All language subtitles for NYPD Blue S12E02 Fish Out of Water

Previously on "NYPD blue"...

Lieutenant Thomas bale.

I've heard the name bale
from internal affairs.

I realize that carries
a certain stigma,

but you'll find me
to be an excellent boss.

Start covering your ass
right about now, guys.

How many nights
you been out tying one on?

It's got
nothing to do with work.

That's me
having a good time,

which I'm entitled to.

It's hard for a female
on the job to get respect.

One of the ways to lose it
is if you're flirtatious.

I've never had a problem
with a guy in a work situation.

The problems I've had are
with other women on the job.

What the hell is this?
That's a dead rat, Andy.

P.a.b.--
what does that mean?

Jones:
What's it say?

"Payback's a bitch."

This isn't a joke.

Female, d. O. A.--
Tina most.

Dumped in a garbage bag,
real pregnant.

Bruises on her neck.
I. D. Says she's 18.

She's near term
on her pregnancy.

Construction guy found her?

Saw her hand sticking
out of the garbage bag.

Where's her I. D.?
Clark's got it.

Where's Clark?
In his car
around the corner.

He said to rouse him
when you got here.

You mean, like wake him up?

He can
wake his own ass up.

Pregnant female D.O.A.
Clark's in his car racked out.

Seems like he's keeping
a lot of late nights.

You want me to get him?

Are you his mother?
'Cause I'm not.

He just followed US
out the door.

What do we got?
Female, d. O. A.

We'll work up the scene,
start a canvass.

Any updates,
you're the first to know.

Actually, let's all
digest the crime scene

and confer
before starting a canvass.

Well, I've already
digested the crime scene.

You want to confer
down the line,

call me on my cell.

Just stick around.

We'll make sure we're all
rolling in the right direction.

20 minutes, back here.

Detective Clark?

He,
already started a canvass.

Reel him in.
20 minutes.

I'll get John.

It's covered.
I got it.

John!

All right.
Yeah, thanks, Dave.

Yeah, appreciate it.

You're making me nervous.

The fish are all huddled
at the bottom of the tank.

Jones:
Taking a snooze, maybe?

No, they huddle at the bottom
when there's sulfur up top.

And they're listing, too.
How long they been listing?

I don't know.

Got a guy to see
if you're interested.

Why not?

Greg, Baldwin.

Robbery-- residence
on first and a.

Woman named
Lorraine stuval.

Where you two going?

We got a guy to talk to
off a voice mail

for the d. O. A.,
Tina most.

How'd you
get the voice mail?

She lived with her folks.

They said she got
an odd voice mail

recently
which they saved.

Love to hear it.

It was from a guy
named Michael cozen

who was calling with condolences
on her miscarriage.

M.e. Said Tina
was eight months along,

so that doesn't make sense.

This guy Michael left a number
which we traced.

What else
do we know about Tina most?

She did six months in rikers
for meth sales.

She got out eight weeks ago.

All good.

But voice mails,
arrest records

you guys
were gonna grab up--

I'd like to know everything
that's going on in my squad.

So keep me informed
to the minute.

The fish are listing.

They're on a lean-- might be
a problem with the water.

Who handles that?
I do.

Well, keep me informed.

Morning, miss stuval.
How you doing?
Not so well.

Jones: Can you tell US
what happened?

I was robbed
by a man in a mask.

How'd he get in?

He knocked.

I opened the door

'cause I forgot
to check the peep.

What happened then?

He punched me,
and he taped me up.

And when I tried to yell,
he said, "shut up, bitch."

And then he wrapped the tape
around my face.

He didn't have to hit me.
I would have given him anything.

What'd he take, ma'am?

My grandmother's diamond ring
hidden under the mattress.

Did you always
keep it there?

I just got it out of
the safe deposit box to sell

just 'cause
I'm so broke right now.

Well, who knew
you had the ring?

Just me.

You live
alone here, ma'am?

With my husband.

Is that him?

It's our wedding day.

It looks like you got married
in a penitentiary.

He wasn't
involved in this,

and I will not hear any sort
of prejudice against him.

What did your husband
do time for?

He got life
on a robbery/homicide

which wasn't a homicide.

