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You were with him too often.

the nails and I want a swab.

Sure. Inventory of personal belongings. We want to be sure that nobody was after

anything special. Come on, Joe. Just because a girl's lying on the ground

doesn't mean rape was the only motive.

Well, how about pastatas?

Ah, Captain.

How is she?

She worked her over pretty well.

What brings you down here on this frigid morning, Captain?

I heard you pick up the call on the car radio.

And he came down to chat?

How nice.

What do you think it was?

Just like the others.

Nurses. Night.

Hospital close by. He found a fertile field.

Back to the same place adds to his excitement.

There's no way we can cover this place with all its entrances and underground

tunnels. The fortification.

I think he's an employee.

At least that's what I'm working on.

Well, the other girls weren't beaten up.

The other girls were raped. Isn't that a beating, too?

Take it long?

Excuse me, Captain. No time to chat.

Long.

No. You convinced me. You know this rape scene better than anyone in the area.

You just convinced me again.

You know the M .O .s. You know the patterns. You know the way these guys

You know how their victims should be handled.

Captain, you run a homicide unit. I am not into that scene.

Long.

Suppose Kojak wasn't there.

But he is.

And you are.

And you're into death.

And what I'm into in the sex crime unit, I can understand. I know why I'm

working there. Downtown wants a woman in homicide. It came up for you.

Captain, I will not work with that Greek bowling ball. There.

Long, one word of warning.

Our coffee is one step ahead of suicide.

You're kidding me. You told the commissioner you'd take all the help you

get and from any place you could get it. He never listened to me before. Why

should he start now?

Theo. She knows her business and she knows this case.

Frank, it won't work.

Try.

There's a personality conflict here. And you know what the rule book says about

that?

Lieutenant Kojak, Detective Long.

Detective Long.

Have I put on my jacket?

And, uh, do you mind if I smoke?

And, uh, look, Joe, I thought you didn't want any part of me.

Is it too soon to request a transfer?

I'll see you guys.

All right, all right. No, that's all right. I don't want to smoke. And, uh,

I do like my coffee black. And, okay, if you and I want a double date with a

couple of broads after work, I'm game.

All right, now, that ends the lady and men's work jokes, right?

Oh, Stavros, we got a new member of the team, Kojak.

So I noticed.

And I'm just delighted.

Just think, from now on we'll have to keep our pants pressed and watch our

language around the squad room from now on. Well, that just wouldn't hurt.

Yeah, all right, be right over.

Come on, let's go.

Couldn't you just leave me with my normal garden variety degenerates?

She'll be right at home here at Manhattan South.

You see, some of our leading degenerates are right here on the squad.

Including me.

What the hell are you trying to do, jackpot me, man? People around know you.

They know you around here, you know? Yeah, okay, so unpopular.

Look, uh, I need some exercise, okay?

Hey, man, I'm a little infected, you know? Don't worry about it. It'll heal.

What do you say?

Look, uh, I got about an eighth of a kilo of coke coming in.

I need a cut.

You know, Ringer, there's getting to be more trouble than it's worth.

Okay, okay.

Look, uh, Flirty, how'd you like to make some real bread?

Why don't you score me some of that pharmaceutical coke?

You know, quick flick.

I'll lay $500 an ounce on you, baby. That's a quick score for both of us.

How's the sound?

600 an ounce sounds better.

Well, there you go.

Now you're a businessman.

There he is.

Better have something to look after that scratch.

Skin looks inflamed.

Now, you put a gun on it?

No, I didn't.

Did I contact you?

Yeah. Seymour.

Leslie's a friend of mine.

Really? How good a friend?

Oh, we dated for a while, then we broke off. Nothing heavy.

Been thinking of starting it up again.

Cops and nurses.

It's what you call easy pairing. You know, go together like cops and robbers.

You know Detective Long?

Seen her around.

Talk to the girl? I tried to, but they said no until a special police person

came along.

It's easier for a woman to talk to a woman.

How would you know?

You ever work the street?

