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Feeling within feeling. Yeah, I knew it, doll.

It's been cool.

Now, when I once told me you could always tell a crooked cop by the bench,

was right. This place was weak.

Fact of life number one.

We got a nice business on here.

And he just wanted to crumble.

The rest were four.

You realize that you are pointing a gun at a New York City police officer.

Lucky me.

And that was the Mulligan Man, back to back.

And this is Face to Face with Harmon Hunter on the Around the Clock All Jazz

Station WJZA.

The time is late. The temperature too hot.

Sizzling, to be exact.

But now here's a little something to cool you down from the count called

for Little Jazz.

They gonna kill me, man.

There'd be no profit in killing you.

So what the hell? number here. You saying you won't help me? I am saying it

an area in which I could not be effective. Man, I did an hour talk back

Hunter on you.

Odds against you? Need help?

But sugar, here I am. You made a deal with a loan shark. Nobody twisted your

arm. Well, they are now.

You don't know these people.

No, but you do.

And you did when you signed the deal.

You're not being victimized, Mr. Hunter, and I will not help you settle a bad

debt.

not looking for a lesson in semantics here. I need help.

Go to the police.

Oh, yeah, right.

Leave the city?

Man, do you think I can just fade into the woodwork?

I'm Harmon Hunter.

Sorry.

I never get tired of listening to that one.

Who found her?

A mild lady.

First thing I know, she wasn't picking up the mail.

And I smelled her.

Hey, friends or relatives?

Ah, she lives alone.

In at the left door.

Door on your right.

Woo! Probably got him right, huh?

We'll take him from here.

What do we got, Bryce?

Small lady died.

I'll call it in. Where are you going?

I'll check it out.

Check what out?

Your new stall.

It's been cool.

You might learn something.

You guys lost or something? Lost?

Does it look like we lost?

I almost found $6 ,800 under a mattress.

What are you doing?

It's not evidence. We're not dealing with a homicide.

Oh, she got a nice logical mind. I like that.

I like you, Stahl.

Let me take you to school.

This is probate.

You think the state needs more legal work?

You think this is stealing?

This isn't stealing.

You heard the super. She ain't got anybody.

Ain't coming out of anybody's pocket.

Think about it.

Nothing to think about. Put it back.

Or I'll blow the whistle so loud it'll sound like John Philip Sousa.

This is not a game I play.

Well, hey, babe, you're already on a team.

Hey,

Sergeant.

Hey, Officer Stahl.

Got out from behind the desk and now we never see you.

Hey. Hey,

Daddy.

I got a problem.

From the day I started writing with Braxton, they've been setting me up.

Every week, putting money into my savings account.

How can I do that without you knowing?

Thanks, Garrett, on who takes money out. Not so much about who puts it in.

They're going through a lot of trouble, aren't they?

That's what I'm thinking.

They're into more than just petty theft.

Daddy.

What should I do?

Get away from them.

Put in for a transfer.

What, they just let them roll on? Maybe sandbag another partner?

Well, what's your option?

Just your word against theirs.

Is that the kind of cop you want me to be?

Is that the kind of cop you were?

I never touched a dime in my life.

It wasn't because I didn't have the opportunity.

They are putting it in my face.

I can't ignore it.

Guys like these pull themselves down.

Leave them alone.

They'll come apart like a cheap sweater.

I can't walk away.

Why are the team a cop?

This isn't the Holy Crusade.

It's just a job, Sandra.

Being a cop is just a job. No, Daddy.

You're wrong.

You bet on your partner. You'll be a thinker and you won't be any kind of

So, we go down there to check it out and we go down to the hotel and we find out

that, uh...

He's handcuffed to the bedpost.

Lying there.

Got some little naked teeny boppa bimbo.

Lying on the floor naked next to him. He got no gun, he got no shoes, he got no

pants, he got no... You live alone, don't you, dog?

I don't have time for this.

Oh, excuse me.

