seriously.

I know that guy.

From where?

He was at the meeting
this morning.

He came over to talk to you
during the break.

And he asked me out.
"Out" out?

Out to get breakfast
after the meeting.

Then that woman came over,
she started talking to me,

and he backed off.

What'd we find out about her?

She wasn't living in
New York at the time of
the first two homicides.

This guy Roger was in meetings
with the last d. O. A.

He should take a look
at this tape.

You want me to get him?

I'll get him.

Harborn:
What did you find out?

Your story checks out

as far as the Chinese restaurant
and the state trooper.

What about in-between?

I don't know
about the in-between.

So I still
could have killed her.

Theoretically.

What do I do?

Right now I want you
to look at something.

Sipowitz:
You recognize this guy?

Yeah.
I see him in the rooms.

Anything you can tell me
about him?

I think his name is Justin.
Smooth-talker.

Always has a lot to say
about how good he's doing.

You know
if he knew Maya at all?

Yeah.
He definitely knew her.

I even remember
a couple of times,

after a meeting,
I saw them go off together.

I'm gonna have to put you back
in the other room for now.

Okay.

Listen, Roger, if it turns out
that you didn't kill this girl,

you might want to think about
getting yourself to a meeting.

You want me to go with you or
if you just want to talk to me,

give me a call.

Can I go now?

We talked
to Henry del gado.

What about him?

He told US
you set Steve up.

He's lying.

With del gado,
we can prove you made sure

mcclintock
would be in his apartment

when Nathan creek went in.

That gets you
a murder charge.

It's not true.

John,
you have to believe me.

Carly, we talked to the clinic
where you worked.

They didn't fire you
because of Steve's arrest.

They said that you were
showing up late...

No.
Behaving erratically.

They think you have
a drug problem. Is that true?

It was because of Steve's
arrest. They're lying.

You can't keep saying that.
It's over.

I'm scared, John.

I can help you.

But you have
to tell me the truth.

Was Steve giving you drugs?

Mostly coke.

But I don't know
where he got it.

He said that it
was medicinal-grade.

It's really powerful.

And what happened?
Did he cut you off?

After the trial,
he said that we should lay low,

stay apart for a while

in case the cops
were still looking at US.

I figured a few weeks
was enough.

And when I called him,
it was like he didn't know me.

He said he was
enjoying his space,

and he didn't want
to be together anymore.

I said, "okay,

"but the least you can do
is help me out with some coke,

because I sure can't get
that stuff on my own."

He said fine --
I'd just have to pay for it.

Pay for it?

Seemed to me after
all I'd done for him --

the beatings
that I had taken, the sex,

the lying that I had done
for him --

I already paid!

So you set it up
with creek and del gado.

Yeah.

Steve really was
a bad guy, John.

He identifies himself
in meetings as Justin.

This is what he looks like.

Should he be in any of the
meetings we're covering tonight,

the backup's to go outside
and call it in.

We don't know that this
is the guy, though.

No, we don't.
Just do what you've been doing.

If he is the guy
and he makes a move,

I assume
we'll be ready for him.

The apartments are set up?

Yeah, the dummy apartment
is set up

for the undercover
to bring him to,

and we have the apartment
across the hall for backup.

How much time do we have?

Meeting's an hour.

Figure there's a half-hour worth
of conversation afterwards.

Make the call
as soon as you spot him.

I don't want to cut it
any closer than we have to.

All right, guys.

Good luck.

Grace:
Meeting time.

We'll start the meeting
by going around the room

and introducing ourselves.

My name's grace.
I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, grace.
Hi, grace. Hi, grace.

Warren -- alcoholic.

Hi, Warren.
Hi, Warren. Hi, Warren.

George --
addict, alcoholic.

Hi, George.
Hi, George. Hi, George.

Justin -- alcoholic.

Hi, Justin.
Hi, Justin. Hi, Justin.

I'm Melinda.
I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, Melinda.
Hi, Melinda. Hi, Melinda.

Elaine, alcoholic.

Hi, Elaine.
Hi, Elaine. Hi, Elaine.

Hi, I'm Jack.
I'm an addict/alcoholic.

Hi, Jack.
Hi, Jack. Hi, Jack.

I always knew how
to get attention from men.

If the guy had one shot
of Tequila, I had three.

If he did two lines of coke,
I did half a gram.

Laura does not party like a
chick, she parties like a guy.

Laura also sleeps around
like a guy,

which is why five years ago,

Laura had a kid

who's now
somewhere in the world

being raised
by somebody else.

Today's her birthday.

Thanks for letting me share.

Did you want go off with the
others and get something to eat?

I'm not really in the mood.

You all right?
You want to talk about it?

Sure.

Some days
I'm better about things.

Days like today, I just...