Take it easy, Seymour. I'm in the same job you are.

Yeah, I know. Same payday. Except you get more in your check than I do. Is

all, Lieutenant?

Tell him to check with Bellevue.

Sorry to keep you waiting, Lieutenant. We're in a bit of a rush.

I thought you'd, uh...

Want to talk to the chief of security rather than to me. Well, he's got a nice

gray uniform and a very pleasant personality, but I want to talk to you,

Sound upset?

Yes. How many women were grabbed on their way home from the hospital?

Please get reports. I'm asking you how many happened. I told you, sir. Look at

your records.

Doctor, would you like me to walk up and down these halls asking people how many

assaults took place from this hospital that were not reported? You want that

kind of advertising?

Six. Six?

Did you know all of us six that it was not reported?

Do you realize how difficult it is to staff a public hospital?

Nobody wants to work the late shifts as it is. All this sordid business being

known, we'd be operating a parking lot here.

We're doing our best.

Penan, I want your complete list of assaults. And I want Nurse Smith's

folder. I told you, I am doing my best.

Wonderful.

Would you like to go inside there and whisper to the girl in the coma?

She might hear you.

The record room is next to my office.

Leslie Smith, straight kid from Tarrytown, lived alone, single.

Yeah, how do you know she lived alone?

I checked.

I also checked out her love life.

Officer Seymour was it for a while.

After they split up, she dated here and there.

There was one guy, average height, dark hair, very different features.

Apparently, she didn't bother to introduce him when she was seen with him

time to time.

Who said you don't belong in homicide?

Hey, Lieutenant, the first and final statement.

I did not choose to be here. I don't like this.

I don't want to be an experiment.

I don't want to be a crusader. I just want to do the job I like and go home.

this is not it.

And I know how great it looks in print.

Barriers broken.

Police person stands side by side with department's number one macho cop, C .O.

Kojak. I mean, why do you think that they put us together? Because we make a

great dance team?

Can you do this act underwater?

All right, how's this?

I'll stay on this case because it's an apparent rape. But when it's over, I'm

gone.

Well, how's this?

Until I can arrange you out of here, you stay here and do your job. Do you

understand? You told me what you feel about dedication. I told you what I feel

about you. And it's a shorter speech, but it's clear, isn't it?

Yes.

Yeah.

case, the kid is dead.

Oh, Ms. Law, welcome.

We hope you enjoyed the ride down.

The chauffeur is a little funny behind the wheel, but he's really all right,

know. Not the best driver in the world, but he's honest.

Keeps the car clean, as you can see, and dresses neatly.

For an encore, you can canvas every building on this block and the two

the corner.

He's really got a mean streak in him. Once you get to know him, you see how

he can be.

They do that all the time?

Almost always.

Dead bodies lying around, and they go into a comedy routine?

You know who we're going to find when we go into this building?

No.

Neither do they.

Could be a killer with a .357 Magnum.

A body chopped up into pieces.

You better get your laughs whenever you can.

I got things to do.

Yeah? Won't you believe me too?

How long have you been living here?

About a year and a half.

Nice label.

I do the porting, and I make more than a nurse does.

How long are you people going to be?

I don't know. Nice pictures.

Hello?

Amphetamine?

Or nitrate? Up as down as...

Supers. Big part of the rattle for breakfast.

You get many visitors, you know, men, women, whatever?

I don't know, you know, I didn't pay any attention. This is an apartment house,

not a woman house, you know? Yeah.

Any friends in the building?

Uh, 5B on the fourth floor, Campbell.

5B on the fourth floor? I didn't build a house, lady, I just keep it clean.

You stick around here, I'll go talk to 5B. Uh, she ain't home.

She's a nice girl with the same hospital.

Her hours are from 8 to 6, but, uh...

She sometimes goes shopping first, you know? I thought you didn't know anything

about your tenants.

This one here, she's got some great body, you know what I mean?

I know what he means.

You know?

I'd better go with him.

Don't worry, he's my pigeon.