You think you got something somebody wants?

Yeah. I don't need this.

I'm not riding with you anymore.

You can tell the captain or I will give him any reason you want, but I'm gone.

Quiet.

The drug boy.

Bastard, you got me running shotgun for some dope deals. No, no, no, no, Edna.

It's just insurance. Nobody gets ripped off with four blue suits in a row.

Four?

She said she wants a new partner.

Fact of life, number one.

We got a nice business home.

Number two, we intend to keep it. Fact number three.

We've gone to a lot of trouble to include you on this.

Number four, give us any trouble and you're dead.

Well, let's talk about the ground rules.

Whatever I say, whatever I tell you, it's between you and me.

If I want to call you off, you're off.

Don't hear me.

Don't listen to the cadence of the victim.

You won't hear it.

If I tell you everything you need to know, the situation is too much for you

handle, tell me.

Don't hang me out further than I am already.

It's hard for me to believe that you could have difficulty with anyone or

anything.

I usually don't.

This time you were taken by surprise.

See, I'm a cop.

New York City policewoman?

The last four years.

Interesting.

Perhaps you better start at the beginning.

How deep do you think this is within the department?

It's just the three of them.

They are very careful about that.

Well, what do you want from me?

The possible scenario?

Dream of dreams.

With them to fall.

Without internal affairs, the police commissioner, the cop on the corner,

especially the cop on the corner, even so much as hearing my name.

Which means you will not testify.

Stand on that. I will not testify.

You've got to pack it in now.

Can you take down the New York City Police Department?

Can you equalize them?

Well, the department isn't dirty.

I think we'll be able to clean up the rest.

I've got some interesting items for you today. Tell me what you think.

Particularly this one.

What do you say?

Nice, huh?

Oh.

No, no, no. Look at this.

Oh, you're getting old, McCall.

Thank God.

Uh -oh, watch out, watch out.

Are you happy?

Oh, I don't mean dictionary -defined happy. I mean, do you wake up in the

morning and say to yourself, I can't wait to devour this day.

Don't be afraid to admit it.

I mean, I must do the kid, huh?

Well,

how you doing, Tom?

Gonna need some more worms here, huh?

How come you always run in short under one?

Touch with your physical body, but they forgot about the other. Now, please

don't think I'm trying to sell you something. Yeah, you know, just a

little here and there, here and there, a little after a while, a janky little

dandy on the cash register.

You're only as happy as you choose to be.

And we're not talking about emotions. Don't go too far.

What was that?

Well, are you?

Sorry,

what? Are you happy?

Oh, wonderful, buddy.

Hey,

hey. Hey, hey. How's it going? Any problems?

Christmas in July. Oh, buddy. Yeah. Why stop there?

Have you ever read Wrong John?

Hacker's Law.

Payphones are unfrational.

These Mickey Mouse systems really try me.

Hey, remember last year?

One ship falls, a 50 -cent ship.

Strategic Air Command's ready to bat us out of the ballpark.

Talk about a Mickey Mouse system.

Oh, there's a flag on the file. Another user wants to know who's accessing.

Who put the flag there?

Another department.

Colonel Lefebvre?

That's right.

What about this other name?

Otis Marcel.

Oop. Don't bother.

Deceased. The file?

No, the man.

Now, why would Otis Marcel be on that file?

Pull out everything you can on him, will you?

You told me that Braxton's partner before you was a cop called Otis Marcel.

The official report on Otis Marcel is that he died in the line of duty.

How did you get access to an official report?

What's the party line on his death?

Word was Otis was aggressive.

Real hot dog. Walked right into a domestic.

He was with Braxton for only 53 days.

Could they have killed him?

I see what you're getting at.

He's got a lot to protect.

When they bought that bar a year ago, it was virtually bankrupt.

This year, they reported, reported $1 ,600 ,000.

For conspirators to murder?

That's a good collar.

Yes, it is.

I don't see how you get to it.

