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Previously on "NYPD blue"...

I'm Steve mcclintock.

Where were you last night?

I was with my girlfriend.

Who is she? Where do we find her?

Carly landis, where was Steve last night?

With me, why?

That's when Tina most was murdered.

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

You're running a con, and you react bad

when the girls get hinky about it.

Why are you lying for the guy who did it?

He said that if I said anything, he would kill me.

Is there any way you could give me a ride home?

I left my things in the back.

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

This is another case of your past getting dropped on me.

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.

I'm sorry. I'm scared to be alone right now.

Maybe I'll stick around for a little while.

You know you are never supposed to talk to strangers.

But he knew stuff

about Matt having a cold last week and mom's birthday.

I know it's been bad between US the last few days,

but you got a problem, and I want to help.

Tell me what I can do.

Your head's someplace else.

This is my family. I can't risk it.

Seems to me like I'm getting the job done.

Most days you're half-asleep and hung over.

You gotta get your head back on straight, John.

Until then, I can't trust you.

Were you just gonna leave without saying anything?

Didn't want to wake you.

I hate when guys just leave like that.

It's not like it's the last time I'll see you.

Right.

You seen my other shoe?

Please don't tell me you're gonna call me.

There it is.

I'd rather you didn't say anything.

I don't know about you, but I had a great time last night.

But that was then, and this is now, I know.

No, you don't know.

I'd love to sleep in,

I'd love to hang around with you all day,

but because this is now, I have to get home and shower.

You could shower here.

...change my clothes and get to work on time.

I have to leave. Do you see what I'm saying?

Yeah.

I'll call you.

Hey. Hey.

Tracy gilchrist, 20,

blunt force trauma to the back of the head.

Who's that out there?

Neighbor from down the hall, Tonya Kellerman.

She was on her way to the disposal,

sees the door cracked, goes into the apartment,

sees the legs sticking out of the closet.

She know anything?

She's pretty broken up. We were giving her a minute.

All right, we got it.

Yeah, we'll start a canvass.

Morning.

D.O.A. is in the closet.

A cop brought me up to speed.

That new a. D. A., Lori munson,

came by looking for you this morning.

She got me on my cell. Mcclintock's pre-trial hearing is today.

She wanted to run through my testimony.

You all set with that?

Piece of cake.

'Cause I can still cover it.

I got it.

There's blood on the closet wall

like somebody banged her head against it.

Receipt from a bodega at 4:00 this morning.

Late-night girl.

Yeah. Listen, I got the neighbor.

Why don't you check with the first officer,

see did Murphy and Ortiz get everything?

Maybe I'll help with the neighbor first.

Detectives sipowicz and Clark.

All the way from spokane to be an artist,

and she winds up like this.

How well did you know her?

She moved in last year, like a lost puppy.

She had no idea how to live in New York.

I tried to help her out.

Any fam--

any family you know of?

I think both her parents had passed way.

She have any problems with anybody?

Not that I know of.

Drugs? I doubt it.

What about a -- she have a boyfriend?

She was seeing someone 'cause I remember her saying

she didn't want to go to him for money.

She needed money?

She couldn't make August's rent

until I loaned it to her,

and that was around the time that she got this awful job

talking to men on the phone.

Like phone sex?

I guess that's what you call it.

I know she hated it.

I know it embarrassed her.

I told her that I would cover her rent for another month

just so she could find something else.

She wouldn't even have to pay me back.

All right.

Should I talk to the first officer now

or check inspection stickers on cars out front?

You don't want to do this, John.

Whatever issues we got,

icing me out of an interview ain't gonna solve 'em.

We're partners. Let me up so I can do my job.

You want to work the case? Nobody's stopping you.

And he needs a signature, too.

What is it?

All I know is it's registered and insured,

so I gotta get it signed.

Maybe something Connie ordered?

This is you, right -- Andy sipowicz?

Yeah, I don't recognize this return address.

I just need you to sign the top line there.

Special agent silos of the FBI.

Why don't we go in the other room?

What the hell is this?

Who's this now?

Special agent wychoff.

Open the box, detective.

You think I ordered these? They were addressed to you.

Your credit card was used over the Internet to purchase them.

I told 'em there'd been incidents of harassment directed at you.

Did you tell them that since I don't know how

to use the Internet, I purchase all my child pornography

over the counter?