The store clerk had
a heart attack two days later.

He was released
six months ago.

Thought he got life.

He got his sentence commuted

for saving a corrections officer
during a riot on his tier,

proving that
he has a good heart,

and he wouldn't have anything
to do with this.

We'll still need
to talk to him, ma'am.

If you could tell US his name
and where he might be?

Leon belcon.
He's maybe at the scrap bar.

Please tell him
I know he wasn't involved.

We will.

Thank you.

Ma'am.

Why don't you have a seat?

Mr. Cozen...

A girl named Tina most
was attacked last night.

We're talking to folks
on her phone record.

Your name came up.

How'd you now her?

We're friends--
me and Tina and my wife.

Friends from where?

I don't understand
the question.

18-year-old speed dealers

don't hang much
by Columbus Avenue.

Unless it was
a little, you know,

commerce went along
with friendship?

No, no.
Tina was our birth mother.

We were going to
adopt her baby,

but two days ago,
she miscarried.

Was that the condolence call
you left on her machine?

My wife and I
were devastated.

Mr. Cozen...

Tina most was murdered.

You just said
she was assaulted.

And if you know
anything about this

or if you found out
that she was pulling a con,

now is the time
to let US know.

What con?
What does that mean?

Tina was pregnant
when she died-- fully.

You're saying
she lied to US?

And you calling her
a friend at first,

like the adoption
was a big secret,

tells US
you might be, too.

The adoption process...

Wasn't entirely legitimate.

It was a--

god, this sounds so dirty.

It was
an unofficial transaction.

You were buying her kid?

My wife has endometriosis.

I have a motility issue.

You scumbag.
Excuse me?

All right,
let's move on.

Yeah, you had some cash around.
So why not buy a kid?

We've endured three years

of fertility injections,
anxiety, depression.

Adoption was near impossible.

How much
had you paid Tina so far?

$5,000?

Which you lost
when she miscarried?

We were told
that it had been spent

on her prenatal care
to that point.

Told by who?

Steve mcclintock, a nurse
at our fertility clinic.

He was sort of the go-between.
He introduced US to Tina.

And how'd that transpire?

You'd have to ask my wife.

Name of the clinic,
numbers for Steve.

And anyone who can account
for your whereabouts

last night
till this morning.

That part of your new method,
too?

Just blurting out anything
that comes in your mind?

Buying a kid--
that's not a scumbag move?

He was being cooperative.

He's still cooperative,
and he know's he's an asshole.

I don't see the harm.

Whatever you thought was
being kept out of your work

is leaking in.

Two months ago,
you never would have
blurted out "scumbag."

I've seen you
do 10 times worse.

Not with a guy
who was working with me.

Is that the rule?

You lost your temper
'cause you're hung over.

I had two beers.

Then you're sleep-deprived
'cause of the whores.

No, Andy, whores was you.
I'm plucking off secretaries.

It don't matter.
Yes, it does.
'Cause it's worse.

Everything you did
was worse.

But now you're reformed,
a Saint,

telling me
how to fix my life?

You're a hypocrite.

You don't want
to be talking like that.

Hold his hand.
Kiss his ass.

Work him
however you want.

Jones: Got some interesting ink
on you, belcon.

What's that there--
the double lightning bolts?

Aren't those earned for

a violent act
against a minority?

And, s. W. P.

Supreme white power.
Am I right?

What am I doing here?

Where you been
all day, Leon?

Looking for work.

I recall
finding you in a bar.

I looked for scrub work
at three construction sites,

delivery jobs
at four take-out joints,

bike-messenger work--
nobody's hiring.

What's up?

Your wife
got robbed today.

Is she all right?

You know
anything about it?
Hell, no.

Who's Joe hess?

Before saying
you don't know him,

we got 15 calls
between you two.

And we know you did jail time
together for armed robbery.

Joe's a friend of mine.

Why all the conversations?

Catching up.

What, along the lines
of, "hey, Joe,

guess where we can get
our hands on a diamond ring?"

Lorraine doesn't got
no diamond ring.

The one she got
from the safe deposit to sell

that she said
you knew about

and knew she kept
under the mattress.