I'll get to it.

Will you get to it legally?

It'll stand up.

Watch out!

They got a gun!

We'll check it out later.

Ted!

Found some junk!

In the back room!

All right.

Come on.

We've got to make a stop uptown.

You go.

I'll head back and do the paperwork on this.

Yeah. Give me a lift back to the station?

Sure, hop in.

We got a ton.

We got nothing to say.

Come on, Stahl.

Let's clear the air.

You don't want to hassle? We don't want to hassle.

Hey! If it's not going to work out between us, that's cool.

Come on.

Come on.

Just a little dialogue.

Well, let me check.

Oh, a robotized plaque.

I'm putting in for a transfer. You understand what I'm saying? I don't care

you guys do. Oh, yeah, well, I can accept that, Star, but these guys don't

you like I do.

I want some information. I want some BD information.

He told me I could clean this place up.

I don't care.

You better get out of here.

That's right. You better get out of here. Because you told me over there

it yesterday.

I'm not kidding. I don't care where you do your job. You can do your job any way

you want to do your job. It's all right with me.

But you just better get out of here.

I tell you, I know because I served my time. No!

No!

It's all right. It's all right.

You just need a little attitude adjustment. That's all.

So why you shot that bum is your business. I don't know what you were

It's okay, partner. It's okay. Because we're not going to tell the ballistics

department. They need to check your gun first.

We'll cover that later.

Sandra, don't just sit there wallowing in self -pity.

It is self -defeating.

I will be all right. I need a few days.

Stay away. I'll call in sick.

And what then?

Resign? Would you let up?

God.

Just shut him. Just shut him. What did you expect?

You knew they were capable of doing something like that.

Sandra, there are no surprises.

A man was killed.

You feel responsible.

Me? I did not shoot him.

I did not say guilty. I said responsible.

I should have gone into the captain's office the minute this started. But you

didn't.

You can still get them.

No, no, no, not possible.

He cannot go up against the three of them.

Only just one to crumble, and the rest will fall.

Which one?

Your choice.

Braxton.

However, if we are to nail them, if we are really to nail

them... I know.

I've thought about it a lot.

We're going to have to stand up.

Never really was a choice.

So what exactly do you need from the police department, McCall?

A safety net.

A safety net.

You broke the rules on this one.

Yeah, I know, I know.

I didn't set out headhunting cops.

You've got to believe that, James.

How solid a case are we going to have on him?

Solid. Because you don't get a lot of shots at a hard case like Braxton.

Then we'll have to soften him up and make this one count.

There are some very nice things here.

They can make you a good price on the lot.

No, no.

Just listen.

McCall?

Come in.

Who's paying for this, McCall?

I am.

Am I going to have to bill you or what? I'm going through a divorce.

Cash.

Man, I'm getting drained for money.

You know, with the agency, it used to be 30 days.

Now you've got 60, 90 days.

I'm telling you, it's Reagan.

Hey, understand, I'm not trying to grind you on the price or nothing.

Do I determine the dosage by body mass?

With the hydrophilumine, yeah.

But if you're going to mix it with this fella, then buckle up.

It'll fill someone's mind with terror.

Tell them what you want them to fear.

It'll be their worst nightmare.

Snakes eating snakes.

You got anything else you'd let me know?

Not that it's going to matter.

When she gets done with me, McCall, there ain't going to be nothing left but

grease spot.

Yeah.

All right, you want me? Come on.

You

got

a problem?

They don't show anything.

It's not what they show. They don't show anything. It's not what they show. It's

that they got taken in the first place and how he got him into the car. He got

$600 security system on that car.

And how he got this into the apartment.

So what do you want?

What have you been doing that we don't know about?

Nothing. Well, actually, there's got to be something.

I'm not into anything that you guys don't know about. Bull, he's too serious

about wanting a piece of you.

So what are you saying?

Just that.

You stumble, you plant your face in alone. I'm not eating the pavement with

Oh.

