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Come to order.

Come on, guys. It's even money. We can start on time.

All right.

I'm happy to announce there's been a thaw in the department's freeze on

promotions. Lucy Bates is now a sergeant.

Lucy will be commander of the watch.

She'll be making assignments, turning out the shift.

We won't have Goldblum to kick around anymore.

Sergeant Bates.

Okay.

Memorial service for Sergeant Exerhaus in the Benedict Chapel of the Police

Academy at 11 this morning.

Assignments. Coffee, you're going to be with Pizer.

Kosicki is out sick, so Perez is going to be with Pilski. You'll ride together,

okay? Also, I'm announcing a new khaki officer that will be under Leo's wing.

Her name is Natalie DeRoy.

Natalie spent the last two years up at Division, so... Slow it down.

I can't understand one single thing she's saying. If you find her, I mean

her, then welcome her to the hill, okay?

Item one.

What you saw upstairs and everywhere else.

And that is perps.

Okay? They've been stashed here and in every other precinct holding cell.

They're going to be here until 3 p .m. today by order of this Judge Cruz.

He's the guy who declared the Michigan Avenue unconstitutionally overcrowded

inhumane. Okay, the judge had him in Juvie Hall Annex, but that was until

night. You know that some of them croaked the two Diablo Rodriguez films.

I'm heartbroken.

Judge Cruz says that if the city doesn't come up with a plan by 3 p .m. today

for more humane incarceration, that he's going to let them all loose.

Humane society.

So everywhere in the station is going to be a zoo, all right? So let's keep all

visits down to a minimum. That's it. Now, wants and warrants. Here we go. We

a warrant on Lester Minley.

That's a pimp for Whitney Bars. That's a call girl that was in here last night

and got whacked.

We got one on the zucchini robber.

and his companion.

So I want you to check the board upstairs.

Everybody, there's descriptions on the board, okay? Thank you.

So I want to say I'm sorry.

I'm going to get a lot better at this. I was a little nervous.

And I want to say that I think it stinks that somebody stole the podium.

Earn it. Who said that?

Whoever said that, I don't have to earn the damn podium.

I have to earn that you love me like you did to Sarge.

But I don't have to earn your respect for my position.

So whoever the jerk is, better bring the podium back.

Was it you, LaRue?

Hey, easy, Sergeant.

Huh? Come on, you think you're so tough? Come on, you want to go outside?

Hey, uh, you know... Okay.

I was going to say, let's roll.

And let's be careful.

Whoever stole the podium, I hope he can hit by a truck.

Sergeant Bates here.

Yeah, what do you need?

Officer Schmitz, Natalie Duroy reporting.

How do you do?

How can I help you?

Take me to Miami?

I had a whole tour planned for you. Why don't you help me sign in our new

getaway? Got it. Call me Leo.

Coffee.

Washington LaRouche is called in a homicide hotel person.

You and Pines will take backup during this. Got it. Hey, I told you I'm

confident. I asked you not to tell anybody else.

I didn't.

You didn't?

Baloney. Everybody knew about my promotion before Goldblum even opened

mouth. It wasn't me, Lucy. No?

No.

Did you just take the podium or did you stand around laughing?

Look, I'm going to tell you one more time.

I don't know anything about any of that.

Except you're acting like a jerk.

Great. You got your assignment.

Yeah.

Archie.

Bobby?

Thelonious assault, 1374 Curtis, 4B.

Nothing on the bar.

It's nothing on the bar.

First of all, you.

Thanks, Danny.

Are you official yet?

Congratulations. Thank you. Well, go to the job.

Yes, you do.

Not great. Someone put the arm on the podium.

I don't.

I believe it's Judge Cruz.

I think what he's really up to is getting Michigan Avenue up to court.

meanwhile, he inundated the precinct.

Frank, after Phil's service, it's not like a shot at running down this Lester

Minley. We'll see how the day develops, Henry.

Good morning, Frank.

Morning, Ray. You got your tired and your poor, huh, Frank? Not to mention

wretched refuse.

What's in the can?

Phil Lester house.

Could you get the door, Ray?

Sure.

Phil requested that, uh...

After the memorial services, ashes be scattered over the epicenter of the

An inhabited area.

Is that legal?

It was his last request, Ray.

Good for you, Frank.

Well, now someone has to find the epicenter of the hill. Oh, that should

easy. Yeah, once you make your cartographic assumptions.

I'll use the precinct map, Howard.

I think our best bet is to do this at night.

Phil asked that anybody from the day shift who's interested be present.

But this can't be official, Ray. You're going to have to notify everybody

individually. All right. What time should I say?

Ten, eleven.

Is unaccommodated man no more than this?

Wait.

Give her a chance.

You're telling me you don't know her, huh?

Hey, Doc, how you doing? Welcome to paradise.

That smell's not from the body either.

Got a description for you, J .D. Says it's one guy.

Coming through.

Coming through.

See you guys. Yeah, all right, Doc, go ahead.

All right, go ahead now. He forced his way in.

So we had the rope, you know, around the door, but there was no lock. Look, son,

if you can complete the description, we've got to put it out.

Yeah, he was white, average height, pretty thin, and he had short brown

and he had blue eyes.

Good. How long ago?

About 30 minutes since you ran, about an hour since you came in.

I ran the call, you guys, you know, 15 minutes at a time. Look, we gotta get

this real fast so we can put the description out. Now, can you remember

clothes, what he was wearing, anything?

Yeah, yeah, and I'm like, black pants, and he had on a, you know, a dungaree

jacket.

And, uh, a bracelet was taken.

Oh, that's a shocker.

Yeah, it was like a, an ID bracelet, you know, had, uh, Kathy written on it.

I'll get this on the radio.

Did real good, son.

Got a good memory.

You want me to be an artist? Yeah, she was going to be a dancer.

Men in blue.

What's your problem? Where's your soul?

Regis. Regis Rossmore.

Unemployed nurse.

With an impossible situation on his hands.

Chop -chop, officers.

All right, Miss Difficult.

Help has arrived.

Well, I'm sorry, but I've been stuck in here for over an hour.

This is with reference to my explicit instructions.

Lois was not to sit down in the tub. She has an undisplaced pelvic fracture.

Well, why'd you put her in there if you're not supposed to take a bath?

She was to stay on all fours. I'm mortified. To avoid exactly this

Plus, she's pruning up. Regis, will you go and take the coffee cake out of the

freezer and heat it up for me? Coffee, yes. Cake, no.

Why didn't you call a paramedic? So chastise me later.

Watch it!

I'm sorry, ma 'am. I got lost in the terrain.

I tried. I called the paramedics. They said we were in an emergency.

I shut her to think if I weren't Lois' neighbor. So you phoned it an assault?

It was at my wit's end. Well, we are here, Robert. Let's go. On three.

All right, all right.

Help him,

Lois.

What is it?

What is it? I have done it.

I have done it.

I have herniated myself.

Oh, you poor lamb.

You hear that ring call? I hear that. I hear mine making me okay, folks.

I'm so grateful.

A thousand thanks.

Okay. Okay, we got to make another call.

You know what I do to people like you.

Oh, come on.

Let's go.

Is my pain a source of amusement to you, Robert? No, Andy. Well, why don't we go

down to the morgue and really get a belly laugh?

Easy step. Here we go.

All right.

teach our recruits, I experienced his compassion, his quiet strength, his joy

life, and his deep sense of responsibility.

Let me read you a poem which conveys these qualities in him.

I am at ease.

It's end of day.

My duty has been done.

The hour calls me far away beyond the setting sun.

Meet me by the ocean's rocks.

In the shadows on the lane.

Find me in the snowflakes as they crowd against the pain.

Or beckon me in silence.

Then listen to the breeze.

And you will hear me always.

For at last, I stand at ease.

Phil's wish that he'd be cremated was carried out earlier this morning.

There'll be no gravesite service.

God bless you and thank you for coming.

That was very moving, sir. The rock and the silence and all.

Was that Simon and Garfunkel?

No, that was Phil Esterhaus.

He wrote a lot of poetry.

Chief!