Just as long as he delivers.

I told you, Dobrino, he's my pigeon.

Okay?

Four ounces of Manitou.

Manitou? What about the Merc? I got deliveries tonight.

Hey, you want me to take a look at that hand?

Talk to me about the Merc. Those fingers are going to get inflamed.

Look, you want to operate?

You're going to operate after we complete the deal, okay?

The Merc's here.

But I think we've got to talk about it some more. Talk? What do you mean, talk?

We already talked. Hey, listen, let me get some penicillin for that hand.

You trying to stall me? Huh?

I think the Merc's worth another hundred and us.

I don't like being shook down. I don't like talking to a guy who's got

on his hands.

Same day the nurse has been worked over. The same nurse that he gets his stuff

from.

I mean, that could happen to me, you know?

Okay.

Okay. Okay, I expect delivery.

Later. Later.

Hey, uh, smile.

Like you said, it's business.

But, Lieutenant, the camel girl is off in two days. She's up playing Snow Bunny

up in the caskets now. I wouldn't mind going up there after her. Oh, yeah? Why

don't you take the coffee out of Betty Cash?

When's she coming back?

Tomorrow.

Yeah, a couple.

Could have been me.

Well, I could have had pneumonia, but I'd phone it off, too.

Oh. Let me get that. Wait a minute.

Yeah, it's just a black skirt with soil on it. That bit of Costello and Laurel

and Hardy over there when you finish with your comedy routine.

I've got nothing more to say than that the, uh, Emmy report shows that the

girl was not raped.

It's the pattern of the others.

Nurse, physical force, and after midnight.

Yes, but we don't know how far he intended to go.

No, we don't.

And we can't ask her.

Uh, hey, Lauren.

Be respectful.

Maybe the guy remembered he had another date.

The girl is dead.

She's beaten to death, and you're gonna joke.

I think I'll go get some coffee.

I'll buy.

It's my turn.

Uh, Crocker.

Hold it.

Now, look, I want you to run down your leads on the right path, okay? Make sure

you talk to that cop Seymour about those drugs she had, and, uh, you help her

with her, huh?

Uh, Lieutenant.

Uh, look, I said give it a couple of days to see if it's gone somewhere.

You catch up with the Campbell girl, too, okay?

Now clear the office.

Uh, Long.

Hold on.

Want to close the door?

That's where it's at, Detective Long.

When Crocker's record is better than mine, then it can gripe about working

me. Hey, look, he's not knocking your ability.

All he's saying is that he's got to go out into the street.

And maybe he has to arm wrestle with somebody.

And he wants to make sure that his other arm is in total sync.

Well, I don't belong in professional football either. Why don't you throw

one in?

I hear you're pretty good at taking a pass.

Hey, Lauren.

What? Be careful, okay?

I think we're into something very, very heavy.

I didn't feel like walking around with 10 ounces of coke in my pocket. Hey,

is this? And it's done for your hand.

Look, it was always part of our deal that you put the water stuff out. I

like it in pain.

I'll take it later, okay?

Yeah, listen, I was talking to some friends of mine, and they said the

price of pure America is 2 ,000 an ounce.

Where's the stuff, huh? Truth?

What difference does it make, huh?

You got your money out front, no risk to you, no problem.

You could empty this hospital out before the dum -dums would know it. Yeah, but

the difference between 2 ,000 and 700 is a big spread, you know?

Look, I can finish this deal, okay?

I'm committed, and I got people waiting. 50 -50, 1 ,000 an ounce.

Three, four days, maybe.

Okay.

Who the heck of it?

Check his blood type.

I guess the sample's taken from under the skin of the Smith homicide.

You pulling for long shots now?

If you can think of anything better, would you let me know?

Don't tell me you have to work these hours. I have to work these hours, too,

we're both on the city payroll.

So what do you want me to do? I'm giving you what you want, right? So let me

grind. Okay, okay.

Now, you just keep checking the stuff and keep calling, okay? And tomorrow

have a party.

