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Previously on Third Watch.

Danielle.

You take one more step and I will hurt him. You hear me?

I will hurt him.

No.

They're going to take away my baby.

The leukemia has progressed.

You're in marrow failure.

If your platelets drop too low, you're going to bleed out.

What can you give me to make it stop?

Chemotherapy.

I'm not going to put that stuff in my body.

I want you to meet my family.

You're dangerous out there, Bosco. No, it was an accidental shooting. My old

partner would have never met that shot. My old partner would have never

questioned me.

Bosco. No.

You got anything else to say to me? Talk to the union rep.

Kind of a one -woman show.

I get that.

But don't think you're gonna face this alone out there.

Because you won't.

Monroe was shot.

Is she gonna be okay?

Yeah. But she's a murderer. She was pregnant.

She was... She lost the baby.

What? Is she alive?

Barely. Looks like meth, Doc.

You get high?

You want to tell me who this is?

My sister.

Hey, hey, Sarge.

They have pastelito de guayaba, but then I saw how fattening they are, so I only

got you the coffee.

Here.

There's nothing like a little cafe cubano to get a steakhouse diet.

You okay?

Yeah.

Coffee smells good.

Tell me you got some sugar.

Cafe cubano doesn't need any sugar. And besides, you didn't ask for sugar.

Many. I'll go get some. No, forget it. No, I said forget it. Ask me again,

I want to pour this in your lap.

Just shut up.

Message received.

CI said the drop was going to happen anytime between 12 and 5.

That's like an appointment with a cable company.

You feeling sick?

cough i'm cool look sergeant you want me and marcus to sit on this you're not

enjoying my company it's not that i just feel like you're feeling sick maybe you

need to i'll tell you what i need manny i need some sugar how

much further

Like an eight -year -old. There has to be bed and breakfast closer than this.

The further from the rat race, the more relaxing it is normally.

Relaxing? My ass is already killing me from the drive.

Enjoy the scenery.

It's dark.

Look, see that cow over there?

You said it's dark out. I'm not going to see a cow. Oh, there's that cow then.

Okay, what about him?

She's outstanding in her field.

Huh?

You thought it was funny.

That's stupid. It was super funny.

You know, next time that we have a couple days off, I get to pick a

All right, I thought it would be a nice surprise, but if you're going to whine

all the way there... Surprise?

We're going to visit my folks.

Your parents?

No. Now they got these portable game thingies with the old school games on it

like Pac -Man, Defender, and Asteroids.

No kidding.

Who needs all that confusion on games nowadays?

I mean, with Asteroids, it was all about these little white triangles and this

little white dot.

But these funny shaped rocks and all in a plain black background.

I was so fun, I tell you. I was so fun.

Man, I wish I had one of those game thingies right now. Can you shut up?

That noise, Manny, is so not working for me.

Sorry.

Look, what do you say we pack it in? It's almost morning already.

You know, as soon as we pull away, those jerk -offs are going to...

Here,

here, I got it.

Can you tell me what happened? Look at me, look at my eyes. Can you tell me

happened?

Help is on its way. May, stay here. I got it, I got it.

Stay here, stay here, stay here. What happened?

I don't know for sure. All I know is she was on fire.

I just wanted to get those other people inside. We got it, we got it.

You awake?

You can't just bring parents on somebody like that with no warning. If I had

said, hey, let's drag 10 hours into this dick so you can meet my parents, we

would have had a complete meltdown. No, I wouldn't. You're having one now.

It's because you kidnapped me.

You're allegedly not a kid.

Well, it's person napping.

I'm being taken somewhere against my will. I'm definitely being some kind of

napped.

Sylvia Cardenas with the business license says.

It's the first time I've ever been in one of these.

First time in a botanica. What kind of a scene are you? You don't know how

frequent botanica is, Manny.

Not even for a candle?

Corner market sells candles.

Not like these.

Look at this beautiful picture of Santa Barbara.

Patron saint to prisoners. Prisoners? Yes, the patron saint for everything.

What about Santa Claus, huh?

Is he the patron saint of toys? Easy with the sacrilegious talk.

