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MALE VOICE: I'll tell you why I think you're upset this way, Daryl.

'cause you believe in the right things.

(GROANS) I used to. I don't know what happened to me.

You think he's happy about what happened?

You happy, Detective?

JOHN: I'm just doin' the DD5.

I'm just saying no one's happy with the situation.

We just want everybody back on the same side.

- I think it's too late for that. - I don't happen to think that's true.

It's never too late, right, Detective?

Just do what you gotta do.

- Here you go. - No.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(PHONE RINGING)

Hi.

- Hi. - Did you get some sleep last night?

Hmm, couple hours.

Uh, you here for their statements?

SYLVIA: On standby.

These I.A.B. guys still think they're gonna give some names.

Then they're going over to the switching yard,

and root for a train wreck.

Uh...

on dinner, I was thinking Georgetti's.

- Fine. - Unless you think someplace else.

No. Georgetti's is good.

- (PHONE RINGING) - I'm looking forward to it.

Me too.

(PHONE RINGING)

- Morning, John. - Good morning, Andy.

- See ya. - Yeah.

- I've got no place no work. - Oh, they'll need our desks

for the foreseeable future analyzing files.

They're gonna start with World War II.

Did you get your five in?

Last night.

Uh, John, when they were done on the bust, they got onto you and Licalsi.

Marino Ledger.

Uh-huh. Stuff like, "If it's Medavoys case,

"how come you held the ledger?"

Got me in their cross hairs.

I need your statement, John.

I don't have a place to type one.

I'll take an oral statement if you want.

(CHUCKLES) No, thanks.

You know, our problem is, uh, your failure to notify.

I wanna say this to you one more time. We didn't know they were cops.

I don't see you settin' up because some dealer got robbed.

We setup because civilians were getting hurt.

What were we doin', Brigham, huh? Were we runnin' a shakedown,

lookin' to bust those cops

- to cut ourselves in? - BRIGHAM: Lower your voice.

You callin' us dirty, huh? Why don't you get the balls up to say it?

Well, I'll tell you this much, Sipowicz.

If you weren't dirty, you better pray these guys flip

'cause you got dick-fist off failure to notify.

- I got dick-fist, huh? I got dick-fist? - We got a homicide.

- Come on. - (PHONE RINGING)

- Let's go do our job. Come on, Andy. - We'll be here.

If I got dick-fist, Brigham, my fist looks like your face.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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- (UPBEAT MUSIC CONCLUDES) - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Thank you.

Mine's been dead a good eight hours.

(SIGHS) See on this one's hands? Defense wounds.

He was tryna protect himself, cover his face.

Might have a print on the inside of the lamp shade.

We got a blood trail out here.

Come on.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(SIREN BLARING)

GREG: There's some.

ANDY: Come on, asshole. Walk into an apartment.

GREG: No.

He's goin' right out the fire escape.

- (HELICOPTER WHIRRING) - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Here.

ANDY: Cut on his right hand.

- See the blood on the handrail? - Oh, yeah.

ANDY: All right, here we go.

So, uh, Andy, uh,

you and John are with those busted cops, huh?

Yeah. Watch yourself. There's blood all on the right side here.

Yeah I... So, listen, uh,

in reference to John, uh...

was uh, I.A.B... (PANTS) ...lookin' at him? Uh...

- in, uh, in any other reference? - Come on, do better, Medavoy.

Here. Here's his trail again.

- GREG: (PANTS) Uh... - (GLASS SHATTERING)

Yeah, well... (EXHALES DEEPLY) ...I guess what I was wondering was, um,

uh, are they lookin' at John

- in connection with Linardi? - Yeah.

Yeah. You know, where... where it was my case,

uh, you know, why... why didn't I have the ledger? Uh...

(CHUCKLES) ...why didn't I get it those two days, you know?

My impression, uh, one thing and another, it got turned in a little late.

Right. Yeah. That... that's right. One... one thing and another, right, yeah.

I... I just never got around to... to vouchering it, you know?

Never got around to asking him for it.

You know, when you're workin' a case,

- the paperwork's always last. - Yeah, exactly.

