All language subtitles for Cagney and Lacey s04e04 Old Debts

At least it's only 12 hours. In a hotel
room.

With a cop killer.

I don't have to take orders from
anybody.

Stay out of my face, you... Especially a
couple of broads. Put a cork in it,

Edson. Cocaine does not make sex better.
It makes it worse.

Look, I'm not talking about better or
worse. It's just different.

Well, forgive me.

But, uh... He's just wonderful to me in
bed.

Sounds okay to me.

Would you hold me?

Please hold me.

What do you think?

Pretty sharp. State -of -the -art.

And it's on sale, too.

You don't have any place to put lawn
furniture?

I got a patio.

It's a fire escape, Victor.

What do you mean? I entertain it there
all the time.

Why are barchies out there?

Of course. I want all day two detectives
in my office.

Right away, please.

Hmm. Figures.

Five minutes to quitting time.

You know, the patio furniture is only on
sale for 6 o 'clock today.

Victor, life goes on with or without
patio furniture.

There's somebody close the door.

I just got off the phone with the deputy
commissioner's office.

Keith Edson?

He's being paroled into the 14th, and we
are being given the assignment of

protecting him until he is relocated out
of state.

Starting tomorrow morning at 9, you're
going on 12 -hour shifts.

Tomorrow, sir?

Yeah, he's being released a couple of
days early for security reasons. The

doesn't know and the public doesn't
know.

Cagney, Lacey, you got the first shift.

Asper, Monty, Kazak, you're next, and so
on.

Here's the duty roster.

Any questions?

Yes, I have a question.

Keith Edson murdered a police officer.

In cold blood.

Why are they letting him out?

Because his parole board recommended it.
Well, it's a joke. Meant his eight and

a half years for murder.

Lieutenant, paroling Edson makes us all
targets out there.

There's not a cop in this city who is
thrilled about this.

But we pulled the detail.

And I want him to live through it.

Any more questions?

Corwin Arms Hotel.

Broadway and 72nd. Suite 906.

All right, Chuck out.

Night duty's coming in.

It's just great. You blow away a cop and
you get eight years.

We got a babysit with him.

It's a job. And it stinks.

You know I signed the petition for
testing his parole?

We've had worse assignments.

At least it's only 12 hours. In a hotel
room. With a cop killer.

And then we get to come home, just like
every other day.

I don't like it either, but we'll
survive.

Lacey. Yeah.

Calls from DeVega and Weiss and Harvey
and Queens.

If you love it, I'd like you to pick up
a dozen eggs jumbo and a six -pack cold.

And, Cagney, you got a call from your
father.

He has reservations to meet you at La
Principessa at 49th.

La Principessa?

That's a little pricey for Charlie.
That's what it says there, Charlie

Dinner at 8.

Don't be late.

Maybe he had a good day at the track.

Well, how was dinner with your dad?

He didn't show.

Why not?

It was dory.

Kind of a practical joke.

Very hard to explain.

Uh -huh. Mary Beth, do not uh -huh me.
Uh -huh.

story to get me there and then in the
middle of dessert he up and goes to a

stakeout he intensively in for one hour
can you believe that yes i can't believe

that i don't understand him uh he said
we shouldn't see each other

anymore because you're getting too
complicated and then he invites me out

restaurant under false pretenses and
apologizes for what happened weeks ago

then he takes off like he's going to a
fire in the interim there have been no

phone calls No explanations. There are
no parking spaces.

Well, Christine, I already told you my
opinion.

Many times.

Wait, there's a space right up there.

It's a hydrant. We'll get a ticket. I
don't care. Neither does this guy.

Hey, buddy.

You want to move it?

You want a ticket?

Glad to see you. You're 20 minutes late.
Sorry to keep you waiting, McCauley. We

had to park in Brooklyn.

Where's Edson?

The boy's feeling a little grudgy from
prison, so he wanted to take a shower.

Oh. Any other doors to this palace? Just
the front door and the bedroom.

Dumbwaiter? It's locked off.

Have fun, ladies. This guy's a real
piece of work.

We weren't exactly expecting the Prince
of Wales. Good. Then you won't be

disappointed.

Where are you guys going?

Detective Lacey. Detective Cagney. We're
out of the 14th Precinct. We're going

to be your bodyguards for the next 12
hours.