Lorraine wouldn't
leave a nickel

where I could find it,

let alone a diamond ring.

Why she putting this on me?

'Cause you're a lifer con
sprung on a technicality.

Sprung for saving a C.O.
from getting hanged,

which he was
seconds away from.

But my point being, Leon,
it doesn't seem

like things
are so great at home.

You got no money, no job.

You got to be
in debt to someone.

I don't know anything
about her getting robbed.

Is that what Joe hess
is gonna say?

Or does he have the brains
to get in front of this?

We know you're broke

and that you knew
about the ring.

I don't know nothing about it--
nothing.

Screw you.

Love that positive
lifer attitude.

Mcclintock's in a procedure.
They're getting him.

Hi, I'm Steve mcclintock.

Detectives sipowicz
and Clark.

You know a girl
named Tina most?
Yeah.
She all right?

How do you know her?

I volunteer weekends down
at the bowery free clinic.

She's a patient.

Michael cozen
and his wife, Julia--

you set them up with Tina?

You don't want the not-so-free
clinic to know about it?

The cozens were desperate.
So was Tina.

I just made a phone call.

And ripped the cozens off
for five grand.

The prenatal care
for Tina most's kid

that she
supposedly miscarried.

What do you mean
"supposedly"?

As of this morning,
Tina was still pregnant.

Well, then she lied.
She lied to me.

Or you're running a scam.

No.
I'm not even involved.

All I did
was pass on information.

Michael cozen makes you more
of an active third party.

Yeah, well, he's wrong.

A very rich lady's
on the procedure table

back there with her legs
in the air, so...

Where were you last night?

I've really got
to get back.

Tina most was murdered, Steve.
We're talking "now."

God, that's awful.

Where were you last night
till this morning?

I was with my girlfriend
at her apartment.

Who is she?
Where do we find her?

Her name's Carly landes.
This is so awful.

Let's get you
to the station house.

That's the best place
to absorb it.

Yeah, um, I'm in the middle
of a procedure.

Okay, someone needs
to take over for him.

Let's go.

Copper?

Overdosage of copper--

10 times
what you'd ever need.

What'd you
put in copper for?
I didn't.

You're the only one
who treats the tank.

I'd only use copper if I saw
uredinium, which I don't.

I never have in this tank.
It wasn't me.

Anybody touch
the fish tank?

Just dumped
some pennies in.

These fish are dying here.

So,
what do you do about it?

Partial water cleansing,

then filter
with activated carbon.

But, first I got
to get some water

to get the fish out of here.

Whatever you got to do.
I'll cover it. It's my dime.

No answer at home
from Carly landes.

Mcdowell: She's also
not at the work number,

but she's a registered nurse
at various clinics.

Today, she's at
the Rose singer infirmary.

At rikers?

The d. O. A., Tina most,
did six months in rikers.

They must have
known each other.

So Carly landes was part
of this adoption scam?

That's the question.

She's scheduled at
the infirmary in half an hour.

Good job.

How's she working out?

We got different approaches.

Admit it.
You're jealous.

Of what?

Yeah, she's miss cute,
all bubbly-- guys dig her.

So I should be
jealous of that?

We got someplace to be.

You want to
partner up with her,

sack out in your car,

steam up the windows,
be my guest.

Damn.
What'd I say?

We're leaving.

To where?

Rikers-- talk to
Steve mcclintock's girlfriend.

And mcclintock's
still down in the cell?

Yeah, like we told you.

And how's
the girlfriend fit in?

She's the girlfriend?
She's banging the guy.

Instead of pulling in
random people,

we figure she might be
worth a conversation.

Do you remember
an announcement I made earlier

about being
kept up to the minute?

Because this is the first
I heard about a girlfriend.

I'll get you
up to speed, boss.
Great.

But the next time I have to ask,
someone takes a rip.

Everyone clear?

Have a seat, Mr. Hess.

Found some interesting things
in your apartment, Joe.

Photographs of
Ed's check-cashing store,

notes on the hours of operation,
how many employees.

You going into
the check-cashing business?

Go to hell.

You involved in this
with Leon belcon?
What's he saying?