Well, blood ends here. He must've drove off or got into a cab.

Uh, let's get word to the ERs.

Uh, any walk-ins treated for knife wounds

- in the last 12 hours, right... - TANYA: Excuse me.

- Hey, make sure you get... - TANYA: Can I get...

- ...a sample of this blood, here. - TANYA: ...through here, please?

- MALE VOICE: Yeah, I got it. - There's some inside here too.

OFFICER: Ma'am, you gotta stay back.

- Why? What's goin' on? - Sorry, ma'am.

Look, I wanna go upstairs, and mind my business, all right?

OFFICER: I'm sorry, ma'am.

ANDY: Excuse me. You... you, uh, you live here?

My cousin lives here. I was babysittin' her kids.

ANDY: Who's your cousin? Barbara Kane, 344.

ANDY: Uh, can I talk to you for a second?

Uh, kids, let me talk to your cousin, just one second.

Medavoy, why don't you

- give me a hand here. - Why, what happened?

- Well, I just wanna talk to you. - GREG: Hey kids.

- Hey. - ANDY: Let's... let's go over here.

- Uh... - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

....listen, there's...

there's no easy way for me to tell you this.

Somethin' happened in there, and, uh, your cousin got murdered.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - MALE VOICE: This...

Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God. - All right, listen, you.. you try

to pull yourself together,

- all right? if you can. - TANYA: Oh, no.

ANDY: Pull yourself together for the little ones here.

- Her... her, um... - MALE VOICE: Tanya, where's my mommy?

She's upstairs, baby.

Uh, son, listen.

Why don't you... why don't you come over here with me?

- Medavoy... - (SOBS)

...look after her for a second. Come here, boys.

Listen, my name is Andy Sipowicz,

and, uh, well, I just wanna to talk to you for a second.

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Miss Licalsi...

tell us what happened

when you met Angelo Marino that night.

We were in the back of his car.

He asked me why I hadn't obeyed his instructions.

And what were those instructions?

To kill Detective John Kelly.

- JAMES: And what was your reply? - JANICE: I said I was working on it.

And what was Mr. Marino's reaction?

He was infuriated.

He said I was in love with John Kelly.

And was that the truth?

Yes.

What, if anything, did you think Marino would do at that moment?

I was afraid he'd kill me, and then later kill Detective Kelly.

Did you believe Mr. Marino, and his bodyguard to be armed?

JANICE: I knew Tony, his driver, carried a .38 revolver,

and Angelo Marino usually carried a .45 caliber automatic

in the pouch behind the passenger seat.

Knowing them to be armed,

and fearing it was Mr. Marino's intention to kill you...

how did you react?

I panicked.

I drew my off-duty weapon, and I shot both men.

Would it be fair to say

that this was a spontaneous act born of panic and fear?

Yes.

As you know,

someone else, Alfonse Giardella,

confessed to these shootings.

In effect, you got away with what you did.

What prompted you to come forward?

I couldn't live with myself anymore.

JAMES: Were you counseled by anyone to come forward?

A priest, Father Jerry Downey.

How did you come into contact with Father Downey?

He's John Kelly's parish priest.

I'd asked John if he knew someone I could talk to.

Was giving you the name of his priest

John Kelly's only connection

with your decision to confess?

Yes.

John Kelly never knew about any of this.

Nothing further, Your Honor.

Miss Licalsi, you've stated that six days elapsed

between Angelo Marino's ordering you to kill John Kelly,

and the time you shot and killed Marino and his driver.

That's right.

During that period,

since you were directly disobeying his orders,

did it occur to you that the next time you saw Marino

you might be in danger yourself?

I was worried, if that's what you mean.

You knew the task was important to him, and you knew his reputation.

Yes.

When you were summoned to the meeting

at which you knew you would have to confront him,

do you recall how much notice you were given?

A few hours.

And during those hours, Miss Licalsi,

as you anticipated the meeting with a violent and dangerous man,

who by your own account

had turned your life upside down, and was threatening to destroy it.

