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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?

No, I got a patio.

It's a fire escape, Victor.

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

My hibachi's 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, this patio furniture is only on sale till 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

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

Cagney, Lacey, you got the first shift.

Aspermonte, 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. Mended us 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.

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 protesting 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.

Your beloved would 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 Street. La

Principessa?

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

Cagney. Dinner at 8.

Don't be late.

Maybe he had a good day at the track.

So how was dinner with your dad?

He didn't show.

Why not?

It was dory.

McKenna? Practical joke.

It's very hard to explain.

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

He made up this whole story to get me there, and then in the middle of

dessert, he up and goes to a stakeout.

He had penciled me in for one hour. Can you believe that? Yes, I can believe

that.

I don't understand him.

Uh-huh.

He'd said we shouldn't see each other anymore because it was getting too

complicated.

And then he invites me out to a restaurant under false pretenses and

apologizes for what happened weeks ago, and 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 hide room. We'll get a ticket. I don't care.

Sorry to keep you waiting, Macaulay. We had to park in Brooklyn.

Where's Edson?

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

Any other doors to this palace? Just the front door in 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?

I'm Detective Lacey. This is 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.

Mr. Edson, 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... Especially a couple of broads!

That'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, what have we got this shade here for, then? Let's get some light in the

room. Keep 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 web.

Back to you, Pam.

So, uh, 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?

What does your husband do? 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?

Candidates, 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?

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

dirty 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 time, quiet time. What, am I in nursery school here?

Put a cork in it, Edson.

Thanks a lot. I'll take this here.

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

to go through your life hyperventilating over a telephone.

Mary Beth!

Yeah, what?

What's the matter?

Cockroach.

You were worse than my kids.

I'll get it for you.

I'll get it.

I gotta get over this.

Right. This'll do it.

Don't answer the phone, Edson.

Now, I know if you... Edson!

Okay? 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?

Uh, 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 car.

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

control 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 third phone

call How preoccupied were you with the cockroach?

Not enough to compromise the security of the room 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, but 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?

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

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

petition protesting Edson's release did you?

Way to go, girls.

Hey, see, you just remember to spend 12 hours with us, because... Hey, come on.

For a job well done.

For a job well done.

Wasn't us.

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.

You should have heard my father last night. Every cop on 8th Avenue was

buying him drinks.

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.

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 IAD 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. What it's worth, one paper spelled our name right.

Great.

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, which we know it wasn't. It's speculating.

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

Hmm.

Which 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. We're one full day behind the DA guys, and we gotta get our

information out of a newspaper?

Maybe we should call them.

The DA's office isn't gonna 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 gonna look bad in

your file? You're 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-ism

if you want.

All I care about is getting the guy who made us look like idiots.

So what do we have?

Oh, 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

caseload, 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 treading very lightly.

What was his name?

Holgate.

What do we have on...

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?

It's the police department.

Are you, Lupin?

Hi. Got any messages?

Yeah.

See, there we go.

A couple of Lacey.

Nothing for you.

Something on your mind, Christine?

God, he is selfish.

Who?

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

think he phones me?

Oh.

What else is new?

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, all of it.

It's because he's so funny.

He makes me laugh.

Honestly, he does, and he's... 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'm... I am hurt.

Come out.

What do you say we, uh, we'll go out, we'll get a little dinner?

Get a little silly?

Huh?

I'm tired.

You sure?

Want to kick your locker some more?

Yes, I think I will.

I would not be interested in buying life insurance.

Thank you.

Yeah. 35 years old.

Edson killed him.

You should see the collars 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 a 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?

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.

So this is where all the old warhorses go.

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

Come on, it's not so bad.

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

It's a job.

Better than a phone company will do for you.

Excuse me.

Officer Holgate?

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.

Do you want to see Edson dead?

Do 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, he stopped off at a liquor store.

Timmy was trying to quit smoking, but he folded.

We 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 stays in touch.

I saw him that morning.

We talked.

I didn't kill him.

I'd 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 blasting cap.

Oh, it was no bigger than 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 the one that figured out

how that bomb that got Edson was detonated.

Really?

Yeah.

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.

It 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?

Thank you.

All right, what have we got we can use?

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

to that room before Edson.

I say we've got a cop.

Yeah, a whole gang.

Or someone who's posing as a cop.

I don't know.

I don't believe this.

This police shield is right on the window. I don't think these meter mates

can read.

I'm telling you right now, Mary Beth, I am not going to Bradeschi and have 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 blocks away. I thought I'd stop by.

You alone?

Harry's in the bathroom.

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

Did 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?

Yeah.

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

Yeah?

Dory, 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... Christine.

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

I'm different.

Terrific.

So am I.

When I was using, I was high on coke.

I was speeded up all the time, and I was excited and exciting.

But 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. It's 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 were broken down. And afterwards is when we

really touched each other.

It's just... Dory, I can't help it.

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

Please hold me.

Please leave a message and 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 this 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.

You want a vanilla shake or chocolate? Vanilla. You know, Victor, this really

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

officers want to help out.

Must be gracious.

Mr. 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 say?

but 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 had to have gotten out of that subway entrance,

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'd have to

transfer 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 hell of a 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 it.

Yeah, prove it.

We'll see if people got the personnel files. We're going to piece this thing

together, maybe.

Now, listen, hey, it's another one for Berdinsky. I don't want to go see

Berdinsky, Mary Beth. The man wants to go out with me.

He flirts.

What you never do.

Never? Never?

What was that, the thigh business with the farm expert? What do you call that?

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

Uh-huh.

back and forth there pretty fast. What are the chances he got a parking spot?

Budinsky?

Budinsky! 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 date.

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.

I mean, she's trying. See, 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.

Ask him, Christine, and ask him nice.

Say please.

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 it a second. Let me understand this.

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

without 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 it's better that I don't know.

How do we handle this, Lieutenant?

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

make the collar.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

What do you think the I.I.D. guys feel like?

They 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.

It's one of us.

Maybe you'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?