He gave you up for consideration
over ripping off his wife.

Get US the ring back,
you could get some, too.

What the hell
you talking about?

Belcon's wife--
you busted in, taped her up.

Belcon said
I robbed his wife?

We're telling you
what we know.

Well, you got your head
in your ass...Chimp.

Sorry.

You just
call me a chimp?

I got nothing more
to say to you guys.

I ain't ever seen
this stuff before.

I don't now nothing
about Leon belcon.

I want to see my lawyer.

I'm gonna break your ribs
for calling me a chimp.

Ease up, mighty Joe.

See, that baiting crap
might work in the joint

with 10 of your skinhead
homies around,

but this is
the real world, Joe.

In the real world,

you talk smack,
there's consequences.

Same for beating on a lady
and taking her jewelry.

I didn't Rob anyone.

He's losing focus.

I've been calling belcon
for two months

to go in on the check-cashing
robbery with me,

but he wouldn't do it.

You pay him back
by robbing his wife?
No!

You never been
to his place?
No.

'Cause if we
find out different,

I'm gonna beat you
till you piss blood.

I swear it.

I never been there...Ever.

Sipowicz: Carly landes?

Detectives Clark
and sipowicz.

You know a Tina most?

She was a prisoner.

What do you know

about a business arrangement
that she had with Steve?

I don't know about
any business arrangement,

but I know
that he was helping Tina

find the best adoptive family
for her baby.

You know about him
selling her child

and then lying
about a miscarriage?

Steven would
never do that.

Well, someone did...
To a family named cozen.

Well, then,
it must've been Tina.

She wasn't above
lying to people,

and she was in
some pretty bad debt.

To who?
Drug dealer
she burned.

She said that she owed him
$20,000.

Or you're lying
and there's a scam going on.

Whatever money Steven
had access to from the cozens

was spent on trw reports,
private investigators,

and prenatal care
for Tina.

He kept
none of that money.

How'd he find Tina--
through you?
No.

You didn't get a sense of her
in the infirmary

and then set her up
with Steve?

Get a sense of her
for what?

Her willingness to run
this adoption con

on desperate yuppies.

There's no con.

At least, not one
Steve and I know about.

Yeah, but there is
an unlicensed adoption scheme.

That's an awfully dirty way
to describe an efficient path

through mountains
of red tape.

It's a coincidence that Tina did
time at rikers where you work.

Steven volunteers
at a free clinic.

The bowery free clinic.

Which gives excellent
free medical care.

I told her about it.
That's the coincidence.

You need to account
for your whereabouts

last night
to early this morning.

At home, watched a movie,
went to sleep. Why?

Where was Steve last night?

With me.
Why?

That's when Tina most
was murdered.

My god.

We had nothing
to do with it.

I think
you still need to come in.

Number 3, say the line.

Shut up, bitch.

Step back.

Nope, not him.

Can I hear the next one?

Number 4, say the line.

Crime scene got
a fingerprint hit

out of Lorraine stuval's
apartment

for another con--
Lenny Kessler.

What'd he do time for?

Car theft
and phony prescriptions.

He also took a collar
for indecent exposure,

so-- a diverse career.

I'll run the name by her.

Meantime, we got his address.
Grab him up?

He's all yours.
Thanks.

Lay off the twinkies, pal.
You're going soft.

I was just being friendly.

See, but that's exactly
what I'm talking about.

He doesn't seem the type
to take it wrong.

Someone's bound to.

So your advice
is don't be friendly?

What you're doing
could be misinterpreted.

I'd rather
be misinterpreted

then walk around
with a stick up my ass.

Well, now you're
just being rude.

I didn't mean to hurt
your feelings.

Kessler: Now kiss her
and touch her arms and thighs.

Don't be shy.

Lenny Kessler?

Police-- we heard you in there.
Open the door.

I'm planning on taking the door.
That work for you?

Fine.

Nobody move!

These are friends
of mine.
Ladies, on the bed.

No money's changed hands.

Better soon.

Expensive party, Lenny.
Where'd you get the cash?

My aunt died.
And that's the hookers' blow.

Lie!

I'd like a good explanation
why you burst in here.

At the station house.