Is it your testimony you never once considered the act

that could solve all your problems,

save the life of the man you loved,

and extricate yourself from your own personal danger?

I never thought about shooting Marino until I was in the car.

Miss Licalsi, how could this sense of danger come to you

as a sudden revelation? You were an experienced police officer.

You had successfully conducted a life of duplicity and secrecy

for months on end and you would for months to come.

Was it only during these few hours

that your capacity for planning, and forethought escaped you?

I'm not pretending my behavior made sense.

I think there's hard logic to your behavior, Miss Licalsi.

I think what you did in that car makes the coldest kind of sense.

Is there a question in there, Your Honor?

Miss Licalsi, as someone with considerable professional experience,

do you believe that a woman who shot and killed two men

would receive more favorable treatment,

if she were to appear to confess voluntarily and with remorse,

or if an ex-lover turned her in?

Objection, irrelevant.

Sustained.

- Nothing further then, Your Honor. - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

HARDING:: You may step down, Miss Licalsi.

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- (SIGHS) - I got Fancy.

Come on, Bernard.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Lieutenant, we've got, uh, a double homicide.

Black male and female, both multiple stab wounds.

Found a paring knife at the crime scene, could be the murder weapon,

along with some foil crack pipes,

trail of blood to the street. He could have used a car to get away.

Picked up a guy.

Two neighbors say that he was threatening the female vic.

Was the guy cut?

No, not on the hands.

Uh, he said he was with another woman all night long.

She's not home but Medavoy, and Martinez are looking for her now.

That's the third dealer to pick Quint, and Guyce out of the lineups.

JOHN: Yeah.

They point the finger at anybody else?

They're not moving. They both say it was just them.

I.A.B. must be thrilled.

Excuse me. They're waiting for your DD5.

He's conducting an interview on a double homicide.

I don't care if he's conducting the New York Philharmonic.

- I want that DD5. - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- (PHONE RINGING) - JOHN: Andy's got the interview.

Use Donna's desk.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

We got a warrant on you, Bernard.

Look,

I admit I got a problem, a terrible problem with crack.

Parole violation, associating with drug users.

It put me in, it jammed me up on parole,

but I hold a job, I'm not robbing, and I'm not breaking in.

"That bitch Barbara took my money,

"and didn't bring my rock. I'm going to mess that bitch up good."

Two different witnesses heard you say that last night.

When I gave her my money around 8 o'clock, she say she'd be right back.

So when 9:30 rolls around, I'm mad 'cause the bitch wasn't back.

You got any fresh cuts on you, Bernard?

No, nothing. Just some old scars.

Oh, look, I wasn't the only one gave Barbara money.

Three, four other dudes did, too. See, you... you got to understand.

When the weather's okay, that building is wide open.

I mean, it's like one great big party. People movin' in and out all night long.

Music, refreshments.

Yeah, right. I mean, people moving from one place, boom, to the next.

When she gets back right before 10:00,

I go to this other woman's crib to watch Star Trek on TV.

This is, uh, Shawanda that no one can find.

Look...

there was this dude with Barbara when she came back from coppin', okay?

He was with her, or... or he followed her.

Or whatever. All I know is I didn't see him before.

This isn't Jerome she was killed with?

No. Jerome was inside her place.

I didn't know this dude. He wasn't from around the building.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

- ANDY: Yeah. - Andy, you got a second?

Yeah.

You sit tight, Bernard.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

- Yeah. - It's, uh, Shawanda Wilson.

First she said she was with this Bernard,

then she said she didn't want to say anything.

(SCOFFS)

- Shawanda... - (PHONE RINGING)

...listen, uh, you know about the murders at the building last night?

Don't know nothin' about that.

Come on, listen, if you were smoking some crack, gettin' high,

nobody's going to give you trouble about that. We wanna find out

who did those killings.

It wasn't Bernard

'cause I saw Barbara downstairs when I come to my door

- to let Bernard in. - What time was that?

About 9:30.

And... and you let him in? He stayed with you? He never went back out?

- Uh-uh. - (PHONE RINGING)

What were you doin'?