This is a joke, right?

Nope. We're on our way out. Our job is
just to get you here.

No, no.

I'm not going to agree to this. Women
cops?

Sign this and he's all yours.

Oh, I don't believe this. Women cops,
you might as well put a bullet right

through me.

Have fun, ladies.

Gretchen, we'd like to get a couple
things clear here.

First, we didn't volunteer for this.
Secondly, this is how we're going to

proceed the next 12 hours. You stay away
from the window, stay away from the

door, stay away from the telephone.

If it rings, we'll answer it, and you
behave yourself.

Understand? I'm not in prison anymore.

I don't have to take orders from
anybody. Stay out of my face, you...

a couple of broads!

He's a pretty brave guy.

Wasn't it your understanding, Detective
Lacey, that this man is a target?

For every cop in New York City?

Doesn't seem to worry him.

Hmm.

Well, we've got this shade here for
them. Let's get some light in the room.

that shade down.

Do you think he's worried somebody's out
there?

Maybe he's shy.

You know damn well what I'm worried
about.

What was that that I was talking about
just before?

Is it clear what's expected?

Right.

Mr. Edson, is it clear what's expected?

30s in some parts of Connecticut.

And tomorrow we look forward to highs in
the 50s in metropolitan New York, with

the winds coming in at about 10 to 15
miles per hour.

That's it for the weather.

Back to you, Pam.

So, what are you reading?

A book.

Huh?

Want to read me the good part?

Edson, you touch me, and you're going to
hold the record for New York's shortest

parole.

Harv, did the orthodontist tell you that
Harv Jr. does not have to wear his

retainer every day, or does this come
from Harv Jr.?

Then make him wear them, sweetheart.

Yeah.

Yeah, me too.

Kiss the boys for me.

Yeah.

So what do you got, a couple boys?

So where does your husband go? Is he a
cop too?

I'm not going to discuss my family with
you.

Oh, sure.

What do I care?

Hey, Blondie, why don't you put some
coffee on?

I can't. It is. And we're not
stewardesses.

Don't touch it.

Yeah.

What is this?

This is a sad commentary on your social
life.

Reap. He say dirty things?

What'd he say?

Yeah.

Look, you keep it up. I'm going to have
the line traced and you're going to be

in big trouble.

Why don't you take the phone off the
hook, Lacey? You like to hear those

things. That's enough out of you.

Don't waste your energy, Mary Beth.

The phone will stay on the hook because
we have to be able to hear from the

precinct.

So why don't we have some quiet time
now?

Why don't we have some quiet time now?

Quiet, Don. Quiet, Don. What am I, a
nursery school here?

Put a cork in it, Edson.

Thanks. Well, I'll take this hand.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You want me to massage that for you?
Hey!

Give it a rest.

I mean it. I'm good at that. It's what I
used to do. I'm a licensed masseur. I

used to get 25 bucks an hour, and that
was eight years ago.

Armed robbery was just a hobby, huh?

Look,

there's community mental health plans
for this type of thing. You don't have

go through your life hyperventilating
over a telephone.

Mary Beth!

Yeah, what?

You were worse than my kids.

I'll get it for you.

I'll get it.

I gotta get over here.

Right. Let's do it.

Don't answer the phone, Edson.

Now, I know if you talk dirty to him...

Jane? Yeah.

Oh, my Lord.

Edson asked you about your family, and
you refused to discuss it with him?

That's right.

And at that point, you got the first
phone call?

All right.

What'd he say?

I told you he was a breather.

What'd you say to him? I never opened
the shade.

I had threatened to open the shade.

We wanted to get some control over the
gun.

Are you saying that the minute that
Macaulay and Haverin left, you lost

over the situation?

Well, what did you tell him? What did
you say to him? I told him, um... I said

I'd have the line traced.

And you didn't?

No, sir.

I just, I thought he was a kid, you
know, or a pervert, you know, some...

Happens all the time. How much time
elapsed between the second and third

call?

How preoccupied were you with the
cockroach?

Not enough to compromise the security of
the room.

Oh.

How long were you in the bathroom before
you became so distressed over the

cockroach that you had to come out here
and discuss it with your partner? Look,

you want to get off the cockroach.

Huh? The cockroach didn't kill him.

Lacey did not kill him. I did not kill
him. No one's accusing you or your

partner or the cockroach, but obviously
somebody was able to get to him. That

ain't... Stop it!

Nobody got to him!

I keep telling you there was an
explosive charge inside the telephone.

Now what do you expect me to do?
Disassemble the entire phone system?

you had, we wouldn't be going through
all this, now would we?

Tell me, you didn't happen to sign
the...

petition protecting Edson's release, did
you?

Yeah, I did.

Way to go, girls.

Hey, see, this mother spent 12 hours
with us.

Hey,

come on.

For a job well done.

For a job well done.

Where's the knife?

It came by special message.

Uh -huh.

Oh, look at this. We got congratulations
from half the police department.

I haven't run into a cop yet who isn't
happy about what happened.

Should have heard my father last night.
Every cop on 8th Avenue would find him

drinking.

Daniels wants to see us.

That figures.

How'd the IA investigation go?

I have had more pleasant evenings, sir.

They're just doing their job, Lacey.

So were we.

I know.

They want to see you downtown.

Deputy Commissioner's office.

I can't go see a commissioner dressed
like this.

Does it matter?

Well, it matters to me. I think that you
should change too, Christine.

Do we have to dress for this?

It doesn't make any difference. You just
got to be there 11 o 'clock.

Sir, we already told IAB every single
thing that happened.

I don't think this is about the facts of
the case.

Well, we've received champagne from our
fellow officers.

Daniels NPR wants to see us.

The deputy commissioner has requested
our presence downtown.

Anything else, Lieutenant?

They want to see you in legal.

Legal, sir.

It's a talk of possible wrongful death
suit.

Wrongful death suit?

From whom?

Edson's family.

He had a family?

I don't care whether we're officially on
the

case or not. I want to stay with this.
Well, it's worth one paper spelled our

name right. Three.

Ernie, how much longer?

20 minutes. That's what you said 20
minutes ago.

This paper's only got one column on it.

Well, it says it was a pipe bomb, but we
know it wasn't.

Speculate. All right, this one here says
it was explosives, probably plastic.

Hmm.

This could be nicely molded into a
telephone receiver.

Well, maybe this paper's got a direct
line to the DA's office. Oh, this is

ridiculous. One full day behind the DA,
guys, and we've got to get our

information out of a newspaper?

Maybe we should call them.

The DA's office isn't going to give us
anything.

Technically, we're still suspects, and
you know what ticks me off?

When they clear us, which they will,
Edson still died on our shift, and I'm

telling you, it'll be in our files for
the rest of our career.

Is that what you're worried about,
Christine, that it's going to look bad

your file? Damn right.

Edson's dead.

I don't even know if I'd bring him back
if I could.

Sorry, Mary Beth.

You and the commission and the papers
can all worry about police vigilante

if you want.

All I care about is getting the guy to
make us look like idiots.

So what do we have?

I'll look at this here.

436, what are you doing, rebuilding the
motor?

Hey, I'm working as fast as I can.

Simple oil change, I should have done it
myself.

20 minutes.

Mary Beth, we have one or two days
before they put us back on a full

so come on.

All right, plastique.

It's used in the military and for
construction.

Yeah.

That guy has to have some inside
information.

He knew about the early release date. He
knew about the hotel room.

He got by everybody completely
unnoticed.

Has to be a cop.

Which means everybody's going to be
trading very lightly.

What's his name?

Holgate.

What do we have on him?

Well, it says here he has an alibi. He
was on duty at the time of the 22nd.

Signed in, signed out.

Could be another cop.

Which means it would have to be someone
with enough connections to get the

information, which means... Could be
anybody, couldn't it?

Cagney, Lacey.

Are you finished?

30 minutes.

What do you expect?

Police department.

Hi. Got any messages?

Yeah.

See, there we go.

A couple of Lacey.

Nothing for you.

on your mind, Christine?

God, he is selfish.

Oh.

I'm involved in something right now that
could ruin my entire career. And do you

think he phones me?

Oh.

What else is no?

You're right.

What? You are right.

He wasn't always like this, Mary Beth.

He's scared.

Well, so am I.

I decided that it was okay.

He's so funny.

He makes me laugh.

As fun as he does.

Well, forgive me.