As much as you might like it,
we're not taking you naked.

Put your pants on.

Son of a bitch.

Another one?

They're dropping
like flies.

Now way it's an accident--
all that copper.

I can't see how.

Terrorism.

It's not funny, man.

This is towards me--

the dead rat,
vandalizing the car, now this.

Any candidates?

Someone recent
with access to the squad.

Fraker?
Pat fraker?

A friend of yours?
I just know of him.

And that Rita Ortiz
put a bullet in his back.

A bullet so he didn't
murder your predecessor.

There's a few takes
on that.

Anyway, he's pretty much
disappeared,

so I don't see him
poisoning your fish tank.

Who about Stan hatcher?
That didn't go well.

You got intel on him, too?

All I know about Stan hatcher
is he transferred in here

and then retired abruptly.

A little business--

I just took a phone call from
a woman named pauline weikel.

She's home.
Good.

Is it okay
if we go pick her up?

No, I didn't know who she was,
and that came across.

Well, we'll be sure to tell her
you're the guy in charge.

Well, boss,
we found pauline weikel

off some research into
Steve mcclintock's bank records.

He wrote her four checks

for over $2,000
in the last year.

And she did 12 weeks in rikers
during her pregnancy.

So you're thinking
mcclintock's

been running this adoption scam
with other women?

That's how
we're going at her.

Were you aware
of this research?

Just what I overheard.

Then it's only you and Clark
taking a one-day rip.

You got to be joking.

Did I make
a specific announcement

about being kept informed?

Did I make a second announcement
with the warning

that if I wasn't informed,
there'd be discipline?

Things move fast.
It's a waste of time--

to keep the boss informed

so that he can properly
handle phone calls

from suspects
or interviewees?

Or from the brass?

Or from the chief of "d's"
or one p. P.?

You think it's a waste of time?
I don't.

A one-day rip
or we'll go to the trial room.

I, know this is
a bad time here, detective,

but,
the clown loach is belly-up.

He made US laugh.

That's enough being a wise ass.
You hear me?

So you're clear at the outset,
Lenny--

the coke, the whores,
and the stolen ring

puts you at a disadvantage.

Like, just walking in,
you're a collar.

You want to work off the coke
and pross?

Where'd you get the ring?

It was given to me.

Lorraine stuval
gave it to you?
Yeah.

Payment for tying her up

and beating the crap
out of her?

No, she gave me
$300 for that.

The ring
was gonna be returned.

Why would she pay you
for beating her face in?

I don't know.
Insurance fraud, maybe?

You didn't ask why?

Lorraine's not the kind
of woman you question.

Because?

She's a battle-ax.
She likes pushing me around.

So, you were banging her?

So, you'd do
anything she said?

Maybe I like
being pushed around.

Still, I don't know why
she wanted to stage a robbery.

Well, you're gonna need
to make some educated guesses

or you're on the hook
for robbery and assault.

She's been miserable since
this husband showed up.

She called, needed me for this.
That's all I know.

She trying to
frame her husband for it?
I don't know.

What do you know,
Lenny?

'Cause we're
getting frustrated.

She likes convicts.

She married this guy
thinking he'd spend

the rest of his life
in jail,

and then when he got out,
she wanted no part of him.

Why not?

All she'd say is, um,

"he's institutionalized.
He's institutionalized."

Meaning what?
I don't know.

I swear, I don't know.

Your schedule clear?

'Cause you're gonna be here
for a while.

Sipowicz:
Have a seat, Ms. Weikel.

Clark: You know
Steven mcclintock?
Sorry.

He wrote you four checks
for over 2 grand,

and you don't know him?

Yeah, that Steve.

What was the money for?

Stereo equipment.

You denied knowing him
over stereo equipment?

It was my ex-boyfriend's,

who may have
acquired it illegally.

You ever been in jail?

There months in rikers.

You were pregnant
at the time?
Yeah.

You got the kid now?
Yeah.

You want to keep it.
God.

How'd you earn
the money from him?

Is Steve gonna know
that I talked to you?
He might.

That's reassuring.

Would you
feel cozier in jail?

'Cause you still owe
four months.

I might be safer.