Fooling around, watchin' TV.

Yeah. What'd you watch?

- SHAWANDA: Why? - Go ahead, just tell me.

Star Trek. Bernard watches the one with Spock.

I like the one with Levar.

- Great. Okay, thanks. - MARTINEZ: All right, come on.

(SIGHS) John, this... this guy didn't do it.

- No cuts. - No, no cuts, and the broad he's bangin'

tells the right story. They were watching The Starship Enterprise.

The guy said he saw someone with the female victim different

from who she got croaked with.

Said, uh, she came back with this guy after she'd copped.

Pick him up on the street.

Son of a bitch, I'm gonna miss dinner.

This is an incomplete statement.

How is it incomplete?

I want detail on why you setup,

I wanna know why this guy Tahir wasn't registered as an informant.

- How come you didn't want that on my five? - What did you say, Sipowicz?

I have a murder to attend to. I will fix that when I get back.

You sit in court floating crap about that ledger,

then think you're in a position

- to dictate schedules? - I will fix it when I get back.

You're gonna find out what your position is.

Medavoy...

you're doin' an eight-to-four tomorrow?

Um, yes, sir.

When I.A.B. is done running lineups on these arrested officers,

make yourself available to them.

GREG: I... In, uh, what... what connection?

- HAVERILL: Excuse me? - Uh... (CLEARS THROAT) ...in what...

what connection, uh,

- would I be talking with them? - HAVERILL: You just make

yourself available, Medavoy. I.A.B.'ll tell you the connection.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (PHONE RINGING)

- ANDY: Medavoy will stand up. - They want to put him in the middle.

- People will recognize me. - Nobody's gonna recognize you.

We're getting a car with smoked windows.

Right, me cooperating, that's gonna help me out on my violation?

You help us find this guy, it's gonna do you some good. Come on.

Come up with somebody inside an hour, I'll give you 20 bucks.

- Uh, give me a minute, John. - JOHN: Uh-huh.

(SIGHS) So, uh, how was the doctor's, Dan? What'd they say about your hip?

It's going, like the fenders on my Desoto. So what did she say about Georgetti's?

- Uh... I... She... she's good with that. - DAN: How do you feel?

I feel okay, look, we're, uh,

- we're workin' on a double homicide. - You goin' to a meeting tonight?

(SIGHS) Yeah, I'm gonna try.

That's a very important meeting for you.

Dan, I'm gonna try and make it there,

- all right? - Look, nothing is more important

- than your sobriety, - nothing takes precedence.

Listen to me, I gotta take this guy out on the street,

then I'm gonna take Sylvia out to dinner, and I will try

to make the friggin' meeting, okay?

You wouldn't think this is a game? You think you can take a shortcut?

- Dan, come on. - You're still full of yourself.

- You're not giving credit for 18 years... - (SIGHS)

...of sobriety here. Here.

Here. You want a shortcut? Here's ten bucks.

Save yourself three months.

Go out and buy a bottle now.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

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Oh man, they're gonna know I'm with the police.

- You're a moron. - (UPBEAT MUSIC CONCLUDES)

Bernard, these are tinted windows. They can't see in here.

And we are runnin' out of daylight.

I see Calvin by the Caddy.

ANDY: What does he got to do with this?

Nothin'. I just know him from the joint.

- You tryna to bust my balls, Bernard? - No.

If you don't see the guy from the building last night,

I don't care what you see, so shut up.

Sylvia couldn't change the time?

Nah, she had to go with a two-five later.

This couldn't work unless we did it on time.

The dinner's bagged now, John. It's bagged.

- JOHN: Then do it another night. - Yeah.

How about your buddy?

(SCOFFS) Dan? Oh, he... he's great. He just stopped in to predict my doom.

I don't see him.

JOHN: Well I'll tell you what Bernard,

if he have to come back here tomorrow,

we're gonna have to lock you up tonight. So you make the decision.

- Oh, I understand. - Well, that's big of you.

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I'm speaking with Gina Zarone,

former girlfriend of a soldier in the Marino Crime Family.