Don't tell me you're one of those guys that has to light a candle every time

something goes wrong.

Not every time. Yeah, well, that's how my sister was.

It's the cause of the fire.

Literally translated, Florida water.

Agua florida.

40 % alcohol.

You know about this? Yeah, it's used in cleansing rituals. Alveco's probably

using the water on herself and got too close to a candle.

Wacky rituals go bad.

Thank you, sir.

Wacky?

He seemed to know a lot about this, a lot more than me, and I grew up with it.

Took an intercourse on Hunter, black in Puerto Rican studies.

God in A.

Something is an interesting religion.

Religion?

Yeah.

More like hocus -pocus.

It's a West African religion, brought over by the slaves of the Caribbean.

hid their religion from the Spaniards by fusing their rituals with elements of

the Catholic Church.

Hence, Santa Barbara is also known as Chango, Africa's greatest king and the

of thunder and lightning.

Sounds like a comic book superhero to me.

Oh, you got jokes.

I just, I don't believe in this stuff. What do you believe in?

Me.

Whoa, check this out. Looks like there was some kind of struggle here.

What do we have here?

More agua florida. So you think someone lit this place up?

It's someone that I wake up.

Where the hell are we?

They live in a rural area.

How rural?

Very.

Tell me they have indoor plumbing.

Where's your sensitive venture?

They don't have indoor plumbing.

Oh, it's wonderful to finally meet you.

Finally.

Ma 'am.

Charles Benjamin.

Call me Chuck.

Carlos Nieto. You can call me Carlos.

Hey, Larry.

Yocas. What, are you lost?

No, I was, uh... I was in the neighborhood.

Doing what?

Need a passport to get here from the 5 -5.

And shots.

So can I ask you something, Larry? So you weren't just in the neighborhood?

You qualified a few weeks ago down at the pistol range?

I talked to Vince down there.

Yeah.

So, uh, you got the lowest scores you ever had? Yeah, I had a bad day.

You're on the pistol team, Larry.

So I can't miss sometimes.

He barely qualified.

So?

Yo, Bosco was next to you on the line. So you know what I'm thinking, Larry?

thinking that maybe, I don't know, maybe you helped him out a little bit.

Maybe you threw some of your shots his way.

What is this?

What do you mean?

You had a beef with Bosco or something?

He shot another cop, Larry.

What I hear, a perp pushed her into a line of fire.

That could happen to any of us. Any of us don't have problems seeing out of our

eyes so that we need somebody else to help us qualify.

You're looking to trick -bag your ex -partner over an accidental shooting of

some high -A -B rat bitch.

Did you help him qualify, Larry?

No. Don't ask me again.

Bosco's right. You sure as hell ain't the same big joker she used to be.

Oh, you must be starving.

How was the drive, honey?

It was long.

Well, then you should move back home.

I didn't know whether to make a late breakfast or an early lunch or an early

afternoon snack, so I made a little bit of everything. And, Carlos, I don't know

what Spanish people eat, so if you need anything, just ask. Um, actually, I'm

Hawaiian. A Hawaiian named Carlos?

My first foster family named me.

Carlos, because you look like you're Spanish?

Let's change the subject, Mom.

What? I didn't say anything was wrong with looking Spanish.

Molly's first husband was a Jew.

Levine, that's a Jewish name. So basically, you don't have any idea who

do you?

Can we drop this? Excuse me, if I'm looking out for your gene bubble.

Don't worry, her gene pool's safe. We're not that serious.

Yet.

Oh.

I mean, we're serious. We're just not officially serious. We're more like

casually serious.

Oh.

I see. You're just...

casually sleeping with my daughter.

Oh, no, that part's serious.

Honey, why don't you take Carlos and show him around?

Right, that's a great idea. I'd love to see around.

Do you know that cows are outstanding in their fields?

Yeah, that's a good one.

Oh, was that a joke?

Forget me.

Polata, I didn't see anything.

Not surprised. There's a lot of illegal immigrants in this neighborhood.

You've seen a Soviet? Yeah, it turns out we filed a couple of complaints against

Jaime Castro.

He's got a business right here. Good work, guys.

It's what we do.