Nice service, eh, Frank? Brief and to the point, a lot like the man. Irwin

you told him not to present a plan for Michigan Avenue.

Yes, sir.

Well, is corrections presenting?

Well, technically it's not their problem. It's cheap.

Leave it to me, Frank.

You're going to have your holding cells back by the end of the day.

It's not going to help matters if Cruz empties the holding cells and puts the

criminals back on my streets. Of course not.

Well, are you presenting a plan?

We're going to get results.

Sympathies to Phil's family.

Did he have family?

The B -locks are off, so you have to sort of develop a feel for it with your

wrist. Uh -huh.

You sure there's room in there?

He'll squeeze in. I'm a sort of a person. Keep your clothes on, okay?

What's that doing?

That's nothing.

Leo, that's the roll call podium.

They sometimes play pranks on each other. Some of them are funnier than

You're not going to say anything?

None of our business.

South America!

I want to test you on the subject of rights.

We got human rights.

We got inalienable rights.

We got the right to bear arms.

property and they used it as evidence in the hearing.

I think Leo can get that for you. How you doing?

Not great.

Takes time.

Hey, hold it right there, chumpface.

Okay, buddy.

Leo, will you help Ms.

Valparaiso, please? Sure.

Natalie, get some bracelets for this guy, will you?

Anybody who understands my situation.

Frank!

Is that important?

How was the ceremony?

I'm grateful to you and Ray for holding the fort for me here, Howard.

Well, I'll say my goodbyes tonight.

I imagine London was something like this during the Blitz.

Captain.

Is that... Leah, you're Harold Baker?

Waiting for you in line. Okay, thanks. See you later.

That's Lester Minley, Whitney Barnes' panther.

Who made the bust?

Turned himself in.

Interrogation will be ready in a couple of minutes. I'd like to sit in, Frank.

Call me.

Lester Minley?

Lieutenant Goldblum.

Lieutenant, I didn't kill Whitney Barnes.

Let's hit that right away.

You want to talk to me?

Let's talk.

You want to talk, all right. Come on.

About Whitney?

In the last two years, I didn't get her five dates.

God, she was sweet.

But she wasn't stupid.

She knew what had happened.

She knew she was working a different kind of trick.

Which those cats referred between themselves.

You understand?

She never once brought it up.

We never once had the conversation.

Maybe we should have made different arrangements.

Well, that was the kind of class of woman she was.

What do you know about the murder, Lester?

In a minute.

I didn't get to say what a sad thing this is.

You lived off her. You filmed what she did for blackmail. Cut the crap.

Blackmail who?

I didn't blackmail anybody.

What'd you make the movies for?

Because I knew something exactly like this could happen. I didn't kill

One of those fat slobs who didn't want her memoirs told killed her.

And now in the papers, Lester Minley this and Lester Minley that.

And now they're coming after me.

Well, when we're done here, Mr. Townsend and I are telling the right story.

The people have got to know the Lester Minley plan for the future.

What people?

The papers.

The Lester Minley plan for the future, which is to live in Nassau and don't

bother anybody unless somebody tries to kill me.

And then my attorney sells the tapes to the highest bidder.

Got a slight problem there, Lester.

But you think you got them all?

You don't think I made copies?

You think you're going to Nassau?

He's material to a murder investigation.

Well, stay domestic, Captain.

You'll be apprised of our whereabouts. He goes nowhere. He stays in custody.

Wait a minute.

My message has got to get out.

The people on those tapes have got to know where I'm at.

I don't mean trouble for anybody.

I'm a junkie.

If I ain't holding, I can be a bad character. I know that. I got a sheet.

But I was holding. I don't do violence when I'm holding.

You had her bracelet?

I found it. I told him it was on the window and I picked it up.

Why did you assault the officer when he tried to take it away from you?

I was defending myself. He come to me.

Harold, if you're saying he started it, there are witnesses who say otherwise.

Lady, you got to understand what I am.

If I see something laying in the street, something that might give me a lift, I

pick it up. It's mine.

Somebody tries to take it from me, I fight them.

I gotta keep it going, that's all, you see?

That's all I can think about.

Hi.

Hi.

That Hotel Pershing suspect was pretty badly beaten, Frank.