Gina now lives without allies

in the no-man's land between those who enforce the law,

and those who break it.

As we speak here tonight,

you're in fear for your life, aren't you, Gina?

- Yes, I am. - You're in fear of reprisal

- from both sides of the law. - Yes, I am.

MALE VOICE: Yesterday Gina testified at the Blue Murder Trial

of former Police Officer Janice Licalsi.

She identified Detective John Kelly

as witness to a meeting between Janice Licalsi,

and Gina's boyfriend Richie Catena, who has since been gruesomely murdered.

And she has even more startling accusations

she's prepared to share with the public tonight.

Gina, your boyfriend told you

that Tommy Linardi, successor to Marino as Capo,

had told him that Marino had more contacts in the police department

than the 11 officers whose names have been revealed

to this point.

That was what he told me, yes.

And...

what did you infer from this as regards John Kelly?

When I saw John Kelly following Janice Licalsi that day,

- I put two and two together. - Now you're ab...

She's got you pegged, John.

You were in Marino's pocket all along.

I.A.B. is talking to Medavoy tomorrow.

- About the ledger? - Yeah.

- Come here. Come here. Okay. - (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

LAWYER: We've heard a great deal

about the enormous pressures Miss Licalsi was under.

Her worries for her father's reputation and career,

her love for Detective Kelly, but ladies and gentlemen,

no one made Janice Licalsi get into Angelo Marino's car.

She had a choice.

As a police officer, she knew she could have Marino arrested.

She chose not to do that. Instead, she became judge,

jury, and executioner all in one.

Whether Janice Licalsi subsequently came forward

out of genuine remorse,

or because her crime had been discovered by her lover,

and was about to be exposed, she is not relieved of her responsibility

for what she did that night.

Even in our age of pass-the-blame psychologizing,

feeling like you're in a tight spot does not qualify

as extreme emotional disturbance as defined by the law.

When Janice Licalsi fired those five hollow-point shells,

she knew exactly what she was doing, she was getting out from under.

The law describes such an act as murder with forethought,

and it prescribes a price.

It is your duty now,

to exact it.

JAMES: Ladies and gentlemen,

seventeen months ago...

Janice Licalsi began a desperate attempt

to save her father's career and reputation,

and set in motion a series of events

which culminated in a terrible act for which she's now on trial.

Per the orders of Angelo Marino,

who was threatening to...

expose her father for having once been on the mob payroll,

Janice Licalsi transferred precincts.

Per Marino's orders...

she surveilled detective John Kelly,

seduced him, and won his trust.

Then, as so often happens

in this sort of... (INHALES DEEPLY) ...human tragedy...

fate played a cruel trick.

Janice Licalsi and John Kelly...

fell in love. Then...

she was ordered...

to kill him.

For all her desire to protect her father,

Janice Licalsi could never commit such a repugnant act.

Day after day went by,

and still she failed to carry out Marino's order.

After six days,

she was summoned by Marino to a meeting in an underground garage.

She knew the meaning of the summons.

She knew that by failing to act, she had put her own life at risk as well.

As Janice Licalsi entered Angelo Marino's car,

she was like someone who's gone off a cliff.

At that instant, in fear for her life, as Marino confronted her.

Janice Licalsi's instincts took over.

In a single explosive and unthinking moment,

she reacted.

The woman you are to judge...

could not be more different

from those who hide behind the shield of victimization

in order to deny the most egregious acts.

Janice Licalsi is taking responsibility for her actions.

Janice Licalsi is willing to pay her debt to society.

All she asks,

is that you take into account

the obvious and undeniable presence

of what the state penal code calls extreme emotional disturbance.

If you believe

that a woman threatened with her father's destruction,

the murder of her lover,

and her own likely death

could possibly be subject to extreme emotional disturbance...

Then I ask you to do as the law requires.

I ask you to return the lesser verdict...

of manslaughter.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

That's him.

- Where? - BERNARD: In front of that

check cashing place. That's him.

- ANDY: The guy in white? - Yes.

Fifteen special, 10-85 the squad forthwith.