What kind of incidents have there been?

Tires slashed, getting sent a rat in the mail,

moving up to my kid

getting talked into a car by a stranger.

Any idea who's doing it? Not yet.

Any idea how someone could have gotten your credit card?

Credit card numbers get lifted all the time.

Placing an order requires knowing a certain amount of personal history.

Listen to me, I got three kids, 32 years on this job,

and no record of any deviancy of any kind.

Now, if this isn't obvious to you what this is,

then get a search warrant and conduct an investigation.

Is that necessary?

Under the circumstances, probably not.

Then am I done here?

Thank you for your time, detective.

Confirmed the d. O. A.'S employment

at the dial-a-yank service.

The owner's coming in.

Crime scene moved some clothes,

found the name Sam park scratched into the closet wall.

D.O.A.'s handiwork?

Wood shavings and a bent wire hanger on the floor,

so it could be.

We'll run the name through b.C.I.

I got court.

Excuse me, is there someone here we can talk to?

What's the problem?

I'm an attorney.

This is my client, Scott garvin.

Mr. Garvin has reason to believe

his son may have been kidnapped.

You're not sure?

I got a call in the middle of the night.

They called again this morning to arrange a ransom.

Let's go talk in here.

Greg, Baldwin.

I'm detective sipowicz.

These are detectives medavoy and Jones.

Why don't you tell US what they said?

The first call, a man's voice

said that they were holding my son, Todd.

The second call said to leave a half-million dollars

in a garbage can at the northwest corner

of second Avenue and 11th street at noon,

or I would never see him again.

How come you didn't get in touch with US after the first call?

Man: It's not always easy to know the best approach to take.

Why don't we let him answer the question?

My son is angry at me.

I was afraid it was something he was doing himself.

Why is he angry? I cut him off.

Financially? Right.

Staging a kidnapping is a pretty extreme reaction.

Right, I probably never should have thought

it was something he would do.

Todd gave him cause to think that.

What prompted you to cut him off?

I thought it was the best thing for him.

He wanted to go to architecture school.

I got him in, paid his tuition.

He drops out in the middle of the semester.

He wants to be an art dealer, I rent a storefront,

give him the start-up money.

After a month, he walks away

and leaves me with a year's lease.

When he hit me up this last time, I said no.

I told him it was time to get a job.

You don't have to feel guilty about that.

In any case...

This is the money.

You got a half a million dollars in there?

We have an hour.

Tracy gilchrist worked for you?

Till she stole from me.

How'd she manage that?

Tracy was something of a lost cause at first --

wooden, unimaginative.

She could follow a script to the letter

but had no ability to improvise.

I was ready to let her go

when she landed the kind of compulsive fantasist

the business is built on.

How compulsive we talking about?

Anything over 100 minutes a week puts you in the v. I. P. Club.

250 minutes a week's players' club.

This guy was north of 300 minutes a week

for six weeks running.

That's one you don't want to lose,

which is exactly what happened.

You think Tracy cut her own deal?

I've contacted the phone company, who verified it.

What'd they verify?

That Tracy's special someone

had started calling her on her home line.

You confronted her?

Of course I did.

She told me he had become a friend,

and she wasn't charging him anymore.

Was she lying?

It doesn't matter.

Anytime you have someone who racks up this kind of time,

you don't become friends.

We'll want his name.

Sorry.

I can't violate a client's confidence.

Tracy's dead.

You're kidding.

We're not kidding, and we don't care about client's confidence.

We want his name.

Then get a court order.

That way my reputation is protected,

and you get your information.

We're not gonna do that.

Then I'm not giving out any names.

In which case the FBI

will be arresting you and your contact in the phone company

for violating federal laws regarding phone records.

Which might also affect your reputation.

His name is Barry henning.

Detective Clark, in the course of your investigation,

did you have occasion to interview a Carly landis?

Yes.

What prompted that interview?

The defendant had indicated that Ms. Landis was with him

when Tina most was killed.

Did Ms. Landis corroborate that alibi?

Initially.

We later determined that the alibi was false.

How did you make that determination?

As a result of our investigation,

we learned the defendant's credit card

was used late night at a market downtown.

Did you confront Ms. Landis with this fact?

We did, and she recanted her initial statement.

Was any reason given as to why she lied?

She said the defendant had intimidated her into doing so.