But he's just wonderful to me in bed.

Sounds okay to me.

And I thought, well, it would be okay
just to not want anymore. Because

if I wanted anymore, then I would end up
being hurt.

Damn it.

I am hurt.

Come out. What do you say we go out and
get a little dinner? Get a little silly?

Huh?

I'm tired.

You sure?

bath, write a dirty book.

Want to kick your locker some more?

Yes, I think I will.

No I would not be interested in buying
life insurance.

Thank you.

How you doing?

Fine.

Got the ducky file?

Yeah.

35 years old.

Edson killed him.

You should see the colors he made.

But most interesting thing, look here.

Take a look who trained him.

Paul, come on. Look, we need help here.

As far as I'm concerned, the case is
closed.

Closed? Wait a second.

Wait a second. The man who murdered a
kid you trained gets blown up, and that

means to you the case is closed? I don't
think you mean it.

What do you want to know?

Okay.

You knew Tim Duffy pretty well.

Who would want to avenge his death?

How many cops are there on the force?

Could you hit the mark a little closer,
Paul?

What about his family?

The funeral was the last time I saw the
family.

His wife was so distraught, she couldn't
accept the flag.

The kid had to take it.

Are they still in the city?

I heard the wife died two or three years
later. And the son.

How does the kid handle a situation like
that?

Trouble in school.

Floating from here and there.

I think he's still in New York.

Well, what about his partner, Holgate?

From Duffy's record, it looked like they
were quite a team.

They had their futures in front of them.

Holgate was a little older. He was going
to go for a sergeant's exam.

Why didn't he?

He broke.

Something inside him snapped that night,
and he was never the same.

One day, he's a terrific cop.

The next day, he's the station attendant
at the 22nd Precinct.

Station attendant.

It's like a janitor. Only you get to
keep the uniform.

One cop was shot that night.

Two cops died.

Thank you.

You think they sent us on a wild goose
chase?

Said his office was down in the
basement.

Mr. Mike Petrovich has his.

Who's Mike Petrovich?

He's the station attendant at the 14th.
You know him.

Is this the guy who tanks up the squad
cars, takes care of the borders? Oh,

yeah, Mike.

Hmm.

So this is where all the old war horses
go.

Mary Beth, I do not want to see this in
my future.

Oh, come on, it's not so bad.

You know, in case you can't hack it
anymore, it's the place to go every day.

It's a job.

Better than a phone company will do for
you.

Excuse me.

Officer Hokey?

Yeah? What can I do for you?

I'm Detective Cagney. This is Detective
Lacey.

From the DA's office again?

No, sir. We're from the 14th Squad.

We're the officers who were on duty when
Edson was killed.

Yeah. I heard that was not a very pretty
sight.

No, sir.

Looks like I've become the prime
suspect, huh?

You were Duffy's partner.

Yeah, that's right.

Look, I'll tell you just what I told the
DA's office.

I was angry about Edson's release.

I wrote a few letters.

I even tried to talk to the police
commissioner.

They still let him out.

What, eight and a half years for
killing?

It's a sham.

You want to see Edson dead?

You like each other?

You work well together?

Yeah.

Well, Timmy and I, we were the best.

We were good friends.

The night that he died, stopped off at a
liquor store.

Timmy was trying to quit smoking, but he
folded.

Walked in there together.

I was kidding him. I was trying to make
him feel as bad as I could.

I heard a voice behind us.

We turned around.

There was this guy with a .45. It was
pointed right at Timmy's head.

He took Timmy's gun.

Then he took mine.

I'm never going to forget the look on
Henson's face.

He raised my gun up there to Timmy's
head.

And bang!

Pulled the trigger.

He enjoyed it.

What would you do?

Somebody did that to her.

Officer Hogan, I'm sorry.

I have to ask you this.

Did you kill Keith Edson?

No.

Where were you when he was murdered?

I was right here on duty.

You can check the blotter.

It was a day. It was like any other day.

Took the subway to work. It did my eight
hours, and I took the subway home.

I didn't cry when I heard, you know.

Any law against me having a grudge
against the murder of my father?

Looks like business is good.

A lot of this is junk.

I gotta save everything for the spare
parts.

But I get by.

I got a contract with a cab company.

Oh, yeah?

Potholes are kind of tough on radios,
you know. Yeah, ours is on the fritz all

the time.

So, Sean, for the record, where were you
that morning?

I went upstate.

I went camping, okay?

Alone? Like I told the detectives
yesterday.

Alone.

Not much of an alibi.

When I left, I didn't think I needed
one.

You in the habit of just closing up your
business here and taking off camping in

the middle of the week?

Hey, look.

I knew Edson was out.

And I didn't want to be in the same city
with him, okay?

Yeah. How'd you know that?

Why is that important?

Because the release date was
unannounced.

You want to go downtown and answer that?

Look, my father's old partner stayed in
touch.

I saw him that morning.

We talked.

I didn't kill him.

I'd really like to help you ladies out,
but...

The D .A. found out I talked to you.

I could be in big trouble.

You know we didn't have anything to do
with it. That doesn't matter.

I'm not allowed to talk to anybody who's
not on the case.

Sorry.

Come on, Chris.

Don't waste our time here.

You probably know a lot about people and
the bombs they make.

Christine. Give me a break, will you?

I read about the plastique in the
newspapers.

Must have had to use a very small
plastic cap.

Oh, it was no bigger than a matchstick.

It was very popular late in Vietnam.

You discovered all that just from going
through the debris?

You think you're the only ones in this
department that do detective work?

Well, the whole thing has been deductive
logic.

I probably shouldn't tell you this,
but... I was wanting to figure out how

bomb that got Edson was detonated.

Really?

Let me guess.

A radio -controlled device.

Just like on model airplanes.

More like a garage door opener.

And you figured it out? Of course. Of
course, that led to the big thing.

Isn't this terrific?

Uh -huh.

You told us that the person that set it
off had to be within a one -block

radius.

I don't believe it.

What do you mean you don't believe it? I
mean, that is what you were angling

for, isn't it?

All right, what have we got we can use?

We've got three hotel employees who
swear they saw nobody but uniforms

that room before it.

I say we've got a cop.

Yeah, Holgate.

Or someone who's posing as a cop.

Stop it. Stop it, kid.

I don't know.

I don't believe this.

The police shield is right on the
window. I don't think these media mates

read. I'm telling you right now, Mary
Beth, I am not going to Bradeschi and

this ticket voided.

Bradeschi likes you.

I stood him up in a sushi bar. I'd
rather pay the two bucks.

Fifty bucks.

I should apologize.

My group meeting was just a couple of
blocks away. I thought I'd stop by.

You alone?

Harry's in the bathroom.

No, I'm alone here. Come on in.

Can I get you anything?

I'm sorry I didn't call.

It's okay.

Coffee?

I meant about Edson.

Must be rough, huh?

We're handling it.

Chris, I think...

Still make that fancy Colombian coffee?

I wasn't sure I was going to see you
again.

Yeah?

Don't worry. Why do we keep doing this
to each other?

I'm doing it because... I don't know why
I'm doing it.

Okay?

I told you the other night that we could
take it slow.

I said that I would move it whatever...

I'm, uh, I don't know.

I'm different.

Terrific.

So am I.

When I was using, I was high on coke.

I would speed it up all the time, and I
was excited and exciting.

I was on top of things.

It used to be great between us.

And I keep... I keep thinking, what if
it's not the same?

Dory, this is so crazy.

I know it's crazy.

Cocaine does not make sex better. It
makes it worse.

Look, I'm not talking about better or
worse. Just different.

I mean, I always felt that without that
between us, I mean, without the sex,

I wouldn't have to keep you around.

I loved you making love to me.

But more than the sex, what I loved is
what we had afterwards.

I loved the tenderness.

And afterwards is when the barriers are
broken down. And afterwards is when we

really touched each other.

It's a story.

I can't help it.

I don't think I know any other way to
get there.

I'll get back to you.

Hey, Cagney, do everybody a big favor.
Forget about Edson.

Best police work you ever did. Let him
die.

We bought you lunch.

It's Becky's idea.

Yeah, I'm paying.

I can tell.

Is it because of Edson?

No.

It's because we realize what you've been
going through and we haven't exactly

been the most supportive.

Look, what he's trying to say is Edson
wasn't your fault.

It could have happened to anybody.

Thank you for lunch.

Like you said, it was my idea.