- Give me your hand. - Look, if this is your man,

- I walk on that parole thing, right? - Yeah, right, here.

Lie with your face down and don't move.

- Ready? - Yeah.

Hey! Citizen in white.

Asshole in white.

Right there. You! Police.

- What's up? - JOHN: Let's go.

- Hands on your head. Let's go. - Wha...

- JOHN: Get your ass up against the fence. - (EXCLAIMS)

JOHN: Get up against the fence!

ANDY: Gun to your head. Got a gun, John. Right here.

Hey. Hey, yo... yo, Officer, I can explain, you know.

JOHN: Back at the station house.

- We're fine. - ANDY: Look here, cut on your right hand.

JOHN: We're fine.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (PHONE RINGING)

Two years? Uh-huh. All right. Thanks.

His jobs check out. He's clean last two years.

- Yeah, I like him for the murders. - Will he go?

- MIKE: Hey, Medavoy. - Well he still thinks he's in here

for the gun charge. I'm getting him cigarettes now.

Haverill's up my ass.

Get a revised DD5 when you get a chance.

- MIKE: Yo, John. - Hey.

- What, you guys get demoted or what? - ARTHUR: Look who's here.

What's going on?

Hey, you got a minute for me?

I'm working this double homicide and dodging bosses,

but we can talk later.

- Okay. Yeah. - Sound good?

- I got to get back in, Andy. - Yeah.

MIKE: Yeah.

- JOHN: Yeah, see you later. - How's it going, Roberts?

Hey, look, Andy...

you're pissed off, after Dee Dee died, I ignored her dog.

Let's put that behind us, all right?

Look, they're crucifying John. I think I got something for him.

- What? - I've been working for this party,

actually, uh, she's a madam.

and had... She had me watching her place.

One of her girl was getting harassed by a former pimp.

Hey look, Andy, I need

- to put food on my table. - All right, all right.

Come on, what happened?

So me and the madam become pals.

I sit with her in the living room at nights,

bit of bee bit of bah, we chew the fat.

Then one night trick calls up, asking for Suzie and Denise,

break out the teenage schoolgirl outfits.

Norval Grolsch, Andy.

Who the hell is that?

Norval Grolsch,

who turns out to be Norman Gardner,

who, blow-hard newscaster asshole that he is,

turns out he likes his headmaster act on tape.

Now,

I owe John.

You tell him if he wants to use this, he's welcome to it.

- Yeah. - Well, if he doesn't,

somebody else might.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(EXHALES DEEPLY) When's I... I.A.B. comin' for me?

This is like the... the Chinese water torture.

- Try to relax. - Yeah, sure.

- (BREATHES DEEPLY) - Gregory, this is gonna be all right.

You did nothing wrong with that ledger.

Neither did John.

I... I'm just afraid I'm gonna stammer.

You're gonna do fine.

Yeah, but if I stammer, they're gonna think I'm covering up.

Gregory, it's on record that you stammer.

You don't understand. You don't understand.

(SIGHS) If they think I'm coverin' up, it's gonna louse up John.

(EXHALES DEEPLY) I don't wanna louse up my friend.

Okay, Reginald, since I was in here last, we firmed up on a few things,

and we're lookin' at you

for something that happened over the weekend.

Let me explain how it goes.

Is this gonna be an ass kicking?

No. I'm not gonna lay a hand on you.

Now there's two ways we can go with this.

I've read you your rights, and you can have a lawyer in here...

or you and I can sit here together, and get to the bottom of this,

because frankly I don't think it is how it looks.

That's right.

So you want to continue without an attorney here?

Yeah.

How do you mean it's not the way it looks?

(CLEARS THROAT) I looked into your background.

You've been workin' consistently for two years.

You've had some bumps, but I think you're a decent man,

and I don't think...

that you could be living the way you lived...

without character and heart.

I've been workin' my ass off for the last two years.

I know you have.

Something set you off in that apartment. I don't know what it was.

I don't know if it's because somebody was botherin' you,

somebody tried to humiliate you. I don't know.

I don't know what happened.

But the bad news is, I have enough right now to lock you up.