What do you want with me?

To see you crawl.

This guy clangs, Braxton.

Comes right in here and puts it to you.

What's this all about?

Did I do something to you?

Because if I did, I don't know about it.

Just tell me.

Do I know you?

A man once told me he could always tell crooked cops by the stench.

He was right. This place reeks.

No, tell me that.

You tell me.

Otis.

Otis Marcel.

What's Otis to you, uncle? He said you three were on the take.

Any slimy job for money.

No response.

No rebuttal.

I tell you what.

Let's go in the back room and talk.

You've been taking a lot of trouble following me around, taking those little

pictures.

So you obviously got a lot on your mind.

So let's go back there and talk.

In time.

In time, we will talk.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have just had an exchange of words with three crooked

cops. They have already murdered one man and probably others.

I want you to remember exactly what each of them does when I leave.

Thank you.

Good night.

That's the guy who scared you back?

The guy's on a pass from Bellevue.

No cop.

Yeah, so what are you worried about?

He's somebody.

Makes no difference. He could have done something he would have.

Do you see how easy that was, right?

How does it feel?

To be dead.

You are scum!

You are scum!

You make everything you touch dirty!

And you make...

You're too strung up.

I want this one bad.

Don't.

Don't want it too badly.

Good luck.

Man, you were gobbling. What the hell happened to you last night?

It was those Swedish sisters.

One of those people never won a war.

How about you, Stahl?

Yeah, lucky last night or what?

Yeah, storm.

Should come by the club sometime.

Fix her up with Guido.

Tomato can.

Proxy.

What the hell happened, huh?

But what happened?

That guy from last night.

What did he do? Doped me up and shagged me down like a dog. Why'd you let him do

that? I didn't let him do anything.

This guy's gonna put us all in the jackpot.

Maybe he just wants you, Braxton. You were the one who killed Otis.

We were all there.

And it wasn't a domestic?

Smart enough. Otis was looking to roll over like a Coney Island duck. Okay, but

what was Otis to this guy? If he's not a cop, he's coming at us like this. I'm

not just gonna stand back and watch. Hey, we get one.

Come with the badge. We'll set him up.

So set him up! So, Officers Frank Sergi, Miguel Contero, and Peter Braxton

murdered Officer Otis Marks. Now, is that right?

What the hell are you doing?

I'm keeping you, Dan, so hard the ground's gonna shake.

Peter? The button?

Come on, come on, don't grandstand.

The wire.

See him?

And them?

It's all on tape.

You're going to crash and burn Willa!

Go! Get out of there!

Come on, Miguel. Make your move. What do you got to lose?

That you are pointing a gun at a New York City police

officer.

Lucky me.

Now you have my respect up a lot to do what you did.

It was worth it.

Whatever it'll cost me.

A cop stands up where you did.

She doesn't stand alone for long.

All right, so two and a half weeks later, after everything imagined. I

man has frostbite.

He has lost all of his provisions. He's been attacked by his own Sherpa by

mistake. All right. They worked their way all the way across the shamans in

little village where the Padre is waiting to be evacuated.

But now the Padre will not budge. He has had a revelation.

He has had an acute change of politics.

Oh, yes.

Latham always did have the knack of invoking Murphy's law, didn't he?

You know, the last time that you invited me over here for a drink was right

after Czechoslovakia. Now, I hope this is not quite that bad.

I just... needed to talk to an old friend.

That's all.

Then I'm the closest thing you could find, huh?

It is still there.

What?

Oh, the evil.

I call it's not evil. It's a craft. It's cunning.

It's an ability.

As long as the objective is sane, it is not evil.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I sometimes think that if it just rained long enough,

it would wash the streets clean of all the food.

But, it never does, does it?

It hasn't rained long enough, I mean, it never does. You know, it stops.

And the snakes come out to dry.

And it's just as filthy as it was before the rain fell.

Are you all right?