He threaten you?

You were part
of his adoption scam.

Posing as
a troubled single mom

who just wants her baby
in a good home.

How many couples
you bilk?

Four,
500 apiece by check.

Two of them bounced.

How'd you
hook up with him?

His girlfriend
in the rikers infirmary

steered me to a free clinic
for when I got out.

Bowery free clinic.

Steve approached me there,

asking did I want
to make some easy cash.

Why'd he threaten you?

Saying over and over
that I miscarried

was making me cry a lot,

and what I was doing
to these couples

was making
my soul feel rotten,

which I did not want
to pass on to my baby.

So I threatened
to cop to the scam

with the last couple
I worked.

Steve said if I did,
he'd shoot me in the head

and dump my body
in the river.

And then he slammed me
against the wall,

and I nearly did miscarry.

Do I really need
to be a part of this?

I just want to raise my boy.

Beat it.

Sipowicz: Pauline weikel--
you know her?

Yes.
How?

She's a very
indecisive woman

I met
at the bowery free clinic.

She approached me about putting
her child up for adoption.

When it came down
to actually committing to it,

she'd back out.

How do you explain
the 2 grand you paid her?

Four separate times
I found families

like the cozens
that pauline agreed

would be perfect candidates
to adopt her child.

Four separate times
I was supplied with money

for background work,
prenatal care.

Each time, pauline asked me
to front her $500 for expenses.

Then she'd back out
of the adoption.

And you kept the 20 grand.

I returned all monies
to all families

except for the 2 grand
I lost to pauline.

Why'd you threaten her?
I never did.

Never put her
into a wall?

She said that?

You're running a con,
and you react bad

when the girls
get hinky about it.

We know this.

Did Tina most get a conscience,
and you reacted?

All I ever did with Tina
was try to help her.

Help her sell a child?

Is that gonna be
your defense?

'Cause they got a term
for that-- "white slavery."

Well, you can call it
whatever you want.

I help people.
I don't con them.

Steve, before we lose
any desire to work with you,

you got a chance to tell US
what happened with Tina.

Are you aware that she
owed money to a drug dealer?

Did you lose your temper
with her last night?

I was with Carly landes
last night, remember?

Do you want any degree of
sympathy with a judge or jury?

I aided distraught families
who can't conceive or adopt.

I think I'll be fine.

Get up.

Pauline weikel
said she ran

the adoption-miscarriage scam
with Steve mcclintock.

Mcclintock's denying it.

So you spoke
to mcclintock again?

We did.

Shouldn't I have known?

I plan to take a crap later.
You want updates on that, too?

You're creeping up
on insubordination.

Which I'm guessing
you'd love--

any excuse
to grind the heel in.

What's so tough
about updating me on cases?

We got a system here.
It's changed.

And you better change
or you better leave.

What's the next step?

Mcclintock's girlfriend,
Carly landes,

said he was
with her all night.

We got her upstairs,
see if she comes off it.

Get to it.

What?

No survivors.

Sorry.

Andy...

Baldwin
left this for you.

It's where Stan hatcher's
working now.

Get Carly landes a soda.
I'm taking some lost time.

Shouldn't you clear it
with lieutenant bale first?

I'm betting he's a stickler
about this kind of thing.

He wants me,
I'm on the radio.

Sipowicz: Hatcher.

What do you want?
Got a minute?

Sure don't,
but let's catch a mets game.

A client lets me use
his diamond-view suite.

I'll call you.

You don't want to put
your hands on me, sipowicz.

You been
by the 15th lately?
No.

There's someone
leaving anonymous messages.
Not me.

If it was, though,

now would be the time
to give it a rest...

I don't know
what you're talking about.

...before folks start
really taking offense.

Are you
getting toyed with?

Someone's been coming by
who forgot their manners.

If it's you,
this is your reminder.

This is fantastic.

I love this.

The great asshole
tastes some Karma.

All right, there you go.

Have your laugh.
But you only get the one.

No, no, I'll be laughing
about this all night.

You're done now
or I'll be back.

I wish to hell
it was me, sipowicz.

But it's not--
sorry.

Now, if you don't mind,

I have my prosperous life
to get back to--

cigars to smoke,
cognac to sip.

My best to the squad.

Lenny Kessler admitted
to doing the robbery.

What?
Well, that's impossible.

He's writing up
a statement now.

And he brought up a few things
that we should talk about.

Mainly your relationship
with your husband, Leon.

Jones: Maybe the transition
you were talking about earlier

was a little more difficult
than you made out.

It's definitely
been trying.

You ever wish
he never got out of jail?

That's a terrible thing
to say.

But, apparently,
you did say it

to more than one
of your co-workers.

Why have you been talking
to my co-workers?

Jones: It must have been a real
shock hearing your husband

was getting out of jail.

Medavoy: And a guy like Leon
with 15 years under his belt,

who never expected to see
the light of day,

he's gonna have
a few jailhouse quirks.

Jones: Joint mentality--
can't get work.

Technology freak-outs.

I bet the guy never seen
a cell phone before.

That's more than "trying."
Am I right?

Why are you asking me
these questions?

Lenny Kessler said you
planned the robbery.
Planned this?

Medavoy: If you got fed up
with your living arrangement,

and you did something
foolish to change it,

we need to know
right now.

I was robbed and beaten.

Which Lenny Kessler,
your friend, is a collar for

and will go to jail for
unless you say different.

You should be
talking to Leon.

No.
Leon's out of this.

And if you
take it any further,

we will be
talking to the d. A.

About how you tried to get
Leon thrown back in jail

for something
he didn't do.

And you will be
charged accordingly.

Since when does
a life sentence without parole

mean 15 years?

He saved a guy's life.

He's totally
institutionalized.

How?

Well, he shovels food
in his face.

He screams in his sleep.

Reads and watches
nothing but porno.

He's only been out
a little while.

How many months
of getting drilled in the can

could you take
before pulling the plug?

I like men who are grateful
for your company.

They're rough on the outside,
soft on the inside.

They care
that you made the trip

to see them
and write them letters,

so they treat you gently.

They aren't terrified
of honking car horns

or always asking permission
to leave a room.

Leon was fine in the pen.
Outside he's useless.

He belongs in jail.

Not your decision.

So, what's going on?

Tina most a decent girl?

She seemed like it.

What was her attitude

about pulling this adoption scam
on rich folks?

There's no scam.

The other women
will testify there was.

I'm sorry, I don't know
what women you're talking about.

We talked
to pauline weikel,

and we're looking
at the other girls

that you steered
from the rikers infirmary

to the bowery free clinic.

Reliable medical care
was the only thing

that I steered
them towards.

And you knew
nothing past that?
Nothing.

Then why did you lie about
being home all night with Steve?

I didn't.
No?

His credit card was used

late last night
at a market downtown.

The clerk
I. D.'D his photo.

God.
Is that Tina?

Eight months pregnant
and strangled to death.

If Tina was decent,
do you think

she might have got a conscience
about running these scams?

No, listen.
I swear to you.

I don't know anything
about any scam.

Steve threatened to kill pauline
if she got a conscience.

He said he'd put
a gun to her head,

blow her brains out,
and dump her in the river.

My god.

Look at this girl.

Did she deserve
to die like this?

Then why are you lying
for the guy who did it?

He threaten you?

When?

First time was a while ago.

Um, I was looking for something
in his drawer once,

and I found a gun,
and then he put it to my head.

What did you know
about this scam?

Nothing!
I swear!

But I did know
that there was something

a little bit off
about those adoptions.

Was he
with you all night?

When did he come home?

He came home late.
He was frantic.

He said that something bad
had happened with Tina,

and that if I said anything,
if anyone asked,

that he had been home
all night long.

If I said anything different,
he would kill me.

He had his hand
on my throat.

Sipowicz: What'd you buy
at the canal street market

at 2:00 in the morning
last night?

I was home all night.

We got you I. D.'D at the market.
What did you buy?

I didn't go to any market.

Heavy-duty garbage bags
and rope.

That's what the clerk said.

I was home all night
with my girlfriend.

You came home agitated
and threatened to kill her

if she didn't
back you up.
Not true.

You're a half-ass con man,
Steve.