Was she specific as to the nature of that intimidation?

She said the defendant had threatened her life.

I have nothing further.

Detective, have you had occasion to spend time with miss landis

outside the context of your investigation?

Might have had a cup of coffee together.

Ever have dinner?

Objection, it's irrelevant.

Ms. Landis has invoked her fifth amendment rights

and will not be testifying.

Since detective Clark is the source of her statements,

statements which incriminate Mr. Mcclintock,

I'm entitled to probe his credibility.

I'll allow it. Witness will answer.

I think we might have had dinner once.

Ever been to her apartment?

When I drove her home from the squad,

I took her to her apartment.

Did you leave her at the front door,

or did you take her upstairs?

She was feeling a little apprehensive.

I might have walked her upstairs.

How long did you stay? No idea.

Did you have sexual intercourse while you were there?

Objection.

Overruled.

Counselor, you're implying something that's not true.

Ask that the court instruct the witness

to answer the question, not characterize it.

Yes or no, detective?

It was one time.

Yes or no?

Yes. Thank you.

Did you meet with Ms. Munson in preparation for your testimony?

Yes.

Did you tell her about your relations with the woman

who's out-of-court statements you're testifying to?

I didn't think it was relevant.

If Mr. Mcclintock is incarcerated,

the chief impediment to your trysts with Ms. Landis

would be removed, would it not?

Objection, that is speculative.

Just trying to demonstrate relevance, your honor,

but I'll withdraw the question.

Nothing further.

What's the thinking behind the mic?

So we can hear.

If they give instruction? Hear them out.

But don't necessarily do what they tell me?

Jones: Chances are, they'll take the money and split.

They're not looking to stick around there.

We'll be in constant communication.

Nothing happens to my son.

Surveillance Van's in islip.

We can't get it back in time.

What does that mean?

We'll have to improvise.

We'll use department cars.

'Cause I didn't come in right away.

It's not the first time we've done this kind of thing.

But you usually have a Van?

We'll be fine. Why don't you take Mr. Garvin out to the car?

I'd like to go along on this.

Sorry, that's not possible.

Mr. Coffman, you can wait upstairs in the squad room.

Whoever shows up, we're gonna take him down, right?

On kidnappings, I go by federal guidelines.

Which are what?

Try to maintain a visual contact

until there's a tactical advantage,

at which point we make an arrest.

You run the risk of losing him,

at which point you got no money, no victim, and no perp.

Kidnapping's a federal offense.

I go by federal guidelines.

Baldwin: Still negative.

Nothing suspicious.

This your regular car?

Yeah.

You know you're over 500 miles past due for an oil change?

I didn't know that.

Make sure it gets into the shop.

Yes, sir, lieutenant.

Today.

He's dropping the money now.

Be advised we got a guy on a motorcycle end of the block.

We got him.

Why is he stopping there?

Keep walking, Mr. Garvin.

Let him go and return to the car, sir.

Where is he?! Come on, tell me where he is.

Stay right here.

He's getting away.

That's 'cause he's made that there's cops.

I don't want to compromise the situation.

So we just sit here?

That's right.

Bye-bye!

We'll regroup at the station house.

Where were you last night, Mr. Henning?

I attended a performance of "awake and sing!"

At my daughter's school.

What time would that have been?

The play started at 7:30. It was over about 9:30.

Can I ask what this is all about?

We're trying to understand the reason for the phone calls.

What phone calls?

See, now, that's a silly question, with all due respect.

The phone calls to Tracy gilchrist,

the phone-sex phone calls.

What about 'em?

Judging by the volume of calls, you got in a little deep.

Is she claiming harassment?

She's dead.

What was going on between you two, Barry?

What was going on was I found someone I cared about.

Starting with the phone sex?

There's no way I'm going to erase the stigma of that,

so I won't even try.

Yes, it started with the phone sex.

Clearly, she made an impression.

I'd been through the usual ritualized blather

with other girls --

"I'm in my bra and thong. I'm touching myself."

I hated all that.

Tracy -- Tiffany, as she was calling herself --

used to say the same things,

but I always sensed it was her pretending to say them,

that she was imagining herself in a bra and thong.

I don't expect you to understand that.

When'd you find out she had a boyfriend?

The first time she agreed to meet me.

And still, she's letting you rack up big charges

for the phone calls, restaurants.