Oh? Apart from the fact I think he's probably innocent.

Court's not till this afternoon, Custer. I fully intend to explore my client's

legal remedies.

I'm suggesting that girl's attacker may still be on the street.

God, will they be able to get Judge Cruz a plan by three? Well, Daniel's all sly

winks and vague promises, and he's told Bernstein not to submit a plan. Maybe

Daniel's had something going with the governor. Maybe it's a fast shovel.

Frank, I realize this dream you've all been under.

You want to hear about Joe Coffey's last three weeks, starting with when he was

shot? Rule of law is most important when things are most unraveled, Pete Smith.

Just what you needed.

What I need is you in a hotel room

tonight.

I'll make a reservation.

A witness from the Hotel Pershing and Armstrong.

I saw him kill Kathy.

Line up for 20 minutes. All right, hey, you make yourself comfortable.

Hey.

What are you doing? They just told me that I could go. Now you're arresting

What is it with you guys anyway, huh?

Let's do it.

9 or 7, the first three digits.

All right, descriptions to the FBI and the State Patrol. Deploy at the airport.

Come on, move it, move it.

Give us the rope.

Come on.

Nine people making a cop.

No badge number, no insignia. It was a professional hit, Captain. The guy goes

into a party store. He cops a uniform. Get savings, J .D.

him and do the paperwork here.

Couldn't you have told me that at the memorial service?

Lineup's ready, Lieutenant.

I am very sorry to say I just completely slipped my mind. Look, we're a little

bit jammed up here. Henry, Henry, Henry, I know it's a madhouse, but all I need

is two minutes. I think we ought to talk. I'll call you later, okay?

I'll see him.

Number three, step forward, please.

No, that's not him.

I know that ain't him.

Number four, step forward.

No, no, he didn't look anything like that.

It's not him. The guy's not up there. I'm positive.

You're reheating?

No, we're charging. Narcotics possession and assault.

We'll cross -complain, false arrest and brutality.

No ID on that Hotel Pershing murder suspect. Wrong guy.

Then let's get people back to that area. Ray, we found a stolen sedan, 116th and

Frederick, and the police uniform's stuffed a little sick.

I want to hit them. Mr. Switchcars, any description?

Any witness of the switch?

I don't know a canvas.

Sergeant, the mainly shooter abandoned a car, 116th and Frederick.

Okay, I'll put it up. And put any available uniforms back on the Hotel

perimeter. We don't have anybody left for the tenant. I'll have to call a

on my car radio.

You got to give him off to Bureau of Plumbing, Frank.

Go after the guy in a police station in broad daylight.

Everything under control?

Nothing's under control.

I have to know what your plan is.

What proposal you're going to make to Judge Cruz?

Frank, I asked you to trust me on this one. Aren't you going to make any

proposal at all? Are you going to wander in there around three o 'clock, Heming

Hall, about not having enough time and let Judge Cruz open up all the cells?

Frank? Put Michigan Avenue right, that's a $5 million job.

Bernstein's got a million in chains. Now I'm going to get the money to fix that

place once and for all. How? By letting perpetrators roam the streets so you can

dramatize a fiscal shortfall in blood? Do you want a riot? Frank, you have got

to mobilize the public's willingness to address a problem.

Please, trust me.

Candy?

Esther House.

We're all always in the same boat, Frank.

Get me Erwin Bernstein.

Joe.

Is there some place where we could talk?

I thought you wanted to talk to somebody who understands your problem.

I have.

That's what I want to talk to you about.

I was just at the rape clinic.

Yeah? Yeah.

I'm going to be going there for a while.

That's good.

The lady I've been seeing there really knows her stuff.

And she told me that sometimes what happened to you last night, some men

that way.

Look, I feel like enough of a jerk already. You don't have to tell the

world.

Joe, she's my therapist.

Look, what I'm trying to say is if we're going to... I feel that

maybe I was... I feel maybe I wasn't being fair.

And if we're going to work this out between us, we've got to work it out

together.

Sandy, I'm not sure how I felt last night is going to change that easily.

Joe, I don't want to be with a man who feels like I'm damaged goods either.

But I think that can change, and I'm willing to chance it.

Are you?

Yeah.

So, uh, Joey, I thought maybe we could see each other a little later tonight.

What?

What if I, uh, you know, still can't?

Don't you worry.

It'll happen when it happens.

And what if it doesn't?

We'll worry about it then.

Is that you talking or your therapist?

That part's all me.

I really care for you, Joe.

I want us to try.

If you don't want to try, just tell me, I'll go.

No, no, don't.

I mean, I want to. I want to see you tonight.

I think we got a shot, Joe.

At least we've got that much.

Slow down, pal. You don't want to miss any of these potholes.

I think you'd better call Daryl Ann and tell her it'd be a good night to have a

headache. Thanks a lot, Bob.

I'm standing on death's door with my finger on the bell, and you're casting

aspersions on my manhood.

What's that?

Oh, come on. There's a killer on the loose. You don't want to be writing no

traffic violations. Looks like a room.

Please, please, please watch the brakes. Please.

Watch the brakes.

This is awful.

I've never had an accident before.

I've got all the papers that are necessary. I'll give you my name and

No, I don't need your address. Are you sure? I'm sure. Can I have both your

license and registration, please?

Officer, that won't be necessary. The woman and I can work it out between

ourselves. This is a rental car. The company requires a police report.

Also, let me have... All right.

I'll get the papers out of the glove compartment.

Officer, it's my fault. Is that your current address, ma 'am? Yes, it is.

Hey! I know the rent -a -car is... Hey!

The 2202 in pursuit of possible stolen vehicle, beige in color, westbound on

Polk and 115th Street.

Thank you.

We can't keep prisoners more than a month in an armory. I don't care how

port -a -potties we bring in. Judge, the armory's only step A. They give us a

leg up on step B. Which is the Michigan Avenue renovation.

Correct. Which you don't yet have funding for. We've got $1 ,100 ,000. For

million job.

Please, Judge, we are making a good faith effort. And I am too, Mr.

Only I happen to take seriously the proposition that people are innocent

proven guilty.

So when I tour a desperately overcrowded and understaffed Michigan Avenue, I see

hundreds of men... Who have been arrested for crimes.

But who are... I get convicted of anything, sir.

Except maybe being too poor to make bail. And when I see the physical

the unsanitary and indecent conditions brought about by this overcrowding

captain, may I ask you what life was like in your station house this morning?

Intolerable. That's what the men in the Michigan Avenue complex have been living

like every day.

Judge, would you rather incarcerate the entire citizenry of my precinct?

No. Well, the people living on the hill are every bit as trapped by poverty as

those men you're talking about.

and to have them endangered in the conduct of their normal lives. I mean,

turn my precinct into one big bloated jail in which the innocent are entrapped

along with the lawless. That clearly was not my intention. But that's the

result. My homicides and rapes have doubled. This morning, a 14 -year -old

was murdered in one of those street kids' flophouses that was literally

inundated by parolees. I mean, not to mention the hitman who was able to

a murder right inside our own station house. I love this. I love this

Cruz finds inhumane conditions, so Cruz is a big softie. The minority softie.

Don't just blame the releases on Cruz.

Blame the overcrowding, too. Blame some hitman on Cruz.

Because Cruz happens to remember the U .S. constitutional prohibition against

cruel and unusual punishments. Judge, I'm not questioning your record.

And I understand your need to protect the prisons.

But please know that your victory on Michigan Avenue is my defeat on the

Chief?

In coming days, can I expect your good faith support and advocacy for Michigan

Avenue funding?

Of course, Judge.

If I stay my order to release, there will be no subsiding in your effort to

raise this remaining 3 .9.

None whatever.

Well, I'm certainly not opposed to compromise.

Shall we go through Section B again, gentlemen? On the assumption, say, of a

-week grace period with the Jetson Army pressed into use?

Congratulations, man.

Pulled a little fast one on me, did you, Frank?

All oars in the same boat, Chief. All pulling in the same direction.

Speaking of which, let me lighten your load some. Take that Minley thing off

your hands.

Admittedly, I have a special interest in the case.