Do you want a vanilla shake or
chocolate? Vanilla. You know, Victor,

was sweet of you, but it wasn't
necessary. Christine, our fellow

to help out.

Must be gracious.

So, Marcus, you still have that pipeline
to the DA's office because we need

something.

Like? Like the personnel files on
Holgate.

Bingo.

What do you think?

It doesn't make sense.

Those calls came in for over an hour.
How is it nobody saw anyone laying with

the only working phone booth on this
entire block?

Let's say it was Holgate.

Okay. He said he took the subway that
day. Yeah.

Well, then he would have to have gotten
out of that subway and crossed this

street and used that phone booth. No,
no, wait a second.

Duffy said that Holgate came to see him
that morning, right? So think about what

that means.

Holgate starts off in the Bronx, then he
goes to Brooklyn to visit Duffy, and

then he comes to work in Manhattan.

Yeah, so?

So, in order to do that, he'd have to
get on an IND, and then he had to

to an IRT, and then he would have to,
you know, switch over to a local VMT in

order to make it to 22nd Precinct.

That's a hard way to start the day.

Yeah, unless he drove.

And if he drove, then all he'd have to
do is go right down the East River Drive

over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Well, if he drove, he lied to us.

You got a dime?

My pleasure.

Okay, thank you, Tim. We appreciate your
help.

Duffy's kid said Holgate had his car
that day.

Then he could have got in and out of the
22nd precinct even a couple times.

Made those phone calls. Would have been
quick. Nobody would have missed. Yeah,

prove it.

We'll see if people got the person up
out. We're going to piece this thing

together, maybe.

Oh, no!

No!

Hey, that's another one for Brzezinski.
I don't want to go see Brzezinski, Mary

Beth. The man wants to go out with me.

Flirts. What'd you never do?

Never. Never?

What was that? That's all I did before
the bomb accident. What do you call

That's different. That's called in the
line of duty.

Uh -huh.

Hey, you got the slide. You want to give
it a rest?

to make it back and forth there pretty
fast.

What are the chances he got a parking
spot?

Budensky?

Budensky, put yourself in my place.

I mean, it's not easy being single, you
know?

I'm sure, haven't you just sometimes had
it right up to here?

With that one more date, one more time
you have to be affable, you gotta be

charming, you have to smile.

So, that is why I never called and
canceled our days.

I just couldn't face it that night.

I couldn't even talk to you.

Is this supposed to be making me feel
better?

Well, yes.

She's trying. You have to understand
that sometimes people have their

limitations, is what she's trying to
say. And you're not going to hang us up

because Christine doesn't have the most
perfect manners.

All right, okay, I'll do it. For you.

Oh. Well, what we need is a list of all
of the ticketed vehicles on those

streets on the day of the 10th.

Is that all?

And we need a cross -reference to the
owners of those vehicles.

Oh, well, why didn't you tell me it was
something easy?

I only have to run three different
programs.

Ask him, Christine, and ask him nice.

Take leave.

Excuse me.

I wondered if, uh, could you take care
of these for us, please?

We'd really appreciate it, Stanley.

It's Doug.

Doug?

Oh.

Thank you, Doug.

That parking ticket places Holgate's car
within the vicinity of the hotel.

A half hour before Edson was killed.

He could have had the ticket for it, but
he paid it. He didn't want to call

attention to it.

And according to his personnel file, he
has military experience in demolitions.

Hold on a second. Let me understand
this.

You ran a parking ticket through the
DMV, and you cut into computer time

a signed priority form?

And then you go ahead and get a hold of
his personnel file?

All of this without getting a clearance
from me?

Well, Lieutenant, we were not officially
on the case, so we had to... Forget

that.

I just want to know how you managed to
do it all.

Oh, well, sir, there's a Doug Budinsky
over at the... Oh, never mind. Maybe

better that I don't know.

How do we handle this, Lieutenant?

I'll call his commanding officer, and
you two are going to have to go down and

make the...

Yes, sir.

What do you think the IAD guys feel
like?

I have to bring in another cop.

Some of the ones I know look like they
get a kick out of it.

I can't believe it.

One of us.

Maybe he'll be glad it's over.

Huh?

Maybe.

I don't want him handcuffed in the squad
room.

No, sir. We'll walk him out the back
entrance, all right?