You must have gone for some pricey gifts,

given the depth of your feeling.

I see where you're going with this, but it's not true.

I spent money on her.

I bought her painting materials.

I paid her tuition at the art students league,

but I got exactly what I wanted out of the relationship.

Where'd you go after the play?

Went to dinner at shun Lee,

then I went back to my apartment.

I got up at 7:30 this morning to go to work.

I'll be happy to provide names and contact information

to verify that.

That'd be good.

She drew me a little picture, Tracy.

It was a sketch she did

while we were on a bench in central park.

I was afraid my wife would find it,

so I threw it away.

Why'd I do that?

How'd it go?

Good. What happened with the drop?

Botched.

We get a dump on the father's phone yet?

Ran some calls, come back to a pay phone in Brooklyn.

You gonna get that car in for servicing?

I'll make the call right now.

Where are we on the d. O. A.?

We talked to her phone-sex customer, Barry henning.

We're looking into his alibi.

What about those names scratched on the wall?

Nothing yet.

How'd your testimony go?

Good.

I just got a message from Marty pappus at major case.

He'll provide tactical support.

Pappus, who used to be in missing persons?

Right.

What's he gonna do for US?

Help US.

Andy...

He's gonna do what he's gonna do, Laura.

Get used to it.

A little early to be calling in the cavalry.

There's a protocol. You follow protocol.

I gotta say something because if I don't say it,

I'm not doing my job.

Whatever protocols you might be trying to follow,

letting that guy get away set US back

and did nothing for the kid being held.

Let's say we do it your way.

We try to take the guy down.

We wind up in a gun battle, lose the guy,

and have the victim killed.

That would be a worst-case scenario.

I have to worry about worst-case scenarios.

To the point of being rendered completely ineffective?

This was a command decision, and it's been made.

Sitting on our hands

while the perp beats feet with the money.

That's some command decision.

That remark constitutes insubordination, detective.

Now, if rips don't work, I'll take it to the next level,

but I will not tolerate insubordination.

You want me outta here, make the call.

You got a case to work.

I -- I can come back.

What is it?

Um, just to keep you current, we've run the names

that were scratched into the wall of the d. O. A.'S apartment

with b. C. I., the dmv,

through the nickname file, the safis system.

And?

This is with whatever permutations of those names

we could think of --

Sam parks, Samuel parks, Parker Samuels --

I get it, medavoy.

What do we have?

So far, nothing.

Stay with it.

We're a long way from being done.

Good.

Yeah.

Phone dump on our kidnap victim just came back.

There's calls into your d. O. A.

Our d. O. A., Tracy gilchrist?

Going back and forth for months.

That can't be a coincidence.

This kid, Todd garvin,

just flagged down a radio car on Delancey street.

Todd garvin? Name hasn't come up.

Doesn't matter. They gotta be related.

I'm detective Ortiz, Mr. Garvin.

Did your son ever mention the name "Tracy gilchrist"?

No, why?

Her name came up.

There hasn't been a lot of communication

between myself and my son recently.

Got some good news for you, sir.

Your son's in a police car. He's on his way over.

Do we know what kind of shape he's in?

He's got a few bruises. Other than that, he's fine.

Someone want to fill in the high command in all this?

I got it.

Counselor?

We need to talk.

You might want to hear this, too.

You left court early, so I figured you'd want to know.

Judge excluded Carly landis' statement.

I thought you said the motion was a long shot.

It was, till it came out in open court

that your partner slept with the defendant's girlfriend,

or was that something the two of you

didn't think I needed to know?

I didn't think it was relevant.

You compromised a murder case.

I did not compromise a murder case.

The defense lawyer got lucky.

I don't like it, but you can't take it personally.

I am taking it professionally.

Consorting with a witness was inappropriate enough.

Keeping it from me so I couldn't take the stink off you --

that is unforgivable.

It happen the way she said?

She'd already recanted the alibi.

The judge said your partner wasn't credible.

Our best evidence is gone.

Take it up on appeal.

Thanks for the tip.

I'm sorry, all right?

I don't know how my predecessor did things,

but here's my deal.

You need something -- search warrant, wire tap -- I'm on it.

I expect the same cooperation from you,

and I expect you to give a damn.

I got it. Good.

Now I have to answer to my boss,

which I will do by putting it on myself...

This time.