I look at the mess
I made of my life,

and I can't imagine
how I'm surviving.

Sometimes I don't really think
I even deserve to survive.

If we only got
what we deserved,

most of US
would be long dead.

I know.

You go to meetings?

Yep.

You got people
you can call?

Yep.

Do you call them?

No.

You're thinking about
getting loaded, aren't you?

All the time.

Maybe that's
what you gotta do then.

You're saying I should drink?

I'm saying, you fight it

as long and as hard
as you can fight it,

and at a certain point,
you can't fight it anymore.

Asshole.

It's him, right?
Yeah.

I'll let them know
to get ready at the apartment.

That kind of goes against what
most people say, doesn't it?

Well, a lot of people
are pretty good

at making up rules
for other people to live by.

I don't do that.

In the past...

When I drank or used,
I got into trouble.

If you want me to,
I'll stay with you,

make sure
that doesn't happen.

I'm not gonna ask you
to babysit me.

What are we
talking about here?

Having a drink,
take the edge off, see...

Maybe you can do it.

Hell, maybe you're
not an alcoholic.

Aren't you gonna have one?

Sure.

Whoo.

You have no idea
how good that feels.

It frees you up, right?

What do you mean?

Well, you lose inhibition.

I thought you were here
to keep me out of trouble.

I'm just saying
that's the effect.

I know it's had
that effect in the past.

And then it helps you feel

not quite so ashamed
of yourself afterward.

Right.

Have another one.

Okay.

On the one hand, you put on
this respectable front.

You're well-groomed,
you dress modestly,

you even seem to care
about this kid you gave up.

I do care about her.
I know you do.

My mother cared about me.

That doesn't stop your true
nature from revealing itself.

And what is my true nature,
according to you?

When you get to thinking
about the way things feel...

About physical pleasure...

Nothing else matters.

Your desire -- your lust --

takes over every other part
of your being.

Is that what's going to happen
to me now that I'm drinking?

No, alcohol
just greases the skids.

This is who you are.

Well, having a kid
doesn't change that.
It shouldn't.

My mother didn't stop being
who she was when she had me.

She had a life.

It's good
that you see it that way.

Definitely.

She'd leave me money
to buy myself dinner

and she'd look in on me
when she got home.

I'd play this little game where
I'd pretend to be asleep,

and then open my eyes
when she'd pass

the Scooby-doo night-light
that's plugged in the wall.

I'd see her half-naked,
lipstick smeared,

going back to whoever
was waiting for her.

She liked
to have a good time.

Yes, she did,

just like you like
to have a good time.

That's right.

You're not really ever
gonna stop drinking.

Probably not.

Drop another kid
along the way.

Maybe.

He'll see what I saw...

Possible.

...hear what I heard.

What is it
you heard, baby?

"Put your drawers on, Joe.

"Don't let the boy
see you like that.

"Don't do that to me, Mickey.
I don't want to get crazy.

Don't let him hear."

Well, I don't care
if they hear.

It's not
the end of the world.

You'd let him hear,
wouldn't you?

Hell, yeah.

They're in
the other room crying,

pillows over their ears
to block out the sound,

and you're in here,

waiting like some sloppy,
wet skank.

How long
are you gonna make me wait?

You know what first, though?
What, honey?

First, I'm gonna choke the
life out of you like
I did to the others,

so there'll be one less

of you miserable bitches
roaming the earth.

I'm a police officer,
you sick asshole! Now stay down!

Get on your stomach!

What did I do?!

Nothing!
You didn't do nothing.

Give me your hand!

Get up.

All right, come on.

Let's go.

You all right?

You sure?

You better drive, though.

You did good, Laura.

I just wish
he hadn't touched me.

Yeah. Let's go.

Easy.

I got you.

I hear
Carly landis confessed.

Yeah.

Nice save.

Thanks.

The reason I came by
is because I wanted to apologize

for what I said to you
and Baldwin earlier.

Don't worry about it.

No,
it wasn't professional.

Because the truth is,

I wasn't feeling
entirely professional about...

You and her.

I appreciate you saying that,
because the truth is

I was a little uncomfortable
about it myself.

Really?

Yeah.

Listen, tonight's shot,

but I'd really like
to have dinner with you,

soon.

I'd like that.

Friday?

I have to check.

Yeah, it's clear.

Friday, then.

Friday.

Bye.

He went for it?

Four homicides.

Good work.
Thanks.

You oughta say something
to the girls, too.

I will.

I just spoke
to a friend of mine

who oversees
the sergeant's exam.

Yeah?

You passed.

You're kidding.

I thought you'd like
to know ahead of time.

Congratulations.

Wow.

You ready to be a boss?

I don't know.

I guess
you'll find that out.

What's up?

Nothing.

Just an attaboy.