It's also a practical fact that you can't put the horses that Division can

this sort of investigation.

True.

I'll have property transfer those tapes downtown.

Yeah, well, there's probably no truth to those threats you made, haven't there?

Who? Minley.

He probably doesn't really have copies of those tapes. Copy?

Probably just blowing smoke.

Hill and Riker were in a shootout.

Are they all right? Guy's dead. They've ID'd him as the Minley shooter. Pro out

of Rochester.

I'm cross -checking Whitney's lists.

Seems maybe she had a John from upstate New York. I know, Henry.

We're off this one. What? The chief wants Division to handle it. He'll bury

It's not possible.

Too much media coverage.

Besides, do we have six detectives to quote on two homicides?

Of course not.

Look, Henry, Whitney Barnes is dead, Lester Manley is dead, the guy who

them both is dead.

Whatever happens, this case doesn't make on the Hill.

Yeah.

But I... But?

I'd like to... Whitney?

I'd like to see us get up to speed on this hotel Pershing homicide case.

Nothing when we resume the perimeter search.

I found the girl's name on a runaway's list.

I don't think that one's going to make it on the hill either.

Lieutenant. Hi.

Everyone's talking about you down at the PD's office, Ferillo. Oh, anything

worth repeating?

They think you're okay.

Me too.

To what?

Hotel Warwick.

I'll have to meet you there.

Ferillo. We have ester houses scattering.

What time?

11 o 'clock?

What I had in mind won't take that long.

Joe, I owe you an apology.

Which one?

Well, I found out that this memo came out of division this morning. It's about

my promotion. 6 a .m. it came out.

Anybody could have seen it and just passed the word along.

So?

So I'm sorry. I acted like a jerk.

Forget it.

How do you like it so far?

Can't get enough of it.

The fish was terrific, thank you.

So... Really taking karate lessons, huh?

Well, I've been mugged twice in the last two years.

What's wrong with wanting to defend yourself?

Maybe not trying to save your life.

Or maybe next time I won't be so lucky.

You know, at least with the karate, I'll have the option.

Besides, I kind of like it, you know, and it makes me feel sexy.

Great, you can crunch a brick in bed.

That sounds like something you'd say five years into a bad marriage.

Sorry.

Just so I feel like ever since we've been together, you've been trying to

me into something.

I'm not.

I don't like it.

I'm not trying to change you.

But the fact is, and you know this, every time we start to make love,

in your head goes click, and suddenly you're a million miles away.

You know, sometimes I feel like I'm alone in the bed.

You kidding? There's you, there's me, there's Rachel, Frank, four kids.

I mean, it's a complex negotiation just trying to find a place to go to bed

together. And then when we do do it, we never seem to get to it.

I mean, after getting past kids knocking on the door and looking for a glass of

water or babies needing to be fed, I feel sick, I feel angry and tired, and

last thing I feel is sexy.

Henry, we are adults.

We bring adult baggage to our relationship.

Do not lecture me, Faye.

All I'm trying to tell you is that after a lot of years of being a good guy, a

good friend, a good husband, always trying to...

To find out what the other person needs, I'm beginning to get a little bit more

selfish about what I need.

And what I need is for things to be a lot easier.

You want easy?

Try a prostitute.

Oh, boy.

You really fixated on that.

Didn't you?

I mean, if you want real life, I'm your girl. But if you want a fantasy... Come

on, Faye.

It's not that easy, and you know it.

I have my baggage.

I have my stretch marks.

I am too old to start apologizing for what I can't change.

What do we do now?

I don't know.

Maybe we ought to.

Not see each other for a while.

Sounds right to me.

If it's so right, why do I feel so lousy?

We have large aggregate particles here, Frank, with a high adhesion factor. We

may have a problem getting a uniform distribution.

What's he talking about?

His barge is a little gritty.

Oh. Putting him in the street like this, I don't know.

This city, the cop belongs in this street.

It's home.

Goodbye, Phil, my good friend.

I don't know, Phil.

Keep in touch.

Leo? No, no.

Home is a sailor home from the sea, Phil.

And the hunter, home from the hill.

So long, Sarge.

Bill?