Next time, it's your ass.

Wow. Talk about tightly wrapped.

Did we not have a conversation

about you steering clear of that girl?

She was bad off that night. I erred in judgment.

She wasn't bad off. She set you up.

She saw you coming, and she played you.

I don't think you're right.

It doesn't matter because the case'll make,

with or without my testimony.

You feel qualified to make that statement?

Yes, I do.

Okay, John.

It's not a big deal, Andy.

Sipowicz: You gotta check the statement when it comes,

see if there's anything besides child pornography

that they might have charged.

They said they could issue new cards by the end of the week.

For now, we'll just have to make do without 'em.

All right, Connie.

Yeah, I'll see you when I get home.

Bye.

Pot was almost done.

I figured I'd snag the last two cups.

I'm good. Save it for later.

Coffee?

Thank you.

Detective?

Hey, dad.

Todd.

Mr. Garvin, we're gonna need to talk to him.

I understand. You all right?

Yeah, under the circumstances.

All your fingers, all your toes, right? Right.

We'll finish up with him, then you can have him.

Todd?

All right.

You had lunch, Mr. Garvin? No.

There's a coffee shop around the corner.

I'll just wait here.

Where are we?

The phone-sex buddy looks like he'll alibi out.

We got phone logs with whoever else she talked to.

We're running the names through b.C.I.

Let's see if we can establish a link with the kidnappings.

Any way you want to proceed is fine with me.

Just let me know what you need.

Any way we want to proceed?

Let him know what we need?

Andy must have softened him up.

If you need to get looked at,

we can run you over to emergency room.

I'm okay.

Just as soon talk to you guys,

tell you whatever I can about this mess.

Please.

My girlfriend and I were at gorky's on Avenue b.

We started talking to this other couple.

He does sculpture.

She wants to open up a club.

We had a few drinks.

He asked me if I wanted to go see some of his work,

I say, "yeah."

They say their names?

His name was Derek.

He said his name was Derek.

Her name was Yvonne.

I didn't get a last name on either one of them.

So the four of you left together?

The three of US.

Tracy was tired. She went home.

They have a car?

Yeah, like a Van.

Make, model?

I'm not a car person. I didn't take notice.

Where'd the three of you go?

Some place in Brooklyn.

We went over the Manhattan bridge, came down flatbush.

At some point, I think we were on myrtle.

I don't know. I don't know Brooklyn that well.

What was the place they took you to?

Some place that he worked, like a converted garage.

There were all these welding tanks, metal rods.

I will tell you, we smoked some hash.

She had these temple balls and a chillum.

What can I say?

Is that the only drug you did?

Yeah, but I was pretty zoned out,

and then all of a sudden,

I get hit by a pipe or something.

The next thing I know,

I'm on the floor, my hands are tied, my ankles are tied,

the two of them are standing over me.

So, what, you gave them your father's number?

He fired up a welding torch,

said he'd burn a hole through my hand if I didn't.

Any idea how they knew your father had money?

I told 'em.

Part of being an asshole is that you want to impress people.

I kind of let it slip

that my family has a house in the Hamptons,

a town house on east 83rd street.

I didn't leave much to chance.

They'd pick up on my father having money.

What's the relationship with you and your father?

Good.

We know you had conflicts about money.

He said that?

Words to that effect.

Yeah. I don't blame the guy.

He's been working his whole life.

He sees me go through all this money.

Do you know he doesn't even fly first class?

Todd, just so you know,

if you did arrange this, that's a family matter.

You can tell US. It's between you and your dad.

I did not arrange this, no way.

Last time you spoke to your girlfriend was when?

Gorky's.

Sorry to have to tell you this,

but unfortunately she's been the victim of a homicide.

That's impossible.

She was found in her apartment this morning.

I was just with her.

We're gonna need you to look through some mug shots.

Yeah?

Can I see you guys a minute?

Why don't you take some time?

Do you want something, coffee or soda?

No, thank you.

B.c.i. Says a parks Benton took a forgery collar

a few years back with a Samantha luitis.

Calls herself Sam. Get it?

Sam, parks.

Like the name in your d. O. A.'S closet.

There's no address on Benton,

but luitis lives at 5th and c.

Josh, get this kid set up with some mug books.

Sure.

This is bad between Andy and John.

Andy's not the easiest guy in the world to get along with.

