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So helpless.

A man's voice.

I can't get that out of my mind. Charlie? He had been there when

died. Don't lock him. Kill Kelly.

That guy McCall, he's going to start tightening the screws. I can feel it.

at you.

Falling apart in front of my very eye. I'm trapped.

The only danger is the girl.

Hi Charlie

Hi

Adele

call me down here

What's going on I got inside

I sat down with a conciliary and the man himself.

Dominic? Yeah.

Why, Del?

Why'd you do it?

What are you talking about, Charlie?

You fed lies to the task force about Dominic and his family. You were the

department inside man. You set this investigation back five years. Why?

I should have brought you into this.

I went in too deep, see?

I had to cut him myself.

But I'm on to something, man. I can bring these guys down. You're not trying

bring anybody down. Quit lying to me, damn it.

You stepped over the line this time, Del.

Way over.

You were my best friend.

I am your best friend. No.

A friend of mine would never sell out.

I was undercover too long, Charlie.

They buried me there!

Yeah, I know, but there's some things you don't do, Del, some things you don't

touch.

You know what you are now?

You're an accomplice to those animals.

And if I don't give you up, I'm as dirty as you are.

You've got to help me. I'll do whatever I can.

But you've got to tell them, Del.

They'll throw me to the wall.

It's the only way.

Come on.

You're coming with me, Del. What the hell I am?

Drop it, Charlie. Drop it, Charlie.

Charlie.

Organized crime task force.

Can you give me the home phone number of that murder case? I am afraid I can't

give out that information.

Such a tragedy.

Yes, it was a tragedy.

I never really saw you. Same thing we can do?

How's Maureen taking it?

His wife?

She's a real soldier.

I'll keep in touch.

Yes, sir, hold the line, please.

Coffee break, hate to desert you in a time like this, but... Hello, Organized

Crime Task Force.

Administrative A, Jill O 'Connor speaking.

Captain Maldese, please.

I believe Captain Maldese stepped out for the evening.

Well, certainly, I'll check if you can hold the line, please.

Why did it have to go down like that?

Take it easy, baby.

It's over now.

I'm just lying there. I can't get that out of my mind.

Darling, please.

Not now.

Hey, Jill, can I get you anything?

What's that?

It's on the slide.

Hello, Organized Crime Task Force.

Miss O 'Connor, anybody who is in command of a task force is under great

constant public scrutiny.

It would be very difficult, if not impossible, for Captain Maldizi to be

involved in anything to do with the underworld.

But you don't believe me.

I didn't say that. Of course I believe you.

I just doubt that it was Captain Maldizi's voice you heard on the

I have a friend who is on temporary attachment to the task force.

Why don't I meet you from work tomorrow, and we'll get to the bottom of this.

All right.

Thanks. you.

Thank you.

Come on. I'll walk you home.

You got some room on your couch?

What?

Well, yeah, it's a little cold to sleep outside on the stoop.

Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, I do have some room on my couch.

Well, does this mean that I'll have to give up my classes?

No, no, no. You carry on with your life as normal.

That man is not going to stop you.

We're going to make sure of that.

Please, make yourselves comfortable. I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

Captain McCall. Captain Maldizi.

I've seen you around before.

Yes, on certain occasions I've been here.

Today I am looking after, as it were, Miss Jill O 'Connor.

Yes.

Detective Shepard filled me in.

So, Connor, I understand you heard something pertaining to Detective

death over one of our phone lines.

Yes, sir, I did. A man's voice.

He was talking to a woman, and I got this feeling that he had been there when

Detective Kelly died.

I heard him say something about how helpless he looked lying there, and then

actually called me and threatened me.

He tried to disguise his voice, but I knew it was him.

Shepherd tells me the first call came from this office.

Yes, it did, sir, but I... No, it wasn't your voice.

I'm sure of that.

Shepard, have the officers investigating Kelly's homicide take Miss O 'Connor's

statement and notify Internal Affairs.

Okay, Captain. I'll run her downstairs right now.

Thank you.

McCall.

I know your reputation.

You don't involve yourself without good reason.

No.

I think the Miss O 'Connor's onto something. I do think that she is in

You think Detective Kelly may have been killed by another police officer?

I think it's possible, yes.

She may have misheard the conversation.

Then why did she get a threat?

I realize, Captain, that this is a very bad business for you.

It just makes a messy situation that much messier.

McCall, I'm asking you to keep out of our way.

In this investigation?

Oh, Captain, I fully intend to keep out of your way, I assure you.

However, I am looking after Miss O 'Connor, and I intend to continue doing

Good luck, Captain.