We've mentioned everything but band -aids and toilet paper.

And nothing's missing.

Plenty is missing.

Morphine, among other things.

Oh, really? How much?

Enough to blow this island's mind.

Any ideas?

Who knows? One floor borrows from the other. Nurses forget to file the slips.

A lot of patients' charts show that they receive the shots. You go check the

patients. Some are gone. Some are dead.

Some don't count the checks.

Shots they get or don't get.

You sound tired.

Are you kidding?

Four hours in here with a dust of decades.

And I had plans to do the town.

And on top of that, the fellas here are into, what will the Equal Rights

Amendment do to the quality of public toilets? Now, is there anything that you

might like to add?

Yes. COVID -19, that's one thing I want to see. Okay, sir.

Lieutenant, he's not like us. He sleeps at night. Do you know what time it is?

Crocker, your partner here is tired.

Why don't you go home, all of you?

I mean, get a lot of sleep.

Now, Crocker, you and Long, go to the Campbell girl the first thing in the

morning, okay?

It's the first thing in the morning now.

Oh, good.

Then you won't have to wake her up if she's home.

Oh.

And I don't appreciate the buddying, miss. You understand?

The grunts and the groans.

The grimaces every time I tell you to do something.

Now, Lieutenant.

Would you please listen to me?

Your romances may wait for you to remember them, but I don't intend to

way. And just because I'm a woman on the job, don't assume that I am even more

dedicated than you are, because I am not.

Don't say a word you shove, Miss Pig, because you and I, we're not equal.

All I wanted to tell him was that the line was busy.

I got... I got home after midnight from the Catskills and I found your note in

the door, but the body and mind were worn down.

Skiing can really wipe you out.

Are you any good on the slopes?

Oh, I don't even own a pair of skis.

Yeah. I go in for the action.

Is it good?

I can always get better.

Did Leslie Smith ever join you?

Uh, no.

We worked at the same hospital, but we did our own thing.

Like ripping off drugs from the pharmacies?

A minute ago, I liked you.

I saw the chance for the start of something meaningful.

I'm just trying to get off on the right foot.

Tell me what you get off on.

You want to see my arm?

Look, honey, I used to be a nurse myself, and every once in a while, we

walk around giggling at the walls for no reason.

Okay, so, uh...

A few of us pop a pill just to keep it together when we get home.

And maybe you pick up a few extras?

You should be so lucky.

Everybody knows you can sell them. Now, where do you sell yours?

You're as bad as he is.

Only at poker, which we're not playing now.

So tell us who you deal with.

Maybe Leslie, not me.

A few of the nurses do that sort of thing.

So do a few cops.

Maybe I should start up a meaningful relationship with one of them.

Try the restaurant near the hospital. That's all I know.

Good. You can buy me coffee.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You were never a nurse. Well, she talked, didn't she? You two believe the

about on -the -job sex between cops?

inventory losses. There are always inventory losses.

Look at the size of this facility.

Pharmacies everywhere.

Adelaide pharmacies everywhere.

Thousands of staff members authorized to withdraw everything from straws to

heroin. Doctor, there are enough drugs missing to whack out all of Brooklyn.

Now don't ask me why that's your problem. My problem is the fact that 46

of cocaine, that's almost 3 pounds.

missing over the last four months. I'm sure we can come to some logical

conclusion that isn't earth -shattering.

Well, you're looking for a save -your -job conclusion.

I'm just interested in a dope peddler who killed the girl that was supplying

him. What can I do to help?

Well, I don't know yet.

It's nice to know that you're available.

It warms my tired old heart, Doctor.

We stopped off at the lab.

The skin samples from Flaherty did not match the Smith girl.

Now, what about Campbell?

She gave us a tip on the restaurant across from the hospital, but she didn't

tell us anything that we already didn't know, that some nurses do it, but did it

a lot.

All right, you forget about the rape, please, and just concentrate on the drug

reports, all right?

Meantime, I'll call downtown, get you your old unit back, and you concentrate

the rapes, okay?

Now, see if you can't score a room that 10 -minute course away from the

restaurant. Am I, uh, through here?

And you were great. Thanks a lot. You really were. I told them.

Now, I want to set up a plant on that restaurant, because I think that's the

center of things.

Anytime I call McNeil, I'll see if I can't get the manpower to keep that room

full. Go ahead. Uh, I'm dumped, right?

Joe, he's killed twice.

So I'll wear old clothes.

I won't look so good, but that's your loss.

I thought you wanted out.

I do.

The sooner the better, but I'm into this now. I mean, I'm tuned to it. And there

are women involved.

No offense meant, but they can con you or they can't con me.

And, look, if this plea doesn't work, well, then I'll just apologize for the

hassling and I'll ask to stay, okay?

You proved you can handle homicide.

Oh, so I question a nervous nurse?

Hey, listen, I want this guy.

I want to be there when you put him down for what he did to that poor misguided

girl.

And I want to know that I didn't run from this.

Who said run?

Come on.

Okay, good, you catch up with Crocker, all right? And use your talents to charm

the landlord. In the meantime, we'll talk about the rest later, all right?

Thanks.

You're sure?

How's it going?

How's it going? How's it going?

She's gonna kill herself.

She's gone from blind indifference to blind eagerness.

I know what you mean.

But I'd cry just as hard if any one of my other men took a bullet.

I'm sorry, Leo, but now that she wants to stay, I've got no reason to pull her

unless you give me one. Yeah, what can I tell you, Frank?

I mean, she'd make a lousy housewife, and she apparently doesn't want to be a

hooker.

So, uh, I don't think she knows what she wants.

You're beginning to sound like your man.

She's a cop.

Want to be a cop?

Yeah, blind chauvinist pig.

And because I became a cop, it was automatically assumed that I was

woman's war.

You know, running around gung -ho, screaming, let me at those chauvinist

But if all I want to do is a day's work and a job I like, then I automatically

get a reputation as a traitor to the women of the world. I mean, it's all a

bunch of bull.

Yeah? So why'd you have to stay on?

You think I did it because all eyes are on me, right?

I'll tell you what, for whatever reason, Don't try and be a hero, all right? I

could get shot in the back.

Bobby, I did not choose to run.

I'm not one of the guys. I'm not gung -ho. I'm me.

Don't ask me what that is. I'm not sure yet.

Listen, just don't worry.

Listen, did we come here to play cards or apologize?

Hey, Joe, give me a quick.

Ah, that guy with the hair looks nervous.

him before.

Oh, yeah.

Looks like the guy in Leslie Smith's photo.

Girl never forgets pretty face.

Mm -hmm.

There is a wake -up, okay?

I want you to go down to Narcotics.

Stop pulling photographs.

You too. You go along. Keep them from napping.

They're both of you. See if you can ID this guy.

If the answer is yes, I want you to pull this friend.

And try to match him up with Prince from the drugstore. Make it to a phone call,

stop us, have him get down here also.

Okay.

At the wedding piano. Oh.

Fuck this.

It's mine.

You cheat better than I do.

This guy looks impatient.

What do we do if we stop shooting his face and decides to take off? And you

him. But let's hope he eats slow.

I'll be downstairs covering him. You and Joe, you stay here, okay?

Oh, look.

Now that you've developed this...

Respect and admiration for each other. There'll be no hanky -panky.

What's with you and the lieutenant?

We have a disagreement.

He's getting up.

Yeah.

He just got a phone call.

Oh, he's our man.

The prints match and he's got a drug sheet.

Where's that army I asked for?

Hit the fan at the office. There are homicides all over the place.

Savros will join up as soon as he slides through pre -arrangement.

You got me.

You could have brought coffee. Makes your hair fall out.

Plant boss.

Go ahead, Joe.

Oh, now it's Joe.

He's talking to a big guy at the table.

Crocker thinks he knows the guy.

It looks like a me.