John's been pushing a little bit.

From what I hear, he isn't doing anything Andy hasn't done,

and then some.

Andy came through all that, though.

You can't expect him not to have a reaction.

We gonna keep going with this?

No.

Let's not talk about it anymore.

Whatever you say.

That looks like them.

It's them.

Get out my face!

Get out of the car.

Get out. Come on, come on.

What's this?

What?

This.

I won it playing poker.

Think of a better story before we get to the station house.

In my office a second, sipowicz.

When they were servicing the car,

they found a listening device.

It'd been installed behind the dash.

From what they tell me,

it probably hadn't been in there that long.

Who installed it?

I checked with internal affairs. It wasn't them.

Given my relationship with them,

I trust I got a straight answer.

I checked with the d. A.'S office and the u. S. Attorney.

It wasn't them, either.

Whoever talked my son into that car knew things to say to him.

This is how they knew.

I spoke to lieutenant greco at taru.

They're gonna go through the car,

see what they can come up with.

I'd like to hold onto this.

I don't want you running with this yourself.

Let me call the manufacturer, see where they sell them.

I've gotten the ball rolling with an investigation

because I take this matter as seriously as you do.

I appreciate that.

And because I don't want you

to feel as though it requires your personal intervention.

The only thing is I really can't sit back

on something that involves my family.

I can't be all that confident

that other people are taking care of it.

Other people are taking care of it.

Maybe I could just hold onto this

so when I'm working the phones, I got it in front of me.

Sure.

How do you know I didn't find the money in a dumpster?

We do this for a living, parks.

Plus, we got you going to a drugstore

with Tracy gilchrist at 3:00 in the morning.

She needed saline solution for her contacts.

I took her to get it.

That and the money tie you to the kidnapping.

There wasn't any kidnapping. It was a setup.

If that's true, then all we have to deal with is the girl.

What about the girl?

The girl's dead.

No, you don't.

We're open to hearing an explanation for it.

You just gotta be straight with US.

I'm not taking a rap for a murder.

Your girlfriend's upstairs looking to help herself.

You might want to think about how to help yourself.

This was supposed to be easy.

This guy, Todd, maps out a situation

where we can make some money, wasn't even criminal.

Next thing, the chick trips a circuit, and Sam went off.

How'd she do that?

We smoked this hash,

started talking about these different weird jobs

that we all had.

It got around to this phone-sex thing that --

what's her name?

Tracy. Tracy did.

Todd says, "give US a sample."

She says some stupid lines

that they have her say to these losers that call.

Next thing I know, Sam on account of she's nuts

thinks I'm getting off on it.

What happened then?

She tells me to take Todd to this place in Brooklyn,

so if they follow US from picking up the money,

we're not coming back to his girlfriend's apartment.

Made sense to me, so I did it.

She must have killed her after we left.

And the kidnapping was Todd's idea?

Right from the jump.

Correct me if I'm wrong,

but the kidnapping wasn't a kidnapping,

and the murder wasn't done by me

with me not on the premises at the time it was done,

I'm good to go, no?

I wouldn't want to make any ironclad assurances,

but certainly there's nothing wrong

with taking that position at the outset.

Hey, how'd it go?

Puts the homicide on the girl,

said the kidnapping was a hoax.

Todd's idea.

Right.

Like you said all along.

You two gonna work things out?

Eventually, probably.

Be a shame if you didn't.

No, we will.

What'd you find out?

It's manufactured in western Massachusetts.

It is the top of the line microphone transmitter

this company makes.

Where is it sold, John?

There's a number of places, unfortunately.

How many?

In New York?

Let's start with New York.

There are 14. Would you like me to list them?

Sure, thanks.

We have a feeling the idea for the kidnapping

didn't start with you.

You got that right.

So it was parks?

Parks gets a headache

he thinks of anything that complicated.

That yuppie asshole, Todd, thought it up,

walked US through it, and we went for it.

How does the girl figure into all of this?

She's Todd's girlfriend.

How'd she wind up being killed?

I don't know anything about that.

So it was outside the scope of the plan?

Until right now, I didn't even realize it happened.

Who would be responsible, you think?

Maybe her boyfriend did it, I don't know.

You're in a bad spot right now.

Your boyfriend said he left you alone

with Tracy in her apartment,

and I suspect Todd's gonna back him up.