Any officer in this room connected to Detective Kelly in any way at all?

Why?

Well, these desks are the nearest desk to Captain Maldeasy's office.

I was just thinking. I know what you were thinking, Robert.

Uh -huh.

Arthur Cook is brand new. I don't know anything about him.

And Thompson is retiring next week. Never worked under him.

Six weeks.

Larkin?

Larkin was Kelly's partner undercover.

And Spark... Just a minute.

Was Kelly's partner?

Larkin, is he here now?

No.

What's his first name?

Del.

You should be wasting your time investigating him. Why?

Because Larkin is a loner.

And Charlie was his best friend, okay?

I know this is difficult for you. I know that, Alice.

Thank you.

She was with these two guys at this bar.

I recognized one of them.

I've seen him before. He's some kind of private detective.

They say he's got a mind like a steel trap. Baby, you've got to live with this

thing.

As terrible as it is, you've got to go on.

Damn it, why doesn't she just let this thing go?

Del, please relax.

What has she got on you, your voice?

I've got a motive.

I've got prior knowledge of the victim.

I was freaked.

I may have left some evidence at the scene.

If this guy she hired starts to dig around, he's bound to come up with

something.

I never wanted Charlie to die.

You must have known that, Del.

I'm trapped.

I can't give up.

You got to go on.

How do I go on, Simone?

What am I going to do about this girl?

What's the matter with you?

Stealth.

This crisis is too much for him.

He's falling apart.

All right, this is what you want.

That happens.

You stay with someone, you admire them, and you also learn about their weakness.

He's not weak, Bruno.

He's been through too much.

You know, I gotta tell you something, Simone.

You look like you haven't slept all night.

You can't let this thing affect you personally. You've got to rise above it.

Otherwise, you're not going to be of any use at all to Del.

You're right.

It'll be all right.

Believe me.

Give him some time.

Hope he gives himself some.

Kelly walks up to this drunk right in the middle of Tiffany's. The guy is

He's dirtier than a coal miner.

And he's holding up this quarter. He's shouting about how the eagle is going to

fly off the coin any second. Well, the rest of the customers are terrified.

So Kelly goes up to this guy.

He whistles to the eagle.

Then he pretends to snatch a damn thing off the coin when it flies off.

Casually sets it on his shoulder and just walks off.

And he just follows him straight to the door and right into the paddy wagon.

Okay, I'm so sorry about your husband.

Thank you.

And I'm sorry I don't know your name.

Oh, McCall. Robert McCall.

Did you work with Charlie? No, no, I didn't. His partner, Del Larkin.

How's he taking it?

I haven't seen him here yet.

You know, those two haven't spoken for months, ever since their breakup.

But just last week, Del started calling again.

I knew they couldn't stay mad at each other, not forever.

Time heals all wounds.

I guess.

Got a lot of nerve, Robert.

But, uh, do you know Connor is still in danger? Remember that, Alice?

Homicide is working on the case.

I know homicide is working on the case. They are working on the case from a

number of angles. I am working on it from... One.

Hey, Del. Good to see you.

That's Del Larkin, isn't it?

Yes, it is.

Oh, Maureen, how you doing?

Del, I'm so glad you're here.

We gotta keep going, Maureen.

Look, Robert.

He's been through an awful lot.

Leave him alone.

Please.

Mr.

Locken, my name is Robert McCall.

I know who you are.

I've passed you a couple of times in the halls.

You're a friend of Charlie's.

No, no. No, I wasn't.

Then what the hell are you doing here?

That is my best friend lying there. I will not allow anybody to make a mockery

of his wake. I wouldn't do that, sir. I do assure you.

I really wouldn't.

I am working for a young lady called Jill O 'Connor, who I believe is one of

your aides.

One who heard something about Charlie's death?

Yes, yes, that's right. How did you know that?

I make it my business to know, Mr. McCall.

Homicide is keeping me informed.

John, it was like a brother to me.

If you discover anything, you hand it over to them.

Immediately. Oh, I will, and I promise you.

Mr. Larkin.

You're not going yet, are you?

The priest has just arrived.

Surely you're staying for the rosary.

I don't know how I'm going to keep myself together, Simone.

I couldn't sleep at all last night.

I kept hearing the gunshot.

Seeing Charlie drop over and over again. Darling, you can pull through this.

I don't know if I can, Simone.

That guy McCall, he's going to start tightening the screws. I can feel it.

got nothing down.

And even if he did, how can he prove anything?

He's got that girl.

When does it stop?

When is this nightmare going to end?

Sooner or later, she's going to recognize my voice. Only one thing to

I'm going to have to kill this girl.

I ran down Larkin's phone bill.

A lot of calls to a Bruno Dominic. Oh.

I wonder why that name sounds so familiar.

Maybe because he's part owner of Rentino's Restaurante.

Uptown Mafia hangout, right?

Yeah. Alice says her squad has it staked out every day.

Larkin's phone bill also shows a number of calls to the Wessex Hunt Club. Oh,

ah.

There's a place of great reputation, if you like.

The list goes on.

This would not be undercover work. No, no, no. He wouldn't be making those kind

of telephone calls in his own apartment unless he knew that his family friends

knew his real identity.

Kelly obviously discovered that Larkin had turned.

And Larkin killed him for it?

Oh, by the way, one other name that keeps popping up a lot, Simone Peters.

Ring a bell?

No, no.

I'll get Alice to run it through the NCIC.

Larkin, it's Larkin, you see.

We've got to find out everything we can about that man. He's obviously

desperate, and he'll do anything, anything to keep his cover.

You know, Harley, I think we're going to have to take a calculated risk.

I don't want to do it, but for Jill O 'Connor, I think we're going to have to.

Dominic, may I have a word with you, please?

Sorry, do I know you?

Robert McCall is my name.

I'm hoping you can dispel some fears I have about a man called Del Larkin.

I'm sorry, I don't know that name.

Police detective whose partner, Charlie Kelly, was killed under unusual

circumstances. And you do know the name?

What does this have to do with me, Mr. McCall?

Del Larkin spent quite a lot of his time undercover within your organization.

Now, don't tell me, Mr. Dominic, that you didn't know that.

Undercover cop here?

I run a construction business. What the hell are the police going to do here?

Mr. Dominic, we know who you are.

And what you are. Now, why don't we just tell each other the simple truth, and

then we can get on with our business.

Mr. McCall, you really have the wrong party.

And for your information, I am not connected.

Bill Larkin killed Kelly.

I think you know that.

He's not threatened to kill this friend of mine, and that I will not allow.

Well, I feel the same way about my friends.

Really?

Del Larkin is your creation, isn't he, Mr. Dominic?

He was turned, and you made him over into your image.

Your own likeness.

You're a very amusing man, Mr. McCall.

But I have business to attend to.

So do I.

My business is stopping Del Larkin.

And that is precisely what I'm going to do. And let me tell you something.

When I stop him, I don't care who else gets destroyed.

Understood?

What are you doing here?

Surely you knew that I'd be popping in sooner or later.

Once I had discovered your dark and nasty little secret.

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm talking about your life undercover,

Mr. Larkin.

I've just had a very interesting discussion with Bruno Dominic.

Your late partner, Kelly, he never lost sight of the agenda, did he?

But you did.

Oh, you certainly did.

It all became too easy for you, didn't it?

All that past life at the Wessex Hunt Club, $200 dinners at Rentino's, all

dirty money lining your pocket.

what it's like to be buried under deep cover.

I don't know what it's like, sonny.

I was under deeper cover than you could ever imagine long before you were bloody

well born.

I know what it's like, and so did your partner, Kelly.

He knew what it was like.

But what did he do?

He did what we all do, look inside ourselves to find the answer to

But no, Del Larkin didn't do that, did he? I know why you hear spouting this

crap.

You think I'm lying?

Come on.

Call some friends. Do something about it.

Now.

I don't have to do anything about you, Mr. Larkin. I really don't.

You're going to bring yourself down. I mean, look at you. Look at you. Falling

apart in front of my very eye.

Why don't you do yourself a favor?

Give yourself up.

Before it is too late.

Before what?

Before Bruno Dominic puts out a contract on you.

So how are these hearings going?

The hearings are going, you know. They go and they go and they go.

The lawyers tell me not to say anything, so I sit there and hold my time.

So they're going well?

They get the hearings, right?

I'll talk to you about Mark.

He called me this morning.

Ranting about this McCall character.

Mark wants me to protect him. Since I know him, he's going to take matters

his own hands.

Now, I know you care for him, but let me tell you something. This guy's going

over the edge somehow.

No.

He's on the edge.

Still grieving for a lost friend.

I don't understand what he's going through right now.

Let me tell you something, Simone.

A man is a major liability.

There's some girl walking around that could connect him, possibly connect him,

to Kelly's death.

This girl also happened to recognize your voice.

So what does that make you? An accomplice to a murder.

As far as I'm concerned, the girl has to be taken care of, and so does Larkin.

I know I can turn him around.

Could you give me one more night with him, Bruno?

Simone, I don't want to put you at risk.

But we've been through a lot.

But if he's over the top, if he does one stupid thing,

you have to be honest with me.

And with yourself.

I should have gone in. I should have told Homicide everything.

It's too late.

Only way out is more killing. No.

Darling.

I want you to leave town.

You could go down with me, Simone.

I can't let that happen. I can take care of myself.

You got to run.

If I run, they'll find me. I know they will.

You know what happens to a cop in prison?

The thing is, where does it stop?

Girl.

Call.

Buddy.

The only danger is the girl.

You know her routine.

You showed me her schedule. You've got to slow down, Del. Don't tell me what to

do. You're out of control, Del.

What about all the things we talked about?

What about all the things we planned?

Six months and we were out of here together?

That's gone, Simone.

All that's left is a killing ground.

I

still

love you, babe.

How long? I always loved you.

Nothing will ever change that.

I know, Dale.

We were getting close, weren't we?

To getting out.

Remember last October?

Not. Yeah.

Remember the ground all covered in red and yellow rain?

Hills looked like they were on fire.

Remember the cabin?

I wish we could stay there forever.

Yeah.

It's just that this lady, Simone Peters' lady, there seems to be little

information about her. In fact, none at all.

I see.

You're still not satisfied, is that it?

I don't know. I'm not sure.

Larkin killed himself.

One shot to the head.

With his own weapon.

Only his fingerprints.

I am not saying, Captain Maldisi, that Larkin... did not have reason to commit

suicide. All I'm saying is he didn't seem to me to be the kind of man who'd

up just like that. That's all I'm saying.

It's a funny thing about cops.

As a group, we have some of the highest suicide deaths in the country.

I'm sure.

Captain, thank you very much for all your help.

You're going to miss those dance classes.

No, you're not.

I am. I always wanted to be in the ballet.

It's just I had a bad attitude.

I know this dance stuff is crazy for you.

But to me, I know I'll never be an Isadora Duncan.

And nobody can touch me.

You're lucky.

I wish I had something I cared about that much.

Blunt, I miss your dance class.

Thanks for everything.

Hey, take it easy. Bye -bye.

Excuse me.

My phone.

You let a fire into somebody for that.

Right. Now, let us see.

Well,

my instinct was certainly right.

Simone Peters is a hit woman.

Real name, Susan Peterborough.

Wanted by the FBI and Interpol.

Convicted of no crime, but suspected of at least half a dozen assassinations.

All right.

So, what does this give us? Let us assume, then, that this Peter's lady

fact, kill Larkin.

Wait a minute.

What is it, Harley?

Oh, my God.

This woman.

I just saw her.

You saw her where?

When I dropped Jill off at the rehearsal studio, she'd been Jill's dance class.

Pete! You phoned up that dance class. You told Jill to get the hell out of

there.

Lovely.

All lovely. See you next time.

Thank God that's over.

I don't think I could take another second.

Nonsense. You were great.

Thanks for showing me the steps.

I would have been lost without you.

Oh, you know, it's special to finally find someone nice to talk to.

Still up for that cup of coffee? Oh, yeah.

Let's get out of these things.

Oh, for about three years. No.

Oh, yeah. It looks like a lot longer than that.

Oh, no, it does not.

It does. You look great.

I think it shows.

It doesn't. You've got a lot of coordination. You've got a lot of style.

You do. Not all dancers have style.

Thank you.

Don't you think you have coordination?

I think I muddled through.

Muddled through?

Have you ever seen...

A picture of Parisian cars' feet. I know, I don't think I ever have.

They look like gnarled roots of trees.

They say that they don't deform your feet.

You go that way. I'll take the back.

Polly!

Here's her bag.

What about Joe? Yeah.

Well? She's not in here.

Let's move.

So what's your guess?

What do you think she used?

Probably Ferrari.

She's a real pro.

You all right?

My little world isn't as safe as I thought it might be.

You know, I've been in the city for one year, three months, and 16

days.

I talk to people on the phone.

But they're just voices.

I sit next to people on the bus, and they don't have anything to say to me.

And I try to go out and meet people, but I can't seem to make any contact.

And it's just that I sometimes feel so very, so very...

I got this job, the first person to say hello to me was Mr. Larkin.

He seemed like such a nice man.

Oh, I'm sure Detective Larkin started out by having the best intentions.

But sometimes, sometimes, you know, the job takes over.

Sometimes the job...

into you.

You are young and talented and very bright.

And you just remember this.

Around every corner there is somebody who cares.

Jill, why don't you say we take you home?

The car is going to be downstairs.

Come on.