All right, stay cool, Joe.

It'll fall into place.

What do you want me to call it, Julius?

You got the flu?

Or you got a social disease?

You got the green?

It survived.

Where's the stuff?

It's in an alley. We got a scale in the car.

Look, I can't stand around while you investigate.

I want to weigh in, and I want a taste.

Fair enough.

Tell him this is it.

They're leaving together.

All right, drop the plant and take it on foot. Cover them from the downtown

side. We'll cover uptown.

Heard the lady. Now get up against the wall.

Are you all right?

Frank! I lost him.

Now, Parker, go call an ambulance.

Take your call.

It's all right.

I was calling my habit dash. I was ordering a black tie. I thought you were

dead.

Not that I didn't try.

Well, everybody blows their collar every now and then. Have you a report?

Yeah.

Well, I mean, I blew it. I had a shot, and I just couldn't do it.

Hey, Jill.

Well, if that ain't the idea to kill, we wouldn't have got a job.

You know that they wouldn't even look at me when I came in.

Well, at work, and I just washed it down the drain.

Mm -hmm.

Here. No, thanks.

Well, we've got the salesman's customer.

Maybe he'll cooperate.

And you say you saw that big scratch on his head. Right, I did.

Well, do you think he killed the nurse, or are you just hoping? No.

It's the way I see it.

Okay. I'm glad you're all right.

And I want you to follow through on your needs and like that.

Listen, how do I handle out there?

The guys?

Live with it. How?

Do I smile and serve coffee?

I'll take mine hot.

Let's face it, I don't belong here. I don't know what the hell am I trying

I know you said that before.

I mean on the job, the cop.

Well, since you're so fit to invade my boudoir.

You listen to me, police person, okay? There's Stavros.

He's fat, and he's slow, and he couldn't run the 100 -yard dash in 12 minutes

flat. And then there's Crocker, like a panther, right?

Young, and he's fast, and he cares an awful lot, and he's got a hot head.

And then there's Saperstein, who believes in an awful lot of people, and

disappointed an awful lot of times.

And so what can you say about him? He's in there hanging by his fingernails.

Now, you want me to go through the whole roster?

No.

Forgive yourself.

Look, I can't see.

Listen, um, here.

You have a minute?

You got a minute, you got a minute. Wait till I can see.

I blew a marriage.

And at least a dozen possibilities because of this job. And maybe I feel

the job owes me, but I still want to go to the finish on this case, okay?

And after that, I don't know.

Hey, Long.

You didn't want to come down to Manhattan South and I got news for you,

didn't want you, okay?

But because of departmental politics... public opinion, whatever.

They thought we'd be good for each other. You know, good public relations.

But I get the feeling that you're trying to prove something.

And that's one way to get yourself killed.

Now, I've applied for you to be transferred out of here. And until that

I want you to use that lovely body of yours just to follow leads and keep a

profile. Comprende?

Comprende.

Captain McNeil and Chalker have Duprino in the interrogation room.

Better get in there.

What do I do now?

I don't know, but you better act mad or they'll never forgive you.

Well, I got the helmet and the lasso. Now where am I going to go to get the

manure?

How did I know the chick was a cop?

Why don't you go get yourself some iodine, a little band -aid, some iodine

drops, and maybe you'll be a good person.

Still fairy tale time.

Looked like a stick -up to me, I swear. I was just holding a lot of bread, so I

just took off running.

What about the guy in the alley with you? What did he think she was?

He was going to sell me a watch.

$15 ,000 watch?

I don't like to get caught short of cash.

Oh, really?

Look, you got four previous arrests, three for drugs.

We know you've had two previous meetings with that salesman. As a matter of

fact, we have one on film. Did you know that?

Detective Long, why don't you tell Mr. Dabrino what you have on the killer?

I want him to know how tight the cage is against the slime he's been dealing

with. Oh, well, it's cut and dry.

I mean, it's printed at the seam.

There's a description.

We know she tore his hand up because his skin is under her nails.

That was Ringer who hit her! I wasn't there!

I didn't even know her!

Ringer.

I'd rather think it was the two of you.

Cut the frame!

Now look.

You're garbage.

But lucky garbage.

And we want to ring her.

Now sit down.

I told you I don't know him.

If I don't know a guy who got away, you can't touch me.

We ought to have a bail jumper warrant tucked up in your folder here. It has

dust on it.

But you must owe some time on it, don't you think?

That's a known misdemeanor. It won't hold up.

It'll hold up if we press it. And we'll shake the files. Who knows what we'll

find. Are you here? Are you there?

You tour like bookends. You squeeze me from both sides.

Then deal.

Ringer has an insider at the hospital. He comes up with good loads from time to

time. Clarity?

I try to reach him, but he only deals directly through Ringer.

I was just a customer.

Ringer has something on him.

What about a nurse named Leslie Smith?

Ringer was hung up on her for a while, and she started dating some cop, and

Ringer sweated that she might stool on him.

He's a psycho.

Well, he killed his lover because he was afraid that she'd hang him. Now, if he

could do that, what do you suppose he'd do to some guy he was supplying if he

thought that you could hurt him?

So I should talk, huh?

Well, you're already in here.

Go explain to him that you weren't the reason we grabbed him.

She's worse than you two.

Where's Ringer now?

I don't know, I swear.

Well, he's still holding all that coke.

Now, where will he go to unload it?

I guess you look for guys who can handle that much.

Why should we look?

We got you.

And you're going to make the buy for us.

Tony, it's me.

I'm in an outside booth. The number I gave you.

Tell Ringer to call me.

Tell him that I'm clean and we can still do what we have to.

Long handled the sub well in the interrogation. Fair.

Leo, I talked to the deputy commissioner.

They want Long to work out in Manhattan South.

You remember that young officer, Grady was his name? Bright, sharp.

No, he didn't belong either.

But he tried until he got knifed in an alley.

Well, why do you keep her still involved?

Why don't you have her back answering the phone in the squad room? She has to

stay through this case.

Well, I really think she could work out.

You're the boss.

Sometimes I think it only says it on my door just to make me feel good.

I thought they'd all be down on me.

What for?

No one got hurt but you.

Yeah, but I blew the collar after all that work.

Listen, there are guys who'll never get used to women working in the street with

them.

These are the same guys that don't like working with black cops. Black cops

manage. What do you want, special treatment?

No.

Does it bother you, working with a different kind of cop?

I told you. You paid your dues.

You know what they call guys who are immune to females?

Tired.

Is that it?

Relax, relax, relax.

I'll know when it happens.

Yeah. Mike?

Hello, ringer?

You got away.

No, they arrested me. I'm in the electric chair right now.

Come on, set it up.

Okay, you know that big fountain on 72nd Street in the park, the one with the

lady with the big wings? What kind of wings?

Look, Debrino, I haven't got any time for jokes, and I also won't have any

for weigh -ins where we're going to be, okay?

Well, I guess I have to trust you.

That's it.

up right here?

No, no.

Men's room up by the bandstand.

You still got the cash?

Same pocket, same amount.

Okay.

I'll go for it.

You set me up!

Stop and bring her free!

All right, hold it right there!

She's hit.

You okay?

Can you walk?

Get the brino.

What am I doing here?

Don't you want to be in on the finish?

Give me your hand.

You know, some women might be okay.

Some police officers, you're nothing special.

You're a five -foot cop, not a six -foot cop.

Maybe I better rest.

Hold her up, Neil.

We'll get you to emergency before an ambulance gets here. You guys have these

shootouts all the time, huh?

All the time.

Boy, I'm sure glad I'm getting out of Manhattan South.

So are we.

You guys have no lives.

What's a life? Hey, do me a favor, will you?

Don't call downtown about my transfer yet, okay?

Oh.

I'll get the car.

If the sex crime unit hears about it, I'm in trouble.

Anything you say, Detective Long. Okay.