Which means you get stuck taking the rap for both of 'em.

If it was a struggle between you and Tracy,

and it got out of hand, that's a lot less of a rap.

But you gotta tell US that's what happened.

I would have liked to do it on the phone.

Sit in your kitchen, say some dirty words

to somebody who ain't even there and get paid for it?

I had to go into motel rooms with 'em.

I had to go in cars with 'em.

I had to go wherever that stupid bastard

set it up for me to go.

Now some artsy-fartsy college girl's

gonna humiliate me by getting him turned on?

Him and his new yuppie friend?

I don't think so.

That's why you sent your boyfriend and Todd away?

That's right.

As far as I'm concerned,

it's on them what I did whether they were there or not.

Why'd you lie about Tracy, Todd?

Because I felt guilty that I exposed her to these people.

Even though she was gone before I got hit with the pipe,

I just didn't want her

to be involved with any trials or inquiries or whatever.

It must be even worse when you found out she was dead.

You can't imagine what i'm going through right now.

The problem is what we're getting

is that the kidnapping was your idea.

That's what they're telling you

because it gets them off the hook, obviously.

Hard as this may be to believe,

but even a couple of dumb cops like US might suspect that.

But when we get two people

telling the same story independently,

and one of them confesses to a homicide,

we're inclined to believe them.

All right, look.

My father and I have a very complicated relationship.

He sets himself up

as this caring "I can't do enough for my kids" kind of father,

but he lets you know when you disappoint him.

He lets you know when you're not living up

to his ideal of the perfect son.

You must have been pretty hurt

to go to the lengths you went to.

I was just sick and tired

of him looking at me like I was worthless.

So you came up with this plan

and brought your girlfriend along?

And that is something for which I will never forgive myself.

Progress?

Kid's a collar.

He went for it?

He went for setting up the kidnapping.

Then he goes for the homicide.

Since he wasn't there when the girl was killed,

there's a half shot he'll beat it.

Which'd be a shame.

One of you will fill in the father?

I'll take care of it.

Mr. Garvin?

Where's Todd?

The kidnapping was your son's idea, Mr. Garvin.

He's under arrest.

We said we didn't want to prosecute.

His girlfriend was murdered by one of the people he enlisted.

That makes him responsible, as well.

His girlfriend was murdered?

Did Todd participate in her murder?

I'm not gonna go into any specifics with you, counselor.

If he didn't participate, and it wasn't foreseeable,

chances are nobody's gonna hang a murder charge on him.

Can I see him?

He's being processed now.

When we take him to court, I'll let you know.

You can see him then.

Clark: It's not your fault.

Whatever you did, whatever you didn't do,

your son brought it upon himself.

Call for you, detective.

Sipowicz.

All right, thanks.

That was munson about your hearing this morning.

Murder charges against mcclintock have been dropped.

El foldo.

What happens when your star witness

gets knocked out of the box.

Some system?

Did you just walk away from me?

Yeah, John, I walked away from you.

I went for some trim I shouldn't have gone for.

How long I gotta hang on the cross for that?

I don't know.

I feel bad it happened.

You know I feel bad it happened.

How bad are you gonna feel when this asshole, mcclintock,

beats some other poor girl to death?

And that's on me, right?

Listen, John...

I don't want to work with you no more.

How about I see you in the morning?

You can tell me all about it.

I'm not kidding around with you, John.

You gonna dump me as a partner over this?

Yeah. Shame on you.

It's not something I wanna do.

It's exactly what you wanna do.

That way you can hold yourself out,

holier than thou, St. Andy of assisi.

You might want to look at your own part in it.

You're cutting me loose for nothing

because you want to, because it makes you feel better.

You're a phony, Andy, and I'm onto you.

I'm having a tough time,

and you don't want to deal with it,

so here's your easy out.

Yeah. Well, good.

You don't want me as a partner?

I don't want you as a partner.

Simple, we get a divorce.

Let's let it go at that.

Drop dead!

Hiya, Connie.

Listen, I haven't left work yet,

and I was wondering what are you doing now?

Can you maybe call next door to Teresa to watch the kids?

No, everything's all right.

I just don't want to drive myself right now.

I haven't been drinking.

What I'm afraid of, if I drive myself home, I'll stop,

and I will drink, and that's why I'm calling you.

I'll wait right here.

Yeah.