Your blood was all over the place, and nowadays, Reginald,

blood is like a fingerprint,

and people saw you there.

So I can lock you up right now as a crazy man.

I don't want to do that because you're not...

'cause you're a decent guy.

So help me.

Think about it.

Remember what it was that set you off. Can you do that?

I'll be back.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (SIGHS)

Norman, glad you could make it.

What do you want, Sipowicz?

I got somethin' very newsworthy. I thought I'd give you first crack at it.

Why don't you come on up to my temporary quarters.

Sure.

Yeah, come on.

Well, you know the rules.

If your homework is late, then I have to spank you.

- We know. - We know.

Well, assume the position.

You know you're lucky your asses are so firm and round.

Oh, boy.

NORMAN: (OVER TV) This may sting a little...

- Okay, I need to get... - (EXCLAIMS) No, no, no.

This is my favorite part, Norman.

Ouch.

NORMAN: (OVER TV) Denise.

Ouch.

Well, have you girls learned your lesson now?

- Uh-huh. - Uh-huh.

Will you turn your homework in on time from now on?

- Yes, Headmaster Grolsch. - Yes, Headmaster Grolsch.

This is blackmail, Sipowicz. I can have you arrested.

Well, you're in the right place, Norval. That squad room's asshole deep in bosses.

You want me to bring people in here, and make this public...

DENISE: (OVER TV) Breast development in teenage...

...or you want to hear an idea I got?

Le... let's say I like your idea.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER TV)

How do I know I'd get all the tapes?

- NORMAN: (OVER TV) Nice. - Norman, if we don't have trust,

- where are we? - DENISE: (OVER TV) Uh-huh?

We're back in the trees. (IMITATES MONKEY)

NORMAN: (OVER TV) Cross your hearts.

- GIRLS: (OVER TV) Cross our hearts. - Ooh.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Sorry for the delay.

I got stalled in lineups with those dirty cops.

MALE VOICE: You understand that you're entitled to have

a lawyer or delegate present?

- Yes. - MALE VOICE: You understand

- that this interview is being recorded? - Yes, I do.

- State your name and shield number. - Uh, Gregory Medavoy, shield number 588.

Were you the chief investigating detective on the murder of Tommy Linardi?

Yes.

Who were the other investigating detectives on that case?

Detectives Kelly, Sipowicz, and Martinez,

the day tour of the 15th Squad.

During your investigation of Linardi's death,

did you come into possession of a ledger originally belonging to an Angelo Marino?

Uh, yes.

Who turned that ledger in for voucher?

Uh, that was Detective John Kelly.

Your case log shows the ledger was entered two days following the other evidence.

Uh, that was on me.

Uh, my logging was interrupted. I knew Detective Kelly had the ledger.

And, uh, I didn't get around to asking for it for a couple days.

MALE VOICE: What interrupted your logging?

I don't specifically recall, uh...

Uh, I was workin' on other aspects of the case.

So there was no resistance on the part Detective Kelly

- in turning that ledger in? - None whatsoever.

MALE VOICE: But during that two-day period,

was Kelly the only detective with access to that ledger?

I... I guess you could put it like that.

Uh, it was on me, though. You know?

Uh, I just, uh, never got around to pickin' it up.

You guys want anything else?

- MALE VOICE: No, that'll do it. - (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

Okay.

Listen,

I'm 33 years old. I did 14 years in jail.

I did one to four.

Cost me 18 months for a hardware store robbery.

I got back out.

I did four more 'cause the hardware store guy

said I tried to stick him up again just to get me out of the neighborhood.

- (POLICE SIREN BLARING) - (SIGHS) Third time... (INHALES DEEPLY)

...I get halfway through a grocery store robbery,

get scared. That's when I get grabbed.

I've been out two years.

I've worked hard.

I've been working day and night 'cause I didn't want to go back.

But I...

go up there to that building.

You know the way it is? It's like a damn cell block...

people with their doors open, women inside.

You just start talkin'.

(BREATHES DEEPLY) You reach into your pocket,

get some money for the rock stars.