Go pay Mr.

Jaime Castro a visit. You need us to come with you? Hey, guys, why don't you

wear some of that brown stuff over your nose, huh?

Hey, man.

It's all right.

You need to see this.

Like it was playing doctor.

Another botanical, huh? Making up for lost time, Miss Latina? Yeah, maybe

Castro has the Santa Claus candle.

You still got the damn jokes.

Jaime Castro?

Hello?

NYPD. We'd like to have some words with you.

Hello? Hello, NYPD?

Sarge.

He's still breathing, Sarge.

All right.

Hey. Hey, man.

This is Monroe.

Yeah, I just stopped in for a few minutes. I'm headed back to work. I'm on

modified duty for the next couple of days.

How's she doing?

She's good.

You know, considering.

I gotta head back out there.

You know, I've been trying to catch up with you.

Just, uh... Listen, that woman went for a gun.

They struggled.

She pushed me around the line of fire. That's it. There's nothing I can do.

I was just gonna say you don't have to avoid me.

You know, I know what kind of cop you are. You say it wasn't your fault. I

believe you.

I trust you.

I really gotta go.

Carlos, you sit here in the place of honor.

Thank you.

And I made a pork roast. Hawaii's eat pork, doesn't it? Marlene, you've been

doing well.

That's right.

They had this big pig with an Appalachian mouth and everything.

I just never eat anything I've looked in the eye. I mean, that's just about my

only food rule.

Mom. What, honey?

I'm vegan.

Come on, you haven't gotten over that nonsense.

Taking care of my body is nonsense?

Well, honey, what the hell do you think God made cash for?

Lawn ornaments?

Honey, there's rice for you.

That's it, right?

Well, orientals live on it.

Easy.

They prefer to be called Asian. When did that happen? I just wish everybody

would make their minds up on what the hell they want to be called.

Murder on the Asian Express doesn't have a very good ring to it.

Well, honey, I'm just trying to make a conversation.

Now, how long are you two staying?

Maybe I can take Carlos hunting.

Oh, you're not going.

Cruel to the animal.

Will you please tell me how I ended up with a daughter who was raised in

Virginia, moved to New York, became a Californian. Well, actually,

I'd love to go. It sounds like fun.

It's not fun for the deer.

We can throw him a little party before we shoot him.

How about celibacy? Does that sound like fun?

That's Catholic word, isn't it? Are you Catholic?

No, ma 'am. Doesn't matter if you are. We like everybody here. Mom, I'm just

trying to make Carlos comfortable.

Are you comfortable, Carlos?

I'm as comfortable as I can be.

You go behind my back.

Nice to see you too, Bosco. You talked to Larry Basante? I told you to your

face. I'm going to look into this.

Well, my word isn't good enough for you anymore.

Faith.

I told you it was an accident.

Larry is an expert marksman, okay?

The day that you go to requalify, he gets the lowest scores of his career.

You're some piece of work, you know that? I'm trying to help you, Bosco. You

shouldn't be asking. You're trying to help me? How is this going to help me,

huh?

How is this going to help me?

Not being able to see is a good reason not to be on the street. You know what?

Just stay out of my business.

What was that all about?

Bosco.

Bosco.

Drama.

Sergeant Cruz.

He's up.

I'm going to go talk to him.

I make casserole?

Yes. Sergeant Cruz, 55th Precinct. Is my store okay?

It's fine.

Mr. Casserole?

I'm not going to be pressing any charges, Sergeant. I know the man who

We had a disagreement. It turned ugly.

You know about a Sylvia Cardenas?

What about?

The last time you saw her.

A couple of weeks ago.

Why? What has she done now?

Not a whole lot.

She died this morning.

You know anything about this, Mr. Castro?

Because, see, from what I hear, you, uh, you guys have some problems.

Sylvia is... was... a phony.

Fake.

I have issues with a lot of the things she did, and I tell it to her face.

But harm her?

Never.

That's not who I am.

What kind of issues?

She passed herself off as a Santera.

Spiritual healer.

People would come to her and she would claim that she could read them, you

Spiritually. She couldn't read anything past the $25 fee she charged them for

the reading.

She took advantage of people in our community.

Especially the illegal immigrants.

Took advantage of their beliefs.

Isn't that what you do?

I help people.

You help people?

With candles?

Or the water?

You don't have to believe it, but at least respect it.

Spiritual healing wasn't the only thing that Sylvia was doing.

Apparently, she was also a surgeon.

You know something about that, Mr. Castro?

Hey. Hey.

Got you a plan. I know it's not much. I just figured the room could use it.

Wish you would have bought me a Big Mac, supersized.

Come on, now. You got your mashed potatoes. They look edible.

And your, uh, ham or steak. What the hell is that?

It's supposed to be chicken and rice.

How you feeling?

Better.

What's the doctor saying?

I get to go home in a few days.

Cool.

Okay.

I'm sorry for the way that I treated you and all the terrible things that I said

to you. I just...

Why? Why what?

Why now?

Because you come and visit me every day and you bring me a plant?

Because I'm the same person that you didn't want to have anything to do with

last week.

And I just want to know what the difference is.

Because I was pregnant with your child and now you feel sorry for me?

No.

Why, because I got shot?

No. Then why, Ty?

What's the difference now?

Me?

Ever since we broke up, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't convince myself

that I didn't care about you anymore. I couldn't do it.

And I couldn't figure out why.

Then I heard you got shot, and right at that moment, before I even heard about

the baby, right at that moment, I realized that I love you.

I do. I love you.

And I never told you that.

His name's Ernesto.

He came to see me a couple of days ago.

His wife was pregnant. They wanted to get rid of him.

I told them he should get her into a hospital or a clinic.

But they're here illegally from Mexico.

So he took her to Silvio's Botanica?

I don't know. Then what did you two disagree about?

He didn't.

He stormed into my store, kept saying over and over about how it was my fault.

I had no idea what he was talking about.

He kept getting more and more irrational. I told him to leave my

that's when he did it. He hit me in the head, knocked me out.

What can I find Ernesto?

1801 and a half, 3rd Avenue.

Thank you.

I guess you do help people. Sergeant.

Don't ever be afraid to ask for it.

Help.

Dead.

Should I call it in?

No, not yet.

Look, Sarge, I don't want to front to any of them, but the whole setup is

creeping me out.

Well, don't get too creeped out, because we're going to sit here and we're going

to wait.

What?

Yeah, we're going to sit and wait until Ernesto comes back.

This is Holly's cousin, Diane.

And these are her little twins, Yellowfin and Andrew.

Her husband has a great job. He works for the government. He's a mailman.

the government.

And look, this is my niece, Sally. Isn't she cute?

She's so intelligent. You know, she's a doctor. A real doctor. Mother.

What? You mean a real doctor as opposed to paramedic?

Holly's so sensitive about her underachievement.

Um, Holly's a great paramedic. Oh, I'm sure she is.

And what do you do, Carlos?

I'm a paramedic, too. You know, we, uh, we work together.

Oh, that's sweet.

And good for you. You know, it's a noble profession.

When I do it, I'm underachieving, but when he does it, it's noble.

Honey, he's a minority.

He's Hawaiian.

How many Hawaiians did you have in your graduating class?

That's the minority. And enough with this minority thing, okay? It's

Are you offended, Carlos? He doesn't say yes, he's being polite. Are you being

polite? Yes, Mom. He's being polite.

Marlowe.

I don't see my dogs.

Thanks for the rescue, Chuck.

I should have warned you. She does that just the way she's wired.

Excuse me?

Oh, you know, the way Merlene was putting the moves on you.

Oh, no.

She was just showing me the family scrapbook.

No, really.

Look, you don't have to apologize.

I'm used to it. I don't even mind.

It makes me feel better about my own occasional indiscretions.

Yeah.

I mean, no.

I mean, I know what you mean about you, not me.

Not that I think that I'm better than you.

Look, sir, I think that your daughter deserves total loyalty.

Not that your wife doesn't.

Those are some nice dogs.

She looks empty.

What?

Dead people.

They always look like they're missing something.

They are.

That's all.

You afraid?

All I know for sure is I don't want to.

I'll fight to stay alive.

But if I need some kind of operation or something, I take the risk.

But what if the treatment was going to make you sicker than you already were

there was no guarantee that it was going to really work?

There's no guarantee you're going to live through a shift in this job.

But you keep coming back.

You guys hear that? Yeah.

Want to take a ride?

Hell yeah.

What's going on? What's up?

Where are you going? You're on modified duty.

So? Sir, you can't go back out on the street.

Are you kidding me? Get out of my way. This isn't about you anymore. You either

go to Swarovski or I will. Do what you got to do and get the hell out of my

They're in a haystack. That's essential.

That's back to the marketplace with 116th and Lexington.

We're going to lock the door. Got it, got it.

Exit.

Excuse me. You know what? We're going to follow. Excuse me, all right?

Rear end insecure.

Be careful.

Tony, back here. That's it.

Excuse me.

Good job, Bosco.

Uh, ma 'am? Yes?

Relax,

Carla.

Sorry. Did he accuse me of putting the moves on you?

Oh, no, ma 'am. No. Oh, yes, he did. He's just trying to get under your skin.

Why? We live out here in the country. What else do we have to do?

Where's Holly?

She's, uh, packing.

She is?

You're leaving.

I went to the hospital today.

You're supposed to stay for observation.

I'm fine.

Is Ernesto going to be okay?

How did you know that we caught him?

I'll light a candle for him.

What did you want?

I'm sorry?

Well, you said you went to the hospital earlier looking for me.

Yeah, I went to tell you that we caught Ernesto and to see how you were feeling.

That's thoughtful.

Good night.

But what is it that you really want?

Being a cop, you realize pretty early on that lighting a candle isn't going to

make a junkie not rob and kill an old man or a little girl not be raped by her

father. Lighting a candle is only supposed to ask the spirits for someone

you to come along and help.

Spirits didn't make me become a cop.

I grew up in a neighborhood where I was constantly seeing women being victims,

and I didn't want to be like that. I didn't want to be a victim. Do you think

any of those victims ever lit a candle, ever prayed for someone like you to come

and save them?

Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I believe in me.

Well, you don't have to be alone, Sergeant.

They weren't that bad.

They weren't. Would you stop being nice? I'm not that nice.

Look, I didn't grow up in a family. I thought it was interesting. Interesting.

I've only seen that kind of dysfunction in the movies. Oh, you want to come up

with some other jokes?

I'm sorry. Oh, that's all my life is good for. You know what?

Punch line.

Your parents are crazy, so what? They're not crazy.

They have trouble expressing affection.

When your dad gives his dogs in the mouth and your mother gushes over

of your cousin, they have trouble expressing affection to you.

Thanks a lot.

You're nothing like them. How can you say that? Look at them. No wonder I am

I am. I told them that I had this great life in New York, that I had a nice

apartment.

And a great job, and an amazing boyfriend, and somehow I walk away from

whole situation feeling like it's not true.

You said I was amazing?

I don't know why I let them do this to me.

Then don't.

So what, I'm like your tropey guy?

So why'd we leave? I thought I was doing pretty good.

My mother.

What?

She asked me how bad the situation was in New York that I would actually

consider you amazing.

I got to say, that's a good question. And you're loving.

It doesn't matter what they think. What matters is what you think.

I won't blame you if you wanted to run away from me now.

Are you kidding?

You taught me something today that no one ever has.

Did I?

You made me appreciate being an orphan.

Do you have family?

Someone to come home to?

No, but that's because I work a lot.

No, that's why you work a lot.

I don't think you came back tonight to tell me Ernesto got arrested.

I think you came back because you're afraid.

I've been having these dreams.

My sister.

In white.

Your sister's passed.

Two years ago.

And you're sick.

How did you know that?

A visit from a loved one is a very powerful symbol.

I have leukemia.

Santeria can't fight leukemia.

That's going to take doctors and medicine.

But what's in here?

Well, we can help.

What's up there?

Death.

Can't heal the body? Your spirit's broken.

You're going to help me?

Come with me.

Hey, Lou.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

Sure thing.

What can I do for you?

It's about Barco.