You barely
covered your tracks.

And the worst thing you could
do now is keep denying this

and go to trial
without an angle.

Tina got a heart,
threatened to expose your scam,

you strangled her--
spur-of-the-moment.

Or sit behind
that defense table

with your blown-apart alibi
and your Ted Bundy looks

and watch the horror creep over
the faces of your jurors

when they see big,
blown-up photos

of how you strangled Tina most,
eight months pregnant,

and left her
like garbage in a dumpster.

Do you have any physical
evidence tying me to her death?

Steve, slick isn't
working anymore.

Realize we're trying
to help you here.

So that's a no?
Last chance.

I got nothing to say.

You're a collar
for grand larceny con game,

unlawful adoptions,
and murder.

And you're a scumbag.

That's when
it's appropriate.

Medavoy:
You're free to go.

All right.

What about the robbery?

Your wife staged it.

She wanted you
locked up again.

Why?
She wasn't too hip on you

coming home
in the first place.

She didn't give me
much of a chance, you know?

You like
being down here, Leon?

Did you not hear?
You're free to go.

Can I just get something
straight here?

Inside, I did
what I had to to stay alive.

We talking
the Nazi stuff?

I was 18 when I went in.

I had long hair
and a baby face.

I-I didn't have much choice.

Did someone also force you

into robbing
that convenience store?

Exit that way.

Lorraine gonna let me

live in the apartment
till she's out?

Don't count on it.

Great.
I'm on the street.

I'm crying.

You did nice work with Kessler.
You ran the room.

Thanks.

I had a partner once--
Joe tuttle.

He was real aggressive
and extroverted,

everyone's pal.

And I nearly left narcotics
'cause of him.

It just wasn't my style.
You quit partnering?

We stuck it out, and,
we were never great friends,

but I learned from him.

And I like to think
he learned from me.

Listen, I appreciate
you coming to talk.

And just so I said it,
I got no agenda.

I'm just here to work.

'Night.

'Night.

I signed it and put down
all my contact information.

Good.
Then we're done for now.

I think it's just dawning on me
how shaken up I am.

Is there, um, any chance

that you could
give me a ride home?

You mind, taking Steve
to central booking?

Thank you.

I left my things
in the back.

That's one you drop off
and speed away from.

What does that mean?

She's more involved
than she's saying.

We just got now way
to prove it right now.

So my advice--
drop her off and speed away.

You know what's screwed?

Either you really think
I need that advice

or this is another case of
your past getting dropped on me.

Look, I banged
plenty of whores,

but never someone
involved in a case.

I wouldn't do that.
No one does.

I'm just giving her
a ride home.

Good.

Empty.

Thanks.

Driving over here,

I had this terrifying feeling
he was here.

Sure.

I know it's irrational.

No,
you had a hell of a day.

I just wish
there was something

that I could have done
to save Tina.

You're doing what you can

so that Steve
can't hurt anyone else.

I guess you're right.

I should head out.

Want a beer or something?

No. No, thanks.

Please stay for a minute.

I... I'm feeling
a little bit dizzy.

You sick?

I feel like
I fell off a cliff.

It's like my whole life
got churned up.

It might not be much comfort,
but you're better off.

I know.

I'm sorry.

I'm scared
to be alone right now.

You're gonna be all right.

You know, any second
he'll walk through that door.

That's how I feel.

No,
that's not gonna happen.

He's in jail,
and he's not gonna come out.

I still can't stop shaking.

Maybe I'll stick around
for a little while.

I hope you don't think

I'm actively seeking out
a war with you.

You want to know
what I honestly think?

Shoot.

You don't know
what you're doing.

You're nickel-and-diming
this squad to death.

So the squad
has no room to improve?

I don't think so.

But if you do,
try something

past following
your boss handbook

like it was scripture.

When I know
the status of cases,

and the whereabouts
of my detectives to the minute,

I'll back off.

Until then,
if I'm uninformed, it's a rip.

When there's insubordination,
it's a rip.

And when one of my detectives
takes lost time

without my consent--
my consent-- not the p. A. A.,

it's a rip.

How many days
I get for that?

Two.
Like I said, get along or--

I hear you.