That's what they call themselves. Rock stars.

All they want to do is smoke that crack.

I go in.

I smoke a little.

I see a woman.

And this...

This punk...

This punk

comes up on me...

don't want me messin' with his hoe.

So I slapped him like a woman.

He's gonna try and take me.

Strong-arm me.

Jump on me.

How'd the people get cut?

He tried to rob me.

Guy in Barbara's apartment?

Yeah.

Punk is talkin' all that stuff, then he tries to rob me.

I pull out my .380, and order their ass upstairs.

I tied the bitch up with an electrical cord,

tied her up real tight.

Next thing I know...

this punk is gonna try and jump on me.

So I start punchin' him...

and punchin' him.

Then I see the knife.

When I broke the skin...

with that thing, I knew I had messed up bad.

These two rock stars were gonna...

ruin my whole life.

Forget about it. Bernard Jenkins goes back into the system.

I made a deal with him. I gave him my word.

He led us to a double murderer

because I said I'd help him out. You don't get to make deals.

That's why you have supervisors on this job.

I can't do my job unless my word is good on the street.

Maybe there's a message in that.

You know you make me sick.

You take a few tests, you kiss a few asses,

- you think that makes you a boss? - John.

- You think that makes you a boss? - ARTHUR: John.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Give Bernard Jenkins his deal. Kelly just gave me what I need.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

BAILIFF: Be seated.

I understand you've reached a verdict.

Miss Foreperson, have you reached a verdict?

- Yes. - Will the defendant please rise?

How say you as to the first count of murder in the second degree?

- Guilty or not guilty? - Not guilty.

MALE VOICE: How say you to the second count of manslaughter

- in the first degree? - FEMALE VOICE: Guilty.

- (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING) - HARDING: Is that the verdict of the jury?

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - HARDING: Ladies and gentlemen,

thank you for your patience, and service in this very difficult trial.

The people of New York State are grateful.

You're now excused.

Bail will be continued pending sentence, and court is adjourned.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Two years max. Work release in six months.

Not bad for a shyster mouthpiece.

- Thanks. Yeah. - The meal they said would never happen.

- (SIGHS) - (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

I'm, uh, I'm sorry about all the delays.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - It's okay.

(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)

Excuse me.

Could you bring us that bread that smells like olive oil?

- It's cut up into these cubes. - Focaccia.

- Yeah. - WAITER: We don't have it.

That's very nice pane Marino.

- She likes that other kind. - But we don't make it anymore.

- Sorry. - Andy, it's okay.

No, no, part of the reason why we came here

- is 'cause you like that bread. - But it doesn't matter.

I'll try the Pane Marino.

Okay.

It doesn't matter.

- Oh, they have fresh bronzino. Good. - Uh...

I'm... I'm very happy that we're, uh, we're havin' dinner here like this.

Me too.

Yeah, well, you know, I had to... I had to take things step-by-step.

I'm proud of how you did things.

My whole thing is, I, uh,

I have to learn how to take things in stride...

not get so worked up,

like... like when we had to cancel last night.

Or... or with this bread here.

Couple of years ago, that's a three-alarm fire.

I'm proud of your self-control.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

Well, I'm going to get there...

like, uh, I got... I got my work here, you know,

and, uh, I got my... my problem, which I'm making progress on.

And you.

Yeah.

(SIGHS) Look, why don't... why don't we get married?

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

I mean...

Don't say nothing now.

- I'm just thinkin' out loud. - It's okay.

(CLEARS THROAT)

(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCLUDES)

Nothing is more important to me than the trust of my audience,

so if the statement I'm about to make

causes me personal embarrassment or discomfort,

it's a price I'm willing to pay.

Ladies and gentlemen,

new information I've been made privy to in the last few hours

exonerates Detective John Kelly,

and casts severe doubt on the veracity of my witnesses...

Where'd that come from?

- Somebody else must've bought him. - (CHUCKLES)

Sinclair thinks I'm only gonna do about six months.

He did good for you.

You did good for me.

You know the way upstate?

I know the way upstate.

(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

(THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES)